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Genealogy in Franklin County, Massachusetts
Look-ups and Researchers for Hire
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The individuals listed below have volunteered to provide look-ups in specific Franklin County resources as listed after each name. The purpose is to provide information on a name or two from a particular source. The volunteers cannot provide extensive research and cannot violate copyright laws by copying or transcribing significant portions of items that are not in the public domain.
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Paul Allred at Pwallred@aol.com
A Genealogy of the Descendants of Philip Mattoon of Deerfield, Massachusetts / compiled by Lillian G. Mattoon & Donald P. Mattoon. Published by Courier Print Co., Littleton, N. H. 1965. Pages 1-50, This includes the 1st thorough 5th Generations.
A History of Colrain, Massachusetts with Genealogies of Early Families / by Lois McClellan Patrie.
History & Genealogies of Gov. John Webster Families of Connecticut / by William Holcomb Webster & Rev. Reuben Webster, D.D., 1st Edition, Published by Endless genealogies, St. Paul, MN, 1915. For the Descendants of Robert Webster son of Gov. John Webster.
History of the Town of Bernardston, Franklin County, Massachusetts, Volume 1, 1736-1900 / by Lucy Cutler Kellogg. Published by E. A. Hall & Co. Press, Greenfield, Mass. 1902
History of the Town of Gill, Massachusetts, Genealogies A-Z / by Ralph M. Stoughton, 1960.
The Early Settlers of Colrain, Massachusetts / by Charles H. McClellan. Published by W.S. Carson, Printer, Greenfield, Massachusetts, 1885
Beaver Meadow Cemetery, Leyden, Franklin County, Massachusetts. Listing of Persons buried there or to be buried there. Information taken from gravestones. Complied by Janet Cowan Boutwell, 5 Poplar Street, Turners Falls, MA 01376-2513.
Montague Franklin County, Massachusetts, Cemetery Records / complied by the National Society, D.A.R.-LDS FHC MicroFiche #6105188-Dated: December 2, 1941.
BURNHAM CEMETERY: Pages 1-2; This cemetery is located about 200 feet east of Walnut Street in the village of Montague City. It is in a pasture and is not fenced. Many of the stones are down or are leaning badly. Apparently it receives no care whatever. Surnames include: Burnham; Clark; Cushman; Dewey; Fuller; Graves; Mack; Potter and Stevens.
EAST MINERAL ROAD CEMETERY: Pages 3-9; This cemetery is located on East Mineral Road about 400 east of the main highway (State Route 2A) between Turners Falls and Millers Falls. It was probably privately owned and is now in rather poor condition with one or two exceptions there have been no burials in it for many years. Surnames include: Ball; Billings; Briggs; Britt; Brown; Caswell; Creagh; Dexter; Durkee; Drury; Fairbrother; Goodard; Gunn; Hoye; Newell; Pratt; Stevens; Stowell; Terry; Upham; Webster; White.
OLD SOUTH CEMETERY: Pages 10-40; This cemetery is about one-half mile south of the Village of Montague Center and about one-quarter mile west of State Highway No. 63. It is the oldest cemetery in the town and contains the graves of many of the earliest settlers. It is keep in fairly good condition by the Town. Several of the lots are endowed with perpetual care funds. The layout is very irregular, and it is practically impossible to tell where the lot lines (if there were such) were located.
Vital Records of Charlemont, Massachusetts To The Year 1850, Published by the New England Historical Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. 1917
Vital Records of Gill, Massachusetts To The Year 1850, Published by the New England Historical Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. 1904
Early Vital Records of Colrain, Mass. The plantation of Colrain, Mass., was incorporated as a town in 1761, being then in Hampshire County. In 1811, with twenty-three other towns, it was set off from Hampshire County to form Franklin County. The records were copied in 1888 from the town records by William O. Taylor of Shelburne, Mass., and were presented by him to the New England Historic Genealogical Society in 1896. Printed in The New England Historical & Genealogical Register. Volume 73-1919 (pg. 246-260; Edward Adams to Rominer Smith) & Volume 74-1920 (pg. 7-13; Oren Smith to Daniel Workman). Records are mainly births (with limited death dates) for the period of 1742-1836 with most of the records dated prior to 1815.
Vital Records of Heath, Massachusetts To The Year 1850, Published by the New England Historical Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. 1915
Shirley Bruso at shirleyb@frugal.com
Dana Phelps bible records, 1781-1900
Town of Monroe, Massachusetts, 1822-1972
John Buczek buczek@mediaone.net
Vital Records of Ashfield, Ma. to the year 1850 (1942 edition)
History of Ashfield 1742-1910 / by Frederick G. Howes (1974 re-print)
History of Ashfield 1910-1960 (1965 edition)
Dereka at ngslibe@wizard.net
Look-ups in all three Whately, MA history books.
J. Hicks at JHicks8311@aol.com
Look-ups in U.S. census records for Monroe and Rowe, 1810-1850
Massachusetts census index CDs, 1800-1860
Joan Hunter at JoanAHunt@aol.com
History of Northfield
Puritan Outpost
History of Gill
History of Deerfield
Kathie Marynik at kmarynik@hotmail.com
True stories of New England captives carried to Canada during the old French and Indian Wars / by C. Alice Baker (1897).
Fred Murphy at frpamu@cshore.com
Look-ups in U.S. census records for Gill, 1850-1880
Look-ups in U.S. census records for Greenfield, 1850 and 1880
Richard L. Pierce at rlpierce@bkb.com
The Conservative Rebel-A Social History of Greenfield / by Paul Jenkins (1982)
The 10th Regiment Mass. Vol. Infantry -- A Western Mass. Regiment (Civil War) / by Alfred S. Roe (1909)
Reminiscences of the Experiences of Co. L, 2nd Regiment of Mass. Infantry, USV, in the Spanish American War / by Maj. Frederick E. Pierce (1900).
Rob Roy at rroy@earthlink.net
Cemetery Records of Orange, Franklin Co., Mass.
Cemetery Inscriptions of Warwick, Franklin County, Mass to 1865.
Researchers for Hire
There are no listings of Franklin County researchers for hire available at this time.
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Bala Shagari, the eldest son of late ex-President Shehu Shagari, has said that his father didn't just want to be buried in Shagari town, he also indicated the specific location where he expected to be interred.
He said this needed to be clarified as the Sultan of Sokoto had offered that the late ex-president be buried at Hubbare, where Shehu Usman Danfodio was also laid to rest.
The eldest son also disclosed that the departed ex-president died intestate.
Bala also expressed appreciation to President Muhammadu Buhari for the condolence visit he paid to the family in Sokoto.
The eldest son told newsmen on Sunday in Sokoto, Sokoto State, that the family was happy with the visit and Buhari's pledge to immortalise the late president.
Bala, who is the District Head of Shagari town in Sokoto, however, said he would not comment on Buhari's pledge until it is fulfilled.
Shagari, aged 93, died on Friday, December 28 at the National Hospital, Abuja, at about 7pm, and was buried on Saturday at Shagari, his hometown.
Shagari was president from 1979 to 1983. He was removed via a coup d'etat that brought Muhammadu Buhari to power as military head of state, three months after he was sworn in for a second term.
His son said that the late president did not leave any will beside the directive that he should be buried at his home, Shagari.
According to Bala, the directive was strictly observed and implemented, as his remains were buried at Shagari town, on Saturday.
He acknowledged that the Sultan had offered that the late president should be buried at Hubbare, where Shehu Usman Danfodio was laid to rest.
"We acknowledged it, but late Shagari had told us that he should be buried in Shagari town and even indicated a specific location, so we have to comply with his will," he added.
He explained that the late president's absence at functions was due to his ill health, saying that was why he stayed in Sokoto and Shagari town before he died.
Earlier, President Buhari had condoled with the wives and children of late Shagari at the deceased's residence on Sama road in Sokoto.
Buhari was accompanied by governors Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State; Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi; Senator Aliyu Wamakko and Sokoto State Deputy Governor, Mannir Dan-Iya, among others.


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But the thing I wonder about for all of us, is why does it take someone being ill or dying to stimulate us to tell someone how much they mean to us? Why do we love people more when they are about to be taken away? I am seeing this with mom's friends and some family. I don't really understand why we wait until there is little life left to give the afflicted the gift of compliments, telling them how much you love them or what an impact they had on your life.
So if there is a parent, a teacher , a coach, a neighbor, a friend or whomever that affected your life, tell them today, don't wait.


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newswire article coverage united states 08.Jan.2005 12:50
imperialism & war | labor | political theory
March against imperialism on January 20!
author: Wilhelmina
A leaflet written and being distributed in Seattle, but which also may be useful in the other major political center of the Northwest: Portland! (Your anti-war demonstrations are often larger than ours!)--W.
March against the imperialist occupation!
Jan. 20: from Westlake at 4:00 pm, from the Federal Bldg. at 6:30 pm (Rallies: Westlake, 2:00, Fed. Bldg., 5:00)
U.S. out of Iraq now!
On May 1, 2003 Bush proclaimed "victory!" in his infamous photo-op speech aboard an aircraft carrier. The Saddam Hussein regime had just been smashed by overwhelming military firepower. But since then 100,000 more Iraqis have been killed by the policy of the U.S. government, 1,300 more U.S. military personnel have been killed (many times the number killed in the two wars against the Hussein regime), and still more U.S. troops are being sent! They're bogged down in a war of a different type, a quagmire with no light at the end of the tunnel.
The Hussein tyranny was widely hated by the masses of Iraqi people. With its fall all the long-suppressed social forces of the country came into the open to organize their struggles to shape its future. But the U.S. was only concerned with replacing Hussein's dictatorship with its own. U.S. soldiers were used to break into homes, fire into crowds of anti-occupation demonstrators, impose a new censorship, and arrest leaders of the unemployed movement and many others. The U.S. opposed national elections and replaced officials elected at the local levels when it didn't like them---including with officials from the Hussein regime. A "shock" privatization program written in Washington was implemented that threw hundreds of thousands of workers out of jobs while the doors of the country were thrown open to U.S. businessmen and investors. The promised reconstruction became another name for grabbing $billions while doing next to nothing to help the Iraqi people. An interim "Iraqi government" was eventually appointed.
The Bush administration justifies all this with the monstrous lie that it's fighting for freedom and democracy in Iraq. But last year's revelations of the Abu Ghraib and other torture chambers exposed to the world what this kind of democracy looks like, as has the treatment of the people of Falluja. There orders were given as to who had to leave their homes and city, and who had to stay. A bloody assault and massive destruction was carried out. People trying to escape were shot. Medical relief teams were barred. And the U.S. released a plan that would require residents to be retina-scanned and wear I.D. tags in order to live there. Falluja shows that behind Bush's honeyed talk of freedom and democracy is collective punishment and plans to set up Nazi-style ghettos.
The Iraqi resistance
The masses of Iraqi people hate and resist this new tyranny that is being imposed upon them. They've waged strikes against U.S.-dictated privatizations, developed a movement of the unemployed demanding relief, organized local reconstruction efforts, and mounted demonstrations demanding that the U.S. get out now. An armed resistance has also developed that gains increased mass support with each new act of barbarism organized from Washington. Yet the military victories of this resistance cannot resolve the difficult political situation among the masses, and their need to advance their independent struggles. Many are being drawn behind the dominant anti-occupation groupings, while the others have been unable to organize a popular alternative. But the dominant groupings have sectarian and reactionary-nationalist agendas that may inveigle the people in a bloody civil war. And if this is avoided their agendas remain aimed at a victory over U.S. imperialism that leaves the masses divided among themselves, enslaved, and subject to being used as cannon fodder for suppressing the Kurdish people or others. Part struggle under the banner of Islam for reactionary theocracy, part favor a secular but likewise anti-democratic regime (the Ba'athist remnants), but all represent factions of a dictatorial Iraqi bourgeoisie struggling among themselves for prerogatives in exploitation and oppression.
Beneath these groupings' opposition to U.S. imperialism is the strivings of the Iraqi bourgeoisie to be regional imperialists (as it was with Hussein). In fact this class nature leads those that dominate the armed part of the resistance to act no different than the U.S., i.e., actions that disregard the number of Iraqi working and poor people who are killed (their version of "collateral" damage), or blowing up vital economic targets in order to "drive" the masses to their side (their version of the U.S./U.N. sanctions regime). They also brand people forced by poverty to work at menial jobs on U.S. military bases as collaborators and kill them.
Thus a class force needs to be created that represents the interests of the working masses, a force independent from the various clerical, Ba'athist, and other bourgeois forces. We can't say whether this will arise from the working-class forces now in the overall resistance finding a common voice, or in some other way. But the social basis for building such a force exists in Iraqi society right now, i.e., the Iraqi working class and poor (the majority of the population). Although not at a high level, their economic struggles are invariably bringing them up against the Iraqi bourgeoisie (whether pro or anti U.S. occupation) which brings out police, troops or fundamentalist thugs to suppress them. Their struggles for democratic rights, including for equality of women, also bring them up against both the pro and anti-occupation bourgeois factions. And many have sacrificed everything for noble and democratic ideals in these struggles. These tendencies that have arisen from the masses provide a basis for creating the kind of force that can overcome the divisions being fostered by the fundamentalists and reactionary nationalists that are holding back these struggles themselves---and a basis for bringing into being a revolutionary-democratic resistance current. We should support every effort of the working masses to further these tendencies, put their stamp on the resistance, and thereby, on the future of Iraq.
The January 30 elections
The U.S. government initially opposed the just demands of the people for elections because it feared fundamentalist Shiite parties would come to power that would cause problems for its imperialist agenda. But it was caught between the pressure of these parties themselves (including threats of rebellion), pressure from the democratic masses of Iraq and everywhere, and growing armed resistance. It therefore teamed up with its puppet Iraqi politicians plus the two largest Shia parties, Kurdish parties, some Sunni-dominated parties, and others to write and oversee election rules; and through threats, bribery and arbitrary rule changes they worked to co-opt more parties to field candidates so as to give the election legitimacy. Nevertheless, large sections of the Sunni elite have called for an election boycott as they maneuver to save privileges they enjoyed under the Hussein tyranny. For different reasons several smaller Shia-parties, secular parties (including some leftist parties), and others also call for boycott.
Thus the attempt to hold elections is not quieting things, as imperialism had hoped, but is bringing various contradictions to a head both with US imperialism, and among the internal Iraqi forces. The latter contradictions could trigger civil war. Meanwhile the people face intimidation and death from both government and anti-government forces, and various forms of censorship continue.
So, although elections are an important and just demand of the Iraqi people, the present elections may result in tragedy. Moreover, the result of this election, if held, will only reflect the relative strengths of the various dominant bourgeois groupings that have not been excluded by the election rules or have not boycotted. If the Shiite leaders dominate the new assembly, as expected, they may present new problems for U.S. imperialism, but it will continue to pursue its imperialist agenda, allying with the groupings it can, and clashing with those it can not. The need for building up a revolutionary-democratic alternative will continue to press.
Imperialism is the issue
Behind it all, this is an imperialist war of occupation aimed at crushing opposition to U.S. monopolization of the Iraqi oil resources, and at politically dominating the entire oil-rich region by establishing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq. It's a war being fought on behalf the U.S. monopoly capitalist class, the class that not only stands to reap immense profits from further monopolization of oil resources, from war contracts, and from privatization of the Iraqi state sectors, but also a class that is striving to enrich itself as the result of the economic and political leverage that more U.S. domination of the world's oil resources plus demonstrated willingness to use military force against rivals will give it everywhere. This barbarism is driven by the underlying economic laws of the modern capitalist system of production itself, i.e., dominate markets, sources of raw materials and labor or be ruined by the competitors!
The Democratic Party is part of the problem
Bush's imperialism is in fact the imperialism of the monopoly capitalist class, a class that is united behind the imperial objectives just outlined. The fact that the Democrats, who compete with the Republicans to lead this class, ran a campaign that tried to out-do Bush in militarism reflects this unity. Nevertheless, the ruling class is worried about Bush's unilateralism. Its old alliances may be turned into troublesome rivalries, and it's costly in terms of troops and money. Kerry's talk of bringing more imperialist allies into the Iraqi occupation reflected this worry, as did Kucinich's slogan of "U.S. out, U.N. in". Today, the Democrats' idea that "we broke it, therefore we have to fix it" masks U.S. monopoly capital's continuing bloody drive to dominate oil resources and build empire. Thus, for the anti-war movement to become a truly powerful force it must not only expose and fight against the ideas of Bush and Co., but it must also expose and fight against the ideas of the liberal Democrats. This is connected to targeting the imperialist system itself as causing the war, and to opposing the non-class approach to politics that presently dominates the movement.
Organizing the working class around its own interests is the solution
The other side of the truth about the bloody imperialist project in Iraq is that it's flatly against the interest of the largest and potentially most powerful class in U.S. society, the working class. The sons and daughters of this class are being used as cannon fodder for the imperial enrichment of the very same exploiting corporations and financiers that are constantly attacking the wages and working conditions of the workers here at home. Moreover, the working class and poorer people in general are being squeezed by the capitalist government to pay for war and occupation through budget cuts in programs that in any way serve them while tax-money is shoveled to mega-corporations like Halliburton/Brown Kellog Root. Also, the ideological attacks on the working class cannot be underestimated. The "support our troops", anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, patriotic hoopla fostered by the imperialist establishment attacks class consciousness. Instead of giving sympathy and support to the just struggles of the working people of Iraq against the imperialist dictate of "our" government we're told to do the opposite! Instead of supporting the growing resistance by U.S. soldiers (most of whom are from the working class) to being used as cannon fodder for the rich we're told to do the opposite! But if workers stand aloof when their more oppressed sisters and brothers are being viciously attacked (whether abroad or at home) they're undermining their own cause.
Today the U.S. working class (like that in Iraq) is very disorganized, and like the rest of society it's dominated by bourgeois politics. But of all classes, the bourgeoisie most recognizes the danger this class poses to its entire imperialist agenda. Hence its almost hysterical cries to "support our troops!", its constant flag-waving, fear-mongering and lying. The task of anti-imperialists is therefore to further enlighten the working class above all others on how the occupation of Iraq is against its interests, and draw it into organized anti-war activity. Mobilizing for the January 20 antiwar demonstrations provides an opportunity to take up this task.
U.S. imperialism get out of Iraq!
Support the struggles of the Iraqi workers and poor!
Seattle Communist Study Group, January 8, 2005
(Read Communist Voice, http://www.communistvoice.org)
Stalinist tripe 08.Jan.2005 15:55
anon link
This is the product of a political circle- former Marxist-Leninist Party USA- who celebrate not only Stalin but think we should emulate the Albanian Stalinist model of society.
Watch out for those central committee meetings "Comrades"! The future Enver Hoxha might be aiming for you!
Cmde Anon
PS Enver Hoxha, the Secretary of the Albanian Party of Labour (Communist), is believed to have shot an oppoent during a central committee meeting of the ALP. In that way he out did his hero Stalin.
thanks, anon, but i'll think for myself. 08.Jan.2005 17:04
phenom-anon link
This is no time to be bitching about communists. The fucking antichrist is standing over the nations of the earth, and anyone who is gonna do something against that is all right by me.
I will not allow some people's narrow minded factionalism to distract me from what is really happening in the world right now. Hundreds of thousands of people are dying and our freedom is being drained out of us like the blood running in the streets of Baghdad. Do you want to do something about it, or do you just want to wallow on your couch and pick apart other people's efforts? I know which I want to do.
If anon weren't so sad, s/he would be comical 08.Jan.2005 19:09
Wilhelmina link
My dear anon, yours is the the worse kind of knee-jerk sectarianism. Not only do you not deal with what the leaflet actually says, but if you took the trouble to go to the website given at the end of it you would find many many articles attacking Stalinism, Trotskyism and other revisionist currents. Perhaps you should look before you leap.
And........ 08.Jan.2005 19:23
Anouk link
If you want to find real Stalinists in this country you'll find them kissing up to the Democratic Party, i.e., the CPUSA. In Iraq they joined the puppet interim government and have offices in the "green zone".
seriously, folks 09.Jan.2005 06:42
create a local leaflet & analysis link
Why borrow something boring and long-winded from Seattle?
Aren't we creative people?
We could talk about issues going on right now in Portland and link that to the exhorbitant spending that this inauguration will cost. Homelessness, PDX's sit-lie statute, Wyden being wimpy on the voter fraud issue, local military contractors who are profiting from the Iraq war?? The list is endless.
We could talk about the Bush administration gutting of the forests, and opening the NW (Alaska) to oil drilling. We could bring the national and local issues home in a direct and personal way for people in our very own community (like what's going on at the Parry Center, for example).
Try it, you'll like it!

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'Ask the Experts: Board of Trustees' program at PLA Conference addresses strategies for problematic board members
April 1, 2022 united@ala.orgConferences, Trustees
At the recent Public Library Association Conference, held in Portland March 23-25, United for Libraries presented the program "Ask the Experts: Boards of Trustees", which was well-attended by Trustees, library commissioners, and library staff.
The experts: Buzzy Nielsen, Program Manager for Library Support & Development Services at the State Library of Oregon, who has also worked with both an advisory board and a governing board as a library director. Deborah Doyle, a United for Libraries board member, who has worked in libraries, served on both staff and board of Friends of San Francisco Public Library, and currently chairs the Sonoma County Library commission, a governing body. Beth Nawalinski, United's executive director, served a dual role, moderating the panel and providing expertise as well as pointers to United's extensive resources.
The panelists tackled a topic on the minds of many library directors and boards: how to deal with a difficult board member. They each presented in-depth scenarios about a board member who was not working in tandem with their peers or was causing difficulties with staff or the community. Each situation provided opportunities to note the importance of library policies and Trustee training; panelists also offered some tips and best practices. Questions from attendees about the presented scenarios were addressed during a "lightning round" session. The conversation also broadened to cover other issues that arise with commissioners and boards.
All panelists agreed that while each situation is unique, certain strategies and techniques can and should be used to clear up misunderstandings about roles and responsibilities, and focus discussions on the mission and goals of the organization and the community rather than personalities or personal agendas in these difficult times. Trustees who seem difficult may eventually prove to be very strong voices for the library, but it may take careful listening, education, training, collaboration and communication — all good tools for a stronger organization that works well with and within its community.
—Deborah Doyle, Board Member at Large, United for Libraries
Conferences, Trustees
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This Excel Tutorial demonstrates how to use the Excel NPER Function in Excel to calculate the number of periods for an investment, with formula examples.
The NPER Function Calculates the total number of payment periods.
Use the NPER Function to calculate the number of payment periods of an investment.


As each day passes, post-excavation work at The Cairns broch site in South Ronaldsay provides us with more clues concerning the working lives of the people who lived there two thousand years ago.
Jim Bright is one of our Masters students working with some of the objects unearthed at the site. He is investigating the Iron Age landscape in Orkney and has created 3D images of objects found at the site for his ongoing research. One of the fascinating objects he is working on was found during last year's excavation…..a 6cm long whale tooth.
Martin Carruthers, Site Director, sheds light on the object and the working life of the broch….


SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil prices dipped on Friday, dragged down by a surging dollar that at least temporarily outweighed supply disruptions in North America, where a massive wildfire was threatening Canada's huge oil sands operations.
This week's stronger dollar halted an almost 7 percent fall against a basket of other leading currencies <.DXY> since January. A strong dollar can reduce demand for oil as it makes the dollar-traded commodity more expensive for buyers using other currencies.
International benchmark Brent crude futures <LCOc1> were trading at $44.73 (31 pounds) per barrel at 0400 GMT, 28 cents below their last settlement. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures <CLc1> were at $44.04, down 28 cents.
"Investors continued to liquidate (commodity) positions as the U.S.-dollar strengthened," ANZ bank said on Friday.
Posted on May 6, 2016 with tags oil price.


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Leading Drug Discovery and Development Company Harmonizes Data Analysis Workflows Across All R&D Sites Worldwide Using Genedata Screener
Leading drug discovery and development partnership company Evotec deploys market-leading software platform for support of its broad and innovative assay and screening portfolio, gaining speed and efficiency
Genedata, the leading provider of enterprise software solutions for biopharmaceutical R&D, today announced that Evotec, the global drug discovery alliance and development partnership company, has expanded its deployment of Genedata Screener® to its research sites worldwide. This broad adoption of Genedata Screener helps Evotec to drive its research with standardized assay data of the highest quality, and to simplify collaborative workflows on projects across sites and with biopharma customers globally.
Evotec has now adopted Genedata Screener for all assay types, in particular for the analysis of its modern assay portfolio such as automated patch clamp screening, quantitative reverse transcription PCR, and high content screening, and to support its high throughput screening, hit-to-lead, compound profiling and safety testing programs.
Following the global roll-out, Evotec is able to switch from its legacy analysis tools and systems to the harmonized, technologically advanced system provided by Genedata Screener, with its capacity to analyze newer assay types, its centralized cost-effective global deployment, and Genedata's commitment to continuous development in support of increasing laboratory automation and digitalization. Standardizing on Genedata Screener enables advanced process automation and workflow digitalization, including workflow cost savings for Evotec.
Dirk Ullmann, Ph.D., Global Head of Drug Discovery Services at Evotec commented, "We have been working closely with Genedata scientists who have displayed a deep understanding of our R&D processes and workflows. We have enjoyed a very positive experience with Genedata Screener and seen a significant evolution of the software over that period to continually address our needs and those of our partners in the biopharma industry. These experiences have prompted us to deploy Genedata Screener globally to harmonize our data analysis workflow internally, and we look forward to the continued expansion of our successful relationship with Genedata."
"We are excited about our long-term collaboration with Evotec and our goal to automate complex R&D workflows, enabling Evotec to accelerate their research programs," noted Othmar Pfannes, Ph.D., CEO of Genedata. "We are working towards a fully integrated analysis workflow system that produces rapid results that can be summarized and reported at the click of a single button. By rolling out Genedata Screener across their research sites, Evotec validates our joint vision of making biopharma R&D more efficient."
Genedata presented a poster authored in conjunction with Evotec at the ELRIG Drug Discovery Digital meeting in October 2020, entitled Automating High-Throughput RT-qPCR Analysis for RNA Drug Discovery. The poster provides an overview of the application of Genedata Screener to this modern assay type and is available for download on the Genedata website.
About Evotec SE
Evotec is a drug discovery alliance and development partnership company focused on rapidly progressing innovative product approaches with leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, academics, patient advocacy groups and venture capitalists. We operate worldwide and our more than 3,500 employees provide the highest quality stand-alone and integrated drug discovery and development solutions. We cover all activities from target-to-clinic to meet the industry's need for innovation and efficiency in drug discovery and development (EVT Execute). The Company has established a unique position by assembling top-class scientific experts and integrating state-of-the-art technologies as well as substantial experience and expertise in key therapeutic areas including neuronal diseases, diabetes and complications of diabetes, pain and inflammation, oncology, infectious diseases, respiratory diseases, fibrosis, rare diseases and women's health. On this basis, Evotec has built a broad and deep pipeline of more than 100 co-owned product opportunities at clinical, pre-clinical and discovery stages (EVT Innovate). Evotec has established multiple long-term alliances with partners including Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol Myers Squibb, CHDI, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Sanofi, Takeda, UCB and others. For additional information please go to www.evotec.com and follow us on Twitter @Evotec.
We have enjoyed a very positive experience [that has] prompted us to deploy Genedata Screener globally to harmonize our data analysis workflow internally, and we look forward to the continued expansion of our successful relationship with Genedata.
Dirk Ullmann, Ph.D.
Global Head of Drug Discovery Services


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Deborah McKay
Deborah McKay lives, writes, and teaches English at The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey. McKay's writing spans many different disciplines and genres. She has published articles and short fiction in literary, religious, and philosophical journals. Eve's Longing is her first published novel.
Eve's Longing: The Infinite Possibilities in All Things
Ms. McKay's book is a sui-generis record of an extraordinary spiritual journey. Like Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater , it is shocking and exhilarating in its bluntness, and in the beauty and humor of the prose.
David Mamet, director of House of Games
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Eve's Longing: The Infinite Possibilities in All Things is a story of a modern fictional saint in the making. In the course of Eve's twin spiritual and physical journeys, Deborah McKay's moving yet unsentimental novel explores alarming real-life resolutions to universal complexities and offers instead of answers the seductive and dangerous experience of its captivating central character. Eve is a shockingly original character: at once a philosopher, an artist with a highly developed visual imagination, and a visionary mystic. Her longing, as the subtitle suggests, is for "the Infinite Possibilities in All Things." In the course of her journey, this longing, which is essentially spiritual and philosophical in origin, becomes for us immediately tangible, sensuous, and fully real. Eve's longing takes her from New York City to a monastery in Assisi, Italy, the home of St. Francis, then back again to New York. Along the way her longing grows into a desire so intense that it engenders a compassion verging on the saintly and a cruelty equally as extreme. Her desires, when unfulfilled, lead to sexual excesses, hallucinations, and transformative spiritual visions. In the course of Eve's journey we meet characters both alive and dead: her sister Claire, her parents, her lovers, St. Francis, and the Virgin Mary: and two of her most intimate companions, the Spiral and the Pearl String, both creations of her own mind. Eve's Longing creates almost a new literary genre in literature. It combines the intimacy of an entrusting autobiography with the intrigue of a novel and the cool detachment of a clinical study. The consequence of Eve's fascination with "The Infinite Possibilities in All Things" — the temptation to which the original and our Eve succumb — is both an end and a beginning.
An original, unsentimental novel about a woman's longing for knowledge and luminous experience — and the price she pays.
Andrea Dworkin, author of Pornography: Men Possessing Women
Deborah McKay's writing forces us to rethink how we see and feel about the world around us, and invariably the retooling affords us a deeper and more spiritual understanding of place and mood, gesture and human concern and integrity. This is the long-awaited work of a first-class writer, mind, and human being.
Michael Stephens, author of Jigs and Reels
The character of Eve and McKay's animation of little things make this book a lovely, eye-opening winner. The author's talent runs deep.
James Hillman, author of Re-Visioning Psychology
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One of the most common complaints that my clients have is they simply cannot hear the TV. This problem seems to be universal to everyone that has hearing loss, and the I almost always hear the same things: "He turns the TV up so loud we're all going deaf." "I can hear the TV just fine, I just like to listen to it loud." "I just can't hear the TV because the sound quality is poor." There may be some truth to all of these, but if you or a loved one is saying these things on a regular basis, chances are there is a real hearing loss there, and there are a number of options to make watching the TV more enjoyable for everyone.
The first and most obvious answer is to simply turn the TV up, but this can be problematic as it is very annoying to other people in the house, and sometimes even neighbors. In addition, having the TV at such a loud volume may contribute to further hearing loss- it definitely isn't helping it! There are a number of products on the market today which are designed to allow a hearing impaired individual listen to the TV at their preferred volume, without bothering other people. One of these products is TV Ears (that links to a review I've written on it). TV Ears is a headset which transmits sound wirelessly from the TV to the end user. It is very well reviewed, and is a great solution.
Aside from purchasing TV Ears, one of the cheapest things you can try, which works with almost all TV's is to go in to the audio settings on the TV and turn the bass down and the treble up. In many movies and TV shows today, the bass in the background (whether it's music or other sounds), really drowns out the speech noise and makes it super hard to hear. When you turn that bass down and the treble up, the speech from the actors gets much more clear and easy to understand, though the sound quality will be reduced a bit. This is a good option that is certainly worth a try. In addition, consider how the sound is coming out of your TV. If you are using a new, flatscreen TV, chances are the speakers are actually in the back of the TV. In most cases, the sound comes out of the speakers and bounces directly into a wall, and then sound then dissipates and travels across the room with a poor quality and reduced intensity. Consider investing in a surround sound system for your TV, so you can get the sound to actually face the viewers, and the quality of sound and clarity in speech will be much improved.
Lastly, if your hearing loss is bad all around and it's hard to hear in all environments (and not just the TV), consider trying hearing aids. Almost all of today's hearing aids have what's called "television mode." This is a feature in the hearing aid which will make the TV more clear, and is usually activated through the simple push of a button on the hearing aid. In addition, many hearing aids today come with actual streaming devices which connect to the TV, so you can get sound channeled directly into your ears via your hearing aids. For more on hearing aids that are able to do this, check out this post by the guys at YourHearing. In addition, you can check out a price list of all the hearing aids on the market here.
Listening to the TV loud is annoying for everyone, but there are a number of ways to relieve the problem. Try out some of the options above, and if you have any other tips or tricks please mention them in the comments below.


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import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThatNullPointerException;
import static org.assertj.core.data.Index.atIndex;
import static org.assertj.core.error.ShouldNotContainAtIndex.shouldNotContainAtIndex;
import static org.assertj.core.test.ObjectArrays.emptyArray;
import static org.assertj.core.test.TestData.someIndex;
import static org.assertj.core.test.TestData.someInfo;
import static org.assertj.core.test.TestFailures.failBecauseExpectedAssertionErrorWasNotThrown;
import static org.assertj.core.util.Arrays.array;
import static org.assertj.core.util.FailureMessages.actualIsNull;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.verify;

import org.assertj.core.api.AssertionInfo;
import org.assertj.core.data.Index;
import org.assertj.core.internal.ObjectArrays;
import org.assertj.core.internal.ObjectArraysBaseTest;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

/**
 * Tests for <code>{@link ObjectArrays#assertDoesNotContain(AssertionInfo, Object[], Object, Index)}</code>.
 *
 * @author Alex Ruiz
 * @author Joel Costigliola
 */
public class ObjectArrays_assertDoesNotContain_at_Index_Test extends ObjectArraysBaseTest {

  @Override
  protected void initActualArray() {
    actual = array("Yoda", "Luke", "Leia");
  }

  @Test
  public void should_fail_if_actual_is_null() {
    assertThatExceptionOfType(AssertionError.class).isThrownBy(() -> arrays.assertDoesNotContain(someInfo(), null, "Yoda", someIndex()))
                                                   .withMessage(actualIsNull());
  }

  @Test
  public void should_pass_if_actual_does_not_contain_value_at_Index() {
    arrays.assertDoesNotContain(someInfo(), actual, "Yoda", atIndex(1));
  }

  @Test
  public void should_pass_if_actual_is_empty() {
    arrays.assertDoesNotContain(someInfo(), emptyArray(), "Yoda", someIndex());
  }

  @Test
  public void should_throw_error_if_Index_is_null() {
    assertThatNullPointerException().isThrownBy(() -> arrays.assertDoesNotContain(someInfo(), actual, "Yoda", null))
                                    .withMessage("Index should not be null");
  }

  @Test
  public void should_pass_if_Index_is_out_of_bounds() {
    arrays.assertDoesNotContain(someInfo(), actual, "Yoda", atIndex(6));
  }

  @Test
  public void should_fail_if_actual_contains_value_at_index() {
    AssertionInfo info = someInfo();
    Index index = atIndex(0);
    try {
      arrays.assertDoesNotContain(info, actual, "Yoda", index);
    } catch (AssertionError e) {
      verify(failures).failure(info, shouldNotContainAtIndex(actual, "Yoda", index));
      return;
    }
    failBecauseExpectedAssertionErrorWasNotThrown();
  }

  @Test
  public void should_pass_if_actual_does_not_contain_value_at_Index_according_to_custom_comparison_strategy() {
    arraysWithCustomComparisonStrategy.assertDoesNotContain(someInfo(), actual, "YOda", atIndex(1));
  }

  @Test
  public void should_pass_if_actual_is_empty_whatever_custom_comparison_strategy_is() {
    arraysWithCustomComparisonStrategy.assertDoesNotContain(someInfo(), emptyArray(), "YOda", someIndex());
  }

  @Test
  public void should_throw_error_if_Index_is_null_whatever_custom_comparison_strategy_is() {
    assertThatNullPointerException().isThrownBy(() -> arraysWithCustomComparisonStrategy.assertDoesNotContain(someInfo(),
                                                                                actual,
                                                                                "YOda",
                                                                                null))
                                    .withMessage("Index should not be null");
  }

  @Test
  public void should_pass_if_Index_is_out_of_bounds_whatever_custom_comparison_strategy_is() {
    arraysWithCustomComparisonStrategy.assertDoesNotContain(someInfo(), actual, "YOda", atIndex(6));
  }

  @Test
  public void should_fail_if_actual_contains_value_at_index_according_to_custom_comparison_strategy() {
    AssertionInfo info = someInfo();
    Index index = atIndex(0);
    try {
      arraysWithCustomComparisonStrategy.assertDoesNotContain(info, actual, "YOda", index);
    } catch (AssertionError e) {
      verify(failures).failure(info, shouldNotContainAtIndex(actual, "YOda", index, caseInsensitiveStringComparisonStrategy));
      return;
    }
    failBecauseExpectedAssertionErrorWasNotThrown();
  }
}


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The seamless LCD video wall PDP plasma machine is 2m wide and 2m high, and the thickness of the body is only 0cm. Depending on how thin the body, it can be laid out in any place with ease. he PDP plasma has a 60-degree, ultra-wide view that allows you to see the bright, flowing images of various positions behind the screen. The seamless LCD video wall PDP plasma has a distinguishing rate of up to 706*960. The 3D digital comb filter filters out the effect of peristalsis and floating pixel points on the quality of the picture when displaying the high-discrimination picture.
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Gartner Keynote: Building Trust and Resilience for Digital Business
Security professional must lead their business colleagues to understand and mitigate digital business risks.
Contributor: Heather Pemberton Levy
Picture the scene: a car accident on a long country road. In the mock television advertisement for the fictitious "Connected Insurance" company that opened the keynote at Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit 2016 in National Harbor, MD, the driver was assisted by an interconnected mesh of services thanks to digital business. Her car alerted emergency personnel, towing services, her family and coworkers. Yet, how can these systems be trusted and will the driver's data be secure?
When a company promises to deliver the value of digital business to consumers, security professionals may be absent from critical conversations about protecting the enterprise and its customers, noted Peter Firstbrook, research vice president at Gartner.
"Will you be in the boardroom and at the table when the tricky risk decisions are made?" he asked.
Gartner analysts Peter Firstbrook and Felix Gaehtgens discuss the major security tasks for organizations to mitigate risk.
"Digital business" is defined as the creation of new business designs by blurring the physical and digital world. In previous business models, including e-commerce, people were the primary driver of transactions. But, In the future, "things" will be transaction drivers. Sensors and actuators will interact with people and other things creating meshed relationships.
By 2020, 60% of digital businesses will suffer major service failures due to the inability of security teams to manage digital risk.
Moving forward, numerous enterprises across industries will need to integrate into a digital business system. Those that don't build their own system may get pulled into a system by one of their partners.
Gartner predicts that by 2020, 60% of digital businesses will suffer major service failures due to the inability of security teams to manage digital risk.
For Connected Insurance, that could result in brand and reputation damage, fraud and legal liability.
To mitigate these risks, security professionals must add value to the digital business planning team to help them build resilience. This begins an assessment of the business risk and the technical and procedural controls to minimize that risk.
Read related article: The Six Principles of Resilience to Manage Digital Security
Help the business mitigate risk
Keep in mind that the business needs a prioritized discussion of risk that highlights those areas that are mission critical and the range of impact they might have on business objectives. "We need to show them big ticket items and not a laundry list in a teeny tiny font," said Jeffrey Wheatman, research director at Gartner.
"Simply stated, business leaders have a language with which they are comfortable and if we want to persuade them we need to use their language, not ours," he said. In other words, use lexicon that is more familiar to the business around concepts such as brand, customer safety, liability, compliance, financial, and strategy.
To do that, security professionals must:
Understand the organization's goals,
Identify the risk within those goals,
Quantify/qualify those risks,
Communicate them to internal "customers" in terms they understand and
Help them make decisions about how to treat the risks in an appropriate manner.
The new microtrust platform
As organizations bring multiple parties together into a networked ecosystem, how can they determine the trustworthiness of new providers? Each of the entities in the Connected Insurance example (emergency services, police, auto repair shop, etc.) acts as its own microtrust platform and must establish trust through its behavior and context relative to the other providers. The towing truck needs geolocation to know where to go, as will the cab or the rental car that is to be delivered.
We need a standardized way for one party to access data on behalf of another party in a controlled and secure manner.
"We need a standardized way for one party to access data on behalf of another party – in a controlled and secure manner," said Felix Gaehtgens, research director at Gartner. He noted the need to broker trust in a digital business mesh and allow others to broker their own digital mesh. Trust requires adaptive access control in which business moments, such as a car accident, require exchange of data on a temporary, need-to-know basis.
Mr. Gaehtgens described the Trustable Application Overlay architecture or TAO strategy, which assumes a level of distrust in infrastructure but still securely delivers digital services.
"Security teams need to collaborate with developers to embed security functions into digital business," he said.
Read complimentary research: Managing Risk and Security at the Speed of Digital Business.
Watch the webinar: The New Risks of Digital Business.
Learn more about IT security trends at the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summits 2016 taking place in National Harbor, Maryland, Tokyo,Sao Paulo, Sydney, Mumbai andLondon. Follow news and updates from the events on Twitter at #GartnerSEC.
For more visit Smarter With Gartner website.
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