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No Place Like Oz by Danielle Paige | Book Review
Posted April 26, 2014 by Zeee in Reviews • 0 Comments
Title: No Place Like Oz
Written by Danielle Paige
Series: Dorothy Must Die #0.1
Published by HarperCollins
Publication Date: November 12th 2013
Genres: Classic Retelling, Fantasy & Magic, Young Adult
After returning to Kansas, Dorothy Gale has realized that the dreary fields of Kansas don't compare to the vibrant landscapes of Oz. And although she's happy to be reunited with Aunt Em, she misses her friends from the yellow brick road. But most of all, Dorothy misses the fame and the adventure. In Kansas she's just another prairie girl, but in Oz she was a hero. So Dorothy is willing to do anything to get back, because there really is no place like Oz. But returning to the land she left comes at a price, and after Dorothy is through with it, Oz will never be the same.
Perfect for fans of Alex Flinn, Marissa Meyer, and Gregory Maguire, No Place Like Oz is a dark reimagining of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Building off of its rich mythology, Danielle Paige creates an edgy, thrilling story for teens that chronicles the rise and fall of one of the literature's most beloved characters. This digital original novella is a prequel that sets the stage for the forthcoming novel Dorothy Must Die.
"Amazingly twisted…"
I read Dorothy Must Die first and this book second. Although you don't need to read this book first, I recommend that you do so as this book will answer a few questions you might have on Dorothy.
The story starts a little slow, we are seeing Dorothy on their farm in Kansas doing farm chores and missing Oz. She had told her Aunt Em, Uncle Henry, and her best friend about her adventures in Oz but they wouldn't believe her. It is now 2 years after her trip to Oz and Dorothy has turned 16. During those years since her return, she has been treated as a sort of celebrity for surviving the tornado and she has remained as sweet and kind as she was. However, Dorothy wishes for more and regrets that she returned to Kansas. Her 16th birthday party ends in disappointment but she finds an unexpected gift, ruby slippers presumably from Glinda (the good witch of the North). She wears it, clicks her heels three times, and thinks "there's no place like Oz" and is transported back to Oz with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry in tow. There she meets up with her old friends again and meets new ones. She also finds out that about 10 years have passed since she defeated the Wicked Witch of the West and there is a new ruler of Oz – Princess Ozma. We then discover the reasons why Dorothy has turned evil and how she became the new princess of Oz.
I really enjoyed this novella. It's really short and a very fast read but not lacking in action and drama. I love the references that the author made from the movie and the book as well. And although I read an adapted illustrated version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz when I was 8 or 9 (which was really short), I haven't actually read the REAL book. I have however seen an animated version that is closer to the book as compared to the famous Hollywood classic with Judy Garland. For example, I love that she mentions the silver shoes that Dorothy originally wore in the book BUT the movie has her wearing ruby slippers (because Hollywood thought it was more purty on film that boring old silver shoes). And I also love that the ruby slippers are the ones with the evil power (ha!).
I also thought Dorothy acted like a spoiled and ungrateful brat and was really mean to her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. This really didn't bother me much because she acted like a typical 16-year-old! I did have problems with Dorothy's voice, though because it sounds a little too modern and not how it was when the story was written in the 1900s. Despite that, I enjoyed reading it.
The story is fast paced and entertaining albeit, a little creepy because we get to see Dorothy's transition from a sweet little girl from Kansas to evil despot.
Because I love The Wizard of Oz, I picture Judy Garland as Dorothy and the other characters as how they are in the movies. For me, I think that is not a bad thing.
Again, I recommend reading this book FIRST before reading Dorothy Must Die.
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Facebook makes me feel bad. Here's the pattern: I click on the alluring 'f' icon, telling myself that I'm going to take just a few minutes to get caught up. Somehow, time falls away as I compulsively scroll and click, falling down one rabbit hole after another. I giggle, gawk and gape before forcing an end to my session of guilty voyeurism.
A close friend recently said that, "Facebook makes people jealous and judgey." She's right. There's nothing like staring out into endless sheets of Vancouver rain, seemingly alone in the city over spring break, while viewing pictures of perfect, happy, beautiful families on the beaches of Maui or the slopes of Whistler, to exacerbate my seasonal affective disorder. My cynicism is easily set off by the preponderance of humblebragging and selfies.
While I try to be an honest, loving, empathetic person focused on being a good mother, wife and friend, Facebook brings out the ugly in me. As a result, I try to resist Facebook's temptations the same way I resist picking up trashy magazines at the checkout counter. My close friend and I make bets with each other to see how long we can each go without checking Facebook. Here's the thing: the longer we restrain ourselves, the better we feel.
There's research to suggest we're not alone. An article, Facebook can't escape mounting evidence that it's making people miserable, mirrors my sentiment that the more we use Facebook, the less happy we feel. The author notes, "The more hours Facebook users logged on the social network over time, the more their sense of wellbeing and happiness declined, according to the researchers."
Anecdotally, I see more and more aunts, uncles, grandparents and other members of older generations flocking to Facebook and testing out its features with zeal. At the same time, my teenage kids and their friends appear much less interested in what they consider an outdated social platform. My unscientific survey found that teens use Facebook largely for messaging and event information, but are loathe to post a party photo that a grandparent might (heaven forbid) comment on or that a university admissions officer or potential employer may find.
Snapchat currently seems to have the upper hand when it comes to winning over the hearts and user habits of today's teenagers. The app offers a space free of most parents and grandparents, and one that's largely unfiltered and temporary. (Although, kids, don't kid yourselves: nothing is ephemeral on the web.) Why Snapchat is better than Facebook explains, "Snapchat lets millennials broadcast their lives only to people that they care about...There's no sense of warped virtual validation that arises via Facebook 'likes'...and no social pressure to conform to a public persona. Snapchat avoids the traps of Facebook and Instagram by keeping private lives private — a social network that isn't too social."
Lack of credibility is another huge issue plaguing Facebook these days. Most people no longer place much stock in how many followers a page or person has given the emerging big business of buying followers and likes. A quick search for "buy likes and followers on Facebook" returns close to 23 million results and many catchy pitches for these underhanded services.
Fake news is becoming an old story, but Facebook has been a guilty conduit with its largely unvetted and uncurated means of delivery. A recent survey of over 3,000 American adults showed that, "...more than half of those who use Facebook as a news source — 54% — said they trust news on the platform 'only a little' or 'not at all.'"
I do have to hand it to Facebook for trying to address its integrity issues and cracking down on 30,000 fake accounts ahead of the French election. This attempt backfired and instead drove up demand — but at least they tried.
So, if Facebook is making people miserable, failing to attract the younger generation and lacking trustworthiness, is it even still relevant? For certain things — watching my nieces and nephews grow up far away, being a part of my brother's wedding via live stream and getting a needed laugh from a clever meme every once in a while — yes. For other things — connecting deeply with real friends, staying current on my kids' lives, accessing reliable world news and nourishing my self-worth — no.
Perhaps Facebook isn't the best place to share this blog post.


We demonstrate a VNF implementation of a sliceable PON architecture which has been optimised using DPDK data plane acceleration techniques. This gives Virtual Network Operators optimal control over capacity scheduling in a large scale multi-tenant PON environment.
Our demonstrator (see figure 1), implements a shared PON scenario with a number of real and virtualised ONUs, each with 3 T-CONTs. The main components within the testbed are: a physical PON, a set of emulated ONUs, a traffic generator and a multi-access edge computing node. The physical PON is based on one OLT and two ONUs (with the ONUs multiplexed into the same physical board), implemented on FPGA development boards13 offering 10Gb/s symmetric capacity. The emulated ONUs, running in software, are used to increase the number of users, and generate typical self-similar traffic. The traffic generator produces both real-time sensitive and best effort traffic flows (such as file transfer and video streaming) through the physical PON. Traffic flows are VLAN-tagged which are then mapped to specific TCONTs at the ONUs. Openstack runs the Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) implementation of the PON, running the virtual DBA and the merging engine. The Merging Engine is the element that merges all virtual bandwidth maps from the different VNOs generating one physical bandwidth Map allocation and the SDN control plane. The virtualisation node is logically composed of the Virtual Network Functions(VNFs), an Openstack virtualization platform, a DPDK Data Plane Acceleration toolset and an Orchestration and Control layer.
We have implemented the Merging Engine (ME) and the vDBA functions for the Virtual Network Operators (VNOs) as Virtual Network Functions (VNFs), allowing these functions to be instantiated and scaled independently. The virtualized infrastructure, shown in figure 1, leverages Single Root Input/Output Virtualization (SRI-OV) technology? and Open vSwitch6 with Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) enhancements7. The DPDK offers a set of lightweight software libraries and optimized drivers to accelerate packet processing. It utilizes polling threads, huge pages, numa locality, zero copy packet handling, lockless queue and multi core processing to achieve low latencies and a high packet processing rate. Thus, all VNFs leverage the DPDK drivers and libraries to minimize the I/O and packet processing cost. The PCI Special Interest Group8 on I/O Virtualization proposed the Single Root I/O Virtualization standard for scalable device assignment. PCI devices supporting the SRIOV standard present themselves to host software as multiple virtual PCI devices, thus introduce the idea of physical functions (PFs) and virtual functions (VFs). The PFs are the full-featured PCIe functions and represent the physical hardware ports; VFs are the lightweight functions that can be assigned to VMs. The userspace VF driver for the merging engine VNF helps VM to directly access the FPGA interface, thus, provides near line-rate packet I/O performance. The OVS-DPDK replaces the standard OVS kernel data-path with a DPDK-based data-path, creating a user-space vSwitch on the host for faster connectivity between VMs. The OVS-DPDK ports have vHost user interfaces which allow user to fetch/put packets from/to the VMs. Furthermore, all the VNFs in different VMs employs para-virtualized interface that utilizes the DPDK userspace virtio poll mode driver to accelerate packets I/O from OVS-DPDK. Each of the VNFs used for VNOs implements vDBA mechanism, thus, have identical functionality in terms of packet processing. The VM running merging engine VNF has two interfaces – VF interface for packets I/O with FPGA interface, and the second one is virtio interface to communicate packets with OVS-DPDK switch. There are two directions in which traffic flows in this virtualized system: North/South and East-/West. In the North/South flow pattern, traffic is received from the network through FPGA interface and sent back out to the network. In the East-/West flow pattern, traffic is processed by a VNF and sent to another VNF through OVS-DPDK for further processing.
F. Slyne, R. Giller, J. Singh and M. Ruffini, "Experimental Demonstration of DPDK Optimised VNF Implementation of Virtual DBA in a Multi-Tenant PON," 2018 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), Rome, Italy, 2018, pp. 1-3.
This entry was posted in Results on October 31, 2018 by Nima Afraz.
We propose a cost-optimal antenna vs. spectrum resource allocation strategy for mobile 5G MD-MIMO over Next-Generation PONs. Comparing wavelength overlay and shared wavelength approaches, split-PHY leads to solutions with higher mobile capacity than fronthaul.
Figure 1:Optimal antenna numbers (al) and bandwidth (a2) for the fronthaul overlay model; optimal antenna numbers (bl) and bandwidth (b2) for the fronthaul shared wavelength model; optimal antenna numbers (c1) and bandwidth (c2) for the split-phy shared wavelength model. Overall system rate for the fronthaul (b3) and split-phy (c3) for the wavelength sharing model.
The results discussed in this section refer to a scenario where a number of users are randomly distributed in an area of 1km2. The scenario uses an average urban population density of 1,350 habitants and 570 dwellings per km2 (we take the city of Dublin, Ireland, as a reference); we analyse an MD-MIMO system with 20 active users and 64 RRHs. We have also simulated a city centre scenario with a density 4 times higher, scaling proportionally the number of active users and antennas. Since however the results were similar to those of the first scenario (Fig. 1), they are not reported in this paper. We assume the maximum spectrum bandwidth available is 50 MHz and the number of PONs (we assume a 64-way split) is enough to cover all dwellings and RRHs. We used exhaustive search in Matlab to solve the optimization problems previously described; the number of antennas used in each PON (mi) is determined by distributing uniformly the overall optimal number of antennas among the PONs.
The results presented in Fig. 1 show the optimal number of antennas and spectrum resources used for cost ratios of wireless spectrum to PON capacity (Rwb) and PON capacity to antenna site (Rbm) varying over several orders of magnitude. We have also attempted to estimate a potential reference value for RWb and Rbm, taking into consideration estimated costs for spectrum, antennas and PON channels. The cost of the spectrum (at 1.8GHz) was approximated to 0.1138 GBP per MHz per habitant for a 20-year lease, following data in . The cost of antenna site leasing was chosen to be $1900 per month, according to . The cost for leasing one of the eight NG-PON2 wavelengths was calculated at $1,510 per year, by carrying out a discounted cash flow model over costs reported in  (we considered 1% OPEX on passive and 4% on active infrastructure, a return on investment of 5% and a Weighted Average Cost Of Capital of 10%). All costs were brought back to a similar currency and normalized to one-year period; since we only consider cost ratios, we assume that similar ratios might still be valid when the lease time operates over much shorter time scales for highly dynamic resource allocation. The approximate reference value for Rbm is thus calculated at 0.066 (although, due to high variability of antenna site costs, we highlight in the plots a two order of magnitude shaded area from 0.006 to 0.6), while the approximate value for RWb is of 0.0065.
The plots are organized as follows: the first three in the upper line, (al), (b1) and (c1) report the optimal number of antennas from, respectively, the fronthaul overlay model, the fronthaul shared wavelength model, and the split-PHY shared wavelength model. In the lower line, (a2), (b2) and (c2) report the associated optimal spectrum bandwidth. Plots (b3) and (c3) in the last column report instead the wireless data rate, across all users, for the wavelength sharing model with, respectively, fronthaul (b3) and split-PHY (c3). The plots show that the higher Rwb, the higher is the sensitivity of the optimal number of antennas to Rbm: indeed low cost in optical transport facilitates the use of more antennas as cbdecreases over CW. From plot (al) we can see that for the fronthaul overlay model the reference value (between red and green curves) has low sensitivity to changes in the Rbmratio, meaning that the optimal strategy is to use the lowest numbers of antennas necessary for MD-MIMO. This is due to the high cost of optical transport with respect to spectrum, and only when this ratio changes considerably (i.e., by 100 times-blue curve) the system becomes sensitive to Rbm and the optimal strategy quite variable with it. When fronthaul is considered (b1), the situation does not change considerably within the reference shaded zone although the strategy becomes more sensitive to changes in Rbm and Rwb. The sensitivity becomes instead more pronounced for the wavelength sharing over split-PRY case (cl), as the red and green curves (i.e., around the reference value) become steeper for values near the shaded area. In this scenario in fact the split-PRY drastically reduces the C-RAN bit rate, which, combined to the ability to share PON wavelengths between multiple RRHs signals, lowers considerably the cost of optical transport. Thus for split-PRY the optimal MD-MIMO strategy is visibly dependent on the cost ratios, making resource allocation optimisation a necessity in dynamic markets where costs change with demand, or across different countries and geotypes.
Looking at the bandwidth plots in the lower line (a2), (b2) and (c2), we can see that while the spectrum used tends to decrease as more antennas are used, the relation is not strictly inversely proportional, because the model objective is the minimisation of the cost per bit. Moreover, the optimal bandwidth is less sensitive to Rbmfor the fronthaul overlay model, as the high optical transport cost makes it difficult to use more antennas. For split-PRY, the lower cost of optical transport allows instead the use of more antennas even when more spectrum is utilized, leading to an increase in the overall capacity (as visible in plot (c3)). Finally, the last column plots (b3) and (c3) show the overall MD-MIMO system rate (according to Shannon capacity) for fronthaul and split-PRY over shared wavelength models: the lower cost of split-PRY transport enables higher wireless data rates compared to fronthaul.
I. Macaluso, B. Cornaglia and M. Ruffini, "Antenna, spectrum and capacity trade-off for cloud-RAN Massive distributed MIMO over next generation PONs," 2017 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), Los Angeles, CA, 2017, pp. 1-3.
This entry was posted in Results on October 27, 2018 by Nima Afraz.


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Michigan Football Issues Statement on Assistant Bob Shoop
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One of the Michigan football program's newest coaches is currently not working closely with the Wolverines. New assistant Bob Shoop is coaching the team's safeties but is not doing so in an on-field capacity.
While Shoop is not in an on-field capacity, he remains employed by the university and is working remotely.
"Bob Shoop is not working with the team in an on-field coaching capacity at this time," a team spokesperson said in a statement, via 247 Sports.
"He is performing team-related duties remotely. In consideration of his privacy interests, we will have no further comment."
There are no further details on his absence from the program.
According to the report, defensive analyst Aashon Larkins is filling in for Shoop.
That is all the information that is available at this time. This article will be updated with new and relevant information should it become available at any time. If there is anything that we missed, please feel free to send an email to [email protected] and we will respond as soon as possible.
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'It was like a river': Flood insurance is often beyond the reach of Bay Area residents who need it most
"That shall be the very first thing we work on," she mentioned.
The latest storms that hit California have particularly hit locations like Rollingwood and different low-income communities the place few owners have flood insurance coverage.
And whereas owners insurance coverage might cowl property harm from rain and wind, it's Flood harm isn't lined.
Regardless of its designation of impartial on FEMA's maps, the Flood danger in Rollingwood neighborhood is rated 'extreme' On the net instrument, Danger Issue, which initiatives that there's a 99% likelihood that flood waters will attain most properties no less than as soon as within the subsequent 30 years.
Laura Cisneros, a neighbor who has lived alongside the Creek Rim for almost 20 years, says floodwaters have surrounded her residence virtually on a yearly foundation — together with twice throughout latest storms.
"That is actually scary for me as a result of if it continues to rain any longer, we might must evacuate our home," she mentioned, in the course of a three-week flooding earlier this month.
Residents of unincorporated areas typically really feel caught as a result of they "lack the infrastructure to deal with these storms," says Kathleen Schaefer, who oversaw the creation of FEMA's insurance coverage maps for California 5 years in the past.
However with atmospheric river storms anticipated to dump more and more extra rain – making the Bay Space simply as unhealthy 37% moisture By the top of the century, in keeping with some forecasts – Schaefer is desperately urging individuals in locations like Rollingwood to purchase flood insurance coverage.
The issue, she provides, is that they're typically too costly for these most susceptible to flooding.
Carla and Denise Vilalta stand in entrance of their residence within the unincorporated Rollingwood neighborhood exterior of San Pablo, on Jan. 6, 2023. The couple say floodwaters have already surrounded their residence no less than twice since they moved in about two years in the past, and they're now looking for cheap flood insurance coverage. (Ezra David Romero/KQED)
"California residents are already overburdened with their housing," mentioned Schaefer, who's pursuing a doctorate in civil engineering on the College of California, Davis.
The value of an insurance coverage coverage can vary from a whole bunch to 1000's of {dollars} yearly, and relies on the elevation of the house, the yr it was constructed, and the way shut it's to a physique of water.
In accordance with Shafer, a coverage within the Rollingwood neighborhood can value within the vary of $700 to $800 yearly.
Of the greater than 60,000 individuals who stay within the 94,806 ZIP Code — which incorporates Rollingwood and a number of other different unincorporated communities, in addition to elements of San Pablo and Richmond — solely About 300 owners have flood insurance coverage insurance policies. And though many residents are renters, the small variety of policyholders right here implies that 1000's of house owners are largely unprotected from flood harm.
Individuals of colour make-up Greater than 80% of the inhabitants is on this zip codeand the typical family revenue is about $74,000.
As climate-fueled storms intensify, says Schaefer, flood insurance coverage must be inexpensive and accessible to lower-income communities.
"One resolution might be a neighborhood insurance coverage program, which might be cheaper and supply extra safety," mentioned Schaefer, who's engaged on a pilot of this mannequin.
For a program like this to succeed, she says, a authorities company—whether or not a county or an area extreme evaluation space—have to be instantly concerned. Owners pays the company a lowered premium and obtain a hard and fast quantity of fee when a triggering occasion, equivalent to a flood, happens.
"It might be predetermined, and … the home-owner would know to go within the storm, that if one thing have been to occur, they'd no less than have the cash to have a secure and heat place," she mentioned.
Floodwaters from Rheem Creek crept ominously close to Carla and Dennis Vilalta's entrance door on New Yr's Eve. (Courtesy of Carla Villalta)
The next, or extra conventional, stage of protection would even be out there beneath the proposed Schaefer plan, however it will be capped at 1% of family revenue.
"Within the case of San Pablo, for instance, the insurance coverage can be form of something you should buy for $520 a yr," she mentioned. In return, some San Pablo residents pay Thrice that quantityIn accordance with Policygenius.
Shafer says she would additionally wish to see insurance coverage firms, native governments and neighborhood members work collectively to implement long-term options, equivalent to constructing extra filter ponds, including extra storm drains, and restoring severely eroded streams.
Some native flood mitigation initiatives within the space are already underway, together with a A government-funded initiative value $1.6 million To widen flood drains and restore elements of Rahim Creek by deepening the canal and planting native bushes alongside its edges to entice sediment.
"Proper now, the creek floods just a few occasions a yr, and hopefully after this challenge, it should solely flood each 5 to 10 years," mentioned Anne Bremmers, program director on the Watershed Mission, one of many nonprofit teams main the initiative.
However Cisneros, who mentioned she will't afford flood insurance coverage, finds it arduous to imagine the challenge shall be efficient sufficient to guard her household.
"They informed us many occasions [they'd fix the flooding issues]She added, "If flooding continues within the creek, it's possible you'll take into account transferring to increased floor.
"I need to see once they end it. In any other case, I will not imagine it."
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A Bamboo-Roots Peacenik, Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan
By Metta Spencer (interviewer)
This American began his activism by opposing the Vietnam War and never stopped. He chatted with Metta Spencer in Toronto in August, after attending a conference on small arms and light weapons.
METTA SPENCER: You have been active in the nonviolence movement globally for a long time. How are the campaigns going now?
YESHUA MOSER-PUANGSUWAN: The most exciting thing to happen in a long time is the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Efforts to eliminate a class of weapons would usually come from governments or the peace movement. In this case it didn't originate there, but from a coalition of human rights, humanitarian, and veterans' organizations. The Western peace movement and religious organizations actually got on the bandwagon quite late. And the landmines treaty was the fastest treaty ever put together in the history of the planet. The whole process from drafting in Oslo to the consultation in Ottawa took just three to four months. It comes into force shortly after 40 countries have deposited their signatures with the U.N. and this looks like it will happen by year's end! [This has now happened. Ed.]
SPENCER: Hadn't there been a meeting in Vienna the year before?
MOSER-PUANGSUWAN: That was the U.N. process. The United States, China, and other obstructing countries have tried to keep discussion about landmines within the U.N. process where it would go slowly. That meeting in Vienna was the review of the Conventional Weapons Treaty, which deals with weapons that are deemed to cause too much damage to the civilian population, over and above their "military utility." It went nowhere, so the Ban pursued the process outside the U.N. system. This has set a model that future campaigns are going to follow. We're going to see broader coalitions of organizations, and states will be following. A global campaign on light weapons and small arms is already begin- ning, but it's going to have to be a more sophisticated campaign. The right to possess those weapons is the foundation of the legitimacy of states. For that reason, states are focusing on only illicit small arms and light weapons.
SPENCER: Tell me about Nonviolence International. You run the office in Bangkok.
MOSER-PUANGSUWAN: It's a small new nongovernmental organization. We seek to work with individual persons, organized groups, or governments to develop alternatives to violence they may face. We run training programs, do action-oriented research, have publications and seminars to help reach this goal. Nonviolence International has no projects or campaigns solely of our own; everything is done in network with other organizations. The head office is in Washington, D.C. and we have one- or two-person offices in Moscow, Paris, Jerusalem, Ghana, Durban, South Africa, and Thailand. In Bangkok we focus our activities on groups in Burma, Thailand, and Cambodia. For example, we've been supporting the groups organizing the peace walks in Cambodia. One just finished before the recent election. It started off with 170 people but had swelled to 3000 walkers by two days preceding the election, sending a message to the politicians that the Cambodian people were tired of violence. Nonviolence International is part of a coalition of several nongovernmental organizations that has just finished a survey in Cambodia on the spread of war weapons, which are preventing postwar reconstruction and development. In villages people have nothing in their houses - no running water, they are kilometers from the nearest source of electricity - but they have an AK 47 and perhaps other sophisticated weaponry.
SPENCER: Where do they get them?
MOSER-PUANGSUWAN: The weapons were distributed over the past 25 years. The military forces would frequently distribute them if they were forced to leave an area they couldn't control, asking the population to fight "the enemy." Then the other side would come, and when they couldn't control the area any longer either, as they were leaving they too would dispense weapons, asking the local people to "cooperate in the struggle." So people were getting guns from everywhere. Now they are available for a chicken or a bag of rice. Weapons are used frequently, simply because they are there. In domestic violence, things that are done here with a kitchen knife or a hammer are done in Cambodia with an automatic weapon. In a moment of anger, when people have access to war weapons, the devastation that can happen in a community can be enormous. They are used in business disputes, particularly to protect logging concerns that are destroying the forests of Cambodia. Due to the availability of weapons, even children have been known to use them on one another, both by accident and on purpose. During our survey, we found a consensus in Cambodian society: people are scared because there are so many weapons. Some of the weapons are there because people have security concerns caused by the presence of other weapons. People understand that the more weapons there are, the greater the danger is for everybody. They say, "I'll give up my weapons when everybody else gives up theirs." We will clearly need a massive public education program to change the way people think about weapons before a program to collect them can succeed.
SPENCER: I heard of one reconciliation program where part of the healing ritual was to exchange weapons for constructive tools.
MOSER-PUANGSUWAN: It's called Hoes for Guns, and is taking place in Mozambique. It's still going on. The program offers items - plows, sewing machines, and bicycles - in exchange for weapons, and larger items for information on arms caches. They haven't managed to conduct the program very far outside the capital yet. The collection points, which are churches throughout the country, are ill-prepared to receive weapons when they come in. They can't guard them until they can be destroyed, or guarantee that they will get to the right people. Actually, more weapons are simply being left by the roadside for the de-miners to demolish than are being left in churches.
SPENCER: Pity. Intuitively the idea seems appealing.
MOSER-PUANGSUWAN: It does. It has been tried in other places, such as Haiti, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Dominican Republic, but without a strong development and public education component, it has failed. In El Salvador they had collected about $50,000 from businesses to run a voluntary weapons collection program, but on the first two weekends they gave away something like $150,000 in vouchers. They were bailed out at the last minute by a grant from the government of Mexico. All this, however, only netted 1500 weapons. Yet during the same time people were purchasing legally registered weapons at the rate of about 5000 per month. Clearly they were missing something in that campaign. The security situation was still not adequate for people to feel they didn't need these things. The voluntary exchange buy-back programs look like a quick fix, but the problem is more complex. Indeed, nowhere has it been effective in reducing the number of weapons to the point where they were no longer a social problem, but nowhere has a totally integrated program been tried. There are no experts in this new field of micro- disarmament. We're building the road as we walk on it.
SPENCER: What else are you doing at your centre?
MOSER-PUANGSUWAN: The Buddhist peace walks in Cambodia have had a beneficial influence on Thai people, who have also started exploring walks as a tool for raising social awareness and mobilizing people. We have been bringing over some Cambodians to cross-fertilize the Thai movement.
We focus on what we call "development aggression." That's what happens when local communities are undermined by modern development policies. The Thai activists wanted to focus on a situation of development aggression to a unique bio-system in the south of Thailand. It was a large lake which opened to the ocean as a salt -water estuary. At the other end it's fresh water and in the middle it's brackish - neither fresh nor salt. Different types of creatures live in and around the different ends of the lake and the local communities traditionally produced goods that depended on the resources of the particular zone in which they lived.
Then modern development started extracting more resources than nature could sustain. The vegetation was cut and the lake started silting up. The communities around it blamed each other. Then the federal government decided to build a dam straight across the middle of the lake, which would cause even greater devastation. So this group of Thai environmental activists chose to walk around the lake and ask people their perceptions of what was happening to the environment, which led to finding local people who were concerned, and sought to link them together in action groups. The first year, they walked around the lake - it took about a month - but it didn't really gel. The second year, they tried again and it still didn't work. The third time, this year, they just followed one stream that fed into the lake. On that stream there were 70 communities. They walked shorter distances each day and had more energy for talking. And this time indeed a lot of people were excited. What they had failed to accomplish the first two years has been accomplished this year. Nonviolence International helped as an adviser to these activists before they took on this action, and now will offer support for a local organizer who will work to solidify the network that developed during the last year.
SPENCER: You said you were in Sri Lanka a few months ago.
MOSER-PUANGSUWAN: Yes, and while there, I had the opportunity to meet with the National Peace Council. This is one of the most exciting and innovative movements I have come across in years. It came out of a nation-wide congress a few years ago where they recognized that everything done for peace in Sri Lanka at that point was all ad hoc. Networks would come together as a response to something that had happened, but there was no ongoing organization thinking strategically about how to achieve peace. So they decided to create such a body - the National Peace Council. They have a staff and office.
As an example of one of their sectoral activities, they set up a national training program to train the media so that in reporting conflict, they do not propel the conflict. They televised the training program nationally, enabling the public to watch so they would understand what the media should be doing.
One of their activities in focusing on the government sector is to work with legislators, who often make statements in parliament that propel the war along. They have taken balanced groups of parliamentarians from each side to look at the negotiations going on in North -ern Ireland, in the Philippines between the government and the Islamic groups in Mindanao, and in ex-Yugoslavia. This lets these elected officials learn from what governments in other parts of the world are doing by non-military means in conflict situations with similarities to Sri Lanka. To focus on the public, they have mobilized a national advertising campaign, with hard-hitting ads about their own culture.
They have a plan, looking at each of the sectors of society to see how it is supporting the war. I don't know of any other war-torn society that has taken this on so seriously. Truly an inspiring group of people. Recently Nonviolence International brought some people from the Sri Lankan National Peace Council to Cambodia to meet NGOs who were also feeling hopeless about the war. As a result of hearing what the National Peace Council was doing in Sri Lanka they started a forum for Peace through Nonviolence in Cambodia.
SPENCER: Tell me about the situation in Burma. As we speak, I believe that Aung San Suu Kyi is in a car someplace, blockaded for the second time.
MOSER-PUANGSUWAN: For the fourth time. The first two times she eventually drove back to the capital. The third time they commandeered her vehicle after six days and drove it back to her house with her in the back. She has gone out now for the fourth time. She's raising the stakes and the level of nonviolent struggle. The military regime currently in power says she's free. She says she's not, and she's proving it. This is the heart of nonviolent action - revealing the truth, as Gandhi would say. No freedom of political expression is possible for the legitimate government of the country, which won the 1990 election. She's revealing the truth, and the regime is being forced to respond, quickening the freedom struggle. It's too early to say what's going to come of this. The country is essentially broke. The military has been inept at any realistic economic policy and only because Burma is so resource rich has it not collapsed already.
SPENCER: The U.S. tightened the screws, didn't they?
MOSER-PUANGSUWAN: The U.S. trade sanctions didn't really hurt them much because most of their trade is with neighboring countries - Malaysia, Singapore, China - and that hasn't been affected by the U.S. sanctions. However, the U.S. is also blocking support from the IMF and the World Bank, and that has really, really hurt them. The National League for Democracy - Aung San Suu Kyi's party - is favorable to that.
SPENCER: The junta changed its name from SLORC to something else.
MOSER-PUANGSUWAN: Yes, the State Peace and Development Council is the heir to SLORC. Its top leaders were the leaders of SLORC. A few of the expendable ministers were accused of corruption and are being tried in a kangaroo court in Rangoon.
SPENCER: Was the change of name only cosmetic or what did they intend?
MOSER-PUANGSUWAN: Perhaps they hoped the world would be taken in, but that hasn't happened. I don't know what their plans were internally.
SPENCER: Have all the indigenous groups been chased out of the country?
MOSER-PUANGSUWAN: The armed struggles that many of the indigenous groups were waging have been subdued, for the most part. Hundreds of thousands of indigenous people, and Burmese ethnic people as well, have fled the country, either because of military action upon them by government troops or because of crushing poverty due to the economic situation. The leaders of most of the indigenous communities who were involved during the last decade in armed struggles with the central Burmese regime for some level of autonomous control of their region have, for the most part, fallen for a clever game by the military regime of getting cease-fires with each of them independently. The regime in Rangoon has treated each of these cease-fires as though it were a surrender. None of the underlying problems which led to some people taking up arms has been addressed. Although several of these issues were on the table, and verbally agreed to by Rangoon, not a one has been followed up on, to my knowledge.
SPENCER: But these groups have not been defeated?
MOSER-PUANGSUWAN: No, but they are not a united front any longer. Individually, all except the Karens have cease-fires in their own area. The Karens have been pushed out of their areas in Burma and mostly are refugees. The problem has not gone away, so there will continue to be non-acceptance of the situation.
SPENCER: What about Tibet?
MOSER-PUANGSUWAN: I visited Dharmasala last March. I am grateful to the Tibetan government in exile and the Tibetan Youth Congress, who arranged our visit, including a brief meeting with His Holiness, the Dalai Lama. We met with several sections of the exile government, including the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, which monitors human rights violations in Tibet.
Every month people are being arrested, given long sentences, and tortured for nonviolent actions - underground publishing of inflammatory information in Tibet. What is inflammatory? Well, things like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, or keeping pictures of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the T betan flag, or writing graffiti suggesting that Tibet is an independent state, or organizing demonstrations. It is still going on. Everybody in Tibet knows how hard it's going to be, and they keep doing it! Even inside the prisons they're not cooperating with the authorities and they're holding demonstrations! In one situation they were told to eat lunch in the dining hall because the European Union was sending some delegation to Tibet to visit. As soon as the cameras were rolling, someone would jump up and say "Free Tibet" and they'd haul that person off and tell the others to sit there. They'd start the cameras rolling again and another person would jump up and shout "Free Tibet" and finally they had to shut off the cameras. They couldn't do it. They can't control the people in the prisons and they can't control them outside the prisons either. There are no cameras, no CNN, no AP wire photos, but in Tibet today there is one of the most incredible nonviolent struggles going on in the world.
SPENCER: Tibet-in-Exile is appealing to states around China?
MOSER-PUANGSUWAN: The Tibet government in exile knows they need the good will of the world, so their foreign ministry has unofficial embassies that do what embassies normally do. They represent the interests of their people to the states where they are located. They try to add new embassies, especially in states significant to China.
After the Tiananmen Square movement they contacted the Chinese democracy movement, expecting them to become allies. But the Chinese democracy movement didn't want anything to do with them. They said, "You're just barbarians. You don't have anything to offer us," because that's how Tibetans are portrayed in the Chinese press. The Tibetan government in exile said, "That's fine if you feel that way, but why don't you come up and have a look?" They paid the way for them to visit. The Chinese dissidents were impressed upon seeing that the Tibetan Government in Exile is doing what all governments should be doing for their people.
They see to their people's welfare. They have a ministry of education, which oversees education for refugee Tibetans, all the way up to university. They have their own university, which is accredited by the Indian government. They have medical institutes, which keep Tibetan medicine alive. They have a college of the performing arts and the static arts. These are what a culture is, and the Tibet government in exile has kept these alive. There are some 160,000 Tibetans in India. The Chinese may have occupied Tibet but they cannot kill Tibetan culture. It is alive and evolving. In exile the Tibetans have developed a democratic government. Refugees vote for representatives of the province they came from, so it is democracy in exile. They have a plan for their return to Tibet. They will constitute an interim government, concerned with elections, but they will cease to exist after the first government is elected. This impressed the Chinese democracy movement no end, so they came to a deal. They work on each other's cause. The main Chinese democracy web site has links to the Tibetan struggle.
Their recent great victory was visiting Taiwan. All the public addresses that the Dalai Lama made in Taiwan were broadcast in Chinese on Taiwanese television. Now they are getting messages from southern China saying, "Hey, we were told that this guy is a barbarian. I just heard him on television and he sounded pretty good!" This is going right to the heart of nonviolent struggle - changing the will of the adversary to wage violence. They are trying to foster better relationships with Japan, with Mongolia. The Tibetan government in exile is "encircling China" with countries that have favorable feelings towards the Tibetans. Maybe not as official policy, but it has an effect.
SPENCER: What are the prospects in the West of getting official government support for Tibet-in-Exile?
MOSER-PUANGSUWAN: I'm not sure. Canada and the United States are not about to recognize Tibet-in-Exile. They've got their fingers too deep in the money pot in China, but they roll out the red carpet for His Holiness when he comes, even if it irritates China. They can do an exchange program with Tibetan government in exile. That's pretty harmless. But they can't do a whole lot. The government of Canada is involved in development aid with the Tibetan government in exile. This is good, and people here should push their government for many positive statements supporting self determination for the Tibetan people.
SPENCER: The Dalai Lama continues to make conciliatory overtures to the Chinese government. I saw recently that there might actually be a meeting.
MOSER-PUANGSUWAN:That came from Clinton's recent trip where he offered to establish connections with the Dalai Lama. Jiang said they already have contacts. There's always been communication between them. A few years ago some representatives of the Tibetan government in exile went into Tibet at the invitation of the Chinese government. The Chinese government supposed they had enough control in Tibet that the representatives would only see happy Tibetans in the workers paradise. Instead, people just mobbed the delegation and shared tales of their devastation. Finally, by mutual agreement between the Tibetan Government in Exile and the Chinese Government, they stopped what was supposed to be an advance party for a visit of the Dalai Lama. It's all on hold now. The Chinese say as a precondition that there can be no claim to an independent state.
SPENCER: But I thought the Dalai Lama had accepted that.
MOSER-PUANGSUWAN: The Dalai Lama has even said that he would be willing to enter discussion of a less than independent status for Tibet, as long as they had genuine self-rule, which would allow military and other affairs to still be done by the Chinese. I don't remember the exact wording on this, and the words here are important.
SPENCER: Self-rule is a problem because probably the majority of the population is now Chinese.
MOSER-PUANGSUWAN: This is worrisome. Settlers have been drawn to those areas by all kinds of entitlements and privileges. If it came under Tibetan rule again and the perks and privileges were cut because the Communist Party was no longer in power there, many of them might go back. But if the settlements continue at this rate, the Tibetan government in exile told me that they believe they have ten years left. If they haven't achieved independence by then, it will be too late.
SPENCER: What can Canadians do to help Asia?
MOSER-PUANGSUWAN: Look at how you exploit the economy in Asia - in fact, in the whole world. The wealth of the world continues to flow from Africa, South America, and Asia to North America and Europe. Those chains must be broken. So the first place to focus is the easiest place: close to home. This can have long-lasting and far-reaching results.
Nonviolence International SE Asia web page can be found at: <http://www.igc.org/ nonviolence/niseasia/> and the tel/fax in Thailand +66 (0)2 3741671.
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Memorial service to be held Friday for Furniture Row Racing team member Jim Watson
By Jerry BonkowskiOct 23, 2017, 6:39 PM EDT
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A memorial service for Furniture Row Racing crew member Jim Watson will be held Friday in Lincolnton, North Carolina, his family announced Monday.
Watson, who served in a number of roles for both the No. 78 of Martin Truex Jr. and No. 77 of Erik Jones, passed away Saturday night after suffering a heart attack in Kansas City, Kansas, where the teams were preparing for Sunday's NASCAR Cup race.
Watson was 55.
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The memorial will be from 4-6 p.m. ET Friday at the Warlick Funeral Home, 125 Dave Warlick Drive, in Lincolnton.
Watson's obituary was included in the announcement of the memorial service:
Watson was born Sept. 27, 1962, in Kenosha, Wis., to Betty Paulus Watson and the late David Harrison Watson. He is survived by his wife, Laurie Ann Watson; a daughter, Brittany May Watson; his mother, Betty L. Watson; brother, Mike Watson; stepchildren, Eric James Conover and fiancé Claudia Rodriguez, and Matthew Sean Conover; Michael Patrick Conover, and wife Michele, and Nicholas Ian Conover; three grandchildren, Patrick Michael Conover, Michael Winston Conover, and Coleton Daniel Conover; nieces, Jennifer Watson and Katie J. Ballou; and many other uncles, aunts, cousins, and friends.
In lieu of flowers, the family has asked that memorials be made to hatsalive.org.


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Julie M. Overbaugh is an American virologist. She is a professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Overbaugh is best known for her translational approach to studying HIV transmission and pathogenesis and studies of how the antibody response evolves to recognize viruses. Her work in maternal and infant HIV transmission helped make clear the risk posed by breastfeeding and highlighted unique characteristics of an infant immune response that could inform vaccine development. Major scientific contributions to the understanding of HIV transmission and pathogenesis also include: identifying a bottleneck that selects one or a few variants during HIV transmission; demonstrating the importance of female hormones in HIV infection risk; showing the HIV reinfection is common; demonstrating a role for antibodies that mediate ADCC in clinical disease; showing that HIV infected infants develop unique neutralizing antibody responses to HIV.

Overbaugh is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  In addition to being recognized for her scientific contributions, she is also recognized for her mentoring, her advocacy for equity and her commitment to global health.

Early life and education
Overbaugh was born and raised in Pennsylvania and graduated from Delone Catholic High School in 1975. During high school, she captained their basketball and field hockey teams and received an award for Excellence in Athletics.

Following high school, Overbaugh was recruited to play college basketball for the University of Connecticut's Huskies from 1976 to 1978. During her tenure, she averaged 3.5 points in 46 games, and also played varsity tennis and served as team captain during her final year. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry in 1979 and earned her PhD in chemistry from the University of Colorado Boulder. During her PhD, Overbaugh spent four months in Oklahoma aiding the effort to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. She returned to school to complete her PhD and continued her training as a postdoctoral fellow in interdisciplinary programs in health and cancer biology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health from 1983 to 1987. During her fellowship, she became interested in HIV research because it was a "clear intersection of science and public health and medicine."

Career
Following her fellowship, Overbaugh joined the University of Washington (UW) to expand their HIV research program to include a basic science focus. In 1992, she became a member of the Nairobi HIV/STD Research Project, which included collaborating on a study of HIV mother-infant infection.  For this, she joined Joan Kreiss and Ruth W. Nduati in Kenya to understand the risk of HIV transmission through breastfeeding. The research team found that breastfeeding doubled the risk of HIV transmission from mother to child.  Her subsequent studies showed that the levels of virus in breastmilk predicted infection risk.

Overbaugh left the UW in 1999 to join the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center where she continued and expanded her studies of HIV transmission and pathogenesis, including working closely with the Kenya research collaborative team..  That year Overbaugh received a Elizabeth Glaser Scientist award to expand her studies of mother-infant transmission of HIV to better understand how features of the virus and immune response impact infant infection risk.  They went on to define immune factors that impact transmission in the setting of infant exposure, particularly a role for non-neutralizing antibodies that mediated cell killing in infant infection and disease   Her research team also discovered novel aspects of the infected infant's immune response to HIV and isolated and characterized the first HIV neutralizing antibodies from infants.  They also discovered a variant of HIV in an infant, BG505, that has been extensively leveraged for studies of HIV structure and for vaccine development. .

Overbaugh's research has also focused on understanding how viral evolution impacts disease and she showed that the viruses that evolve over the course of infection are more pathogenic, in part because they have escaped neutralizing antibody control. Her work also highlighted that retroviruses can evolve to change their entry receptors and by so doing, can infect new cells and cause changes in disease outcomes.  She also discovered that HIV adapted in cell culture can use more diverse receptor othologues, and that this adaption makes strains used in model system distinct    In her very early work, Overbaugh also studied adaptive evolution.

Her work with the Kenya research collaborative team also included expanding studies with Kreiss to better define the basis of transmission in high-risk women, such as sex workers, work that continues to this day in Mombasa, Kenya. There, a focus of her research has been on the early dynamics of infection. Her group showed that despite chronically infected people having many distinct viral variants of HIV, there was the transmission of just one or a few of these variants, indicating a bottleneck in viruses that are transmitted.   They went on to show that the transmission bottleneck is influenced by his factors such as hormonal contraceptives and sexually transmitted diseases.   Her group further showed that transmission can also occur in the face of an existing infection, leading to re-infection, and her team has studied the setting of re-infection to understand immune correlates of protection to inform vaccine efforts.

Overbaugh was also involved with collaborated studies to define antibody escape pathways for HIV antibodies and the molecular determinants that govern HIV entry into host cells.    Her lab went on to develop a method to profile escape called Phage-DMS that has been used for studies of HIV and SARS-CoV-2.

Due to her interest in infectious disease of global health importance, Overbaugh also emphasized the development of methods for detecting infections in her work.  Because HIV  strains in Africa differed from those in the US, she developed methods to detect infection with those strains and helped validate assays to define the levels of infection.     More recently, she extended this approach to develop methods for detecting antibodies to SARS-CoV-2.

Major awards

Overbaugh received the Elizabeth Glaser Scientist Award for her work in pediatric HIV research in 1999.  In 2011, Overbaugh was named FierceBiotech's 2011 Women in Biotech and was elected to the American Society for Microbiology. Later that year, Overbaugh received the Marion Spencer Fay Leadership Award Drexel University's Institute for Women's Health and Leadership. In 2016, she also received the lifetime achievement Nature Award for Mentoring in Science and was the first US-Based scientists to be recognized with this award. Two years later, she was recognized for her long service to the global fight against HIV with the Field's Memorial Lecture at the opening session of the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. As a result of her studies of HIV transmission and pathogenesis in affected cohorts, including African women and children, she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was also elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences for her studies of HIV transmission and pathogenesis in affected cohorts, including African women and children; she is the first Seattle-based virologist to be elected to the prestigious NAS.

Mentoring

Overbaugh has been recognized in various ways for her mentoring and her commitment to launching the careers of the next generation of scientists.  Her mentoring awards include both local and international recognition.  She established a training program for graduate students to support training in the study of viral diseases and how viruses evolve even before the COVID pandemic highlighted the need to such training. Her trainees have taken a variety of position in academia, government, industry and a broader range of areas.  In academia. Her former trainees have taken faculty positions at Baylor, Columbia, Emory, Harvard, Stanford U Michigan, U Washington, and other Universities focused on research and/or teaching.  Former trainees have also attained positions in global health, at the Gates Foundation, the African Academy of Sciences, and in government at the CDC and NIH and the Kenya Medical Research Institute, Other trainees have secured roles in science policy and diversity and inclusion offices and some have written novels with a science focus.

Contributions to the Practice of Science

Overbaugh has actively contributed to improving the practice of science.  She has written about effective mentoring from the perspective of a highly productive scientist who has also garnered multiple mentoring awards.    She is also well recognized for having a lab that supports work-life balance and as a result, the journal Nature solicited a commentary on this topic.  There she highlighted "there must be room for those who want that balance, otherwise creative people with the potential to make significant contributions to scientific discovery will be excluded". She has written about differences in publication rates in high profile journals based on gender and argued for better tracking to improve this imbalance.  She also lectures on the practice peer-review in ethics forums having served as Chair of NIH grant review panels and as Journal editor.

Advocacy for diversity in science

Overbaugh has been a strong advocate for diversity in science during her career. Overbaugh was the founding faculty lead for Hutch United, a grass roots effort established in 2013 and led by trainees to help promote the success of underrepresented groups in science and those who otherwise felt on the fringes. She has also served in an advisory role in the Fred Hutch Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and was selected as one of three Fred Hutch faculty to present at the 2021 DEI Summit. In her role as senior vice president and director of the Office of Education and Training at the Fred Hutch, she helped oversee efforts to create a more diverse scientific workforce, she served as advocate for diversity in science at all levels and helped provide support for new faculty launching their careers. Overbaugh has published papers in scientific journals pointing out gender bias in the review process.

Overbaugh has the distinction of having hosted the most diverse lab at Fred Hutch.  Among the 64 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows she has trained, 20 are members of the BIPOC community and 10 are members of the LGBTQ+ community. She has published 160 peer reviewed publications with African co-authors, and has mentored numerous African scientists for periods ranging from short-term technical training to masters and PhD level training. Her citation for the Nature Mentorship Award calls out her strengths mentoring African scientists: "She has the patience to listen to and deal with culture shocks and adjustment to new surroundings and a different system of training and education."

Overbaugh's place as a role model and mentor for underrepresented groups in science has been recognized in multiple other ways including by the University of Washington School of Medicine in 2007.  Her leadership was also highlighted in the introductory remarks ahead of her honorary opening lecture at the premiere meeting in the HIV field. There it was noted that she has a reputation as a 'proponent for women's rights'.  In that lecture, Overbaugh highlighted her collaborative and bilateral research with Kenyan partners and emphasized her view of the importance of supporting training of aspiring African scientists.

Leadership and institutional recognition
Overbaugh has  served in numerous leadership roles in the field nationally and internationally, including chair of NIH grant review panels on both HIV molecular biology and HIV immunology, as Chair of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Diseases Award committee, and as chair of Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) as well as other major meetings.

Overbaugh also had major leadership role within her institutions.  In 2017, Overbaugh was appointed the inaugural Hutch associate director for graduate education.  In that capacity, she was subsequently named the inaugural senior vice president for education and in these leadership roles she established a new Office of Education and Training at the Fred Hutch. Overbaugh also established and led an NIH funded program to support and train graduate students pursuing research on viral evolution and pathogenesis across Seattle institutions and she served in a leadership role in the Medical Sciences Training program.

Her education and career development efforts along with her scientific excellence were widely recognized in the Seattle community.  Despite never being given the tenure-track position afforded her male colleagues while at University of Washington, various university selection committees recognized her scientific excellence, both while there and when she moved to the Fred Hutch.  In 1994, as a junior faculty member at UW, Overbaugh was selected to present the New Investigator lecture to the University of Medical School.  In 2011, while at Fred Hutch, she was honored as the distinguished scientist of the year by the University of Washington School of Medicine. As part of this recognition, she presented her work to the School of Medicine in the Science in Medicine seminar series in a talk entitled "Deciphering the biology of HIV transmission: A basic scientist's journey into interdisciplinary, international HIV research".     The University of Washington also recognized Overbaugh with an outstanding mentoring award in 2007.   The Fred Hutch soon followed, bestowing their faculty mentoring award on Overbaugh in 2008.

Resignation from leadership:  In early 2022, Overbaugh was placed on administrative leave from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in order to conduct an independent external investigation. The investigation was prompted by a anonymous complaint regarding a Cancer Research Center Halloween Party in 2009 where she was asked to dress as Michael Jackson as part of a group "Thriller" costume and darkened her face for this role. This was determined to be an isolated incident, and  an interview of her peers and coworkers failed to reveal any pattern of inappropriate behavior of any kind in the past or at any time while employed at Fred Hutch in her twenty-three year tenure.  Overbaugh offered a public apology to the entire Fred Hutch community for any offense as described by the president of the Hutch in the town hall: "As part of [an] education healing process, Julie wanted to offer her direct apology to our community. I commend this." The external independent investigation report noted her decades-long leadership at Fred Hutch in support of equity and inclusion report and concluded that  "Dr. Overbaugh's individual contributions to DEI efforts at Fred Hutch have been significant, wide-reaching, and long-standing."

Having established the Office of Education and the position of senior vice president for education and serving in leadership roles in education for a decade at the Hutch, Overbaugh decided to step down from her administrative leadership roles  to focus on her research on COVID, HIV and other emerging global pathogens.  As the Hutch President reported: "Julie has offered to step down from her role as Senior Vice President of Education and Training and I have accepted her resignation".  "She will continue to be a prominent investigator at the Fred Hutch in the Human Biology Division working on viruses that affect so many people around the world".

Research focus

Overbaugh's laboratory continues to study viral and immune factors that contribute to infection and disease in global populations at high risk of HIV infection. This includes continued studies of mother-infant HIV transmission and infant responses to infection.  An aspect of the work of the lab includes defining how antibodies evolve to become more potent.

During the COVID pandemic, her laboratory started to apply their expertise in viral immunology to advance research on SARS-CoV-2 immunity.  They developed tools that allows comprehensive profiling of antibody responses and pathways of escape. They  are using these profiles to isolate and study antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, with a focus on identifying broad and potent antibodies that can recognize emerging variants of concern.  She has also contributed to the discussions of re-infection.

The lab is studying other globally important pathogens such as Zika virus.  They also study innate immune factors and their role in inhibiting virus replication.

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As Îles d'Hyères (; ou Îles d'Or, ), por vezes aportuguesado para Ilhas de Hyères, são um grupo de quatro ilhas no mar Mediterrâneo, ao largo de Hyères no departamento de Var, sudeste de França. A área total é de 29 km2, e inclui as seguintes ilhas:
Porquerolles - 1254 hectares, extensão da península de Giens
Port-Cros - 650 hectares, a mais montanhosa, parque nacional com flora rara e refúgio de aves
Île de Bagaud - 45 hectares, parte do mesmo parque nacional, e de acesso proibido por ser reserva integral
Île du Levant - 900 hectares, na maioria área militar, e a restante parte um centro de naturismo centrado na propriedade privada denominada Héliopolis

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 Parque Nacional Port-Cros

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St. Patrick's Day in Ireland: As good as advertised
Cassandra Busch | April 14, 2015 | Opinion | No Comments
Although it was a month ago, I definitely want to make sure that I talk about St. Patrick's Day since it was definitely one of the highlights of my time here in Ireland so far. Also, celebrating St. Patrick's Day in Ireland is probably on the bucket list of most people with any sort of Irish heritage. I have exactly 0% Irish heritage, but I still count myself as one of lucky that can now say I have celebrated the holiday on the Emerald Isle.
Ireland spares no expense on the whole celebration. I mean, it does make sense. It's their biggest time for tourism, and thousands upon thousands of visitors pour in every year to be a part of it. There were myriad events offered for locals and tourists that were geared towards celebrating Irish language and heritage. Irish dancing lessons, funfairs, vocal performances, children's workshops, a beer and whiskey festival, the parade, Gaelic games, a 5K run and more were part of the festivities. And of course, the pubs are always electric leading up to the St. Patrick's Day.
I spoke to a few of my internship co-workers the week before St. Patrick's Day, and asked about how the locals celebrated. They said that a lot of the young people go to the pubs and celebrate, parents bring their children to the parade and games, but other than that, many Irish people just stay at home and enjoy a day off work. It's hard not to blame them. Their city is filled with tourists, and the streets were crowded.
However, as a tourist myself, it was a great experience to be a part of. Sure, we knew going into it that it was a very stereotypical tourist thing to do, but I still really enjoyed myself. Sometimes you have to shrug off your ego and the sting of being "just a tourist" and go have fun. So, that's what I did.
On Monday night, I went with a friend to the Festival Céilí in St. Stephen's Green. It was a celebration of traditional Irish dancing, and included musicians playing live traditional music and learning some steps. The Matt Cunningham band performed while well-known ceilí caller Jerry O'Reilly led us through some of the more famous classics such as "Shoe the Donkey" and "The Walls of Limerick." Brooks Academy dancers demonstrated for us as well. There were also special guests that played: Ciarán Ó Maoinigh on fiddle and Caitlín Nic Gabhann on concertina were amazingly talented as well. Caitlín was not only great at playing her concertina; she also broke it down on the dance floor, which was super impressive. They were also joined by Irish champion dancer Dearbhla Lennon, who both danced and presented the event.
I joined hundreds of other participants, from all around the world in enjoying the music and trying to hold my own with the dancing. I was a pretty sad sight to see and was absolutely terrible. It was a lot of fun, and it felt great to celebrate a great piece of Irish culture, even being someone from thousands of miles away. The locals there were very welcoming as well, and I was taken under the wing of an older couple from Dublin who were great at the dancing and helped me to get the hang of at least a few steps. The part I'll always remember though is the "competition" that put five international volunteers up on stage, including a French man, an American, Brazilian girls, and a hilarious Mexican woman named Coca. They were put to the task of repeating an Irish tongue twister involving something about rabbits in winter. The Irish language is not exactly easy to pick up, and their attempts were hilarious (not that I could have done much better).
Tuesday was the big day. We put on our green and joined the thousands of other felt-hat-topped, shamrock-cheeked and Irish-flag wearing superheroes to O'Connell Street to watch the parade. An estimate of about 50,000 people attended the parade that lined block and blocks of Dublin. We overheard languages from all around the world, and at this point, it was really evident just how many people traveled there from other countries. It did surprise me though how many American elements were incorporated into the parade. About every other performer in the parade was an American marching band, playing American songs, which was definitely … unexpected. "Celebration," "Sweet Caroline" and "Happy" were staples.
After the parade, we walked to Croke Park (a huge stadium) to watch a hurling match and a Gaelic football game. This was probably my favorite part of the day, and I learned that I really love watching hurling, which is a sport played with a baseball-sized ball, and that is hit with a stick that is shaped similarly to a lacrosse net into a net or through a goalpost above it. If you haven't heard of it, I would recommend trying to watch some games online! The Irish spirit was great at the games, and we got to hear the Irish national anthem sung as well.
Although we maybe played our tourist roles a little too well over that weekend, it was still great to experience a variety of parts of the Irish culture. It was definitely a St. Patrick's Day I'll never forget, and I don't even care how clichéd that sounds.
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I know I haven't posted in quite some time. The beginning of 2019 only brought misery, heartache and misfortune. It's figuratively beat me like a mob enforcer collecting on a bad debt. I am waiving the white flag and throwing in the towel.
This blog is no longer therapeutic. I'll be saving my writing and once I've completed that this blog will be deleted. I have deleted all Facebook and Instagram accounts too.
Taking a major step back and kicking social media to the curb. I'm taking a step back from church (except enough my daughter to sell Girl Scout cookies as several people expressed interest).
So there you have it. I've enjoyed the few years I have had here, but I find myself without strength or ambition to continue this venture further.
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La batalla de Kesselsdorf entre Prusia y una coalición austriaco-sajona tuvo lugar el 15 de diciembre de 1745 cerca del pueblo de Kesselsdorf, hoy parte de la localidad de Wildsruff, en las cercanías de Dresde (actual Alemania).

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Durante la Segunda Guerra de Silesia (1744-1745), las tropas prusianas del príncipe Leopoldo I de Anhalt-Dessau lucharon contra los aliados austriacos y sajones dirigidos por el Mariscal de Campo Friedrich August Litowski. Los aliados desplegaron 32.000 hombres para la protección de la ciudad de Dresde en las inmediaciones de Kesselsdorf. Dicho pueblo representaba una posición clave en el campo de batalla y fue defendido con 33 cañones repartidos en 3 baterías. El príncipe de Dessau tomó la decisión de atacar el mediodía del 15 de diciembre de 1745.

Las tropas defensoras rechazaron en dos ocasiones las acometidas, que se saldaron con gravísimas pérdidas para los prusianos. Las baterías austriaco-sajonas tuvieron que cesar el fuego porque las tropas amigas se habían lanzado en persecución de los prusianos, que se batían en retirada. El príncipe prusiano aprovechó que el enemigo abandonaba la posición para lanzar un ataque con su caballería junto con las propias tropas que estaban huyendo, con lo que pudo penetrar en Kesselsdorf y capturar la artillería.

Al mismo tiempo, su hijo el príncipe Mauricio había rodeado y atacado el flanco derecho de la línea de los aliados, que había emprendido una desordenada retirada.

Esta batalla decidió la guerra en favor de Prusia. Dresde fue entregada el 17 de diciembre y ya al día siguiente el rey Federico II de Prusia entraba en la ciudad, donde el 25 de diciembre firmaría la Paz de Dresde.

Véase también
 Guerra de Sucesión Austriaca
 Historia de Dresde

Referencias

Bibliografía
 Groehler, Olaf: Die Kriege Friedrichs II., Berlín 1989. (en alemán)
 Engelmann, Joachim / Dorn, Günter: Die Schlachten Friedrich des Großen, Friedberg 1986. (en alemán)

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Sussex stepped up their promotion campaign with a comprehensive defeat of Glamorgan by an innings and 154 runs inside two days to move to second in the Specsavers County Championship second division table.
Their third straight win was achieved by taking 20 Glamorgan wickets in two sessions, the two innings neatly divided by the first 40-minute interval.
Although it was a day-night game, the floodlights were not required as the match was wrapped up by 7pm.
It was a disappointing performance by bottom of the table Glamorgan, with only one win this season. But they ran into a Sussex side with too much firepower in their attack, with Jofra Archer, Ollie Robinson and Chris Jordan all outstanding.
And appropriately the match was completed by its outstanding player, Archer, who uprooted Lukas Carey's middle-stump to give him eight wickets in the match, four in each innings.
Sussex coach Jason Gillespie said: "I can't remember a performance like that. It was pretty special. The boys should be really proud of themselves. I've been around county cricket quite a while and that bowling performance was brilliant, as good as I've ever seen.
It had been Archer who had propelled Sussex towards their sensational day with a devastating burst that brought him four wickets for four runs in just 11 deliveries as Glamorgan were bowled out for 85 before lunch in response to the Sussex innings of 327.
Connor Brown was third out at 15, lbw to Archer as he attempted to work a straight delivery to leg. And Usman Khawaja failed again, this time mistiming his pull shot to give Phil Salt a good running catch.
Cooke edged Jordan for Salt to take another good catch, this time tumbling to his left at third slip. And then Jeremy Lawlor was beaten and bowled as he played forward to Jordan.
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My Amityville Horror
For the first time in 35 years, Daniel Lutz recounts his version of the infamous Amityville haunting that terrified his family in 1975. George and Kathleen Lutz's story went on to inspire a best-selling novel and the subsequent films have continued to fascinate audiences today. This documentary reveals the horror behind growing up as part of a world famous haunting and while Daniel's facts may be other's fiction, the psychological scars he carries are indisputable. Documentary filmmaker, Eric Walter, has combined years of independent research into the Amityville case along with the perspectives of past investigative reporters and eyewitnesses, giving way to the most personal testimony of the subject to date.
Genre: Documentary, Horror
Director: Eric Walter
Actors: Ben Foti, Bobby Sylvester, Daniel Lutz, Elizabeth F. Loftus, Joel Martin, Laura DiDio, Lorraine Warren, Marvin Scott, Neme Alperstein, Peter Jordan, Susan Bartell
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