Jackie Greene Added To Destination Event With Grateful Dead Members & The String Cheese Incident
As the winter takes over America, fans continue to migrate South for carefully curated destination events in tropical locations. One of the most exciting destination events of the season is Los Muertos Con Queso, a new event that features headlining performances from both members of the Grateful Dead, as well as The String Cheese Incident. Dubbed “Los Muertos”, the new band will feature original members Bob Weir and Bill Kreutzmann alongside WSP’s Dave Schools, Almost Dead’s Tom Hamilton and Dead & Co’s Jeff Chimenti.What To Expect When Grateful Dead Members And String Cheese Incident Play The Beach In MexicoIn addition to Los Muertos and The String Cheese Incident, the event revealed Chris Robinson Brotherhood as part of the initial lineup. Today, Los Muertos con Queso has added Jackie Greene to the lineup, who will be performing with his own band throughout the weekend. Greene is no stranger to the Dead’s music, and it seems highly likely that collaborations are imminent.LMCQ is scheduled for January 25-28 in Riviera Maya, Mexico. For tickets and more information, head to the official website.
The Lexington Minutemen played a tune to usher him onstage, where he was given the key to the city by Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons.“I’ve never been given the key to any city before!” exclaimed Gordon-Levitt. “I wish I could build a fire for all of us! Go, L.A. Lakers!”But he also acted, too. During a “date” with one of the Hasty Pudding cast members, Gordon-Levitt planted a kiss on one very deserving gal.It was during the evening roast that Gordon-Levitt really raised the bar for “Men of the Year” to come. After being roasted well-done by Kennedy Edmonds ’17 and Lily Yarbrough ’17, he was put through a fiery obstacle course to receive his Pudding Pot. First he milked a cow, then he performed a sexy dance for Russian porn star David Sheynberg ’16, then, reprising his role as Robin from “The Dark Knight Rises,” he donned a skin-tight Robin costume and was told to break balloons printed with his own face.That’s when Gordon-Levitt switched up the game.He grabbed the balloons and darted into the crowd, climbing into the audience to wild chants of “Robin! Robin!”Next tasked with impersonating his friend and co-star Seth Rogen, Gordon-Levitt disrobed, down to Calvin Klein skivvies and mismatched socks.The crowd roared. The star, whose breakout dance routine of Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation” for Spike’s “Lip Sync Battle” recently went viral, can seemingly do no wrong. Not even an impromptu song called “10 Things I Hate About Myself” could ruffle this Man of the Year.And so the Pudding Pot was offered, and received, joyfully.“I spent the last two days here,” said Gordon-Levitt. “There’s a thoughtfulness, optimism, passion, worldliness, sense of humor that leaves me feeling optimistic about people younger than I am. You guys are really doing great.” The Man of the Year found himself hugging his dance partner during one of the skits. Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer “I spent the last two days here,” said Joseph Gordon-Levitt after receiving the Pudding Pot. “There’s a thoughtfulness, optimism, passion, worldliness, sense of humor that leaves me feeling optimistic about people younger than I am.” Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer Not your average Joe Gordon-Levitt darted into the crowd, climbing into the audience to wild chants of “Robin! Robin!” Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer In a humorous skit, Gordon-Levitt went on a “date” with a cast member from the Hasty Pudding Theatricals. Photo by Shraddha Gupta A performance by the Lexington Minutemen signaled the arrival of Hasty Pudding Man of the Year Joseph Gordon-Levitt during a special public performance. Photo by Shraddha Gupta
Gordon-Levitt braved the day’s wintry conditions. Photo by Shraddha Gupta Hasty Pudding Man of the Year Joseph Gordon-Levitt started the day off with a tour of Hasty Pudding headquarters. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer Despite the weather, fans flocked to Harvard Square to catch a glimpse of the “Don Jon” actor. Photo by Shraddha Gupta Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons presented the actor with the key to the city. Photo by Shraddha Gupta Harvard is Joseph Gordon-Loving It. The actor (real last name Gordon-Levitt) who made a name for himself over six seasons on “3rd Rock from the Sun” and starred in films like “10 Things I Hate About You” and the upcoming “Snowden,” visited campus today in another important role: as Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 50th Man of the Year.No amount of snow or slush could thwart his fête, as it nearly did for 2013’s honoree Kiefer Sutherland. To commemorate five decades of Hasty men — beginning with the first Man of the Year, Bob Hope, in 1967, Gordon-Levitt participated in a special outdoor event at the Hasty Pudding Theatricals headquarters.Gordon-Levitt — or Joe, as he’s known — first dropped by headquarters earlier this afternoon for a tour and a history lesson. Guides Dan Milaschewski ’17 and Betty Lema ’17 explained that the club, founded in 1795, was initially centered on pudding.“So it’s not originally a theater thing?” Gordon-Levitt wondered.That came later, Milaschewski and Lema clarified.In its new home at the site of the original House of Blues, the Hasty Pudding digs are a curiosity museum of its wacky antics and alumni — including, most notably, B.J. Novak and writers for Mindy Kaling’s “The Mindy Project.”“More and more, we’re seeing a lot of people come out of the Pudding and doing things in Hollywood,” said Lema.Gordon-Levitt is doing things outside of Hollywood, too. In 2011, he published “The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories,” the first of three volumes he edited from more than 8,500 submissions to his open-collaborative company hitRECord, which has also produced music, films, and the Emmy Award-winning series “Hit Record on TV with Joseph Gordon-Levitt.”Curious and friendly, Gordon-Levitt seemed genuinely interested in Hasty Pudding’s evolution from a politics- and friendship-oriented society to a theatrical enterprise, one that often tests the boundaries of comedy and satire with its outlandish annual productions.,“I did a movie, and people did not appreciate it,” Gordon-Levitt told Milaschewski and Lema of his writing and directorial debut, “Don Jon,” alongside Scarlett Johansson.But he was appreciated at Harvard. After being whisked underground for a secret initiation into the club, Gordon-Levitt re-emerged to receive a medal and a few ties, for good measure.“Oh, sweet!” he said. “These are good ties! Thank you so much.”While Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year is traditionally paraded through Harvard Square, it’s unheard of for Man of the Year to make his public debut in anything other than the traditional evening roast. But throngs of fans braved the weather for a special afternoon event featuring the actor.
Researchers at the Georgia Envirotron in Griffin, Ga., saythe unique facility is helping them fight a costly foe of thepeanut industry.Aflatoxin is one of a group of extremely poisonous naturalmycotoxins produced by two common fungi, Aspergillusflavus and A. parasiticus.A Costly Problem”It’s one of the most expensive problems the peanut industryfaces,” said Keith Ingram, chair of the Georgia Envirotroncommittee. Ingram is an associate professor with the Universityof Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.U.S. peanut products don’t contain aflatoxin, a natural carcinogenwith tight regulatory limits here and abroad. But the industryfigures it costs about $1 billion a year to keep it out, Ingramsaid. Georgia produces 37 percent of U.S. peanuts.”Very few peanut seeds contain aflatoxin. But it doesn’ttake many seeds to cause major health and economic impacts,”he said. “If a farmer’s load is rejected because of aflatoxincontamination, he can still sell the crop for peanut oil, as aflatoxincan be removed from oil. But oil is a product of much lower value.”Farmers can’t even sell the hulls from rejected peanuts foranimals’ bedding, Ingram said, due to the risk of the animals’eating the hulls.”Aflatoxin restricts trade, too, which also affects thevalue of peanuts,” he said. “Many countries can’t exportpeanuts because of aflatoxin.”Searching for ResistanceResearchers have found that drought-resistant peanut varietiesand varieties with long root systems tend to also be aflatoxin-resistant.Ingram and U.S. Department of Agriculture research geneticistCorley Holbrook are working to identify peanut germ plasm withthese qualities.”We’ve identified peanut germ plasm lines with lower incidencesof aflatoxin and tested them in field conditions at the UGA CoastalPlain Experiment Station in Tifton, Ga.,” Holbrook said.”We are now conducting research at the Georgia Envirotronto gather root data.”The envirotron, a $1.26 million facility, allows researchersto study how a number of stresses affect plants.Using the envirotron’s facilities, scientists can control temperature,humidity, light, pollutants and atmospheric gases. Indoor growthchambers can be used to study plants, pests and diseases, whilegreenhouses allow researchers to simulate field conditions.Studying Peanut Plants From the RootsUp”The growth chambers will allow us to gather reliabledata on the peanut plant root growth,” Holbrook said. Throughobservation tubes in the growth chambers, the scientists can alsoobserve the roots and pods growing in the soil.”Gathering root data is extremely difficult in field plotsand really isn’t even feasible,” he said. “We triedto gather data using probes, but we weren’t happy with the results.”Peanut farmers worldwide will be happy once the research teampinpoints aflatoxin-resistant germ plasm.”Once we determine the best choices from the germ plasm,crop breeders across the globe can use this germ plasm to createnew resistant peanut varieties,” Holbrook said.The team also plans to study aflatoxin’s relationship to droughtconditions.”We know aflatoxin is associated with drought and otherstresses,” said Ingram. “We want to quantify how itreacts to different temperatures, levels of soil moisture andother environmental variables.”These conditions can all be replicated using the envirotron’sgrowth chambers.A Year-Round Growing Season”The envirotron also allows us to conduct our experimentsyear-round,” Ingram said. “We just harvested a cropin the middle of February, and we’re ready to plant another crop.Georgia farmers won’t plant their peanut crops until May.”Ingram says one of the strangest aspects of this research iscreating poor conditions to support the toxins.”We have to use poor management practices to weaken thepods and make them susceptible to the fungus,” he said. “Wealso have to innoculate the plants with the fungus. This is anotherreason the envirotron facility is perfect for this type of research.Inside the growth chambers, we know the fungus is contained.”
By Stephanie SchupskaUniversity of GeorgiaWorldwide, 25 percent of food — and in some case 50 percent — never reaches consumers because it spoils or is mishandled after harvest. One way to advance food security and feed the hungry is to reduce these losses, said Philip Nelson, the speaker at the 2009 D.W. Brooks Lecture held in Athens, Ga., Oct. 6.Presented by the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, the program is named in honor of Gold Kist Inc. founder D.W. Brooks.“In India, according to a 1999 World Bank Report, post-harvest losses amount to 12 to 16 million metric tons of food grains each year – an amount that the World Bank stipulates could feed one third of India’s poor,” said Nelson, a Purdue University food scientist.Seeing problemsThe infrastructure to preserve and transport food is simply missing in many countries. Food spoils. People go hungry.He gave examples:In a field in Africa, women pound millet grain by hand to produce flour. In some villages, grain is stored in mud huts suspended off the ground in an effort to keep out mice, rats and water. In another town, milk sits in large, covered metal canisters in the sun, without refrigeration.“Production alone is not the issue,” he said, although he does argue that genetically modified crops are important to solving the world’s food shortages. He’s seen rice, which has been modified to produce twice as much as normal, result in huge harvests and huge losses. The people growing it had nowhere to store it. The solutions can start simply, like with a 100-gallon, epoxy-lined tank in Nelson’s lab, or a sterile plastic bag that can be enlarged to hold 300 gallons of tomato paste.Nelson’s research has had a wave-like impact on farmers, industry and hungry people. Thanks to his work — and the 100-gallon tank in his lab — orange juice is now shipped fresh and pathogen-free around the world in 8-million-gallon container ships. His plastic bag experiments now allow rescue workers to more easily take supplies into disaster areas. In fact, sterile plastic bags containing clean water and emergency food were delivered to victims of the southeastern Asia tsunami in 2004 and of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.“While we didn’t discover aseptic packaging,” which is the type of packaging that those sterile bag-in-box packaging and million-gallon tanks provide, “my lab moved it forward,” he said.Because of his research, Nelson was named the 2007 World Food Prize Laureate, which is the food and agriculture equivalent of the Noble Prize. Nelson’s work “is making this planet a better place,” said UGA CAES dean and director Scott Angle.Finding answersSolutions of infrastructure and other problems, Nelson said, must come from different sources, not just food scientists. It has to be a step-by-step focus, not just the reduction of post-harvest losses.He gives Japanese tomato farmers as an example. There, farmers with half-acre lots put their produce in baskets, which they weigh. They then write the weight on a ticket and put it in the basket. A truck comes by, picks up the tomatoes and takes them to a plant that processes 20 tons an hour. And then the farmers get paid according to tomato weight.Cooperatives like these can happen around the world. “It has to be organized, but it can be done,” he said.Nelson’s plastic bag experiments lead to an industry standard called bag-in-box packaging. These days, instead of having to rely on easily damaged metal drums, 90 percent of tomatoes are aseptically boxed and sent worldwide, and bag-in-box packaging is used in more than 180 countries. It doesn’t stop with tomatoes. Mangoes from northern India are now finding their way – in the form of frozen chunks – into American smoothies. Nelson likens the process to the saying about teaching a man to fish. “I would like to add to that,” he said, “teach a man to preserve his fish, and he won’t only feed himself and his community, but he’ll have money in his pocket.” (Stephanie Schupska is a news editor with the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.)
By Dialogo January 31, 2012 Technical teams from Central American countries met in Honduras on January 30 with experts from other countries and international organizations in order to promote the execution of joint plans for regional security. “In the context of Honduras’s term as president pro tempore of the Central American Integration System (SICA) during the first half of 2012 in the area of regional security, implementation of the Central American Security Strategy will begin,” a statement by the Honduran foreign ministry noted. Foreign ministry spokesperson Conchita Motoya told AFP that along those lines, representatives of the SICA member countries have been meeting in Honduras at the working-group level since January 27, while delegates from other countries and international organizations cooperating with the region are expected to join them for three days starting on January 30. The statement specified that during the meeting, “a series of working sessions will be held, with the aim of promoting dialogue among the countries of SICA and the Group of Friendly Countries and International Organizations regarding the first eight projects selected by the Central American Security Commission in November 2011.” During a meeting held in San Salvador, the members of SICA called on the international community to support Central America with financial and technological resources and training to confront drug trafficking and organized crime. They also noted the need to strengthen the institutions responsible for applying the law as a fundamental element of the security strategy. The Central American Security Strategy Group of Friendly Countries and International Organizations is made up of the United States, Mexico, Canada, Colombia, Spain, Chile, South Korea, Germany, Italy, Japan, England, Israel, Australia, Norway, Sweden, Finland, the European Union, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Central American Economic Integration Bank (BCIE), the World Bank, the United Nations (UN), and the Organization of American States (OAS).
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Boeing Co failed to submit certification documents to the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) detailing changes to a key flight control system faulted in two fatal crashes, a long-awaited government report seen by Reuters has found.The flight control system, known as MCAS, was “not an area of emphasis” because Boeing presented it to the FAA as a modification of the jet’s existing speed trim system, with limited range and use, according to the report.The 52-page report by the US Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General (IG), dated June 29 and set to be made public Wednesday, laid bare mistakes made by both the planemaker and FAA in the development and certification of Boeing’s top-selling aircraft. The FAA declined to comment beyond the department’s response attached to the report. The IG did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A Boeing spokesman said the company had taken steps to enhance safety and was committed to transparency. “When the MAX returns to service, it will be one of the most thoroughly scrutinized aircraft in history, and we have full confidence in its safety,” he said.The IG’s report is the latest of reports faulting the plane’s approval, while the Justice Department has an ongoing criminal investigation.The 737 MAX has been grounded from commercial flight worldwide since March 2019 after two crashes killed 346 people in Ethiopia and Indonesia over a five-month span.Boeing’s so-called MCAS stall-prevention system has been faulted in both crashes, when the system repeatedly and forcefully pushed down the jet’s nose as pilots struggled to intervene, among a cocktail of factors pinpointed by crash investigators. The inspector general report details activities from the early phase of the certification process in January 2012 through the second crash. It also details allegations of “undue pressure” from Boeing management on workers handling safety certification, though it adds that all “formally reported” instances of undue pressure were “satisfactorily addressed.”The IG’s office will issue recommendations to the FAA later this year, the Transportation Department said in comments about the draft report submitted on June 8.The FAA is currently evaluating the MCAS upgrades during a series of certification test flights this week that could pave the way for the jet’s return domestically by year end.Regulators in the darkIn response to the report, the Transportation Department said the FAA’s certification of the 737 MAX was “hampered by a lack of effective communication” between the agency and US planemaker.Crucially, that included the “incomplete understanding of the scope and potential safety impacts” of changes Boeing made to the jet’s flight control system to give it more power and authority, the agency said.”Boeing did not submit certification documents to FAA detailing the change,” the report said. “FAA flight test personnel were aware of this change, but key FAA certification engineers and personnel responsible for approving the level of airline pilot training told us they were unaware of the revision to MCAS.”The FAA conducted its first-ever detailed review of the system in January 2019, three months after the first crash in Indonesia. The review resulted in documentation that was never finalized, the report said.The report also noted that, after the Indonesia crash, the FAA completed a risk analysis that found that the uncorrected risk to the 737 MAX was 2.68 fatalities per 1 million flight hours, which exceeded the FAA’s risk guidelines of 1 fatality per 10 million flight hours.A December 2018 FAA analysis determined a risk of about 15 accidents occurring over the life of the entire 737 MAX fleet if the software fix was not implemented.After the crashes, Boeing proposed and FAA accepted a redesign of MCAS software that would include additional safeguards against unintended MCAS activation.Boeing also created a Product and Services Safety Organization for employees to raise concerns over safety and undue pressure, first reported by Reuters.Boeing agreed to develop the MCAS software update by April 12 and operators would have until June 18, 2019, to install the software. AsBoeing worked on proposed software upgrade for MCAS, a second plane crashed in March 2019 in Ethiopia.Topics :
71 Tristania Road, Chapel Hill.She said they had done some renovations to the property at 71 Tristania Rd over time.More from newsDigital inspection tool proves a property boon for REA website3 Apr 2020The Camira homestead where kids roamed free28 May 2019“We added a pool and a tennis court,” she said.“We renovated the master room and all the kids’ bedrooms. All the bathrooms have been renovated and the downstairs guest suite.” Check out the fire place at 71 Tristania Road, Chapel Hill.She said they often had extended family stay with them. The six-bedroom, five-bathroom property has been the perfect party home for the Davisons.“We have had up to 150 people at our house for parties at one time,” she said. “We have had intimate parties, wedding anniversaries, every sort of party imaginable – even Halloween.“The house is like a chameleon.”She said she would be “absolutely devastated” to leave their home. 71 Tristania Road, Chapel Hill.McGrath Estate Agents Paddington selling agent Reuben Packer-Hill said: “This will truly be one of Chapel Hill’s largest and most prestige properties, with architect designed features and an incredible execution”.Mr Packer-Hill said he had seen a strong resurgence in the prestige market through Brisbane’s western suburbs.“Surrounded by multimillion-dollar properties, Tristania Rd is a highly desirable precinct for buyers searching premium acreage in Brisbane’s inner-west,” Mr Packer Hill said.
71 Tristania Road, Chapel Hill.A six-bedroom mansion at Chapel Hill with park-like gardens and a dream playground has hit the market.Owned by general practitioner Margaret Davison and husband Malcolm, a cardiologist, the home has been the ideal place for their four children to grow up. The couple have a son, a daughter and twins, the same as the previous owners.“This has been a really great family house,” Dr (Margaret) Davison said.
Elected to the House of Commons in 2010, Harrington was until last week a junior minister responsible for the housing of Syrian refugees, with his responsibilities spanning the Home Office, and both the international development and communities departments.He has only discussed pension regulation a handful of times in speeches to the House of Commons, and has voted with the previous government on the pension matters passed during his six years in Parliament.His naming as parliamentary under-secretary sees the pensions brief downgraded when compared with Altmann and her predecessor, Steve Webb, who both were ministers of state.Altmann’s tenure as pensions minister has seen her focus heavily on the rollout of auto-enrolment to the detriment of the defined ambition (DA) reforms championed by Webb.She said pausing the DA reforms was “strategic and tactical” and enjoyed one of her biggest successes when she won support for stricter regulation of master trusts. For more on Ros Altmann, read IPE’s interview with the former minister, published in June The UK government has named a new pensions minister following Ros Altmann’s departure in the wake of David Cameron’s resignation as prime minister.Altmann, who was named a peer and joined the House of Lords to take up the role last year, left government days after Cameron’s successor, Theresa May, was sworn in.Altmann is to be succeeded by Richard Harrington, an MP who first entered Parliament in 2010.In her resignation letter to May, Altmann said she had been “honoured and grateful” to have served in government but was critical of the government’s own track record in pushing through pension reform. “As a minister,” Altmann writes, “I have tried to drive positive long-term changes on pensions from within government and ameliorate some of the past mistakes I have cautioned against.“Unfortunately, over the past year, short-term political considerations, exacerbated by the EU referendum, have inhibited good policy-making.”She urged her successor to reform pension tax relief, continue to focus on the rollout of auto-enrolment and better communicate on changes to the state pension – a topic that has seen the Department for Work and Pensions criticised for failing to clarify how changes to the state pension would impact women.She also urged reform to defined benefit (DB) regulation, suggesting that, without change, deficit-reduction payments would see companies focus resources on a single group of employees – those with guaranteed benefits in DB funds.“Given the risks of diverting corporate resources to one favoured group of workers, [and] the need to ensure adequate resources for younger generations’ pensions,” she says in her letter to the new prime minister, “the time is right to properly consider the issues facing employers trying to support defined benefit pension schemes and potential use of pension assets to boost economic growth.”IPE understands Altmann is likely to sit on the Conservative benches within the House of Lords.The announcement of Altmann’s departure from government on Friday initially gave the impression she would be replaced by Penny Mordaunt, until last week a junior minister within the Ministry of Defence.However, Harrington has since been confirmed as Altmann’s successor.
BATESVILLE – As anticipated, the Indiana State Department of Health has confirmed four cases of respiratory Enterovirus EV-D68 among Indiana residents.Testing was performed at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).Several other suspect cases are pending testing at the Indiana State Department of Health Laboratory. Syndromic surveillance of hospital emergency department chief complaints has indicated a higher than expected level of respiratory illness statewide for this time of year. Several other states, including Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Kansas, and Missouri, have also identified confirmed EV-D68 cases.EV-D68 infections can be mild and self-limited, but children with asthma are at risk for severe respiratory illness and may require hospitalization to receive intensive supportive therapy. Patients with asthma should carefully maintain their current medical management and follow their asthma action plan to monitor for early signs of exacerbation. People who smoke are also at higher risk for severe infection due to enterovirus.The CDC recommends hospitals use standard, contact, and droplet precautions when caring for patients. Alcohol-based hand sanitizers are not effective against EV-D68. Bleach-based disinfectants, like those used for rhinovirus and norovirus, are effective for environmental cleaning.Clinicians are advised to suspect enterovirus infection in patients hospitalized with asthma exacerbations or severe respiratory illness. The ISDH Laboratory is temporarily requesting that clinicians send nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swabs in the same transport medium from patients who test positive for rhino/enterovirus to the ISDH Laboratory for epidemiologist confirmation of disease in Indiana. Sequencing will be conducted to identify the specific viral strain. Nasal swabs and nasaln washes are not acceptable. Instructions for submission of NP and OP swabs toISDH for testing are located on the ISDH enterovirus page at http://www.in.gov/isdh/26487.htm under the laboratory specimen information section.