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Jerry Lee Lewis records Elvis(Sun rumor)
by Tony Papard » Sat Mar 28, 2009 1:44 pm
There are two articles in the current Jan/Feb 2009 issue of Fireball Mail which have puzzled me.
One is a mysterious 'cousin' of Jerry Lee and Mickey Gilley, Lindsay Rae Spurlock, described as an 'indie rock artist'. She certainly exists as she has a Website/My Space entry, but no mention there of any connexion with Lewis or Gilley. She looks far too young to be a first cousin.
If she's a distant cousin, I just wonder why we've never heard about her before, and how exactly is she related?
The other mystery is a supposed third Sun LP 'Jerry Lee Lewis Sings Elvis'. In FBM there is even an LP sleeve shown, both front and back, with full title listings and a catalog number - LP 1294.
Titles listed for this project which never happened are:
Lawdy Miss Clawdy, Hard Headed Woman, Good Rockin' Tonight, Shake Rattle & Roll, Blue Moon of Kentucky, I Forgot To Remember, Hound Dog, Jailhouse Rock, Mean Woman Blues, I Love You Because, Tomorrow Night, When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again.
Some of these tracks have been released by Shelby Singleton after he bought the Sun catalog, but not Hard Headed Woman, Shake Rattle & Roll or Blue Moon of Kentucky, but Peter Checksfield lists these titles, along with many others, in the 'Killer' book discography as unconfirmed rumors of recordings by Jerry at Sun.
Alll this info apparently comes from the late Michel Grezes and was published in a 1968 edition of the former French JLL fanzine, 'Teen Beat Letter' #14. Also listed in this article is a number called 'I Get The Jitters' by Otis Blackwell, recorded by Jerry during his last Sun session in 1963, along with 'Mule Skinner Blues'. The Hank Williams song 'Kaw Liga' is also listed as a song Jerry cut for Sun, as is a 1959 cut of 'Reelin' and Rockin'', and 'Lovin' Cajun Style' from the 1962 session which produced 'Sweet Little 16'. Peter's 'Killer' discography also lists all these titles as unconfirmed rumors of Jerry Lee recordings at Sun.
So it is the LP, complete with sleeve and serial number, which is the real mystery. The serial number would fit in pretty well with the two released Sun albums while Jerry was with the label - numbers 1230 and 1265.
'Lawdy Miss Clawdy', 'Hard Headed Woman', 'Shake Rattle & Roll' were all apparently recorded in 1963 for the 'Jerry sings Elvis' album.
I just wonder why I've never heard of this album project before, and how it got so far as to have a sleeve designed for it, and a catalog number allocated, yet was never released?
Perhaps Singleton bought the rights before it was issued and canceled the project?
I wonder if any of these titles, and the others Peter mentions in the 'Killer' discography as unconfirmed rumors, will ever see the light of day.
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by Perk » Sat Mar 28, 2009 2:10 pm
I receivied a list with these Sun songs years ago from rocker Peter Molecz. I recall Paul Macphail thought it was not real. He´s on here so i hope he updates us all on why he thinks it´s not real information. I forgot it myself as i tend to belivie in and hope that those recordings are in excistense somewhere : )))
As for Lindsay Spurlock, i have no idea.
by peterchecksfield » Sat Mar 28, 2009 3:36 pm
I asked on the other forum about Lindsay a few weeks back, but even Graham & Kay hadn't heard of her. Has anyone asked a family member (Phoebe, Linda, etc?).
peterchecksfield
by Andrew McRae » Sat Mar 28, 2009 3:46 pm
My interpretation of the account of this project is that the concept of the album and the sleeve design are of very much more recent origin - perhaps simply done for the benefit of this article within the last few weeks? And /or anticipating that the magazine might have been issued on 1st April. Certainly the cover bears all the hallmarks of a modern font-type, whilst the mock-up for the rear doesn't really look like an LP sleeve design anyway, more suitable for a CD... Moreover, the catalogue number SLP 1294 certainly would never have been contemplated - all Sun LP releases had numbers that were multiples of '5' - i.e. they ended either with a zero or a five, in a sequence from 1220 to 1275. Anyway, I'm sure Freddy and/or Wim can provide an explanation!
There were, in fact, plenty of 'third' Sun LPs anyway.... first up was the French London label issue "Album No 3", dating from 1965, collecting 12 tracks from Sun 45s that didn't make it onto the first two. UK fans might think of the slightly later London collection "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" as the 'third' Sun album. Then there was 'Sun' SLP 1280 "Alive & Rockin'" from the mid/late '80s- a bootleg that actually featured 'Session' an Elektra out-takes amongst other odds and sods!
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by peter molecz » Sat Mar 28, 2009 3:51 pm
There must be a mixture between facts and rumours concerning all the songs listed in Teen Beat Letter and the German magazine Teenage Letter
from Dec 1967.
Facts are, that a lot of these songs were released later by Shelby. Another
fact is that there was planed obviously a third LP with Elvis songs. I don´t have the new FBM already and cannot refer to this article.
Rumours are, that some of the unreleased songs Jerry did during concerts in the early 60`s and could be mixed up with studio stuff in the can.
The most wondering point for me is, that the writer of the article in
Teenage Letter gives us the impression, that he has listened to studio songs, not live versions.
peter molecz
peter molecz wrote: Another
fact is that there was planed obviously a third LP with Elvis songs.
Is this really "fact"? I've never heard about this before.
peter molecz wrote:
Nor have I! And if we're not careful, I think it's in danger of developing into an 'urban myth'. My reading of the article is that it is no more than Freddy speculating with the idea, based on the list of song titles rumoured to have been 'in the can' at Sun, and then mocking up a related sleeve! I don't believe for a minute that the idea ever occured to Sam Phillips in 1963 or at any other time.
Unreleased Sun tracks
by Rocky » Sat Mar 28, 2009 7:46 pm
Paul here. All this list began sometime in 1965 when I first sent it to Wim and it was listed in an early Fireball Mail. At the time, Jerry had released "Carry Me Back To Old Virginia" and we were compiling a list of unlisted songs in the Sun vault, yet to be released. About 75% of them were on the mark, the others came from people like Ronnie Kellerman, Gary Skala, and even Jerry himself. In a phone call from Gary Skala in September of 1963 he informed me that Jerry had recorded an Otis Blackwell song at his last Sun session called "I Get the Jitters". A few years later in 1965 while visiting Gary at his house in Long Island, he said it never took place. Jerry was going to record it and dropped it. As for "Lovin' Cajun Style", Jerry performed it on stage several times and actually thought he recorded it at Sun, but this never happened. Songs like "Hard Headed Woman", "Blue Moon of Kentucky", "Kaw-Liga", and "Mule Skinner Blues" were all reported from different sources as recorded - they never were. All of Jerry's Sun material has been released. Hope this clears the matter up. Back in 63 Sam once was quoted as saying he was going to release 5 albums by Jerry if he had resigned with Sun...sings Elvis, sings Hank Williams, sings Jimmie Rodgers, etc. Just Sam shooting the breeze.
Re: Unreleased Sun tracks
Rocky wrote: All of Jerry's Sun material has been released.
I remember when the Charly vinyl boxset came out in 1983, & the people who compiled it were insisting that titles like 'Great Speckled Bird' & 'Birthday Cake' were never recorded. Then 4 years later the tapes surfaced...
by peter molecz » Sun Mar 29, 2009 12:49 am
The Dec. 1967 article in the German magazine "Teenage-Letter" is still very mysterious for me. I just found the first page of the copies Thomas
Sobczak sent me in 1991 and will try to translate the part concerning the "JLL sings Elvis" planned LP:
GOOD ROCKIN`TONIGHT
"....Jerry has recorded this early Elvis hit, composed by Brown and recorded by Pat Boone and Ricky Nelson too, already in 1958. So we can expect a real Jerry rocker without sax and chorus."
LAWDY MISS CLAWDY
"....Jerry recorded this song, composed and firstly recorded by LLoyd Price, for the Elvis LP too. He brings the song in a great rock style with unique piano. A real JLL rocker - recorded not before 1963."
HARD HEADED WOMAN
"....also recorded for the Elvis album in 1963. It seems, Jerry is rocking at his best and followed by a wild sax."
SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROLL
"....this rocker, was composed by Calhoun in a Jerry Lee style from today.
JLL sings the song very fast and rockin`and is accompanied by a big band.
Recorded in 1963 too."
"....Jerry recorded this Monroe tune for the Elvis LP too, but not in the
original hillbilly Elvis sound. Jerry does the song in a more pop style and
the solo guitar is very fine."
I FORGOT TO REMEMBER TO FORGET
"....Jerry recorded this song in the wellknown countrystyle already in 1961
at the same session as "Cold, Cold Heart". Jerry don´t bring the song in the Elvis style, but more in the way he did his country/blues songs from
Hank Williams. Composer are Kesler and Feathers."
Maybe there will be a mixing up with live songs Jerry did in the early 60`s. But it´s interesting, that all "unissued Elvis songs" should have been recorded in 1963.
I don´t have the original issue of this magazine and I even don´t know
the name of the writer - I only got copys from Thomas a longtime ago.
by Tony Papard » Sun Mar 29, 2009 3:40 am
No doubt we'll hear that after recording these Elvis songs at the last Sun recording session in 1963, Jerry Lee took out some paraffin/kerosene, sprinkled it all over the studio piano, set light to it, and walked out of the studio saying to Sam Phillips: 'Let that son-of-a-bitch Elvis follow that!'
by Andrew McRae » Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:42 am
Curiously, this title did once appear on a JLL Sun album....it features on the first edition of Sun 145 "Roots", issued in 1982... on later, more widely available pressings it was replaced with "Drinkin' Wine Spo-dee-o-dee"
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by Andrew McRae » Sun Mar 29, 2009 5:53 pm
Songs like "Hard Headed Woman", ....Mule Skinner Blues" were all reported from different sources as recorded - they never were
The scene; Mid Tennessee, circa 1965. Two music bods share some relatively recent memories of recording sessions with Jerry Lee Lewis
1st muso: "Sure, he was really cooking that day - when was it, let me see, the early fall of '63, over at Sam Phillips' studio.."
2nd muso: "Really, so what did he cut?"
1st muso: "Oh, I don't remember the exact titles; there was one storming rocker, all about Adam being messed around by Eve, and Samson and Delilah; it really sped along"
2nd muso: "Wow, sounds like 'Hard Headed Woman', the old Elvis hit".
1st muso: "Heck, I dunno, could be. Then, you know, a few months later, early '64 there was another session, he really rocked it up, can't remember the name of one song, but there was something in it about a mule, I recall".
2nd muso; "Really; he's always been big on Jimmie Rodgers, sounds like he cut 'Mule Skinner Blues', then"
1st muso "Sure, I dunno. This stuff hasn't been released but it's definitely in the can".
A day or two later, the 2nd guy tells a third muso that he's heard that Jerry Lee cut "Hard Headed Woman" and "Mule Skinner Blues" for Sam Phillips.
Nothing the 1st muso said is untrue. It happened.
Fast forward to late 1967. Smash Records issue "Soul My Way".
Think about it.... better still, go listen to it! (And concentrate on "He Took It Like A Man" and "I Betcha Gonna Like It"!)
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Here is the thing I want to know where this figure came from, so I am formally issuing a challenge to anyone one in any of the Unions, or Sharon Bird MP or Bill Shorten himself, The Greens, or who ever, to tell me where this figure comes from. Here is the deal as well, if this is just an ideological position, or a 'well we can actually say we think we should have all of it because no one will wear that position,' I don't actually care. I really just want someone to tell me what this figure is and what it actually means and I will take an answer from anyone about where this figure comes from. However, I am pretty sure that if none responds, and no one can show me where this 70% came from then that is an answer in and of itself.
Paul, In my experience public service departments do not have any idea as to how much money they actually need. They certainly cannot explain where the money goes or why. In my dealings with both federal and state education and foreign aid spending they just simply have no idea. Their usual explanation is that it is too complex to explain. That is, if you can get any response at all.
I agree with you that TAFE has a place in our society but, as with most public service operations, it has become simply a cash cow for the employees and their unions. Salaries, on costs and waste have far exceeded what is necessary for any business to operate in the 21st century.
However, the unions, particularly the AEU, have such total control over the governments that they will continue to bleed the system until the well runs dry. That time has come and gone and we are now borrowing money to keep them in the lifestyles they have become accustomed to.
The 70% figure is, in my opinion, purely fictitious to make a point. Will someone prove me wrong? I think not. Keep digging though.
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Well, that's my rant for the day but let someone attempt to prove me wrong.
I had a friend once whose saying was "you can't make strawberry jam out of pigshit". He worked for TAFE.
Hi Paul. I could be wrong, but the 2016 Productivity Commission Report on Government Services shows in Table 5A.1 that Government real recurrent expenditure for VET in 2014 (most recent data available) was $5.221 billion of which $1.497 billion (Table 5A.9) was for payments to non-TAFE providers. % allocation to TAFE was therefore 71%. The proportion to TAFE in previous years was larger.
Thanks Tom I will go and have a look at that.
In SA the government directed over 95% of government funding in 2015. Propping up the inevitable. Wrote Jay a letter and he wrote back to say it will end in 2017! We'll see. Make all the funding contestable, and make TAFE pay rent for their Publicly Funded Facilities, like we do as an RTO. Might level the playing field.
Hi Paul. Happy to be corrected, but my understanding of of the allocation in Tasmania is that 80% goes to the Public Provider, of which 90% of that is wages.


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Q: How to get IP address with jmdns lib on Android I use below code to get bonjour service:
try {
    jmdns = JmDNS.create();
    ddServiceListener(type, listener = new ServiceListener() {
        public void serviceResolved(ServiceEvent ev) {
            System.out.println("Service resolved: "
            + ev.getInfo().getQualifiedName()
        + " port:" + ev.getInfo().getPort());
        }
        public void serviceRemoved(ServiceEvent ev) {
        }
    public void serviceAdded(ServiceEvent event) {
        jmdns.requestServiceInfo(event.getType(), event.getName(), 1);
    }
    });
}
catch(Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

It can find the device, but I don't now how to get their ip address.
How can I do this?

A: Do you find Hostname and Port? If it is,then try to resolve the Hostname to an IP address with InetAddress.
If InetAddress.getByName(hostName) don't work, then try with InetAddress.getAllByName(hostName).


I remember when my son was born I was pretty obsessed with him (and still am!). I wanted to hold him all the time, I wanted to make him laugh, and I even wanted to change all of his diapers. My favorite photos from that time in our lives are of myself or my wife holding our son, trying to make him laugh or smile, and even the ones where we're changing his diapers! Coincidence? I think not.
Those are the kind of moments I capture during my newborn sessions. I'm drawn to the way a mother holds her child, or the way a father interacts with his new baby, so it's only natural that those are the pictures that make the biggest impact and mean the most to my clients. I keep the photos simple, focusing on your family and your newest addition. No fancy tricks or poses, just real lift with you and your newborn baby.
I've had the chance to get to know this family over the past few months and was excited when they inquired about newborn photos. We spent about an hour in my home one afternoon when their baby boy was about ten days old and came away with some great photos. Enjoy!


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Q: XML Error in Eclipse while viewing Graphical Layout of Xml This is the error I'm getting in my layout XML files:
Exception raised during rendering: 0
Exception details are logged in Window > Show View > Error Log
The following classes could not be found:
- View (Change to android.view.View, Fix Build Path, Edit XML)

My Xml File is :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/list_view_main_lin_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#00FFFFFF"
android:orientation="vertical" >

<ViewFlipper
    android:id="@+id/search_view_flipper"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:visibility="gone"
    android:layout_height="@dimen/list_view_row_size" >

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/search_lin_layout"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:gravity="center_vertical" >

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/search_text_view"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
            android:drawableLeft="@drawable/search_ico"
            android:drawablePadding="10dp"
            android:gravity="center_vertical"
            android:text="@string/search_text_view"
            android:textColor="#FF37200e"
            android:textSize="@dimen/text_view_left_menu" />
    </LinearLayout>

    <RelativeLayout
        android:id="@+id/search_edit_text_relative_layout"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent" >

        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/search_edit_text"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"
            android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
            android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
            android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
            android:background="@drawable/rounded_edittext"
            android:drawableLeft="@drawable/searchgray_ico"
            android:drawablePadding="05dp"
            android:textCursorDrawable="@null"
            android:hint="@string/search_text_view"
            android:imeOptions="actionDone"
            android:paddingLeft="10dp"
            android:paddingRight="35dp"
            android:singleLine="true"
            android:textSize="@dimen/text_view_left_menu"
            android:textColor="#000000" />

       <ImageButton
            android:id="@+id/cancel_search_button"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignRight="@+id/search_edit_text"
            android:layout_centerVertical="true"
            android:layout_marginRight="2dp"
            android:src="@drawable/cross"
            android:background="#00000000"
            android:padding="10dp" />
    </RelativeLayout>
</ViewFlipper>

<View
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="2dp"
    android:background="@drawable/listview_divider" />

<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/featured_lin_layout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="@dimen/list_view_row_size"
    android:gravity="center_vertical" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/featured_text_view"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
        android:text="@string/featured_text_view"
        android:textColor="#FF37200e"
        android:textSize="@dimen/text_view_left_menu" />

    <ImageView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginLeft="15dp"
        android:contentDescription="@string/featured_text_view"
        android:src="@drawable/featured_ico" />
</LinearLayout>

<View
    android:id="@+id/view_featured_divider"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="2dp"
    android:background="@drawable/listview_divider" />

<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/favorites_lin_layout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="@dimen/list_view_row_size"
    android:gravity="center_vertical" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/favorites_text_view"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
        android:text="@string/favorites_text_view"
        android:textColor="#FFb2661A"
        android:textSize="@dimen/text_view_left_menu" />

    <ImageView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginLeft="15dp"
        android:contentDescription="@string/favorites_text_view"
        android:src="@drawable/favorites_active_ico" />
</LinearLayout>

<View
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="2dp"
    android:background="@drawable/listview_divider" />

<ListView
    android:id="@+id/main_list_view"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="@android:color/transparent"
    android:divider="@android:color/transparent"
    android:smoothScrollbar="true"
    android:cacheColorHint="#00000000"
    android:dividerHeight="0dp"
    android:fadingEdge="none"
    android:scrollbars="none" >
</ListView>

I'm using Eclipse Juno. Currently my project Build target is android 4.1. I've tried by lowering the API level also but it doesn't  help me.
Due to this I'm not able to see the graphical layout of my XML files.
Please anybody help me.

A: There is a mismatch between your target SDK version and your Graphical Layout target, should be an easy fix.
If you don't know it off the top of your head, you can get your Android SDK version for your project from right-clicking on your project name, going to Properties, selecting "Android", and looking for the test in the "platform" column for the row with a checkmark.
Then in the Graphical Layout for your XML file, in the top right in between the Locale selector and the Create button is a drop-down for Android versions. Change this to match the one for your project, and the errors should go away the graphical preview will render correctly.

A: its very semple
all you have to do is change android version used to render layout in eclipse
android version used to render layout Button
hope that help you.


SEATTLE — Mar. 20, 2006 — Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center today announced that it has joined the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) in helping to address the needs of the growing number of cancer survivors in the United States through the LIVESTRONG Survivorship Center of Excellence Network. The LAF has pledged $1.7 million for the Hutchinson Center's progressive, comprehensive programs that help people affected by cancer to live life on their own terms.
"We expect that this generous grant from the Lance Armstrong Foundation and the collaboration with other Network members will greatly enhance our ability to serve patients throughout the Northwest — survivors of pediatric and adult cancer who have been treated with transplantation or conventional therapy," said Debra Friedman, M.D., who will serve as director of the Hutchinson Center's LIVESTRONG programs. "We are very excited about the possibilities this grant represents, as well as the huge potential benefits to the increasing numbers of cancer survivors."
The LAF grant enables the Hutchinson Center to integrate existing survivorship programs and develop new programs to better serve survivors of pediatric and adult malignancies from a large geographic area. Currently, the Hutchinson Center is the sole National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center to serve Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho.
The four Hutchinson Center survivorship initiatives to be united under the grant include a long-term follow-up program for marrow and stem-cell transplant patients; the After Cancer Care Ends Survivorship Starts program for childhood-cancer survivors, directed by Friedman; a prostate-cancer clinical-research program and the Women's Wellness Center for breast- and ovarian-cancer survivors. In addition, under Friedman's directorship, a new program is being developed for general medical-oncology survivors treated with conventional therapy. The programs are to be housed in the outpatient clinic of the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, or SCCA, located on the Hutchinson Center campus. The SCCA is a collaboration of three world-renowned institutions: the Hutchinson Center, the University of Washington, and Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center.
To expand the reach of survivorship programs to underserved communities, affiliate locations will be established at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Sacred Heart Children's Hospital/Providence Cancer Center in Spokane, and Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage. Through these affiliates, the Hutchinson Center will provide cancer-survivor care and research to inner-city, non-English speaking, and Alaska Native and Native American populations. The Hutchinson Center will also develop test models such as a dedicated telephone "help line," an enhanced, easy-to-navigate Web site, best-practice guidelines, educational materials and additional resources for survivors and health-care professionals.
The LIVESTRONG Survivorship Center of Excellence Network is an invitation-only collaborative partnership among the LAF, NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers and their community affiliates. Working together, members of the Network will address topics such as critical survivorship research, new interventions and progress in insurance reimbursement to provide the most-effective survivorship care.
Today, more than 10 million Americans are living with cancer. As the number of people surviving cancer continues to rise and as their challenges grow in magnitude and complexity, an increasing need exists for new models of survivorship care and research.
"Extended cancer survival is a relatively new phenomenon, so the current pace of research and development of effective models of care lags behind the need," said Caroline Huffman, LAF survivorship program manager. "To help accelerate the pace of progress in addressing the needs of the growing survivor community, the LAF established the LIVESTRONG Survivorship Centers of Excellence Network to serve as comprehensive, one-stop sources of information, care and services for cancer survivors, family members and service providers."
Other network members include UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Colorado Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
The Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) inspires and empowers people affected by cancer. We help people with cancer focus on living; we believe that unity is strength, knowledge is power and attitude is everything. From the moment of diagnosis, the LAF provides the practical information and tools people with cancer need to live life on their own terms. The LAF serves its mission through advocacy, public health and research. Founded in 1997 by cancer survivor and champion cyclist Lance Armstrong, the LAF is located in Austin, Texas. For more information, visit www.livestrong.org.


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Nature's wall: the human toll of crossing the US border
Often overlooked in the debate about the border and a wall is the fact that the passage is already dangerous and, for some, deadly.
Warren Richey/The Christian Science Monitor
Border fences like this one west of Nogales, Ariz., have forced smugglers and unauthorized migrants to attempt more dangerous routes across the US-Mexico border, funneling them into rugged mountains and desert.
By Warren Richey Staff writer
@WarrenRichey
Perhaps no issue divides Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump more sharply than what to do about illegal immigration. Part 4 of a five-part series on the view from the US-Mexico border.
TUCSON, ARIZ. – Shortly before crossing the United States-Mexico border, Josue Oliva-Serrano made a cellphone call.
His wife, a US citizen, had pleaded with him not to go with the smuggler. She told him they could find a more reliable – and lawful – way for him to reunite with her and their two young children in Oklahoma City.
But the 31-year-old Honduran couldn't stand being away from his family. He had been ordered removed as an unauthorized immigrant following a traffic accident caused by another driver. He could have fled the scene of the accident and stayed safely in the shadows, but the other driver was hurt so he stayed with her until emergency personnel arrived.
Now, he wanted his life back. And he believed he understood the risks of a trek through the Arizona desert. "I'm strong. I can do this," he told his wife.
"It is almost impossible to imagine a healthy man dying in 48 hours," says Juanita Molina, executive director of Humane Borders in Tucson, Ariz. During the crossing, the temperature rose to 108 degrees.
After Mr. Serrano's wife lost telephone contact with him, she started calling people – anyone – who might help save her husband's life, Ms. Molina says.
During the current presidential campaign, there has been plenty of debate over illegal immigration, including talk of building a wall and deporting some or all of the 11 million unauthorized immigrants living in the US.
But there is another side to the immigration issue – a lethal side.
The Politics of US series: Illegal immigration
From 1998 through 2015, 6,571 individuals died trying to cross from Mexico to the US without legal authorization, according to the Congressional Research Service.
It amounts to 386 deaths per year on average – roughly one death every day.
Since 2001, more undocumented border crossers have died in southern Arizona than the total number of US military personnel killed in the war in Afghanistan.
These deaths don't just happen. They are a function of a US government border security policy that is designed to make it as difficult as possible to cross the border in safer places at or near populated areas. Tall fences have been built and large numbers of Border Patrol agents have been deployed to discourage crossing near cities and towns.
At the same time, policymakers assumed that the dangers of the desert and other remote and rugged terrain would serve as an adequate deterrent to smugglers and unauthorized border crossers. They didn't.
Instead, the tactic funneled smugglers – including coyotes leading migrants – into increasingly remote and dangerous areas, with predictable results.
"The system we have in place is purposefully designed to use the natural environment to hurt people," says Jason De Leon, an anthropology professor at the University of Michigan and author of the 2015 book "The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail."
"Border Patrol agents say the desert provides a tactical advantage," he says. "Tactical advantage is just a euphemism for it beats the hell out of people and makes it easier to catch them three or four days after they have walked through the desert – if they are not dead."
Even if they survive the desert, a migrant's journey to the US can still be a savage ordeal, Molina says. One of every two women who attempt the crossing will be raped, she says, based on her years of work and interactions with migrant women. Many purchase birth control pills in Mexico before approaching the border.
"There are some coyotes who even offer what they call 'rape insurance,' " she says. "If you pay an additional price, you will be protected from rape."
The vast majority of these border-crossers are not criminals, they are not gang members, Molina, Professor De Leon, and others say. They are ordinary people – laborers, workers, dads, moms, sons, daughters – trying to achieve a better life for themselves and their families. That determination should evoke compassion and an effort to alleviate their suffering, they say.
"This is where our [US] immigration practices and the intensity of the criminalization of economic migrants has put a very marginalized population even more at risk," Molina says.
The Border Patrol is aware of the toll the desert can take on unauthorized border crossers. It has set up a special unit called BORSTAR to provide a search and rescue capability to quickly respond to calls for help.
Joe Halama is a member of the Border Patrol's elite BORSTAR unit that conducts search-and-rescue operations for migrants and others calling for help in the desert.
Joe Halama is a medical specialist assigned to the elite unit. He says during the past year BORSTAR agents operating in the Tucson sector of Arizona responded to 634 emergency calls for help and conducted 257 search and rescue operations. They also recovered 12 dead bodies.
Agent Halama said his most recent rescue came while he was on routine patrol in mid-September. He was in a remote area southeast of Three Points, Ariz., when he came upon a Guatemalan man with his shirt off sitting under a mesquite tree. The man was extremely weak.
"He said he crossed the border eight days prior and that he didn't have any food or water for the last three days," Halama said.
He was part of group of 11 that climbed over the 18-foot border fence east of Sasabe, Ariz., he told the agent. Eventually, the group split into two and then the coyote abandoned them. The man said he was lost and had no idea where he was or which way to go.
Halama said he treated the man for dehydration and continued to monitor his vital signs. He offered to take him to the hospital, but the man had responded well to the treatment and declined. Instead, he was transported to the Border Patrol station to be processed for removal to Guatemala.
Amid a difficult ordeal in the desert, agents say, most migrants are more than willing to turn themselves in to a Border Patrol agent. And many agree that being apprehended and sent to their home country is a substantially better outcome than dying alone in a remote corner of the desert.
In the case of Mr. Oliva-Serrano, his wife began calling immediately when she sensed something was wrong.
A member of the group he was traveling with reported that Serrano got sick after drinking contaminated water. When he became incapacitated, he was left behind.
A search crew went out and actually found him. "It was ten days after he died," Molina says. "His remains were already so unrecognizable that they had to identify him through dental records."
In many cases of a migrant's death in the desert, the problem is trying to discover a name to match a set of unidentified remains. A few of the bodies are found immediately. Some even have a wallet with valid ID. But those are the exceptions. In most cases it takes several months or years before their remains are found by hikers, hunters, or Border Patrol agents. By then all that may be left are a few scattered bones.
That's where Bruce Anderson enters the picture. He is a forensic anthropologist who works in the Pima County Medical Examiner's Office.
The shelves in his office are jammed with numbered file folders. Some are arrayed in an arc on the floor around his desk. Most are arranged sequentially in shelves along the office walls.
"There are 1,000 charts in this office. Each chart represents a dead person and they are all unidentified," he says.
Historically, the medical examiner's office has been able to positively identify 64 percent of human remains found in the desert. Meanwhile the backlog of unidentified cases continues to grow.
To identify those other cases, investigators turn to family members whose loved ones went missing while crossing the border. This is the work of the Colibri Center for Human Rights, a nonprofit organization housed within the medical examiner's office.
The Colibri Center seeks to provide a bridge between family members and the as-yet unidentified remains found in the Arizona desert north of the border.
Bruce Anderson, a forensic anthropologist with the Pima County (Ariz.) Medical Examiner's Office, uses DNA and other clues find the identity of remains discovered in the desert.
Just as Dr. Anderson keeps a file for each set of unidentified remains, the Colibri Center maintains an extensive database of information provided by relatives of the missing. All of it is assembled into a file for each missing person.
"We take missing persons reports from the families and we gather all the forensically relevant information we can; photographs, tattoo descriptions, dental records, the narrative of what happened, when did he cross, where did he cross, what was he wearing, what did he have in his pockets," says Robin Reineke, executive director of the Colibri Center.
"We are creating a detailed and comprehensive database of the missing," she says. "And then we use that database to compare against unidentified remains."
They are looking for similarities, small potential matches, that might justify additional investigation and perhaps collection of DNA samples from family members.
In one case, a mother searching for her missing son noticed something in a photograph of a pair of camouflage pants: The waist button had been moved and re-sewn to fit a thinner man.
The mother recalled that before leaving for the US border her son decided to wear a pair of his father's camouflage pants. He asked her to move and re-sew the button.
"It was the power of that photograph," Anderson says.
The photo was on display on a website, NamUs.gov, that lists reports of unidentified human remains, including photos of clothing and other personal effects. The photo had been on the website for a year before the mother saw it, Anderson says.
It wasn't enough to make a positive identification. But it prompted investigators to collect reference DNA samples from both the mother and father. That new information allowed Anderson to officially identify the remains as those of the son and to answer the grieving parents' unresolved question.
Dr. Reineke says that sometimes it can feel in certain cases like they are looking for a needle in a haystack.
But the haystack is about to get a little smaller. The Colibri Center recently received funding to collect DNA reference samples from close family relatives who reported a family member missing while attempting to cross the border in Arizona. Those samples can be checked against the DNA profiles of unidentified remains.
It is a potential game-changer for investigators.
Arizona isn't the only place along the US-Mexico border with a high number of deaths of suspected border crossers.
About a thousand miles southeast of Tucson, in a small county cemetery on the edge sleepy Falfurrias, Texas, a forensic anthropologist found the remains of multiple bodies buried together in what amounted to several unmarked mass graves.
They were believed to be the remains of scores of unauthorized migrants who had tried to bypass a Border Patrol checkpoint south of the town. They are believed to have become incapacitated in the hot and arid region and been left behind by a coyote.
An investigation by a researcher at Baylor University found that a large number of the remains had been interred in Sacred Heart Burial Park without any effort in Brooks County to obtain a DNA profile.
"This is a humanitarian issue, it is a human rights issue," says Kate Spradley, a forensic anthropologist at Texas State, who has taken over the project. "Basically what happened in Brooks County prior to 2013 is that they wiped that individual off the face of the earth. That family would never have the opportunity to know what happened to their loved one."
Forensic anthropologists have exhumed the unidentified remains of 191 suspected unauthorized immigrants who were buried in unmarked graves at this county cemetery near Falfurrias, Texas.
"I think about what if my daughter went missing. I would want someone doing what I am doing and what these groups I'm working with are doing," Ms. Spradley says.
She says that in the years since the discovery of the mass grave, Brooks County has completely reformed its system for dealing with migrant deaths and missing border crossers. Brooks County is now a model for other counties in Texas, Spradley says.
The problem, she says, is that Texas has 254 counties and every county has a different way of conducting migrant death cases. There is evidence, she says, that other Texas counties may have failed to properly handle migrant deaths. Further investigation is necessary, Spradley says.
To help identify remains in Falfurrias, the South Texas Human Rights Center has started organizing an annual day-long event for any family members with missing loved who they think died crossing the border or trying to bypass a checkpoint. The family members can provide their own DNA as a reference.
So far, anthropologists have exhumed the remains of 191 individuals at the cemetery. Of those, 87 percent have had DNA submitted for analysis. To date, 13 have been positively identified.
Part 1: Trump's wall on the border: Will it work?
Part 2: The hopes and lies driving children to the US
Part 3: Alejandra, age 7, is facing a judge alone. Is that due process?
Part 4: Nature's wall: the human toll of crossing the US border
Part 5: A drop of water in the desert, and a flood of migrants
[Editor's note: The titles for Robin Reineke and Bruce Anderson have been updated.]
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FDA Warns Ulcer OTC Marketers
Milton C. Toby, JD
Online marketing of several over-the-counter drugs for horses has come under increased federal scrutiny according to warning letters dispatched by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Oct. 29, 2014. The letters, which originated in the Florida District of the FDA's Pubic Health Service, were directed to Simon Jones (owner of the Internet site www.horseprerace.com), Dr. Scott Mangini (owner of Horse Gold, Inc.), and Jerry and Harry Glantz (owners of Tri-Star Equine Marketing, Inc.). All three letters made similar claims, that the recipients were marketing animal health products as "drugs" without approval from the FDA.
The Jones letter (http://fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/2014/ucm421133.htm) claimed that a number of products being sold through the horseprerace.com website,including Omeprazole Oral Paste, Omeprazole/Ranitidine Oral Paste, Gastrotec, Gastromax3, Flunixin, Synedem, Toltrazuril Paste, and Super Tie Up, were drugs that had not been submitted to the FDA for approval. The Mangini (http://fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/2014/ucm421146.htm) and Glantz (http://fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/2014/ucm421167.htm) letters made the same assertions regarding marketing of the products GastroMax3 and Gastrotec, respectively.
The warning letters would have effect only if the products are, in fact, drugs. The word "drug" has a specific meaning for FDA purposes. The statutory definition is found at 21 U.S.C. § 321(g)(1): "articles intended for use in diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or other animals." This definition does not include dietary supplements, so long as the supplements are not marketed as drugs, satisfy various statutory requirements, and are marketed with a "truthful and not misleading statement."
Based on the language used in ads for the products in question, the FDA inferred that they were intended for "use in diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease" and therefore satisfied the statutory definition of a "drug" requiring government approval. With one exception, the complaints from the FDA address only marketing, and not the safety or effectiveness of the implicated products. Examples of the problematic marketing language cited by the FDA include:
Gastrotec—"For the care of gastric and colonic ulcers in horses," "Gastrotec is the first product to conquer gastric ulcers in horses while also reaching the hind gut and treating the 'colonic' ulcers," and "The newest innovation in the battle against equine ulcers."
Gastromax3—"The ultimate in equine ulcer care," "Gastromax3 is a special combination of three ingredients that work together and can give your equine the protection it needs against gastric ulcers," and "formulated for one of the most prevalent problems in the equine industry."
Omeprazole Oral Paste—"INDICATIONS-Ulcers, poor condition, dull coat, loss of appetite." "CATEGORY-Stomach care, equine ulcers, EGS."
Flunixin—"recommended for the alleviation of inflammation and pain associated with musculoskeletal disorders in the horse, dogs and camels."
Toltrazuril Paste—"represents a new standard in coccidiosis control in Race Horses, Camels, Pigeons, Greyhounds & Alpacas."
The FDA also tested samples of one of the named drugs, Omeprazole Oral Paste, and found that the concentration of the active ingredient—omeprazole—did not correspond to the concentration listed on the label. This discrepancy allowed the FDA to classify Omeprazole Oral Paste as "adulterated" under the statutory definition of a drug whose "strength differs from, or its purity or quality falls below, that which it purports or is represented to possess."
FDA approval of a new drug requires extensive testing by the manufacturer to demonstrate that the drug is: 1) "safe and effective for a specific use in a specific animal species," 2) that the "manufacturing process is adequate to preserve the drug's identity, strength, quality, and purity," and 3) that the labeling is "truthful and complete." Gaining FDA approval for a new drug clearly is a difficult road.
A review of the FDA's Approved Animal Drug Products publication (the so-called "Green Book") identifies only two drugs with omeprazole as the active ingredient that have won FDA approval—Merial's Ulcergard and GastroGard. The FDA's Freedom of Information Summaries for those two drugs include reports of both pharmacological studies and clinical trials establishing to the FDA's satisfaction that the drugs are safe and that they do what there are supposed to do.
Development of a new drug is time consuming and expensive, and one way for a manufacturer to cut costs is to bypass the approval stage and offer the drug for sale without legal marketing status. The FDA's position on unapproved animal drugs is one of "serious concerns" and a warning letter generally is the first step in enforcing compliance with statutory requirements.
"With no FDA review of an animal drug, there is no way for veterinarians, pet owners, and animal producers to know if a drug is safe and effective or if its manufacturing process is adequate to maintain the drug's quality and consistency from batch to batch," according to a statement at www.fda.gov. "By bypassing the FDA's drug approval process, drug companies that make and sell unapproved drugs potentially put the health of animals and people at risk."
Recipients of the Oct. 29 warning letters have 15 working days after receipt to notify the issuing FDA office of steps taken to "bring their firm into compliance with the law" or to state the reasons for any delay along with the date of expected compliance.
Impact of the FDA Warning Letters about Illegal Omeprezole Products
Expert Testimony Necessary for Negligence Claim
What Do Recent FDA Warnings to Equine Stomach Ulcer Product Manufacturers Mean?
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Modern techonology is important, but having good communication skills you use in a variety of ways will keep your clients happy.
Agency and the Vet Bill
Veterinarians should establish whether the horse owner will be billed directly or whether responsibility lies with the farm manager or trainer who made the call. Failure to do so can be a recipe for disaster.
Research: Fate of Euthanasia Drugs During Equine Mortality Composting
Research looked at disposing of euthanized horses through composting.
FDA Issues Warning Letters Concerning Unapproved Omeprazole
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued nine warning letters to companies marketing unapproved animal drugs containing omeprazole.
The Compounding Conundrum
Liability With Use of Non-FDA-Approved Drugs
Most equine practitioners are diligent about following standards of care when treating equine patients. But what happens when a horse experiences an adverse event after an off-label or compounded medication is used?


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Kajetan Ignacy Sołtyk (Chwałowice, 12 november 1715 - Kielce, 30 juli 1788) was de 65e bisschop van Krakau, bisschop van Kiev, ridder in de Orde van de Witte Adelaar en senator.

Biografie
Kajetan Sołtyk was een telg van het Poolse adellijke geslacht Sołtyk. Zijn vader was Józef Sołtyk, kastelein van Lublin en hofmaarschalk van de primaat van Polen Teodor Potocki, en zijn moeder Konstancja z Drzewickich.

Sołtyk organiseerde in 1753 een tribunaal in Zjytomyr tegen 33 joden en beschuldigden hen van rituele moord op een christelijke kind. De joden werden gemarteld en 13 geëxecuteerd.

Hij werd in 1757 benoemd tot ridder in de Orde van de Witte Adelaar en in 1779 ridder in de Orde van Sint-Stanislaus.

Sołtyk werd in 1764 aangesteld als senator. Voor zijn oppositie tegen de dictatuur tijdens de Repnin Sejm werden hij en drie andere Poolse senatoren in 1767 gearresteerd en in Kaloega in het gevang gezet. Hij werd in 1773 vrijgelaten, maar kreeg veel negatieve aandacht vanwege zijn grillig gedrag waardoor zijn politieke vijanden uiteindelijk de kans grepen om hem krankzinnig te verklaren. Sołtyk is er na zijn gevangenschap nooit meer in geslaagd om zijn bisschoppelijke macht van zijn plaatsvervangers terug te nemen.

Galerij

Bisschop van Krakau
18e-eeuws bisschop
Poolse adel in de 18e eeuw
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import unittest

from django.conf import settings
from django.db import models
from django_sharding_library.id_generation_strategies import TableStrategyModel
from django_sharding_library.decorators import model_config
from django_sharding_library.exceptions import NonExistentDatabaseException, ShardedModelInitializationException
from django_sharding_library.fields import PostgresShardGeneratedIDField, TableShardedIDField
from django.test import TestCase

from django_sharding_library.constants import Backends

class ModelConfigDecoratorTestCase(TestCase):
    databases = '__all__'

    def test_model_cannot_be_both_sharded_and_marked_for_a_specific_db(self):
        with self.assertRaises(ShardedModelInitializationException):
            @model_config(shard_group='default', database='default')
            class TestModelTwo(models.Model):
                id = TableShardedIDField(primary_key=True, source_table_name="blah")
                random_string = models.CharField(max_length=120)
                user_pk = models.PositiveIntegerField()

                def get_shard(self):
                    pass

    def test_sharded_model_requires_a_get_shard_method(self):
        with self.assertRaises(ShardedModelInitializationException):
            @model_config(shard_group='default')
            class TestModelTwo(models.Model):
                id = TableShardedIDField(primary_key=True, source_table_name="blah")
                random_string = models.CharField(max_length=120)
                user_pk = models.PositiveIntegerField()

    def test_sharded_id_field_must_be_primary_key(self):
        with self.assertRaises(ShardedModelInitializationException):
            @model_config(shard_group='default')
            class TestModelTwo(models.Model):
                id = TableShardedIDField(source_table_name="blah")
                random_string = models.CharField(max_length=120)
                user_pk = models.PositiveIntegerField(primary_key=True)

                def get_shard(self):
                    pass

    def test_sharded_model_must_have_sharded_id_fied(self):
        with self.assertRaises(ShardedModelInitializationException):
            @model_config(shard_group='default')
            class TestModelTwo(models.Model):
                random_string = models.CharField(max_length=120)
                user_pk = models.PositiveIntegerField()

                def get_shard(self):
                    from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
                    return get_user_model().objects.get(pk=self.user_pk).shard

    def test_puts_shard_group_on_the_model_class(self):
        @model_config(shard_group='testing')
        class TestModelThree(models.Model):
            id = TableShardedIDField(source_table_name="blah", primary_key=True)
            random_string = models.CharField(max_length=120)
            user_pk = models.PositiveIntegerField()

            def get_shard(self):
                from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
                return get_user_model().objects.get(pk=self.user_pk).shard

        self.assertEqual(getattr(TestModelThree, 'django_sharding__shard_group', None), 'testing')

    @unittest.skipIf(settings.DATABASES['default']['ENGINE'] not in Backends.POSTGRES, "Not a postgres backend")
    def test_two_postgres_sharded_id_generator_fields(self):
        @model_config(shard_group='testing')
        class TestModelThree(models.Model):
            id = PostgresShardGeneratedIDField(primary_key=True)
            something = PostgresShardGeneratedIDField()
            random_string = models.CharField(max_length=120)
            user_pk = models.PositiveIntegerField()

            def get_shard(self):
                from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
                return get_user_model().objects.get(pk=self.user_pk).shard

        self.assertEqual(getattr(TestModelThree, 'django_sharding__shard_group', None), 'testing')

    def test_cannot_place_database_on_replica_db(self):
        with self.assertRaises(NonExistentDatabaseException):
            @model_config(database='app_shard_001_replica_001')
            class ShardedTestModelIDsTwo(TableStrategyModel):
                pass

    def test_cannot_place_database_on_non_existant_db(self):
        with self.assertRaises(NonExistentDatabaseException):
            @model_config(database='i_do_not_exist')
            class ShardedTestModelIDsTwo(TableStrategyModel):
                pass

        @model_config(database='i_do_not_exist', skip_runtime_checks=True)
        class ShardedTestModelIDsTwo(TableStrategyModel):
            pass

    def test_puts_database_name_on_model_stored_on_another_database(self):
        @model_config(database='app_shard_002')
        class ShardedTestModelIDsThree(TableStrategyModel):
            pass

        self.assertEqual(getattr(ShardedTestModelIDsThree, 'django_sharding__database', None), 'app_shard_002')

    def test_decorator_raises_exception_when_no_arguments_passed_in(self):
        with self.assertRaises(ShardedModelInitializationException):
            @model_config()
            class TestModelOne(models.Model):
                id = TableShardedIDField(primary_key=True, source_table_name="blah")
                random_string = models.CharField(max_length=120)
                user_pk = models.PositiveIntegerField()

                def get_shard(self):
                    pass

                @staticmethod
                def get_shard_from_id(id):
                    pass

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Agorize, the leading online platform for Open Innovation challenges, has announced a new fundraising of US$14.6 million in Series B funding led by Creadev, alongside Sofiouest and existing equity holders, Iris Capital and Capnamic Ventures. This fundraising will allow Agorize to step up international growth and meet the growing demand from large corporate companies for Open Innovation solutions.
This new round of funding takes the total amount raised to US$19 million since the startup was founded in 2011.
Open Innovation is the belief that the best ideas can come from anywhere. Companies and organisations should engage with the best talents externally as well as internally to source the best solutions and accelerate their transformation. Agorize facilitates this by connecting businesses and organisations with innovators from across the world through our platform.
Over the last 18 months, Agorize has deployed its sales teams and opened offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Germany, and Canada. Its platform for Open Innovation challenges is tremendously popular worldwide. Agorize earns as much as half its turnover outside of France, and this latest fundraising means it can invest effectively in growing and scaling in its current markets.
Agorize satisfies the transformation and agility requirements of large corporates needing to ramp up the pace of their innovation development, bring about a shift in company culture and pinpoint talent and partners in innovation. Through its platforms, Agorize enables clients to involve their employees and Agorize's community of innovative people, including students, developers and startups involved in strategic issues.
This solution has already been adopted by top global companies in all industries and sectors with over 200 clients on-board around the world; while more than 50 leading companies based out of Asia, including Amazon Web Services, Enterprise Singapore, LVMH Fashion Group, Schneider Electric, Singapore Airlines, have trusted Agorize Asia to organise challenges in over 10 different countries in Asia using our Open Innovation platform to engage with a community of 1 million innovators across Asia.
Today, Agorize now enjoys a considerable competitive advantage thanks to its Open Innovation SaaS (Software as a System), which allows its clients to launch, manage and promote innovation challenges to an active community of 5 million innovators worldwide including students, developers, startups, designers and more.
The two underlying pillars of the firm's offering - SaaS and innovator community - will now be reinforced by R&D investments in the platform and a major campaign to attract the world's best innovators.
Agorize allows clients to rethink the way in which they innovate by tapping into the talent of external innovators and ideas of employees across all departments in a refined approach to finding practical solutions to clients' strategic issues.
By implementing these challenges, large corporates are adopting a new way of open collaboration based on giving free reign to creative synergies, teamwork and agility in order to speed up their transformation projects.
Indeed, Agorize's clients say they innovate 5 to 10 times faster in this way than traditional methods, thanks to dozens of ground-breaking projects arising from challenges that attract up to several thousand online participants.
Agorize CEO and Co-founder, Charles Thou, said: "We are delighted by this key fundraising backed by top-class investors; this is a real badge of recognition of Agorize's capacity to meet the growing demand for Open Innovation solutions from large corporates. The funds raised will allow us to consolidate our Open Innovation leadership by ramping up international growth, perfecting our technology even more and building on our community."


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Q: SublimeREPL not working SublimeRepl is not working on Fedora 20 (previously working on Windows 8). I believe it's installed, as the SublimeREPL option shows up in the drop down menu; however, when I go to Tools --> SublimeREPL --> Python all the options are grayed out (note that I've had a similar problem with Package Control: shows as installed but does not allow me to browse packages).
I've tried updating the path in SublimeREPL.sublime-settings -- User to:
{
 "default_extend_env": {"PATH": "{PATH}:/usr/lib64/python2.7"}
}
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QANTAS Boeing 737-838 VH-VZK operated QF792 Perth – Darwin this morning, however the return QF793 was cancelled. This appears to have been due to a technical issue but this is not confirmed. The aircraft positioned Darwin – Perth early in the evening as QF6111.


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