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2012 August 2 Vintage Sports Collectibles Platinum Night Signature Auction- BaltimoreAuction #7057
Circa 1932 Babe Ruth Game Worn New York Yankees Cap....
Likely dates to the season of his fabled "Called Shot!"
Circa 1932 Babe Ruth Game Worn New York Yankees Cap. It seems only fitting that a hardworking young boy should become the beneficiary of this remarkable gift passed through the hands of two New York Yankees Hall of Famers. Its original owner, the iconic Babe Ruth, authored the definitive American "rags to riches" story with his journey from a Baltimore orphanage to the pinnacle of international celebrity. And legendary manager Joe McCarthy, the intermediary between the Babe and a young paperboy named Robert O'Brian, likely saw in the youngster the same noble work ethic that made Lou Gehrig his favorite charge on the Yankees roster.
O'Brian's lengthy letter of provenance announces that he met the Yankees manager in the course of his newspaper delivery route in the Buffalo, NY neighborhood they shared. "They [the McCarthys] had no children," O'Brian wrote, "and we just seemed to take to one another." He fondly recalls Mrs. McCarthy tapping on the window as he passed, inviting him in for "part of the chicken she was preparing for dinner. I always looked forward to this treat." On another occasion, O'Brian happened upon the McCarthy residence as he hosted a dinner party. McCarthy invited him in "then proceeded to introduce me to Gehrig, Dr. Defoe, who delivered the Dionne quintuplets, Quinton Reynolds--sports writer--Rabbit Maranville--an old time ballplayer--and others whose names I have forgotten."
On one occasion early in the 1932 season, The Buffalo Evening News had a contest awarding a trip to Cleveland to watch the Indians play the Yankees to any boy who signed up twelve new customers. O'Brian quickly filled that quota, and visited McCarthy in the dugout at League Park. A photocopy of a news photo of the two together is included, along with a photocopy of Bobby's ticket stub from the contest.
"Among some of the memorabilia Joe gave me," O'Brian writes, "was Babe Ruth's cap, Wiltsie Moore's uniform (which was stolen when my family moved during the war), several autographed baseballs signed by Ruth, Gehrig, Gomez, Dickey, Crosetti, Lazerri, Keller and the rest of the team."
Exhaustive research by leading game used uniform experts MEARS (Memorabilia Evaluations and Research Services) finds no fault with O'Brian's tale, referencing two other Yankees caps (worn by Miller Huggins and Tony Lazzeri) with the same method of player identification, a typed swatch sewn into the leather headband of the interior (here it reads "B. Ruth.") The Huggins model was donated to the Baseball Hall of Fame by Ed Barrow, and the Lazzeri was consigned to a 2003 auction by his family. Ruth's final Yankees caps have the name embroidered directly into the headband, the standard for most of the 1930's. Considering this fact, along with the certainty that the cap could only derive from McCarthy and Ruth's shared years of Yankee service (1931-34), it has been determined that it likely derives from the 1932 season that O'Brian visited McCarthy in Cleveland on the Buffalo newsboy excursion.
The cap exhibits heavy wear with some minor loss to the "NY" logo and splitting of the navy material at the edge of the visor. The appearance of some white paint speckles reminds us that baseball memorabilia once held very little esteem--we've seen other occasions as well when caps and uniforms were worn to keep paint off one's "good clothes." Such appears to be the staggeringly ironic case here.
Ownership of Babe Ruth uniform material from his historic New York Yankees tenure places the collector in the most elite of hobby brotherhoods, and one could count the available caps on a single hand. David Wells' personally owned model, which he himself famously wore on the mound in a 1997 pitching appearance, recently made hobby history with a record price north of a half million dollars. A jersey worn by Ruth became the highest-priced item of sports collectibles ever sold at over $4.4 million in the same event. Clearly the Ruth market is stronger than ever, and we expect those collectors with an eye toward investment potential to play a leading role in the bidding activity for this true American treasure. LOA from MEARS, Authentic.
2nd Thursday
Thank you for your expertise, guidance through the auction process and for getting them top dollar for the cards.
Mark F.,


Throughout my life I have started to become more of an opportunistic buyer. I didn't used to always be this way though.
Why not just buy right away if you need it?
I used to just go out and get something right away if I needed it. I figured if I needed something, why waste much time doing a bunch of research before buying it? Or why not just go out and get it if I need it?
That works in many cases. For example, if I need some toothpaste, I might as well just go buy it right away. I can price shop at the store. I know that I'll be able to find it in many different stores.
But then there is the opportunistic side of me. When it comes to items with a heavier price tag, I tend to wait a bit and try to be opportunistic before I spend a good amount of money on something that I very well could find for much cheaper.
Those types of things, I've found, can be had for cheap if you know where to dig around.
A few months ago I decided I wanted a recliner. I had looked around and found that if I wanted a comfortable recliner I was going to need to spend several hundred dollars, maybe even close to a thousand for a really nice one.
I didn't want to spend that much, but I really wanted a recliner.
I started to take a couple hours here or there on weekends to browse some pawn shops and consignment stores. I eventually found a very nice, big comfortable recliner for about $200. It was in really nice shape, and it was even a color that I liked. It was a great opportunity to get the recliner I wanted and I was going to save myself several hundred dollars just because I waited it out for a few weeks and looked around a bit.
I do this a lot with stuff like music gear (I'm a drummer) and computers as well. Somebody will always put something on sale somewhere, and if you're in the right place at the right time you can score an awesome deal.
So, that is the way I shop for big stuff. It saves me a lot of money. I have to be patient when I decide I want something, but hey it works for me. I look around my apartment right now and I'm seeing a ton of stuff that I didn't really pay much money for at all, but it looks like I spent a lot of money to furnish the place. That's a pretty good feeling, and my wallet is thicker as a result as well.


Hue Jackson insists Baker Mayfield won't start, but will the Browns be able to resist?
Hue Jackson is laying the foundation to reject a series of questions he is going to get from now until Sept. 9, when the Cleveland Browns start this season.
We've heard this from other coaches before, and it's rare for them to stick to it very long. It's especially rare to be patient when you have a No. 1 overall pick at quarterback, like the Browns do with Baker Mayfield. Taylor is a good quarterback, but for a franchise that has lost 31 of 32 games the last two seasons, Mayfield represents so much more. He is hope for a better era ahead.
If Mayfield doesn't start Week 1, that would be rare. After JaMarcus Russell, who couldn't start Week 1 of his rookie season because he held out under the old rookie contract system, the next five first overall picks at quarterback started every available game, including the season opener. Matthew Stafford's rookie season was cut short due to injury, but Sam Bradford, Cam Newton, Andrew Luck and Jameis Winston started all 16 games.
Jared Goff was an exception. In 2016, the first overall pick sat and waited for a while (and had a poor rookie season when he did play, which he reversed in 2017). But the No. 2 pick that year, Carson Wentz, started all 16 games for the Philadelphia Eagles even after missing time in preseason with an injury. Goff's first coaching staff with the Los Angeles Rams wasn't known for its keen decision-making, so maybe that played a part. However, it's the most recent example of a team actually not starting its top overall pick right away.
Nobody thinks Jackson is going to hold firm to Taylor being the starter all season. That really never happens anymore — and listen up, New York Jets, Buffalo Bills, Arizona Cardinals and Baltimore Ravens, because this applies to you and your first-round quarterbacks too. From 2006, the year after Aaron Rodgers and Jason Campbell were drafted in the first round and didn't start a game, through last year, 30 quarterbacks were taken in the first round. Of them, 28 started at least one game as a rookie. The only exceptions were Brady Quinn in 2007 and Jake Locker in 2011, and neither of them did much in the NFL even after waiting and learning.
We'll see Mayfield at some point this season. It's just whether he can do enough to win the job by Week 1, and alter Jackson's "That won't change" proclamation. Mayfield, who is famously confident, didn't mind that his head coach already said someone else is the team's starter.
Jackson said Mayfield threw the ball well at the minicamp. The issue for him was working under center, since he spent his entire college career out of the shotgun. Jackson and Mayfield were peppered with questions about his ability to take snaps from under center. It's mostly figuring out the footwork, and Jackson said Mayfield is athletic enough to figure it out quickly.
It's fine that Jackson says Taylor is the starter now. He's a veteran and has had success in the NFL. Even though Mayfield has a great pedigree and will be the starter soon, the team might feel it's in its best interests to not anoint Mayfield before he has earned it, even if that's an outdated ritual. There's no problem in Jackson saying in early May that Taylor is his quarterback.
The only question is how long he can stick to it before the inevitable happens and the Browns fans get to see if Mayfield can turn their franchise around.


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I just completed a week long (too short!) residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont. It was really fantastic. I completed a new animated projection drawing installation – it's called APOCALYPSE LATER. More soon!


There are not enough words to describe my time in Japan, but if I had to choose I would say that it was an incredible, wonderful, new experience that I will always cherish. From the food to the culture to staying with my host family to sightseeing and shopping, there was never one moment where I thought to myself that I would rather be in America.
The most meaningful part to me of this trip was the stay with the host family, because even though there was a big language barrier I really appreciated the fact how my host parents still tried to communicate and bond with me. I enjoyed how my host mom took my roommate and me to try on kimonos and have a small tea ceremony with sakura tea, because I know how this is a big part of Japanese culture. Also, the most informative part of the trip was when we were greeted with information about the history of Japan and what Japan stands for. I love the whole idea behind peace that Japan has that I never have felt unsafe during my stay there. This trip made me realize how America isn't the greatest place to live in as everyone says it is. There are other places in the world that go unrecognized and Japan is one of them. Many people should know about Japan and they will most likely want to live there too.
Overall, everyone in Japan was so kind and respectful, that not once did I feel unwelcomed. There's so much to learn in Japan. I only wish that the trip could've been longer but from my short time there, I can truly say with no doubt in my heart that I will return to Japan.


Hundreds of thousands of red Skittles were seen last week scattered across the Dodge County Highway in Wisconsin, USA.
At the time, no one knew the reason. Until a local police inquiry come, residents have learned the red candies were supposed to be food for cows in the area.
"The Skittles were confirmed to have fallen off the back of a truck," Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt said on Facebook last week.
Wisconsin police first came across the scene last Tuesday—when they noticed a rural highway about 60 miles west of Milkwaukee, was painted in a sea of red, thanks to a massive amount of strawberry-flavored Skittles.
Though they were missing the candy's white "S" on the hard shells, policemen knew they were Skittles based off the smell.
"There's no little 'S' on them, but you can definitely smell, it's a distinct Skittles smell," Sheriff Dale Schmidt told local CNN affiliate WISN.
With thorough police probe, officials found that they candies were intended to be used as feed—a practice that actually goes back decades but became more popular after corn prices surged in 2012 and farmers sought a cheaper, alternative way to feed their livestock.
According to CNN, the candy provides "cheap carbs" to the cattle.
"(It) is a very good way for producers to reduce feed cost, and to provide less expensive food for consumers," said Ki Fanning, a livestock nutritionist with Great Plains Livestock Consulting, said the media.
In 2012, Professor John Waller, animal nutritionist of University of Tennessee, said adding candy to cow feed is pretty common, a practice that works because cows are ruminant animals.
"Ruminant animals, which include goats, sheep, cattle and giraffes, take their name from the first of four compartments in their stomach, the rumen. In it, food is broken down into solids and liquids by robust microbes, after which the partially digested solids, now called the cud, are regurgitated and re-chewed," he explained.


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A cruise line recently received an award for having the best cruise ship that carries 1,000 passengers or less.
SeaDream Yacht Club received the prestigious 2023 Grand Travel Award in the category "Best Cruise Ship Under 1,000 Passengers" for their two cruise ships, SeaDream I and SeaDream II.
Andreas Brynestad of SeaDream Yacht Club gave the following statement: "We're honored to have won this prestigious award for "Best Cruise Ship Under 1,000 Passengers" as it is our mission to provide intimate yachting experiences for our guests. With our recent $10 million renovation of SeaDream I and SeaDream II, and our crew who provide highly attentive service to just 56 couples, we're delighted to be voted the best of the best among Norway's travel industry."
The Grand Travel Award was established in 1995 and holds an annual prize-giving ceremony for the Norwegian travel trade. Voting is done by members of the travel and tourism industry.
SeaDream Yacht Club is a family owned cruise line that operates two 102 passenger cruise ships. The vessels offer a luxury small ship experience with plentiful open deck spaces and call on exclusive harbors and secluded ports around the world on seven to 15 night cruises.
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Deltatheroida is an extinct group of basal metatherians that were distantly related to modern marsupials. The majority of known members of the group lived in the Cretaceous; one species, Gurbanodelta kara, is known from the late Paleocene (Gashatan) of China. Their fossils are restricted to Central Asia and North America. This order can be defined as all metatherians closer to Deltatheridium than to Marsupialia.

These mammals possessed primitive tritubercular (three-cusped) lower molars that were not tribosphenic. This is awkward because tribosphenic molars are commonly found in most therian mammals (there exist some exceptions such as anteaters and some whales, which have no teeth at all).

When they were first identified in the 1920s, they were believed to be placentals and possible ancestors of the "creodonts" (a polyphyletic group of extinct carnivorous mammals from the Paleogene and Miocene), but this was later disproven. Nonetheless, deltatheroideans do converge on hyaenodontids, oxyaenids, carnivorans, dasyuromorphs and sparassodonts in many details of their dental anatomy, suggesting a carnivorous lifestyle.

Taxonomy
The following is a species list of Deltatheroida.

†Deltatheroida Kielan-Jaworowska 1982 [Deltatheralia Marshall & Kielan-Jaworowska 1992; Holarctidelphia Szalay 1993]
 †Pappotheriidae
 †Pappotherium
 †Deltatheridiidae Gregory & Simpson 1926 [Deltatheridia Van Valen 1965; Nanocuridae Fox, Scott & Bryant 2007; Sulestinae Nessov 1985; Deltatheroididae Kielan-Jaworowska & Nesov 1990]
 †Hyotheridium dobsoni Gregory & Simpson 1926
 †Lotheridium mengi Bi et al. 2015
 †Nanocuris improvida Fox, Scott & Bryant 2007
 †Prodeltitheridium kalandadze Trofimov 1984
 †Oklatheridium Davis, Cifelli & Kielan-Jaworowska 2008
 †O. szalayi Davis, Cifelli & Kielan-Jaworowska 2008
 †O. minax Davis & Cifelli 2011
 †O. wiblei Cifelli & Davis 2015
 †Atokatheridium boreni Kielan-Jaworowska & Cifelli 2001
 †Deltatheridium Gregory & Simpson 1926
 †D. pretrituberculare Gregory & Simpson 1926
 †D. nesovi Averianov 1997
 †Sulestes karakshi Nesov 1985 [Deltatherus Nesov 1997; Marsasia Nesov 1997; Deltatheroides kizylkumensis Nesov 1993; Deltatherus kizylkumensis (Nesov 1993) Nesov 1997; Marsasia aenigma Nesov 1997]
 †Tsagandelta dashzevegi Rougier, Davis & Novacek 2015
 †Deltatheroides cretacicus Gregory & Simpson 1926
 †Gurbanodelta kara Ni et al. 2016

Biology
Deltatheroideans are thought to be carnivorous mammals, converging on hyaenodontids, oxyaenids, carnivorans, dasyuromorphs and sparassodonts in many details of their dental anatomy, suggesting a carnivorous lifestyle.

Deltatheroideans in this regard appear to have replaced eutriconodont mammals as the dominant carnivorous mammals of the Mesozoic, either directly through competition or occupying vacant ecological niches; in North America, Nanocuris came to succeed the larger gobiconodontids and Jugulator, while in Asia the Early Cretaceous gobiconodontid radiation is replaced in the Late Cretaceous by a deltatheroidean one. Given that all insectivorous and carnivorous mammals groups suffered heavy losses during the mid-Cretaceous, it seems likely these metatherians simply occupied niches left after the extinction of eutriconodonts.

Evidence of direct predation on dinosaurs may be attested on a skull belonging to Archaeornithoides, which seems to have been punctured by Deltatheridium teeth and later healed.

See also
Asiadelphia
Marsupial

References

Further reading
Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Richard L. Cifelli, and Zhe-Xi Luo, Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs: Origins, Evolution, and Structure (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), 444-448.

Prehistoric metatherians
Aptian first appearances
Paleocene extinctions
Fossil taxa described in 1926

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import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import org.olat.core.logging.AssertException;

/**
 * Description:

 * Initial Date:  28.03.2006

 *
 * @author Felix Jost
 */
public class CommandFactory {

	/**
	 * tells the ajax-command interpreter to reload the main (=ajax's parent) window
	 * @param redirectURL e.g. /olat/m/10001/
	 * @return the generated command
	 */
	public static Command createParentRedirectTo(String redirectURL) {
		JSONObject root = new JSONObject();
		try {
			root.put("rurl", redirectURL);
		} catch (JSONException e) {
			throw new AssertException("wrong data put into json object", e);
		}
		Command c = new Command(3);
		c.setSubJSON(root);
		return c;
	}

	/**
	 * command to replace sub tree of the dom with html-fragments and execute the script-tags of the fragments
	 * @return
	 */
	public static Command createDirtyComponentsCommand() {
		return new Command(2);
	}

	/**
	 * command to calculate the needed js lib to add, the needed css to include, and the needed css to hide/remove
	 * @return
	 */
	public static Command createJSCSSCommand() {
		return new Command(7);
	}

	/**
	 * - resets the js flag which is set when the user changes form data and is checked when an other link is clicked.(to prevent form data loss).

	 * @return the command
	 */
	public static Command createPrepareClientCommand(String businessControlPath) {
		JSONObject root = new JSONObject();
		try {
			root.put("bc", businessControlPath==null? "":businessControlPath);
		} catch (JSONException e) {
			throw new AssertException("wrong data put into json object", e);
		}
		Command c = new Command(6);
		c.setSubJSON(root);
		return c;
	}

	/**
	 * @param res
	 * @return
	 */
	public static Command createParentRedirectForExternalResource(String redirectMapperURL) {
		JSONObject root = new JSONObject();
		try {
			root.put("rurl", redirectMapperURL);
		} catch (JSONException e) {
			throw new AssertException("wrong data put into json object", e);
		}
		Command c = new Command(5);
		c.setSubJSON(root);
		return c;
	}

}

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Brunch and Bonding time at ABC.
Acme Bar and Coffee (also known as ABC) is the only restaurant which comes into our mind when we were deciding which cafe we should dine at. No doubt, ABC is highly reputable for its beautiful environment and its marvelous food! Ever since I tried their Sizzling Brownie last time, I couldn't help but fell in deep love with ABC already!
So this is my second time there, with Lumi and Melissa. Luckily I could still remember some of the directions to get there! :B By the way, say hi to my pretty darlings!
"WA, LOOK AT HER HAIR."(Obviously not mine but her's, the girl beside me) I love Lumi's bright and purple hair a lot!!! It's so conspicuous and unique! And it suits her so much right?
It feels so great to be with them because we have endless topics and gossips to chatter over. There's not a single second of awkwardness in between our conversations! Apparently we share the common passion: Blogging, food and fashion! The girls are also caring enough to purposely drive all the way to Sungei Wang (where my dad's shop is located) to pick me up, only then we all head to ABC. I actually offered to wait somewhere which is more convenient for them to pick me up, but Melissa said: "You want me to bite you ah? Don't walk alone okay! We come over to fetch you!" Aww, this is so heartwarming right?
This darling dressed up so sexily!
Oops! Sorry for all the selca pics heh! Time for some food pics!
I noticed that ABC's main courses comes in huge portion during my first visit so I suggested to share all the dishes so that we won't feel too stuffed up by the heavy servings.
So this is the Acme's Breakfast Club (Rm33), which allows you to choose your desired type of bread, eggs and side dishes! We opted for Italian toasted bread, scrambled eggs, Sauteed mushroom, hashbrowns and roasted turkey breasts!
Indeed, their breakfast platter is really huge in portion and I swear I could take forever but still couldn't finish it by myself lol. Scrambled eggs are not too salty and it's taste synergized so well with the Italian toasted bread. The best part is the sauteed mushrooms: extremely flavorful, juicy and springy haha! But the turkey breasts and cabbage were a little disappointing. Otherwise, it would be a perfect plate of breakfast platter!
Coddled Eggs (rm18, not quite sure about the price!) Well, the eggs are half-cooked below boiling point and there are "hidden gems" under the coddled eggs!! When you stir them, you can actually find beef bacon-wrapped snails in it! And yes.....I finally had snails for the first time in my life.
I'm crazy for Maths because my shirt proves it lolol!!
More close-up pics for my OOTD!


A world class documentary film is going to made on the princess of Archery Deepika Kumari.Deepika,who was awarded Padamshree and Arjuna award,is born and brought up in Ranchi.A product of the Tata Academy in Jamshedpur has equaled the Women's Recurve Event World Record (WR) at the Archery World Cup 2016 being held in Shanghai, earlier today. The Arjun Award-winning Indian archer who had a total of 346 out of 360 at the mid-interval, tallied a final score of 686 out of 720 to equal South Korea's Ko Boe Bae's World Record (WR).
As the Ranchi girl finished first in the qualifying stage of the 2016 Shanghai Archery World Cup, South Korea's Jo Areum finished second with a score of 676 while Lisa Unruh of Germany finished third with a score of 672.The film is going to be made by US based Production House.Today,the shooting of the film was made at Damodar Maidan,Dugni Archery Academy in Kharsawan.Deepika was present on the occasion.The Director of the film is Yuvraj Behl.
"The documentary film will show Deepika's life from his birth till date",said Behl.
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2,173 Credentials awarded through workforce grant program
RICHMOND – Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced Monday that, through the New Economy Workforce Credentials Grant program, Virginia's Community Colleges provided workforce training that enabled 2,173 Virginians to secure industry-recognized credentials, licenses, and certifications needed for high-demand careers, in the first year of the grant program. Gov. McAuliffe awarded the 2,172nd and 2,173rd credentials at an event commemorating this achievement this afternoon.
This milestone nearly triples the number of people who were credentialed last year, bringing the total to 4,268 Virginians. More than half of the credential earners, 2,173, took advantage of the New Economy Workforce Credentials Grant program. Training for the remaining 2,095 credentials was funded by employers, federal grants, or other private sources.
"Today's announcement is a landmark achievement for our workforce development efforts," said Gov. Terry McAuliffe speaking at the announcement event. "Clearly, the timing was right for this innovative initiative to help our businesses find qualified workers and empower more Virginians to seek good-paying jobs. In partnership with the General Assembly and our public and private sector partners, we are filling key gaps in the workforce pipeline and putting more Virginians to work in the new Virginia economy."
"Whether we're attracting new businesses to Virginia or helping our existing employers grow and compete, we need to continually strengthen our workforce," said Secretary of Commerce and Trade Todd Haymore. "Today's announcement marks a nearly 180 percent increase in earned credentials in the first year of this program. This significant growth is a great sign for what we can do for Virginia's workforce moving forward."
With broad bipartisan support, the 2016 General Assembly created the New Economy Workforce Credential Grant Fund and program to encourage more Virginians to prepare for careers that require specialized training, but not necessarily college degrees. This fund provides grants covering two-thirds of the tuition for students who are enrolled in a workforce training program designed to fill in-demand jobs in their home region. The year before the new workforce training grant program went into effect, community colleges provided training for 1,528 Virginians to earn those professional credentials.
"This success is a tribute to the power of collaboration," said Glenn DuBois, Chancellor of Virginia's Community Colleges. "As we ramped up our workforce training capacity to respond to the new state grants program, we also created new training opportunities that motivated students to tap into a variety of other funding sources."
"This is a significant milestone in Virginia's efforts to better align the workforce system to help close the skills gap and prepare Virginians for good careers in high priority industries," added Mark Herzog, Chair of the Virginia Board of Workforce Development.
Virginia's businesses are eager to hire workers with a wide variety of skills in fields ranging from information technology and advanced manufacturing to education, health care, logistics and transportation. By pursuing industry-recognized credentials, students can qualify for promising careers in weeks or months instead of semesters and years, and without incurring large amounts of student debt.
"Through better and more accessible training, Virginia is boosting its ability to create a 21st century workforce," said Barry DuVal, President and CEO of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce. "This is great news for our business community and for people who are starting out or getting a fresh start on their careers."
Now entering its second year of operation, Virginia's New Economy Workforce Credential Grant program greatly reduces the out-of-pocket cost for Virginians to enroll in specified training programs to earn industry-recognized certifications. The Virginia Board of Workforce Development has developed a list of high-demand occupations, which is further vetted as educators work closely with Virginia businesses in regions across the Commonwealth to develop and deliver related workforce training to prepare people for those jobs. Currently, grants are available to support 146 training courses offered throughout Virginia's 23 community colleges. To learn more about workforce credential grants, please visit http://www.vccs.edu/workforce/.


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'We're coming to them': One Colorado vaccine activist looks to get shots to every Latino
By John Daley
Sonya Doctorian for Colorado Vaccine Equity Taskforce
Julissa Soto is an independent health equity consultant who works with the state. She spoke about vaccines on Sunday, Nov. 28, 2021, to the congregation of the Ascension Catholic Parish in Denver's Montbello neighborhood.
At the Ascension Catholic Parish in Denver's Montbello neighborhood, on a recent Sunday morning, a church band played. Hundreds of people packed the pews. In the front of the room there was a large gold cross, a painting of the Virgin Mary and a bouquet of white flowers.
Every single person was wearing a mask, as a woman with long dark hair stepped up to the pulpit. "Buenos días, mi nombre es Julissa Soto," she said.
Soto was not there to talk religion or read scripture. She was here to speak about health, specifically COVID-19 immunization. She gave a simple, roughly four-minute message: COVID-19 vaccines are safe, effective, available and can keep you and your family safe and healthy.
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In the church parking lot, a state vaccination bus was parked. Volunteers were preparing to give doses as Soto, an independent health equity consultant who works with the state, looked on.
Nearly two years into the pandemic, the new omicron variant is spreading at lightning speed. And whether it's a product of misinformation, hesitancy, lack of access, or even fear, the number of Latinos in Colorado who are vaccinated lags far behind the share of the white population that is immunized. That could mean trouble both for these residents and for Colorado's already stressed health care system. But Soto is doing something about those numbers.
"I'm on a mission of getting my community vaccinated and I will not stop until I get the last Latino vaccinated," Soto said.
By one measure, about 40 percent of Colorado Hispanics five and older have gotten a vaccine dose. That's 34 percent lower than white Coloradans, according to a recent report from the health research group KFF.
The KFF analysis found Colorado's vaccination gap between white and Hispanic populations is the second largest in the U.S. and bigger than other western states like New Mexico (-19), Utah (-10), Arizona (-18) and California (-12).
(Note: the government and therefore many research groups use the term Hispanic rather than Latino or Latinx.)
Dr. Lily Cervantes, right, administers a COVID-19 vaccine during a pop-up clinic Friday evening, December 3, 2021, in the community center of the Villages at Gateway Apartments in Denver's Montbello neighborhood. The event, organized by Julissa Soto, Conectores de Montbello and Kids in Need of Dentistry, provided gift bags to the first 60 kids vaccinated, as well as a visit with Santa Claus.
Accounting for unknowns
According to a state analysis, the true number of Hispanic vaccinations is probably better than that, likely closer to 50 percent, but the numbers are skewed because a lot of people, about 10 percent of all Coloradans given one dose, decline to provide that information.
"It poses a challenge as we're trying to make sure that we're equitable across the state and covering every community that we can," said Will Zigler, the COVID-19 data director with the state health department.
If you look at the state's COVID-19 vaccine data dashboard, Hispanics make up 20 percent of the state's population, but just 11 percent of Coloradans who've gotten one dose; the figure for those with an additional dose is lower, just 8 percent of all residents who have gotten an added shot.
Officials with the state health department said they realized the nearly 10 percent classified as "unknown" was a problem. So they dove into the data and talked to modelers with the CU School of Public Health. They analyzed U.S. Census data, comparing census tracts of vaccine recipients with known racial and ethnic breakdowns for specific neighborhoods. Based on that, using a geography-based strategy and probability-based surname analysis (called the Bayesian Improved Surname and Geocoding methodology), they could figure out nine out 10 of the shots classified as unknown.
"It really ends up being very precise," Zigler said.
The state now calculates Hispanics make up about 30 percent of the unknown.
Based on that analysis, the overall percentage of Hispanics with one dose is actually nearly 50 percent, rather than 40 percent, said Zigler.
Father Adrian Hernandez speaks to Julissa Soto before mass at the Ascension Catholic Parish in Denver's Montbello neighborhood.
From the community, in the community
But no one disputes that the Latino population lags behind other groups.
Part of Soto's strategy is giving shots to Latinos (her preferred term) when it works best. "Most of us organize clinics 8 to 12, Monday to Friday, 9 to 2 p.m. That's a no-no," she said. "Most immigrants work two, three jobs."
Soto said her own story connects with this hard-working community.
"I came here 22 years ago, undocumented, uneducated. I crossed the border in the trunk of a car. So I understand the needs of this community," Soto said. "Now I'm a U.S. citizen. I'm highly educated. I speak two languages."
That comes in handy because she had lots of questions that Sunday.
Outside the church, near a table where volunteers were giving vaccine doses, Soto patiently talked to person after person, mostly in Spanish. One woman wanted to know more about boosters. "So she's asking for the booster. She's saying, 'Is it true?' She was asking me, 'Is it true there is a third vaccine?'" Soto explained.
Soto said her vaccine knowledge is trusted because she's from the community, and is constantly out in the community, addressing many fears.
"One of the biggest fears is that the government planned this to see who's documented or undocumented. So they can find out who will be kicked out of the country," she said. "I say no!"
It's no coincidence this vaccine clinic is happening here. The Catholic Church is an essential community institution. Father Adrian Hernandez, wearing purple garments and a black mask, said the parish is happy Soto is raising awareness.
"It's a beautiful blessing for us," he said. "I don't know why it's been quite difficult to give the vaccination just going on around the Hispanic community. There is a lot of misinformation out there."
Hernandez said the parish wants to give this vulnerable population good information so they can choose for themselves.
"So the Catholic Church actually says that either receiving or not receiving the vaccines is not a sin. What could be a sin, could be a sin, is not to receive the proper information," he said.
For Hernandez, the issue is personal. "Last year around November, I got COVID and it was no fun at all." He was hospitalized. "It was for four days," Hernandez said. "Sadly COVID got me before I got my vaccination."
Many others here have their own COVID-19 experiences, like 33-year-old Maria Chavez. She said she'd heard stories "that it was bad for you and you were going to turn into zombies and all that."
She and her relatives hesitated to get vaccinated at first. "We didn't even believe in COVID-19 to make it clear. We didn't believe it until it happened in our family," Chavez said.
When the big COVID-19 wave hit a year ago her dad, Jose, a father of four, got sick. He worked for a landscaping company and was unvaccinated at a time when vaccines were not yet available. And he was careful and always wore a mask.
Still, he got a positive test. But Chavez said he couldn't get into a hospital.
"No, they didn't have space for him. They were full," Chavez said. "So they had to wait until someone passed away in order for him to get in."
Chavez says her father died at home Jan. 9. He was 57.
"That's when you believe in COVID-19," she said.
After that, Maria Chavez said, her entire family got vaccinated. And she started volunteering, sharing her time and her story at community clinics like the one at this church, where a long line for the vaccine snakes around the outside of the building.
One man here is Rene Brizuela. He works for a cement contractor. He came for a booster and is on board with the pro-vaccine message Soto delivered to the congregation. "That's helped me. Yeah. A lot. Because, some people, from us, we need that information," Brizuela said. "Sometimes we don't have enough information, you know? So now we know."
Nolvia Maldonado rolled up her sleeve for her first shot. She'd heard some unsettling things before, she said.
"She's saying 'When people get vaccinated, you will die right away,'" said Soto, translating.
But a talk from the parish priest persuaded Maldonado. Again, Soto translated. "And the priest was saying that 'We don't need to be afraid. We need to get vaccinated.' That this is OK."
Tara Trujillo, deputy executive director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, credits community partners, like Soto, with using their contacts and neighborhood roots to reach out "and in places where you could just see people walking across the street, come into the community center to get their vaccine and to get their Walmart gift card," one of the state-provided incentives.
A line extended out the door and into the parking for hours at a COVID-19 vaccine pop-up clinic Friday evening, December 3, 2021, in the community center of the Villages at Gateway Apartments in Denver's Montbello neighborhood. The event, organized by Julissa Soto, Conectores de Montbello and Kids in Need of Dentistry, provided gift bags to the first 60 kids vaccinated, as well as a visit with Santa Claus.
Not so much hesitance as a lack of access
Some leaders reject the idea that this community hesitates to get vaccinated.
"We're not hesitant. We are not hesitant," said Nita Gonzales, a regional outreach and engagement coordinator with the state health department. "We have to battle the fact that we don't have what normally other folks have: a health home. We don't have a primary care doctor. We oftentimes don't have insurance."
Absent those things, she said, many don't have a convenient, reliable place to take care of routine health needs. "We don't have that," Gonzales said. "So we came up against that."
One community health center, Tepeyac Community Health Center in north Denver, started a more direct route to get the word out: a campaign to go door to door in the Globeville-Elyria-Swansea neighborhood.
"It's been a great opportunity to just connect with people," and bring them more information about the value of vaccines, said Jim Garcia, the clinic's CEO. Many folks they talk to have already gotten shots; close to a thousand people who hadn't yet were directed to a vaccine site.
"We've seen from our perspective, from a neighborhood perspective, that we are seeing that level of receptivity, I think, from individuals that are open to getting vaccinated," he said.
He said he's not hearing much political opposition in the neighborhood to getting vaccinated, unlike other parts of the state and country. But a handful of residents were adamant about not getting a vaccine shot.
"Within the Spanish-speaking community, I think that the level of misinformation is just as prevalent, if not more so," than elsewhere, Garcia said. "There's still a lot of work that needs to be done in terms of correcting the information."
Other community leaders, like Dr. Lily Cervantes, say overcoming misinformation is hard.
"I spoke to a new mom who said she didn't have the time to leave her apartment to get the vaccine and had no one available to help her care for her newborn," said Cervantes, an associate professor in the department of medicine, at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
The woman worried that her newborn could be infected with COVID if she left her home with her baby to get vaccinated, said Cervantes, a member of the Colorado Vaccine Equity Taskforce. On top of all of this, she said, the mother is undocumented and worried that if her friend was right about the COVID-19 vaccine (that it was created by the government to deport or eliminate them) then she would be separated from her baby.
One can imagine the obstacles and challenges faced by this community if they place themselves in the shoes of a primarily Spanish-speaking Latino or Latina who is an essential worker, supporting a family of four, Cervantes said. They are balancing competing social challenges that are priorities, like putting food on the table, childcare, and working, and have no safeguards.
"For this community, family comes first and self-care comes second and if there are concerns, such as religious, side-effects, or simply due to competing social challenges, they may not get the vaccine," said Cervantes, who recently wrote about the importance of investing in social services to attain equitable vaccine distribution, in JAMA Network Open .
Congregants, wearing masks, attend a service at the Ascension Catholic Parish in Montbello on Sunday, Nov. 28, 2021.
'We're coming to them'
A recent study, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, underscores the importance of community engagement, trust building and proactive communication as key to getting more people vaccinated. That is exactly what Soto is doing. She constantly distributes texts and flyers for events at late night concerts, community centers, holiday parties with toys and food, and churches.
An ambitious, multi-faceted approach, with support from community leaders is critical, she said.
"It's the priest, the leaders of our church, leaders like myself, and a place, where it's their neighborhood," said Soto. "We're coming to them. So they don't have to drive. They don't have to spend money on gas."
Soto continued. "How is that equity when we have to drive all the way to downtown? Some of us don't even have a driver license. We don't speak English. Where's the language justice? Is that equity for you? So you tell me."
The pandemic has hit her community hard, Soto said, and that likely won't change until more members get vaccinated. That, she said, will take a concerted, long-term push.
"We are about equity and this is what equity looks like."
Soto is now looking to redouble her efforts. She worries about the super-transmissible omicron variant, with hundreds of thousands of Spanish-speaking Coloradans still not vaccinated with a first dose, let alone a booster.


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February 16, 2018 | General News
DBS Asaba Television Begins Test Transmission
By Kenneth Orusi, The Nigerian Voice, Asaba
Delta Broadcasting Service (DBS) Asaba, would soon begin transmission test as efforts of government is to ensure that it serves the purpose of establishment.
Delta State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Patrick Ukah, in a statement in Asaba on Wednesday, stated that viewers could receive the station on terrestrial channel 25.
He said that the station is currently transmitting on channel 25 because of interference on channel 23 occasioned by the massive flood that destroyed equipment in the station last year.
Mr. Ukah revealed that the development was promptly reported to the Director General of Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC) and they are aware that the station is currently transmitting on channel 25.
The Commissioner for Information assured that once the station returns fully on air, a schedule that will improve the programmes of the station and staff training will take center stage.


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NOWs: Persona grata
16. Oktober 2018 - 20. Januar 2019 / Nows
Persona grata
Group exhibition with Dan Stockholm, Anri Sala et. al.
16 October 2018 – 20 January 2019
Co-curated by Anne-Laure Flacelière, MAC VAL collection Study and Development Officer and Isabelle Renard, Collections and Exhibitions Director at the Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration
With works by Bertille Bak, Dominique Blais, Alina Bliumis, Jeff Bliumis, Halida Boughriet, Kyungwoo Chun, Philippe Cognée, Pascale Consigny, Hamid Debarrah, Latifa Echakhch, Eléonore False, Claire Fontaine, Laura Henno, Pierre Huyghe, Bertrand Lamarche, Xie Lei, Lahouari Mohammed Bakir, Moataz Nasr, Eva Nielsen, Gina Pane, Laure Prouvost, Enrique Ramirez, Judit Reigl, Anri Sala, Sarkis, Zineb Sedira, Bruno Serralongue, Chiharu Shiota, Société Réaliste, Dan Stockholm, Barthélémy Toguo…
MAC VAL – Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne
Place de la Libération
94400 Vitry-sur-Seine
Curated by Ingrid Jurzak, MAC VAL Collection Study and Management Officer
With works by Eduardo Arroyo, Kader Attia, Marcos Avila Forero, Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann, Bertille Bak, Richard Baquié, Taysir Batniji, Ben, Bruno Boudjelal, David Brognon & Stéphanie Rollin, Mark Brusse, Pierre Buraglio, Mircea Cantor, Étienne Chambaud, Kyungwoo Chun, Clément Cogitore, Philippe Cognée, Delphine Coindet, Matali Crasset, Julien Discrit, Thierry Fontaine, Jochen Gerz, Ghazel, Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Mona Hatoum, Eric Hattan, Laura Henno, Pierre Huyghe, Emily Jacir, Yeondoo Jung, Bouchra Khalili, Kimsooja, Claude Lévêque, M/M, Lahouari Mohammed Bakir, Jean-Christophe Norman, Lucy Orta, Bernard Pagès, Philippe Parreno, Yan Pei-Ming, Cécile Paris, Mathieu Pernot, Jacqueline Salmon, Bruno Serralongue, Esther Shalev-Gerz, Société Réaliste, Djamel Tatah, Barthélémy Toguo, Patrick Tosani, Sabine Weiss…
Welcome ! Festival
Programming: Stéphane Malfettes
The Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration and the MAC VAL – Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne are collaborating to present a project questioning the notion of hospitality through the prism of contemporary creation.
Together, the two institutions- a social museum that value contemporary creation and a contemporary art museum that tackles social issues- are happy to present Persona grata, an exhibition organized over the two locations with a rich cultural programming: an occasion for artists to explore all the dimensions of what constitutes or corrodes the notions of hospitality and alterity through their own vision and sensitivity.
The acceleration of migratory flows and the growing place these issues occupy in the public debate increasingly question the foundations of our societies. On one hand, camps and walls mushroom and confirm the irreversible setback of our hospitality duty, while on the other, citizen involvement grows to help, support and welcome migrants. Is the answer of today's harsh society to bring emergency assistance rather than implement long-term and effective hospitality policies?
In this context and from the collections of both museums, this artistic partnership aims at highlighting a contemporary creation that reflects today's world as well as tackling these issues from the point of view of the many artists who have explored the theme of hospitality over the last years.
The exhibition will provide a platform for artists to share their analyses, critics and feelings toward national fold, behaviors of rejection and revolt. These artistic testimonies will help us think these questions through and look at ourselves yet without any moralistic judgment. Through this unique and engaged partnership project, the Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration and the MAC VAL look to raise awareness, foster reflection and debate, and call our certitudes into question. Although central, the issues related to migratory flows do not cross out other neglected –and little known- forms of hospitality toward helpless and weakened populations. The exhibition will bring forth proposals around community life, care for others, the necessity of nursing homes, public health-care and hospitality centers held in a spirit of attentiveness, kindness and sharing we should rehabilitate.
Under the eyes of philosophers Fabienne Brugère and Guillaume Le Blanc, authors of La fin de l'hospitalité, this two-fold exhibition will be complemented by a cultural programming: Welcome! at the Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration (6 October-11 November 2018) and Attention fragile at the MAC VAL (30 November, 1 and 2 December 2018).
NOWs: any other where by Nina Schuiki
27. Oktober - 02. Dezember 2018 / Nows ⟶
Nina Schuiki, I still see you in everything, 2018. teardrop, glass object, air sealed (slide projection) any other wheresolo show Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe curated by Julia Katharina Thiemann opening: 26 October 2018, 7pm In any other where, Nina Schuiki (born 1983, Graz) presents site-conditioned works that use ephemeral gestures to rediscover the environment and spaces of the Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe. Space is inseparable from the dimensions of temporality inscribed in it, and Schuiki's interventions find form to these relations, bringing viewers to question acts of visualisation and the subtle gesture of poetic displacement. The exhibition will be accompanied by a new publication documenting the installation, featuring an introduction by exhibition curator Julia Katharina Thiemann and foreword written by Mona Leidig, leading chairperson of Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe. Both any other where and the exhibition publication have been realized with the kind support of Stadtwerke Ettlingen GmbH, Freundeskreis Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe and the Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin. Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe e.V. Schöllbronner Straße 87 76275 Ettlingen Opening hours: Wed-Sat 3 – 6pm, Sun 11am – 6pm Nina Schuiki, I still see you in everything, 2018. teardrop, glass object, air sealed (slide projection) any other wheresolo show Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe curated by Julia Katharina Thiemann opening: 26 October 2018, 7pm In any other where, Nina Schuiki (born 1983, Graz) presents site-conditioned works that use ephemeral gestures to rediscover the environment and spaces of the Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe. Space is inseparable from the dimensions of temporality inscribed in it, and Schuiki's interventions find form to these relations, bringing viewers to question acts of visualisation and the subtle gesture of poetic displacement. The exhibition will be accompanied by a new publication documenting the installation, featuring an introduction by exhibition curator Julia Katharina Thiemann and foreword written by Mona Leidig, leading chairperson of Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe. Both any other where and the exhibition publication have been realized with the kind support of Stadtwerke Ettlingen GmbH, Freundeskreis Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe and the Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin. Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe e.V. Schöllbronner Straße 87 76275 Ettlingen Opening hours: Wed-Sat 3 – 6pm, Sun 11am – 6pm
NOWs: Svetlana Maraš and Robert Lippok at arkaoda Berlin
12. Oktober 2018 / Nows ⟶
Svetlana Maraš and Robert Lippok at arkaoda Berlinlive concert arkaoda Berlin Karl-Marx Platz 16 12043 Berlin Doors: 8 pm Svetlana Maraš: 9 pm Robert Lippok: 10 pm presented by arkaoda and Palais Wittgenstein supported by Musicboard Berlin This will be a very special night, Svetlana Maraš will share the stage with Robert Lippok. Maraš will present brand new material, premiered in September @ ARS ELECTRONICA. Svetlana Maraš (1985) is a composer and sound artist from Serbia. She works at the intersection of experimental music and sound art. Maraš' work is highly experimental and as such, rejects definite classification. She composes for ensembles, makes works for radio, creates interactive sound and media installations and performs live electronic music. Her works have been presented internationally, at venues and festivals such as CTM (Berlin), Espace Multimedia Gantner (Bourogne), International Music Institute (Darmstadt), Onassis Cultural Centre (Athens), Museum of Contemporary Art (Belgrade), A38 (Budapest), Ausland (Berlin), ORF Kunstradio-Radiokunst, Radio Belgrade, RTE Nova, ICMC (New York), UCSD (San Diego), ISEA (Dubai), Orpheus Institute (Ghent) among many other places. Maraš is a head of Radio Belgrade's Electronic Studio. ————————————————— The great Robert Lippok (raster) returns with his first solo album in seven years, Applied Autonomy for Olaf Bender's Raster. A survey of what he's been up to, as much as a statement of intent for here and now, Applied Autonomy reprises the fine balance of tuff-edged minimalism, spatial illusion and melodic delicacy that emerged with Redsuperstructure [2011], but ratcheting its effect with a renewed vigour for a frankly epic impact. As the title makes explicit, Robert's 3rd solo album is concerned with autonomy, which feels like an apt subject for the age of automation, when humans are increasingly negotiating their role in context of the machine and AI, and vice-versa. The systems Robert set up for Redsuperstructure now come into deeper relief, as he applies a greater understanding of their workings in order to eke out, sculpt their possibilities in his own image. Much of the material came from improvisation and sketches made in preparation for his live shows. This quickfire process amassed a range of material which was then more considerately cut to shapes and layerd not applied Autonomy, which ranges from almost Rian Treanor-esque stutter drums mixed with dense yet wide atmospheres in his title track, and twisted across the album, from frenetic acid dancehall mutations in Varieties of Impact, to the meter-messing trance of Scene 3 which sounds like something Vladimir Ivkovic might play, and thru to the necessary, hoped for dose of emotive lushness with brimming optimism of All Objects Are Moving. But he really saves some of the best for last in Samtal, a 14 minute piece recorded in duo – but not together – with Klara Lewis at EMS Stockholm, where we effectively hear two autonomous minds at work, making for a smart contrast with the singularity of the preceding tracks. Svetlana Maraš and Robert Lippok at arkaoda Berlinlive concert arkaoda Berlin Karl-Marx Platz 16 12043 Berlin Doors: 8 pm Svetlana Maraš: 9 pm Robert Lippok: 10 pm presented by arkaoda and Palais Wittgenstein supported by Musicboard Berlin This will be a very special night, Svetlana Maraš will share the stage with Robert Lippok. Maraš will present brand new material, premiered in September @ ARS ELECTRONICA. Svetlana Maraš (1985) is a composer and sound artist from Serbia. She works at the intersection of experimental music and sound art. Maraš' work is highly experimental and as such, rejects definite classification. She composes for ensembles, makes works for radio, creates interactive sound and media installations and performs live electronic music. Her works have been presented internationally, at venues and festivals such as CTM (Berlin), Espace Multimedia Gantner (Bourogne), International Music Institute (Darmstadt), Onassis Cultural Centre (Athens), Museum of Contemporary Art (Belgrade), A38 (Budapest), Ausland (Berlin), ORF Kunstradio-Radiokunst, Radio Belgrade, RTE Nova, ICMC (New York), UCSD (San Diego), ISEA (Dubai), Orpheus Institute (Ghent) among many other places. Maraš is a head of Radio Belgrade's Electronic Studio. ————————————————— The great Robert Lippok (raster) returns with his first solo album in seven years, Applied Autonomy for Olaf Bender's Raster. A survey of what he's been up to, as much as a statement of intent for here and now, Applied Autonomy reprises the fine balance of tuff-edged minimalism, spatial illusion and melodic delicacy that emerged with Redsuperstructure [2011], but ratcheting its effect with a renewed vigour for a frankly epic impact. As the title makes explicit, Robert's 3rd solo album is concerned with autonomy, which feels like an apt subject for the age of automation, when humans are increasingly negotiating their role in context of the machine and AI, and vice-versa. The systems Robert set up for Redsuperstructure now come into deeper relief, as he applies a greater understanding of their workings in order to eke out, sculpt their possibilities in his own image. Much of the material came from improvisation and sketches made in preparation for his live shows. This quickfire process amassed a range of material which was then more considerately cut to shapes and layerd not applied Autonomy, which ranges from almost Rian Treanor-esque stutter drums mixed with dense yet wide atmospheres in his title track, and twisted across the album, from frenetic acid dancehall mutations in Varieties of Impact, to the meter-messing trance of Scene 3 which sounds like something Vladimir Ivkovic might play, and thru to the necessary, hoped for dose of emotive lushness with brimming optimism of All Objects Are Moving. But he really saves some of the best for last in Samtal, a 14 minute piece recorded in duo – but not together – with Klara Lewis at EMS Stockholm, where we effectively hear two autonomous minds at work, making for a smart contrast with the singularity of the preceding tracks.


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Overview A potent cell-permeable activator of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA). Activates both type 1 and type 2 PKA and binds to the cAMP binding site 2 on the regulatory subunit of PKA. It is only slowly metabolized by cyclic nucleotide-dependent phosphodiesterases. Due to its considerably increased lipophilicity, it has sufficient membrane permeability for many biological systems.
Note: 10 µmol = 4.55 mg.
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Description A potent, non-degradable, cell-permeable analog of cAMP that binds to the cAMP binding site 2 on the protein kinase A (PKA) regulatory subunit and activates both type I and II PKA. λmax = 279 nm (H2O, pH 7.0); εmax = 17,000 M-1cm-1.


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Tech review: The sort-of new but greatly improved Samsung Galaxy Note 9
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By Jim Rossman
I've always loved the concept (and the execution) of Samsung's Galaxy Note phones.
Samsung already had its flagship Galaxy S phones, which were great, but the Note kicked things up a notch.
The Galaxy S phones had big screens, but the Note always seemed to have a bigger screen, a bigger battery, a faster processor, more storage — and a higher price.
Oh, and it had the S Pen stylus.
I'm pretty sure Apple had Note phones in mind last year when it introduced the iPhone X alongside the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus. It wanted to sell a phone that had "more."
There are two types of people who use Galaxy Note phones: those who want to use the stylus and those who just want a really big, top-of-the-line phone. It's the flagship phone on steroids.
Samsung has always been be a bit ahead of Apple when it comes to handset design.
Before the iPhone X, the Galaxy S 8's screen went from edge to edge and very close to the top and bottom of the phone's face.
This year, the Galaxy S 9 took its design cues from the S 8 and updated everything. Likewise with the Note 9: It doesn't look much different from the Note 8, but everything is a step up.
There are only so many design changes you can make to a smartphone. Samsung's and Apple's handsets look pretty similar for a reason — they work.
Now that we have a design that's becoming standardized (full screen, no front button), it's natural to make improvements under the hood.
We all gravitate to the familiar, and we all love to own the latest and greatest. The Note 9 is both (and the most expensive).
I love a phone that has it all.
The Galaxy Note 9 is built around a beautiful 6.4-inch Amoled screen with a resolution of 1,440 by 2,960 pixels.
The screen is made of Corning Gorilla Glass 5, and it's HDR10 compliant. It's about as big and bad as phones get these days.
A note: Out of the box, the resolution for the Note 9 is 1,080 by 2,220 pixels. If you want to see the screen in all its glory, go to the display settings and change the resolution. You'll use more battery life, but oh, is it worth it.
The phone has an always-on screen that uses very little power to keep the time, date and other notifications on the screen, even when the phone is sleeping.
It runs a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 with configurations up to 8 gigabytes of RAM and 512 Gb of internal storage. It has a microSD card slot for up to 512 Gb of additional storage.
The operating system is Android 8.1 (Oreo).
The main camera features dual 12-megapixel sensors, one with a 26mm lens and one with a 52mm lens. The selfie camera has an 8 MP sensor. The cameras are superb.
For connectivity, it has 4G LTE, 801.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0 and NFC.
It connects to your computer or a charger via USB-C cable. The Note 9 can also charge wirelessly.
Speaking of charging, the Note 9 has a 4,000 milliamp-hour battery, which is the largest I've seen on a phone.
To unlock the phone, the Note 9 can use an iris scanner or a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor that's located under the main camera lens.
That's an improvement, but it's still a little too close to the lenses for me to keep my big fingers off the lenses when I try to press my finger to the sensor.
I will say that Samsung has the easiest fingerprint learning system.
Simply swipe your finger on the button from top to bottom two times and your fingerprint is captured. It's brilliant.
Physically the phone measures 6.37 by 3.01 by 0.35 inches and weighs 7.09 ounces.
Oh, and it still has a headphone jack.
S Pen and other features
The hallmark of the Note line of phones has always been the stylus, called the S Pen. The pen can be used exactly as you'd expect, to write on the screen for taking notes or marking up images.
You can also use it as you would a finger, to select and launch apps and for more accurate input on menus and small buttons.
This year's S Pen has a button that can act like a tiny remote control to snap photos, advance slides or jump to the next song on a playlist.
The Note 9 also has a feature called DeX that lets you plug the phone into a computer monitor with a USB-C to HDMI adapter and use it with a trackpad and keyboard like a mini desktop computer.
It worked, but it wasn't the best computing experience I ever had. In fact, it's not really a feature I found I'd use much, if at all.
I've never been a fan of Samsung's voice assistant called Bixby, although he is getting better.
The Note 9 has a dedicated Bixby button on the left side, even though you can call him up by saying "Hey, Bixby." And no, you can't map that button to do anything else.
Samsung is proud of the Galaxy Note 9. There are two configurations — 128 Gb of storage with 6 Gb of RAM for $1,000 or 512 Gb and 8 Gb of RAM for $1,250.
These prices are close to the iPhone X, which has two configurations at $999 and $1,149 but half the storage of the Note 9 and no microSD slot.
Sales launched Aug. 24. You can buy a Note 9 unlocked from Samsung or retailers like Amazon, Best Buy, Costco, Target and Walmart.
It's also available from the big four carriers, most of which have promos and deals to make the phone cheaper. Check with your carrier for more details.
The Note 9 is available in ocean blue (deep blue) or lavender purple.
The Note 9 is the best Android handset. Period.
Heck, for $1,000, it had better be the best. Is it worth the price? I think so.
It has a battery and screen that runs circles around my iPhone 8 Plus. It has massive storage and RAM and a really great processor.
Would I buy the Note 9?
I'm an iPhone user, so I'm waiting to see what Apple announces in a few weeks.
I'm more than likely sticking with Apple, but if I wanted to switch to Android, or if I were a longtime Android user, I'd buy the Note 9 in a heartbeat — which, by the way, the Note 9 can measure with a built-in heart rate sensor along with a pulse oximeter.
Pros: The Note 9 has better features than the Note 8 in almost every way, although there's not much new this year. Great screen, and the S Pen remote button is cool.
Cons: Expensive, and Bixby isn't great.
Bottom line: It has more of everything people want in a phone while still keeping things familiar.
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MBABANE – Nigerian female professional footballer Perpetua Nkwocha will soon be coming to Eswatini to help develop the sport for both men and women.
Nkwocha is an African multi-champion who has won the female African Footballer of the year award four times. She is currently based in Sweden, where she coaches a Swedish Women's Football Division 2 side, Clemensnas.
She was also the captain of the Nigerian women's national team. Nkwocha will visit the Kingdom of Eswatini following an invitation by Professional Soccer Management Director Emmanuel Emenogue, who was coordinating the maiden Eswatini Open Trials that started in February. It was through this programme that Eswatini Soccer Academy was formed, as 45 ambitious players were selected among over 400 trialists.
According to Emenogue, Nkwocha will be partnering with Professional Soccer Management in the plight to help develop African football to match that of European countries. With her expertise and decades of football experience as she holds 99 international caps and 80 goals, Emenogue said Nkwocha was the idea role model and inspiration for African players who dream of prospering in their football career.
"Perpetua Nkwocha is the female version of African stars like Samuel Eto or Didier Drogba. She will be coming to Eswatini to assist in the development of football including women's football, which is staggering not only in the country but in Africa as a whole," said Emenogue.
He said that her arrival would be a positive step for the 45 players who were eager to travel to Europe with the hope to be signed abroad.
"I talked to her today and she is hoping to use her December holidays to come to Eswatini, but it will all depend on the travelling restrictions in light of COVID-19," said Emenogue.
During her time as the Super Falcon's captain in her home country, Nkwocha was always steering her team to victory and spectacular football display across four FIFA Women's World Cup campaigns and three Olympic Football Tournaments.
Eswatini Women Football Association (EWFA) Chairman Sonnyboy Mabuza applauded Emenogue for his efforts and contribution to the development of football in the country.
He said that he believed that Nkwocha will share her experience with the ladies and guide them on how they should conduct themselves.
"I believe that she will bring value to Eswatini Women Football, which is still at a developing stage. From her, they will learn how they should behave themselves at a professional level and they will be inspired to work hard so that they can achieve great things in the football world," said Mabuza.


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Q: Ruby on rails- how to put a user id in a status update treehouse challenge I am making a social network on the course that treehouse.com provide. It uses ruby on rails.
I am stuck at the minute because when I click post status I get this message. I'm trying to replace just any name with the user id. I have added all the correct things treehouse tell you to do but I get this error:
NoMethodError in Statuses#show
Showing /Users/lewisfrost/frostbook/app/views/statuses/show.html.erb where line #5 raised:
undefined method `first_name' for 13:Fixnum
Extracted source (around line #5):
5:   <%= @status.user_id.first_name %>
Can someone help?
Thanks

A: @status.user_id is just a number. User @status.user instead.
<%= @status.user.first_name if @status.user %>

A: In your Model Statuses you have write Statuses - User Relation?
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Why Trump must Address Drugs in Mexico- America's No 1 Bloody War next Door
80.000 killed in Mexico by American demand
By Hubertus Hoffmann
Something next US president Trump and his new administration should have on the radar and desks soon:
Cocaine has reached the glamorous suites of Wall Street, Hollywood, Miami and other parts of American society for many years. Consumed by even the "politically correct" hipsters, actors, intellectuals, bankers, and students, it has become a feature of life for many within the American elite.
At the same time as they eat organic and vegan food, and promote environmental progress, they quietly aid the continuation of one of the most violent conflicts going on in the word right now.
This is deeply hypocritical.
Those who snort lines, only to speak about morality a second later, live in a world of lies.
They exhibit an unacceptable double standard.
New statistics show that between 2007 and 2014 in Afghanistan, 21,000 people were killed.
In neighboring Mexico, an estimated half of the 164,000 people who died of homicide (82,000), lost their lives due to drug-related violence.
Four times as many civilians were killed in the United States' immediate neighborhood, than in Afghanistan.
The demand by American cocaine consumers (and others), have killed more than 80,000 already in Mexico alone.
If this consumption and its related violence do not stop now, another 80,000 more are projected to die until 2020.
This doesn't include many thousands more who are killed in Central and South America.
Neither ISIS, Syria, Afghanistan nor the Ukraine, are the Untited States' most violent war. Rather, it is the drug war of Mexico.
There, between 50,000 and 100,000 people are missing, most of them likely already dead.
230,000 Mexicans fled this mass murder, and lost their homes.
This deadly drug war is one of the reasons, why so many Mexicans come to the U.S. in the first place, Mr Trump.
This president should propose how to contain and reduce drug (mis-)use in the United States, as this is as dangerous for Mexicans, as it is for Americans.
It as well produces billions of health costs for the American tax payers. It is not about Obamacare, but making the 310 million Americans healthier.
Drugs mean more crimes as well, to reduce makes America safer again.
Indeed, there is one more hidden damage involved, something the Democrats and liberals care about a lot:
Each gram (0,035 oz) of cocaine destroys four square-kilometers of rain forrest during the chemical production.
The farmers only earn only 1.1 percent of the profit – a far cry from fair trade.
Therefore, whoever consumes cocaine is personally responsible for these atrocities, the Mexican drama and the mess in the Americas. Taking cocaine promotes the killing of much of our valued rain forests too.
It's time to stop this cynical double-standard in the United States now.
Hubertus Hoffmann
Founder Globalo.com, www.worldsecuritynetwork.com and www.codesoftolerance.com Serial-founder of internet companies, including sueddeutsche.de, sport1.com, inventor of the first internet TV Xelos@media with Loewe AG. Long-time journalist in The White House Press Corps, editorial board of ZDF TV and media manager in radio, new media.
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The Electronic Intifada has learned details of the court challenge filed in London on Thursday against the University of Southampton's decision to ban a conference related to Israel.
One of the organizers of the conference – a professor who grew up as a refugee in Gaza – has said that the legal challenge was taken with a "very heavy heart," but was essential to defend freedom of speech.
On Wednesday, the University of Southampton confirmed that it had canceled the conference, "International Law and the State of Israel: Legitimacy, Responsibility and Exceptionalism," that had been scheduled for 17-19 April.
At a hearing in the High Court in London, expected to take place next week, lawyers will challenge the university's claims.
"This is blatant censorship under the guise of a specter of campus being overrun by violent hordes, which is patently groundless," McDonald added.
Lawyers will argue that the university presented no evidence to justify its claims, that its decisionmaking was inconsistent and that the mere fact of protests does not equate to a security risk.
McDonald, who is working on the case with co-counsel Shivani Jegarajah, pointed out that the law guarantees a right to protest and counterprotest.
The Israeli embassy in London and Israel lobby groups that had campaigned for months for the cancelation of the conference have welcomed the university's decision.
Sharkh, a professor of engineering at the university, shared the the letter with The Electronic Intifada.
In it he explains his involvement and interest in the law conference, but also provides some poignant personal background. Sharkh was born in the Palestinian coastal city of Majdal Asqalan, now Ashkelon in present-day Israel.
Palestinians in the city were forcibly expelled to Gaza well after the ceasefire that ended the 1948 war.
"In November 1948, six months after the establishment of the State of Israel and after the wars had ended, the town was bombed and many people were killed. Those who survived were herded towards Gaza, crawling on their hands and knees in the thorny fields," Sharkh writes.
The expulsion of the town's residents to Gaza continued until 1950.
"Since then we have lived in squalid refugee camps. I walked around barefoot in the sand soiled by open sewage. I got my first shoes when I went to school at the age of six," he adds.
It was therefore with a "very heavy heart" that he and other conference organizers had to resort to taking the university to court.
Sharkh invited students and faculty to join almost eight thousand people who have signed an online petition calling on the University of Southampton to defend freedom of speech.
Asa Winstanley contributed reporting from London.
As some of you may know, I am one of the organizers of the conference: "International Law and the State of Israel: Legitimacy, Responsibility and Exceptionalism." The conference was approved by the university back in July 2014 and we followed all the procedures and collaborated fully with the university's administration from the start. We have been transparent throughout about the nature and the aims of the conference.
Some of you may wonder why I, an engineering professor, am involved in organizing a law conference. The obvious answer is that understanding the law is essential to engineering and it is indeed part of our curriculum – it is a requirement of accreditation by the Engineering Council. My own research on smart electricity grids and smart metering involves understanding the legal issues that arise from the development of the technology, particularly with regards to privacy of the data collected by the smart meters and its human rights implications.
Also, as many of you know, I am a Palestinian. I grew up in Gaza, but my family is originally from a town called Majdal Asqalan (now called Ashkelon by Israel). In November 1948, six months after the establishment of the State of Israel and after the wars had ended, the town was bombed and many people were killed. Those who survived were herded towards Gaza, crawling on their hands and knees in the thorny fields. Since then we have lived in squalid refugee camps. I walked around barefoot in the sand soiled by open sewage. I got my first shoes when I went to school at the age of six.
International law was responsible for our misery. It was used to legalize the theft of our homes and it continues to be used to legalize the ongoing oppression of my people by the State of Israel. The questions asked by the conference are therefore questions that I have been asking all my life. They are important questions that need to be answered.
However answering these questions risks exposing the true face of the State of Israel, and risks reminding the world of the uncomfortable truth about the crimes that were and continue to be committed against the Palestinian people. As a result, the pro-Israel lobby exerted huge pressure on the university, which has resulted in the withdrawal of the permission to hold the conference.
The attached statement explains our point of view, and why the university's senior management's decision is wrong in law. This decision will have a direct impact on you and your freedom of speech.
The main press may give you the impression that this was going to be an anti-Semitic conference. This is absolutely not true. My fellow organizer, Professor Oren Ben-Dor is a Jew. We have many Jewish supporters. And I am glad that many Jews immigrated to Palestine to be in a safe haven and I welcome more Jews to live in Palestine. My main aim is to achieve justice, freedom and equality for my people to live side by side with Jews and all people in historic Palestine. I want it to be a safer haven for Jews, a safe haven for all people who live there. I hope the conference will be a small step in that direction.
Finally, I want to assure you that there will be no spontaneous demonstrations or any violence from supporters of the conference as suggested by my colleague the chief operating officer, Steve White. We will conduct our protests in a very dignified manner, within the law, with full collaboration with the police and the university. I will never accept any harm to be done to the university and the wonderful people who work and study here, who keep it the fantastic place of scholarship and learning that it is.
Please express your support for freedom of speech by signing the online petition.
Below is a link to a major speech given at a very large conference last year. The speech was headed THE LEGITIMACY OF ISRAEL but there were no worldwide protests: could this be because it was a keynote speech at Herzliya 2014 which is the major Zionist conference put on at great expense every year at Herzliya?
morally or legally legitimate (Thomas, 2013).
The legitimacy of Israel's rule in the areas conquered in 1967, according to the international concepts described above is problematic relative to all of the three parameters.
Are you suggesting that if the Southampton Conference just had a title change to include the above it would be acceptable.
get this - Zionists no longer decide what we may or may not discuss.
I can't believe that UK freedom of speech is been denied as a result of zionist pressure. This is an absolute travesty of justice.
So the university is saying that it is concerned about violent Jewish fanatics and supporters coming and committing a Public Disorder offence, and that the police are incapable of handling such an incident.
Rather than be reactive to such a crime, they are pre-actively canceling on the off chance that such a crime may take place.
They are suggesting that a debate on their premises is an incitement to violence.
The dark forces of zionism are up to their usual suppression of the truth.


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Marie-Louise Allard's married life lasted only 13 years. In that time, she produced eight children, helped her husband start a business, and dealt with 17 different court battles.
Eventually, paying a series of claims against her husband took everything Marie-Louise had—their land, their building and all their furniture. It was all sold on June 14, 1774 to pay her husband's debts. Marie-Louise and her children had to move in to the Notre Dame poor house. Her 32nd birthday took place there the following December.
Her former husband, Jean-Baptiste Mathieu Arial, was long gone by then. The scoundrel abandoned his family and left Canada in the autumn of 1773, when their youngest child Michel was only three months old.
The couple's life together hadn't started out so badly.
Jean and Marie-Louise were married by a missionary priest Father Morisseaux on July 13, 1761, two years after Quebec City surrendered to the British and the government of New France moved to Montreal. With her families' help, they bought land and sent up a small inn on rue de la Montagne. Their daughter Marie Louise was born five months after the wedding. Their first son and a daughter eventually died, but six children survived, two into their sixties.
If the court cases are accurate, while Marie-Louise took care of their children, Jean specialized in getting inn-goers drunk so that he could scam them out of land and money.
She had had no warning of her husband's character when they married.
Marie-Louise was 18 years old when she married a newcomer to Charlesbourg. She and her family all believed the story Jean told to the priest who married them. He told them he had just come from spending four years in a British jail, which I very readily believe.
The wedding record says that Jean was a "fils mineur" (underage son) of Charles Arial and Marie Moreau, which implies he was younger than 25 years old. Yet Marcel Founier's records in Fichier Origine show Jean Arial's birth in France as February 5, 1735. If that's true, he would have been 26 years old the day he wed Marie-Louise.
Jean told the priest he was a French soldier captured by the British on the outskirts of the French colony of Cap-St-Domingue, on the island of Hispaniola, which is now known as a divided place of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Cap-St-Domingue was a French slave colony and a world source for sugar, coffee and indigo until a slave revolt in 1758 caused Britain and Spain to attack the French.
Jean's story about four years in a British jail may well have been accurate, but the timing about St. Domingue seems tight. I can't help but wonder whether he simply used the story as a colourful explanation for an English accent. Britain was still shipping convicts to America until 1780. He might have been one of them. We have only the notes of a priest about what he said to figure out who he was.
Five years after the wedding, Jean Ariail (his spelling, which was different than the priest's spelling and the court case spellings) advertised in the Quebec Gazette at least three times. Two ads expressed a desire to settle his accounts and a third offered to sell a house to raise funds. In all three, Ariail said he intended to sail for Europe.
This hint at a complicated scam later detailed in a series of court cases against Arial by Aylwin, Hasen, Lee, Levesque, Struckling and others.
Many men claimed to be defrauded by Arial while they were drunk.
Meanwhile Arial or Ariaille left Quebec in October 1773. He began calling himself Jean Baptiste Ariail. He moved to Southington, a community in Hartford, Connecticut where he somehow found enough money to purchase a home. By the time his youngest daughter turned a year old, he had already met and married Hannah Rich. By March 1775, their first son was born.
By the time a third child with Hannah arrived, Marie-Louise was dead. She contracted chicken pox and died in the company of three priests in early October, 1779. Her brother Pierre became the official guardian of her children on October 21.
 Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Pistard database of guardianship records, CC301, Fonds Cour supéreure, District judiciaire de Quebec, Tutelles et curatelles, SI Dossiers, D5306, the guardianship of the minors of Jean Arial (Ariaille) and Marie-Louise Allard, October 21, 1779, 3 pages, http://pistard.banq.qc.ca/unite_chercheurs/description_fonds?p_anqsid=201502021523212568&p_centre=03Q&p_classe=CC&p_fonds=301&p_numunide=964014.
Note 2: Many thanks to Mary Alice Kite and James and Lorraine Patterson for sharing their research.
Note 3: The Pattersons are among Ariail and Arial relatives holding a family reunion in Georgia on Saturday, June 20 at the Nails Creek Baptist Church. More info via http://ariailfamily.com.


Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust has appointed Joy Warmington as its Vice Chair with effect from 1 June 2016.
Joy has extensive experience of the public and voluntary sectors and is Chief Executive Officer of BRAP, the national human rights and equalities charity, which she has successfully guided to its cutting edge position where it is nationally recognised for its innovative research and strategies. She has also written and co-authored numerous books, articles and reports on subjects as diverse as implementing organisational change, improving public sector engagement practice, and using human rights to improve service delivery.
Joy takes over the reins as Vice Chair from Barry Henley, who was thanked at the May Board meeting for his contribution and support in this role over the past year.


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How exciting! My painting 'Looking Through Windows' has been selected as a finalist in the 2016 Calleen Art Award and will be exhibited with other finalists from 1st May until 19th June at the Cowra Regional Art Gallery, NSW.
The Calleen Art Award is an annual acquisitive award for contemporary painting in any subject or style. It was established in 1977 by Mrs Patricia Fagan OAM and is made possible with the generous support of the Calleen Trust.
The Award encourages originality, creativity and excellence in the visual arts. This year 272 entries were received from across Australia and 47 artworks consisting of an engaging range of themes and subjects have been selected as finalists.
'The Cowra Regional Art Gallery is pleased to present this prestigious art award, and I'm sure visitors will find this outstanding and diverse collection of artworks in the exhibition an enjoyable experience'.