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Aging news, NAD+ News & Research, NAD+ Boosters - All, Nicotinamide Riboside, NAD
Nicotinamide Riboside Reprograms Aging Stem Cells
By Mickey Johnston
A study published in the leading academic journal Science in April 2016 showed that supplementation of aged mice with nicotinamide riboside, a form of vitamin B3, resulted in both increased lifespan and enhanced healthspan.1
Scientists found that nicotinamide riboside has the ability to reprogram dysfunctional stem cells to function as they did in youth.(1)
Although this study was done on mice, it suggests enormous promise for nicotinamide riboside to halt and reverse human aging factors.
Nicotinamide riboside functions to boost cell levels of the energy-factor NAD+.
In this article, we will review the implications of this research for human longevity. We'll also review the beneficial impact of nicotinamide riboside on obesity, fatty liver disease, and cognitive impairment.
Landmark Study
An international group of researchers investigated the impact of nicotinamide riboside on life-span and functions related to overall health.1 The results, published in mid-2016, were remarkable.
Aged mice (24 months old) treated with nicotinamide riboside for 6 weeks survived, on average, 5% longer than control mice.(1)
While this may seem to be a fairly modest increase, consider two points.
First, the supplementation began when these mice were already fairly advanced in age.
Second, the average human life expectancy today is about 78.8 years.2 A 5% increase in this figure would add nearly 4 years, a significant increase if those years are healthy and rewarding ones.
Perhaps most importantly, this study suggests that the supplemented animals were healthier overall compared with controls.
Here are the highlights of those findings:(1)
Aged mice supplemented with nicotinamide riboside demonstrated increases in maximal running times and distances, and in grip strength.
Chemically damaged muscle tissue from supplemented mice was regenerated faster, and regenerated muscle was bulkier than in mice fed the control diet.
Supplemented mice showed increased proliferation and development of new brain cells, especially in the memory-intensive hippocampus region of the brain, compared with control animals.
Reprogramming Dysfunctional Stem Cells
With aging, adult stem cell function declines (stem cell senescence), causing a loss in tissue homeostasis and regeneration.(1)
Researchers found that nicotinamide riboside increased strength, endurance, and recovery times in aged mice because it increased the number and function of muscle stem cells, providing the mice greater resources for maintaining strong, healthy muscles.(1)
This study showed that supplementation with nicotinamide riboside led to significant improvements in lifespan and factors influencing health. The fact that these changes occurred in aged mice gives hope to older individuals who are looking for viable ways to live longer, healthier lives.
The reason why nicotinamide riboside is such a potent promoter of healthspan and lifespan is because once it enters the body, it converts to one of the most essential factors in energy production in cells, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide(NAD+).
NAD+ has two key functions in the body that help combat aging. First, it enhances cellular energy by boosting the function of mitochondria, the body's cellular "power plants" that convert the food we eat into energy our bodies can use.3 While age-related mitochondrial dysfunction can result in tissue and organ failure, studies show that restoring mitochondrial function slows aging and extends longevity.1
Second, NAD+ activates enzymes called sirtuins that control gene expression. SIRT enzymes "turn off" certain genes that promote aging, such as those involved in inflammation,4,5 in fat synthesis and storage, and in blood-sugar management.6,7
By boosting the body's levels of NAD+, nicotinamide riboside helps protect the body against some of the most potent age-accelerating processes that threaten longevity. Three of these disorders include obesity, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, and cognitive decline.
Let's look at nicotinamide riboside's impact on each one:
Obesity: A 2012 paper showed that nicotinamide riboside supplementation in both cultured cells and tissues activates sirtuins, which boost fat-burning and prevent some of the metabolic changes induced by obesity.8
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: NAFLD is the most common chronic liver disorder in industrialized nations and one closely related to our obesity epidemic.9 Nicotinamide riboside was found to prevent—and even reverse—NAFLD in mice on a high-fat, high-sugar diet. This effect was due to its ability to increase sirtuin activity, which resulted in sharp increases in mitochondrial fat burning as well as increases in the energy storage molecule ATP, which all cells require to perform their functions.9
Alzheimer's disease: Mitochondrial dysfunction and poor energy management in brain cells are closely associated with the development of Alzheimer's disease.10 Nicotinamide riboside helps combat both of these factors. A recent study of a mouse model of Alzheimer's showed that supplementation with nicotinamide riboside for three months significantly slowed cognitive deterioration.10 As expected, these results appeared to arise from the supplement's ability to improve energy production in brain cells.
The concept of radical life extension is steadily moving from science fiction to science reality.
Nicotinamide riboside shows evidence of enhancing the healthspan as well. This is vital, because added years of low-quality life do not represent, for most people, much of a gain.
This landmark study indicates that supplementing with nicotinamide riboside could help one live longer and healthier. More research is urgently needed to corroborate these remarkable findings.
If you have any questions on the scientific content of this article, please call a Life Extension® Wellness Specialist at 1-866-864-3027.
Zhang H, Ryu D, Wu Y, et al. NAD(+) repletion improves mitochondrial and stem cell function and enhances life span in mice. Science. 2016;352(6292):1436-43.
Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/life-expectancy.htm. Accessed December 21, 2016.
Guarente L. CELL METABOLISM. The resurgence of NAD(+). Science. 2016;352(6292):1396-7.
Kotas ME, Gorecki MC, Gillum MP. Sirtuin-1 is a nutrient-dependent modulator of inflammation. Adipocyte. 2013;2(2):113-8.
Galli M, Van Gool F, Leo O. Sirtuins and inflammation: Friends or foes? Biochem Pharmacol. 2011;81(5):569-76.
Li X, Kazgan N. Mammalian sirtuins and energy metabolism. Int J Biol Sci. 2011;7(5):575-87.
Chang HC, Guarente L. SIRT1 and other sirtuins in metabolism. Trends Endocrinol Metab. 2014;25(3):138-45.
Canto C, Houtkooper RH, Pirinen E, et al. The NAD(+) precursor nicotinamide riboside enhances oxidative metabolism and protects against high-fat diet-induced obesity. Cell Metab. 2012;15(6):838-47.
Gariani K, Menzies KJ, Ryu D, et al. Eliciting the mitochondrial unfolded protein response by nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide repletion reverses fatty liver disease in mice. Hepatology. 2016;63(4):1190-204.
Gong B, Pan Y, Vempati P, et al. Nicotinamide riboside restores cognition through an upregulation of proliferator-activated receptor-gamma coactivator 1alpha regulated beta-secretase 1 degradation and mitochondrial gene expression in Alzheimer's mouse models. Neurobiol Aging. 2013;34(6):1581-8.
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STEVE STEIN'S SPORTS NOTEBOOK: From the board table to the Steamboat Classic
By Steve SteinTimes Correspondent
Bart Rinkenberger is all wet.
Well, he was.
The Morton School Board member finished 31st among 750 runners Saturday in the men's 4-mile race in the 46th Steamboat Classic.
Rinkenberger's time on the rain-soaked downtown Peoria course was 23:36.
"It was the wettest race I've ever been in," Rinkenberger said.
Need visual proof of Rinkenberger's statement? Check out the photo that accompanies the Sports Notebook.
Rinkenberger carried his cell phone as he ran.
"I recorded the start and finish and sent the videos to my buddy so he could live the race through my videos," Rinkenberger said with a laugh. "The phone held up great in the rain. I was kind of surprised."
HELP WANTED: The East Peoria Athletic Booster Club needs a concession manager.
The job will pay $1,500 for the fall high school sports season and $1,500 for the spring high school sports season. While the booster club will pay the salary, the concession manager will be a contractual employee of East Peoria Community High School.
Among the job responsibilities is purchasing and maintaining inventory at EastSide Centre concession stands and other locations.
Weeknight and weekend availability is a must, as is being at an event at least one hour before the start for concession setup, and helping during an event.
Want to apply for the job? Send a letter of interest via email to Jason Bowman, East Peoria high school's assistant principal/athletic director, at jbowman@ep309.org.
BETHEL BASKETBALL: Bethel Lutheran Ministries' 20th annual 3-on-3 Hoops Tournament will be held Saturday, June 29 in the air-conditioned Bethel Lutheran School gym in Morton.
Proposed age divisions for boys and men are 10-under, 11-14, 15-18, 19-25 and 26-over, and 13-under, 14-16 and 17-over for girls and women. Entry fee is $60 per team of four players.
Participants will receive a tournament T-shirt and each team will play at least three games. Referees will officiate games.
Proceeds from the tournament support Bethel Lutheran's high school basketball program.
To register for the tournament, contact Dave Kinsinger at 263-8922, 263-8117 or djknsngr@mtco.com.
Bethel Lutheran is at 325 E. Queenwood Road, east of Interstate 155.
COOKING: Bradley senior pitcher Cole Cook from Washington was named to the Missouri Valley Conference Scholar-Athlete first team.
Cook, a sports communications major, had a 3.51 GPA at the time of the conference's announcement about Scholar-Athlete selections.
A southpaw, Cook pitched 62 innings in 19 games this season. His 2.03 ERA was the second-lowest by a Bradley pitcher who averaged at least one inning pitched per game since 1974, the beginning of the metal bat era.
Cook was 5-2. Opponents hit .220 against him.
A three-year Bradley player after transferring from Illinois Central College, Cook went 17-13 in his career with the Braves with a 4.02 ERA in 53 appearances, 28 as a starter.
He was on the Bradley Athletic Director's honor roll in each of his six semesters at the school.
Cook is playing this summer with the Morehead City Marlins in the Coastal Plain League. Bradley senior outfielder Dan Bolt (Morton) is with the Upper Valley Nighthawks in the New England Collegiate Baseball League.
Both leagues are wooden bat summer leagues.
Steve Stein can be reached at (248) 224-2616 or stevestein21@yahoo.com. Follow him on Twitter @SpartanSteve.

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How to build a brand persona on social media – part 1
Social media should be an integral part of every brand's marketing strategy. But to succeed on social, you need to know how to build a brand persona.
To illustrate our point, we'd like to tell you a little story about chicken.
'Chicken?' I hear you say?
Yep, chicken. Or more specifically, chicken nuggets.
Last month, a 16-year-old named Carter from Reno, Nevada had a craving for chicken nuggets. In a bid to satisfy it, he took to Twitter.
Tweeting fast food chain Wendy's, he asked how many retweets he'd need to get a year's supply of chicken nuggets. Wendy's promptly responded '18 million'.
'Consider it done' was Carter's confident reply.
He then posted a screenshot of the tweet, accompanied by the plea 'HELP ME PLEASE. A MAN NEEDS HIS NUGGS'.
Cue Twitter sensation. The tweet hit 1 million retweets within two days, and it didn't stop there.
Helped along by global brands including Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple Music, and even Twitter itself, Carter's tweet soon overtook Ellen DeGeneres' famous Oscars selfie to become the most retweeted tweet of all time.
It's now been retweeted an incredible 3.6 million times. Blimey.
A PR win for Wendy's
What started out as a light-hearted response to a teenager's tweet turned into a PR grand slam for Wendy's.
John Harrington, deputy editor of PR week, told the BBC: "Most brands would probably have ignored the tweet or given a bland response, but by reacting with humour, Wendy's has created a vast amount of positive exposure and goodwill."
We can see from the Wendy's Twitter account that the company has a strong brand persona.
Their tweets are friendly, funny and distinctive. The company's response to Carter's tweet was in keeping with this persona – and it really paid off.
What Wendy's did right
First of all, there was the response itself. They could have just ignored Carter's tweet – but instead they interacted personally and with humour.
Then, once the tweet gained traction, Wendy's jumped on the bandwagon.
When the retweets didn't stop, Wendy's promised to donate $100,000 to charity if Carter's tweet overtook DeGeneres' – thus fuelling the Twitter storm even more.
Wendy's knew that with every retweet they'd get a little bit more exposure, and by promising to donate to charity they helped establish themselves as a caring, socially-minded brand.
When Carter's tweet topped DeGeneres', not only did Wendy's donate the money – they also awarded the teenager his year's supply of nuggets, further cementing their friendly, feel-good persona.
How to build a brand persona on social media
A strong brand persona can take your social media game from good to brilliant.
Social media marketing is about establishing relationships with your audience. Building a distinctive, consistent persona is a great way to do that.
A brand persona helps to humanise a company, enabling customers to trust and relate to it. And the more your customers trust you, the more loyal they'll be: in a study by Rare Consulting, 83% of consumers said their loyalty to a brand was driven by trust.
Sounds good, right? Well, stay tuned for our next blog in a few weeks' time, when we'll show you how to build a brand persona for yourself.


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Bast fibre (also called phloem fibre or skin fibre) is plant fibre collected from the phloem (the "inner bark", sometimes called "skin") or bast surrounding the stem of certain dicotyledonous plants. It supports the conductive cells of the phloem and provides strength to the stem. Some of the economically important bast fibres are obtained from herbs cultivated in agriculture, as for instance flax, hemp, or ramie, but bast fibres from wild plants, as stinging nettle, and trees such as lime or linden, willow, oak, wisteria, and mulberry have also been used in the past. Bast fibres are classified as soft fibres, and are flexible. Fibres from monocotyledonous plants, called "leaf fiber", are classified as hard fibres and are stiff.

Since the valuable fibres are located in the phloem, they must often be separated from the xylem material ("woody core"), and sometimes also from the epidermis. The process for this is called retting, and can be performed by micro-organisms either on land (nowadays the most important) or in water, or by chemicals (for instance high pH and chelating agents) or by pectinolytic enzymes. In the phloem, bast fibres occur in bundles that are glued together by pectin and calcium ions. More intense retting separates the fibre bundles into elementary fibres, that can be several centimetres long. Often bast fibres have higher tensile strength than other kinds, and are used in high-quality textiles (sometimes in blends with cotton or synthetic fibres), ropes, yarn, paper, composite materials and burlap. An important property of bast fibres is that they contain a special structure, the fibre node, that represents a weak point, and gives flexibility. Seed hairs, such as cotton, do not have nodes.

Etymology
The term "bast" derives from Old English bæst ("inner bark of trees from which ropes were made"), from Proto-Germanic *bastaz ("bast, rope"). It may have the same root as Latin  ("bundle") and Middle Irish basc ("necklace").

Use of bast fibre
Plants that have been used for bast fibre include flax (from which linen is made), hemp, jute, kenaf, kudzu, linden, milkweed, nettle, okra, paper mulberry, ramie, and roselle hemp.

Bast fiber from oak trees forms the oldest preserved woven fabrics in the world. It was unearthed at the archeological site at Çatalhöyük in Turkey  and dates to  8000-9000 years ago.

Bast fibres are processed for use in carpet, yarn, rope, geotextile (netting or matting), traditional carpets, hessian or burlap, paper, sacks, etc. Bast fibres are also used in the non-woven, moulding, and composite technology industries for the manufacturing of non-woven mats and carpets, composite boards as furniture materials, automobile door panels and headliners, etc.  From prehistoric times through at least the early 20th century, bast shoes were woven from bast strips in the forest areas of Eastern Europe.

Where no other source of tanbark was available, bast has also been used for tanning leather.

References

External links
 Bast Fibre cords in Viking ships
 Bast fibre production with hemp

Fiber plants
Plant anatomy
Natural materials

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NGC 2989 (другие обозначения — ESO 566-9, MCG −3-25-20, IRAS09430-1808, PGC 27962) — галактика в созвездии Гидра.

Этот объект входит в число перечисленных в оригинальной редакции «Нового общего каталога».

В NGC 2989 обнаружена мазерная эмиссия H2O с изотропной светимостью 40 L⊙ и, вероятно, обладает активным ядром

Галактика NGC 2989 входит в состав группы галактик . Помимо NGC 2989 в группу также входят MCG -3-25-15 и MCG -3-25-21.

См. также
 Список объектов Мессье
 Новый общий каталог

Примечания

Литература

2989
Гидра (созвездие)
Активные галактики


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Karsten Müller: Olympiad Endgames
by Karsten Müller
9/5/2014 – Today we start a special course, brought to you by one of the world's leading endgame experts, Dr. Karsten Müller, whom you all know from ChessBase Magazine. Even the strongest players study his didactic analyses. This course shows you how the endgame was handled by great players during the recent Chess Olympiad in Tromsø. And best of all: it's completely free!
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Endgames from the Chess Olympiad Tromsø 2014
Navara's King and Rook
Rook endings have a large drawish tendency, but often great precision is required:
[Event "41st Olympiad 2014"] [Site "Tromso NOR"] [Date "2014.08.02"] [Round "1.1"] [White "Navara, David"] [Black "Elarbi, Abobker"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "D35"] [WhiteElo "2716"] [BlackElo "2283"] [Annotator "Karsten Müller"] [PlyCount "147"] [EventDate "2014.08.02"] [Source "Chess Today"] [SourceDate "2014.07.27"] [WhiteTeam "Czech Republic"] [BlackTeam "Libya"] [WhiteTeamCountry "CZE"] [BlackTeamCountry "LBY"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 c6 6. e3 Bf5 7. Qf3 Bg6 8. Bxf6 Qxf6 9. Qxf6 gxf6 10. Nf3 Nd7 11. Nh4 Bb4 12. Rc1 a6 13. a3 Bxc3+ 14. Rxc3 Ke7 15. g3 Rab8 16. f3 Rhe8 17. Kd2 Kd6 18. Bd3 Nb6 19. b3 Rbd8 20. g4 Nc8 21. Rcc1 Ke7 22. Ng2 Nd6 23. Nf4 Rg8 24. Rhg1 h6 25. Rg3 Bxd3 26. Kxd3 Rg5 27. a4 Rgg8 28. Rcg1 Rh8 29. Rh3 f5 30. gxf5 Nxf5 31. Rg4 Rhe8 32. Rh5 Kf6 33. Ng2 Rg8 34. Nh4 Rg5 35. Rgxg5 hxg5 36. Nxf5 Kxf5 37. h4 Rg8 38. a5 Rg7 39. hxg5 Kg6 40. Rh8 Kxg5 41. Kc3 f5 42. Re8 Kf6 43. Kb4 Re7 44. Rf8+ Kg5 45. Rb8 Kh4 46. Rf8 Kg5 47. Rg8+ Kf6 48. Rb8 Kg5 49. Kc5 Kh4 50. Kd6 Rxe3 51. Rxb7 Rc3 52. b4 Kg3 53. Rb6 Rc4 54. Rxa6 Rxb4 55. Ke5 Kxf3 56. Rxc6 f4 57. Kxd5 Ra4 58. Rc3+ Kg4 59. Ke4 Rxa5 60. Rc8 {Navara's King and Rook: Rook endings have a large drawish tendency, but often great precision is required:} Kg5 $2 ({Only} 60... Ra4 $1 {draws:} 61. Rg8+ (61. Rf8 Kg3 62. Rg8+ (62. Rxf4 Rxd4+ 63. Kxd4 Kxf4 $11) 62... Kh4 $11) 61... Kh4 $1 (61... Kh5 $2 62. Rf8 $18) (61... Kh3 $2 62. Kf3 Kh4 (62... Rxd4 $6 63. Rh8#) 63. Rg4+ Kh5 64. Rxf4 Kg5 65. Ke3 $18) 62. Rf8 Kg3 $1 63. Rxf4 Rxd4+ 64. Kxd4 Kxf4 $11) (60... Rf5 $2 {runs into} 61. Rg8+ Rg5 62. Rf8 $18) ({and} 60... f3 $2 {is met by} 61. Rg8+ Rg5 62. Rf8 Rg7 63. Rf4+ $18) 61. Rf8 Ra7 (61... Ra1 62. Rf5+ $18) 62. Rf5+ $1 {Zwischenschach (German for in-between-check) is a typical technique.} (62. Rxf4 $2 Re7+ 63. Kf3 Kg6 64. d5 (64. Re4 Kf7 $11) 64... Rf7 65. Rxf7 Kxf7 66. Ke4 Ke7 67. Ke5 Kd7 68. d6 Kd8 $1 69. Ke6 Ke8 70. d7+ Kd8 71. Kd6 {patt}) 62... Kg6 63. Rxf4 Ra5 (63... Re7+ 64. Kd5 Re8 65. Kc6 Rc8+ 66. Kd7 Rc4 67. Ke6 Kg5 68. Rf5+ Kg6 69. d5 Re4+ 70. Re5 Rf4 71. d6 $18) (63... Rf7 64. Rxf7 Kxf7 65. Kd5 Ke7 66. Kc6 $18 { [%csl Gc6,Gd6,Ge6]}) 64. Rf1 (64. d5 $4 Ra4+ 65. Ke5 Rxf4 66. Kxf4 Kf6 $11) 64... Ra7 (64... Ra8 65. d5 Kg7 66. d6 Rf8 67. Rxf8 Kxf8 68. Ke5 Kf7 69. Kf5 Kf8 70. Kf6 Ke8 71. Ke6 Kd8 72. d7 Kc7 73. Ke7 $18) 65. Ke5 Ra2 (65... Re7+ 66. Kd6 $18) (65... Ra5+ 66. d5 $18) 66. d5 Re2+ 67. Kd6 Rd2 68. Ke6 Re2+ 69. Kd7 Rd2 70. d6 Kg7 71. Ke7 Re2+ 72. Kd8 Rd2 73. d7 Rc2 74. Rf4 {Navara builds a bridge and so Elarbi resigned, e.g.} (74. Rf4 Rc1 75. Ke7 Re1+ 76. Kd6 Rd1+ 77. Ke6 Re1+ (77... Kg6 78. Rf6+ Kg7 79. Rf5 $18 {[%cal Gf5d5]}) 78. Kd5 Rd1+ 79. Rd4 $18) 1-0
Mating Attack out of the Blue
Even in the endgame it can happen:
[Event "41st Olympiad Open 2014"] [Site "Tromso NOR"] [Date "2014.08.04"] [Round "3.2"] [White "Abdyjapar, Asyl"] [Black "Borisek, Jure"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "A88"] [WhiteElo "2368"] [BlackElo "2569"] [Annotator "Karsten Müller"] [PlyCount "126"] [EventDate "2014.08.02"] [WhiteTeam "Kyrgyzstan"] [BlackTeam "Slovenia"] [WhiteTeamCountry "KGZ"] [BlackTeamCountry "SLO"] 1. d4 f5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. g3 g6 4. Bg2 Bg7 5. O-O O-O 6. c4 d6 7. Nc3 c6 8. Re1 Na6 9. h3 Ne4 10. Qc2 Nxc3 11. bxc3 e5 12. Bg5 Qe8 13. e4 Qf7 14. Qd2 f4 15. gxf4 exf4 16. e5 h6 17. exd6 hxg5 18. c5 Bf6 19. Ne5 Qh7 20. Ng4 Bxg4 21. hxg4 Rae8 22. Rab1 Qd7 23. Bf3 Rxe1+ 24. Qxe1 Nb8 25. Qd1 Kg7 26. Qb3 b6 27. cxb6 axb6 28. Qxb6 Qxd6 29. a4 Kh6 30. Qa7 Nd7 31. Rb7 Rd8 32. a5 c5 33. dxc5 Qd3 34. Kg2 Be7 35. Rc7 Ne5 36. Qb7 Rb8 37. Qe4 Qxf3+ 38. Qxf3 Nxf3 39. Rxe7 Nh4+ 40. Kf1 Ra8 41. Ke2 Rxa5 42. Re5 Kg7 43. Rxg5 Ra2+ 44. Kd3 Kf6 45. Rd5 Nf3 46. c6 Ne5+ 47. Ke4 Nxc6 48. Kxf4 Ra4+ 49. Kg3 Rc4 50. Rd6+ Kf7 51. f4 Ne7 52. Rd3 Ng8 53. Rf3 Nf6 54. Kh4 Ne4 55. Rd3 Rc8 56. Rd7+ Ke6 57. Rh7 Kf6 58. g5+ Ke6 59. Rg7 Rxc3 60. Rxg6+ Kf5 {Mating Attack out of the Blue: Even in the endgame it can happen:} 61. Rg8 $2 {Now White's king can not longer escape.} ( 61. Ra6 $5 {was called for, e.g.} Rc2 (61... Kxf4 62. Kh5 $11) (61... Nf2 62. Rf6+ $11) 62. Ra5+ Kxf4 63. Kh5 $11) (61. Rb6 {is playable as well.}) ({ However, not} 61. Rh6 $2 Rc2 62. Kh3 Kxf4 63. Rh4+ Kf3 64. Rh8 Nxg5+ 65. Kh4 Rh2+ $19) 61... Nf2 $1 {[%cal Gc3h3]} 62. Rf8+ Kg6 63. f5+ (63. Rg8+ Kf7 $19 { [%cal Gf7g8,Gc3h3]}) 63... Kg7 {[%cal Gg7f8,Gc3h3]} 0-1
At first sight this position seems to be drawn. But this is deceptive. Where shall White's king be to stop the invasion of Black's ? If Black's king is on f4 then White's should be on f2. If Black's is on e4 then on f1. So far so good. But what happens, if Black's king is on e5 or f5 ? Then White's should be on e1 or g1. But e5 and f5 are connected and e1 and g1 not:
[Event "41st Olympiad Open 2014"] [Site "Tromso NOR"] [Date "2014.08.04"] [Round "3.2"] [White "Bengherabi, Khalil"] [Black "Laurusas, Tomas"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "B11"] [WhiteElo "2170"] [BlackElo "2435"] [Annotator "Karsten Müller"] [PlyCount "166"] [EventDate "2014.08.02"] [WhiteTeam "Algeria"] [BlackTeam "Lithuania"] [WhiteTeamCountry "ALG"] [BlackTeamCountry "LTU"] 1. e4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3. Nc3 Bg4 4. h3 Bxf3 5. Qxf3 e6 6. b3 Nf6 7. Bb2 Nbd7 8. exd5 cxd5 9. Bb5 Be7 10. O-O O-O 11. d4 Qa5 12. Bd3 Ba3 13. Bxa3 Qxa3 14. Qg3 Rac8 15. Ne2 Rfe8 16. c4 Qa5 17. Rfb1 dxc4 18. bxc4 b6 19. Nc3 a6 20. Ne4 Nxe4 21. Bxe4 Nf6 22. Bd3 Red8 23. Rd1 b5 24. cxb5 axb5 25. Rac1 Rxc1 26. Rxc1 Qxa2 27. Qd6 Qa5 28. Qc5 Qd2 29. Qc7 Rf8 30. Bxb5 Qxd4 31. Bc6 h6 32. Bf3 Qd7 33. Qc2 Rb8 34. Rd1 Qc8 35. Qd2 Qc5 36. Rc1 Qb6 37. Qf4 Rd8 38. Rc7 Qb1+ 39. Kh2 Qe1 40. Rc2 Qb1 41. Rc7 Qb8 42. g3 Rd2 43. Kg2 Qb2 44. Bc6 Qd4 45. Qf3 Qd3 46. Rc8+ Kh7 47. Qxd3+ Rxd3 48. Rc7 Rc3 49. Rc8 Kg6 50. Bb7 Rxc8 51. Bxc8 Kf5 52. Kf3 Ke5 53. Ke3 Nd5+ 54. Kd3 Kd6 55. Kd4 e5+ 56. Ke4 g6 57. g4 Nc3+ 58. Ke3 Nd5+ 59. Ke4 Ne7 60. Bb7 f5+ 61. gxf5 gxf5+ 62. Kf3 Nd5 63. Bc8 e4+ 64. Kg3 Ke5 65. Bb7 f4+ 66. Kg2 h5 67. Bc6 f3+ 68. Kg3 Ne7 69. Bb7 Nf5+ 70. Kh2 h4 71. Bc8 Kf4 72. Bxf5 Kxf5 73. Kg1 Kf4 74. Kf1 e3 75. fxe3+ Kxe3 76. Ke1 {[%csl Re1,Ye4, Re5,Yf1,Gf2,Gf4,Rf5,Rg1] Triangulation: At first sight this position seems to be drawn. But this is deceptive. Where shall White's king be to stop the invasion of Black's ? If Black's king is on f4 then White's should be on f2. If Black's is on e4 then on f1. So far so good. But what happens, if Black's king is on e5 or f5 ? Then White's should be on e1 or g1. But e5 and f5 are connected and e1 and g1 not:} Ke4 $5 (76... f2+ $2 77. Kf1 {spoils it as} Kf3 { is stalemate.}) ({After} 76... Kf4 77. Kf2 {Black also has to triangulate.}) 77. Kf1 Ke5 78. Ke1 Kf5 {Black has triangulated and so won the duel for the corresponding squares.} 79. Kf1 Ke4 80. Ke1 (80. Kf2 Kf4 81. Kf1 Kg3 82. Kg1 Kxh3 83. Kf2 Kg4 $19) 80... Ke3 81. Kf1 f2 82. Kg2 Ke2 83. Kh2 f1=R ({Of course not} 83... f1=Q $4 {stalemate}) (83... f1=N+ {and}) (83... f1=B {win as well.}) ({But quickest is} 83... Kf3 84. Kh1 f1=Q+ 85. Kh2 Qg2#) 0-1
White Holes
Rook endings have a large drawish tendency, but in a practical game they can not not be defended:
[Event "41st Olympiad Open 2014"] [Site "Tromso NOR"] [Date "2014.08.04"] [Round "3.2"] [White "Jones, Gawain C B"] [Black "Meier, Georg"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "D03"] [WhiteElo "2665"] [BlackElo "2646"] [Annotator "Karsten Müller"] [PlyCount "136"] [EventDate "2014.08.02"] [WhiteTeam "England"] [BlackTeam "Germany"] [WhiteTeamCountry "ENG"] [BlackTeamCountry "GER"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 d5 3. e3 e6 4. Nd2 c5 5. c3 Bd6 6. Ngf3 h6 7. Bh4 Nbd7 8. Bd3 O-O 9. O-O b6 10. e4 cxd4 11. Bxf6 Qxf6 12. cxd4 dxe4 13. Bxe4 Rb8 14. Nc4 Qe7 15. Nxd6 Qxd6 16. Rc1 Bb7 17. Bxb7 Rxb7 18. Qc2 Nf6 19. Qc6 Qe7 20. Qb5 Rc7 21. Qa6 Qd7 22. Rxc7 Qxc7 23. a3 Rc8 24. h3 Qb8 25. Qe2 Qf4 26. Re1 Nd5 27. Qb5 Qc7 28. Qa6 Qb8 29. Qe2 Rc7 30. Ne5 Qb7 31. Qe4 Qc8 32. Qf3 Qd8 33. g3 Nf6 34. Rd1 Qd5 35. Qxd5 Nxd5 36. Rd2 f6 37. Ng4 Kf7 38. Ne3 Nxe3 39. fxe3 Rc1+ 40. Kf2 h5 41. h4 Ke7 42. e4 Kd6 43. Kf3 g6 44. Kf4 Rf1+ 45. Ke3 {White Holes: Rook endings have a large drawish tendency, but in a practical game they can not not be defended:} f5 $1 {Now White can not preserve the integrity of his pawn structure and must allow holes on the light squares.} 46. e5+ $6 {An inaccuracy.} (46. exf5 {was the lesser evil, but Black remains for choice, e.g. } gxf5 (46... exf5 $6 47. Rc2 Re1+ 48. Re2 $11) 47. Rc2 Re1+ (47... Kd5 48. Rc7 Re1+ 49. Kf3 Kxd4 50. Rd7+ Ke5 51. Rxa7) 48. Re2 Rg1 49. Kf4 Rd1 50. Ke3 Kd5 { and Black has practical winning chances.}) 46... Kd5 47. Rc2 $2 {Now Black is too quick.} (47. Rd3 $1 {was more tenacious, but Black keeps winning chances with} Re1+ 48. Kf4 Re4+ 49. Kg5 Rg4+ 50. Kf6 f4 51. gxf4 Rxh4 52. Kxg6 Rxf4 53. Kxh5 Rxd4 54. Re3 Re4) 47... Re1+ 48. Kf4 Re4+ 49. Kg5 Rg4+ $6 {Meier's only inaccuracy in this part of the game.} ({The direct} 49... Kxd4 $1 {was better according to the computer, e.g.} 50. Kxg6 (50. Kf6 Rxe5 51. Rd2+ Ke3 $19) 50... Kxe5 51. Rc3 (51. Kxh5 $6 Rg4 $19) 51... Rg4+ 52. Kf7 f4 53. gxf4+ Kf5 54. Re3 Rxh4 55. Re5+ Kxf4 56. Kxe6 Rh2 $19) 50. Kf6 f4 51. gxf4 Rxf4+ 52. Kxg6 Rxh4 53. Rc7 Rxd4 54. Rxa7 $6 (54. Kxh5 {was called for as in the game Black's passed h-pawn will decide the day.}) 54... h4 55. Kf6 $6 (55. Kg5 Kxe5 56. Rh7 Rf4 $17) (55. Rh7 Kxe5 56. Rh5+ Kd6 $17) 55... Rf4+ 56. Kg5 Kxe5 57. Rh7 (57. Re7 h3 58. Rh7 Rf3 59. Kg4 Rb3 60. a4 (60. Rxh3 $6 Rxh3 61. Kxh3 Kd4 62. a4 Kc4 $19) 60... Kd4 $19) (57. Rb7 h3 58. Rxb6 $6 Rf5+ 59. Kg4 h2 $19) (57. Rc7 h3 58. Rc3 h2 59. Rh3 Rf2 $19) 57... Ke4 58. Rh6 (58. Rc7 e5 59. Rc3 Rf3 60. Rc4+ Kd3 61. Rxh4 e4 $19) (58. Rxh4 $6 Rxh4 59. Kxh4 Kf3 $19 {[%cal Ge6e1]}) 58... e5 59. Re6 Kf3 60. Rxe5 h3 61. Rb5 Kg3 $5 {[%cal Gf4f3,Gf4g4,Gg4h4] Meier uses his rook as shied in typical style.} 62. Rb3+ (62. Rxb6 h2 63. Rh6 Rg4+ 64. Kf5 Rh4 $19) 62... Rf3 63. Rxb6 h2 64. Rh6 Kg2 65. Kg4 (65. Rxh2+ Kxh2 66. a4 Rb3 $19) 65... Rb3 (65... Rg3+ 66. Kf4 Rh3 67. Rg6+ Kf2 68. Rc6 Rf3+ 69. Ke5 h1=Q $19) 66. Kf4 h1=Q 67. Rxh1 Kxh1 68. Ke5 Rxb2 {An instructive performance by Georg Meier!} 0-1
Karsten Müller in ChessBase Magazine
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Apart from his regular columns and video lectures in ChessBase Magazine there is a whole series of training DVDs by Karsten Müller, which are bestsellers in the ChessBase Shop.
Karsten Müller Karsten Müller is considered to be one of the greatest endgame experts in the world. His books on the endgame - among them "Fundamentals of Chess Endings", co-authored with Frank Lamprecht, that helped to improve Magnus Carlsen's endgame knowledge - and his endgame columns for the ChessCafe website and the ChessBase Magazine helped to establish and to confirm this reputation. Karsten's Fritztrainer DVDs on the endgame are bestsellers. The mathematician with a PhD lives in Hamburg, and for more than 25 years he has been scoring points for the Hamburger Schachklub (HSK) in the Bundesliga.


The deal builds on a prior agreement reached during President Trump's visit to Riyadh in May. That pact created a center to coordinate the efforts of all seven countries to undermine the financing of terrorist groups.
"We are focused on maximizing the use of our expansive economic authorities, intelligence, and other sources of financial information to target and interrupt the financing of those who execute and facilitate these deadly attacks and other destabilizing activities," said Mnuchin.
"It is absolutely the case we had additional targets we wanted to go after but some of the countries didn't want [to]," said the senior administration official.
The senior administration official acknowledged that the enforcement of such sanctions by each country is voluntary, but noted there is "political will" by each of the countries to shut off the terror financing spigot.


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There is "no doubt" restaurant stocks are going higher, according to Piper Jaffray's Nicole Miller Regan.
McDonald's, Shake Shack, Chipotle and Potbelly are among the companies Regan predicts will perform well.
However, she warns that restaurants could be affected by rising employment costs.
There is "no doubt" restaurant stocks are going higher, according to Nicole Miller Regan, senior restaurant analyst for Piper Jaffray.
"It's the year of the restaurant," she told CNBC's "Power Lunch" on Friday.
"We have fewer restaurant stocks, creating scarcity value," she added. "The second thing is we have balanced supply and demand. So sales performance has gone from negative to positive."
A waiter carries a tray of food to patrons at the Bayside American Cafe in Portland, Oregon.
Regan said specifically she likes momentum plays, including Darden Restaurants, McDonald's and Shake Shack. However, she also likes recovery stories, such as Chipotle and Potbelly, and thinks the casual dining segment will improve, she said.
"We believe domestic, company-owned models are expected to continue to perform well while smaller market capitalization stocks in general may also generate meaningful upside," Regan said. This is due to the strategic nature of these specific companies.
However, she warns, restaurants could be impacted by rising employment costs.
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— CNBC's AJ Vielma contributed to this report.
Disclosures: Piper Jaffray makes a market in securities of Chipotle, Darden Restaurants, McDonald's, Potbelly, Shake Shake and Restaurant Brands International.


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The Mass That Was Never Forbidden: Key Dates in the Old Missal's Rehabilitation
The Mass Was Never Forbidden
Paix Liturgique Newsletter
Letter 122 (9 February 2022)
The following presentation follows Abbé Claude Barthe's book, La messe de Vatican II. Dossier historique (Via Romana, 2018).
1978: John Paul II receives Archbp. Lefebvre
The election of John Paul II in 1978 marked a turning point in an attempt to regain control in the wake of the Council, even if it was extremely timid. On November 18, 1978, one month after his election, at the initiative of Cardinal Siri, John Paul II received Archbishop Lefebvre in the presence of Cardinal Seper.
A decisive friendship: Ratzinger and Msgr. Klaus Gamber
1981: Cardinal Ratzinger takes the liturgical question in hand
The ensuing change of direction was largely due to the fact that John Paul II called the Archbishop of Munich, Cardinal Ratzinger, to Rome in 1981 and entrusted him with the position of trust par excellence in those times of great doctrinal confusion: Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. In 1985, the Cardinal published his Interview on the Faith, setting out his thinking in the theological and disciplinary fields. This he summarized with the word "restoration," which, as he clearly explained, must be understood within a conciliar framework and not in a retrograde sense. Or at least, not explicitly retrogade.
On the other hand, on liturgical questions, the prospect of a certain return to the past was clearly on the cardinal's mind. It should be noted that Joseph Ratzinger, former peritus of Cardinal Frings, Archbishop of Cologne, one of the major figures of the council majority, had sounded his first liturgical alarm in a lecture he gave in Münster, in 1966, when still a professor, and then in another in Bamberg, at the Katholikentag (the gathering of German Catholics organized every two years), the same year. He attacked the "new ritualism" of the liturgical experts, who were replacing the old customs with the fabrication of suspicious "forms" and "structures," such as the obligatory versus populum stance. For the first time in his life, the former expert of the majority at Vatican II was called "conservative" (by Cardinal Döpfner). At the end of 1966 he was appointed professor at the Catholic School of the University of Tübingen, where he witnessed the German May '68, i.e., the Marxization of a university (Ernst Bloch dominated the teaching staff), whose Catholic School had largely integrated Bultmann's demythologizing theology.
In 1969 he accepted a position as professor of dogmatic theology and history of dogma in Regensburg, at the same time as he was appointed a member of the International Theological Commission. It was also in Regensburg that he became acquainted with the liturgical historian Klaus Gamber, who had remained faithful to the traditional Mass. There, on the banks of the Danube, a new shock awaited him after the first stage of the reform and the revolution of 1968: the completion of the liturgical upheaval. Although he agreed with many aspects of the reform, he found its radical nature unbearable, and his negative judgment was reinforced by his long conversations with his colleague Gamber during their daily walks. "The old building has been destroyed in order to build a new one," he later wrote.
It was at this time that Joseph Ratzinger's complex thinking on liturgical matters crystallized. It was that of a centrist who was fundamentally conciliar, but attentive to the traditionalist voices raised by university friends: Professor Klaus Gamber; later, Professor Robert Spaemann and Professor Heinz-Lothar Barth. It was also in Regensburg, in 1977, that he was appointed by Paul VI, who was increasingly afraid of "the smoke of Satan in the Church," to one of the most important sees in Germany, that of Munich and Freising. John Paul II removed him from this position and named him head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on November 25, 1981.
1982: Questioning the abrogation of the old missal
Everyone now knew how impossible it was to bring to heel the challenge to the reform, in both doctrine and liturgy, issuing from a whole section of the Church, the highest figure of which was Archbishop Lefebvre, former Archbishop of Dakar. John XXIII and Paul VI, as "enlightened princes," had presided over the end of the Tridentine model of the Roman Church. But as a result, the Tridentine disciplinary corset no longer constrained anyone, not even the defenders of Trent, the traditionalists.
It is worth noting that Annibale Bugnini himself, while exiled as nuncio in Tehran, had addressed a letter to Cardinal Villot, Paul VI's Secretary of State, in 1976, in which he proposed that, while safeguarding the principle of a mandatory Paul VI Mass, the Mass of St. Pius V could be celebrated under certain conditions, in specific churches for groups having difficulties with the new Ordo Missæ.
This is precisely what Joseph Ratzinger proposed when he arrived in Rome. He organized an inter-dicastery meeting in the Palazzo del Sant'Officio on November 16, 1982, to discuss the liturgical question and the Lefebvrist question. The participants in the November 16, 1982 meeting were: Cardinal Sebastiano Baggio, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops; Cardinal William W. Baum, Archbishop of Washington; Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, Secretary of State; Cardinal Silvio Oddi, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy; Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; and Archbishop Giuseppe Casoria, pro-Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the discipline of the Sacraments. All the participants in this meeting affirmed that, since "the full juridical validity of the abrogation of the old missal is in doubt," the "old" Roman missal should be "admitted by the Holy See throughout the Church for Masses celebrated in Latin." This in 1982, 25 years before Summorum Pontificum!
1984: Quattuor abhinc annos
It was not until 1984, however, that such a permission was granted. On April 19, 1984, a new meeting took place between Cardinals Casaroli, Ratzinger, and Casoria.
A letter from Cardinal Casaroli, Secretary of State, dated March 18, 1984, to Cardinal Casoria, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, asked him to prepare a decree reflecting this. He invoked the precedent set by the permission granted by Paul VI to England and Wales in 1971, and specified that "an absolute prohibition [of the previous missal] could not be justified from either the theological or the liturgical point of view." The result was the circular letter Quattuor abhinc annos from the Congregation for Divine Worship on October 3, 1984, which granted diocesan bishops the faculty of using an indult by which the faithful who so requested could benefit from the Mass celebrated according to the Roman Missal in its 1962 typical edition.
Ordinations in Gricigliano, March 21, 1992, with Cardinal Alfons Maria Stickler
1986: Meeting of the nine cardinals
Cardinal Stickler revealed that in 1986 Cardinal Ratzinger called another meeting of nine cardinals to ask them once again whether or not they thought the Tridentine Mass had been legally abrogated: eight out of nine thought that it had not, but all of them unanimously agreed that a priest could not be forbidden to say it. In 1986, 21 years before Summorum Pontificum!
1988: Ecclesia Dei Adflicta
Four years later, after the June 30, 1988 consecrations by Archbishop Lefebvre of four bishops without apostolic mandate, Bishops Galarreta, Tissier de Mallerais, Williamson, and Fellay, a new text was published: the motu proprio Ecclesia Dei adflicta of July 2, 1988. It provided that priests of the traditional rite could constitute institutes dedicated to the traditional liturgy. It created a Pontifical Commission, the Ecclesia Dei Commission, on which these institutes were to depend, and which was also responsible for regulating the authorizations given by bishops to use the Tridentine Missal in their dioceses.
The prelates who from 1988 on began to agree to celebrating occasionally according to the Tridentine missal became relatively numerous. A certain number of them soon appeared to be protectors of this mode of celebration. Thus, to speak only of the Cardinals of the Curia, one can mention Cardinals Oddi, Palazzini, Stickler, then Ratzinger himself, Medina, Castrillón, and later Burke, Rodé, Ranjith, Cañizares, Cordes, and Sarah. It is quite remarkable that three of them, Medina, Cañizares, and Sarah, were prefects of the Congregation for Divine Worship.
Card. Ratzinger offers traditional Pontifical Mass in Wigratzbad, Easter 1990
2007: Summorum Pontificum
Nineteen years would elapse before the promulgation of the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum on July 7, 2007. Under the pressure of a challenge that could not be crushed, and which had now gained a hearing at the highest levels, the supreme legislator gradually had come to interpret the prescriptions of the Missale Romanum of 1969 as non-binding.
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Partners Capital Shines the Spotlight on Geopolitics, China, Biotechnology and Impact Investing at Its Fourth Annual Investor Workshop
Partners Capital
NEW YORK and LONDON, Oct. 29, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Partners Capital Investment Group, the Outsourced Investment Office serving sophisticated institutions and senior investment professionals in Europe, North America and Asia, held its Annual Investor Workshop on Tuesday 15th October 2019 in New York.
Partners Capital 2019 Annual Investor Workshop, Park Hyatt New York
In attendance at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, were approximately 140 guests, predominately from the US, but also from across Europe, the Middle East, Asia as well as Australia. Partners Capital's client base of investment professionals, institutional clients and family offices were all represented. This included investment committee members from New York University School of Law, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Singapore educational endowments and INSEAD Business School.
The afternoon started with Stan Miranda, Chief Executive Officer of Partners Capital, describing the overarching theme of the Client Workshop being de-globalization, with four underlying sub-themes - geopolitics, China, biotechnology and impact investing. "While Globalization has been a strong force in the past, lifting people out of poverty and bringing the world closer together, there are serious headwinds. Given these headwinds, we face a question of whether investors should concentrate their investments more domestically or seek opportunities out of new economic alliances that are likely to form?" The afternoon provided arguments on multiple sides.
Internal speakers were joined by three experts:
Matthew Gertken, Geopolitical Strategist at BCA Research spoke on geopolitics' impact on investment strategy going forward. BCA research concludes that the US will be in at least a decade-long economic "cold war" with China. Any trade deals between now and Trump's re-election will be temporary stop-gaps distracting investors from the real changes in the form of deeper alliances between China and its historical and new allies; and between the US and its historical allies.
Jason Tan, Chief Investment Officer from Jeneration Capital laid out the facts surrounding the technology arms race between China and the US, highlighting the very different strategies Chinese tech leaders are following versus US tech leaders. These companies initially start with one online business and subsequently expand into additional segments (e.g., content & media, social & messaging, mobile payments), funding start-ups to create new innovations so they do not have to themselves. The integrated ecosystem approach is highlighted by the fact that China is home to a disproportionate number of the "super" unicorns ($15B+ valued companies).
Behzad Aghazadeh, Managing Partner at Avoro Capital spoke on the future biotechnology breakthroughs saying that "today we are benefitting from the groundwork of decades of research that can now be widely applied to medicine….breakthroughs in cancer are accelerating as we continue to see advances in treatments for previously uncurable indications. Today there are 16,000 ongoing pipeline projects, up from 6,000 in 2001, which provides a strong platform of ongoing innovation in the sector". Stan Miranda added his own comments on investing in the public biotech sector - "There are 1,200 public biotech companies today, only 5% of which have revenue and 75% have not yet reached phase III drug trials. By investing with firms like Avoro, we expect to see venture capital like returns from this liquid public sector of the public equity markets."
Partners Capital presentations included two four-person panel sessions featuring the Partners Capital CIO's and Asset Class Heads, addressing Client Portfolio Strategy Choices and Asset Class Strategies going forward, respectively.
Client Portfolio Strategy Choices
- Will Fox, Partner, Head of North America, Boston - spoke on the right illiquidity budget
- John Collis, Partner, Head of Europe, London – spoke on tactical asset allocation
- Elizabeth Trotta, Managing Director, New York – covered our recession playbook
- David Shushan, Partner, Boston – discussed technology sector over-weights
Asset Class Strategies
- Alex Band, Managing Director, Head of Public Equities, Boston
- Rich Scarinci, Partner, Absolute Return & Credit, Boston
- Suzanne Streeter, Partner, Head of Private Markets, Boston
- Emma Bewley, Principal, Private Debt, London
The audience responded most to Elizabeth Trotta's run-through of the "Partners Capital Recession Playbook", which is already in place in most client portfolios. But the key message of the internal presentations was how Partners Capital believes that a highly diversified, risk-managed multi-asset class portfolio is the best long term defense against an economic downturn.
The afternoon's final session, Impact Investing, featured a short video of Sir Ronald Cohen, filmed specifically for the event, addressing the importance of social impact investing and why investors should be focusing not only on risk and return but also on optimizing the impact of their investments on society and the environment. Euan Finlay, Partner and Chair of Partners Capital's Responsible Investing Committee, then went on to discuss the firm's responsible investing framework for implementing and reporting on responsible investing in client portfolios.
Paul Dimitruk, Chairman of Partners Capital, closed the day focusing on the firm's desire to be not just an advisor, but a "thought-partner" on each client's investment journey. He implored each client to continue to challenge and push Partners Capital to be the best it can be. "Our mission is to do go beyond just asset allocation and manager selection, but to help discern where risk and return are, and where value is created or destroyed."
About Partners Capital
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Q: ROR: i18n best practices for large translation dictionaries
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*When internationalizing a rails app, what is the best practice way for organizing/scoping translations in the dictionary files?

*Under what circumstance should you use interpolations of variables?

*Should every phrase be it's entry?

*Is there anyone who participated in dhh's tolk who can shed some light on how 37signals broke up their dictionary files?

After a month and a half of using the i18n gem our en.yml file is becoming gigantic. Is there any benefit to using scoping? We want the dictionary to be easier to translate and to keep our dictionary DRY but want to take into consideration different tenses and still take advantage of situations where we have "Are you sure you want to delete this object?", "Are you sure you want to mark this as completed?" As "Are you sure you want to {{verb}} this {{noun}}?"

A: Well, on our organization we completelly translated it with the default directory structures suggested by Rails
we have our locale and then we have either views or models
for every view and model we created the translations and it works perfectly.
for instance, in a HomeController#show we use:
t('.title')

and it looks in the views/home/{locale}.yml for the
{locale}:
  show:
    title:

It also works well with partials.
Same example as above, but in a 'latest' partial would be
{locale}:
  latest:
    title:

Not sure if this is exactly what you were looking for, but hope it helps

A: I had the same problems year ago, as the result I've built t_t gem. It dramatically reduces amount of duplications in translation files. For more details look at cheatsheet - section # Actions will help you with "Are you sure you want to {{verb}} this {{noun}}?"
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an example gist

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Scottish Enterprise sought to create two new buildings that would reflect their dynamic approach to developing and promoting Prestwick International Aerospace Park. The buildings were to comprise offices and industrial workshop spaces to cater solely for airport related business. Extensive glazing was introduced to create a high quality appearance coupled with a over sailing canopy and brises soleil offering shading and in turn avoiding solar gain. The final appearance is a slick, dynamic building with subtle references to the aerospace industry through the floating roof, the fin shaped brises soleil and the metallic finish to the majority of the materials.


After leaving Russia we made a quick dash for Ulan Bator, Mongolia's capital. Arriving early in the morning we had a bit of trouble finding anything open. We needed to finalize a few documents to apply for our Chinese Visa and to make it a bit more exciting we had left that for the last possible moment. Well that's the story we're going with anyhow. In the end we found a coffee shop with WiFi and finished the itinerary for our Chinese Visa applications together with all the necessary hotel bookings. Having done that we found a print shop to print all the documents and then made it to the embassy just in time for opening hour. Smooth! We submitted everything and were told to come back in four days.
In the following days we relaxed, found some fantastic Mongolian food in a vegan restaurant and walked around to get a feel for the city.
My favourite part of the week was when our host took us on a hike to a nearby mountain with the local Rotaract club.
The wintery atmosphere was absolutely stunning and it was even better to finally get out of the smog clogged city and breathe in fresh air.
On top we played some games to stay warm which we appreciated a lot in now -20 degrees Celsius.
On the next day it was a whole different story though. There was a lovely wind blowing fresh air into the city and we could really feel the difference. So we enjoyed walking around for a bit under the clear blue sky.
Funnily (to me) you can find a lot of these open public toilets in Beijing. Yep, privacy is a whole different story here. Once you get to a touristy part, there will be separating walls in between though :).
After having a nice dinner with Surin we boarded our first Chinese sleeper train towards Kunming, the so called Spring City. Spring was near and also the second part of our cycling adventure!
After almost two years of being on the road it was time for a break. Physically, mentally, high time. So we ditched the bicycles, did a lot of research on trains and buses and went on a wholly different adventure!
As we have been going so slowly these past years we didn't just want to fly home. So all in all it took as about a month to get from China to Germany. That includes time spent riding trains, buses, shared taxis, some breaks with fabulous hosts and about 10 days in Almaty, Kazakhstan to apply for our Russian Transit Visa.
While I did feel a bit sad leaving the bicycles and thus our independent mode of transport behind, I was also tremendously relieved right from the start. For a while there I would get to relax, take it easy and travel differently. Our first train ride took us from Kunming to Chengdu and lasted about 18 hours. Let me just say it was an experience, not necessarily the most enjoyable one. There are different categories in Chinese trains. To save money we had booked hard seats for an overnight train which is still okay. Once the hard seats run out they do however sell standing tickets which leads to trains being seriously crowded at times. I could hardly move for most of the ride as there were people or luggage everywhere. Still, at least we had a seat, the people with standing tickets were far worse off – especially given that they paid the same price.
In Chengdu we stayed with Peter, a fellow cycle tourer and now warmshowers host. Funnily he had stayed with a lot of the same hosts back in Australia when he was always a little bit ahead of us. Now, as he was experiencing similar travel fatigue symptoms as me he decided to stay put in Chengdu for a while and teach English. We had fun exchanging stories, eating together and going for a Chinese massage.
I also loved spending time in some of the bigger Chinese supermarkets with their lovely bulk section.
After two days we took a bus to Lanzhou as all the cheap train tickets were sold out. Not bad in comparison, no standing tickets there and only about 10 hours.
In Lanzhou we boarded another train to Urumqui. Maybe a tiny bit less crowded this time but not that much of a difference. The views were so so beautiful though and while I was content of being in a train at that time I also would have loved to actually feel the landscape change from the tropics to desert more gradually.
There is one absolutely fantastic invention in trains across China and later on also Kazakhstan, Russia, Mongolia…: a samowar! You can bring your own tea or coffee and have hot drinks all the way. Seriously awesome!
Apart from that I wasn't a big fan of the (self) catering on Chinese trains. Most people bring huge bags full of instant noodle soup and other snacks, all packed in layers and layers of plastic. Only a handful of people take fresh food or eat the rice and meat offered on the train. There are people at the stations selling things like corn, baked potatoes, bread and such but it seemed to me that junk food is the go to option on trains. That's a stark contrast to the absolutely fantastic food we had everywhere else in China.
As our Chinese Visa was coming to a rapid end we didn't stop in Urumqi and took the next bus to Yining.
We drove on some fantastically engineered roads and this time I really missed not being able to get off the bus at any time and just take in the scenery. I have never really seen landscapes like these and will come back here one day, for sure.
Arriving in Yining was a bit of a letdown though. It took us about two hours to find any sort of accommodation that would accept foreigners. In Xinjiang province hotels and guest houses need to have special permits to accept foreigners and it can be a bit of a hassle finding one. Without the bicycles we were reduced to walking around a lot and ended up taking a taxi to a youth hostel. After travelling straight for a few days we were just dead tired. In the youth hostel we got another surprise as we were only allowed to take the expensive double room. They weren't even allowed to let foreigners into the dormitory. Add that to the expansive vehicle and other security checks in this area and it sure felt different from Yunnan.
We loved the change in food though, the bread and Laghman, so many new tastes!
The next morning we took a shared taxi to the border, walked there to see if we could cross on foot and were denied. Why? Because ferrying people over there seems to be too good a business to pass that opportunity up. Well, that's my guess anyhow.
The next hours were a bit of a blur. We managed to buy a ticket for the bus to cross the border. The first bus that took us over the Chinese border was rather empty. But after the actual border crossing we found this: Two buses, one locked and empty. And about a hundred Kazakhs trying to fit themselves and all the cheap wares from China into the one open bus. That went on for about an hour. There was no driver and we weren't really sure what to do. Should we try and board the bus? Would it eventually take off? Should we wait for the second bus? Was our ticket specific for one of the buses?
We waited, we asked some people, got confusing answers, got yelled at, pushed off the bus, ushered onto the same bus… and in the end figured we just have to push to actually get on the bus. This is not South East Asia anymore where politeness and staying calm tends to get you further in general.
We did get across that Kazakh border. Made some friends in the process who helped us with explaining everything. We saw some money change hands where it shouldn't and discussed with the border guards to let our friends leave with us. In return they helped us find a shared taxi to Almaty. Man, what a day!!
About an hour later we couldn't have been more happy. I will tell you next time why!


A couple times a year I give designing a shot of my own. We're handing out a flyer at Caroling On The Wharf to advertise our Christmas Eve service as well as our New Years Series. Used the same design as last year for our Christmas Eve candlelight service, but threw together a design for our January/February series using some background images Ed had grabbed for the branding.
Any tips from you hot designers out there to make it better next time?
As a sidenote about that series, one of the things I'm really looking forward to is bring our friends Rex and Eve Johnson up here to do a marriage seminar at our church on Valentines weekend. Unfortunately I might not be able to take part cause we should have a new baby that week, but if you are in Santa Cruz you wanna make it over for this. They're great!
Looks good! Not quite Joel good, but really good nonetheless. Let me know how the 2-8-09 sermon goes. Always a good topic!!!
I like it Bobby! Great job.


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Roy was 'Batty' with his Nexus-6 T-shirt. The winner of our Best Picture of the Month Competition for July 2016 goes to Paddy O'Hare for this fantastic photo of Rutger Hauer receiving our Blade Runner inspired Nexus-6 T-shirt at this summer's London Film and Comic Con. Paddy wins 3 Last Exit to Nowhere T-shirts of his choice from our range of film inspired T-shirts.
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#ifndef PX_GPU_H
#define PX_GPU_H

#include "PxPhysXConfig.h"

#if PX_SUPPORT_GPU_PHYSX

#include "cudamanager/PxCudaContextManager.h"
#include "cudamanager/PxCudaMemoryManager.h"
#include "cudamanager/PxGpuCopyDesc.h"
#include "foundation/Px.h"
#include "foundation/PxPreprocessor.h"
#include "common/PxPhysXCommonConfig.h"
#include "PxFoundation.h"

/**
\brief PxGpuLoadHook

This is a helper class for loading the PhysXGpu dll.
If a PhysXGpu dll with a non-default file name needs to be loaded,
PxGpuLoadHook can be sub-classed to provide the custom filenames.

Once the names are set, the instance must be set for use by PhysX.dll using PxSetPhysXGpuLoadHook(),

@see PxSetPhysXGpuLoadHook()
*/
class PxGpuLoadHook
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public:
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	virtual const char* getPhysXGpuDllName() const = 0;

protected:
private:
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/**
\brief Sets GPU load hook instance for PhysX dll.

\param[in] hook GPU load hook.

@see PxGpuLoadHook
*/
PX_C_EXPORT PX_PHYSX_CORE_API void PX_CALL_CONV PxSetPhysXGpuLoadHook(const PxGpuLoadHook* hook);

/**
 * \brief Ask the NVIDIA control panel which GPU has been selected for use by
 * PhysX.  Returns -1 if no PhysX capable GPU is found or GPU PhysX has
 * been disabled.
 */
PX_C_EXPORT PX_PHYSX_CORE_API int PX_CALL_CONV PxGetSuggestedCudaDeviceOrdinal(physx::PxErrorCallback& errc);

/**
 * \brief Allocate a CUDA Context manager, complete with heaps and task dispatcher.
 * You only need one CUDA context manager per GPU device you intend to use for
 * CUDA tasks.
 */
PX_C_EXPORT PX_PHYSX_CORE_API physx::PxCudaContextManager* PX_CALL_CONV PxCreateCudaContextManager(physx::PxFoundation& foundation, const physx::PxCudaContextManagerDesc& desc);

#endif // PX_SUPPORT_GPU_PHYSX

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Kim Kardashian West 'desperate' for mom to wed
By Clive King on 26 September 2015
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Kim Kardashian West is ''desperate'' for her mother Kris Jenner to get married to Corey Gamble.
Kim Kardashian West is ''desperate'' for Kris Jenner and Corey Gamble to get married.
The 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians' star - who is expecting her second child with husband Kanye West, the father of her two-year-old daughter North - has enjoyed a number of double dates with her mother and her new boyfriend, but the showbiz matriarch has suggested her daughter's wedding planning services won't be much use to her.
Kris said: ''Corey and I love to go on dates with Kim and Kanye. Kanye and Corey get on so well and have lots in common as they are both in the music industry.
''Kim's desperate for Corey and I to get married and says she'd love a huge wedding. She wants North to be a bridesmaid. I've told her she's better off putting the pressure on her siblings to get married, not me.''
Kris was left devastated when she discovered her ex-husband Bruce Jenner - who is now known as Caitlyn - was transitioning to a woman and she says having Corey's support has helped her through a difficult period.
She told Closer magazine: ''Corey is so supportive, he is truly my rock. I don't know what I'd have done without him these past few months.''


The international seminar will take place the day before the meeting of the AC on 23 April 2019 from 9am to 5pm at Al Masah Hotel in Nasr City, Cairo.
The event was organised by the Egyptian Olive Council (EOC) and will be attended by ministers of investment, agriculture, industry and trade, and tourism.
At the seminar, attendees will discuss the advantages of investing in the olive sector in Egypt today, what the opportunities are and what facilities are available for those who decide to accept the challenge.
There will also be a session dedicated to others' experiences investing capital into this sector, including back-to-back meetings with the country's main banking institutions.
More information can be found in the programme attached.
9.30 – 10.30 Why to invest in Olive & Olive Oil sector?
International speakers organized by the International Olive Council.
11.30 – 13.30 Why it is time to invest in Egypt?
- Full data on Investment Law & facilities.
- Available lands for Olive cultivation.
- B2B (as per request of attendees).
*Free Day tour in Cairo will organized for the accompanying persons.
*EgyptAir is offering 15% discount for all attendees.


If you want a change in image, there is no easier way to do it than by changing your hairdo. With a mere haircut or top knot, your appearance and aura could change.But what if you feel that cutting and tying are insufficient for the level of makeover you are looking for?
When you are looking for proper and professional hair care, you need to go to someone who knows what they are doing. Choosing someone with the skills and knowledge to give you what you want, possibly even exceed your expectations, will ensure that your hair is looking beautiful for longer.
Are desperate looking for a man? Nowadays, the world have turned upside down as women are now seducing women.
If you want to feel refreshed and energized after the exhausting daily routine, visiting the spa is the best option. Busy daily routine that reduces the body's energy and need to download the proper functioning of the body. Spa services are very effective for relieving stress at work. Treatment procedures include body massages, facials, nail care, hair care and styling.In today's world a more complete picture can be defined as the best style of hair, perfect teeth and perfect skin. Skin condition is strongly linked to the health and beauty of the body. Tired body can make skin look dull. Each body part requires care and attention. Facials help your skin look fresh and radiant.
Hair fall, dandruff and dull hair are the common most problems associated with hair. There are many commercial adds shown daily on television that through away promises to give you lustrous, strong long hair, but instead of looking around these commercial and waste your money on harmful chemicals, it would be far better to spend some time to give a good massage to your head regularly.
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Another minute – and she burst into tears of resentment as a child, because it missed the record at the hairdresser. A surprise in the form of discreet ringlet will please her, even in the most nepogozhy day. To her flock all smiles when she updated the paint on his hands, and she stops for a long time to talk to you, if it is going to ban swimming pool or massage therapist. What is it?
Many local businesses in the past have struggled to compete against larger businesses. With the recent economic woes small businesses are finding that they have an advantage over larger businesses and so are trying their level best to compete. Salons in particular can benefit largely if they can increase their local visibility.


Studio Agency HQ is located in Brisbane's very own flourishing fashion district of West End. The agency offers a large area for our showroom and space for showcasing our brands and a beautiful meeting room for our HQ meetings. We also offer onsite parking and street parking.


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Study Finds Increasing Number of High Schools Are Using Individual Learning Plans to Prepare Students for College and Career
A study from The National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) and edtech company Hobsons has found that many high schools are increasingly using individual learning plans (IPLs) to prepare students for college and career, but could use more training and support when it comes to implementation.
According to the report, "ILPs are personalized plans developed collaboratively by students and school personnel to set goals that help students focus on their academic and career futures and keep them on track toward these goals. ILPs are also known as Academic Achievement Plans, Personal Learning Plans, Personal Graduation Plans, or 4-Year Plans"
The report found that 29 states have mandated policies for using IPLs; even in states un-mandated to use IPLs, 40 percent did anyway.
More than half of the respondents studied implemented IPLs within the last five years, indicating that IPLs are an increasingly popular tool among high schools to facilitate college and career readiness.
But despite the increase in using IPLs to prepare students for the future, many respondents reported desiring more training and support to make the plans more effective.
"Survey respondents indicated a relative lack of involvement in ILP development, implementation, and evaluation among state- and district-level stakeholders, as well as among school administrators and personnel other than counselors," the report said.
In fact, three-quarters of respondents said that tracking of IPL progress ended after high school, limiting the potential to track the effectiveness of using IPLs for student success.
Counselors surveyed said that the following would help improve IPL effectiveness:
whole-school buy in
improved access to technology
smaller caseloads


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I'm excited to announce the publicizing of some writing projects, on Patreon. I've created 8 tiers of participation, from the casual supporter getting sneak peaks and snippets, to an Advocate level and beyond.
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Get your heist on, because Logan Lucky's on the marquee this week, starring Channing Tatum, Daniel Craig, and Kylo Ren, directed by Steven Soderbergh.
Forgive us, Father, for we are about to recap the prequel to the prequel to The Conjuring. Chucky joins us in the studio this week.
Ron remembers the face of his father and recaps a better Dark Tower than the one he saw, starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey as inter-dimensional enemies with some Shining thrown in.
All the jet blacks and the bleach blondes love our show, especially when Ron recaps cheesy horror romps like I, Madman. Part slasher, part Phantom of the Opera, this demented lil story is good, clean, ugly fun.


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The Student News Site of Windsor High School
"The Voice" Contestant Visits Windsor High School to Talk to Choir Students
Kymberli Joye Visiting Windsor High School Choir Students
Aretha Prabawa, Randolph Stapleton, and Shani Smith
On Thursday, November 1st, students buzzed with excitement for the arrival of Windsor High School alum Kymberli Joye, who was invited to share her life story and experience as contestant on "The Voice" in the place where her passion grew: Windsor High School's choir room.
Participants of the school choir were given the opportunity to listen to Joye's story and ask questions about her career. During her visit, the audience learned about her inspirations, adventures, and personal struggles.
The visit started with an introduction made by Joye. Joye states, "Windsor High School is a huge part of my story." Joye explained that grew up singing in Windsor, then continued her education at Berkeley School of Music in Boston. Then, she says she became a background vocalist for gospel singer JJ Hairston. As a background vocalist, she says something was missing and started to do solo music. She makes covers on Instagram and has 2 singles out right now: "Destiny," which was released in 2015, and "Abba," which was released in 2018.
Joye states that she got an email for casting for the latest season of "The Voice." Joye says that during the blind auditions, she "stood on stage, took a deep breath, and began to sing." She performed of "Run to You" by Whitney Houston.She says the ballad was chosen because "I was in a really low place, and that song lifted me from that." Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson, and Blake Shelton turned their chairs for Joye. Joye says she had a hard time choosing between Kelly Clarkson and Jennifer Hudson, but because Kelly Clarkson blocked Jennifer Hudson, the choice was made easier. The singer/songwriter says that it is a "welcoming industry," and that many successful artists welcomed her.
The students asked about obstacles Joye faced. Joye says that she suffered from depression shortly after graduating from college. "I believed I had a gift, but wasn't ready to share it with the world," she commented. She says that she did not have a job, and was fearful of the future. However, her sister, Kayla Rush, says she watched her sister rise past this obstacle. She says, "Even before the voice, it looked like she was elevating constantly from the depression."
Aside from mental health, there were other obstacles Joye had to face to continue her career. There was a time when she thought she would never sing again. She says that she was put on vocal rest by her doctor, and that she feared she had permanently lost her voice. She also says she was worried about what people would think about her, whether it was how she sounded or how she looked. However, she says she had a good support system, and it helped her get through those obstacles. She says it is also "good to know who you are."
The topic of conversation shifted from Joye's forthcomings to her experience on "The Voice." More specifically, students asked how she felt causing a dispute between Jennifer Hudson and Kelly Clarkson. Joye says that she had been a fan of Kelly Clarkson since"American Idol," and that it felt good to have Kelly Clarkson compliment her voice. Joye says, "It was inspiring because she liked my voice."
As a youth, Joye was always very fond of singing. She was surprisingly shy and thought she would never be able to gain enough confidence to sing in front of people. It took encouragement from her mother to rise above her fear and perform a solo in church at the age of twelve. From then on she began to pursue her dreams, involving herself in many clubs and activities in high school. Influenced by the teachings of Tracy White, a Windsor High School choir teacher, she was able to attain many goals she never thought were possible. It was evident that Joye had talent, but from the help of White, she was able to reach her full potential as a singer.
The students learned quite a bit from her visit. Jerel Pollard, a senior at Windsor High School, says it is "inspiring to see people do what they love." Senior Amaya Balner also says she learned "to keep trying and never give up…and not to be afraid to dream big whilst living in a small town."
Joye has made it past the knockout round, and is advancing to the live shows. Many students are inspired by her, and share her hope for winning the competition. Kymberli's continued journey can be viewed on"The Voice" aired on Monday and Tuesday evenings on NBC .
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Le lac Bierstadt est situé dans le comté de Larimer, dans le Colorado et dans le parc national de Rocky Mountain, à proximité des pics McHenrys et Longs, d'où il y a de larges vues sur la ligne de partage des eaux continentales. Le lac Bierstadt est situé à environ  de la route US 36 et est accessible par un sentier. En été, des navettes assurent le transport jusqu'au début du sentier.

Le lac se trouve au sommet d'une moraine latérale à la fin du glacier Bartholf et se déverse dans le ruisseau Mill. Il doit son nom à Albert Bierstadt, un peintre réputé, dont les peintures de Longs Peak et du lac Bierstadt datant de 1870 font partie des collections du musée d'art de Denver.

Géologie et hydrologie
Le lac Bierstadt repose sur la moraine Bierstadt, qui est une moraine massive créée par les débris laissés par le glacier Bartholf en recul. Le glacier trouve son origine dans la plus haute montagne du parc. Le lac s'est formé lorsqu'un barrage a été construit à partir de dépôts de débris glaciaires. L'eau du lac se déverse dans Mill Creek, qui coule dans une vallée plate avec une prairie pittoresque. L'auteur Lisa Foster décrit la longue crête glaciaire comme l'une des moraines latérales les plus dramatiques du Parc national de Rocky Mountain. Sur le côté nord de la moraine se trouvent le parc Hollowell et le bassin de Mill Creek. Le côté sud escarpé se trouve au-dessus du chemin Bear Creek.

Histoire

Il a d'abord été appelé Hanging Lake par les Amérindiens en raison de son état perché du côté du glacier Bartholf. Le nom du lac, Bierstadt, lui a été officiellement attribué en 1932 avant que ce nom ne figure sur une carte réimprimée de la US Geological Survey créée en 1922. Comme le mont Bierstadt, il a été nommé en hommage à Albert Bierstadt, peintre qui a visité et peint les montagnes Rocheuses. Il est peut-être devenu le premier Européen à visiter le sommet du mont Evans lorsqu'il l'a gravi en 1863. En 1876, Windham Wyndham-Quin chargea Bierstadt de réaliser un tableau d'une taille exceptionnelle représentant Longs Peak et Estes Park au coût de . Bierstadt a parcouru la région avec Theodore Whyte, associé du comte, et a créé des croquis et des peintures. Les deux hommes ont également cherché un site approprié, offrant une vue magnifique sur Longs Peak, afin de construire un hôtel anglais pour le comte.. Bierstadt s'intéressait particulièrement au lac et on attribue à Whyte le nom de lac en l'honneur de l'artiste. Il a créé l'une de ses nombreuses images spectaculaires de l'Ouest au bord du lac. Harold Marion Dunning, un des premiers historiens, a déclaré que le lieu de prédilection de Bierstadt pour les dessins de montagne et certains de ses tableaux célèbres se trouvait sur la rive du lac qui porte maintenant son nom

Bierstadt a créé un tableau du lac portant son nom. L'œuvre se trouve maintenant dans la collection du musée d'art de Denver. Peter Hassrick pensait que la peinture de Bierstadt datant de 1877, sur laquelle était écrit Le lac de Whyte, aurait peut-être été baptisée du nom de Whyte et renommée plus tard de Bierstadt. On prétend également que le lac Whyte's était un lac artificiel qui avait été emporté par une inondation l'année suivant la peinture.

En 1907, la scierie Griffith, située près du lac Bierstadt, fournissait du bois d'œuvre pour les zones d'agriculture et d'élevage situées à proximité. Les scieries fonctionnaient souvent pendant l'hiver, transportant du bois d'œuvre avec des traîneaux, pour répondre aux besoins de construction des colons et des commerçants. Les femmes ont rejoint la région en 1910, après la construction de nombreux bâtiments. Le bois de scierie de la scierie a été utilisé pour la construction de l'hôtel Stanley. En 1910, Griffith a déménagé sa scierie sur un embranchement de la Highway 66.

Parc national de Rocky Mountain

Le lac est situé sur Bear Lake Road dans le cœur du parc, ainsi nommé en raison de la vue extraordinaire. Selon Trail Gazette, différents itinéraires panoramiques offrent de merveilleuses opportunités pour des sujets photographiques tels que les paysages, la flore et la faune, ainsi que des caractéristiques géographiques et géologiques. La flore dans les environs du lac comprend essentiellement des pins. Une dense forêt de pins entoure le lac Bierstadt, et le lac est entouré de carex qui lui donnent une apparence très sereine. La faune dans la région est la sauvagine, l'écureuil d'Abert, le cerf et le wapiti.

Selon le parc national de Rocky Mountain, deux sentiers sillonnent les forêts denses qui mènent au lac Bierstadt dans le parc>. Une piste facile, principalement de descente, s'étend sur  à travers des forêts de pins. Il commence au début du sentier Bear Lake et longe le lac Bear. Une autre comprend une montée de , sentier avec des lacets qui commence au début du sentier du lac Bierstadt. Près du lac se trouvent Longs Peak, Flattop Mountain, Hallett Peak et Tyndall Glacier. Un sentier de  entoure le lac subalpin qui possède une plage de sable le long de la partie est du lac.

Le sentier pittoresque du parc Hollowell mène à la région du lac de Bierstadt par le biais de denses arbustes de sauge et de prairies du côté nord de la moraine de Bierstadt et jusqu'au bassin de Mill Creek. Les sentiers Fern Lake et Cub Lake sont également à proximité. La pêche n'est pas autorisée.

Références

Liens externes

Lac dans le parc national de Rocky Mountain
Lac dans le comté de Larimer
Système hydrologique de la Big Thompson


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Riverworks-led Harambee NID flouts own accountability requirements at annual meeting
Residents are questioning whether the body, which has consistently eroded accountability measures since its inception in 2017, truly has their best interests at heart.
Saturday, during its annual meeting, the Harambee Neighborhood Improvement District (NID) flouted requirements outlined in its own bylaws to avoid dissolution and re-elect five incumbent board members without opposition. Only 12 voting residents, including the seven individuals elected to the board, were present.
This isn't the first time something like this has happened. "Expectations [of neighborhood residents] aren't really aligned to how we've been governed," said Board President Cordella Jones, who has led the board since the NID began in 2017.
According to residents, the NID has consistently changed the requirements and regulations governing its operation, a point that's hard to argue considering the evidence. Early on, in perhaps its first action, the NID board struck an entire section from its newly created bylaws that called for a 3-person Accountability & Rules Committee to serve alongside and oversee the board. Last year, it lowered quorum (the amount of residents required present for a valid vote) from 40 to 15. And, Saturday's Annual Meeting blatantly ignored requirements in the NID's election procedures that call for "a qualified and independent" election commissioner to oversee voting as well as Section XII of the NID's bylaws, which clearly calls for "a binding yes-or-no vote … to determine whether or not the NID will dissolve."
Instead, attendees were given a survey that provided three options: (1) allow the NID to continue as-is, (2) allow the NID to continue with reduced borders or (3) dissolve the NID.
The bylaws also call for the dissolution vote to be announced at the annual meeting the year before and for residents to be noticed again "no less than six months before the meeting" where the vote would take place. Jones claimed, both at the meeting and during private conversation, that those requirements had been met but provided no proof, despite promising to furnish the notice.
Residents, including Dollie Smith, dispute her claim.
Dollie Smith, a longtime resident of N. Vel R. Phillips Ave. (formerly 4th St.), speaks at the Harambee NID Annual Meeting, Saturday, March 12, 2022.
"I've kept every notice I've gotten … and I have not gotten anything that said we were going to discuss dissolution or renewal," Smith said. "Not to do that is saying that you don't care about the people who are paying their money every year."
The NID functions on an annual special assessment of $50 per unit that is tacked on to the property tax bill. For example, a single-family home would be assessed $50 and a duplex would be assessed $100. The maximum assessment is $500 (or, 10 units) for multi-unit properties. Last year, the NID gleaned $175,450 from 2,716 properties. This year, more than $250,000 is set to go toward neighborhood home repairs.
"There's a lot of investment coming into this neighborhood and we want that captured," said Darryl Johnson, Executive Director of Riverworks Development Corporation, which essentially created the NID and also serves as its administering agent. The administering agent is responsible for spreading awareness about the NID and its offierings and stewarding residents through the process of securing funds.
Darryl Johnson looks on as Ella Bennett, a board member since the NID's inception, gives her candidate pitch. Bennett and four other incumbents, including Jones, were re-elected without opposition.
According to the NID's 2020 annual report, 36 projects — exclusively roof repairs — were completed in the three years prior. In 2021 only three projects were completed, despite the NID receiving 20 applications. Jones attributed the low number to an attempt to change the requirements so that those receiving funds would need to secure matching funds from another program. That way, she said, the NID would be able to help more people. But, Jones said, they discovered residents weren't in a position to comply.
That didn't stop Riverworks from collecting $47,762 in 2021.
Over the NID's first four years of operation, Riverworks has collected $205,793 and is set to be paid $52,655 in 2022.
"When you do stuff like this … we are losing out on democracy," Smith said.
Harambee promises to be a key battleground in the fight to stave off gentrification as Habitat for Humanity — and, surely, other developers — have set their sights on the Riverwest-adjacent neighborhood. What happens here will also be one of the first indicators of whether the City of Milwaukee is serious about implementing its anti-displacement plan.
If Harambee has any chance, more residents will need to get involved in the process, a move Jones encouraged, saying the neighborhood needs more "leaders" to step up.
"Self-determination starts with individuals," she added. "We're trying to make this a community of inclusiveness."
Update (March 14, 5:04 p.m.): After publication, we were made aware that Anthony Kazee, one of the individuals elected to the NID board on Saturday, was not even present at the meeting. According to the resident who brought this to our attention, Darryl Johnson made Kazee's candidate pitch for him.
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Categories Events, Harambee, NewsTags Anti-Displacement Plan, City of Milwaukee, Cordella Jones, Darryl Johnson, Dollie Smith, gentrification, Habitat for Humanity, Harambee Neighborhood Improvement District (NID), Riverworks, Riverworks Development Corporation2 Comments
2 thoughts on "Riverworks-led Harambee NID flouts own accountability requirements at annual meeting"
The Nid does not have its own website or facebook page and this is very misleading and deprivation of information. Also the meeting notes also need publication. Also, where do citizens call for the end and transparency as invitations are misleading, nonexistent, and hidden.
notices are not sent to residents period. residents and others cannot participate if notices are not mailed, announced or sent. Communication and following bylaws and mission is not completed and to allow the NID to not redo this meeting with greater notice to all residents is taxation without representation and breaks the many laws set in place. The requirement of securing additional funds has been denied area in total and the NID appears to exist for a select group of individuals. The requirements to apply for repairs in terms of income and then secure additional funding opens the doors loss of homes and forced foreclosures, etc.
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