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Seeds of Resistance. Critical Approaches to the Corporatization of Soil, Seeds, and Stone Fruit.
Written by Steven L. Bridges
In recent decades, the corporatization of global food production has grown exponentially, the wide-ranging effects of which only further strengthen the neoliberal, capitalist policies that laid the groundwork for such developments in the first place. This "growth" is marked by the increased industrialization and privatization of agricultural production, while simultaneously consolidating power in the hands of only a handful of transnational corporations.[1] From the land, to the seeds and plants they grow, corporations—through the manipulation of capitalist-driven market economies and the influence of political interest groups—have restricted access to food production and security, all the while fueling the decline of biodiversity, natural ecological systems, and the very use-value of the "products" that are required in such systems.
It is now well-established in our contemporary societies that the development and reliance on monocultures in industrialized agricultural production diminishes the quality of the soil, the nutrients of the food, and opens the door for catastrophe through the creation of super pests (both plant and insect) and new forms of infection.[2] In their often ill-fated attempts to address these issues, the measures taken by corporations tend to exasperate the problems rather than alleviate them. The result: corporations now seek exclusive control to the rights to the entire life cycle and reproductive system of plants, livestock, and other living matter—with serious consequences for both humanity at large and the health of the planet.
Neoliberalism, Privatization, and Industrial Agriculture
To better understand the current epoch in which we live, one must first come to terms with the historical conditions that led us here. In a recent column for the Guardian, environmental and political activist George Monbiot calls attention to the slippery evasiveness of neoliberalism, an ideology "[s]o pervasive… that we seldom even recognize it as an ideology. We appear to accept the proposition that this utopian, millenarian faith describes a neutral force; a kind of biological law, like Darwin's theory of evolution. But the philosophy arose as a conscious attempt to reshape human life and shift the locus of power."[3] All of this has come to fruition, though perhaps not exactly according to the utopian ideals of its early enthusiasts. Further, as Monbiot goes on to describe, the more pervasive and all-encompassing neoliberalism is, the more veiled are its identifying markers. But still its basic tenets remain clear: competition defines the underlying nature of human relations, and power and authority are established through one's capacity to buy and sell.
Touting the freedom and liberation of the individual, neoliberalism has instead created the greatest economic disparities in modern times. Part and parcel with this is the rise of neo-feudalism. A recent study conducted by researchers from Princeton and Northwestern Universities determined that the current American political system is essentially consistent with an oligarchical model of governance, composed of an elite group of individuals tied to economic and, specifically, corporate interests.[4] In our emergent neo-feudalist societies, the specters of past forms of feudalism return: greater class stratification, unequal rights for different sets of citizens, and an economic system based on servitude to an elite (or "noble") class. The role of agriculture within this is also frighteningly reminiscent of past feudalistic systems. With the concentration of power and control noted previously, the freedom of the world's farmers has been significantly reduced, and often farmers are coerced into relationships with larger corporate entities in an attempt to hold on to their personal livelihoods.[5]
Self-proclaimed "organic intellectual," feminist and activist Vandana Shiva pulls no punches when she declares: "What we are seeing is the emergence of food totalitarianism, in which a handful of corporations control the entire food chain and destroy alternatives so that people do not have access to diverse, safe foods produced ecologically. Local markets are being deliberately destroyed to establish monopolies over seed and food systems."[6] In confronting this situation, it is easy to feel immediately overwhelmed and powerless. Backed by US patent laws, biased trade agreements designed to privilege transnational corporate interests, and the heavy hand of the World Trade Organization, what agency do engaged citizens have left to counteract the seemingly unchecked powers of transnational agribusiness corporations?
The Role of Artists
In fact, there are many counter movements to the corporate takeovers that underline our age of industrial agriculture. Within the scope of this article, I would like to highlight the work of three contemporary artists who have trained their critical faculties on a number of these very issues. For it is often the role of artists to not simply hold a mirror to society in the hopes that we may recognize our own reflection, but also to refract our image in the hopes of introducing new spectrums of understanding and awareness. Especially when the macrocosmic perspective feels too unwieldy, too ungraspable and abstract, the refocusing of our attention on the microcosmic, the local, the tactical potentialities of our individual and collective efforts is all the more significant.
Collectively, the three artists to be discussed embark on projects that undermine the negative impact of neoliberal, capitalist efforts towards ever-greater social, political, and cultural homogeneity. The work of Claire Pentecost (American, b. 1956), Dornith Doherty (American, b. 1957), and Sam Van Aken (American, b. 1972) form the crux of this article; their projects pointing to the possibilities for resistance that exist and the incredible capacity and ingenuity that individuals possess to enact change. Each artist works in different media, from mixed-media installations (Pentecost), photography (Doherty), to horticulture-as-sculpture (Van Aken), and when taken altogether, the three projects to be discussed cover the life-cycle of plant life, beginning with soil, seeds, and the flora they produce.
For her contribution to dOCUMENTA XIII, Chicago-based artist Claire Pentecost presented a multivalent project that was included in a section of the quinquennial exhibition on the study of science, ecology, and seeds. This section occupied the Ottoneum in Kassel, Germany—the city's first theater that now operates as its museum of natural history. The contextual influences of these two incarnations of the site were not lost on the artist, who seized the opportunity to embark on a large-scale installation composed of different artworks, initiatives, and programs, accompanied by a host of actors (both evoked and in the flesh). But rather than deal with the subject of seeds directly, Pentecost focused her critical and creative energies on the seed's cultivating environment: soil.
The resultant work, soil-erg (2012), focuses on the ways corporations have moved to monetize and commodify soil, primarily through the use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides to reduce the labor needed to maintain good soil, thus maximizing outputs and profits.[7] Rejecting the corporate model for the commodification of soil (and dismissal of natural ecological systems of renewal and replenishment), Pentecost created an installation that at its core offers a new system for the valuation of soil. As part of this, she fabricated bricks of living soil—in the form of gold bars and discs—along with drawings of influential activists and visionaries who have contributed to the modern environmental movement. These drawings resembled the depictions of world leaders on bank notes, yet recalculated the relationship of capital and power by highlighting individuals that have supported life and its many forms of expression.[8] The role of composting and the creation of vertical planters were other important features of the work. Installed outside the Ottoneum, Pentecost collaborated with designer Ben Friton to develop these planters to illuminate the ways that gardens can be adapted to even the most limiting of spatial constraints.
Collaboration is key too in the process of composting, wherein other species of animals—from cows to worms—play critical roles in enriching mineral depleted soils. As Vandana Shiva points out: "Returning to nature and her species their share of nutrition is not just an ethical and ecological imperative; it is essential for maintaining food productivity for humans," and is an integral part of the responsible practice of sustainable farming that humans have practiced for millennia.[9] Furthermore, the underlying message of the project assumes an eco-activist tone, as Pentecost explains: "Good soil is alive: structurally and biologically it is a living system. When the soil is maintained in an ecologically sensitive way it not only nurtures plants, it also helps protect against weeds and pests. But it requires a continually evolving, site-specific knowledge as well as sustained labor. Good soil is the result of a sustained practice and a practice that is social as much as it is biological."[10] The reinforcement of the social bonds that are truly at the heart of sustainable agriculture is key here. Without disruptions to the isolating effects of neoliberalism, human populations will only continue to be divided; and thus conquered.
Dornith Doherty
Dornith Doherty is a Houston-based photographer who, in 2008, was inspired by the impending completion of the Svarlbard Global Seed Vault—located on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the Arctic—to begin researching, traveling to, and photographing seeds and seed banks all over the world. The result of this ongoing investigation is two significant bodies of work: Archiving Eden and Archiving Eden: The Vaults (both 2008–present). Collaborating with biologists and other scientists, the artist has visited many of the most comprehensive seed banks in the world, including: the National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation in Colorado; the Millennium Seed Bank, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in England; PlantBank, Threatened Flora Centre, and Kings Park Botanic Gardens in Australia; the N.I. Vavilov Institute for Plant Industry in Russia; and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway. Her interest in these spaces and activities is clear: "In this era of climate change and declining biodiversity, by collecting, researching seed biology, and storing seeds in secure vaults, seed banks play a vital role in ensuring the survival of genetic diversity in wild and agricultural species."[11]
The two projects are deeply entwined, yet while the mechanisms of photography are consistently employed in both, the results vary according to her artistic intent. For Archiving Eden, the artist x-rays and scans thousands of seeds to create images that she composites, collages, or individuates. Some of these are then printed as lenticular images, which create an illusion of depth and allow the otherwise static nature of photography to become animated. This tension between the static and ever-changing, as well as her use of x-ray technologies, evokes intriguing metaphors for the interpretation of her project: the artist actively visualizes what is often left invisible, including the social, philosophical, political, and anthropological issues that are embedded in the very act or seed-banking, while also pointing to the need for consistent conservationist policies that are still adaptable to shifting global circumstances.
Offering a different perspective, Archiving Eden: The Vaults is inflected by the artist's poetic sensibilities as applied to the spaces of seed banks. Ranging from the seemingly banal to the utterly sublime, these photographs by Doherty assert the great human effort that lies behind these endeavors. Documentary in nature, the images invite us to reflect upon and consider the importance of indexing history and culture through the preservation of the genetic material of plants. Rather than conducting research and experiments in the efforts of maximizing profits through the patenting of seed technologies, these seed bank and biogenetic laboratories seek to preserve the great diversity of plant life on Earth—and to create a failsafe in the event of global catastrophe.
In a sobering turn of events, and only seven years after its completion, the first withdrawal was made from the Svarlbard Global Seed Vault in 2015. The reason for such drastic measures? The civil war in Syria decimated seed supplies and one of the country's primary seed vaults in the ancient city of Aleppo was compromised by the fighting.[12] While these events may first appear to be the unfortunate result of the conflict, recent investigations as to causal forces of the war have now identified links between the initial social upheaval and the effects of climate change on land use and food production as one of the primary driving forces.[13]
Sam Van Aken
Raised on a small family farm in rural Pennsylvania, Sam Van Aken developed an appreciation for agricultural production and the process of grafting from an early age—a fascination that continues to this day.[14] In recent years Van Aken has developed a practice that conflates horticulture and sculpture, blending horticultural techniques and aesthetic explorations in works involving living plants. In 2008, Van Aken embarked on what has become a large-scale, multi-iterative project called Tree of 40 Fruit. The premise of the project began seemingly straightforward: to seek out 40 different kinds of a species of fruit and graft them onto a single tree (familial fruit variants are often genetically compatible and thus can coexist as a single organism). However, the process of locating 40 different variants of a single species proved extremely difficult. Disturbed by the diminishing variety, the artist learned that he could source rare heirloom and antique varieties from older orchards (many of which were slated for uprooting) and collapse these collections onto a single tree. He notes: "this experience was my introduction to the extent at which monocultures have come to dominate agriculture and where the project shifted to include preservation."[15]
For his most recent iteration, Tree of 40 Fruit: The Michigan Trees (2016), Van Aken focused his efforts on stone fruit trees that are native to the State of Michigan. Stone fruits are defined by their hard-shelled pits and include peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines, and cherries, to name a few. Once one of the largest producers of stone fruit in the US, Michigan has lost much of this agricultural legacy, as these species have been transplanted to other locales. As such, Tree of 40 Fruit: The Michigan Trees is context-responsive in the fact that its host institution—the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University in East Lansing—is located on what was historically an orchard that included a great array of stone fruit trees. The artist again located heirloom and antique varieties, and through a series of workshops conducted with local school groups and other volunteers, Van Aken grafted the different varietals onto twelve trees that occupy an atrium of the building.
Writing in the exhibition's brochure, Van Aken points to the sense of urgency that has emerged through the project to recover and preserve these species: "Due to numerous factors, including industrialization, disease, and decreased funding for agricultural research, over the past hundred years we have gone from having ready access to thousands upon thousands of different varieties of fruit to knowing only a few dozen. Heirloom and antique varieties of peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines, and cherries are disappearing at a frightening rate, and with them their genetic material, and in many ways our history… They are a kind of time machine, and an archive of Michigan's agricultural heritage."[13] Coupled with this deeper rumination on the importance of preservation and posterity, the artist also produces specific visual effects through his process of grafting; knowing which colorful blossoms will be born of each branch, he carefully selects different varietals as part of his aesthetic decision-making process. Through this blending of the political, ecological, and aesthetic, the project mines and preserves local knowledge while simultaneously activating such knowledge in order to reinstate its value and significance for generations to come.
The work of these three artists begins to sow the seeds of resistance in the face of ever-growing corporate control over global food production. Each of the projects shares an interest in acts of preservation, both of actual organic matter and agricultural processes like composting, seed-banking, and grafting. To be clear, though, these techniques have been employed by humans for millennia, and it is only more recently that such practices have become increasingly undermined through the rise of industrial agriculture and the reliance on monocultures in crop planning and production. Despite claims to the need for the industrialization of agriculture to feed a growing global population, one must consider the true costs of this shift and its effects on the livelihoods of millions of people.
In this respect, author and environmentalist Rob Nixon's research into and articulation of "slow violence" is poignant. According to Nixon, slow violence is "a violence that occurs gradually and out of sight, a violence of delayed destruction that is dispersed across time and space, an attritional violence that is typically not viewed as violence at all."[17] The effects of agricultural industrialization and the development of monocultures are wide-sweeping and have been shown to be both directly and indirectly detrimental to human populations. But we fail to see these effects for what they are, since they evolve slowly over time and often out of the public eye and the spectacle of the twenty-four hour news cycle. The veil of neoliberalism returns in this way, obfuscating our ability to recognize and name the problem, thus allowing such violence to continue, unchecked.
Yet through these different approaches to art-making, alternative models to the effects of neoliberal geopolitics begin to emerge. At the very least, these projects invite self-education and awareness, and rather than simply pointing out and becrying the negative effects of the corporatization of soil, seeds, and stone fruit, these artists imagine and develop new ways of relating to agriculture while caring for the planet. These projects also reorient human relations, and the relationship of humanity to its environment. As Claire Pentecost noted earlier, social networks of empowerment and resource sharing reveal alternatives to our reliance on industrial agriculture and corporate value systems that emphasize profits over personal well-being. Furthermore, through an understanding and appreciation of the work by these artists—and many others like them—we can begin to reinsert our own voices and visions for food production locally and globally, consciously resisting the erasure of the histories and cultures encoded in the genes of our seeds.
Steven L. Bridges works as Assistant Curator at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. He has curated a number of exhibitions including solo exhibitions of the work of Sam Jury, Faheem Majeed, and Jason Lazarus, and also co-curated the annual Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival in Chicago from 2011–15. Bridges is a contributor to several journals, magazines and artist catalogues, and holds Masters' degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
[1] At the turn of the last century, the figures were staggering. Activist and philosopher Vandana Shiva highlights the stranglehold exerted by these corporations in her influential book Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply: "ten corporations control 32 percent of the commercial-seed market, valued at $23 billion, and 100 percent of the market for genetically engineered, or transgenic, seeds. These corporations also control the global agrochemical and pesticide market. Just five corporations control the global trade in grain." Vandana Shiva, Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2016), 9.
[2] The link between the increased use of genetically modified organisms and herbicides and pesticides in their cultivation has been a primary focus of medical researchers in recent years. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., and Charles Benbrook, Ph.D., raise important questions around the lack of regulatory systems in the US in the face of growing concerns around the safety and long-term effects of the use of herbicides and pesticides that are known to be carcinogenic and environmentally corrosive. The reliance on 2,4-D, a component of the Agent Orange defoliant used in the Vietnam War, is particularly troublesome. Philip J. Landrigan and Charles Benbrook, "GMOs, Herbicides, and Public Health," New England Journal of Medicine 373, no. 8 (August 2015): 693–95.
[3] George Monbiot, "Neoliberalism—the ideology at the root of all our problems," Guardian (London), April 15, 2016,http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot.
[4] Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page, "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens,"Perspectives on Politics 12, no. 3 (September 2014): 564–81.
[5] Global agribusiness Monsanto, for instance, requires farmers who buy their genetically modified seeds to sign their "Roundup Ready Gene Agreement," which makes saving seeds and seed sharing criminal acts. Vandana Shiva, Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2016), 92.
[6] Vandana Shiva, Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2016), 17.
[7] This claim to increased productivity and the need for industrialization of agriculture to meet the world's growing food demands has largely been debunked. It has been shown that traditional systems of polyculture are far more efficient and environmentally sound than systems of monoculture. See: Francesca Bray, "Agriculture for Developing Nations," Scientific American (July 1994): 33–35.
[8] These figures includes such luminaries as Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), Rachel Carson (1907–1964), Wangari Maathai (1940–2011), and Vandana Shiva (b.1952), the last of which has been particularly influential in the crafting of this essay. These drawings also included other notables, like the star-nosed mole and snails, and a reference to German artist Joseph Beuys, whose own seminal ecological project 7000 Eichen (7000 Oaks) (1982–present) was produced as part of dOCUMENTA VII.
[9] Vandana Shiva, Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2016), 118.
[10] From the artist's website: http://www.publicamateur.org/?p=85.
[11] From the artist's website: http://dornithdoherty.com/gallery/archiving-eden/.
[12] Laura Wagner, "Syrian Civil War Prompts First Withdrawal from Doomsday Seed Vault in the Arctic," National Public Radio, September 23, 2015, http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/23/442858657/syrian-civil-war-prompts-first-withdrawal-from-doomsday-seed-vault-in-the-arctic.
[13] The severe drought that plagued the region between 2006 and 2009—which was intensified as a result of global warming and the effects of climate change—is one of the primary reasons many farmers gave up their land and moved to the urban centers of Syria, which subsequently led to overcrowding, food insecurity, and the social unrest that destabilized the country. Henry Fountain, "Researchers Link Syrian Conflict to a Drought Made Worse by Climate Change," New York Times, March 2, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/science/earth/study-links-syria-conflict-to-drought-caused-by-climate-change.html?_r=0.
[14] Email correspondence with the author, May 1, 2016.
[16] Michelle Word and Sam Van Aken, Tree of 40 Fruit: The Michigan Trees (East Lansing, MI: Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 2016), 8.
[17] Rob NIxon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011), 2.
Art and political ecology (I)
Which potentials can be found in art, for influencing global discourses on climate change and effecting real change?
Wild plants. Activism and autonomy in contemporary art.
Contrary to the traditional, ontological understanding of art as something other than reality, that is merely an imitating, symbolic or referential way of relating to reality, the new type of practice is so closely tied to reality that the difference is barely identifiable.
Interview: Bruno Latour on the show Reset Modernity! at the ZKM
Bruno Latour talks about the origins of his ongoing exhibition Reset Modernity! at the ZKM in Karlsruhe.
Reset Modernity! By Bruno Latour at the ZKM
The ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, has proposed several interesting reflections on the questions posed by the climate change, political ecology and its relation to art. Take, for instance, the invitation made to anthropologist, philosopher and sociologist Bruno Latour, who has been working on these questions for years, and who has conceived the exhibition Reset Modernity! with Martin Guinard-Terrin, Christophe Leclercq and Donato Ricci.
Toxic Sublime and the Dilemma of the Documentary
For photographers interested in capturing the effects of environmental degradation, there is a fine line between documenting and aestheticizing the human impact on our planet. Over the last two decades, a group of photographers has emerged who document, through large-scale, aerial photographs, mining and oil industries, waste, pollution, and the aftermath of nuclear and environmental disasters.
Contemporary Art at the Tipping Point – Environmentally Engaged Art at (and after) the COP21 Conference on Climate Change
Following the populous people's climate marches in New York and around the world in 2014, the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris (COP21), a little over a year later in 2015, was broadly understood as a tipping point by activist and civil society groups, an opinion that was picked up by a large proportion of the media.
Will Wilson and Jetsonorama: Confronting Resource Extraction in the Navajo Nation
Two men stare into the photographer's lens, locking eyes with the viewer. They stand back to back, both turning their faces toward us in three quarter profile. Both wear white collared shirts, with beaded necklaces visible around their necks. Both men have a caked yellow substance dripping down their faces, past their bloodshot eyes.
Rather than simply pointing out and becrying the negative effects of the corporatization of soil, seeds, and stone fruit, Claire Pentecost, Dornith Doherty and Sam Van Aken imagine and develop new ways of relating to agriculture while caring for the planet.


@JamesMontemagno just posted a blog about simplifying app signing with secure siles in Visual Studio Team Services.
Can both the Android and iOS apps be built using the 'Hosted' agent queue?
There are currently PC and Linux hosted agents.
@JamesMontemagno - We're trying to put this into practice and switch to the new hosted mac agents.
Both the cert install and provisioning profile installs steps both run without issue and appear to work correctly from what I see in the logs.
To double check, we should be using only production certificates, with passphrases of course, and downloading the production provisioning profile from the apple developer portal.
What next steps would you recommend for troubleshooting this build on a hosted mac agent?
Are you using the Install steps?
In your csproj do you have something set for the actual profiles that are trying to be used?
I am getting the same issue, "Could not find any available provisioning profiles for iOS".
I did have a specific (the same) Identity and Prov Profile specified in the CSProj, Release config. I have set thos both to automatic and I still get this error.


This evergreen is super hardy!
It will thrive in the heat of the summer and through the coldest winters!
Japanese Holly Fern is made for moist, shady areas, even in climates where winters are harsh and extreme weather can blight lesser plants. An evergreen hardy fern, it should be a mainstay of your shade border, where it will offer elegant form and fresh color year-round.
Compact and neat, this fern unfurls small pinnae (leaves) closely set on each long, elegant frond. The color is not highly glossy, but a more understated, matt shade of green that complements all surrounding hues in the shade. A spectacular choice for large plantings in the shade, even a small grouping mixes well with other perennials and stands out nicely.
Reaching about 24 inches tall and 16 inches wide, this plant begins spring with pale green fronds. They darken somewhat as they mature, displaying their slender form well.
Japanese Holly Fern is native to Korea, China, and (of course!) Japan, so it tolerates our hot and humid summers beautifully. It thrives in consistently moist but not poorly draining soils, and remains evergreen. If the winter weather is particularly harsh, it may need an early-spring trim to remove any damaged fronds, but it will quickly bounce back with regular watering and a light spring feeding. Long-lived and dependable, it will become a shade border mainstay. We highly recommend it. Zones 5-9.


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Trinity Women's Basketball Preview
Megan Flores|October 26, 2018
left to right: Julia Ackerman, Jackie Layng, Rachel Chavez Photo credit: Matthew Claybrook
The Trinity women's basketball team is just a few weeks away from the beginning of preseason play. In their first game on Nov. 12, the team will take on Concordia University (Texas) at home.
On this year's roster, eight Tigers will return from last year's lineup. Among these players are newly elected team captains senior Jackie Layng, junior Abby Holland and senior Rachel Chavez.
Head coach Cameron Hill explained that each captain contributed significantly to the team's organization and overall drive.
"Jackie, Rachel and Abby all bring a true depth of understanding to what 'Together Tigers' means. I have really enjoyed watching them manage the role of captain. Their leadership has been and will continue to be a huge factor in our teams success," Hill said.
Assistant coach Joe Shotland believes that the unique experiences each captain brings to the team allows them to lead others more effectively.
"In a team environment, you want mediators that can relate to their team members in different ways. Sometimes it's by example, sometimes it's with words and sometimes it's a combination. Our three captains this season understand that. Obviously each one of them does this a little differently based on who they are as a player or person, but all three of them understand and embrace the responsibility of being on this team," Shotland said.
Layng, a senior guard from Warwick, New York, explained that the Trinity team is more than ready for the season to start.
"We have been preparing for season since the end of our last game last season. All summer, the Together Tigers have worked to be ready for practices. Pre-season went really well. We had lifts and conditioning with Daniel, as well as team pick-ups. Everyone is locked in because our practices so far have been intense and competitive," Layng said.
Although Layng will miss the presence of last year's seniors, her outlook on the team's current lineup is glowing.
"The first-years are awesome. It's just the beginning of practice and they have adjusted so well. They are a very talented group, and it's going to be awesome playing with them. They have already improved so much already," Layng said.
Chavez, a senior point guard from El Paso echoed this opinion.
"We have a young team this year. This is the largest first-year class we've had, but I think the level that we compete with each other at practice is the best we've had yet. The new team members are great. They all bring such great energy in practice and are so eager to learn and compete," Chavez said.
Pushing into the regular season, the Trinity team hopes to start their season with the same momentum they ended their last one with. Their current schedule features 28 games, with 13 of those being played at home in the Calgaard Gymnasium.
"The game schedule is mandated from a volume standpoint, so it's not a heavy load. It is a tremendous opportunity for us to travel, play against great competition and represent our program and our university," Hill said.
Specifically, the team will have the opportunity to travel up North to compete against other Division III teams.
"We travel to Seattle and Minnesota before SCAC starts, and we'll be playing good teams. Those games should be super competitive, and we're really looking to travel and take home wins," Layng said.
Shotland notes that the team will continue to strive for greater success, regardless of where they stand in the rankings.
"You're always trying to take the next step as a program. Sometimes coaches say you're either getting better or you're getting worse, but you're never staying the same. I think that's the idea of our program. Winning is fun and all, but we have to improve. Our goals are always shifting in an upward trajectory, so we're trying to take that next step forward and maintain the level we've set for ourselves," Shotland said.
Although a few things have changed since last year, the coaching efficiency, goals and work ethic of the women's basketball team have not.
Looking back on her opportunity to play for Trinity, Layng hopes to end her Tiger basketball career with a strong finish.
"Coach Hill comes from a very distinguished background of basketball, and he is definitely the best coach around. Coach Shotland also has great knowledge of the game, so we are very lucky to have two coaches that know exactly what is going to work for us offensively and defensively. I wouldn't want to end my college career anywhere else. Trinity has such an elite program from top down, and it's just awesome to play this game in an environment that wins championships," Layng said.
"We always strive for success. With a new year and a new team, we're going to take it game by game and look forward to a great season," Chavez said.
Tigers competing for first time since March 2020
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Why You Should Run A Turkey Trot
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I Don't Know A Thing About Love: The Songs of Harlen Howard
Artist: Willie Nelson
Label: SONY LEGACY
1. Tiger By The Tail
2. The Chokin' Kind
3. Excuse Me (I Think I've Got A Heartache)
4. Life Turned Her That Way
5. I Don't Know A Thing About Love
6. Streets Of Baltimore
7. Busted
8. She Called Me Baby
9. Too Many Rivers
10. Beautiful Annabel Lee
Amongst the nearly 150 albums that Willie Nelson has released, he has a number of amazing full-album tributes to songwriters from Kris Kristofferson and George Gershwin to Ray Price and Cindy Walker. Adding to that list is a new studio album dedicated to songwriting legend Harlen Howard who has scores of country hits including a number that crossed over to pop and even R&B charts. A member of both the Country Music Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall Of Fame, Howard wrote hits for Ray Charles ("Busted"), Buck Owens ("I've Got A Tiger By The Tail"), Conway Twitty (the title track), Bobby Bare ("The Streets Of Baltimore") and so many more. Produced by longtime collaborator Buddy Cannon and featuring a murderers' row of crack Nashville musicians, I Don't Know A Thing About Love is an amazing addition to Willie's unparalleled catalog.


Blogger Claus — that's me, I'm the non-denominational, workplace-friendly Blogger Claus — wants to reward his good readers with some holiday cheer.
(The bad readers get two EEOC Charges and will be fed to Krampus).
A copy of the ADA: Reasonable Accommodations and the Interactive Process slide deck I used for my presentation yesterday at the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management (SEPA SHRM).
If you want the slide deck, email me and it's yours.
Note: all requests for 1 or 2 will be filed in the same manner as yesterday's blog post.


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Q: is dirac gemma matrics form a group? G={I ,γ^μ, σ^μυ, γ^5γ^μ}
Heres the set.
Is this form a group if yes under which binary relation?
i gotta submit my assigment.i tried commutator and anti commutator relations but enable to pove..

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All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC for 41 years, from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011, and on The Online Network since April 29, 2013 via Hulu, Hulu Plus, and iTunes. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children is set in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a fictitious suburb of Philadelphia which is modeled on the actual Philadelphia suburb of Rosemont. The original series featured Susan Lucci as Erica Kane, one of daytime's most popular characters. The title of the series refers to the bonds of humanity. All My Children was the first new network daytime drama to debut in the 1970s. Originally owned by Creative Horizons, Inc., the company created by Nixon and her husband, Bob, the show was sold to ABC in January 1975. The series started at a half-hour in per-installment length, then was expanded to a full hour on April 25, 1977. Earlier, the show had experimented with the full-hour format for one week starting on June 30, 1975, after which Ryan's Hope premiered.
From 1970 to 1990, All My Children was recorded at ABC's TV18 at 101 West 67th St, now a 50-story apartment tower. From March 1990 to December 2009, it was taped at ABC's television studio TV23 at 320 West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City, New York. In December 2009, the locale for taping the series moved from the costly New York City to California. The show was then produced in Stages 1 and 2 at the Andrita Studios in Los Angeles, California, and is now produced at the Connecticut Film Center in Stamford, Connecticut. All My Children started taping in high definition on January 4, 2010 and began airing in high definition on February 3, 2010. All My Children became the third soap opera to be produced and broadcast in high definition.
Stars: Donna Pescow Eden Riegel Elisabeth Harnois Elizabeth Hendrickson Kelli O'Hara Kelly Overton Olga Sosnovska Sarah Glendening Tamara Braun
Drama series about life on the wards of Holby City Hospital, following the highs and lows of the staff and patients.
Stars: Catherine Russell Hannah Daniel Heather Peace Jemma Redgrave
The daily soap that follows the loves, lives and misdemeanours of a group of people living in the Chester village of Hollyoaks where anything could, and frequently does, happen...
Stars: Amy Yamazaki Daisy Wood-Davis Jazmine Franks Krupa Pattani Lucy Dixon Niamh Blackshaw Nicole Barber-Lane Tamara Wall
River City is a television soap opera, first broadcast in Scotland on BBC Scotland on 24 September 2002. River City storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional district of Shieldinch in Glasgow. The series primarily centres around the residents of Shieldinch, their houses, flats and apartments and its neighbouring streets, namely Montego Street and which encompasses a pub, bistro, community centre, café and various small businesses, in addition to a subway station and basketball court.
The series was originally screened as two half-hour episodes per week. Today, one hour-long episode is broadcast each week - usually Tuesday evenings on BBC One Scotland, repeated Sunday afternoons on either BBC One Scotland or BBC Two Scotland. In Australia, River City is screened 11:00am weekdays on Seven's British-oriented multichannel 7TWO.
Stars: Caitlin Gillespie Monica Gibb Sophie Mercer
Venice: The Series
Venice: The Series is a web series co-produced by and starring American actress Crystal Chappell, and is inspired in part by the "Otalia" storyline on the daytime drama Guiding Light. The series has been broadcast since 2009, and is currently in its fourth season.
Venice is described by Chappell as "a show about families, and life, and all the simplicity of it, and the turmoil of it. We're going to be following a character named Gina who is a designer, and she is a gay woman."
Stars: Crystal Chappell Jessica Leccia Nadia Bjorlin
Acacias 38, the address of a stately apartment building where our stories unfold, is set in 1899 and tells the story of a group of maids and the bourgeois families they serve, in a single block in a distinguished neighborhood of a large Spanish city. Two worlds colliding in a universe of crossed lives.
Stars: Aria Bedmar Ylenia Baglietto
Alles was zählt
Alles was zählt is a German television soap opera first broadcast on RTL on September 4, 2006. The original plot revolved around Diana Sommer's dream to become a world class ice skater. She fell in love with Julian Herzog, who signed her at the prestigious Steinkamp Sport and Wellness Center, run by the unscrupulous Steinkamp dynasty. Diana and Julian eventually became a couple, but in November 2007, Julian suffered a brain hemorrhage and died during their wedding. Diana remained in Essen until January 2009, when she left to join a skating centre in Halle. The story continues to revolve around the Steinkamp Sport and Wellness Centre and its quest to become a sporting powerhouse, as well as the lives of the characters who work at and around the Centre.
Stars: Alexandra Fonsatti Franziska van der Heide
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Mark Crilley's YouTube drawing instruction videos have an enormous worldwide legion of fans and have been featured on sites such as Yahoo News and Reddit. In addition, Crilley is an accomplished graphic novelist. Now he pairs both strengths resulting in a one-of-a-kind art instruction experience. Through the story of aspiring, overeager young artist-in-the-making David and his helpful, but often flustered mentor, Becky, readers gain a grounding in the basics of drawing and rendering, along with a helping of laughs and poignant entertainment. Each lesson builds off the previous, with sidebars at the end of each chapter that direct readers to tackle some of the very same drawing exercises that David has just completed.


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Pythiosis (Oomycosis, Lagenidiosis, Swamp Cancer, Bursatti, Leeches) in Dogs, Cats and Horses
November 22, 2010 (published)
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Pythiosis is caused by a fungal-like aquatic organism called Pythium insidiosum. This organism is not a true fungus, but behaves somewhat similarly. It exists in stagnant water, or on grasses that have been exposed to the stagnant water.
The disease is most common in tropical and sub-tropical climates such as Southeast Asia, eastern coastal Australia, South America, and the USA. (In the USA, it is seen mostly in the Gulf Coast states, although it has been found in more diverse areas such as Wisconsin, Kentucky, Missouri, Indiana, North Carolina, California, and Washington.)
In the USA, the disease tends to be seasonal, and most cases occur between August and December.
Pythiosis in Dogs
In dogs, pythiosis can occur as the cutaneous (skin), gastrointestinal (stomach and intestine), or multisystemic form. The skin form occurs when the organism comes in contact with an open wound. The gastrointestinal form occurs when the dog ingests the organism.
In the skin form of the disease, signs include wounds that won't heal, ulcerated small lumps, and fistulas (small tunnel-like passages in body tissue). Hairless lesions are found most commonly on the tail, legs, stomach, neck, and face. These hairless lesions are perforated by draining fistulas. The lesions are itchy and damage from self-mutilation is common.
Gastrointestinal pythiosis occurs most often in the stomach, proximal small intestine, and ileocolic junction, but any part of the intestine, esophagus, and colon can be diseased. Clinical signs include anorexia, vomiting, diarrhea, and weight loss. The weight loss can be severe, but affected dogs usually do not appear systemically ill until late in the disease.
Pythiosis in Cats
Pythiosis in cats is rare, and usually occurs as either cutaneous or nasopharyngeal lesions.
The skin lesions in cats are less invasive and destructive than in dogs, but do include the non-healing wounds, ulcerated skim lumps, draining fistulas, and pruritus.
Pythiosis in Horses
In horses, the lesions are large nodules (roughly circular, granulomatous, ulcerated, and fistulated) or subcutaneous swellings with yellow-gray necrotic cores. The lesions are most common on the legs - especially the lower limbs - abdomen, chest, and genitalia, all of which are areas of the body that would come in contact with infected water or grass. The lesions are itchy, so self-trauma is common.
The horse's bones may become infected as the disease becomes chronic.
Enteric (intestinal) pythiosis in horses is characterized by fibrosis and narrowing of the gastrointestinal tract.
Early diagnosis is necessary for effective treatment and survival.
Diagnosis is most often based on histopathology tests, as well as PCR and ELISA assays. It can be difficult to culture Pythium. It does not grow well on routine fungal culture media, and rapid bacterial overgrowth often occurs on bacterial culture media, skewing the results.
Treatment in Dogs
Once the correct diagnosis is made, surgery to remove affected tissue, leaving wide margins, can be effective for both the skin and gastrointestinal forms. The surgery will not cure the dog if it does not completely eliminate all of the lesions. Limb amputation may be necessary. After amputation, antifungal drugs should be given for two to four months.
With gastrointestinal pythiosis, complete surgical excision is the treatment of choice, but the disease is often too extensive at the time of diagnosis to allow complete resection. After resection, medical therapy for gastrointestinal pythiosis should include itraconazole and terbinafine given for six to nine months. However, only 10 – 20 percent of dogs respond.
Treatment with amphotericin B lipid complex can also be attempted. Approximately 20% of dogs will respond to long-term therapy.
Treatment in Cats
Complete surgical excision of small or accessible lesions can be effective. Medical therapy rarely works.
Treatment in Horses
Complete surgical excision of small or accessible lesions can be effective.
Prognosis for most cases of pythiosis is poor, and the relative newness of the disease and lack of early testing for P. insidiosum is probably responsible for that. Medical therapy has been frustrating, with only 20 - 25% of canine cases showing a positive response. A positive response to treatment is usually defined as a resolution of clinical signs and weight gain. However, caught early enough, the disease is treatable.
Factors that influence the prognosis include size and site of lesion and duration of infection. Small lesions of short duration that have not invaded critical structures usually respond best to treatment.
Following amputation of an infected limb or excision of a gastrointestinal mass, the ELISA assay may be performed every 2 to 3 months to help detect recurrence. A dramatic decrease in the titer is usually noted 2 to 3 months after successful surgical resection. Persistently high titers often indicate a strong possibility of recurrence.
The disease is often fatal in animals that have lesions that cannot be completely excised or that have multisystemic disease.
Lagenidiosis in Dogs
Lagenidiosis is characterized by cutaneous lesions and enlarged lymph nodes. The infection causes inflammation of the blood vessels, allowing the disease to spread via the bloodstream. The lymph nodes, lungs, and large blood vessels may then become affected. The vasculitis may result in aneurysms that can suddenly rupture, causing sudden death.
Diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis are similar to those for pythiosis, but prognosis currently is worse than that for pythiosis.
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Monarch eTNS System
External trigeminal nerve stimulation system
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Treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Approved in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia
NeuroSigma's Monarch® eTNS® system is indicated for the treatment of paediatric attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Image courtesy of NeuroSigma.
The device received the FDA clearance in April 2019. Image courtesy of NeuroSigma.
Monarch® eTNS® system works by stimulating the trigeminal nerve. Image courtesy of BruceBlaus.
NeuroSigma's Monarch® external trigeminal nerve stimulation (eTNS®) system is a monotherapy approved for the treatment of paediatric attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
It is a prescription-only device and the company's first non-drug treatment for ADHD patients. It is designed for at-home use under the supervision of physicians.
The Monarch eTNS system was first approved in Canada in May 2013 as a Class II medical device for drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE), major depressive disorder and treatment-resistant depression.
The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) approved the device in April 2014 as a supplementary treatment for DRE in patients aged nine years and older. The device received Humanitarian Use Device (HUD) designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS) symptoms in January 2015.
In addition, the Monarch eTNS system received the European CE Mark in November 2015 and FDA clearance in April 2019 for the treatment of ADHD patients. The FDA approved the device via the de novo pathway under the classification name Transcutaneous Nerve Stimulator for ADHD.
Monarch eTNS system features
The Monarch eTNS system is a mild nerve-stimulating device. It comprises a portable pulse generator connected to a single-use electric patch, which is placed on the patient's forehead.
"It comprises a portable pulse generator connected to a single-use electric patch, which is placed on the patient's forehead."
Low-level electric signals are transmitted to the electrode patches, which stimulate trigeminal nerve fibres and send therapeutic signals to the areas of the brain known to be involved with ADHD.
Monarch eTNS mechanism of action
The trigeminal nerve is the fifth and the largest cranial nerve. It is directly connected to the brain and controls facial sensation. The nerve either directly or indirectly enters the regions of the brain associated with ADHD and other disorders.
TNS provides a mild electrical pulse to various branches of the trigeminal nerve and tends to increase the activity in the regions of the brain associated with regulating attention and behaviour.
Clinical trials on Monarch eTNS system
The FDA's approval of the device was based on a pivotal, double-blind, randomised controlled trial conducted at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). A total of 62 children with moderate-to-severe ADHD were enrolled in the trial.
The device was compared with placebo and used on patients for four weeks. The primary endpoint of the trial was improvement in ADHD-Rating Scale IV (ADHD-RS-IV) score, which is used to measure the severity of ADHD symptoms. A higher score on the scale indicates worsening symptoms.
At week four, children treated with the device demonstrated a decrease in ADHD-RS-IV score from 34.1 points to 23.4 points compared to a decrease from 33.7 points to 27.5 points in the placebo group. The safety profile of the device was also favourable.
Significant improvement in the clinical global impression improvement (CGI-I) scale was also observed in patients treated with the device compared to the placebo group.
Common side effects reported during the study were trouble sleeping, improved appetite, headache and teeth clenching.
Market commentary on NeuroSigma
Based in the US, NeuroSigma is a life sciences company involved in the development and marketing of bioelectronic technologies including eTNS.
The company's TNS neuromodulation therapies are developed on the intellectual property exclusively licensed from the University of California, Los Angeles. The therapies cover a broad range of disorders such as ADHD, epilepsy and post-traumatic stress disorder.
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The ARR-100 load indicator controls the product coming in or going out, storage control, stock checking, and can receive signal from a scale or an Airpes device.
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It is an adequate device for the control of product coming in or going out, storage control, stock checking, etc. and can receive signal from a scale or from an Airpes device over radio waves.
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Solitude Has Most Snow by Mid-January in 18 Years
After 148 inches of snowfall in January, Solitude Mountain Resort has received 376 inches of snow this season. This is the earliest the resort has crossed the 350-inch threshold since the winter of 2004/05. The region has seen consistent snowfall for much of the winter, particularly during the last three weeks. Between December 26th and January 17th, Solitude saw an average of 8.8 inches of new snow per day.
As of today, 100% of Solitude's skiable terrain is open. This includes sought after experts-only areas such as Fantasy Ridge, Highway to Heaven, and Evergreen Peak. With optimal coverage across the mountain, Solitude's snowpack is at 192% of average with a base depth of 114 inches.
Solitude has taken full advantage of this historic snowfall, maximizing its open terrain and lifts to allow guests to better spread out and explore the mountain during lively holiday periods. For updated snowfall measurements, mountain conditions, and operations updates all season long, check the Solitude Mountain Report. New for this season, Solitude has launched two live webcams giving guests a real-time perspective of the both the base and summit.
In an effort to better serve non-skiing guests during this remarkable winter, snowshoes and Nordic ski rentals are now available in Solitude Village. This is ideal for visitors looking to take in Utah's natural winter beauty at a slower pace. Accessible via snowshoe from Solitude Village, The Yurt is now open for lunch and serving a variety of hearty stews, salads, and cocktails.
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The sculptures I create are somewhat inside out. I take what is inside our heads and hearts, and represent those things through form and found objects, on the outside of the figure. The effect is to turn the personal into the universal, and the secret into the known. In doing this I sculpt a figure that gives physical form to stories most can recognize, but perhaps have not spoken of. They are each a narration of an inner world revealed – the moments that we never thought to share, and the feelings that we are not quite sure we should feel about our bodies, our families, and our choices.
The actual pieces are a process all my own. As I sculpt, I push the polymer clay past its intended size and boundaries, then incorporate found objects, and finally paint the baked clay with layers of oils. All parts share importance, but the actual objects – rusty metal and weathered wood, decaying bones and empty boxes, scraps of fabric and bits of paper – this abandoned debris connects the sculptural world I have created to the actual world of the viewer. They are a bridge from my imagination to theirs, and although the story I mean to tell may differ from what the viewer ultimately takes away, what is most important is that we have shared the tale.


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This coming Wednesday 14th February is Ash Wednesday a day of Fasting and Abstinence. We are all expected to fast from a meal and to eat no meat on that day. We should also attend Holy Mas and receive the Ashes. The Masses on Wednesday are at 9.30am and 7.00pm. Hopefully the Children will remember to come to Mass as they will be on half term holiday. So we do ask the parents to bring their children to the Church on this very special day. Ash Wednesday is the beginning of the Lenten Season and it is a time when we try to give extra preparation to our Spiritual Life in preparation for the great feast of The Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ. We do this by maybe coming to Mass during the week. We have an extra Mass of Friday evenings at 7.00pm. We also have Stations of the Cross on Fridays during Lent at 6.30pm. We should also give time to reading the Scriptures, like the Sunday Mass readings in preparation for the celebration of Holy Mass each week. Praying the Rosary each day and popping into the Church during the day. Children should also think of what they could do during the Season of Lent and make it a very special time. Maybe try to help a little more in the house, being kind to each other, saving some money by cutting down on sweets and saving the money not spent to give to a Children's society to help feed the starving children all over the world. There are lots of activities we can all do in Lent to make it very special time, hopefully we will begin by attending Mass on Ash Wednesday.
LOURDES: I am hoping to take a group to Lourdes on Monday 9th April to Friday 13th April. It will be four nights with full board. I am not sure yet of the cost but will have it by next week. If you are interested please give me your name and address and telephone number and I will get the relevant form for you to fill in.
FR. FRANCIS: has sent a message thanking every one for their prayers and kind thoughts. He has said that everything went very well and has been spending time with his family and with Fr. Samuel and visiting many of his priest's friends. He hopes to return to England on Monday. Please keep him in your prayers and we look forward to his return.


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Isaiah Brown and the excellent WBA academy.
Will Isaiah Brown be the next young star to leave WBA?
By Aidan Sweeney Jun 30, 2013, 10:26pm BST
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As you will all have heard, today's Sunday Mirror touted 16 year old Isaiah Brown as a potential summer signing for José Mourinho's Chelsea. Fortunately, I know more about Brown than most. I'll begin by letting you know that Brown is a boyhood Chelsea fan.
Brown, or better known as 'Izzy', is originally from the suburbs of Peterborough. Izzy spent his childhood playing for Histon but was always under the very careful watch of West Bromwich Albion. He trained and played with Histon but was allowed to go on tours and attend pre-season camps with WBA, there was clearly an agreement already in place regarding Brown's future from a very early age.
When Brown was 14, he was considered old enough to leave his family home in Peterborough and move in with a family chosen for him by West Brom and sign a contract with the midland's team. He joined the Sandwell Academy, a brand new state of the art school that was recently built 50 metres away from the Albion's home ground in West Bromwich.
Sandwell Academy educate the majority of WBA's best prospects above the age of 14. It allows West Brom to keep an eye on their players, control their school work and more importantly, it allows them to get more playing time in. Next to Sandwell Academy, WBA also have a full size indoor pitch, mainly used by the younger academy teams but a site the first team also use when the pitches at the training ground are unusable in bad weather. Next to the indoor pitch and the Academy, there is a brand new 4g floodlit artificial football pitch which will be used by teams across the academy. So within 100 metres of each other, you have the Hawthorns, Sandwell Academy, the indoor full size pitch and a brand new 4g pitch, quite a campus they're building in West Bromwich.
It's clear to see that WBA are pumping money into their academy and it's starting to pay off. Chris Wood was recently sold for £1.5M, Jerome Sinclair was sold to Liverpool for around £500,000 as a 14 year old last season, he recently became the youngest player ever to play for Liverpool. George Thorne and Craig Dawson are young players who are on the verge of cementing their places in the first team squad and there are dozens of other talented youngsters throughout the academy who will go on to either appear for WBA or sold on for a reasonable fee.
Will Izzy go on to become a regular Albion player or will he be sold on at a young age? In my opinion, it could go either way at the moment. Brown recently spent a week at Arsenal on trial, something he couldn't have done without Albion's permission, a sign that WBA are willing to listen to offers? West Brom might do well to cash in on him now and let another club try and turn his raw potential into the class required to be a professional footballer, every young player is a risk, regardless of how much potential they have.
Brown appeared for WBA U21s a number of times in the season just gone but didn't quite make the impact many were expecting so it was quite a surprise when I heard he was travelling with the first team to Chelsea. Regardless, I was delighted for him. I first saw Brown play at the Nike Cup over 12 months ago. He dazzled me with his pace, close ball control and clinical finishing. In my opinion, he was the second biggest star of the tournament, the star was undoubtedly a certain Jeremie Boga. Boga is just one of the reasons why I don't think Izzy should join Chelsea. I think Izzy is brilliant and I would love to see him succeed but he's no Jeremie Boga.
I hope Izzy stays at West Brom, I don't want to see him join Chelsea and just become one of a number of talented youngsters fighting for the chance to appear in the Carling Cup. West Brom will give him a chance, like they gave Chris Wood a chance, like they're currently giving George Thorne, Craig Dawson and Donovan Daniels a chance. I just hope the kid who once nodded at me at a Beyonce gig makes it to the top and I believe he's got a better chance of doing that if he stays at West Brom.
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Technical literature is increasingly communicated through preprints and now webpages or technical blog posts. I think it is a common workflow for researchers, especially in areas like machine learning which I work in, where people want to do all types of technical reading at once in one app to stay organized. Even publications will sometimes cite these technical blog posts so they are clearly in the right orbit for this kind of product.
I think the only feature request I have is that when I use the web importer to add a webpage, I also want the option to attach the webpage either as HTML to be able to read it later, or export it immediately as a PDF (as I understand building reader apps that support many file types is difficult).


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Ivy.ai: advancing AI in higher education
By Georgia Wilson
Mark McNasby, CEO, Ivy.ai discusses the company's natural language omni-channel AI chatbot, as well its partnership with the University at Buffalo...
Mark McNasby, CEO, Ivy.ai has been an EdTech entrepreneur for the last 20 years, "I started a company in 2001 called OptimalResume where we sold into the career centers at universities." One of the challenges McNasby found its customer facing was that students weren't coming to the career center, "so we came up with this idea for my second business called br.im, which was basically a virtual collaboration platform, allowing somebody who was in the career center to work with students who are remote".
"With this platform we found out that students started asking the same questions over and over again. So that was really our epiphany moment that a chatbot was a much better way to have a win-win where the students are getting their questions answered in real time, as well as taking work off of the administrators' plate by having the chatbot handle it autonomously."
He co-founded Ivy.ai in 2016, of which he is CEO, a natural language omni-channel AI chatbot, available on websites, SMS, Facebook messenger, Amazon Alexa, and even email. "When someone asks the chatbot a question we compare what they've asked to a large database of questions and data that we've used to train the model. Once the bot understands what the person is asking, it provides them with a particular answer," he says.
"Ivy.ai has two main goals. One is the dissemination of information - someone asks a question, we give them an answer - but it is also very useful for collecting information. For example, perhaps for a prospective applicant interested in attending a school the bot can ask them for their contact information, which can be implemented into the engagement strategy that the school has." McNasby added that AI chatbots also collect valuable transactional data that provide a real-time feedback loop as to what is most relevant to students and when.
"The typical implementation of Ivy.ai in higher education is being embedded onto schools' websites, allowing students or staff members to interact with the chatbot. But it can also be embedded into campuses to give students a more personalized experience, as well as having the capabilities to integrate with other on-campus vendors. For example, if a student said, 'What's my account balance' to the chatbot, Ivy.ai would connect to the student information system or to the accounting system of records to retrieve that information and tell the student what their balance is, but also give them a facility for paying the remainder of their balance." Ivy.ai also provides a suite of tools for more efficient human intervention, such as AI-powered Live Chat, and an SMS texting facility for proactively nudging students.
Ivy.ai's partnership with the University at Buffalo
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Inside the Third Reich (, "Memories") is a memoir written by Albert Speer, the Nazi Minister of Armaments from 1942 to 1945, serving as Adolf Hitler's main architect before this period. It is considered to be one of the most detailed descriptions of the inner workings and leadership of Nazi Germany but is controversial because of Speer's lack of discussion of Nazi atrocities and questions regarding his degree of awareness or involvement with them. First published in 1969, it appeared in English translation in 1970.

At the Nuremberg Trials, Speer was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his use of prisoners in the armaments factories while Minister of Armaments. From 1946 to 1966, while serving the sentence in Spandau Prison, he penned more than 2,000 manuscript pages of personal memoirs. His first draft was written from March 1953 to 26 December 1954. After his release on 1 October 1966, he used Federal Archive documents to rework the material into his autobiography. He was aided editorially by Wolf Jobst Siedler, Ullstein and Propylaen, and Joachim Fest.

The manuscript led to two books: first Erinnerungen ("Recollections") (Propyläen/Ullstein, 1969), which was translated into English and published by Macmillan in 1970 as Inside the Third Reich; then as Spandauer Tagebücher ("Spandau Diaries") (Propyläen/Ullstein, 1975), which was translated into English and published by Macmillan in 1976 as Spandau: The Secret Diaries.

Summary
Inside the Third Reich begins with an account of Speer's childhood, followed by a description of his role as Heinrich Tessenow's assistant at the Technical University of Berlin.  Speer first heard Adolf Hitler speak during an address to the combined students and faculty of Berlin University and his institute. Speer states he became hopeful when Hitler explained how communism could be checked and Germany could recover economically. Speer joined the National Socialist Party in January 1931; he wrote "I was not choosing the NSDAP, but becoming a follower of Hitler, whose magnetic force had reached out to me the first time I saw him and had not, thereafter, released me." Speer described the personalities of many Nazi officials, including Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann, and, of course, Hitler himself.  Speer went on to quote Hitler as telling him privately after the remilitarization of the Rhineland, "We will create a great empire. All of the Germanic peoples will be included in it. It will begin in Norway and extend to northern Italy. I myself must carry this out."

The main body of the book effectively ends when Speer, by this point having joined Karl Dönitz's government seated in Schleswig-Holstein, receives news of Hitler's death. This is followed by an epilogue dealing with the end of the war in Europe and the resulting Nuremberg trials, in which Speer was sentenced to a 20-year prison term for his actions during the war.

Special weapons
Starting in April 1942, Speer became aware of the potential of German nuclear research in developing, in his words, "a weapon which could annihilate whole cities."  Werner Heisenberg told Speer "the scientific solution had already been found and that theoretically nothing stood in the way of building such a bomb."  Yet development and production would take at least two years.  This led to the development of Germany's first cyclotron.  By the autumn of 1942 however, the estimated period for developing a weapon had increased to three to four years, much too long to affect the war.  Instead, development turned to a "uranium motor", for use in the navy's submarines.  Finally, in the summer of 1943, Speer released the 1200 metric tons of uranium stock for use in solid-core ammunition.  Speer states that even if Germany concentrated all of its resources, it would have been 1947 before they could have had an atom bomb.

Speer describes Wunderwaffen such as the Me 262 project, flying wing jet planes, a remote-controlled flying bomb, a rocket plane, a rocket missile based on infrared homing, designs for a four-motored jet bomber with the range to strike New York, and a torpedo based on sonar.  He also cites the use of the V-2 as a terror weapon, rather than continued development of the ground-to-air defensive Waterfall rocket.

Holocaust and slave labor
Speer's involvement with concentration camp prisoners as a work force came about when Hitler agreed to Himmler's proposal they be used for the secret V-2 project.  Speer's joint undertaking with the SS leadership resulted in the creation of Mittelwerk (Central Works) for underground production of the V-2.  He goes on to say that at the Nuremberg Trial he stated he "had to share the total responsibility for all that had happened", and that he "was inescapably contaminated morally". Finally, Speer states, "Because I failed at the time, I still feel, to this day, responsible for Auschwitz in a wholly personal sense."

Reception
In a 23 August 1970 review published in The New York Times, John Toland wrote that the book "is not only the most significant personal German account to come out of the war but the most revealing document on the Hitler phenomenon yet written. It takes the reader inside Nazi Germany on four different levels: Hitler's inner circle, National Socialism as a whole, the area of wartime production and the inner struggle of Albert Speer.  I recommend this book without reservations. Speer's full length portrait of Hitler has unnerving reality. The Führer emerges as neither an incompetent nor a carpet‐gnawing madman but as an evil genius of warped concepts endowed with an ineffable personal magic." A review by Kirkus Reviews on 27 August 1970 stated, "Speer's portrayals of the Nazi leadership, of the constant intrigues and rivalries among Hitler's entourage, and of Hitler himself, his histrionic virulence, his banality, and his peculiar magic, are engrossing and revealing."

On the other hand, in a 1973 Bryn Mawr College review, Barbara Miller Lane wrote, "Scholars have observed so many gaps in his account of the operation of his ministry as to shed considerable doubt on the whole." Martin Kitchen's 2015 biography of Speer comes to much the same conclusion.

Another kind of criticism is the claim that Speer pretended that he was unaware of the extermination camps and presented the figure of a "good Nazi". This criticism is mainly presented by the documentary film "Speer Goes to Hollywood" by the director Vanessa Lapa. The film presents original videos from the Nazi Germany period and conversations with Speer, in which the great deception he tried to present at the Nuremberg trials and in his book is revealed.

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1969 non-fiction books
Books about Nazi Germany
Books by Albert Speer
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According to the recent 2018 Customer Engagement Technology Study by Hospitality Technology, 48% of consumers say advanced technology in the guest room will influence their booking decision. The increased focus on high-tech features in resorts has prompted operators to react, with three out of five planning to invest in more technology during 2018, according to the 2018 Lodging Technology Study. However, knowing which technologies truly enhance the guest stay can make the decision difficult. Below are three stages of the guest journey that are influenced by resort technologies.
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THE PROTESTS by the Turkish Cypriot public sector unions are quite astonishing given the poor state of the economy in the north. The upheaval indicates a complete lack of touch with reality and a sense of entitlement that makes Greek Cypriot public sector unions, apart from the teachers', appear almost responsible and public-spirited, as they accepted the bailout-imposed pay cuts without protests. Pasydy took legal action, claiming the cuts were unconstitutional but there was no industrial action.
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It is as if the public employees are totally unaware about what has been happening in Turkey in the last few weeks, behaving like they have some right to be protected from the consequences of the devaluation of the Turkish Lira which has lost 40 per cent of its value against the dollar and is causing devastation to the economy. There is no way purchasing power could be safeguarded when the currency suffers such a big devaluation, while the inflation rate is more than 16 per cent, but Turkish Cypriots seem to believe they should somehow be immune to the consequences.
Perhaps they have been denial about the north being a province of Turkey in everything but name. This may be a wake-up call. The authorities in the north are not under such illusions, fully aware of the economic dependence on Turkey, which extends to hundreds of millions of dollars in cash assistance every year. The 'government' has decided to cut spending and increase taxes because it know that the cash assistance from Ankara is certain to be reduced. It also understands that it would not be very wise to demand that the annual assistance was maintained while the Turkish state was in deep financial trouble and the standard of living of mainland Turks has plummeted.
It seems Turkish Cypriot public employees, to a greater extent than their Greek Cypriot counterparts, believe that they are entitled to special treatment and that economic crises should not be allowed to affect their standard of living.


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Morocco is opening 520 polling stations worldwide at embassies, consulates, and other centers to allow Moroccan voters living abroad to participate. In the US, twelve polling stations will be open July 1-3—in Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York City, Orlando, and the Washington, DC area.
Praise for the reforms has come from the United States, European Union, France, Britain, Spain, United Nations, Arab League, and Council of Europe, which recently made Morocco its first "partner for democracy." Editorials and commentaries have also been favorable, including those in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and The Hill, as have policy experts at The Brookings Institution, Woodrow Wilson Center, and elsewhere.


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Indian drugs regulator asks J&J to stop making baby powder using raw materials
Johnson and Johnson said on Wednesday that Indian drug authorities visited some of its facilities and took "tests and samples" of its talcum powder.
Reuters New Delhi Last Updated: December 21, 2018 | 08:33 IST
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India's drugs regulator has ordered Johnson & Johnson to stop manufacturing its Baby Powder using raw materials in two of its Indian factories until test results prove they are free of asbestos, a senior official said on Thursday.
The official at the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO), who declined to be named citing the sensitivity of the matter, said a written order had been sent to the U.S. company telling it to stop using the "huge quantities" of raw materials stocked in its plants in northern and western India.
The company said on Wednesday that Indian drug authorities visited some of its facilities and took "tests and samples" of its talcum powder. It also said that the safety of its cosmetic talc was based on a long history of safe use and decades of research and clinical evidence by independent researchers and scientific review boards across the world.
The visits came as the CDSCO and state-based food and drug administrations launched an investigation into J&J's Baby Powder following a Reuters report last Friday that the firm knew for decades that cancer-causing asbestos could be found in the product. J&J has described the Reuters article as "one-sided, false and inflammatory".
The company told Reuters that it is in full compliance with the current Indian regulatory requirements for the manufacturing and testing of its talc.
"All talc in India is sourced and exclusively sold in India and surrounding markets - including Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives - and fully meets the regulatory standards of the Government of India," the company said in an emailed statement.
J&J also said its talc is routinely tested by both suppliers and independent labs to ensure that it is free of asbestos.
Asked if the order meant the company would have to stop producing its ubiquitous baby powder in India for now, the official at the drugs regulator said that was "the inference you have to take" at least as far as the stores of raw materials were concerned.
"We have told them until this investigation concludes, you should not use the raw material. Test results will take time," the official said. "Testing for asbestos is not a routine procedure. It might be in traces. It will require us to develop a method and all those things."
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J&J's Baby Powder is one of the most recognised foreign brands in India along with Colgate toothpaste and Surf detergent.
The company started selling its Baby Powder in India in 1948, just a year after the country won independence from the British. Presenting gift boxes containing the product and others aimed at newborns is almost a family ritual in this country of 1.3 billion people, 28 percent of whom are aged between 0-14.
The company also commands a strong retail distribution network through small pharmacies, larger stores and the internet.
There is yet to be any significant signs of a backlash against J&J products in India because of the scare. At eight pharmacies across India visited by Reuters reporters on Thursday, seven said J&J remained the No. 1 seller of powder for babies.
That doesn't mean it isn't under pressure from local and international competitors who sell talc-type powders, such as Bengaluru-based Himalaya Herbals, and Italy's Artsana, which produces Chicco baby brands.
And some individual consumers say they are now very wary of J&J's Baby Powder.
"It is really very, very shocking," said Sitaram Beria, a chartered accountant in the eastern city of Bhubaneswar. He said he stopped applying J&J powder on his six-month old baby after hearing about the Reuters report over the weekend.
J&J leads sales in the Indian baby and child toiletries market, which market research provider Euromonitor estimates would be worth 12.5 billion rupees ($178 million) this year, and forecasts will grow 84 percent to 23 billion rupees in 2022.
Euromonitor did not give a breakdown for baby powder alone but said J&J was the biggest player in the overall segment, followed by Mumbai-based VVF Ltd, Artsana, Wipro of Bengaluru and Himalaya.
Himalaya said in a statement that its herbs-based baby care products "are exclusively promoted and recommended by over 40,000 doctors in the country, which is the greatest endorsement for us," while declining to provide any financial figures.
The other companies could not be reached for comment.
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Original tagline: "These are the girls who want the best of everything...but often settle for a lot less!" Mid-century drama following the lives of three young career women living in New York City.
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Death In Venice (1971)
An aging German music composer sojourns to Venice in hopes of improving his health and finds himself enraptured by the beauty of a young adolescent boy. A visually mesmerizing film.
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Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter star in this E.M. Forster classic set in turn-of-the-century England.
A New Kind of Love (1963)
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