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Filling the void left by 3 State 3 Mountain Challenge; local cycling community hopeful for Sequatchie event
November 1st, 2019 | by Mark Pace
Times Free Press staff file photo / Cyclists travel on State Highway 27 to Ketner's Mill during the 21st annual 3 State 3 Mountain Challenge.
Under a clear October sky, with the push of the year's first fall breeze, 330 cyclists pedaled on the open roads of the Sequatchie Valley early last month for a first-year ride that felt like anything but.
The event's size was a far stretch from where organizers of the Cycle Sequatchie ride hope to be in future years, but importantly, it was a start. Cycle Sequatchie — a partnership between local cyclists, the Chattanooga Bicycle Club and local companies — was birthed to fill the valley-sized hole left when the region's most popular ride, 3 State 3 Mountain Challenge, folded in 2018.
The area's picturesque, low-traffic roads highlighted the seamlessly never-ending route options through a mountainous region with green valleys and scenic sites. The ride was a fresh look at what locally produced cycling events in the area could be in a future without the 3 State 3 Mountain Challenge, which drew more than 2,000 riders at its peak.
Cycle Sequatchie officials want to use the new ride to highlight the region as a cycling destination, but most importantly, they want to provide the area's cycling community with an event of their own.
"When I was thinking about putting on a ride, especially after 3 State left, it was about putting on a ride for Chattanooga," says event director Shannon Burke.
3 STATE 3 MOUNTAIN
For 30 years, the local cycling calendar began with the Chattanooga Bicycle Club's 3 State 3 Mountain Challenge held on the first weekend of May. It brought thousands of riders from across the country to conquer a hilly course with climbs up Suck Creek, Sand Mountain and Burkhalter Gap.
"I think the biggest draw was the route," says CBC ride coordinator Peggy Olson. "This area is so beautiful. That would draw people from all over the country."
But despite its popularity, the event faced difficulties.
The early-season date brought unpredictable weather for a ride that featured fast descents and a tough route coming off of winter's lull. Heavy rain, unpredictable temperatures and tornado damage plagued race day in its latter years, none of it worse than the 2013 death of Florida cyclist Antonio Jose Desousa Ribeiro who, during that year's rainy event, lost control while descending Ochs Highway and veered into the path of an oncoming car.
By 2016, attendance was down more than half. The event was losing participants and the club couldn't find a solution.
Some thought it was an inability to find younger riders willing to pay for such events; others wanted to move it to the fall to give more riders a chance to train for the ride. Some on the club's board wanted to do away with the event altogether.
There were discussions about what to do for the 2016 and 2017 events. Ultimately, the club decided to hold the event as it always had without major changes.
Planning was well underway for the 2018 event when it was canceled. A regularly scheduled club meeting that was supposed to go over ride details such as registration fees, apparel costs and rest stop volunteers ended with the contentious decision to nix the event.
"It was not a unanimous decision. Some of us feel like this is the loss of the most unique bicycle event of this area," the club wrote in its newsletter to members. "It covers the essence of Chattanooga, nestled between the mountains. However the majority felt this was the correct decision."
FILLING THE VOID
The following year brought major changes to CBC as longtime club members who held leadership positions were replaced. Still, there were no immediate plans by the club to replace the once-popular ride.
In the meantime, Burke, who owns Chattanooga-based bicycle touring company Velo View Bike Tours, began creating a new local cycling event. He set off largely by himself to build what ultimately became the Chattanooga Challenge.
Addressing one of the concerns of some club members, he planned his ride for October. He also got the city to agree to close Ochs Highway for the race. The early-morning ride started and ended at Finley Stadium, in time for participants to attend Oktoberfest. The 2018 ride drew about 250 registrants.
For a first-year event, Burke counted it as a success and looked to grow, but he had run into some of the same issues that plagued the bike club.
"It ran into logistical concerns," Burke says. "There are lots of other events that time of year. You have to have traffic control, and especially when you're starting downtown. That was the real issue. We ran into some of those logistical issues. If I continued to do it downtown and grow it, those conflicts would get bigger."
He partnered with the bike club and, together, the two worked to build on the Chattanooga Challenge. They instead ended up creating a new event: Cycle Sequatchie. The project drew from all the lessons learned between them, but also from another initiative Burke was working on.
Burke had been working with area tourism bureaus to document and highlight cycling routes in the area. The project, Bikeways of the Scenic South, advertises roads, scenery, landmarks as well as area businesses where cyclists can stop to buy food or drinks. Online at scenicbikeways.com, it includes routes in the Sequatchie Valley.
The valley seemed like an ideal place to host a large-scale event, Burke and the club decided. It has mountains, country roads, premiere cycling and far less traffic impact than a downtown event.
The new ride attracted registrants from 15 states.
"Getting the communities involved with this ride is what makes it stand out," says Olson. "We have different businesses and organizations that are part of it."
The ride had seven community partners, benefited The Land Trust for Tennessee, featured a farm-to-table lunch from local farmers, was professionally documented by a film crew, and had four routes ranging from 16 to 78 miles, with more planned for next year.
Organizers have already announced next year's event for Oct. 3.
"I thought it went really well," 16-year-old cyclist Andrew Keller says of the inaugural ride. "I think this was my favorite cycling event I've participated in."
Keller, of Flintstone, Georgia, has ridden in a handful of other events including last year's Chattanooga Challenge as well as Walker Rocks' Honeybee ride. He finished first in his age group for the Cycle Sequatchie 78-mile ride.
"The registration was fantastic, the volunteers were amazing and the scenery was absolutely beautiful," he says of Cycle Sequatchie. "The weather was really nice, and it was really well organized. I had a really good time and can't wait to do it again."
That's all good news for Burke and the bike club. The goal was to put on a relatively small event this year that showcased what a Chattanooga cycling event run by the local club could look like post-3 State. They hoped to use this year to establish a good reputation for the ride.
"More than anything, it's about giving the people who show up a great experience," Burke says. "That's the base for growing the ride."
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In the first half of 2018, Exelixis generated revenues of $280.1 million, reflecting ~92% YoY (year-over-year) growth. Revenues from product sales and collaborations were $156.9 million, which compares to $23 million in the first half of 2017.
Wall Street analysts expect Exelixis to generate revenues of $175.8 million in the third quarter.
In the second quarter, Exelixis reported net income and diluted EPS of $87.5 million and $0.28, respectively, compared to $17.7 million and $0.06, respectively, in the second quarter of 2017.
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TechnoBody Retrospective
The exhibition ORLAN TechnoBody Retrospective unfolds the work of ORLAN from 1966 to 2016. ORLAN has dedicated her career to self-invention using various media including the traditional, technological and medical. Working with photography, video, sculpture, painting, body, mass media, satellite broadcasting, and biotechnology, she champions hybridization through changing identities, and examines the polemics that arise in the fields of philosophy, politics, sociology, archaeology, and religion. ORLAN is recognized as a major figure of body art, more specifically "carnal art" as she defined in her 1992 manifesto. The artist renders her body a unit of measurement, an artistic medium, and a subject for experiments. About her practice, ORLAN says: "my work has always, right from the start, questioned the social, political and religious pressures exerted on bodies." She continues: "working on the body and on my body means bringing together the private and the social."
Who is ORLAN?
"To change your name means to invent yourself. After a session of psychoanalysis, I realized that I was forgetting some letters of my family name as I signed my name "M O R T E" [French word for 'dead'] on my checks. I wanted to reuse the syllables which produce a positive connotation while keeping the word « O R » [French word for 'gold'], I then added « L A N » and from that time I called myself ORLAN." — Artist's statement
ORLAN is a pseudonym that the artist chose early in her career. Written entirely in capital letters to avoid fitting into lines and ranks, ORLAN has dedicated her career to rebirth and self-invention. ORLAN attended an art school in Saint- Etienne, from which she dropped out after a year, judging that the education was too conservative.
In 1964, the artist performed her first body-action entitled Slow-Motion Walks Down "No Entry" Routes, in which she walks slowly through a street filled with a rushing crowd, as a sign of resistance. Subsequently, the photograph from the Body-Sculpture series, entitled ORLAN Gives Birth to Her Loved Self (1965), shows the artist's defiance of the laws of nature and social norms, as it symbolically demonstrates the birth of the artist's new identity, possessing the combined reproductive organs of both genders. ORLAN resists a body constructed according to genetic predetermination, and social prejudices imposed on women and their bodies. In 1978, as ORLAN was preparing to speak at a symposium on video and performance art, she collapsed, and was rushed to a hospital for an emergency surgery due to an ectopic pregnancy.
Along with her, ORLAN took a video crew to film the operation, and insisted that she remain conscious throughout the surgery. When the video was shot, it was shown as if it had been a planned performance. As the artist states: "The idea was to recuperate the real experience as an aesthetic phenomenon. It was a question of turning the situation inside out." ORLAN underwent nine plastic surgery performances between 1990 and 1993. Her body became that of an interpreter, prepared to incarnate a diversity of bodies. Placing her body at the center of her approach, in all sorts of Mixed Unions, Free Matrimonies and Unusual Nuptials (title of the exhibition at the Maubuisson Abbey in 2011), ORLAN enacts a permanent mutation, utilizing science and reacting to the world's turmoil.
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International Rugby: The 'Winners' XV
Who are the players with the most wins in the history of Test rugby? We look at the fifteen men who would make up a team of winners.
It's no real surprise that a large number of All Blacks are in this side, but the dominance of Test rugby in recent years is evident through the number of recent and current players to have donned the famous black jersey.
Altogether, eight out of fifteen of the team were part of the World Cup winning squad last year. This just shows the magnitude of the side and helps to provide further evidence that they are the greatest team in the history of any sport. Mils Muiliaina, now plying his trade in the PRO rugby competition with San Francisco, is the other All Black in the side.
Yet what is more shocking is that only one player from the northern hemisphere makes the team. France's Fabien Pelous, one of only four players to have won four grand slam titles (1997, 1998, 2002 and 2004) along with England's W J A Davies, Ronald Cove-Smith, Jason Leonard and France's Olive Magne. He won 79 games, with his nearest rival being England World Cup-winning captain Martin Johnson on 71.
Wasps' George Smith, now 35, won 65 of his 111 caps – having announced his retirement in 2010 before making a return for the Wallabies in the British and Lions Test series of 2013. Imagine how many caps and potentially wins he could have achieved if he had not take that hiatus.
Two more Australians make the line-up in veritable legends George Gregan and David Campese.
South Africa is represented by second row giant Victor Matfield and winger Bryan Habana who has an incredible 64 Test tries, level with Campese.
Altogether this side almost reads like an all-time World XV and given their success rates, it's not hard to see why.
The World 'Winners' XV
1) Tony Woodcock (102/118)
2) Kevin Mealumu (114/132)
3) Owen Franks (68/78)
4) Victor Matfield (79/127)
5) Fabien Pelous (79/118)
6) George Smith (65/111)
7) Richie McCaw (131/148)
8) Kieran Read (73/84)
9) George Gregan (93/139)
10) Dan Carter (99/112)
11) Bryan Habana (77/117)
12) Ma'a Nonu (91/103)
13) Conrad Smith (84/94)
14) David Campese (67/101)
15) Mils Muiliaina (84/100)
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High Rollers a hit with the French
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Durango country band performs at Mayfest in Pontivy, France
By Ted Holteen Arts & Entertainment Editor
Thursday, May 12, 2011 5:01 PM
High Rollers Jeff Johnson and Andy Janowsky are joined onstage by French guitarist Jay Desoteux on Sunday during the band's set at Mayfest in Pontivy, France. Mike Canterbury is on drums.
Jacques Mouchet/Made in USA magazine
The French crowd in Pontivy shows their appreciation for Durango's High Rollers on Sunday at Mayfest.
Sometimes you've got to be lucky and good.
That's how three of Durango's High Rollers – Andy Janowsky, Jeff Johnson and Mike Canterbury – ended up in Pontivy, France, last weekend for the village's annual Mayfest, playing to a crowd of some of the most rabid country music fans Janowsky can remember in the band's 15-year history.
The band's fourth member, guitarist Garrett Valencia, was unable to make the trip for personal reasons, and French guitarist Jay Desoteux played with the High Rollers in his stead.
"It was wonderful, the experience of a lifetime; a strange thing you don't expect, but it was just a lot of fun," Janowsky said upon the band's return to Durango on Wednesday.
Last summer, a group of French tourists caught the High Rollers at a local Durango gig. That was when Janowsky first learned of the popularity of American country music in France.
Several of the French tourists were affiliated with Mayfest, a country music festival held in conjunction with an annual celebration commemorating France's liberation from the Nazis during World War II.
Before long, the High Rollers had received an invitation via Facebook to play Mayfest 2011 – all expenses paid – and the trip culminated with Sunday's concert and an unforgettable morning for Janowsky.
"The highlight for me was the memorial service," he said. "We walked up a hill and here's all these decorated French soldiers, some resistance members, then a guy pointed at me to play the (U.S.) National Anthem. It was one of the most emotional moments I've ever experienced, and it was very well-received. They really remember."
The High Rollers' set at Mayfest was just as energizing, and the band is now immortalized on the pages of Made in USA magazine, a French publication dedicated to American country music.
The music's popularity in France cannot be overstated, and Janowsky said he's never played to crowd in the U.S. that matches Pontivy's.
"Seeing all these French fans in the cowboy hats, people were stomping and going nuts chanting 'Merci! Merci!' – it was so much fun it was hard to believe," Janowsky said.
Locals can catch the now-international country stars one time before the band embarks on a summer of weddings and private parties. The High Rollers will play the Wild Horse Saloon on May 21.
ted@durangoherald.com
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Q: Cannot connect to MS-SQL with react-native I have used the following package
import MSSQL from 'react-native-mssql';
near the above package on hover, it shows
Could not find a declaration file for module 'react-native-mssql'. 'd:/React Native Apps/Login/node_modules/react-native-mssql/index.android.js' implicitly has an 'any' type.
  Try npm install @types/react-native-mssql if it exists or add a new declaration (.d.ts) file containing declare module 'react-native-mssql';
module "d:/React Native Apps/Login/node_modules/react-native-mssql/index.android
I have tried installing as mentioned above but nothing works.
And in code, I am getting an error at below line.
MSSQL.connect(config);
error is following
undeined is not an object (evaluating '_reactNativeMssql2.default.connect')
Please tell me how do I connect to MSSQL with react-native.

A: react-native-mssql can be installed with npm install --save react-native-mssql
then edit file android/settings.gradle and add:
include ':react-native-mssql'
project(':react-native-mssql').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '../node_modules/react-native-mssql/android')

as well as file android/app/build.gradle:
dependencies {
    ...
    implementation project(':react-native-mssql')
}

then it can be added to the packages list:
...
import com.stonem.mssql.MSSQLPackage;

...
@Override
protected List<ReactPackage> getPackages() {
    return Arrays.<ReactPackage>asList(
        ...
        .addPackage(new MSSQLPackage())
        ...
    );
}

and then connected:
import MSSQL from 'react-native-mssql';
...

let config = {
    server: '192.168.1.1', // ip address of the mssql database
    username: 'sa',        // username to login to the database
    password: 'password',  // password to login to the database
    database: 'admin',     // the name of the database to connect to
    port: 1234             // OPTIONAL, port of the database on the server
}
MSSQL.connect(config);

an example for a SELECT query:
let query = 'SELECT TOP * FROM USERS'
MSSQL.executeQuery(query);

and one for an UPDATE query:
let query = 'UPDATE USERS SET Active=0'
MSSQL.executeUpdate(query);

make sure to call MSSQL.close(); once the connection isn't required anymore.

A: You could use "react-native link react-native-mssql" in the command prompt after using "cd Project_Name" to fix the issue, if  'Could not find a declaration file for module 'react-native-mssql' was your issue all along.

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BLOOMFIELD'S PITCH: SOUTHEND
David Bloomfield
THE HOLY GRAIL: THREE POINTS FOR A WIN
The Bees go into tonight's home game with Southend United after managing just two 0-0 draws in their last two home games. That is a bit of a harsh analysis, especially when you consider that one of those draws was against a table-topping team and in between the home matches was the excellent victory at York City.
Barnet now look an outfit that can go anywhere and play anyone in this League without fear; the results at Gillingham and Rotherham proved that.
But the Bees' plight at the wrong end of the table would certainly help if a few more home victories could be recorded.
But again, let us not discount the value of the two clean sheets. If you have that as a base then you are giving yourself a much better chance of ultimately winning those three points.
Back in the day when you only got two points for a victory a draw was rarely concern for consternation. Now in the course of 90 minutes teams all around you in the table can accumulate points at a much faster rate and it makes the whole situation more volatile.
When you muster just a point for a draw and the holy grail of the three points has eluded you, you can easily feel short-changed. It's as if you ordered meat and two veg and were given just a boiled egg.
In the game against Rochdale the Bees came within inches when Andy Yiadom's effort hit the bar and bounced down on the goal-line and had that attempt gone in it would have probably altered everyone's perception of how Barnet had performed on the day. It would certainly have done something to the league table!
How thin indeed are the lines between a draw, a defeat and a victory. But on such thin margins come the end of your season can one's fate be decided.


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Q: перенести flex элемент на новую строку Есть flex-контейнер с flex-элементами внутри, которые расположены в колонки равной ширины. можно ли как-то сделать так, чтобы первый flex-элемент располагался в строку, то есть занимал всю ширину контейнера, а остальные flex-элементы также располагались в колонки, как раньше.

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The Designers' Guide: Easton Pearson Archive features 200 garments selected in collaboration with designers Pamela Easton and Lydia Pearson to reveal the artistry, techniques and demi-couture practices that placed the label at the forefront of Australian fashion from 1989 to 2016.
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Q: get a list of single property values in c# - reflection I am struggling to understand how a reflection works in C#. I set a property of class name. When I use a method (below) to validate, i need to get a list of ProductName values. How to do this?
public class Product
{
    public string ProductName
    {
        get;
        set;
    }
}

public class ClassName
 {
    public List<Product> Products
    {
        get;
        set;
    }
 }

App:
product.Add(new Product { ProductName = "whatever name 1" });
product.Add(new Product { ProductName = "whatever name 2" });

Method:
public bool Validate(object obj)
{
        PropertyInfo property = typeof(ClassName).GetProperty("Products");

        Value = (string)property.GetValue(obj, null); // how to get a list of values
}

A: You have to cast it to List<Product>:
public bool Validate(object obj) {
  if(!(obj is ClassName)) return false;
  PropertyInfo property = typeof(ClassName).GetProperty("Products");
  Value = (List<Product>)property.GetValue(obj, null);
  return true;//or your own validation implemented here
}


John Brophy was 83. He spent the bulk of his hockey career as a player and coach in the Eastern Hockey League but I knew him best as head coach of the Leafs from 1986 to 1988.
He was coach for one of my first favourite Maple Leafs memories, a first round sweep of the Chicago Black Hawks in 1985-86.
John Brophy was not the most enlightened fellow, nor was he politically correct, but damn was he interesting.
I remember that sweep of Chicago well. Three brooms thrown on the ice at the end.
I also have a vague memory of Brophy coaching a game wearing a fedora. I can't remember why he wore it, but at the next game some fans behind the bench wore fedoras.
I didn't realize he was still with us, but it's sad to hear he's gone. I have a soft spot for the Leafs of that not-so-glorious era.


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Girls Tennis fights hard but loses in CIF Finals
Girls tennis competed in California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Southern Section finals against Palos Verdes Peninsula High School on Friday, November 15 at the Claremont Club. The girls fought hard but lost 14 sets to 4.
At the end of the first round, the Trojans were down 4-2 with a win from the doubles team of Judy Kam (So.) and Yuki Asami (Jr.) and a win from the team of Marissa Williams (Sr.) and Kyla Scott (Sr.).
After the second round, the Trojans fell farther behind 9 sets to 3 with another doubles win by Williams and Scott.
Kayti Luu (Jr.) who played in her first CIF finals single match said, "Honestly it's really rewarding. It's an honor because we worked really hard all season, even training on Sundays. No matter what happens we know we worked our best."
In the third and final round, the Trojans managed a win from doubles team of Danielle Pham (Sr.) and Sara Mae Garcia (Sr.) to end the day 14-4 in favor of Peninsula.
Pham said "I am really proud of every one for making it to finals three years in a row." She plans on continuing tennis in college and is considering Cal State Fullerton.
After the match, coach John Kessler (Social Science Dept.) said, "Every single court competed till the end. No heads down, they are the better team. We went beyond expectations. It is unreal."
Becca Kim (Jr.) said of coach Kessler, "He drives us to be all we can be. Without him we wouldn't be here."
The Trojan army traveled on a separate bus to Claremont to cheer on the tennis players. Boys sports commissioner Ronnie Crocco (Sr.) said, "Shout out to the Trojan army. We really made our presence known."
Even principal John Pehrson made it out to support the team. He said, "It's good to see that all the girls' hard work paid off."
Girls tennis will continue to play in the regional tournament with their next match Tuesday, November 19 against either La Costa Canyon or La Hoya.
By Abbie George
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Auction to be held at the farm.
From Knightstown, IN, take Hwy. 40 west approximately 2 miles to the auction. Or from Greenfield, IN (State Rte. 9 & Hwy. 40), take Hwy. 40 east approximately 11 miles so the auction.
Inspection: Friday, September 21st • 2:00 – 6:00 P.M.
Auctioneers Note: The Reeves have sold their beautiful country property and are building a new home. Rather than describe each item as "like new," we'll tell you that everything on this auction is top quality and in excellent condition! Doug & Myrna have been very meticulous in maintaining their country home and their equipment reflects the same. Live internet bidding will be available on select items. Auction personnel will be available sale day to assist in loading out; therefore, we encourage you to bring your trailers. Lunch available on the grounds. Not responsible for accidents, errors or omissions. Announcements sale day take precedence.
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Koolstof-waterstofactivering, vaak ook C-H activering genoemd, kan op de simpelste manier beschreven worden als het verbreken van een binding tussen koolstof en waterstof.

Vaak wordt het gebruik de term beperkt tot reacties waarbij door een organometaalverbindingen een complex gevormd wordt met een koolwaterstof. De complexvorming, met een koolstof-metaalbinding, kan beperkt blijven tot de overgangstoestand of een isoleerbaar intermediair omvatten. Belangrijk bij deze benadering van het begrip is dat gedurende de splitsing van de C−H-binding de alkylrest aan het metaal gecoördineerd blijft.

Theoretische studies, en - belangrijker - praktisch uitgevoerde reacties, tonen aan dat de C−H-binding, traditioneel als niet-reactief beschouwd, selectief verbroken kan worden onder invloed van complexvorming. Het ontwerpen en ontwikkelen van nieuwe reagentia en katalysatoren voor de activering van de koolstof-waterstofbinding heeft de laatste jaren veel aandacht gekregen. Een belangrijke drijfveer voor dit onderzoek is de hoop in ruime hoeveelheden beschikbare en goedkope alkanen te kunnen omzetten in duurdere, lastig te maken, gefunctionaliseerde organische verbindingen.

Historisch overzicht
 1902De eerste, hoewel niet iedereen het daarover eens is, activeringsreactie van de C−H-binding wordt toegeschreven aan Otto Dimroth, die in 1902 de reactie beschreef van benzeen met kwik(II)acetaat (zie: organokwikchemie).
 1965De eerste C−H-activeringsreactie waarover geen meningsverschil bestaat werd door Joseph Chatt in 1965 beschreven: de inschuiving van een rutheniumatoom, gecomplexeerd door dmpe, in een van de C−H-bindingen van naftaleen. In 1969 beschreef A.E. Shilov de reactie tussen zwaar water en methaan waarbij isotoop-scrambling optrad tussen de reactanten. De reactie vond plaats onder invloed van kaliumtetrachloroplatinaat. In het voorgestelde reactiemechanisme bindt methaan aan Pt(II). In een vergelijkbare reactie werd in 1972 door de groep rond Shilov methanol en chloormethaan gevonden in de reactie van een stoichiometrische hoeveelheid kaliumtetrachloroplatinaat, een katalytische hoeveelheid kaliumhexachloroplatinaat, methaan en water. Ten gevolge van het feit dat Shivov in de USSR werkte en publiceerde in de periode van de koude oorlog werd zijn werk in het westen nauwelijks opgemerkt. Tegenwoordig is dit zogenaamde Shilov-systeem een van de weinige katalysatoren voor de omzetting van alkanen in gefunctionaliseerde verbindingen.
 1970Niet alleen het puur bij elkaar voegen van reagentia leverde resultaten. Ook onder invloed van licht kan C−H-activering optreden. M. L. H. Green beschreef in 1970 de fotochemische reactie van wolfraam (als Cp2WH2 complex) met een C−H-binding van benzeen en in 1979 kon George M. Whitesides als eerste een intramoleculaire reactie beschrijven van een alifatische C−H activering
1982De volgende doorbraak werd, onafhankelijk van elkaar, door twee groepen gerapporteerd: de fotochemische activering van de C−H-binding van een volledig alifatisch systeem: Janowicz en Bergman werken met cyclohexaan en neopentaan, met de vorming van een alkylhydridometaalcomplex als resultaat: . Cp* is de in de organometaalchemie gebruikelijke notatie voor de pentamethylcyclopentadienylligand.Dezelfde koolwaterstoffen werden door Graham gebruikt met het complex Cp*Ir(CO)2, waarbij iridiumhydridocomplexen ontstonden.Het eerste deel van de reactie is een oxidatieve koppeling: het waterstofatoom wordt aan het alkaan onttrokken en aan het metaal gekoppeld.
 2000Hartwig beschreef in 2000 de sterk regioselectieve borering van alkanen en arenen onder invloed van een rodiumcomplex. Bij gebruik van alkanen werd het booratoom slechts op de eindstandige plaats geïntroduceerd.

Toepassingen
In 2007 wordt de synthese van 1-joodpentaan beschreven. De standaardsynthese van dit type verbindingen verloopt via een vrije radicaalreactie, wat voor de uitkomst van de verschillende isomeren wil zeggen dat die weinig te sturen is, en bovendien dan een voorkeur voor de niet-eindstandige posities laat zien. Het alkaan pentaan wordt door het wolfraamcomplex selectief omgezet in 1-joodpentaan.

In het wolfraamcomplex treden Cp*, nitrosyl, een 3η-methylallyl en een neopentyl-ligand op. Het complex is tamelijk instabiel, en al tijdens het oplossen in pentaan bij kamertemperatuur gaat de neopentylligand verloren - deze neemt een proton over van pentaan, dat vervolgens als ligand aan wolfraam wordt gebonden. De protonuitwisseling verloopt via een 16-elkektron-intermediair, waarbij butadieen, afkomstg van het methylallyl-systeem, een belangrijke rol speelt. In een afzonderlijke reactiestap wordt bij -60°Cjood toegevoegd, waarna 1-joodpentaan ontstaat.

Activering van aromatische C−H-bindingen door metaalcomplexen is, hoewel deze koolstof-waterstofbinding meestal nog minder reactief is dan zijn alifatische tegenhanger, ook beschreven. Een voorbeeld is beschreven in de Murai-olefinekoppeling. Een ander voorbeeld is de C−H-activering in N,N-dimethylbenzylamine in een rutheniumgekatalyseerde cyclometalleringsreactie:

De activering van een C−H-binding in een alkeen wordt gedemonstreerd met een rodiumkatalysator in de synthese van 8,10-dimethyl-1-azabicyclo[4,3,1]deca-6,8-dieen. Vanuit structuurtheoretisch oogpunt is dit enamine interessant door het optreden van een dubbele binding aan het bruggehoofd-koolstofatoom en de relatief kleine (9 atomen) ring met de trans-binding.

Reactieomstandigheden
Veel reacties waarbij activering van de C−H-binding een rol speelt, worden uitgevoerd onder tamelijk extreme omstandigheden: hoge temperatuur, sterk zuur, of sterke base, sterke oxidatoren, etc. waardoor de reacties technisch een stuk minder aantrekkelijk worden. De laatste voorbeelden laten echter ook zien dat langzaamaan ook reacties bekend worden waarbij de omstandigheden een stuk minder grofstoffelijk zijn. Hierdoor wordt de technische, en vooral economische, realisatie van de reacties een stuk makkelijker.

Zie ook
 Oxidatieve koppeling van methaan

Organometaalchemie
Organische reactie

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Megan Cook of Monkton honored for academic achievement at McDaniel College
WESTMINSTER, MD (09/29/2010)(readMedia)-- Megan Cook of Monkton is among 38 students inducted into the prestigious Alpha Lambda Delta national honor society in recognition of their outstanding academic achievement of a 3.70 GPA or higher during their first year as students at McDaniel College. One of 225 chapters nationwide, the McDaniel Alpha Lambda Delta chapter has a membership of 117 students who conduct service projects on campus and in the local community while serving as role models and mentors to McDaniel students.
The mission of Alpha Lambda Delta is to encourage superior academic achievement, to promote intelligent living and a high standard of learning and to assist students in recognizing and developing meaningful goals in society.
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Aygul Eli: How CCP Is Punishing the Brightest Uyghur Students
07/21/2020 Martyna Kokotkiewicz
She was an honor student who wrote an innovative MA thesis. She was punished and sentenced to 20 years in jail.
by Martyna Kokotkiewicz
Aygul Eli. Her academic success will cost her 20 years in jail.
Aygul Eli is a young woman. An ambitious and successful student. As her research field for her MA thesis, she has chosen an area that lets us consider her a pioneer. Not everyone has a chance to conduct a comparative study of the electronic banking and accounting systems of China and Turkey.
What happens when Chinese state officials discover that one of their citizens has proved herself as a prominent student researcher abroad? Do they award her a scholarship or some other kind of prize? Or do they detain her and make her disappear? Which answer do you think is valid when you are, just like Aygul, a non-Han citizen in today's China? A Uyghur and a Muslim, who has studied in a country where their fellow Muslims constitute the majority? Ironically, the answer is complicated, as Aygul Eli has not disappeared. Her family has been informed officially that their daughter is in prison. Sentenced for 20 years.
Aygul Eli was born on July 1, 1986, in Suydong village, Ghulja, Xinjiang (that Uyghurs prefer to call East Turkistan). Her academic life started at the University of Nanjing, from which she graduated in 2009. Since she was a skilled and successful student, in January 2010 she headed for Turkey to continue her studies.
At this point, one extremely important issue needs to be emphasized. When you are a student in China and want to continue your studies abroad, normally you need to apply for a visa. This was definitely the case when Aygul planned to travel to Turkey. She officially applied for all the required documents, and at that stage the government officials did not reject her application. For those who have been following recent events in Xinjiang/East Turkistan (for further reference, see for example my article about Heyrigul Niyaz) such a scheme may sound familiar. The authorities do not oppose applications for travel documents by a Chinese citizen, yet after several years even the slightest form of contact with the so-called outside world becomes a crime. As cruel as it may seem, by giving her permission to study abroad, the authorities made her sign her own prison sentence. However, in 2010, no one in her family could have expected such consequences.
Aygul was doing very well in Turkey. At first. she concentrated mostly on language studies. Later, she enrolled at Ankara Gazi University. There, she took the challenge of examining the electronic banking systems of Turkey and China. She was an excellent, award-winning student. After that successful period of studies, she earned her MA in 2016. The date is worth noting. That was the time when traveling back to the homeland still did not imply the danger of losing one's freedom. Or even life. Moreover, it would seem pretty natural that, after having received education abroad, students travel back to their countries of origin, to apply what they have learned there, and first and foremost, to visit the people and places they have been missing. This is why Aygul Eli decided to go back home.
As we already know, Aygul belongs to one of the most persecuted ethnic groups in China, and the epilogue of her story was easy to predict. She got detained in 2017, and has reportedly been sent to prison. According to what her family has been told, she has been sentenced to 20 years. Here comes the right moment to ask what for. For having been more talented and better educated than many average Han citizens? For not being one of them? For wearing a headscarf? Whichever option we choose, it would mean that the reason is much simpler. Aygul went to jail for being who she is.
At this point, it should not sound like exaggeration to state that even breathing may be considered a crime in China. At least for some individuals, it certainly is.
There is a small post scriptum to this story. We have spotted an alarmingly growing number of made-in-China videos, showing fake images of the situation in Xinjiang/East Turkistan. We are being shown happy "Uyghurs" smiling, dancing, some even wearing traditional clothes. In many cases, they are Han Chinese in disguise.
For those ready to believe this pathetic propaganda campaign, I have a question I would like to also submit to the Chinese authorities. Why are not people like Aygul, together with many of her friends who are also detained, allowed to join those smiling dancers, accompanied with live music of artists such as Ablajan Awut Ayup (who disappeared in 2018)? Where have all those people gone, and what is their crime if it is true that, as the propaganda videos proclaim, that there is nothing wrong with traditional Uyghur culture? We recommend that, rather than CCP propaganda, citizens of democratic countries watch testimony videos about Uyghurs detained, disappeared, released but in poor health conditions, and deceased. It is unfortunately too late for those who died, but all the others need our support.
Tagged With: Detention in China, Muslim Uyghurs
Martyna Kokotkiewicz
Martyna Kokotkiewicz, PhD, specialized in the language, literature and culture of Finland and Hungary. She has been teaching subjects connected to that area at the University of Poznań, Poland. Focusing mainly on modern Finnish literature, she is at the same time interested in the wider aspects of Uralic tongues and culture as a part of the Uralo-Altaic linguistic and cultural family.
China's Persecution of the Uyghurs: A Human Rights Emergency
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Students from Xinjiang Subjected to Disproportionate Control
Muslim students who attend universities in inland China are continuously monitored, barred from exhibiting ethnic and religious characteristics.
How the CCP Manipulated the "War on Terror" for Its Own "War on the Uyghurs"
A new book by anthropologist Sean Roberts sheds light upon how the West naively accepted for decades the idea that atrocities in Xinjiang were justified by a "terrorist threat."
Chinese Spies Tried to Create False "Uyghur Terrorists" in Afghanistan
Ten Chinese agents were arrested and quietly expelled after trying to establish a false branch of the defunct East Turkestan Islamic Movement.


In January, Skrillex got back into the studio with his former band From First to Last for the first time in over a decade and released a new song, "Make War." On Tuesday, Skrillex took the reunion to the stage, joining From First to Last at Emo Nite, a monthly Los Angeles event.
As one of the biggest names in electronic music, Skrillex is usually separated from an arena full of fans by a pile of equipment and a DJ booth. But back with From First to Last in the small club Echoplex, he enjoyed an unmediated connection with the audience. He stepped back into the vocalist role with forceful poise, hopping around the stage – lit bright crimson – and gesticulating furiously with his left hand while delivering breathless lines.


Students can reinforce what they've learned through these reflective writing/drawing activities in their own student journal! This assessment tool will help solidify science concepts introduced in each Quirkles book. Comes in a five-pack. (Not reproducible).


A few months ago, the government passed new rules restricting the manufacture and sale of oxytocin. 3cr ampoules of oxytocin are consumed annually in India. Amid other developments, the news might have passed by our Facebook feeds inconspicuously, but what if we were to tell you that without oxytocin, millions of expecting women in India will be put at high risk?
How to Invest Your Hard Earned Money & Beat the Inflation?
Most people who haven't experienced any investing are hesitant to start because they find it too-complicated or too-risky. Some think that investing is only for the wealthy and that you need a lot of money to do so. On the contrary, investing is a great-way to create your wealth and financial-freedom so you can retire early. It is also an effective way to beat-inflation.
The Police in Gautam Buddh Nagar today cautioned citizens against taking the 'Kiki Challenge', saying the "nuisance" could put people's life at risk and also land them up in jail. The challenge, also known as In My Feelings Challenge, involves jumping out of a moving car and dancing alongside it to Canadian rapper Drake's latest song, 'Kiki do you love me'.


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The Federal Reserve has already invaded Russia and Waterloo is next
John Butler
"In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake."
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon was not only one of the greatest military minds in history, but also one of its most effective practitioners. An innovative artillery officer-cum-general, he won multiple offensive and decisive battles with a force that was, on paper at least, materially weaker than that of his opponents. And this was at a time when the conventional wisdom assumed that successful offensive warfare required at least a 3:1 superiority in manpower.
But his genius did not stop there. When the opportunity presented itself, he stepped into the power vacuum left by the imploding French revolutionary state and, in its place, built an empire.
Not to give him too much credit, the Napoleonic empire didn't exactly have much staying power. However, if not for the – in retrospect – horribly misguided decision to invade Russia, it might have lasted somewhat longer.
One of Napoleon's signature operational tactics was to open battle with a move that was, on the surface at least, conventional and obvious. As one might expect in a typical chess match, a classic opening move is followed by a classic riposte, resulting in a zero-sum start.
Yet Napoleon's chess was three-dimensional. His opening move might have appeared conventional, when in fact it was intended to serve another operational purpose entirely. For example, he might have ordered flank support for another thrust from a different direction while using the artillery support obtained (and protected by) the initial assault.
In several cases, Napoleon effectively won battles fought in this way in the first hour, even if the bulk of the fighting occurred several hours later. Indeed, when once asked whether he should counter an opponent manoeuvring into a such a trap, he famously exclaimed, "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake!"
In certain respects, Napoleon incorporated the thinking behind his military success into his political strategies. Yet what works on the battlefield operationally does not necessarily yield success in terms of international politics. Within two decades Napoleon was, in effect, at war with about 80% of Europe, including Russia, which he chose to invade in 1811 against much learned advice.
The results are well known. Napoleon's army was defeated by the Russian winter and what little was left was unable to protect him from the repercussions. He did return from exile briefly, only to be soundly defeated at Waterloo. (My personal opinion is that the battle would have been even more decisive had Prussian Field-Marshal Blücher joined somewhat earlier as Wellington had expected.)
Odd as it may seem, the lessons provided by Napoleon above can be useful when understanding the conduct of the relatively modern, unconventional practise of central banking.
Monetary policy warfare
Let's start with the origins of what was initially called "unconventional" monetary policy in 2008-9. Much as Napoleon stepped in to fill the vacuum left by the imploding French state, central bankers stepped in to an imploding global financial system with new "tools'". In their various ways, these tools enabled central banks to prop up failing financial institutions, several of which were amongst the largest in the world, in terms of their systemic significance.
That these institutions were arguably insolvent was beside the point. Central bankers propped them up, governments arranged shotgun mergers, part or fully nationalised them, and arranged taxpayer-funded bailouts.
All of the above required huge expansions of the money supply, financed at near-zero interest rates. This did not show up in price inflation, at least not for a while, as the money remained locked up in asset markets, such as stocks, bonds and property.
As we know, those days are over. Over the past two years, due to a variety of factors, the massive monetary expansion has spilled out into the economy generally. Double-digit inflation the world over is now the norm rather than the exception, and workers are understandably seeking double-digit pay rises as a result.
But rather than admit that their unconventional policies might have had anything to do with this, central bankers have followed Napoleon's dictum to "never retreat, never retract, never admit a mistake" and, as they raise interest rates into what is almost certain to be a recession, they try to reassure us that they know what they are doing.
Having failed to engineer inflation after a decade of trying, or multiple decades in the case of Japan, and having engineered too much inflation when it finally struck, do they still deserve our confidence?
Consider me sceptical. Central economic planning in any form tends to produce sub-optimal outcomes over time, to which history repeatedly attests. Central monetary planning is no exception.
So, what is a sceptical investor to do? First, get defensive. Normally, this would imply shifting out of equities and into bonds. But in this case, as manipulating the prices of bonds is now an essential, if unconventional, central banker policy tool, unless you know precisely how this tool is to be used, and when, it is best to stay away.
Nor is cash a good option, guaranteed as it is to lose value over time in an inflationary environment.
Perhaps counterintuitively, this leads us back to equities. In an inflationary environment, equities can provide investors with a safe haven: mature, cash-generative companies paying dividends. Unlike bond coupons, dividends tend to grow with inflation. And mature, relatively non-cyclical companies trading at modest multiples are likely to hold their value in essentially all economic conditions.
Outside of financial assets entirely, there is the perennial safe haven of gold. While not paying a dividend or coupon, gold's unique investment properties are well-known. A defensive investor should always have at least some allocation to the precious metal. Given current and probably near-future economic conditions, investors should be overweight gold.
Another possibility is cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. But these may be a trap of cunning proportions. There will be more on that tomorrow's edition of Fortune & Freedom.
Contributor, Fortune & Freedom


Author's notes: As big ideas go, there aren't many more bigger ideas than immortality. But what really would happen if the human lifespan were infinitely prolonged? The people who live on the planet Winter are over 3,000 years old. And you know how crazy old people can get. There is a body of opinion that immortal people would go mad. The human mind is simply not equipped to store centuries of memory data. Also, you're stuck with the same group of fellow immortals. After a couple thousand years, you would run out of stuff to do. Also, time would increasingly become a blur as one got older and older and it seemed to pass faster and faster. So these people not only live forever, they live on a planet where the climate is forever Minnesota in February.
Re-edited in 2018 for brevity; i.e. thirty pages of extraneous material have been cut.) The 'Law and Order' parody stuff still works pretty well. The 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' homage with David Alkema and Trajan Lear is good for a chuckle or two. A lot of the stuff General Ziang tells Keeler about the history of the Commonwealth and the Crusades had to be retconned. This one is also free, downloadable in PDF.
I also created a Kindle-friendly version. I don't have a kindle, I have a Kindle app on my Samsung Splodey Tablet, and it worked just fine on that.


Improve results and efficiency of your program through quality snow and ice training designed to build skills and broaden understanding. Designed by industry leaders with years of proven practical experience, this program is applicable to street and highway departments, parks departments, facilities management, public works, private contractors, suppliers, and manufactures.
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This exercise strengthens your core, essentially engaging everything from your mid-chest to your knees.
Strengthening your core can improve your ability to do everything from carrying groceries to protecting yourself from injury during a workout. Your core is more than just your abdominal muscles — it includes your abs, lower back, glutes, quads, and hamstrings.
Lie on your stomach. Raise your upper body by resting on your elbows with your hands facing down and away from you. Engage your abdominal muscles, glutes, and leg muscles, and raise your lower body up onto your toes by pulling your shoulder blades back and together. Look down at the ground, keeping your head and body rigid and in a straight line. Do not round or collapse your shoulders or hips.
Hold this position as long as you can. Few people can hold it for longer than 30 seconds, initially. Work up to holding the position for 1 minute.
For more of a challenge the plank can be done with your arms fully extended. Or try a side plank. Lie on your right side with your legs straight, in line with your spine, and stacked on top of one another. Bend your right arm and raise your torso, placing your elbow directly beneath your shoulder. Keeping your spine straight and your head aligned with your spine, engage your core and raise your hips. Hold. Repeat on your left side.


According to the National Institutes of Health, an astonishing $75-90 billion is spent on back pain relief annually in the United States. It costs companies a $10-20 billion loss in productivity each year. And 80% of adults have suffered debilitating back and neck pain at some point in their lives. These figures are astounding and, in many cases, preventable.
At The Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Center, we offer effective and lasting Bronx back pain treatment. We provide compassionate, cutting edge technology and state of the art treatment options to get you better. The PMR Center is a diagnostic and treatment facility, with an emphasis on non-operative treatment including physical therapy, occupational therapy, patient education, and body mechanics. While the majority of conditions are responsive to non-operative therapy, our physicians will readily refer to and work closely with any other specialists or surgeons our patients may require. And if you are suffering from back pain, you want the most compassionate and skilled care you can find. For that exceptional care, the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Center offers the best treatments possible.
Our friendly clinical staff and physicians combine their extensive training in physical rehabilitation to manage patients with back pain. Causes of pain and disability in the neck and back include problems with discs, nerves, joints, ligaments, or muscles. Our Bronx back pain treatment includes physical therapy and a combination of modalities to target each patient's specific problem. Epidural steroid injections have been found to be an effective treatment for patients with sports injuries, neck, lower back, arm, and leg pain. The purpose of the epidural injection is to decrease inflammation and provide pain relief, thereby facilitating active therapy. Their primary use is as one component of a comprehensive treatment plan that includes medication, physical therapy, and education in body mechanics. Electrodiagnostic testing provides information about muscles and nerves helping the physician arrive at a diagnosis. The idea of EMG is not all that different than EKG. In EKG electrodes record the electrical activity of the heart. In EEG, the same thing can be done to record electricity within the brain. Technology has made it possible to record electrical activity of muscles and nerves (other electrical tissues) throughout the body.
Physical therapy is an integral and vital part of our rehabilitation program for Bronx back pain treatment. Therapeutic exercise is the use of exercise for stretching muscles and joints, or strengthening muscles to gain increased power, endurance and stabilization. These exercises also maintain strength and prevent further injuries. If you have had an accident, have sustained an injury, or have a specific medical condition that could benefit from physical therapy, come and see our experienced pain management team. Our mission is to get you well and keep you strong and healthy so you can return to an active lifestyle.


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Essential Skills Survey: Your Input is Needed!
In my book, 'Tween Crayons and Curfews: Tips for Middle School Teachers," I explore strategies to make school more meaningful to students. I examined the newest draft of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act in its goals for college and career readiness, and reached out to both stakeholders in higher education as well as businesses as a means to develop an essential standards list that both need to see from students in the future.
As a result, I developed a list of 13 key skills that reflect the future attributes that students most need to develop by the time they leave school. The book expands on just how to address the strategies to meet those skills.
Thanks so much for your time and input, and I'll let you know the results in a later post!
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More and more alcohol in Californian Napa Valley wines - too much?
Average alcohol levels in California's Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon has risen from 13.6% in 1976 to 15.4% in 2016. Not great if you're concerned about the amount of alcohol that you consume when you drink wine. The reasons - changes in the Californian climate, later picking and hence riper and hence more alcoholic grapes and finally changes in vineyard practices.


Every piece of a football players uniform and equipment has a job to do. For the most part - from mouth guards and face masks to helmets and shoulder pads - the job is one of protection. The uniform is also designed to communicate. For instance, a player's number not only helps identify who he is, but also signifies the position that he plays.
Last week, when Cindy began her latest battle with cancer, a football players uniform took on added importance for us. Mixed in with the many prayers and well wishes received from friends and family, was a simple heartfelt photograph sent by a very special first-time player. Our oldest grandson Easton (almost ten) laced up his new cleats for the very first time. No big deal, you might think. Except the laces he chose were brilliant pink! He'd seen the pros do it and he knew it was how he wanted to dress for tryouts. His uniform, that day, was designed to communicate a special love between him and his Grandma Cindy and to protect her from the cancer that would be her opponent.
We love you Easton. Thanks for saying so much without saying or writing a single word.
Aug. 5, 2013 Easton- I was already a fan of yours but after reading this blog, you must be an angel. What a powerful message and a support. In my eyes, not many folks in this world even think this way to show support and love.........You are one of a kind. I am learning from you. Hope to meet you in person some day.
Aug. 4, 2013 Wonderful story, Rod. Gave me goosebumps. What a great kid!! P.S.KEEP KICKING A$$, Cindy!!


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Horizon State
2018 in Review | Horizon State
Horizon State Team
What a year it has been. As we look back over the last twelve months at Horizon State, we thought we would share just a handful of the many highlights we have had. From record breaking meetups, to prestigious awards — the team have achieved a huge amount on all sides of the business, from all sides of the globe!
Events, Meetups and Conferences galore
From Wellington to Washington, Barcelona to China and everywhere in between — Our team have spent the last 12 months travelling the globe showcasing the many ways that the Horizon State platform can assist communities and enterprises with our dynamic, process-led decision making platform.
Although there are too many to list — here are some of the key events we attended this year;
Horizon State Community Meetup | Melbourne, Australia — 25th January
The event was a resounding success with over 400 people in attendance. The team was truly inspired to meet so many of our community members, the outpouring of support was beyond amazing.
Innovation for Impact | Sydney, Australia — August 23rd
Our Innovation for Impact event was a huge success and a whole lot of fun. Special thanks to Power Ledger and ShareRing for partnering with us to make the event possible, and a huge thank you to all our incredible Community members who turned out in force; we're very fortunate to have such a committed and passionate Community! All the Horizon State team who attended enjoyed connecting with our Community over some drinks & laughs in person.
World Economic forum — Annual Meeting of the New Champions |Tianjin, China ‐ 18th — 20th September
Earlier in September the World Economic Forum held its Annual Meeting of the New Champions event in Tianjin, China. Horizon State was one of this year's selected inductees and proud to be part of an exclusive showcase of the world's leading technology innovators.
Crowd Sourcing Week | Washington D.C. ‐ October 24–28 2018
Horizon State was a proud partner of CSW Global 2018. The theme of decentralization took center-stage, as crowdsourcing continues to positively influence economies and industries worldwide. CSW Global featured 70+ international speakers from 35 countries taking part at the state of the art Carnegie Institution for Science auditorium.
Partnerships & Media Releases
We have been featured in many, many publications across the globe including Reuters, CNBC, The Australian, Scoop, GovInsider, Smart Company and ABC News, while forming some great partnerships with a variety of well respected industry leaders, including;
Halo Platform
Tenzorum
Local Coin Swap
Project Hydro
IBM PartnerWorld
Awards and Industry Memberships
We were honoured to be nominated as a World Economic Forum Technology pioneer for 2018. The World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneers community included early-stage companies from all over the world that are involved in the design, development and deployment of new technologies and innovations, and are poised to have a significant impact on business and society.
It is important to be aligned with the key associations in the relevant fields, which is why we also joined the following in 2018;
EEA — Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
ADCA — Australian Digital Commerce Association
A brand new brand
With the ICO and other activities in the crypto world behind us, we realised that to succeed in the B2B world we need to focus our message and create a unique brand around it. We needed to be able to position Horizon State as something more than a Token company — and to be able to promote and market our service to a variety of customers.
As a result of a concentrated branding workshop, we have rebranded our logo, design language and marketing materials. This has enabled us to move on from being just a crypto business to being a modern company that just happens to have blockchain elements to it.
We have written a substantial amount of code this year! In total we have delivered 3 entirely separate blockchain based voting applications, utilising three separate chains — along with a design language system, a new website and a CRM to support our future growth. We have now created the foundations of our core platform — and will continue to develop some exciting new features throughout 2019 and beyond.
RemTECH Awards Voting Application
The system that ran the RemTech awards back in April/May 2018 was delivered as two separate applications, each having a different target audience and voting methods. We had set it up with a relatively complex voting data structure that provided capabilities of asking questions, grouping those questions together into campaigns (or categories), providing a framework for possible answers, and values for each answer.
The work on that piece of software was very quick and delivered a good product that was fit for the purpose. We had set out to prove that our assumptions around the structure of voting from a data perspective works, that we can send votes to the blockchain without having the user need to know anything about it, and that we can show results easily (while they were, of course, available on Etherscan).
Coinpocket — Our modern app for giving back
Coinpocket, which was released in September is our way of publicly and transparently committing a portion of the revenue that passes through Horizon State to charitable organisations. As Horizon State receives payments, whether that's in the form of HST (our utility token) or fiat (which is then converted into HST) — a percentage is committed to our charity wallet.
We were thrilled to have our first 3 charities Red Cross Australia, Streetsmart and Care for Africa take part in the first Coinpocket campaign, and look forward to running other campaigns in the future as more and more customers come on board next year.
Horizon State Platform
We completed the development of our core platform in early November this year. From a technical perspective, the platform was developed and delivered as a web application rather than an app. The main reason for this decision was to allow a rapid pace of development and testing and to provide low friction for users. Right now, the platform works with Ethereum, NEM and Halo, which are all public chains and since the launch on November we have had a number of customers use the system including The Opportunities Party (TOP), MiVote India, MiVote Australia, Project Hydro and have run demos for a wide variety of organisations across the globe.
Having a working product that's been in use a number of times now is a huge advantage for us as we gear up our sales effort to acquire new customers. The ability to fire up a demo for a prospective customer and show them how a vote is cast to a public blockchain and tallied thereafter gives customers a lot of confidence in the system — which is exactly what we want to achieve.
What is in store for 2019
2019 will be kicking off with a bang. Now we have delivered our core voting and decision making suite as well as our design language system, we will be focusing our development efforts on building out our turn key system which enables smaller customers to run various types of end to end votes themselves. In doing so, we will also be offering a tiered pricing model for our small to medium sized clients while offering an enterprise level pricing model which includes some unique features for our larger clients.
Trying to make sales and get customers on board without a product is always a difficult task, which is why the milestone of going live with v1 of the product at in Q4 of 2018 was so important. We've already started to see a steady influx of signed paying customers since then, and we already have others who will come on board in 2019.
A huge thanks
We would like to start by thanking our amazing team members who have been with us during the year, putting in a huge amount of effort on all sides of the business. From ideation to delivery, we are very proud of what we have all achieved and we could not have done it without our past and current team members.
To our community who have stuck with us through the year — we really appreciate all that you do to spread the word about Horizon State and the support and feedback we receive from you all. We hope you all manage to get a break over the New Year period, and look forward to sharing more great news with you over the coming months..
We have begun to lay the foundation for a more connected and engaged society. By putting secure decision-making tools in the hands of communities, every voice can now be heard and valued. From polling and surveys, through to fundraising and formal votes or ballots, we look forward to a busy and prosperous 2019!
Wishing you all a happy holiday and a joyful New Year!
If you liked this article, please consider joining our Community conversations on Telegram , Discord or Reddit and connecting with us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or YouTube. Also, we value the opinions of our Community, you can email us at feedback@horizonstate.com.
We empower communities with decision making tools that inspire trust. We believe open dialogue is the foundation of an empowered community. To inform better collective decision making our platform supports, connects and values every voice with integrity.


CHANNEL PARTNERS EVOLUTION — 5G is moving from an idea to an opportunity.
AT&T has been pitching its 5G network upgrade to the channel for more than a year, but the company on Wednesday illustrated several specific 5G use cases where solution providers can help customers.
Robert Boyanovsky, AT&T's vice president of enterprise mobility, spoke to Channel Partners Evolution attendees with the intention of making 5G practical.
AT&T ran a fixed wireless 5G trial at Magnolia Markets at the Silos, Chip and Joanna Gaines' retail complex. Boyanovsky said AT&T pointed a millimeter wave small cell at Magnolia and ran the location's LAN network with its FlexWare virtualization solution. The 5G benefited the location's highly mobile customer base, which according to the Dallas News, ate up bandwidth promoting their experiences on social media.
Retail in general stands to benefit from the network upgrade, according to Boyanovsky. The opportunities include a faster point-of-sale process, lower latency and higher reliability for an increasingly "video-centric" environment and augmented reality.
Another key vertical is financial services. 5G could power "mobile ATM trucks" and make "virtual tellers" and facial recognition more efficient.
AT&T has already proclaimed that 5G-powered edge computing could allow doctors and other health-care professionals access more imaging and information via their mobile devices.
Boyanovsky also answered the question he usually hears first about 5G: How fast is it? He said AT&T's 4G LTE network speed reaches 75 Mbps on a smartphone during a Dallas evening. AT&T's pilots have shown that 5G will be significantly faster. But according to Boyanovsky, it's not just the speed that matters; it's reliability.
Boyanovsky listed reliability as one of five major pillars of 5G. Another crucial aspect is that it's data-driven.
"Because this is software-defined networking, the ability to grab that information from the wireless link and to do something is becoming very real," he said.
Massive device connectivity, low latency, and increased speed and capacity are the other three pillars.
AT&T announced last week that it will launch mobile 5G in 12 cities this year and reach 19 early in 2019.
AT&T Business used its recent summit to lay out its IoT strategy, which is considered a major beneficiary of 5G. AT&T Partner Solutions Channel Chief Zee Hussain has often described the threefold relationship among fiber, 5G and IoT.


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This paper describes two phases of a non-stop tolling system. Since April 1991, BRISA has been operating 12 nonstop tolling lanes installed in 4 main toll plazas around Lisbon, using "read only" tags. Forty percent of the total traffic uses these automatic lanes. This was phase one--an "open" toll system. The second phase of the project, to be implemented by September 1996, required more advanced technology. It consists of the extension of the nonstop tolling system to the whole Portuguese highway toll network, with a present total length of 500 km increasing to 780 km in 1997. All toll plazas have automatic tolling lanes. Tags are "read/write" and the frequency is the European standard--5.8 GHz. All automatic exit lanes have no barriers and are equipped with video enforcement. Within this nonstop tolling "closed" system, vehicles are identified at the entry lanes and information stored in the tag are read by the exit antenna transmitting them in real time to several plaza computers, connected to a central computer. The number of subscribers is now 140,000 and the target is 350,000 by the end of the year. Toll taxes are automatically charged on the client's bank account.


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Julia Manning: The right policies on clinical research can power economic growth
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Julia Manning is Chief Executive of 2020Health.
Following the Prime Minister's Downing Street Business Summit yesterday it can't be a complete coincidence that Sir Michael Rawlins (Chairman of NICE and Senior Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences) review of the regulation and governance of UK clinical research was published today. Scientific research is central to economic growth in the UK. Although it fits in neatly with the Conservative's pre-election plans to have a bonfire of regulation, it was actually instigated by Andy Burnham when he was at the Department of Health in March 2010. It was a response to the fact that the UK global share of clinical trials had fallen from 6% in 2002 to 2% in 2007 (and is now lower still) and successive reports had detailed just how much regulation was strangling the setting up of clinical trials. My report on Emerging Technologies published in October last year included a one page chart on page 80 on just how many hurdles researchers have to jump before they can conduct a clinical trial in the UK.
In 2007, the UK pharmaceutical industry alone invested £4.2 billion in R&D, employed 73,000 people and was ranked first for its contribution to the UK's trade surplus (£4.3Bn). At a time when we are battling the trend for research going East it is vital that we ensure scientific research can flourish here, and having universal NHS provision should make this much easier, as recognised by Sir David Cooksey's report of 2006.
However streamlining governance is only one part of the equation. There are two other key factors. One is that in order to conduct a medicine trial in the UK we have to already be using the best 'gold standard' medicine to compare the new agent against it. For a whole variety of reasons we have fallen behind in the uptake of new medicines in the UK, meaning that when wanting to test a new drug for an improved response, we literally don't have enough or sometimes any patients on the existing 'gold standard' medicines with whom to compare.
The other is public confidence. The brilliant true story 'The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks' which was published late last year is the most recent book to raise the question of informed consent and benefits of research to the person or family from whom cells or tissue are taken. In this case the family of Henrietta, whose malignant cells were the first to grow successfully in a test-tube and be available for thousands of researchers and medicine development, continued to live in ignorance, poverty and illness, receiving no benefit from their relative's "donation". This is not the only example, but as the public become more aware that it can be their cells and tissues that turn into multi-million pound cash-cows for researchers and industry there will rightly be more questions about ownership and shared benefits. Andrew Wakefield's MMR fraud doesn't help confidence either.
Colin Blakemore has used this moment to call again for 'assumed' consent for both organ donation and tissue donation. I argued against this when Gordon Brown argued the case for 'presumed' consent back in 2008 but I think this government's plans to 'prompt' choice on consent when people reapply for a driving licence is a better idea. However the complexity of 'informed consent' should not be underestimated and this is the other aspect of confidence we need to consider. Knowledge is dynamic and people need to know that tests will be developed in the future that will tell us an awful lot more about our health and wellbeing than we may want researchers to know. It's one thing to sign over our organs and tissues once we are dead (tho' even then there are our relations to consider); it's another to give a way carte-blanche rights on the tissues of the living.
I am sure that Sir Michael will have found a way to streamline clinical trials governance that will release some if not all of the grip of regulation on pharmaceutical research in the UK. But at the same time we can't ignore the continuing lack of adoption of new medicines and the need to keep the public's confidence with research if we want to see economic growth from UK clinical trials.
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Spotlight on Malta
Group Tour | Spotlight 7 Days & 6 Nights Lead-in price: £1395
Malta might be one of the smallest nations in Europe, but its strategic position at the crossroads of the Mediterranean has allowed it to cultivate a rich culture over thousands of years. This centre-based tour goes beyond the seaside resorts for which the island is most famous, exploring instead the exciting history of the capital, Valletta; the three cities of Birgu, Senglea and Bormla; as well as the historic sites of the Hagar Qim temples and Marsaxlokk village. Highlights include driving your own electric buggy though the narrow streets, and a tuk-tuk tour of Gozo island.
The Cox & Kings signature experiences
Single centre tour with day excursions of Malta & Gozo
Days tours of Valletta and the Three Cities
Boat tour of the Grand Harbour
Tuk-Tuk tour of Gozo
Superior sea view rooms as standard
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Superior Group Tour in brief
Day 1: Fly to Malta
Take a morning flight from London (regional connections available) to Malta with Air Malta. Transfer to the Waterfront Hotel (or similar) for the duration of the tour. (N)
Day 2: Tour of Valletta
Embark on a guided tour of Malta's compact capital, Valletta, a UNESCO World Heritage Site brimming with baroque marvels, twisting streets and charming cafes. Highlights include St John's Co-Cathedral and the palatial rooms of Casa Rocca Piccola. Round off your excursion with lunch at Rampila Restaurant, uniquely situated in the city's 16th-century bastions. (B, L)
Day 3: Day at leisure
Today is yours to spend as you wish. Enjoy a day full of activity, or simply unwind ahead of the next stage of your journey. (B)
Day 4: Discovery of the Three Cities
Explore Vittoriosa, Senglea and Cospicua – together known as The Three Cities of Malta – in a petite electric car called a Rolling Geek. Easy to drive, they are an excellent and fun way to navigate the narrow, cobbled streets. Next, enjoy a half-hour private harbour cruise aboard a traditional Maltese passenger boat. These colourful vessels are icons of Maltese culture. (B)
Day 5: Tuk-tuk adventure in Gozo
Cross by ferry to Gozo, Malta's second largest island, for a full day tour by tuk-tuk. Highlights include the Ggantija temples (that predate the pyramids) and the Xwejni salt pans. There is also a stop at the Tal-Massar Winery for sampling the award-winning wines. Return to Malta late afternoon. (B, L)
Day 6: Hagar Qim, Blue Grotto & Mdina tour
Embark on a full-day tour to the 5,000-year-old temple complex of Hagar Qim and the historic walled city of Mdina. The day also includes a boat ride to the Blue Grotto, a series of sea caves naturally lit by breaks in the rock. (B)
Day 7: Fly to London
Transfer back to Malta airport and fly to London. (B)
Meal basis
As per itinerary – B: Breakfast, L: Lunch, D: Dinner, N: No meals.
Private & tailor-made travel
This itinerary can be taken privately on a date that suits you, for which guideline prices are shown. Alternatively, it can be tailored to your exact requirements. Please call to speak with a Cox & Kings consultant or enquire online.
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The Waterfront Hotel
The Waterfront Hotel is a four-star retreat set in a prime location on the Sliema promenade, putting you a stroll away from cafés, restaurants and shops. The property boasts an indoor pool, fitness room, sun terrace, stylish bar as well as a restaurant, whose menu celebrates Malta's culinary heritage. From the balcony of your Superior Seaview room, enjoy a panorama of the harbour and promenade, with the rooftops of Valletta on the horizon. Features: 165 rooms & suites, restaurant, bar, lounge, swimming pool, terrace, gym. Room amenities: Wi-Fi throughout, room service during restaurant hours, safe, smart TV, balcony, mini bar.
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Available MLB2022 Spotlight on Malta 20 May 2022 - 26 May 2022 £1,445 £0 £425 5/20/2022 12:00:00 AM 5/26/2022 12:00:00 AM Reserve Available 0 Available
Available MLB2022 Spotlight on Malta 17 Jun 2022 - 23 Jun 2022 £1,495 £0 £425 6/17/2022 12:00:00 AM 6/23/2022 12:00:00 AM Yes Reserve Available 0 Available
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All clients must be fully vaccinated before travelling with us on a Cox & Kings (C&K) group tour. This means that a customer must have received their full two doses of the COVID‑19 vaccination at least 14 days before travelling with us. This does not apply to our private tours or tailor-made travel. If you have any questions please call us or visit our FAQs page on our website here
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For a quote based on alternative accommodation standards or flight options, or to tailor this itinerary, please call 020 7873 5000 or send an email enquiry
Guaranteed Departures Where a tour date has 'yes' listed, this tour is guaranteed to run.
For all other departure dates, once the minimum number of people booked has been reached, this tour is also guaranteed to run. Our sales consultants will be able to advise how many people are booked for your chosen date at the time of enquiry, giving you the confidence to book safe in the knowledge your tour will go ahead.
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Prices above are per person in pounds sterling (£), based on two people sharing a twin-room. The prices which were valid at the time of publication, may be subject to change, particularly as a result of variable flight costs. You will be informed of any such changes prior to booking.
Prices above are per person in pounds sterling (£), based on two people sharing a twin-room. The prices which were valid at the time of publication, may be subject to change. You will be informed of any such changes prior to booking.
Prices above are per person in pounds sterling (£), based on one person in a twin-room. The prices which were valid at the time of publication, may be subject to change, particularly as a result of variable flight costs. You will be informed of any such changes prior to booking.
*Itinerary: Note that for the 06 Feb 2014* departure date only the itinerary is different to the regular 2014 tour, with a visit to the countryside in Mai Chai and an extra night in Hanoi, and one less night in Hoi An.
Discounts cannot be combined with any other current or subsequent Cox & Kings offer. Discounts apply to new bookings only and cannot be applied retrospectively. Offers are subject to availability.
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Available MLB2023 Spotlight on Malta 16 Jun 2023 - 22 Jun 2023 £1,545 £0 £465 6/16/2023 12:00:00 AM 6/22/2023 12:00:00 AM Reserve Available 0 Available
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