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MONA NICOARĂ
Teaching & Writing
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© 2014 Mona Nicoara
The Distance between Me & Me
Romania/US
Film and multi-channel gallery installation project on creative freedom, memory and power, co-authored with Siver Bear-winner Dana Bunescu and produced by Berlinale-winner Ada Solomon of HiFilm. Winner of Romanian preview section audience award at Films de Cannes à Bucarest. Screened at Trieste Film Festival, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, held over 18 weeks in Romanian cinemas.
Film Consultant
The life of one family in the ghetto - a documentary from Emmy-winning Director Alexander Nanau
premiered in 2014 at the San Sebastian Film Festival
received top awards at the Zurich, DokLepizig, and Warsaw film festivals
US/Switzerland/Romania 2014
Feature documentary on the school segregation of Roma children
premiered in competition at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, won Best US Feature at AFI SilverDocs; nominated for the Silver Eye Award for Best Eastern European Documentary and the Gopo Award for Best Romanian Documentary
screened before US Congress, the European Parliament, and several European Ministries of Education; entering its 4th year of partnering with Amnesty International
Children Underground
Documentary on Romanian street children from Oscar-nominated director Edet Belzberg
received the Special Jury Prize at the 2001 Sundance festival
nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary
Festival programming
2012 to present | Board member Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema annual series in New York.
2013 to present | Programmer, One World Romania human rights documentary film festival in Bucharest, Romania.
2014 to 2018 | Creative Director, fARAD, a documentary, hybrid, and experimental film festival in Arad, Romania.
Select industry participations
2014 Jury Member, Astra Documentary Film Festival
2013 New York Review Committee, International Documentary Association Award
2013 Romanian Days Jury Member, Transilvania International Film Festival
2012 Jury Member, Movies That Matter
2018 to present | Teaching film art and history at Rutgers University.
2018 | Taught documentary film directing in the graduate film school of New York University's Tisch school.
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Information on what a legal point of discharge is and how do you obtain permission to connect to the stormwater drain.
What is a Legal Point of Discharge?
The Legal Point of discharge is the point specified by Council to which stormwater from a property must be discharged. In urban areas, this would be to Council's stormwater drain or to the kerb and channel (with a kerb adaptor). In rural areas it is typically the table drain on an adjacent road, but may include discharge to a dam, natural water course or on-site dispersal.
What is Drainage Information?
Drainage Information refers to details of Council drains, such as size, depths and offsets of stormwater drains relevant to the area nominated in the application form, provided this data is available.
Do I need a Legal Point of Discharge permit?
The permit is a requirement of any structure which has a stormwater system and requires a building permit, as stipulated in the Building Regulations (2018), reg.133 (2).
What does the permit provide?
Depending on which boxes are ticked on the application form, you will be sent the location of the Legal Point of Discharge, information on the Council drain (if applicable), a Standard Drawing of the pipe connection required and a letter detailing additional conditions.
Who is responsible for the construction and maintenance of the stormwater pipe from the house to the Council drain?
The property owner is responsible for all stormwater drainage within their property and the section of stormwater drain from the property to the Council drain, as shown on the image.
How long will it take for the permit to be processed?
Applicants should allow for up to 10 working days. Please ensure the information provided on the application form is clear, as incomplete information may extend the time required to process the permit.
Will this permit tell me where my existing drainage is discharging to?
No. While we have information of where stormwater should discharge to, we do not receive information about where the properties stormwater is connected to. A plumber would likely be a better option.
Applications for a Legal Point of Discharge / Drainage Information can be made by completing the attached form below and sending it to info@moorabool.vic.gov.au, or by handing it into reception at one of our offices.
Payments can be made at any of Council’s offices in person by cash or credit card. Alternatively, money orders and cheques are also acceptable.
If you require further information with respect to payment methods, please contact Council’s Customer Service Officers.
If you would like any further information relating to this permit or procedures, please contact Council’s Assets Department on (03) 5366 7100.
Download a Legal Point of Discharge Application Form (PDF, 148.47 KB)
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Good news! New bike registrations grow by 1.5% in 2019
Updated: 08 January 2020
Bike registrations increased by 1.5%
Figures released this morning by the Motorcycle Industry Association (MCIA) have shown a 1.5% increase in bike sales across 2019.
A total of 107,408 motorcycles, scooters and Powered Light Vehicles (lightweight scooters, motorcycles, tricycles and quadricycles, usually with zero or low-emission power) were registered in 2019, which is up from 105,816 in the previous year.
Although this overall increase has been a continual trend since the financial crisis, the areas of growth in these latest stats can only be seen amongst low-capacity machines.
In the 0-50cc category, sales increased from 5640 to 6764, representing largest boost at 19.9%. The second biggest change came amongst 126-650cc bikes, which jumped up by 12.2% from 20,016 to 22,451.
The only other category of growth was 51-125cc machines, which are up by 0.2%, going from 33,790 sales to 33,874. Bikes from 651-1000cc are down by 7.9%, with machines over 1000cc also losing 0.3%.
Speaking about the findings, MCIA Communications Manager, Nick Broomhall said: "With many retail markets reporting a downturn for 2019, it’s great to see that the stats for the Powered Two Wheeler world show a growth of 1.5% against 2018, with 107,408 new bikes and scooters registered last year.
"21,068 bikes over 1000cc found new homes with bike fans, while an increase in the number of smaller capacity machines registered, shows that more and more people are getting the message that PTWs are an important solution to traffic congestion and air quality problems."
Despite registrations being down on larger capacity machines, a number of bigger bikes actually appear as top 10 UK best sellers for last year, with BMW’s R1250GS and R1250GS Adventure taking third and fourth spot respectively with a total sales figure of 3600 units combined.
The overall best-seller was Honda’s PCX125, which amassed 2840 sales. Finishing behind that was the Yamaha NMAX 125, with 1924 bikes leaving showrooms last year. The full list can be found below.
Model Registrations Market share
1 Honda PCX 125 2840 2.6%
2 Yamaha NMAX 125 1924 1.8%
3 BMW R1250GS 1827 1.7%
4 BMW R1250GS Adventure 1773 1.7%
5 Honda CB125F 1572 1.5%
6 Honda Vision 110 1546 1.4%
7 Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 1472 1.4%
8 Honda CRF1000L Africa Twin 1276 1.2%
9 Honda CB125R 1106 1%
10 Yamaha MT-07 1037 1%
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HomeNewsThe Voice’s The Swon Brothers Added to 2017 City of Hope Celebrity Softball Game
The Voice’s The Swon Brothers Added to 2017 City of Hope Celebrity Softball Game
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The Voice season 4 alums The Swon Brothers have been added to the City of Hope softball game set for Saturday June 10 in Nashville. Check out the announcement below.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (May 17, 2017) – City of Hope Celebrity Softball Game presented by Staples® continues to add to their roster for the 27th Annual event on Saturday, June 10 at 11:00 a.m. at First Tennessee Park. The most recent additions to their star powered lineup are Craig Morgan, The Swon Brothers, Jessie James Decker joined by her husband and NFL player, Eric Decker, Jackie Lee, Maggie Rose, Drew Scott from HGTV’s Property Brothers and Todd Chrisley, Savannah Chrisley, and Chase Chrisley of USA’s Chrisley Knows Best.
For the first time this year, City of Hope will involve legendary artists as play-by-play announcers. The first round of artists to participate will be Brenda Lee, Lee Greenwood, Jeannie Seely and Tim Rushlow.
Previously announced artists for teams iHeart Media versus SiriusXM/Grand Ole Opry are: Kellie Pickler, Bobby Bones, Sara Evans, Lauren Alaina, Aaron Watson, Danielle Bradbery, Trent Harmon, and Kaitlyn Bristowe and Shawn Booth from ABC’s The Bachelorette. Reba McEntire will be singing the National Anthem. More talent will continue to be announced!
American Idol’s Trent Harmon Added to City of Hope Celebrity Softball Lineup
Kellie Pickler, Lauren Alaina, Danielle Bradbery Set for City of Hope Softball 2017
Tickets are on sale now at Ticketmaster.com. As always, 100 percent of event net profits benefit City of Hope. For more information, visit cityofhope.org/softball or follow City of Hope on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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Season 4 Voice finalists The Swon Brothers have signed with Arista Nashville (part of the Sony Nashville family)! Check out the press release and video, after the jump.
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Christina Aguilera will sing “We Remain” off the Catching Fire soundtrack on Dec. 10. The Voice alums, Cassadee Pope, Danielle Bradbery, Michelle Chamuel and The Swon Brothers return to perform.
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Inbox: How will market for Braun shake out?
Beat reporter Adam McCalvy answers fans' questions as season winds down
By Adam McCalvy
DENVER -- The Brewers are rounding third and heading for home, ready to scatter on Sunday night, after their season finale at Coors Field. But while players take an offseason hiatus, we'll still be here, covering the news and rumors throughout the Hot Stove season.That means it's time to check
DENVER -- The Brewers are rounding third and heading for home, ready to scatter on Sunday night, after their season finale at Coors Field. But while players take an offseason hiatus, we'll still be here, covering the news and rumors throughout the Hot Stove season.
That means it's time to check the Inbox, beginning with the question that figures to dominate the Brewers' offseason:
what the percent of Ryan Braun playing in milwaukee in 2017
— Eugene Mannarino (@steelmann58) September 29, 2016
Ask yourself this question, Eugene: Will Ryan Braun's value ever be higher? He will be 33 years old in November. He is three games away from navigating a full, healthy season following back surgery, and he's now two full years removed from his right thumb issue. He hit 30 home runs, even though the Brewers traded away essentially all of the established hitters around him, and he's 10th in the National League with a weighted runs created plus of 134.
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Braun has four years left on his contract at between $16 million and $19 million per year, which arguably makes him a bargain. He drew serious interest from the Braves, Dodgers and other teams at the Trade Deadline, so there is clearly a market out there. Meanwhile, Brewers general manager David Stearns has been aggressive in trading established assets for prospects. There's no halfway in this rebuild.
And here's one more factor: Next April, Braun will secure the coveted status that comes with accruing 10 years of Major League service, including five with the same team, earning veto power over any trade. Until then, the Brewers can trade Braun to the Angels, D-backs, Dodgers, Giants, Marlins or Padres without his approval.
Add it all up, the percentages favor Braun wearing a different uniform by Opening Day.
It's possible, if the Brewers keep Braun and their notable arbitration-eligible players. That's a long list this offseason: Chase Anderson, Chris Carter, Scooter Gennett, Martín Maldonado, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Wily Peralta, Tyler Thornburg and Carlos Torres. Anderson and Thornburg are among the first-time eligibles, and they will both see their salary rise significantly. Ditto Gennett, if the Brewers keep him. Carter will cost a lot more after playing for a bargain $3 million this season, including his incentives. The only free agents are Blaine Boyer and Chris Capuano, so there are not any big salaries coming off the books.
So, yes, the payroll could rise modestly -- if Braun stays.
is lewis brinson the opening day starter in center field next season?
— phil brown (@philbro22382851) September 29, 2016
I would bet against that, given Keon Broxton's second-half surge after he dropped his hands and started hitting, and the fact Lewis Brinson has played all of 31 games above the Double-A level. Brinson will be added to the 40-man roster in November, however, so his option clock will start.
who do you think from Brewers they could trade this winter that could help us continue to get top tier prospects?
— Jason Mortensen (@jmort82) September 29, 2016
I don't think they'll trade Jonathan Villar, as some have suggested, while his value is so high. So here's how I would rank their top trade chips:
1. Braun
Junior Guerra
Gennett
Am I missing anyone? I'm curious to hear your thoughts.
I would suspect yes; incoming calls and outgoing. Stearns and manager Craig Counsell love versatility, and Gennett doesn't have it. There's also the matter of finding a spot for Villar, who is way more comfortable at second base than at third. After setting a career high with 14 home runs and increasing his on-base percentage, there should be a market for a left-handed bat like Gennett's.
what should us fans do in Denver for the final series of the year?
— Tim Reitberger (@Timmy1310) September 29, 2016
In no particular order after No. 1:
Cherry Cricket
Watch the Badgers at Swanky's
Hike the Flatirons
Sit in the Mile High seats
Adam McCalvy has covered the Brewers for MLB.com since 2001. Follow him on Twitter @AdamMcCalvy, like him on Facebook and listen to his podcast.
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Video: In-Process Scanning of a Turned Profile—via Robot
A robot reaching into a lathe measures along the entire part length in seconds, determining whether additional machining is needed.
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Autonetics of Chapel Hill, North Carolina is a manufacturing automation specialist, but chief technology officer Chris Wezyk says the specialty is more nuanced than that. The company solves automation challenges by combining off-the-shelf devices in unusual ways, he says. This video shows an example—a pair of digital micrometers mated to a robot in order to provide rapid, accurate measurements of the OD features of a turned workpiece. The robot (from Kawasaki) simply sweeps the length of the part in seconds to let the micrometers (from Micro-Epsilon) obtain thousands of data points in seconds—data that can be used to automatically develop a highly precise CAD model. Software written by Autonetics interprets the measurements, allowing the information to be applied to a follow-up machining pass, among other potential uses.
Mr. Wezyk says the accuracy is better than one might imagine. Robot positioning is precise, but a robot typically is not used for the very finest positioning and measurement applications. In this application, though, the digital micrometer provides for the accuracy in the part’s radial axis, while the location of the lathe’s spindle face is a known value along the part’s axial direction. This value gets used as a reference to compensate for the robot’s positioning along the lathe’s Z axis. As a result, a quick sweep through just a small Z-axis range is enough to let the robot pick up any precise Z-axis location where the diameter measurement needs to be known.
The same robot can also be used to inspect internal features, he says. To do this, the robot would release the digital micrometer set and pick up another device—probably an array of capacitive plug gages enabling it to measure a range of inner diameters.
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Posted on October 7, 2019 by Gallipolis Daily Tribune
Sifting through city commission history
By Dean Wright - deanwright@aimmediamidwest.com
Gallipolis City Commission typically meets at 6 p.m. at the Gallipolis Municipal Building on the first Tuesday of the month at 333 Third Avenue.
Dean Wright | OVP
GALLIPOLIS — During a recent Gallipolis City Commission meeting, City Clerk and Audito Annette Landers said her office was looking to transfer city minute records from decades past into digitally readable formats and place them on the municipality’s website.
“I’ve had this project I’ve been wanting to do for a long time which is putting the historic minutes on the website,” said Landers. “They’re on there now back to 1939 and those are all the ones we could do that were in books that weren’t bound, so you could take them apart and scan them. We’ve ordered a hand scanner for (Lori Reynolds) and she’s the one who’s been doing this.”
“She made the mistake of coming to me and asking if there was something she could do for me and I said, as a matter of fact, yes,” joked Landers. “She’s liked greased lightning on that stuff and so fast. I’ve been really pleased. She had them going in one year after the other. What we did in those earlier years, we did them one at a time. We scanned the whole thing and you can roll down through it and read the whole year.”
“I’d invite you to get on there, www.cityofgallipolis.com,” said Landers. “If you click on the commissioners tab at the top of the page, then you’ll see some listings on the side and on the bottom it says historic minutes. Click on that.”
Mary Lee Marchi, area historian, said she’s already started reading some of the history of city government. The oldest minutes recorded extend back to 1918 and are anticipated to be added in an ongoing process.
“You ought to see the book,” said Landers. “The pages are all yellowed. There is no way we could ever scan that normally. We’ll have to use a hand scanner to keep from tearing up the (minutes) book.”
Minutes are considered the historic, official notes often kept by clerks or secretaries of meeting bodies.
Dean Wright can be reached at 740-446-2342.
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Forget about your big bed — and that comfy recliner.
The second place entry in the NASA 3-D Printed Habitat Challenge Design Competition.Team Gamma / NASA
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Nov. 3, 2017, 3:39 PM UTC / Updated Nov. 3, 2017, 5:21 PM UTC
By Megan Gannon
Before you sign up for any mission to Mars, be prepared to say goodbye to the concept of the bedroom as you know it.
On Mars, as in outer space generally, it would be an unimaginable luxury to have a big bed with a thick mattress and a heavy comforter. Given the exorbitant cost of sending things to Mars and the constraints of the cramped habitats we're likely to build there, we’ll need a whole new set of design principles for furniture and interior spaces on the red planet.
Ikea on Mars
With this challenge in mind, a team of designers from IKEA gathered recently in the Utah desert to spend three days in a mock Mars habitat thinking about designing furniture for a space mission (or a “tiny home” here on Earth).
An IKEA team spent three days at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah.IKEA
Inside the two-story, 33-foot-wide cylinder, one the designers, Robert Janson, said he and his teammates “quickly realized the necessity of privacy.” They also realized that the furniture we’re all familiar with tends to be bigger than necessary. “We had these bunk beds that were taking up lots of space the whole day, and the only time we really used them was for sleeping,” Janson explained.
“Every object has to have multiple functions — otherwise we just can’t afford it,” said Constance Adams, a Houston-based space architect who served as an advisor to the team. So Janson and the others started to think about how to incorporate beds into the walls like pull-down cots, for example, and how they could use smaller features, like virtual windows showing lifelike video views, to break up the monotony of the environment.
Function comes first
IKEA isn’t alone in imagining what Martian design could look like. Inspired in part by estimates that sending cargo to Mars will cost more than $2,600 a pound, Renens, Switzerland-based designer Thomas Missé came up with super-thin, stackable, carbon-fiber “Mars chairs.”
The Mars Chair by designer Thomas Miss?.Thomas Misse
Another designer, London-based Christine Lew, created a collection of products like a spacesuit you can shower in and a vacuum-suction bathrobe. These weren’t intended to be commercial products but rather “speculative” objects to get people to think about overlooked comforts of everyday life during long-term space exploration, Lew told the architecture and design magazine Dezeen.
For its part, NASA has asked architecture firms to think about what buildings could look like on Mars. Some of the ideas — submitted to the space agency as part of its 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge — look like luxury cabins. The first-place winner in the design phase of the challenge, the Mars Ice House, was an four-story igloo-like habitat with a spiral staircase, a mix of private and communal spaces, and rooms with curved walls to create an illusion of more space.
Of course, these concepts won’t come to fruition unless the tools and materials required for their construction meet the strict engineering requirements for space travel.
“It starts and ends with the rocket science,” Adams said. “It has to be light enough and strong enough to be transported off Earth.”
What’re more, most of the tools and furnishing you pack will need to be useful under the conditions of both zero-gravity in space and Martian gravity (which is about one-third of Earth’s gravity). The spaceship itself might need to be convertible into habitat walls, tables, chairs, and so on. And each of those items would likely also serve multiple functions.
If function is one key to designing furniture and habitats on Mars, materials are another. The plastics and synthetic materials found in furniture and other products here on Earth sometimes give off gases that could be dangerous in closed environments, Adams said. She thinks natural materials like wool, wood, and leather might be the best materials for interior furnishings.
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To promote positive feelings on Mars, designers will look for ways to help astronauts feel an emotional bond with the furniture and décor inside their habitat. Philipp Süssman, another member of the IKEA team, said people tend to feel more connected to objects they build or assemble themselves.
Good design could also help ease the interpersonal conflict that might arise on Mars.
“King Arthur’s roundtable is a very smart piece of furniture for a group of knights,” Adams said. “You have to design the common spaces so there’s an equality of positions.” And, she added, given the high sound levels that might exist in a Mars habitat filed with whirring fans and other machinery, facing one another at meals and other gatherings might make things easier by facilitating lip-reading.
Ultimately, Mars-focused designs could go a long way toward making daily life more comfortable in the harsh Martian environment. And the same design ideas that would work on Mars might also help us create better living spaces here on Earth — especially as we face our own ever-growing environmental challenges.
As Adams contemplated this avenue of research, she was reminded of the words of Bill Anders, the Apollo 8 astronaut who took the famous Earthrise photo: “We came all this way to explore the moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.”
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A ’70s Icon Updated: The Tactile Dome
A San Francisco favorite re-debuts with an updated vibe.
Published at 2:25 pm on November 9, 2013
Tactile Dome
OFFBEAT ORBS: California and strange rounded structures have a long and storied history. There's the Cinerama Dome on Sunset Boulevard, a Tinseltown theatre that's marking its half-centennial in 2013. There's James Turrell's Perceptual Cell, a light-and-sensory experience that's on view at the Los Angeles County of Art through spring 2014. And there's The Exploratorium's Tactile Dome, a 1971-built icon that's been a San Francisco favorite -- nay, legend -- for over four decades. The dome's purpose? Give people a maze-by-touch experience (meaning much of it was fully dark). The dome's builder? August Coppola, the father of Nicolas Cage. The dome's legend? That depends on the person you ask, but many people love it for its good-vibe-y, alt-experience, early-'70s aura. Us? We remember leaving with dried beans in our shoes, accidentally, from the final pit you slid into. (You, too? Yeah. Beans, everywhere.)
DOME, UPDATED: The scoot-through maze, which challenges visitors to feel wall-and-floor textures as they move within, bowed on Oct. 30 with a newer vibe but the same sensory-big experience. "Like the hundreds of other exhibits that were updated for their new home on Pier 15, the new Tactile Dome has been built while still preserving the spirit of its past, and its reopening is one of the final groovy steps in the Exploratorium's re-location," reads an announcement. We're most happy, probably, by the use of the word "groovy," because goodness forbid that a '70s wonder lose its innate '70s spirit.
BUT... one thing that definitely hasn't changed is this: You'll need to make reservations. It's fifteen bucks, plus admission into The Exploratorium. Trust us on this, though: If you desire a quirkier, friend-laughing adventure, with a happy whiff of shag-carpet-bean-pit '70s cool, the Tactile Dome has you covered. Welcome back to the Bay Area's esoteric and wonder-filled touch maze.
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By Tom Dougherty July 01, 2018 6:54 PM
Ron Hextall was swarmed by a pack of reporters Friday at Flyers Skate Zone in Voorhees, New Jersey, and had to clarify a statement he had previously made that the Flyers were “certainly not going to reach out on a seven-year deal on good player.”
“I misspoke that day or you guys misunderstood me,” Hextall said with a smile Friday. “I said we weren’t going to go long term with a good player. Maybe a great player, we’d look at.”
Little did we know, Hextall was big-game hunting and his trophy was a player we’re all familiar with.
The Flyers on Sunday righted a past wrong and provided a jolt to both the now and future by signing James van Riemsdyk to a five-year, $35 million contract with no no-trade clause.
We can praise Hextall for making a splash with van Riemsdyk. Some doubted he had it in him, that he was too conservative in his building. He sent a loud and clear message otherwise.
van Riemsdyk returns to the Flyers for a second stint and this time, he’s an even better fit.
Enough with the Hextall acclaim. Let’s break down what JVR brings and where he fits.
What JVR brings
Originally drafted by the Flyers with the No. 2 overall pick in 2007, van Riemsdyk returns to Philly a more polished player than he was when they traded him to Toronto on June 23, 2012.
van Riemsdyk brings size (6-3, 217), shooting and consistent scoring, all three areas the Flyers will certainly benefit from both in the immediate future and a few seasons down the line.
JVR, in six seasons with the Maple Leafs, blossomed into the 30-goal scorer many wanted him to be in Philadelphia. Last season, van Riemsdyk posted 36 goals and 54 points.
In four of the past five seasons, van Riemsdyk has scored at least 27 goals and 54 points. The 29-year-old averaged 31 goals per an 82-game schedule during his time with Toronto. He was limited to 29 points in 40 games in 2015-16 because of injury.
From a situational breakdown, van Riemsdyk has a pretty balanced split between even strength and power-play goals. Last season, he finished second on Toronto in even-strength goals (25) and PP markers (11). With the Leafs, he averaged 15 ES goals and seven PPGs. The consistency is there from a production standpoint.
Another aspect that van Riemsdyk brings — and perhaps the biggest — is a volume shooter, which the Flyers desperately need.
van Riemsdyk finished the 2017-18 season with 248 shots, which ranked 23rd in the NHL and has averaged 213 shots on goal in his six years in Toronto, but a closer look tells a better story.
By looking at van Riemsdyk’s rate metrics, we can see he fires the puck often. Last season, he had 10.1 shots per 60 minutes at 5-on-5. In fact, he’s always excelled in that category. Throughout his career, van Riemsdyk has averaged 9.63 shots per 60 minutes at 5-on-5.
Maybe van Riemsdyk would have developed into this player had the Flyers never soured on him after three seasons. Hindsight is 20/20 and we know the Flyers lost that trade, badly. Looking back, the Flyers misused van Riemsdyk at times and gave up on him too quickly. That was a common theme in the previous business model — not knowing what they had.
“For me, I got a big opportunity to expand my role in Toronto,” van Riemsdyk said. “It was just a different situation with the team when I got in there. Playing more of a prominent role on a power play, play more minutes. I’ve been able to expand my game in that way.”
How he fits
Signing van Riemsdyk adds genuine intrigue to the Flyers’ forward group as they now finally have legitimate NHL forward depth with seven proven top-six forwards.
van Riemsdyk slots in with Sean Couturier, Claude Giroux, Nolan Patrick, Travis Konecny, Jakub Voracek and Wayne Simmonds. Oskar Lindblom fits perfectly on the third line too. Hextall said Sunday the Flyers will fill their third-line center vacancy from within and opened the door for Giroux to potentially move back to center or for a prospect to graduate to the NHL.
Still, JVR gives the Flyers scoring depth. Depending on where head coach Dave Hakstol pencils players in, one of van Riemsdyk, Simmonds, Voracek or Konecny will be on the third line. Where the fit will get interesting will be on the power play. van Riemsdyk played a similar role with the Leafs that Simmonds plays for the Flyers. But the Flyers’ second PP unit has stunk.
Now the Flyers can spread the love and see how the chemistry shakes out.
“We can put out two really good units,” Hextall said. “It gives us another left shot, which we needed. We’ve got [Patrick], we’ve got Konecny. We’ve got the two young defensemen. … We feel pretty comfortable that our power play has taken a step here.”
Some may argue van Riemsdyk pushes Simmonds out of a prominent role with the Flyers, but that’s misguided. In today’s game, you need depth on all four lines. The Flyers finally have it.
We can disagree on the term or the price. But JVR fills an immediate need.
The Flyers have been largely quiet under the Hextall administration.
That changed Sunday and changed in a big way. Is it October yet?
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'You know that word that starts with B?' — Alain Vigneault makes his point after frustrating Flyers loss
By Jordan Hall January 17, 2020 12:55 AM
Every so often, ever since training camp in mid-September, Alain Vigneault will remind everyone he wasn't here last year or the years prior.
He'll do so amicably when questions arise about a past season or trend with the club he now coaches. Vigneault likes to focus on the present and what's ahead.
After all, he doesn't want to act as if he's openly criticizing what happened before him.
"It's the start of a new era, a new group," he said Sept. 13, Day 1 of training camp.
If he didn't know, the type of loss the Flyers suffered Thursday night has become a recurring theme in recent years, the kind that drives the fan base up a wall. One night, the Flyers will look like world-beaters against the NHL's elite. Another night, they'll lose a game that had victory written all over it, leaving fans scratching their heads.
Except, Flyers fans are no longer dumbfounded by those types of losses because, quite frankly, their team has tended to suffer them predictably.
On Thursday night at the Wells Fargo Center, the Flyers lost, 4-1, to the Canadiens, who are on the outside looking in at the playoff picture and had lost nine of their previous 11 games. What made the defeat particularly maddening was that the Flyers had just made a significant statement by beating the league's three best teams — the Capitals, Bruins and Blues — in the past four games.
The win over defending champion St. Louis came Wednesday night on the road. So on Thursday night, the Flyers were facing the second game of a back-to-back set, coming off the high of beating the champs in their building, and playing without either of their regular two goalies (see observations).
When "emotional letdown" was brought up at his postgame press conference, Vigneault wouldn't even tiptoe the line.
“You know that word that starts with B?" Vigneault asked.
Begins with bull and ends in ... ?
"I mean, these are big games," Vigneault said. "There’s almost nothing separating teams. And tonight, it’s a couple plays. I understand emotionally, but points are the same. This game was worth two. Last game was worth two. You’ve got to get up for it, you’ve got to get yourself ready, it’s going to be a battle.
"You do know the word I’m talking about, right?”
And his Flyers know those losses can't become a theme.
Vigneault will call out that bulls--t if he sees it.
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Flyers upended by Canadiens for the type of loss that always seems to anger fans
By Jordan Hall January 16, 2020 9:41 PM
These ones irritate Flyers fans the most.
After playing up to the competition for four straight games and generating bona-fide excitement, the Flyers played down to the competition in a 4-1 loss Thursday night to the Canadiens at the Wells Fargo Center.
Sure, Montreal boasts a big-named goalie, but it had lost nine of its last 11 games before upending the Flyers, who had just won three games over the top three teams in the NHL.
This was a letdown any way you slice it for the Flyers (25-17-6) following victories over the Capitals, Bruins and Blues.
The Canadiens (21-21-7) salvaged the final game of the three-game regular-season series with the Flyers after dropping the first two matchups in overtime.
• The Flyers were coming off an emotional high of beating the defending champs on the road and playing the second game of a back-to-back set, but everyone should expect more than losing by three goals on home ice to a team outside of the playoff picture (see story).
On Saturday night at the Wells Fargo Center, the Flyers should come out like gangbusters against the Kings, who are near the basement of the West.
• With Carter Hart (right lower abdominal strain) out two to three weeks and Brian Elliott playing an overtime game on the road Wednesday night, Alex Lyon made his first start of the season for the Flyers.
The 27-year-old has played well in his fourth season with AHL affiliate Lehigh Valley.
“Alex has put in a lot of time,” Flyers head coach Alain Vigneault said before the game. “He spent the summer here in Philly to work out. I thought he had a good camp and he's been playing well. This is his best start in Lehigh Valley. He is just coming off a shutout and he deserved a chance to play.”
Lyon became the third goalie to suit up for the Flyers. At this date last season, the Flyers had already played seven goalies.
He was strong until he allowed a goal with 55 seconds left in the first period. From the end of the opening stanza to the beginning of the second frame, Lyon allowed three goals in a span of three minutes, 14 seconds.
The tallies weren’t all on Lyon. The Flyers were a step behind on all three. The second was a power play goal in which the Flyers allowed Shea Weber all kinds of room to wind up a slap shot and create a rebound in front (see highlights).
Lyon made 35 saves.
Montreal goalie Carey Price, who won his previous two games with 72 saves on 73 shots, enjoyed the lead and finished with 40 stops to beat the Flyers for the 16th time in his career.
• In the wins over the Capitals, Bruins and Blues, the Flyers were forced to kill 14 of 15 power plays. That’s a lot of work for the PK and it felt like the rising number of trips to the box would eventually burn the Flyers.
They allowed Ilya Kovalchuk’s go-ahead power play goal early in the second period and then the Canadiens scored another marker 11 seconds later to seize a 3-1 lead.
It was a momentum-changing sequence all started by a penalty, albeit a cheap hooking call on Kevin Hayes.
The Flyers also hurt themselves by going 0 for 4 on the power play.
• Kovalchuk, who signed a one-year, $700,000 deal with the Canadiens two weeks ago, gave Montreal a 2-1 lead on the second-period power play goal. He tacked on the fourth and final goal.
The 36-year-old winger has seven points (three goals, four assists) in seven games with the Canadiens.
Should the Flyers have been interested?
• Recalled a day after being loaned to the Phantoms for the purpose of creating space for Lyon, Joel Farabee scored a big goal to open the game’s scoring.
Farabee is buzzin' 🐝 pic.twitter.com/trG7jlaKUs
— NBC Sports Philadelphia (@NBCSPhilly) January 17, 2020
The marker was Farabee’s first in 16 games. The 19-year-old has offense to add to the Flyers — and if he can show it on the fourth line, his role will grow as the games grow bigger.
“I'd like him to get a little bit more than nine or 10 minutes but we've seen that go up and down, and my expectation is that that’ll come back,” Flyers general manager Chuck Fletcher said Tuesday.
With the addition of Connor Bunnaman, the Flyers’ fourth line has been a positive over the past three games.
• Before the game, Vigneault said he was very optimistic about defenseman Justin Braun’s return Saturday from a groin injury.
• The Flyers play two more games, both at home, before their NHL-mandated Jan. 22-30 bye week — Saturday vs. the Kings (7 p.m. ET/NBCSP) and Tuesday vs. the Penguins (7:30 p.m. ET/NBCSN).
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J Thromb Thrombolysis. 2001 Oct;12(2):177-84.
Sulfonylureas are not associated with increased mortality in diabetics treated with thrombolysis for acute myocardial infarction.
Halkin A1, Roth A, Jonas M, Behar S.
Department of Cardiology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, 6 Weizmann St., Tel-Aviv, Israel 64239. dhlk@isdn.net.il
Sulfonylurea compounds may impair ischemic preconditioning and endogenous fibrinolysis. Increased mortality has been reported in diabetics receiving these drugs prior to admission for acute myocardial infarction when treated by direct angioplasty. Although thrombolytics are currently employed far more frequently than direct angioplasty the effect of sulfonylureas on mortality in the setting of thrombolysis has not been previously addressed.
Two hundred forty five diabetics treated with either accelerated t-PA or streptokinase in a national, multi-center, randomized comparison of argatroban vs. heparin (n=1200) were grouped by anti-diabetic treatment prior to hospitalization, and their outcomes were compared by retrospective analysis.
Baseline characteristics were similar in all groups (sulfonylureas: n=121, oral medications other than sulfonylureas: n=17, insulin: n=28, diet alone: n=79). Sulfonylurea use was not associated with increased mortality or adverse event rates. By logistic regression analysis with diet treatment as reference, only prior insulin use was associated with higher risk for mortality at 30 days and 1 year (odds ratios 4.5 and 5.22, respectively, p<0.05).
Sulfonylureas use prior to admission is not associated with adverse outcomes in diabetics treated with thrombolytics for myocardial infarction. Since direct angioplasty may increase mortality in patients taking these drugs, a randomized trial is needed to specifically compare different strategies of acute reperfusion in diabetics.Abbreviated abstract. Increased mortality has been reported in diabetics using sulfonylureas when treated for myocardial infarction by direct angioplasty. No study has specifically addressed the effect of these drugs on outcomes in the setting of thrombolysis. In a retrospective analysis of 245 diabetics treated with thrombolysis in a randomized comparison of argatroban vs. heparin, outcomes were compared in relation to anti-diabetic therapy prior to admission. Sulfonylurea use did not adversely affect prognosis, which was worst among diabetics previously treated with insulin. In conclusion, sulfonylureas do not worsen outcomes of diabetics treated with current thrombolytic regimens in comparison with other anti-diabetic treatments.
10.1023/a:1012979622945
Publication types, MeSH terms, Substance
Diabetes Complications*
Diabetes Mellitus/drug therapy
Diabetes Mellitus/mortality
Myocardial Infarction/complications
Myocardial Infarction/mortality*
Myocardial Infarction/therapy
Sulfonylurea Compounds/administration & dosage
Sulfonylurea Compounds/adverse effects*
Thrombolytic Therapy*
Sulfonylurea Compounds
Heart Attack - MedlinePlus Health Information
Diabetes Complications - MedlinePlus Health Information
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On dominion question, a Lutheran and the pope take differing roads to similar destination
by Donna Schaper
The Rev. Leah Schade’s book Creation-Crisis Preaching: Ecology, Theology and the Pulpit (Chalice Press, 2015) is simply a remarkable document. Blurbed by climate author and activist Bill McKibben, it is full of new ideas about the environmental movement and constitutes a review of the literature that simply boggles my mind.
Like many of you, I have been immersed devotionally and intellectually in Pope Francis’ encyclical, “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home.” I am thirsty for new ideas about the environment, about ways to enter the Genesis 1-2 controversy and more. You know the one: tend and befriend or fight and flight; dominion or caring stewardship, as well as about who I am in relationships to stars, animals and natures.
I am also a woman and a feminist. I love Pope Francis (and have a book coming out in the fall called Love Letters to Pope Francis from an Unlikely Source), but often have trouble with how he thinks about women.
The two works, Schade’s book and Francis’ encyclical, offer me two different approaches, either road of which I am full ready to take. I tend and befriend ideas as opposed to opposing them.
The pope’s narrative scaffolding in the encyclical is the theological construct of praise. He stands in awe of the cosmos. He believes the cosmos is here for us to enjoy and to praise.
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“Rather than a problem to be solved, the world is a joyful mystery to be contemplated with gladness and praise,” Francis wrote in Laudato Si’, Paragraph 12.
Just a graph earlier, he complimented his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, for helping us to recognize an integral ecology calls a response to the world around us with “so much more than intellectual appreciation or economic calculus,” but through a genuine bond of affection.
“If we approach nature and the environment without this openness to awe and wonder, if we no longer speak the language of fraternity and beauty in our relationship with the world, our attitude will be that of masters, consumers, ruthless exploiters, unable to set limits on their immediate needs. By contrast, if we feel intimately united with all that exists, then sobriety and care will well up spontaneously,” Francis wrote.
Schade, a Lutheran pastor, uses grace as her construct: She believes we have an unmerited gift in creation and that we have sinned against it -- actually raped it, over and over, in the same way that men rape women.
Schade is not lacking in boldness or application of this metaphor. She has a brilliant re-interpretation of the grace/works dilemma that puts the false use of power at the root of our violence against nature and against women. We think we are deserving when we are not. We think we deserve creation, which we do not. And, agreeing with Francis, she thinks we have grown too big for our britches when it comes to the grace and gift of creation.
But Schade and the pope agree on much more than not. Just because their starting points diverge in the old ways -- the sacramentalism of the Roman Catholic church and the grace of the rebelling Lutherans -- doesn’t mean that they don’t understand the dominion/stewardship question. They both get the difference between dominion and tending.
Their different starting points are as old as the Reformation, as clear as the parting of the ways nearly 500 years ago between the two sects of Christianity. And it all seems so silly now. Both cite and understand the early theological and biblical bases of the environmental movement. Both are avidly against dominion theology and for stewardship theology. The great parallel roads of praise and grace are converging so richly now that we might just be over the Reformation altogether.
Desperation makes strange bedfellows.
In his 1967 essay "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis," Lynn White sought to find the underlying presuppositions that have led to our ecological crisis. He held that dominion was the biblical basis for “man’s” relationship to nature and that it was the source of our destruction of the environment.
Many feminist theologians have accused White of not reading the Bible well. Sally McFague famously argued that White does not distinguish between the Priestly and Yahwist accounts in Genesis, which need to be examined and contrasted. Dominion may be in Genesis 1, but in Genesis 2:15 we read, “The LORD God then took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden, to cultivate and care for it.”
As Carol Newsom, the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Old Testament at Emory University, also points out, this is God creating a relationship between earth and earthling -- not of human over earth, but human within and beside earth. The Garden of Eden is imagined as what we would call a permaculture, where human attention is part of the ecosystem in a nature where we “lightly prune and rake.”
The even more striking agreement between these two religious minds comes around animals. Schade’s book about preaching advises some very winsome and imaginative ideas about preaching the Gospel from the point of view of the animals or the rocks or rolling streams, instead of from the point of view of the human. The sample sermons in the book are delightful, startling and full of anger resolved to praise.
Indeed, Francis of Assisi frequently talked to the animals. In Laudato Si’, the pope noted the saint would often “burst into song” when gazing at the sun, the moon and the smallest of animals. Thomas Celano, author in 1229 of the earliest biography of the Franciscan order founder, described the interactions this way:
"When he found abundance of flowers, he preached to them and invited them to praise the Lord as though they were endowed with reason. In the same way he exhorted with the sincerest purity cornfields and vineyards, stones and forests and all the beautiful things of the fields, fountains of water and the green things of the gardens, earth and fire, air and wind, to love God and serve him willingly. Finally, Francis called all creatures brother …”
The main theological roads of praise and grace are replacing both dominion and stewardship as the ways to understand the environment. We can tend and befriend them both. One or the other need not win.
And if you have read the encyclical and liked it, you must read Leah Schade’s book, too.
[Donna Schaper is senior minister of Judson Memorial Church in New York City.]
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NDSU adds UND to football schedule for 2015, 2019
Longtime in-state football rivals NDSU and the University of North Dakota will meet for the first time as Division I opponents next season.
NDSU completed its 2015 schedule by adding a Sept. 19 game with UND to be played at Gate City Bank Field in Fargo. The two-game contract calls for UND to return to Fargo on Sept. 7, 2019.
Per the terms of the agreement, NDSU will provide UND cash guarantees of $125,000 for the first game and $140,000 for the second game, plus 500 tickets and the option for UND to bring its band and cheer team.
The most recent two-game proposal was outlined by former NDSU athletic director Gene Taylor and current UND athletic director Brian Faison.
“Gene worked hard to find a solution that would be agreeable to both schools,” said NDSU interim athletic director Prakash Mathew. “I am happy that Gene’s offer has come to fruition.”
The teams have not met since 2003 in Grand Forks as members of NCAA Division II and the North Central Conference.
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NHH gets a Centre of Excellence
The two research groups The Choice Lab and the Center for empirical labor economics (CELE) have together been awarded the Research Council of Norway’s Centre of Excellence (CoE) status.
By Sigrid Folkestad
(updated: 15 March 2017 03:41)
In competition with 150 other strong research environments in Norway, the Research Council of Norway has now awarded NHH a Centre of Excellence.
The Professors Bertil Tungodden and Alexander W. Cappelen, The Choice Lab (NHH). Photo: Helge Skodvin
The centre FAIR
The centre at NHH has been given the name Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality, and Rationality (FAIR) and will become Norway’s leading environment in inequality research.
Professor Kjell Gunnar Salvanes, CELE (NHH)
This means that NHH’s behavioural economists and labour market researchers will join forces in the new centre. Both these research groups are affiliated with the Department of Economics.
Associate Professor Ingvild Almås, The Choice Lab (NHH).
‘This is a great recognition of research at NHH,’ says Bertil Tungodden. He is a professor and together with Professor Alexander W. Cappelen academic leader of the behavioural research group The Choice Lab, NHH.
Tungodden will be the academic leader of NHH’s new centre. A Centre of Excellence will on average receive 15 million in research grants a year.
Professor Erik Ø. Sørensen, CELE and The Choice Lab (NHH).
‘Our goal is to become an internationally leading research centre in inequality research. This funding is vital to our international success,’ says Tungodden.
150 applications
The competition for CoE status has been tough. The Research Council of Norway received 150 applications, which were narrowed down to ten centres following assessment by national and international researcher committees.
Aside from Tungodden, associate professor Ingvild Almås, and professors Alexander W Cappelen, Kjell G Salvanes (head of CELE) and Erik Ø Sørensen will be academic leaders. Professor Sandra E Black will also be one of the centre’s academic leaders.
Professor of empirical labor market economics, Kjell Gunnar Salvanes, says the following about the award:
‘This is very good news for NHH and research at NHH. Both of the research groups have prioritised high-quality research for a long time. Inequality is one of the most important topics of our time and a CoE will strengthen NHH’s contribution by uniting efforts in this field.
The centre will have three pillars, each of which will examine fundamental issues in the inequality debate:
What forms of inequality are considered unfair?
What are the driving forces behind unfair inequality?
What forms our view of justice?
‘I would like to congratulate the researchers with the award. They have done a fantastic job building up an environment that produces innovative research on fair distribution, inequality and people’s economic choices. Their research concerns us all, since economic growth without fair distribution is unsustainable,’ says NHH Rector Frøystein Gjesdal.
Centre of Excellence:
The SFF programme gives Norway’s best scientists the opportunity to organize their research in centres to reach ambitious scientific goals through collaboration and long-term basic funding
The research should be innovative and have major potential to generate ground-breaking results that advance the international research frontier.
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Harbor Tale (ハーバーテイル, 2011)
In an historical district, an English-speaker is likely to say “if these walls could talk. . .” in order to express one’s desire to have a glimpse into the people and events that once occurred in the same place that one is experiencing in the present day. The animator Yūichi Itō must have had such a thought one day in Yokohama – the city where he lives and teaches at Tokyo University of the Arts – while looking at one of the city’s famous red brick historical buildings. The most famous of these are the Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse (横浜赤レンガ倉庫), The Jack (one of the Yokohama Three Towers / 横浜三塔), and the Toda Peace Memorial.
In this mixed media stop motion / CG animation short Harbor Tale (ハーバーテイル, 2011), Itō anthropomorphises a red brick who has resided on the corner of a red brick building since the times when the clack of geta could be heard on the busy streets of Yokohama. The building is only a couple of blocks from the harbour and when the building was new the red brick recalls seeing a white sailboat coming into port.
The decades pass, streetcars come and go on the street in front of the building, and low-level neighbouring buildings are replaced by modern structures. The red brick pries himself out from the corner of his building and decides to explore the harbourfront. Passing ships – based on actual ships that frequent the port – transform into characters inspired by the contents or home ports of the ships. The red brick seems to envy these ships for their ability to travel and see the wonders of the world. After accidentally rescuing a seagull from a predatory fish, the seagull rescues the red brick back and flies him to safety – offering him a bird’s-eye view of the city that inspires his desire for adventure further. He also spots the sailboat he recalls from the past, docked in the harbour. Those familiar with Yokohama will recognise the ship as the Nippon Maru (日本), a sailing ship which is permanently docked in Nippon Maru Memorial Park as a historical museum.
One day, the red brick stumbles upon an ancient brick from a faraway land who tells him his story and warns him not to leave his home. The grizzly old mustachioed brick seems to suggest that the joy of the adventures are a sorry replacement for home. The old brick then crumbles into pieces. Undeterred, the red brick puts the old brick in the corner of the building and sets off for the Nippon Maru. This is the transition into an unexpected finale that shows off the marvellous possibilities of mixing clay animation with CG animation.
Letterboxing the central story of this animated short is a fascinating animation of the geography of the port of Yokohama. Flipping the map upside down (with north at the bottom), the outline of the city is made to resemble a face, with the port a mouth that swallows up ships like a whale consuming small fish. Upon first viewing, I didn’t quite get the significance of these sequences, but after viewing again and some reflection, I realised that with this ode to Yokohama the animator is expressing the view that when one lives in a harbour town, the world comes to you in all its wonder and variety.
Yūichi Itō (伊藤有壱, b. 1962) was born in Tokyo and in 1998 established his own animation studio I.TOON Ltd. He uses a variety of animation techniques but favours clay animation. He first came to my attention in 2005/6 when I saw his delightful animation series Knyacki! (ニャッキ！, 1995) about a little caterpillar on the NHK. In addition to his own animation projects, Itō teaches animation to graduate students at the Tokyo University of the Arts (Geidai). Harbor Tale won the Golden Slipper for best animated film at the 52nd Zlin Film Festival in the Czech Republic in 2012. It also made the Jury Selection at the 16th Japan Media Arts Festival.
Official website: http://harbortale.com//
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10 Times Liam Gallagher was totally Godlike
The 2018 recipient of the NME Godlike Genius award has a pretty divine CV.
Helen Meriel Thomas
Liam Gallagher is a solo artist, former Oasis frontman, potato hater, king of Twitter, and fucking Rock ‘n Roll star. As of now, he’s also NME’s Godlike Genius 2018.
Here’s the man himself, scrambling up a rock, sharing the news (bad language ahead ofc):
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/?bctid=5662357645001
Liam Gallagher is also the first ever cover star of NME Gold. Getcha self a copy.
To mark the accolade, Liam Gallagher will be headlining the VO5 NME Awards show on February 14 2018.
At 9am on Wednesday December 6, there will be an exclusive pre-sale on NME.com, including some pit access tickets for those who wanna look LG in the eye. Then, at 9am on Friday December 8, tickets will go on general sale. That’s one biblical Valentine’s. You can Get tickets to the VO5 NME Awards 2018 here and in the meantime Vote for the other VO5 NME Awards 2018 nominees.
Now we’ve explained all of that, let us celebrate all things LG by taking a look at his most Godlike moments. Let us know your favourites in the comments below.
1. When he recorded ‘Champagne Supernova’ in one perfect take
If anyone wants to argue that Liam can’t sing, show them this video. In an exclusive clip from the 2016 Oasis documentary, Supersonic, LG records the vocals for ‘Champagne Supernova’ in one flawless take. It’s the same spine-tingling version you hear on the record, but it’s in this totally isolated recording booth that you really see Gallagher’s effortless talent.
2. When he couldn’t accept a Brit Award without ripping into Blur
The year was 1996, and Chris Evans was presenting the Brits. Oasis won the award for Best Music Video for ‘Wonderwall’, and the boys were more than happy to jump onstage and accept the accolade. But not before they’d had a go at their arch-rivals, Blur.
“I’d like to thank all the fans, all the people who make us what we are,” said Liam, before launching into song.
“All the people, so many people/And they all walk hand in hand, hand in hand through their shite life.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH49DyHanrg
When Evans came onstage to wrap things up, Liam got a bit upset.
“Surely this place can send up more than fucking Ginger Bollocks to throw us off the stage. A ginger bloke cannot throw Oasis off the stage,” he said, before pretending to put the award up his bum. Not yet known if he plans to do the same with the Godlike Genius middle finger statue next Feb.
Got an Oasis fan in the office? Bag them this punny ‘Tea Here Now’ mug for the Secret Santa
3. When Oasis headlined Glastonbury 1995 and Liam performed his best ever ‘Slide Away’ with a tambourine around his neck
Oasis headlined Glasto in 1995. That’s the year I was born, so I couldn’t make it, but I hear it was very good:
4. When he dealt with a break-up by getting wasted and ranting onstage at Wembley Stadium
Everyone loves getting wasted after a breakup, even Godlike Geniuses. As he told NME’s Tom Howard back in August, “going to do a gig after you’ve just got divorced [from Patsy Kensit]; no matter what, even if you work at Pret A Manger, you’d still kick off wouldn’t you. You’d be like that, ‘Here’s your chicken salad, you cunt.’”
Weirdly though, the ranting is remarkably defiant. “I ain’t no dickhead, man. I’m a rockstar,” he declares. As you were, Patsy.
5. When he went back home to play the One Love Manchester concert and united the nation in solidarity
Liam Gallagher really loves ripping into Chris Martin. In 2006 he said he looked like a “geography teacher”. In 2016, he compared him to a vicar and said he looked like he was starring in The Tweenies. But he buried the hatchet when it mattered. After the devastating terrorist attack on an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena in May, Gallagher headed back home to play ‘Live Forever’ with Coldplay. Two less alike rockstars are hard to imagine, but together they united the nation in solidarity and hope.
6. When he criticised Gordon Ramsay’s cooking (and haircut)
Liam Gallagher takes no prisoners, especially when they criticise his Ramones/Dougal from The Magic Roundabout bowl haircut. Celebrity chefs are no exception.
“[Ex-wife] Nicole says she cut it with a frying pan,” Gordon Ramsay quipped to Gallagher when he appeared on Ramsay’s television show, The F Word.
“Fuck off. Look at yours! You look like you’ve been electrocuted, ya fucker,” Liam replied.
Liam also made clear he was unimpressed with Ramsay’s cooking skills.
“Your fucking sweet potato’s bobbins man, because my missus does better than that,” he said of the plate.
Other choice quotes from the fiery interview include Liam saying that, if Noel were to join him in the kitchen, “I reckon his head would be firmly pressed against one of them hot things.” Please remove all sharp objects from the 2049 Oasis reunion.
7. When he perfectly summed up the issues with the modern music industry by making an angry cup of tea
It started when he was making a cup of tea backstage. What ensued was one of the best descriptions of music industry injustice ever recorded:
“Now, in the ‘90s, I got someone else to fucking do it. But now money’s too tight to mention, gotta do it yourself entcha? No one buys records these days. In the ‘90s I had about four people doing it. Little geezer doing the kettle, RKid, some other little fucker doing that, and some other fucking idiot doing that.”
“They wonder why there’s no real rockstars around, and it’s because this is the shit they’ve got us doing,” he continued. “Fuckers.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckUKrUqEesc
8. When he schooled everyone on how to do Twitter, repeatedly.
Whether making totally non-threatening demands that his parkas are returned, or simply announcing: “PUB”, Liam’s Twitter skills put even the most skilled social media gurus to shame. Signing each one off with a simple “As you were LG x”, Twitter captures those rare moments of affection from the Godlike Genius. Of course, it’s also where he most rips into brother Noel, famously the place of origin for his “potato” attack.
Pouting Potato LG x pic.twitter.com/K8y3AOFeYQ
— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) June 29, 2016
Im looking for somebody to peel some spuds live on stage tnight at this gig in Bethnal Green must have own peeler as you were LG x
— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) November 7, 2017
Also, this:
I've just been told I can't buy cigs unless I got ID im 4FUKIN4 has the world gone mad
— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) July 29, 2017
9. When he played Maine Road, in an Umbro tracksuit
Long before the days of the Etihad, Manchester City FC was based at Maine Road stadium. Lifetime City fans, the Gallaghers made Maine Road their first stadium gig. Their Knebworth announcement came a week later, in the NME. An iconic moment for Oasis and City fans alike.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTem8y6gAYQ
See the story of Maine Road in pictures here
10. Throughout the whole of Knebworth
They’re considered the greatest Oasis gigs of all time, but you should make your own mind up by watching this incredible ‘Champagne Supernova’ clip. Heeeeeere’s Johnny!:
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A company that offers sex doll rentals will open in Langley on Friday. (Natrl–Facebook)
Sex doll rental company takes up residence in Langley
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A sex doll rental service that started in Calgary is opening a second location in Langley on Friday.
Randy Wiggins, one of three partners in Natrl, said the service is quite popular in Japan and is growing in Europe.
“We rent to some men who are painfully shy. They are very introverted. It’s difficult for them to meet women,” he said.
There is no storefront for the rental service. Everything is completed online. The company organizes pick-up and delivery.
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“You can book it online, pay online,” he said. “Everything is done very discreet. There’s an actual box that you can fill out for any specific instructions you want with the delivery.”
The life-size dolls can be booked for two hours at a rate of $189, or overnight for $289.
People choose the doll they want to rent based on information on the website. The doll Minnie is described as a “petite,” 22-year-old from Vietnam, who entertains foreign tourists who visit the red-light district. Others include, Anastasia, a blonde from Russian; Lara, a retired veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan; and a fantasy doll, Bella with pointy elf-like ears. For those interested in a male doll, there’s Cameron. The company plans to add more dolls in the near future.
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The dolls are made from a material called thermoplastic elastomer (TPE), according to the company’s website. The material “has many properties in common with skin.”
“Things are going well in Calgary. We launched there in November. We always had expansion plans. We were always going to grow it,” he explained.
Once a doll is returned after a booking, it is taken through a “rigorous multi-stage cleaning process, completed by trained and certified employees,” according to the company’s website.
An antibacterial soap and hydrogen peroxide are used on the interior and exterior of the doll. Afterwards the doll is examined with a black light and an ultraviolet light.
Wiggins will be running the Langley-based operation, while his son along with their other partner will continue in Calgary.
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“We’ve also rented dolls in Calgary to people who have [a disability],” he said. “We rented a doll out to a [man] who had a stroke, so he’s got some limited mobility. He found that with the doll it helps his confidence.”
It is mostly men who use the rental service, but Wiggins said there have been some women and couples as well.
The age of those who have rented from Natrl range from 21 to 70.
“The demographics have surprised me,” he said.
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NATO urged to step up response to Arctic security challenges
Bucharest, 7 October 2017 – NATO needs to step up its response to a fast-changing security situation in the Arctic, according to a report approved Saturday by lawmakers from across the Alliance.
Action should include more military exercises in the region and the formation of an “Arctic task force” at Alliance headquarters to assess emerging challenges in the High North, according to the report presented at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s annual session in Bucharest.
“More than ever since the Cold War, the Arctic is a region of strategic importance to the Alliance, a trend reinforced by climate change as a ‘threat multiplier’,” cautioned US Congressman Gerald E. Connolly, who drafted the report.
Connolly recalled that the Arctic has been an area of cooperation among NATO allies and Russia, despite tensions elsewhere. However, he said, climate change had the potential to raise tensions as it increases competition for previously ice-bound natural resources and sea routes.
“There are clouds gathering at the horizon and we don’t know what impact they will have,” Connolly said ahead of a vote to approve his report in the NATO PA’s Political Committee. “Climate change has the potential to be a game-changer in the region - with perhaps profound strategic implications.”
The wider security implications of global warming were taken up in the NATO PA’s Economic and Security Committee. Icelandic lawmaker Lilja Alfredsdottir, said climate change was increasing the incidence of natural disasters, creating new security risks.
“Flooding and similar climate-induced events, which can trigger mass migration, are the kind of human security challenges that can quickly become transnational security issues,” she warned.
Her report, adopted by the committee, said greater investment in alternative energies would boost national economies and improve security by reducing the impact of climate change and lessening the dependency of allied nations on imported fuel.
“These technologies will be cleaner and make our societies less dependent on importing energy from unstable regions or from countries with interests that are often at odds with our own,” Alfredsdottir said. “In short, coping with the problem of climate change does not run up against our strategic interests. It actually supports those strategic interests.”
Prof. Andreas Goldthau, of London’s Royal Holloway University of London, highlighted another possible climate change impact with security implications – the risk of collapse in countries currently dependent on oil, gas or coal if the world follows through on commitments to transition to a low-carbon economy.
“Those countries, particularly in the Gulf but also countries like Nigeria and maybe even Angola, might actually face a double whammy,” Goldthau said. “Over the next 15 or 20 years a large chunk of their reserves will become stranded assets, you can’t invest in them anymore, the national treasure will become worthless.”
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miR-4521-FAM129A axial regulation on ccRCC progression through TIMP-1/MMP2/MMP9 and MDM2/p53/Bcl2/Bax pathways
Xue Feng1 na1,
Naimeng Yan2 na1,
Weibin Sun3,
Shanliang Zheng1,
Sixiong Jiang3,
Jinxia Wang1,
Chunmei Guo1,
Lihong Hao4,
Yuxiang Tian2,
Shuqing Liu2 &
Ming-Zhong Sun1
Cell Death Discovery volume 5, Article number: 89 (2019) Cite this article
Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is the most aggressive RCC subtype with high metastasis, chemotherapy and radiotherapy resistance, and poor prognosis. This study attempted to establish the deregulations of miR-4521 and FAM129A together with their correlation to and mechanism of regulation of ccRCC development and progression. FAM129A acted as tumor promotor and miR-4521 acted as a suppressor in ccRCC. As measured in surgical tumorous tissues from ccRCC patients, FAM129A overexpression and miR-4521 deficiency together contributed to ccRCC progression by promoting advances in patients’ TNM stage and Fuhrman grade. Both the FAM129A knockdown and miR-4521 overexpression could reduce the in vitro migration and invasion abilities of renal cancer cells 786-O and ACHN, through the TIMP-1/MMP2/MMP9 pathway and could decrease their proliferation by promoting their apoptosis through the MDM2/p53/Bcl2/Bax pathway. By directly targeting the 3′-UTR domain of FAM129A, miR-4521 was negatively correlated with FAM129A/FAM129A levels in ccRCC progression and renal cancer cell malignancies. This work establishes the miR-4521-FAM129A axial regulation mechanism in ccRCC. Micro-4521 deficiency leads to FAM129A/FAM129A upregulation, which synergistically enhances the migration and invasion of renal cancer cells due to the induced decrease of TIMP-1 and increases of MMP2 and MMP9, and increases their growth through escaping apoptosis by suppressing p53 by way of upregulation of induced MDM2. The current work provides new clues to assist fundamental research into the diagnosis and treatment of ccRCC.
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) comprises up to 85% of kidney cancer cases1. As one of the most common malignant urological tumors, RCC is characterized by a high mortality-to-incidence ratio and poor prognosis for late-stage patients2,3,4. Clear cell RCC (ccRCC), accounting for ~80% of RCCs, is the most aggressive RCC subtype. Accompanied by extremely high rates of local invasion, metastasis, and resistances to chemotherapy and radiotherapy, the 5-year survival rate of the over 30% of ccRCC patients with metastasis was below 20%5,6,7. The pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of ccRCC deserves more attention.
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play important roles in the pathogenesis, development and prognosis of various major diseases by degrading mRNA or by inhibiting the translation processes of target genes by binding their 3′UTRs8,9,10,11,12. As a member of tRNA-derived small RNAs (tsRNAs), miR-4521 is involved in breast cancer, chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), lung cancer, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) and esophageal adenocarcinoma12,13,14,15. Its deregulation in MCF-7 cells is accompanied by hypoxic hypoxia induction13 and in enhanced malignancy of CLL and lung cancer14. It was one of 11 joint miRNAs implicated in the prognosis of PDAC patients with pancreaticoduodenectomy12. A higher miR-4521/miR-340-5p ratio was implicated in better disease-free survival of esophageal adenocarcinoma patients with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy and esophagectomy15. Except for the finding that miR-4521 was downregulated in the sunitinib-resistant ACHN and RCC23 cell lines, SR-ACHN and SR-RCC2316, no study has addressed its role or regulation mechanism in ccRCC. In this study miR-4521 acted as a tumor suppresser in ccRCC. Its deficiency negatively correlated with FAM129A upregulation and prompted clinical development and progression of ccRCC. It mediated ccRCC carcinogenesis by affecting cancer cells’ malignant invasiveness via the TIMP-1/MMP2/MMP9 and MDM2/p53/Bcl2/Bax pathways.
The member A of family with sequence similarity 129 (FAM129A), also known as Niban, was originally identified in Eker rats with hereditary renal carcinoma induced by tuberous sclerosis 2 gene mutation (Tsc2)17. It is commonly overexpressed in patients with thyroid cancer18,19,20, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC)21 and sporadic renal carcinomas22. Although highly expressed in early stages of cancer development and remaining overexpressed throughout cancer progression, its function and mechanism of action remain unclear. FAM129A was detected in sporadic RCCs including clear cell, granular cell and spindle cell carcinomas. Its common expression might be an indicator for renal carcinogenesis17,22. FAM129A has been linked to renal interstitial fibrosis by increasing renal tubular cell apoptosis23; however, its function and mechanism in ccRCC remain unclear.
Current work shows FAM129A is a promotor and miR-4521 is a suppressor in ccRCC. FAM129A overexpression positively correlates with advances in TNM stage and Fuhrman grade of ccRCC patients. miR-4521 deficiency contributed to enhanced TNM stage and Fuhrman grade of ccRCC. FAM129A knockdown, miR-4521 overexpression with its induced FAM129A downregulation decreased the proliferation, migration and invasion, and increased the apoptosis of renal carcinoma cells through the TIMP-1/MMP2/MMP9 and MDM2/p53/Bcl2/Bax pathways.
miR-4521 deficiency links to advances in TNM stage and Fuhrman grade of ccRCC
miR-4521 expression was decreased in patients’ tumorous tissues (Fig. 1a). Compared with paired paracancerous nontumor tissues, miR-4521 levels in tumorous tissues from 55 ccRCC patients decreased by 32.2% (P < 0.0001, Fig. 1b). Among patients’ clinicopathological parameters, miR-4521 deficiency was associated with patients’ TNM stage (Fig. 1c, P = 0.017) and Fuhrman grade (Fig. 1d, P = 0.029, Table 1), but was unrelated to patients’ age (P = 0.077), gender (P = 0.094) and tumor location (kidney size, P = 0.195, Table 1). Compared with T1 patients, miR-4521 levels in tumorous tissues from ccRCC patients in T2 and T3-4 decreased by 5.7% and 30.2%, respectively (Fig. 1c, Table 1, P = 0.017). Compared with Fuhrman I-II patients, miR-4521 decreased 37.2% in tumorous tissues from Fuhrman III-IV patients (Fig. 1d, Table 1, P = 0.029). miR-4521 deficiency contributes to ccRCC development and progression.
Fig. 1: Expression of miR-4521 in ccRCC surgical tumorous tissues and its link with TNM stage and Fuhrman grade of patients.
a miR-4521 expression levels were significantly downregulated in ccRCC cancer tissues compared with paracancerous nontumor renal tissues. b The downregulation efficiency of miR-4521 in tissue samples is shown. Correlations between miR-4521 expression level and the TNM stage (c) and Fuhrman grades (d) of ccRCC are shown, respectively. ccRCC clear cell renal cell carcinoma. *P < 0.05, ****0.0001
Table 1 Clinical association of miR-4521 and FAM129A level changes with ccRCC
FAM129A upregulation enhances advances in ccRCC TNM stage and Fuhrman grade
At the mRNA level (Fig. 2a), compared with paracancerous nontumor renal tissues, FAM129A levels in tumorous tissues increased by 231.5% (P < 0.0001, Fig. 2b). FAM129A upregulation positively correlated with advances in TNM stage (Fig. 2c) and Fuhrman grade (Fig. 2d) (Table 1). FAM129A levels in ccRCC patients with T2 and T3-4 stages increased by 12.1% and 157.9% more than T1 patients (Fig. 2c, Table 1, P = 0.007). Compared with Fuhrman grade I-II patients, FAM129A increased by 78.6% for Fuhrman grade III-IV patients (Fig. 2d, Table 1, P = 0.041).
Fig. 2: Expression of FAM129A in ccRCC patients’ tumorous tissues and associated with TNM stage and Fuhrman grade.
a Upregulation of FAM129A mRNA levels in ccRCC cancer tissues; normal tissues served as controls. b The upregulation efficiency of FAM129A in tissue samples. c, d Correlations between the FAM129A mRNA expression level and the TNM stage and Fuhrman grades of ccRCC. e Representative images of FAM129A IHC in ccRCC cancer tissues and normal tissues. f, g Western blots of FAM129A showed alterations in protein levels consistent with variations in mRNA levels in clinical samples. h Protein expression of FAM129A is high compared with normal tissues. Correlations between FAM129A protein levels and the TNM stage (i) and Fuhrman grades (j) of ccRCC are shown. ccRCC clear cell renal cell carcinoma, IHC immunohistochemistry. *P values < 0.05, **0.01, ****0.0001
IHC showed FAM129A is predominantly localized in the cytoplasm (Fig. 2e). Out of 30 ccRCC patients’ samples, 0, 2, 10 and 18 tumorous tissues and 21, 6, 2 and 1 paracancerous tissues showed the immunoreactivities of −, +, ++ and +++. FAM129A was 70% (P = 0.0001) higher in tumorous tissues. FAM129A-positive detection rates of tumorous tissues with ++ and +++ were 5 (10/2) and 18 (18/1) fold of those of nontumor tissues. Its upregulation was associated with patients’ TNM stage (P = 0.015) and showed a high correlation with patients’ Fuhrman grade (P = 0.170, Table 2). WB results (Fig. 2f) showed, compared with paired paracancerous tissues, FAM129A was upregulated in 31 cases, unchanged in 3 cases, and decreased in 3 cases of the 37 available from 55 patients’ tumorous tissues (Fig. 2g). FAM129A global levels increased by 214.7% (Fig. 2h, P < 0.0001) in tumorous tissues. Its protein upregulation was linked to advances in TNM stage (Fig. 2i, P = 0.024) and Fuhrman grade (Fig. 2j, P = 0.028). FAM129A/FAM129A overexpression contributes to ccRCC development and progression.
Table 2 IHC assay of clinical association of FAM129A level change with ccRCC
miR-4521 negatively correlates with FAM129A in ccRCC tumorous tissues
FAM129A mRNA upregulation was detected in most cases (45/55) where patients’ tumorous tissues were accompanied by miR-4521 downexpression (Fig. 3a). Its upregulation inversely correlated with miR-4521 downregulation (P = 0.0006, Fig. 3b). Consistent with this, FAM129A protein upregulation (Fig. 2f) also inversely correlated with miR-4521 downregulation (P = 0.020, Fig. 3c). Hence, the correlation and regulation mechanism between FAM129A and miR-4521 was investigated and established.
Fig. 3: miR-4521 deficiency is negatively correlated with FAM129A upregulation in clinical tumorous tissues of ccRCC patients.
a 45 cases in 55 samples showed high mRNA expression of FAM129A when miR-4521 expression was low. Inverse correlations of FAM129A mRNA (b) and protein (c) levels with miR-4521 levels in ccRCC tissue are shown. ccRCC clear cell renal cell carcinoma
miR-4521 downregulates and FAM129A overexpresses in RCC cells
Compared with HK-2, a human proximal tubule epithelial cell line, miR-4521 reduced by ~82.4% (P < 0.0001) and 56.9% (P = 0.0001, Fig. 4a) and FAM129A increased by ~48.1% (P = 0.0041) and 103.3% (P < 0.0001, Fig. 4a) in RCC cell lines 786-O and ACHN. Their inversely correlated (P = 0.005) expressions showed the same trend as patients’ specimens. Thus 786-O and ACHN are appropriate cell models for investigating the function and regulation mechanism of miR-4521 and FAM129A in ccRCC.
Fig. 4: miR-4521 downexpression accompanied with FAM129A overexpression in RCC cell lines through binding with the latter’s 3′-UTR domain.
a miR-4521 and FAM129A expressions in RCC cell lines (786-O and ACHN) compared with that in HK-2. b Sequence alignment of the FAM129A 3′UTR with wild-type (WT) versus mutant (MUT) potential miR-4521 targeting sites. c Dual-luciferase reporter assays showed decreased reporter activity after transfection of the wild-type FAM129A 3′UTR reporter construct in 786-O cells overexpressing miR-4521. The FAM129A 3′UTR MUT and control constructs showed no effect on reporter activity. d Alteration of the miR-4521 expression levels of 786-O and ACHN cells 24 h after transfection with the miR-4521 mimics or NC mimics. mRNA (e) and protein (f) levels of FAM129A were examined by qRT-PCR and Western in 786-O and ACHN cells that were transfected with miR-4521/NC mimics. *P values < 0.05, **0.01, ***0.001, ****0.0001
miRDB (http://mirdb.org/miRDB) and TargetScan (http://www.targetscan.org) showed the sequence AGGAAUC of miR-4521 (Fig. 4b) complementarily binds with UCCUUAG (Fig. 4b) at sites 3232−3238 of FAM129A. Dual-luciferase reporter assays combined with site mutation confirmed their direct targeting in 786-O cells. The plasmids of the 211 bp fragment of FAM129A 3′UTR containing wild-type (WT) and mutant (MUT, UCCUUAG mutated to CGCACAC) sequences were inserted into a psiCHECK™2.0 plasmid, named as wt-FAM129A-3′UTR and mut-FAM129A-3′UTR (Fig. 4b). The recombinant plasmids were then cotransfected into 786‐O with miR-4521 mimic and NC mimic. Compared with the NC group, luciferase activity decreased by 38.3 ± 6.9% (P = 0.0015) in 786-O cells cotransfected with wt-FAM129A-3′UTR and miR-4521 mimic, while luciferase activity did not change in 786-O cells cotransfected with mut-FAM129A-3′UTR and miR-4521 mimic (P = 0.3122, Fig. 4c). FAM129A is a direct downstream target of miR-4521.
miR-4521 deregulation affected FAM129A expression. Compared with NC cells, miR-4521 increased 1820- (P = 0.01) and 920-fold (P = 0.0005, Fig. 4d) in miR-4521-mimic-transfected 786-O and ACHN cells. FAM129A mRNA levels decreased by 41.5% (P = 0.003) and 30.8% (P = 0.005, Fig. 4e) and FAM129A protein levels decreased by 36.2% (P = 0.01) and 37.6% (P = 0.002, Fig. 4f). miR4521 retroregulates FAM129A. Its suppression contributes to elevated FAM129A in enhanced RCC malignancy.
FAM129A knockdown reduces in vitro malignant properties of 786-O and ACHN
Compared with the irrelevant siRNA (si-NC)-transfected cells, the mRNA and protein levels of FAM129A decreased by 37.6% (P = 0.0145) and 53.8% (P = 0.003, Fig. 5a), and by 51.0% (P = 0.001) and 47.7% (P = 0.0023, Fig. 5b) in si-FAM129A-transfected 786-O and ACHN cells. FAM129A knockdown reduced their proliferation, migration and invasion capacities, and enhanced their apoptosis (Fig. 5).
Fig. 5: FAM129A knockdown reduces the in vitro malignant behaviors of 786-O and ACHN cells.
mRNA (a) and protein (b) levels of FAM129A were examined by qRT-PCR and western blot in 786-O and ACHN cells that were transfected with si-NC /si-FAM129A. MTT assays revealed that transfection of the siRNA of FAM129A can remarkably attenuate the proliferation of 786-O (c) and ACHN (d) cells compared with siNC. Representative photographs are shown of transwell assays of 786-O (e) and ACHN (f) cells identifying FAM129A as oncogenic. g Flow cytometry was performed to reveal that FAM129A downregulation largely induces the cell apoptosis of 786-O and ACHN cells. Each experiment was performed in triplicate. *P < 0.05; **P < 0.01; ***P < 0.001; ****P < 0.0001
The proliferation rates of si-FAM129A-transfected 786-O and ACHN decreased by 19.0% (P = 0.008) and 12.6% (P = 0.01, Fig. 5c) at 96 h, and by 22.2% (P = 0.0001) and 18.7% (P = 0.0006, Fig. 5d) at 120 h. Compared with si-NC-transfected cells, the migration and invasion capacities of si-FAM129A-transfected 786-O were reduced by 48.8% (P = 0.0001) and 51.7% (P < 0.0001, Fig. 5e), and si-FAM129A-transfected ACHN were decreased by 46.2% (P = 0.0055) and 45.1% (P < 0.0001, Fig. 5f). Compared with the apoptotic percentages of si-NC-transfected cells, the apoptotic percentages of si-FAM129A-transfected 786-O and ACHN increased by 42.5% (P = 0.004) and 59.5% (P = 0.04) to 15.3 ± 0.5% and 20.5 ± 0.4%, respectively (Fig. 5g). The fact that FAM129A knockdown antagonized malignant behaviors of RCC cells supported its overexpression in ccRCC clinical progression.
miR-4521 overexpression decreases in vitro malignant properties of 786-O and ACHN via downregulating FAM129A
miR-4521 overexpression retroregulated FAM129A, which synergically decreased the malignant properties of 786-O and ACHN cells. First, miR-4521 overexpression reduced their proliferation. Compared with the NC group cells, the proliferation of miR-4521-mimic-transfected 786-O decreased by 28.8% (P = 0.005) and 32.1% (P = 0.0001, Fig. 6a) at 96 and 120 h, respectively and the proliferation of miR-4521-transfected ACHN decreased by 34.3% (P = 0.02), 37.4% (P = 0.0001) and 28.7% (P = 0.0001) at 72, 96 and 120 h, respectively (Fig. 6b). Second, miR-4521 overexpression decreased cellular migration and invasion. The migration and invasion abilities of 786-O and ACHN cells decreased by 50.0% (P = 0.0007) and 58.6% (P = 0.008, Fig. 6c), and by 47.0% (P = 0.0001) and 46.2% (P = 0.0001, Fig. 6d), respectively. Moreover, miR-4521 overexpression enhanced cellular apoptosis. Compared with the NC-mimic-transfected group cells, the apoptotic percentages of miR-4521-mimic-transfected 786-O and ACHN reached 18.2 ± 0.8% and 20.9 ± 0.8% increasing by 48.9% (P = 0.008) and 62.7% (P = 0.005, Fig. 6e) following miR-4521 overexpression.
Fig. 6: The influence of miR-4521 overexpression in vitro malignant properties of 786-O and ACHN cells.
MTT assays showed that transfection of the miR-4521 mimic can significantly attenuate the proliferation velocity of 786-O (a) and ACHN (b) cells. Representative photographs are shown of migration and invasion assays of 786-O (c) and ACHN (d) cells to determine the tumor suppressor function of miR-4521. e Flow cytometry was performed to reveal that the miR-4521 mimic induced the cell apoptosis of 786-O and ACHN cells. *P values < 0.05, **0.01, ***0.001, ****0.0001
FAM129A mediates 786-O malignant behaviors via TIMP-1/MMP2/MMP9 and MDM2/p53/Bcl2/Bax
Changes in TIMP-1, MMP2, MMP9, MDM2, p53, Bcl2 and Bax levels in 786-O cells following FAM129A knockdown were determined by WB. Compared with si-NC-transfected cells, MMP2, MMP9, MDM2 and Bcl2 levels decreased by 42.4% (P = 0.004), 49.2% (P = 0.02), 53.1% (P = 0.04) and 45% (P = 0.03), and TIMP-1, p53 and Bax levels increased by 45.3% (P = 0.04), 81.1% (P = 0.03) and 37.8% (P = 0.04) in si-FAM129A-transfected 786-O cells (Fig. 7a). FAM129A influences 786-O malignancy via TIMP-1/MMP2/MMP9 and MDM2/p53/Bcl2/Bax.
Fig. 7: FAM129A and miR-4521 mediate the malignant behaviors of via TIMP-1/MMP2/MMP9 and MDM2/p53/Bcl2/Bax pathways in 786-O cells.
The protein levels of FAM129A, TIMP-1, MMP2, MMP9, MDM2, p53, Bcl2 and Bax were examined using western blot analysis in 786-O cells treated with si-NC /si-FAM129A (a) or NC mimic/miR-4521 mimic (b). GAPDH was used as an internal control. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01
miR-4521 deregulation mediates 786-O malignant behaviors via TIMP-1/MMP2/MMP9 and MDM2/p53/Bcl2/Bax
miR-4521 overexpression reduced FAM129A expression and malignant properties of 786-O and ACHN cells. Its deregulation should be associated with TIMP-1/MMP2/MMP9 and MDM2/p53/Bcl2/Bax, opposite to the trend induced by the FAM129A change. Compared with the NC group cells, WB results (Fig. 7b) indicated MMP2, MMP9, MDM2 and Bcl2 levels in miR-4521-mimic-transfected 786-O decreased by 55.1% (P = 0.006),72.5% (P = 0.03), 40.2% (P = 0.01) and 50.9%, respectively (P = 0.01), and TIMP-1, p53 and Bax levels increased by 68.4% (P = 0.04), 60.6% (P = 0.03) and 39.5%, respectively (P = 0.04). miR-4521 mediates RCC malignancy through direct interaction with FAM129A via TIMP-1/MMP2/MMP9 and MDM2/p53/Bcl2/Bax.
As the highest mortality urological malignancy24,25, ccRCC accounts for ~80% of RCC incidence4. The prognosis for cases of advanced ccRCC is poor26. A 5-year survival rate of the over 30% of patients with metastatic ccRCC is below 20%5,6. Better understanding on the pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of ccRCC7 is urgently needed.
Binding to 3′UTR regions of targeting genes, miRNAs cause degradation of mRNA or inhibit their translation processes. miRNAs play important roles in a variety of human major diseases including cancer9,10,11,12. miR-4521 dysexpression is involved in some cancers. Its deficiency is a contributing factor in the development and progression of CLL and lung cancer14. It was one of 11 miRNAs found to be prognostic indicators for PDAC patients12. The miR-4521/miR-340-5p ratio was regarded as a prediction factor for disease-free survival of esophageal adenocarcinoma patients15. miR-4521 has been linked to drug-resistance of RCC cells. In sunitinib-resistant ACHN and RCC23 cell lines, its expression level decreased16. Some miRNAs were reported as sensitive and specific indicators for the pathologic stage, recurrence, metastasis and survival of ccRCC patients27. The role and mechanism of action of miR-4521 in ccRCC has not been reported.
Our current work shows miR-4521 is a suppressor in ccRCC progression, interacting with FAM129A via the TIMP-1/MMP2/MMP9 and MDM2/p53/Bcl2/Bax pathways. miR-4521 downregulation was inversely correlated with the TNM stage and Fuhrman grade (Fig. 1, Table 1) of ccRCC patients. miR-4521 was also downexpressed in RCC cell lines 786-O and ACHN compared with HK-2 cells (Fig. 4a). 786-O and ACHN are appropriate cell models for studying the role and cellular regulation mechanism of miR-4521 in ccRCC malignancy. Since it is downregulated in both ccRCC patients’ tumorous tissues and renal cancer cells, its overexpression should antagonize the malignant behaviors of cancer cells. miR-4521 upregulation (Fig. 4d) resulted in significant reduced in vitro proliferation, migration and invasion capacities of 786-O (Fig. 6a, c) and ACHN cells (Fig. 6b, d). miR-4521 overexpression might affect 786-O and ACHN growths by promoting their apoptosis. The apoptotic rates of miR-4521 overexpressing 786-O and ACHN cells increased by 48.9% and 62.7% (Fig. 6e). This demonstrates that miR-4521 downexpression increases malignant properties of RCC cells, which might contribute to enhanced development and progression of ccRCC patients. This work also showed miR-4521 level was negatively correlated with FAM129A level in ccRCC progression.
FAM129A (Niban or Clorf24) is liked to thyroid cancer20, HNSCC21 and sporadic renal carcinomas22, acting in all as a tumor promoter. FAM129A, ITM1 and PVALB were the three earliest genes used for distinguishing benign thyroid nodules from malignant ones18,19,20. FAM129A was absent in specimens from normal thyroid, benign follicular thyroid adenoma and thyroid hyperplasia, but was present and upregulated in papillary thyroid carcinoma and follicular thyroid carcinoma20 tissues. It was consistently found to be more highly expressed in FTC cell lines FTC133, FTC236, FTC238 and WRO, and in the TPC cell line, TPC1, in comparison with a normal thyroid cell line, PCCL320. FAM129A knockdown antagonized the in vitro proliferation, migration and invasion capacities of WRO and TPC1. FAM129 upregulation promoted the carcinogenic process of HNSCC and head and neck dysplastic lesions. Compared with its absence in normal HNS epithelia, IHC assays indicated that FAM129A was positively detected in 42 out of 43 HNSCCs (97.6%) and 20 of 30 (66.6%) dysplastic lesions. FAM129A expression frequently began at HNSCC early stages and continued to be upregulated throughout the carcinogenesis21. FAM129A expression was detected in Tsc1 and Tsc2 knockout mice, in sporadic human RCC including clear cell carcinomas, granular cell carcinomas and spindle cell carcinomas. Its common expression might be a marker for renal carcinogenesis17,22. We propose that FAM129A acts in renal carcinoma by influencing tumor cell apoptosis based on its involvement in renal interstitial fibrosis via promoting renal tubular cells apoptosis23. This work revealed FAM129A as a promotor for ccRCC malignancy. FAM129A upregulation (Fig. 2a, b) was positively correlated with advances in TNM stage (Fig. 2c, Table 1) and Fuhrman grade (Fig. 2d, Table 1) of ccRCC patients. Both IHC and WB assays indicated FAM129A protein expression level was increased in patients’ tumorous tissues (Fig. 2e, f, Table 2). The positive immunoreactivity against FAM129A was 70% higher, the positive detection rates of FAM129A with ++ and +++ degrees were 4-fold and 17-fold higher (Table 2), and the overall level determined by WB was 214.7% higher (Fig. 2g, h, Table 2) in patients’ tumorous tissues than in nontumorous tissues. Both IHC and WB assays indicated that FAM129A upregulation was positively correlated with TNM advance (Fig. 2i) and tended to be associated with Fuhrman grade advance (Tables 1 and 2) among patient’s clinicopathological parameters. FAM129A was consistently more highly expressed in renal cancer cells, 786-O and ACHN, than in the normal renal cell, HK-2 (Fig. 4a). Consequently, FAM129A knockdown (Fig. 5a, b) resulted in ameliorated proliferation (Fig. 5c, d), migration and invasion (Fig. 5e, f) capacities of 786-O and ACHN cells. Its downregulation led to increased apoptosis rates of 786-O and ACHN (Fig. 5g), which decreased their growth velocity. FAM129A upregulation aggravates renal carcinoma cell malignancy by promoting ccRCC progression.
miR-4521 deficiency was both inversely correlated with upregulations of FAM129A mRNA and with protein (Fig. 3b, P = 0.0006; Fig. 3c, P = 0.020) in ccRCC patients’ tumorous specimens. miR-4521 reduction and FAM129A increase in 786-O and ACHN cells than HK-2 cells were also inversely associated (Fig. 4a). Bioinformatic analysis showed the site AGGAAUC of miR-4521 could bind with the site UCCUUAG (3232–3238) in 3′-UTR of FAM129A (Fig. 4b). Their direct interaction was validated by a dual-luciferase reporter assay combined with a mutation of the binding site UCCUUAG for FAM129A to CGCACAC (Fig. 4c). miR-4521 overexpressions in 786-O and ACHN (Fig. 4d) decreased FAM129A expressions at mRNA (Fig. 4e) and protein (Fig. 4f) levels. As an upstream direct-regulating molecule, miR-4521 retroregulates the expression and functionality of FAM129A. Its suppression is closely related to FAM129A upregulation, which might synergically enhance ccRCC cell’s malignancy and patient’s progression.
Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) play important roles in tumor cell proliferation, apoptosis, invasion and metastasis. We investigated changes in the levels of MMP2 and MMP9, two key metalloproteinases, and TIMP1, a key tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase that regulates most MMPs28,29, by following changes in the levels of FAM129A and miR-4521 in RCC cell lines. TIMP-1 was upregulated by 45.3%, and MMP2 and MMP9 were downregulated by 42.4% and 49.2%, respectively, in 786-O cells following FAM129A knockdown (Fig. 7a). These also implicated, acting as a promotor, the upregulation of FAM129A promoted ccRCC progression through enhancing MMP2 and MMP9 activation by suppressing TIMP-1. On the basis of its direct binding to and inverse correlation with FAM129A, we propose miR-4521 should also affect renal cancer cell proliferation, migration and invasion via the above-mentioned molecules. We tried to overexpress and downexpress miR-4521 by mimic transfection and inhibitor transfection in 786-O and ACHN but were unsuccessful. Only miR-4521 overexpression succeeded (Fig. 4d). Its overexpression induced FAM129A downregulation (Figs. 4e, f and 7b), TIMP-1 increased by 68.4%, and MMP2 and MMP9 decreased by 55.1% and 72.5%, respectively (Fig. 7b). As shown in Fig. 8, the above results indicate FAM129A upregulation and/or miR-4521 deficiency contributed FAM129A upregulation affects ccRCC malignancy via the TIMP-1/MMP2/MMP pathway. Interestingly, although FAM129A was more reduced in si-FAM129A-transfected 786-O and ACHN cells (Figs. 4f, 5a, b and 7), more reductions on the invasion and slightly higher reductions on the migration capacities were observed in miR-4521-overexpressing 786-O and ACHN cells (Figs. 5e, f and 6c, d), which was also consistent with more increased TIMP-1 upregulation and MMP2 and MMP9 downregulations resulting in better suppressed invasiveness and metastases of tumor cells. Except for its direct targeting with FAM129A, which has been established, the role of miR-4521 and its detailed action mechanism in ccRCC deserve more attention.
Fig. 8: A schematic model of miR-4521-FAM129A axis on ccRCC cell malignant behaviors.
miR-4521 induces cell migration and invasion via TIMP-1/ MMP2/MMP9 pathways and also suppresses cell apoptosis by the MDM2/p53/Bcl2/Bax pathway by targeting FAM129A mediating ccRCC malignant behaviors. ccRCC clear cell renal cell carcinoma
FAM129A upregulation and miR-4521 deficiency are inversely correlated and enhanced cancer cell invasiveness and ccRCC progression (Figs. 1 and 2). FAM129A knockdown and miR-4521 overexpression reduced the proliferations and increased the apoptosis of 786-O and ACHN (Figs. 5 and 6), suggesting that FAM129A overexpression with miR-4521 deficiency might enhance ccRCC progression by promoting cancer cell growth by reducing apoptosis. We showed miR-4521-FAM129A axial regulation in mediating ccRCC progression via MDM2/P53/Bcl-2/Bax. As a tumor suppressor, P53 release from its negative regulator MDM2 induces cell apoptosis30 by inhibiting Bcl-2 and enhancing Bax. The Bcl-2/Bax ratio is the critical indictor for apoptosis induced by imbalance of P53 and MDM2 30,31,32. This work showed that MDM2 and Bcl2 decreased and p53 and Bax increased in 786-O following FAM129A knockdown (Fig. 7a). MDM2 suppression by FAM129A knockdown increased P53 causing Bcl2 reduction and Bax upregulation, which resulted in enhanced apoptosis and decreased proliferation of cancer cells (Figs. 5c, g, 6a, e). As shown in Fig. 8, FAM129A upregulation probably enhances ccRCC malignancy by increasing cancer cell growth through decreased apoptosis induced by p53 suppression. Together, miR-4521 overexpression decreased FAM129A levels in 786-O and ACHN cells (Fig. 4e, f) with decreased proliferations (Fig. 6a, b) and increased apoptosis (Fig. 6e) through MDM2/p53/Bcl2/Bax (Figs. 7b and 8). miR-4521 overexpression led to 40.2% and 50.9% decreases of MDM2 and Bcl2, and 60.6% and 39.5% increases of p53 and Bax, respectively, in 786-O (Fig. 7b), which resulted in an MDM2/P53 imbalance and a Bax/Bcl2 increase for decreased proliferation and enhanced apoptosis of renal cancer cells. miR-4521, negatively regulating FAM129A, functions in ccRCC via MDM2/p53/Bcl2/Bax. Although MDM2 was more decreased (53.1% vs. 40.2%) and p53 was more increased (81.1% vs. 62.7%, Fig. 7) in si-FAM129A knockdown cells, their apoptotic rates were lower than miR-4521-mimic-transfected cells, 42.5% vs. 48.9% (Fig. 5g) and 59.5% vs. 62.7% for 786-O and ACHN group cells (Fig. 6e). Together, miR-4521 overexpression induced lower FAM129A decreases in 786-O and ACHN (Figs. 4e, f, 5a, b and 7), while more decreased cell proliferations were observed for them than the si-FAM129A knockdown group cells, 28.8% vs. 19.0% and 37.4% vs. 12.6%, and 32.1% vs. 22.2% and 28.7% vs. 18.7% (Figs. 5c, d and 6a, b) for 786-O and ACHN groups at 96 and 120 h, respectively. Considering that the Bax/Bcl2 ratio (2.84, 139.5%/49.1%) was higher in miR-4521 overexpressing cells than (2.50, 137.8%/55.0%) in si-FAM129A knockdown cells (Fig. 7), this phenomenon seems reasonable and also suggests the existence of other signaling pathways of miR-4521 in mediating renal cancer cell growth except for MDM2/p53/Bcl2/Bax. Clarification of the role and mechanism of miR-4521 in ccRCC deserves more attention.
Collectively, FAM129A and miR-4521 act as a tumor promotor and suppressor in ccRCC. Negatively correlated, FAM129A upregulation and miR-4521 deficiency contribute to ccRCC clinical progression with enhanced TNM stage and Fuhrman grade. Binding to 3′UTR of FAM129A, miR-4521 retroregulates FAM129A/FAM129A in mediating ccRCC progression and renal cancer cell malignant properties. FAM129A knockdown or miR-4521 upregulation decreases renal cancer cells’ invasiveness via TIMP-1/MMP2/MMP9 and MDM2/p53/Bcl2/Bax. miR-4521 deficiency with its potential contribution to FAM129A upregulation might synergistically promote renal cancer cells’ malignant behaviors by enhancing MMP2/MMP9 through suppressing TIMP-1 and increasing their growth by escaping apoptosis through suppressing p53 by way of upregulation of MDM2 via a decreased Bax/Bcl2 ratio. The miR-4521-FAM129A axial regulation pathway provides clues useful to the fundamental research, diagnosis and treatment for ccRCC.
Collection and treatment of tumorous and paired paracancerous normal tissues from ccRCC patients
Fifty-five pairs of tumorous and matched paracancerous nontumoral renal tissues from ccRCC patients were collected at the Urology Department of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian. The paracancerous normal renal tissue was taken >5 cm away from the edge of the tumor. No patients received radiotherapy or chemotherapy before surgery. After cleaning, the surgical tissues for western blotting and qRT-PCR assays were immediately snap-frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at −80 °C. Thirty pairs of sliced surgical tumorous and paracancerous tissues were fixed in 10% neutral-buffered formalin and blocked in paraffin for IHC assay. The ccRCC specimens were classified according to the age, gender, tumor position, TNM stage and Fuhrman grade of patients. The histological subtypes and tumor stages were assessed according to the 2016 WHO Classification of Tumors of the Urinary System of the Tumor, Nodes and Metastasis (TNM) system. Specimen use and investigation protocols were approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of Dalian Medical University. Informed consents were obtained from the patients.
Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) assay
Total RNA was extracted either from each group of specimens or cells by using Trizol™ reagent (Invitrogen, USA) according to the instruction manual. A piece of tissue of ~50 mg was cut into 4 μm slices by a freezing microtome for RNA extraction. Then the EasyScript One-Step gDNA Removal and cDNA Synthesis SuperMix kit (TransGen, China) was used for cDNA reverse transfection. qRT-PCR was carried out on a StepOnePlus™ Real-Time PCR system (ThermoFisher, USA) using FastStart Universal SYBR Green Master (ROX) reagent (Roche, Germany). SnRNA U6 and β-actin were used as internal standards for miR-4521 and FAM129A. miR-4521 and U6 primers were purchased from RiboBio Company (Guangzhou, China). Primers were designed as below for FAM129A, F: 5′-CTCAGCCCTTTGTGGTCCT-3′, R: 5′-CTC CTGTCGGAAGAATTGCAC-3′ and for β-actin, F: 5′-AGGCCAACCGCGAGAAG-3′, R: 5′-AGAGCCTGGATAGCAACGTACA-3′. The 2−∆∆CT method was performed for quantification analysis.
Cell culture, miR-4521 overexpression and FAM129 si-RNA interference
Human renal clear cell carcinoma cell lines 786-O and ACHN, and renal proximal tubule cell line HK-2 were used. HK-2, a normal renal cell line, was used to check miR-4521 and FAM129A levels in 786-O and ACHN. Cells were inoculated in RPMI-1640 medium (Gibco, USA) supplemented with 15% fetal bovine serum (FBS, ExCell Bio, China) at 37 °C with 5% CO2. The miR-4521 mimic and an irrelevant transfection mimic as NC (negative control) mimic were ordered from GenePharma (Suzhou, China). Si-RNA sequences of FAM129A, F: 5′-CCAGCUUAACAGAUCUAAA-3′, R: 5′-UUUAGAUCUGUUAAGCUGG-3′ and of NC si-RNA, F: 5′-UUCUCCGAACGU GUCACGUTT-3′, R: 5′-ACGUGACACGUUCGGAGAATT-3′ were from RiboBio (Guangzhou, China).
For transfection, 786-O and ACHN growing in logarithmic phases were used. Briefly, the densities of 786-O and ACHN cells were adjusted to 5 × 104 cells/mL and 1 × 105 cells/mL using 15% FBS. Two milliliters of each group of 786-O and ACHN cell suspensions were separately distributed in the wells of six-well plate and incubated at 37 °C with 5% CO2 for 24 h. Then 4 μL of each of the NC mimic, miR-4521 mimic, si-NC and si-FAM129A with concentration of 20 μM was separately mixed with 50 μL of RPMI-1640 medium, shaken gently and left for 5 min at RT. Simultaneously, 4 μL of lipofectamine™ 2000 (Invitrogen, USA) transfection reagent was added into 50 μL RPMI-1640 medium, shaken gently and left for 5 min at RT. Then the prepared miRNA mimic and siRNA solution was mixed with lipofectamine™ transfection solution, shaken well and left for 20 min at RT. Finally, 100 μL of the above mixture was added into each of the already prepared group cells, gently mixed well, and incubated at 37 °C with 5% CO2 for 24 h. The cells from each group were trypsinized with trypsin-EDTA (0.25%, Gibco, USA) and centrifuged at 1000 rpm for 5 min. Cell pellets were collected for further experiments.
SDS-PAGE and western blotting assay
For protein extraction from specimens, ~50 mg of tumorous or paracancerous tissue was washed with PBS (4 °C), cut into small pieces, ground under liquid nitrogen into powder and suspended in 300–600 μL ice-cold RIPA buffer (50 mM pH 8.0 Tris-HCl, 150 mM NaCl, 1% Triton X-100, 0.5% sodium deoxycholate, 0.1% SDS, 1 mM Na3VO4, 1 μg/mL leupeptin and 0.5 mM PMSF). The tissue mixture was then ground well with a pestle for 3 × 10 min on ice. Supernatant protein was collected by 12,000 rpm centrifugation at 4 °C for 15 min. For protein extraction from cells, each cell pellet per well obtained from six-well plates of 786-O/ACHN or miRNA mimic-transfected or siRNA-FAM129A-transfected 786-O/ACHN cells was suspended in about 50 μL of the RIPA buffer and lysed on ice for 30 min with suspension using a pipet every 10 min. Supernatant protein was collected by centrifugation at 12,000 rpm at 4 °C for 15 min.
Western blotting assay
Protein concentration was determined by the Bradford assay. 10% SDS-PAGE was used for protein separation. Protein bands were transferred onto a nitrocellulose (NC) membrane (PALL, USA), blocked with 5% (w/v) skim milk (BD, USA) in TBST (50 mM Tris, 100 mM NaCl and 0.1% Tween-20, pH 7.5) and incubated with primary antibodies FAM129A (1:1000, Proteintech, USA), GAPDH (1:2000, Proteintech, USA), TIMP1(1:1000, Proteintech, USA), MMP2 (1:500, Proteintech, USA), MMP9 (1:500, Proteintech, USA), MDM2 (1:500, Proteintech, USA), P53 (1:1000, Proteintech, USA), Bcl2 (1:1000, Wanleibio, China) and Bax (1:1500, Proteintech, USA) at 4 °C with shaking at 100 rpm overnight. The NC membrane was washed well with TBST for 3 × 10 min, incubated with HRP-conjugated Affinipure Goat Anti-Rabbit IgG (1:2000, Proteintech, USA) for 2 h at RT, and then washed again with TBST for 3 × 10 min. Protein bands were visualized by ECL and quantified by the Bio-Rad ChemiDoc™ MP system (Bio-Rad, USA).
Immunohistochemistry (IHC assay)
The paraffin blocks of tumorous and paracancerous renal tissues were cut into 4-μm slices. The slices were boiled in citrate buffer (0.01 M, pH 6.0) in a microwave oven using high power for 4 min, and cooled to RT. After doing this four times, the slices were washed clean with PBS for 3 × 5 min, blocked in 3% H2O2 for 20 min and in 10% nonimmune goat serum for 15 min at RT, and incubated with FAM129A antibody (1:200) at 4 °C overnight. The tissue slices were then warmed at 37 °C for 30 min, treated with biotin-streptavidin HRP detection kit (ZSGB-BIO, China), and imaged with 3,3′-diamino-benzidine (DAB) development kit (ZSGB-BIO, China) under an upright light BX3-CBH microscope (Olympus, Japan).
The degree of IHC immunoreactivity was judged by multiplying the staining immunoreaction intensity (Score I) and the DAB positive staining quantity (Score II) of tumor cells as previously reported33,34,35. Score I was classified into four grades, 0 (negative), 1 (weak), 2 (moderate) and 3 (strong). Based on DAB positively stained cells, Score II was rated as 0 (none), 1 (1–10% cells per field), 2 (10–50%), 3 (51–75%) and 4 (>76%). Immunoreactivity degrees with scores of 0–2, 3–5, 6–8 and 9–12 were considered as negative (−), weak (+), moderate (++) and strong (+++) expression of FAM129A. IHC assays were separately scored by two experienced pathologists.
Dual-luciferase reporter assay
PsiCHECK™2.0 dual-luciferase expression vector (Promega, USA) was used as expression vector in a dual-luciferase reporter assay as we previously reported36. Briefly, one potential binding site of miR-4521 was revealed in the 3′-UTR region of FAM129A with the miRDB and TargetScan platforms. The wild-type (WT) and mutant (MUT) binding site sequences in FAM129A 3′-UTR were amplified and cloned into psiCHECK™2.0 vectors. The correct recombinant plasmids, validated by nucleotide sequencing (Invitrogen, USA), were named as wt-FAM129A-3′UTR and mut-FAM129A-3′UTR, respectively. 5 × 104 786-O cells in 2 mL of RPMI-1640 with 15% FBS were seeded into each well of a six-well plate and incubated at 37 °C, 5% CO2 for 24 h. Then, 786‐O cells were cotransfected with the additions of 4 μL of miR-4521 mimic/NC mimic (20 μM) and 4 μL (3 μg) of wt-FAM129A-3’UTR/mut-FAM129A-3′UTR at 37 °C with 5% CO2 for 24 h, respectively. A cell pellet from each group, obtained by washing with PBS and centrifuging at 1000 rpm for 5 min, was lysed in 200 μL of passive lysis buffer at 4 °C for 15 min. Then 20 μL of supernatant lysate was loaded into a luminometer tube, mixed well with 100 μL of Luciferase Assay ReagentII (LAR II) for Firefly luciferase activity detection, then mixed with 100 μL of Stop & Glo Reagent for Renilla luciferase activity assay using a GloMax fluorescence reader (Promega, USA).
MTT assay for cell proliferation
The influences of changes in the levels of miR-4521 and FAM129A on 786-O and ACHN proliferation were determined by MTT assay. The cells from each 786-O group were seeded into a 96-well plate at the density of 5000 cells in 200 μL of RPMI-1640 with 15% FBS per well. ACHN group cells were seeded at the density of 10,000 cells/well. The cells were continuously incubated at 37 °C, 5% CO2 for 24, 48, 72, 96 and 120 h, separately, then incubated with 0.5 mg/mL MTT working solution (Sigma, USA) by replacing culture medium at 37 °C, 5% CO2 for 4 h in darkness. After the removal of the supernatant, 150 μL DMSO (Sigma, USA) was added into each well to dissolve formazan crystals. The absorbance at 490 nm was measured using a microplate reader (Thermo, USA) for cell density quantification. Triplicate experiments were performed for each assay.
Boyden transwell-chamber assay for cell migration and invasion
The 24-well transwell units with 8 mm I.D. polyester membrane with 8 μm pore size polycarbonate filters (Corning, USA) were employed to investigate the influences of miR-4521 upregulation and FAM129A downregulation on the in vitro migration and invasion properties of 786-O and ACHN cells. For migration assays, 600 μL of RPMI-1640 with 15% FBS was loaded into each lower chamber. 10,000 and 2000 cells from each of the 786-O and the ACHN groups were separately loaded into one upper chamber in 200 μL of RPMI-1640 medium and incubated at 37 °C with 5% CO2 for 24 h. The cells on the upper surface of the insert that did not migrate were carefully wiped off using cotton swabs. The cells that migrated to the lower surface of the filter were fixed in methanol (AR, Sigma, USA) for 30 min, dried for 5 min at RT, stained in 0.1% crystal violet for 40 min, washed with PBS (200 μL), and counted by randomly selecting five fields per well using an upright light microscope (Olympus, Japan) at a magnification of ×200.
For invasion assays, the filter surface of an insert transwell unit was first coated with 50 μL ice-cold ECM gel (1:5 dilution with RPMI 1640, Sigma, USA) by incubating at 37 °C for 8 h. The loading numbers for the 786-O and the ACHN group cells were 7500 and 15,000, respectively, in 200 μL of RPMI-1640. The remaining steps were the same as for the migration assays.
Flow cytometry was performed to investigate miR-4521 upregulation and FAM129A downregulation on the apoptosis of 786-O and ACHN cells using the Annexin V Apoptosis Detection Kit APC (Affymetrix eBioscience, USA). Following transfection, 1 × 106 cells from each of 786-O and ACHN groups were harvested, washed once with ice-cold PBS, washed once with the binding buffer, centrifuged at 1000 rpm for 5 min, resuspended in 100 μL binding buffer with the addition of 5 μL of fluorochrome-conjugated Annexin V, and incubated in the dark for 15 min at RT. Finally, the cells from each of 786-O and ACHN groups were washed again with 100 μL binding buffer, resuspended in 200 μL of binding buffer with the addition of 5 μL of propidium iodide (PI) staining solution, and analyzed using a flow cytometer (BD Biosciences, USA). Each assay was replicated for four times.
Data processing and statistical analysis
The data were expressed as mean ± SD of at least triplicate independent experiments. SPSS17.0 was used for statistical analysis. The difference between two groups were evaluated by Student’s t test and chi-square test analyses. One-way ANOVA analysis was used to evaluate the difference between different groups. Results with P < 0.05 were statistically significant.
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This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81672737, 81272186) and the Liaoning Provincial Program for Top Discipline of Basic Medical Sciences. The authors are very grateful to Dr. & Prof. Frederick T. Greenway at the Carlson School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA for editing and polishing the English of the manuscript.
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McCain Calls Out Media Hypocrisy: Obama Also Made Promises to Foreign Leaders
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By Kristine Marsh | September 19, 2019 1:41 PM EDT
It seems every week the media spends day after day obsessing over another anonymously-sourced report that makes claims no one can back up. Thursday, journalists were in a frenzy over a Washington Post report which alleged an anonymous “whistleblower” who formerly worked for an intelligence agency, claimed President Trump had promised something “troubling” to an unnamed foreign leader, earlier this Summer. Frenzy over the story also hit the ladies at the View table, who worried that the Department of Justice was “covering up” the alleged scandal to protect Trump. Only co-host Meghan McCain had the nerve to point out the media hypocrisy on this topic.
Post reporter Shane Harris, one of the co-authors of the whistleblower report, called in for a Skype interview with the View hosts. Unlike her co-hosts, McCain didn’t let Harris off the hook. After reading President Trump’s denial of the report, she pointed out that President Obama also made promises to foreign leaders before, which didn’t raise red flags in the media (so much so that journalists have wiped it from their memory.) McCain forced Harris to explain why there was a difference, now:
I know we have heard presidents promising things to foreign leaders before, like when President Obama was caught on a hot mic telling then the Russian President Medvedev, saying he would, quote, “have more flexibility after the election.” So can you tell viewers why there's a difference between that and this?
Harris downplayed that admission from Obama, calling it simply “deal making.” However, he wouldn’t give President Trump the same benefit of the doubt:
That's a great question. When we saw that conversation with Obama and Medvedev, you're kind of seeing the horse trading and the deal making. While we don't know what exactly what substance was or the details of the conversation with Trump and this leader, it was enough that this fairly experienced intelligence official we think looked at it and said, this isn't just normal negotiating..
However, McCain pressed again, pointing out the media’s lack of credibility and rush to demonize Trump:
Just last week CNN was slammed for erroneously reporting a thinly sourced story that the C.I.A. had to remove a spy from Russia because of Trump sharing intelligence that possibly could have endangered him. I think the question we all have this morning, is there a rush to report on Trump because people want to pin things on him, and just because he does so many things that as you said, are deeply unconventional for a U.S. President?
To that, Harris basically argued that any allegation involving the President needed to be printed. He called it a “huge story” that couldn’t wait because the complaint was “significant enough to report and let the American people know about.”
This isn’t the only example, and certainly won’t be the last, of the media ignoring something Obama said or did and going nuts when Trump says or does something similar. Last year, the networks hammered Trump for congratulating Vladimir Putin on his re-election; but Obama did the same thing.
You can read the transcript, below:
11:08:32AM-11:10:37AM
MEGHAN MCCAIN: Hi. This is Meghan. President Trump is going a little crazy on Twitter about this. ‘Another fake news story. It never ends. Virtually any time I speak on the phone to a foreign leader, I understand there may be many people listening from various U.S. Agencies, not to mention those from other countries itself.’ I know we have heard presidents promising things to foreign leaders before, like when President Obama was caught on a hot mic telling then the Russian President Medvedev, saying he would, quote, “have more flexibility after the election.” So can you tell viewers why there's a difference between that and this?
HARRIS: It’s a great question. I think when we saw that conversation with Obama and Medvedev, you're kind of seeing the horse trading and the deal making. While we don't know what exactly what substance was or the details of the conversation with Trump and this leader, it was enough that this fairly experienced intelligence official we think looked at it and said, this isn't just normal negotiating. This isn't kind of the give and take and the back and forth. There is something happening here that rises to the level of some kind of abuse, and the inspector general looked at it and found that at least under the law, that was a credible allegation.
MCCAIN: Just last week CNN was slammed for erroneously reporting a thinly sourced story that they had to remove a spy from Russia because of Trump sharing intelligence that possibly could have endangered him. I think the question we all have this morning, is there a rush to report on Trump because people want to pin things on him, and just because he does so many things that as you said, are deeply unconventional for a U.S. President?
HARRIS: Yeah. I think that's a fair question. Too often people have been asking me today, like, why didn't you wait and find out more about the information like what the substance of the call was? In this case, we know there was an allegation for some days and already it was a huge story, and extraordinary just because of the nature of it, and members of Congress including Adam Schiff have been kind of implying it was deduced the President was involved and we felt knowing the President himself was the subject of this complaint, and the nature of it, a communication with a foreign leader, that that was significant enough to report and let the American people know about.
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Kristine Marsh is an analyst for the Media Research Center's News Analysis Division.
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By TAM DALYELL
BRITAIN, it seems, is considering setting up a Defence Diversification Agency
to adapt military technologies for the benefit of the economy
(This Week, 14 March, p 7).
George Robertson, the Secretary of State for Defence, suggested
that science parks could be established around the existing laboratories of the
Defence Evaluation Research Agency. I asked John Chisholm, DERA’s chief
executive, for his response.
Chisholm replied that DERA recognises the value of technology transfer, both
to harness civilian technology to meet defence needs and to encourage the
greater commercial exploitation of the agency’s vast science base. Such exchange
of technologies is not only of benefit to the Ministry of Defence, he said, but
it also realises the nation’s investment in DERA as one of the largest research
organisations in Western Europe. “It is this concept that is at the heart of the
Defence Diversification Agency proposed in the government’s recent Green Paper,”
By attracting complementary businesses to locations close to DERA’s
laboratories, Chisholm said, the agency would ease relations between DERA and
the civilian sector and improve access to technologies and facilities.
FOR far too long, the lot of the contract researcher has not been a happy
one, and the signs are that it is getting worse as people who’ve just got their
PHDs abandon science, in despair, despite having years of dedication behind
them. Most of the contracts run for a measly year, two if they are lucky. Very
few run to a third. Researchers are angry because they feel that they are being
treated as “utterly dispensable” by the universities, the research councils and
the government.
In November last year, government policy was apparently to ensure that
contract staff in institutes and labs enjoyed the best possible career
management and development, at least comparable to what was expected for staff
on contracts in the universities. Of course, the problem is not just an academic
one. Huge numbers of researchers work in the public sector on short-term
contracts. But to Britain’s shame, no one knows how many contract workers there
are. The data have simply not been collected centrally. Which is why many of us
felt a surge of hope when the industrious Margaret Beckett, President of the
Board of Trade, declared that this dismal ignorance should go on no longer. The
Office of Science and Technology would consult government departments with major
research interests on their approach to contract staff and how many they
employed.
A dreadful silence now hangs over the matter and Britain’s future depends
upon this problem being resolved.
LAST month’s hoo-ha about moving 4 kilograms of enriched uranium from the
former Soviet republic of Georgia to secure storage at Dounreay in Scotland had,
I sense, little to do with the actual consignment and a great deal to do with
bolstering a waning antinuclear cause. Certainly the affair revealed that many
of my new MP colleagues believe that Britain needs a secure, diverse and
sustainable energy policy. They are well-informed on such matters and on how
crucial such an energy policy will be if Britain is to achieve the targets
agreed at December’s Kyoto Climate Conference. In addition, the government has
set its own domestic target of reducing emissions by 20 per cent compared with
1990 levels by 2010.
Like it or hate it, nuclear energy does not directly produce CO2 or
other greenhouse gases and so appeals to many of the new MPs. They believe it
can make a significant contribution to combating climate change—a matter
about which most of them care deeply. In the year 1996 to 1997, Britain’s
nuclear power stations generated 89 terawatt-hours of electricity, second only
to coal. If that amount of electricity had been generated by the current mix of
fossil-fuel plants, it would have added another 69 million tonnes of CO2
to the atmosphere. That is almost as much as the annual CO2
emissions from all Britain’s private cars and taxis added together.
What seems to be dawning on many of my new MP colleagues is that unless the
operating lives of Britain’s existing nuclear power stations are extended or the
stations replaced, the government will simply not achieve its targets for CO2
reduction. More and more of them are thinking the unthinkable: we need a
Sizewell C or a Hinkley Point C. And about time too, say I.
Magazine issue 2135 , published 23 May 1998
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Winning to the 'MAX': Brampton Resident Wins Historic $70 Million LOTTO MAX Jackpot Français
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TORONTO, Jan. 14, 2020 /CNW/ - "I'm overwhelmed, excited, happy and shocked but mostly, I feel very, very blessed," shared Adlin Lewis of Brampton. Adlin won the record-breaking $70 million jackpot from the Tuesday, January 7, 2020 LOTTO MAX draw. The cheque for the biggest lottery prize in Canadian history was presented to the 49-year-old credit risk manager at the OLG Prize Centre in Toronto yesterday.
OLG Director of External Communications, Tony Bitonti, presents Adlin Lewis of Brampton with his $70 million cheque after winning the January 7, 2020 LOTTO MAX jackpot. Adlin had this to say about his record-breaking win.
Adlin Lewis of Brampton accepts his $70 million cheque at the OLG Prize Centre in Toronto. Adlin won the record-breaking jackpot in the Tuesday, January 7, 2020 LOTTO MAX draw. (CNW Group/OLG Winners)
Adlin Lewis of Brampton celebrates his record-breaking $70 million win. Adlin won the Tuesday, January 7, 2020 LOTTO MAX jackpot. (CNW Group/OLG Winners)
The Brampton resident checked his ticket the morning after the historic draw. "While I was warming up my car, I scanned my ticket on the OLG Lottery App but I got an error message, so I tried again. And then I saw the words 'Big Winner' and the number 70! I was shocked and wanted to confirm what I saw so I went online to see the winning numbers and one by one they matched!"
Though Adlin knew he had a winning ticket, he still went to work and contemplated how to share the unbelievable news with his wife. "I wanted to tell her in a special way – with a trip or something creative – but I couldn't keep this news to myself, so I ended up waking her up in the wee hours of the morning on Thursday and just telling her outright," he laughed.
Adlin has a reputation for being a lucky guy. "A couple of years ago I won a car, and then more recently, I won both the first and second prizes in a workplace holiday draw. When my colleagues found out that the winning $70 million LOTTO MAX ticket was sold in Brampton, they were joking at the office 'Is Adlin here? Did Adlin call in sick today?'" he recalled.
Adlin has played the lottery regularly for over twenty years and often purchases an extra ticket or two when the jackpot is high. "It's funny – I won the record-breaking jackpot with a Free Play ticket!" he smiled.
As for his plans for the life-changing prize? "We have a lot of options now. I'll be making some investments, taking many trips, enjoying life. Also, my wife has always wanted to try those VIP $100 slots in Las Vegas and now I can make that dream come true for her," Adlin concluded.
Since its launch in September 2009, Ontario LOTTO MAX players have won over $5 billion, including 67 jackpot wins and 583 MAXMILLIONS prizes, right across the province.
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Streaming Companies Are Betting Big With Your Favorite Sitcoms
By Casey Mendoza
The streaming rights to "The Office," "Friends" and "Seinfeld" cost half a billion dollars each. Let's break down what that cost actually means.
Both "The Office" and "Friends" premiered over a decade ago with resounding success. Today, they're each worth half a billion dollars to streaming companies.
In case you haven't heard the news, these two popular sitcoms are leaving Netflix and moving over to forthcoming platforms from WarnerMedia and NBCUniversal. The cost to license and stream those shows is around $100 million every year for five years.
["Are we absolutely sure it's not an accounting error?"]
It's easy to scoff at those licensing costs as an outrageous amount of money for old shows — especially ones that are syndicated on cable television anyways. But let's break it down. "The Office" and "Friends" are Netflix's most popular shows. Last year, they accounted for more than 7% and 4% of all the platform's views, respectively. And at nine and 10 seasons, the long-running nature of the shows means old and new fans have guaranteed content to watch. Netflix paid between $80 million and $100 million to keep "Friends" on its platform for just one year, and it fought hard against Hulu, Apple and WarnerMedia for the streaming rights.
"Netflix was smart to keep 'Friends' and 'The Office' as long as they could. But those deals do end. So there's going to be somebody there to snatch it up."
Media analyst Rich Greenfield broke down the cost in more detail. In 2019, Netflix had more than 60 million U.S. subscribers, which means its deal to keep "Friends" cost between 11 and 14 cents per monthly subscription. It's unclear how much Netflix paid to license "The Office," but CNBC reports the platform was willing to pay $90 million a year to keep the sitcom — about 13 cents per monthly subscription.
Keep those numbers in mind, because it shows how much more expensive these licensing costs could be for new streaming platforms. Even if WarnerMedia's HBO Max gains 19 million subscribers this year — about half of its current U.S. base — then "Friends" will cost 37 cents per monthly subscription. If it only gains 10 million subscribers, the cost will be closer to 70 cents.
["Well, I guess I just never think of money as an issue." "Because you have it." "That's a good point."]
Despite the loss of "Friends" and "The Office," Netflix isn't bowing out of the legacy media game. Starting in 2021, the platform is set to stream another classic television sitcom: "Seinfeld."
The deal reportedly cost the company more than $500 million, but it's worth asking if the show is worth it. Back in 2015, Hulu spent between $130 and 160 million to stream the show for at least five years. But some sources say the show generated less than 1% of the platform's views.
["Maybe you won't like it." "Oh, how could I not like it?" "You could not like it!"]
Around the same time Netflix announced its "Seinfeld" acquisition, NBCUniversal unveiled the name of its own streaming platform: "Peacock."
The company has yet to announce exact prices, but it's important to note the platform will be supported by both ads and paid subscribers. If it can convert half of its 7.8 million total broadcast viewers to paid subscribers, "The Office" will cost about $2 per monthly subscription.
["We're just trying to balance the books."]
Beyond the Steve Carell-led comedy, Peacock will also reclaim exclusive streaming rights to "Parks and Recreation" in 2020. The show was previously a fan favorite on Hulu, Netflix and Amazon Prime, but it's unclear how much money NBC paid to take it back.
["Money, please! My money."]
It's too soon to say whether these costs will be worth it in the long term, but these pieces of legacy media are clearly important to the streaming wars. Netflix is confident it can survive the content losses, but audiences are still likely to miss having access to their older faves.
"I think a show like 'Friends' or 'The Office' — those are shows that are like comfort food. And no matter what else is hot, and what else we're watching out there, we want to know we can go watch some 'Friends' when we just need to just sit back and just check back in with Ross and Rachel and the gang."
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The 10 Best Pet Companions to Have at Your Side
These dog and cat companions provide multiple benefits.
By Debbie SwansonMay 24, 2012
By Debbie Swanson
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Boston Terriers are happy-go-lucky.
Pugs are extremely faithful.
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Greyhounds are mellow.
Cocker Spaniels like to hang out.
Chihuahuas form strong bonds.
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Russian Blues lift spirits.
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Manx like taking walks.
Maybe your father needs to keep up with his exercise, but without anyone at home to nudge him outdoors, he tends to put it off. Maybe your mother needs something to focus her attention on instead of her health worries. The right animal companion is the perfect way to keep older adults active as they age in place, and to help them feel less alone, needed and loved.
“An animal provides another focus, a reason to get up in the morning, an opportunity to exercise, unconditional love and a social lubricant,” says Rebecca Johnson, director of the Research Center for Human Animal Interaction at the University of Missouri. For adults living alone, "animals can reduce feelings of loneliness or isolation," she says. Research has also found that pet owners take better care of themselves, rebound faster from illness, maintain lower blood pressure, and have a lower risk of heart disease, Johnson says, adding that she has seen these benefits firsthand at TigerPlace, an independent living community co-developed by the university that encourages pet ownership. She credits animal companionship there with transforming withdrawn, sedentary adults into active, social members of the community.
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Before getting a pet for a relative or friend who is aging in place, be sure the person truly wants a pet and is able to handle the day-to-day responsibilities, as well as expenses, like food and veterinary care. It's also important to give some thought to what you'll do if the person needs to move into an assisted-living facility, becomes unable to care for the pet or dies before the pet. For example, will you take the pet into your own home?
The next step is choosing an animal whose personality is compatible with its new owner's. Like people, animal personalities can run the gamut from clown to jock to couch potato. Also factor in how much space the animal needs, how much time it's able to spend alone, and how much exercise it requires.
If you're purchasing a pet for the first time, make sure you're prepared to be a responsible co-owner, along with its destined companion. This guide from the American Kennel Club can get you started as a dog owner, and these resources from the American Humane Association will help get you set to care for a cat.
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The following dog and cat breeds can be a good fit for people aging in place — be sure to check them out in our slide show. But they're far from the only good choices. Many mixed-breed animals make wonderful pets, and can be considerably less expensive than purebreeds. There may also be a great selection of both purebreeds and mixed-breeds awaiting a home at your local animal shelter or rescue center.
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Boston Terrier: This lively, compact dog will nudge its owner to get out the door for a daily dose of exercise or socialization, but once he’s had his fix, he’ll nestle into a comfortable spot by his owner's side. "Boston terriers are bred to be companion dogs," says Dane LaJoye, president of the Boston Terrier Club of America. "They like nothing more than to be with their owner, on the sofa watching TV, or curled up next to their owner in bed. The breed is happy-go-lucky and playful, yet attentive to their owners' needs."
Pug: Bred in China to serve as companions to royalty, today’s pugs maintain their devotion to their masters. This faithful dog will thrive with attention, and is sure to keep its owner entertained with his silly personality. A pug is so content to share your company that it may need your encouragement to get up for daily exercise. Pugs can’t handle too much activity, but brief, daily play or short walks will help them avoid weight gain. The pug's flat nose means it doesn't tolerate heat well, so an air conditioner is a must in warmer climates, and walks should be limited to cooler times of day.
Greyhound: For a larger breed, the sensitive, mellow greyhound makes an unexpectedly gentle roommate, and even retired racers don’t have the demanding fitness needs one might expect. “He’d like to run off leash a few times a week, so you’d need a fenced yard, or a nearby baseball field or dog park. But outside of that, leashed walks will do,” says Louise Coleman, executive director of Greyhound Friends Inc. in Hopkinton, Mass. Greyhounds enjoy quiet company, a peaceful environment, and a warm, soft place to nap. “When they were racing, they lived in kennels or crates much of the time, sleeping," Coleman says.
Cocker Spaniel: For those who like a dog strolling by their side, the cocker spaniel could be a great choice. “You don't have to worry about his exercise,” says Calvin Ward, president of the American Spaniel Club. “He’s happy to take an outing and just accompany you around, doing things together." With even temperaments, they’ll easily tolerate the bustle of visiting relatives as well. An average cocker spaniel weighs about 20 pounds, Ward says, "not so tiny that they’re fragile, and not too big that they’re overwhelming."
Chihuahua: These personality-packed dogs with human-like eyes form tight bonds with their owners. They may act aloof or protective with strangers, so visitors shouldn’t be offended by an initially chilly welcome. The Chihuahua's size makes it well-suited for apartment living, though some dogs make up for their small stature with excessive barking. Daily walks or outings will keep a Chihuahua fit and social, but when it's cool, this pet would rather get its own exercise indoors playing with a toy or running laps around the living room.
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Russian Blue: With a playful nature and an upturned "smiling" mouth, a Russian Blue will lift the spirits of everyone in its household. “Cat toys are a must with this breed,” says breeder Mikki Olson of Big Creek Cattery in Garden City, Mo. Once this cat has exercised its playful side, though, it appreciates a laid-back household with a dependable routine. "They tend to be dog-like in nature, meaning they love to be in their owner's presence," Olson says. "They’ll follow you from room to room, run to greet you at the door, and be waiting for you on the bed when it's time go to sleep at night." The Russian Blue's dense, silver-blue coat sheds little.
Ragdoll: With a polite, subdued voice, the ragdoll will try to initiate play, without being overly demanding. If its owner isn't up for games, though, the agreeable ragdoll will be just as happy getting love and attention in a snuggle. “They are interactive, gentle and quiet,” says breeder Barb Jones of Catlana Ragdolls in Boise, Idaho. Ragdolls have long hair, but they don't matt. While they do shed, a weekly brushing will take care of most loose hair. Some ragdolls can weigh up to 15 pounds, which may be a consideration for owners who'll have to load the cat into a carrier.
Persians and Himalayans: For owners who favor companionship over activity, these fluffy lap cats may be a great choice. Both breeds are mild-mannered and not terribly active, says Kirsten Kranz, director of the Specialty Purebred Cat Rescue of Wisconsin. Their striking, plush coats do require some regular grooming to avoid tangles and mats. But they are so fond of attention, they should accept the brushing as part of their daily routine. If brushing becomes difficult for an owner, a groomer can simplify the job by giving the cat a shorter cut. Both breeds are quiet, but the Himalayan is the more vocal of the pair.
Manx: The Manx is the rare cat that may embrace a daily walk. “They will walk on a leash,” says Claire Broughton, a Vermont Manx breeder. This typically tailless breed may generate some attention on its daily outing, but it won't mind – a Manx is good-natured and social. A small- to medium-sized cat with a solid anatomy, the Manx is a master jumper, and no surface is out of reach. But this intelligent feline is also trainable, and can learn what’s off limits, Broughton says.
Debbie Swanson (www.swansonwriting.com) is a freelance writer living north of Boston. She often writes about pet care, senior living and family topics.
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5 Top Money Tips From a Financial Planners Conference
How to cut taxes, invest for income and shrink college bills
By Richard EisenbergMoney & Work EditorSeptember 30, 2015
By Richard Eisenberg
Credit: adminThe Financial Planners Association meeting drew 2,000 Certified Financial Planners.
I’m always prowling for new, timely and practical advice to help my 50+ readers manage their money better, lower their taxes, invest smarter and secure their financial future. Recently, I hit the jackpot.
I attended the Financial Planners Association (FPA) annual Business and Education conference, in Boston, Mass., a gathering of 2,000 Certified Financial Planners (CFPs) featuring workshops with financial professionals and researchers dispensing their tips and findings.
Here are my five big takeaways:
1. It’s getting a little easier for the middle class and underserved to work with Certified Financial Planners. “There’s a preconceived notion that to engage, you need a minimum net worth of $1 million. That’s not true at all,” FPA president Edward Gjertsen II told me. “It may take a little longer to find, but there are plenty who charge annually or hourly, not just AUM [Assets Under Management].”
I’m not sure I’d agree with “plenty.” But there is Garrett Planning Network, with 300 independent fee-only planners typically charging $180 to $300 an hour; the fee-only, virtual XY Planning Network (it specializes in Gen X and Gen Y clients) and the 2,400-member fee-only planners group, National Association of Personal Financial Advisors.
“The industry is making progress” in serving middle-income Americans, said Sheryl Garrett, founder of the Garrett Planning Network. “It used to be as rare as finding a bald eagle. Now it’s not quite as rare; it’s like finding a golden eagle.”
A few years back, PIMCO said investors were living in “the new normal” era. Now, Manasseh, said, we’re investing in “the new neutral.”
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I also learned at the conference that the FPA’s Foundation for Financial Planning provides pro bono financial planning advice for the underserved. So far, 13,000 industry professionals have volunteered 136,000 hours providing free help to more than 350,000 people.
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2. In today’s low-yield investing environment, look for global dividend-paying stocks or mutual funds that buy them. This advice came from Raji Manasseh, a senior vice president at the PIMCO investment firm.
A few years back, PIMCO said investors were living in “the new normal” era of low economic growth. Now, Manasseh, said, we’re investing in “the new neutral” — low interest rates, converging growth of developed and emerging markets, huge global debt and aging populations. In “the new neutral,” a Fed target of 4 percent short-term interest rates is “a dream;” neutral is more like 2 percent.
As a result, investors “need to activate every part of their asset allocation for income,” said Manasseh. Among stocks, he said, you are looking for: attractive dividend yields; dividend growth and capital appreciation.
And that means going global for dividend stocks. Today, Manasseh said, you can find telecom and utility stocks with 3 percent yields in Australia, Nordic countries, Latin America and the U.K., but not many in the U.S.
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Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen recently said interest rates will rise before year’s end. Manasseh’s guidance: in periods of rising rates and low inflation, technology, consumer discretionary and materials companies tend to outperform the market.
3. You can make your money last years longer by defying the conventional wisdom on retirement portfolio withdrawals. This advice came from Bill Reichtenstein, a Baylor University investments professor and head of research for Social Security Solutions software, at his packed session based on his March/April 2015 Financial Analysts Journal article, Tax-Efficient Withdrawal Strategies.
The conventional wisdom has been that, from a tax standpoint, in retirement you should take money out of your taxable accounts first and when that money is exhausted, withdraw from your tax-deferred accounts such as a 401(k) or traditional IRA and then, finally, from your tax-exempt accounts (municipal bonds and bond funds).
Instead, says financial magician Reichtenstein, (and, trust me, I’m oversimplifying here) in your early years of retirement, you should first take money out of your tax-deferred account — but no more than an amount that would take your taxable income to the top of the 15 percent tax bracket. Then, withdraw from your taxable account and finally from your tax-exempt one. Essentially, he rigs the game so you never pay more than 15 percent on your tax-deferred account withdrawals.
In an example Reichtensteing gave, a retiree using the conventional wisdom would run out of money in 30 years. But with his system, the money would last for 34.37 years. He has an even-more-complex strategy — which includes two Roth IRA conversions — where, in that example, the retirement money would last a full 36.17 years.
4. If your kids are going to college within a few years, you can lower your tuition bills by understanding the realities of college pricing. That advice came from Lynn O’Shaughnessy, a smartie who runs TheCollegeSolution.com site.
“The financial industry hasn’t been concerned about late-stage college planning,” she said. “Their perception is that paying for college is just using a 529 plan.”
Think of colleges like the airlines, O’Shaughnessy advised, where “everybody pays a different price.” Many parents don’t realize, she said, that 58 percent of students at state schools don’t pay full price and 89 percent of students at private colleges and universities get price breaks — a historic high.
Also a historic high, she said: the average college discount from the tuition sticker price, now 54 percent. The reason (and the exceptions are the highly selective elite schools) is that many admission departments have trouble filling their freshman spots.
“So throw a wider net to get the discounts,” said O’Shaughnessy. Colleges and “master universities” are more likely to discount than research universities like Berkeley, Northwestern and Michigan “where rich students want to go.”
To see if you’ll qualify for financial aid, O’Shaughnessy said, figure out your Expected Family Contribution (EFC) with the College Board site’s calculator. The EFC is what you’d be expected to pay for one year of college, and it’s based on a variety of factors including your income, assets and how many kids you’ll have in college. “Your goal is to find a school to bridge the gap between what it costs and your EFC,” O’Shaughnessy said.
“Most families let their child apply to any school they want and they keep their fingers crossed and wait until the aid packages come back to see if they have the money,” she noted. “Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn’t. Don’t let your 17-year-old blindly drive the process.”
Another tool she recommends: the Net Price Calculator on college websites, which the government began mandating in 2011. (The net price is the cost of school minus scholarships and grants.) To find these calculators, “Google the name of the school and ‘net price calculator,’” O’Shaughnessy said.
Two more of her suggestions:
1) Research the generosity of schools to see how much need-based aid they offer (this info is on the College Board site). For example, Columbia is generous, O’Shaughnessy said, but NYU is stingy — although it does give out some merit aid.
2) Check out a college’s four-year graduation rate so you’ll know your odds of getting stuck owing a fifth year of tuition. You can find this stat by Googling “college completion” and that’ll take you to the College Completion microsite of the Chronicle of Higher Education. Pomona College has a 93 percent four-year grad rate but neighbor Cal State Poly at Pomona has a 10 percent rate.
5. And one over-the-top way to save on taxes, pay for college and help your kids if you have a business: hire your children and then get “creative.” This last tip came from Jeff Rattiner, the fast-talking president of JR Financial Group and creator of Rattiner’s Financial Planning Fast Track.
Here’s his idea: Pay your child $11,800, which equals the maximum $5,500 traditional IRA contribution and the $6,300 standard deduction. That will bring his taxable income down to zero. And open an IRA for your child.
“Then, say to the kids: You have to give back the $6,300 to mom and me,” Rattiner said. “Put that money into a 529 college savings account; you may even get a tax deduction. It works out really, really well. All of a sudden, you have a 529 and an IRA for your kid.”
A bonus: You don’t have to take out payroll tax for some types of businesses if the child is under 18, said Rattiner.
What kind of work should you have your child do? “What are kids better at than probably all of us? Technology! Have them set up your social media and Internet presence,” said Rattiner.
Richard Eisenberg is the Senior Web Editor of the Money & Security and Work & Purpose channels of Next Avenue and Managing Editor for the site. He is the author of How to Avoid a Mid-Life Financial Crisis and has been a personal finance editor at Money, Yahoo, Good Housekeeping, and CBS MoneyWatch. Follow him on Twitter.
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Don’t Shortchange Your Philanthropic Potential
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A wonderful client was very excited. She was working with longtime friends and introduced them to her organization. Due to circumstances, they connected with great interest in what the organization was doing.
“We are going to be making a gift,” the donor shared. (This donor does not make small gifts.)
“I haven’t even asked for a gift, and we are just trying to help you,” the client responded sincerely.
“I know,” the donor said. “But fundraising is all about relationships.”
This is a perfect example of the benefits of a donor-focused, relationship-based fundraising program.
There are two all-stars at the University of Georgia—Parker Middleton in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and Dana Strickland in the College of Pharmacy. Both are longtime friends and have inspired me to accumulate greater wealth, so that I can make a bigger difference for both of their institutions.
“Shortcuts make long delays,” writes J.R.R. Tolkien in “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.” This is especially true in fundraising. When you forget to be donor-focused and relationship-focused and take a more transactional, sales approach, you will fall far below your short- and long-term potential. Philanthropic fundraising is very different from economic development work or political fundraising, for example.
We don’t work on campaigns without the vital reach of a planning study with confidential insight from key potential donors. After 30 years, I am still amazed what people will share to help the client, if they trust you. Things that would never be shared directly.
Likewise, while we might help with board giving, we traditionally don’t make asks in a campaign because we know the client’s staff and volunteers will be far more effective. We are the “hired guns” engaged for a brief period of time. While we establish wonderful relationships, the relationship with the organization usually precedes and when built correctly will certainly follow our engagement.
There are organizations that, typically with roots in economic development campaigns in the chamber world, ask for gifts. This is perfectly fine in a transactional economic development approach, but, frankly, goes against most of what I have observed over 30 years in the field.
Research does show that people give to people. People who are involved in an organization—serving as volunteers and board members—give more overall and more to those organizations where they are involved.
If you want to build a culture of philanthropy, there is no substitute for peer-to-peer asks and that means relationships built over time in most cases. Having volunteers involved on a call in nearly every case enhances the outcome. There are also tenured professionals who, like my friends Parker and Dana, can very effectively manage a portfolio of relationships and be very successful at securing gifts.
Philanthropy is very personal. Having a “stranger” suddenly dropped into a relationship to ask for a gift is not only awkward, but doesn’t show the donor respect or a commitment to a culture of philanthropy.
Take the “highest and best-use” approach in your advancement program. And the highest and best use of staff and volunteers is to nurture long-term, genuine relationships. Effective counsel can conduct research, conduct a plan based on reach and direct the implementation of the plan—including coaching of staff and volunteers so that they feel comfortable and are successful in asking for gift investments. And remember, the “ask” should be one of a series of conversations with the potential donor about their opportunity to create a solution to big challenges.
Build a culture of philanthropy. Challenge your board and staff to embrace a donor-focused, relational approach. Invest in your board and staff and build a development program that is built to last—through leadership transitions and that grows stronger and stronger with the success and capacity-building of each campaign.
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WriteClearly: Developing a Google Apps Add-on to Promote Plain Language in the Legal Community
Published by Quinten Steenhuis on January 19, 2017
I recently was sent by my employer, Greater Boston Legal Services, to a legal technology hackathon at the TIG 2017 conference in San Antonio, Texas. Our team created a tool that helps legal aid lawyers do a better job of writing for the general public. Statistics show that the average reading level in the United States is between 6th and 8th grade. We created an add-on that connects Write Clearly, a plain language tool developed with funding from legal services programs, to Google Docs. Lawyers and advocates can now use Write Clearly from within Google Docs to evaluate their writing. The app also offers suggestions to make the writing readable at the average grade level. The goal is to get advocates to write letters that do a better job of informing our clients. EDIT: the official Urban Insight version of the plugin is now available on the Chrome Web Store!
A “hackathon” is a gathering of people who know the topic (civil legal aid) and people who can program. Some hackathons are contests, but this hackathon was cooperative, with the 30 attendees from all over the country breaking into teams to work on 7 different projects. Projects ranged from improving the sharing of information, to using artificial intelligence to speed up the legal intake process. A lot was crammed into a short time! We worked for about 8 hours straight in our teams. With funding for legal aid threatened and the need growing, legal technology is set to play an increasingly important role in helping legal services bridge the access to justice gap. I wrote this blog post to talk a little about the hackathon and the Write Clearly tool; the process of developing for Google Docs; and where this project might go in the future. I include some technical background and code, but if you’re just interested in how the app works for end-users, feel free to skip to the description of the project and next steps.
For anybody interested in working on add-ons for Google Docs, I can tell you that the process is surprisingly accessible even for someone new to modern web development, and it can be quite rewarding. It was really fun to spend a day and publish a complete project to the Chrome Web Store. As a model for other projects, I think others could benefit from learning how we were able to develop something useful, quickly, by leveraging existing work.
Unfortunately, I can’t share a public link to the project just yet–the Write Clearly team is working on making changes to the code that makes this work in the background–but all of the code for the Google Apps add-on we created is on Github. Keep an eye here over the next few weeks for the link to the app itself to be made public.
What is WriteClearly and What is Plain Language?
Plain language means using language that most of your audience can understand. In the United States, the average adult reading grade level is between 6th and 8th grade. Tragically, it’s estimated that 14% of adults effectively can’t read at all. In legal services, our clients may face additional barriers to understanding our advice, such as English as a second language, trauma, disability, or stress. A lot of a lawyer’s job is giving advice, so it’s easy to see why using writing that our clients can understand is important.
Making your writing more readable means using shorter sentences, more common vocabulary words, and words with fewer syllables. Without help, lawyers often go the other way. We are known to use overly-complicated sentences that can be written in the passive voice; too many, and overly subordinate, or dangling, clauses; and it’s conceivable we have a tendency to use Daedalian vocabulary.
The existing WriteClearly bookmarklet was developed by Urban Insight for Legal Assistance of Western New York, Inc.® and Idaho Legal Aid Services as part of a TIG grant. The original goal was to help legal services programs use plain language on their public-facing websites. It didn’t work within a word processor, which meant a big chunk of the writing we want to make clear–letters to clients–wasn’t easy to evaluate until now.
Literally the day before the Hackathon, Gergely Lekli of Open Advocate finished the key part of the project: an API that we could connect to from Google Apps. Gergely is based in LA and remained available on the Hackathon’s Slack channel to answer questions about both the API and the front-end code we needed to connect it to Google Apps.
On-site at the hackathon, our team was just two. Anna Steele of LAWNY had helped work on the original WriteClearly bookmarklet with Abhijeet Chavan of Urban Insight, and during the hackathon she worked on the overall direction of our plan, the design and content, and a lot of the HTML code. The idea for the Google Apps add-on was conceived last year by Abhijeet, Anna and Gergely. I (Quinten Steenhuis) am a lawyer and systems administrator at Greater Boston Legal Services, and I worked on the programming.
The WriteClearly AddOn
WriteClearly, the bookmarklet, does a lot: it highlights troublesome sentences, allows navigation within the document, and suggests replacements. We knew that in our hackathon we wanted to produce a completed project, and that meant focusing on the key functionality and setting ourselves limits. We decided on two goals:
A visually attractive presentation of the readability “score”.
A list of the sentences, with “problem” words highlighted.
We left out some key pieces that could fit in a completed project: inserting replacement text, navigating through the document, and offering synonyms. Focusing on just the core functionality allowed us to make a lot of progress quickly.
Our final result was a Google Docs add-on that is available in the Chrome Web Store. Unfortunately, because the API is unfinished, I can’t share the link to the add-on yet.
Once the app is installed, a new menu item is available in Google Docs.
Next, the author should highlight the text and click the Evaluate button.
The evaluation runs, and the sidebar updates with the evaluation. Below, from an example run, you can see (1) both a numeric Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score for the highlighted text and an icon that shows whether the score is “good” (at or below grade 8) or not; (2) a summary for each troublesome paragraph, and (3) specific highlighted suggestions about which words should be changed to make the text more readable.
That’s it for now!
Writing and Publishing a Google Apps Add On in 6 Hours
If you’re interested in the technical process of writing the add on, keep reading. Otherwise, you may want to skip ahead to the next section where I’ll talk a little more about next steps for the project.
Creating the Add On drew on specific knowledge that was pretty new to me: specifically, the syntax for JavaScript callbacks and JSON. General programming principles are not too different from platform to platform, and I had tried some projects that used both. Still, working through slightly unfamiliar syntax meant a good chunk of time was needed for referring to documentation and examples instead of working on program logic. Jon, who was assigned to the Houston AI project being developed by Legal Server, helped out by looking over the example code and explaining some of the unfamiliar syntax. The sharing of knowledge was one of the great aspects of this collaborative hackathon.
Understanding the sample code
The first task was to find some documentation and figure out what existing work could be reused to speed up our project. Google’s sample translation Add On for Google Docs fit the bill perfectly.
On the airplane, I tried to get a little prepared for the hackathon by reviewing some of the Google Add On developer’s documentation. Google has a “Quickstart” series aimed at getting you started at writing code for Google Apps in just five minutes. For an experienced frontend developer, five minutes might be literal, but even for myself it was a great start. Key features that made this a perfect sample project:
The visual presentation matched our goal of putting content in a sidebar, and already fit the Google Apps design aesthetic. It was easy to use existing CSS classes.
The example connected to an external API, just like we would have to do.
The concept of “translating” applies very well to what the WriteClearly API does, offering a suggested replacement for text in the document.
Mapping out the project
I determined that only a few new functions would need to be written for our project: the backend code in “code.gs” and the frontend code in “sidebar.html”. The new backend function, getTextEvaluation, is about 30 lines of code, and is modeled on the getTextTranslation function from the sample project. There’s a bunch of syntactic sugar to get the query and the results in the proper format, but the guts of the function is a call to UrlFetchApp, Google App’s function that connects to an external API.
UrlFetchApp has two arguments: a URL, and an “options” object that includes the payload for the API and a method (POST or GET). The WriteClearly API expected a JSON payload with just two parameters: JSON=1; and CONTENT, the text to analyze in HTML format.
Two tools were really helpful in testing out the WriteClearly API and learning how to use it in the Google Apps code: HurlIt, which lets you test a POST query against a URL, and JSON Editor Online.
The other key function needed to be written in sidebar.html, runEvaluation. The main logic is in the unnamed callback function after line 10, “.withSuccessHandler” The code replaces the contents of two named DIVs in the HTML, #fkgl-index, and #suggestions. For #fkgl-index, we use some simple logic to check the returned grade level, and assign a smiley face for a “good” reading level, and a frowny or angry face for a “bad” level. We also display the numeric value. The content of the suggestions DIV is replaced with an unordered list that contains a summary for each flagged paragraphs.
The draft WriteClearly API contains a stream of HTML text that was formatted for the existing bookmarklet, including a list of synonyms. We did not have time to create buttons to expand/hide the suggestions, nor to actually make use of those suggestions by inserting them in the text as replacements. Therefore, we decided to use CSS to hide the suggestions and to highlight the troublesome words. Gergely helped us figure out that the key elements that we needed to hide were wc-list and wc-list-full. We hid them by simply adding CSS that set those two classes to display:none. The flagged words had a class of wc-hinted. Our process was running the code, debugging the value of the returned JSON to console, copying and pasting into notepad++ for its syntax highlighting/bracket matching, and trial and error.
Working on the runEvaluation function was the core of what we needed to do on the frontend code. We also worked on adding clearly named structural elements that would make it easy to do some future design work. We made a quick effort at separating the code, CSS, and content into separate files, but ran into some roadblocks when the official Google Apps documentation on this seemed not to work. That’s an obvious place to begin refactoring for a final, polished project.
We stopped to evaluate our progress here, and decided that the next steps would likely demand more time than we had available. So we devoted the last hour and a half of the hackathon to learning how to publish the add-on to the Google Chrome Web Store, uploading the finished code to Github, and working on the quick presentation that was set for 4:30. Some roadblocks: the Web Store demands some finicky items, including images in very particular sizes. These were a pain to produce, and technical restrictions made it hard to download and install appropriate software to speed this up during the hackathon. However, we worked through with a combination of Windows Paint and Greenshot.
The final code, complete with messy leftovers from the sample project and some debugging code left in, can be found on Github and is presently licensed under GPLv3.
Next Steps for WriteClearly
We ran out of time to implement our full vision for the project. Here are a few future improvements that stick out:
Improve the look of the add-on through CSS styling. We tried to use logical structures, such as lists and DIVs, to make this future design process straightforward.
Better defaults. Right now, text needs to be highlighted for evaluation. Clicking the evaluation button with no text highlighted should evaluate the full document.
Display synonyms. We hide those currently to avoid cluttering the display–buttons should allow hiding or showing synonyms in context.
Insert replacement text if the user wants it, and navigate through the open Google Docs document as suggestions and scores are displayed.
Refactor the code, remove unused cruft, and separate out code, css, and HTML that’s currently in sidebar.html into separate files.
This was a very rewarding project. We learned a lot about developing and publishing a Google Docs add-on, and we managed to produce a usable prototype. I left with some key lessons:
Working on a project that connects and amplifies two existing platforms let us get quick results. Google Apps, in particular, had some very useful sample code that we could borrow to get started with.
Setting ourselves limited goals gave us the chance to complete something. A completed project is always easier to understand and present. However, we did think carefully about next steps. We tried to plan and code the project up front in a way that our limited work can be extended into a complete project down the road, without starting from scratch.
It’s often true that the last 10% of a project can consume more than 50% of the project time, but this hackathon demonstrated a great, working and already useful prototype. Open Advocate plans to roll out a production version of the add-on in the next few weeks. I hope that you’ll be able to use it! EDIT: the official Urban Insight version of the plugin is now available on the Chrome Web Store!
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International Women's Day: McDonald's Flips Iconic 'M' Logo (Video)
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In an innovative initiative, multinational fast food chain McDonald's has decided to flip its 'hallmark golden arches' on the occasion of International Women’s Day on March 8. At least one outlet of McDonald's in California has turned the iconic 'M' sign of the company upside down, according to reports.
The company is using a similar logo on its official website, Twitter and Instagram handles as well.
In a statement, McDonald's chief diversity officer Wendy Lewis said, "In celebration of women everywhere, and for the first time in our brand history, we flipped our iconic arches for International Women’s Day on March 8 in honor of the extraordinary accomplishments of women everywhere and especially in our restaurants."
In a bid to showcase their inclusive policy, the statement claimed that in US, 62 per cent of McDonald’s employees are female, six out of 10 of restaurant managers are women.
The website of the company is also running a campaign under which women employees of McDonald's have shared inspirational stories from their lives.
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Penrith ready for DCE to prove point to Qld
Tue 4 Jul 2017, 07:16 AM
Penrith players say they are readying themselves for a fired-up Manly skipper Daly Cherry-Evans to take out his frustrations on them after controversially being overlooked for an injury-hit Maroons squad for the Origin series decider next Wednesday.
Despite losing star playmaker Johnathan Thurston as well as Broncos fullback Darius Boyd – who played centre in the Game Two win – there was no room in Queensland coach Kevin Walters' 17 for Cherry-Evans, who has been arguably the form half of the competition over the past eight to 10 weeks.
Walters instead opted to debut Melbourne's Cameron Munster and Brisbane's Ben Hunt and Munster – who seems likely to play centre for Boyd – has been in strong form and has a combination with the large Storm contingent already in the Maroons team.
However Hunt – despite impressing a fortnight ago off the bench against the struggling Raiders – has spent time either injured, coming off the bench or playing for Ipswich in the Intrust Super Premiership recently, on the basis he offered more off the bench.
Panthers prop Tim Browne – who spent time with Cherry-Evans in the Manly system in 2009 – said he was "shocked" the Manly captain was overlooked for Queensland duties.
"I played with Cherry at the start of my career at Manly," Browne said.
"The form he's been in, it's good for NSW [that he's been overlooked]. I'm a New South Welshman so I don't really care. For Manly this weekend they'll be stoked to have him and I'm shocked [Queensland] didn't pick him."
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Browne laughed off rumours Cherry-Evans was out of favour with the Maroons hierarchy.
"He looks like a very humble and mature sort of a kid, very switched on so I can't see why anyone would have a problem with him and if they did you'd think they'd put it aside to have the best team on the paddock. That's their loss," he added.
Browne's fellow Panthers prop James Tamou was equally surprised that Cherry-Evans would be at Pepper Stadium on Saturday, rather than in Sanctuary Cove preparing for the most highly-anticipated Origin clash in recent memory.
"DCE, I'm sure he'll turn it on," Tamou said.
"He's been going well, I don't think he has too much [of a point to prove], I think he was just very unlucky."
Like Browne, Tamou wasn't copping suggestions Cherry-Evans was on the nose in Queensland.
"I don't believe that one bit. I think he's just been unlucky," Tamou added.
"There's always new blood coming through, my situation as well [getting overlooked for NSW this year]. That's just how it is. He's obviously doing well, he's a better player for it I guess."
Penrith desperately need a result against the third-placed Sea Eagles if they are to keep their fading finals hopes alive and the presence of Manly's in-form skipper makes that job considerably harder – but Browne said he'd prefer it that way.
"It will be good to play against a team like this and really test ourselves and it's one we're all looking forward to," he said.
"[Cherry-Evans] is a great player. But I'm glad he's there because if we get the win it would be good to get it against a team that has their full roster, we need to really take some confidence out of that game."
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Four main groupings of household type are used in the analysis in this section: 1 adult, 2 or more adults, 1 adult with child(ren), and 2 or more adults with child(ren).
The projections for West Lothian show the largest percentage increase in total households between 2000 and 2014 at 24 per cent. The projections for Eilean Siar and Inverclyde show the smallest projected increases at 3 per cent; however the number of households in Dundee City are projected to decrease by 5 per cent over the same period (refer to Chart 5). The largest numerical increases are projected for Glasgow City (38,540) and the City of Edinburgh (37,080).
It should be noted at this point that projections for areas with small populations tend to be less reliable than those for areas with large populations. Go to Annex B.2.
The number of one adult households is projected to increase in all Local Authority areas. Again the largest percentage is projected to be in West Lothian (by 52 per cent). Dundee City has the lowest projected percentage increase, at just 12 per cent. Glasgow City has the largest increase in terms of numbers of households at 32,980, followed by The City of Edinburgh at 27,830.
Households with one adult with child(ren) are projected to increase in all local authority areas, however only a 1 per cent increase is projected in Eilean Siar. The largest percentage increase is projected for Stirling (60 per cent). The largest increase numerically for this household type is projected to be in Glasgow City; an increase of 10,790 over the period.
All local authority areas show a decrease in the numbers of households with two or more adults and child(ren) between 2000 and 2014. Dundee City and Aberdeen City have the largest percentage decrease (respectively 60 and 57 per cent) with East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire and Stirling showing the smallest percentage decreases over the period at 18, 19 and 21 per cent respectively. Again Glasgow City is projected to have the largest numerical change with a decrease of 16,600 between 2000 and 2014.
Households containing two or more adults with no children are projected to increase in all local authority areas except Dundee City between 2000 and 2014, with the largest percentage increase in West Lothian (32 per cent). These households are projected to decrease by 2 per cent (560) in Dundee City. In terms of numbers of households, the City of Edinburgh is projected to have the largest increase, of 14,930 households.
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We're proud to be the first hospital in the East of England to offer robotic-arm assisted surgery for a range of orthopaedic treatments.
Robotic-arm assisted surgery provides patients with a personalised surgical plan for joint replacement surgery.
The state-of-the-art Mako™ robotic arm system works alongside the surgeon from the pre-surgery planning stage through to assisting in the surgery itself in order to improve the accuracy and precision of the procedure.
Before surgery, a personalised 3D model is created based on the patient’s own CT scan, allowing the exact size and orientation of the hip or knee implant to be planned. During the operation, the robot arm guides the surgeon, following the customised pre-surgery plan, reducing the risk of surgical errors in bone preparation and placement of the implants.
Current robot assisted orthopaedic procedures available at Nuffield Health Cambridge Hospital:
At Nuffield Health Cambridge Hospital we have a specialist group of surgeons known as SMART (Specialist Mako Assisted Robotic Team) pictured below.
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Democratic National Convention Starts Monday
Posted: Jul 25, 2016 / 04:47 AM CDT / Updated: Jul 25, 2016 / 04:47 AM CDT
(via Fox16) The Democratic National Convention starts Monday in Philadelphia amid some strife and on the heels of Donald Trump officially receiving the nomination of the Republican party.
The Delegation spent the day checking into hotels, getting credentials preparing for a busy week ahead, but there’s a backdrop of controversy.
Throughout the day Sunday, demonstrators took to the streets of Philadelphia, many of them to show their support for the runner up in the Democratic Presidential Primary, Bernie Sanders.
As they arrived in the City of Brotherly Love state Delegates said the Sanders movement is good for the party.
But in the end these Democrats say the party will unite around Hillary Clinton, even if she was not their first choice because they all share a common goal of stopping Donald Trump.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA) — Chilirhea needs more volunteers for this year's event on Saturday, February 8.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA) — A ribbon-cutting was held for the grand opening of a new satellite location in Northwest Arkansas.
Arkansas Secretary of State John Thurston now has an office in Fayetteville to better serve the growing business community of Northwest Arkansas, according to a press release.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA) — The Kansas City Royals released a statement that said former owner David Glass passed away last week.
Glass was also the President and CEO of Walmart from 1988 to 2000.
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Politics|Bernie Sanders Leads Tight Race in New Iowa Poll
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Bernie Sanders Leads Tight Race in New Iowa Poll
Mr. Sanders edged out his competitors in The Des Moines Register/CNN poll released on Friday, the first significant survey from Iowa in nearly two months.
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DES MOINES — Bernie Sanders edged ahead of his Democratic rivals in Iowa, affirming his resurgence less than four weeks before next month’s caucuses, according to a new poll from The Des Moines Register and CNN.
The poll showed that Mr. Sanders was the first choice for 20 percent of would-be caucusgoers, an increase of five percentage points from November, when The Register last polled the state. He was followed closely by Elizabeth Warren at 17 percent, Pete Buttigieg at 16 percent and Joseph R. Biden Jr. at 15.
The results are the latest sign that Mr. Sanders — lifted by his loyal supporters and an unchanging message — has strong campaign momentum heading into the Feb. 3 Iowa caucuses and has rebounded politically after having a heart attack in October. It is the first time he has led a Register poll this cycle. In 2016, Mr. Sanders battled Hillary Clinton to a virtual tie in Iowa, transforming him into a threat for the Democratic nomination.
The poll was less kind to Mr. Buttigieg, who held a dominant lead in the last Register poll, with 25 percent support. That poll also showed Ms. Warren at 16 percent and Mr. Biden at 15 percent.
To say the poll was highly anticipated is an understatement. The poll is the first significant survey from Iowa in nearly two months, a drought that has left a murky picture of the Democratic primary race in a state that conducts its first-in-the-nation caucuses. Iowans famously break late, sometimes making their final decision in the weeks and days before the caucuses occur, and every campaign will be scrutinizing the results for signs that their candidate is strengthening — and that their rivals are weakening — heading into the final stretch.
The poll numbers are the latest evidence that the race in Iowa remains fluid and winnable for the top four candidates, who have all crisscrossed the state in recent weeks to try to persuade supporters to come out for them on caucus night. Only 40 percent of respondents said their minds were made up, a reflection of the indecision on the ground, where conversations with Iowans often reveal that they still favor multiple candidates.
Of paramount importance to many Democrats in Iowa is beating President Trump in the general election in November. But the absence of a clear front-runner, along with no indication that any one candidate will break away from the pack in the remaining weeks, has left many voters unsure where to align their preferences.
Who’s Qualified for the Next 2020 Democratic Debate?
Here’s a look at who’s made the cut for the February debate so far.
Amy Klobuchar, who has attracted more interest in recent weeks but has yet to convert that into an increase in actual support, held steady at 6 percent, good for a distant fifth place in the poll. Cory Booker, who is hoping for a lucky break, also remained unchanged at 3 percent, behind the entrepreneur Andrew Yang, who was at 5 percent.
The poll of 701 likely Democratic caucusgoers was conducted Jan. 2-8 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.7 percentage points.
Political officials here widely believe that there are five tickets out of Iowa this year, instead of the typical three.
Much has changed since The Register last released its poll on Nov. 16. Kamala Harris, who was once considered a top-tier candidate but had seen her standing severely slip, dropped out of the race, leaving her supporters scrambling to find an alternative candidate to back. The House of Representatives voted to impeach President Trump. And escalating tension with Iran has pushed foreign policy to the forefront of a primary race that had so far focused more squarely on domestic issues.
The deadline to qualify for Tuesday’s Democratic debate was 11:59 p.m. on Friday, and normally, an Iowa poll released hours before such a deadline could bolster candidates on the cusp of qualifying. But this time, no one was on the cusp.
Mr. Booker and Mr. Yang both met the Democratic National Committee’s donor requirement, but Mr. Yang had only one qualifying poll of the required four, and Mr. Booker had none. The Iowa poll gave Mr. Yang his second qualifying mark, but it was not enough to get him into the debate.
Maggie Astor contributed from New York.
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This Young Woman Hasn’t Touched a Smartphone in Eight Months, Stands to Win $100,000
By Spooky on October 7th, 2019 Category: News
Remember Vitaminwater’s “scroll free for a year” challenge that dared people to go smartphone free for a whole year to win $100,000? Well, this New York woman is eight months into her smartphone-free year, and just four months away from claiming grand prize.
Vitaminwater made news headlines last December when it announced its unique challenge. Thousands of people applied to be chosen as the perfect candidate to spend a year without touching their smartphone, but in the end, the only person who got to try and survive for an entire year without a handheld was Elana Mugdan, a 29-year-old fiction writer from Queens, New York. Eight months into the challenge, she claims it’s been a freeing and eye-opening experience that showed her just how dependent she had become to her smartphone. Even though there are times when she misses her handheld, she plans to go on living without it even after the challenge ends.
Photo: Elana Mugdan/Instagram
“I’ve decided that I will never go back to smartphone use once the one-year contest is up,” Mugdan told CNN. “I don’t think I can be trusted with the technology — if I have access to a smartphone, I suspect I’ll go right back to abusing it, wasting time, staying up all hours of the night on it, and getting addicted to social media, and I really don’t want to go back to all that.”
When she started the “Scroll Free For a Year” challenge, Elana Mugdan had to trade her iPhone 5s for a Kyocera flip phone that she could only use to call and text. She still has access to her laptop, desktop PC and high-tech devices like Amazon Echo, but not having access to her smartphone really made certain situations a lot harder than she could have imagined them before.
Today marks the three-month anniversary of #nophoneforayear, and what an adventure it’s been! . It’s also T-2 days til the big book launch event at @bnunionsquareny – link in bio! . . . #barnesandnoble #barnesandnobleevents #authorevent #newyorkcityevents #newyorkcity #unionsquare #indieauthor #indiepub #bookevent #signedbooks #yafantasy #fantasyseries #dragonbook #bookdragon #dragonspeaker #dragonchild #theshadowwarsaga #booklaunch #dragonsarereal
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“Once, I almost got stranded in the SeaTac airport because the phone number I’d written down was wrong, and I had no way of looking up the right one, no way of calling a cab or Uber, and no one in the state who could help me,” the young fantasy writer said.
Another time, her car’s “check engine” light turned on while she was driving in an unfamiliar area, at night. She couldn’t use her phone’s GPS location feature, or even check what the light meant on Google or find a nearby car repair shop. Still, she learned to overcome these situations and claims the last eight months of smartphone-free life have been one of the best adventures of her life.
If she manages to go another four months without using a smartphone, the 29-year-old New-Yorker stands to pocket $100,000, but according to the rules, she will also have to undergo a lite-detector test to prove that she didn’t cheat during the one-year challenge.
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Home / Music / Drake’s “Scorpion” Sets New Record With One Billion Streams in 1st Week
Drake's "Scorpion" Sets New Record With One Billion Streams in 1st Week
Posted by Ivie Ani
Drake just made history.
Drake‘s fifth studio album, Scorpion, has passed the one billion mark in total streams, according to a press release from the rapper’s record label Republic Records.
This marks the first time an album has hit this milestone in one week.
WATCH: Drake Celebrates Getting One Billion Streams in a Week by Dropping New Freestyle
According to Republic Records, the 25-track album released on June 29th, has broken the “all-time US one-week streaming record” in under three days, and the “all-time Global one-week streaming record” in four days.
Scorpion is now the no. 1 release on the Billboard Top 200, marking Drake’s eighth consecutive no. 1 on the chart.
According to Forbes, he’s also scored “the most RIAA singles certifications of any artist in history” with 142 million digital single sales to date.
READ: Users Demand Refund From Spotify After Heavy-Handed Drake Promotion
The album, which features a guest appearance from Jay-Z and previously unreleased vocals by the late Michael Jackson, spawned a new dance challenge online called the “#InMyFeelingsChallenge.”
Drake also made headlines with the project for confirming rumors that he fathered a child.
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Video Shows Atlanta Wal-Mart Tomato Incident (Video)
Tyrone Carnegay filed a lawsuit on April 6 over an October 2014 incident in which an off-duty Atlanta police officer reportedly beat him inside a Wal-Mart (video below).
"He’s giving a verbal command," Carnegay told WSB-TV. "As he’s grabbing me, beating me at the same time, saying, ‘Get on ground, get on ground, get on ground.'"
"My leg started giving out, man, I said, 'Whoa!' and then that's when he jumped on my back and everything at the end." Carnegay added. "I said, 'Here go my hands man, what's the problem?'"
The officer, identified by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as Trevor King, is seen on the store surveillance video striking Carnegay several times with his baton. He was reportedly working off-duty as a security officer for Wal-Mart.
"As a result of Defendant King’s brutal attack, Mr. Carnegay suffered bodily injuries, including fractures to his right fibula and tibia," Carnegay’s lawyers Craig Jones and Steven West wrote in the lawsuit against Wal-Mart, the manager who was on duty at the store, and King.
"Well, I was chained to the bed in Grady [Memorial Hospital]," Carnegay told WSB-TV. "Because he said that I assaulted him and obstructed him from doing his job, and then I went to jail for three days."
Carnegay alleges he had a broken right leg and a ruptured artery.
Carnegay's lawsuit asserts the store manager falsely accused him of stealing a tomato, and when King reached into his pocket he (King) found a receipt that showed Carnegay had paid for the tomato.
"Somebody should have come up to him and just said, 'Excuse me sir, do you have a receipt for that tomato?' And if they had done that he would've shown him the receipt," Jones stated. "And then the officer went into Robocop mode and beat the crap out of him."
"When he found the receipt and money, and everything, he just stood up there like he hadn't done nothing," Carnegay said.
According to Carnegay, misdemeanor charges -- simple battery against police and willful obstruction of law enforcement officers -- against him were dropped.
A Wal-Mart representative said the company had not been served with the lawsuit, but added: "We take the matter seriously. We will review the allegations and respond appropriately with the court."
The Atlanta Police Department did not issue a comment to the newspaper or the news station.
Sources: WSB-TV, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution / Photo credit: WSB-TV via YouTube
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Family Research Council Claims Harvard Study Proves Gay Marriage Is Bad For Kids
Allison Geller
Two higher-ups from the anti-gay Family Research Council distorted the results of a Harvard study on the radio show Washington Watch, finding an argument against same-sex marriage when there was none.
The study, titled “Where Is The Land of Opportunity?”, investigated which factors lead to the most absolute and relative mobility in low-income communities— how much money children raised in those communities end up making as adults, and the difference in income between rich and poor children in the same community.
The authors found that family structure has the most to do with a child’s success later in life. Children raised by single mothers were less likely to enjoy more absolute and relative mobility. Even being raised in a community with fewer single parents meant that children were more likely to end up higher up on the income ladder.
Family Research Council president Tony Perkins and senior research fellow Peter Sprigg twisted the Harvard study to fit their anti-gay marriage agenda on Washington Watch.
Sprigg cites the Harvard study, stating, “if a child grows up in a community with married households, that child will do better than a child raised in a community where there are many single parent households.”
According to Sprigg, the Harvard findings prove that marriage needs to be sanctified as a union between a man and a woman.
“This is exactly what I’ve been saying about the marriage issue, if you redefine marriage it’s not going to affect just those couples, it’s going to affect the whole community by setting an example,” he said.
“That study then answers that question: how does my same-sex marriage affect yours?” Perkins chimed in. “Well, it may not affect my marriage but it affects my children because it has an impact upon marriage across the board.”
The study, however, makes no mention of same-sex parents or couples— it focuses on whether children are raised by one or two parents, and not the sex of the parents.
According to Think Progress, “the trick of conflating ‘fatherless’ children is a favorite for those opposed to marriage equality, though no study has ever found parallels between having two moms and having just one.”
Studies about the effects of single parents on children’s development have been used by anti-marriage equality factions in support of their definition of marriage, while studies examining the effect of same-sex couples on the children they raise show positive outcomes.
Sources: Slate, Right Wing Watch, Think Progress
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OSTI.GOV Technical Report: Photos of Lansmont PDT 80 drop test machine at Los Alamos
Title: Photos of Lansmont PDT 80 drop test machine at Los Alamos
The Los Alamos RP-SVS Radiation Protection Services group designed and constructed a drop tower facility for TA- 55 support work. The drop mechanism was supplied by the Lansmont company in Monterey CA. Los Alamos staffers Murray Moore and Yong Tao have noticed that the system is not dropping loads correctly, and they have photographed aspects of the PDT- 80 model system. The first 10 photos show the platen loaded with a cylindrical steel bar. The next 10 photos are of the roller-cam mechanism in the drop tower, and the last 2 photos indicate the amount of looseness in the platen when it is being pulled by a person.
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Moore, Murray E. Photos of Lansmont PDT 80 drop test machine at Los Alamos. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.2172/1415364.
Moore, Murray E. Photos of Lansmont PDT 80 drop test machine at Los Alamos. United States. doi:10.2172/1415364.
Moore, Murray E. Thu . "Photos of Lansmont PDT 80 drop test machine at Los Alamos". United States. doi:10.2172/1415364. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1415364.
title = {Photos of Lansmont PDT 80 drop test machine at Los Alamos},
author = {Moore, Murray E.},
abstractNote = {The Los Alamos RP-SVS Radiation Protection Services group designed and constructed a drop tower facility for TA- 55 support work. The drop mechanism was supplied by the Lansmont company in Monterey CA. Los Alamos staffers Murray Moore and Yong Tao have noticed that the system is not dropping loads correctly, and they have photographed aspects of the PDT- 80 model system. The first 10 photos show the platen loaded with a cylindrical steel bar. The next 10 photos are of the roller-cam mechanism in the drop tower, and the last 2 photos indicate the amount of looseness in the platen when it is being pulled by a person.},
doi = {10.2172/1415364},
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Chemical decontamination technical resources at Los Alamos National Laboratory (2008)
Conference Moore, Murray E
This document supplies information resources for a person seeking to create planning or pre-planning documents for chemical decontamination operations. A building decontamination plan can be separated into four different sections: Pre-planning, Characterization, Decontamination (Initial response and also complete cleanup), and Clearance. Of the identified Los Alamos resources, they can be matched with these four sections: Pre-planning -- Dave Seidel, EO-EPP, Emergency Planning and Preparedness; David DeCroix and Bruce Letellier, D-3, Computational fluids modeling of structures; Murray E. Moore, RP-2, Aerosol sampling and ventilation engineering. Characterization (this can include development projects) -- Beth Perry, IAT-3, Nuclear Counterterrorism Response (SNIPER database); Fernandomore » Garzon, MPA-11, Sensors and Electrochemical Devices (development); George Havrilla, C-CDE, Chemical Diagnostics and Engineering; Kristen McCabe, B-7, Biosecurity and Public Health. Decontamination -- Adam Stively, EO-ER, Emergency Response; Dina Matz, IHS-IP, Industrial hygiene; Don Hickmott, EES-6, Chemical cleanup. Clearance (validation) -- Larry Ticknor, CCS-6, Statistical Sciences.« less
Energy-efficient valve gear
Patent Key, E.H.
A valve train comprises a cylinder head and poppet valve thereon, a valve-actuating rocker platen pivotally mounted on the cylinder head by means of a pivot member so that the platen may pivot between positions on either side of the member, a valve connected to one end of the rocker platen for movement of the valve simultaneously with movement of the rocker platen between the rocker platen positions, and actuator means for moving the rocker platen between the positions thereby positively moving the valve between its open position and its closed position. The actuator means consists of a rotary cammore » means and cooperating follower pivotally mounted and spring biased into engagement with the rocker platen and engaged with the cam means for pivoting the rocker arm upon rotation of the cam means, the follower comprising a pivotally mounted casing, spring biased plunger means on the casing, and biased to a roller bearing on and adapted to ride over the rocker platen, thereby moving the platen between the positions, the roller rotatably attached to the pivoted plunger means at the roller center rotation. An improvement to this valve train is provided wherein the platen is pivotally mounted at a point above the surface on which the roller rides and further, the radius of the roller equals the vertical distance from the platen to the point of pivotal mounting so that the center of rotation of the roller passes through the axis of the pivot point of the platen.« less
Define and Quantify the Physics of Air Flow, Pressure Drop and Aerosol Collection in Nuclear Grade HEPA Filters
Technical Report Moore, Murray E.
Objective: Develop a set of peer-review and verified analytical methods to adjust HEPA filter performance to different flow rates, temperatures and altitudes. Experimental testing will measure HEPA filter flow rate, pressure drop and efficiency to verify the analytical approach. Nuclear facilities utilize HEPA (High Efficiency Particulate Air) filters to purify air flow for workspace ventilation. However, the ASME AG-1 technical standard (Code on Nuclear Air and Gas Treatment) does not adequately describe air flow measurement units for HEPA filter systems. Specifically, the AG-1 standard does not differentiate between volumetric air flow in ACFM (actual cubic feet per minute)compared to massmore » flow measured in SCFM (standard cubic feet per minute). More importantly, the AG-1 standard has an overall deficiency for using HEPA filter devices at different air flow rates, temperatures, and altitudes. Technical Approach: The collection efficiency and pressure drops of 18 different HEPA filters will be measured over a range of flow rates, temperatures and altitudes. The experimental results will be compared to analytical scoping calculations. Three manufacturers have allocated six HEPA filters each for this effort. The 18 filters will be tested at two different flow rates, two different temperatures and two different altitudes. The 36 total tests will be conducted at two different facilities: the ATI Test facilities (Baltimore MD) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos NM). The Radiation Protection RP-SVS group at Los Alamos has an aerosol wind tunnel that was originally designed to evaluate small air samplers. In 2010, modifications were started to convert the wind tunnel for HEPA filter testing. (Extensive changes were necessary for the required aerosol generators, HEPA test fixtures, temperature control devices and measurement capabilities.) To this date, none of these modification activities have been funded through a specific DOE or NNSA program. This is expected to require six months of time, after receipt of funding. Benefits: US DOE facilities that use HEPA filters will benefit from access to the new operational measurement methods. Uncertainty and guesswork will be removed from HEPA filter operations.« less
Shell Measuring Machine. History and Status Report
Technical Report Birchler, Wilbur D. ; Fresquez, Philip R.
Commercialization of the Ring Rotacon Shell Measuring Machine project is a CRADA (NO. LA98C10358) between The University of California (Los Alamos National Laboratory) and Moore Tool Company, Bridgeport, CT. The actual work started on this CRADA in December of 1998. Several meetings were held with the interested parties (Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Moore Tool, and the University of North Carolina). The results of these meetings were that the original Ring Rotacon did not measure up to the requirements of the Department of Energy and private industry, and a new configuration was investigated. This new configuration (Shell Measuring Machine [SMM]) muchmore » better fits the needs of all parties. The work accomplished on the Shell Measuring Machine in FY 99 includes the following; Specifications for size and weight were developed; Performance error budgets were established; Designs were developed; Analyses were performed (stiffness and natural frequency); Existing part designs were compared to the working SMM volume; Peer reviews were conducted; Controller requirements were studied; Fixture requirements were evaluated; and Machine motions were analyzed. The consensus of the Peer Review Committee was that the new configuration has the potential to satisfy the shell inspection needs of Department of Energy as well as several commercial customers. They recommended that more analyses be performed on error budgets, structural stiffness, natural frequency, and thermal effects and that operational processes be developed. Several design issues need to be addressed. They are the type of bearings utilized to support the tables (air bearings or mechanical roller type bearings), the selection of the probes, the design of the probe sliding mechanisms, and the design of the upper table positioning mechanism. Each item has several possible solutions, and more work is required to obtain the best design. This report includes the background and technical objectives; minutes of the working meetings; peer review reports; and a summary of the work accomplished in FY99. Additional information on the machine specifications, error budgets, analysis results, and fixture requirements is available.« less
Design and Integrate Improved Systems for Nuclear Facility Ventilation and Exhaust Operations
Objective: The objective of this R&D project would complete the development of three new systems and integrate them into a single experimental effort. However, each of the three systems has stand-alone applicability across the DOE complex. At US DOE nuclear facilities, indoor air is filtered and ventilated for human occupancy, and exhaust air to the outdoor environment must be regulated and monitored. At least three technical standards address these functions, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory would complete an experimental facility to answer at least three questions: (1) Can the drag coefficient of a new Los Alamos air mixer bemore » reduced for better operation in nuclear facility exhaust stacks? (2) Is it possible to verify the accuracy of a new dilution method for HEPA filter test facilities? (3) Is there a performance-based air flow metric (volumetric flow or mass flow) for operating HEPA filters? In summary, the three new systems are: a mixer, a diluter and a performance-based metric, respectively. The results of this project would be applicable to at least four technical standards: ANSI N13.1 Sampling and Monitoring Releases of Airborne Radioactive Substances from the Stacks and Ducts of Nuclear Facilities; ASTM F1471 Standard Test Method for Air Cleaning Performance of a High-Efficiency Particulate Air Filter System, ASME N511: In-Service Testing of Nuclear Air Treatment, Heating, Ventilating, and Air-Conditioning Systems, and ASME AG-1: Code On Nuclear Air And Gas Treatment. All of the three proposed new systems must be combined into a single experimental device (i.e. to develop a new function of the Los Alamos aerosol wind tunnel). Technical Approach: The Radiation Protection RP-SVS group at Los Alamos has an aerosol wind tunnel that was originally (2006) designed to evaluate small air samplers (cf. US EPA 40 CFR 53.42). In 2009, the tunnel was modified for exhaust stack verifications per the ANSI N13.1 standard. In 2010, modifications were started on the wind tunnel for testing HEPA filters (cf. ASTM F1471 and ASME N511). This project involves three systems that were developed for testing the 24*24*11 (inch) HEPA filters (i.e. the already mentioned mixer, diluter and metric). Prototypes of the mixer and the diluter have been built and individually tested on a preliminary basis. However, the third system (the HEPA metric method) has not been tested, since that requires complete operability of the aerosol wind tunnel device. (The experimental wind tunnel has test aerosol injection, control and measurement capabilities, and can be heated for temperature dependent measurements.) Benefits: US DOE facilities that use HEPA filters and/or require exhaust stacks from their nuclear facility buildings will benefit from access to the new hardware (mixer and diluter) and performance-based metric (for HEPA filter air flow).« less
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Derek Not Shocked by Argyle's Run Of Results
Rick Cowdery
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THE victory at Bradford which took Argyle’s unbeaten run to six matches and lifted them off the bottom of Sky Bet League One might have surprised a few casual observers of English lower league football but not the Green Army, nor manager Derek Adams.
Jake Jervis’s 35th-minute goal gave the Pilgrims a 1-0 win which not even a late penalty-award that was the very epitome of dubiousness could deny them as on-loan goalkeeper Remi Matthews saved Tony McMahon’s spot-kick.
Derek, though, rejected a suggestion that a second successive away victory was further evidence that the Pilgrims’ season had turned around in the last month.
“It hasn’t, no,” he said. “The results have but, performance-wise, we have been very good all season. As I have said before, no team has outplayed us this season and I keep on saying we will do very well this season.
“We want to continue progressing and we’ll do that. We’ve got a good group of players. Their work-ethic is outstanding and that will get us ahead of the game because we have got individual players in the team who have got quality.
“We have competed very well this season and we feel we can move on now.
“It was a very good performance by us today. We defended very well and came away with what we deserved, which was three points. Overall, it was a top performance from us against a team that probably ran out of ideas.”
Derek did not agree with referee Carl Boyeson’s decisions to book four Argyle players and award a penalty after Bradford skipper Romain Vincelot tangled with Aaron Taylor-Sinclair.
“I’ve seen it on the video – it’s not a penalty,” he said. “The boy goes down very easily. He gets inside Taylor-Sinclair and falls to the ground. The linesman does not give it; the referee takes so long to give it, it’s unbelievable. Not a penalty.
“As a referee, you need to be 100% that it is going to be a penalty. He couldn’t be 100% because the time he took to make the decision; how far away he was from the incident; he didn’t make it in a split second.”
Remi cemented his growing reputation since arriving on an emergency loan from Norwich City by turning away McMahon’s well-struck kick.
“He got the referee out of jail, because it wasn’t a penalty,” said Derek. “Remi has been very good for this football club and we are delighted to have him. We hope to have him for longer.”
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Breaking Bad Habits? 'Appropriate Behavior' Trailer
By Emily Chambers | Videos | January 13, 2015 |
Do you guys all have that friend who is constantly telling you about some new movie that you’ve just got to see? I think they’re perpetually talking about this movie.
I’m not saying that this looks bad. It could be really interesting, but the trailer makes it’s look like what has become the stereotypical indie flick. Youngish woman having romantic difficulties, date faux pas, scenes on a subway. Doesn’t it seem like we’ve seen this before?
Well on the one hand, I’m into the demystification of bisexual and Middle Eastern women’s lives. The scene with Scott Adsit? Yes, more of that please. As difficult as life might be for women in repressive, sexist cultures, it’s a bad idea to imagine they have zero agency. It’s also a bad idea to imagine that women in same- sex romantic relationships spend all of their time at farmers markets processing their feelings. Lesbians have actually been spotted at night clubs in the wild. It’s shocking, but true.
And on the other hand if I never hear the phrase “young, hip Brooklynite”, it’ll be too soon. Attention twenty- somethings living in New York’s coolest borough: we get it. I’m not even opposed to Brooklyn itself. I’m opposed to the idea that where you live is a sufficient amount of personality to have.
I’m hoping the “young, hip Brooklynite” tag is ironic. The “I think it all happens outside of New York” line has to be sarcastic, right? But then we get into the sarcastic New Yorker stereotype. But maybe that itself is a commentary on how New York has become a caricature of itself in film and tv? Or a meta-commentary on how the public expects a specific type of New York to the point that even independent movies have to conform themselves to an image which is in no way an independent vision or voice?
See, and this is why I don’t watch more indie movies.
Break Out the Pie; Agent Dale Cooper Is Headed Back to 'Twin Peaks'
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Real Talk: The Curatorial Practice of Ema Tavola
By Daniel Michael Satele
You don’t meet someone like Ema Tavola very often: she perfectly balances energy, passion and intelligence and channels these into each project she works on – and she’s always working on a project. Ema is most well-known for having been the curator of Fresh Gallery Otara from 2006 to 2012, a platform she established and then used to put some of today’s major names in Pacific art on the map. When Auckland Art Gallery had its Home AKL survey exhibition of contemporary Pacific art last year over a third of the artists – and many of the artworks – had originally been seen in shows Ema curated, including Tanu Gago, Leilani Kake, Janet Lilo, Siliga David Setoga and Angela Tiatia.
What many people may not realise is that Ema didn’t just waltz into a pre-existing gallery and put some art on the walls. Under less-inspired leadership, Otara’s local, council-run art gallery wouldn’t have gained the kind of interest from the wider art scene that it now enjoys. For me, knowing Ema is a lesson in how much one person can make a difference in the world (and that says a lot because I’m a pretty cynical person).
Earlier this year Associate Professor Damon Salesa from the University of Auckland entered the term “segregation” into the public discourse about Auckland’s race relations, and this wider social dynamic is reflected in the art world. I doubt that “desegregation” per se is one of Ema’s priorities – in the sense that she is always very clear about her desire to attract and engage a Pacific audience, before any other – but her work is an important corrective to the status quo precisely for her privileging an audience others neglect. Refusing to ignore Pacific art, yet also avoiding the pitfall of fetishizing it for a mainstream, predominantly non-Pacific audience, has led Ema to do some of the most truly original curatorial work seen in Auckland during the last decade. The sad thing is that this kind of work falls to extraordinary people like Ema, demanding a level of effort and affect in excess of any job description, instead of being supported by the kind of systemic societal change that would make it ordinary.
First Curating Pacific Art Forum, Manukau City (May 2010)
Can you tell us a little about your childhood and adolescence?
I don’t remember much but I think I was often dressed in velour tracksuits. We had a deaf incontinent cat called Kennedy when I was about 7, and a King Charles Cavalier Spaniel called Rufus in my teens.
I grew up in Suva, London and Brussels. I didn’t really enjoy school. I used to draw on the back of the toilet stall doors and dream about getting tattoos.
The first CD I ever bought was “Regulate” by Warren G & Nate Dogg. That’s one of my favourite songs of all time.
I went to the British School of Brussels in Belgium for most of my school years and then did Seventh Form at Wellington High School. It was a pretty big shift; my life changed a lot when I was 16 – my family returned to Fiji and I came to New Zealand to finish school.
I grew up in a Fiji-centric household. There was no question about the pride of being a Fijian and a Pacific Islander. I grew up with a sense of service, loyalty and love for my country. I was also raised monolingual, so my love and respect for Fiji and being a Fijian is… in English.
Install, “MyFace” at Fresh Gallery Otara (June 2009)
Is curating an art form in itself?
For me curating is an extension of my art making practice. My curatorial practice draws on my experience and interests in installation and spatial design, social sculpture and interactivity. The politics of my art making are the politics of my curating, they are just different mediums that have the potential to affect different audiences.
As my art practice has evolved with me, my curatorial practice evolves with every project.
Francis Falaniko, photo by Vinesh Kumaran, part of “South Style” at Fresh Gallery Otara (May 2009)
How did it feel the first time a show you curated opened? Does it feel different now that you’ve done it more, or does it still feel the same?
The first show I curated was called The artists are described as… Polynesian Male. It was a joint show featuring two painter friends. I remember the most important thing for me was representing them well. I remember people being blown away with how much attention I’d invested into little things, like cleaning the skirting board of the gallery and making sure all the light bulbs matched. The first show I curated was for Artnet Gallery in Otara… curating in South Auckland is the best feeling.
I’ve produced a lot of shows since then – over 70 shows in nine or so years. Managing Fresh Gallery Otara for six years gave me a lot of room to experiment, and I learned a lot about what works, what doesn’t – who to work with, who to avoid. With every project, every show, every mess, my position as a curator is galvanised a little more.
I still aim to represent the artist to the best of my ability. For me, as their curator I am their advocate, their hype man. Context and audience has always been fundamental to me; I strive to create opportunities for Pacific audiences to have access, and be empowered, to engage with art made by Pacific artists.
Who is the living artist or curator you would most like to meet in person (and haven’t done so yet) and why?
I’d love to meet Thelma Golden, the Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City. We both see the potential for art and exhibition making to change perceptions about our communities, since African Americans and Pacific Islanders in Aotearoa both experience marginalisation, systemic inequalities and misrepresentation.
I remember seeing Thelma on the “Power 100” list in ArtReview magazine in 2009; she ranked 78 on this list of the most influential people in the art world. Holding her own on that list, she got me excited about the potential of believing wholeheartedly in a curatorial agenda rooted in socio-political substance. I’d LOVE to meet Thelma, and hang out at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Dairy series (2012), Vinesh Kumaran
Is there any particular style or method of curating that you dislike, and if so, why?
There’s so much about the art world I dislike… there’s so much I feel no connection with, no emotional response to, and so much I refuse to waste my intellectual energy on accommodating. I don’t have time for indulgent, art school masturbation.
I love clever curating… which makes me think about space and my physical presence in relation to art. I like to experience an exhibition; when it makes me feel like I’m meant to be there, and that this artwork is for me to experience – not just casually hanging in a room that people may walk through. I like when the artwork’s audience is considered respectfully and genuinely.
What is the hardest thing about being a curator?
I’ve spent most of my career curating as the manager of a gallery, and for the past 12 months I’ve been working without one. The difficult thing about curating without a gallery is not having a gallery.
There’s a whole different social dynamic to meeting artists and talking about doing projects when there’s no gallery to slot right into. Suddenly funding and quite intensive administration and marketing are part of curating. Before, I had assistance and budgets to do this kind of thing.
Whether it’s about curating or not, the hardest thing about working from the heart is burn-out. Working with artists and artwork I love, and curating for a community and socio-political space I draw energy, sustenance and inspiration from, I’ve found it hard to stay within my physical limitations. As in, I work myself half to death – I’ve been in and out of hospital and endured tragic repercussions. I have to set boundaries and keep myself safe.
Ema Tavola winning “Contemporary Pacific Artist” at the Arts Pasifika Awards 2012
What’s been the highlight of your career as a curator?
I loved receiving the Creative New Zealand Arts Pasifika Award in 2012 for ‘Contemporary Artist’. Having my curatorial practice recognised as a contemporary art practice from the Pacific Arts Committee was pretty monumental. I thought of the late, great Cook Islands curator Jim Vivieaere that night… his legacy and position, and what a gift it was to have been around him, to learn from him. It was an award I felt represented all the hard-working people who stand behind the artists, working long hours to support other peoples’ visions.
#2girls1conference fundraising campaign, photo by Sean Atavenitia
What projects are you working on over the next 12 months?
I’m currently in the midst of a feverish fundraising effort to help get Leilani Kake and I to the Pacific Arts Association 11th International Symposium in Vancouver in August. We’re both delivering papers about contemporary Pacific art languages, South Auckland and grassroots curating. We’re also both full-time post-graduate students so we planned a series of fundraising initiatives which started with a really successful crowdfunding campaign. Now we’re selling hand-printed t-shirts and bags and on Thursday 25 July, we’re holding an art auction at Te Karanga Gallery on K Road.
I’m also curating the first exhibition for the Otara Light Boxes due to be launched in October during Otara Fest, part of the Southside Arts Festival. Part of that project is a photograph by Vinesh Kumaran from his on-going series documenting dairy owners. I love this body of work and am excited to see where it will go after this first showing.
In 2014, I’ll be working with Vinesh again to create the final chapter in our trilogy of portrait-series made at the annual Polyfest festival in Otara. In 2009, we collaborated on a series documenting personal style and fashion statements and last year we shot a series about hair styles. The concept for the 2014 series is yet to be decided, but it’ll be a goodie… It’s South Auckland social history represented in style and swagger, I love it.
I’ve been teaching a paper called Pacific Art Histories: An Eccentric View at Manukau Institute of Technology this year, and I’m really looking forward to delivering the paper again next year. Discussing Pacific art, history and ideas in Otara feels so right.
I’ve also been flirting with the idea of opening an art gallery in Ōtāhuhu. It would be a labour of love, but it’s something I think I have to do.
You can find Ema online by following @ColourMeFiji on Twitter and at pimpiknows.com
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Day three - scores on the doors at the start of play:
Essex (241) v Notts (187 & 90/6 = lead of 36)
Kent (296) v Yorks (210 & 166/3 = lead of 80)
Somerset (243/5) v Surrey (380)
Warks (184/7) v Hants (354)
Glam (241/8) v Glos (463)
Lancs (276/6) v Northants (230)
Middx (349) v Leics (257/9)
Worcs (321/6) v Durham (273)
Live streams!
Essex v Notts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsyrNpN9ahQ
Kent v Yorks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-TChZvWO-Q
Warks v Hants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Ft8mqcq7A
Somerset v Surrey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n0zRd0JX1k
Lancs v Northants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGOD3yDg6t8
Middx v Leics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtf3a-9Kcyg
Worcs v Durham: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVW9tIhDucQ
Still can't get anything from the Glamorgan stream.
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Another century for Dom Sibley!
BBC on SIbley:
Dom Sibley has joined illustrious company with a sixth century in as many first-class matches.
He has reached three figures in five consecutive County Championship appearances for Warwickshire, starting at the end of last season against Leicestershire (106), Sussex (144), and Kent (119) and continuing this summer against Kent again (132) and now Hampshire (102 not out).
That equals the Bears record set by Brian Lara in 1994. But add in the 128 Sibley scored for MCC in the Champion County game against Surrey, his former club, in Dubai in March and Sibley becomes the first Warwickshire player to manage six in a row.
Elsewhere, Essex have their first breakthrough of the day - Harmer again - with Notts now 124/7 having added a fair chunk of runs already this morning. And Glamorgan are following on.
Harmer again - Tom Moores came charging after him but ended up stumped. Stuart Broad comes out for a bat. Lead is 92, with two wickets remaining.
Notts' ninth goes, Fletcher edging a fast one from Porter to second slip, smartly taken.
Ballance has made a century and Yorkshire are now in a decent position after a solid morning. They are ahead by 175 with 7 wickets still in hand.
Somerset are still going in their reply to Surrey and have nearly reached the same total.
Glamorgan have made a better fist of things with their second innings than the first - following on, they are 80 without loss.
Lancashire are giving themselves a decent chance of an innings victory, leading Northampton by 157 now with three wickets still in hand including Dane Vilas on 86 not out.
Warwickshire 233 v Hampshire 354 & 50-0 - Hants lead by 171
Somerset 353-7 v Surrey 380 - Somerset trail by 27
Kent 296 v Yorkshire 210 & 261-3 - Yorkshire lead by 175 runs
Essex 241 & 18-1 v Notts 187 & 158 - Essex need 87 more to win
Worcestershire 390 v Durham 273 & 14-0 - Durham trail by 103 runs
Middlesex 349 & 73-3 v Leicestershire 268 - Middlesex lead by 154 runs
Lancashire 387-7 v Northants 230 - Lancs lead by 157 runs
Glamorgan 250 & 80-0 (f/o) v Gloucestershire 463 - Glamorgan trail by 133 runs
Ballance still going on 138 for Yorks. They now lead Kent by 241 runs with 7 in hand - winning this one would be an excellent springboard, looking at the early table.
Just spotted that Tom Kohler-Cadmore took six catches for Yorkshire in Kent's first innings. At slip.
Scores level in Chelmsford. Essex about to get the win.
Job done. Sir Alistair finishes on 40 not out and that's Essex's first win in this year's Championship.
Ballance now on 150.
Warks are 42/2 against Hants and need an unlikely 382 more to win.
Delayed start due to rain.
Surrey need to stick around this morning; they have five second innings wickets left and are 134 ahead of Somerset.
Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdmGqx0iKMI
Yorkshire, like Hants, will be looking to finish the job with the ball today - Kent are 34/3 and require a further 350.
Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=looRrWpelUI
In Div.2 Worcs getting a win should be a formality; they need 81 to beat Durham.
Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib0Knv7jFAg
Middlesex v Leicestershire should be tighter - the visitors are 36 without loss and need a further 267 today to win.
Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CvdqI9V2hY
If Worcestershire's chase should be a formality then I don't know how to describe the task facing Lancashire - Northamptonshire have set them a target of 16.
But Glamorgan, who looked doomed in Newport, put on a fightback yesterday. Following on, they have now got in front and lead Gloucestershire by 146 with 9 still in hand. Selman and Labuschagne are in 148 and 128 respectively.
Stream (still doesn't work for me): https://www.glamorgancricket.com/gla...19/live-stream
So, about that formality of 81, then. Worcs are 34/2. It's still good, it's still good.
Lancashire have already got that win, making 17 with Hameed on 13 and Jennings on 4.
Off for rain in Somerset. Surrey lead by 169 now.
Middlesex - Leicestershire probably the pick of the matches at the moment.
It's just a little dirty, it's stll good, it's still good.
Oooh, Ushworth clatters the stumps past Wessels. Now 42/4....
It's just a little slimy, it's still good, it's still good.
Middlesex get the breakthrough, Javid possibly a bit unlucky on the call there, especially given the slope at Lord's. A good partnership with Horton comes to an end.
Leics 51/1 chasing 305 to win.
Yorkshire still searching for that breakthrough today though, with Kent now on 61/3.
Durham's Ushworth strikes again, taking Fell lbw and Worcestershire are 55/5, chasing that 81.
Still good?
Huge wicket at Lord's with Horton gone for Leicestershire. Cosgrove up next.
Worcs get over the line with no further losses, They have won two from two, the same as Lancashire, and the sides meet at Old Trafford in the next match, starting Monday.
Slow morning in Canterbury: 50 runs and no wickets...
Leicestershire in their chase have added a few more runs than Kent have in theirs, now on 100/2. But then Kent's target is not really reachable, so they are bound to be playing more conservatively I suppose. Yorkshire really need an early wicket this afternoon.
New link for Kent v Yorkshire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeLZfmyISX8
And the link for Lord's:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CvdqI9V2hY
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They lovingly call the town where the Nashville Predators play “Smashville” and for years, that’s what the Predators were known for – destruction. When they joined the NHL as an expansion franchise in 1998, the Predators built their gameplan around work ethic, hard checking and a tight defensive scheme. It allowed them to be competitive most nights and through the years, general manager David Poile kept that defensive mantra in place by stockpiling sensational netminders and stellar blue liners through the NHL entry draft. [+]
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Ford B-MAX (12 on) 1.0 EcoBoost (120bhp) Titanium 5d road test
Ford B-Max 1.0-litre EcoBoost Titanium driven
14 April 2014 by Gareth Evans
We evaluate the Ford B-Max as a company car
Low running costs - tax from £39 per month
Lots of kit, clever rear doors and decent to drive
The clever Ford B-Max is an all-new car which majors on practicality and low running costs. It would make an excellent company car for those who need good access to the rear seats, but can it work with a 1.0-litre petrol engine? We’ve been driving it to find out.
First, let’s take a look at the cash aspect since that’s the main reason Ford installs the little petrol engine in its cars. The B-Max is a pretty cheap car in terms of running costs. With the 1.0-litre petrol engine it emits 114g/km of CO2, which slots it into a Benefit-in-Kind band of 13%. With a P11d value of £18,140 you’re looking at company car tax of £39 per month on the 20% pay scale.
The claimed fuel economy is 57.7mpg on the combined cycle, although we were seeing around 40mpg in real-world conditions. With a 48-litre fuel tank, that means a range of just over 600 miles if you can hit Ford’s claimed figures and a whisker over 420 miles if you drive at normal road speeds.
What’s it like to drive?
On the road, this B-Max is surprisingly good to drive. The engine is outstanding – its 118bhp means you can hit 62mph in 11.2 seconds, but the really nice thing about it is how versatile it is. Pulling power is available wherever you are in the rev range, which means you don’t have to work the five-speed manual gearbox very hard at all. There’s more than enough poke for the odd over-taking manoeuvre if required, yet when cruising it’s a docile and comfortable car which easily maintains motorway speeds.
The seating position is fairly high, but the car doesn’t move around as much as you’d expect and it handles very well. It has quite a small footprint and the turning circle is small, while the steering is light and direct. This makes parking very easy. Our car had the optional City Pack, which further improves parking by adding electrically folding door mirrors and parking sensors. It costs £200.
Impressive list of equipment
Other optional extras on our test vehicle were the metallic blue paint work and a keyless entry system, costing £495 and £250 respectively. With the accessories factored into the price, company car tax bill goes up to £41 per month.
Of course, one of the B-Max’s biggest selling points is the clever rear door system. Doing away with the central pillar found in most cars, the doors slide backwards and allow an opening which is 1.5 metres across. That makes for a seriously accessible rear – perfect for those who need to load larger objects into the back.
Being Titanium spec, you get quite a lot of standard equipment. The adjustable load floor further adds to the versatility of the load area, while there’s a host of labour-saving devices installed to make life easier. Cruise control, automatic air conditioning, rain-sensing wipers, automatic headlights, DAB digital radio and a heated windscreen all come as standard.
To conclude, if you're after a car which is simple to drive, has great access to the rear seats and comes loaded with kit for a low monthly tax bill, you should definitely take a long look at the Ford B-Max with the 1.0-litre engine.
The Jazz is a simple car to drive and it’s very comfortable too. It benefits from smooth engines and has fairly cost-effective too.
Essentially a pumped-up 500, the retro-style 500L is affordable and comes with myriad customisation options.
Clever rear-hinged doors make the Meriva more practical than most competitors and a range of efficient engines mean running costs are kept low.
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Amazon Updates Kindle Line to HTML5, CSS3
By Eric Mack
Amazon is refreshing its staid, black-and-white take on the e-book with a new format that supports HTML5 and CSS3. Kindle Format 8 (KF8) will give Kindle users something a little more colorful to read on the new tablet/e-reader hybrid, the Kindle Fire, which is set to hit stores in time for the holiday season.
KF8 will soon replace the existing Mobi 7 format. The upgrade should make Kindle e-books look and read a lot more like, well, real physical books. The company's announcement claims the upgrade "adds over 150 new formatting capabilities, including fixed layouts, nested tables, callouts, sidebars and Scalable Vector Graphics."
All that means a lot more flexibility and better-looking books, especially for those who need more than just words on a page. The change improves digital renditions of children's books, cookbooks, and graphic novels, just for starters.
One downer: It doesn't seem that KF8 will be compatible with older Kindle devices. As Amazon says in its FAQ: "Kindle Fire is the first Kindle device to support KF8 -- in the coming months we will roll out KF8 to our latest generation Kindle e-ink devices as well as our free Kindle reading apps. " Clearly, this is another selling point we'll soon hear for those bargain-basement priced Kindles announced last month.
Amazon says it will soon update its publisher tools to make it easier for publishers to create e-books in the new format. Potential publishers will be able to convert existing formats like HTML, XHTML, and EPUB into KF8 files that can be read on the new Kindles while retaining much of the existing formatting.
Publishers must update their titles to take advantage of the new format on their own, but KF8 titles will be backward-compatible and work on older, Mobi 7 Kindles.
Amazon says it will begin to roll out KF8 and the new tools in the coming months.
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Up and to my office, and there we sat a very full board all the morning upon some accounts of Mr. Gauden’s. Here happened something concerning my Will which Sir W. Batten would fain charge upon him, and I heard him mutter something against him of complaint for his often receiving people’s money to Sir G. Carteret, which displeased me much, but I will be even with him.
Thence to the Dolphin Tavern, and there Mr. Gauden did give us a great dinner. Here we had some discourse of the Queen’s being very sick, if not dead, the Duke and Duchess of York being sent for betimes this morning to come to White Hall to her.
So to my office and there late doing business, and so home to supper, my house being got mighty clean to my great content from top to toe, and so to bed, myself beginning to be in good condition of health also, but only my laying out so much money upon clothes for myself and wife and her closet troubles me.
Fri 16 Oct 1663
Sun 18 Oct 1663
Gus Spier on 18 Oct 2006 • Link
Are we to undersstand that Will Hewer is taking moneys on behalf of Carteret and Batten is taking exception?
Enterprising young man, that Will.
Alan Bedford on 18 Oct 2006 • Link
"Are we to understand that Will Hewer is taking moneys on behalf of Carteret ...?"
Well, it appears that is what Batten is claiming, and if true, Sam certainly has not authorized it. Our boy does not seem to be pleased. At least publicly.
Terry F on 18 Oct 2006 • Link
"my house being got mighty clean to my great content from top to toe"
Again the irresistible reading of this as a simile of Pepys's recently costive soma now purged, and the "great fitt of the Collique" now at a happy end.
Brian on 18 Oct 2006 • Link
Meeting to discuss Gauden's accounts, then having a "great feast" at Gauden's expense . . . how very convenient!
Kilroy on 18 Oct 2006 • Link
"which displeased me much, but I will be even with him."
I'd like to think that is sounds like Sam wants to hear from others before making judgement aginst Will.
Paul Chapin on 18 Oct 2006 • Link
Once again, Sam flummoxes us with too many pronouns with unclear antecedents
My best guess, in which I have only about 60% confidence, is that we should parse the second sentence as follows:
Here happened something concerning my Will which Sir W. Batten would fain charge upon him (Hewer), and I heard him (Batten) mutter something against him (Hewer) of complaint for his (Hewer's) often receiving people's money to Sir G. Carteret, which displeased me much, but I will be even with him (Batten).
That is, Batten made a complaint about Hewer to Carteret, which annoyed Sam and made him (Sam) resolve to get back at Batten somehow.
Paul, I read it that way too.
To parse it using L&M's punctuation
"Here happened something concerning my Will; which Sir W. Batten would fain charge upon him, and I heard him (Batten) mutter something against him (Hewer) of complaint for his (Hewer's) often receiving people's money to Sir G. Carteret, which displeased me much -- but I will be even with him (Batten)[for alleging this about Hewer in a stage whisper in the presence of a full board and Mr. Gauden]."
Robert Gertz on 18 Oct 2006 • Link
I read the complaint as actually a backhand stab against Sam. Will is his man, Batten's claiming (as the officers meet to discuss accounts with a major naval victualer, Gauden) that he is receiving money (kickbacks?)...Ergo his master Sam is taking kickbacks, a charge Sam in the past has, in a sidelong way (Sam's complaining about Batten receiving merchants at his house instead of at the office, etc) made of Batten. Recently Sam's man Warren beat out Batten's man Winter on a major contract and Batten, no doubt furious about that and about saint Samuel's hints (if not outright charges) of corruption is hitting back a little. He probably has nothing hard on Sam and it's not a wise idea to attack a fellow officer directly without evidence but Will may have been seen handling the cash for Sam in such matters (and perhaps for himself as well?) and is an easier target to hit.
This raises the question of the limitations of the Diary's viewpoint. It may well be that despite his constant references to his selflessness in the King's service Sam would not look quite so noble if we were to see him in daily operation with the naval contractors and victualers. I've noticed that despite his old frowning at Batten and Penn for meeting with merchants outside the office he has been doing the same for some time now.
The money for all these home improvements and fine clothes must be coming from somewhere besides his 250L (the 350L minus Barlow's 100L payment) a year...
jeannine on 18 Oct 2006 • Link
"Here we had some discourse of the Queen's being very sick, if not dead"
The 'behind the scene' background to Catherine's illness and the court politics surrounding it is here
http://www.pepysdiary.com/indepth/2006/08/30/quee…
"Meeting to discuss Gauden's accounts, then having a "great feast" at Gauden's expense ... how very convenient!"
Sure sounds like current tactics in Washington DC lobbying.
Jesse on 18 Oct 2006 • Link
limitations of the Diary's viewpoint
A good point but I'm not sure I would agree given more than a few 'not look quite so noble' instances being recorded (though admittedly more personal than business). It's possible that if Pepys meets merchants outside the office it's okay because he's on the up and up (i.e. honest http://www.languagehat.com/archives/000975.php ). Penn and Batten though are another matter.
My point is that the possibility exists that the line between Sam and Batten and Penn is not so fine as Sam would have us think...And (spoiler)
There will be more such hints in the future...
What's really interesting is that here we see a truly capable man who will do good and great things...And whose desire to do good is sincere, I believe...Who is also a fallable human being who skirts the edge of wrongdoing, trying to follow a line and code that sometimes seems to blow with the winds of expediency. How do we know that Sir Will Penn doesn't experience the same struggle-he's a hero who's risked and will risk death at sea for his country. He's probably deeply bored by administrative work and whatever he's taking in kickbacks, etc, it doesn't seem that he's intent on bankrupting the kingdom. Not to mention he may feel he's sincerely seeking the best deals for the nation, based on his years of experience and his connections with merchants and victualers. Imagine his view of young Pepys, the clerk who's shed no blood yet who after a couple of years pushing papers in the office seems to feel fully justified in sitting in judgment on his fellow officers who have. Add to that, that for all his high-minded efficiency and condemnation of corruption, young Pepys is clearly beginning to make his way into the books of powerful merchants and businessmen like Warren and it's not hard to see that Penn and Batten and Minnes might not see things quite the way the Diary's writer presents them.
[T]he line between Sam and Batten and Penn is not so fine as Sam would have us think
I took your point as being that Pepys was *intentionally* covering up his deeds by omitting incriminating details from the diary. I'm suggesting rather that Pepys clearly saw a line and would have felt, at this point, he had nothing to hide (or need omit).
Terry Foreman on 31 Mar 2015 • Link
Ways Penn differs from Batten
Penn is independently wealthy and a fraud: "Admiral Penn had...been rewarded for his services in Ireland to the Cromwellian Commonwealth with a castle and a confiscated estate in Ireland (1656, Macroom Castle). An interesting fact, which speaks of the continual duplicity of the Penn family, is that the Coat of Arms which appears with his battle armour at St Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol is a fraud. The Admiral and the Penn family were not entitled to use the Coat of Arms which belonged to the Penns of Penn in Buckinghamshire. The Admiral and his family merely appropriated the Coat of Arms just as they had appropriated their Irish estate and African slaves for themselves and the isle of Jamaica for England. William Penn, the Admiral's son, was to take this appropriation further with his proprietorship of Pennsylvania."
http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclopedia/619/#c37167
"Admiral William Penn....loaned large sums to the King's ambitious building programme but, after his death, the cash strapped King could not repay the loan, when requested to do so by Penn's son (also named William). So the monarch offered him land in America instead, provided that it would be named after the favoured late Admiral. Thus the state of Pennsylvania came into being. Its [fraudulent] arms still incorporate those of the man whose name it bears." http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclopedia/619/#c81924
Bill on 25 Sep 2016 • Link
“ Here we had some discourse of the Queen’s being very sick, if not dead”
The Queen's illness was first noticed in The Intelligencer on the 13th October, but Pepys did not hear of it till the 17th. The bulletins of her Majesty's health continued till 15th November.
---Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the diary deciphered by J. Smith. 1854.
"The condition of the Queen is much worse, and the physicians give us but little hopes of her recovery; by the next you will hear that she is either in a fair way to it, or dead. To-morrow is a very critical day with her—God's will be done. The King coming to see her the [this] morning, she told him she willingly left all the world but him, which hath very much afflicted his Majesty, and all the court with him."—Lord Arlington to the Duke of Buckingham, Whitehall, 17th Oct, 1663. (Brown's Miscellanea Aulica, p. 306.)
"the Queen’s being very sick, if not dead, the Duke and Duchess of York being sent for betimes this morning to come to White Hall to her."
L&M say she had the spotted fever http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1661/07/03/?c=538… and had a very high fever for about three weeks. Cf, Sir H. Bennet to Burlington, 17 October: 'The Condition of the Queen is much worse, and the Physicians give us but little hope of her Recovery; by the next you will hear she is either in a fair way to it or dead; tomorrow is a very critical day for her, God's will be done. The King coming to see her in the morning, she told him she left willingly all the World but him, which hath very much afflicted [sic] his Majesty....': Thomas Brown, Misc. Aulica (1702), pp. 306-7.
San Diego Sarah on 15 Oct 2016 • Link
Interesting: Pepys was at Whitehall the day before yesterday with Coventry (secretary to James, Duke of York), and no one said anything about the Queen's illness. It wasn't a secret; the information was already being printed by The Intelligencer. However, this does provide a possible answer as to why two important meetings were booked at the same time: James was half-expecting a call to go to Catherine's bedside, so it was possible the country could have been plunged into mourning at any time. The hurry wasn't in anticipation of a fun romp at Newmarket after all.
"... and I heard him [Batten] mutter something against him [Will] of complaint for his [Will] often receiving people’s money to Sir G. Carteret, which displeased me much, but I will be even with him [could be Batten, Will or Carteret]."
I think Sam 'will be even' with whichever one of them is misbehaving; Carteret didn't discuss this ahead of time either.
Joe P on 17 Oct 2016 • Link
Could Sam mean evenhanded?
Terry Foreman on 17 Oct 2016 • Link
I agree with Paul Chapin (above):
"Here happened something concerning my Will which Sir W. Batten would fain charge upon him (Hewer), and I heard him (Batten) mutter something against him (Hewer) of complaint for his (Hewer's) often receiving people's money to Sir G. Carteret, which displeased me much, but I will be even with him (Batten).
"That is, Batten made a complaint about Hewer to Carteret, which annoyed Sam and made him (Sam) resolve to get back at Batten somehow."
http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1663/10/17/#c74280
No doubt we'll find out who gets the hatchet job shortly. Of course, Terry has been here before, but I'm not cheating (very much).
Sasha Clarkson on 20 Oct 2016 • Link
Sam may get annoyed with Will sometimes, but he's a loyal boss, and will protect him against attack - especially if there's any whiff of it being a proxy attack against himself. Remember that the Blackborne connection has been used against Will, and Sam, too.
Chris Squire UK on 23 Oct 2016 • Link
Re: ‘ . . I will be even with him . . ’
‘even, adj. < Common Germanic . .
. . 10. b. to be even: to be square or quits; to have settled accounts . .
1661 S. Pepys Diary 25 June (1970) II. 126, I made even with my father and the two drapers for the cloths I sent to sea lately . . ‘
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It’s Time to Talk About This “Rainbow Bridge” Thing
Does the idea of a Rainbow Bridge for deceased pets comfort you? Two writers offer arguments for and against it. And we want to hear your thoughts, too.
By Allison Gray Dec 7, 2015 November 14, 2019
The idea of the Rainbow Bridge, where deceased pets are reunited with their humans, came from a poem. By: aidras
Part 1: Enough With the Rainbow Bridge: Why It Didn’t Ease My Grief
It has been 8 months since our dog Ajax died in my arms.
My husband and I still talk about Ajax often, and I find myself frequently staring sadly at the large photo of him above our fireplace.
After Ajax’s death, we received an outpouring of support and kind words from friends, family and the veterinary staff. Mostly there were comforting words of what a great life Ajax had and that we’d done all we could.
The people who responded to Ajax’s death with a reference to the Rainbow Bridge were mostly those who didn’t know Ajax or me. They were acquaintances — people we had met only briefly at the dog park or on the street.
They mentioned the Rainbow Bridge to be kind, but all it did was frustrate me.
Based on a poem written in the 1980s by an anonymous author, the Rainbow Bridge is the ethereal place where deceased pets wait for their humans before entering heaven together.
In this limbo, the pets are happy and healthy. The old are young again, and injured animals are made whole.
When humans die, our spirits are transported to this place, and we are reunited with our pets.
Together we cross the Rainbow Bridge into heaven.
Why It Bothers Me
The Rainbow Bridge should have been the best solution to my grief after losing Ajax.
It was a promise of reunion for me and restored health for him. Truly, at the Rainbow Bridge, Ajax would be in a better place.
But it wasn’t a comfort at all.
Instead, the whole idea seemed to trivialize my dog.
Ajax had a large 2-pound tumor removed in a risky but seemingly successful surgery in January 2014. But within a few months, the cancer metastasized.
For a year, he battled for his life while his eyesight and hearing deteriorated, his muscles wasted away and his confidence was obliterated.
He displayed true strength and courage in his will to live, and when we made the decision to euthanize him, it was an act of mercy.
When we were told afterward that he was finally happy and healthy at the Rainbow Bridge, it felt like Ajax’s struggle to live was a waste. The suggestion of a Rainbow Bridge disparaged his yearlong courageous fight. And it would have been more merciful to euthanize him before his fight even began.
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The Comfort It Offers
I would be remiss to not address the comfort that so many bereaved families take away from believing in the Rainbow Bridge.
According to BBC News magazine writer Finlo Rohrer, “It may be argued that [the Rainbow Bridge] fills a gap left by the treatment of animals in some mainstream religions.”
In a society where animals are regularly overlooked in religion or whose importance is marginalized, pet lovers need some way to validate their pet’s significance after their death. The Rainbow Bridge provides that and gives hope of a reunion in the afterlife.
Families grieving this loss aren’t the only ones in need of the comfort and reassurance that a pet heaven can offer.
During my years working for an animal shelter, I had friends who euthanized tens to hundreds of animals every month. They prayed for the dead animals, cried for them and needed (more than anyone) to know that there was a better place waiting for society’s 4-legged castoffs.
For those people, I’m happy that the Rainbow Bridge was created.
How I Cope Without It
In a recent article on Dogster, Chris Hall says, “The Rainbow Bridge concept sounds more like a dismissal of grief than a way of easing it.”
When Ajax died, I needed to grieve. I was an ugly, weepy mess for days, but I didn’t rely on the promise of his good health and our spiritual reunion to pull myself prematurely from that grief.
Instead, I embraced his departure as permanent and irreversible.
After losing his dog, Roy Hattersley wrote in the Daily Mail, “I do not pretend that my grief was unique. Many families, I know, have been devastated by the death of a dog. I merely state, as a matter of fact, that nothing has ever caused me as much pain as Buster’s death.”
So many people share the same terrible pain of losing a pet. How we cope with it, though, is not always the same.
Others wait for a distant reunion and a life together forever.
We have chosen to keep Ajax with us in our memories and, through them, relive his life for the rest of ours.
The Rainbow Bridge can give people hope to reunite with their pets someday. By: h-productions
Part 2: Why the Rainbow Bridge Comforts Me
Editor’s Note: The following is a rebuttal to Allison Gray’s essay above on why the mention of the Rainbow Bridge frustrates her. Below, Melissa Smith defends the idea of the Rainbow Bridge. We would love to hear your thoughts in the comments section below.
I lost my German Shepherd, Gypsy, 3 years ago to both medical problems and plain old age. I sat beside her as she died, and to this day I still can’t think of that moment without tearing up.
She was my best friend.
Many of us struggle to come to terms with the loss of a pet. Our pets are so much a part of our hearts that losing them — even, as in Gypsy’s case, when it’s expected — is devastating.
When Gypsy died, a lot of people sent their condolences, and most referred to the Rainbow Bridge when they did so. I found it to be a source of great comfort.
What Is the Rainbow Bridge?
As Allison explained, the Rainbow Bridge refers to a place on the way to heaven where deceased pets go to wait for you. Your pets are free of pain and fear and spend their time running across meadows and hills in the sunshine.
When you die, you rejoin your pet and cross to heaven together.
Why It Comforts Me
I am not overly religious. I tend to adopt a “We’re all going to find out someday” attitude and go through life just trying to be a good person.
I doubt there is a cloud-filled environment we all share after death, strumming harps and polishing halos.
What I do believe in is the endurance of the spirit — or the soul, if you will. The spirit is so strong and so imbued with our energy that it’s difficult to believe it would just blow out like a candle upon death.
I believe the same goes for our pets, and that brings me comfort. In many ways, pets are better than people in their innocence and capacity for forgiveness. They deserve to go on.
Our pets mean a lot to us, and their deaths can feel like you’ve lost your best friend. By: adavey
When there is a loss, it’s hard for people to know what to say to you.
Some adopt an uncomfortably hard stance: “It’s not like you lost your kid or something.” Actually, it kind of is.
In a heartfelt article in the Washington Post, journalist Joe Yonan says:
“I’m no stranger to death. I was a mess of anger and confusion when my father, suffering the aftermath of a stroke, took his last gasps one day in 1995, his children gathered around his hospital bed. And 3 years later, the death of my sweet, beloved sister Bonny after a withering battle with brain cancer was nothing short of heartbreaking. Yet somehow, and much to my distress, the death of my dog seems even harder.”
Some people simply don’t bring it up out of awkward insecurity. That’s worse than anything else. Not bringing up a loss is — to my mind — invalidating not only the person’s feelings but also the life of that pet and the impact she made on those around her.
Those who console by referring to the Rainbow Bridge are saying, “I understand you are suffering a loss, and I’m trying to help you feel better.”
The Awkwardness
Some people don’t believe in or appreciate references to the Rainbow Bridge, and that’s their prerogative.
They say that referring to the Rainbow Bridge invalidates the life of the pet and is nothing but an empty platitude — that it means we should just suck it up and be glad because this pet has gone on to a better place.
In all fairness, some people do mean it that way because of their own religious beliefs. I would implore those people to remember that loss is not about their own religion but about the feelings of the person to whom they are speaking.
If that person doesn’t believe in the Rainbow Bridge or the great beyond, don’t force it. Simple honesty will do: “I am sorry for your loss and wish I could help.”
Everyone has to struggle through grief in his or her own way.
For me, believing I will see my Gypsy again one day doesn’t invalidate her life — it reveres it.
I appreciated her presence in my life so much that I won’t consider not seeing her again.
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Quad bike race track could be opened in Plymouth
Plymouth Speedway asks the city council to allow quad-bike racing at the Marsh Mills circuit
Edward Oldfield
A child on a quad bike in another part of the country (Image: Ian Cooper)
Plymouth Speedway wants to add quad-bike racing at its track near Marsh Mills roundabout.
A planning application has been submitted to lift a restriction allowing only motorcycles at the St Boniface Arena off Plymouth Road.
The operators want to add events for quad bikes and children’s buggies because there are not enough teams in the speedway league to race every weekend in the season.
They say they need to find other attractions to fill the gaps and ensure the circuit is financially viable.
A report to the council’s planning committee says noise tests found quads were slightly quieter than speedway motorbikes.
It says the council has a policy to support sports facilities and recommends councillors allow quads and buggies at the circuit.
The report to the planning committee on Thursday, June 27, said there had been 23 letters of objection, mostly complaining about extra noise, and 11 in support.
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Objector Steve Coppola wrote: “Noise levels are already unbearable as it is, without allowing more racing to take place.”
Supporters said there would be no extra meeting dates and quads were less noisy than speedway bikes.
Comments included that the league had fewer teams to race and it was important for the future of the club to use the free evenings.
Supporter Vic Ashton said: “The additional activity would bring much needed summer evening entertainment to the City Of Plymouth to the benefit of both locals and visitors.”
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There was no speedway on 13 Fridays in last year’s season between March 15 and October 31, with three meetings cancelled for safety reasons due to rain.
A planning statement on behalf of the club said the site operators wanted to provide continuity for spectators and it was hard to sustain the business due to loss of revenue from lack of fixtures.
They were not asking for extra use of the site but wanted to make best use of what was available.
The statement said the uses of the track by alternatives would be under the same conditions governing use by speedway motorcycles.
The proposals would increase visitor numbers and benefit the local economy.
The statement said “quad machines” would become “one of the core alternative uses”.
It was also planned to use children’s buggies powered by lawn-mower engines.
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A report to the city council’s planning committee said a noise test was carried out on May 24.
The report said: “The results of the test showed that the use of quad bikes produced slightly less noise than the speedway bikes, which were engaged in a normal speedway fixture following the running of quad bikes on the track.
“On balance, it is considered by officers that the use of quad bikes will not increase noise levels to the point where demonstrable harm would occur.”
The speedway track at the former St Boniface College Sports Ground near Marsh Mills roundabout at the junction with the A38 has been in use for around 12 years.
The 1.2-hectare track site is reached off Coypool Road where it runs up to Plymouth Road.
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I, FRANKENSTEIN finds Frankenstein’s Monster in the modern world (which still resembles a big and brash medieval fantasy), immortal, an outsider caught in a war between two immortal clans – the Gargoyles and the Demons – that could damn the fate of humankind… if only humankind gave a toss.
Aaron Eckhart, ripped like a bridge cable, is the Monster, birthed from electric eel in the 17th century, walking the Earth a hunted, soul-less being. Dubbed Adam by the Gargoyle Queen (Miranda Otto, who looks like Jodie Foster when the light hits her at almost any angle), he’s fast, furious and toyt like a workout queen.
Adam (simply called Frankenstein as an easier point of reference) is sought by the Demon Prince Naberius (played with vampire brio by none other than vampire king Bill Nighy, UNDERWORLD), to discover the secret of how he could be animated and still have no soul. Naberius has been collecting soul-less corpses for centuries and apparently only soul-less corpses can be possessed by demons, so once he discovers how to animate the corpses, he summons his demons to inhabit this army to do his bidding on Earth. Yes, I’m asking the same questions as you: Was he banking on discovering Frankenstein at some point, even though he was probably collecting corpses long before Victor Frankenstein’s time, and what was he doing in the meantime when he needed evil helpers and all his corpses were just laying around gathering slime? But I call “bullshit” on “only soul-less corpses can be possessed by demons” anyway! What about THE EXORCIST, THE OMEN, THE LAST EXORCISM, THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE, et al? Sigh. Onward…
So the Gargoyles, led by stone warrior Gideon (Jai Courtney) try to keep Franky away from Naberius, who has human scientists working for him, trying to emulate Victor Frankenstein’s infamous life-creating experiments. Female scientist Yvonne Strahovski (desperately looking like Rosamund Pike) would become Franky’s insipid “love interest,” if only he could stop staying out all night slaying Demons.
It’s an interesting plot pitting Frankenstein against two factions as a pawn in their war (from the graphic novel by Kevin Grevioux), but it’s executed with flash in stead of flair by screenwriter-director Stuart Beattie (only his second directorial effort, his writing credits including DERAILED 2005, AUSTRALIA 2008). Too much flash. Every time a Demon dies (or is “descended”) fireballs coruscate around the screen interminably, obfuscating the action. And every time a Gargoyle dies (or is “ascended”) a blue light like a stairway to heaven also obfuscates the action. In a lethal battle between Demons and Gargoyles, it’s a glam-slam Macy’s Christmas lightshow. And the ending – with fireballs ascending from hell into thousands of bodies on racks, and the CGI gargoyles killing them and turning them back into fireballs, and the mansion exploding and falling back into hell – is like a Disneyland fireworks display meeting the finale of a KISS concert. My eyes! I’m blind!—
It’s now a tossup between the ripped Aaron Eckhart and the solid Thomas Jane for the exact same roles. Who woulda thought the doughy guy with the porn-stache from YOUR FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS (1998) would make such a fantastic action hero? He’s alive! ALIIIIIVE!
I, FRANKENSTEIN (Jan 2014) PG-13
Director: Stuart Beattie.
Writers: Stuart Beattie, Kevin Grevioux, Mary Shelley.
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Yvonne Strahovski, Miranda Otto, Bill Nighy, Jai Courtney, Socratis Otto, Aden Young, Caitlin Stasey, Mahesh Jadu, Steve Mouzakis, Nicholas Bell, Deniz Akdeniz, Chris Pang, Kevin Grevioux, Bruce Spence.
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Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez (Annex IV),
Secretary of Transportation, Anthony Foxx (Annex V);
General Counsel Robert Litt, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (Annex VI); and
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December 20, 2018 • By Sabin Russell
Although antiviral drugs can spare most HIV-positive Americans from the specter of AIDS, a generation of survivors finds itself at a heightened risk of cancer.
Lung cancer is emerging as a leading cause of cancer death for people with HIV, particularly among those who smoke.
Studies show that one in five HIV-positive people who smoke will develop cancer in their lifetime. People with HIV are at higher risk of developing lung cancer, and those diagnosed with lung cancer tend to be significantly younger than HIV-negative cancer patients.
On Dec. 1, the 30th annual World AIDS Day, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle announced the start of a new study with a goal to understand why those who are HIV-positive are at higher risk of lung cancer and develop lung cancer at a younger age.
Called the SAGE study (for Smoking and AGE), it plans to enroll 120 men and women at risk for lung cancer due to a history of smoking — 60 who are HIV-positive and 60 HIV-negative — in the Seattle area over the next year. Blood samples taken at the Fred Hutch Prevention Center from volunteers will be evaluated for immune function and screened for mutations in 75 genes that have been associated with lung cancer.
In January, the researchers will begin a second arm of the study, examining stored blood samples gathered from previous clinical trials. They will compare samples from 40 HIV-positive patients who eventually developed lung cancer with that of 40 others, matched by age and smoking history, who did not develop cancer. Once again, they will screen for 75 lung cancer related mutations, and they will also look for changes in the immune system, such as swings in the population of T cells up to three years before diagnosis among those who developed lung cancer.
“Lung cancer is already a leading cause of cancer-related deaths in people living with HIV and is projected to become one of the most common cancer of any type in people with HIV by 2030 if current trends continue,” said Thomas Uldrick, MD, deputy head of Global Oncology at Fred Hutch and principal investigator of the newly launched study. “Improved prevention and early detection are clearly needed.”
In the hope it will guide future efforts to help decrease lung cancer in people with HIV, the SAGE study is evaluating the biology of lung cancer and smoking-associated lung damage. Researchers will focus on whether an HIV infection impairs the ability of a patient’s immune system to clear out cells damaged by tobacco smoke, despite effective antiretroviral treatment that knocks down the level of virus.
While there is a yet no commercially available blood test to diagnose lung cancer, this study will sift through blood samples of patients at high risk for it, searching for biomarkers that laboratory researchers have linked to the disease. These findings may inform efforts to develop an effective blood test for early diagnosis of lung cancer in people with HIV — an advance that could help cancer patients around the globe. The current standard for lung cancer screening in smokers in western countries is a low-dose CT chest scan, a kind of computer-assisted X-ray that searches for abnormal masses in the lungs. The optimal use of low-dose CT scans for screening for lung cancer in people with HIV is unknown.
“A blood test for lung cancer in HIV-positive people who smoke has the potential to help make decisions about lung cancer screening, and in places where there are no CT scans, such a test could be particularly useful,” Uldrick said.
Forty percent of people living with HIV in the U.S. smoke, compared to just 15 percent of the entire population. Uldrick stressed that smoking cessation is proven to prevent lung cancer. Additional efforts are needed to improve prevention, screening and treatment of lung cancer in people with HIV, he said.
Recruitment of volunteers for the study has begun. Eligible participants can be either HIV-positive or negative, must be 45–75 years of age, willing to have their blood drawn, and available for a one-time visit to Fred Hutch. For details, contact the SAGE study at 206-667-4949 or theSAGEstudy@fredhutch.org.
This article was originally published on December 4, 2018, by Hutch News. It is republished with permission.
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In a pivotal phase III efficacy study, an investigational nine-valent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine (V503, Merck) prevented approximately 97% of cervical, vaginal, and vulvar precancers caused by HPV types 31, 33, 45, 52, and 58. The vaccine also generated immune responses to HPV types 6, 11, 16, and 18 that were non-inferior to those generated by Gardasil (human papillomavirus quadrivalent [types 6, 11, 16, and 18] vaccine, recombinant, Merck).
The new data, along with results from two other phase III studies, will be presented Nov. 5 at the European Research Organization on Genital Infection and Neoplasia (EUROGIN) Congress in Florence, Italy.
The pivotal phase III trial evaluated the efficacy, safety, and immunogenicity of V503 (n = 7,099) compared with Gardasil (n = 7,105) in women 16 to 26 years old. The primary efficacy analysis was conducted in those who received all three doses of vaccine within 1 year, who were not infected with the relevant HPV types at enrollment, and who remained free of infection with the relevant HPV types through month 7 (per-protocol population). The key results were as follows:
96.7% reduction (95% confidence interval [CI], 80.9–99.8) in the combined incidence of high-grade cervical/vulvar/vaginal disease (cervical intraepithelial neoplasia [CIN] 2/3+; vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia [VIN],) 2/3+; and vaginal intraepithelial neoplasia [VaIN] 2/3+) caused by HPV types 31, 33, 45, 52, and 58 (one case in the group that received V503 vs. 30 cases in the group that received Gardasil).
97.1% reduction (95% CI, 91.8–99.2) in the combined incidence of cervical/vulvar/vaginal disease of any grade (all CIN, VIN, and VaIN) caused by HPV types 31, 33, 45, 52, and 58 (three cases in the V503 group vs. 103 cases in the Gardasil group).
96.0% efficacy (95% CI, 94.4–97.2) against 6-month persistent HPV infection with HPV types 31, 33, 45, 52, and 58 (35 cases in the V503 vs. 810 cases in the Gardasil group).
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Communication Instruction in MBA Programs: A Survey of Syllabi
By Bogert, Judith; Butt, David
A survey of syllabi of MBA communication courses suggests that the "typical" MBA course focuses on skill development and integrates both speaking and writing, often with emphasis on speech. It builds problem solving and strategic communication skills through experiential learning gained in workshops, case studies, or field experiences. Current trends favor integration of communication courses into a unified core.
EXACTLY WHAT KIND OF MATERIAL is covered in an MBA communication course? How does this material differ from that taught in core management courses? Is there such a thing as a "typical" course? To answer questions like these, we requested communication course syllabi from the MBA schools ranked in the top two tiers in the March 1992 issue of US News & World Report. Although some schools have been deleted from or added to this list by both US News & World Report and Business Week in the past three years, we believe that the schools identified in 1992 provide an excellent sample of premier schools across the nation. A comparison of these syllabi reveals some interesting trends.
According to our findings, only 5 schools of the 53 polled currently offer no communication program as part of their course of study. One of these schools, Northwestern University, is in the process of designing a communication curriculum. Of the 48 schools offering communication programs, 5 offer informal programs. These informal programs vary dramatically in scope. For example, the University of Florida links its communication program to the placement office, teaching communication skills as an adjunct to the job-search process by having students critique corporate presentations and interviews. At the University of California at Los Angeles, communication is an informal component of core classes with no separate syllabus.
The majority of the formal programs (35) focus on skill development. Skill development, as we use the term here, does not suggest remediation, nor is it meant to suggest that the programs offered are without a theoretical foundation. Almost all of these programs concentrate on enhancing skills. Several instructors state clearly on their syllabi the premise that their students do know how to speak and write effectively. They and their students view enhanced communication skills as providing a competitive edge in the workplace. To achieve this goal of skill enhancement, programs draw on a variety of business and rhetorical theories. The focus, however, is on applying theory. In keeping with this focus, most skills-based courses emphasize problem-solving models and the application of strategic communication skills.
The bulk of the skill development courses (21) integrate writing and speaking, but the focus is often on oral skills. An additional 12 schools teach writing and speaking as separate courses. Two schools present only oral skills. Although interpersonal and group dynamics are appearing more frequently on course syllabi, most courses stress the development of formal presentation skills.
No school requires a communication course that focuses solely on organizational communication. The University of Notre Dame, however, does use an anthropological approach in teaching an elective intercultural communication course (Notre Dame's two required courses focus on skills development). However, six schools present a hybrid course, combining organizational communication, managerial communication, and oral and written skill development in relatively equal measures.
Whether their focus is organizational communication, skill development, or some combination of the two, all schools emphasize experiential learning through the case method, field projects (which allow students to consult with local organizations, identify and resolve problems, and present their findings to members of these organizations), or workshops and laboratory experiences.
A number of schools have either recently emerged from revision, are in the process of revision, or will undergo revision within the next several years. …
Publication: Business Communication Quarterly
Bogert, Judith
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Elite MBA Programs at Public Universities: How a Dozen Innovative Schools Are Redefining Business Education By Mimi Wolverton; Larry Edward Penley Praeger, 2004
The Roots, Rituals, and Rhetorics of Change: North American Business Schools after the Second World War By Mie Augier; James G. March Stanford Business Books, 2011
From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession By Rakesh Khurana Princeton University Press, 2007
University of North Texas: Master of Science in Behaviour Analysis By Glenn, Sigrid S. Ala'I-Rosales, Shahla The Behavior Analyst Today, Vol. 2, No. 3, Summer 2001
What Are Business Schools Doing to Educate Forecasters By Hanke, John Weigand , Pam The Journal of Business Forecasting Methods & Systems, Vol. 13, No. 3, Fall 1994
Interviewing Potential Accounting Faculty at the AAA National Meeting and Rookie Camp: Surveys of Schools' Experiences and Impressions By Hunt, Steven Jones, Keith T. Academy of Educational Leadership Journal, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2016
Have the Business Schools Let Down U.S. Corporations? By Muller, Helen J. Porter, James L. Rehder, Robert R. Management Review, Vol. 77, No. 10, October 1988
The Globalisation of Business Schools: International Business School Students Share Many Common Values, but Those Values Are Not Always Reflected in the Cultures of the Institutions Where They Study By Kragh, Simon Bislev, Sven European Business Forum, No. 21, Spring 2005
Making the Grade in Europe: Business Schools Meet New External Communication Challenges By Tatge, Larisa Communication World, Vol. 26, No. 1, January-February 2009
Lessons from the Workplace in the Classroom `Total Quality Management,' First Applied in Business, Is Being Adapted for Education By Mark Trumbull, writer of The Christian Science Monitor The Christian Science Monitor, May 3, 1993
OU, OSU Rank among Top Business Schools By Titus, Nancy Raiden THE JOURNAL RECORD, February 22, 1994
Surveys Match Teens at Schools By Holmes, Erin Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 14, 2004
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Rediff.com » Sports » Rosberg finishes 2nd in Abu Dhabi to clinch F1 Championship
Rosberg finishes 2nd in Abu Dhabi to clinch F1 Championship
Last updated on: November 27, 2016 21:13 IST
IMAGE: Nico Rosberg of Germany and Mercedes GP celebrates after finishing second and winning the F1 World Drivers Championship during the Abu Dhabi Formula One Grand Prix at Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Sunday. Photograph: Clive Mason/Getty Images
Mercedes F1 GP's Nico Rosberg won his first Formula One Championship after finishing 2nd in the tight race at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.
Rosberg's Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton won the race.
The German, who had a 12 point lead over Hamilton going into the title-deciding race, won the championship by virtue of a podium finish in Abu Dhabi.
IMAGE: Nico Rosberg celebrates with wife Vivian Sibold after his F1 title triumph. Photograph: Mark Thompson/Getty Images
"That was not the most enjoyable race I've had! I'm glad it's over and am absolutely ecstatic. The win was for my wife," a teary-eyed Rosberg said after his title triumph.
"Very proud to have done the same thing my dad achieved. He's coming here in about half an hour. I'm excited to see him," the emotional German added.
Rosberg also congratulated Hamilton on a productive season.
IMAGE: Tennis superstar and former World No 1 Roger Federer on the grid before the Abu Dhabi Formula One Grand Prix on Sunday. Photograph: Mark Thompson/Getty Images
"I want to say congrats to Lewis for his efforts. It's always tough to beat you and you were fast all year as always," Rosberg said in praise of his teammate.
After all the suspense and expectation, the race saw Hamilton chalking up his 10th win of the season, and fourth in a row, but powerless to do anything about the championship outcome despite making every effort.
His attempt to push Rosberg into the clutches of those behind him, by deliberately slowing the pace in the closing laps to the concern of team bosses, produced a nail-biting finish with the top four separated by just 1.6 seconds.
IMAGE: Race winner Lewis Hamilton congratulates second place finisher and World Champion Nico Rosberg of Germany on the podium. Photograph: Clive Mason/Getty Images
Rosberg, who had needed only to finish in the top three to be sure of the title, held position to become his country's third champion after Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel.
The son of 1982 title-winner Keke Rosberg is also only the second son of a world champion, after Britain's Damon Hill, to take the crown.
Congratulating the Mercedes team and teammate Rosberg on a dramatic season finale victory, Hamilton said: "I just want to say thanks to the team and my family. And congratulations to Nico -- the new world champion"
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KFC's V-Day Bucket Is Way Better Than Chocolate
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Christopher Luu
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Valentine's Day is next week. If you haven't locked down a reservation just yet or if you're still looking for that perfect gift for your S.O. — or yourself, who are we to judge? — KFC is upgrading the usual box of chocolates with a truly unique take on V-Day gifting. KFC Canada is running a contest now for true fried chicken devotees. The Colonel is looking for love stories and we assume that the spicier they are, the better. If you think that you've got one worthy of a limited-edition heart-shaped ChickenGram bucket filled with Original Recipe, all you have to do is submit your tale on KFC Canada's Facebook page. Unfortunately, American KFC fans aren't eligible for the contest, but the can admire that sweet fried chicken and that one-of-a-kind bucket. A total of 10 winners will be chosen and KFC reps told Mashable that winners "will be selected based on how compelling their love story is. But we can say confidently that any KFC ChickenGram wedding proposals will most likely receive one." A fried chicken proposal? We smell viral video...or is that KFC's secret blend of 11 herbs and spices? KFC Canada released an up-close look at the bucket, complete with some poetry to accompany the good stuff.
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Academic journal article Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy (Online)
Male Midlife Depression: Multidimensional Contributing Factors and Renewed Practice Approaches/ la Dépression D'âge Mûr Chez L'homme : Facteurs Contributifs Multidimensionnels et Approches Pratiques Renouvelées
By Grove, Debbie L.
Depression has been viewed as a key indicator of mental health in midlife (Deeg, 2005)· According to Gilmour and Patten (2007), 4% of employed Canadians between the ages of 25 to 64 experienced depression during the preceding year, while only 3% of working Canadians experiencing depression sought counselling (Ipsos Reta, 2007). In their research regarding depression literacy in Alberta, Wang et al. (2007) concluded, among other findings» that mental health promotion geared to men was needed. Another Canadian-based research study conducted by Wing et al. (2005) reported the need for enhanced national initiatives targethag mood disorders. Women are twice as likely as their male counterparts to seek help for depression (Cyranowski, Frank, "ïbung, & Shear, 2000; Good S¿ Wood, 1995; Heifner, 1997; Robbins, 2006), but men outnumber women two to four times in suicide attempts resulting in death (Cochran, 200 1; Moller-Leimkühler, 2003; Murphy, 1998). 1he World Health Organization reported that depression will be the second leading cause of disability worldwide, behind heart disease, by 2020 (Murray &: Lopez, 1997). By 2030, it is predicted that depression will be the largest contributor (World Health Or^nJzation, 2008). More recently, on Mental Health Day, October 10, 2012, the World Federation of Mental Health published Depression: A Global Crisis.
"One of the most consistendy documented sex differences in incidence of psychological problems is depression" (Cook, 1990, p. 372). Because men seek help less often than women, their depression tends to be underdiagnosed (Cochran & Rabinowitz, 2003; Kil martin, 2005). Researchers have suggested that although men and women have similar depression symptom profiles, they differ in how they present symptoms and how they cope with depression (e.g., Cochran & Rabinowitz, 2003; Pollack, 1998). Rochlen, Whilde, and Hoyer (2005), however, posited that depression for the sexes is stereotyped. Gendered conceptualizations of depression could constrict the broader context of depression. Nevertheless, the unique aspects of male depression have important considerations for counselling and counsellor training and development.
Confronted by this picture of depression in Canada, I focused my doctoral research on investigating counselling efficacy for midlife depression with an emphasis on questions related to depression self-management, therapy outcome research, and adult learning. I was particularly curious about individuals' experiences of managing depression once counselling had ended. My hermeneutie inquiry involved 15 conversational semistructured interviews with midlife women and men who had completed counselling for depression. This article presents the perspectives and narratives of the 6 men who participated in the study. Their experiences further our understanding of male midlife depression, stretch traditional practice paradigms beyond standardized treatment, and invite us to discuss renewed practice approaches.
MAPPING THE COURSE OF MIDLIFE DEPRESSION: BRIEF SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE
Midlife, as a life stage construct, has been associated with a range of ideologies including crisis (Erikson, 1963), decline (Frenkel-Brunswik, 1968), and expressivity and individuation (Jung, 1933)· Stereotypes have developed around this stage of life that depict men as being in pursuit of youth and depict women as being concerned about aging (Stoppard, 2000). Midlife has been conceptualized as a time of generativity (McAdams, de St. Aubin, & Logan, 1993), adapting to life transitions (Hudson, 1999), and taking stock of life's gains and losses (Goldstein, 2005; Heckhausenj 200 1; Lachman, 2004). Midlife is generally between the ages of 35 and 65 years (Staudinger 8c Block, 2001; Willis & Martin, 2005). Life-work stressors and long work hours (Galambos &C Walters, 1992)» care for elders, financés, household and family responsibilities, occupational issues, and health risk factors are prevalent during midlife. …
Publication: Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy (Online)
Grove, Debbie L.
Theoretical Models of Counseling and Psychotherapy By Kevin A. Fall; Janice Miner Holder; Andre Marquis Brunner Routledge, 2004
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Counseling and Psychotherapy of Work Dysfunctions By Rodney L. Lowman American Psychological Association, 1993
Frequency of Scholarship on Counselling Males in the Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy/Fréquence Des éTudes Sur le Counseling Auprès Des Hommes Dans la Revue Canadienne De Counseling et De Psychothérapie By Hoover, Stuart M. Bedi, Robinder P. Beall, Lauren K. Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy (Online), Vol. 46, No. 4, October 2012
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When Should You Capitalize Words?
Pride capitals, common nouns, and proper nouns.
Rob Reinalda, Writing for
In today's episode, we’ll talk about capitalization—its overuse and its misuse in the business world.
Let’s talk about why capitalization of some words is a capital idea, and why uppercasing other words could be considered a capital offense.
Meaning Is Key
One reason capitalization matters is that a word’s meaning can change depending on whether it's uppercase or lowercase.
“See those three domiciles over there? Well, I live in the white house.” That’s quite different from, “I live in the White House [capital W, capital H.” That White House is where the president lives.
In English, we capitalize words that are proper nouns—that is, they describe a specific thing or entity. They could be a title, a name, or a specific place such as the president's residence: [THE White House].
We lowercase words that are considered common nouns—that is, they can be used to describe many things, such as any one of the multitude of white-colored houses in the world.
(As an aside, I'll note that in German all nouns and certain pronouns get uppercased; now there's a gratuitous “Das Kapital” reference just waiting to be made. And so I made one.)
Job Titles and Job Descriptions
One business conundrum is figuring out when to capitalize job titles and job descriptions. Here's the rule: If the title is an actual title—not just a job description—and it comes before the person’s name, it should generally be uppercase, as in, “Executive Vice President Xavier Gloopnox IV.” In that case, “Executive Vice President” is capitalized because it is a job title before the name.
If the title come after the name, though, make it lowercase. In that case, it’s an appositive phrase serving as an identifier. [We talked about appositives in Episode 141.] For a general job description, use lowercase, regardless of whether it comes before or after a name. In the following example, “company spokesman” is just a description, not a title, so it is lowercase.
Fritter Frenzy company spokesman Leopold Handlebar delivered the news.
When in doubt, or whenever you encounter someone with a lengthy official job title, give the person’s name first, then follow with the title, lowercase. For example: Bartholomew Z. Bartholomew, 2nd assistant vice president for sales, northeast region, for Amalgamated Malaria Inc. His name and the company name are uppercase, but the rest of the words, such as “assistant vice president for sales,” are lowercase. It’s often best to simplify when possible. Better still might be to call him “a sales executive,” especially if you’re writing for an audio presentation, such as a podcast. Ahem.
Department Names
Sometimes you can simplify through capitalization. For example, a case can be made for capitalization in some business writings as a type of shorthand. “Let me check with our Legal employees,” one might write [with “legal” capitalize. It’s clear, in corporate America, that this means the Legal Department. And one can forgive a shortening there, because if you’ve ever dealt with Legal, you want to save as much time elsewhere as possible.
If you lowercase “legal” in that sentence—“Let me check with our legal employees”—it might leave your audience wondering about the lawfulness of your other staff, the ones who aren't legal. Hmmm. That might explain why your staplers keep disappearing.
‘Pride Capitals’ and ‘Ideal Forms’
One mistake business writers often make is capitalizing words simply for emphasis or to augment their importance. Such errant capitalization happens frequently in press releases and other promotional materials. Hyperbole is no stranger in that realm. Nevertheless, it does not make your pork rinds crunchier and tastier if you capitalize the words “Pork” and “Rinds.”
Murray Munn commented on the “Pork Rind” kind of capitalization on the Grammar Girl Facebook page. He calls them “pride capitals” and speculates that “What we admire, we capitalize.” For example, he says he often sees librarians write “library” with a capital L.
Murray isn't far from the truth because sometimes it actually is OK to capitalize words we admire. In its section on Platonic words, the Chicago Manual of Style offers this:
“Words for transcendent ideas in the Platonic sense, especially when used in a religious context, are often capitalized. Good; Beauty; Truth; the One.”
And Chocolate. OK, maybe not chocolate, but, let’s face it, there are some occasions … And although we'd like to believe “library” deserves a capital l, it doesn't.
Curious thing about these being “Platonic” ideas, because that word “Platonic” itself has a different meaning depending on its case. Dictionary.com, citing Random House, defines “Platonic” with a capital P this way:
“of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Plato or his doctrines: [as in] the Platonic philosophy of ideal forms.”
On the other hand, “platonic” with a lowercase p means “purely spiritual; free from sensual desire, esp. in a relationship between two persons of the opposite sex.”
Now, where were we? Oh, yes, time for a clever segue back to business writing …
OK, here it goes: If you’re writing or editing a piece about your corporate culture or the development of a product line and think that these are among Plato’s transcendent ideas and ideal forms, think again.
For example, if you were to go on and on about a product’s Creation with a capital c, that would be a huge mistake. It had better be a miracle if you’re going to introduce it with such a … Big Bang.
See? Not only are you likely to draw attention in the wrong way, you may even convey the wrong meaning.
So here’s the Quick and Dirty Tip on random or vanity capitalization: don’t.
Save uppercase for conventional uses such as a proper name or one of Plato’s lofty ideals—or for nouns if you happen to be writing in German. (In that case, maybe you should look for Grammatik Fräulein instead of Grammar Girl.)
When in doubt, look up a word to see whether its meaning varies depending on capitalization. If it does, and you really need to have it lowercase for clarity’s sake, do what you can to ensure that it doesn’t start your sentence. It would be capitalized there, of course, so its mere placement might undermine your intent.
Since it's back-to-school season, next week we'll expound on capitalization conundrums that come up in the classroom.
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This podcast was written by Rob Reinalda, executive editor for Ragan Communications (word_czar on Twitter), and read in the podcast by Mignon Fogarty, the author of the New York Times bestseller Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing.
That's all. Thank for listening.
"Chalkboard" image, Feen via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
Rob Reinalda, Writing for Grammar Girl
Rob Reinalda, winner of ACES' 2019 Robinson Prize for excellence in editing, is the founder and principal of Word Czar Media. As executive editor for Ragan Communications, he writes its popular Brighter Writer column.
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We take an in-depth look at the world's biggest entertainment industry, gaming. Professor Andrew Przybylski is director of research at Oxford University's Internet Institute - he explains what motivated the World Health Organisation to recognise gaming disorder as an official medical condition. Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones is director of the UK's first state-funded clinic to treat gaming addiction, and tells us that whilst gaming can have negative effects, it can also be a force for good. Robert Steen discusses the positive impact the community of people playing World of Warcraft had on his son, Mats, who died at the age of 25 as a result of a degenerative condition. And Ocean Capewell tells us how she used the Sims game to help her deal with loss. Also in the programme, with economic growth in China at its lowest level in almost three decades, and the birthrate at its lowest since the 1940s, we consider the prospects for the world's second largest economy with Tim Hildebrandt, an expert on social policy in China at the London School of Economics. Plus our reporter travels to Telford in central England to find out about the challenges involved in recycling old fridges.
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We take an in-depth look at the causes and implications of France's pension reform strike. Isabelle Challilou is an economics reporter for France Info and tells us why so many are opposed to President Macron's pension reform proposals. Marjorie Alexandre is with trade union Force Ouvriere, and argues that the government's reforms have shifted focus too far towards the individual. We get a response from Alexandre Holdroyd, MP with the governing La Republique en Marche party. We ride along with one commuter to find out just how much her journey to work has been affected by the ongoing strikes. Plus we consider the short and long-term impact the action has had on Paris's crucial tourism sector.
Speaking in Washington, US President Donald Trump said the pact would be "transformative" for the US economy. Chinese leaders called it a "win-win" deal that would help foster better relations between the two countries. China has pledged to boost US imports by $200bn above 2017 levels and strengthen intellectual property rules. In exchange, US has agreed to halve some of the new tariffs it has imposed on Chinese products. Also, we take an in-depth look at the meat and dairy industry and ask whether it is sustainable. Plus, a familiar name in Japanese politics is again making waves - but for reasons outside of politics. The environment minister Shinjiro Koizumi - son of the former PM Junichiro Koizumi - has caused a sensation by taking paternity leave. Why is that still such a controversial move in Japan?
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We take an in-depth look at the meat and dairy industry and ask whether it is sustainable. Tim Wilson is owner of butchers The Ginger Pig, and tells us there is still a strong market for meat. Stuart Roberts of the National Farmers Union explains how the industry hopes to become carbon neutral by 2040. And environmental journalist and campaigner George Monbiot discusses why he's sceptical of those claims. Also in the programme, as the US and China sign a trade deal, the BBC's Samira Hussein reports on how the trade war between the countries has affected some companies in Pennsylvania. Plus the BBC's Arunoday Mukharji in Delhi explains why not everyone in India is welcoming an announcement that Amazon is to invest a billion dollars in small- and medium-sized businesses. (Picture: Cuts of meat. Picture credit: Getty Images.)
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Briancon - Aix-en-Provence
Train Briancon → Aix-en-Provence
About this journey The average travel time between Briancon and Aix-en-Provence is 4h35 minutes. The quickest route is 3h51 minutes. The first train leaving Briancon is at 06:46, the last at 17:52. There is an average of 5 trains a day between Briancon and Aix-en-Provence, leaving approximately every 2h17 minutes.
Arrival station : Aix en provence (Route départementale 9 13592 Aix en Provence)
Briancon, gain altitude ! The highest city of France, Briancon, is at an altitude of 1326 meters. With about 12 000 inhabitants, the town of the Hautes-Alpes is only 15km away from Italy. Its Vauban fortifications are listed to the UNESCO world heritage since 2008. Learn more about Briancon
Marks the spot for artists and dreamers
Spring waters tumble from over 100 fountains dotted throughout the streets and squares of former Roman spa town Aix en Provence. Linger over coffee and local almond delicacy calisson in one of the bohemian-chic pavement cafés of this sophisticated French university city. Learn more about Aix-en-Provence
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About Sing to Live, Live to sing
Join our friendly and fun workshops
No previous singing experience is necessary! There are currently spaces for new participants in all eight Sing to Live, Live to Sing workshops. Workshops are free, and open to all residents aged 18 years and over.
For a paper version of the form contact the Arts Service or the host venue directly
Sing to Live, Live to Sing is a singing for health programme in Kensington and Chelsea. It was initiated by the Council's Arts Service in partnership with Public Health.
Singing can help to:
improve breathing
develop core muscles
boost confidence
encourage a feeling of belonging
improve mood
Take part in the Sing to Live, Live to Sing group singing workshops, have fun and meet people. Workshops are free, and open to all residents aged 18 years and over. No previous singing experience is necessary. Participants will be invited to take part in a short health questionnaire during the workshop series.
Sing to Live Calendar 2019-20
Workshops take place weekly in twelve week blocks as set out below:
Monday 29 April to Friday 19 July 2019
Taster sessions are running Monday 29 April – Friday 3 May at all Venues.
Please note there are no workshops on bank holidays: Monday 6 May and Monday 27 May
Autumn 2019
Includes additional week for rehearsal pre-winter Concert
Monday 2 September to Friday 29 November 2019
Inclusive of half term w/c Monday 21 October
Winter 2020
Monday 6 January to Friday 28 March 2020
Inclusive of half term w/c Monday 17 February.
How to join Sing to Live, Live to Sing
No previous singing experience is necessary. There are currently spaces for new participants in all eight Sing to Live, Live to Sing workshops. Workshops are free, and open to all residents aged 18 years and over.
Register for Sing to Live online.
For a paper version of the form contact the Arts Service or the host venue directly.
You can join the programme at any time during the term.
You can register online or email arts@rbkc.gov.uk for a registration form or register in person at any of the venues.
Please return paper forms to:
Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Arts Services
37 Pembroke Road
W8 6PW
Venture Centre
Fridays, 2pm to 4pm
Venue: Venture Centre, 103a Wornington Road, London W10 5YB (Wheelchair Accessible)
Contact: The Venture Centre on 020 8960 3234 or email info@venturecentre.org.uk
Hosted by the Venture Centre
Chelsea Theatre
Tuesdays, 7pm to 9pm
Fridays, 10am to 12 noon
Venue: Chelsea Theatre, 7 World’s End Place, King’s Road, London SW10 0DR (Wheelchair Accessible)
Please note that Chelsea Theatre is undergoing renovations from August 2018 into Spring 2019. During this time Sing to Live will take place in the studio to the right of the main building.
Contact: Chelsea Theatre, 020 7352 1967 or admin@chelseatheatre.org.uk
Hosted by Chelsea Theatre and World’s End and Cremorne Community Champions.
Dalgarno Community Centre
Mondays, 2pm to 4pm
Thursdays, 6pm to 8pm
Venue: Dalgarno Community Centre, 1 Webb Close, Dalgarno Way, London W10 5QB (Wheelchair Accessible)
Contact: Dalgarno Community Centre, 020 8969 6300 or reception@dalgarnotrust.org.uk
Hosted by Dalgarno Community Centre and Dalgarno Community Champions
240 Project Latymer Community Church
Monday 3 September, 2pm to 4pm (taster session)
From 11 September, this group will meet on Tuesdays from 2pm to 4pm
Venue: Latymer Community Church (upstairs), 116 Bramley Road, London W10 6SU (Not Wheelchair Accessible)
Contact: 240 Project, 020 7221 7530 or info@240project.org.uk
Hosted by 240 Project, drop-in centre for the vulnerable and excluded
St Cuthbert’s Church
Tuesdays, 6.45pm to 8.45pm
Venue: St Cuthbert's Church, 50 Philbeach Gardens, London SW5 9EB (Not Wheelchair Accessible)
Contact: Arts Service, 020 7361 4378 or arts@rbkc.gov.uk
Hosted by St Cuthbert’s Church, this group focuses on repertoire to challenge those with some previous singing experience
St Mary’s The Bolton
Wednesdays 12.30 – 2.30pm
Venue: St Mary’s The Boltons, Kensington, SW10 9TB
Contact;T: 020 7631 3844 E: Arts@rbkc.gov.uk
Workshop series @ St Cuthbert’s Centre August 2019
For new participants and St Cuthbert’s Centre service users
Friday 16 August, 3 – 4pm
Wednesday 21 August, 3-4pm
51, Philbeach Gardens
SW5 9EB
Contact: Tina Hilaris
Taster sessions across all venues
Week beginning Monday 2 September
E: Arts@rbkc.gov.uk
Date: Sunday 1 December 2019
Time: TBC
Location: The Tabernacle, 32-34 Powis Square, W11 2AY
Find out more about the workshops or invite us to your venue
Sing to Live, Live to Sing groups enjoy performing to the public at both smaller community and large-scale events.
If you would like to invite Sing to Live, Live to Sing to perform at your event or venue, please contact Miranda MacFarlane in the Arts Service on:
Email: miranda.macfarlane@rbkc.gov.uk.
Watch short films showing Sing to Live, Live to Sing in action
This short film introduces the Sing to Live, Live to Sing programme and shares experiences from residents taking part. The film was shot during a performance at the Victoria & Albert Museum in December 2015.
This short film features singers performing together at Age UK’s Health Fair at Kensington Town Hall in October 2015. It features stories from participants about the health benefits they have experienced.
This short film was commissioned by Chelsea Theatre. It features their Sing to Live, Live to Sing groups performing at a community health and well-being event. An invited audience took part in an interactive Sing to Live, Live to Sing workshop.
Sing to Live, Live to Sing is a joint initiative from the Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Arts Service and Public Health. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the host venues who provide their space in kind for Sing to Live, Live to Sing groups.
Workshop leaders
We have some new faces – updated information coming soon!
Health monitoring and evaluation of the programme
An important part of the Sing to Live, Live to Sing programme is the evaluation of the health and well-being outcomes for residents. Download a summary evaluation of the pilot project:
Sing to Live Live to Sing: Pilot project evaluation
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Developing Mature Partnerships to Meet the Challenges of Our Time
Bobby Milstein, Director, System Strategy | 06/14/2017
Several weeks ago, The Greenville News published a story about a visionary investment of $80 million over the next 20 years to help Greenville, South Carolina, become the healthiest county in the United States. Embracing such an ambitious goal is one sign of a truly dedicated endeavor. Even more special is their chosen strategy, featuring not just one or two narrow priorities, but a combined portfolio covering mental and physical health, access to health care, and healthy eating and exercise, as well as wider drivers of well-being, like education and economic development. Rarer still are long-term commitments from institutional investors who are ready to devote dependable resources into doing business differently.
Katy Smith, executive director of the Piedmont Health Foundation, is quoted in the story: “There are others who want to be the best in the country . . . But few communities are making this kind of investment with this long term goal.”
Leaders in Greenville surely will encounter many surprises in the work ahead. They may even discover that $4 million a year, in this region of about 60,000 people, is just a down payment toward a much larger long-term investment. But they have already taken several decisive steps into a new space as serious stewards of their common health system.
Parts of this same story are unfolding in many other places across the country. Judging from ReThink Health’s recent Pulse Check on Multi-Sector Partnerships, which surveyed 260 partnerships from across the country, most appear to be in earlier stages of development. Indeed, after I had commented on Greenville’s promising move, one reader wrote back to share her own passion for breaking from the status quo. In her case, she posed one simple yet poignant question: “Where do we begin?”
Those groups that are just beginning and others, like Greenville, that have matured to enact a multi-million-dollar, 20-year plan face qualitatively different challenges. They sit at different points on an enormous developmental spiral. And those of us who want them to succeed—including funders, policy makers, and other allies—must design our engagements with a clear sense of where they are in their development. If we approach them with a fixed set of tools and techniques, we will fail each and squander their vast potential to become true stewards in their own regions.
Like human beings, multi-sector partnerships advance through developmental phases, from formation through maturity. Many partnerships are quite nascent: a majority of contributors to the Pulse Check formed after 2010. And just like in human development, beginnings are essential. Nascent partnerships typically form for clear and urgent reasons, in environments with high stakes. They recognize an issue and organize to address it. As they get started, they depend on specific experiences and supports to nurture them through those early years.
Over time, however, the particular competencies that drive momentum and the pitfalls that stall progress tend to change. For example, as the charts below suggest, partnerships in the earlier stages may benefit most from actively engaging stakeholders and experimenting with what you might consider “low-hanging fruit” such as a shared needs assessments, allowing stakeholders who are just getting to know each other to collaborate on a project they already agree is important to them all. But the momentum from these activities decreases as the work progresses. As partnerships mature, they exhaust easy wins and encounter resistance when attempting to transform prevailing mindsets, structures, and policies. Success in these later stages demands a wider view of the system, backed by political acumen and a collective sense of power—or “civic muscle” to exercise influence upward and outward.
Contributors and Barriers to Momentum Shift by Phase
More and more regions now rely on having capable, mature partnerships to fulfill vital roles as stewards of a fragile health system—a trend that will likely grow stronger as the nation faces such troubling trends as skyrocketing healthcare costs, entrenched inequities, eroding well-being, and lost productivity. Moreover, the variety across our large, diverse country means these groups cannot follow a single blueprint. Instead, the champions of health system change need a flexible developmental framework to anticipate and adjust to changes over time.
At ReThink Health, we provide the Pathway for Transforming Regional Health as practical way for partnerships to assess and celebrate past milestones, while also pointing to their next frontiers for development. The Pathway also provides a common structure for internal leaders and outside allies to negotiate priorities and accumulate the evidence needed to improve over time. It can therefore help us learn faster and uncover the pivotal points to help partnerships mature along their own developmental trajectories.
The Pulse Check asked all respondents to name catalytic initiatives that have supported their growth and development. The data suggest that participation in such initiatives, such as 100 Million Healthier Lives and BUILD, is high for early-stage groups but is even higher among those in the later developmental phases. These capacity-building initiatives and others like them, including ReThink Health’s own Ventures project, are therefore in unique positions—and have special responsibilities—to design our work with development in mind. In this way, we can provide partnerships with what they actually need, generating enough power and momentum to restructure how the health economy works in a particular region, while avoiding pernicious pitfalls that threaten to reinforce the status quo. As the ecology of support around these multi-sector groups grows, it’s essential that we all pay attention to the changing needs, challenges, and achievements of partnerships as they develop.
When it comes to human development, parents and teachers have begun to emphasize things like flexibility, creativity, resilience, and empathy—previously considered “soft skills,” but that now are regarded as critical to successful adulthood in a rapidly changing world. So it is too with organizational development. Partnerships and their allies must continually cultivate a different set of skills to meet and master the challenges of our time.
05/23/2019 | Jane Erickson, Project Director
Doing Business Differently, Together: The Story of ReThink Health Ventures
07/12/2017 | Emmy Ganos, Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
How Multisector Health Partnerships Evolve
03/22/2017 | Bobby Milstein, Director, System Strategy
How Funders, Policymakers, and Other Allies Can Bolster Multisector Partnerships
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Section 84.795
Airports and landing fields
Conservation officers
County state-aid highways
Nursery stock
Trunk highways
2017 Subd. 5 Revisor Instruction 2017 c 83 art 3 s 18
84.795 OPERATION REQUIREMENTS; LOCAL REGULATION.
Subdivision 1. Operation on public road rights-of-way. (a) A person may not operate an
off-highway motorcycle within the right-of-way of a town road or a trunk, county state-aid, or
county highway in this state unless the right-of-way encompasses:
(1) a trail administered by the commissioner and designated for off-highway motorcycle
use or multiple use; or
(2) a corridor access trail designated under paragraph (b).
(b) A road authority, as defined in section 160.02, subdivision 25, may designate, with the
approval of the commissioner, corridor access trails on public road rights-of-way for gaining
access to established off-highway motorcycle trails.
(c) A person may not operate an off-highway motorcycle upon a trunk, county state-aid, or
county highway in this state unless the vehicle is equipped with at least one headlight and one
taillight, each of minimum candlepower as prescribed by rule of the commissioner, and with
brakes conforming to standards prescribed by rule of the commissioner, all of which are subject to
the approval of the commissioner of public safety.
(d) A person may not operate an off-highway motorcycle at any time within the right-of-way
of an interstate highway or freeway within this state.
Subd. 2. Crossing public road right-of-way. (a) A person operating an off-highway
motorcycle may make a direct crossing of a public road right-of-way provided:
(1) the crossing is made at an angle of approximately 90 degrees to the direction of the road
and at a place where no obstruction prevents a quick and safe crossing;
(2) the off-highway motorcycle is brought to a complete stop before crossing the shoulder
or main traveled way of the road;
(3) the driver yields the right-of-way to all oncoming traffic that constitutes an immediate
hazard;
(4) in crossing a divided road, the crossing is made only at an intersection of the road with
another public road; and
(5) if the crossing is made between the hours of one-half hour after sunset to one-half hour
before sunrise or in conditions of reduced visibility, only if both front and rear lights are on.
(b) Chapters 169 and 169A apply to the operation of off-highway motorcycles upon streets
and highways, except for those provisions relating to required equipment and those provisions
that by their nature have no application.
Subd. 3. Exemptions. Subdivisions 1 and 2 do not apply to vehicles registered for public
road use under chapter 168 when being operated on a traveled portion of a public road.
Subd. 4. Operation generally. A person may not drive or operate an off-highway motorcycle:
(1) at a rate of speed greater than reasonable or proper under the surrounding circumstances;
(2) in a careless, reckless, or negligent manner so as to endanger or to cause injury or damage
to the person or property of another;
(3) in a tree nursery or planting in a manner that damages or destroys growing stock;
(4) without a brake operational by either hand or foot;
(5) at a speed exceeding ten miles per hour on the frozen surface of public waters within 100
feet of a person fishing or a fishing shelter; or
(6) in a manner that violates operation rules adopted by the commissioner.
Subd. 5. Operating under influence of alcohol or controlled substance. A person may
not operate or be in control of an off-highway motorcycle anywhere in this state or on the ice of
any boundary water of this state while under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance,
as provided in section 169A.20, and is subject to sections 169A.50 to 169A.53. A conservation
officer of the Department of Natural Resources is a peace officer for the purposes of sections
169A.20 and 169A.50 to 169A.53 as applied to the operation of an off-highway motorcycle in a
manner not subject to registration under chapter 168.
Subd. 6. Operation prohibited on airports. A person may not drive or operate an
off-highway motorcycle on an airport defined in section 360.013, subdivision 39.
Subd. 7. Organized contests. Nothing in this section or chapter 169 prohibits the use of
off-highway motorcycles within the right-of-way of a state trunk or county state-aid highway or
upon public lands or waters under the jurisdiction of the commissioner of natural resources, in
an organized contest or event, subject to the consent of the official or board having jurisdiction
over the highway or public lands or waters.
In permitting the contest or event, the official or board having jurisdiction may prescribe
restrictions, conditions, or permit revocation procedures, as the official or board considers
Subd. 8. Regulations by political subdivisions. A county, city, or town, acting through its
governing body, may regulate the operation of off-highway motorcycles on public lands, waters,
and property under its jurisdiction other than public road rights-of-way within its boundaries, by
resolution or ordinance of the governing body and by giving appropriate notice, provided that:
(1) the regulations must be consistent with sections 84.787 to 84.796 and rules adopted
under section 84.79;
(2) an ordinance may not impose a fee for the use of public land or water under the
jurisdiction of either the Department of Natural Resources or another agency of the state, or for
the use of an access to it owned by the state, a county, or a city; and
(3) an ordinance may not require an off-highway motorcycle operator to possess a motor
vehicle driver's license while operating an off-highway motorcycle.
History: 1993 c 311 art 1 s 9; 2000 c 478 art 2 s 7
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Kosovo's Unwelcome Role In Frankfurt Terror Deaths
March 03, 2011 11:52 GMT
It feels like a day of mourning in Pristina. Shock, anger, and dismay are palpable in the streets of Kosovo's capital against the backdrop of today's headlines: "Kosovar Kills Two U.S. Army Men At Frankfurt Airport."
The suspect in yesterday's tragedy is Arid Uka, a 21-year-old Kosovo Albanian, born and raised in Germany, where his family has lived for four decades.
Police claim he is not registered in any database on alleged terrorist acts within Kosovo, while information on his family is limited and his profile remains unclear.
What is clear, though, is the anger and revulsion that Kosovars felt and continue to feel.
Upon hearing the news, a group of young students from Pristina University gathered in the center of the city to light candles in memory of the U.S. soldiers killed in the shooting.
Candles were lit in Mitrovica, too, Arid Uka's city of origin, where young people gathered and expressed their condolences to the American people.
The authorities were quick to react, claiming it was "a macabre act against the values of civilization and against the tradition of Kosovo people, to endlessly show gratitude toward the U.S. for its role in freedom of Kosovo."
When the news came out on RFE/RL's Albanian-language website www.evrropaelire.org, the flow of the commentaries was unbelievable.
More than 100 commentaries poured in from Kosovo and around the world, and the flow continued with expressions of condolences and demands of capital punishment for the perpetrator.
"He cannot be an Albanian," one went. Another equated shooting at the U.S. with "being a traitor." "How can one shoot against a helping hand?" asked another. All seemingly bringing the grim atmosphere dominating Kosovo society today into sharp relief.
The president of the Albanian-American Democratic Club in New York, Alban Dega, wrote an open letter to Kosovo's highest authorities suggesting that the suspect be stripped of his Albanian nationality and Kosovo citizenship.
"We are the most pro-American and most pro-Western nation on Earth. The Albanian Pro-Americanism is not only a value, but a national cult which honors the Albanians wherever they are on Earth", Dega proclaims.
"God bless U.S. men and women in uniform and the USA! Amen!" Dega concludes.
Similar expressions of solidarity can be heard today all over Kosovo.
Kosovo's parliament held a moment of silence today to express condolences to the U.S., its people, its army, and to the families of the victims.
-- Arbana Vidishiqi
Written by RFE/RL editors and correspondents, Transmission serves up news, comment, and the odd silly dictator story. While our primary concern is with foreign policy, Transmission is also a place for the ideas -- some serious, some irreverent -- that bubble up from our bureaus. The name recognizes RFE/RL's role as a surrogate broadcaster to places without free media. You can write us at transmission+rferl.org
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SFF Romance
Cowboy Romance
Your blind date is...
CRAZY CUPID LOVE by AMANDA HEGER
Have you fallen deeply in love,
But get nervous approaching your dove?
Don’t be stupid;
Hire a Cupid!
‘Cause sometimes love needs a shove.
Eliza Herman (a.k.a. The World’s Worst Cupid) has spent her entire life carefully avoiding her calling as a Descendant of Eros. After all, happily-ever-afters are nothing but a myth. But when a family crisis requires her to fill in at the local Cupid-for-hire shop, Eliza finds herself enchanting couples under the watchful eye of her assigned mentor, Jake Sanders…the one man she could never get out of her head.
Before long, Eliza is rethinking her stance on romance—until things start going terribly wrong with her enchantments. Now Eliza and Jake must fight to unravel a conspiracy that could destroy thousands of relationships, including their own…and spell the end of Love itself.
No pressure, right?
AMAZON | B&N | INDIEBOUND
APPLE | KOBO | WALMART
Tap, tap, tap.
Eliza jumped, cracking her head on the steering wheel. Son of a… She grasped for the seat belt while her brain tried to place the man peering down at her from the passenger-side window.
“Hello?” he said.
Not just a man. An underwear- model- worthy man with the perfect amount of five- o’clock shadow and cheekbones that could cut diamonds. A navy tie hung loosely around his neck, and the top button of his shirt lay open, practically daring her to look away from the tan skin at the base of his throat.
It was the worst thing Eliza had ever seen.
TURN BACK NOW. ABANDON SHIP. THIS WAY LIES MADNESS. Her mind screeched its usual warnings like a tornado siren, but she couldn’t look away.
Over the years, in her attempt to live a “normal” life, she’d constructed an intricate maze of rules and guidelines that she followed at all times. Number one on that list? Stay away from hot guys.
On a good day, her clumsiness hit a six on the Richter scale. Add the fumbling, sweaty awkwardness of attraction to the mix, and Eliza became a walking catastrophe.
“Eliza?”
“Do I know…” She narrowed her eyes. There was a familiar seriousness in his gaze. Something nostalgic about the way he dug his hands into his pockets. Something… “Jake?”
Eliza shoved open the car door and tried to push all the dirty thoughts she’d just had from her mind as she stepped out into the driveway. “Jake Sanders? I thought you were in Peru or something.”
“Brazil then. What are you doing here?” She tried to smooth her hair. When that failed, she tried not to notice how mind- bendingly attractive her childhood best friend had become. They’d known each other since elementary school, when— as the only three school- age Cupids in town— Jake, Eliza, and Elijah had been enrolled in PSC (Public School Cupiding) classes together. Every Wednesday night, they’d sit in a classroom for two hours, drinking juice boxes and learning about the history of Cupids. On the weekends, Jake would come to her house, where they would conduct elaborate reenactments of the War of the Titans from the tree house in Eliza’s backyard. But in middle and high school, the two of them had drifted apart the way people do. Especially when one of those people is class president and captain of the track team (Jake) and the other is a walking disaster (Eliza).
After high school, Jake enlisted in the Cupid Corps. For the last ten years, he’d been taking cases on assignment in impoverished and war- torn areas. Aside from a brief visit over Christmas nine years ago, Eliza hadn’t seen him since.
“I moved back to town about a week ago,” he said. “Doing some odd jobs while I get reacclimated.”
“At Dionysus again?” she asked. When they’d been teenagers, he’d worked there as a bar back. The raucous restaurant and bar sat dead center in the Agora— a building at the edge of town where Descendants had gathered for decades, undetected by “regular” humans. Eliza, the ultimate clumsy introvert with an unheard- of level of enchantment, hated the place. People stared and pointed when she walked by. It made her feel like a lab rat.
“No.” He looked down at his feet, then back up at her. “Doing some deliveries right now. This one is for your parents. Are they here?” He held out a large manila envelope.
“No.” She started to say more, but the words snagged in her throat. “They’re out.”
“Can you sign for this then?” She took his tablet and scrawled her name at the bottom of the screen. “Here you go.”
Jake handed her the thick envelope and flashed her a grin. It was same grin— the one that rose a smidge higher on the left— that had always seemed kind of dorky when they were kids. As adults? Totally different story. “Happy Day- That- Shall- Not- Be- Named, by the way,” he said.
Despite everything, Eliza let out a laugh. “Finally, someone around here understands me.”
“I aim to please.” His dark eyes locked on hers for a half second. “I can’t believe your parents finally gave up on the whole Herman birthday extravaganza thing.”
“Oh, they didn’t. We already had cake. Blood and tears were shed, yadda, yadda.”
“You did all the blood shedding before dark? The Hermans have really gotten soft over the years.” There it was again. That grin. “Here. I have something for you.”
Jake took a step closer. Miniature fireworks went off in her chest, leaving trails of nervous energy in her stomach. He’d become so handsome. Broad shoulders, narrow waist, a jawline that could make Adonis weep. And he’d been there for all her childhood traumas and celebrations. The hot days they’d chased down the ice- cream truck in bare feet. The games of checkers on her parents’ back porch. The awkward here- come- the- braces- and- puberty years.
“You brought me a gift?” Eliza asked.
“You think I was going to step inside this house on your birthday without a gift in hand? No way. Your parents would have eaten me alive.”
“That’s fair.” For the first time on this godsforsaken day, Eliza felt herself relax. They could have been ten years old and playing Battletoads again, the way everything fell into place. Like life had never taken them in separate directions.
“Here.” He produced a small, rectangular package from his back pocket.
The paper was a plain navy blue— not a Valentine remnant in sight— and the featherlight present crinkled when she turned it over. She smiled up at him. “You didn’t have to do this.”
He reached for the gift with a boyish look in his eyes. “If you don’t want it— ”
Eliza whipped it out of his reach. “I didn’t say that.”
“Don’t get too excited. It’s nothing big.”
“I’ll be the judge of that.” Eliza pried open the wrapping. An all- too- familiar cartoon kangaroo stared up at her from the tiny package of treats. A rush of nostalgia washed over her. “Dunkaroos? Dunkaroos, the best snack ever made? Dunkaroos, the sole reason I made it through childhood in one piece?”
“I think you’re forgetting something.” Jake gave her a pointed look.
“Okay. Dunkaroos, the reason I made it through childhood, in addition to your friendship.”
His face broke into a wide smile. “I’ll accept that.”
“Where did you find these? I didn’t think they made them anymore.”
“Canada. I was in Vancouver last week.”
“So you smuggled them into the country in the dark of night, risking everything, just for my birthday?”
He let out a soft chuckle. “Something like that.”
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Hyatt Regency Perth Winter Series – RESULTS – Final Results for 12/9/18
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Final Race Results: Hyatt Regency Perth Winter Series - RESULTS - Final Results for 12/9/18
A Hyatt Regency Perth Winter Series - RESULTS - Final Results for 12/9/18 - 2018-09-12
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R6 R Six Gary Rodoreda .8180 01:20:26 01:05:48 2 2 FIN 00:01:20
R802 Hydrate Guy Bessel-Browne .7110 01:34:59 01:07:32 6 3 FIN 00:03:04
R86 Adrenalin Rush Ron Carterton .7440 01:30:54 01:07:38 4 4 FIN 00:03:10
R810 Prim8s John McKay .7150 01:35:16 01:08:07 7 5 FIN 00:03:39
814 Four Chooks Trevor Lord .7120 01:37:20 01:09:18 8 6 FIN 00:04:50
R99 Distraction Brent Black .7160 01:37:32 01:09:50 9 7 FIN 00:05:22
AUS161 Well Primed Phil Harris .8140 01:26:35 01:10:29 3 8 FIN 00:06:01
R410 Wasabi Nick White .7600 01:33:00 01:10:41 5 9 FIN 00:06:13
R971 Jolie Breeze David Hepburn .6780 01:46:19 01:12:05 18 10 FIN 00:07:37
R804 Pi Shawn Offer .7060 01:42:26 01:12:19 12 11 FIN 00:07:51
993 True South Barry OToole .7010 01:43:31 01:12:34 14 12 FIN 00:08:06
R10 Time Out Barry Court .7130 01:41:52 01:12:38 10 13 FIN 00:08:10
R805 The Fox Ross OBrien .7110 01:42:15 01:12:42 11 14 FIN 00:08:14
R1100 Fortuosity Janet Hornbuckle .7000 01:44:37 01:13:14 16 15 FIN 00:08:46
R333 The Italian Job Bill Quinn .6890 01:46:32 01:13:24 19 16 FIN 00:08:56
R24 Waitipi Nigel Simpson .7120 01:44:08 01:14:09 15 17 FIN 00:09:41
R297 Terra Chrissie Payne .7020 01:45:37 01:14:09 17 17 FIN 00:09:41
R888 Veriaties Geoff Gamon .6860 01:48:09 01:14:11 21 19 FIN 00:09:43
R60 Heaven Can Wait Gary Griffiths .7050 01:47:29 01:15:47 20 20 FIN 00:11:19
R550 Box ofTricks Martin Box .7360 01:43:30 01:16:11 13 21 FIN 00:11:43
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R131 Huckleberry Phil Sommerville .7000 01:16:21 00:53:27 2 1 FIN 00:00:00
R242 Seahawk Pat Jones .7100 01:15:38 00:53:42 1 2 FIN 00:00:15
R1104 Olympia F Berkhout-G Martin .7380 01:16:38 00:56:33 3 3 FIN 00:03:06
R42 Ragnar Graham White .7340 01:17:53 00:57:10 5 4 FIN 00:03:43
R173 Serried Jake McAuliffe-Rudi Muller .6690 01:25:41 00:57:19 14 5 FIN 00:03:52
R132 Kabisa Brandon Hughes .7390 01:17:44 00:57:27 4 6 FIN 00:04:00
R92 The Black Smoke Jeremy Kerr .7050 01:22:03 00:57:51 7 7 FIN 00:04:24
R920 Equalizer Ian Barron-Peter Hugo .7330 01:19:43 00:58:26 6 8 FIN 00:04:59
R192 Frenzy Murray Rowe .7100 01:23:14 00:59:06 9 9 FIN 00:05:39
R128 Windmill John Berry .7030 01:24:55 00:59:42 12 10 FIN 00:06:15
R881 Fusion John Johnston .7260 01:22:53 01:00:10 8 11 FIN 00:06:43
R48 Farrfetched Mario Tascone & Bruce Meakins .6970 01:27:00 01:00:38 16 12 FIN 00:07:11
R105 Farrlap Andrew Hossen .7170 01:25:12 01:01:05 13 13 FIN 00:07:38
R121 Surcouf John Guhl .7210 01:24:47 01:01:08 11 14 FIN 00:07:41
R100 Itinerant Mark Hansen .7370 01:24:33 01:02:19 10 15 FIN 00:08:52
R1920 Lionheart Warren Westaway .7340 01:26:59 01:03:51 15 16 FIN 00:10:24
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R58 Mon Petit Beneteau Trudy Robins .6410 01:14:12 00:47:34 2 3 FIN 00:01:31
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R169 Shamrock Glenn OConnor Smith .6510 01:14:56 00:48:47 3 6 FIN 00:02:44
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Princess Diana treated her sons Prince William and Harry to McDonalds on Saturday nights
She wanted a normal life for her two boys
Zoe Forsey
Emma Costello
Throughout their whole life, Prince William and Prince Harry have been seen as top class royalty.
They are undoubtedly two of the most famous royal faces in the world.
We have seen them grow up from playful tots to handsome, married men.
But of course, they are also very much their mother's children.
Camilla Parker Bowles tried to convince Prince Charles to break up Prince William and Kate Middleton
Harry and William often gush about Princess Diana, who loved them very dearly.
She tragically died in August 1997, just one year after she divorced Prince Charles.
Harry was just 12 years old when his mother passed and older brother William was 15.
However, the princes have fond memories of their mother and one of them was a Saturday night routine they shared.
The Princess of Wales outside Wetherby School in London, with her sons William and Harry, April 1990) (Image: Jayne Fincher/Princess Diana Archive/Getty Images)
Princess Diana's former butler and close friend Paul Burrell told the Mirror Online about their "Saturday night ritual."
The loving mum would take her boys to McDonald's, where they would order Big Macs and chips.
They would then come home and sit on a giant stuffed hippopotamus Diana had in front of the TV and watch Blind Date.
Mr Burrell said: "The three of them would nip to McDonald’s for a Big Mac and fries before coming back to watch Blind Date. All three of them would squat on this massive, stuffed hippopotamus Diana had in her sitting room.
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"They loved Blind Date and I’d hear them all screaming things like 'Oh don’t pick him!' and 'Lorra, lorra fun.'
"William and Harry also talk about pictures from two albums Diana made for each of them.
"It was her giving them the story of their lives in pictures and they have their names in gold lettering on the front.
"When they got married and had children of their own, she wanted them to show them – and I’m sure that’s what William is doing with George and Charlotte."
Princess Diana had an endearing nickname even before she married Prince Charles
The brothers reportedly loved McDonald's and last year the family's former chef Darren McGrady recalled a day when Princess Diana took her boys out for a last minute treat.
He said: "I remember the Princess [Diana] came into the kitchen one day and said, 'Cancel lunch for the boys I'm taking them out, we're going to McDonald's.'
"And I said, 'Oh my god your royal highness, I can do that, I can do burgers.' And she said, 'No, it's the toy they want.'"
Chef McGrady worked in the palace for 11 years before he went on the serve the Princess of Wales.
Prince Harry Sticking His Tongue Out Much To The Suprise Of His Mother, Princess Diana At Trooping The Colour With Prince William, Lady Gabriella Windsor And Lady Rose Windsor Watching From The Balcony Of Buckingham Palace (Image: Tim Graham/Getty Images)
According to the chef, Princess Diana was one of the healthier royals and would secretly eat low fat versions of the food served to guests.
However, she didn't impliment such restrictions on her sons.
Speaking to Marie Claire, McGrady said she maintained it was important to her that her two sons could be "just boys". This resulted in a lot of McDonald's during their childhood as this was their favourite. Lucky kids!
This MorningThis Morning viewers accuse Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford of 'Meghan Markle bashing' during interview with Samantha Markle"A biased and unnecessary interview."
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Ryter Cooperative Industries executes each project with a comprehensive approach to client partnerships. We enhance the client vision by applying our team's collective and individual expertise and utilizing the necessary resources to bring these visions into fruition. It is RCI's intention to keep forward motion futuristically enhancing the ideas of those who secure our services to realize their goal and ideas.
HIGHLAND PARK PROJECT - RESTORING LIGHT TO A CITY ONCE LEFT IN THE DARK
RCI partnered with Soulardarity and Mark Ruffalo's Solutions Project to help restore light to a city that was once left in the dark, Highland Park, MI. The project provided brighter and safer lights to the community, and as a result the city continues to save money due to RCi and Soulardarity's collaborative efforts. Reference: FOX2NEWS
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AFRICAN WORLD FESTIVAL SOLAR PHONE CHARGING STATION
RCI customized a solar charge stations for the Charles H. Wright Museum. Ryter Cooperative Industries designed, developed and engineered a product that provided accessible power to all mobile devices for the African World Festival - 2016. Throughout this project, RCI provided the resources to keep individuals plugged, connected and fully charged.
PROJECT "GO GREEN TEAM" OF WEST SIDE ACADEMY DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOL
Motivating and inspiring the youth is important to RCI. The West Side Academy High School students received a brief speech and demonstration of the importance of renewable energy and why it is important to understand and acknowledge it's multifaceted purpose.
By educating our youth, Detroit Public School students have the necessary tools to rediscover what renewable energy is and how to apply it to their everyday lives. Within the class, students had the ability to have hands-on experience and gain a first hand idea of the interworking of solar power, in real time.
Construction of the off grid energy station for the D-town Farm
DIRUL ENERGY STATION - DETROIT'S FIRST OFF-GRID ENERGY STATION FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH DTE ENERGY
RCI leads the implementation of a Detroit's first fully off grid solar power generation plant at the D-Town Farm at River Rogue Park in Detroit. In an effort to electrify the 7.5 acre grounds at the project site, RCI has designed and created a unique approach to the design. Our team has provided an alternative energy explication for off-grid power of lightings, equipment, and device charging. Our team designed power system sizing based on existing availability resources, optimal battery technologies, and desired usage. RCI has determined costs, savings and payback periods for alternative energy technologies suggested for implementation.
OAKLAND UNIVERSITY PROJECT -
ROCHESTERS HILLS NET-ZERO ENERGY HOME
In work with the Oakland University School of Engineering and Alternative Energies, RCI researched and designed an energy conservation and alternative energy model to achieve a goal of zero-net-energy usage for a home built in Rochester, Michigan. In working with the university our team RCI used collected data to baseline energy usage from several years of natural gas, and electric energy usage. In this comprehensive study, calculated values taking into account losses from the walls, windows, basement, water & mass exchanges to determine the major modes of energy loss and thermal characteristics for the home. This analysis estimated savings and payback periods for each alternative energy method suggested to be employed. Final zero-net-energy configuration based on optimal savings, costs, and paybacks.
HIGHLAND PARKS FIRST SOLAR POWERED LAWN MOWER WITH SOULARDARITY
Ryter Cooperative Industries designed and constructed a portable AC solar generator to couple with an electric lawnmower project designed to change the paradigm of energy usage for home and community lawn maintenance purposes by reducing greenhouse gas emissions resultant from gasoline lawn mowers by being completely powered by solar energy. In an effort to execute efficient productivity, RCI collected a team of professionals, developed costs, acquired materials and fabricated the final design within a 7 day delivery time period. Sponsored by Soulardarity who is known for pioneering the cooperatively owned Highland Park Street Lighting Initiative, this project delivery strengthened relationships with renewable energy project groups like Soulardarity along with other nationwide as well as the further fostering further relationships with the Mayor of Highland Park and its residence for future RCI products and projects to be created in the future.
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Paul Allen Launches the Upstream Music Fest to Be a Seattle SXSW
The new music festival and industry summit comes to Pioneer Square in May 2017.
By Seth Sommerfeld 8/10/2016 at 11:20am
A conceptual rendering of Upstream Music Fest action.
You can't say Paul Allen isn't ambitious. After successfully launching the Seattle Art Fair, the billionaire has turned his cultural sights to the music scene. Today, Allen announced he'll launch the Upstream Music Fest and Summit in Pioneer Square. Combining musical performances, industry business, tech, video games, and film, Upstream clearly aims to be Seattle's version of South by Southwest. The fest will take place May 11–13, 2017.
Upstream promises over 200 (mostly Northwest) artists playing on more than 25 stages. It'll be interesting to see where they place said stages, considering Pioneer Square isn't exactly the most venue rich neighborhood. And while it's fair to be skeptical based on previous attempts to create a Seattle SXSW failing (see: NXNW and Music West), they didn't have the billionaire backing.
There's not a lot known about Upstream at the moment, but we'll keep you informed as more info becomes available. For now, interested parties can check out Upsteam's website and sign up for email notifications.
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Home > Articles > Success Skills > Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) > ***Welcome All of You
***Welcome All of You
By Carol Look
Imagine how much abundance would flow
into your life if you could welcome
ALL of you...
One of the key ways to reduce resistance and allow abundance into our lives is to accept and welcome all parts of ourselves in the challenging process of healing. This means that we need to welcome and accept our fears, our conflicts and even our irritation or frustration about difficult topics. This means we need to be open to welcoming those parts of us that we have habitually avoided or rejected. This is not easy to do, however, it's necessary, and isn't it time you welcome yourself?
So, Are You Welcome?
If your attitude towards yourself is not welcoming, then there will still be the energy of resistance within your vibration. The energy of resistance blocks abundance. If you don't accept and welcome your challenging feelings as well as your thoughts and conflicts, then you can't move forward as much as you deserve to...
A simple way to know which thoughts or feelings you need to start welcoming more is to list the different feelings or conflicts that may be challenging. Make a short list of your feelings that you don't like, your moods you wish you didn't have, your emotional conflicts, and then notice which ones give you a very strong emotional charge. And then, you'll be able to apply tapping to those thoughts or feelings that you have trouble welcoming.
Remember that our thoughts
are real and carry energy...
Our vibration matters!
If your attitude is welcoming to all of you, you will release resistance in your overall vibration. And this of course, will help you start to attract emotional, spiritual and physical abundance into your life. If you are constantly rejecting parts of yourself, it's hard to become your "best" you.
You deserve to welcome all of you.
And when you do, you will enjoy incredible peace of mind as well as abundance in your life. You will be able to reach your goals and attract what you want more easily when you release all this resistance.
Remember that the Universe hears your vibration not your words. The principles of the Law of Attraction remind us that we will receive more of what we are "broadcasting" to the Universe when we are in alignment with it. When the Universe is able to receive a clear signal or message from you - (no energetic interference from negativity or doubts) then the Law of Attraction starts to work in your favor.
Below you will find EFT setup phrases to help you be inspired to release your blocks to being able to attract what you want into your life.
When you change your vibration,
you will change your life.
Go ahead, raise your vibration
by Welcoming All of You!
1. EFT SETUP PHRASES:
The EFT SETUP Phrases for this topic are as follows:
While tapping the karate chop spot on either hand, repeat these phrases
While tapping the karate chop spot on either hand, repeat these phrases out loud, (or change the words to fit your exact situation).
"Even though I don't like me so it's hard to welcome me, I deeply and completely love and accept myself anyway."
"Even though I don't feel welcoming of all my different feelings, I choose to accept how I feel anyway."
"Even though I don't think I should welcome all of me, I deeply and completely accept myself anyway."
I have indicated where to tap while saying each of the phrases below. You may repeat the positive round more than once if you wish. (If you are new to EFT please view a chart of the spots on my web site under the EFT pages.)
***Now for the phrases that focus on the problem***
Eyebrow: "I don't want to welcome all of my feelings, I don't like them!"
Side of Eye: "It seems silly to welcome something I don't like or want...."
Under Eye: "I'm not interested in welcoming the feelings I don't like..."
Nose: "I don't feel ready to welcome those feelings I don't like..."
Chin: "I want to feel open to welcoming all of me."
Collarbone: "I just don't know how to welcome all of me."
Under Arm: "I'm looking forward to being able to welcome all of me..."
Head: "I still don't like all those feelings and parts of me..."
***Now for the positive focus on the solution***
Eyebrow: "I want to find a way to welcome all of me."
Side of Eye: "I want to want to welcome all of my thoughts and feelings."
Under Eye: "I choose to welcome all of me."
Nose: "I want to welcome my feelings, my thoughts and my vibrations."
Chin: "I know that I need to welcome more of me."
Collarbone: "I feel excited to appreciate and welcome all of me..."
Under Arm: "I love knowing that I am willing to consider welcoming me."
Head: "I choose to feel inspired to welcome my feelings and thoughts."
Access more positive vibrations with the Law of Attraction by repeating the following phrases (while tapping or not):
Thank You, Universe for teaching me how to welcome all parts of me... I feel more aligned with abundance already!
Thank You, Universe for allowing me to feel inspired to welcome all of me... I am looking forward to uplifting results!
Thank You, Universe for making it so easy for me to welcome all of me, I feel the vibrational shift and power already!
Keep tapping, and enjoy using the Law of Attraction to bring more of what you want into your life!
Carol Look, EFT Master www.AttractingAbundance.com
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Carol Look is a success and abundance coach in the energy psychology field. Her specialty is inspiring clients to attract abundance into their lives by using EFT and the Law of Attraction to clear limiting beliefs, release resistance and build “prosperity consciousness.” Before becoming an EFT Master, Carol was trained as a Clinical Social Worker and earned her Doctoral Degree in Clinical Hypnotherapy. www.AttractingAbundance.com
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How to Rescue Burned-Out High Performers
By: Esther Bergdahl
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Consultant Mark Murphy knows something terrifying about your staff. "In 42 percent of organizations," he writes for Forbes, "high performers are actually less engaged than low performers."
Not only does this seem counterintuitive, but it's worrisome for employers on just about every level. Murphy makes the case that this is a self-inflicted problem. When a "slacker" drops the ball, the reliable high performer is usually asked to help. A low-performing worker has figured out how to game the system and has little interest in changing it for the better. That makes them more likely to tell management that everything is fine, while high performers may point out flaws in the workplaces. If a low-performing employee ultimately gets the same recognition and reward as a high performer, it's bound to demoralize the latter.
That's a perfect recipe for burnout, and a mental health crisis at work. As many as 1 in 5 highly motivated workers report feeling this way, while nearly three-quarters of American workers overall don't feel engaged with their job. It's worth knowing that certain mindfulness techniques have been shown to help recover from burnout, but an office bears some responsibility for protecting its workers — especially the load-bearing ones.
Murphy suggests that one key way to get the most from your workforce is to actually hold all your employees accountable. That means low performers must be both incentivized to do what you're paying them for and held accountable for their level of engagement. A little workplace anxiety is actually good in most cases, as it can push workers to strive. For any employees too scared to make an effort, it's important to know that failure is an option. Not only that, but failing big might turn the best outcome you never saw coming.
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Engineering | Events
Jason Snell Seminar
Jason Snell produces music and sound using his own Electroencephalographic (EEG) output. His seminar at SAU is sponsored by the departments of Engineering, Music, and Psychology.
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Teacher Education Open House
The St. Ambrose Teacher Education Department invites interested high school students, parents, and advisers to an Open House.
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Introduce a Girl to STEAM 2020
This year's event includes science, technology, engineering, art (new in 2019!), and math and to explore how those subjects relate to each another. For girls in grades 2-8.
Wilber Symposium
On behalf of Veterans For Peace, Kathy Kelly will present "If You Want to Thank Us: Work for Peace."
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It's On Us National Tour Stop
Only one of five national stops, SAU is host for the sexual assault prevention organization It's On Us for a day-long event.
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New Song “Years” Ahead of New Album by John Anderson
Tami Neilson New Song “You Were Mine”
Miss Tess “The Moon Is An Ashtray” Video
Eleven Hundred Springs to Release New Album “Here Tis'” January 17th
“Once Were Brothers” Celebrates Robbie Robertson & the Band (Trailer)
New Randall King Song “Hey Cowgirl”
Della Mae Releases New Record “Headlight”
Dave Simonett (Trampled By Turtles) “In The Western Wind and The Sunrise” Video
Marcus King Releases New Album “El Dorado”
New Aubrie Sellers Song “Haven’t Even Kissed Me Yet”
Cody Canada Talks Cross Canadian Ragweed Breakup
New Song from Possessed by Paul James “When It Breaks”
If Maren Morris Thinks Country’s Too Restrictive She Can Get The Hell Out
Trigger Down with Pop Country 146 Comments
Maren Morris is a victim. Just ask her, or her surrogate toadies carrying her water in the media who want to paint her as so put under and oppressed by this draconiously restrictive genre known as country music, it’s tantamount to a humanitarian atrocity, stifling her incredible creativity, and insisting that she cover up her absolutely spectacular body.
“I don’t know who’s made these scriptures but it’s like women in country music need to to be super religious and they need to be super conservative and never show their body,” Maren Morris said recently. “And I’m like, ‘Are you giving me like a run for my money right now?’ Because like Dolly’s outfits back in the day were amazing. There’s just such a stupid mold that, even ourselves, are attempting to fit into, and it’s just bullshit.”
Well, Maren Morris, if you feel like country music is too restrictive in it’s “stupid mold,” then you can get the hell out!
Nobody asked or told Maren Morris to be a country star. There is absolutely, positively, certifiably nothing whatsoever that is country in any way, shape, form or manner about Maren Morris’s new album, GIRL.” Nothing. Period. On the contrary, Maren Morris is exploiting country as a stepping stone to a pop career, while not caring a hoot about whatever troubled wake she may leave in her path, and everybody knows it, including Maren. She rode into the genre on the Trojan Horse that was “My Church,” professing a religious affinity for the traditions of country music, and now she’s running down both the religious and traditional aspects of country because she feels they’re too restrictive. Well then by all means Maren, don’t let the door hit you where the good Lord split you!
What’s the difference between Dolly Parton and Maren Morris? Gee, let us count the ways, starting with the 3,000-plus songs that Dolly Parton has written over her career that are actually country. How about paying dues with Porter Wagoner and other legends for many years before she struck out on her own. How about respecting the traditions of country music, even when incorporating pop elements into the music, or delving into risque subject matter.
Dolly Parton never bared her midriff to attempt to distract you from how terrible or non country her music was, or how mediocre of a singer and a songwriter she was. Dolly never tried to make up for the fact that she had absolutely no style of her own by falling back on sexual imagery. Dolly Parton would have been Dolly Parton even without all the shimmer. That’s what makes her Dolly Parton. The reason that Maren Morris is holding on so dearly for her right to post risque photos on social media and face no reprisal is because that’s all she’s got. Otherwise folks wouldn’t pay attention to her, and attention is what she craves.
This is country music, not pop or hip-hop. Dolly Parton and many other artists over the years may have worn revealing clothing or put their image out there proudly. But they also balanced it with humility, were appreciative of the attention they received, and even were self-deprecating. Maren Morris comes across like she thinks she’s better than every other person on the planet and deserves to have a red carpet rolled out for her wherever she goes, and verifies that whenever she opens her mouth. That’s not confidence, that’s arrogance, and that’s not country music. Perhaps in pop and hip-hop, people want to see their favorite stars flaunting their money, their body, and their fame. But in country, Maren posting pictures of herself in sports bras on private jets, in sports bras at a big sporting event, in a sports bras at some landmark, or in a bikini on the beach comes across as down-looking, and pandering for acceptance.
Maren Morris was complaining about the food in country music immediately after she got here. But the problem is she showed up to a steakhouse expecting sushi. She showed up to church in a 2-piece thong and immediately wondered why everyone was judging her. Then she acts like she’s being body shamed for posting photos of herself on social media. No Maren Morris, you’re body shaming others. Maren is saying, “Hey, look at me. I’m better than you, prettier than you, thinner than you, and I get to go to all these cool places you don’t.” And no, the criticism Maren Morris is receiving is not from the men of the country music patriarchy trying to subjugate her to a 2nd class citizen because she’s a woman. The negative reaction to Maren Morris is coming from women specifically. This is supposed to be an artist women are rallying behind, but instead they see her as tearing down other women with her arrogant social media presence and her arrogant pronouncements in both interviews and her music that work to tear down other women in country who deserve the attention Maren Morris is receiving.
Miranda Lambert fans, Carrie Underwood fans, fans of the scores of country women who’ve devoted their lives to the genre and doing it right and are more than happy to adhere to the rules and traditions of country music are coming out in full force against Maren Morris because she’s taking attention away from their favorite artists, and under the veil of “exploring her sexuality.” Supporting Maren Morris is not supporting a woman in country music. It’s taking away support for the women who actually make country music. And when Maren makes her inevitable leap to pop, she will leave a gaping hole in country, and no return on investment for all the attention and press and awards given to her at the expense of actual country women, just like Taylor Swift did.
Carrie Underwood has always incorporated pop sensibilities into her country music, but she’s also always honored the traditions of country, and respected it as a family friendly place on the radio dial. This includes once again being the only major country music star in 2018 to pay her proper dues to the Grand Ole Opry by performing at least ten times. Miranda Lambert has built an entire career out of being a “badass,” but has always gone out of her way to pay tribute to the greats of the past, and to help shine a light on the songwriters of the genre who never receive enough attention. With Maren, any praise to others is lip service, immediately undercut by her own words exposing that her true loyalty is to herself, and her career, country music be damned.
Yes, country music is more traditional. But let’s not also portray it as “super religious” or “super conservative.” These are just more aberrations from Maren Morris to act like she become a victim, because in today’s society, what makes you cool is not what you’ve done, but how much victimhood you can claim across a wide variety of grievances. The true victim here is the integrity of country music and it’s traditional fans. Kacey Musgraves won the CMA for Song of the Year with “Follow Your Arrow” five years ago. Johnny Cash won it in 1970 with “Sunday Morning Coming Down.” The idea that country music is this closed-minded bastion of ultra-conservatism that won’t let a woman or someone with an open mind succeed is ludicrous.
However country music in the mainstream has always been family-friendly, and respectful to people of all stripes, including ones who happen to be of a religious leaning. Meanwhile Maren Morris has released two consecutive radio singles that include the word “shit.” Yes, country music is more restrictive than pop or hip-hop when it comes to the radio, and that’s okay. There should be a place on the radio dial for people who happen to be religious, or that want to listen to music with small kids and not blush or expose them to something they probably shouldn’t hear.
Maren Morris wants to portray herself as some pioneer or trailblazer tearing down these restrictive boundaries around country music, but in truth what she’s doing is homogenizing the genre with the same pop sounds and themes prevalent in all types of popular music. Country music is different, and that’s okay. That’s not something that should be resolved or torn down. It’s something that should be celebrated, just like the differences in all popular genres should. The “diversity” people clamor for doesn’t need to be represented by all genres sounding the same, it should be represented by all genres collaborating together to make an overall diverse sound, with each genre offering a vibrant alternative to the others.
Country music fans don’t want to hate on Maren Morris, or judge her for her style or her lack of modesty, or her pop sound. In truth, GIRL is probably a pretty good pop record. But it’s completely inappropriate for country music, creating a conflict where Maren is having to face harsh judgement for her music and style that she probably isn’t deserving of. Maren Morris isn’t bad for playing pop or putting herself out on social media, she’s just not country. And like Taylor Swift before her, as soon as she starts being honest with the public about the true nature of her music and her underlying intentions to be a big pop star, the conflict and judgement ceases immediately, and both country music and Maren Morris can move forward.
Until then, the conflict will rage one. But make no mistake, Maren Morris is not a victim of country music’s restrictive environment that is trying to change her from being something unique. It’s country music that’s a victim of Maren Morris from her trying to change country music into something that’s the same as everything else.
P.S. – A proper review of Maren Morris’s “Girl” album is forthcoming. This matter was handled separately to clear the decks for a discussion exclusively on the music.
Dolly Parton, Maren Morris
ChrisP
March 12, 2019 @ 11:15 am
This is an interesting take, Trigger. It’s interesting how she used “traditional” country to get into the industry and then decides to bitch about how restrictive it is. This whole diversity for diversity’s sake is really getting old. Why can’t she, and the countless other wannabes, focus on the music, the actual music that they are getting paid to produce? The answer to that question is because they aren’t country. They see a group of people who are easier to exploit and a stepping-stone for a broader pop career. It’s really getting ridiculous to see all of these “country stars” complain about the very people who gave them a platform to begin with.
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Dobe Daddy
They used to ban Loretta Lynn’s songs from the radio, so please tell us again how unfairly you’ve been treated, Maren.
Amy Chen
Yeah, I wouldn’t mind the ego and styling if her music wasn’t so middle of the road and bland. I kind of like when stars act obnoxious & entitled & messy (it’s funny) but Morris doesn’t commit to it!
I liked her debut album enough but this new one is SO boring. I mean if you’re gonna butcher country music at least have some fun with it? Releasing a ballad heavy bland Adult Contemporary album and playing the victim is the most boring way to go about this.
Watching Maren & Kelsea flub their pop crossover potential with non-event 2nd albums makes me a lot more impressed with how Taylor handled all this. These girls should takes notes from ‘Red’.
BOOM! Hear, hear!!
Melissa W
Great article. I remember when My Church came out. I was really impressed with it. Loved the sound, thought it was one of the most country songs on the radio at that time and a female no less. However everything I have heard from her since then is purely pop. I wont intentionally listen to her. I am a female that loves to listen to women country singers but Maren ins’t country in the slightest.
As far as how she is presenting herself. I don’t have social media so I really have no opinion cause I just don’t see that stuff.
She is doing much harm to country music and I am looking forward to her officially jumping ship to Pop. Come on Maren just pull a Taylor already.. It would be a win for country music for her pop songs not to be played on ‘country’ radio let alone not be nominated for awards in the country genre.
OX TONGUE WESTERN
Maren just stop okay. And stay away from Australia, we have enough dickheads here and don’t need you coming over corrupting more with your silliness. Gosh.
Saving Bro Country Music
– “Dolly Parton would have been Dolly Parton even without all the shimmer. That’s what makes her Dolly Parton.”
While I get what you’re trying to say (Dolly Parton was about the music/voice/story first), I don’t really love the way you articulated this point. If the aesthetic was unrelated to her artistry, then it actually WAS potentially exploitative. As an artist, everything about you – your voice, your songs, your look – should communicate your identity, your feelings, and the story you want to tell.
– As for the Maren discussion, I don’t think you can conflate a conservative approach to sound with a conservative approach to dress or style.
Maren absolutely deserves to be called out for the generic pop music she’s releasing to country radio. And that’s not just some “conservative” critique – it’s showing up in the numbers. Her single is struggling at radio, and her new album is actually on track to sell worse than her debut, all because she’s alienating the core country fanbase yet not visible enough in pop to sell to those fans.
But the style argument is a bit much. The reality is that country actually stands to benefit from someone who talks, acts, looks and dresses like Maren. We need an outspoken female artist who will assert herself, while also making people say “goals” on Instagram. That’s the type of person who can meaningfully rally young fans (particularly young female fans) and build meaningful support at radio.
The key is that we need that person to not only make COUNTRY music but WANT to make country music.
– Upon reading this, let’s hope the blue check people settle for “He’s probably wrong to tell a woman how to dress, but he’s right about her music.”
But we know we’re getting “He’s a misogynist who won’t accept that country’s changing.”
March 12, 2019 @ 1:23 pm
First off, I have never directly criticized Maren Morris on how she dresses, aside from maybe a passing quip during an awards show live blog or something. I think Maren can dress however she wants. My problem is how she will post a racy photo, and in the caption of that very photo claim how much of a victim she is for being judged for “exploring her sexuality” before anyone says a word. She is trying to market herself as a victim in order to garner herself even more attention, and to act like she’s being so put under by country music’s conservative culture. This is the common, if not prevalent theme in many of the articles and interviews she has done on “Girl,” making it the primary concern beyond the music. That’s why I began and ended this article addressing this whole victimhood role that she’s trying to play. Where her quote came from at the top of the article was the very first thing she said when being interested by Genius about the inspiration behind the song “Girl.” This is what she’s putting towards the forefront, not her music.
“As for the Maren discussion, I don’t think you can conflate a conservative approach to sound with a conservative approach to dress or style.”
I think it’s Maren is the one who is doing this. I didn’t include the quotes here (because it felt redundant), but Maren has over and over again complained about how sonically restrictive country music is, and blamed it on the same conservative elements. I will have more about in the actual review of “Girl.”
A) To be fair, I never accused you of specifically focusing on her dress. But you have suggested her overall presentation (look, attitude, style, etc) is rooted in pop or hip-hop, and clearly presented that in a negative light.
All I’m saying is her presentation would actually be positive, not negative, if she were making country music.
B) That said, don’t be ridiculous. You criticized the way she dresses in this very article.
“But in country, Maren posting pictures of herself in sports bras on private jets, in sports bras at a big sporting event, in a sports bras at some landmark, or in a bikini on the beach comes across as down-looking, and pandering for acceptance.”
Are you telling me I’m supposed to read that sentence and NOT notice “sports bras” or “bikini.”? If so … why did you mention “sports bra” so many times. And you preface the discussion with “in country,” so this is independent of the point about false victimhood (which is a bad point anyway, because you don’t have to spend more than two minutes on Instagram to find women criticized for flaunting their bodies).
Erik North
At the risk of defending Maren’s comments (I’m neither a fan nor a detractor of her; she’s okay, not spectacular but not terrible), let me just say that, while her comments about country music being “super-religious” and “super-conservative” are extreme to a point, the truth is that country music has historically been the most politically and socially conservative of all American musical genres. It’s definitely less so than it was in, say, the late 1960s. but that conservatism does still exist to a certain degree.
Should she tamp down what she said about the country genre if she expects to remain a part of it? Absolutely–although it’s kind of hard to expect her to do this when country radio seems to treat women as the “tomatoes” of the salad that is supposedly the genre, or, worse, when the genre itself, thanks to corporate record labels, has devolved into what no less a legend than Linda Ronstadt calls “mall-crawler music”.
But here’s a suggestion for Maren, who, like so many female artists, considers Linda a hero: Go back and listen to the way Linda crossed between country and pop during the height of her powers in the 1970s, doing so without damaging the country genre but in fact enhancing it in a lot of ways, and make an album along THOSE lines instead of going for a fickle “current pop” audience that doesn’t give a damn about country music in any way, shape, or form. Forget how such an album might sell, just do it for the hell of it, and not the money, the prizes, the fame, or the attention.
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While I appreciate and encourage your consistent criticism of fluff music, the Morris quote you reference was related to the expectations that the industry has for women and their appearances. Clearly progress has been made both nationally and within Country Music in eroding rigid expectations, but it goes without saying that plenty of sexism remains (which to your credit you’ve commented on repeatedly).
However my real issue here is that we need to get to a place where women can just do whatever the hell they want when it comes to their clothes and their bodies. Maren Morris should be able to dress in any way that pleases her and shouldn’t receive criticism for her dress. Let’s not pretend that this article wasn’t an explicit attack on her penchant for posting scantily clad photos which you then used as a pivot to attack her music.
And while I’m skeptical that her alleging to be a victim is purely to leverage attention, by vilifying her appearance as you’ve done here, you’ve personally substantiated her claims of being the victim.
I am in total agreement that her music leaves a lot to be desired, but let’s just make that point – drop the attacks on her appearance.
And all the people shaming her appearance in this thread: anyone that attacks a woman for her physique is a pathetic excuse for a human.
and its SO bloody obvious that many do not want to…Urban , FGL , Carrie , and those 25 other interchangeable male ‘country’ singers polluting the genre …THEY DO NOT WANT TO MAKE COUNTRY MUSIC !
Stringbuzz
Why do these wanna be pop ssingers think they are so entitled to something?
Let’s see her spend some time in Brandy Clark, Ashley McBride, or Sarah Shook’s shoes..
These artists have more freaking talent in their big toes and have not caught the break this fake has.
Lefty Throckmorton
Not just her, but also Lucinda Williams, and perhaps a ton of others.
Blackh4t
Meh, don’t really follow anything about her, but that album cover makes her look desperate. Besides, between Dolly and Maren there’s a huge talent difference, and 5 cup sizes
March 12, 2019 @ 12:16 pm
Not PC Black…but someone should have to say it..
I get that Maren Morris is making herself an easy target here. But I generally think it’s unhelpful to attack Maren Morris for her physical appearance here. It just adds fuel to the fire that it’s overly-judgemental people keeping Maren down. She gives us plenty to criticize for HOW she presents herself, and her music. None of us can help how we’re made.
Sure we can, silicone has changed how many girls are made.
So can diet and exercise, which seems a basic right, but not many people have the time and money to live healthy.
Her makeup artist and hair stylist etc.
There is not really any part of her picture that is Maren in any way that she can’t change, so why not fire at will?
I’m being tongue in cheek here, but no sympathy for her.
King Honky Of Crackershire
I get what you’re saying, and if she was a sweetheart, nobody would say a word about how homely she is. But here she is, acting like a spoiled, rotten b!@ch, and posing in photos that are trying to portray her as sexy; how can we not criticize her appearance?
March 13, 2019 @ 3:20 am
Yeah and if she came on to you somewhere your jeans would be stained before you left the place.
It’s all I can do to get it up anymore. It would take a lot more than that trailer park face to cause the kind of reaction you speak of.
hoptowntiger94
You do know she took Margo Price’s spot in the Highwoman group with Shires and Carlile you wrote about a month ago?
Margo Price was never supposed to be named as part of the Highwomen project. I corrected that in the original article, and offered the context. But the rest of the media continued to spread the wrong information.
Some people speculate that Price’s pregnancy is the only reason she’s not part of Highwoman. Regardless, Morris is in … pics from Cobb’s studio …
https://www.jambase.com/article/brandi-carlile-amanda-shires-maren-morris-highwomen-supergroup
SAY IT AIN’T SO!
SwingingAxe
Woman calls men sexist pigs for exploiting them and looking at them as sex objects. Next day same woman posts nearly naked pictures of herself. Stupidity.
at the risk of pissing folks off ….I have often wondered if many women aren’t their own worst enemies when it comes to complaining about being exploited . no one , I’m sure , is holding a gun to shania’s or maren’s head to use their physical attributes to sell their music . shania may have felt she needed to . but maren has the vocal talent to ‘ just say no ‘ and yet still chooses to .
yeah yeah …I get it ….her choice …all good . but ya can’t have it both ways ….that’s just TOO confusing for everyone …..but particularly guys ………no ??
You are right. We also need to stop whining about this stuff. I’m so tired of it and it makes us look bad.
That’s a lot of flaunting considering she has a flatter chest than most guys 🙂
A Country-Pop Fan
Nothing wrong with celebrating a flat chest, I guess. I’m not a woman but I know women who are insecure about their cup size, but they shouldn’t be.
I understand she can’t help her breast size. A flat chest is ok. She’s just made herself such an easy target here. If you’re gonna flaunt yourself like this you might as well be able to back it up. I wouldn’t have said anything if she wasn’t taking pictures like this so obviously trying to show sex appeal. And yeah I get what you’re saying about women and cup size insecurity. Comments like I made are not the best way to go about this, as it just feeds the fire. This chick is just annoying and draws it on herself.
Another difference between her and Dolly that Trigger neglected to mention.
Agree with every word. She is doing what so many others do: claiming to be a victim, while simultaneously selling sex.
Aggc
If her music career flops, perhaps she could get a gig modeling bras for pre-teens.
A.K.A. City
I guess Brandi Carlile and Amanda Shires think she’s ok, and I respect the both of them. I actually really like the Brandi Carlile collaboration on Morris’s new album. Maybe there is more to Morris?
I guess so. For me, it’s a little like if Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty had teamed up with George Michael. Morris to me is a popster and they’re genuine article roots artists that are in my wheelhouse. But yeah, maybe the project will show that there’s more to her.
For me, it’s a little like if Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty had teamed up with George Michael.
Why couldn’t that happen?
I’m not saying that it couldn’t have worked. Just that two of them were from my music world and one of them wasn’t. Similar to The Highwomen.
Corncaster
Blech.
Great take. What do you think about her involvement in Highwomen? Seems out of left field to me. The criteria for being in am Americana all girls group should be more than just being a girl. Her music seems near antithetical to the kind of projects Shires and Carlile are working on. I just hope Maren doesn’t leave too many fingerprints on their work.
No need to take the shots at Taylor– Taylor is a great songwriter, like her music or not. She was never ultra country, but she made a graceful transition and was always respectful to those who came before her, and she brought a lot of people to the genre (for the right reasons or not). She paid her dues. We can’t both demand that pop artists stay out of country and shame and blame them when they transition to pop.
I can’t speak for others, but I was definitely not taking any shots at Taylor Swift here. Later in Taylor Swift’s country career, I became a Taylor Swift apologist, and I have tons of respect for her coming out and officially declaring herself pop. That was a very important moment for country and Taylor Swift, and one artists such as Maren Morris should learn from. Still, why should country devote a ton of resources to an artists that’s eventually just going to leave the genre high and dry?
As for her work with the Highwomen project, I’ll wait and see. It’s not who I would have picked, but I’m not going to trounce on something I haven’t heard yet. I hope it turns out well.
Taylor Swift is a horrible songwriter, a horrible singer, and a horrible, fake person. There is not one redeeming thing about her
I have to disagree with you there Honky. I understand why many hate her, but I’ve always been a big fan. And before you think terrible thoughts of me I ask you to listen to her song The Best Day and see if it evokes any sort of emotion within your soul.
@SwingingAxe, there are a ton of women artists a billion times better than either this Maren Morris or (as I like to call her) Swift Boobs in country and other genres, many of whom deserve more attention from the press, the radio industry, and everybody else over people like Morris or Swift.
I’ve wondered that myself AJP. Brandi can do whatever she wants and I’ll still be a fan,but I have zero interest in this project. So many others she could of joined forces with. Shires sounds like a goat and Maren is, well, Maren. Hell,give Norah Jones a call,she’s always up for a side job,and her projects are usually awesome.
Maybe they’re thinking Maren will get them in the mainstream more or at least get a fat check much like the two pistol annies that aren’t named Miranda did.
Scarlettide
There is nothing honorable in using country for building up pop fan base. She is terrible song writer especially when being compared to real ones like Sara Jarosz, Agnes Obel ect. Don’t know why people say you have to find her talented song writer when she is below average.
Scarlettide, I’m not convinced Taylor was in a position at 16 to have malicious intent to manipulate country for a pop career. She liked country at the time, Big Machine threw her there, and there she was. Sure, she never really made country in the traditional sense. Is she the best writer ever? Certainly not. But she is a great writer to have reached the audience she has. Few in pop or mainstream country have the chops she does. She strikes a chord with so many—this can’t be ignored. Hearing Treacherous, Sad Beautiful Tragic, or even White Horse is evidence of this. It’s best to judge artists in context
It was intentional. She didn’t just wake up one day and decide go go to pop genre. Her successful pop career did not come out of thin air with 1989. If she didn’t use country music to build pop fan base then she would have not bothered catering to pop while being in country genre then after years of going between two genres finally go to pop. I have heard those songs when trying to see what makes her talented. They are not so good I have to admit to her being talented writer. Her reaching people with her subpar writing are not impressive to me especially when you consider none popular artists who eclipse Taylor in talent. Those songs sound like typical pop singer/songwriter to me. They are nothing special.
I listened to that album expecting it to be complete garbage and utter pop. Not as pop as i expected it to be. There’s some pretty rich production on a few of the tracks. Of course, no one wants to hear a song like “Make out with me” on a COUNTRY album. But I think this album is a better effort than recent FGL, Jason Aldean, and Keith Urban albums, and all the other forgettable bs that spews out of Nashville daily. Still not great but she’s being honest with who she is on the record, and I will take that over FGL’s abomination called “Swerve”. Not a terrible album, but could be much better
I’d like to see what a “2 piece thong” looks like! 🙂 Maren was barely country on her first album and got away from the genre as soon as she could, by collaborating with Zed or Calvin Harris or whomever. Even though a lot of country websites/writers gave her high marks for ‘My Church’ and her writing ability, I wasn’t overly impressed (not that I have any sway or anything). I don’t have any issues with her following T. Swift’s footsteps in using country as a stepping stone to pop, where she always wanted to be, but she shouldn’t disparage country as a ‘ticket out.’
CeeCerBee
I remembered back in 1993 when Reba wore that red dress at the ACMs. The world went crazy and my mama said she had probably ruined her career. I laughed and told her that was hogwash.
Country music fans are more traditional, conservative, and religious than most other music fan bases…but… Many, MANY artists have been swept up in morally questionable behavior and were forgiven and embraced. The difference with Morris is that she has zero respect for country fans or country traditions or country history. She just steamrolled in and started shaking her thang and trumpeting her greatness. Most people take no notice of her revealing outfits, it is her revealing behavior that gets under our skin.
Country music fans love our artists…and one of the reasons for that is because REAL country artists show respect for both fans and for tradition. That’s Morris will be kicked out the genre if she doesn’t leave her self and why Lambert will be forgiven her messy love life and salad flinging. One is a show girl, the other is an artist.
Yet Miranda’s messy love life has collateral damage. Other women who don’t know her get hurt. Their families. Friends. But she’s an “artist “ so she gets a pass. She can have public temper tantrums but hey that’s ok. So that’s the Country way is it?
Yes, that’s the country way.
Just like when June and Johnny were forgiven and embraced for leaving their spouses for each other. Or Hank Jr. for his drug addiction. Or George Jones for his alcoholism and bad behavior. Or Glen Campbell for his abusive behavior toward women. Or Vince Gill for leaving Janice for Amy Grant. Or Garth Brooks for leaving Sandy for Trisha Yearwood. Or Tammy Lynette for faking her own kidnapping.
ALL of that behavior caused “collateral damage” and hurt a lot of people. All of it was forgiven…and not just because of the music, but because most people understand no one is perfect and no one else has any right to sit in judgement of another.
Miranda has a disadvantage that none of those other artists did though – social media and the rise of “Stans.” She will have a harder time shaking this off, but still I think most fans will come around…not the hardcore haters of course; they have too much of an emotional investment in hating and judging her.
What the hell are the Brothers Osborne & Brandi Carlile doing on a b-league middle-of-the-road pop album?
Too say it with the title of the new Thomas Rhett single…”Look What God Gave Her”…the answer is…not much.
Brandi Carlile and her and good buddies now, I think she’s gotten a big whiff of famedon with the last year she’s had so she’s doing and saying anything she can to appeal to the masses of fans MM has. Brandi’s music is good enough on its own that she shouldn’t need to jump on this bullshit girl power movement.
Rooster Cruiser
Jesus Christ, you dolt.
“bullshit girls power movement”
Do you know anything about Brandi Carlile?
Calm yourself. I’ve been a fan of Brandi Carlisle’s music for years, and it is leaps and bounds better than anything Morris has put out which baffles me as to why she’d align herself with someone so far below even mediocrity. Brandi is the real deal, Maren Morris is a fucking joke
I think these women genuinely admire Maren. During her first interview after the divorce, Miranda mentioned how much she loved Maren’s first album. Maybe they just feel differently than we do because they know Maren.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
Okay kids… how many times can the entitled whiny millenial say the word “like” before she finishes her sentence?
Good Lord people like her need to be ostracized.
Her quote doesn’t even make sense
“run for my money” WHAT
There should be a law that people have to make sense before they speak.
I am so sick and tired of seeing kooks quirks and freaks like this
Let’s just burn Nashville down and be done with it
CeeCeeBee
I also think pop singers like Morris and Ballerini are incredibly harmful to women in country music as a whole. It’s been clear for several years that there is only enough room on country radio for two or three women. These pop princesses come in, get a big push, and shut out real women country artists.
I was excited when I heard “My Church” for the first time. After listening to the rest of the album, I was terribly disappointed. I did start off as a Morris hater. Even though her music didn’t appeal to me, I recognized the power of her voice. But with every interview, every accusation of unfairness and misogyny, every smart assed comment about oppression, I like her less and less.
She should just move on to pop and make room on country radio for real country artists.
Wild Billy
Her new single “Girl” is a completely passable pop song. A little grungy with a “dirty guitar”, intro I don’t hate it..(She actually played an electric Les Paul on Kimmel the other night) . HOWEVER, it has no business within 100 miles of my country station. Send that stuff over to POP 107.5 . – Leave that spot in the Country rotation for Ashley McBryde.
You mean she held a Les Paul on Kimmel.
Trigger ..your article is mostly dead-on particularly when it comes down to the obvious and overt motus operandi of almost all current comers to the ‘ country’ genre since T.S : selling pop music , pop trends , pop lyrics and sensibilities to a ‘country ‘ audience which is HARDLY a country audience when the Urbans , the Kruise Kids , the Kane Browns the ( your top 10 country chart artist’s name here ) are supported as ‘ keepers of the flame ‘ by folks who couldn’t give a damn about ‘ the flame ‘ . MAREN MORRIS is a pop artist in every respect . And more power to her on that count .
”The reason that Maren Morris is holding on so dearly for her right to post risque photos on social media and face no reprisal is because that’s all she’s got.”
This is my ONE point of contention to your comments above , Trigger . It is very sad , if in fact she’s relying on these ‘ risque ‘ photos to promote herself because in my not- so- humble opinion in this instance ( is it ever really humble ..?? ) the woman is an amazingly gifted vocalist who , with the exception of a handful of tracks , doesn’t seem to want to acknowledge , focus on , promote or share that gift on material that would allow her to showcase that . I’m a fan of that gift …I’m a fan of her first full length album ..and ultimately I’m disappointed that her vocal talents can’t or refuse to find a home in a straight up country genre .
But the woman has chosen her direction . She’s today’s Shania …or Taylor Swift . NOTHING country past the first single or two . After that it all became promotion based on physical appearance , suggestive videos , capitulation to pop music trademarks , trends , and promoting through gimmicks and marketing to impressionable young girls who buy into whatever popular image and sentiment is deemed cool and ‘ now ‘ .
Again …the sad part of all of this nonsense , for me , is that MM didn’t have to make ANY of those concessions Shania and TS and others do because she CAN sing …she DOES have a unique voice and I believe she could have found a huge audience WITHOUT ‘ selling out ‘ to the pop Gods . Unfortunately , and as with so many other culprits in the ‘country’ genre far too numerous to list , she is becoming just one more performer disrespecting the genre by taking advantage of its current weakness and lack of confidence by taking time and attention from the many talented COUNTRY artists keeping the genre honest and being ignored for doing so .
Jumpin' Jack Flash
I think Maren Morris is super talented and this album even had some solid tracks. But you’re spot on that there’s nothing country about her or it. I just hope that this is more like Red by TS which set up a legitimate move to pop music, rather than Graffiti U that was just second-tier pop songs masquerading as country. Let’s be real, Keith Urban isn’t ever changing formats, no matter how much we wish he would. Maren, however, will and hopefully in the near future.
Dear Maren. I loved “My Church” when it came out a few years back. I loved your different sound and thought you MIGHT be the future of country music post Miranda and Carrie. Next, you released “80s Mercedes,” which had to grow on me. Since then, it appears the attention you have been given has gone to your pop tart brain. You flaunt your body on Instagram and album covers, but still yet you want to play the victim about sexism in country music. If a male country singer was constantly posing in their swim trunks, eventually the backlash would hit him too. It can’t be both ways. Let your talent be what people are talking about, not your ill attempt to be the next crossover artist and sex symbol.
I will go further to say the entire reason she posts those sexy pics is that she knows there will be negative comments. She will then often attack the commenter. It will then be all over the internet “Maren Morris claps back at body shamer”. This is calculated on her part. She loves playing the victim.
Keepin it Country
Definitely not country . That’s the reason I no longer listen to radio
Good man (or woman); I stopped doing that with regards to non-country music (pop and rock) a long time ago (the only one I support is a station here in Toronto named Indie 88 that plays modern and new rock music, not past rock and roll already heard ad nauseam everyplace.) I wish tha there were more stations like it as well, but that’s an impossibility.
Sbach66
You are going to catch some hell on the twitter from the MM stans for this, my friend.
Sam Cody
Who’s the little boy in the photo?
She’s not attractive enough to be taking photos like that.
“The “diversity” people clamor for doesn’t need to be represented by all genres sounding the same, it should be represented by all genres collaborating together to make an overall diverse sound, with each genre offering a vibrant alternative to the others.”
Billboard material. Trig, hammer away. This is the soft spot in the wall. They will lose on it.
She’s not country, and she’s not pop. She’s just Maren Morris, and i’m a big fan. I love the new album.
“She’s not country”
Then she needs to quit taking up precious space under the umbrella of “Country Music.”
She doesn’t call herself country so don’t blame her.
https://youtu.be/LVceOAJCjuc?t=1149
She doesn’t?
If that is so, then why is she complaining about “fitting into a mold” of country music?
“…but it’s like women in country music need to to be super religious and they need to be super conservative and never show their body,” Maren Morris said recently. “There’s just such a stupid mold that, even ourselves, are attempting to fit into, and it’s just bullshit.”
“…even ourselves, are attempting to fit into…”
But she releases her music to country radio so I do in fact blame her.
Oh, and she has a disproportionately large head. Just thought I’d throw that out there so it’s in your head every time you look at her.
Then, and I don’t know how many times this point has to be reiterated in this comments section before you and the other MM stans get it… she should STOP SENDING SINGLES TO COUNTRY RADIO. Or if not that, target country and pop stations with different mixes of the same song. Shania, Faith and LeAnn did that in the late ’90s and it worked well for them.
Not wanting to be “restricted” by country radio’s “parameters” and yet continuing to seek country airplay smacks of hypocrisy. Comments like “If it’s not country enough for you, change the station” don’t suggest to me that she doesn’t want to be considered country; they suggest to me that she wants to have her cake and eat it too. “Don’t blame her”? Sorry, but I do. She can’t talk out of both sides of her mouth and expect to be exempt from criticism.
I’m not buying the suggestion that she’s this poor, innocent puppet with no say in her own career. No one is holding a gun to her head forcing her to post pictures of herself in sports bras on Instagram or forcing her to release songs like “Girl” and “Rich” to country radio. Maren Morris is a grown woman with lots of talent, and can make her own decisions. Unfortunately for country music, she’s making the wrong ones.
You guys get awfully sanctimonious about a woman just singing the hell out of some tunes
This girl can’t hold a candle to Kristina Murray, who conveys more wounded vulnerability in a single honest phrase than all the chest-beating pop tart belting Maren throws down like a hard-won Prada purse because she goddamn deserves it from you blinkered, unappreciative yahoos in all that, like, outdated and downmarket wherever.
Take a hike, Maren.
Aggie14
The grass is always greener over in Pop Land, isn’t that right The Band Perry??
Country When Country Wasn't Cool
Unless you’ve written a song specifically called/about “Shit,” there really is no reason to use the word in a country song. It’s a desperate grasp at attention or relevance.
Also…Shania bared her midriff and no one really complained or tried to opress her. The difference is, she (like Dolly) is a beautiful woman with a sexy image, but her music is front and center. Maren has become known for her disdain for the genre, and an entitled sense that we should all just accept her hypersexualized image “because” she’s a woman. Her music is secondary at this point. She just can’t slap a country label on it and demand acceptance. Dolly, Shania, and even Taylor knew when to specifically market their music as “pop” (Shania even released albums mixed for both audiences). Other artists such as Crystal Gayle, Barbara Mandrell and Carrie Underwood, steadfastly marketed to country and enjoyed natural crossover success.
So Maren, record pop records all you like, but don’t complain because country music isn’t bending to your will. Just be honest about the artist you want to be; your fans will follow.
(And stop swearing in your songs).
I agree with the above statements pretty much. I think Maren is very talented and I’ve defended her quite a bit here. But enough with the whining. Kacey Musgraves has the right approach–she’s grateful and humble and happens to be incredibly beautiful and talented. This victimhood thing is getting old, and not just with her.
Anita Smith
I do not like the so called “new” country music!!!!! Give me Dolly, Tammy, Merle, and all those from the 70-80’s that I grew up listening too!!!!
Atomic Zombie Redneck
I do think she has a great voice, but with the pop leanings of her debut and the massive success of The Middle, it’s hardly surprising that her new album is entirely pop.
And given her age, it’s also not surprising that she’s burning bridges and getting caught up in the social media trend of young female artists flashing skin on Instagram.
Maybe she’s making mistakes that she’ll regret when she attempts to return to the genre down the road, or maybe this is her exit strategy from a genre she was never meant to call home. Many young women in country seem to attempting an abbreviated version of Taylor Swift’s rise and departure from country to pop. It’s hard to imagine it will work for all of them as well as it’s worked for Swift, but we can’t pretend to be surprised that her success inspired younger artists to follow in her footsteps, or that some, like Morris, are attempting to distance themselves from the platform that launched their careers by publicly bashing it. It’s a shame, but country hasn’t survived this long by being thin skinned.
Pop-“star” Maren Morris will crawl back to “country” music when her 15 minutes of pop-fame are over. She will sing some half-ass pop-“country” tracks produced by busbee or the next hot no-so-country-producer & with enough photoshop she will look like a much younger MM on the cover again.
Much Better Music:
Kathryn Legendre (Singer/Songwriter born in Austin) – “Sit Here & Cry” (Single – Released 02/19)
Released her first album in 2013 (Old Soul), a single in 2014 (“Have You Forgotten Me”) & an EP in 2016 (Don’t Give A Damn).
Slow, traditional & fiddle.
Kris Bradley (Singer/Songwriter born in L.A. & living in Nashville) – “Sad Songs & Cigarettes” (Single – Released 03/08)
Mixing country, americana & pop elements with a song on Music Rows “Country Breakout Chart” in 2016.
Indie GoGo campaign, slow & Bruce Bouton playing steel guitar.
The sad thing is, these women most likely aren’t as sexy enough as Ms. Morris to be able to get noticed to be heard on the radio or seen on CMT, so unless a DJ (assuming there are are still human DJ’s at most of these Clear Channel/iHeart/whoever else media conglomerate-owned radio stations) can get a hold of a song from any of these ladies, likes it, and then plays it, nothing will happen.
“I was changing into my jammies when I fell out of the upper canopy and landed here on the jungle floor. This accounts for the reason I’m only wearing a bra, athletic pants, and Elton John’s duck costume. I best be getting up off the ground before those stinging ants get here.”
The country genre is restricted for women. And it is restrictive in a way that it is not restrictive of men. You don’t see these things because you don’t hold women and men in country music to the same standards either. The overtly conservative standards that are pushed upon women in country music are not applied to men. And they never have bee,n going back for all of country music’s history. That’s why Loretta Lynn was getting banned from the radio for talking about issues of sexuality that matter to women while men were all over country radio talking about sexual things. That’s why K.t. oslin got her songs banned “younger men are starting to catch my eye” at the same time that Mr “don’t the girls all get prettier at closing time” was playing. This is a genre that is called women “girl singers” for a long time and while you’re quoting Dolly Parton it’s the genre where Porter wagoner’s old wrinkled ass wanted Dolly Parton in a secondary position next to him instead of having a career.
The idea that you honestly believe that women are not treated differently and oppressed in any way in this genre is laughable. This isn’t about what Maren said; this is about what you think about her music and you’re letting it bleed over into this nonsensical article. Where once again you show your misogynistic bs.
One last thing: for you to sit there and honestly say the Dolly Parton never used her sexuality to help her? That’s laughable best. Even Dolly tells you over and over again that that’s not true… even dolly is admitted repeatedly that her sexuality helped her career. And unlike you I’m going to take a woman’s word over stupid man. And let’s be sure when it comes to talking about women in country music you repeatedly show that you’re nothing more than a stupid man.
And if religion was that important this wouldn’t be in genre where everybody used to be so proud of cheating on their wives. It wouldn’t be a genre where Men get up and shake their ass all the time. And it wouldn’t be a genre where people like George Jones continue to be praised. Religion is not the issue. oppressing women is.
“The idea that you honestly believe that women are not treated differently and oppressed in any way in this genre is laughable.”
Kate, I have never said, nor would I ever say that women don’t have a harder time in country music than men. That is an irresponsible and wholly incorrect assertion to make. In fact I have published over 50 articles dedicated to how women have it harder than the men on this very site, not to mention the scores of mentions this issue has received in other articles. If you believe this to be true, it’s because somebody lied to you, likely on Twitter. Saving Country Music has done more to fight for women in country music than any other publication, and this article is an extension of that ongoing coverage.
“One last thing: for you to sit there and honestly say the Dolly Parton never used her sexuality to help her?”
Again, I never said that. What I said was that Dolly was a talent beyond the sexuality of her image.
Folks need to stop bringing their preconceived notions about these articles run through the filter of others people’s biased opinions, and join the discussion being had.
From Esquire ““I remember having to really define my role in the beginning [of my career],” Morris says. Not anymore. “If it’s not country enough for you, change the channel,” she says. “If you’re wanting to hear me with no production, then [watch] YouTube videos of me as a teenager at coffee shops.”
Okay – channel turned.
Quit bitching about people bitching about Maren. I’m happy for her that she has found a fan base that’s into that look at me I’m perfect and I’m sexy Instagram culture. But, this isn’t about the misogyny in the country music industry. This is just about people who don’t like Maren any more than they like FGL or Luke Bryan. It’s not about her gender. It’s about people who just don’t like her, her attitude, her whatever, but mostly her music.
Shitting all over country isn’t going to make her successful in pop. She’ll keep her toes on the country side of the line, though, because she has to. If she wants to change the misogyny in country, she needs a new strategy.
good points , kate .
no matter the times ,in the entertainment business there will always be a ‘play the game ‘ factor involved . the artist makes the choice knowing that to succeed by established ‘standards’ its almost a must . how badly do you want an entertainment career under those circumstances ?
in country music , buffed , bearded , chiseled, tatted, fashion-centric male singers who are willing to be molded musically are forced upon us by the dozens . all image ..all marketing tactics …..all the same .
although traditionally a male-controlled business ,female entertainers have the same choice to make …..will you play the marketing game ( or whatever OTHER game may be required to play ) or not ? the choice is yours and EVERY entertainer becomes aware of the options early on. NO ONE forced dolly to be the dolly we see in her image but dolly . no one forced shania to sell sex ….she made the choice . no it isn’t right that either sex should have to make those concessions …..BUT NO ONE HOLDS A GUN TO YOUR HEAD TO MAKE THOSE CONCESSIONS .
is it right ? is it wrong ? ….those aren’t the right questions to ask as long as an artist still has the choice of whether or not to play the game by THOSE rules ….to completely capitulate for money and fame .. too many REAL artists are choosing not to and have become successful on their own terms .
I think its time to stop blaming ‘ the business ‘ for the concessions artists CHOOSE to make . don’t wanna play the game ?……find another career or play YOUR game by YOUR rules . live or die by your OWN sword , as it were .
Dang Kate. You don’t read this site much, do you?
Trigger is the most ardent “pro-woman” propagandist in the music journalism realm. He’s posted dozens of pieces of misinformation about the supposed oppression of women. He’s a dyed-in-the-wool feminazi if there ever was one.
Instead of criticizing him, you should be thanking him for his contributions to your make-believe cause.
The country genre is more restricted by the industry than other genres. But the real restriction is by the fans.
“That’s why K.t. oslin got her songs banned “younger men are starting to catch my eye” at the same time that Mr “don’t the girls all get prettier at closing time” was playing.”
Those songs were released five years apart. And “Younger Men” wasn’t banned, it was just a bad song that received no label support.
“The overtly conservative standards that are pushed upon women in country music are not applied to men.”
Wrong. SCM and is commentariat ruthlessly mock aging country men who pose as sex symbols. Read up, girl.
Btw, that’s an idiomatic expression to ventriloquate slang usage, chosen for figurative color and insouciance, not for denotative or hegemonic effect.
This is a talking point that is being driven home my rival journalists on social media that is completely unfounded, and woefully uninformed. The idea that I am being harder on Maren Morris than Kane Brown, Florida Georgia Line, Luke Bryan, Eric Church, and a dozen other men over the years is absolute lunacy, with their only response to that certifiable fact being “You’re Gaslighting! You’re Gaslighting!”
If anything, Maren was let off the hook here compared to the men. It just doesn’t fit the social norm where we’re supposed to lie about women now to pretend they’re equal, instead of actually dealing with them equally as the men for the sake of equality.
The reason I criticize Maren Morris is not to pick on her. It’s to give her guidance in her career so she can thrive. If she rolled off all the polarizing social media posts and/or declared herself pop, all this conflict would go away. Until then, it persists.
“this is a talking point that is being driven home by rival journalists on social media”
Lol, well, your mistake may be in using “journalist” and “social media” in the same sentence. It must chap your hide to be so much criticized and so little understood, or even *read.* Math is hard, but so is reading comprehension beyond whatever the Tweeter character limit is these days. Take some comfort in knowing there are plenty of people out here who don’t give a rat’s ass about journalistic by-lines or company affiliations. All that really matters is independence and integrity. We can sort the wheat from chaff. And Trig, you’re at least in the wheat field.
Victimization is the new currency in America as long as you don’t get busted like that dummy from Empire.
When you sound this deranged already, I really wish you wouldn’t bother reviewing GIRL. It’ll get those clicks, though, so I guess I’ll just brace myself.
“Supporting Maren Morris is not supporting a woman in country music. It’s taking away support for the women who actually make country music.” Music fandom is not the zero sum game that you want to trick your readers into believing it is. When I’m in the mood for Lee Ann or Sunny, I play Lee Ann or Sunny. When I want something more poppy, maybe I throw on my copy of HERO. If you look at the charts, you can’t tell me that Maren is taking away anyone else’s shine because 1) No one who sounds like Ashley McBryde is anywhere near even their lower reaches and 2) “Girl” is tanking because it’s really not very good. If you can’t figure out why Maren Morris scans as country to the casual music fan (which is how I’d describe most music fans), surely you’re not being honest with yourself.
I also just looked at her Instagram for the first time. It pretty much looked like what I imagine the Instagram of a successful and confident young woman might be like. Shrug.
Kasey Anderson
Hey Kyle –
I don’t know that I would exactly classify Country Music as a “family-friendly place on the radio dial” given the subject matter that characterizes most of the music longtime readers of this site consider “Classic Country.” You’re talking about a genre built around songs about infidelity, crime, and alcohol/substance use and abuse.
If people don’t approve of the way an artist presents themselves and their songs, those people are free not to listen to that artist or look at photos of that artist, or whatever. The idea of a genre of music as a “club” that only certain people gain access to is certainly not new, nor is it exclusive to this site, but it has always kind of puzzled me.
The context is different now. The world is different now. It’s impossible to know how any artist would have been marketed, or marketed themselves, if their career began now as opposed to a decade, two decades, fifty years ago. It’s also somewhat specious, to me, to make inferences about what Maren Morris, or any artist, is trying to “say” with any photo or any bit of marketing, or self-promotion. I think it’s really a stretch to assume or infer that Maren Morris posting a picture, or pictures, on Instagram is in any way a slight to other women, or to anyone else. That may be your interpretation of things – it may be other people’s interpretation, I don’t know – but to express those interpretations and inferences as fact is, as I said, pretty specious.
I know that you have been supportive of Jaime Wyatt, Jamie Lin Wilson, and a bunch of other artists who you believe embody “Real Country Music” (Jaime’s album, Felony Blues, while excellent, is hardly ‘family friendly’), and I do hope that in the future you’ll focus more on the elements of the music that you think give one song, or record, more artistic “weight” than another. I think there are definitely interesting conversations to be had around that.
For me, as a reader, covering artists in the way you have here with Ms. Morris is not engaging. It comes off as crass and mean-spirited. Not every review has to be glowing — I’m rarely a fan of reviews or profiles that fawn over any given artist, whether I love the artist or not — and all art benefits from a dialogue about its quality and merits, but pieces like this, while they undoubtedly drum up some traffic and get people fired up, don’t really serve the music in any way. And it’s my understanding that your intent is to serve the music, right?
Kasey Anderson,
I just want you to know that after you were found guilty of bilking music artists and fans for nearly $600,000 and went to prison for it, I was one of the people who stood up and told people to give you a second chance (https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/tarnished-songwriter-kasey-anderson-is-back-making-no-excuses-for-himself/).
When you started recording and releasing music again, you reached out to see if I would cover it, smiling in my face, telling me how much you respected what I do. Even in this comment, you’re trying to act like you’re taking the high road. When you started releasing new music, I had MANY people reach out to me, publicly and privately, concerned that you were up to no good again. I put my professional name behind you and told those people we were giving you a second chance, and to let it go.
Then a few weeks ago, I find out that, lo and behold, on Twitter, you were running my name down, and spreading lies and misnomers in an effort to ingratiate yourself to the Twitter blue checkmark journalism and aspiring Nashville artist groupthink echo chamber who looks at Saving Country Music with jealousy and spite. If you don’t like what I do, I respect that. I’m a hard critic and throw my opinions out there, and it would be hypocritical of me to not be able to take return fire. But the fact that you smiled in my face when you wanted me to write about your music, and even take a civil tone here when you’ve been running my name down on Twitter, exposes a two-faced compromise of character that is very troubling, especially given your felonious past.
I appreciate that you want to still do stuff in music, and I appreciate the efforts you’re making to support important artists on Farce the Music and such, which is one of the reasons I’ve been reluctant to call you to the mat. I respect Farce The Music, and anyone who takes the time to write about music. But I think you still have work you need to do on yourself before you’re back to 100% trustworthy.
Notice that in the 80+ comments on this article, there is not a single Maren Morris fan complaining about the content. Compare this with articles on Kane Brown, Zac Brown, or any other pop country artist I may criticize. The reason is because Maren Morris fans don’t care. Instead, this article is attempting to be exploited through a misinformation campaign specifically and exclusively on Twitter, by rival journalists and aspiring artists pissed off that I haven’t talked about their music. You happen to fit in both of those categories. You and others are completely mischaracterizing the opinions of this article in irresponsible and exploitative ways. On Twitter. But it will not stop me. I don’t give a fuck.
Also, in response to when you said on Twitter recently, “I wish artists/publicists/mgrs would stop courting and promoting, and lending credence to, that blog and writer.”
https://twitter.com/leasdef/status/1095002465492131840
Just understand, I don’t need ANY manager, ANY publicist, ANY artist, or anyone else’s help to do my job, or to give me “credence.” This tweet, along with the concerted effort of other rival journalists to exclude me from professional communication with the industry has not only been 100% ineffective, it exposes what I have been saying for years now about the problem with modern music journalism, which it is just a promotional arm of the industry.
Most, if not all “journalists” now wait for marching orders from publicists to procure their content. I have never, nor would even engage in that practice. That’s why people come and read this site, even with the lies and misinformation rival journalists and artists angry their careers haven’t taken off tell them. It’s the reason why as a one man operation, my traffic numbers challenge and often beat newsrooms with multiple full-time staff employees and a dozen freelancers to pull from, and the power of a parent company behind them. I am the last honest motherfucker out here. And no matter what kind of lies you or anyone else spread about me, it will not stop me, or alter my behavior.
There is no bigger critic of Saving Country Music than myself, and sometimes I make mistakes. But I stand 100% behind every single word in this article. And so would you probably if you had not read it through the filter of Twitter—aka, the scourge of the internet.
–Kyle “Trigger” Coroneos
“I am the last honest motherfucker out here.”
I threw my fist up in the air and shouted!
I have not said anything publicly on Twitter that I would not say directly to you, which is why I posted here, on your blog. I also have not, to my knowledge, spread any false information about about you publicly or privately. If there’s a comment or statement I made regarding you or this site that is false in any way, please point it out to me and I’ll absolutely publicly retract it and apologize. I mean that sincerely. If you can point me to a statement I made about you, or this site, that is false, I’ll absolutely publicly retract it and apologize.
I have no doubt that my decision to record music again has been viewed skeptically by some people – maybe many people. That does not surprise me. I appreciate that you spoke up on my behalf, though I have to say I’m very much at peace with the way I’ve lived my life over the last several years and the work I’ve done to make financial and direct amends to people. The opinions of people who don’t know me personally — who have little to no experience with me beyond knowing that I made records, and then committed a crime and went to prison for it — those aren’t opinions that carry a lot of weight with me. My responsibility is to the victims of my crime, and to my friends and family. To people I’ve hurt directly or indirectly. If people think my making records again means I’m “up to no good,” then they’re absolutely entitled to those opinions, based on my past. Those people are not obligated to forgive and/or forget. One of the consequences of my actions is I no longer have the right to the benefit of the doubt, so those dissenting opinions, those concerns, they make sense to me. In terms of my needing to do “more work on myself,” I mean yes, definitely. I’m only 3+ years out of prison and just over 6 years sober and in treatment for Type I Bipolar Disorder. I have plenty of work still to do but, again, I’m proud of and at peace with the work I have done to get to where I am.
I do think that when bands share links to your positive reviews it’s an implicit endorsement of some of the content on this site that I believe to be damaging, and so I do wish other artists would be more careful about that but what other artists or their teams do is not up to me.
And you’re right, you did write about Sideways, and you did not cover my last record. For you to assume that my response to this piece, or to any of the content on this site, is in any way connected to whether or not you write about me, personally, is false. It’s patently false.
I can say that future releases of mine will not be serviced by my publicist to your site. Which, really, is not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things, right? It’s not like I have much of an audience left so that doesn’t effect you or me especially but if I’m going to tweet out that I wish people would not promote your site than I should walk that talk in my own career, and I intend to do so.
As for me being a “rival journalist,” I have written, I think, three pieces for Farce the Music, per that site’s request, for free. I am about as far from being a rival, or a journalist, as one can be.
I don’t know you personally. In my previous comment I did not say anything about you, personally, beyond saying that pieces like this one read *to me* as crass and mean-spirited. That is my opinion about this particular piece. As I said, I think there is plenty to be gained by a conversations about genres and what they represent to people, and how artists do or don’t fit into those genres. And, also as I said, I think you are at your strongest as a writer when you’re fostering that dialogue and exposing people to artists they may have missed. That’s my personal opinion.
And, for what it’s worth, my comment here was largely about the categorization of Country Music as “family friendly” when the subject matter is anything but, and about trying to square the way artists are promoted/promote themselves with how things were years ago. I don’t think you’re the “scourge of the internet” or whatever. As I said, I’m also unaware of any lies I spread about you though I will reiterate that if you can point out to me where I made a public statement about you, personally, I will absolutely publicly apologize and retract that statement/those statements. If I’m operating on bad information about you, and if I have then in turn spread bad information, please do point it out so I can rectify that.
Blahhhhh blahhh blah.
Again, the vast majority of media depend on these retweets and sharing of links to their coverage of bands for their traffic, which is the reason actual criticism and objective opinion has completely evaporated off the internet when it comes to music. I don’t give a fuck if anyone shares my content on social media, and it is reflected in both the business model for the site, the SEO strategy, and the social media strategy to be completely autonomous of links from bands or other entities. Furthermore, this idea that this would bleed the site dry is stupid, just as is boycotting Chick-Fil-A or Hobby Lobby, or the NFL. For as many people who complain about the site, there’s three more that are avid readers. And trust me, my most avid readers are the ones who profess the most to hate Saving Country Music. Everybody reads it. They’re just too cowardly to admit it in the free-speech impinging and socially-restrictive environment of Nashville popularity politics.
As for the family friendly aspect, I agree this can be in the eye of the beholder. But like I said in the article, if 2 of 2 of your last radio singles violate FCC rules and require a radio edit, I think we can pretty universally agree that is not family friendly. If Maren Morris or anyone else feel this is too prudish, they can switch formats. Nobody is telling Maren Morris she must be country.
I agree with you on a couple of things here:
1. My saying, “I wish bands wouldn’t… blah blah blah” was not meant to be equivocal to “boycott this music site!” though absolutely, I can see where it could be taken that way, so that’s on me. That’s a longer conversation and I’m already far enough away from what my original intent was in posting today so I’ll leave it at that for now.
2. Journalism as a form of analysis or criticism is dying, and it sucks. There’s a lot of music writing out there that purports itself to be journalism but is really just fawning over one artist or another. It’s not all writers or publications/outlets, but it’s a lot of them. And this is fine with some people. I don’t enjoy reading that kind of thing. That’s something your site doesn’t really engage in and I do appreciate that about the way you cover artists/albums. It’s clear to me you care about the music/artists and not just ingratiating yourself.
I appreciate that you and I can have this discussion here. As I’ve said, I do think there’s a lot of “meat” to the discussion about genres and how people fit into that, how traditions are kept alive, etc. I absolutely think all that stuff is worth discussing.
Sorry to double-up on replies but I’ll also say this:
I have had multiple conversations about this site and some of the content that I personally object to with a number of people and there are absolutely people who have assured me that I’m misinterpreting your writing. People whose opinions I very much respect. So I’m not going to pretend that my interpretation of your writing is the *only* one. It’s also not accurate to assume that my opinion is formed in an echo chamber where everyone is in vehement opposition to every opinion you express. That’s not the case at all.
There may indeed be a group of people who consider you the “scourge of the internet” or something like that but I personally am not hanging on every word you say waiting to pounce or publicly criticize you. I did today because this particular piece didn’t sit well with me. There have been other times when other pieces have not sit well with me personally. Not because I hope to ingratiate myself with some other journalist or blogger – as I noted previously, my audience is no longer at a size where that matters to me any longer, the press I got for the last record was minimal and I would imagine future records will see a similar amount of coverage – but because the writing didn’t sit well with me, personally.
That also doesn’t mean my mind is beyond changing, nor is it closed to people whose opinions may be different from mine.
Weird flex, but okay
Seth of Lampasas
This is an incredibly interesting little scene.
Can we get some links in chronological order to see what exactly is going on here?
Well, that escalated quickly.
dukeroberts
She’s hot. Her music sucks.
“who’s the little boy”
“she’s not attractive enough to be taking pictures like that”
“her chest is too flat”
“bullshit girl power movement”
Yeah, sure, Maren Morris is the problem here fellas.
I prefer to believe that there are two problems, and Maren Morris is one of them.
To be fair, go read the comments women write on a Luke Bryan fan page. People talk about artists like they’re meat.
And MIranda Lambert can do no wrong
Good Lord, what a fucking incredible waste of time lol.
Thank You Trig, I said this in the last article about Maren Morris….There’s sometning about her that just pisses me off. She is a no talent with no substance. She wants so bad to be the next BEYONCE she is now gone full hog bashing country music. We know damn well she would never make it as a pop singer because L.A and N.Y would destroy her. WTH is she even about?
As far as I’m concerned, Maren can go shake hands with the idiot BEBE REXA. They’re one in the same at this point.
I thought I was just crotchety and old for thinking Maren could do with covering up just a smidgen in that album cover, but apparently she’s older than me…
I don’t deny that she works hard and that her music is catchy and often well-written (and I loved My Church) but she needs to stop acting like a whiny sixteen-year-old. It’s not empowering in the slightest.
That said, yes, of course she’s entitled to wear whatever the heck she wants and live her life on her own terms. I’d just like more of the country singer we were promised than the pop singer with the slight hip-hop persona.
I’ll reserve judgment on her involvement with the Highwomen supergroup until I’ve seen what they come out with. I’m cautiously optimistic.
If Morris wants to continue to dabble in both pop and country, more power to her, but stop acting the victim and complaining about feeling restricted and show some gratitude for the warm welcome.
Here’s something that I’ve been wondering after hearing that Maren Morris was joining the Highwomen. Maybe her musical heart might be more in the Americana/Roots world. Sort of how like David Cassidy apparently really wanted to ROCK and didn’t like the music he was singing. There are numerous women artists in that world that don’t seem to feel stylistically inhibited when it comes to fashion. I’m thinking of Elizabeth Cook, Amanda Shires, Lindi Ortega, and Nikki Lane, for starters. But they all bring the musical goods, at least as far as I’m concerned. And they have to if they want to make in that world, however modestly. I mean, I enjoy looking at an attractive woman as much as the next heterosexual, but I’m not going to buy albums or go to a concert to see a pretty face if the music isn’t cutting it for me.
Batterycap
This may be considered by some to be off-limits, but why does she wear a bra? To show it off, shouldn’t their logically be something to show off? If you want to explore your sexuality, why must there be pictures for public consumption? Can this not be done privately?
Ann Stokman
Definitely agree
SavingMisogyny
So much for saving country music. Seems like you’re much more interested in preserving the culture, which means conflating a sound with an ideology and then shaming women for daring to think something else.
@ SavingMisogyny – Getting a little bored now that the women’s march is over and you have nowhere to wear your little pink p hat?
It really doesn’t take much to be for women expressing themselves. You have exactly as much Maren Morris in your life as you want.
The fact is, the amount that we do have is too much, and takes away attention from more talented ladies who most likely can sing rings around this clown and her contemporaies, but who can’t get attention from the music industry, the radio industry, or the media in general.
I see why, now, she invited Miranda Lambert on stage. Lol. Man, these girls need to follow their real dreams… Pornography!
Miranda Lamber could sing circles around Maren….There is no comparison except being female. Miranda is a badass, and has WORKED for all her achievements in COUNTRY music.
It’s never been on my heart to comment on anything like this before,but this piece really hurt me.
You can call me a victim if you want to! It’ll only prove my point.
Maren is a person. With feelings and a family and a deep and abiding love for country music. She’s proudly from Texas and she’s one of the finest and most skilled singers that country music has ever seen.
If you don’t believe me come to the studio and listen to her absolutely flatten me when we’re singing together.
The feelings that she’s expressing about her evolving place in the genre are fluid and gentle and nothing overtly negative or mean spirited has ever passed her lips! Also since we’re talking Dolly the feelings aren’t that far removed from a time Dolly split and went Hollywood. She was the recipient of devastating criticism for her perceived abandonment of country music…. only women get labeled as “uppity” or “too good” when they step outside their station.
Maren loves country music with all her heart and so do I! Let’s make that clear.
It’s fine and absolutely acceptable if you don’t like Maren’s music! I think criticism is a healthy thing…. but among other demoralizing insinuations- who are you to use the word “bra” multiple times to describe the character of a young woman? It’s creepy. As a mother of two daughters who love their sparkles and rainbows I can only feel viscerally protective right now. I’m just being honest…Do you have kids? You can’t and still talk like that.
Look at the comments this degrading article inspired? Comments about “cup size” and “bust” calling this woman a “spoiled little bitch” and even WORSE. Do you feel proud of it now?
I have hope for you yet because I can tell you’re a smart man who loves music. But you can do better and I believe you will.
Hello Brandi,
I’m not sure this is the actual Brandi Carlile, but I will proceed under that assumption, if for nothing else than sport.
First off, congratulations on your recent Grammy wins. It is attention long overdue and well-deserved. I most certain appreciate your feedback and perspective on this matter, but I do have to offer a few respectful and important clarifications.
“Maren is a person. With feelings and a family and a deep and abiding love for country music.”
If this is the case, then why has Maren never said this herself? She’s been interviewed and featured some two dozen times surrounding the release of “GIRL,” and the talking point thread binding all of these features together is that she finds country music too conservative, too religious, too constricting, and unoriginal in its native form. Ad nauseum she has underscored this in a litany of interviews. She even included songs on “GIRL” that address this specifically. If she has professed her love for country music to you, that’s great. But all I’ve seen and heard her do is run it down, despite her receiving awards from the CMAs, ACMs, Grammys, radio play, tour and festival opportunities. Country music has given her a platform to launch a pop career with “The Middle.” And instead of gratefulness, we get more characterizations of victimization from the genre when Maren has received more fame, opportunities, and personal wealth than 99% of the actual country artists out there now plying the trade.
“nothing overtly negative or mean spirited has ever passed her lips!”
Frankly, that’s ridiculous. Again, I can’t speak to your personal experience with Maren, but mine is her calling me, and I quote, “some cowardly basement dweller (no disrespect to basements) with a keyboard.” The very crux of this article was Maren lashing out at the religious and conservatives, which I understand some may feel need to be lashed out at and I respect that. But the idea that Maren has never had anything negative to say is fairy tale. Feeling judged by the down-looking and better-than-thou attitude that Maren Morris oozes is the very reason she is addressing why she is repulsed by country culture in countless interviews.
As for the “bra” statements, these have been misconstrued by many. When I started Saving Country Music 11 years and 5,200 articles ago, I did it to give voice to the disenfranchised music fans who had been abandoned by the format’s move to pop. I don’t follow Maren Morris on social media. In fact she’s blocked me on Twitter. But if you follow country music feeds, you cannot get away from Maren Morris not just in an arrogant manner flaunting her body for no apparent reason, but jawing off to the people who would judge her for it. It’s not me who is offended or repulsed by this activity by Maren, it is thousands upon thousands of women country music fans specifically, including many who liked, shared, and commented on this article, many who were afraid to say anything from fear of retribution, but hate to see their favorite artists get downgraded by Maren attempting to exploit both her body, and the victimhood she characterizes for attention. This includes many dedicated Carrie Underwood fans, Miranda Lambert fans, fans of Ashley McBryde and others who believe in those artists, and appreciate that they respect country music as opposed to running it down while also exploiting its opportunities like Maren has. If you don’t believe me, just sift through these comments, and scan through social media. It’s women who hold this grievance.
The reason I broached the issue was not to run down Maren Morris—though I understand that in this music media environment that is completely bereft of honest criticism, this is how any criticism is commonly construed. I made these points to help explain to Maren and the public why she is receiving this backlash from so many country fans, to hopefully help guide her constructively to a better outcome, which is my job as a critic. I did not start this criticism by any stretch. I simply responded to Maren’s own answers when the subject was broached in interviews.
No, I don’t. I am disappointed in them, and I challenged them when they first came up. That said, I inspired nothing. Those comments were out there way before I said a word. That is why Maren is constantly making an issue of how people are judging her by how she dresses in interviews. I don’t like these comments, but I run an open forum and believe in free speech. So unless someone crosses a serious line, I won’t censor them.
Lastly, I know that among all of us, you probably can populate a list of grievances and victimization more than most. That is what has imbued your music with such spirit, impact, soul, and resonance. I would never look at another human and believe they’ve had it better off than myself, because everyone’s story is pock marked with adversity, including my own. Nor would I ever judge anyone on their success. But in my opinion, country music has always been a place of humility, and the ever-present arrogance many feel from Maren is creating conflict in a genre that frankly her music doesn’t belong in. I want Maren Morris to be successful in all her endeavors, just like I want for all humans. But I don’t want that success to be at the expense of others, or of the institution of country music that we all love.
Respects,
If this is the case, then why has Maren never said this herself?”
Have you not heard “My Church”? She had been playing country music since 10, and wrote songs for Tim McGraw and Kelly Clarkson (not total bonus points for her, but she did cut her teeth writing and singing country).
“My Church” was a Trojan Horse, a bait and switch, a scam, and Maren Morris knows it. Produce the quotes for me where Maren professes her loyalty and love for country music. And if you can produce one, I can produce a dozen where the opposite is professed.
Maren Morris doesn’t give a fuck about country music except as a vehicle for her to make money and garner fame. And she’s exploited it quite well. The least she could do now is leave it to let it lick its wounds, and let an actual country music woman enjoy the spotlight she’s soaking up.
If you are disregarding her words in song, it’s just as easy to disregard her words in an interview. You’ve literally come to a conclusion, anything I say cannot sway you. You also disregarded the fact that she has played country music all her life, and that she started her career as a songwriter.
If you want me to comb through her interviews to find comments on country music, I will, but only if you actually follow up with a dozen negative ones for each. And just criticizing some part of country music today doesn’t necessarily count, or people could say you are against country music, which we both know couldn’t be further from the truth.
I have a lot to say but won’t waste my time or yours with a long paragraph. Bottom line is:
1) Maren’s first album was good (not necessarily country but had it’s moments and had some good songs)
2) Her new stuff is not even close to country in any way
3) Trigger sounds like such a prude little man who gets offended by the word “shit” or a midriff of a woman. Get over it. I agree with you on some of your articles but you really come across as a pretentious guy who thinks he is the ultimate judge of country music and sometimes you end up just sounding like the old “get off my lawn” man next door who thinks his way is the only way.
4) You need to realize almost all social media is a “look at me” outlet and if you’re offended by bikinis and daisy duke shorts then quit following the artists on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook
I never said or implied I was offended by Maren Morris. What I did was explain why Maren Morris continues to face criticism from individuals for the way she dresses. The point of criticism is not to indict, but to guide artists and music towards better outcomes for all parties. It is a constructive application that has become lost in the PC culture, and one that has been valued in art for centuries.
I never said I was the ultimate judge of country music. I simply share my opinions, and then offer a forum for everyone, including yourself, to share theirs as well.
Bruce Bremer
She’s cute and you say she sings, too? A manager’s dream! Seriously though she is made for top 40 pop. She doesn’t need us.
“Then she acts like she’s being body shamed for posting photos of herself on social media. No Maren Morris, you’re body shaming others. Maren is saying, “Hey, look at me. I’m better than you, prettier than you, thinner than you, and I get to go to all these cool places you don’t.” … The negative reaction to Maren Morris is coming from women specifically. This is supposed to be an artist women are rallying behind, but instead they see her as tearing down other women with her arrogant social media presence and her arrogant pronouncements in both interviews and her music that work to tear down other women in country who deserve the attention Maren Morris is receiving.”
I think this whole paragraph is ridiculous. A woman being proud of her body and wearing what she wants is not body shaming others, that’s ridiculous, and slut-shaming. I also find it surprising you claim to be speaking for women, without even bothering citing anything for your claim. You say the criticism is coming from women, but it seems you are only speaking for yourself.
” I also find it surprising you claim to be speaking for women, without even bothering citing anything for your claim. You say the criticism is coming from women, but it seems you are only speaking for yourself.”
I am not the genesis point for saying that women are constantly feeling either alienated or attacked by the way Maren Morris presents herself. It’s Maren Morris. Read the quotes from Maren near the top of this article. This is what Maren Morris offered up at the very first of a video about the lyrics behind the song “Girl.” It was a complete non sequiter side tangent. In the dozen or so interviews that came out with Maren paralleling the release of the “Girl” album, Maren’s victimhood at the strong judgement of country women was the centerpiece of the interview in many cases. All I was doing was responding to Maren’s own words about how she feels restricted by the conservative and religious environment of country music. And even though folks want to focus on the image components of this article because they feel like it’s fertile ground, it’s just one of many elements that makes Maren Morris come across as arrogant and down-looking. And again, these criticisms are offered not to create conflict, but resolve it. Maren Morris has no place in country music. She is not country whatsoever. If she feels restricted and overly judged in the country music environment, then she should leave for a genre that will better suit her sensibilities, whether that’s sonically or sociologically, as opposed to expecting an entire genre of music to bend to her will. That would be conceit.
Also, if you don’t think Maren Morris is not being criticized en masse by female country music fans, you need to poke your head out of your bubble. It’s absolutely everywhere.
Country music fans of all genders criticize all sorts of people. I’m sure plenty of female country music fans criticize her fairly for her music being too pop. If you’re saying you can point to a few people complaining on twitter about how she dresses, then you really aren’t saying anything of value. What women in the industry have criticized the way she dresses, and said that it is shaming them, as you claim?
Those are her words. Nowhere does it say that women are the ones criticizing her like the paragraph at issue suggests. I listened to the entire Genius interview, and I don’t see how you can extrapolate that the criticism is by country women in general. Her comments mention nothing about other women being attacked by how she presents herself, and even if they did, someone feeling alienated because you are proud of your body doesn’t mean you should hide your body (something, something, light shine). You quoted her simply saying that she feels women in country must fit a mold, and that women feel a need to fit into that role. Do you think it’s a good thing that women (or men) in country have to dress or behave a certain way? The comments on this page seem to suggest that many of your viewers expect her to look or dress differently (including a shameful amount commenting on her bust size). The image components of your article aren’t just “fertile ground” for criticism, but clearly an issue in the community, if the comments here are any measure. You focused significantly on her image (“sports bras etc”). While I agree much (most?) of he music fits better in pop, I don’t think that’s true for all of her music (and I don’t think she should be defined by “The Middle”).
Country music is incredibly conservative, but I don’t think every part of the culture is without fault. You’ve been open about criticizing some of the worse parts about country (leaving aside the way pop is ever influencing it, which I wholeheartedly agree with you, but think is not important for this conversation), like sexism and the political nature of Nashville. Parts of country music should be criticized, while what makes it special should be celebrated. That said, I don’t think shaming a woman for posting pictures on instagram is a part of country music that should be valued.
Normally, I think your commentary is pretty spot on, but I can’t agree with what you’re doing here. Including the section I quoted, you focus at least three paragraphs on how she dresses and her appearance. I think that’s extreme overkill, and cheapens the point you may be trying to make about how she is, like many other country-pop singers, blowing past the borders of country into pop, but still trying to use the country label for her benefit.
jbear123
Hey Trigger just wanted to point out that the outfits Dolly wore may not have bared her midriff but her breasts were certainly on display and given their rather generous size were often a focal point so to imply sexual imagery never played a part is slightly incorrect. You can’t tell me that people didn’t notice and it never factored into things, even if it was only small. Jane Fonda even explained it was the idea of Dolly trying to type with her big bosom in the way that put her in in Jane’s mind to be in 9 to 5. Everyone knows Dolly not just cause of her music but because of her breasts and she knows this, she jokes about it.
Also you also said “Maren posting pictures of herself in sports bras on private jets, in sports bras at a big sporting event, in a sports bras at some landmark, or in a bikini on the beach comes across as down-looking, and pandering for acceptance” what’s wrong with sports bras? Jessie Graff often posts on SM in only a sports bra and shorts and she’s an incredible, strong, inspiring women whose also one hell of a Ninja Warrior whose probably stronger than most men in the world. She’s not pandering to anyone. You can wear a sports bra and be an inspiration, the two don’t tie together. Beyoncé often wears figure-hugging clothes and shows skin, uses sexual imagery because that’s the business and she is massive inspiration to people all across the world. She has literally saved people on the brink with her music and has helped many overcome issues in their lives. Even Carrie has shown skin and worn figure hugging outfits and posted bikini selfies. It’s not what you wear that makes you an inspiration, it’s who you are as a person, how you act and react to things, how you treat others and what you say. And for the part about women tearing her down, it’s called jealousy and it is a real thing. Go on Daily Mail every once in a while and read what the comments section says on an article posted about Carrie. They are awful to her, like just disgusting in the things they say. They do attack her on SM as well. It’s because they hate her and they want to tear her down because like a bully they need to make themselves feel better cause of their own sad lives. That’s why we call the trolls Trigger, they’re not fans they are trolls.
That’s all I wanted to say, I don’t listen to Marren or follow her on SM to speak on the other parts of the article.
April 7, 2019 @ 6:30 pm
I’m watching the ACM awards and I just cringed when she sang… If you can call it that. If she was a kick ass singer, quite frankly I could overlook her blatant use of country music as a stepping stone to her desired pop career. But she has minimal talent at best and I actually feel embarrassed for her. Believe me, I have no problem appreciating the female form, but her obvious hair extension, hair flipping, crop top wearing performance was just sad. For the love of God just cross over to pop and put me out of my misery.
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Oysters and oyster reefs once were common along much of the U.S. coastline. The eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, has declined to levels where serious thought is being given to introducing a non-native species, C. ariakensis, in the Chesapeake Bay. The Olympia oyster, Ostreola conchaphila, rarely is harvested today unless under aquaculture. Once valued primarily as a resource, oysters are now recognized as important “ecosystem engineers” in estuaries. Oysters create complex habitats relied on by numerous fish, crustaceans, bivalves, other invertebrates, birds, and mammals. During feeding, oysters also can filter large volumes of water, improving clarity and quality while transferring nutrients from the water column to the sediments. In recognition of the importance of oyster reefs to overall coastal ecosystem functions, large- and small-scale restoration of reef habitats is ongoing in most coastal states. However, consensus on what constitutes a successful reef restoration project currently does not exist.
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Next Month & On
Tall ships head northwards on leisurely leg of races
0 comments, 12/07/2011 , by Shetland Times, in Fishing & Sea
It is hoped the class A ship Alexander von Humbolt will pay a visit to Whalsay.
The Tall Ships Races 2011 Cruise in Company is getting underway today with 48 vessels setting sail from Greenock and making – at a leisurely pace – for guest harbours up Scotland’s west coast and onward to Orkney and Shetland.
The majestic ships that have graced Greenock over the last four days will have a choice of Campbeltown, Port Ellen (Islay), Oban, Ullapool, Stornoway, Kirkwall and Stromness, and Fair Isle, Scalloway, Yell, Unst and Whalsay.
Jurgens Hanekon, captain of the Wylde Swan – a Dutch class A sail training vessel and the world’s largest two mast top sail schooner – said: “The Tall Ships will pass through some of the most stunning scenery in Scotland and will create the perfect picture-postcard photo opportunities en route.
“We know that the guest harbours have created their own special welcome for the ships and we very much look forward to a series of much more intimate parties as we head north.”
Paul Bishop, race director of Sail Training International, said: “The captains and crews always look forward to the Cruise in Company leg of The Tall Ships Races, and after such a tactical race, I’m sure they will all appreciate a leisurely sail in addition to experiencing a local community welcome from the various harbours involved. We look forward to meeting the fleet in Lerwick for Race Two which will see them head to Stavanger in Norway in what promises to be an equally exciting challenge!”
Thirteen ships are set to call at or anchor off Fair Isle and it is hoped a further four will confirm. They are: Sirma (class C), Miles to Go (D), Constantia (B), Liv (B), Spaniel (C), St Iv (C), Jens Krogh (B), Sorlandet (A), Rupel (B), Zenobe Gramme (C), Tomidi (C), Ocean Spirit of Moray (C), Prolific (C), Camelot (D), Endorfina (D), Auno (B) and Esprit (C).
The 13 ships it is hoped will call in at Scalloway are: Provident (class B), De Gallant (B), Tecla (B), Urania (D), Esprit (C), Dar Szczecina (C), Endorfina (D), Auno (B), Prolific (B), Gloria (A), Pelican of London (A), Dar Modziezy (A) and Black Diamond of Durham (C).
Yell is expecting or hoping for the arrival of six ships: Lord Nelson (class A), Tecla (B), Swan (B), Ocean Spirit of Moray (C), Jolie Brise (B) and Morning Star of Revelation (B).
Unst will be visited by four, possibly five, ships: Rona II (class C), Swan (B), Endorfina (D), Alba Endeavour (C) and Alba Explorer (C).
Whalsay is anticipating the arrival of seven: Alexander von Humbolt (class A), St Iv (C), Sirma (C), Miles to Go (D), Constantia (B), Liv (B) and Spaniel (C).
Meanwhile 10 more young Shetlanders left on Sunday to take their places in the Cruise in Company leg of the Tall Ships Races following completion of the first race from Waterford to Greenock.
Six trainees of the trainees were recruited and sponsored by Sail Training Shetland, with The Swan Trust providing funding for the other four would-be sailors to take part in the races.
Chairman of Sail Training Shetland Peter Malcolmson said: “We’re delighted to be able to offer these young people the opportunity to participate in the Cruise in Company element of the races. They will have a wonderful experience and make some great new friends on their voyage, and will no doubt be great ambassadors for Shetland.”
Secretary of the Swan Trust Peter Campbell said: “We are delighted to sponsor four Shetland trainees taking part in the Cruise in Company … a fantastic opportunity to sail in Scottish waters and represent Shetland during the voyage to Lerwick.”
The four trainees sponsored by The Swan Trust are Rachel Sansom, 16, from Walls; Tom Henderson, 16, Lerwick; Ryan Leask, 15, South Whiteness; and Heather Gray, 18, Unst. They will join the Sail Training Shetland sponsored trainees Robert Gray, 15, from Unst; Douglas Stevenson, 15, Whalsay; Declan Turner, 15, Brae; and Drew Manson, 15, Brae, on the Swan.
A further two trainees, Michael Thomson, 19, from Unst, and Paul Gaffney, 21, Lerwick, will join the Wylde Swan.
• Over 40 young people from all over Shetland will take part in the sail training experience with placements on seven Tall Ships during The Tall Ships Races 2011, presented by Szczecin, organised by Sail Training International. This is a charity for the development and education of young people, regardless of nationality, culture, religion, gender or social background. Events take place in European waters every year, where the ships either race or cruise in company between ports. For more information visit www.tallshipsraceslerwick.com, which also features a blog from participants.
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City Morgue – Tickets – Slim’s – San Francisco, CA – March 11th, 2020
THE AS GOOD AS DEAD TOUR
City Morgue
TOKYO’S REVENGE, Kai
Slim's Presents City Morgue with TOKYO’S REVENGE and Kai
On Sale: Friday, 11/22 @ 10am
Doors 7 / Show 8
The melding of Rock and Rap is a concept that’s existed within the underbelly of music for decades, yet few have done what City Morgue is about to do. When upstarts SosMula and ZillaKami come together, their fusion is seamless—oozing true skill with a reckless lack of fucks left to give. As the supergroup readies their collective debut mixtape City Morgue Vol. 1: Hell or High Water, the dynamic duo delivers a new and exciting vibe for any fan of true music—from hip-hop to metal. It’s City Morgue season. Get ready.
With countless cuts on Soundcloud, a successful run at SXSW, plus an aesthetic that unifies the early days of Punk with extensive Ink (the two have anecdotes for every tattoo on their bodies), the time is now to bring City Morgue’s first collective project to the streets. City Morgue Vol. 1: Hell or High Water will continue the movement that two have forged, with more tracks that reach a wider audience. “Downer,” is rooted in melody, with an ambiguous title as Zilla is straight edge, while Sos is the exact opposite. Songs like “Grave Hop” and “P.T.S.D.” continue along that similar vein, while “Lamborghini Getaway” and “Snow On The Bluff” turn a corner into mainstream. It’s an experience anyone can appreciate and shows what happens when two worlds meet to form an entirely new planet.
The Hikari-Ultra/Republic Records signees have already shown a significant track record of hits in a relatively short amount of time, and it won’t stop there. Vol. 1 is the first of many City Morgue collaborations, but both SosMula and ZillaKami will be bringing their solo flavors to the forefront in the very near future.
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The Pineapple Thief featuring Gavin Harrison – Tickets – Slim’s – San Francisco, CA – December 10th, 2019
The Pineapple Thief featuring Gavin Harrison
$25.00 - $30.00 Sales Ended On Eventbrite
On sale: Friday, 3/15 @ 10am
Door 7 / Show 8
The band, now complete with full-time drummer Gavin Harrison (King Crimson, Porcupine Tree) will be heading to the USA, Mexico and Canada for the first time ever.
Frontman Bruce Soord says: “People have been clamouring for us to bring our show to North America since I can remember. We’ve completed 4 tours of Europe with this lineup with Gavin. And now we are finally able to bring it over the pond. I for one cannot wait!”
The band’s 2016 album, Your Wilderness produced 4m+ album streams, a #7 in the UK Independent Charts and two extensive headline European tours culminating at London’s Islington Assembly Hall where the concert was recorded for the live release Where We Stood. Their recently released album Dissolution has seen the band propelled to even greater heights, having gained a #1 position in the UK Rock Charts and #22 in the German national album charts. The band have garnered high praise across the worldwide media as can be seen in the small selection of review quotes below…
Prog Magazine – Album Of The Month - ‘a varied album that pulls together the band’s diverse styles into nine cerebral but very accessible songs’
Kerrang Magazine – ‘Its existence makes the world a slightly better place’
Total Guitar ‘this is essential listening for fans of contemporary prog’
Slam (DE) "Just a beautiful, melancholy record, powerful and full of hymn-like harmonies."
Lust for Life (NL) ‘Dissolution ticks all the boxes’
RockTribune (BE) ‘an album to cherish’
Rockerilla (IT): ’a beautiful album from the beginning to the end, where every track is a piece of a mosaic of enchanted sounds’
The Pineapple Thief:
Bruce Soord – vocalist, guitars
Gavin Harrison – drums
Jon Sykes – bass
Steve Kitch - keyboards
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Home | Blogs | Mayo Meet Alice Meet Myriad – Fed. Cir. Appreciates "Abstract Art"
Mayo Meet Alice Meet Myriad - Fed. Cir. Appreciates "Abstract Art"
On December 20th, a panel of the Fed. Cir. of Judges Dyk, Clevinger and Prost – Dyk writing – found that six claims in Myriad’s dwindling arsenal of BRACA1 and 2 patents were invalid as claiming non-statutory subject matter. (University of Utah Res. Foundation et al. v. Ambry Genetics Corp., Appeal No. 2014-1361, -1366 (Fed. Cir., Dec. 20, 2014)). (A copy of the decision is found at the end of this post.) The decision makes more sense than some commentators have given it credit for, but it still reads like the plot of the last Matrix installment.
First, the panel invalidated four composition of matter claims directed to ssDNA segments useful to amplify the BRACA genes or portions thereof, when used as PCR primers, or to identify specific areas of the genes if used as probes. These were claims in US Pat. Nos. 5,747,282 and 5,837,492.
What is surprising is not that the panel found the claims invalid under Myriad – after all, the primers correspond to isolated portions of genomic DNA – the panel simply noted that “[t]hey are structurally identical to the ends of DNA strands found in nature.” What is surprising is the panel’s unabashed reading of Myriad as denying the patent eligibility of any isolated natural product:
“As the Supreme Court made clear, neither naturally-occurring compositions of matter, not synthetically created compositions that are structurally identical to the naturally occurring compositions, are patent eligible.” Slip op. at 8.
However, while this expands the language Judge Dyk used in Roslin to bury Dolly [“Any existing organism…is not patentable.”], it is not what the Supreme Court held in Myriad. That decision was explicitly limited to genomic DNA and fragments thereof. This opinion expressly repudiates Bergy II and endorses the March 4th PTO “Life Sciences” Guidelines that were based on Mr. Hirschfeld’s opinion that the Supreme Court had never allowed a claim to a nature-based product that was not structurally changed from its “natural state.”
It is beyond ironic that, just days ago, the PTO backed off its position taken in the original “Life Sciences” Examination Guidelines that a structural change was necessary for an isolated nature based product to pass s. 101, and conceded that function must be considered in determining if the claimed product is markedly different from its natural state.
Myriad argued in vain that the primers are functionally different once isolated from the remainder of the genome. The panel’s rationale for ignoring the argument that the primers “serve as a starting material for [PCR]” is hard to follow, perhaps because it is on a Mobius strip:
“In fact, the naturally occurring genetic sequences at issue here do not perform a significantly new function. Rather, the naturally occurring material is used to form [?] the first step in a chain reaction – a function that is performed because the primer maintains the exact same nucleotide sequence as the relevant portion of the naturally occurring sequence….Thus, just as in nature, primers utilize the innate ability of DNA to bind to itself.”
So the panel simply concludes that the primers are not functionally different than a genomic DNA sequence containing the same sequence. But, of course, primers are not functioning in terms of data storage and transmittal as were the natural genes in Myriad. They are functioning, as the panel seems to recognize, as starting materials in a more complex process that amplifies a target stretch of DNA. This function was new enough to merit the Nobel Prize. Oh, but you already know that.
The method claims fell before the Mayo two-step test that the Supreme Court used in Alice Bank. Claims 7 and 8 of U.S. Pat. No. 5,753,441 were sitting ducks – they were directed to methods for screening the germline of a subject for an alteration of a BRACA1 gene by comparing the wild-type sequence to the subject’s sequence using a BRACA1 gene probe or by using PCR/sequencing.
But while Ambry argued that the claims of the ‘441 patent should be invalidated as an attempt to claim a natural phenomenon, the panel endorsed the earlier opinions of the Fed. Cir. that had upheld the validity of the isolated genes in the Myriad litigation, but had invalidated “comparison” method claim 1 of U.S. Pat. No. 6,033,857 as directed to an abstract idea.
Using the Mayo analysis, the panel simply identified the comparing step(s) as an abstract idea and then found that the use of probing or PCR/sequencing techniques did not add the necessary “inventive concept” or “significantly more” required by Mayo/Alice. Thus, the panel was both able to distance itself from the facts of Mayo – a Fed. Cir. decision reversed by the Supreme Court – while endorsing the Mayo two-step analysis applied by the Supreme Court in Alice.
Two faint rays of legal hope remain for diagnostic claims. One is that the method claims invalidated in this decision did not recite arriving at a diagnostic conclusion. Invalidated claims 7 and 8 depended from claim 1 of the ‘441 patent. While the original Myriad panel invalidated claim 2 of the ‘857 patent that further recited identifying a predisposition to develop cancer, that claim was not considered here. (See F.3d at 1303).
The second glimmer of hope is the panel’s discussion of Judge Bryson’s concurrence in part in the second Fed. Cir. Myriad opinion (689 F.3d at 1349) in which he endorsed the patentability of some of the claims as applications of the sequences that Myriad had discovered. Judge Bryson’s opinion was discussed with approval by the Supreme Court, but the current panel noted that the method claim that he used as an example was not before the Fed. Cir. and was more specific, reciting specific mutations in the BRACA1 gene discovered by Myriad.
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RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, CANDYMAN!
Run, run, as fast as you can...
Yours is an enchanted land made entirely of candy and confections, but underneath that sugar-frosted veneer lies the disturbing truth. The king has betrayed you all. The sweet, candy citizens throughout the land are being packaged and shipped from the castle to voracious children all over the world. But not you. You're not going out like that. Time to get your candy buttons out of Dodge!
So, it's every gingerbread man for himself in a mad dash for the border. And if you have to snap a few ginger limbs to save yourself, well...that's the way the cookie crumbles.
Okay, that's what it says on the box...
what's it really like?
Brutal and chaotic. Mean-spirited and a whole lot of fun. In an effort to escape the land, things get ugly. Knowing full well that only ONE of you will ever get by The Twins who guard the border, you will do anything to make sure that cookie is you. And so, this is a no-holds-barred gingerbread smackdown.
As you pass other players along the board, you get to take a shot at them. This gets assessed as damage on a gingerbread status sheet. Fill up all 6 damage boxes on a limb - and rip it off. It's gone. Keep it as a trophy. But not to worry...this is an enchanted land. You can be just a ginger foot hopping across the finish line and still win.
To help you along the way, you will be earning 'Special Treat' cards, special attacks and defenses like, "Candy Caning" (two shots to each leg), "Ginger Snap" (tear off a damaged arm and smack 'em with it) or equiping yourself with a ranged weapon like "Licorice Whip".
And just when you think you've won, you may be called back into a 'Candy Cage Match' space by another player. There you will exchange blow after blow, taking hit after hit and dishing out the same until one of you is able to escape the match with a final parting shot.
And then there's The Twins. The final deadly gauntlet to run before you escape the land. Pass by them with at least one gingerbread piece left - and you win the game.
Okay, so Settlers of Catan, it ain't. But if you want a hysterical, laugh-filled 30 minutes of pure unadulterated beat down, getting up in someone's face with cookie themed trash talking, screaming, "Oh, no! Not my candy buttons! Here... Take Two to the Gumdrops!", well... this might be your kind of game.
Game Design & Illustrations: Curt Covert
Playing Time: 30 Min.
25 Gingerbread Status Sheets
6 Gingerbread Tokens
68 Dash N Bash cards & 30 Special Treat cards
Product Identification Code: S&D 0030
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Conversations with Grief & Water
A series of interviews with Azul Thome for SOULand called:
'Conversation with Grief&Water'
~ a response to a message from Water ~
Here is the message from Water at the River Dart, Devon, England passed on to Azul on 2nd Dec 2016:
" My dear child do not worry about me, Water. I recover quickly with the song of our birds, the love of trees, with movement, moments of rest and the prayers moving around our Earth. I regain balance with your heartfelt tears, your remembered songs added to the ones of so many now. Do not focus your energy on 'Saving me'. Something way more profound is taking place right now, listen and observe!
All of us; Soil, Water, Plants, Air, Animals and all Ancestors are Calling you Humans, to Us so we can Save your species. We know and have known for a while that you do not have much time left if you do not wake up to your birthright Belonging to Earth and come Home soon, real real soon. We keep dying, we keep Giving Away our Lives to shake you up from a deep and very long amnesia. Once you can allow the truth and quality of such Love to permeate through your traumatised being and desolate soul you will wake up from a life time of anaesthesia to your immense grief and capacity for Love.
When you create containers of sacred beauty that opens your Heart to what Love truly is then you will realise with a massive Sob that you were loved all along, always have and for ever by all of Us who you think You are Saving!
You have five years as a species to Wake up, Mature and Remember in your bones that you belong to Life.
One grey day of December I found my self by the river Dart in Devon who gifted me with an astonishing message of Love. The months that followed were hard with a depth of loneliness and fear of being entrusted with such stream of wisdom in a world that does not value the language of the Other and does not know much about Grief, Love, Death or reBirth....
As Spring 2017 came I gathered the courage and fiery passion to share the Water's message with others. A Series of Interviews came out of it.
It is a series of interviews with women and men engaging fully with our collapsing world, our dying systems, our grief, our deep love and longing to fully participate in our world in ways of soul and beauty.
What would be your response? Here below is theirs…
Here is the message translated in French ~ Traduit en Francais
Below are the responses of good people...a growing river.
These interviews have one thread in common. A message that was given to me by Water on the 2nd of Dec 2016. This message is read to each person in this 'Conversations with Grief' activating a unique response.
So far I have spoken with and recorded Joanna Macy, Jon Young, Francis Weller, Manda Scott, Pat McCabe, Megan Hollingsworth, Stephan Harding, Pablo Servigne, Stephen Jenkinson, Simon Be, and Li An Phoa… each one bringing a thread for a cloth weaving in the past, present and future…
I anticipate mystery and our bone memory to be awakened by it.
Dear Azul-Valerie
The words you received at Dartmeet live on in me.
Joanna Macy 's response after reading the Message from Water
'Conversation with Grief' starts with Jon Young and his beautiful ways of weaving words and heart.
Jon Young: For over 30 years, Jon Young has been a leader in the field of village building, nature-based education, Permaculture and cultural mentoring, implementing vital advancements in the understanding and benefits of effective nature- and people-connection modeling. Jon is a deep nature connection mentor, wildlife tracker, peacemaker, author, workshop leader, village builder, consultant, inspiring public speaker and storyteller.
Listen to this conversation on SoundCloud
Francis Weller, MFT, is a psychotherapist, writer and soul activist. He is a master of synthesizing diverse streams of thought from psychology, anthropology, mythology, alchemy, indigenous cultures and poetic traditions. Author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief, he has introduced the healing work of ritual to thousands of people. The core of his work is creating pathways to reclaiming our indigenous soul, what psychologist Carl Jung called the “unforgotten wisdom” that resides in the heart of the psyche. To further this work, he founded and directs WisdomBridge, an organization that offers educational programs that seek to integrate the wisdom from traditional cultures with the insights and knowledge gathered from western cultures.
He has created three CD sets, two focusing on healing shame and one on “Restoring the Soul of the World.” More info here
Manda Scott is the author of 16 novels, including the Boudica: Dreaming series. Formerly a vet, she is currently studying for an MA in Economics for Transition at Schumacher College in Devon. When she isn’t writing, she teaches contemporary shamanic dreaming courses, and pursues her own practice, always with the question, ‘What do you want of me?’
In February 2017, she set up One Hour for One World in an effort to bring humanity’s consciousness to bear on the crises afflicting the world. The invitation is to bring one hour of attention at 7pm GMT/BST (local London time) on the first Sunday of every month. If not us, who? If not now, when?
Books: http://www.mandascott.co.uk
dreaming: http://www.dreamingawake.co.uk
OHOW: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/One-Hour-for-One-World-384997371866303/
Listen to our conversation on SoundCloud
Pat McCabe ~ Woman Stands Shining responds with a deeply moving prayer and a praise to Water in response to the above message, deep gratitude for your love.
Woman Stands Shining, Pat McCabe, has the honour of being of the Dine (Navajo) Nation. She brings the understanding of Indigenous ways of knowing into discussion and inquiry on Sustainability. She carries the foundation of Beauty and Spirit into places where it has been kept out. Pat is an active participant in Indigenous Peoples gatherings worldwide including Chile, Belgium, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico and Bali. She has worked with the International Center for Cultural Studies in India and with Sarvodaya with Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne in Sri Lanka, as well as with organizations and gatherings in the U.S. She has been a cultural consultant to the Pachamama Alliance, presenting at the 2013and 2014 National Bioneers Conference, and presenting on “The Feminine Design and Sustainability” in the U.S. and Internationally.
She first came to the UK in 2014, as an invited guest to the New Story Summit at Findhorn Community, Scotland. She also visited Devon that year, and returned to lead sessions of the Becoming Indigenous course at Schumacher College in 2015
.Listen to the prayer and praise to Water on SoundCloud
Megan's response is of Life herself. Vibrant, real, raw and so beautiful…we are getting closer to hearing what Water said.
Megan Hollingsworth is a mother, healer, and scribe with near Irish, English, and German roots. She is writer and creative director at Project VIRGin, an evolution of Extinction Witness, which she initiated in 2012. Project VIRGin is a collaborative personal and planetary peacemaking project that facilitates healing and engages in creative witness to unnecessary loss, pain, and suffering, with resolve to forward the wake-up and a universally compassionate marketplace. Megan holds MS in Environmental and Grief Studies (2007 University of Montana, Missoula) and BS with High Distinction in Interdisciplinary Applied Health Science (1997 Indiana University, Bloomington). She lives in Montana, United States. See http://www.waildance.com and http://www.projectvirgin.org
Listen to the Conversation on SoundCloud
You can find Megan's two beautiful poems
Do Not Think It Will Be Death -
Fire Famine & Flood -
Stephan Harding: Since childhood Stephan has had a deep fascination with the natural world, and his scientific cast of mind lead him to do a degree in Zoology at the University of Durham and then a doctorate on the behavioural ecology of the muntjac deer at Oxford University. After completing his first degree he returned to Venezuela where he was a field assistant for the Smithsonian Institute, studying mammalian diversity in the rainforest and in the lowland plains. After Oxford Stephan was appointed Visiting Professor in Wildlife Management at the National University in Costa Rica, where he lived for two years before becoming a founder member of Schumacher College in 1990. At Schumacher College Stephan has taught alongside many of the world’s leading ecological thinkers and activists, including Arne Naess, Fritjof Capra, Vandana Shiva, David Abram, James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis.
Stephan is author of Animate Earth: Science, Intuition and Gaia. Green Books, and editor of Grow Small, Think Beautiful. Floris Books. He is also the writer and presenter of the documentary film Animate Earth, produced by Angel TV.
Pablo Servigne repond au message de l'Eau ici en conversation avec Azul Thome visionnaire and fondatrice de SOULand,
Pablo Servigne est père de deux jeunes garçons et a quitté la vie urbaine il y a trois ans pour s'installer dans la montagne. Il a une formation d’ingénieur agronome et un doctorat en biologie. Il a aussi quitté le monde académique en 2008 pour devenir « chercheur in-terre-dépendant ». Auteur et conférencier (author and speaker), il anime aussi des ateliers de permaculture et de Travail-qui-relie (de Joanna Macy). Ses principaux ouvrages : Nourrir l’Europe en temps de crise. Vers de systèmes alimentaires résilients (Nature & Progrès Belgique, 2014), Petit traité de résilience locale (Charles Leopold Meyer, 2015), Comment tout peut s’effondrer. Petit manuel de collapsologie à l’usage des générations présentes (Seuil, 2015), et L'entraide, l'autre loi de la jungle (Les Liens qui Libèrent, à paraitre).
Ecoutez la conversation sur SoundCloud
The message is now translated in French ~ Traduit en Francais
After a standing ovation and an Encore Night of Grief and Mystery in Totnes last night (24th May 2017) co-hosted by SOULand, Stephen and our small gathering seat around a table for a midnight feast, delicious wine and single heathery malt. Stephen Jenkinson hears from me of the message of Water. We stumble together through our tiredness and delights to weave a conversation. Here it is… Background noises are of feeding, greeting and gathering ~ grateful!
Stephen is a teacher, author, storyteller, spiritual activist, farmer and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School, a teaching house and learning house for the skills of deep living and making human culture. It is rooted in knowing history, being claimed by ancestry, working for a time yet to come.
http://www.wisdombridge.net
Listen to the Conversation on SoundCloud
Simon Be and Azul Thomé converse with Grief, Love and Water
Simon Be from #RisingUp, #ExtinctionRebellion and other 'trouble' offers to respond to the Message of Water in conversation with Azul Valérie Thomé
Simon Bramwell is a Pagan celebrant, a carer, and co founder of Rising Up, a direct action network and the lightning tree project, a deep inquiry into what skills are needed to village build at the end of the world. He's also a member of the highly dubious Medicinal Order of the Hyena , an international covergence of revolutionary witch's. He's been a recovering hope addict for the past decade and remains smitten by grief, love and the absolute conviction that true change can only be wrought through direct action in both the inner and outer worlds. He's currently busy co creating the extinction rebellion, a non violent campaign for ecological and social change. He recognises that no lasting change will occur until the earth shakes with unacknowledged grief and the initiation it brings.
Li An Phoa responds here to the message of Water.
Li An is a watershed system’s thinker & actor. Trained in whole system ecology, philosophy and business, she engages people through outdoor learning experiences and initiates projects on landscapes, food and water.
She started Drinkable Rivers, as indicators for healthy living. She mobilises people in watersheds by organising walks that connect us on a deeply personal level, as a group/team and with the genius of place. She walked 1061km from source-to-sea walk along the river Meuse-Maas and engaged local people to care for Drinkable Rivers and in a water quality citizen science research.
She is number 19 in the Dutch Trouw Sustainable Top100 and gave a TEDx talk on Drinkable Rivers. www.DrinkableRivers.org | www.SpringCollege.org
Here is the message from Water again:
All of us; Soil, Water, Plants, Air, Animals and all Ancestors are Calling YOU Humans, to Us so we can Save YOUR species. We know and have known for a while that you do not have much time left if you do not wake up to your birthright Belonging to Earth and come Home soon, real real soon. We keep dying, we keep Giving Away our Lives to shake you up from a deep and very long amnesia. Once you can allow the truth and quality of such Love to permeate through your traumatised being and desolate soul you will wake up from a life time of anesthesia to your immense grief and capacity for Love.
You have five years as a species to Wake up, Mature and Remember in your bones that you belong to Life "
What would your response be?
soulandinfo@gmail.com
Azul-Valerie Thome singing her soul song to Water
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Looking Up: Spica stands out on spring evenings
Peter BeckerMore Content Now
May 11, 2018 at 12:01 AM May 11, 2018 at 9:35 AM
Do you have a favorite star in the night sky? It’s a hard question. They are all so great, each one so appealing. They need not be the most brilliant or colorful. Dim ones are full of wonder as well. Are the faint because they are so extremely distant, or do they shine with less light- or both?
Some are double stars; other triple or even quadruple- either by coincidence because they happen to line up close as we see them but are at different distances, or they really are a star family.
Other stars vary in output. Variable stars might be pulsating on their own or dim and brighten on a regular schedule because of another star of differing magnitude eclipsing the other as it orbits.
Stars come in white, red, orange, yellow, blue and purple. I am determined to see a green one though astronomers claim there aren’t any. Ridiculous. I keep looking!
We can’t tell with just our eyes or even our backyard telescopes by just looking in the eyepiece (unless you have one I definitely want to know about), but stars differ remarkably in size, spin, chemical make-up and even shape (the ones that spin quicker are more flattened on the poles).
It’s an amazing and beautiful Universe of which we are a part; our Sun is one of anywhere from 100 billion to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, and an untold, unfathomable number across this Cosmos. Not that "100 billion" is any more fathomable to our everyday experience.
Among the brighter stars in the evening springtime sky is Spica.
This blue-white star sines at first magnitude (+1.04), the 15th brightest star in Earth’s night sky. Although not nearly as bright as the orange, 0-magnitude star Arcturus (currently high in the east in early evening), Spica stands out with no very bright star nearby.
Spica is the brightest star in the large constellation Virgo the Virgin. The star is also called Alpha Virginis. You may see Spica about a third of the way up the sky in the southeast once darkness falls (as seen from the mid-northern United States).
You can find Spica by first looking up high in the north at the Big Dipper. Follow the arc of the Dipper’s "handle" in a long curve first to the star Arcturus, and then to Spica.
The ancient Egyptians referred to Spica as the "Star of Prosperity" and inspired them to build temples in the star’s honor. The name Spica means "ear of wheat." In old star atlases the constellation of the Virgin is always depicted as holding a sheaf of wheat in her left hand marked by the star Spica.
There are, however, numerous ways constellations have been drawn, connecting stars with imagined lines. The brilliant, late children’s author H.A. Rey also wrote a famous constellation book for all ages, "The Stars: A New Way to See Them." He creatively redrew many constellations to better match what they represent. He reconnected the stars of Virgo to look something like a woman, but she appears to be sitting on her bright gem, Spica!
Spica is close double star, whose components orbit about each other every four days. The are so close they cannot be resolved as two stars in a telescope, but the binary nature is revealed by spectroscopic studies. Spica is approximately 250 light years away- Spica-shine (as opposed to sunshine) takes that many years to reach our eyes. When you look at Spica (in 2015) you are looking back in time to 1765!
New Moon is on May 15.
Be sure to see bright planet Venus in the west during twilight, and bright planet Jupiter in the southeast.
Keep looking up!
— Peter Becker is managing editor at The News Eagle in Hawley, PA. Notes are welcome at news@neagle.com. Please mention in what newspaper or web site you read this column.
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https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Lord-Taylor-Havana-Jeans-The-Collective-named-13284661.php
Best of Stamford: Lord & Taylor, Havana Jeans, The Collective named top shopping spots
By Morgan Hines
Updated 12:01 am EDT, Sunday, October 21, 2018
Rosemarie DePasquale eyes a red dress in the newly renovated Lord & Taylor Stamford store in 2016.
Photo: Hearst Connecticut Media File Photo
Anyone who thinks money can’t buy happiness doesn’t know where to shop — at least according to the Gertrude Stein school of thought.
Stamford residents have voted for their favorite shops of all varieties: pet supply retailers like Pet Valu, fashion, for which Lord & Taylor and Men’s Warehouse topped our list, hardware like Karp’s Ace Hardware, car dealerships, gift shops, furniture, flowers, fresh produce and more. Shopping options are practically limitless in Stamford. Here’s where to start.
There was a two-way tie for the best antique shop between Second Chance and The Collective, which sells vintage and antique items from a collection of dealers.
“What makes The Collective really special is that it’s a collaborative effort by exceptional dealers that have an eye towards modern interiors,” said Pamela Frisoli, who owns The Collective with her partner Robert DiFalco.
About Best of Stamford
Stamford Advocate readers voted online for Hearst Connecticut Media Group's Best of Stamford in 2018. Votes were cast in 100 different categories - with readers choosing everything from the best bagels to the best places for a bike or run.
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Frisoli said they hope for all kinds of customers to come in, with different budgets and styles. She believes that it’s important to have a mix of everything—deals that a designer would be happy to find, a homeowner would be thrilled to stumble upon or that an artist would appreciate.
“It’s very curated — these dealers have basically a small space, they bring in things that are well priced and visually interesting and they collaborate together,” she said. “And I think that’s what’s making it tick.”
After picking the right antiques for one’s home, a second stop is best to be made at Juliska, which was voted the best gift shop along with The Paper Store.
Capucine and David Gooding founded Juliska when they were first married in 2001. They began with a small collection of mouth-blown Bohemian glass and the business grew from there.
“Juliska is a celebration of love and the art of living well,” the Goodings said in a joint statement.
The goods they sell go beyond tableware, glassware, and decorative pieces, though.
“We are a design-led brand, working with master artisans from romantic corners of Europe to create stoneware and mouth-blown glass,” the Goodings said. “Our products are not just plates and glasses, they are fuel for the beautiful blaze of togetherness.”
And what shopping trip would be complete without a little fashion dalliance? The options are plenty in Stamford for different experiences in men’s and women’s wear, with consignment at places like Goodwill; at shoe boutiques like Johnston & Murphy; and Havana Jeans for denim.
With more than two decades in the industry, the owners of Havana Jeans have made a career out of selling that one staple in everyone’s wardrobe.
Named after Eli Blit’s home in Cuba, he and his wife Sheryl Blit opened the first Havana store in Scarsdale in 1995 selling recycled Levi’s. Now, they are the biggest retailer for women’s jeans in Connecticut and Westchester County, carrying more than 50 brands at their locations in Stamford and Rye, New York.
Morgan Hines is a freelance writer. Email her at meh2251@columbia.edu
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Úvodní stránka » RECORDS » RECORDS III » The Daysleepers
The Daysleepers — Creation (Sept. 7, 2018)
The Daysleepers — Creation (Sept. 7, 2018) Location: Buffalo, New York
Recording: My Daydream Studio
Style: Shoegaze, Dream Pop, Ethereal, Indie Rock
Album release: September 7, 2018
Record Label: self
01 This Dark Universe 5:07
02 Creation 5:11
03 Arclights 4:16
04 Foreverpeople 4:51
05 The Memorymaker 3:40
06 Sundiver 3:37
07 Tropics 3:41
08 Flood in Heaven 5:01
09 The Monolith 4:46
The Daysleepers:
✹ Jeff Kandefer: Vocals, Guitars, Bass VI, Programming, Keyboards
✹ Mario Gimbrone: Drums
✹ Scott Beckstein: Bass
✹ Elizabeth Kandefer: Heavenly Vocal Textures
✹ Creation was written, composed, produced by Jeff Kandefer at My Daydream Studio.
✹ Mastered By: Black Knoll Studio
✹ Illustration: Dimonika
✹ Design: Jeff Kandefer
✹ Programmed Drums on tracks 1 & 5 & Bass on tracks 1, 5 & 9 by Jeff Kandefer
✹ After a 10 year hiatus, Western New York space rockers The Daysleepers have returned to envelope you in a wave of cosmic oblivion with their new album „Creation“. With songs ranging from massive wall~of~sound epics (Sundiver/Flood in Heaven/Creation), Chill, ambient drifters (This Dark Universe/The Memorymaker/The Monolith), and spacey, upbeat new wave cuts (Arclights/Tropics), The Daysleepers show more variety than ever before, proving they can bring different hues and shades to the shoegaze/dream pop genre all under the umbrella of one monumental album. As Creation effortlessly cascades through ambient textures, thick layers of jetstream guitars, and a thundering rhythm section, one thing is for sure...you’ve never heard The Daysleepers this big before.
✹ We think this album is so special that we wanted to give it the powerful presentation we think it deserves. In this special edition you’ll get:
+ Black Vinyl with Cosmic Radiation Red Splatter
+ Full Color Artwork
+ Printed Inner Sleeve Complete with Lyrics & Liner Notes
✹ Vinyl is a pricey business! If you could commit your preorder ahead of time to help us fund this unique release you will have the benefit of owning a RARE piece of The Daysleepers history! This is a 1st press run of only 300 that will never be released again in this color configuration.
✹ The Daysleepers are a fully independent project and your support means so much to us! Thank you and we hope you LOVE “Creation” as much as we do. We poured our heart and soul into it and feel it is our greatest artistic achievement yet.
The Daysleepers
√ The Daysleepers has been one of my favorite bands since they hit the scene. Releasing an EP in 2005, the band has released one full-length and a number of EP’s and singles over the years. 2008’s Drowned in the Sea of Sound is arguably one of the best shoegaze albums ever released and the announcement of a follow~up to that brilliant album has finally happened. Jeff Kandefer was kind enough to answer my questions about the 2008 release, the coming of Creation, the making of their new singles and much more.
Q: ,Hello Jeff. Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions.
✹ Thank you! This site & your radio show are very important to the Shoegaze/Dreampop scene so we are thrilled you asked us to do this. I know you have been a longtime supporter of The Daysleepers from our beginning so thanks for staying with us all these years.
Q: Well, The Daysleepers have been gone for some time now with a few signs of life since the release of Drowned in a Sea of Sound. What instigated the return with the last 3 singles and The Smiths cover along with mention of a new, forthcoming album?
✹ One thing was probably the return of many of my favorite shoegaze bands. New albums and singles from Swervedriver, MBV, Ride, Lush & Slowdive were certainly very inspiring. The shoegaze scene seemed sort of reinvigorated. I found myself wondering what our return would sound like and started thinking about an abandoned concept I had years ago. All of the sudden ideas started flooding in.
✹ Some may recall we started the “Creation” project back around 2010. I had this interesting concept and some songs started but the circumstances were not right. I didn’t have the right studio equipment or time to dedicate to make the album what it should be. I’m so glad I didn’t force it back then because we wouldn’t have what “Creation” has become today, which I feel is the greatest artistic achievement of my life!
✹ The Smiths cover was just a fun little thing we started messing with basically to test out our new studio recording equipment. I wanted to work with a cover first before the serious process of writing and recording new material with equipment I was sort of unfamiliar with. For me, that cover marks the end of The Daysleepers 1.0. Everything after that starts a new era for the band. You’ll notice after that I stopped using our original logo that we’ve had since the very beginning. It’s time for some things to change. I believe we have stepped up to the next level.
Q: Can you talk a bit about The Daysleepers’ aesthetic? What I mean by this is your sound and how you shape it and think about it. In the shoegaze scene, it’s unique and I always know when I’m listening to one of your tracks.
✹ That’s great to hear! I think there is definitely a danger in this scene that things can start to sound the same if, as a whole, we don’t add in our own unique elements. If we are just going to do our best Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine or Slowdive impression, it may sound really great, but it doesn’t really advance the scene. Plus, there is already a Slowdive and a MBV…and they are back with new material now. Not that we don’t borrow elements from those bands, they are the very foundations of what we do, but there needs to be more. You’ll see in reviews of our material that people compare us to these classic bands but if you really listen to our music, under the reverb and delay it is very different. Songs like “Release the Kraken” and “Megaton Supernova” don’t sound like Slowdive, Cocteau Twins or My Bloody Valentine but they do have elements in common. If anything, I’d compare us more to The Cure, Disintegration/Wish era, with a bit more reverb & noise. The way I have always viewed shoegaze/dreampop is that underneath the reverb, delay and distortion you should just have a really great song. Those effects pedals give our genre that big, lush, spacey sound that we all love, and underneath all that can be almost anything…but it has to be a good song at its core. It’s why we have such extremes in the genre. Cocteau Twins do not sound like Swervedriver, but they can both be played next to each other on DKFM and it works! That kind of diversity within the genre is great.
✹ Another thing that I think sets us apart is our influences. We are definitely inspired by new and old shoegaze/dreampop bands but I was a fan of The Cure, The Smiths, Talk Talk, Japan, Tears for Fears, New Order & Depeche Mode long before I listened to shoegaze. So I have those influences. I am also heavily influenced by indie rock/alternative bands like The Shins, Sunny Day Real Estate & Interpol, as well as artists like Bjork. We all like post hardcore bands like Circa Survive & Mars Volta. Scott and Mario are big Elliott & Sigur Ros fans. All of these influences live under the layers of reverb, delay and distortion in our music.
✹ I also think my vocals and vocal melodies are a bit different for the genre. I don’t really hear too many singers that sound like me in shoegaze. The most important element to me in any song we write is the melody. It should be pretty and it should get stuck in your head. That’s what I shoot for anyway. In the shoegaze genre you hear a lot of male singers with more droning, goth type voices and females with sweet, heavenly voices. I like both of those styles, but I’d rather be closer to the Elizabeth Fraser side of the vocal spectrum than the Jesus & Mary Chain drone sound. It just seems to work better for our brand of dreampop/shoegaze.
✹ Those are just some of the reasons I feel The Daysleepers are unique…sorry it’s a bit long winded.
Q: Besides The Smith’s cover, “Creation” was your first single back on the scene. Can you talk a bit about the writing and recording of that particular track and why it became the one you released first?
✹ That’s an interesting one. It is one of the best tracks we have ever created but it was definitely not easy. I knew it was going to be our big return and the title track of the next LP so it felt like a lot of pressure. I wanted this track to hit hard and have the most massive sound we were capable of. I definitely think we accomplished it, but it almost drove me insane. I had just bought all this new studio gear and I wasn’t very familiar with it all yet, but here my goal was to make a professionally engineered song that could be played alongside all the heavy hitters. It seemed impossible, but we went to work and I was impressed with our progress. I had to swap distortion, fuzz and overdrive pedals several times because I wasn’t getting the sound I wanted. I spent 3 months mixing and remixing that song until it sounded right. There was, I think about 30 layers of guitars which made mixing very challenging. If you don’t mix that many layers correctly it will all just turn to mush and everything gets lost in the mix. After a while I started to feel crazy from how intensely I was listening to the track. I recut the vocals after not being happy with the first pass. Eventually everything fell into place and we ended up with a perfect title track that seems to be getting universal praise. When it went right to #1 on the DKFM charts for the month it was released that was certainly encouraging. I don’t need that kind of validation to make music but of course it’s nice to know people appreciate the hard work and passion you put into a creative work. It can be motivating. It was also nice to know people still cared about The Daysleepers after being inactive for a while. “Creation” was also voted the #4 track of 2017 on DKFM, so that was more great news for us!
Q: So, is the album still going to be called Creation (if Creation is the title, please elaborate on the concept) and is there a label already attached to its release? If so, is there a timeline for release?
✹ It is still called “Creation”. I have been obsessed with the concept since I first thought of it a few years after “Drowned in a Sea of Sound”. I won’t go too deep into the meaning of it because it’s a pretty personal & spiritual concept for me. To simplify it, it’s just my thoughts and observations of the universe before and after life was created, intelligent design and my place in all of this as one individual in the cosmos. I like the contrast here because that is both a huge spiritual concept and a very personal one. The songs reflect this too. Some are huge abstract concepts and others are very relatable human observations. Like all of our music though, that is just what it means to me. Whatever you think the songs are about when you hear them…that’s also what they are about. I try to keep things fairly open from the listener’s perspective so they can interpret as they see fit.
✹ We have been talking to a few of our favorite record labels. We have offers but we haven’t made any decisions yet. I think we’ll have to soon though. I’ve always liked self-releasing our material, I’m a bit of a control freak, but I feel sometimes it limits the band from the exposure we could get with the help of a label. So we are investigating that.
✹ As far as a timeline, the record will be done before summer, which means a release should come around September/October. Being the writer, producer, mixing all the tracks, programming and recording all the guitars, keys & vocals…it is not a fast process. There is a lot for me to do and I have to make sure it’s all quality, but my deadline is end of spring. Whatever is not ready by then doesn’t go on the album.
Q: I sort of want to go back and talk a bit about Drowned in the Sea of Sound. It’s one of my favorite albums of all time and I’m curious what you think of it looking back. How does the album sit with you now that almost a decade has passed since its release?
✹ I love the album. It marks such a great time in my life and all the feelings that are associated with that time come flooding back when I listen to it. With our circumstances then and with what we were trying to achieve, I think we accomplished exactly what we set out to do. It’s a solid album with a nice variety of songs to keep it interesting. I don’t think it’s perfect though. Now that I produce our music there are production things I would change if “Drowned…” was being recorded now, but I don’t think you can look at past albums like that. There’s always things you would change in hindsight. We had basically a solid week in the studio to record that album and I think for the time given, I am blown away by the quality of it. Especially now when I’ll spend a whole night just tracking one guitar part or recording one verse of vocals to perfect them.
✹ The 10th Anniversary limited edition Vinyl release of this album will be out this year! I’m working with Clairecords/Tonevendor on it. First time on vinyl for this one. Keep up with us on Instagram for the latest news and updates on this and the “Creation” album.
Q: Do you have any favorite tracks from Drowned in the Sea of Sound? Which are they and why?
✹ “Release the Kraken”, “Distant Creatures” & “Summerdreamer” I would say are my top 3 favorites on the album. I think I just like the production and execution of those the best. I also love the cosmic sound of “Space Whale Migration”. Our bass player Scott wrote and programmed the main composition for that song. Here’s a fun fact that some might not know, the one track on the album is named “Megaton Supernova” NOT “Megatron Supernova”. On the CD packaging it is spelled correctly but I think when the information was entered into iTunes there was an error. It’s a big error too because one is a celestial phenomenon and the other is an evil Transformers character. It changes the meaning of the title quite a bit. Also, I was more of a Thundercats fan than Transformers so it’s not even reflective of my childhood.
Q: So, it’s been about a decade since you started releasing music. Has your writing process changed over time and, if so, what is new about how you all go about writing tracks now?
✹ Actually our first EP came out in late 2005, so it’s been well over a decade since we started releasing music. Time really flies! The process has definitely changed for this record. Now I am pretty much the Robert Smith figure in the band. While I don’t wear lipstick, I do write all the songs, record my parts and then kind of direct the band as to what I am looking for with bass and drums. From there they give me what they came up with and any feedback they have. Then I start mixing the tracks. This process is pretty effective because it is a single vision for an entire concept and it seems to be working out great for this album. There is a strong unified theme to it because of this method. In the past it had been more collaborative when we could all be in the same room weekly writing the music live but that’s no longer possible. I have always been the lead songwriter and the sort of director of the band, so that element remains the same, but now I am in control of the production too.
Q: Returning to the singles, can you talk a bit about the writing and recording of “Foreverpeople”?
✹ I think it’s a beautiful song and I love the way it turned out. It is a very personal song for me. I get choked up listening to it sometimes. It’s actually the first track I started writing for the “Creation” album. Before I started seriously writing these songs I knew I needed some new pedals if I wanted to take the guitar sounds to the next level. I tried so many reverbs, delays and distortions until one by one I found the perfect sounds. Once that was set, one of the first guitar parts I wrote was that opening riff in “Foreverpeople”. It just gave me the feeling of floating through space so I knew it was a keeper for this album. The song “Creation” came to me very soon after that. I was working on them simultaneously.
Q: For the gearheads who read Somewherecold, can you talk a bit about your gear? What sort of guitars/bass/drums and FX do you all use?
✹ Most people who know our band know I’m obsessed with Fender Jazzmasters. I have had several of them over the years but now I have 2. I know they have become one of the official guitars of Shoegaze along with the Jaguar but my love for Jazzmasters goes back way before I knew what shoegaze was. I started playing guitar when I was 13 or 14. My first real guitar was a Fender Mustang. I just always loved the look of Fender offset guitars. A lot of the grunge musicians on MTV at that time started playing offset guitars and I just had to have one. That was the sound I wanted. I remember one time seeing the band Bush play on that awesome old MTV show “120 minutes” and the singer had a purple Jazzmaster with a red tortoiseshell pickguard and I was like “What is that thing?” It just looked like the best guitar in the world to me. I got one soon after and fell in love with them! It is without question the perfect guitar for me. For this album I bought a new Fender American Professional Jazzmaster and I am crazy about it! I definitely wanted the Jazzmaster sound but something a little different from our other albums. The American Pro pickups are wound in a way that is different from classic Jazzmaster pickups and they are a bit brighter/hotter sounding. It records beautifully because you can have a wall of guitars but these specific pickups seem to punch through the mix with a bit more clarity for lead guitar lines. The pickups also seem to do a little bit of compression so you still get dynamics, but also a nice even guitar track and I don’t have to do hardly any compression on the software end. In early 2017 I also purchased a Squier Bass VI and made some modifications by adding a Staytrem Bridge and appropriately gauged strings which are at the very least, mods that need to be made to one of these. I recorded many tracks on our Soft Attack EP with a Fender Bass VI I had years ago, but I didn’t use it enough to justify the $2,000 price tag, so I sold it. When Squier came out with this $450 model I knew I had to get one, and I knew I’d have to modify it at that cheap of a price. It is a great Bass for the money especially after the upgrades. And of course I use “Starla” my tried and true 2005 Black Fender American Vintage 62’ Reissue Jazzmaster on this album. She has been on every release from the very beginning. Scott has a gorgeous 70’s Sunburst Fender Jazz Bass that he has used on every Daysleepers track. We are an all Fender guitar band (Please sponsor us). I always say if Fender never made guitars I probably wouldn’t play. I’m not really interested in anything else.
✹ Mario uses a Roland electronic drum kit. This gives us tons of control dialing in the drum sounds and effects we want & eliminates the complications of recording acoustic drums. This is new for this album. “Drowned…” and the EP’s were all acoustic drum kits. I personally like the electronic drum kit sounds much better for the type of music we are making now. We can get those huge arena sounding drums effortlessly and they sound so powerful.
✹ I have a Fender Deluxe Reverb Reissue Amp that I think is pretty great. As far as pedals go, my two favorites are my Strymon DIG & BlueSky pedals. They just take reverb and delay to a whole new dimension but they are fairly simple to use. They are really the foundation of my guitar sound on “Creation”. For my drive section I have a Big Muff Tone Wicker Fuzz, Rat II Distortion and Boss OD~3 Overdrive. More than anything, I experimented and tried so many Fuzz and Overdrive pedals. In my opinion nothing compared to these for what I was looking to do. So many drive pedals, especially Fuzz pedals, lose chord definition when you record them. With these I was able to retain some of that and still get those rich low end textures. I also have a BOSS CE~2 Chorus pedal which is the best Chorus pedal I’ve ever played. My goal was to simplify my studio board to 8 pedals, but I wanted them to be the perfect 8 pedals for the album. I wanted a shorter, clean signal path with the highest quality sounds imaginable. I couldn’t be happier with my rig now. It’s simple and perfect.
Q: So what’s next for The Daysleepers? Any live gigs planned? Should we expect another single? If so when?
✹ Right now I can’t see anything beyond finishing this album and everything that goes with that (mixing, mastering, promotion, labels, merchandise, vinyl, and packaging). It is my total focus for the band at the moment, as well as the vinyl reissues of the older material.
✹ There will definitely not be any new singles until maybe right before the album releases. As it is I’m afraid I may have released too many. Creation will be in the 8~10 track range. That being the case you’ve already heard a good portion of it, but I think it was necessary to give our fans something more than one single after waiting so long. So we did it for you! On another note though, when you hear how the album flows in order with the other songs, I think these singles will take on new life as they are all part of this massive, cosmic, audio journey. When you hear it all together it will definitely be a beautiful, noisy experience.
Q: Thanks so much for answer my questions. Cheers!
✹ Anytime Jason! Thanks for the opportunity.
✹ https://somewherecold.net/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_daysleepers
Bandcamp: https://thedaysleepers.bandcamp.com/album/creation
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Lukaku to Inter talks continue amid reports of Man Utd conflict
Written By Kris Voakes
@krisvoakes
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Manchester United and Inter are continuing discussions regarding the transfer of Romelu Lukaku amid reports that the Belgian striker has been fined by the Old Trafford club.
Lukaku was pictured in Anderlecht training apparel on Tuesday after deciding to work away from Manchester ahead of a potential move to Inter.
And reports claim that the former Chelsea and Everton star has been fined more than once for his behaviour in recent days, the first for tweeting a copy of United’s sprint stats and the latter for his decision not to return to the club’s Carrington training ground on Tuesday.
This follows suggestions that his relationship with United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has broken down, with the Norwegian having apparently informed Lukaku that he will be expected to train with the Under-23s until there is some resolution regarding his future.
And Goal has been informed by a source close to the negotiations that talks are ongoing to find a deal between United and Inter which would see Lukaku finally link up with Nerazzurri head coach Antonio Conte.
The Italian has sought to sign Lukaku on more than one occasion in the past but has thus far been unsuccessful in his attempts, with him having failed to land the Belgian while in charge of Juventus and Chelsea.
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However, following the end of talks between Juve and United relating to a planned swap deal involving the 26-year-old and Paulo Dybala, Inter are now overwhelming favourites to secure the striker’s signature.
The Red Devils ultimately decided against moving forward with talks over Dybala's potential arrival due to the Argentine’s exorbitant financial demands. Christian Eriksen has also been linked with the club but reports suggest that move has also fallen through.
Lukaku arrived at United in the summer of 2017 from Everton for a £75m ($91m) transfer fee and the Reds are looking to make their money back on the No.9.
And with Solskjaer in no rush to seek out a replacement for the forward, United are under no pressure to force a quick exit ahead of Thursday’s English transfer deadline.
The window for Italian clubs to register doesn’t close until September 2, giving Inter more than three weeks to finalise a deal with United regarding the purchase of Lukaku.
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Careers at Wireless Express
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At our store, you'll become an expert in wireless and mobile technologies and get to share your love of technology with consumers who value your expertise. Check out our available job opportunities and contact us today. Thank you for your interest in employment with us. Please note, this is not an offer for Sprint employment.
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Snow falls on Summit County; resorts report up to 12 inches of new powder
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Snow covered trees near Lake Dillon Saturday, Nov. 18, in Frisco.
Nearby ski resorts got an early season boost from Friday night’s snowstorm that continued into Saturday morning, leaving a foot or more on Summit County’s highest elevations with less accumulation in the low-lying areas.
By early afternoon, both Loveland Ski Area and Breckenridge Ski Resort were reporting a foot of new snow in the last 24 hours.
Arapahoe Basin Ski Area reportedly got 11 inches in the last 24 hours, and Keystone Resort received 8 while Copper Mountain Resort welcomed 7-and-a-half inches of new snow, according to the resorts’ snow reports.
Hazardous conditions also fouled-up travel across much of the High Country on Friday night, and chain laws put into effect from Silverthorne to the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnel and Vail Pass were lifted Saturday morning.
Loveland Pass reopened in the early afternoon after closing Friday night for avalanche-reduction work.
Plows have made good progress getting to most thoroughfares and many side streets in Summit County, but the roads remain snow-covered.
Additionally, there were two wrecked vehicles on Interstate 70 in a 2-mile stretch between Frisco and Silverthorne on Saturday morning, one that went off-road in the eastbound lanes and overturned, and another headed west that had spun out and gone into the ditch.
Neither accident stopped traffic completely in either direction, but both illustrated that hazardous driving conditions persist.
According to the National Weather Service, gusty winds will increase over the mountains Sunday night with speeds up to 55 mph possible. A high in the mid-40s is in the forecast for Sunday with a low around 17 degrees.
There will be another chance for snow in the mountains Monday night and early Tuesday, with a weak upper-level disturbance expected to pass through the mountains, according to the NWS, which expects drier conditions to return Wednesday through Friday.
Breckenridge Town Council considers exceptions to short-term rental occupancy limits for large properties
Registration for 5th and 6th grade Passport ski program ends this month
Mountain Dreamers petitions Summit School District for protections against searches by ICE
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Margate commissioners hope to boost image | Editorial
By Sun Sentinel Editorial Board
Oct 20, 2016 | 10:45 PM
Margate is a city in search of a makeover.
The Central Broward city of 55,000 wants to be a destination for nearby neighbors. Elected officials and residents want to see a long-discussed downtown development plan finally come to fruition.
Politicians and residents have talked about needed changes for a while. With two commission seats open in the November election, change is about to happen.
The election is at large, which means all registered city voters can vote in both races. Commissioners can live anywhere in the city limits.
SEAT 1: Millie Lester
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Frank Talerico is retiring after more than two decades on the Margate commission. Four candidates hope to take his place.
The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board believes Millie Lester, 68, is best prepared to help Margate become a place where everyday folks want to spend more time.
"I want to be able to go out to dinner in my city that I can be able to afford," said Lester, who is secretary of the Margate Democratic Club. "Margate is not a Coral Springs or a Parkland. We are average incomes."
Lester wants to see city officials stop bickering and get a shovel in the ground on downtown redevelopment. She believes work can begin in 2017. Others think it may take more time.
"We are extremely multi-generational," Lester said. "We have more young families coming in."
Lester hopes the one-penny sales tax proposal passes so that Margate can use the money to repair water lines and other aging infrastructure. We would note, however, that the city's proposed project list says nothing about repairing water lines.
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The other candidates are Anthony Caggiano, 57; August Mangeney, 35; and Edward DeCristofaro, 59.
Caggiano is an energy efficiency consultant who is vice chairman of the city's Planning and Zoning Board. He believes the downtown project is a mistake that is destined to fail, and he wants to reverse the deal.
Mangeney is a lawyer who wants to make Margate more friendly for families and young children. He wants the city's focus to be on attracting families who will put down roots through home ownership, rather than renting. He also wants to increase the city's green space.
DeCristofaro is chairman of the Margate Board of Adjustments. He wants to fast-track downtown development, which has been stagnant for years.
Lester has the best understanding of the issues to bring the city forward.
SEAT 2: Arlene Schwartz
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Commissioner Joyce Williams Bryan is not seeking re-election to Seat 2. Four people want to replace her. The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board believes a familiar name is the best choice.
Arlene Schwartz — who served as a Margate commissioner, vice mayor and mayor from 1991 until she lost a re-election bid in 2004 — is running for the seat. She has the perspective of a long-time resident and believes her experience best positions her to move the city forward. The editorial board agrees.
Schwartz wants the city to renegotiate the terms of an agreement to sell 36 acres of property owned by the Community Redevelopment Agency, slated to be sold at a loss of almost $20 million. She also wants to reconsider allowing 968 rental units to be built in the center of the city.
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She wants the city to move forward with the community center and more recreational facilities. She wants a board, rather than the city commission, to act as the Community Redevelopment Agency. She also wants more transparency so that residents can see how their tax dollars are spent.
The other candidates are Todd Angier, chairman of the Planning & Zoning Board; Frank Messana, a former North Lauderdale commissioner; and Renata Castro, an attorney who would be the city's first Hispanic commissioner.
Angier, 63, wants to see downtown become a reality and true destination. Messana, 61, says a lack of leadership on the commission has slowed community redevelopment. Castro is an immigration attorney who wants to see downtown development attract high-paying jobs now going to neighboring cities.
All are good candidates, but we believe Schwartz has the best insights and ideas.
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This is XANADU
Diana Vescovo, Copy Editor
how would you rate XANADU from 1 to 10?
beyond this scale
below this scale
A proper production, with microphones, a professional stage, experienced workers, a cast of true actors, singers, and dancers, a show, a script. All of this in one show that has had dedicated students, who attended all rehearsals and practiced songs, harmonies and lines intensely at home and at school.
This would be the perfect description of the ideal musical, that anyone would want to pay to go see. This was in fact what people thought when they saw the show. Only positive comments were made by spectators of this year’s musical: XANADU.
Though this show had started with prejudice: some were doubtful of the outcome of the show, some not interested (not knowing the story) and some were just ready to make fun of their friends on stage.
The cast it self thought, at moments, that the outcome would have been only as good as a “banal school play”. In all this, yes there were professional workers, and yes there was a script and a stage and microphones, but is this all a show needs?
St Louis School’s Musical production was able, once again, to demonstrate that all can be overcome. This year we were able to bring to the audience a fantastic representation of XANADU. And there have been dropouts, illnesses and absences, there have been arguments and nervous breakdowns. Though all was hidden by the joy and passion that in the end were the only emotions shown by the cast on stage in all three shows. One element that has been emphasised throughout all this experience is surely teamwork. It has helped create a team that worked hard through all difficulties.
Talents have been discovered, friends have been made, and as the days go by from the end of the show, people still talk about it all the time. Some reference the lines from the songs, some hum the songs, some scream “XANADU” randomly, and all this by one show that was based on prejudice.
As the antagonist of the story, I was surely not expecting so much love and appreciation for the character. So not only was the audience pleased with the general idea of the story, but couldn’t have been more caught up in the acting to notice not only what the character portrayed, but rather what each actor conveyed.
I must say, that as what may seem as my last experience within the theatre environment, it has been a joy and an honour to participate. I would encourage anyone that would ever have the opportunity to participate. Because there is no better way to find out what true problem solving is, or what it feels like being under pressure, than to have as a result what, I can say to be, the best show ever.
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St Paul's Catholic Primary School
Alive in Jesus
RECEPTION 2020 DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS WEDNESDAY 15TH JANUARY - PLEASE LOG ONTO BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL WEBSITE
School Standards Committee
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Friends of St Paul's (FOSP)
Late Arrival, Late Collection & Absence Procedures
Mr Doyle Mrs Allen
Our virtues for this term are Compassionate and Loving. We must show compassion and love to everyone, even those we may disagree with. Like the Good Samaritan, we must not walk on the other side of the road when we see someone in need of our help. Jesus asked us to love our neighbour and we can do this this through positive words and actions. As children of God, we can show compassion daily in school, home and in our neighbourhood.
Saint Josephine Bakhita, Our Class Saint
Please click on the picture to find out more about our class saint.
This half term, we will be reading Oliver and the Seawigs by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre. This is the story of Oliver Crisp, a young boy who has grown tired of adventures with his explorer parents and wants a quiet, normal life. However, his life is turned upside down when his parents go missing and he must find try to find them. Helping him on his quest is a short-sighted mermaid, a cranky Albatross and a rambling island called Cliff. This is a fantastic tale of heroism, ingenuity and wigs! Most of all, it helps us to understand that everyone has a talent but we just need to right time to show everyone what it might be!
Reading Champions!
We are the best readers in the school (That's what Mr Doyle and Mrs Allen say!) Every day, we choose books from our class library and complete tests on Accelerated Reader when we are finished. We have made a lot of progress this year and we're looking forward to doing our next Star test which will give us our new ZPD codes! We love our comfortable reading corner and can read a variety of books, magazines, newspapers and comics!
We have made so much progress this year and it shows in our weekly arithmetic tests and end of block assessments. This term, we are focusing on Multipliction and Division, followed by Measurement (Area). After half term, we will be developing our skills using fractions which will lead onto working with decimals. We are also learning our times tables (Up to 12) because we will be taking part in the national times tables test at Easter. Don't forget to practise your times tables on TT Rockstars every night and also at home with your parents.
We have been studying the topic of Sound this half term with Mrs Bodlevic. Using musical instruments, we have been experimenting with the different ways that sound travels to our ear. We are learning how pitch, tone and volume can be changed so that we hear different things, depending on the distance the sound has to travel! We've even learned that sound travels in waves!
Our Prayer table.
This half term, we will be looking at the role of angels in the story of Christmas. We will also be learning how Christians are messengers of Christ's Good News in the world today and how the world celebrates the Feast of Christmas. We will be incorporating our virtues of being compassionate and loving into our collective worship by bringing our words to life through good deeds and positive action towards others.
In History this term, we will be studying the Gunpowder Plot and the political and religious upheavel of the early 17th Century when James I became King of England.
In Geography, we are learning about the physical and human geography of Eastern Europe. We will discover how borders have changed over the past four hundred years and understand how features such as the River Danube and the Black Sea have helped to shape the lives of millions of people in the Balkan regions.
In Art, we are going on a voyage of discovery through the monuments of Ancient Rome. We will explore the world of Trajan, Hadrian and Constantine through a study of the monuments built in their honour. What clues can learn about Rome through the reliefs carved into their bases?
Our Music lessons will focus on the works of one of Britain's greatest composers, Gustav Holst. By listening to the Planet Suite, we will hopefully understand his importance to the composer of today. We may even be able to link Holst to Darth Vader! Tune in to find out more this term!
Class notices
We have PE on a Tuesday so full kit must be in school.
Water bottles are to be brought into school and taken home each day.
Reading books and diaries are to be taken home each night and diaries to be signed each night.
Spellings are given every Friday for a spelling test on the following Friday. These are written in the diaries.
Mirodo is an online homework program that we are using to assign homework. Please use it on google chrome. https://mirodoeducation.com
We love Times Table Rock Stars! Please use it at home. https://ttrockstars.com/login
Remember! Excellent handwriting means that you can earn the right to use a pen in class! Keep practising!
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enquiry@stpaulrc.bham.sch.uk
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May 3, 2013 (originally published by Booz & Company)
The Fiscal Fingerprints of Corporate Collusion
Firms that engage in bad deeds leave all sorts of clues tied to accounting and governance.
Title: Smokescreen: How Managers Behave When They Have Something to Hide (free)
Authors: Tanja Artiga González (University of St. Gallen), Markus Schmid (University of St. Gallen), and David Yermack (New York University)
Publisher: NYU Working Paper No. FIN-13-002
How do firms that are breaking the rules try to cover up their tracks? According to a recent study, companies that are systematically involved in price fixing employ a variety of accounting and governance practices designed to throw off regulators and avoid liability. For top executives and directors at these firms who are not part of the scheme, knowing which machinations to look for could prove vital in heading off costly corporate missteps. Shareholders and analysts could benefit as well.
The authors analyzed more than 200 U.S.-based firms listed in the Private International Cartel database, which includes all cartels discovered, disclosed, and broken up by regulators from 1986 through 2010. A cartel is defined as a group of independent companies that attempt to increase their joint profits via explicit illegal agreements, such as pacts that control prices and restrict supply, usually at the direction of middle or top managers.
The database shows a rise in the number of cases in recent years, and the authors note that a 2007 study estimated that only 10 to 30 percent of cartels are uncovered. But when companies are caught, the same study found, they face stiff financial penalties, from civil litigation and the government.
Combining several sources of data—including those covering firms’ audit activity, director characteristics, financial restatements, and stock returns—the authors studied the cartel-related behavior of 216 companies, 67 of which participated in more than one price-fixing scheme. The average cartel lasted for six years before regulators stepped in, and the longest stretched out 22 years. One oil company was embroiled in 13 schemes, the most of any firm in the study.
The authors constructed a control sample of similar companies matched to each cartel firm, based on their size, SIC industry code, and other factors. In all, more than 3,500 control companies were matched to the 216 offending firms. In each stage of analysis, the authors controlled for such variables as profitability, board structure and independence, and industry trends.
On a basic level, the authors’ analysis showed, cartel firms thrived from their conspiracies: During the period of collusion, their sales grew 4.6 percent faster and their market capitalization rose 3.6 percent faster than at control firms. This payoff stood out when compared to the two-year period before the conspiracy began as well as the two-year period after it ended, when the “benefits” from the price fixing were no longer in effect. During both of those periods, the cartel and control companies grew at essentially the same rate.
But rather than passing on the profits to stockholders, colluding firms tended to plow the extra earnings back into hiring more employees and systematically expanding their property, facilities, and equipment. Because many cartel firms agree not to infringe on one another’s market share while conspiring, these forms of expansion could be diversionary in nature, the authors argue, to imply growth even though the terrain of some or all of their competitors is off limits.
Among the study’s other findings: Directors resigned or retired far more frequently at cartel firms than at their control counterparts, and when they left, the board usually shrank instead of filling their seat. “One clear possibility is that board members who become aware of wrongdoing leave quietly to evade future legal liability or to signal disagreement with management’s actions,” the authors write. And by leaving the seat vacant, the company avoids the risk of bringing a potentially effective monitor on board.
Cartel firms also tend to have a larger proportion of directors who serve on three or more boards at once, and of foreign board members who are often based abroad. Members of the latter group have been shown in recent studies to perform their oversight duties less efficiently on average because of their physical distance from the company’s base and their unfamiliarity with U.S. accounting laws. When they do appoint new directors, colluding firms are more likely to tap busy outsiders, consistent with the idea that management wants board members who won’t monitor the company too closely.
Auditor changes occurred with far less frequency at price-rigging firms than at companies in the control group, the authors found, with annual rates of 3.3 percent versus 6.2 percent, respectively. In addition, cartel firms tended to smooth out their earnings reports, to avoid the appearance of huge income swings. They had a 50 percent higher rate of restating financial disclosures than did the control companies, which is, the authors write, “consistent with a strategy of using misleading accounting in order to conceal the firm’s true operating performance.”
Managers at colluding companies also exercised their stock options more rapidly, a sign that these executives, in large numbers, harbored concerns about whether the cartel could be sustained, and wanted to cash out before regulators pulled the plug and stock prices plunged. However, some very early cash-outs may be intended to confuse outsiders by making it seem as if the managers didn’t anticipate the sharp rises in stock prices that initially flowed from the collusion.
The authors see similar patterns in other scenarios in which firms hide information from their own monitors or from outsiders. Indeed, they say, “we expect that [our results] should apply generally to all companies in which the managers seek to conceal poor performance or personal wrongdoing.” For example, companies may not want to lay bare their capital investments or expenditures on new product development, and could seek to obfuscate their spending levels by reclassifying the accounting reports of different business units or smoothing earnings from one time period to the next. When shareholders, analysts, and board members understand the playbook of strategies used by deceptive managers, they are more apt to uncover problems such as embezzlement or the misleading of creditors.
Firms that engage in price fixing employ a range of strategies designed to hide their activities from internal and external monitors. They are less likely than non-colluding firms to replace departing board members and typically turn to busy or foreign outsiders when they do. They smooth out their earnings numbers, issue more restatements of financial reports, and are reluctant to switch auditors.
Topics: board, pricing, strategy, governance, writers
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