Home  News  Spotlight on SLF Keynote Speaker: Anje-Marijcke van Boxtel  With decades of experience coaching executives Anje-Marijcke is known for her ability to merge scientific insights with real-world applications Her passion for personal and professional development is rooted in her belief that growth comes not from ego and knowing Her work has helped global corporations cultivate leaders who are resilient Anje-Marijcke’s expertise extends beyond the corporate world and into the thrilling arena of professional sports She has served as a team coach for The Ocean Race (formerly known as The Volvo Ocean Race) one of the most grueling and prestigious offshore sailing competitions Her success in this role is evident: she coached Team Brunel during the 2014-15 and 2017-18 editions of the race leading to the impressive win in the final leg of the race While Anje-Marijcke is too modest to take excessive credit for the turnaround in fortunes for Team Brunel’s race in 2017-18 her mid-race intervention is widely acknowledged in helping Bouwe Bekking’s campaign find a higher gear Team Brunel won Leg 7 from Auckland to Itajaí It was the first signs of a renaissance that would endure for the remainder of the race and which saw the Dutch team only just miss out on overall victory her 11th Hour Racing Team claimed victory in The Ocean Race These experiences have cemented her reputation as a coach who thrives under pressure and knows how to help teams perform at their peak in high-stakes situations Anje-Marijcke’s insights into leadership and teamwork are drawn from the extreme environments of ocean racing—a true “pressure cooker” where unpredictable conditions and the need for constant adaptation mirror today’s volatile she will demonstrate how the lessons learned on a yacht battling the elements can be directly applied to leadership challenges in business and beyond “We all have to anticipate changing conditions adjusting to elements over which we have no control,” Anje-Marijcke explains “Agility requires steep learning curves and realizing your unlimited potential.” Her approach centers on building strong At the core of Anje-Marijcke’s philosophy is the concept of a “personal compass”—a guiding set of values and principles that helps leaders steer through challenges By sharing beautifully filmed stories and real-life examples from her coaching experiences she challenges her audiences to reflect on their own leadership journeys attendees can expect to explore thought-provoking questions such as:  Whether you’re a seasoned sailor or a business leader Anje-Marijcke’s keynote will equip you with the tools and inspiration to navigate your own challenges with confidence and clarity drawn from the intersection of high-performance sports and leadership development promises to set the stage for meaningful growth and transformation “I’m thrilled to be part of the 2025 Sailing Leadership Forum in Coronado,” said van Boxtel “Sailing and leadership are deeply intertwined — both demand adaptability I look forward to sharing insights and experiences that will help leaders navigate their own challenges and inspire their teams to achieve great things.”  Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from one of the leading minds in leadership and team development Prepare to set your compass and embark on the next leg of your leadership journey with Anje-Marijcke van Boxtel at the 2025 Sailing Leadership Forum in Coronado To learn more about Sailing Leadership Forum: https://sailingleadership.org/   To register, click HERE   To plan travel, click HERE  Tags: sailing leadership forum, SLF Website feedback? 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Dacke Industri is pleased to announce that Mr René van Boxtel has been appointed as the new CEO of Tecair B.V René brings a wealth of experience in international sales and regional leadership making him an excellent choice to lead Tecair B.V into its next phase of growth and innovation René has been with Trespa International B.V He held P&L accountability for the company's operations in the Netherlands His strategic leadership and focus on market expansion have significantly contributed to Trespa's success in these regions Before his role at Trespa International B.V René served in other companies as a Country Manager and Business Development Manager roles in which he demonstrated an exceptional ability to drive business growth and build robust customer relationships Dacke Industri wishes to express its deepest gratitude to Marco Markus for his outstanding contributions and long-standing commitment to building Tecair B.V Marco will continue to contribute to Tecair as a senior advisor until the end of 2025 He will also maintain his significant role as a board member and co-owner of the company President of Air Technology & Electromechanics of Dacke Industri will hand over the role of Chairman of Tecair B.V VP of Business Area Air Technology of Dacke Industri "I am thrilled to join Tecair as CEO and to work alongside such a dedicated team and our esteemed customers I am eager to lead our efforts to meet and surpass the expectations of our customers and stakeholders," says René van Boxtel "I am immensely proud of what we have accomplished during Tecair's years with our owner René's dedication and vision will propel Tecair to new heights and we are excited to see how his insights will continue to shape our future in his new role as CEO of Tecair," says Marco Markus continuing to deliver outstanding value to our customers and stakeholders worldwide," says Satu Rautavalta "We are happy to welcome René as our new CEO for Tecair B.V coupled with his ability to make informed decisions by blending analytical insights with attentive listening to the team ensures the development and growth of the business to create greater customer value and makes him an excellent fit for Tecair,” says Mika Virtanen President Air Technology & Electromechanics of Dacke Industri Dacke Industri is a long-term owner that invests in innovative technology companies within selected niches with potential for development We provide expertise and strategic guidance to build sustainable companies over time We follow a decentralized model where our companies have a high degree of autonomy and are run independently.  Our companies have their own products or systems with a strong technical focus The companies use existing platforms for innovation and work towards environmentally sustainable products and production Dacke Industri is owned by Nordstjernan since January 2016.  For more information please contact:  Wisconsin in the early morning hours of Monday He was surrounded by his close family and friends during his final hours 1964 and was adopted by Gerald and Janet Van Boxtel Brent brought so much joy and passion to his family and his charismatic smile will be so greatly missed by everyone who had the pleasure of knowing him Brent graduated from Appleton East High School in 1983 and from there went on to college at University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh He worked at Pierce Manufacturing for many years and continued in the metal industry for the remainder of his working life Brent was passionate about fishing and hunting and he also enjoyed playing softball and golf His happiest moments were any time he could be out exploring the woods He was at his best when he was surrounded by nature and wildlife and that was usually where he could be found if he wasn’t working Brent was also a very talented artist and had an amazing ability to make his nature drawings come to life Brent leaves behind his parents: Gerald and Janet Van Boxtel; his son He is further survived by many loving uncles He was preceded in death by his Grandma and Grandpa Van Boxtel his Grandma and Grandpa Treichel as well as his infant brother A service of remembrance for Brent will be held on Saturday at Verkuilen-Van Deurzen Family Funeral Home at the funeral home until the time of the service We hope you can join us to help celebrate this wonderful man and to share memories you have of Brent The family would like to thank Brent’s hospice care team of nurses who provided Brent and his family with so much love and compassion during his final few days We discover new things about staff and students every day at our faculty. That Ree can provide solid evidence-based tips for sleep. That Kim is working on a non-invasive test for kidney cancer And that Martin works on promoting mindfulness and preventing dementia Ageing well isn’t just about physique. It also means being aware of a healthy brain. To prevent dementia, Martin van Boxtel and his colleagues from ‘Alzheimer Centrum Limburg’ founded the Maastricht Ageing Study (MAAS) 30 years ago MAAS kept track of 2043 people over 25 years in a longitudinal study to collect data for dementia research we asked Martin about his proudest moments during his career we were invited to the Dutch Ministry of Health Welfare and Sport to present our work as one of the most renowned knowledge centres on dementia in the Netherlands.” Older and younger staff members of the Alzheimer Centrum Limburg presented their research on the development risk factors and prevention of dementia and talked about future lifestyle interventions and support for patients The researchers of MAAS used the data from their study to define modifiable health variables that accelerate the cognitive ageing process and thus the risk of dementia Now it’s time to raise awareness among the general public on how to prevent the disease and keep brains healthy “Studies show that 30-40% of dementia cases are related to lifestyle habits and try to slow down their cognitive ageing process by improving lifestyle factors amenable to change such as hearing loss Did you enjoy reading this article? Follow us on Instagram and Linkedin for much more The research of Alzheimer Centrum Limburg is evolving into tangible actions for the public websites and campaigns to inform people about what dementia is and that their actions can lead to a decreased risk We as people are the medicine.” A great example is the project where children connect with people with dementia and learn about the disease while having fun together in a nursing home.  The dementia diagnosis is devastating news for patients and their network but we can help patients and caretakers in dealing with the disease Mindfulness has been shown to help accept the difficulties and challenges that lie ahead." Martin is a certified mindfulness trainer and helped develop an 8-week mindfulness training programme for people with early dementia and their caretakers “I’m a practitioner myself because I want to know the effect of mindfulness when I teach it to others.” as the former PhD-coordinator of the Institute for Mental Health and Neuroscience (MHeNs) Martin also helped new PhDs deal with stress and work pressure “This was one of my last projects as the PhD-coordinator Together with MHeNS and the UM Staff Career Centre we developed a year-long programme that teaches transferable skills to new PhDs such as mindfulness and self-management All to become an all-round professional who can set his boundaries.” Martin has always followed his interests throughout his career “I was led by curiosity and advice researchers to do the same take the time to pause for a moment and ask yourself if you are still doing what you want Pursuing a PhD means four incredibly interesting It’s okay if you feel pressured or doubt your career The Societal Impact Project stimulates students’ autonomous motivation to work on societal relevant problems Two researchers from Maastricht University play a key role in translating research into vaccine policy recommendations for COVID-19: Timo Clemens Associate Professor health policy and governance Assistant Professor at the department of Health Services Research Despite widespread awareness campaigns and well-known prevention strategies the number of skin cancer cases continues to rise It is now the most common form of cancer in the Netherlands particularly among people over the age of 65 Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors Newly discovered dinosaur species displayed at Dutch museumBookmarkBookmarkBy Simone JacobsOct 12, 2024If you were a dinosaur-obsessed child (or if you are secretly still a dino-fan as an adult), then you’re in for a treat. A long-necked dinosaur skeleton on display at the Boxtel Oertijdmuseum in the Netherlands has been recognised as a new dinosaur species called Ardetosaurus viator The bones of the 22-metre-long dinosaur nicknamed Kirby, were first found in 1993 by a Swiss team in the United States and taken to Switzerland where they were kept for 20 years. Parts of the skeleton had a temporary stay in Germany before all the bones were brought to the Dutch museum in Boxtel in 2018 the researchers thought the bones were from a Diplodocus As early as 2022, Tom van der Linden who was a university student working as an intern with the research team at the time discovered bone characteristics that suggested that the dinosaur was actually a new species “A boy’s dream,” said Van der Linden at the time the discovery of a new dinosaur species was confirmed and published in a palaeontological scientific journal A post shared by Oertijdexpedities (@oertijdexpedities) the official name of the dinosaur was announced at the prehistoric museum in Boxtel Kirby’s scientific name of Ardetosaurus viator was chosen to represent how much the dinosaur’s skeleton had been through with travels to several countries and even a fire at the storage hall in Germany where some bones were lost Kirby, who walked the Earth around 150 million years ago is now displayed at the Oertijdmuseum in Boxtel for everyone to marvel at - children and adults alike The skeleton is 60 percent complete and has been supplemented with plastic parts BookmarkSimone JacobsEditor at IamExpat Media Quick View Dundalk FC Home Jersey 2025 - Adult Dundalk FC Privacy Policy Accessibility Statement Club Policies Ground Regulations a writer in the Netherlands emailed The Times: “There is a community in Etowah County with the same name — Boxtel — as a community in my country; can you tell me about your Boxtel?”  it’s in the southern part of the country a little more than 60 miles southeast of Amsterdam old map of our county showing the spot … near Samuels Chapel Church It’s a fascinating story from the early part of the 20th century.  a few facts: Tumlin Gap Road runs from downtown Gallant to Highway 132; many people say it’s the most scenic road in the state The Louisville-Nashville railroad went through this area and travelled through a tunnel located about a half-mile from Gallant Road.  Lisa Keener Hutchens is a lifetime resident of the area hollows and many creeks running through it She’s still recovering from health problems that necessitated her being on a ventilator for a while so an actual interview wasn’t possible but she gladly answered our query in her online blog:  there was a small building or shack that stood by the tracks just a few yards from the road,” she wrote “That building served as a shelter to get in when it was raining or too cold to stand around outside The train would stop at that crossing to let passengers off and to pick up passengers wanting to ride the train into the towns of Altoona (which had a depot) Passengers who wanted to ride the train to Attalla caught the train when it was headed in the opposite direction.  A multi-page listing of county names says that Boxtel was named for someone named Box Walker; it’s not known whether or not this person was an area resident.  (Back to The Netherlands: According to Wikipedia the municipality there originally was known as  Buchestelle taken from “buck” (as in deer) and “stelle” (as in a safe Hutchens' blog continued: “The Boxtel stop was located on Tumlin Gap Road and sits at the base of Tumlin Gap Mountain There used to be a pole in the ground with a hook on it that my daddy said a mail bag was hung from someone on board would use a long metaI pole to reach out and snag the mail bag as the train passed by filled with mail for those who lived in that general area Now that we’ve answered the question about Boxtel for our new friend Hutchens had more to say about L&N’s railroad tracks and the Tumlin Mountain Tunnel the train had to pass through.  constructed by the L&N Railroad Company from 1899 to 1903 is the longest tunnel in the state of Alabama at approximately 1,920 feet long,” she wrote “At one time the tunnel was on the National Registry of Historical Places that were in danger of being lost.”  Hutchens’ story continued: “One of my favorite things to do while growing up was to ask my daddy to walk with me to the tunnel We would walk up to the tracks and hang a left The Tumlin Gap/Boxtel tunnel was about a half-mile “We would walk along the tracks with me trying to walk on the rails or only stepping on the crossties the rails rested on," she wrote “I would pick up railroad spikes and other treasures along the way as I listened to my daddy tell stories about the railroad and the tunnel.   the tunnel would come into view,” Hutchens wrote “It fascinated me and gave off a ‘spooky’ feeling all at the same time It was as if a chilly breeze was coming out of the opening The first several feet inside had concrete walls and ceiling Hutchens wrote that once you got a little way into the tunnel “The walls and ceiling were no longer concrete they were the rock of the mountain that surrounded the tunnel on all sides there was always a steady drip of water in different places The water was coming from different veins of water running through the mountain and seeping through the cracks in the rocks.  as you neared the Gallant end of the tunnel the walls and ceiling once again became concrete with manholes in the sides,” she wrote “When you exited the tunnel on the Gallant end there was a big wooden platform to your left On that platform sat a huge wooden tank in the shape of a barrel and it had water inside Daddy told me that's where the trains would stop to fill up with water back when steam engines pulled the trains.”  most — if not all — good things eventually come to an end Just as the L&N “choo-choo” trains quit running landowners eventually placed “No Trespassing” on the properties containing the tracks the landowners dumped big piles of dirt in front of the entrance to keep people on four-wheelers from going in.   “You could easily climb over the dirt if on foot but the land owners had also put a fence across the old railroad bed," she recalled there were a couple of smaller piles of dirt and a single bar was placed across the entrance.”  let’s hear one last paragraph from Hutchens’ blog: “I always loved that tunnel and the railroad tracks the sound came in loud and clear at my childhood home hearing the train passing through and blowing its horn at the crossing and into the tunnel Those are special memories that will always be a part of me.”  Local | Apr 15 Amanda Boxtel has been named a 2018 CNN Hero by CNN Worldwide the Bridging Bionics Foundation announced Thursday the CNN Heroes campaign honors “everyday people doing extraordinary things to change the world,” according to CNN’s website Boxtel is a longtime Roaring Fork Valley resident who became paralyzed in a ski accident at Snowmass Ski Area 26 years ago Boxtel established the Basalt nonprofit Bridging Bionics Foundation that serves to help fund educate and advance the research and development of exoskeletons and bionic technology Boxtel helps people who suffer spinal injuries regain mobility via an exoskeleton and vibration training The CNN Hero honor recognizes Boxtel’s work in helping people with neurological impairments regain mobility and including bionic exoskeleton suits and whole body vibration according to a statement from the Bridging Bionics Foundation “I am humbled to be recognized with this honor and am incredibly appreciative for the awareness that it will create about the mission and efforts of Bridging Bionics Foundation,” Boxtel said in the statement “Our success so far has been in witnessing improvements with our clients who have various neurological impairments and maintaining wellness through the gift of mobility “Access to advanced technologies like bionic exoskeletons and year-long therapy sessions is financially challenging For most individuals it is cost-prohibitive and unavailable Our program removes these barriers using charitable funding.” “Bionic woman helps others thrive after paralysis,” as well as a story on its website To view the CNN special on Boxtel, visit http://www.cnn.com/specials/cnn-heroes Readers around Glenwood Springs and Garfield County make the Post Independent’s work possible Your financial contribution supports our efforts to deliver quality Each donation will be used exclusively for the development and creation of increased news coverage passed away peacefully in her home in Appleton She was surrounded by family and friends during her final days until she ran into the open arms of Jesus Her 17-month battle with cancer took its toll on her body but she fought hard to try to conquer her sickness She was an inspiration to all of us in so many ways and she always had to make sure we were ok even though she was the one battling for her life She attended school in Kimberly and in junior high she met the love of her life Van Boxtel.  She lost her parents at a young age and as soon as she completed high school in 1957 she married Gerald on August 21 They spent the next 20 years living an Air Force life and mom embraced her role to support her husband they returned to their home state of Wisconsin In 1964 they adopted their son Brent and in 1966 they adopted their daughter Danette In 1968 mom gave birth to their son Clinton but sadly he passed away shortly after his birth Her family was her whole life and she made many sacrifices to ensure the happiness of her husband and children Janet had many hobbies and talents that kept her busy and happy She loved the Brewers and the Packers and always looked forward to watching the games on TV She was happiest surrounded by her children She also loved to sit and have a beer with her family and friends Janet spent many years volunteering at the Air Force Family Services and various church functions She also spent a short time as a doctor’s personal secretary at a prison in California She taught herself shorthand and took shorthand notation at parole hearings for an average of 12 offenders at a time She had such an amazing talent in the art of shorthand She finished her working career at Secura Insurance Company in Appleton where she was a lead supervisor Janet leaves behind her husband: Gerald Van Boxtel; her daughter She is further survived by many loving nieces and nephews and Nancy; and her brothers: Robert and Carl A service of remembrance for Janet will be held on Tuesday at the funeral home and will continue until the time of the service The family would like to thank Janet's hospice care team of nurses who provided Janet and her family with so much love and compassion during the past 3 months Enter your phone number above to have directions sent via text 2022 at Thedacare Regional Medical Center surrounded by family the daughter of the late Jacob and Henrietta (De Werd) Van Boxtel she married Harold "Harky" Baeten of Wrightstown her husband of 49 years would call her was the love of his life Betty was considered the "rock" of the family Her house was the "homestead" where all would gather or drop-in anytime to relive fun-filled family memories and also stories from generations past  She was an avid bingo player and occasionally enjoyed a slot machine or two She enjoyed the many fishing trips to Canada and Minnesota and her travels with friends and relatives In her younger years her hobbies were reupholstering and staining furniture and her women’s and couple’s card club She greatly enjoyed get-togethers with her family and friends and especially the time spent with her grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren  She was admired by the people she met and some loyal customers from her 10-year employment at Gunderson Cleaners kept in touch for many years after her retirement Betty is survived by her daughter: Cindy (Keith) Pamperin; Kaukauna; Two Grandchildren: Brad (Becky) Pamperin; Little Chute and Andy Pamperin; Oshkosh; Three Great-Grandchildren: Parker Survived by two brothers: Lawrence (Jan) Van Boxtel; Minnesota and James (Judy) Van Boxtel; Kimberly; One sister Carol (Richard) Horn; Larson; In-law: Ella Mae Baeten and further survived by many other nieces and nephews In addition to her parents Jacob “Jake” and Henrietta “Hattie” Van Boxtel Betty was preceded in death by her husband Harold "Harky" Baeten; Siblings:  Anthony "Tony" (Lorraine) Van Boxtel; Mary (Jack) Daniels; Parents in Law: George and Wilhelmina “Minnie” Baeten; Brothers/Sisters-in-law: Norbert (Opal); Baeten ; Robert Baeten; Cyrilla "Sis" (Deuce) Weyenberg;  Milly (Charles) Bickel; Helen (Paul Casey Frank Thiessen); Marge (Herbert “Hub”) Gerend; Adeline "Toddy" (Leroy) Peters; Eunice "Pat" (Aloysius) Peters; Rita (Earl) Willems; Viola "Vi" (Don) Jauquet; and many other relatives and friends A special thank you is extended to the staff at Thedacare Regional Medical Center Appleton for their dedication and heartfelt care for Betty and her family The funeral liturgy for Betty will be held on Saturday A time of visitation will be held on Saturday from 9:00 a.m until the time of the service at the church.  For online condolences please visit www.verkuilenfh.com.  In lieu of flowers a memorial is being established in her name KAUKAUNA (WLUK) -- A Kaukauna High School teacher is now celebrating after being named the winner of a $50,000 teaching prize is one of 20 winners throughout the nation Van Boxtel took in all the emotion after being surprised by a visit from his family and a special award "You do what you do every day because you love to do it and you don't expect something like this," saidVan Boxtel What he wasn't expecting was a $50,000 check from the Harbor Freight Tools chain of stores 'I'm not going to work; I'm going to school -- I'm going to do what I love to do,'" saidVan Boxtel Van Boxtel says his intention every day of his 22 years at Kaukauna has been to help his students become better versions of themselves "The kids keep me young," said Van Boxtel This year's Harbor Freight Tools for Schools prize drew a record 768 applications from all 50 states A Harbor Freight representative says Van Boxtel's willingness to help all students was what caught the judges' eyes "If I could bring some financial resources to the district to buy some equipment for my students in this shop Van Boxtel says it's an extensive application process. Staci Sievert, one of last year's winners "It's about 40 hours of work," saidSievert Sievert is an industrial technology teacher in Seymour where Van Boxtel previously worked as an associate principal "I've known Dan a long time as a colleague and have come to Kaukauna to see his program," said Sievert "He's the right man for the prize." Kaukauna High School’s skilled trades program will receive $35,000 "I'm looking to update some of my tire-changing equipment and have a little more equipment that's more relevant to what's out there in the industry right now," said Van Boxtel he says he's going to take his wife on a nice vacation "Kind of never thought I'd see a day like this," saidVan Boxtel Van Boxtel was the only teacher from Wisconsin who won this year '+n.escapeExpression("function"==typeof(o=null!=(o=r(e,"eyebrowText")||(null!=l?r(l,"eyebrowText"):l))?o:n.hooks.helperMissing)?o.call(null!=l?l:n.nullContext||{},{name:"eyebrowText",hash:{},data:t,loc:{start:{line:28,column:63},end:{line:28,column:78}}}):o)+" \n '+(null!=(o=c(e,"if").call(r,null!=l?c(l,"cta2PreText"):l,{name:"if",hash:{},fn:n.program(32,t,0),inverse:n.noop,data:t,loc:{start:{line:63,column:20},end:{line:63,column:61}}}))?o:"")+"\n"+(null!=(o=(c(e,"ifAll")||l&&c(l,"ifAll")||n.hooks.helperMissing).call(r,null!=l?c(l,"cta2Text"):l,null!=l?c(l,"cta2Link"):l,{name:"ifAll",hash:{},fn:n.program(34,t,0),inverse:n.noop,data:t,loc:{start:{line:64,column:20},end:{line:70,column:30}}}))?o:"")+" News | Dec 10 Amanda Boxtel was honored Sunday night as part of the CNN Heroes event in New York City and was able to spread the word on a larger stage of the work the Basalt-based Bridging Bionics Foundation has accomplished Boxtel received $10,000 and was one of 10 finalists for the Hero of the Year award and an additional $100,000 she did talk of the great things Bridging Bionics has accomplished in barely three years since she started the foundation “I choose to stand in the quantum realm of possibility and hope,” Boxtel told the crowd which a few minutes earlier gave her a standing ovation as she walked onto the stage with a bionic exoskeleton “It is our human right to have access to technologies and healing therapies to improve quality of life.” Boxtel, a well-known Aspen local who was paralyzed in a ski accident at Snowmass Ski Area in 1992, established the nonprofit in October 2015. She spoke briefly at Sunday’s ceremony, which was held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. A video of the organization also was shown “I envision making advanced technologies accessible and affordable to every person with a neurological condition,” she said Sunday night She encouraged the crowd and those watching to be “a vessel of kindness and love I invite you to walk with us so we can keep giving the gift of mobility to improve the lives of others and bring healing to our worlds.” each of the 10 nominees will receive organization training from the Annenberg Foundation which among other ventures helps the development of nonprofit groups CNN and sponsor Subaru also are matching donations to each of the nonprofits up to $50,000 through Jan (Go to CNNHeroes.com for more information.) The winner of the Hero of the Year award was Dr. Ricardo Pun-Chong who works in Peru to give free housing and food to support sick children and their families during treatment Readers around Aspen and Snowmass Village make the Aspen Times’ work possible your support is critical to help us keep our community informed about the evolving coronavirus pandemic and the impact it is having locally are you considering any property transactions this spring View Results Wind gusts of 30+ mph along with afternoon and evening blowing dust, could reduce visibility. 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changing for the better when she threw her hammer through a wall “I guess it all stepped up a notch that day,” says the HR manager with a successful side hustle flipping houses with her FIFO-worker husband “We’d already bought and sold a few houses by this stage but we had this little cottage in Brisbane and we were umming and ahhing about whether we could do the renovation work required by ourselves.” and he’s “really handy” but “he wasn’t so confident that we could do the major works But I knew he could do it so while we were debating about whether or not we should take down a wall I settled the issue by throwing a claw hammer right through the gyprock “I said: ‘I guess now we have to take it down.’” Jess and Simon’s property investment journey started – separately – when they were both teenagers both of us bought off the plan in Perth when we were 19 years old,” she says his parents had always encouraged him to put his money somewhere smart I’d spent periods of my childhood growing up without a lot of stability so creating that for myself was important to me.” Both Jess and Simon took advantage of the First Home Owner grants in Western Australia at the time – which not only saved them stamp duty but also supplied a large chunk towards their deposits By the time they met for the first time when they were both 21 “I had about $50 spare per week and I rented out each room in that house to try to help with the mortgage.” the couple got engaged and moved to Cairns where they purchased a home with the intention of doing it up and selling it for financial gain “What we did was largely cosmetic,” says Jess sold it on for a profit and when the time came to move again We realised it was the perfect side hustle for our combined skill sets I have an eye for design and Simon can figure out most of the construction side of things.” Fast-forward a decade and the couple have flipped six houses including their most recent project: a two-bedroom cottage on the Gold Coast that they’ve transformed into a three-bedroom haven “We’ve learnt so much along the way,” says Jess “including that you really have to live in a place for a while before you renovate it so you can get a feel for how things are going to work.” The couple once made the mistake of moving into a house in Brisbane with the intention of doing a quick flip and selling it on “We soon realised it wasn’t really salvageable and might be more of a tear-down,” says Jess “We still own it but we’re planning to eventually put duplexes on the block We didn’t realise how extensive the work would be but it’s all a learning experience.” Investing in property might be something the couple accidentally stumbled upon at first but these days there’s a distinct strategy to the process “We have a great lender at CommBank – Sarnie – who crunches the worst-case scenario numbers for us when we’re considering a purchase,” says Jess “Any money we make from flipping a house goes into a fund for the next one and we won’t make the purchase if we can’t make $70,000 to $100,000 in profit within 12 months.” says Jess – the couple bought a house just prior to the pandemic which they were able to sell a year later in the midst of the COVID property frenzy for a $270,000 profit with very little work done “The big thing for us is to treat the side hustle like a long-term investment so we keep putting the profits back into the houses.” The couple leave themselves a buffer for big renovations if they ever want to do them or enough for an auction deposit if they find something they like “That’s when we work with Sarnie – she’ll make sure we’re in a position to go to auctions and make decisions for the future.” When friends tell Jess they want to try property investments in this same way her advice is to keep it simple and understand your budget clearly define and understand your roles in the relationship Simon deals with all trades and building things and I make design Trust me when I say these defined roles can save your relationship.” And what of the cottage in Brisbane that copped a hammer to the wall from an impatient Jess I could tell he thought he’d married a crazy woman But he says that was the pivot for him because it forced him to do the renovation.” Simon opened the wall and used a salvaged 1960s rail beam the couple picked up for $120 as the focal point of the house – it made a big statement and the rest Everything grew from the confidence the couple got from that first reno we can do it – I just have to work out how.’” An earlier version of this article was published in Brighter magazine This article provides general information of an educational nature only It does not have regard to the financial situation or needs of any reader and must not be relied upon as personal financial product advice The views expressed by contributors are their own and don’t necessarily reflect the views of CBA As the information has been provided without considering your objectives consider the relevant Product Disclosure Statement and Terms and Conditions and whether the product is appropriate to your circumstances You should also consider whether seeking independent professional legal Every effort has been taken to ensure the information was correct as at the time of printing but it may be subject to change No part of the editorial contents may be reproduced or copied in any form without the prior permission and acknowledgement of CBA ©2025 Commonwealth Bank of Australia ABN 48 123 123 124 AFSL and Australian credit licence 234945 Whilst completing a PhD at CIRAD in Montpellier Jos came across a job opening published in Nature that gave him the chills The year was 1995 and the advertised vacancy was to work in the Virology department within the John Innes Centre “The job vacancy was a perfect fit with my ambitions The project was looking for a post-doc to establish the genetic transformation of cowpea in collaboration with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Nigeria Its goal was to generate coat protein-mediated virus resistance in African varieties a month later Jos travelled to Norwich for the interview We asked Jos how he felt at that exciting time mostly because the John Innes Centre is not the least of research places my anxiety (and thirst) got quickly quenched during my reception in the local pub by George Lomonossoff I met Andy Maule in whose lab the job would be located.” Jos returned to Montpellier to finish his PhD thesis he received the good news and was offered the position at JIC “I think I jumped up and down for a week!” During his five years as a post-doc in the Virology department Jos spent time in the Maule Group as well as with colleagues including George Lomonossoff He also worked with teams led by Paul Christou Montpellier for a further two and a half years this time as an EU-funded post-doc focusing on developing salt and drought tolerance rice for Vietnam From there Jos took a post-doc role continuing this research project at The University of California (UC) this time in an AgBiotech startup looking for somebody to work as the tissue culture and transformation lead as their lab was being established We asked Jos about this step in his career and about a year later I started that position at Arcadia Biosciences Making the transition from academia into industry is just one of the many career paths researchers might be interested in and Jos told us how making this move was for him Instead of ten individuals working in one research lab sweating to get as many papers as possible now I was with ten colleagues on different tasks but this time together sweating towards achieving the same goal Soon the startup grew from ten employees to one hundred and ten.” As Jos’ team at Arcadia Biosciences expanded he found that he was needed less in the lab he began to focus on several of the big grants that Arcadia received from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to implement research projects in Africa and Asia “With my background in international research collaborations I gradually took on the technical project coordination of those projects It was during this new role that I enjoyed working on applied and market-oriented projects My last project at Arcadia was particularly rewarding and it included the product development of reduced gluten wheat which I found to be a deeply motivating endeavour.” Arcadia abandoned research and focused solely on their products in the market Jos began working as a freelance AgBiotech consultant he accepted a position as a Senior Scientist with Origin Prime We asked Jos what a typical day looks like now I fulfil all tasks that come across my plate Over his varied and multi-national scientific career “One of my greatest achievements thus far has been to bring ‘nitrogen use efficient rice for Africa’ from conception in 2008 to contributing to the dossier for regulatory approval of the crop in Nigeria in 2020 That was twelve years of project coordination resulting in a close-to-application product.” we asked Jos what advice he would have found most helpful back then for his journey ahead “The JIC and The Sainsbury Lab are a magnet for international talent therefore I would highly recommend students and post-docs to spend their time in Norwich wisely; build up a large network of colleagues and do not forget to socialise I will never forget the Friday afternoon happy hours in the Rec Centre where socialising brought so many new friendships Alike for the invincible JIC soccer team!” “I cannot tell you how many times I have ran into ex-JIC folks during my later international collaborations to have shared some common experiences in Norwich.” News | Nov 12 Amanda Boxtel has been named one of CNN’s Top 10 Heroes for 2018 and is in the online voting campaign for “Hero of the Year” and a $100,000 for her foundation Boxtel, founder and executive director of the Bridging Bionics Foundation, was honored earlier this year as a CNN Hero in April A Basalt resident who became paralyzed in a ski accident at Snowmass 26 years ago Boxtel has been part of a year-long initiative that honors “everyday people doing extraordinary things to change the world,” according to CNN’s website Each of the heroes received $10,000, and the Hero of the Year will receive an additional $100,000 for their cause. The winner will be picked through online voting at CNNHeroes.com $100,000 would help fund 1,333 therapeutic mobility sessions for clients with neurological impairments Boxtel started the Basalt-based nonprofit in October 2015 to help fund Boxtel said she was honored to be recognized and appreciates the awareness it brings to the foundation and maintaining wellness through the gift of mobility,” she said in a news release 9 will showcase the top 10 honorees and will be aired live on CNN This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Ashley Van Boxtel isn’t well known in North Central Never miss an update from the CrossFit Games SIGN UP FOR PURIST’S NEWSLETTER AND DIGITAL ISSUES “Curiosity defines me,” says Amanda Boxtel her lilting Aussie accent adding a sense of poetry to her words “I’m always looking for what can make me more than I am and that spins into what can make all of us who have neurologic mobility impairments better able to thrive in this day’s world.” That inclusive statement informs Boxtel’s lifelong journey into the arena of bionic exoskeleton technology Boxtel suffered a permanent spinal cord injury in a skiing accident that left her paralyzed from the pelvis down “The technology offers a real tool to optimize function to help people walk on their own,” Boxtel says After being invited by Ekso Bionics to test an exoskeleton prototype in 2010 and eventually raising funds to purchase one when it became commercially available in 2014 she founded the nonprofit Bridging Bionics Foundation in 2015 to give others access to a neurological rehab program without the worry of exorbitant financial cost “We are giving the gift of mobility for free “Our clients can bypass the medical system and work to get upright and mobile.” a health club near Aspen that promotes well-being Bridging Bionics’ team of dedicated physical therapists and trainers helps patients with neurological impairments (from spinal cord injuries stroke and other conditions) to experience a better quality of life Delivering on their goal of always being in the forefront of cutting-edge technology the Foundation currently utilizes an EksoGT bionic exoskeleton suit and a Keeogo robotic assistance device (used for a research study only) along with a Galileo whole-body vibration system The foundation has gifted 3,266 mobility sessions and helped over 70 clients an honor that will certainly help build awareness of Bridging Bionics Foundation’s mission and efforts on a global level About the honor, Boxtel says: “It’s all so humbling. Everybody should have access to technology and anything we can do to help give us a better quality of life. We’re all heroes. We all have the potential to make a difference in the world. Bring it on.” bridgingbionics.org This article was published more than 2 years ago John Boxtel chose Canada because he’d come across a pine box made here that had somehow found its way to the Netherlands preferred it to all other woods for the thousands of projects he built he flew from Holland to Montreal with a suitcase and a toolbox he ate a meal of boiled potatoes at the Royal York Hotel John had already survived the war in Holland He would live in Canada the rest of his life but “remained tied always to Holland by a kite-string.” He married Wilma Albers John’s arrival in Canada coincided with a postwar building frenzy and during his life he built or rebuilt countless houses But he had come to Canada not to be a builder but a sculptor he moved to Fenelon Falls and taught building He studied sculpture at the Ontario College of Art and University of Toronto under Frances Gage later teaching in Oakville and Stoney Creek John quit to make art full-time in a derelict farmhouse on one of the Thousand Islands in eastern Ontario He and painter Rose Stewart lived there year-round; John built an amphibious iceboat to navigate months of dangerous river ice worked outside naked and greeted guests naked He saw it as unlearning the body shame of growing up Catholic he began on a monument project for the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association eventually completing 14 figures now marking First World War Ukrainian internment sites throughout Canada he prefabbed all furnishings for a hotel they created in central Oaxaca where he built a studio and lived for a time with Helen Brant retaining the right to live there in an older house Heather and their family watched over him in the years to come He fell in and out of loves and friendships He was a master of treehouse architecture and marvellous staircases He worked steadily on his last book; he published seven intellectual curiosity and countless skills Tom Carpenter and Donna Radtke count themselves among John’s many friends To submit a Lives Lived: lives@globeandmail.com Lives Lived celebrates the everyday, extraordinary, unheralded lives of Canadians who have recently passed. 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For more information on our commenting policies and how our community-based moderation works, please read our Community Guidelines and our Terms and Conditions passed away peacefully at her home surrounded by her family after a long battle against cancer on September 13 daughter of the late Peter and Wilma (Vosters) Van Boxtel She married Ervin Arnoldussen on January 20 and recently celebrated 62 years of marriage Donna loved to play cards and was an avid shopper.  She enjoyed her summers up north and winters in Florida She always went out of her way to make the holidays truly special (with Erv’s help).  Donna’s passion in life was raising her 3 children and keeping up with her 7 grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild Ervin; her 3 children: Todd (Mary) Arnoldussen Tammy (Jay) Van Deurzen and Tory Jahnke; 7 grandchildren: Jacklyn (special friend Corey Palkowski) Arnoldussen Brady (Shayna Beining-Van Deurzen) Van Deurzen Morgan (special friend Cary Concoby) Maloney Layne Vanden Heuvel.  Donna’s siblings: Janice Dunham Vicki Zobel and Rick (Kathy) Van Boxtel.  Also brothers and sisters-in-law: Joe Arnoldussen Donna was preceded in death by her parents Fred Jahnke; brothers and sisters-in-law: Jerry Dunham Memorial services will be held at 12:00 noon on Tuesday Visitation will be at the church on Tuesday from 10:00 a.m KAUKAUNA — Kaukauna High School Tech Ed Teacher Dan Van Boxtel has been named as one of the 50 finalist for the Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence This nationwide contest gives out 20 grand prizes totaling $1.25 million and Van Boxtel is in the running for this award which is decided in October In 2014, Harbor Freight Tools CEO, founder and owner Eric Smidt kicked off a philanthropic project called Harbor Freight Tools for Schools by donating $1.4 million in tools and equipment to Los Angeles Unified School District the Harbor Freight Tools for Schools team listened and learned from the people who know skilled trades education best—teachers After conducting a focus group with teachers hosting an advisor session with educators and other experts and surveying hundreds of trades teachers nationwide Harbor Freight Tools for Schools evolved its purpose: to advance excellent skilled trades education in public high schools across America Corrections and updates: news@kaukaunacommunitynews.com Volume 4 - 2013 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00019 A commentary on When the world becomes ‘too real’: a Bayesian explanation of autistic perception A schematic representation of the predictive coding framework and is processed in a “low-level” area This processed information is sent to a higher area Based on this input the higher area tries to explain The prediction is more or less equivalent to the “prior” in the Bayesian framework The prediction is subtracted from the activity at the lower level and the residual is the “prediction error.” The prediction error may be equivalent to “exogenous attention.” Finally endogenous attention may influence the feedforward information Pellicano and Burr suggest that people with ASD have weak priors compared to the typically-developing population explaining a key finding that autistic observers are less influenced by contextual information and hence see the world more accurately (as it actually is) as their perception is less modulated by experience This Bayesian account provides an explanation for the bias favoring local over global processing in ASD The predictive coding framework also provides an elegant way to implement both endogenous (top-down) and exogenous (bottom-up) attention within the same framework. The framework can therefore guide detailed investigations of whether perceptual deficits in ASD are due to malfunctioning of certain higher-level brain areas, or instead due to an attentional bias toward lower-level stimulus characteristics (Plaisted, 2001; Mottron et al., 2006) and thus prediction errors (“surprises”) will increase the sensory systems of people with ASD will be constantly bombarded by new “surprises” and hence overloaded with sensory stimulation Developing quantitative computational models may help us disentangle these possibilities In summary, the predictive coding framework complements the Bayesian approach introduced by Pellicano and Burr, providing a general account of why certain perceptual, and potentially social deficits (cf., Kilner et al., 2007) exist and how biological substrates and computational mechanisms can give rise to these deficits in ASD Autism as a disorder of neural information processing: directions for research and targets for therapy Pubmed Abstract | Pubmed Full Text | CrossRef Full Text Alternative Bayesian accounts of autistic perception: comment on Pellicano and Burr Pubmed Abstract | Pubmed Full Text | CrossRef Full Text Gestalt processing in autism: failure to process perceptual relationships and the implications for contextual understanding Pubmed Abstract | Pubmed Full Text | CrossRef Full Text Bayes in the brain—on Bayesian modelling in neuroscience Pubmed Abstract | Pubmed Full Text | CrossRef Full Text autism spectrum disorders and Tourette's syndrome Pubmed Abstract | Pubmed Full Text | CrossRef Full Text The weak coherence account: detail-focused cognitive style in autism spectrum disorders Pubmed Abstract | Pubmed Full Text | CrossRef Full Text Cortical activation and synchronization during sentence comprehension in high-functioning autism: evidence of underconnectivity Pubmed Abstract | Pubmed Full Text | CrossRef Full Text Predictive coding: an account of the mirror neuron system Pubmed Abstract | Pubmed Full Text | CrossRef Full Text Autonomy of lower-level perception from global processing in autism: evidence from brain activation and functional connectivity Pubmed Abstract | Pubmed Full Text | CrossRef Full Text Enhanced perceptual functioning in autism: an update and eight principles of autistic perception Pubmed Abstract | Pubmed Full Text | CrossRef Full Text When the world becomes ‘too real’: a Bayesian explanation of autistic perception Pubmed Abstract | Pubmed Full Text | CrossRef Full Text “Reduced generalization in autism: an alternative to weak central coherence,” in The Development of Autism: Perspectives from Theory and Research Predictive coding in the visual cortex: a functional interpretation of some extra-classical receptive-field effects Pubmed Abstract | Pubmed Full Text | CrossRef Full Text Ambiguity and invariance: two fundamental challenges for visual processing Pubmed Abstract | Pubmed Full Text Developmental deficits in social perception in autism: the role of amygdala and fusiform face area Pubmed Abstract | Pubmed Full Text | CrossRef Full Text Feature-based attention modulates feedforward visual processing Pubmed Abstract | Pubmed Full Text | CrossRef Full Text Citation: van Boxtel JJA and Lu H (2013) A predictive coding perspective on autism spectrum disorders Received: 14 November 2012; Accepted: 09 January 2013; Published online: 28 January 2013 Copyright © 2013 van Boxtel and Lu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License distribution and reproduction in other forums provided the original authors and source are credited and subject to any copyright notices concerning any third-party graphics etc *Correspondence:ai5qLmEudmFuYm94dGVsQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ== Disclaimer: All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher 94% of researchers rate our articles as excellent or goodLearn more about the work of our research integrity team to safeguard the quality of each article we publish APPLETON (WLUK) -- A group of local people is proving that you can be surprised by the kindness of strangers Together they changed one woman's life this holiday season this doesn't just happen every day,"Amy Rickel told FOX 11 News the miracle started with a mistaken Facebook message She meant to send the message to a friend with a similar name "But you didn't know Amy..." FOX 11 News Reporter Alex Ronallo asked Van Boxtel "I didn't know Amy,"Van Boxtel replied But that was not the end of the conversation God puts us in people's lives for a reason," Rickel told us After moving from Upper Michigan to Green Bay to be closer to her children's father Rickel wound up homeless and jobless with her three children They were living in a hotel when her money ran out and her car stopped working "Bawling and praying and that's when Brian messaged me," Rickel said Van Boxtel said he was coming to pay for her hotel stay "What would Jesus do?" Van Boxtel explained Van Boxtel convinced Rickel to set up a GoFundMe account it basically...it blew up," he told FOX 11 That's when Kathy Schumann offered Rickel the use of her minivan "She really tugged at our heartstrings and we just felt like this holiday season we couldn't let the kids be out in the cold and we cleared out a room and brought them home,"Schumann told us He found out Rickel is an licensed practical nurse and connected her with a local medical recruiting office in Appleton "Amy will attest there was a lot of work and a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff going on to really make this happen and to make it happen quickly,"Morack explained I couldn't help but continue working hard to get her references and resume over to our clients so we could get her a full-time position," addedAlexandria Witkowski Rickel will start that full-time LPN job Jan I still kind of find it unbelievable," Rickel told FOX 11 News Also unbelievable: None of these people were friends before We all just met today," explained Morack "I know that God had me in the right place at the right time and so I listened to my heart," said Van Boxtel This all happened in about a nine-day span "It's totally restored my faith in - more than just my faith in humanity Showing that sometimes when you ask for prayers Rickel told us there were three-month-long waiting lists at any area shelters that accept children she said she's trying to start her own homeless help service News | Oct 23 lpeterson@aspentimes.com Bridging Bionics Founder Amanda Boxtel donned a bionic exoskeleton suit at Basalt Elementary School Monday to show STEM (science and math) students real-world applications of robotics and engineering education Third and fourth grade students watched as Boxtel stood and walked in the exoskeleton suit despite suffering a ski accident that left her paralyzed from the waist down nearly 30 years ago Boxtel founded Basalt-based Bridging Bionics after test-piloting the exoskeleton suit; the nonprofit now offers a mobility program to residents in the Roaring Fork Valley that provides affordable access to the technology Basalt Elementary STEM teacher Mitchell Norris asked Boxtel to speak to his students to show how they can apply what they learn in classes to real world scenarios we do various components and we put them all together,” Norris said “Bringing (Bridging Bionics) here brings real world applications for STEM to show my students it’s not just about fake scenarios that I give them in class it really does have a real world application.” with the help of Maria Grufstedt and Hanna Mork explained to students how her exoskeleton suit helped her and other Roaring Fork Valley residents regain mobility after suffering life-altering injuries Grufstedt is the clinical coordinator at Bridging Bionics and Mork is the program coordinator The suit provides power and support to patients’ legs and helps correct movement patterns as patients navigate walking in the suit, according to EskoBionics the company that provided Boxtel with her first exoskeleton suit that uses complex technology to mimic the body’s own skeleton who are also physical therapists and trainers who work with patients in the mobility program emphasized the importance of their education in STEM that allowed them to join Bridging Bionics “This is something that you guys can do,” Mork told students “This is something we got to learn in school and you guys can do it too.”  Bridging Bionics has worked with people who have suffered strokes It has locations in Snowmass and west Glenwood Springs where people can work with physical therapists and trainers to use the exoskeleton suits “Life goes on after you sustain a chronic injury like mine,” Boxtel said HOWARD − Camping World announced in June it would acquire Van Boxtel RV The dealership is located in Howard at 1956 Bond St. right across from a yet-to-be-open Camping World — the former Gander Mountain location This will be Camping World's seventh location in Wisconsin said that this acquisition accelerates the company's short-term goal to be the No John Hildebrand said that as part of the deal current management will remain in charge of the store (the company) is retaining us to run the store," he said the current building will be remodeled and more capital will be injected into the business All current employees will be retained as well there's some new and exciting things coming around the corner," he said Hildebrand said his business partners are excited and he thanks the community for their patronage over the last five decades Camping World has invested millions in the building across from Van Boxtel RVCamping World Holdings bought Gander Mountain's assets out of bankruptcy in May 2017 and set out to reopen 74 stores in 21 states by the end of 2018 The company in 2022 spent millions of dollars to prepare big box store sites in Howard and Oshkosh Both locations were part of a plan to open 11 stores in Wisconsin by the end of last year Several requests for comment from the Green Bay Press-Gazette regarding the opening of these two stores were not answered by the company an employee at the Oshkosh location said the store opened two months ago In Howard, the company spent close to $2 million renovating the former building of Gander Mountain The company has sold this building twice — according to public records — to different LLCs owned by the parent company it was sold for $3.1 million to FRHP LINCOLNSHIRE The Oshkosh employee said the store in Howard is currently going through some minor modifications plus an inventory process and could be ready to open in October Ariel Perez is a business reporter for the Green Bay Press-Gazette. You can reach him at APerez1@gannett.com or view his Twitter profile at @Ariel_Perez85 News | Mar 9 Nine hundred and sixty four physical therapy sessions gifted to patients More than 200,000 charitable dollars matched It was an inspiring and emotional night for the 100 or so people who attended a private fundraiser Wednesday benefiting Boxtel’s foundation “Now this is how a cocktail party’s supposed to be From this level,” a smiling Boxtel said as she stood vertically with the support of an exoskeleton a well-known local who was paralyzed in a ski accident at Snowmass Ski Area 25 years ago established the Basalt-based nonprofit in October 2015 Bridging Bionics — with a mission to provide funding and advance the research and development for exoskeletons and bionic technology according to its site — uses an exoskeleton and vibration training to help people who suffer spinal injuries regain mobility the foundation has granted nearly 1,000 fully or mostly funded “mobility sessions” to people in the valley Boxtel stressed the importance of being able to offer neuro-rehabilitation services which she said most health insurances fail to cover “We’re providing a technology that is cost-prohibitive to most but we’re making it affordable and accessible in our program,” she said shortly after adding that “the majority of our clients are on Medicare or Medicaid” to receive the therapy needed Boxtel mentioned a few recent accomplishments of her patients who was left partially paralyzed after a vehicle crash in June 2014 Langley has successfully walked more than 60,000 steps — or a total distance of 30.9 miles — using the exoskeleton straight-A student” couldn’t make it to the event due to an early class Thursday morning a 33-year-old Carbondale resident who broke his back in a kayaking accident last summer shared his testimonial of the exoskeleton and his recovery through Bridging Bionics I couldn’t move a lot of the muscles that I can right now,” said White a teacher at Colorado Rocky Mountain School erobbie@aspentimes.com China is investigating how meat processing company Vion from Boxtel is bringing its pork products to the Chinese market. Two other companies in the European Union are also at the center of the investigation. Beijing suspects the business of dumping, which is selling products at an artificially low price on the Chinese market. This was announced by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce on Thursday. Vion is the biggest meat producer in the Netherlands and is among the three largest EU pork processor companies that export to China. The other companies Beijing is investigating are Danish Crown, which is from Denmark, and Litera Meat, which is from Spain. The companies have been requested to fill in a questionnaire, the ministry reported. China has also involved 24 domestic pork producers in the investigation. The government wants to know from these companies what extent the possible dumping harms them. Vion denied the claim, referring to a response made by the Centrale Organisatie voor de Vleessector (COV), which represents the interests of employers in the Dutch meat industry. COV chairman Laurens Hoedemaker says he is confident that China's investigation will show that there is no dumping. "We hope to continue the mutually beneficial cooperation with China so that we can provide Chinese consumers with high-quality, safe, and sustainable pork products from Europe," he said. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce announced it was starting an investigation last week. This announcement came shortly after the European Commission reported that it was implementing significantly higher import fees on Chinese electric cars. However, Beijing claims that the investigation comes after a formal call from the China Animal Husbandry Group (CAHG), a state company representing the Chinese pork industry. According to CAHG, the amount of pork from the EU on the Chinese market is enough to be considered dumping. Rabobank previously stated that the amount of pork exported from EU countries to China has fallen in recent years. The bank also expects this decrease to continue. For example, in 2020, 55 percent of the total EU pork exports went to China, compared to 30 percent last year. Chinese trade restrictions, like higher import fees, have had a negative effect on the European pork market, said Rabobank. China is one of the largest markets for the EU when it comes to pork. The total imports were worth over 1.7 billion euros last year. Spain, Denmark, and the Netherlands are believed to be responsible for most of this. © 2012-2025, NL Times, All rights reserved. Leonardo da Vinci’s “Requiem” as realized by Roger Van Boxtel and Robin Ritchie. Photo by Paul Janes-Brown. LAHAINA — Lahaina and Green Bay artist Roger Van Boxtel and former Lahaina Visitor Center Director Robin Ritchie have been commissioned to submit a piece of Van Boxtel’s scrimshaw into a blockbuster exhibit of the Italian master Leonardo da Vinci. The “Da Vinci Experience” is an exhibit that features, among other things, 60 working models of the machines the great artist invented. It opened in January at the 44,000-square-foot El Paso Museum in Texas and will be there until July. In an “only on Maui” story, Ritchie was volunteering at the center in November when a distinguished man came in. He saw Van Boxtel’s piano key artwork — “he looked very closely at it,” said Ritchie. The man, who was on a cruise through the Hawaiian Islands, purchased a piece. In December, Ritchie received an e-mail from the man. He identified himself as Godfrey Harris, the co-manager and curator of the “Da Vinci Experience.” He thought that Van Boxtel and Ritchie were the perfect artists to realize a recent discovery related to Leonardo that he wanted to include in the exhibit. An Italian musician, Giovanni Maria Pala, wrote a book called “La Musica Celata” (The Hidden Music). Besides all of the other talents this man from Vinci in Italy possessed, it turns out Leonardo was also a musician and composer. Pala heard there might be a real “Da Vinci Code” hidden in the “Last Supper,” and he began to study the painting in 2003. Eureka! Pala claims to have discovered a Requiem (albeit very short) in the painting. In his book, Pala describes how he found what he says are other clues in the painting that reveal the slow rhythm of the composition and the duration of each note. In a press release from Rome, Pala “stressed that his discovery does not reveal any supposed dark secrets of the Catholic Church or of Leonardo, but instead shows the artist in a light far removed from the conspiratorial descriptions found in fiction.” “A new figure emerges — he wasn’t a heretic like some believe,” Pala said. “What emerges is a man who believes — a man who really believes in God.” Harris sent Pala’s discovery to Van Boxtel and Ritchie and asked them to create a piece. Van Boxtel, a former painter, has a totally unique approach to scrimshaw. For his ivory, he uses recycled piano keys. To date, he has used more than 14,000 piano keys in his works. “Piano-makers stopped using ivory for their keys in 1925, when plastic was invented,” said Ritchie. “So it is getting increasingly difficult to find genuine ivory keys. Even when you get a call from someone to see an old piano, sometimes they’re plastic, because the keys were replaced.” For the Leonardo work, Van Boxtel and Harris reproduced the artist’s “composition” on 14 keys in two rows. The work is in three-quarter time and is 12 measures, presumably for each of the apostles. The keys look distressed with chipped tips and faded ivories that give it an authentic, antique feel. Also, unlike many of the works by the artists, all of the keys are the same width.  Harris asked them to create a smaller version that could be sold in the gift shop. They did, and it sold the first day it was exhibited. Van Boxtel, who invented piano key art, specializes in Hawaiiana. The former salesman said, “I owe everything to Robin.” When he came to Maui on a visit in 1996, he found no interest in his work until he showed it to Ritchie. She saw how it could be displayed most advantageously, and thus began an artistic collaboration that has Ritchie selling ten times the amount of work that his two Mainland galleries — one in Wisconsin and the other in Michigan — sell. Ritchie said scrimshaw, which was a popular folk art among whalers, ended when whaling stopped and fell out of favor. President John F. Kennedy was an avid collector of scrimshaw, and he is credited with its revival in the 1960s.  The partners recently completed his largest piece to date. It’s a scene of Lahaina from the film “The Devil at Four O’Clock” starring Frank Sinatra and Spencer Tracy. It was commissioned by former Oregon Congressman Denny Smith and consists of 45 keys. Ritchie said that they take commissions, and three weeks after an order, “The work will be at the client’s door, guaranteed.” Copyright © 2025 Hawaii Publications, Inc. | https://www.lahainanews.com | 143 Dickenson St. - No. 203, Lahaina, Maui, HI 96761 | 808-667-7866 Volume 2 - 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fragi.2021.802407 This article is part of the Research TopicSomatic Mutations, Genome Mosaicism and AgingView all 7 articles human cells accumulate somatic mutations in their genomes These mutations can contribute to the development of cancer and non-malignant diseases and have also been associated with aging Rapid technological developments in sequencing approaches in the last few years and their application to normal tissues have greatly advanced our knowledge about the accumulation of these mutations during healthy aging Whole genome sequencing studies have revealed that there are significant differences in mutation burden and patterns across tissues but also that the mutation rates within tissues are surprisingly constant during adult life recent lineage-tracing studies based on whole-genome sequencing have shown that the rate of mutation accumulation is strongly increased early in life before birth which can be shared by many cells in the body may have a large impact on development and the origin of somatic diseases cancer driver mutations can arise early in life decades before the detection of the malignancy we review the recent insights in mutation accumulation and mutagenic processes in normal tissues We compare mutagenesis early and later in life and discuss how mutation rates and patterns evolve during aging we outline the potential impact of these mutations on development to better understand which somatic mutations and mutational processes contribute to cancer somatic mutations in cancer need to be compared to somatic mutations in normal Many studies have recently applied these techniques to characterize somatic mutation accumulation in various tissues of healthy human donors across a wide range of ages we provide an overview of the findings of these papers and discuss how somatic mutagenesis evolves during life we review how mutations accumulate linearly with age and how this differs between tissues in adults Building on this knowledge of mutagenesis in adults we show how mutagenesis is divergent early in life before birth we discuss the impact of somatic mutations and how this is different between mutations that occur early and later in life The average mutation rates within tissues appear to be relatively constant during adult life individual cells may have mutation burdens divergent from the average burden in the tissue due to different exposures to endogenous or exogenous mutagenic processes and due to differentiation it is clear that SBS1 and SBS5 are present in almost all cell types and that additional tissue-specific mutational processes can result in an increased mutational burden Most somatic mutations in short living differentiated cells are likely acquired in the stem cell ancestors of these cells Their relatively short lifespan might prevent differentiated cells from building up a strongly elevated mutation burden after differentiation even if their mutation rate would be much higher it is also possible that the process of differentiation itself could lead to a single burst of mutation accumulation Estimating the precise mutation rate in vivo differentiated cells is therefore challenging the first single-cell and single-molecule sequencing studies on differentiated and post-mitotic cells suggest that the mutation burden in these cells is either not or only modestly increased as compared to stem cells in the same tissues Proposed model of the dynamics of somatic mutagenesis during life Schematic overview depicting the distributions and rates of somatic mutations (A) Mutations arising early in development can be propagated to many cells of multiple tissues mutations arising early in life can have a strong potential impact on development and disease Mutations acquired later in life are usually only inherited by a small number of cells (the blue- and orange-colored cells) may also end up in extra-embryonic cell lineages not contributing to the embryo proper (B) The somatic mutation rate is especially high in the first embryonic cell divisions It is unclear if this decrease is gradual (as depicted) or more abrupt but the mutation rate probably remains relatively high compared to the postnatal mutation rate the somatic mutation rate appears to stay remarkably constant during aging leading to a gradual linear mutation accumulation Variance in the mutation rate between tissues leads to a tissue-specific mutation burden the tissue-specific mutation patterns already arise early in embryogenesis whereas in others (such as liver) these patterns start to emerge only after birth These findings show that mutation patterns start to diverge between tissues already early in development but the precise moment appears to be tissue specific Further studies comparing young and old tissues are required to elucidate the complicated effects of somatic mutations on normal and aberrant aging Early mutations may also impact spontaneous abortions. Less than half of all human conceptions are thought to lead to a live birth. This is at least partly due to somatic aneuploidies and copy number changes occurring in the first cell divisions, but it is not unlikely that in some cases SNVs also play a role (Hardy and Hardy, 2015) It appears that the rapid growth during fetal development comes at the cost of decreased genomic stability which can change the cell’s functions self-renewal capacity and potentially also the exposure to mutagens could be expected to lead to changes in mutation rates and spectra the first genomic studies of differentiated cells suggest that the effect of differentiation on mutagenesis is only modest possibly due to the relatively short lifespan of differentiated cells More single-cell studies of both in vivo and in vitro differentiated cells of various tissues are required to elucidate the precise role of differentiation on mutation accumulation post-mitotic neurons also accumulate mutations at a linear rate similar to stem cells of other tissues This shows that cell division and DNA 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The use distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited in accordance with accepted academic practice distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms *Correspondence: Sjors Middelkamp, cy5oLmEubWlkZGVsa2FtcC01QHByaW5zZXNtYXhpbWFjZW50cnVtLm5s — Amanda Boxtel's long-running story of hope over paralysis continues to evolve — and still captivates local audiences familiar with most of the details she has become an example of courage over adversity She taught disabled skiers for 10 years as an Aspen Skiing Co a nonprofit that enables people with disabilities to participate in recreational activities she began embryonic stem-cell treatments in India that have returned some feeling to her legs she became the first paraplegic woman in the world to test Berkeley Bionics' eLEGS system: a wearable artificially intelligent device that may allow some disabled individuals to walk again The test was deemed successful as she was able to log 12 hours of outdoor walking time She spoke to a gathering of the Aspen Business Luncheon on Dec drawing a capacity crowd in the Hotel Jerome having flown all the way from Australia to spend Christmas with her daughter "Mom's been to India with me five times," Boxtel said So I feel like I'm the luckiest girl in the world having my mom here for Christmas." She spoke candidly about the progress over paralysis that was made three years ago with stem-cell treatments "Imagine having your body awaken after 15-and-a-half years "And I'm not afraid to say that I can orgasm for the first time in 15-and-a-half years." Most of Boxtel's 25-minute talk centered on the accident and its aftermath She remembered riding the Snowmass chairlift at around noon she had a premonition of something terrible to come "A wave swept through my body," Boxtel said "I felt as if I had no business being on the mountain that day." The accident seemed to occur in slow motion An electric current shot through my legs." Boxtel said she vividly remembers the events that followed She called for help and soon the ski patrol arrived They asked the usual questions to determine if she was lucid I can't feel my legs,'" said the Australian native Soon she was on her way down the mountain and then airlifted to a Denver hospital Days turned into weeks as she couldn't leave the hospital because of the spinal-cord injury She was told by a young doctor that she would never walk again — but that she could still have children "I didn't care at that moment about having children," Boxtel said "All I heard was I'll never walk again How dare he steal every ray of hope?" She said that was a point in which she took the word "hope" out of her vocabulary a friend in Australia helped her to overcome the anger He plucked her out of a wheelchair and carried her up three flights of stairs to an area with a balcony that overlooked a river "He took my hand and started to drag me across the carpet," Boxtel said "I guess he was trying to be kind but I felt it was so cruel The friend soon left and returned with an armful of fine dishes "I picked up every China plate and threw them," she said "This is how I released (my anger)." she learned the message that would shape the rest of her life "We all have the power and ability to tap into the beauty of our souls to rise up against adversity Boxtel said that's when she finally began accepting her paralysis she was free to "live with hope and possibility for what might be the next moment from now." rock climbing and rafting through the Grand Canyon Boxtel credited her mother with the idea of investigating the possibility of stem-cell treatments in India The treatments have helped to give her sensations that had been lost for years "That is when I put hope back into my vocabulary," she said Boxtel is writing a memoir and co-producing a film called "Pursuit."