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• ON THIS DAY IN WWF HISTORY (April 4, 2002) – WWF SmackDown!

On this day in 2002, the World Wrestling Federation aired another episode of their weekly TV show ‘WWF SmackDown!’.

This episode was pre-taped at the Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, New York and featured matches, interviews & storyline segments on the road to the ‘WWF Backlash 2002’ PPV.

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1. Billy Gunn & Chuck Palumbo vs. Scotty Too Hotty & Albert

2. Christian vs. Diamond Dallas Page

3. Edge vs. Kurt Angle

4. Billy Kidman vs. Tajiri

5. Hardcore Holly vs. Maven

6. The Rock vs. Chris Jericho

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During Night 1 of WrestleMania 36, WWE announced a new documentary special on The Undertaker.

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TMZ: Pop star Demi Lovato rushed to the hospital, treated with Narcan

TMZ: Pop star Demi Lovato rushed to the hospital, treated with Narcan
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Citing law enforcement officials, TMZ first reported on Tuesday that pop singer Demi Lovato, 25, was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital from her home in Hollywood Hills.

According to TMZ's report, a drug overdose was to blame, and that Lovato was given Narcan, a drug used to reverse the effects of opioid overdoses. The drug was reportedly administered at her Hollywood Hills home before being transported to the hospital.

NBC News reported that she was transported to Cedars Sinai Medical Center. A spokesperson for Lovato said, "Demi is awake and with her family who want to express thanks to everyone for the love, prayers and support."

Lovato was reportedly unconscious when paramedics arrived at her home.

Lovato celebrated six years of sobriety in a Twitter post in March.

"Just officially turned 6 years sober. So grateful for another year of joy, health and happiness. It IS possible," Lovato tweeted.

But just months later, Lovato released "Sober" as a single, opening up about her personal battle with substance abuse. In the opening chorus of the song released in June, Lovato sings, "Mommy, I'm so sorry I'm not sober anymore, and daddy please forgive me for the drinks spilled on the floor."

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Monday, July 20, 2009

Still so much to learn

Sometimes I wonder if I've jumped into the proverbial deep end of the winosphere.

I was invited to join some Guild members for nibbles, a tasting or two, and interesting conversation tonight. Duh, can I?? On the way there, though, I'll admit to getting a case of stage fright and wondering just how well I would do under pressure. (Pressure of WHAT? This isn't the tasting exam, for Pete's sake! I'm not being graded!!)

I tend to feel decidedly out of my league when in the presence of mature, well-versed wineaux who can easily rhyme off a dozen French producers and be oh-so laissez-faire about the whole thing. I just nod and smile as if I know exactly what they're talking about, while my brain is desperately flipping through my mental crib notes on AOC designations.

I mentioned this (read: whined about it) to Hubby, my VP of Common Sense, and he, being the very smart man that he is, pointed out that while I may not have France's appellation system memorized, I know an awful lot about Canadian wines, probably more than most people who think Old World is the centre of the universe. And that I'm young and represent a new generation of wine lovers who have a completely different take on wine. And that I should cut myself a little slack - I *just* finished my sommelier course, nobody's expecting me to be a genius.

(Gawd love that man. Glad I married him.)

Anyway, I worried for nothing, of course, and had a fa-boo time brainstorming ideas and exchanging anecdotes on wine travels. My host was the picture of gracious hospitality. He is a master of the amuse-bouche, serving up squares of watermelon topped with sesame-crusted goat cheese; loose-leaf ravioli with two kinds of pesto; and the piece de resistance, a "grilled cheese" of Brie, basil and - get this! - DARK CHOCOLATE CHIPS.

We washed it all down with a fizzy, fun Pazo Pondal Leira Albariño (Rias Baizas, Spain); two Okanagan Valley Blue Mountain Stripe Label pinot noirs (the 2002 was rose-petal soft, while the 2004 was fuller, with a more pronounced barnyard aroma and heavy cherry liquor on the palate); and a Cherry Point Vineyards Solera Blackberry fortified wine from Vancouver Island that was succulent jam up front but had a bright, acidic tang at the end.

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  1. Welcome to how I feel when I go to the LCBO. Half the time I feel like I'm being judged in Vintages because: a) I'm young, and b) I'm female.

    Sounds like it was a fun night!

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Hello! We are coming off of spring break/Easter weekend and it is hitting hard. It was such a nice break, and I’m slowly trying to get back into things. A few tidbits from the past few weeks:
Lots of hard boiled egg sandwiches around here!april 2011 184 1april 2012 022 1

We have the nicest garbage man in the world. The boys are usually asleep when he comes for recycling in the morning, but get to watch the garbage on Tuesday afternoons. This is what he left for my boys for Easter:
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Lauren called everyone out one night to see Venus near the moon. So beautiful! And I’m so glad that she’s in astronomy and knows that because I didn’t!march 2012 006 1
Forsythia, forsythia, forsythia. I will never think of you the same after watching Contagion. Kind of a weird movie?march 2012 286 1
My boys watch the older kids every single morning get on the yellow school bus. The bus driver said we could ride anytime, so we did on Friday morning. Who needs Disneyland??march 2012 277 1
We made these and they are soooo good. april 2012 011 1
We switched out winter clothes and moved up sizes. a Landon came running out with his “new” outfit. He kept jumping up and down saying, “I got new clothes! I got new clothes!” I asked his sisters if they took note of how darn excited he was about hand me downs.april 2012 003 1
I sold a bunch of stuff on Craigslist. We sold our dryer because we just don’t use it downstairs. I thought it would be a good idea to have a set up and a set down, but I think it’s just easier to have one central one.  Anyway, I sold it for $50 and the lady called back and said it didn’t work. We had moved it up into the garage, so she couldn’t test it out. *sigh* I gave her money back and just had her keep the dryer because we wanted to get rid of it. Has that ever happened to you? I have a love/hate relationship with Craigslist.april craigslist 002
There is lots of awesome-ness I am still going through from last week’s Under $10 Under 1 Hour party! I’ll share some favorites later this week. Please keep one of my favorite bloggers, Joy in your prayers. Do you remember when she wrote this beautiful guest post a few years ago for us? We love you, Joy.

  1. Laura Jones1/8/14, 8:10 AM

    That stinks about your dryer. One time, we sold a car on CL and the alternator went out on the guy on his way home...said he had to hold a flash light out the window to see. Yikes! Of course, we had no idea and paid for the new part.

  2. I enjoyed reading your tidbits, Melissa! I agree your garbage man was so sweet to leave that for your boys. My son is a car rider, but when he was in first grade he was like your boys and very excited to ride the yellow bus. One day when I went to pick him up after school, one of the aides informed me that he tried to go home on one of the buses. Luckily the bus driver didn't recognize him from her route.

  3. I LOVE Craigslist and have furnished most of my home on a dime by using it.  But you have to be prepared to handle some lemons every now and again.  I had an experience very similar to yours a couple of years ago when we sold my husband's old TV with built in VCR when we got married. It was an old box, but still worked. The buyer emailed me a NASTY NASTY email about how it broke when she tried to screw in the cable (who knows if she did it correctly, it wasn't broken when we sold it) and called me all kinds of nasty dishonest names. It literally made me cry and feel so bad, so my husband called them to work out the exchange back (I wasn't going to let her keep it, since it still worked for what she wanted it to, she just flew off the handle about the other little piece).  Her husband apologized like crazy, saying that his wife had had a bad week and this just set her off, he didn't know why, it wasn't that big of deal.  We turned around and sold it to someone else for just a little less, being upfront about the broken piece and they were very happy with it. Some people are just nasty.

  4. What a thoughtful garbage man you have!  Looks like you all had a wonderful productive week.  Praying for Joy and her family.  Such a tragic loss.

  5. You DO have the nicest garbage man ever!!!!

  6. Craigslist.  Sigh.  I'm having the same mixed feelings.  We're in the middle of a big cross-country move, going from a big mid-western house to what will surely be a small California house.  Obviously, we're going to need to lean down, and I've been putting things on Craigslist.  A few things have sold just fine, but I've had my fair share of people trying to pull scams and people who get upset that I won't drop the price by 75%, as well as a couple really creepy calls.  It's getting to be more trouble than it is worth.  I'm almost to the point now where I'm just going to move everything and have a huge garage sale once I figure out what won't fit.

  7. that looks lik emy dyer! we trip the breaker all the time & recently the power button stopped working, we have a repair guy in and he said they just give out.  wonder if the the same thing happed with yours?

  8. melissa*320 sycamore1/18/14, 9:05 AM

  9. melissa*320 sycamore1/18/14, 9:05 AM

     that is funny! he was just going to get himself on that bus :)

  10. melissa*320 sycamore1/18/14, 9:05 AM

    I agree, I think you can get a little more $$ on craigslist, but it is a pain. I try to stick to emails with craigslist and weed through them, but then you have to coordinate meeting times, etc. Yard sales are alot of work, but you get it done in one pop.

  11. Love your tidbits posts.
    I too have a love/hate with Craigslist too...sorry that sale didn't work out this time.

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Alibaba's Smart Campus Taps AI to Stay Cool This Summer

Alibaba's Smart Campus Taps AI to Stay Cool This Summer

By Ivy Yu
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An aerial view of Alibaba’s Xixi campus in Hangzhou. Photo credit: Alibaba Group

Employees can also turn on and off office air conditioners on their phones as part of a digital overhaul of the campus. Photo credit: Alibaba Group

Friday, July 15, 2022 - 9:55am

CAMPAIGN: Sustainability

Alibaba Group is tapping artificial intelligence to automate temperature control for energy conservation at the company’s headquarters as part of a group-wide drive to reach carbon neutrality by 2030.

Energy Expert is an AI-powered energy management tool created by Alibaba’s cloud computing branch, and it has been monitoring air conditioning and heating across the group’s 423,000 square meters campus.

“[The platform] helps companies achieve their carbon neutrality goals through advanced technologies and streamlined solutions,” said Chen Lijuan, General Manager of Product and Solutions at Alibaba Cloud.

The AI models will synthesize predictions based on historical data with real-time data about weather conditions and occupancy to optimize a building’s energy use.

This data guides the platform as it monitors room temperature. Every five minutes, it will send commands room by room to turn up or down heating and cooling units.

The tool has been operating for more than six months at Alibaba’s Xixi campus, cutting energy use by 30% during off-peak hours and lowering annual air-conditioning energy use during the summer by 17%.

In a pilot run covering half of the campus, Energy Expert cut annual carbon emissions by roughly 538 tons and reduced yearly electricity use by 600,000 kilowatt-hours.

Alibaba has vowed to achieve carbon neutrality in its operations by 2030 and slash emissions across its global and domestic supply chains.

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Air conditioning accounts for at least half of power consumption spikes at Alibaba’s Xixi campus in Hangzhou, but the energy costs will be much lower this summer.

Before the smart campus project, managers would manually turn on and off fans and other temperature control systems every day. Many people struggled with timing.

“Because it takes time to cool the rooms, finding the ideal time is hard,” said Yuan Can, technical manager of the smart campus project at Alibaba Cloud.

Energy Expert simplifies the process. It can predict, down to the minute, the best time to turn on or off air conditioning.

The platform even adjusts itself to anticipate major Alibaba shopping festivals like the 6.18 Mid-Year Shopping Festival or 11.11 Global Shopping Festival.

At these times, company offices are more likely to be occupied, so air conditioning units must release more cold air in advance to keep rooms cool.

Digital Drive

AI-powered air conditioning is part of a larger bid led by Alibaba Cloud to digitize the company’s offices across China.

This digital drive has taken the form of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors deployed around Alibaba’s Xixi campus to log activity and turn it into usable data.

“Our most important task is to digitize the hardware, connect them to the cloud, and train the AI algorithm with the data,” said Gu Xiaobin, from Alibaba’s administrative department, as he laid out efforts for a digital overhaul on campus.

As part of this initiative, Alibaba deployed over 1,100 sensors to capture the room temperature in office buildings across the work hub, averaging one sensor per 300 square meters.

The IoT system also allows building operators to capture real-time room occupancy in each zone of the office building through the number of devices connected to Wi-Fi.

Work Buildings to Warehouses

Energy Expert is on track to launch at more than 20 Alibaba campuses across China by year’s end, as well as thousands of companies, universities and more.

The AI-powered platform is set for wider use in domestic office buildings, retailers, and factories to promote energy saving, as the country has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2060.

More than 2,000 companies across the country have turned to Energy Expert to save energy, and as the mercury rises this summer, demand may soon be going global.

“We hope our proven innovation can be helpful for our global customers to achieve net zero targets through insightful actions and informed sustainability practices,” Alibaba Cloud’s Chen noted.

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Bungie: Graphical Improvements Coming to Halo 3

Since Microsoft launched the beta for Halo 3 two weeks ago, some have murmured that the graphics are a bit, well, uninspiring, especially in comparison to Gears of War. Next-Gen spoke to Bungie about this perception.

Bungie's Frank O’Connor talked about the public’s reception to the beta and any changes in the game in the months between now and launch on September 25. He said, “Well to be honest, we’ve seen them [the graphics] praised too. Multiplayer is by necessity a more sterile iteration of our graphical style and will always be tuned for performance and elegance rather than jamming the screen full of pixels. We think that the final aesthetic look of our game will be judged at launch in September and in part based on the more intense single player spaces. We’re also focused on maintaining the Halo character and atmosphere in our visual design – we’re competing with ourselves, and not simply trying to match the aesthetic of other games. We think that folks will be happy with Halo 3’s graphical polish come September.”

He added that there would be some changes in the months ahead and that the game has not been seen in its complete form, “We have a long time to polish and iterate on the largely complete game at this point. We’ll be working on some big ticket items as well as making sure that the little details, like decorators and shaders are all in place. Lighting and atmospherics are going to be big keystones in our look and feel, and those really haven’t been shown except in multiplayer to this point.

There have been no complaints about Halo 3’s gameplay, and the title is sure to be a blockbuster. O’Connor said the game had been the product of “constant iteration, fine tuning and about six years experience in making console FPS games”. He added, “Philosophically, it’s making decisions at the start that you’re pretty sure won’t come back to bite you later – like including a balanced spawning weapon, making sure that the equipment add-ons are at least theoretically self-balancing, and applying the years of good feedback and data we have from Halo 1 and 2. Hopefully this beta process will supply even more data for subsequent fine-tuning. It’s already paying dividends for our network and matchmaking test process.”

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He added that Bungie had put a lot of emphasis on planning. “In the end, that will mean more features, fewer cuts, better polish and a more intensive test cycle. All of those will add up to a better game, and none of them are likely to happen without good planning. Halo 2 taught us a lot of tough lessons, but they were lessons learned."
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June 28, 2022

Garden Notes: June 2022

Oh my. The month has flown by. I need to get my June garden post up before July gets here!
June rainfall
  •  3rd: 0.25"
  •  9th: 0.5"
  • 16th: 1.125"
  • 27th: 0.25"
  • 29th: 0.125"
  • Total: 2.25"
  • nighttime range: 58-80°F (14.4-26.6°C)
  • daytime range: 80-100°F (26.6-37.7°C)

Things I'm trying to get done before picking and preserving take all my time.

Tying up tomato plants.

We must have 50+ cherry tomato volunteer plants.

Mulching. I have a pretty good routine for this.

Afternoons are mulch gathering time because I can do it n the shade.

Early the following morning. I work on mulching my garden beds.

Ideally, I think mulching should be done right after a rain, to prevent the moisture from quickly evaporating out of the ground. With no rain, I water the bed thoroughly before putting down mulch.

After I finish with the beds, I need to re-do the wood chip mulch in the aisles, if I have time.

Harvesting, Preserving, and Eating

Strawberries, red raspberries, and mulberries

Mulberry pancakes

Multiplier onions

Volunteer lamb's quarter

Lamb's quarter

Lamb's quarter

The lettuce started to bolt earlier this month, but I
find that Jericho doesn't get terribly bitter, even then.

Landrace cucumbers and Matt's Wild Cherry tomatoes.

What are landrace cucumbers? They are my experiment to develop a locally adapted yet genetically diverse variety of cucumber for my garden.

So far, the cucumbers are growing very well and producing tasty cucumbers.

Lots of flowers hopefully means lots of cukes. That's
good, because I need to can pickles & relish this year.

100% homegrown salad, even the salad dressing! (Recipe here.)

Seed saving

So far, I've collected seed from:
  • Collards
  • Kale
  • Edible pod peas
  • Garlic (bulbils)
One thing I don't want to cross-pollinate, is my lettuce. I have three types of lettuce growing: Jericho Romaine,  a ruffly loose leaf type, and wild lettuce.

The loose leaf lettuce bolted in early June.
Jericho didn't start until a few weeks later.

As mentioned above, the variety I grow is Jericho, which is the most heat tolerant variety I've tried. I don't want it cross-pollinating because I don't want to lose that. According to Joseph Lofthouse in his Landrace Gardening: Food Security through Biodiversity and Promiscuous Pollination, lettuce doesn't easily cross-pollinate. It still can, however, so to keep my strain pure, I took measures to prevent it.

Jericho lettuce. Flower heads covered to prevent cross-pollination.

I covered the flowering heads with the mesh bags I got to keep the birds from eating all my elderberries. Time will tell if this works!

Georgia Jet sweet potato vines and flower

Slicing tomatoes. Dan got four plants from a flea market.

Moonglow pears.

Sweet potato winter squash in the foreground (speckled leaves).

Late planting (replanting/transplanting).

Ordinarily, I try to have all my planting done by now. Summer for us is a season where the days are hot and rain can be elusive. The sooner I can get my plants established and mulched, the less watering I have to do. We did have to replant some things that made a poor showing: melons, corn, and sunflowers. I made a second planting of summer squash and cucumbers as well.

Also, I was late on getting my homegrown sweet potato slips in the ground. I finally finished that the other day. These were planted in the African keyhole garden.

I had two types to plant. My trusty Vardamans and some from
a purple sweet potato that I originally got from Misfits Market.

The kale is a lone survivor of our cold winter.

I wanted to protect the newly planted slips from wilting, so
I watered and covered with shade cloth. That helped a lot!

Okay, that was long. But I had a lot I wanted to make note of. How about you? How does your garden grow?

Rosalea said...

Great tour Leigh. So nice to see what I can expect to see in the next month or so! My cucs have just put out their first big leaf, but tomatoes are blooming and there is the odd small green guy showing up, but I start them indoors way sooner than most, and they were starting to bloom when they were planted out. You are so far ahead of us! That sweet potato flower is just lovely. How long do you have daylight at this time of year? Daylight at 5AM and on til after 9PM here at the solstice, more or less. Just curious. Love that keyhole garden. Dan did such a great job on it.

Ed said...

We had another abnormally wet and this year cold spring so our garden is way behind, especially those of you to the south. But it is starting to come along and hopefully with a mild and long fall like we had last year, it will still be bountiful. I have pictures of it scheduled for a post tomorrow.

Leigh said...

Rosalea, daylight here is currently from about 6 a.m. to about 9:15 p.m. Of course, we warm up more quickly than you, so I don't always do early starts for my seeds. If I lived farther north, I'd start them indoors too!

Thanks about the keyhole garden. It especially looks nice when it's overflowing with growing goodness. :)

Ed, I'll look forward to your post!

Goatldi said...

Wowzers Lady!

Could you have packed more into a post? :-)

I learn so much from you and I also for odd reason after your blog post I almost always end up craving some wonderful dish I can't make. Today that would be Mulberry Pancakes lol. What makes it even more bittersweet is that I have a fairly young Mulberry tree by the chicken coop. It was one of the reasons the coop went there. However the folks that put it in the ground bought a Fruitless Mulberry. Was their motivation not wanting the "mess" or did they not know there is more than one variety of Mulberry trees and just took what they were sold?

We will never know but those cakes looked sooo good! Good work as usual!

Jenn Jilks said...

What an amazing life you lead!

Nancy @ Little Homestead In Boise said...

Wow we're so far behind you! Oh well nature is what it is weather-wise. What's your mulberries taste like?

Leigh said...

Goatldi, a fruitless mulberry???? I've never heard of such a thing. And how can yummy mulberries be a mess?!? It's amazing to me how many folks prefer ornamentals to fruit and nut producing plants. I'm delighted that we grow most of our own fruit!

Jenn, thank you! We like it. :)

Nancy, and when you're producing I'll be complaining of the heat, lol.

kathyinozarks said...

Good evening, I enjoyed your garden notes and photos. I agree mulching is really important especially during hot summers-really makes a big difference.

Leigh said...

Kathy, it really makes a huge difference, doesn't it? Not only in retaining moisture, but in keeping soil temperature down too.

Kathy said...

Hi Leigh! Noting your tomato ties are baling twine. I did that a few years ago & had some plant damage after a few weeks of daily afternoon breeze caused rubbing. Switched to fabric ties. Old t-shirt cut into 1-1/2" strips works well. If you grab both ends of the strip and gently pull, it rolls into a tube that's easy to tie around plants. Then the baling twine can be looped through it and tied to the support. Whatever works! Can also be hand washed & re-used the next year.
Thanks for sharing your garden progress! Mine was planted late & some dug up (repeatedly) by raccoons, but some is doing well. Looking forward to harvesting. Nothing like eating what you've grown yourself, especially from seeds.

Leigh said...

Kathy, good tip about the old t-shirts for tying up tomatoes. I've used baling twine for a number of years now, but never noticed any damage.

Sorry to hear about your raccoons! Critters can be such a challenge in the garden.

Jean Ellen said...

Wow, you have an amazing garlic harvest. I just can't seem to find the secret for getting mine to grow large. I have already canned 4 pints of pickles - my stash was getting low this year as well. You have a real green thumb. I do enjoy reading your blog.

Leigh said...

Jean Ellen, thank you! Truth be told, my green thumb is pretty elusive. Some things are doing well, some things barely germinated!


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Ascendance is a short indie first-person psychological horror game that was produced by Niven Hedinger and published on March 13rd of that year, being made available on the itch.io platform. According to gamedev, Ascendance was inspired by a horror short called "Unindentified", and in the game, you control a person known only as "Passenger 2", who after a long air journey, wakes up after the plane has landed. However, when crossing the door towards the exit of the airport, you discover that something is wrong, when you find yourself in a strange place, dark and empty. It's up to you to find the four tapes and find out more about this strange place.

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Tech giant abused position in online wallet market by only allowing Apple Pay on devices, says European Commission

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Apple faces EU antitrust charges over mobile payments technology

The European Commission said on Monday that tech giant Apple abused its dominant position in the market of online wallets.

The EU executive body announced that it has sent a so-called “statement of objections” to Apple, informing the company of the preliminary results of an investigation launched in 2020.

The probe has found that Apple violated EU antitrust rules by only allowing Apple Pay as a contactless payment method (NFC or “tap and go”) on its own devices.

“We’ve come to the preliminary conclusion that Apple holds a significant position on the device market and a dominant position in NFC inputs and wallets on iOS and Europe,” Margrethe Vestager, the commission’s executive vice-President, explained at a news conference.

She said the commission is concerned by “Apple’s decisions to block access to the NFC technology for payment purposes and use it solely for its own mobile wallet, the Apple Pay.”

“As a result, users of Apple devices can only pay with the tap and go function using Apple Pay and no other wallets,” Vestager added.

According to the European Commission, evidence suggests that developers ditched their plans on creating new online wallets because they knew they would not be accessible to Apple users.

“This behavior stifled innovation and prevented competition in the mobile wallets market. As a result, European consumers have little choice of mobile payment solutions when paying in shops,” Vestager asserted.

Apple, which has previously said that it denied access to NFC technology for payments, can now reply to the European Commission’s objections.

The commission can impose a fine if it finds that Apple breached EU competition law.

In a separate case, the EU executive body found last year that Apple abused its dominant position for the distribution of music streaming apps through its App Store and distorted competition in the music streaming market.

Maintaining fair competition in the EU’s internal market is one of the few exclusive competencies of the EU. It allows the European Commission to decide on state aid rules and fine companies for breaching EU law.

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Updated February 12, 2014 19:38:14

A Commission of Inquiry in Papua New Guinea has recommended an Australian-led company involved in obtaining leases over more than two million hectares of traditional land be investigated for criminal misconduct and conspiracy.

In 2011 a public outcry over the rorting, mainly by logging companies, of a leasing scheme intended for small agriculture projects, prompted the PNG Government to set up the Commission of Inquiry.

Three commissioners were set the task of investigating how 11 per cent of PNG's land mass came to be leased, mostly for 99 years, often without permission of landowners.

The largest of the land grabs involved four leases for more than two million hectares belonging to tens of thousands of people in PNG's Western Province.

It was orchestrated by a small PNG-registered, Queensland-led company called Independent Timbers and Stevedoring Limited (IT&S).

The Commission report, which has just become public, found IT&S 'manipulated' the supposedly independent lease approval process to obtain control over four Special Agricultural and Business Leases, or SABLs.

Look nobody told me, my people about the lease... we had no idea about this SABL process.

Now our land is with the company.

Waeya Bugaebo, Western Province landowner

Commissioner Nicholas Mirou found documents prepared by the company were 'deceptive and clearly fraudulent' and recommended that further investigation be undertaken to establish if 'international racketeering over land acquisition has been committed'.

PNG government agencies responsible for monitoring and approving the project were found to be guilty of 'gross negligence'.

Commissioner Mirou spent two weeks in Western Province listening to testimony from landowners and found the majority did not give consent to the leases.

"One of the fundamental requirements under the Lands Act itself is consent... if you don't have consent of the landowners, obviously, it is the prerequisite for an SABL lease to be granted," he said.

He was particularly touched by a pastor's wife, Waeya Bugaebo, who crossed mountains and swamps on foot to give her testimony.

"She walked, actually walked eight days to come to Kiunga... she gave her evidence, and she cried, and said 'Look nobody told me, my people about the lease... we had no idea about this SABL process. Now our land is with the company,'" Commissioner Mirou recounted.

The Commission of Inquiry has recommended the four leases be revoked.

PNG's biggest logging project

The IT&S project began life as a plan to build a road 600 kilometres from the Western Province town of Kiunga to the PNG capital, Port Moresby, and to pay for it by harvesting logs along a 40-metre road corridor.

Landowners were keen for the opportunities road access would bring and happy to lease a narrow passage through the forest.

But the commission found that by the time all the paperwork was finished, Lands Department officials and executives of landowner companies had unwittingly signed approval for the leasing of more than two million hectares.

The four leases obtained for the IT&S project were also found to have failed to provide reasonable access for hunting, fishing, gardening and other necessities of life.

Commissioner Mirou says many communities did not discover their land had been leased, until he took his hearings to Kiunga.

If it goes ahead the IT&S project, by the company's own admission, will be the biggest logging project PNG has ever seen.

The ABC sought IT&S's response to the Commission of Inquiry's findings.

IT&S distinguishes itself from many of the other developers listed in the Commission of Inquiry by the simple fact that operations have not commenced.

Neville Harsley, CEO of Independent Timbers & Stevedoring LTD

"The company has requested all of the supporting documents, transcripts and other related exhibits from Commission of Inquiry sources as they have not been made readily available," a statement issued by Neville Harsley, chief executive officer of IT&S, said.

"IT&S distinguishes itself from many of the other developers listed in the Commission of Inquiry by the simple fact that operations have not commenced," the statement added.

For many landowners the fact that their forest is still intact has given comfort.

The statement suggests the company is keen to continue with the project.

"IT&S has been working methodically in collaboration with landowners for over the last 10 years" it said.

"IT&S remains committed to the customary landowners through the course of the project which will provide the local communities with access to medical resources, water treatment plants at villages, schools, community centres, infrastructure, job opportunities and significant landowner benefits and royalties" said the statement.

Australian and PNG government role

The commission has recommended 66 flawed leases be revoked across Papua New Guinea.

Last year when Prime Minister Peter O'Neill presented the Commission's final report to parliament, he said the Inquiry revealed a shocking trend of corruption and mismanagement.

Mr O'Neill said drastic action was needed.

NGOS in PNG are concerned about the delay and have called for immediate revocation of the 66 leases.

Last week Mr O'Neill told an FM100 talk-back program he had appointed a ministerial committee and SABLs would be cancelled. As yet there has been no action.

Anti-corruption watch-dog, Transparency International (TI), wants Australian, as well as PNG authorities, to investigate IT&S.

"Our reaction from the start with that case was that it was appalling, that it was almost a third of the land area of the province," Lawrence Stephens, chairman of the TI's PNG Chapter, said.

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If the Intergenerational Report tells us anything, it's that governments will need to be extremely careful with every dollar spent for decades to come.(ABC News: Matt Roberts)

While most Australians were coming to terms with fresh COVID outbreaks, new lockdowns, ruined holidays and more confusion over vaccines, two reports dropped on Monday that would otherwise have dominated the week.

One underscored the challenge Australia will face post-pandemic if governments keep wasting borrowed money. The other detailed more evidence of the current government doing just that.

The first was the Intergenerational Report — a glimpse 40 years into the future produced every five years by Treasury. These long-range reports are easy to mock, particularly given Treasury has been hard-pressed lately to foresee what's likely to happen six or 12 months from now.

Nonetheless, the IGR is still a worthwhile exercise in looking at the productivity, population and spending trends likely to shape the coming decades. And this one delivers a national wake-up call.

This latest IGR says in 40 years from now, Australia will be older, smaller and poorer than was forecast in Treasury's last such report, thanks in part to COVID slowing both the birth rate and the inflow of migrants. The budget will remain in deficit as far as the eye can see, with net debt falling slightly over the next 25 years, before climbing again out to 2060.

Treasury highlights the urgent need to boost productivity and be "prudent" with government spending. When so much is being borrowed, don't waste it. Which brings us to the other report released on Monday — the Australian National Audit Office report on the "Commuter Car Parks" fund.

Hyperlocal political pork-barrelling

In the lead-up to the last election, both sides of politics thought it was a clever idea to woo frustrated commuters with promises to build new train station car parks.

Never mind that this is normally and properly the realm of state and local governments. Never mind the Commonwealth is already borrowing vast sums to meet its own responsibilities in the areas of defence, aged care, health and the NDIS.

Apparently hyperlocal political pork-barrelling, funded by more debt, was considered a smart way to win votes.

Bill Shorten promised a $300m "National Park and Ride Fund", which was meant to be delivered through "co-investment" partnerships with local and state governments.

The Coalition topped that with a $660m "Commuter Car Park Fund" which, according to the Audit Office, involved "limited" engagement with local and state government and a process that was "not designed to be open or transparent".

Instead of any actual merit-based judgement of how this pot of taxpayers' money should be spent to best tackle congestion and help commuters genuinely in need, the Audit Office found there was no assessment criteria and no evidence "approved projects will provide value for money".

Instead, Coalition MPs, Senators and unelected Liberal candidates put forward projects that — surprise, surprise — reflected their "geographic and political profile".

Of the 47 approved projects, 38 were simply given the green light by the Prime Minister after "consultation" with his ministers. Most, in fact, were approved by Scott Morrison 24 hours before he called the election and went into caretaker mode; 77 per cent of the projects were in Coalition-held seats, the rest in seats being targeted by the government.

Communications Minister Paul Fletcher wearing a suit looking at media at press conference in June 2021.
Paul Fletcher has dismissed the charge of blatant pork-barrelling, pointing out no laws or rules were broken.(ABC News: Adam Kennedy)

This is how the system works, folks

In one of the most damning revelations, the Audit Office says the Infrastructure Department shut down an early proposal from Treasury (the department ringing the alarm bells in this week's IGR), to run a competitive, merit-based program to decide how the money should be spent. Perish the thought.

In simple terms, the Auditor General has found hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayers' money was rushed out the door by the Prime Minister, with no transparency, on the eve of an election, in target seats, with no evidence of any value for money or productivity benefit.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian was refreshingly candid last year when she conceded pork-barrelling occurred and was "not unique" to her government. That doesn't make it right.

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The $100m "sports rorts" fund cost the job of Bridget McKenzie who will be sworn back into Cabinet tomorrow.(ABC News: Matt Roberts)

In defending the car park cash splash, Urban Infrastructure Minister Paul Fletcher pointed out, correctly, that no rules or laws were broken. This is how the system works, folks.

He also dismissed the charge of blatant pork-barrelling, claiming the government is also spending lots of money in Labor-held seats, citing the Melbourne Airport rail link as an example. It's a worthy project and sure, the rail line will carve its way through Labor electorates, but its eventual passengers seeking a quick CBD-airport transfer are more likely to be frequent flyers from across town.

If the Intergenerational Report tells us anything, it's that governments will need to be extremely careful with every dollar spent for decades to come. With another generation or two of deficits ahead, new spending must deliver the best productivity (rather than political) bang for buck.

There's no evidence that happened with this $660m car park fund, nor the $100m "sports rorts" fund which cost the job of Bridget McKenzie who, incidentally, will be sworn back into Cabinet tomorrow.

David Speers is the host of Insiders, which airs on ABC TV at 9am on Sunday or on iview.

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Amazon strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company—offering vast selection, low prices, and fast delivery. We work to deliver on that vision and earn the trust of customers, selling partners, and brands by providing products that meet their expectations. Product reviews are an important part of that shopping experience, helping customers in their purchase decisions and providing a way for selling partners to differentiate their products from other similar items. We have more than 300 million active customers and over 1.9 million selling partners worldwide—most of which are small and medium-sized businesses that represent the majority of physical products sold in our stores. On behalf of our customers and selling partners, Amazon relentlessly innovates to allow only genuine product reviews in our store.

When Amazon first started showcasing customer reviews alongside the product for sale, some didn't understand why we would highlight positive and negative feedback on products in our store. To us, the answer was simple—we were obsessed with delighting customers over the long term, and that required providing genuine product reviews that helped customers make purchase decisions and receive products that met their expectations. As a result, it has always been critical that product reviews accurately reflect the experience that customers have had with a product.

To help earn the trust of customers, we devote significant resources to preventing fake or incentivized reviews from appearing in our store. Over many years, we have continued to invent, deploy, and continually improve sophisticated technology powered by machine learning and couple that with expert human investigators to proactively prevent fake reviews from ever being seen in our store. We realize that we're not perfect, and we also provide customers and our selling partners with the ability to report fake reviews that we may have missed. In 2020, we stopped more than 200 million suspected fake reviews before they were ever seen by a customer, and more than 99% of reviews enforcement was driven by our proactive detection. In addition to stopping these reviews, we take action to shut down and stop review submissions from the accounts contributing the fake reviews and to enforce the bad actors' selling accounts trying to artificially benefit from this abuse.

We are relentless in protecting our store and will take action to stop fake reviews regardless of the size or location of those who attempt this abuse. At the same time, we do not take any enforcement decision lightly and maintain a very high bar for our accuracy in identifying fake reviews. We know that the vast majority of our sellers work hard every day to create a great shopping experience for our customers, that they are operating businesses, and that they often have many employees to support. So we work hard so that our enforcement actions do not mistakenly impact honest sellers and that we stop anyone who tries to take customers and business away from them. We take our responsibility to monitor and enforce our policies seriously so customers can shop in our store with confidence and so all sellers have the opportunity to grow their business amid healthy and fair competition. We continue to innovate on these capabilities to prevent abuse from impacting our customers and selling partners and to continuously improve our proactive detection of this abuse.

Due to our continued improvements in detection of fake reviews and connections between bad-actor buying and selling accounts, we have seen an increasing trend of bad actors attempting to solicit fake reviews outside Amazon, particularly via social media services. Some use social media services on their own; in other cases, they hire a third-party service provider to perpetrate this activity on their behalf. However, bad actors regularly try to take this transaction outside Amazon to obscure our ability to detect their activity and the relationship between the multiple accounts committing or benefiting from this abuse. As a result, we use a number of techniques, including advanced machine learning, to try to detect groups of connected entities—customer accounts, selling accounts, products, brands, and more. However, it's also clear that this is an industry-wide battle, and we need to work together to make faster progress.

When we detect fake reviews that may have been perpetrated outside Amazon, we regularly report the activity to the social media company where it occurred. In the first three months of 2020, we reported more than 300 groups to social media companies, who then took a median time of 45 days to shut down those groups from using their service to perpetrate abuse. In the first three months of 2021, we reported more than 1,000 such groups, with social media services taking a median time of five days to take them down. While we appreciate that some social media companies have become much faster at responding, to address this problem at scale, it is imperative for social media companies to invest adequately in proactive controls to detect and enforce fake reviews ahead of our reporting the issue to them. Protecting consumers will require all of us to work together to ensure we leverage our unique knowledge, partner with each other, and stop attempted fraud and fake reviews before it has a chance of impacting consumers.

It is also critical that we hold bad actors—and the service providers that provide them with fake reviews—accountable for their activity. However, this has been a significant industry challenge. We have filed lawsuits against those who have purchased reviews and the service providers who provided them, and we will continue to pursue these bad actors through the courts. But we need coordinated assistance from consumer protection regulators around the world. Fake reviews mislead consumers, create unfair competition for honest sellers, and foster an underground economy.

Amazon will continue to enhance our proactive controls, streamline processes and tools for industry participants to work together, and work hard to hold bad actors accountable when they engage in abusing reviews. We need social media companies whose services are being used to facilitate fake reviews to proactively invest in fraud and fake review controls, partner with us to stop these bad actors, and help consumers shop with confidence. It will take constant innovation and partnership across industries and law enforcement to fully protect consumers and our honest selling partners.


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Amazon announced plans to add 26 utility-scale wind and solar energy projects, totaling 3.4 GW of electricity production capacity, bringing its total investment in renewable energy in 2020 to 35 projects and more than 4 GW of capacity—the largest corporate investment in renewable energy in a single year. These new projects will make the company the largest-ever corporate purchaser of renewable energy.

We have now invested in 6.5 GW of wind and solar projects that will enable the company to supply its operations with more than 18 million megawatt hours (MWh) of renewable energy annually. This is enough to power 1.7 million U.S. homes for one year. These projects will supply renewable energy for Amazon’s corporate offices, fulfillment centers, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers that support millions of customers globally. They will also help advance Amazon’s goal to be net-zero carbon emissions across its business by 2040. Part of that commitment is powering Amazon’s infrastructure with 100% renewable energy, and the company is now on a path to achieve this milestone by 2025, five years ahead of the initial 2030 target.

“Amazon is helping fight climate change by moving quickly to power our businesses with renewable energy,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder and CEO. “With a total of 127 solar and wind projects, Amazon is now the biggest corporate buyer of renewable energy ever. We are on a path to running 100% of our business on renewable energy by 2025—five years ahead of our original target of 2030. This is just one of the many steps we’re taking that will help us meet our Climate Pledge. I couldn’t be more proud of all the teams across Amazon that continue to work hard, smart, and fast to get these projects up and running.”

The 26 new wind and solar projects announced today are located in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, South Africa, Sweden, the UK, and the U.S. The new projects are Amazon’s first in France, Germany, Italy, and South Africa. In the U.S., Amazon has now enabled wind and solar projects in California, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, and Virginia. The company has a total of 127 renewable energy projects globally, including 59 utility-scale wind and solar renewable energy projects, and 68 solar rooftops on fulfillment centers and sort centers around the globe.

Additionally, in an effort to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion within the renewable energy sector and reduce barriers for participants from underrepresented communities, AWS is proud to be a founding supporter of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) Accelerate membership program. Through Accelerate, smaller renewable energy companies owned and operated by women and people of color will be eligible for a complimentary two-year ACORE membership, where participating organizations will gain access to key resources and networks to help drive a more diverse and inclusive renewable industry.

Last year, Amazon and Global Optimism co-founded The Climate Pledge, a commitment to reach the Paris Agreement 10 years early and be net-zero carbon by 2040. The pledge now has 31 signatories, including Unilever, Verizon, Siemens, Microsoft, and Best Buy. To reach its goal, Amazon will continue to reduce emissions across its operations by establishing a path to power its operations with 100% renewable energy, five years ahead of the company’s initial target of 2030; by delivering its Shipment Zero vision to make all shipments net-zero carbon, with 50% net-zero carbon by 2030; and by purchasing 100,000 electric delivery vehicles, the largest order ever of electric delivery vehicles. Learn more about Amazon’s commitment to sustainability.


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3 Important Life Lessons I Learned From Harry Potter

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3 Important Life Lessons Learned From Harry Potter

3 Important Life Lessons Learned From Harry Potter

Harry James Potter.

What a beautiful influence that scarred bespectacled boy is to this generation.

There's no doubt that the Harry Potter book series changed the lives of those who read it. The boy who lived taught me a lot about life.

Here are three important life lessons I've learned from Harry Potter.

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3 Important Life Lessons I Learned from Harry Potter

1. Harry Potter me how to be a true friend.

When it comes to his friends, Harry gives his all.

He’s honest; there's no sugarcoating the truth with Harry Potter.

He’s supportive. When Hermione was heartbroken and needed a friend, Harry was there to comfort her.

When Ron didn't believe he can be part of the Gryffindor's Quidditch Team, Harry tricked him into thinking he was going to be lucky during the tryout.

Harry Potter does not think twice about laying his life for his friends even at such an early age.

Harry Potter me how to be a true friend.

2. Harry Potter taught me to stand for what is right.

Harry was not swayed by society's opinion.

Even when the whole school would think of him as a lunatic...

Even when he had to risk losing his friends---the only family he’s got.

Even when people would hate him...

Harry Potter does what is right even when it's uncomfortable and difficult. Even if it would mean being unpopular. Even when in the end, he'd be walking the path alone.

Harry Potter taught me to stand for what is right.

3. The boy who lived taught me how to live with a purpose.

Harry Potter was famous even before he could walk and talk. There’s not a child that doesn’t know his name.

When he found out that he was some kind of a hero to the wizarding world, he didn't let fame change him.

He remained down-to-earth and "normal".

He didn't use his privileges to get his way. Instead, he used his influence to help others in need and fight the threat of evil trying to conquer his world.

Harry Potter taught me to live with a purpose

When you read a book, is it important that you get valuable life lessons from it?

Then Harry Potter should be on your list.

I’ll forever be thankful for that day I picked up a copy of Harry Potter and I'll always remember the life lessons I've learned from it.

I helped Harry Potter out of his cupboard, he changed my life forever.

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  1. ;)

    Boas lições!

    Ótima terça!

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  2. love harry potter saga
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  3. I never read the Harry Potter books but I love that the messages are such good ones... I'm going to suggest Val reads them xox

  4. One of the things I loved about his character is how everyone keeps talking about how amazing he is, but he knows he's just a kid--a kid with NO magical knowledge or special talent to start. It's easy to let our heads inflate at the first sign of success, but he just kept feeling humbled by how underwhelming he was compared to his legend. It was the same thing when we first meet him with the Dursleys. He's humble, not necessarily by choice, but because of his circumstances. He never complains about his lot, just does the best he can. Definitely a great character.

  5. Really amazing inspirations! Thanks for sharing!!
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  6. I love the Harry Potter books, and it's so cool that we have Harry Potter world nearby at Universal Studios!

  7. Great inspiration!
    Have a nice week-end!
    Gil Zetbase

  8. I enjoyed the Harry Potter series as well. I'm glad it gave so much to you, reading is wonderful!

  9. These messages sound lovely!
    Kisses, Paola.

  10. I absolutely love HP! Reading the books has changed my life for sure! Loved hearing what you learned from the books. :) Have a great week!

  11. I've never read these books. Not my kind of reads.

    Have a fabulous day. ☺

  12. My girl's favourite. She has the complete works.

  13. The Harry Potter series has such value and provides all of the beautiful messages that you described above. It saddens me that some Christian families won't allow their children to read them because of the magic aspect. Our son is on the 2nd book. After the 1st we took the time to discuss and talk about the morals and values Harry learned and how that is relevant to life as a Christian.

  14. Great post. Inspiring. Harry has so much to offer us in the way of how to face adversity with strength and courage. Thank you for sharing!

  15. Oh my family has loved these books for years!!!


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Diego Rivera An Artist for the People

Diego Rivera

An Artist for the People

Price: $22.95

  • Publication Date: February 5, 2013
  • Imprint: Abrams Books for Young Readers
  • Trim Size: 10 x 10
  • ISBN: 9780810984110
  • Page Count: 56
  • Illustrations: Full-color illustrations
  • Rights: North America English

Diego Rivera offers young readers unique insight into the life and artwork of the famous Mexican painter and muralist. The book follows Rivera’s career, looking at his influences and tracing the evolution of his style. His work often called attention to the culture and struggles of the Mexican working class. Believing that art should be for the people, he created public murals in both the United States and Mexico, examples of which are included. The book contains a list of museums where you can see Rivera’s art, a historical note, a glossary, and a bibliography.

Praise for Diego Rivera: An Artist for the People
"With engaging prose that is beautifully illustrated with Diego Rivera’s paintings and murals, this spacious volume introduces the great Mexican artist to young people. Accompanied by crisply reproduced color images of both the bright, minutely detailed murals as well as archival photos of the artist at work, the accessible account discusses how Diego constructed his art..."
--Booklist, starred review

"The stunning illustrations include images of Rivera’s murals, his “cartoon” drawings, reproductions of art that he found influential, and photographs. The design, with scrollwork along the top and bottom and an unusual placement of page numbers, exudes style. The text is clearly written, straightforward, and attention-grabbing, with a good number of quotes interspersed throughout."
--School Library Journal, starred review

"A carefully researched, cogently argued and handsomely produced appreciation."
--Kirkus Reviews

"There is life to these pages, and breadth to its subject. Short enough to reward a wary reader but with enough context and clarity to bring Diego to life, Rubin takes a tricky guy for kids to know about and makes him precisely what he was: bigger than life."
--School Library Journal, Fuse 8 Blog

"Enhanced by gorgeously reproduced photos and artwork, Rubin’s account follows the Mexican artist from his early drawings — as a small child, he was given free rein in a room “covered with black canvas as high as he could reach” — through his eventful, productive life."
--The Washington Post

"Rubin traces Rivera’s life from his emergent boyhood talent, through the formal studio education that left him restless and professionally unsatisfied, to realizing his calling to create massive public artworks for the common people, celebrating the dignity of their labor."
--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

School Library Journal Best Book of 2013
Best Multicultural Children's Books 2013 (Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature)
Notable Children's Books from ALSC 2014
Notable Books for a Global Society Book Award 2014

About the author

Susan Goldman Rubin is the author of many biographies for young people including Jean Lafitte: The Pirate Who Saved America and Andy Warhol: Pop Art Painter. She lives in Malibu, California.


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The Brofessionals are back after time away for "lots of different reasons" with more music to cook to. Sammy and Shaarne take you on a journey to we know not where - but they we know they do start with Sade
Published: 15/08/2022 11:56:18 a.m.
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Sammy auditions another new co-host tonight with DJ Mum-Dance in the studio direct from looking after her babies. They're celebrating Matariki, stolen freedoms and dead air.
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The UK Professional Jockeys Association has announced a 2-month trial of using saliva tests to check jockeys for cocaine use. Previously, jockeys were tested using hair or urine – methods that cannot give an immediate result. It is hoped that the new saliva testing will mean that jockeys testing positive for cocaine can be immediately withdrawn from racing.


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Researchers at the University of Toronto and its partner hospitals have discovered a way to generate functional cells from stem cells that could open new treatment avenues for people with cystic fibrosis who have liver disease.

Funded by Medicine by Design and completed with the collaborative efforts of multiple labs, the research was recently published in Nature Communications.

While cystic fibrosis is well known as a lung disease, the second most common cause of death in patients is actually liver disease. This is because people with cystic fibrosis can experience a decrease in the flow of bile fluid, which is secreted by the liver that helps with digestion and detoxification. The bile duct is a tube-like structure found in the liver that carries bile to the small intestine. The loss of flow leads to liver dysfunction. As a result, some patients require liver transplantation.

“Until now, we have not had a good scientific model to study the human liver’s bile duct system physiologically,” says senior study author Shinichiro Ogawa, an affiliate scientist at the McEwen Stem Cell Institute and Ajmera Transplant Centre, University Health Network (UHN), and an assistant professor in U of T’s department of laboratory medicine and pathobiology.

“In order to study a disease in a dish at the basic cellular and molecular level, we need functional cells. The fact that we can derive these functional cells from stem cells gives us a totally different way of evaluating and treating defective cells.”

The cells that the researchers generated have the properties of mature, functional cholangiocyte cells, which are the cells that make up the bile duct. Cholangiocytes play a role in several chronic and progressive liver diseases that have few medical treatment options. These diseases are responsible for about 20 per cent of adult liver transplants and most pediatric liver transplants.

Not much is known about the bile duct disorders that can lead to liver disease, but Ogawa says this research may lead to a deeper understanding of the specific mechanisms of the disease, as well as being a powerful tool for finding new treatments.

Ultimately, the researchers say it may be possible to develop therapies that involve transplanting the cells into a patient who has bile duct disease, bypassing the need for a transplant.

The work is funded through Medicine by Design’s large team projects. Ogawa and his co-investigator Christine Bear, a senior scientist in molecular medicine at The Hospital for Sick Children and a U of T professor of physiology, are part of a team focused on harnessing the liver’s power to regenerate.

Funded by a $114-million grant from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund, Medicine by Design is a strategic research initiative at U of T and its affiliated hospitals that is working at the convergence of engineering, medicine and science to catalyze transformative discoveries in regenerative medicine and accelerate them toward clinical impact.

Ogawa says it was the work of many different researchers and labs that brought the study together.

Beginning with pluripotent stem cells, which have the capacity to give rise to most of the cell types in the human body, Mina Ogawa, scientific associate at the McEwen Stem Cell Institute, was able to identify methods to efficiently guide the stem cells through the process of changing into cholangiocytes. Donghe Yang – a PhD candidate in the lab of Gordon Keller, who is director of UHN’s McEwen Stem Cell Institute – analyzed the stem cell-derived cholangiocytes at a single cell level to compare to human cholangiocytes in the liver.

The team used earlier Medicine by Design-funded research on the Human Liver Map to confirm that the cells they developed had the characteristics of mature cells, which are more functional and have more therapeutic applications as opposed to immature cells.

Researchers in Bear’s lab – Janet (Jia-Xin) Jiang, research project co-ordinator, and Sunny Xia, PhD student – were able to demonstrate that the cells were functional and responded to natural environmental cues like the force associated with fluid transport. Their work also showed that newly developed stem cell-derived cholangiocytes could, in the future, play a powerful role in developing organ-specific therapies.

“These studies highlight the importance of generating mature cells from stem cells that faithfully mimic the functional properties of the native tissue,” says Bear. “We can better understand the real effect of disease-causing mutations and cystic fibrosis therapies, especially in those hard-to-access organs”.

Bear adds that this work was made possible through an interdisciplinary effort. “This work is an excellent example of how collaboration among the research teams funded by Medicine by Design can help to target cutting-edge basic research in a way that will make a difference for patients.”

Ogawa says the power of stem cell technology is to be able to identify and correct the disease at a cellular level. One day, this research could lead to the development of personalized, customized treatments for other bile duct disorders. Ogawa adds that the McEwen Stem Cell Institute is a world leader in producing different cell types from these stem cells.