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MoneyHow the Fiat-Renault Mega-Merger Came Together
09:30 28 may 2019
09:30 28 may 2019 Source: msn.com
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(Bloomberg) -- A few hours after revealing a combination that stands to reshuffle the global automotive industry, John Elkann appeared at Bocconi University in Milan to tout the virtues of a merger between Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV and France’s Renault SA. It’s a familiar venue and a familiar line for the leader of Italy’s preeminent industrial dynasty. A decade earlier in January 2009, Elkann had stood in the same place to announce Fiat’s takeover of Chrysler.
And like last time, the underlying motivation is the same -- to build scale that helps insulate carmakers against the shocks raining down on the industry. The types of impacts, however, are new: electrification, autonomous driving, a new breed of drivers questioning the need to own a car, and rivals that a decade ago hardly existed, like Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo or Tesla Inc. But now as then, the urge is to make an audacious bet or risk being swept away by the wave of change, Elkann said.
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Fiat Chrysler has made a "transformative" merger proposal for French carmaker Renault , the Italian firm said on Monday. The combined business would be 50% owned by Fiat shareholders and 50% by Renault stockholders. The carmaker said the merger would create a global automotive leader, with
"We acted with courage, as we did in 2009,” he said Monday in his first public comments after Fiat Chrysler announced the deal with Renault, a 50-50 ownership through a Dutch holding company that instantly won the blessing of investors in both companies and a warm response from other major stakeholders, including battle-hardenend French workers.
But one element was notably different, or rather, absent: the push for consolidation had been championed for a decade not just by Elkann, but even more relentlessly by Sergio Marchionne, the larger-than-life Fiat Chrysler chief executive officer who died suddenly last July following an illness.
The two made an odd couple, the hard-charging Marchionne and the boyish, floppy-haired Elkann. But they were bound in a common mission, touring the globe with their message that carmakers should join forces and embrace combinations rather than what they saw as wasteful duplication of the same technologies. Following a frosty reception for their idea across the Atlantic, the bride ended up residing much closer to home, just across the Alps. Elkann, now flying solo, shuttled back and forth between Turin and Paris on his private jet to get the deal of his lifetime across the finishing line.
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This story is an account of people involved in the negotiations for the planned combination of Fiat Chrysler and Renault, a merger that aims to create the world’s third-biggest carmaker. They spoke on condition of anonymity discussing private matters. The companies declined to comment on details of how the transaction came together.
For years, Fiat Chrysler had made no secret of the fact that it wanted to play an active role in consolidation. Renault, for its part, also realized that it was too small alone to withstand rising market turbulence. The carmaker is a notable force in electric vehicles and has a strong link to Asia thanks to its alliance with Japan’s Nissan Motor Co., but it’s absent in the crucial U.S. market, an open flank that a link-up with Fiat Chrysler could shore up.
Ghosn Gone
There’s another element that Renault shares with Fiat Chrysler: the loss of its biggest champion of growth and expansion. Carlos Ghosn, the carmaker’s former CEO and the head of the Renault-Nissan alliance, had fallen from grace since his arrest in November in Tokyo on allegations of financial misconduct (which Ghosn denies). As a consequence, the future of the alliance began looking in peril, as Ghosn’s time in detention wore on and none of the executives who remained had the clout to force the consolidation plan he had plotted.
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Fiat Chrysler predicted that the merger would generate more than five billion euros (.6 billion) of cost-savings and other synergies, on top of the benefits from the Renault -Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance. All counted, including Nissan and Mitsubishi, a combination with Fiat Chrysler would mean the
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Nissan’s resistance to embrace a full merger between the partners, coupled with a steep decline in earnings at the Japanese manufacturer, heightened Renault’s urgency to push ahead on an alternative path.
Jean-Dominique Senard, a well-connected French executive handpicked by the French government from tiremaker Michelin, replaced Ghosn and quickly realized the magnitude of the task on hand to repair frayed relations with Nissan. But by the end of April, it was clear Renault’s push for a full-blown merger with the Japanese partner had reached a dead end.
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Many Dinners
Looking for another option, Senard found an eager partner in Elkann. As talks about a possible combination picked up speed in recent weeks, the two men frequently called one another on their mobile phones and visited each other to discuss the finer points of a possible deal over meals.
Elkann, who spent parts of his studies in France and speaks the language fluently, isn’t a stranger to the country’s car industry. For some time, Fiat Chrysler had entertained a partnership with PSA Group, the maker of Peugeot and Citroen cars. But the prospect of getting such a deal done proved too arduous. PSA would mean major job cuts and plant closings -- a turnoff for labor and politicians who will ultimately pass judgment on any deal. With France enduring months of violent street protests against social inequality, there was little appetite in the political elite to get behind job losses and factory closings.
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In the end, the two sides couldn’t agree, and talks fell through abruptly in mid-April, giving Senard and Renault another stab at forging ahead instead. Initial contact with Elkann quickly turned into a more formal conversation as both sides realized the complementary nature of a combination. Renault promised a fleet of electrified cars, and Fiat Chrysler access to the U.S. market.
It’s a prospect that Fiat Chrysler played up when it made the announcement on Monday, touting the promise of joint annual synergies to amount to more than 5 billion euros ($5.6 billion), coming from areas such as purchasing power.
Code-named “Newton,” talks quickly progressed over a set of dinners involving the two executives, who managed to get the accord worked out at a crucial date during which they agreed on main terms. With voting already underway for elections across large swaths of Europe in the latter part of last week, the parties agreed to wait until after the outcome of the elections. Both in Italy and in France in particular, the political stakes were high, with the rightist League party of Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini and France’s Marine Le Pen seeking to solidify their positions.
The French government, Renault’s biggest shareholder, quickly rallied behind the idea of the two companies joining forces. Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire met last week with Senard to discuss the proposal, government spokeswoman Sibeth Ndiaye said on BFM television Monday, saying that Europe needs to have what she called “industrial giants.”
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Salvini, too, who initially threatened to intervene, later gave his blessing -- but only after upgrading Fiat’s no plant-closing pledge to a promise not to cut jobs, telling Agence France-Presse he trusts the deal “will safeguard every job in this country.”
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Meeting in Japan
Since Marchionne first published his iconoclast views in "Confessions of a Capital Junkie" in 2015, Renault was seen as one of the best fits for Fiat in terms of cost saving and sharing investments. That doesn’t mean there aren’t hurdles. The carmakers are moving ahead without Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors Corp., the other member of their troubled alliance. Fiat has conditioned the merger talks on Renault agreeing not to pursue a transaction with Nissan in the short term, though the Japanese company would be welcome to join the merged entity later.
Senard will get to feel the Japanese temperature this week when he travels to Asia for a board meeting of the Renault-Nissan alliance, the first time since Renault’s partner of two decades was told of the pending deal with somebody else.
Elkann, for his part, touted his company’s track record in pulling off the integration of two companies. After all, Chrysler was the cast-off of another failed merger, with Germany’s Daimler, which struggled in vain for years to make the combination work. Speaking on Monday in Milan, he said the success of that combination, coupled with a common heritage, are two of the main ingredients that made Fiat Chrysler push ahead with Renault.
“The Chrysler experience encouraged us to look at what we can do together,” Elkann said. “Fiat was founded 120 years ago, Renault too. My family has been associated with the auto industry since then."
--With assistance from Sonia Sirletti, Flavia Rotondi, Ania Nussbaum, Gregory Viscusi and Aaron Kirchfeld.
To contact the reporters on this story: Tommaso Ebhardt in Milan at tebhardt@bloomberg.net;Tara Patel in Paris at tpatel2@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Anthony Palazzo at apalazzo@bloomberg.net, Benedikt Kammel
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Andrew Neil is MPs' favourite political journalist as Guido Fawkes, Evening Standard and Times among most read by those in power, poll finds
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Guido Fawkes is the most popular political blog among UK MPs, while the Evening Standard and the Times are the most read newspaper brands by those in power, according to a new Comres poll.
The survey also found that BBC Daily Politics presenter Andrew Neil (pictured) was MPs’ favourite political broadcast journalist. The most popular print journalist was Daily Mail columnist Quentin Letts.
Comres surveyed 151 MPs in April and May this year to find out where they get their news. The data was weighted by party and region to be representative of the House of Commons.
Half of the Conservative MPs surveyed named Guido Fawkes as their favourite blog covering UK politics – compared with 5 per cent of Labour MPs. It was the most popular choice for 28 per cent of all MPs combined.
Next was Huffpost UK on 7 per cent (favoured by 11 per cent of Labour MPs), then Conservative Home on 6 per cent (named by 12 per cent of Tories), and Politics Home on 3 per cent (named by 6 per cent of Labour).
Asked which daily newspapers they read at least twice a week, almost half (45 per cent) of the MPs surveyed said the Evening Standard, up from a quarter in 2016, meaning it has seen the biggest growth in popularity among politicians.
The Evening Standard has been edited by former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne since May last year.
Online, the Times is the most regularly read newspaper by MPs (46 per cent, up from 31 per cent in 2016). It is also the second most popular in print, where its popularity has remained steady from 35 per cent in 2016 to 36 per cent in 2018.
A 2018 Comres poll asked 151 MPs which, if any, of these daily newspapers they read at least twice a week.
Two in five (42 per cent) of Conservative MPs read the Sunday Times at least twice a month, with 35 per cent of all MPs surveyed reading it in print and 33 per cent reading it online.
The next most popular Sunday papers among MPs were the Mail on Sunday, the Observer, and the Sunday Telegraph – although the Mail saw the biggest drop in popularity, from 23 per cent to 16 per cent.
Asked how frequently they watch or listen to a number of broadcast news programmes, more than two-thirds (71 per cent) said they watch the BBC News Channel at least twice a week.
BBC Radio 4 was the most popular regular listen, with almost half (47 per cent) listening to its news programming every day.
Outside the BBC, 58 per cent of MPs said they watch Sky News at least twice a week, while 48 per cent said the same about ITV News, and 41 per cent about Channel 4 News.
MPs were asked to write the name of their favourite broadcast journalist covering UK politics, with 17 per cent choosing BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, ahead of ITV political editor Robert Peston, BBC Radio 4 Today presenter Nick Robinson and Sky News’s Adam Boulton on 3 per cent each.
Neil, who also presents This Week on BBC One, was the favourite of 36 per cent of Conservative MPs and just 5 per cent of Labour MPs, creating an average of 21 per cent of members from all parties.
No print journalist was named by more than 5 per cent of the MPs surveyed when they were asked who was their favourite print journalist.
Letts was chosen by 5 per cent of MPs, followed most closely by Times columnists Matthew Parris and Daniel Finklestein, and Spectator editor Fraser Nelson, all on 4 per cent.
Times deputy political editor Sam Coates was the only print political journalist named in the report who is currently a reporter, rather than a columnist. He was the favourite of 2 per cent of MPs.
The survey included a weighted sample of 74 Conservative MPs and 61 Labour.
See the full survey results here.
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2 thoughts on “Andrew Neil is MPs' favourite political journalist as Guido Fawkes, Evening Standard and Times among most read by those in power, poll finds”
D A Wolds says:
It is rather disturbing to see the Standard rated so highly. It does though say a great deal about the metropolitan focus of our political class.
Andrew Carter says:
Is this article meant to be serious? Of the 650 MPs only 151 were surveyed? In todays’ modern tech world cannot Comres run up to 650 ‘questionnaires’ and distribute them to all MPs? Or is the number of 151 be the only ones to respond to such vital ‘research’? Moreover keeping the answers to percentages of those who are polled give a really false impression of those who did or did not state preferences. For instance to acheive 5% in a total of 151 there only has to be 3 to 4 people to indicate the answer. For example: Huffpost to achieve 7% there needed only 5 people to vote for it! Why this grossly stupid ‘survey’ received this much room and headline God only Knows!
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Select Committee on Science and Technology Minutes of Evidence
DR JOE HORWOOD, DR ROBIN HENSLEY AND DR MIKE BELL
Q180 Chris Mole: That is 34 ongoing. I think you hinted earlier there might be some missing. What else should you be monitoring on a long-term basis?
Dr Horwood: If you look at the review that UKMMAS did, they reckon to fulfil the aspirations of that UK monitoring strategy. They would be looking for an extra £22 million a year and they have identified those areas where they would seek to do more, possibly adding to that number.
Q181 Chris Mole: Briefly, could you?
Dr Horwood: I do feel that we do not know enough about the basic state of marine biodiversity and, more importantly, how that is responding to natural variation. The sea is used to seeing very large changes, both cyclic shifts and variability, and until we have that baseline in it will be very difficult to detect changes that we want to attribute to climate change.
Q182 Chris Mole: Dr Bell?
Dr Bell: One aspect of monitoring, which I agree fully with what Joe has just said, one other aspect which has not been mentioned so far is satellite monitoring and the UK contribution to that, which could be significantly stronger than it is.
Q183 Chris Mole: Who should be leading the demand for that?
Dr Bell: Defra have taken on the responsibility for global monitoring for environments and security.
Q184 Chris Mole: GMES.
Dr Bell: GMES, and so that is certainly one of the departments that has taken on responsibility. But there are other departments involved across British National Space Centre that would have some responsibility.
Q185 Chris Mole: We have talked about some of the sharing issues. Some of the data your produce is commercially consumed but beyond that how can the Met Office and UKHO share your scientific data with the wider research community and are there any barriers to preventing people having access to that information?
Dr Hensley: I think from our perspective, other than the barriers which would be where we hold third party data, which we are not at liberty to release from international partners, or if there are defence constraints, for reasons which will be self-evident, there are not the barriers for us releasing data as long as it is consistent with our trading fund status.
Q186 Chris Mole: Have you had a dialogue with the research community about whether there is anything that they think they might take from you that they are not currently doing?
Dr Hensley: We have spoken over some time about some issues, such as observations of the marine mammals and so on and so forth, and we have some work in progress—and I will have to clarify that—with St. Andrew's University on that, where we have put in risk mitigation work for marine mammals, for example; and on the physical side, as I say, we release data out through BODC.
Dr Bell: It is quite a complex issue that you have raised about access to data and it is a very important one because we rely on data being openly exchanged in real time to do our monitoring and forecasting, so it is actually something that we do want to see progress. For research and development and for making our data available for research and development purposes we would seek to make that data available at cost basis. For other government departments' use our policy is that the data that is produced for our public task should be available to other government departments for their public task, again at an at cost basis. I think those are the principles but you have to bear in mind that there are also issues of funding in making data available; there is also a certain amount of history that things are organised in certain ways and it takes time to move towards more modern methods for data exchange. As Rob has mentioned, there are security issues as well. One of the security issues, for example, from the Met Office's point of view, is that we have to be very careful not to open up our system to hackers because if our system goes down it has very serious repercussions for the country. And that does constrain the way in which we can make data available to others. So there are constraints, apart from the principles which have become clearer recently.
Q188 Chris Mole: Dr Bell, how does the Met Office work with academic institutions in developing forecasting models? I am very much aware that those models have become increasingly complex and need bigger and bigger super computers to cope with each model.
Dr Bell: Yes.
Q189 Chris Mole: As the understanding about the interface between the sea and the sky to those models becomes increasingly important do we have the funding in place to ensure that we have the computing power to crunch those models for the next generation of modelling and forecasting?
Dr Bell: You have asked two questions.
Q190 Chris Mole: I am sorry; yes, I have.
Dr Bell: It is very important to us to take the research that is done in institutions like Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory and Plymouth Marine Laboratory and to pull those through into our system. So, for example, there is an ecosystem model which was developed by Plymouth, which we brought into our operational systems this year and there are other examples of that, and this is why this National Centre for Ocean forecasting was set up, to really recognise that there has been this collaboration going on over the last ten years, and to formalise it and to help to strengthen it. To come on to your other question about whether the computing resources are available, the computing resources to which we have access, to which the Met Office has access are not as large as the resources that are available in some other countries, for example the USA, Japan and, in our case, also France. So that is an issue; that is really quite an important issue.
Q191 Chris Mole: Who is addressing that issue?
Dr Bell: That issue is certainly being addressed by the Hadley Centre in discussions with Defra and MOD. There are also discussions with NERC as to whether we can share computer resources in the future and get better computer resources.
Q192 Chairman: That should be an issue for us really.
Dr Bell: Yes, I think that is an important issue.
Q193 Graham Stringer: Do you ever worry that as your computers get bigger and your models get more sophisticated that you are drawing more and more resources into modelling that actually does reflect as accurately as it could do what is going to happen in 10 years' time, but everybody is very happy with the model because the model is self-consistent? Is that question clear?
Dr Bell: Yes, I think I see what you are driving at. It would be very serious if that were the case but a lot of the science that is done at the Met Office is on the validation of the models and particularly for climate change because it is like a one-shot problem, that you make predictions, say, for 50 years ahead and you do not know until 50 years' time whether they are going to be right. So this issue of validation of the models and ensuring that the science is adequately captured is really at the heart of what we do. One of the ways in which we try to tackle that is that we do forecasting on an every day basis which does test the models, at least in short range, every day. Actually a lot of the errors in the climate models do show up on these sorts of short timescales so that testing of the models is very relevant and the Met Office does seek to work together with the NERC partners because we recognise that we do not have the funding on our own to do all of the necessary validation, and validation and understanding of the models is very expensive.
Chairman: Linda Gilroy.
Q194 Linda Gilroy: These are the concluding questions of the session on marine policy and a few questions to Dr Horwood before turning to the other two. What discussions has Cefas had with Defra regarding the Marine Bill White Paper and how do you expect Cefas to be affected by the proposed Marine Management Organisation?
Dr Horwood: I have a few words on this. We would not comment on our Minister's policy but from our involvement in the activities we are pleased with the Bill. We do see that it seeks to make more coherent the current fragmented management of marine activities at a time when coastal pressures are high and increasing and there is real competition for space. We think the key roles of marine planning, licensing, nature conservation and inshore fisheries are suitably and well aligned; the marine conservation zones will be a very useful new tool. The conclusion was that Cefas should not be a part of the MMO because we would be too big a tail wagging the dog but we do see in whatever form it takes that we would expect to have a very strong relationship with the MMO. At the same time it is very healthy that science is separated from policy and is transparent, so if we were in the MMO or out of the MMO I think people would clearly want to see a separation between a report, advice and subsequent action by the MMO. We are still in discussions about whether particular licensing teams should move from Cefas to an MMO.
Q195 Linda Gilroy: So licensing in relation to fisheries, in relation to ...
Dr Horwood: No licensing very much in relation to construction and dumping and dredging activities under FEPA, the Food and Environmental Protection Act, and the Coastal Protection Act.
Q196 Linda Gilroy: Presumably that is the response you would be making to the Marine Bill consultation, which closes in early June?
Dr Horwood: As part of Defra we have not gone through the consultation, we are speaking to them directly.
Q197 Linda Gilroy: I think you have given us some indication towards how you would see Cefas' statutory functions changing in response to changing pressures on the UK marine environment, but do you want to say a few more words about that?
Dr Horwood: I think the key thing is the massive changes that are happening at the European level. Previously OSPAR Commission on the marine environment was the big organisation that we, the UK, was serving and looking after. Now we see DG Environment becoming much more interested. We have had the Water Framework Directive come in; the Marine Strategy Directive is now at a pretty advanced stage; we have the Marine Green Paper from the Commission. There will be a much greater European involvement in marine activities, so I guess we will still be serving this core activity but there will be a much greater European dimension to it.
Q198 Linda Gilroy: And the Cefas research in support of policy proposals in the Marine Bill White Paper, such as the Marine Protected Areas, do you see Cefas research and experience thus far feeding into that; and, if so, how does that fit with the position you stated just now, that it should remain outside of the Marine Management Organisation? Would that be an activity that would transfer in?
Dr Horwood: I am not sure how some of these things will pan out but at some point somebody has to decide that area X should go ahead—probably Ministers—and it may be that the MMO then has the job of implementing it. But there will be a body of advice going in to the people who make the decision in the first stage, which I guess would probably not only come from us but a larger range of views would go into any evaluation of a protected area—some scientific, some economic. We have had a strong engagement with advising on Marine Protected Areas over the last several decades, both for fisheries purposes and, for instance, in the marine Natura sites and in protecting specific sensitive habitats.
Q199 Linda Gilroy: Dr Hensley, how does UKHO support evidence-based policy making? For example, what assistance are you giving to Defra to support their marine policy making?
Dr Hensley: We have had input to Defra; we consult; they consulted with us on the Marine Bill. We are a centre of expertise for hydrographic/bathymetric data, so therefore our role would be to provide the definitive picture and what the definitive of the UK shelf would be. We are currently piloting what a data assessment centre underpinning this would be. It was a model that was proposed some time ago and we are now working through the implementation to see how it stands up. We have input into the Data Standards, for example, so we have been providing underpinning information on the quality of seabed and its structure.
Q200 Linda Gilroy: Might that make the data that you collect and the potential for collecting data more widely known to the marine science community?
Dr Hensley: We do not collect data, but we database, analyse and so on and so forth. The data that we have is either available through our website, and for non-commercial academic use it is free; or goes in a GIS framework way through Sea Zone Hyperspatial, so the data is available to the academic community certainly.
Chairman: I am going to have to finish there. I am sorry, we have run over as well, but Dr Horwood, Dr Hensley and Dr Bell thank you very much indeed for giving your evidence before us this morning.
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Queen's Brian May Has Tense Exchange With Paparazzi During Meet-And-Greet
By Andrew Magnotta @AndrewMagnotta Feb 12, 2020
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It's a unclear exactly what an Australian paparazzi did to get on Brian May's nerves recently, but the usually collected Queen guitarist was not having any of it.
May was mingling with a group of fans after arriving at Brisbane Airport from New Zealand when he became annoyed at a cameraman, who was apparently shooting for the local outlet 7NEWS Brisbane.
Between autographs, photos and hugs with the group, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer repeatedly asked the cameraman to stop filming.
"All right, is this going to get ugly?" he asked, after being ignored again. "Because you put it down or else something ugly happens. Do you understand? You stop now. I'm serious. I'm deadly serious."
It did get ugly when the paparazzi put away his camera, only to continued filming on his smartphone. May did not think the maneuver was very slick and began to approach the man.
"Oh, the guy's doing it on his phone now," May said. "You're so clever, aren't you? What a parasite you are. Just leave us along, will you? Do you not understand? all right, all right. You go away now."
Another man jumped between May and the paparazzi and herded the guitar hero to a waiting car. May apologized to the group of fans before sitting down inside.
You can watch video of the tense encounter here.
Queen + Adam Lambert are on tour in Australia through the end of the month. The band is also set to headline the Fire Fight Australia benefit concert on Feb. 16.
Get all the tour dates here.
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HomeRanger RickWhat’s Your Animal Sign? HomeMagazinesRanger RickWhat’s Your Animal Sign?
In the September 2019 Issue
What’s Your Animal Sign?
By Ellen Lambeth; photos by Joanna B. Pinneo
What are these kids talking about? Animals, of course. Come join the conversation!
Click image for a closer view.
Many people who are deaf or hard of hearing communicate with their hands. But anyone can do it, allowing even more people to communicate with each other. One way to begin is to spell out words with the fingers on one hand. (See the fingerspelling alphabet in the blue panel.) But the fast way is to use your hands to sign whole words or ideas. It’s called American Sign Language—ASL, for short. Are you ready to learn?
Meet Nyla, Grace, Joshtav, and Yoleth—from left to right in the photo above. All are students at the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind. And they’re here to teach you the signs for some common animals. Try it—you’ll like it! You’ll also discover that these signs make perfect sense.
Grace is covering her fist with her other hand, while wiggling her thumb. That mimics a turtle hiding in its shell, peeking out to see if the coast is clear.
What do you think Nyla’s fanned-out fingers tapped against her head stand for? A buck’s antlers, of course! If she uses just her thumb and pinkie and twists her wrist, it’s the sign for COW (imagine horns instead of antlers).
See how Yoleth is moving her fingers to “draw” the tiger’s whiskers? If she wants, she can also make a scary, growly face—as if to say, “Grrr!”
It’s easy to see how Nyla’s crooked finger against her nose says “eagle.” It looks just like the big bird’s hooked beak!
Joshtav is opening and closing his first two fingers against his thumb to look like a quacking duck’s bill. If he uses just his first finger and thumb, he’s saying BIRD.
Don’t Grace’s wiggly fingers look like a spider’s wiggly legs? Crossing her hands on top of each other makes the spider’s body.
Joshtav uses curved, open fingers to trace the lion’s shaggy mane on top of his head. The grander the motion, the mightier the lion! Joshtav can make a growly face, too.
Did you ever have an insect land on your nose and wave its antennae? That’s what Yoleth is demonstrating with this sign. If you “throw” the sign down off your nose with a disgusted look, it means LOUSY (because a louse is a kind of insect).
There’s no mistaking this sign—the added body paint gives it away! Even without the paint, just hook your thumbs and flap your hands to sign “butterfly.”
(Did you know that some butterflies, including this monarch, are in big trouble? You can help! Learn this sign and become a Butterfly Hero. To find out more, visit nwf.org/butterflyheroes with an adult.)
VIDEO: WATCH ALL THE KIDS SIGN!
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We might now know the real reason "The Wonder Years" was taken off the air
Kim Kardashian West strips down to her undies for a very raunchy bathroom mirror selfie
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Kim Kardashian West is a big fan of her new Calvin Klein underwear!
The mom-of-three took to Instagram on Sunday to share a racy bathroom mirror selfie.
“Bathroom selfie on set @calvinklein #MyCalvins,” the “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” star captioned the image of herself posing in a white bra with a matching pair of underwear.
bathroom selfie on set @calvinklein #MyCalvins
A post shared by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on Jan 28, 2018 at 11:26am PST
Of course, Kim is no stranger to the bathroom mirror:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BeYW6OfF_Lv/
She just welcomed her third child, but apparently Kim and husband Kanye are already planning for the next.
According to reports, the reality TV star is already considering asking her surrogate, who carried new daughter Chicago West to term, to sign on for her next child.
“They asked the surrogate if she’d be willing to have another child for them if they decided to do it,” a source close to the couple told US Weekly.
Another source close to the family revealed that Kardashian West started thinking about the possibility even earlier, adding that “even before Chicago was born, Kim was talking about asking the surrogate to carry her next baby.”
The proud parents to North, 4, and Saint West, 2, welcomed their third child earlier this month in Los Angeles after it was determined that it would be risky for Kardashian West to undergo a third pregnancy following her high-risk pregnancies with her first two children. After hiring a surrogate, she called waiting for her third child “the best experience [she’s] ever had.”
Following the arrival of daughter Chicago, Kardashian West expressed her gratitude towards her surrogate on her website, writing:
We are incredibly grateful to our surrogate who made our dreams come true with the greatest gift one could give and to our wonderful doctors and nurses for their special care. The connection with our baby came instantly and it’s as if she was with us the whole time. Having a gestational carrier was so special for us and she made our dreams of expanding our family come true. We are so excited to finally welcome home our baby girl.
RELATED: Kim Kardashian West admits something fans kind of already knew
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IRIS MTM
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The Iris M™ has revolutionized the way companies monitor billions of dollars' worth of plant machinery, process lines, structures, engineering design processes, and much more. By turning every pixel in the camera into a displacement sensor, Iris M takes millions of measurements in a fraction of a second. And it does this with no physical contact to your machinery or equipment. For the first time ever, you will be able to instantly see, analyze, and communicate what is invisible to the naked eye and transition to action and root cause problem solving. By visualizing every motion present in the scene, you can see where to take measurements and then instantly take them with a simple click of a button on the screen. The Iris M offers overall troubleshooting and in-depth analysis all in one easy to use tool.
Motion Amplification® is a proprietary video processing technique that detects subtle displacement and then converts that movement to a level visible with the naked eye.
Iris M™ measures and quantifies mechanical or structural assets that a camera can see with the same accuracy as a contacting displacement sensor.
Iris M™ allows you to filter your data and visualize movement at specific frequencies to find the real source of a problem and help position your team to fix it.
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The new Motion Studio™ Update gives you the ability to create more powerful videos with RDI’s Motion Amplification® software. Add spectra and waveforms to your videos, show multiple views from a single screen, and edit your videos straight from video editor screen. Motion Studio gives you all the tools for your reports.
All of this data needs somewhere to live in an organized and simple to access format. Motion Explorer is a comprehensive file management tool that keeps all your data organized, accessible, and ready for further analysis at any point in time.
Live Motion Amplification®
Apply amplification before acquiring a recording. Scan assets instantly to see motion in real time.
Calibrated Displacement Measurements
An unlimited number of regions can be drawn in the video to measure displacement. All measurement are simultaneous.
Frequency Based Filtering
Bandpass, bandstop, lowpass, and highpass filtering of time waveform and video.
Shaft Inspection, Colormapped Frequencies, Top Frequency Filtering, and much more.
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TIME WAVEFORMS, SPECTRA, AND ORBITS
Unlimited number of regions can be drawn in the video to measure displacement. All measurements are simultaneous.
Entire frame and region based image stabilization.
Export waveform, spectra, orbits, and object paths to .csv file.
FREQUENCY FILTERING
MOTION MAPS
Show colorized image overlays of individual frequencies or overall motion.
TOP FREQUENCY FILTERING
Automatically determine frequencies of interest and create multiple filtered data sets with a single click.
SHAFT INSPECTION
Visually inspect rotating shafts and measure their displacement while under operation.
TRANSIENT MOTION AMPLIFICATION®
See Motion Amplification® of small motions as an object moves through the scene.
TRANSIENT PATH PLOT
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LED light: 23,000 Lux @ 1 m, Li-ion light battery, light stand, extra vibration pads, computer stand.
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i7 processor, 16GB RAM, 500GB SSD, dual batteries, lightweight, MIL-STD-810G standard drop protection, 3 yr accidental damage protection.
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Brill’s New Pauly
[German version]
Oldest historian of the Britons with the epithet Sapiens. G. was a Romanized Celt from western Britain, was born before AD 504 and wrote before 547, as a Christian who was fully committed to Roman culture, the work De excidio et conquestu Britanniae that was important for the history of the island during and after the decline of Roman rule. A description of the topography is followed by the history in Roman times, emphasizing the events of Church history. The invasion of the Anglo-Saxons is interpreted as a punishment fro…
Johne, Klaus-Peter (Berlin), “Gildas”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 18 January 2021 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e424450>
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510
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RANT: So I go to tgi Friday’s in North Brunswick
Published on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 by reinkefjLeave a comment
… For a quick dinner. Steak, mashed, and cole slaw. Had it a ton of times before. I take a gob of cole slaw and I almost puke. It’s rotten?
Give it the bartender and tell Hume to have the manager taste it. He comes back — the bartender, not the manager — and says it a new formula. The other bartender says “I should have warned you no one likes it” — are you kidding me?
There’s enough lessons in this to choke a horse. Now how can I make my displeasure hurt?
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TECHNOLOGY: APPLE is enforcing its headlock on “their” hardware
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/02/15/ibooks-1-2-1-detects-some-jailbreaks-disables-ibookstore-purchases-in-response/
Users of devices jailbroken by one of the methods that allows Apple’s test binaries to successfully run who attempt to open content purchased from the iBookstore are met with the following error message:
There is a problem with the configuration of your iPhone. Please restore with iTunes and reinstall iBooks.
Restoring a device from iTunes obviously removes the jailbreak, again rendering the device in compliance with Apple’s standards.
Apple’s tactics are of course drawing some scrutiny from jailbreak fans, many of whom are pointing to recent actions by the U.S. government to explicitly allow jailbreaking. Consequently, Apple’s move to prevent access to legitimately purchased iBookstore content just because the user attempts to view it on a jailbroken device is seen as interference with legal usage.
Now, I remember why I didn’t like LOTUS. And, why I shouldn’t like APPLE.
DRM!
APPLE sells me some hardware and dares me to use it.
Henceforth and forever more, all APPLE hardware is, be definition, “NOT RECOMMENDED”. Windoze may be “bad”, but at least you can be “OPEN”!
On to Linux!!!
GOLD: The poor man’s gold investment
http://www.survivalblog.com/2011/02/the_nitty_gritty_on_nickels.html
$300 face value (150 rolls @$2 face value per roll) fit easily fit in a standard U.S. Postal Service Medium Flat Rate Box, and that weighs about 68 pounds.) They can be mailed from coast to coast for less than $25. Doing so will take a bit of reinforcement. Given enough wraps of strapping tape, a corrugated box will securely transport $300 worth of Nickels
Everyone will laugh at “investing” in nickels, but he who laffs last …
Today, pre-64 silver coins command a 20 times face value. And, that’s what you get retail.
2011 – 1964 = 47 years
20x = 2000%
2000 / 47 = 42% roi
There is NO reason to think that nickels won’t have a similar experience.
Like the author says, the only the things that are certain in life are death, taxes, and inflation!
In fifty years, you’ll be saying “Shoulda, coulda, and woulda! if I’d a listened to that crazy fat old white guy injineer, I’d be rich.” I will be dealing with other problems when you say, so I will be unavailable to say “I told you so.”
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V-Mart Q1 net profit up 24% at Rs 11.19 crore
Multi-brand retail chain V-Mart reported 24.05 per cent increase in standalone net profit at Rs 11.19 crore for the quarter ending June 30, 2015.
NEW DELHI: Multi-brand retail chain V-Mart today reported 24.05 per cent increase in standalone net profit at Rs 11.19 crore for the quarter ending June 30, 2015.
The company had posted a net profit of Rs 9.02 crore during the April-June period of 2014-15 fiscal.
V-Mart's total income from operations during the quarter under review increased 24.01 per cent to Rs 204.66 crore as against Rs 165.03 crore during the same period of last fiscal, the company said in a statement.
"During this quarter, the focus was on sustaining top line growth. This quarter has been seen a moderation in customer demand and we expect the same mood to follow through the next quarter too," V-Mart Retail Chairman and Managing Director Lalit Agarwal said.
To cater to the weak buying mood, the company is focusing on a product range in budget price , Agarwal added.
"However as the monsoon is panning out fairly well till date, we expect the mood to turn for the better during the 3rd quarter festive season," he said.
On the outlook of the company, he said V-mart would launch products for the young and trendy youth with flashy colours.
"Also we are looking to introduce fashionable sweat shirts with hoods, zippers, kangaroo pockets and heavy prints, and a special range of cardigans with prints for ladies. For girls, we have apparels with Applique work and stone embellishment," he said.
Shares of V-Mart today settled at Rs 516.5 on BSE, up 5.86 per cent from its previous close.
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Two of India’s richest men caught in crossfire over farming1 sec ago
Chicken food biz of eateries plunges over 40%
Confirming the sudden sharp decline in sales, Rajasthan Poultry Farmers Society president Rajkumar Jaipal said sale of chicken had fallen about 60% while the decline in egg sales is around 30%.
January 13, 2021, 11:58 IST
Rajveer Singh Kapoor’s two children don’t know what bird flu is and he has run out of ideas to dissuade them from eating chicken. With growing number of families like Kapoor’s and individuals abstaining from having the popular non-veg, restaurants, chicken shops and poultry farm are now feeling the heat.
“The demand for non-veg, mostly chicken-made delicacies, has fallen over 40%. Chicken is free from the bird flu. But you cannot change people’s fears, though some people still consume,” said Aziz Tanwar, owner of a restaurant.
Tanwar said about 70% of non-veg business comes from chicken and items range is very large unlike mutton or fish which has two or three maximum. If night curfew was not enough, now we have to deal with this even though bird flu has no connection to poultry population as of now,” said Tanwar.
“The strain impacts on wild birds. We have sent a couple of dead chicken to labs in Pune and Bhopal. All have come negative. It’s just a fear and there is not enough awareness,” Jaipal said.
He said the demand decline has affected the prices of eggs. “Now the ex-farm rates have come down to Rs 4 from Rs 6.65 a 10 days ago.”
Even chicken shop owners in the city said the demand contraction had affected the prices. “From Rs 220 per kg, chicken prices have come down to Rs 120 or so. There is also a drop in demand for mutton and fish which have witnessed demand decline of around 30%,” said Safik, a non-veg shop retailer.
People visiting restaurants in star hotels are also skipping non-veg, especially chicken-made food items. “As such we have a strict quality control for food entering our hotel. The corona pandemic has further tightened those norms. So, there is a high level of assurance we provide. But it is sometimes hard to take out the fear factor from the mind of the visitors. Certainly, now-a-days, less number of people are asking for non-veg in our restaurants. But this is a temporary phase and will go away soon,” said a hotelier.
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Kylie Minogue Announces 2019 Australian Tour
Kylie Minogue is coming home for a headline tour of Australia next year.
The singer, who last toured the country in 2015, will return in March for her Golden Tour, off the back of her latest album released earlier this year.
She’ll play three capital city shows in Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne as well as three A Day On The Green shows in Perth, the Hunter Valley and Mt Cotton.
In the capital cities, Kylie will play arena shows at the ICC Theatre in Sydney on March 5, the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on March 11 and Melbourne’s Sidney Myer Music Bowl on March 13.
She’ll also perform A Day On The Green shows in Perth’s Sir James Mitchell Park on March 9, Bimbadgen in the Hunter Valley on March 16, and Sirromet Wines at Mount Cotton, south-east of Brisbane on March 17.
Kylie will be joined by former Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears, who released his debut solo album in August this year.
Shears will join Kylie as a support act for all of the shows, and Brisbane songstress Hatchie will join them for the A Day On The Green concerts.
I am so, SO EXCITED to announce my GOLDEN TOUR is coming to Australia!! 🌟 I can’t wait to see you lovers 😍!! pic.twitter.com/fab4MMQWWy
— Kylie Minogue (@kylieminogue) November 7, 2018
Absolutely thrilled to announce that I am going on tour with my dear friend @kylieminogue through Australia. Dreams do come true, kids… Tickets on sale 11/19 #goldentour ✨ pic.twitter.com/XXyLB5nXHo
— Jake Shears (@Jakeshears) November 7, 2018
“I am so, SO EXCITED to announce my GOLDEN TOUR is coming to Australia!!” Kylie tweeted.
“I can’t wait to see you lovers.”
Kylie’s Golden Tour began in the UK in September and will continue around the UK and Europe until December before kicking off again in Australia for the March shows.
Promoters say the tour creates “a narrative connecting all Kylie’s hits into one glorious story,” and will also showcase the singer’s latest album, the country-influenced Golden, recorded in Nashville, Tennessee.
Tickets to Kylie’s 2019 Australian concerts go on sale to the general public on November 19.
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I Thought the Brain Was the Most Important Organ Until I Realized What Was Telling Me That
Emo Philips? George Carlin? Richard Saul Wurman? Dale Dauten? Daniel C. Dennett? Anonymous?
Dear Quote Investigator: A prominent philosopher of consciousness and the brain included a hilarious joke in a recent book. Here are three versions:
I used to think that the human brain was the most fascinating part of the body. Then I realized, ‘look what’s telling me that’.
I used to think that my brain was the most important organ in my body, but then I thought: look who’s telling me that.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
This quip has been attributed to the U.S. stand-up comedians Emo Philips and George Carlin. Would you please explore its provenance?
Quote Investigator: The earliest match located by QI appeared in a comedy special starring Emo Philips broadcast in 1987 on the cable channel Home Box Office (HBO). Philips told an anecdote during which he was arrested and sent to a psychiatrist for evaluation. Boldface added to excerpts by QI: 1
Do you like psychology? I don’t. I used to think that the human brain was the most fascinating part of the body. Then I realized, whoa, ‘look what’s telling me that’.
Journalists wrote reviews of the HBO program and shared Emo’s jokes with readers; however, fallible human memory generated variant phrasings. For example, in March 1987 columnist Richard K. Shull of “The Indianapolis News” in Indiana printed an instance using “who’s” instead of “what’s”: 2
As for Emo’s philosophy, he says, “I used to think the brain was the most fascinating part of the body. Then I thought, ‘Look who’s telling me that.'”
One day later, the entertainment reporter Larry Kart of the “Chicago Tribune” published a very close match to Emo’s words: 3
Very strange and very funny, provided one has a taste for Emo’s off-the-wall sense of humor [“I used to think the human brain was the most fascinating part of the body,” he says, “and then I realized, ‘Look what’s telling me that’”]
In 1992 the architect Richard Saul Wurman who later co-founded the TED conferences published the book “Follow the Yellow Brick Road: Learning To Give, Take, and Use Instructions” which included a variant of the quotation using the phrase “most important organ”. The name “Philips” was misspelled as “Phillips”: 4
I used to think that my brain was the most important organ in my body, but then I thought: look who’s telling me that.—Paraphrased from comedian Emo Phillips
In 1999 syndicated business columnist Dale Dauten shared a version with the phrase “most wonderful organ” while crediting Emo and misspelling ‘Philips”: 5
THE JOKE: “I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.” — Emo Phillips
In 2007 Winston-Salem Journal of North Carolina printed an instance somewhat close to the original: 6
“I used to think that the brain was the most fascinating part of the body,” comedian Emo Phillips once said. “Then I realized, ‘look who’s telling me that.'”
In 2010 Richard Saul Wurman delivered a keynote address at the 11th annual Information Architecture Summit, and a transcript was posted on the website “Boxes and Arrows”. Wurman concluded his speech by presenting a version of the joke which he attributed to Emo Philips: 7
For years and years and years, I thought my brain was the most important organ of my body, until one day I thought, hmm. Look who’s telling me that!
In 2017 prominent philosopher Daniel C. Dennett published “From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds”, and he included an instance of the joke which was the same as the version shared by Wurman in 2010; however, Dennett credited comedian George Carlin: 8
. . . one of my favorite George Carlin one-liners:
In conclusion, Emo Philips delivered this line during an HBO comedy special in 1987, and he deserves credit for it. Variant phrasings have proliferated over time, and it is conceivable that Philips presented the quip in more than one way. The linkage to George Carlin is currently unsupported. QI suggests employing the 1987 instance while crediting Emo Philips.
Image Notes: Abstract illustration of neurons and brain from geralt (Gerd Altmann) at Pixabay. Image has been cropped and resized.
YouTube video, Title: Emo Phillips HBO Comedy Special 1987, (“Philips” is misspelled as “Phillips” in the title), Uploaded on January 1, 2020, Uploaded by: Groovy Flicks, (Quotation starts at 35 minutes 30 seconds of 51 minutes 47 seconds), Description: Comedy special starring Emo Philips broadcast in 1987 on Home Box Office cable network), (Accessed on youtube.com on January 10, 2021) ↩
1987 March 26, The Indianapolis News, Strange comedy: ‘Image’ and Emo by Richard K. Shull, Quote Page 15, Column 5, Indianapolis, Indiana. (Newspapers_com) ↩
1987 March 27, Chicago Tribune, Emo Phillips’ HBO debut a delight by Larry Kart (Entertainment writer), Quote Page D5, Column 1, Chicago, Illinois. (ProQuest) ↩
1992, Follow the Yellow Brick Road: Learning To Give, Take, and Use Instructions by Richard Saul Wurman with Loring Leifer, Chapter: Mission Impossible: The Techno-Humanist, Quote Page 124, Bantam Books, New York. (Verified with scans) ↩
1999 July 7, Albuquerque Journal, Management By Joking Around by Dale Dauten (Syndicated by King Features), Quote Page D4, Column 1, Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Newspapers_com) ↩
2007 March 12, Winston-Salem Journal, About the Brain… – Week’s Topics Will Range from Ailments to Aptitude by Tim Clodfelter (Journal Reporter), Quote Page 1D, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. (NewsBank Access World News) ↩
Website: Boxes and Arrows, Article title: IA Summit 10 – Richard Saul Wurman Keynote, Article author: Jeff Parks, Article description: Transcript of keynote speech given by Richard Saul Wurman at the 11th annual Information Architecture Summit in 2010, Date on website: April 12, 2010, Website description: “Boxes and Arrows is devoted to the practice, innovation, and discussion of design—including graphic design, interaction design, information architecture, and the design of business.” (Accessed boxesandarrows.com on January 10, 2021) (Excerpt is present in snapshot dated November 20, 2012 in Internet Archive Wayback Machine) link ↩
2017, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett, Chapter 15: The Age of Post-Intelligent Design, Unnumbered Page in Preview, W. W. Norton & Company, New York. (Google Books Preview) ↩
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Sick Vets Terrorized in DHS Show of Force
19 Jun, 2014 by Dave Blount
Before he destroyed his career through irresponsible self-indulgence, zillionaire trial lawyer John Edwards used to demagogue about there being two Americas. Maybe he was right. But it isn’t the two Americas of wicked capitalists and the righteous proletariat, as characterized by Edwards. The two Americas are the one veterans fought for, and the one they find themselves living in, now that the country has found itself fundamentally transformed by Hope & Change:
Veterans were horrified while seeking VA health care [last week] when approached by Homeland Security police in an Operation Shield exercise. The exercise was for the purpose of “presence deterrence” at a VA health care facility in San Diego. Many veterans’ legal advocates are concerned about what this “presence deterrence” actually means and what it seeks to accomplish for veterans needing care.
According to reports, 20 officers from the DHS Federal Protective Service (FPS) dressed in full black combat gear crowded at the entrance of VA Mission Valley Health Care Clinic [last] Wednesday. These officers were not wearing any name tags and refused to identify themselves. Four bomb-sniffing dogs accompanied the secretive police group that arrived at the facility in 8 white SUVs marked “FPS”, which then blocked all access to parking for disabled veterans. Veterans arriving for care were alarmed and some frightened away.
Why wouldn’t they be frightened? They have already been designated by the country they fought for as potential terrorists.
VA Mission Valley Health Care Clinic houses numerous service centers including a general practice clinic, psychiatric clinic, PTSD treatment clinic, and the disability compensation evaluation clinic. The impact of this event on veterans is disturbing.
The advocacy group, Honoring Our Troops (HRT), promptly wrote a formal complaint to VA OIG in Washington, DC after fielding numerous communications from veterans who were shocked by these recent federal secret police actions. …
According to HRT’s OIG complaint, veterans on site were harassed and threatened when they took pictures and asked questions about this bizarre behavior. One veteran was threatened with a fine of $10,000 and arrest if he did not delete a photo he had taken. Another elderly veteran refused to enter the clinic with his wife. When the veteran’s wife asked a VA doctor about the action, she was told it was a “familiarization exercise.”
I guess that means an exercise in becoming familiar with what Hope & Change actually means.
Since the OIG complaint, HRT received numerous threatening calls to their organization’s volunteers by individuals whom they believed were VA or DHS employees. Callers blasted the organization saying, “VA does not need this type of exposure right now; bringing this up will not help veterans.” Other harassing calls threatened the staff with stalking and investigations into their own personal conduct. According to HRT, the calls were all blocked to hide the caller’s phone number.
Evidently a message was being sent: we will have no bellyaching to Fox News (which has been blocked from at least one VA hospital) about the quality of government healthcare, even if preventable deaths have been occurring by the dozens. The message some were likely to have received: the bad guys we fought overseas are running America now.
Establishing presence deterrence, via Conservative Infidel.
On tips from G. Fox and Henry. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.
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Teacher Calls Students Racist… She Shows Up to a Class to Find a Specially “Decorated” Room [VIDEO]
29 Aug, 2017 by Sierra Marlee
“Racist” has become one of the favorite words of people who have absolutely no way of winning an argument other than attempting to disparage the person they are “debating.” It’s a desperate tactic that has proven to be less than effective in shutting down speech.
It’s one thing to have it thrown around in Facebook debates where neither person ever actually sees the other, but it’s another completely if you’re a teacher who confronts your students for having a different political opinion than you and calling them “racists.”
This teacher disparaged Trump all year long and called people who supported him “racists,” including her own students. When they’d finally had enough of her crap, they decided to decorate her classroom in a way only she would appreciate.
In true victim/drama queen fashion, she decided to film a video in which she lamented how her students treated her following a year of political bullying.
She can be seen crying over a print out of the 2016 Presidential electoral map, making it known that she’s from a red state. Not to be outdone, a Hispanic teacher who apparently also talked negatively about the President came to class to find a “wall” in front of her class door. Students printed out pages that resembled bricks and taped them together in front of the door.
Watch the video below in which she accuses the students of “racism” multiple times, but provides no evidence of actual racism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0cHDLcKLu4
Okay, I’m just going to say that making fun of her teeth was uncalled for. That being said, I have absolutely no sympathy for her. If you treat people like crap, they’re eventually going to retaliate.
How about we compromise? You, Mz. Teacher, stay in your lane and teach your subject and then go home and post about how much you hate President Trump on the Internet where people pretend to care about your opinions. Does that sound good?
H/T: Conservative Tribune
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Man Who Escaped ISIS Prison Details The Horrifying Torture That Christians Are Put Through
02 Jan, 2016 by John Binder
While the Obama administration and Democrats continue to pretend like Christians are not being persecuted for their faith by Muslim jihadists, we’re learning more and more about what ISIS does to believers in Christ.
According to a man who escaped an ISIS prison, the torture of Christians was unlike any other.
Speaking to the Independent Journal, Master Sergeant Karam Saad said he was captured in June 2014 and, as a prisoner, witnessed the brutality of the group toward believers in Christ.
“They tortured the sh** out of the Christians and some died in the process,” Saad told the website.
He then provided horrifying details on exactly how the group tormented them.
“They would take some and lock them in a kind of casket, and set it on fire from the inside,” he said.
Where is the outrage from Washington?!
When it comes to Christians being slaughtered by radical Islam, we never hear a word about taking these people in as refugees. But, the minute Muslims begin getting killed by Islamic terror, the Obama administration demands we take in all moderate Muslims who are fleeing ISIS.
What about the Christians?
John Binder
John Binder is a news and political blogger for Right Wing News. Additionally, he is a New Orleans political reporter for TheHayride.com and a news blogger for ProgressivesToday.com.
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Mother Who Escaped Polygamous Cult Is Confronted By HUNDREDS Of Followers As She Tried To Rescue Her Kids
08 Apr, 2015 by Greg Campbell
After a mother of four escaped a polygamous cult in Utah, she sought the legal remedy to retrieve her children. As the Daily Mail reports, the mother soon faced hundreds of cult members who physically confronted her when she went to retrieve her children.
A 32-year-old woman was harassed and intimidated last week when she tried to pick up her four children from the fundamentalist Mormon sect she bravely left to escape an abusive husband.
Sabrina Broadbent Tetzner, 32, fled the sect headed by convicted rapist Warren Jeffs eight years ago and finally gained full custody of her children (ages 8 to 13) last week.
But when she tried to pick up her children from the Colorado City, Utah community where they have been living, she was physically stopped by hundreds of cult members hell bent on keeping the kids.
‘Lots of members from the community started showing up. They surrounded her vehicle, the home, fences and the yard. They were kicking the van. They even tried to put a cow and chickens into her vehicle,’ ex-cult member Flora Jessop, who helped Tetzner through her legal battle, told KSL.
Cell phone footage shows swarms of polygamists surrounding Tetzner’s van, the women dressed in conservative floor-length dresses in varying pastel colors.
A Mohave County judge ordered the sect to turn over the children at 5pm Thursday, but Tetzner says that when she got to the compound at the arranged time her kids were nowhere to be seen.
It was only at midnight that they returned, and were quickly shepherded into their aunt Samantha Holm’s house where several dozen fundamentalists kept them from seeing her mother.
Tetzner spent the night in her van, fearing the vehicle would be torn apart if she left it unattended.
When even about 600 cult members surrounded her vehicle in the morning, and kept her from reaching the home where her children were staying, Tetzner called police to intervene on her children’s behalf.
Sheriff’s deputies had to take out a search warrant to pry the children from the house and into their mother’s waiting arms.
This certainly sounds like a tense situation. Thankfully, the law was on her side and she was reunited with her kids without anyone getting hurt.
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Sprinklr raises $200M on $2.7B valuation four years after last investment
Sprinklr has been busy the last few years acquiring a dozen companies, then rewriting their code base and incorporating them into the company’s customer experience platform. Today, the late-stage startup went back to the fundraising well for the first time in four years, and it was a doozy, raising $200 million on a $2.7 billion valuation.
The money came from private equity firm Hellman & Friedman, which also invested $300 million in buying back secondary shares. Meanwhile the company also announced $150 million in convertible securities from Sixth Street Growth. That’s a lot of action for a company that’s been quiet on the fundraising front for years.
Company founder and CEO Ragy Thomas says he sought the investment now because after building a customer experience platform, he was ready to accelerate and he needed the money to do it. He expects the company to hit $400 million in annual recurring revenue by year’s end and he says that he sees a much bigger opportunity on the horizon.
“We think it’s a $100 billion opportunity and our large public competitors have validated that and continue to do so in the customer experience management space,” he said. Those large competitors include Salesforce and Adobe.
He sees customer experience management as having the kind of growth that CRM has had in the past, and this money gives him more options to grow faster, while working with a big private equity firm.
“So what was appealing in this market for us was not just putting some more money in the bank and being a little more aggressive in growth, innovation, go to market and potential M&A, but what was also appealing is the opportunity to bring someone like a Hellman & Friedman to the table,” Thomas said.
The company has 1,000 clients, some spending millions of dollars a year. They currently have 1,900 employees in 25 offices around the world, and Thomas wants to add another 500 over the next 12 months — and he believes that $1 billion in ARR is a realistic goal for the company.
As he builds the company, Thomas, who is a person of color, has codified diversity and inclusion into the company’s charter, what he calls the “Sprinklr Way.” “For us, diversity and inclusion is not impossible. It is not something that you do to check a box and market yourself. It’s deep in our DNA,” he said.
Tarim Wasim a partner at investor Hellman & Friedman, sees a company with tremendous potential to lead a growing market. “Sprinklr has a unique opportunity to lead a Customer Experience Management market that’s already massive — and growing — as enterprises continue to realize the urgent need to put CXM at the heart of their digital transformation strategy,” Wasim said in a statement.
Sprinklr was founded in 2009. Before today, it last raised $105 million in 2016 led by Temasek Holdings. Past investors include Battery Ventures, ICONIQ Capital and Intel Capital.
Sprinklr launches major push into customer experience
Written by Ron Miller in: Cloud,customer experience management,Enterprise,funding,hellman and friedman,Private Equity,Ragy Thomas,Recent Funding,Sprinklr,Startups,Zend Developer |
T2D3 Software Update: Embracing the Founder to CEO (F2C) Journey
Neeraj Agrawal
Neeraj Agrawal is a general partner at Battery Ventures.
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It’s been four years since TechCrunch published my blog post The SaaS Adventure, which introduced the concept of a “T2D3” roadmap to help SaaS companies scale — and, as an aside, explored how well my mom understood my job as an “adventure capitalist.” The piece detailed seven distinct stages that enterprise cloud startups must navigate to achieve $100 million in annualized revenue. Specifically, the post encouraged companies to “triple, triple, double, double, double” their revenue as they hit certain milestones.
I was blown away by the response to the piece and gratified that so many founders and investors found the T2D3 framework helpful. Looking back now, I think a lot of the advice has stood the test of time. But plenty has also changed in the broader tech and software markets since 2015, and I wanted to update this advice for founders of hyper-growth companies in light of the market shifts that have occurred.
Perhaps the most notable change in the last four years is that the number of playbooks for companies to follow as they sell software has expanded. Today, more companies are embracing product-led growth and a less-formal, bottoms-up model — employees are swiping credit cards to buy a product, and not necessarily interacting with a human salesperson.
Many of the most high-profile, recent software IPOs structure their go-to-market operations this way. T2D3’s stages, by contrast, focus quite a bit on scaling a company’s internal sales function to grow. Indeed, both a product-led and a sales-led approach are viable in today’s growing B2B-tech market.
What’s more, the revenue needed for a software company to go public has increased dramatically in the last four years. This means that software founders need to focus not only on building a scalable product and finding scalable go-to-market channels, but also building a scalable org chart. These days, what is scarce for software founders isn’t money from investors; it’s great human talent.
So in addition to T2D3, my firm and I are now focusing on another founder journey: F2C, or the transition from founder/CEO to CEO/founder. This journey can take many paths, but ideally it starts with the traditional hustle to find early product/market fit.
Written by Arman Tabatabai in: AppDynamics,battery,battery ventures,career development,Column,economy,Enterprise,France,Glassdoor,Growth,growth tactics,InVision,john chambers,jyoti bansal,nfl,Ragy Thomas,Robert Hohman,SaaS,Sprinklr,Startups,TC,Venture Capital,Zend Developer |
Microsoft, Adobe and SAP prepare to expand their Open Data Initiative
At last year’s Microsoft Ignite conference, the CEOs of Microsoft, Adobe and SAP took the stage to announce the launch of the Open Data Initiative. The idea behind this effort was to make it easier for their customers to move data between each others’ services by standardizing on a common data format and helping them move their data out of their respective silos and into a single customer-chosen data lake. At this week’s Adobe Summit, the three companies today announced how they plan to expand this program as they look to bring in additional partners.
“The intent of the companies joining forces was really to solve a common customer problem that we hear time and time again, which is that there are high-value business data tends to be very siloed in a variety of different applications,” Alysa Taylor, Microsoft’s corporate vice president, Business Applications & Global Industry, told me. “Being able to extract that data, reason over that data, garner intelligence from that data, is very cost-prohibitive and it’s very manual and time-consuming.”
The core principle of the alliance is that the customers own their data and they should be able to get as much value out of it as they can. Ideally, having this common data schema means that the customer doesn’t have to figure out ways to transform the data from these vendors and can simply flow all of it into a single data lake that then in turn feeds the various analytics services, machine learning systems and other tools that these companies offer.
At the Adobe Summit today, the three companies showed their first customer use case based on how Unilever is making use of this common data standard. More importantly, though, they also stressed that the Open Data Initiative is indeed open to others. As a first step, the three companies today announced the formation of a partner advisory council.
“What this basically means is that we’ve extended it out to key participants in the ecosystem to come and join us as part of this ODI effort,” Adobe’s VP of Ecosystem Development Amit Ahuja told me. “What we’re starting with is really a focus around two big groups of partners. Number one is, who are the other really interesting ISVs who have a lot of this core data that we want to make sure we can bring into this kind of single unified view. And the second piece is who are the major players out there that are trying to help these customers around their enterprise architecture.”
The first 12 partners that are joining this new council include Accenture, Amadeus, Capgemini, Change Healthcare, Cognizant, EY, Finastra, Genesys, Hootsuite, Inmobi, Sprinklr and WPP . This is very much a first step, though. Over time, the group expects to expand far beyond this first set of partners and include a much larger group of stakeholders.
“We really want to make this really broad in a way that we can quickly make progress and demonstrate that what we’re talking about from a conceptual process has really hard customer benefits attached to it,” Abhay Kumar, SAP’s global vice president, Global Business Development & Ecosystem, noted. The use cases the alliance has identified focus on market intelligence, sales intelligence and services intelligence, he added.
Today, as enterprises often pull in data from dozens of disparate systems, making sense of all that information is hard enough, but to even get to this point, enterprises first have to transform it and make it usable. To do so, they then have to deploy another set of applications that massages the data. “I don’t want to go and buy another 15 or 20 applications to make that work,” Ahuja said. “I want to realize the investment and the ROI of the applications that I’ve already bought.”
All three stressed that this is very much a collaborative effort that spans the engineering, sales and product marketing groups.
Microsoft, SAP and Adobe take on Salesforce with their new Open Data Initiative for customer data
Written by Frederic Lardinois in: Accenture,Adobe Summit 2019,Amit Ahuja,Capgemini,cognizant,computing,data management,data monetization,Ecosystem,Enterprise,InMobi,machine learning,sap,Sprinklr,TC,wpp,Zend Developer | Tags: microsoft
Sprinklr hires former fed CIO Vivek Kundra as COO
Sprinklr, the unicorn startup best known for helping customers interpret social signals has been moving into the broader customer experience market in the last year. Today it announced is was hiring a heavy hitter as Chief Operating Officer, bringing in former federal CIO and Salesforce executive Vivek Kundra. He began working at his new position just this week.
Kundra says that he sees a company that is in a good position and poised for growth. It will be part of his job to work with CEO Ragy Thomas to make sure that happens. “When I look at the 1200 customers we have today, I see a massive opportunity to provide technology to change the way [our users] interact with customers,” Kundra told TechCrunch.
He says that, with his background, whether working under President Obama or with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, the focus has always been on the customer, however you defined that, whether in the context of delivering government services or selling cloud software.
He said that to achieve that you have to be ruthlessly focused on execution. “Ideas are cheap, but how do you bring them to life in a way that inspires and motivates? I think that’s really important,” he said.
It’s worth noting that Kundra is not the first COO, however. The company hired Tim Page, who was a founder and COO at VCE before joining Sprinklr in 2016. That was apparently not a good fit.
Thomas says that landing Kundra was part of an extensive 9-month executive search where they looked at people who had worked at SaaS companies that had scaled over a billion dollars in revenue, concentrating on Salesforce, Workday and ServiceNow. “If you look at people in the driver’s seat at those companies, there is a finite number of people. Salesforce is a great company and a great partner. That experience is relevant and unique,” Thomas said.
Kundra pointed out that as part of his responsibilities at Salesforce he built a business unit from scratch that included driving adoption for the company’s Government Cloud and other verticals. “Now I have ability to draw on those experiences,” he said.
Firming up the COO position, much like the CFO, is crucial ahead of going public. With the company valued at $1.8 billion in 2016, they would seem to be of sufficient size to make that move, but Thomas wasn’t ready to commit to anything definitive (much as you would expect).
Instead, he talked of building a strong foundation as preparation to become a public company at some point. “It’s a question of when, not if [we go public], but for a company of our size and scale, it’s logical for us to go public. We aren’t talking about when and how, and we are trying to pour a strong foundation [before we do]” he said. Bringing in Kundra appears to be part of that.
Written by Ron Miller in: Chief Operating Officer,Cloud,Enterprise,Personnel,Ragy Thomas,Sprinklr,TC,vivek kundra,Zend Developer |
Sprinklr acquires Little Bird, a tool for finding experts on anything via Twitter
New York marketing tech firm Sprinklr has acquired Portland-based Little Bird, according to Sprinklr founder and CEO Ragy Thomas. Little Bird was founded in 2011 to help researchers quickly find the top experts and influencers on any given subject via Twitter. It raised from Mark Cuban, Jason Calacanis, Oregon Angel Fund and other individual investors $4.8 million in venture capital to build… Read More
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Sprinklr Buys Get Satisfaction To Add Customer Feedback To Its Social Media Platform
Sprinklr, the social media management company that vaulted into the “unicorn club” last month after it raised $46m on a $1b+ valuation, is making an acquisition to expand into a new area, customer feedback. It is buying Get Satisfaction, makers of a platform that lets businesses connect with customers online and get feedback on their sites. Terms of the deal have not been… Read More
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Podcasting tips from the BBC
Pod-casting has been in the spotlight again recently, as people talk about whether anyone is still listening to them ! But podcasting continues to grow and grow … it has just slipped from the focus of the media’s eye. With that in mind, here are a few timely tips from…
JISC Digital Media on e-Learning Stuff
My first Podcast of the Week over in Fresh and Crispy was James Clay’s e-Learning Stuff. The latest episode (episode 61) is a small gem in which ILT & Learning Resources Manager at Gloucestershire College James Clay interviews Zak Mensah of JISC Digital Media about ten new advice publications that have…
Winkball Video wall
I saw this on Click. Winkball is a video sharing site where you can record video messages, sending video messages, create your own video blog, make video walls and have multi-user video chats. The video walls can be both public and private. Useful for modules? I’ve set one up with…
Move over Audacity?
Well not really because Audacity is a powerful audio editor but for making podcasts quickly and easily? Maybe? I’ve been having a play with Myna from a Aviary, which I picked up from Free Technology for Teachers. It’s pretty straight forward to use and is web based so that you…
Podcasting and visual poetry
We have been trying out some ideas for some podcasting episodes to support modules in Greek archaeology. These have been recorded in the field. But what about recording a podcast in front of the computer? I have been trying out some ideas with my poetry. ‘Gloucestershire in the Negev’ is…
Mobile Learning and Heritage
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW) has published a bilingual booklet on using mobile devices in heritage interpretation (see press release). The report is by Tom Pert, the mapping officer for RCAHMW. The report starts with three case studies (Roman, Medieval, Industrial): Ruthin e-trail…
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Shirley Boys’ High Schools Creative Shirley is charged with the responsibility of making a quality creative programme available to our students. Creative activities provide an opportunity for students to:
pursue aims of excellence, personal achievement and self-discipline
improve self-esteem and confidence
enhance cultural skills
establish friendship with other students within the school and beyond
meet and get to know teachers beyond the classroom
develop leadership and ‘followship’ skills
Opportunities will be available in a diverse range of activities for all to participate, enjoy and achieve at a level appropriate to their development, skill and potential.
Aim for maximisation of the resources available in the school and our immediate community, in order to increase opportunities for participation at all levels while providing transition into SBHS from contributing schools and into community groups for school leavers.
Provide provision of the best possible facilities and resources for the effective delivery of our creative programmes.
The music, art, drama, performance technology, dance and cultural groups all come under the banner of the Creative Shirley Committee.
We aim to offer all students the opportunity to experience a wide range of activities whether at the highest skill level or just starting out. This guide outlines the opportunities in the Performing Arts, Music and Clubs and Activities that are available to students as well as expectations of participants and selection policies.
Clubs and Activity Group are created all the time during the school year. Look on the daily notices for more information.
A highlight of the year is the annual Cultural Concert in Term 2 and the major Drama production which is a collaboration between Shirley and Avonside.
At Shirley Boys’ High School we believe that education involves learning and citizenship both inside and outside the classroom. Supporting our extensive Spartans Sport programme is Creative Shirley. Shirley Boys’ High School students will achieve personal growth and success through involvement in our Creative Shirley programmes. We will achieve this vision by:
providing opportunities for students to be involved in a broad range of music, art, drama, performance technology, dance, cultural groups and clubs;
establishing and maintaining facilities, technology and equipment that are suitable for developing a diverse range of creative activities;
encouraging students to strive toward BtB (Better than Before);
fostering lifelong friendships, developing leadership skills and experiencing education outside the classroom;
putting the student at the centre of the decision making process;
providing pathways from our contributing schools and to our community groups and organisations;
actively promoting the principles and philosophy of the Shirley Man.
All students representing Shirley Boys’ High School are expected to abide by the rules and regulations within the Creative Shirley code and the school rules.
Students are required to attend rehearsals and pay all fees (where applicable). If unable to attend they must notify the leader or manager in advance of rehearsal or performance.
Students are expected to give total commitment to the Creative Shirley code they have selected to be involved in.
Students will show that it is an honour to represent Shirley Boys’ High School and will treat all performers with respect and courtesy.
Bands - Jazz, Pipe and Rock
This exciting band comprising boys of all ages from Year 9 – Year 13. The group regularly play at school and are involved each year with CPIT Jazz Quest and also the Southern Jam Youth Jazz Festival based in Blenheim. Any boys learning brass or saxophone and wanting to be part of a tight knit group should check this out.
Teacher in charge – Mr B Banks
Terms – All year round
Competition – CPIT Jazz Quest, Southern Jam Youth Jazz Festival
Rehearsal Times – Fridays 2.00-3.00pm
Where – Room M1
Tutor – Mr Ian Thorpe
A newly formed group that perform at a variety of different events, the main ones being prize-givings, assemblies, and special events such as Anzac Day. They play a variety of pipe tunes including both the traditional as well as some modern. They hope one day to emulate the Red Hot Chilli Pipers. New pipers and drummers always welcome.
Teacher in charge – Mrs K Hays
Competition – NA
Rehearsal Times – Mondays 8.00-9.00am
Tutor – Mr John McTainsh
Usually formed in class time and then carried on into their own time, these groups get to practice at times organized by themselves and the Music Department staff. These groups get to play in assemblies and concerts generally their main goal is to get to Smoke-free Rockquest in Term 2. In 2013 we were fortunate enough to have all three of our bands reach the Canterbury Finals with one group, Nomad, going on to compete in the National Finals.
Competition – Smoke-free Rockquest
Rehearsal Times – By arrangement
Tutor – Mr Brad Banks
Broadcasting Clubs
SOUND AND LIGHTING
Interested in what happens behind the scenes in the theatre? Enjoy being part of a performance but don’t want to be in front of the lights?
Lighting and Sound is a small group of dedicated students. They facilitate all the school productions and assemblies. The skills they develop include lighting design, sound and visual effects.
If this sounds like your thing, then see either Mr Banks for more details about sound or Mr Hudson for details about lighting.
Teacher in charge – Mr B Banks and Mr K Hudson
Rehearsal Times – As required
Where – Assembly Hall
A new activity for 2016, the Radio Broadcasting club will be set up alongside sound and lighting in the hall to give students the opportunity to develop their broadcasting skills. The goal is to broadcast music throughout the school at lunchtimes and other events and will include an opportunity to develop your turntable skills. Get scratching!
Rehearsal Times – Lunchtimes and during special events
VIDEO BROADCASTING
Set up to produce various items about school life at Shirley Boys’ High School. In 2015 this group has produced a number of video magazines.
Teacher in charge – Mr K Hudson
When – TBA
Where – Room S7
Choir and Guitar Ensemble
Calling all singers! We are a group of students who meet twice a week to rehearse material for The Big Sing Choral Competition which is held in June each year. We rehearse and perform a variety of material from Maori waiata to Latin pieces and modern arrangements of popular songs. In 2013 we won the best performance at The Big Sing in the Maori/Pasifika category for the Canterbury region. The group members range from Years 9-13. Boys who enjoy singing or who would like to try being part of a vocal group are very welcome.
Terms –All year round
Competition – Big Sing
Rehearsal Times -Mondays 1.00-2.00pm and Fridays 9.30-11.00am
Where -Room M1
Accompanist – Ms A Cameron
A group of the most talented guitarists in the school. Entry into this group is through audition only. These students rehearse weekly to create layered guitar arrangements of everything from Spanish guitar music to popular music. Students have the opportunity to learn to play in an ensemble with other like-minded musicians, and they perform in assemblies and concerts throughout the year. See Music Department staff if you are interested in auditioning for this group.
Rehearsal Times – Tuesdays 1.15-2.00pm
THEATRE SPORTS
In the fashion of Whose Line is it anywhere?, theatre sports is a team based activity where they must create a scene out of a ‘theme’ or ‘idea’ given to them only a few seconds prior to beginning. Theatre sports is improvisation based. Within those few seconds prior to performing, players must create a scene with a beginning a middle and an end.
Various mini competitions occur throughout the year as well as Canterbury regional competition in Terms 3 & 4 and South Island championships in Term 4.
Teacher in charge – TBA
Competition – Canterbury Theatre Sports
Where – Room H6
Equipment – a great sense of humour
Shirley Boys’ High School has a proud tradition in Chess fielding many strong teams in all divisions over many years. The more serious chess players have the opportunity to represent the school in the Canterbury Inter-School Chess Competition.
A band of keen players meet one lunchtime each week to play chess. From this group, a team of four is selected and they play in the inter-school competition which runs from May until July. Victorious in the B grade, one of our current teams has recently been promoted to the A grade competition.
Teacher in charge – Mr L Dann
Competition – Canterbury Inter-school Chess Competition
When – Lunchtime on Fridays
Where – Room E5
Debating teaches critical thinking, effective communication, independent research and teamwork; crucial aspects of being a well-rounded, educated student. Students of all year levels are able to improve their speaking skills and gain confidence by participating in Debating. Students from Year 9 to Year 13 are able to join the Debating Club where they are taught the skills of debating and have opportunities to practise these in a variety of settings.
Students are able to compete at the Canterbury Schools Debating Competition and standalone weekend competitions which are held from time to time. Debating workshops are held in Term One with Mr Cooper.
Teacher in charge – Mr C Humphreys
Competition – Canterbury Inter-school Debating Competition
When – By arrangement
Where – Room V7
Coaches – Ms K Liddell, Mr A Smith, Mr J Thurston
During the cold winter terms a group of enthusiastic pupils meets at lunchtime to increase their knowledge of various books or movies.
Terms – Term 2 and 3
When – Lunchtime on Wednesdays
A lunchtime club whose aim is to examine ideas and conundrums through free-wheeling discussion and passionate argument. Agreement is seldom achieved but ideas are tested. Socrates would have approved.)
A lunchtime club that develops and programs the school’s VEX Robotics resources with intentions to engage in external workshops and competitions.
Teacher in charge – Mr A Calder
Competition – Internal and Kiwibots
When – Lunchtime (TBA)
Where – Room H10
Students of all year levels who wish to be involved with specific Visual Art projects in and around our community may join the Art Club. Projects can occur at any time during the year and could include creating a mural, painting or digital imagery.
Teacher in charge – Mr G Murray
When – Fridays 2.00-3.00pm
Where – Room B1
Would you like to write creative fiction? Are you considering a career in journalism, advertising, law or teaching, then this could be the club for you. We will be running writing competitions and coordinating with writers groups in other schools.
Teacher in charge – Mr C Humphries
When – Lunchtime on Tuesdays
Kapa Haka offers students an opportunity to be involved in Māori performing arts. They will learn a whole range of Kapa Haka skills, including a variety of haka and waiata, choreography, as well as mau rākau (weaponry) and taonga puoro (musical instruments).
Teachers in charge – Mr Hone Rask & Ms Cook
Competition – Waitaha Sec Kapa Haka Competition, Ngā Manu Kōrero Speech Competition
Rehearsal times – Monday lunchtime
Where – The Cultural Space
Equipment – Rākau and Patu
Shirley Boys’ High School strongly encourage Pasifika students to maintain their cultural links. Christchurch Polyfest Festival is the main focus of the Shirley Boys’ High School Pasifika Cultural group. Practices are two times per week to start with, increasing as we get closer to the event. The festival involves dances such as the Sasa and slapdance, mixing traditional with modern approaches.
Senior students have the opportunity to have their dance assessed under the NCEA Dance subject and a number of credits may be available. All students prepared to commit are welcome to join.
Teacher in charge – Mr J Houghton
Competition – Christchurch Polyfest Festival
Rehearsal Times – Lunchtimes
Where – TBA
Drama Groups
Shirley Boys’ High School experience has been enriched by numerous Productions, Musicals Performances throughout its history. Every two years (often in conjunction with Avonside Girls’ High School) students from all areas of the school audition to become part of this long tradition of performance magic. Don’t worry if you cannot sing or act, there is still a place for other enthusiastic members of the production team. Become a backstage helper – set, costume, stage management and other technical areas are always needed. The School’s Production creates friendship and memories that last forever. All students are welcome to audition in Term 2.
SHEILAH WINN SHAKESPEARE
Have you a desire to perform some truly challenging theatre? Are you interested in the stories of Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet? The Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival is a nationwide event in which high school students perform five to fifteen minute scenes from Shakespeare’s plays, set in any time, place, dress – though definitely in Shakespeare’s words.
The Canterbury Regional Festival takes place at the end of Term 1, and is the culmination of many hours of work from student director and their enthusiastic cast. The Festival scope is wide as students act, direct, serve as crew, compose music, create costumes and posters for their performances.
Terms – Term 1
Competition – Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival
Rehearsal Times – TBA
Itinerant Music Lessons
Tuition is offered in various instruments (including voice), however lessons
(20-30 minutes) are only available to boys who choose music as one of their option subjects. There are currently half-year and full-year options available. Further information – there is a link to Music Information on the Enrolments/General Information page of the school website www.shirley.school.nz
Choosing the right instrument is a most important factor in musical success. Your son’s preferred instrument may not necessarily be the most suitable. If you would like help in choosing an instrument or have any queries, please email Kate Hays, HOD Music at kmh@shirley.school.nz
Terms – Full and half year options
Times – By arrangement
Cost – $80 fee applies to any or all instrumental classes
Equipment – Instrument hire fees range from $100-$140 per year
Itinerant music teachers:
Guitar – Hanifi Machirus, Jeremy Hardman
Bass guitar – Mike Fudakowski
Classical guitar – Alan Dixon
Brass – Antonio Dimitrov
Drums – Mark La Roche
Piano – TBA
Strings – Gerald Oliver
Voice – Helen Charlton
Woodwind – Ian Thorpe
Creative Shirley Awards
Gold Awards – these are awarded to senior members of the school who have attained a standard of performance which, in the opinion of the teacher in charge, is outstanding and warrants the award of a Gold, participated over a substantial period, been a worthy representative of the school, shown a satisfactory attitude to school work (including 80% attendance), displayed a quality setting him apart from others, e.g. leadership, willingness and inspiration.
Supreme Award – the Demaine and Robertson Tray for Outstanding Contribution to Culture. “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see”. Edgar Degas
The arts and cultural activities of any country represent a high mark of their society, and their identity. They underpin how we see ourselves; our past, the present and our globalised future. The impact that culture and the arts play in our life is clear; they stimulate us, educate us, challenge and entertain us. An English philosopher Alan Watts is famously quoted as saying: ‘’Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals’’; ultimately, it is our appreciation and devotion to the arts that make us better people. Consequently those who are involved in the arts, need to be congratulated for their contribution to society, citizenship and our values are great.
In recognition of the artistic and cultural contributions to Shirley Boys High School, the Demaine and Robertson Tray is an award that recognises a student’s outstanding contribution, leadership and skill in the cultural arts of Shirley Boys High School. This award, will not necessary be given out annually but will presented to a student whose contribution to culture has been vast; across a number of years and disciplines.
In 2015 the award was presented to the band ‘Nomad’ who now have a music video and two soundtracks playing on the radio – Oh My My and Love Will Call.
Luke Longworth, whose contribution to culture at Shirley Boys High School has spanned five years (across debating, theatre sports, public speaking, creative writing and music) won the award in 2014. As well as Luke’s talent and involvement in culture, it is his leadership and integrity to culture that will leave a lasting footprint in our school.
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Mogwai : Every Country's Sun (Sept. 1)
https://spiritualized.band/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=13248
by TheWarmth
http://mogwai.co.uk/
First single is streaming. Sounds great, as usual. Psyched for this album. 3 x LP set is $50.
Re: Mogwai : Every Country's Sun (Sept. 1)
by Shinesalight
Was just about to post exactly the same thing. Really looking forward to this. And, yeah, having been sucked into buying all their recent output on box set, it looks like I'm going to have to do the same with this one
The nice thing about this set is that it's almost all music content. 2 x LP, a 12" of demos and a 7". I really don't care about the art prints, but they might be cool.
by James T
Sounds like Mono. Better than their last 2...
Posted: Sun May 14, 2017 10:41 pm
by angelsighs
New song sounds good. No great left turn (which I don't think they are gonna do now) it sounds like a mix of CODY with some of the electronic sounds from the recent stuff. Not as overproduced as the last album.
Now just waiting for them to announce some tour dates that aren't in Glasgow or London
by spacemanrich
Huh, I'm on their mailing list, but didn't get this notice ? Something to look forward to ...
by niamhm
Hmm, it does sound good when its on, listened to it 5/6 times now an tbh I doubt I`ll be able to tell you how it goes an hour from now, I find this with Mogwai quite a lot, I do like how they have continued the recurring theme of bewildering titles that wont resonate anywhere beyond Scotland with Battered At A Scramble though, good one.
by davedecay
Just ordered Kicking A Dead Pig 3x12" on green & purple, looking forward to that.
So much Mogwai to collect.
by sunray
It's out and about if you're so inclined.
I love the new video and track, "Party In The Dark." For some reason, I'm not having any luck getting the youtube function to work, but here's the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF4KJ-T8yAI
Mogwai are playing a gig at Leeds Brudenell on Sep 7th. blimey! surely the smallest gig they've played since forever?
already sold out obviously
It's to open the new room, so not sure how small it is but surely still v small. I saw them play at Hoxton Bar & Kitchen before Hardcore..., that's tiny! Hoping to be at the Brude show, got a friend working on it.
Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2017 9:40 am
oh yeah didn't spot it was the new room. still must be pretty small like you say.
some other UK dates don't seem to be forthcoming unfortunately. this Brudenell one is a special small warm up, then they've got the big Glasgow one and Brixton Academy.
dates announced in Newcastle, Bristol, Manchester.
I was tempted by Manchester but it's gone and sold out.. if anyone knows of a spare ticket, you know where I am ! :/
I watched their BBC6 music session and really enjoyed it. I must admit, I'm a bit lackadaisical when it comes to their new records but one of the new songs (think it was the title track) was sounding pretty fine with a rather beautiful guitar melody.
it did seem weird to see them with a new guitarist and the stand-in drummer.. the drummer seemed to have more energy than Martin though. really getting into it!
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Protecting New Zealand’s natural treasures
By Laura Goodall • 27/02/2016
Tangata Whenua — People of the Land — is the name that Māori call themselves as indigenous New Zealanders, and likely signifies the deep roots they have to this green and blue place of jagged peaks and valleys. The land sustains us. It carries paths to the future as well as ties to the past: whatungarongaro te tangata, toitū te whenua – people disappear, but the land remains. But what shape will it be in when we’re gone?
For Māori, the importance of kaitiakitanga (loosely translated as ‘guardianship’) is told to each new generation, to ensure that they too become kaitiaki. And after 800 years of kaitiakitanga, Māori communities likely have the most complete knowledge of our land and its native inhabitants.
Dr Amanda Black (Tūhoe, Whakatōhea, Te Whānau-a-Apanui) plays a role in recognising this knowledge as co-kaihautū (co-leader) of a Māori-focused strand of the Biological Heritage National Science Challenge. This Challenge aims to protect New Zealand’s unique plants and animals from invading pests and non-native species.
From Whakatane, Amanda headed south to study geology and then environmental science at the University of Otago, followed by a PhD in soil chemistry at Lincoln University – where she’s now Lecturer at the Bio-Protection Research Centre.
Here, she tells us about bringing together Māori knowledge and science as part of this new Challenge:
What was your journey in incorporating Māoritanga in your scientific research?
“The journey to get to the point where you can start to consider Māoritanga in your discipline is really a process of thought maturity. You go to university, you train 7-10 years in your chosen scientific discipline and you start to gain confidence. Some time later, a few more papers, and you start to critically think about some the underlying philosophies that perhaps constrain some of the thought processes.
“It is when this happens that you start to question how you can improve upon the field. The true catalyst is when you encounter a particular problem, or context that is close to home, you start to piece together the different knowledge systems and approaches (and sometimes not that different!) to try and answer the question.”
Do you happen to use any tikanga into your work?
“It depends on what I am working on at the time. If it is lab work dealing with ubiquitous bacteria, or glasshouse trials using pasture, there’s nothing special I do to prepare myself before working. However, if I am working in the forest then I always stop to take in the forest – to feel the connection and the connectedness. I have a huge respect for the forest, those huge ancient kauri trees and also Rimu and Puriri have seen much in their lifetime – including Moas! I’m always careful in the forest to make as little impact as possible. If I take soil to study, then only take as much as is required and strictly any soil not used for analysis should be returned to where it came from.”
Why do you think it’s important we consider Mātauranga Māori as well as science in tackling New Zealand’s problems?
“Mātauranga Māori is about knowledge and how that knowledge is applied. Like other indigenous knowledge, it is acquired through centuries, and in some cases millennia, of familiarity with that land and the flora and fauna that inhabit it. There is much to learn from indigenous people, and problems are nearly always easier to solve when many different angles are considered. To not consider Mātauranga Māori in certain fields of research would be almost irresponsible, especially if the goal was a shared one.
“For the most part, science operates in quite a narrow spectrum of debate, much is debated but it is still a narrow spectrum. Sometimes when you read articles in those high hitting journals such as Nature, the obviousness of their findings is ironic – especially when you have had conversations with kaumātua and kuia (elders) describing the relationships between the physical and biological world. But apparently you need some person from some lab overseas to validate it.”
What areas are we starting with for the Biological Heritage National Science Challenge? What will you be looking at and trying to solve/contain?
“There are three standalone Māori-focused projects and the remainder of the flagship projects have Mātauranga Māori embedded in them as is appropriate. In the project I am specifically involved with, ‘Māori solutions to risks and threats to taonga species’, we will discuss three broad areas – conservation, primary production and freshwater.
“We can’t cover everything and so we must pick certain species or ecosystems where we can make a difference in 5 years – the length of the project. The case of kauri dieback is one that is very public and political, yet there are also other species such as pōhutukawa and mānuka that are at risk of biological incursions such as myrtle rust. The effect of this incursion would devastate populations of pōhutukawa, including the rare Bartlett’s rātā with only a handful of individuals left, but this fungal disease would also have economic impacts on the mānuka honey industry.
“The most recent example of the potentially devastating effect of another unwanted species was the Tau fly as picked up in a routine monitoring exercise in January. If the Tau fly was to establish itself in Auckland and the upper North Island this would potentially threaten kamokamo – a much-loved squash and very much a taonga species.
“In the case of freshwater biosecurity issues, this is a huge and underfunded area of research. Many hapū (tribes) and Iwi (nations) are concerned for their tuna (eel) as it is threatened by a barrage of issues. I suspect tuna will be on the agenda.
“There are so many species and so it is a matter of deciding what to focus on. Do we focus only on a species, which is typically the biosecurity science paradigm, or do we consider the ecosystem approach, which is what Mātauranga usually comes from?”
What science do we already know, and what information is missing?
“There is much we don’t know, including basic ecological information and population dynamics. How can we assess how a species is being impacted by a disease or pest, when we don’t even know baseline information?”
What Mātauranga Māori will be integrated into tackling these problems? Is there any sensitivity around this traditional knowledge?
“Many hapū and Iwi in Northland are using their knowledge to carry out environmental assessments of their ngahere (forests). They have developed cultural health indicators and in some cases have solutions to prevent or manage diseased trees and are actively using these methods to manage their ngahere.
“There is much sensitivity around Traditional Knowledge/Mātauranga Māori and it is specific to a hapū or Iwi. The unresolved matter of the Waitangi Tribunal Claim known as Wai 262 Flora and Fauna is fundamental to many of the issues around knowledge and taonga species.
“Many Māori communities are also very wary of biopiracy and exploitation of their knowledge and their taonga. Geneticists and molecular biologists will often find it difficult to research in this space unless there has been some prior arrangement of intellectual property and mana enhancement agreements – and many ‘face to face’ meetings. In Māoridom, fronting up to the community to discuss your research is paramount, you cannot hide behind your laptop or in your lab.”
What has been done so far and what needs to be done next as part of a joint effort?
“The Biological Heritage National Science Challenge is taking this very seriously and has the kahui Māori (committee) advising on cultural issues and providing an overarching strategy. For me it is the most pro-active group I have been involved with and it is attempting a shift in the way we as scientists traditionally approached research development.
“The Challenge has been evolving and learning in this space and so it has developed an open mind to allowing Māori to develop their research ideas in a ‘mainstream’ research funding mechanism. It’s constantly evolving to the developments and needs of the research community, and any pushback usually comes from external sources rather than the Challenge itself.
“If it stays true to its intent and vision, then we have achieved something that hasn’t ever been done in mainstream research organisations – the meaningful inclusion of Mātauranga Māori to achieve the desired outcomes.”
How might new information from scientific research feed back into indigenous communities?
“Partnership that has formed from transparent communication and relationship establishment – that’s how information can feed back into communities.
“If you want your research to be taken up by communities, then from the onset you need to be in partnership with them. Anything else is kind of retrofitting and in danger of never getting a look in even if it may offer beneficial outcomes.”
Tēnā rawa atu koe, Amanda, for sharing your story.
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Jewish Whisky Company
American bottler specialising in Scotch and world whiskies under the Single Cask Nation label.
Jewish Whisky Company Profile
Joshua Hatton and Jason Johnstone-Yellin founded The Jewish Whisky Company with the aim of providing kosher (and non-kosher) whiskies for the US’ community of Jewish and non-Jewish enthusiasts. Based in Connecticut, US, the business operates the Single Cask Nation whisky club, also the name given to its line of independently bottled whiskies from across the world. Originally only club members were able to purchase its whiskies, with a three-tiered membership program that allowed varying degrees of access to bottlings and associated perks. However, membership has been free since 2017 and a separate range is now available for non-members in selected retailers.
The Jewish Whisky Company also runs the Whisky Jewbilee shows, which now take place in Seattle, Washington, Chicago, Illinois, and New York City.
Jewish Whisky Company History
The Jewish Whisky Company was originally founded in 2011 by Hatton and Johnstone-Yellin, whisky bloggers who came together with the idea of forming a small independent bottling company that sells whiskies to members through an online virtual community.
The community was called Single Cask Nation, and three bottlings were produced for it in the first year with a further six single casks in year two. The first Whisky Jewbilee was held in 2012 initially as a side project, but it quickly grew to be among the top rated whisky festivals in the US.
In 2017 the Jewish Whisky Company dropped its membership fees and created a new range for sale solely in retail outlets, for which it expects to bottle several single casks a year. A similar number of alternative bottlings will still be exclusively available to members.
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Atriarch—Forever the End
avant-garde • Aug 25, 2011
Crawling out of Portland with their debut album Forever the End, Atriarch envelope you in a claustrophobic mix of über-grinding doom, bewitching atmospheres and icy black metal remoteness. Drawing rave reviews from all quarters, and even a nod from the Melvins’ Buzz Osborne, Atriarch’s debut is a first-rate slab of ill-tempered noise and a fine lesson in what can be achieved when the dismal totality of ritualistic and****esoterically inclined metal meets that austere core of gothic post-punk.
With Lenny on vocals, Blackhawk on guitar, Maxamillion on drums and Nick on bass, Atriarch make one hell of an unholy racket. With only four songs on their debut they’ve obviously gone for quality over quantity, and quality is exactly what you get. “Plague” begins the album with a menacing fuzzed out intro before developing into a gut retching dirge-like workout—with the black metal elements slowed right down to maximize the cruelty. Following on, “Shadows” drifts in with a glacial pulse that’d wouldn’t be out of place on a Joy Division bootleg, before the HUGE riffs come crashing down and any gloomy reflective moments are buried beneath a grim finish.
The 14 minutes of “Fracture”, which begins with a familiar sludgy lead-in, coils around itself until the five-minute mark when the hammer drops and the repetitive churning riffs take over. Finishing with “Downfall”, the albums shortest track, you’re again greeted with that post-punk pulse, where a throbbing bass prelude is elegantly layered with Lenny’s gloomy vocals—until the screeching begins anyway—and then it’s back to the pounding riffs all over again.
With only four songs to work with Atriarch don’t hold back on the ferocity, but the album’s best feature, at least in my mind, isn’t at the heavier end. Forever the End would be nothing without the interweaving of gentler, more gracious elements. It’s in those moments of calm that the clotted atmosphere hanging over the album becomes less overwhelming, allowing you to take pause and reflect on what you’re experiencing. It’s clear the range of dynamics on the album—the juxtaposing of ill-natured and benevolent riffs, and Lenny’s vocal work, which ranges from the melancholic to torturous howls—is capable of channeling one towards a point of ritualistic spiritual catharsis. I’m not there myself just yet—but that’s no criticism of the band. It’s just that Forever the End is such a feast of atmospherics that I’ve gotten greedy. I’m hungering for just a few more songs to tip me over the edge.
Atriarch have all the makings of a band that given time to develop will come up with something even more impressive. As it is, I’ve no complaints about this one. Loaded with a dark hypnotic energy, *Forever the End *is a self-assured, well-handled dive into the chaos of mystical funeral doom. Big crushing riffs, an undercurrent of spacey 80s rock, and a great deal of orthodox malevolence. Loads of bands talk about the liturgy, but Atriarch truly deliver the sermon. *Forever the End *might not be offering any clear hope of redemption, but Atriarch provide plenty of desolate moments to ponder over while you’re rotting away. Out now on the always-awesome Seventh Rule Recordings, and highly recommended.
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Stretching: expert explains how best to do it before and after a workout
Static stretching should be avoided before a workout. Josep Suria/ Shutterstock
Many people see stretching as an essential part of any exercise or workout regime. It helps us increase our flexibility and our range of movement. Many of us also stretch to loosen up before exercising, and to help recover after we’re finished.
Though stretching has long been a mainstay of nearly every workout routine, does it have as much of an effect on performance and recovery as we believe?
The reason we feel more flexible after stretching is because of an increase in the level of discomfort we are able to bear at the extremes of our range of movement. This is known as stretch tolerance.
It was long considered that static stretching – holding a limb at the edge of its range of movement, usually for up to a minute – was a requirement for any decent warm-up. It was thought that pushing this range of movement would temporarily increase flexibility, in theory helping to prevent injuries and improve performance during exercise.
Around the end of the last century, however, evidence emerged that static stretching could actually have negative effects on strength, power and speed. It’s widely been agreed since that static stretching should be avoided during a warm-up.
Dynamic stretching has instead become more popular during warm-ups. Dynamic stretching involves deliberately moving a limb repeatedly through its entire range of movement.
Dynamic stretching doesn’t impede performance the way static stretching does. In fact, it may even increase muscle strength while still providing the short-term increases in flexibility offered by static stretching. Before doing any type of exercise, a bit of dynamic stretching is recommended.
It’s worth noting that static stretching does still increase range of movement. And any negative side effects may even be avoided if done properly. But static stretching a single muscle group for more than 90 seconds substantially increases the likelihood of worsened performance. Any static stretches done before a workout should be brief.
Dynamic stretching is preferred before a workout. Maridav/ Shutterstock
The opposite seems to be true for dynamic stretching. It appears that performing dynamic stretching for less than 90 seconds is far less likely to improve flexibility and performance than longer bouts. When dynamic stretching, give each muscle group attention and take your time.
After exercise
Many people also like to stretch after exercising, usually with the aim of reducing muscle soreness and injury risk.
Delayed-onset muscle soreness is common, and usually follows exercise you’re not used to, or that’s particularly hard. The sensation of soreness is usually intensified when the muscle in question is lengthened. This tells us that the muscles’ inbuilt “stretch detectors” – called muscle spindles – are involved in producing that characteristic painful sensation. The nerve pathways linked to muscle spindles are closely related to neural pain pathways. This response might have evolved to allow muscles the time to recover.
Stretching to prevent muscle soreness has long been advocated. But evidence suggests that stretching just before and/or just after exercise actually has no effect on muscle soreness during the subsequent days. So stretching to try and avoid the inevitable painful follow-up to a heavy workout is almost certainly not going to get you anywhere. There is also currently no compelling evidence that stretching can help reduce injuries in activities with high injury rates.
Beyond static and dynamic stretching, other techniques have grown in popularity in recent years.
Ballistic stretching is similar to dynamic stretching, but incorporates bouncing movements to push the range of movement to the very extremes of its limits. Another type of stretching, called proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation, or PNF, involves repeated contraction and relaxation of the target muscles in order to allow them to stretch. Many believe PNF enables a greater range of movement, but this effect only lasts for around five seconds after the end of the stretch.
All of these stretching methods will increase flexibility, but based on current evidence, static stretching is still more effective than either PNF or ballistic stretching at improving range of movement, and may even be slightly better than dynamic stretching.
But there’s really no need to over-complicate your stretching routine. Work the large muscle groups within their ranges of movement, and time things wisely so your stretches don’t detract from the rest of your exercise. While stretching on its own is unlikely to have much impact on your workout or recovery, a bit of stretching during your warm-up may help to gradually prepare your body for exercise.
That being said, stretching for the sake of improving flexibility still provides numerous health benefits, including improved circulation and reduced blood pressure. Public guidelines recommend doing flexibility exercises two or three times a week, incorporating both static and dynamic stretches.
If hammering out those stretches immediately after a workout is the most practical time to incorporate your flexibility training, it certainly isn’t going to do you any harm. And if you are worried about injuries, your best bet is to focus on a thorough warm-up, which may well include a healthy dose of dynamic stretching, too.
Lewis Macgregor does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
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Liverpool most likely to get Monchengladbach in Champions League draw
Liverpool are most likely to get Monchengladbach, Chelsea have a 19% chance of facing RB Leipzig and Barcelona must fear a Bayern Munich reunion… Why the Champions League draw’s probabilities are NOT all equal
The draw for the last-16 stage of the Champions League takes place on Monday
A user on reddit has shown that draw possibilities are not equal for every team
Liverpool are statistically most likely to meet Borussia Monchengladbach next
Barcelona could be handed a reunion with Bayern, months on from 8-2 defeat
Jurgen Klopp looks set to head back to Germany with Liverpool most likely to meet Borussia Monchengladbach in Monday’s Champions League last-16 draw.
A calculation of the probabilities of each pairing shows that the English trio of Liverpool, Manchester City and Chelsea, all of whom won their group, are statistically most likely to be heading to face Marco Rose’s Gladbach side in the first knockout round.
German teams only have five potential draw options due to having two teams seeded – Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund – and two not seeded – Monchengladbach and RB Leipzig.
Liverpool are most likely to be handed a draw against Borussia Monchengladbach in Monday’s Champions League draw for the last-16, according to new probability calculations
Monchengladbach finished second in their group and only have five possible opponents
Worryingly for Barcelona, who were comprehensively beaten by Juventus 3-0 in Matchday Six to drop to second in the group, they are most likely to be handed a reunion with defending champions Bayern Munich.
Bayern are most likely to face either of the Spanish teams – Sevilla or Barcelona – and they would likely rub their hands together at the prospect of taking on Ronald Koeman’s out-of-sorts side.
The last time the two met it was in the Champions League bubble in Lisbon to conclude the 2019-20 competition.
The quarter-final cost Quique Setien his job at Barcelona as Lionel Messi and Co were blown away in an 8-2 demolition job, a result viewed as one of the worst in the club’s history.
Frank Lampard’s Chelsea are also set for a trip to Germany after they topped their group
Chelsea have a 19 per cent probability of meeting Julian Nagelsmann’s RB Leipzig in the last-16
The way the maths works for the table of probability is as follows.
The 16 teams that have made it through have been divided into two pots – those that finished top of their groups will be seeded and will play a team that finished second.
However, at this stage of the competition, teams from the same country and teams that have just played in the same group cannot be drawn against each other.
While this immediately reduces the possible opponents for each team, their chances of being matched to a particular team are also affected by the number of clubs from each country that have qualified and which pot they’re in.
The reason the percentages are not equal is that some teams have the prospect of being drawn against five eligible teams, others have six or seven options, and so the values change. Juventus and Gladbach both have only five potential pairings and so are most likely to meet. Real Madrid only have four.
In this upcoming draw there are four German, four Spanish, three English, three Italian, one French and one Portuguese club in the draw.
According to the calculations, Liverpool, who topped a group including Atalanta, who finished second, have an 18.38 per cent chance of facing Borussia Monchengladbach.
Barcelona are facing the prospect of a reunion with Bayern, who beat them 8-2 back in August
Chelsea, who edged out Sevilla to top their group, are even more likely to head to Borussia Park with a likelihood of 18.62 per cent.
Manchester City disappointingly suffered elimination in the quarter-final stage to Lyon last season and are targeting a deep run this time round. Pep Guardiola’s side are least likely to meet Atalanta, who beat Liverpool at Anfield this season, with just a 12.4 per cent chance of pairing with the Bergamo-based side.
Porto finished runners-up in City’s group and are viewed as the most favourable match-up among the second-placed teams.
Real Madrid, who staved off the threat of elimination to top Group B, are in line for a trip to RB Leipzig as reward for the final round salvation. But, of Porto’s potential options, they are also the most likely.
The influx of Spanish sides finishing second mean that Zidane’s players are facing only four options in Monday’s draw: RB Leipzig, Porto, Atalanta and Lazio.
The last-16 draw takes place in Nyon, Switzerland on Monday.
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The 10 Biggest Stories From The First Half Of The NFL Season
I think I know less about this NFL season halfway through than I did at first kickoff. Honestly, what the hell has happened in the first nine weeks of the season? The MVP leaders are Carson Wentz and Jared Goff, it feels like 29 of the 32 teams (with the exception of the Eagles, Browns and 49ers) are at 4-4 and god forbid, the Patriots look like mortals! As surprising as the first half has been these 10 headlines jump off the paper more than any others.
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1. The Troubling Timeline Of Andrew Luck
POOR Andrew. The former golden boy has lost three prime years of his career due to a variety of injuries and won’t see the field at all in 2017. The Colts have looked lost without Luck under center and no offence to Jacoby Brissett (who is doing a solid job replacing the franchise QB), but he isn’t full-time starter calibre. The decision to put Luck on ice may see Chuck Pagano cop the blame for Indianapolis’ poor season and lose his job. Either way, 2017 won’t be a place of happy memories for Colts fans.
2. The Sack-sonville Jags
‘MAYBE the Jaguars can survive with Blake Bortles under center’. That sentence has to be in the top five of lines I never thought I’d write this year. Buoyed by perhaps the best defensive unit in the league, Jacksonville has been able to disguise Blake Bortles as an actual quarterback. That dominant defense has twice recorded 10 or more sacks doing so in Week 1 (vs. Texans) and Week 7 (vs. Colts). Even though neither of those teams boasts a strong O-line, recording 10+ sacks twice in a season has only been done twice before (’67 Raiders & ’84 Bears). Dare I say it, we may have to start taking the Jaguars as a serious threat if they keep this up.
3. Jimmy G Lands In San Fran
EVERY man, woman and dog expected the 49ers to make Kirk Cousins their next quarterback in 2018 signing the free agent. So when they pulled off one of the most surprising trades in recent memory to pry Jimmy Garoppolo from New England it’s fair to say we were caught off guard. The new great hope under center may not even take to the field this season with the 0-9 San Fransisco squad not left with a lot to play for. However, they acquired another key piece in their rebuild in a trade that flipped the league upside down.
4. God Damn Injuries
THERE is nothing worse in pro sports than seeing your favourite players succumb to injuries. This season we have already been robbed of J.J. Watt, Allen Robinson, David Johnson, Brandon Marshall, Aaron Rodgers, Deshaun Watson, Odell Beckham Jr, Carson Palmer, Tyler Eifert and Dalvin Cook. That doesn’t even include players like Greg Olsen who have missed massive chunks of the season too. Sigh.
5. Tony Romo Is A Commentary Legend
PERSONALLY, I loveTony Romo. He cops a lot of hate for coming up short in the playoffs and being injury prone. Maybe that means the next comment I make is biased, but I don’t think I’m the only one thinking it. The 2017 NFL season has been improved by at least 13.2% from Romo being in the booth. Hear it for yourself.
6. Oh The Browns Are Still The Browns
WHY aren’t we surprised. Honestly, I thought that Cleveland possessed enough talent to win at least a few games up to this point, maybe finishing with 3-4 W’s on the year. Granted Myles Garrett has been injured and ironman Joe Thomas has gone down, but I didn’t think they were a 0-8 team halfway through the year. They have just three home games left (against the Jaguars, Packers and Ravens) and finish the year with Pittsburgh. One or two wins is now their dream scenario. Bummer.
7. Wentz Is The MVP Front-Runner
CARSON Wentz is the real deal. Leading the Eagles to an NFL best 8-1 record at the midpoint of the season Philly fans are daring to dream that they can go all the way. Led by their golden boy’s lethal arm (league leader in TD passes with 23) Philadelphia have rolled through their opponents so far in a season where we still aren’t sure who is good and who isn’t. One thing is for sure though Wentz has the chops to lead the Eagles all the way and in the process, the second year stud is cementing himself as the guy to beat for the MVP award.
8. Jeff Fisher Is Really Bad At His Job
IF Jared Goff looks like an MVP candidate in year two with Sean McVay calling the shots, imagine what he could have done in his rookie season in year one if McVay was his coach? In Fisher’s defense the entire Rams squad is better this season, thanks in large part to Wade Phillips, who was hired as the defensive coordinator in the offseason. However, the offensive unit has appeared galvanised early on, rolling to become one of the league’s most high octane scoring squads. In fact, LA has scored 263 points through their first eight games compared to the league-worst 224 points they scored last year. Just remember that the next time you consider hiring Jeff Fisher front offices.
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9. Josh Gordon’s Back In Business…For Now
AFTER struggling with addiction for the past few seasons the NFL opted to reinstate Josh Gordon making him eligible to football again. The Browns receiver has battled drug and alcohol substance abuse issues that saw him spiral out of control to the point where he was banished from the league a few years ago. The 2013 league leader in receiving yards (from just 14 games mind you) still apparently has plenty in the tank after straightening out his ways. Pray for Cleveland fans sakes that he can return to his glory days at wideout.
10. No One Is Good, Or Are They?
SO far this season the Eagles lost to the Chiefs who lost to the Steelers who lost to the Jaguars who lost to the Rams who lost to the Seahawks who lost to the Redskins who lost to the Cowboys who lost to the Packers who lost to the Falcons who lost to the Panthers who, to complete the cycle lost to the Eagles. Oh and the Patriots started 2-2 and are still bad on defense. Oh and the New York Jets are one win under .500. Confused yet? Some heavy hitters are starting to emerge atop the standings but the first half of the season has been perplexing, enthralling and downright weird.
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Home Football Almería finally has a pair of centrals in conditions
Almería finally has a pair of centrals in conditions
Gabby Barker
Almería needed a pair of center-backs who lived up to the expectations of their project and they have found them in Maras and Cuenca, who complement each other perfectly. The loan from the Madrilenian has been of the most interesting movements that the Indálica entity has made in recent years. After Villarreal paid 2.5 million euros (plus four in variables) to Barcelona, Almería obtained the loan of Cuenca, with a contract with the yellow club until 2025, the only one of the 18 transferred in two courses with Al-Sheikh without option to purchase. Given their performance, it is understood that the rojiblanca property made an exception in its policy of not training players so that later they go to their home clubs.
In the case of Maras, the UDA made the purchase option that it had on him in the last market, paying 1.3 kilos to Chaves so that it could pass from transferred to property. The Serbian, with a contract until 2024, has improved his benefits together with Cuenca, correcting the left-handed central defender the debts that his partner has. In the final stretch of last year, a nervous Maras was noticed with the ball at his feet; In this course, the Balkan is not limited to security passes, risking behind and also creating danger in the rival area along with Cuenca himself, author of the winning goal at the Vallecas Stadium in the discount.
On the negative side, their international commitments together with Serbia and the U21, which have meant that they have already missed two games with the Almeria team for this reason, despite the fact that Tumbakovic is not giving Maras minutes. As a replacement for guarantees is Chumi, with a two-year contract, while Peybernes (also until 2022) is the fourth center after not taking the opportunity he was asking for.
Last year Owona and Juan Ibiza began acting – granted at Sabadell – but their injuries caused numerous changes in the axis of the rear. Maras took over a position, then entering Martos and in January Costas in the left-handed profile of the rear axis, consequently lowering the benefits of Maras. In the 18-19 season, Owona and Saveljich formed the most reliable center-back couple of recent times for Almería in Segunda, with Morcillo making Joaquín's work worse a year earlier, just as Trujillo did in 16-17. In 15-16, Ximo with the irregular Morcillo. The times of Trujillos and Fran Vélez are behind us.
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The Only Good Indians (Hardcover)
By Stephen Graham Jones
July 2020 Indie Next List
“I loved this book. Jones has a unique narrative voice, allowing ‘the entity’ to step in and take over unexpectedly, amping up the horror. Also, each character has a distinct voice that brings them to life. Jones combines the culture and traditions of the Blackfeet and Crow people with the social truths of their contemporary life. It is refreshingly different from any other horror novel I’ve read. This book is gruesome and honestly scary. I couldn’t put it down.”
— Kristine Jelstrom-Hamill, Buttonwood Books and Toys, Cohasset, MA
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
“One of 2020’s buzziest horror novels.” —Entertainment Weekly
A “Most Anticipated Books of Summer” selection in Esquire, Elle, Vulture, Time, AV Club, Bustle, and Literary Hub
“Gritty and gorgeous” —The New York Times
“Jones is one of the best writers working today regardless of genre, and this gritty, heartbreaking novel might just be his best yet.” —NPR
“Jones’s latest horror novel sprints from start to finish.” —The Washington Post
“[A] stark page-turner.” —Los Angeles Times
“More than I could have asked for in a novel.” —Tommy Orange, Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of There There
“A masterpiece.” —Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and Survivor Song
A tale of revenge, cultural identity, and the cost of breaking from tradition in this latest novel from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, Stephen Graham Jones.
Seamlessly blending classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary, The Only Good Indians follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives. Tracked by an entity bent on revenge, these childhood friends are helpless as the culture and traditions they left behind catch up to them in a violent, vengeful way.
Stephen Graham Jones has been an NEA fellowship recipient, has won the Jesse Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, a Bram Stoker Award, four This is Horror Awards; and has been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the World Fantasy Award. He is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.
“Fans of Stephen King's It and Peter Straub's Ghost Story should find plenty to love in this tale of friends who are haunted by a supernatural entity they first encountered in their youth.” —Silvia Moreno-Garcia, bestselling author of Mexican Gothic
“Jones boldly and bravely incorporates both the difficult and the beautiful parts of contemporary Indian life into his story, never once falling into stereotypes or easy answers but also not shying away from the horrors caused by cycles of violence.”—Rebecca Roanhorse, bestselling author of Trail of Lightning and Black Sun
"The Only Good Indian is equal parts revenge thriller, monster movie, and meditation on the inescapable undertow of the past. A gripping, deeply unsettling novel."—Carmen Maria Machado, National Book Award finalist and Guggenheim Fellow and author of Her Body and Other Parties
"The best yet from one of the best in the business. An emotional depth that staggers, built on guilt, identity, one's place in the world, what's right and what's wrong. The Only Good Indians has it all: style, elevation, reality, the unreal, revenge, warmth, freezing cold, and even some slashing. In other words, the book is made up of everything Stephen Graham Jones seemingly explores and, in turn, everything the rest of us want to explore with him." —Josh Malerman, New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and A House at the Bottom of a Lake.
“Stephen Graham Jones is a literary master who happens to write horror, and you've never read a book quite like The Only Good Indians.”—Tananarive Due, National Book Award winner, author of The Good House
“The Only Good Indians is scary good. Stephen Graham Jones is one of our most talented and prolific living writers. The book is full of humor and bone chilling images. It’s got love and revenge, blood and basketball. More than I could have asked for in a novel. It also both reveals and subverts ideas about contemporary Native life and identity. Novels can do some much to render actual and possible lives lived. Stephen Graham Jones truly knows how to do this, and how to move us through a story at breakneck (literally) speed. I’ll never see an elk or hunting, or what a horror novel can do the same way again.”—Tommy Orange, Pulitzer Prize finalist of There There
“The Only Good Indians is the most American horror novel I've ever read.”—Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires
“A heartbreakingly beautiful story about hope and survival, grappling with themes of cultural identity, family, and traditions.” —Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW
“Subtly funny and wry at turns, this novel will give you nightmares. The good kind, of course.”—Buzzfeed
“This novel works both as a terrifying chiller and as biting commentary on the existential crisis of indigenous peoples adapting to a culture that is bent on eradicating theirs.” —Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
"I like stories where nobody escapes their pasts because it's what I fear most."—Terese Marie Mailhot, New York Times bestselling author of Heart Berries
"Stephen Graham Jones is one of our greatest treasures. His prose here pops and sings, hard-boiled poetry conspiring with heartbreakingly-alive characters." —Sam J. Miller, Nebula-Award-Winning author of Blackfish City
"How long must we pay for our mistakes, for our sins? Does a thoughtless act doom us for eternity? This is a novel of profound insight and horror, rich with humor and intelligence. The Only Good Indians is a triumph; somehow it’s a great story and also a meditation on stories. I've wondered who would write a worthy heir to Peter Straub's Ghost Story. Now I know the answer: Stephen Graham Jones."—Victor LaValle, author of The Ballad of Black Tom and The Changeling
"THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS is a masterpiece. Intimate, devastating, brutal, terrifying, yet warm and heartbreaking in the best way, Stephen Graham Jones has written a horror novel about injustice and, ultimately, about hope. Not a false, sentimental hope, but the real one, the one that some of us survive and keeps the rest of us going. And it gives me hope that this book exists and is now in your hands."—Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World
“Jones hits his stride with a smart story of social commentary—it’s scary good.”—Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW
“Jones... has written a masterpiece. The book is… as instinctive and essential as it is harsh. Despite the blood and bleakness, The Only Good Indians is ultimately also about hope and the promise of the future...Read it.”
— Locus Magazine
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Fiction / Thrillers / Supernatural
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A partir de los 3 años de edad, el(la) niño(a) preescolar adquiere la habilidad para razonar sobre sus propias emociones, creencias y deseos, por lo que, además de una respuesta sensible, necesita de una actitud mentalizante del adulto que lo ayude a tomar conciencia de su mente y a comprender su mundo interno a través del lenguaje. En este contexto, el constructo de Mind Mindedness permite conceptualizar esta capacidad del adulto significativo(a), para comprender en mejor medida la emergencia de la teoría de la mente y el vínculo de apego en el(la) niño(a) preescolar. Este artículo expone una revisión del desarrollo teórico y empírico que está a la base del constructo Mind Mindedness y discute sus principales aportes al estudio, comprensión e intervención en la interacción entre el(la) niño(a) preescolar y su figura de apego.
sensibilidad materna, función reflexiva, Mind Mindedness, preescolar
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Ben Hall and Big Houses
Interiors, Montrose, Office Space
Attorney and possible mayoral candidate Ben Hall may have cost himself a few votes from the style police for his very public flirtation with purchasing State Rep. Hubert Vo’s languishing Rivercrest Megamansion last month. (Hall’s wife apparently vetoed it because it was “too big.”) But Hall’s working on a comeback, scoring glowing words from Fox26 reporter Isiah Carey after a visit yesterday to Hall’s law office — in a 1922 mansion at 530 Lovett Blvd. in Montrose:
It is by far one of the coolest legal offices I’ve seen in quite some time. It’s an old mansion that seems to be the centerpiece for the entire street. It is huge. Inside of the building is also super cool. You can tell the legal eagle took pride in decorating his offices. If worst comes to worst Hall could say this is his home and still run for Mayor of Houston.
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Photo of 530 Lovett Blvd.: Isiah Carey
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Brad February 6, 2009 at 2:28 pm
This is a cool house. I was in it many times when it was home to the sales staff of KLOL radio back in the late 80s-early 90s.
Ross February 8, 2009 at 1:33 pm
That’s one of my favorite houses in Houston, along with the nearby places on Cortlandt. I used to pass by there every day, and drove down Lovett and up Taft just to check out the old places.
The building on the other side of Stanford looked like a showplace in its heyday. I think both buildings used as offices for Pentasafe until they moved over to the West Loop
I forgot to add that 530 Lovett was built by E A Peden, owner of the iron and steel company that bore his name. Absolutely one of the best looking houses in town.
EMME February 8, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Cortlandt has always been one of my favorite streets, but they did a very unneighborly thing by gating their street.
Ross February 8, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Cortlandt was a private street when it was developed, but was later opened to provide a means for traffic to flow on to Elgin/Hathaway. The street was taken back by th eresidents at a time when there were real issues with homeless and drunks using the street as a residence or toilet.
I was opposed to the street going private until I read the history.
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What Is Lebanese Women?
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Meanwhile, international women married to Lebanese men are allowed citizenship after one 12 months, and the youngsters of Lebanese fathers are granted Lebanese citizenship. Nationality Law – Lebanese moms nonetheless can’t move on their nationality to their spouse or youngsters. Surprisingly although, a international woman that has youngsters from a previous marriage, however is now married to a Lebanese citizen, might acquire the nationality herself and pass it on to her children from the earlier marriage, based on Article 4 of the Law. Here once more, patriarchal practices coupled with confessional laws are compounded and further discriminate towards ladies.
The treaty outlines ladies’s rights in social, civil, and political spheres, emphasising the right to nondiscrimination and equality. This has facilitated developments in girls’s rights in Lebanon and a few massive achievements have been made within the following decade, although the Lebanese state has made reservations to the CEDAW. This was the yr that Lebanese women had been granted political rights, that means they were given the proper to vote and the best to stand for a seat in parliament. This was followed by the granting of equal inheritance rights for non-Muslims in 1959. Gender discrimination in areas referring to custody rights, social safety, nationality recognition, sexual harassment and violence continues to be widespread. The following timeline provides a broad overview of serious achievements for women’s rights for the reason that Nineteen Fifties and a brief dialogue on specific areas that elevate concern in current-day Lebanon. elbarlament – cultures of democracy has initially developed the coaching curriculum particularly for Syrian women currently living in Lebanon as refugees.
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This regulation has caused Lebanese girls and their families struggling severe hardships underneath the country’s discriminatory nationality law. Between 2006 and 2008, many Lebanese folks protested in opposition of the Prime Minister, Fouad Siniora. Since the Prime Minister and parliament are the individuals approving legal guidelines, such protests were essential for women. Women’s rights has turn out to be pretty progressive over the centuries in Lebanon in comparison with different Middle Eastern international locations as Islamic Law is not used to implement laws . For instance, Article 7 of the structure of Lebanon asserts that all citizens ought to have equal rights and duties no matter gender.
During a protest campaign against a serious rubbish crisis in Beirut, Badreddine shot into the nationwide highlight when she was arrested and overwhelmed up by the police. After all these years of activism, including a lot-publicised debates on national tv, Badreddine says her immediate household now supports her bid in Sunday’s elections. Badreddine’s background, in sharp distinction, is a world away from the one inhabited by the Beirut-based political heirs, as they have been sardonically dubbed. With simply four female MPs, Lebanon presently official source ranks 185th out of 193 nations, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union index. Carole Babikian, 55, says she will be the voice of Lebanon’s girls and youth. The cheering rises as a number of the higher-recognized figures from the major political parties ship their speeches, emphatically waving their arms as they exceed the minute-and-a-half slot assigned to the eight candidates on the Beirut 1 listing. UNESCO’s founding imaginative and prescient was born in response to a world war that was marked by racist and anti-Semitic violence.
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But given the hardships confronted by the international children of Lebanese woman, who are denied access to certain sorts of employment and are ineligible for union membership, their work just isn’t yet accomplished. Dedicated work has produced outcomes, with procedural emendations made to the conditions of residency which apply to international husbands and their children in Lebanon, and eradicating the ban on travelling outdoors the country. The downside isn’t just with nationality, Chebbo explains, but also with the knock-on results this problem has, and the troublesome and troublesome conditions which the entire household suffers as a consequence. It is because of the above that the Nationality campaign is working to introduce an modification that secures the proper of Lebanese girl to pass their nationality to their foreign husbands and children.
Minister of Interior Mashnouq, Minister of State for Women’s Affairs Jean Ogassapian and other representatives of the Government of Lebanon additionally attended. Another group pushing for reforms, the My Nationality is a Right for Me and My Family Campaign, provided Al Arabiya English with copies of a variety of complaints they had obtained from women in related situations, who had additionally been denied the aid cost. A supply in the Ministry of Social Affairs stated the choice to bar Lebanese women married to foreigners from receiving the help had been made by the Army, not by the ministry. In this case, it also meant that the household was deemed ineligible to obtain the aid.
“There are a lot of feminine inside and protection ministers on the planet they usually have proved their effectivity. It might be a brand new phenomenon for Lebanon and Arab international locations, however hopefully it will be repeated and not be distinctive,” she added. We believe the stories of people constructing peace must be accessible to all and simple to search out.
Women in Lebanon have at all times been marginalized in relation to politics. Jouny rose to prominence a few years back after going public along with her fight to regain custody of her solely son, Karam, following a bitter divorce battle.
It is so impressive to see the contributions that you’re making to the rule of regulation in Lebanon, every single day. I assume we acknowledge that being a decide or prosecutor just isn’t with out its risks, together with personal and professional exposure. I congratulate you and your girls ISF colleagues on your bravery and on your dedication to public service and for serving as position models for the women of Lebanon. And though the reason we are gathering right here tonight is to have fun International Women’s Day, I suppose you will need to acknowledge the worth of all range in our cultures — not just gender variety however cultural, non secular, geographic and ethnic variety.
) the promulgation of Law no. 293 of 2014, which offers with home violence. The first reform relates to the religiously based mostly, personal status legal guidelines that management major features of a girl’s life in Lebanon.
“After the large Beirut catastrophe, I announce my resignation from government,” she mentioned in a press release carried by local media. DW’s Bassel Aridi said individuals have been utilizing social media to try to monitor down their family members after the explosions. “What I noticed within the hospital was so dramatic. All the hospitals have announced that they’re totally overloaded.” “The revolution was, and is, feminine,” said 60-12 months-old Laila Zahed, grinning.
The women among the protest movement present explicit courage and energy and are sometimes on the forefront of demonstrations. Everybody in Lebanon knows the slogan refers to foreign affect and a corrupt, sometimes male, ruling class. The961 has grown to become the main digital English news and media web site catered to the Lebanese audience.
Protesters demanded authorities resignations and contemporary elections, with many occupying authorities ministries. The devastating blasts come as Lebanon experiences severe economic turbulence, with many people taking to the streets in recent months to protest the monetary state of affairs. Prime Minister Hassan Diab declared that Wednesday could be a national day of mourning for the victims of the explosion. President Michel Aoun scheduled an emergency Cabinet assembly for Wednesday and mentioned a two-week state of emergency ought to be declared.
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Russia: Interest rates cut, further easing expected
michael / May 1, 2015
Russia cut its key interest rate to 12.5% from 14%, in a bid to mildly boost inflation to keep up the slight build in momentum the economy has gained over the past quarter. This is the third movement by the Russian Central Bank in the past six months, beginning with the controversial and unexpected raising of rates to 17% in December to shore up the ruble. Russian authorities claim that the worst of the turmoil caused by lower oil prices and Western sanctions is over, but the RCB did claim that the economy would continue contracting until 2016, when expansion in quarterly GDP was estimated.
RCB officials and a statement by Vladimir Putin have hinted that the government is aiming for a weaker ruble, due to the substantial rally the currency has made in comparison to other currency baskets over the first quarter. This will likely decrease speculative trades where dollars and euros (whose value yields less over the short term) and exchange them for appreciating ruble assets. The RCB noted that its primary focus was to support the competitiveness of Russian industry, which at this point requires lower export costs above all else.
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The battle of Kunduz continues in Afghanistan – Afghan security forces are engaged in house-to-house fighting attempting to expel the Taliban from the city limits. Meanwhile, 2,000 militants still maintain control of certain territories in Kunduz province, including the strategic airport location. The governor vowed to push back the rebels, but NATO and US combat troops have withdrawn, leaving the Afghan National Army fighting on its own.
EU leaders grudgingly admitted progress on compliance with the Minsk II Accords on the part of Russia and Ukrainian separatists. Even Petro Poroshenko weighed in, noting “certain progress” in a telephone conversation with Merkel, Hollande, and Putin. Leaders noted the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the eastern region, however, this was reported by the Kremlin, so its veracity is suspect – additionally, the Kremlin statement did not mention a potential peacekeeping force that was proposed by EU leaders earlier in the week.
Western leaders in the EU have called for more concrete progress against Afghan corruption, citing two layers of corruption’s influence in the country: ordinary corruption that Afghans encounter when they visit public offices, and big corruption involving issues like land disputes. President Ashraf Ghani has made good on these promises for the most part, although their execution has been lacking – since taking office, he has launched a probe into 12 fraud cases involving military logistical contracts.
RFE/RL has an interesting profile of NATO’s ambassador to Russia, Robert Pszczel. He said incidents of professional discourtesy in Moscow abound, especially citing his portrayal in the media, where he is consistently heckled as a Russophobe and asking to comment on Polish soldiers killed in Ukraine (hint: there are none). Since April 2014, NATO has suspended all practical cooperation with Moscow after the Kremlin annexed Crimea and since then, Pszczel has become a chief scapegoat of sorts for the Russian media.
Kazakhstan has suspended all poultry imports from Russia, citing an outbreak of bird flu there. This is the second food import Kazakh authorities have suspended, the first being dairy products. Kazakh authorities also banned the sales of Russian-made butter, chocolate, candies, and mayonnaise and a bulk import of wheat flour was cancelled by agricultural watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor. Media reports cite that the situation is a “trade war” between the two countries but both sides deny this.
Kyrgyzstan’s Parliament has nominated a new Prime Minister, Temir Sariev. Lawmakers from both parties, the Ata-Meken and Ar-Namys said that they agreed that Sariev is the best candidate for the post. This comes a week after Otorbaev’s resignation following news of the compromise with Centerra Gold, and the lack of nationalization of the Kumtor gold mine.
A fund tied to Mongolia published a letter to shareholders that details many of the current challenges of the Mongolian economy. Much of it is focused on the formerly booming real estate market, which is targeted towards mining and other foreign executives at bringing in wealth, and establishing shopping outlets to serve the new market. They also noted that despite the current depressed state of the economy and sharp swings, the agreement between the government and the World Bank’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency have signed agreements that have facilitated the insurance of copper mining play Oyu Tolgoi for up to fifteen years, which they say, guarantees growth.
Kazakh Energy Minister Vladimir Shkolnik announced yesterday that Kazakhstan’s largest oil field at Kashagan, is expected to begin anew in December 2016. There has been zero production at the supergiant since September 2013’s report that leaks were detected in the pipelines of the rigs and replacements were expected to last at least two years. Geological reserves are estimated at 4.8 billion metric tons of oil, or roughly 38 billion barrels. However, despite the optimism, it is estimated that only 10 billion are recoverable.
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Research ArticleAlzheimer’s Disease
Increased in Vivo Amyloid-β42 Production, Exchange, and Loss in Presenilin Mutation Carriers
Rachel Potter1,*,
Bruce W. Patterson2,*,
Donald L. Elbert3,
Vitaliy Ovod1,
Tom Kasten1,
Wendy Sigurdson1,4,
Kwasi Mawuenyega1,
Tyler Blazey4,5,
Alison Goate4,6,7,
Robert Chott2,
Kevin E. Yarasheski2,
David M. Holtzman1,4,6,
John C. Morris1,4,6,
Tammie L. S. Benzinger4,5,8 and
Randall J. Bateman1,4,6,†
1Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
2Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
3Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA.
4Knight Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
5Department of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
6Hope Center for Neurological Disorders, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
7Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
8Department of Neurological Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
↵†Corresponding author. E-mail: batemanr{at}wustl.edu
Science Translational Medicine 12 Jun 2013:
Vol. 5, Issue 189, pp. 189ra77
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3005615
Bruce W. Patterson
Donald L. Elbert
Vitaliy Ovod
Tom Kasten
Wendy Sigurdson
Kwasi Mawuenyega
Tyler Blazey
Alison Goate
Robert Chott
Kevin E. Yarasheski
David M. Holtzman
John C. Morris
Tammie L. S. Benzinger
Randall J. Bateman
For correspondence: batemanr@wustl.edu
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is hypothesized to be caused by an overproduction or reduced clearance of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide. Autosomal dominant AD (ADAD) caused by mutations in the presenilin (PSEN) gene have been postulated to result from increased production of Aβ42 compared to Aβ40 in the central nervous system (CNS). This has been demonstrated in rodent models of ADAD but not in human mutation carriers. We used compartmental modeling of stable isotope labeling kinetic (SILK) studies in human carriers of PSEN mutations and related noncarriers to evaluate the pathophysiological effects of PSEN1 and PSEN2 mutations on the production and turnover of Aβ isoforms. We compared these findings by mutation status and amount of fibrillar amyloid deposition as measured by positron emission tomography (PET) using the amyloid tracer Pittsburgh compound B (PIB). CNS Aβ42 to Aβ40 production rates were 24% higher in mutation carriers compared to noncarriers, and this was independent of fibrillar amyloid deposits quantified by PET PIB imaging. The fractional turnover rate of soluble Aβ42 relative to Aβ40 was 65% faster in mutation carriers and correlated with amyloid deposition, consistent with increased deposition of Aβ42 into plaques, leading to reduced recovery of Aβ42 in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Reversible exchange of Aβ42 peptides with preexisting unlabeled peptide was observed in the presence of plaques. These findings support the hypothesis that Aβ42 is overproduced in the CNS of humans with PSEN mutations that cause AD, and demonstrate that soluble Aβ42 turnover and exchange processes are altered in the presence of amyloid plaques, causing a reduction in Aβ42 concentrations in the CSF.
The pathogenic causes of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are not fully understood, partly due to the difficulty in demonstrating the steps that lead to dementia in humans. However, rare autosomal dominant AD (ADAD) can be predicted with nearly 100% certainty in individuals with specific mutations in the genes encoding presenilin 1 (PSEN1), presenilin 2 (PSEN2), or the amyloid precursor protein (APP) (1). Recent findings suggest that a series of pathophysiological changes occur in the brains of ADAD mutation carriers decades before clinical dementia manifests (2). The amyloid hypothesis (3) predicts that AD is caused by increased production or decreased clearance of amyloid-β (Aβ) in the brain, resulting in amyloidosis and a pathological hallmark of AD, amyloid plaques. Aβ is produced from the C-terminal fragment of APP by cleavage of APP by β-secretase to form C99, followed by cleavage of C99 by PSEN1 or PSEN2, the enzymatic components of γ-secretase (4). The principal peptide produced by γ-secretase is a 40–amino acid peptide (Aβ40), but this enzymatic cleavage lacks specificity and peptides ranging in length from 38 to 43 amino acids are produced (5). Aβ42 has attracted considerable attention because it has greater amyloidogenic properties and is the principal component of amyloid plaques (6). In support of the amyloid hypothesis, an APP mutation that reduces Aβ production is associated with a strong protective effect against AD (7), whereas duplication of APP or mutations that are thought to increase total Aβ species or Aβ42 relative to Aβ40 cause dominantly inherited AD (8–10). In cell culture and in plasma from human ADAD participants, PSEN mutations have been reported to increase the Aβ42/Aβ40 ratio (11–14), which is hypothesized to increase the risk of amyloidosis (15). However, others have found that neither the Aβ42/Aβ40 ratio nor Aβ42 concentrations are increased in vitro (16). Furthermore, findings of reduced Aβ42 concentrations in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of ADAD participants (13, 17) do not directly support the hypothesis that increased Aβ42 production is an etiological mechanism in dominantly inherited AD.
We previously used stable isotope labeling kinetics (SILK) to examine the turnover kinetics of Aβ in sporadic late-onset AD (18). Both sporadic AD and ADAD are associated with lower CSF Aβ42 concentrations and Aβ42/Aβ40 ratios (13, 17, 19–21). However, PSEN mutations in ADAD are hypothesized to cause increased Aβ42 production (4, 12, 22), although direct evidence for increased in vivo production of Aβ42 in humans has not been reported.
We hypothesized that the central nervous system (CNS) Aβ42/Aβ40 production rate ratio is increased in PSEN1 and PSEN2 mutation carriers compared to noncarriers. To address this hypothesis, we performed in vivo SILK studies in participants with ADAD mutations and sibling noncarrier controls. A comprehensive compartmental model was developed to determine steady-state metabolic kinetic parameters including fractional turnover rates (FTRs) and production rates of Aβ38, Aβ40, and Aβ42 for each participant. The Aβ kinetic parameters were compared to the presence of a PSEN mutation and insoluble amyloid deposition, which was measured by positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of Pittsburgh compound B (PIB).
SILK was performed in 11 individuals who carry mutations in PSEN associated with ADAD and in 12 sibling control persons who do not carry PSEN mutations. PIB-PET imaging (23) showed virtually no detectable amyloidosis in all noncarriers and in four of the mutation carriers (denoted PIB−), and considerable amyloidosis in seven mutation carriers (denoted PIB+) (Fig. 1A). A mean cortical binding potential (MCBP) score was calculated from the PET images to obtain a continuous quantitative covariate for statistical analyses.
Fig. 1 PET images and isotopic enrichment time course profiles of CSF Aβ peptides.
(A) Composite PET images showing [11C]PIB binding in participants who are noncarriers of PSEN mutations (left column), and PSEN mutation carriers who lack (PIB−, middle column) or have (PIB+, right column) evidence of amyloidosis. (B and C) Average Aβ isotopic kinetic time course profiles in CSF showing the Aβ42/Aβ40, Aβ38/40, and Aβ42/Aβ38 isotopic enrichment ratios [B, middle panel: Aβ38/40 (blue circles), Aβ42/Aβ38 (green squares), and Aβ42/Aβ40 (red triangles)] and as enrichment ratios normalized to plasma leucine plateau enrichments [C, lower panel: Aβ38 (blue circles), Aβ40 (green squares), and Aβ42 (red triangles)]. Aβ38 and Aβ40 present similar labeling profiles in all subject groups, whereas Aβ42 kinetics deviate from Aβ38 and Aβ40 only in mutation carriers, as evident in the Aβ42/Aβ40 and Aβ42/Aβ38 ratio profiles. Data points represent the means ± SD for group-averaged values, and the solid lines represent the model fits to the data using the model in Fig. 2.
Differential Aβ isoform kinetics by mutation and amyloid deposition
Plasma leucine enrichment approximated a constant plateau during the 9-hour intravenous 13C6-leucine infusion, and then rapidly decreased after the infusion was stopped (fig. S1). The 13C6-leucine isotopic enrichments of Aβ38, Aβ40, and Aβ42 recovered from CSF were compared between mutation carriers, with or without amyloidosis, and nonmutation carriers to address the relationship between Aβ isoform metabolic kinetics, mutation status, and amyloid deposition.
To compare Aβ isoform kinetics, we plotted ratios of labeled Aβ isoform enrichments in the CSF so that a ratio of 1 indicates the same isotopic enrichment and kinetics between Aβ isoforms. The Aβ38/Aβ40 labeling ratio was about 1 from 5 to 36 hours in all participant groups (Fig. 1B, no significant group by time interaction), indicating similar kinetics between Aβ38 and Aβ40. Similarly, the Aβ42/Aβ40 and Aβ42/Aβ38 labeling ratios were nearly constant at 1 over time in noncarriers. However, in mutation carriers, the Aβ42/Aβ40 and Aβ42/Aβ38 labeling ratios were elevated during early time points and decreased at later time points (Fig. 1B) in relation to plaque status. Repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) revealed a significant group by time interaction for both the Aβ42/Aβ40 and Aβ42/Aβ38 labeling ratios (P < 0.0001), with a significant linear contrast (P < 0.01) between groups at ≤9 hours and at ≥18 hours, showing an increasing magnitude of effect (noncarrier < mutation carrier PIB− < mutation carrier PIB+). The Aβ isoform enrichment mismatch was more pronounced in participants with amyloid deposition (PIB+), caused by an earlier and lower Aβ42 peak with a flatter terminal tail compared to Aβ38 and Aβ40 (Fig. 1C). The time to reach peak 13C labeling in each Aβ isoform was measured for each participant. The Aβ38/Aβ40 peak time ratio was not different between mutation carrier and noncarrier groups (1.01 ± 0.01 versus 1.00 ± 0.01, respectively). In contrast, Aβ42 peaked at the same time as did Aβ40 in the noncarrier group (Aβ42/Aβ40 peak time ratio = 1.01 ± 0.03), whereas Aβ42 peaked significantly earlier than did Aβ40 in the mutation group (peak time ratio = 0.93 ± 0.05; P = 0.015, for mutation effect; P < 0.001, for PIB MCBP score).
A multicompartment model to describe Aβ isoform kinetics
A comprehensive compartmental model was developed to quantify steady-state Aβ isoform kinetic parameters for each participant data set. The model incorporated the plasma leucine, Aβ enrichment time course profiles, and the CSF Aβ isoform concentrations for each subject (schematically depicted in Fig. 2). Figures S2 to S5 show curve fits for each Aβ isoform time course for each participant. A reversible exchange compartment was necessary to fit the sigmoidal decay of many labeling curves, especially Aβ42 in PIB+ participants. The model included an irreversible loss of each soluble Aβ isoform that was not recovered in CSF. The rate constants for transfer between compartments in the model were optimized for each participant, and mean values for each parameter are summarized in Table 1. The model describes three fundamental processes that affect Aβ kinetics—production, reversible exchange, and irreversible loss—and accounts for the effect of these processes on CSF Aβ concentrations.
Fig. 2 Schematic diagram of compartmental model of Aβ38, Aβ40, and Aβ42 metabolism.
Small solid black triangles depict sampling sites for plasma leucine and CSF Aβ peptides. Production of Aβ peptides is signified by yellow arrows, exchange by blue arrows, and irreversible loss by red arrows. The model incorporated the labeling time course of plasma 13C6-leucine, APP production and processing to C99 peptide, and Aβ38, Aβ40, or Aβ42 production from C99. The labeled Aβ38, Aβ40, and Aβ42 that are sampled in CSF are presumed to be soluble within the “brain” compartment. The soluble Aβ peptides may exchange with other unlabeled Aβ structures, may be transported to CSF, or may be lost because of other processes (for example, transport to blood, plaque deposition, or cellular degradation). Transport through CSF is modeled as a three-compartment time delay.
Table 1 Complete list of model parameters.
All units are first-order rate constants with units of pools/hour, except for scaling factors (SFs), which are unitless, and kAPP, which is a zero-order rate constant for APP production (ng/hour). Note that kC99 = kdelay; kAβ38 + kAβ40 + kAβ42 = vC99; and kAβ38 + kAβ40 + kAβ42 + vC99 = kdelay. Values are means ± SD.
Increased Aβ42 and Aβ42/Aβ40 production with PSEN mutations regardless of amyloid deposition
The mutation carriers had an 18% higher absolute Aβ42 production rate (P < 0.05, for mutation effect) and a 24% higher Aβ42/Aβ40 production rate ratio (P < 0.0001, for mutation effect) than the nonmutation carriers, whereas amyloid load as measured by PIB-PET did not have a significant effect on Aβ42 production rate (Table 2, Fig. 3A, and fig. S5). There were no differences in Aβ38 or Aβ40 absolute production rates or the Aβ38/Aβ40 production rate ratio between carrier and noncarrier groups (Table 2).
Table 2 CSF Aβ isoform concentrations and selected model kinetic parameters.
Parameters were determined on the basis of the best fit to a compartmental model of Aβ turnover and production. Outcomes were compared by mutation status using ANOVA after adjusting for fibrillar amyloid deposition by treating PIB MCBP score as a covariate. Kinetic parameters are identified with terminology (Fig. 2). P < 0.05, in bold. IP, immunoprecipitation.
Fig. 3 A β concentrations and selected kinetic parameters.
(A to C) Parameters for Aβ production rate (A), FTR (B), and baseline CSF concentrations (C) are shown for each group by mutation status and without (PIB−) or with (PIB+) evidence of amyloid deposition. Each parameter was measured for Aβ38 (first column), Aβ40 (second column), Aβ42 (third column), and the Aβ42/Aβ40 ratio (fourth column), and compared by mutation status and amyloid deposition. Error bars indicate 95% confidence intervals. Mutation status compared when amyloid deposition did not affect magnitude or significance. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001, ANOVA based on mutation status with PIB MCBP score as a covariate. Blue circles, noncarriers; green squares, mutation carrier PIB− (MC PIB−); red triangles, mutation carrier PIB+ (MC PIB+). Each point represents one participant.
Exchange process required to fit Aβ kinetic curves
To optimally fit the shape and peak magnitude of Aβ isoform enrichment time courses, a compartment was required to model reversible exchange of newly synthesized labeled Aβ peptides with a preexisting pool of unlabeled Aβ (Fig. 2). The exchange process was of minimal magnitude in nonmutation carriers, in which only ~10% of the flux of newly synthesized Aβ38, Aβ40, or Aβ42 underwent exchange (Table 2). The percent of Aβ38 and Aβ40 that underwent exchange was not significantly different between mutation carriers and noncarriers. However, the exchange for Aβ42 was significantly greater in carriers compared to the noncarriers (51 ± 58% versus 6 ± 12% of flux, respectively; P = 0.004, for mutation effect; P = 0.001, for PIB status) (Table 2). The exchange process for Aβ42, combined with a faster turnover rate of Aβ42 (see below), provided an excellent fit to the entire shape of the Aβ42 enrichment time course in all groups including mutation carriers with amyloid deposition (mean R2 for all participants of 0.994, 0.995, and 0.987 for Aβ38, Aβ40, and Aβ42, respectively).
Higher irreversible loss of Aβ42 in amyloid deposition
The FTR (pools per hour) of soluble Aβ is the rate constant for irreversible loss of soluble Aβ to all metabolic fates; this process is kinetically distinct from reversible exchange. The physiology of the system suggests that the FTR includes irreversible losses to the CSF or bloodstream, degradation, and deposition into amyloid plaques. The Aβ40 FTR was significantly slower in PIB+ compared to PIB− participants (P = 0.024, for PIB MCBP score) and trended toward significance for Aβ38 (P = 0.054, for PIB MCBP score), but neither was affected by mutation status (Table 2 and Fig. 3B). This decreased turnover rate correlated with the extent of amyloidosis measured by PET PIB. In contrast, Aβ42 FTR trended toward an increase in mutation carriers (P = 0.065, for mutation effect) independent of amyloid load (Table 2 and Fig. 3B). The Aβ38/Aβ40 FTR ratio was not significantly different between noncarrier and mutation carrier groups, but the Aβ42/Aβ40 FTR ratio was 65% higher in mutation carriers (P < 0.002, for both mutation status and PIB MCBP score) (Table 2 and Fig. 3B).
Decreased CSF Aβ42 concentrations only during amyloid deposition
The measured basal concentrations of CSF Aβ isoforms were compared by mutation status and PIB MCBP score (Table 2 and Fig. 3C). The Aβ42 CSF concentration and the Aβ42/Aβ40 CSF concentration ratio were significantly reduced in association with amyloid deposition (P = 0.003, for PIB MCBP score; not significant by mutation status), whereas there were no differences between groups for the CSF Aβ38, Aβ40, or Aβ38/Aβ40 concentration ratio (Table 2).
Our study of in vivo CNS Aβ isoform kinetics in participants with PSEN mutations confirms the hypothesis that the production rate of Aβ42 is increased relative to Aβ40 in humans with PSEN mutations associated with ADAD, and also revealed increased exchange of soluble Aβ42 and increased irreversible loss of soluble Aβ42 associated with the presence of fibrillar amyloid plaques. The finding of increased Aβ42 production was predicted by some in vitro studies (11, 12) and evidence of altered γ-secretase function in carriers of PSEN1 or PSEN2 ADAD mutations (24). Here, we directly quantify increased Aβ42 production in vivo in humans because of mutations that cause ADAD, and confirm that such mutations increase CNS Aβ42 production rates in vivo. The ratio of Aβ42 to Aβ40 production rates was greater than 15% for almost all mutation carriers (average, 17.4%), whereas noncarriers were less than 15% (average, 14%), suggesting tight physiological control that is disrupted in the presence of a mutation. There was a ~25% relative increase in Aβ42 to Aβ40 production rate in mutation carriers, which correlates with the 40% decrease in Aβ production because of a mutation that is protective for the development of AD (7). Changes in the Aβ42 to Aβ40 production rate ratio are likely to have a large impact on the rate of Aβ42 deposition into plaques because in vitro studies have demonstrated that even relatively small changes in the Aβ42/Aβ40 ratio significantly affect aggregation kinetics and morphology (15) that could promote plaque formation. The Aβ42/Aβ40 ratio and the total amount of Aβ42 have been hypothesized to affect the age of onset of ADAD (25). Some PSEN mutations in cultured cells in vitro have been reported to decrease Aβ40 production or loss of overall Aβ production (16); however, our in vivo SILK studies did not confirm decreased Aβ40 or total Aβ production.
Our finding of a faster irreversible FTR of soluble Aβ42 relative to Aβ38 or Aβ40 in the presence of PSEN mutations or plaques was not anticipated. This faster relative FTR was a primary factor causing the Aβ42 isotopic enrichment curve to peak earlier than Aβ38 or Aβ40 in the presence of amyloidosis (Fig. 1). We cannot determine the physiological mechanisms that underlie this irreversible FTR, but it includes all losses of soluble Aβ peptides including transport into CSF or plasma, proteolytic degradation, and deposition into amyloid plaques. The rate constant for transport to CSF is likely to be similar for all Aβ isoforms because the transport of soluble Aβ isoforms to CSF is driven by fluid flow (26). Therefore, the faster relative FTR of Aβ42 in the presence of plaques implies a greater loss of Aβ42 from the system to fates other than CSF. Although we cannot identify the specific fates of peptides permanently lost from the system, our observations are consistent with increased deposition of Aβ42 into amyloid plaques (27, 28) relative to Aβ38 and Aβ40, which subsequently causes increased Aβ42 in brain plaques (29), as shown in video S1, and a reduction in the amount of Aβ42 recovered in CSF (30). Our finding of increased irreversible FTR of Aβ42 in subjects with PSEN mutations but no amyloid load suggests that increased Aβ42 deposition may be occurring in these subjects, and SILK studies of Aβ42 turnover kinetics may provide a sensitive window into altered processes before amyloidosis is detectable by PET PIB.
Another unanticipated finding was a reversible exchange process whereby a portion of newly synthesized (that is, isotopically labeled) peptides exchange with preexisting unlabeled Aβ. The structures of the preexisting unlabeled Aβ cannot be determined from this tracer study, but they could potentially consist of oligomers or aggregates (31, 32) or may reflect reversible binding of Aβ42 to the surface of amyloid plaques before structural alterations cause permanent assimilation into plaques (33, 34).
We previously reported that late-onset AD was associated with a slower clearance rate for Aβ40 and Aβ42 based on a monoexponential slope applied to the terminal phase (24 to 36 hours) of the SILK enrichment time course (18). The present study used a compartmental model to fit the SILK enrichment time courses over the full experimental period (0 to 36 hours) in a manner consistent with known physiological processes (35). This compartmental model confirms the previous report that the FTR is slower for Aβ40 with increased insoluble amyloid plaque deposition (Table 2). The exchange process described by our compartmental model was minimal for Aβ38 and Aβ40 in the presence or absence of amyloid plaques (Table 2), and thus, the terminal tail approximates a monoexponential shape for these isoforms. The observation that the irreversible FTRs of Aβ38 and Aβ40 are negatively correlated with PIB MCBP score (Table 2) suggests that the presence of plaques substantially alters physiological processes (for example, fluid flow perfusion through brain tissue) and thus retards the transfer of soluble Aβ peptide from the brain to CSF. An outcome of this decreased transport to the CSF may be loss of the normal physiological diurnal pattern of CSF Aβ concentrations (36, 37).
Several caveats about the compartmental model limit the ability to completely resolve the system. Flow processes likely dictate the rate at which Aβ peptides transit from brain to the lumbar space. These processes are approximated here as a sequential series of compartments. More elaborate models that account for brain and subarachnoid space anatomy and flow may allow more accurate determination of the rates of Aβ peptide irreversible loss and production. The current data set is also not rich enough to identify the rates of production and irreversible loss of APP and C99. Additional kinetic data relevant to the production and irreversible loss of APP and C99 would improve the estimation of Aβ production and irreversible loss rate constants. Also, measurement of concentrations of various Aβ peptides has a large impact on the estimates of the production rate constants for the Aβ peptides.
The present study also confirms that the terminal slope of the Aβ42 enrichment curve is slower in the presence of plaques. We observed that Aβ42 irreversible FTR was increased in the presence of PSEN mutations independent of plaque load. The SILK tracer technique thus reveals abnormalities in Aβ42 before plaques are detectable by PET PIB. Indeed, three of the four mutation carriers who did not have detectable amyloid plaques by PET PIB had features of Aβ42 kinetics that were more similar to mutation carriers with amyloid plaques than to noncarriers, including Aβ42/Aβ40 FTR ratio >1.1, and evidence of Aβ42 exchange (fig. S2). These features strongly suggest that plaque development or some form of Aβ aggregation has been initiated in these individuals, but fibrillar plaque load has not reached the threshold of PET PIB detection. In contrast, only one mutation carrier who was PET PIB–negative had no evidence of Aβ42 exchange. This participant also had the highest Aβ42/Aβ40 CSF concentration ratio (0.215; fig. S4) of all participants in our study (compare to figs. S2 and S3; this ratio was 27% higher than the next highest concentration ratio observed in individual participants, 0.169), demonstrating that elevated Aβ42/Aβ40 CSF concentration ratios are only observed in ADAD persons in the absence of amyloid plaques. Because amyloid deposition in the caudate may be one of the earliest deposition events, we evaluated caudate PIB as a sensitive measure of amyloid deposition. The caudate PIB and MCBP PIB were highly correlated with each other with a Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.94 (P = 5 × 10−11); no kinetic parameters changed significance with amyloidosis as measured by caudate PIB.
Our findings offer a context for the recent report that CSF Aβ42 concentration is elevated in ADAD individuals decades before predicted age for onset of clinical symptoms of dementia, and then drops below normal as plaques develop (2, 38) (see Fig. 4 for schematic of proposed process). Our finding of increased Aβ42 production in mutation carriers regardless of the amount of amyloid deposition indicates that increased Aβ42 production precedes amyloid deposition, and likely occurs decades before the onset of dementia and is possibly present throughout life. The long delay in the emergence of plaque deposits of Aβ42 even in the presence of overproduction of Aβ42 suggests the presence of an initial slow process (for example, initial Aβ nucleation event in which monomeric Aβ forms small aggregates) followed by a growth phase of Aβ polymerization (39). We therefore hypothesize that Aβ42 production rate (solid gold line, Fig. 4) remains above “normal” (solid black line) throughout life because of their PSEN genotype. ADAD individuals have an increased irreversible loss of soluble Aβ42 (FTR solid red line, Fig. 4) that tracks or precedes PET-detectable amyloid deposition, consistent with a faster removal of soluble Aβ42 as it is deposited into plaques. This results in a decreased recovery of Aβ42 in the CSF, accounting for the decrease in CSF Aβ42 concentration (solid blue line, Fig. 4) as plaque development proceeds (solid green line, Fig. 4). The physiological identity of the pool(s) in exchange with newly labeled soluble Aβ42 identified by SILK (dotted black lines, Fig. 4) cannot be determined in this study. If exchange occurs with micelles or oligomers, exchange may precede PET-detectable amyloid deposition (dotted line 1, Fig. 4). If exchange is with plaque surfaces, it may track or even lag behind amyloid deposition (dotted lines 2 and 3, Fig. 4). Future studies with greater numbers of participants or longitudinal designs will be required to resolve this question.
Fig. 4 Potential scheme for the time course of plaque deposition in ADAD.
The solid black line signifies normal for each measure. The production rate of Aβ42 relative to Aβ40 (gold) remains constant throughout life before and during plaque deposition (production rate was different by mutation status but not by amyloid deposition). CSF concentration of Aβ42 (blue) starts elevated above normal because of overproduction and then decreases to below normal because of an increase in the FTR (red) of Aβ42 relative to Aβ40. As the amount of amyloid plaques increases over time (green), the extent of Aβ42 exchange (dotted) may precede (for example, if due to oligomer formation), follow closely, or lag behind amyloid deposition (for example, if due to reversible interaction with amyloid plaques).
Although ADAD represents less than 1% of all AD cases, it has been informative for elucidating the pathophysiology of AD and can manifest as late-onset AD indistinguishable from the more idiopathic forms (40). The findings of this study further support the amyloid hypothesis and provide quantitative estimates of lifelong increases in Aβ42 production that may cause AD in humans. Further, these results indicate profound changes in Aβ kinetics in the presence of amyloid plaques. With increased understanding of the pathogenic causes of AD and the quantitative changes associated with AD pathology, it is hoped that better tests and directed therapeutics can be developed in the future.
This study took place at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and was approved by the Human Research Protection Office. All participants completed informed written consent. Two groups of volunteers were enrolled in the study: (i) ADAD mutation carriers either with (n = 7) or without (n = 4) amyloid deposition and (ii) related family members at risk for carrying a mutation but who do not carry ADAD mutations (n = 12).
Binding of [11C]PIB-PET was used to test for deposition of amyloid plaques in the brain (23). Binding potentials using the cerebellum as a reference region were determined for the prefrontal cortex, precuneus, lateral temporal cortex, and gyrus rectus. The PIB MCBP score was determined by averaging these binding potentials together. A PIB MCBP score of 0.18 was considered evidence of amyloid deposition (PIB+), and a PIB MCBP score of less than 0.18 was considered to be amyloid deposition–negative (PIB−). The highest PIB MCBP score in noncarriers was 0.12.
Participant demographics
Twenty-three participants from nine pedigrees (PSEN1 Ala79Val, Leu226Arg, His163Arg, Met146Leu, Met139Ile, Gly217Arg, Ala246Glu, and PSEN2 Asn141Ile) completed Aβ SILK studies. Twelve (52%) of the participants were male. The average age of mutation carriers was 43.2 ± 12.7, and that of noncarriers was 47.7 ± 14.8 (P > 0.05). Eight PSEN1 mutation carriers and three PSEN2 mutation carriers were included in the analysis with sibling controls. Two mutation carriers were rated as having prodromal dementia and one with mild dementia. Eight mutation carriers were cognitively asymptomatic, as were all noncarriers. Seven mutation carriers were PIB+, and four of the mutation carriers and all noncarriers were PIB−; the average PIB MCBP score was significantly different between groups, 0.03 ± 0.04 versus 0.43 ± 0.45 for noncarriers and mutation carriers, respectively (P = 0.005). At least one APOE ε4 allele was present in 33% (n = 4) of the noncarrier group, 25% of the mutation carrier PIB− group, and 28% of the mutation carrier PIB+ group (P > 0.05).
The SILK clinical study followed the procedure previously described (41). Briefly, intravenous and intrathecal lumbar catheters were placed between 7:30 and 9:00 a.m., and the collection of samples was started between 8:00 and 9:30 a.m. After initial CSF and plasma baseline samples were collected, participants were infused with a bolus of l-[U-13C6]leucine (3 mg/kg) for 10 min, followed by 2 mg/kg per hour for the remainder of the first 9 hours. For the 36 hours of the study, 6 ml of CSF was obtained every hour; afterward, the catheters were removed, and participants remained on bed rest for 12 hours. Aliquots of CSF were frozen at −80°C immediately in 1-ml polypropylene tubes after being collected. Venous blood samples (12 ml) were obtained at hourly intervals from 1 to 13 hours and then at 17 and 36 hours, and plasma was stored at −80°C for the determination of plasma leucine enrichment.
Analysis of CSF samples
All procedures relating to clinical studies, sample processing, and sample analysis were performed blinded to mutation, clinical, and amyloid status. At each hour of collection, 1 ml of CSF was thawed, and Aβ was immunopurified and isotopic enrichment of Aβ isoforms was measured with liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (MS) similar to previous studies (18), except for dedicated measurement of Aβ38, Aβ40, and Aβ42 C-terminal peptides.
Measurements of Aβ38, Aβ40, and Aβ42 C-terminal peptides
A mid-domain antibody (HJ5.1, anti–Aβ13–28) was covalently bound to CNBr Sepharose beads and stored in a 50% slurry of 0.02% phosphate-buffered saline/azide at 4°C. The immunopurification mixture was composed of 800 μl of CSF; 20 μl of a solution containing 12C15N Aβ40, Aβ42, and Aβ38 for quantification by internal standard; and 12.5 μl of 100× protease inhibitor, 110 μl of 5 M guanidine, and 30 μl of antibody-bead slurry. Beads were rotated in an Eppendorf Axygen tube for 2 hours at room temperature and rinsed with 0.5 M guanidine followed by two rinses of 25 mM ammonium bicarbonate. All liquid was removed by aspiration, and then neat formic acid was added to elute Aβ from the antibody-bead complex. The formic acid supernatant was transferred to a new polypropylene tube and dried in a vacuum dryer (Labconco CentriVap). The sample was reconstituted with 25 μl of 25 mM ammonium bicarbonate and digested with 2.5 ng of Lys-N overnight at 37°C. This solution was dried in the speed vacuum and resuspended in 10% formic acid and 20% dimethyl sulfoxide. Three microliters of this sample was injected into a nanoACQUITY Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography system and then analyzed by a XEVO TQ-S mass spectrometer (Waters). MassLynx V4.1 was used to quantify the MS data. For determination of plasma 13C6-leucine enrichment, amino acids were recovered from plasma with cation exchange chromatography and converted to N-heptafluorobutyryl n-propyl ester derivatives, and isotopic enrichment [mass/charge ratio (m/z) 349 and 355] was measured with gas chromatography (GC)–negative chemical ionization–MS (Agilent 6890N Gas Chromatograph and Agilent 5973N Mass Selective Detector) as described (42). The GC-MS instrument response was calibrated with gravimetric standards of known isotope enrichment.
Compartmental model for Aβ38, Aβ40, and Aβ42 kinetics
A comprehensive steady-state compartmental model that accounts for the full time course of Aβ38, Aβ40, and Aβ42 enrichments and CSF concentrations was developed; a diagram of the model is shown in Fig. 2. The model consists of a series of interconnected compartments with first-order rate constants that describe the transfer of labeled species between compartments. Modeling was performed with SAAM II (Resource for Kinetic Analysis, University of Washington, Seattle, WA). The model consists of three parallel arms, one for each Aβ isoform. The enrichments of plasma leucine and CSF Aβ peptides were measured at frequent time intervals (indicated by solid triangles). Plasma leucine is used as the tracer precursor for CSF Aβ peptides because we have shown that, given a sufficiently long infusion, CSF Aβ enrichments essentially match that of plasma leucine in monkeys (43). A “forcing function” was used to describe the time course of plasma 13C6-leucine enrichment with a linear interpolation between measured samples.
Preliminary modeling revealed that the isotopic enrichment time course for each Aβ isoform could be optimally described by a single compartment coupled with a long time delay that consisted of five subcompartments. On the basis of known physiology, two of these delay compartments (representing APP and C99 peptides) were placed in front of the compartments that represent the brain “soluble” Aβ peptides because in vivo tracer studies in mice show that APP and C99 have relatively long half-lives (~3 hours) (44) that should contribute to the overall time delay before labeled Aβ is detected at the lumbar sampling site. The remaining three delay compartments were placed after the soluble Aβ compartments to represent perfusion of labeled peptides through brain tissue and heterogeneous CSF fluid transport processes. Given that preliminary modeling indicated that a single time delay process could be identified within the data, the turnover rates for APP, C99, and each of the three CSF delay compartments were set to a single adjustable parameter that affects the overall time delay.
The model takes into consideration that some of the C99 and soluble Aβ peptides are metabolized to fates other than Aβ peptides that appear at the CSF sampling site. The physiological nature of these other losses for soluble Aβ peptides is unknown but includes all processes that remove soluble peptides irreversibly, for example, deposition into plaques, cellular uptake, and proteolytic degradation. A compartment in exchange with the soluble Aβ peptide was necessary to optimally fit the sigmoid shape of the CSF Aβ enrichment time courses after the peak enrichment, particularly for Aβ42 in the mutation carrier PIB+ group; this exchange process was added for an isoform only if it improved the Akaike information criteria (AIC) of the fit as provided by SAAM II. A scaling factor was applied to each of the Aβ isoform enrichments if it improved the AIC to account for small amounts of isotopic dilution between plasma leucine and the biosynthetic precursor pool (generally <5%) or to correct for minor calibration errors (generally <10%) in the measurement of isotope enrichments of plasma leucine or Aβ peptides.
On the basis of the optimized kinetic parameters that describe the shape and magnitude of the CSF Aβ enrichment time course, the model determines the rate constant (pools per hour) for production of each Aβ peptide from their common C99 precursor to accurately project the measured baseline CSF Aβ peptide concentrations. The model projects the steady-state masses (ng) within and the flux rates (ng/hour) between all compartments for each Aβ isoform.
Ratios of isotopic enrichments between peptides at all time points were analyzed by repeated-measures ANOVA. When the time by group interaction was significant, enrichment ratios at individual time points were analyzed by ANOVA with a linear contrast to test for significant group effects. ANOVA was performed with a mutation status main affect, adjusting for PIB MCBP score as a covariate. Variables were tested for normal distribution by Shapiro-Wilk criterion; variables that were not normally distributed were log-transformed before performing ANOVA. The distribution of rate constants describing the exchange process revealed by the model was analyzed by Mann-Whitney U test because log transformation did not normalize the distribution. Statistics were performed with IBM SPSS version 20. A P value of <0.05 was considered to be statistically significant. Unless otherwise noted, results shown are mean ± SD for normally distributed variables or as median with interquartile range for nonnormally distributed variables. Graph generations were performed in GraphPad Prism version 5.01 for Windows (GraphPad Software).
Movie methods
A video illustrating the isotope labeling model for soluble Aβ42 and Aβ40 was created with Matplotlib (41). Compartments for soluble, exchange, and irreversible loss (plaque) are shown over the MNI152 template image included as part of the FMRIB Software Library (42). The location of the fibrillar plaque compartment in the illustration was determined by thresholding the average PIB image for PIB+ mutation carriers. The growth of the soluble, exchange, and irreversible loss compartments followed the normalized production rates for each peptide. Note that the sizes of the Aβ compartments are greatly exaggerated for visualization purposes.
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Fig. S1. Time course of plasma leucine isotopic enrichment.
Fig. S2. Isotopic enrichment time courses of CSF Aβ peptides in individual nonmutation carrier participants.
Fig. S3. Isotopic enrichment time courses of CSF Aβ peptides in mutation carrier participants with amyloid plaques (PIB+).
Fig. S4. Isotopic enrichment time courses of CSF Aβ peptides in mutation carrier participants without amyloid plaques (PIB−).
Fig. S5. Whisker box plot and scatter plot of concentrations and selected kinetic parameters.
Video S1. Animated illustration of isotope labeling time course and amyloid deposition.
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Acknowledgments: We thank the participants and their families for their contributions to this study and the Clinical Core of the Adult Children Study for clinical assessments of the participants. Funding: This work was supported by funding from the National Institute on Aging as a supplement, the Familial Adult Children Study (5P01AG026276-S1 to R.J.B.), to the Antecedent Biomarkers in AD: The Adult Children Study (5P01 AG026272 to J.C.M.). Additional support came from R01-NS065667 (R.J.B.), UL1 RR024992, P41 GM103422, P30 DK056341 (Nutrition Obesity Research Center, B.W.P.), P60 DK020579, and an anonymous foundation. Author contributions: R.J.B. designed the study and obtained funding. D.M.H., A.G., and J.C.M. assisted in the design of the study. W.S., R.J.B., and R.P. recruited and enrolled participants and performed tracer infusion studies. R.P., R.C., and T.K. performed laboratory protocol development, sample preparation, and processing. K.M. and V.O. developed MS methods, and V.O. measured samples by MS. B.W.P. and D.L.E. developed and performed kinetic modeling and statistical analyses. R.C. and K.E.Y. analyzed leucine samples. T.B., T.L.S.B., R.J.B., D.L.E., and B.W.P. developed images and videos. R.J.B. and R.P. wrote an initial draft of the paper. The final paper was prepared by B.W.P., D.L.E., and R.J.B., which all authors reviewed and approved. Competing interests: R.J.B. and D.M.H. are co-inventors on U.S. Patent 7,892,845 “Methods for measuring the metabolism of neurally derived biomolecules in vivo.” Washington University, with R.J.B. and D.M.H. as co-inventors, has also submitted the U.S. nonprovisional patent application “Methods for measuring the metabolism of CNS derived biomolecules in vivo,” serial #12/267,974. R.J.B., D.L.E., and B.W.P. are co-inventors on U.S. Provisional Application 61/728,692 “Methods of diagnosing amyloid pathologies using analysis of amyloid-beta enrichment kinetics.” R.J.B. has consulted for Pfizer, DZNE, Probiodrug AG, Medscape, and EnVivo (SAB) and has research grants with AstraZeneca, Merck, and Eli Lilly in the past year. Washington University, R.J.B., and D.M.H. have a financial interest in C2N Diagnostics, which uses the SILK methodology in human studies. B.W.P. provides turnover kinetics consultation services for C2N Diagnostics. C2N Diagnostics did not support this work. D.M.H. has consulted for Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Bristol-Myers Squibb in the last 12 months. His laboratory has received grants from Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, and C2N Diagnostics that are not related to the content in this manuscript. T.B. has served on an advisory board for Eli Lilly and has received research funding from Avid Radiopharmaceuticals. These relationships are not related to the content in the manuscript. A.G. has received research funding during the last 12 months from Pfizer, Genentech, AstraZeneca, and iPierian and has served as a consultant for Amgen. These relationships are not related to the content in the manuscript. J.C.M. serves on scientific advisory boards for Eisai, Esteve, Janssen Alzheimer Immunotherapy Program, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, and Pfizer. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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Vimy Resources has taken a step towards becoming Western Australia’s first uranium mine after high-quality test results from Mulga Rock — one of Australia’s biggest undeveloped uranium resources.
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The railroad cars involved in the fiery derailment in West Virginia on Monday were a newer model that was supposed to be safer than older tankers blamed in other oil train explosions.
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Fire Rips Through Morgan Corp. Building
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An intense fire swept through an industrial building in Caernarvon Township late Thursday afternoon, spewing a cloud of heavy black smoke and leaving the facility a tangle of twisted metal.
Fire broke out shortly before 4 in a paint shop at Morgan Corp., which manufactures the box, or container, section of delivery trucks for Penske, Ryder and other corporate trucking fleets.
Brian McCafferty, the company’s risk management director, said the cause had not been determined.
No one was injured, he said.
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Ruck, Tackle and Maul
The Hurt Arena
Salt In The Wound: England celebrate following their resounding win over Ireland back in February. The swagger that the Red Rose have when they have played Ireland as of late has become more than a little tiresome, and at some point, there needs to be a reaction from the men in green. England are an outstanding side; they didn’t get to a World Cup final last year by fluke, and on a different day, they could well have beaten the Springboks. Ireland may have to draw on their heritage to knock their old foes over, because like him or loathe him, Eddie Jones has turned his team into a lethal outfit since the summer of 2018.
When you suffer consecutive bad losses against the same opponent in any sport, the biggest mistake you can make is refusing to acknowledge your shortcomings because of the pain that comes with doing so. When this happens, players and teams stop striving to improve and it leads to a vicious cycle of performance levels that keep spiralling downwards. If Ireland are to have a chance at beating this excellent English side, they need to take a hard look at where they went wrong against them over the last two years.
Ireland’s one-out carrying brought them success in the past, but it doesn’t work against England anymore. Their pack is too big and their defence too suffocating, so attempting to bludgeon them is ill-advised. There are other issues that Ireland must address to make this game more of a contest, but asking different questions of the English defence than the ones they did in February is paramount to them mounting a serious challenge on Saturday.
Changing The Picture
When Ireland last travelled to Twickenham, they couldn’t find any space to work with in the English defence until the result was beyond doubt. A lot of that had to do with them being taken apart up front by the English pack, but they were too easy to read once the ball went past first-receiver:
Against Wales, Ireland mixed up their attack nicely, catching the Welsh defence off-guard with clever interplay at first-receiver, varying their options and changing direction unexpectedly, with two passages standing out.
In the 13th minute, they were on the front foot after some dominant carries from their forwards, but instead of insisting on going same-way, Johnny Sexton threw a deft inside pass to Andrew Porter (using Gareth Davies’ rush off the line against him), with Jamison Gibson-Park then sniping on the subsequent phase (taking advantage of the fact that Dan Biggar had already turned towards Sexton) before Peter O’Mahony picked and drove while the Welsh defence was resetting:
Then in the 29th minute, they did the unexpected again by switching the direction of the attack after Robbie Henshaw had made a big gain in midfield:
You can see the Welsh defenders folding quickly around the corner once Henshaw makes the inroad, and Gibson-Park initially feigns to attack the right side of the breakdown by looking in that direction before going the other way. Quinn Roux knocks the ball on, but if he had held the pass, Ireland had acres of space to exploit due to the Welsh defenders overloading on the far side.
Ireland will be hoping to replicate these kinds of attacking sequences against England because they are the best way of countering what England do off the ball. Aggressive line speed and collision dominance are cornerstones John Mitchell’s defence, but you can’t race off the mark if you’re not sure what the opposition are going to do. Having to change direction suddenly is not what a heavyset forward pack want, either, so if Ireland can keep them moving constantly, it will eventually disconcert them.
The injury to Johnny Sexton is a major blow to Ireland in terms of their ability to pull the English defence out of shape. Ross Byrne is a well-established player at club level, but a novice international 10, and not at same level as Sexton when it comes to taking the ball to the line. All the same, he has no shortage of attacking threats around him, especially the Irish centre partnership, who will have a size advantage over their opposite numbers in the absence of Manu Tuilagi.
If Byrne can consistently make the right decisions with ball in hand, Ireland’s attack might run smoother than expected with him at the helm, even if he doesn’t attract much attention from defenders himself. He doesn’t have fond memories of Twickenham, but Jamison Gibson-Park starting at 9 could make a world of difference to his performance levels. Byrne is familiar with him from lining out alongside him at club level, and Gibson-Park’s sniping threat will allow his out-half to have more time on the ball.
Variation in attack will be a non-factor in this fixture, though, if Ireland can’t go toe-to-toe with England in the forwards, something they have been unable to do lately. Billy Vunipola in particular has been highly influential in this facet of the game, with the Irish pack failing to stop him in his tracks. The English number eight has been the best number eight on the planet for quite some time now, and Ireland have had plenty of experience of him, so there was no excuse for giving him the run of the park when they last faced him:
South Africa managed to shut him down in Tokyo last year by committing more than one defender to him and drilling him in the tackle when the opportunity presented itself, and the Irish pack could do worse than follow their example:
In saying that, there’s more to defending against a player of Vunipola’s stature than staying connected and making your tackles; you have to make it personal. Andy Farrell has selected the biggest pack available to him, which should go a long way towards nullifying Vunipola, but if Ireland can’t contain him by half-time, they can bring Will Connors off the bench to chop him down. The Leinster flanker did a brilliant job of stopping Vunipola in his tracks back in September, and although it wasn’t the winning of that quarter-final, he still prevented the Saracens talisman from cutting loose.
Iain Henderson is another player who will have an important role to play on Saturday in the physical stakes. The Ulster captain and Dan Leavy were both unavailable when Ireland went to Twickenham at the end of February, and their absences were notable. Bar a few exceptions, the English forwards won the collisions with room to spare, and without two of their most dynamic ball-carriers, the intensity that was required from the Irish pack to at least be on par with them was absent:
Devin Toner has been a brilliant servant to Irish rugby, with an impressive body of work behind him, but Henderson’s aggressive physicality around the park was key to Ireland’s last victory over England:
With Leavy in the process of returning from a serious knee injury, it is vital that Henderson makes a massive impact when he is brought into the fray. James Ryan’s athleticism and Quinn Roux’s horsepower are going to be crucial for Ireland, but if they are going to beat England, they need to keep their intensity raised for the full 80, and Henderson can be a phenomenal physical tone-setter when he is on form.
England’s second row stocks have been diminished with Courtney Lawes’ injury and George Kruis’ move to Japan, so they won’t have the same power output across the 80 minutes that they had at the end of February. Playing against England seems to bring out the best in Henderson, but if he has one of his off-days and produces a lethargic, unimpactful performance, Ireland won’t be able to cope with England in the final quarter.
Ireland struggled badly under the high ball and in their general coverage of the backfield in Twickenham back in February, and a lot of it had to do with Jordan Larmour. There is no doubting the Leinster flyer’s ability with ball in hand, but he has yet to convince as an international-standard full-back, and England targeted him from the off:
With Owen Farrell, Henry Slade, Jonny May, Elliot Daly and George Ford all in their matchday squad, it would be foolish not to expect England to roll this tactic out again, given the inexperience that Ireland have in the back three that Andy Farrell has selected.
However, Hugo Keenan’s selection at 15 against Wales in the injury-enforced absence of Jacob Stockdale provided Ireland with a level of security in the backfield that they were lacking in the aftermath of Rob Kearney’s retirement from Test rugby:
With Keith Earls on the right wing, I think Ireland could very well turn what was a weakness in their last clash with England into a strength and look to put Elliot Daly under scrutiny in the air. The England 15 is a converted winger/centre and he has established himself as one of the top players in his position in the world, but there are still games where he doesn’t quite look the part, and he won’t have the same height/skill advantage over his opposite number on Saturday as he did over Larmour.
Going by the evidence of this year’s Six Nations, fielding kicks is still something Daly can have difficulty with. France and Wales both tested him with high-hanging, cross-field kicks and he was found wanting in both fixtures:
Wales got a huge return from making it their business to bombard Daly with kicks in their World Cup warm-up fixture in Cardiff last year, and considering that that it is one of Ross Byrne’s strengths (and also the selection of Jonathan Joseph on the right wing), I wouldn’t put it past Ireland to do the same. Repeating a tactic can wear it out if you don’t vary what you are doing, but if Ireland get change out of it early on, there’s no reason why they shouldn’t do it throughout Saturday’s game.
The arrogance that Eddie Jones has instilled in his charges is unpalatable to say the least, but it has probably brought out the best in them performance-wise. I doubt they are overly concerned with anyone else’s opinion of them, but Ireland can use that as extra motivation. They need to play angry without boiling over because England are not going to be beaten easily, particularly on home soil.
There’s a valid argument that emotional energy is not something any team should need to win, and while Ireland sides were guilty of this for a long time, sometimes it’s critical to beating a strong opponent. No one complains about Ireland’s victories over England in 2007, 2011 or 2018, and all three were built on high levels of passion from the men in green. If these types of performances can’t be backed up in the following game, then it’s a problem, but competency isn’t going to be enough to knock England over.
‘Going to the well’ is an expression that makes many an Irish fan groan because of its overuse in the George Hook era of punditry, but Ireland won’t win on Saturday by just being clever or accurate. This is an England team that were rampant in their run up to the RWC 2019 final, and it’s going to take a special performance to beat them. The pain of Ireland’s recurring defeats to the Red Rose needs to be channelled correctly because they owe them one.
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A Relational Social Policy
by Ratio 10 months ago 2 min read
A relational social policy starts with an understanding of how people live well and deal with challenges in their life, often without support from high end public services.
This paper summarises the intellectual argument and supporting evidence for a relational social policy. It starts with the major changes that are taking place in the world, changes that ask for a revitalised welfare state. The ethos and practice of public policy continues to develop. The weaknesses of the current era are now clear to all; a hyper-individualism that undermines community; a corrosion of trust in public institutions; the prizing of outcomes that matter to the state over those that matter to citizens.
In Summary, a relational social policy:
Builds out from an understanding of how people live well and deal with challenges in their life
Adopts a grown up, realistic view of human relationships with the potential to undermine health and development as well as enhance it
Is no panacea. It is not a replacement for the shortcomings of existing social policy. It seeks to complement effective interventions for impairments to the health and development of individuals with innovations aimed at collective action
Influences relationships between
state, public systems, civil society and citizens
citizens living in defined neighbourhoods and communities
one person seeking to help another
Tends the space around citizens, changing patterns of connection, engagement, disrupting power and accountability structures and changing the way money flows
With the objective of shifting relational outcomes such as trust, belonging, pride and mutual aid
Drawing on the science of human development linking relational outcomes to improvements in the health and development of individuals
And continuously uses data to learn and adapt seeking arrangements that are optimal for the greatest proportion of citizens.
These dimensions appear to apply to:
Local authority wide reform programmes such as those in Wigan and Leeds
Changes to the structure of public systems such as devolution in Denmark, participatory democracy in multiple countries, and participatory budgeting across Scotland
Innovations that disrupt patterns of connection in neighbourhoods and communities or in public institutions such as the Pembroke House Settlement in South London or the Association of Camerados across the U.K.
Efforts to boost mutual aid, to open up opportunities for one citizen to help another, such as Maternity Mates linking of mothers with expectant mothers or Safe Families for Children using volunteers to support families with children who would otherwise come into care.
Taking the conversation forward
This paper sets out one avenue towards innovation in social policy. Others are making similar and alternative cases for change. The work of the National Local Government Network on a Community Paradigm has been mentioned, as has Hilary Cottam’s groundbreaking book Radical Help. Don Berwick’s work on the changing pattern of learning and policy in health also shines a light on the way forward. The resources associated with this paper summarise the growing bank of evidence, congruent ideas and competing ideas.
During the first six months of 2020, Ratio will initiate a series of conversations with people developing, testing and refuting new ideas. After each exchange, this paper will be updated. The interest is partly academic, contributing for example to the Joining the Dots conversation that Ratio initiated with Shift Design and other collaborators. But it is also practical, acting as a backdrop for local authorities like Islington in London looking to find new ways of reducing inequality and unleashing citizen capabilities.
Julia Unwin on how the system needs civil society, not the other way around
Steve Wyler on a better way for social policy
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Just How ‘Political’ Can — And Should — Service Members Get?
There’s an old saying about opinions. This family-friendly reporter cannot repeat it, but the punchline is, “Everyone has got one.”...
By Jeff Schogol July 23, 2018
There’s an old saying about opinions. This family-friendly reporter cannot repeat it, but the punchline is, “Everyone has got one.”
That’s especially true when it comes to politics. Partisanship and political rancor in the United States are now as ubiquitous as propaganda in North Korea. You can never tune them out; you can only try to turn down the volume.
Given the political climate, it may be tempting for service members to join the national food fight. But it’s worth remembering that the U.S. military prides itself on the appearance of being fiercely apolitical. (Years ago, your naïve correspondent learned that merely asking troops jokingly if they were in favor a military coup was considered suborning treason, something courts-martial generally frown upon.)
Service members are barred from taking part in a variety of political activities to avoid creating the appearance that, in doing so, they are espousing the Defense Department’s official position, said Air Force Maj. Carla Gleason, a Pentagon spokeswoman. For example, troops cannot campaign for candidates, attend partisan events in uniform, or suggest that other service members follow a political party or candidate on social media, she said.
Active duty service members “may not post or make direct links to a political party, partisan political candidate, campaign, group, or cause because such activity is the equivalent of distributing literature on behalf of those entities or individuals,” Gleason said.
Barracks lawyers may be crying foul right now, so Task & Purpose turned to a real lawyer to find out if troops can face administrative or disciplinary action for being overtly political.
“An American can tweet ‘The president is a f***** idiot’ and not go to jail,” wrote retired Air Force Lt. Col. Rachel VanLandingham in a recent article. “Yet if a U.S. soldier does the same, they are committing a federal crime.”
The Uniform Code of Military Justice gives commanders “huge leeway” to punish subordinates for what they say and tweet on vague legal pretenses, such as Article 134’s service-discrediting” clause clause, said VanLandingham, a former military attorney who now teaches at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles.
“Military members are not required to be apolitical — far from it,” VanLandingham told T&P.; “Those who encourage such an apolitical stance fundamentally misunderstand what our founding fathers embedded into the Constitution. We the people have the right to know how those in uniform think. If service members’ speech reflects poorly on the military, so be it.”
However, it may set a bad example when military leaders — both retired and active-duty — express their political opinions, whether openly to the news media or anonymously on social media, said retired Army Col. Steven Leonard, a former military strategist who tweets as @DoctrineMan.
“In the end, I think we've lost our way in the apolitical sphere in which we are supposed to conduct ourselves,” Leonard told T&P.; “Do retired leaders have an obligation to temper their commentary so as to not influence those who currently serve? Do active leaders have a duty to remain true to their apolitical obligations, regardless of their opinions?”
Social media, he added, “breaks a lot of boundaries that were once sacrosanct — and it provides platforms where troops can see their leaders in action, whether those leaders realize it or not.”
Former Army Staff Sgt. A.J. Merrifield, author of the “Bob on the FOB” comics, said he worries that the American public is losing its faith that the military will always remain above the political fray.
The investigations of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server and alleged Russian interference into the 2016 presidential election are both rife with allegations of partisanship, eroding the public’s trust into the FBI and intelligence community, Merrifield said.
“The massive divisions that are currently splitting so many communities cannot be allowed to fester within the military community for so many reasons, but not least of which because we cannot afford to allow our political disagreements to endanger the lives of our service members,” he told T&P.;
But the military itself is not immune from partisanship, said former Marine Sgt. Matthew Moores, better known as @IAmTheWarax on Twitter. Moores said he could remember several times when officers or senior enlisted leaders tried to foist their political opinions on subordinates.
“That opinion is being amplified by the force of their rank and their position within the organization,” he told T&P.; “I can think of an example where there was a staff NCO and he bought into all the Jade Helm stuff. So he’s talking about how the president is going impose martial law. People are going to have to choose: ‘Are you going to be loyal to the federal government or you going to be loyal to the president and his private army?’ I think people were buying into it more than they would have if it was just a group of people who were co-workers.”
With the news media obsessing over the latest machinations in Washington, it is difficult for service members to avoid being sucked into the current hyper-partisan environment, said Maximilian Uriarte, a Marine veteran and author of the “Terminal Lance” comic strip.
Still, Uriarte keeps his comics politically neutral because he chronicles the life and times of lance corporals, not what people are tweeting about President Trump, he said.
“When I was in Bridgeport [California] in February, I had a Marine come up to me in the field and ask if anything important had happened in the world over the last week because they had been stuck on the mountain with no phone reception for the last 10 days,” Uriarte recalled. “I told him: Not unless you give a s**t about political garbage.”
Uriarte says the Marine replied: “Nah, not really.”
Jeff Schogol covers the Pentagon for Task & Purpose. He has covered the military for 12 years and embedded with U.S. troops in Iraq and Haiti. Prior to joining T&P;, he covered the Marine Corps and Air Force at Military Times. Comments or thoughts to share? Send them to Jeff Schogol via email at schogol@taskandpurpose.com or direct message @JeffSchogol on Twitter.
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Your May 2019 Reading List
Thursday, 30 May, 2019 - 13:00
This month’s reading list is inspired in part by the recent Copenhagen Fashion Summit’s agenda; also in the news, possible applications of blockchain technology in the fashion industry, fair labour, prize winners, and yes, shoes made of salmon skin.
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Copenhagen Fashion Summit 2019
The 2019 update of the Pulse of the Fashion Industry report published by the Global Fashion Agenda in collaboration with The Boston Consulting Group and the Sustainable Apparel Coalition during the Copenhagen Fashion Summit reveals that the pace of sustainability progress in the fashion industry has slowed by a third in the past year and is not moving fast enough to counterbalance the harmful impact of the fashion industry’s rapid growth. Among the biggest players in the market which make billions in revenue every year, the pace of improvement has basically stalled. Projections suggest that by 2030 the global apparel and footwear industry will have grown by 81%, to 102 million tons, exerting an unprecedented strain on planetary resources. To strengthen the work for a changing system five leading apparel organisations, the European Apparel and Textile Confederation (EURATEX), Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI) and the Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) have joined forces to call on European Union policymakers to resolve circularity issues in the fashion industry. The manifesto argues that the fashion industry must take a new approach by focusing on recycling innovations and that ground breaking policy measures from government are needed.
Fashionable expressions don’t mean change
The Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion (UCRF) of London commented the communications of the Copenhagen Fashion Summit with critical tone, highlighting the importance of terms used in describing sustainable activities and the need to have true insight into a company’s activities, beyond their communication which can be often misleading, talking about changes that are meaningless from the environmental point of view. For the same reason, The Guardian has announced the adjustment of their terminology used about changes in the world related to climate and environment in their style kit.
What blockchain can mean for supply chain
Since November 2008, when Satoshi Nakamoto released the Bitcoin protocol, the use and spread of crypto currency has moved at a swift pace. This paper aims to find other fields of application for blockchain outside the financial world, building a business model study using Nike as an example - they apply blockchain technology in the product return phase of the supply chain. In Germany, as this article reports, a blockchain-based platform called The IOTA DLT will allow customers to have a full insight into the supply chain process to ensure that the products remain ethical and traceable, monitoring and storing production data.
A similar concept focused to the luxury industry was announced by CryptoSlate, ConsenSys and Microsoft, platform AURA, that aims to serve the entire luxury industry with powerful product tracking and tracing services. The platform will be based on the Ethereum blockchain and utilize Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing platform. Forbes also has published an article about a tracking and verifying system for food supply chain with details about the first application of SAP’s blockchain technology. Within the TCBL network, the business service Thela is a supply chain program that allows brands in the fashion industry to monitor the social and environmental performance of all those involved in their supply chains.
Sinèad Burke photographed by Tim Walker, courtesy Body Beautiful: https://www.nms.ac.uk/bodybeautiful
Fashion for any body
A brand new exhibition opened May 8 at the National Museum of Scotland focuses on diversity in fashion by teaming up with “little person” advocate Sinèad Burke, whose photographs are also exhibited. Burke’s body was used to create dressmakers’ models in her own size.
Fair labour in the textile industry
The Fair Labor Association has announced a future resource with advanced worker and wage data from all over the world available for brands looking to employ workers in areas prone to exploitation. For example Ethiopia, where government attracted the garment industry by promoting the “lowest base wage in any garment-producing country”, the equivalent of $26 a month, according to a report by the New York University Stern Centre for Business and Human Rights, analysed in this article of The UK Times. The accessible information and campaigns on un-sustainable production has already had positive outcomes (see this BBC News story ). Change arrives step by step and big companies begin with small ethical steps, as Vogue Business reported about Kering, committed to employ only over-18 models in their campaigns by 2020. When it comes to big steps and big numbers, here is an interesting article about the possible reasons of the big difference between man and women in leader position in the apparel industry, even though “among apparel companies in the Fortune 1000 (including apparel retailers), female-led companies are almost twice as profitable as companies with male CEOs”, according to the Pwc report.
The winners of the Techtextil Innovation Awards 2019
For the first time, this year Techtextil handed out two awards in the ‘Sustainability’ category of the Techtextil Innovation Awards 2019: one for an international working group that presented polymer composites based on PLA fibres that can be used in the fields of automobile manufacturing, the sports industry and medical technology; and another one for Picasso, presented in this video, developed in Portugal and showcasing a dyeing process that uses only plant extracts and mushrooms.
“Kering” about animals
Business of Fashion published the new internal animal-welfare guidelines of Kering, the French conglomerate that operates luxury brands such as Balenciaga, Gucci and Saint Laurent. The directive will “ensure and verify the humane treatment of animals” across the company’s supply chains.
Value chain tracing fashion colossals
The public-benefit company Sustainable Apparel Coalition from San Francisco announced the introduction of Higg Co., a for-profit company that will develop technology and platforms for companies to work with the Higg Index: a suite of sustainability assessment tools to facilitate a faster and more efficient rollout across the global apparel, footwear and textile value chains. Jason Kibbey, Higg Co.’s chief executive officer said that many of the new company’s customers will be Sustainable Apparel Coalition partners, including the Adidas Group, Abercrombie & Fitch, The Walt Disney Co., Eileen Fisher, Guess? Inc., H&M, Hanes, Nike, Levi’s as well as Macy’s and Nordstrom.
Rent the runway flagship store | source: facebook page
Shopping vs clicking
Rent the Runway, founded in 2009, has reinvented customer approach to couture dressing. This month the company have opened a flagship brick-and-mortar store in San Francisco, as this article recounts. The retail space is not at all traditional: self-service stations have allowed the company to facilitate 10 times the amount of in-store transactions as were possible two years ago. Vogue Business reports also the sustainable practices of the company, like the patented reusable shipping bags and the use of green dry cleaning.
Meanwhile, Taobao, the ultra-popular online mall owned by Chinese conglomerate Alibaba, has opened its first brick-and-mortar retail store. Read more on digital-first retailers here. According to this article, recent survey by Kelton Global revealed that 85 percent of Americans shop in at least one retail store, physical stores still have a significant role to play. As the investor-attracting concept of social shopping of Storr demonstrates the online in-store experience is opened to experiments. Read this about how Storr works.
Running in bad and good circles
Circular economy isn’t just good for the planet, it’s also good for business, concludes this report by Fashion for Good and Accenture Strategy, exploring the financial viability of circular business models in the fashion industry based on rental, subscription-rental and re-commerce. For Sean Coxall, president of Li & Fung supply chain solutions, circles have a negative connotation, as a part of the fashion industry is stuck in circles because it’s not ready to leave traditional models behind, according to this article. Sourcing Journal featured also a report of a roundtable about how any transformation should start from the factories.
What is Made in China?
Trade tensions between the U.S. and China escalated this month: US apparel imports from China face a new 25% tariff. Read in this article about how brands reacted and this financial analysis about possible outcomes. Could this political-economic scenario accelerate some changes in China towards circular economy? Big players appreciate sustainable concepts but take no measures in real life, according to this article. There are some projects though, like Future Tech Lab, that work for building a new kind of economy. This venture capital fund that works with innovative startups prioritizing sustainability was founded by Miroslava Duma, awarded by the World Economic Forum with the title of Young Global Leader in 2018. She speaks about her project in this interview.
Salmon skin shoes
There is an alternative to industrial leather production which uses chrome in the chemical solution in the tanning process. Chrome tanning was invented in 1858 and quickly became the most commonly used process, replacing vegetable tanning because it was cheaper and faster. The hides are doused in water, chromium salts and tanning liquor for approximately two days, which changes the protein structures of the skin so that it doesn’t decompose and retains colour. If not managed correctly, this process chrome leaches arsenic, acids and other harmful chemicals into the local water supply. In this Forbes article the details of a new metal free process is revealed.
Fish skin is now being proposed as a valid ecological alternative to the leather demand of the fashion industry. Salmon skins at Atlantic Leather sell for 11 euros per square foot and use natural, non-polluting dyes. As BBC reports, now the company supplies top European fashion houses Jimmy Choo, Dior and Ferragamo. Contrary to what you might think, fish skin is actually stronger than lamb or cow and it’s suitable for shoe, belt and bag production.
Ikea-effect
The Ikea effect was first coined in a 2011 paper in the Journal of Consumer Psychology to indicate a personal capability process that increases satisfaction with the result, just like the IKEA furniture that typically requires some assembly before use. This is part of the logic behind the TCBL Café: participation brings together people interested handcrafts like sewing, knitting, embroidering in a social and collective setting and you get greater satisfaction of making things yourself, even in a collaborative way.
To find out how customers think about sustainability, IKEA has launched a research project with select Family card users. According to this summary, research finds that many consumers have a perception of pro-environmental consumption choices as likely to be inconvenient, expensive and burdensome. Fighting this perception, the company opened a “leading sustainable store” in Greenwich (London) that offers the usual product line and café as well as co-working spaces and free green areas, and has gotten an outstanding accreditation in the BREEAM certification.
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'It Haunts Me': Rihanna and Beyoncé Issue Emotional Statements on Police Brutality and the Murder of George Floyd
Maiysha Kai
Beyoncé speaks in a rare Instagram Live.
Screenshot: Beyoncé (Instagram)
Much of America is still in mourning and rage over the murder of George Floyd, and if you feel personally devastated, you are far from alone. Captured on video for the world to see police brutality in action, Floyd’s death under the knee of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been a visceral reminder of the threat to black lives in America, and no one who cares about black lives, including two of the most famous entertainers in the world, has been immune to the emotional fallout.
“For the last few days, the magnitude of devastation, anger, sadness I’ve felt has been overwhelming to say the least!” Rihanna wrote in an emotional post to Instagram Saturday, tagged with not only Floyd’s name but the names of recent victims Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. “Watching my people get murdered and lynched day after day pushed me to a heavy place in my heart! To the point of staying away from socials, just to avoid hearing the blood curdling agony in George Floyd’s voice again, begging over and over for his life!!!”
“The look of enticement, the pure joy and climax on the face of this bigot, murderer, thug, pig, bum, Derek Chauvin, haunts me!! I can’t shake this!” she added. “I can’t get over an ambulance pulling up to an arrest, a paramedic checking a pulse without removing the very thing that’s hindering it! Is this that fucking normal??? If intentional MURDER is the fit consequence for “drugs” or “resisting arrest”....then what’s the fit consequence for MURDER???!”
Beyoncé is also questioning the charges leveled against Chauvin, taken into custody on Friday and charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. In a rare video appearance on her Instagram page Saturday, the singer and philanthropist spoke out about the tragedy, urging her followers to sign a petition posted on her site to “demand more charges brought on all those involved in the death of George Floyd.”
“We need justice for George Floyd. We all witnessed his murder in broad daylight. We’re broken and we’re disgusted. We cannot normalize this pain,” Beyoncé said in the video (h/t Rolling Stone). “I’m not only speaking to people of color; if you’re white, black, brown or anything in-between, I’m sure you feel hopeless by the racism going on in America right now. No more senseless killing of human beings, no more seeing people of color as less than human. We can no longer look away. George is all of our family in humanity. He’s our family because he’s a fellow American.”
“There have been too many times that we’ve seen these violent killings and no consequences. Yes, someone’s been charged, but justice is far from being achieved,” she continued. “Please sign the petition and continue to pray for peace, compassion and healing for our country.”
In addition to texting “FLOYD” to 55156, Beyoncé is directing her followers to four justice organizations confronting this current crisis: Color of Change, the NAACP, We Can’t Breathe and Change.org, which has notified The Root that Floyd’s has become the largest petition in its history. In addition to Beyoncé, signatures include Cardi B, Keke Palmer, Lil Nas X, Attorney Benjamin Crump, Jay Versace, and nearly 8 million more. Additionally, June 2 has been designated “Black Out Tuesday” by many in the music industry; billed as “a day to disconnect from work and reconnect with our community”; coincidentally, at the start of what is as billed as Black Music Month.
Maiysha Kai is Managing Editor of The Glow Up, co-host of The Root Presents: It's Lit! podcast, and your average Grammy-nominated goddess next door...May I borrow some sugar?
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I’d like to see people with platforms, including and especially news organizations, also call out the state and local governments who sign contracts with police unions and enact “bill of rights” laws that enable the systematic avoidance of consequences for, and thus condonation of, the behavior being protested. Mayors should refuse to recognize unions and dissolve contracts. Now. Sue us? Fine. Start over. Any corporation that sponsors a police union needs to be put on blast. Sure, some will take that as a badge of honor but at least we’ll know where they stand. Speakers of each state legislature that has a version of a shield law giving police protection from investigation and hiding their conduct history from the public should be put on blast every day to repeal or replace them. Name bills. Name names. DAs’ records of charging or not for police misconduct and rigging grand juries should be front page news in every city until they are held accountable—through shame or election. Then fund challengers. I’m reading more about how what Klobuchar did or didn’t do as a DA affects her VP chances than how it affected the people of that county. If the NYT times can run a front-page list of names of victims of a pandemic they can run a front page list of names of people in leadership and policy making jobs who are actively contributing to a genocide. The enemies of the people need to be treated as the enemies of the people. There should be no place in polite society for actively complicit people.
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Facebook Will Now Notify You If NSA is Spying on You
October 19, 2015Swati Khandelwal
Facebook just launched a new notification feature that will alert you if the social network strongly suspects that your account is being hijacked or targeted by hackers working in the interest of a nation-state.
The message, which you can see below, recommends users to turn ON "Login Approvals," so that their Facebook accounts can only be accessed using stronger two-factor authentication.
Facebook insists that some necessary steps are already taken to secure users' Facebook accounts that may be targeted by hackers, but the company has also stepped up to directly warn its users when a government-sponsored attack is under away.
In a blog post published Saturday, Facebook Chief Security Officer (CSO) Alex Stamos announced that this step to secure accounts is necessary "because these types of attacks tend to be more advanced and dangerous than others."
Stamos added that "it's important to understand that this warning is not related to any compromise of Facebook's platform or systems and that having an account compromised in this manner may indicate that your computer or mobile device has been infected with malware. Ideally, people who see this message should take care to rebuild or replace these systems if possible."
But, this raises a question in my mind:
How exactly does the social network know that an account is being targeted by a government-sponsored hacker?
Facebook isn't disclosing how it would be able to differentiate between accounts compromised by a nation-state's hacker and smaller-scale attacker, saying that it has to "protect the integrity" of its methods and processes.
However, the social network giant promises that the company will only use this new warning notification "in situations where the evidence strongly supports [their] conclusion."
Facebook recommends its users to:
Rebuild or Replace any system that may have been infected with malware
Turn ON Login Approvals
Enabling login approvals is a good practice to help users keep outsiders from logging into their accounts. In this case, whenever your Facebook account is accessed via new browser or device, the company will send a code to your mobile phone.
So next time when you get any notification from Facebook, take the matter seriously.
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Trump found time to call his crony Roseanne to congratulate her on her ratings. But on the ejection of sixty Russian diplomats, words failed him.
They’re not going to fail us, however. In fact, there is one specific word that describes the appointment of friends and associates to positions of authority, without proper regard to their qualifications.
That word is cronyism. It used to be a crime.
There are many different examples of this taking place in the Trump administration; two exceptions are Jared and Ivanka. They’re family, so giving them jobs they can’t handle should properly be called nepotism. It is another type of corruption practiced by civil servants.
At any rate, it all comes back to the fact of Trump being the president.
If he were still just the slob king of Mar-a-Lago and Trump Tower, it would be fine to fill the most important positions around with incompetents and the criminally disabled. Sad as it might be to watch, it is not illegal to run your life into the ground in America.
What remains to be seen is if the law will prevent him from running everyone else’s life into the ground as well.
Trump warned his personal staff to speak softly on the subject of the closing of the Russian consulate in Seattle. He wanted to make sure not to upset Putin. He congratulated Putin on his sham victory and was furious that his national security advisers put the words “DO NOT CONGRATULATE” in all caps in his memo.
Recently former CIA director John Brennan spoke strongly of his opinion that the Russian tyrant has something on him. And just earlier today, when his advisors said they want to see him take a tougher line on Russia, he made a point of saying he is unconvinced that is the way to go.
In related news, the Presidential Personnel Office is said to be overwhelmed. Their efforts to place qualified people in key posts across government has been badly curtailed.
If this agency is unfamiliar to you, don’t be surprised. It’s a completely obscure White House office. But it is responsible for recruiting and vetting thousands of Trump administration political appointees. These have always suffered from inexperience and a shortage of staff made all the worse by the fact of they themselves being cronies.
Every White House faces personnel challenges. But the shortcomings of this office and Trump’s appointment process, in general, are far and away the most pronounced in memory, according to presidential scholars.
“No administration has done it as poorly as the current one,” said Max Stier, president and chief executive of the Partnership for Public Service, a nonpartisan group that teamed up with The Post to track appointments.
Cronyism, nepotism, and in our opinion treason. That’s what this administration is made of. Everybody knows it. The Trump voters too. They just didn’t care.
Ann Coulter actually admitted exactly that earlier this week, in an interview in which she expressed massive disappointment in the man she’s written hymnals full of praise about. “I knew he was a shallow, lazy ignoramus,” she said. “I just didn’t care.”
The Roseanne revival is portraying Trump supporters as people just worried about their families or the country. Good people, mired in economic instability and desperate for any sort of change, voted Trump because he offered them hope. Plenty of white people in that situation did just that.
That is the biggest cop-out in the world.
Just like Ann Coulter, every one of Trump’s voters knew what they were getting themselves into. Like her, they just didn’t care. This is not like George Bush or Richard Nixon, who seemed like decent enough guys on the surface.
Everyone in America heard him boasting about molesting women, about grabbing them by their very genitals. But they turned a blind eye, for the chance to feel like they could go back in time, to a set of good old days that never even existed. That is deplorable. In every sense of the word.
At the end of the day, you can never go back again, for better or for worse. You can’t unmake bad choices. In the end Roseanne bullies Jackie into voting for Jill Stein, and here we are. As this was going to publishing, the real-life Roseanne was making headlines again, thanking the President for freeing “Children from Pimps.”
It’s looking like words are going to fail us, after all.
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‘So You Think You Can Dance’ hits 42 cities
Rob Perez | August 7, 2013
So You Think You Can Dance, the eleven-time Primetime Emmy Award winning Fox show that sparked America’s fascination with dance, is set to captivate audiences again this fall
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[UPDATE – LAUNCHED] YouTube Is Launching Its Music Video Portal VEVO Tonight
by Alex Wilhelm — in Apps
VEVO has now launched, with YouTube and Universal pushing the glowing green button.
You can visit the website here. The website is lagging quite badly at the moment, so be patient.
Youtube’s upcoming music video website is going to be a damned impressive creation. VEVO, the service’s name, is a partnership with Universal that will be launched tonight.
At a party in NYC details are being released. It turns out that some 85% of the music videos that are on YouTube will be hosted via VEVO. Sadly, for all the cinematography fans, VEVO will not be launching with HD video, that will be coming next year.
The service, to build buzz will be launching with exclusives from 50 Cent, and Mariah Carey. VEVO will be fully built into YouTube, so that when you search for an artist on YouTube, VEVO content will appear.
Ben Parr has found out that: “You won’t have to watch a preroll every time you watch a VEVO video. It will serve ads based on aggregate usage.” Color me happy.
More as we have it.
– Update –
Launch sponsors are AT&T, McDonald’s, Nikon, Mastercard, Dove, Colgate, Axe, and Infinit.
The website seems to be US only at the moment. Testing in the UK shows at least that the website does not work there.
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Lack of representation in the English literature curriculum leads to calls for change from Penguin Books campaign
News 16th December 2020 By Tyrese King
Research shows that since 2016 there has been a 25% decrease in students studying English literature at A-level
Lit in Colour aims to make teaching of English literature more inclusive of black and Asian students by engaging young people in stories which reflect them
Pne GCSE English course features a novel or play written by a black author
Penguin Books has launched a new programme to promote writers from ethnic minority backgrounds in English literature.
Partnered with the Runnymede Trust, the charity and the company are working together on a campaign called Lit in Colour to create resources for schools to use.
It follows criticism school boards have been facing over the current canon taught in schools. Critics believe that by updating the curriculum to reflect the UK's current multicultural society, this will increase the interest in subjects like English.
Bernadine Evaristo, the first black woman to win the Booker prize, asks: “Where are we in the pages of the novel? Where are our narrative possibilities? Does this mean that we are not worthy, and that our experiences have no value?”
Research shows since 2016 here has been a 25% decrease in students studying English Literature at A Level.
Such a needed conversation with @CalebFemi_ + @ZaweAshton. Studying English lit at gcse + AS level, there were no texts by anyone from a minority background. Not one. That needs to change. Young people are missing out on so much incredible writing.@PenguinUKBooks #LitInColour pic.twitter.com/OvwotmuRpZ
— Laura Cunningham (@Laura0815) November 17, 2020
A Change.org petition has been started to persuade the Department of Education to update the curriculum.
Currently the petition has 489,008 signatures with a goal of 500,000. The petition suggests that The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla and Why I am no longer talking to white people about Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge should be added to educate young people about racism.
‘This is not about kicking Churchill off the curriculum. It's about providing context: to Churchill, cultural history and the world as we know it today.’ #LitInColourhttps://t.co/iG9MSNnMLj
— Penguin Books UK (@PenguinUKBooks) October 25, 2020
A report entitled The Race and Racism in English secondary schools, produced by the Runnymede Trust, explores how racism impacts the teaching workforce, curriculum, police and school policies in secondary school.
In the report, Remi Joseph-Salisbury, professor at the University of Manchester states that “(the) school curriculum too often fail to reflect the diversity of contemporary society, and the national curriculum does not mandate for engagement with the colonial-legacies or racist underpinning of contemporary Britain”.
The report adds that “the population of a racially literate society should be considered a fundamentally important aspect of school. This should be implemented though an extensive review of the national curriculum, conducted in consultation with anti-racist organisations, individuals and educators”.
The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
#LitInColour is such an important initiative from @PenguinUKBooks. I was in final year at university before I studied books written by people of colour. The routine way we dismiss the contribution of immigrants of colour to British history is a theme of #EmpireLand. See thread. https://t.co/3tyjRT7b58
— Sathnam Sanghera (@Sathnam) October 21, 2020
The Runnymede Trust is the UK’s leading race equality think tank and was founded in 1968 to provide evidence on racial inequaly, to inform policymakers and public opinion about the reality of inequality, and to work with local communities and policymakers to tackle them.
Alba Kapoor, a representative from the trust, said: “Almost every 16 year old in this country is currently studying English literature at GCSE level. Despite this, Teach First research published earlier this year shows that many will leave school without reading a single novel by an author of colour.”
When questioned on the petition, she said: “It is time to include the stories of Black and ethnic minority people, our values and our possibilities in the national curriculum.
"As research by the Runnymede Trust illustrates, changes to diversifying our curriculum has a fundamental role in ending racism in our schools and giving a strong sense of collective belonging.
“In history classes, most students do not learn the contribution that migration has made to Britain’s present, or the realities of British colonialism and empire.
In English lessons, most students are left without any knowledge of plays or novels written by a writer of colour. The lack of representation of Black and ethnic minority groups is felt across subjects and our education system, and it is time to change that”.
However, representation in teaching staff is also an issue.
Kapoor stated: “We urgently need more black and ethnic minority teachers in our schools. Analysis of the Department of Education’s figures in 2017, illustrates that schools need 68,000 more BME teachers to accurately reflect the school population in England.
"People of colour teaching in our schools are also more likely to experience discrimination when applying for work, and to be lower paid than their white peers.
“Over a quarter of English classrooms are made up of BME pupils. A failure to employ teachers who represent them has huge implications on promoting an anti-racist environment in schools.
"Having more teachers of colour in schools is vital not just for BME students, but for the school population as a whole. It is extremely important that action is taken to tackle the racial barriers to teaching across Britain”.
Studies show that only one GCSE English course features a novel or play written by a black author.
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21 November 2020, 16:45 IST
Rohit suffered a hamstring injury during the IPL, due to which he was dropped from the team for the tour of Australia earlier this month and he returned to play cricket in a few days …
IND vs AUS: How is Rohit feeling now?
For India’s white ball vice-captain Rohit Sharma, his hamstring injury was amusing and confusing as he always knew that the injury was not so serious and he was ready to play for Australia tour. Will be
Rohit suffered this hamstring injury during the Indian Premier League (IPL), due to which he was dropped from the team for the tour of Australia earlier this month and returned to play cricket in a few days, which led to speculation The round has started. After this, he was included in the Test team.
33-year-old ‘hitman’ Rohit told PTI, ‘Honestly speaking, I don’t know what was happening and what people were talking about. But let me tell for the record that I was in constant contact with BCCI and Mumbai Indians.
He played in spite of pain, scoring an innings of 68 runs in 50 balls against Delhi Capitals (DC) in the IPL final. Before going to Australia, he is currently training ‘Strength and Conditioning’ at the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru. Rohit said, ‘I told him (Mumbai Indians) that I can get on the field because it is a small format and I will deal with the situations well. Once I made sure, I just needed to focus on what I wanted to do.
Talking about playing in the IPL started despite an injury in the play-offs, he said, “It was not a matter of concern for me whether anyone is talking about whether he will be able to go for Australia tour or not.” ‘ He said, ‘Once I got hurt, the next two days I tried to see what I could do in the next 10 days, whether I would be able to play or not.’
The 5-time IPL champion captain said that until he reaches the ground, it is not known how the body is working. He said, ‘But each day the condition of the hamstring injury was changing. The way it was healing, I became convinced that I could play and I told Mumbai Indians about it at that time.
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Black developers say partnerships aren’t always equal
New York has a goal of 30 percent of state contracts set aside for Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprises, while New Jersey’s set-aside goal is 25 percent.
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By Georgia Kromrei
From left: The Blau and Berg Company’s Karine Blanc, TD and Partners’ Nana Duncan and Lemor Development Group’s Kenneth Morrison (Credit: Blauberg, TD+Partners and Lemor)
Developers of color say the problem of larger builders using them as tokens has not been solved — even on private projects, where no government mandate for minority participation is involved.
Minority and female-led contractors say that more established developers commonly enlist firms like theirs as “marketing representatives” in gentrifying areas and give them a miniscule slice of the profits.
When Kenneth Morrison was just starting out as a developer at his Harlem-based firm Lemor Development Group, he said he received several offers from big-name developers to provide “boots on the ground” and run interference with community boards during the approvals process.
“I’ve had for-profit developers contact me to be on their teams for a 10 to 20 percent partnership, and my responsibility was to be more of a marketing representative,” Morrison said. “But you don’t want to feel like you’re being used for that.”
None of the developers who spoke to The Real Deal would name names, but all said the dynamic is commonplace.
However, some developers, especially smaller ones, might not think lopsided partnerships are such a bad deal, according to Karine Blanc, director of multifamily for The Blau and Berg Company, a commercial real estate firm in New Jersey. Agreeing to run interference for out of town investors could just be a stop on the way to doing larger projects.
“There are some smaller developers who just want to collect the fee, attach their face and minority business certification to collect the fee,” Blanc said. “There are developers who really just want to do larger-scale projects under their own name and merit, and will use the opportunity to do something down the road and attract capital.”
Mayor Bill de Blasio last week increased New York City’s contract goal for minority and women-owned business enterprises by $5 billion to $25 billion by 2025. The MWBE target for state contracts is 30 percent in New York and 25 percent in New Jersey.
A raft of criminal and civil cases, penalties and settlements, and a 2013 grand jury report have laid bare the practice of contractors on public projects hiring minority subcontractors to meet MWBE targets but not actually letting the smaller firm do meaningful work. That is considered fraud because it defeats the goal of the government mandate, which is to help minority contractors gain the experience and expertise necessary to grow.
Big contractors, for their part, say there are not enough qualified MWBEs to meet ever-increasing city and state thresholds on large public works. They complain about not being able to assist the subcontractors they use, lest it be interpreted as fraud.
Those legal risks don’t exist on private cases, but a similar dynamic can be present. On private projects going through a public review, there is an advantage to having minority or female representation on a development team.
“People realize they can get through the approval process faster if they have a woman-owned developer on board, or if they’re partnering with a minority woman-owned firm,” said Nana Duncan, managing partner at New Jersey development firm TD and Partners. “You find those things happening more and more. It’s usually after the fact, when they’ve realized they don’t know the landscape as well.”
For the outside developer, that could inspire more trust with the community and ease concerns in gentrifying areas. For a female or minority firm, it’s a chance to work on bigger projects, gain access to capital and put its own imprint on a development — assuming it is not marginalized by the larger firm.
“If you’re in East Orange with an all-black city council, there’s something about seeing a partnership with a minority developer that gives you comfort,” said Duncan. “As a local or minority developer you have the capacity to do what you want to do, not partner with some large developer with a reputation for going into markets and doing all the wrong things.”
With 1,400 units in its portfolio and another 500 units in the pipeline, Morrison said it has been a long time since his firm has accepted an offer for a highly unequal partnership. He speculated that such arrangements might not be as effective as they once were.
“Community groups see through it, so it might not happen too often now,” Morrison said. “Now folks know better.”
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Plantible Raises $4.6M to Accelerate Production of Protein Made from Aquatic Plants
Plantible Foods, a San Marco, California-based startup making alternative protein from aquatic plants, has raised a $4.6 million seed round. The round was co-led by Lerer Hippeau and Vectr Ventures, with participation from FTW Ventures and eighteen94 Capital, the corporate venture arm of Kellogg’s.
Founded in 2018, Plantible processes lemna, also known as duckweed, to create a high-protein powder called Rubi Protein which it sells to B2B partners. As we wrote when we profiled Plantible earlier this year:
Plantible’s scientists developed a proprietary process to extract the grassy flavor from lemna, leaving a protein that’s on par with pea or soy nutrition-wise, but is completely colorless, odorless, and flavorless. The perfect blank canvas for a variety of animal alternative products.
Speaking to me on the phone this week, Plantible’s co-founder Tony Martens said the company has now raised a total of $5.8 million in funding. He also told me he and the Plantible team had decamped to live out of trailers on their two-acre lemna farm as soon as California enacted its shelter-in-place measures. Despite the circumstances, the small team is continuing to produce the Rubi Protein and push forward with R&D.
The company plans to use the fresh funding to scale up production. Right now Plantible is only able to utilise about 4 percent of the lemna grown on the farm, which they process in a lab on wheels (“like something out of a Breaking Bad episode,” Martens said). The goal is to be able to invest in a larger processing facility so that they can start turning all of the lemna from the aquatic farm into Rubi Protein.
Of course, our conversation quickly turned to the coronavirus pandemic. Martens said that for now, they’re still planning to plow forward with commercialization. For the past few months Plantible has been testing its Rubi Protein Powder with several corporate partners and they still hope to have a product featuring Rubi Protein out in the market by late 2020 or early 2021.
But Plantible isn’t immune to the effects of COVID-19. “Lots of plant-based foods are priced at a premium,” Martens told me. “Smaller brands might have a tough time surviving the recession that could result from the pandemic.”
Indeed, Plantible will be more costly than some other plant proteins, at least initially. But Martens is confident that they’ll quickly be able to undercut the price of egg whites — one of the ingredients that Rubi Protein can replace — and will eventually be cheaper than pea protein.
CPG companies are looking for ways to cash in on the plant-based foods craze. With this new funding, it looks like Plantible will have a chance to prove its worth in the canon of alt-protein ingredients — coronavirus or no.
Plantible is Turning Aquatic Plants into Next-Gen Plant-based Protein
Look at an ingredient list for plant-based meat or dairy products, and right up top you’ll probably see pea, soy, wheat, or maybe even mung bean. But San Diego-based startup Plantible is introducing a brand new player to the alternative protein landscape: lemna (commonly known as duckweed).
Plantible’s co-founders, Tony Martens and Maurits van de Ven, stumbled upon lemna as they were searching for a plant-based protein superior to what was already out there in the market. Martens explained that many alternative proteins require stabilizers to accurately mimic the texture of animal products, especially ones that “gel” when cooked, like egg whites or cheese. Stabilizers not only add to the ingredient list, they also make product development more expensive and time-consuming.
Martens and van de Ven wanted to find a protein that could copy the nutrition and texture of animal products, and was also more sustainable to produce than industry leaders pea and soy. They believe they’ve found it in lemna, a free-floating aquatic plant commonly known as “duckweed” (though van de Ven said, understandably, they’re pushing away from the term, because who wants to eat something called duckweed?). Plantible’s scientists developed a proprietary process to extract the grassy flavor from lemna, leaving a protein that’s on par with pea or soy nutrition-wise, but is completely colorless, odorless, and flavorless. The perfect blank canvas for a variety of animal alternative products.
Lemna is also meant to be more sustainable than other plant-based proteins out there. The plant is grown in indoor aquatic farms, so it doesn’t require land or irrigation (though it no doubt requires a lot of water on which to grow). The aquatic plant also doubles its mass every 48 hours, so it can be harvested daily as opposed to once or twice a year.
Plantible’s aquatic lemna farms. [Photo: Plantible]
For now, we have to take Plantible’s word for that. The startup began validating its lemna through CPG partners five months ago — who have used the protein as a building block for everything from plant-based burgers to ice cream. In 2020, Plantible plans to start selling its lemna to CPG partners and also launch its own consumer product featuring the protein. Martens told me that the lemna will cost about the same as pea protein.
Founded in the Netherlands, Plantible quickly relocated to the U.S. because, according to Martens, the harsher regulatory restrictions means it takes much longer to launch a new product in Europe than the U.S. Thus far the startup has raised more than $1 million, though the founders wouldn’t give me exact numbers.
Plantible may be trying to next “it” alternative protein, but if it were up to the company’s founders, we wouldn’t be using the term “alternative” at all. They prefer to call their product “next-generation” protein instead. “These ingredients are not alternative,” Martens explained. “They’re just the new standard of how we produce food.”
Considering how the plant-based food market has ballooned in 2019, that’s not too lofty an exaggeration. That said, Plantible’s lemna is still extremely green compared to behemoths like pea and soy. But with companies hungry to develop more and more plant-based products, I expect there will be plenty of demand for a new alternative — er, next-gen — protein.
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Beverly Hills, CA, October 17, 2017 –(PR.com)– On October 17, 2017, eye surgeon Dr. Brian Boxer Wachler, known as "America's TV Eye Doctor,” and publisher New World Library today released a code-breaking new book entitled Perceptual Intelligence that reveals the secrets behind our perceptions.
How can two people perceive the same conversation in totally different ways? What compels some to pay $100 for “cat poop coffee”? Why do some people see the Virgin Mary in a grilled cheese sandwich? Why do we get a bad feeling about somebody we’ve just met? How can you recognize when you’re being manipulated?
With a combination of verve and scientific rigor evocative of Malcolm Gladwell or Oliver Sacks, Dr. Boxer Wachler guides readers on a fascinating tour of sensory perception, its pitfalls, and ultimately how to make better decisions in life.
With a foreword by Emmy Award-winning media personality Montel Williams, the book explores topics such as persuasion, intuition, sports, mind tricks and illusions, extreme beliefs, self-delusion, and celebrity worship. It concludes with a “Perceptual Intelligence Assessment,” offering ways to improve your Perceptual Intelligence and decision-making abilities.
Dr. Boxer Wachler’s Perceptual Intelligence has received stellar reviews from the likes of TV host Dr. Phil, bestselling author Dr. Robert Cialdini, musician Apl.de.ap, author and activist Caitlyn Jenner, TV host Dr. Travis Stork, tennis champion and commentator Pam Shriver, eight time Olympic medalist Apolo Ohno, professional baseball player Tommy Pham, and best-selling author Leil Lowndes.
“Perceptual Intelligence draws you in on every page–whether you have an intellectual interest in the sciences, psychology, sociology, sports, religion, the creative arts, or sexuality, this book provides brilliant insights and clarity to help you see yourself better and identify when your perceptions might be spot on target – or are leading you far astray.”
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"I've used visualization techniques to get a mental edge throughout my career, but Dr. Brian Boxer Wachler's Perceptual Intelligence book takes mind/body to a whole new level. Perceptual Intelligence has the power to help people find the champion and truth-teller within themselves."
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“With his new book, Dr. Brian Boxer Wachler expands our view of human perception by showing us that a new science is emerging – one that holistically integrates the many factors that influence our beliefs, and decision making.”
– Montel Williams, Emmy Award-winning media personality
Dr. Boxer Wachler is an internationally renowned eye surgeon, who earned the nickname “America’s TV Eye Doctor” after performing live surgery in front of millions of viewers on NBC's Today. He is a regular contributor to local and national TV programs (including CBS’s The Doctors), a columnist for The Huffington Post, and a frequent contributor to newspaper and magazines.
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The best way to pay tribute to Ray was with a wine that personifies his character and spirit.
Coming of age around the wine business in the Napa Valley, everyone knew the story of Silver Oak. The winery and the Duncan family were spoken about in hushed and reverent tones; to this day, I’m humbled to be only their third winemaker in nearly 50 years. Since joining the team in 2014, I’ve heard legends of Ray from his sons and long-time employees. He was a Captain in the Marine Corps during the Korean War, a visionary entrepreneur and a fun-loving grandfather with a ‘twinkle in his eye.’
“I was also reminded of his love for Soda Canyon Ranch.”
David, Ray’s youngest son, and I often talked about ways we could honor such an enduring legacy. We decided the best way to pay tribute to Ray was with a wine that personifies his character and spirit. At first, this responsibility was terrifying. But I was grounded by the legends of a man who didn’t take himself too seriously. Being overly precious just wasn’t Ray’s style. I was also reminded of his love for Soda Canyon Ranch—its rugged beauty, topographic diversity and the oak grove where his granddaughter would later be married.
“The resulting wine had to be distinct, singular and independent, but also delicious, elegant and could perform amongst the best in their class.”
We’d select the best fruit from Soda Canyon Ranch in a given year. The resulting wine had to be distinct, singular and independent, but also delicious, elegant and could perform amongst the best in their class. The final blend, now known as Timeless Napa Valley, is honest and jovial with depth and character—just like Ray.
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by Marcia Miller (1972)
Life on the third floor of California General, one of San Francisco’s newer hospitals, had its share of ups and downs for copper-haired Mandy Lewis, a professional-minded nurse. All was taken in stride, however, until the new resident, Clay Elliot, took over the floor. When he called Mandy to task for her tactics with an especially difficult patient, her usual even temper responded in kind to his somewhat supercilious tone and manner.
The infuriating thing about Clay Elliot — tall, dark, and blue-eyed — was his surprising amount of charm. And, in spite of herself, Mandy found that she was gradually succumbing to Clay’s personality as well as appreciating his abilities as a fine doctor. So much so, in fact, that when she learned that Clay had been seeing the lovely blonde socialite Lisa Wainwright, her distress was acute.
Convincing herself that she didn’t care, Mandy accepted several dates with Clay and later — to her amazement — realized that it was she whom Clay really cared for. But Clay’s mother, an aristocratic woman whom Mandy had once met, made it clear that someone like Lisa Wainwright was more suitable for her son. And when Mrs. Elliot phoned Mandy to discuss in private a matter of vital importance, Mandy was filled with trepidation — and rightly so.
It takes the clever aid of Mandy’s mother — who has flown in from New York for a visit — to teach Mandy the true meaning of trust and the danger of a false accusation.
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Azalea Cottage with it’s quiet comfort and elegance was all Nurse Sinclair could have wished for — if her patient had been as happy as she was beautiful…
“You’re sound, Sally, very sound,” Dr. Garry Linton told her. Nurse Sinclair laughed. “Are you talking about a nice big russet apple, or me?” she asked. But she was troubled. He said he loved her, but did he? And now she would be away nursing Lisa Cannon for three long months, Lisa, whose high-strung disposition and self-pity made her as unpleasant to be with as she was lovely to behold.
But Sea Island was a magical isle and Sally Sinclair was determined to explore all of the magic of it.
It began when she discovered the exquisite miniature village — a Lilliput town — which Allen Blaisdell had built. After that, everything seemed to change, as if Sally had found the key to the secret garden, to Lisa’s recovery, and to her own heart.
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Book Review: ‘Chain of Gold’ and happy release day!
Posted on March 3, 2020 by Cathrin in Book News, Cassandra Clare, The Last Hours // 2 Comments
Happy release day to Chain of Gold and Cassandra Clare! Many of us have been waiting for six years, eleven months and thirteen days for this book to be published and the day has finally come. Chain of Gold is available in book and online shops now. I’m so glad this book is now out in the world! Happy book birthday! ❤
Since it has become a tradition for me to write a book review, here is mine for Chain of Gold!
All the information or quotes that are shared below can be found online (here, for instance) and will be the only ‘spoilers’ that are mentioned unless stated otherwise.
Cordelia Carstairs is a Shadowhunter, a warrior trained since childhood to battle demons. When her father is accused of a terrible crime, she and her brother travel to London in hopes of preventing the family’s ruin. Cordelia’s mother wants to marry her off, but Cordelia is determined to be a hero rather than a bride. Soon Cordelia encounters childhood friends James and Lucie Herondale and is drawn into their world of glittering ballrooms, secret assignations, and supernatural salons, where vampires and warlocks mingle with mermaids and magicians. All the while, she must hide her secret love for James, who is sworn to marry someone else.
But Cordelia’s new life is blown apart when a shocking series of demon attacks devastate London. These monsters are nothing like those Shadowhunters have fought before—these demons walk in daylight, strike down the unwary with incurable poison, and seem impossible to kill. London is immediately quarantined. Trapped in the city, Cordelia and her friends discover that their own connection to a dark legacy has gifted them with incredible powers—and forced a brutal choice that will reveal the true cruel price of being a hero. (x)
The point of stories is not that they are objectively true, but that the soul of the story is truer than reality.
The Shadowhunters books are always very character driven so it’s probably the best idea to focus on the characters first. Chain of Gold introduces us to a big cast of new(ish) characters and apart from a couple of exceptions, I adore all of them so I’m going to mention my absolute favourites.
Cassie was pretty forthcoming regarding some characters but kept mum on others. I was prepared to like Cordelia Carstairs, but I did not expect that I’d fall in love with her the way I did. She is the full package! She is a fierce warrior – who’s surprised since Cortana picked her? – a kind friend and loving sister/daughter. She is also a very pragmatic girl, who isn’t afraid to get her hands dirty or do what’s necessary. There’s one scene close to the end of the book where I pumped my fist because Cordelia was just so incredible!
Matthew has been dear to me since Nothing But Shadows. He’s started out as such a fun and charming character and although this took somewhat of a turn in more recent novellas, I love him and want nothing but the best for him. In my opinion his character arc in books two and three is going to be particularly interesting to see because this guy is truly going through a lot. Please be okay, Matthew!
What is there to say about James? He is amazingly sweet, but he can also be amazingly dumb. Sometimes I just wanted to shake him. When you’re reading Chain of Gold, I’m sure you’ll know what I’m talking about. 😊 He is the leader of his group of friends and he leads them well, although he also leans on them when he’s got trouble with his demon power. He learns something very important about his power in this book and how this is going to affect him in the future will be fun to find out!
Thomas is a sweetheart, this is honestly the best way to describe him. He reminded me a bit of Simon from The Mortal Instruments, a character I also love, and I’m intrigued to see if his development will be similar to Simon’s. He loves his friends so much, he’s pretty soft-spoken but he can also speak your mind. When Thomas speaks, you listen!
Anna is AH-mazing! I completely understand why the younger cast of characters admires her so much, she is so confident in her own skin and doesn’t listen to her critics. Her relationship with Cordelia is something I’m so much looking forward to in Chain of Iron! These two are very opposite from each other, but I think that’s why their friendship is going to work so well.
We also got a very brief glimpse into Will and Tessa’s lives as a married couple and as parents. I was very pleasantly surprised to have this very short, but very sweet POV from Tessa. It was so great to read about these two again! ❤
After almost seven years, I also loved seeing the other characters from The Infernal Devices. They are all parents now and it’s so refreshing to see so many loving ones in Cassie’s book.
Grace and Jesse are without a doubt the two most mysterious characters in Chain of Gold and my feelings on them are pretty clear: I hated one of them and loved the other. I can’t wait to see what other readers think about them! Nevertheless, both of their storylines are without a doubt going to be so great in the other two books!
The whole long introduction at the beginning might be a bit slow for some readers, but I think it’s necessary because of the many characters that show up in the book.
Once you know who is who, the action kicks off and there are a lot of developments with surprising twists!
The world in The Last Hours is very different from the world of The Infernal Devices. It’s a peaceful time for the characters and that’s why the sudden demon threat, which is very unusual, is so stressful to many of them. I really enjoyed the whole story arc of the demon threat and the villain who’s responsible for it and it’ll be interesting to see whether this will come back in one way or another in future books.
The other villain in the book is the one everyone was probably expecting to see and their craziness certainly didn’t disappoint. They are vile, cruel and I cannot wait for them to gone!
Love cuts deeper than any blade.
Ah, love. It wouldn’t be a Cassie Clare book, if there wasn’t at least one unique love story in it. Well, guess what? It looks like we are going to have more than one this time! ❤
Cordelia and James is obviously the main relationship in the series. These two have the potential to be really, really great together! I was going through a lot of emotions whenever I read a scene with these two.
Like I said, there will be other romantic relationships, but these would be too much of a spoiler so I’m quickly going to focus on the sibling relationships because we’ve had a lot of them in Chain of Gold!
My favourite pair of siblings was Cordelia and Alastair. Sometimes their relationship was like ‘I love you because I kind of have to, but I don’t like you very much’ but other times they were nothing but supportive of each other!
It is clear that all nearly the different characters who have a brother/sister or maybe both love them a lot. They get along, they tease each other (hello, Lucie) and when push comes to shove, they work together to solve the problem (while kind of ‘forgetting’ to let their parents know ^^).
I am so glad we already have a release date for Chain of Iron (1st March 2021)! After the ending of Chain of Gold, I desperately need the second book so that I know what’s going to happen to my favourite characters not to mention the person that featured in the epilogue.
To sum up: Chain of Gold was an amazing start to Cassie’s The Last Hours trilogy! I had a fantastic time reading it and enjoyed myself immensely. London back in 1903, the fashion and the outings were so vividly described that I wish I could go there and meet the characters. 😊 Thank you, Cassie, for writing yet another riveting book! Five out of five stars!
A word of advice: if possible, read certain short stories first before you read Chain of Gold, it’s not 100% necessary as Cassandra Clare has said on her Instagram, but I think it enriches your reading experience. I’d suggest (re)reading The Whitechapel Fiend, Nothing But Shadows (= Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy), Cast Long Shadows, Every Exquisite Thing (= Ghosts of the Shadow Market) and The Midnight Heir (= The Bane Chronicles).
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2 Comments on Book Review: ‘Chain of Gold’ and happy release day!
Noreen // March 3, 2020 at 8:24 PM // Reply
Thanks for the non-spoilery review of Chain if Gold. It sounds amazing. I have not started reading it yet because I pre-ordered it and it hasn’t arrived yet; hopefully tomorrow.
Marie // March 3, 2020 at 11:29 PM // Reply
This book is like a treat I can’t wait to read, but also am scared to start because I don’t want it to be over. I finished rereading clockwork princess last night and foolishly stayed up until 1 to reread After the Bridge too. TID characters are my favorite in the Shadowhunter world and I’m prepared to fall in love with their children. I still plan to reread the above mentioned short stories and listened to the audio of whitechapel fiend this weekend. I confess I had to pause in my reread to read Fairytale in London when I got my book today and it doesn’t disappoint. What a lovely gift to her readers. ❤️
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The Eagles fired coach Doug Pederson on Monday, ending a partnership that delivered the first and only Super Bowl title in the city’s history.
Pederson was expected to remain as coach despite a 4-11-1 finish this season. But multiple meetings with team owner Jeffrey Lurie over the past week left his boss unconvinced that Pederson had a sound vision for how to address the myriad issues facing the team, sources said, from navigating the Carson Wentz situation to fixing an offense that finished 26th in scoring (20.9 points per game) and 28th in passing yards (207.9 yards per game) in 2020.Lurie explained the decision to move on from Pederson during a video news conference on Monday.
“My first allegiance is, what will be best for the Philadelphia Eagles and our fans for the next three, four, five years. It’s not based on does someone deserve to hold their job or deserve to get fired; that’s a different bar,” Lurie said.”It’s not about, ‘Did Doug deserve to be let go?’ No, he did not deserve to be let go. That’s not where I’m coming from, and that’s not the bar in the evaluation process.”
Lurie said the decision to move on from Pederson was not specific to Wentz or one position group, focusing instead on the regression of the offense overall in a season during which the NFL set a record for points scored. Lurie did not commit to Wentz returning next season but suggested the new coaching staff would work with the QB to get him back on track.
“I don’t think any owner should decide that. Carson, to me and to I think virtually everyone in our organization, is a quarterback that in his first four years was in many ways elite, comparable to some of the great quarterbacks the first four years in the league. The fifth year, obviously not satisfactory for whatever reasons, there are probably multiple reasons for that,” Lurie said.
“I think the way I look at it is, we have an asset and we have a talent. He’s a great guy. He wants nothing but to win big and win Lombardi trophies for Philadelphia. This guy is tireless. He has his heart in the right place. He is really dedicated offseason, on-season. He’s just what you want. And it behooves us as a team with a new coach and new coaching staff to be able to really get him back to that elite progression where he was capable of, and understand at the same time that there have been many quarterbacks in their fourth and fifth year, if you trace this, you can come up with many, many quarterbacks that have a single year where it’s just, ‘Whoa, the touchdown-to-interception ratio is not what you want.’ And we’re talking some great ones like Peyton and Ben and guys like that.””So I take more of a longer view of this was not the best season for our offense,” Lurie continued. “It was a poor season. And we also had a poor season from Carson, in terms of what he’s been able to show in the past; very fixable, and I fully expect him to realize his potential.”
In a statement released through the Eagles, Pederson said it was “an absolute honor serving” as the Eagles’ head coach.
“As difficult as it is to say goodbye, I will always look back on my time here with appreciation and respect,” he said. “… The memories we made here, together, will always have a special place in my heart. To the City of Philadelphia, thank you for embracing me and this team. I truly appreciate that passion you bring every single day — at home, on the road, and in the community. No matter what, you were always right there with us. Although I am disappointed that this chapter of my career has come to an end, I am extremely proud of what we accomplished together. Through all the ups and downs, one thing remained constant about our team — an unwavering commitment to battle through adversity and to achieve our goals not as individuals, but as a collective unit. There is no better example of that than when we celebrated the first Super Bowl Championship in Eagles history together with our city. That is a memory we will all cherish forever.”
Lurie also wasn’t sold on Pederson’s plans regarding his coaching staff, sources said. Pederson pushed for passing game coordinator/quarterbacks coach Press Taylor to be elevated to offensive coordinator rather than bringing in a more established candidate. The issue of how to fill the void left by defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz, who plans to take the year off from football in 2021, also was unresolved.
Wentz regressed dramatically in his fifth year and was replaced in the lineup by rookie Jalen Hurts for the last quarter of the season. Wentz planned to ask for a trade in the offseason because his relationship with Pederson was fractured beyond repair, league sources previously said. The trust issues between the two work both ways, sources said, despite Pederson recently saying that his relationship with Wentz was fine.
Pederson’s firing significantly increases the chances of Wentz staying in Philadelphia, a source told ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler.
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— Zach Ertz (@ZERTZ_86) January 11, 2021
Wishing my man Dougie P nothing but the best in the next phase of his life. Great coach who never blinked during our toughest moments over the past 5 seasons. Most importantly made history in Philly!! First HC to win it! SB 52 Champs. Best of luck
— Rodney McLeod (@Rodney_McLeod4) January 11, 2021
Pederson became just the eighth NFL head coach to win a Super Bowl within his first two years at the helm when the Eagles beat the New England Patriots to capture the Lombardi trophy during the 2017 season. That was the first of three straight playoff appearances for the Eagles under Pederson, before the wheels came off in 2020. He compiled a record of 46-39-1 over five seasons with the Eagles, including four playoff wins.
Lurie said Monday he expects Eagles assistant head coach/running backs coach Duce Staley to be among the candidates to replace Pederson, calling him “a great representative of the Eagles” who “knows our values.”
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“A beautifully listenable, engaging piece that is original without trying too hard and goes beyond its creator to tell a remarkable story.” The Times, 5* (album of the week)
“An album full of wit, originality and indelible tunes.” The Guardian, 5*
“These are epic soundtracks for the lost adventurer within us all.” Mojo 4*
“Rhys has now been a conduit for good ideas for over two decades. You can’t help wishing there were more like him.” Q 4*
“With over 15 albums behind him, in one guise or another, Rhys’ seemingly limitless imagination is breathtaking. You’ve heard the album, now get the book, film, app.” Record Collector, 5* (album of the month)
In an age where rock’n’roll is increasingly the preserve of worthy men setting their careful explorations of modern life’s minutiae to music, anyone seen to be ambitiously pushing at the medium’s perceived boundaries is going to look like an outsider. By that principal, where to place Gruff Rhys and American Interior – an interconnected collection of songs documenting the true story of a Welsh explorer’s fantastical journey across the heart of the unmapped American continent in the late 18th century – really is anyone’s guess. Maybe it takes an outsider to get under the skin of rock’n’roll’s very best tales?
Through nine albums with Super Furry Animals, two with Neon Neon and handful of solo LPs, Gruff Rhys has distinctively documented the lives of others. Across those records, tales of gentleman rogue Howard Marks, controversial automobile engineer John DeLorean and communist publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli have rubbed shoulders with Welsh children’s TV staple Sali Mali, one half of outré-music duo Sparks and Grand Slamming sister act Venus & Serena. Each time, those stories have been set to pop music heavily seeped in timeless melody and wide-eyed wonder.
American Interior may well be Gruff’s most fully realised character study yet. A warm and moving study of a true outsider life, it tells astory so far-fetched, it could only ever be true.
The album (along with complimentary book, film and digital app) follows the path set by John Evans, a North Walian who set off on a quest to find the Madogwys – a legendary tribe of light skinned, Welsh speaking native Americans. An untrained cartographer, the map Evans made of his journey went beyond the known borders of the United States and ended up becoming the guide for Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery Expedition (1804 – 1806).
Gruff’s own exploration of Evans’ life took him from a Native American sagebrush ceremony in an art’s centre in Canton in Cardiff to the heart of Mandan country in North Dakota. Along the way, he undertook an ‘investigative concert tour’ that wound its way from Yale University all the way to Memphis; a tour that would help cement his reputation as a social historian and master storyteller. As a direct result of that nine-date tour and extensive research undertaken on the way, Gruff returned home as arguably the world’s leading authority on Evans’ incredible life.
In anyone else’s hands, John Evans’ life would have been realised in blacks, whites and greys. In Gruff’s hands it’s a truly cinematic vision rendered in psychotropic surround sound; a fully immersive topographical, time-travelling rock’n’roadtrip. As a record, American Interior sits proudly next to his very best – the result of two decades honing a truly unique musical vision. If this is an outsider’s vision, long may Gruff Rhys continue to map out the peripheries.
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It’s just happened that way. I’ve had flings and things with women before, and gone on dates with women, but it’s the first time it’s reached “This is my girlfriend” status. Which for the most part, hasn’t been a big deal. Well, maybe that’s not true— it’s a big deal because it’s the first relationship I’ve been in in ages , not because it’s with a woman. Me being with anyone seriously is a bigger deal than the gender and most of my friends and family are not the least bit phased or surprised about it being with a woman.
I’ve always been really open about my sexuality and I’m really lucky that, besides some family reticence, it really has never been too traumatic.
Maybe it’s a friend whose tequila-fuelled “I love yooooooous! Or perhaps it’s that woman who always makes a point of sitting next to you at yoga and who picked your car keys up with a wink when you dropped them after class last week. It could be that you’ve started to re-watch old episodes of Mad Men and you know deep down it’s only for Christina Hendricks.
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Klete Keller, a champion swimmer who won two Olympic gold medals as a relay teammate of Michael Phelps, was identified by former teammates and coaches as a member of the crowd that surged into the U.S. Capitol during violent protests on Wednesday.
A video posted by a reporter from a conservative outlet, Townhall, appeared to show the 6-foot-6 Keller towering over a crowd that was pushing and shoving with police officers who were trying to clear the Capitol Rotunda.
Several former teammates and coaches said they recognized Keller in the video because of his size and because he was wearing a U.S. Olympic team jacket that had “USA” printed across the back and down the sleeves. A green face covering hung around his neck, making his face clearly visible.
Trump supporters fought back after Capitol Police moved in to retake the Rotunda. pic.twitter.com/4e7mNyqWZy
A swimming news site, SwimSwam, first reported Keller’s presence at the Capitol riot on Monday. The video had been circulating in the swimming community since last week, and several people who saw it are said to have reported Keller to the authorities.
Efforts to reach Keller were unsuccessful.
Few of the people who recognized Keller in the video expressed surprise at his presence in Washington. His deleted social media accounts, several of them said, had in recent years included a stream of pro-Trump messaging.
No video has emerged of Keller participating in any violent acts in the Capitol, but his mere presence in the building, if confirmed by the authorities, may have placed him in legal jeopardy. Numerous people who entered the building now face federal charges that include unlawful entry and disorderly conduct. More serious charges include theft of government property and firearms violations.
Keller, 38, was a member of three U.S. Olympic teams, and he won medals at three Olympics, including golds at the Athens Games in 2004 and at the Beijing Games in 2008 as a member of the 4×200-meter relay team. He won silver in the event at the 2000 Sydney Games.
A powerful freestyler, Keller produced his signature moment in 2004 in Athens. Days after winning a second straight bronze medal in the 400-meter freestyle, Keller gained a measure of revenge when he held off the gold medalist, Ian Thorpe of Australia, on the anchor leg of the relay final. Phelps swam the leadoff leg for the American team, which included Ryan Lochte and Peter Vanderkaay.
Keller had worked in recent years as a real estate agent in Colorado Springs. His agency, Hoff & Leigh, confirmed he was employed there when contacted by SwimSwam, but by Monday night the company had removed Keller’s profile and nearly all references to him from its website.
A cached version of his Hoff & Leigh contact page included a biography that described Keller as a broker associate with three years of real estate experience. His career as an elite athlete, the company said, had made him “extremely driven.”
Asked about Keller’s employment, a woman who answered the phone at the company on Tuesday said, “We can’t give out any information on that at this moment.” A call to a cellphone number for Keller returned a message that he was not available.
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Recognizing some of the issues facing her own generation and the uneasiness with sports sales, Layna Carnicom has embraced getting out of her comfort zone. Carnicom discusses some of her own original misconceptions in the sports market place, especially when it comes to learning to sell season tickets, groups, and mini packs. Carnicom talks about her frustration with some of her sports management classmates who want to go into "sports marketing" but cannot define it, as well as what her growth in the business has given her in terms of perspective.
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Looking through the lense of sports merchandise, Mikko Simon brings international activation experience to the brands that he has worked with. As Vice President for Point 3 Basketball, Simon discusses the guerilla marketing efforts of attacking less of the traditional retail space dominated by Nike or UnderArmour, and instead focusing on local basketball tournaments. Simon discusses the avoidance of using paid influencers to push their brand, as well as how various parts of the world perceive merchandise value in the global marketplace. Twitter: @FinnMikko
Ep. 713 - David Wright (CMO, MiLB) 0
For the 12th straight season, Minor League Baseball has garnered over 41 million fans. MiLB Chief Marketing Officer David Wright discusses the marketing efforts underway to ensure that the fan attendance number grows instead of remains static. Wright talks about some of the ways in which sponsors have now started to affiliate with MiLB as a vast network of teams for activation, as well as various innovations that have already started to pay dividends, especially when it comes to fan demographics. Twitter: @DavidWrightMiLB
Ep. 712 - Michael Hurley (Principal, ROI Sports) 0
Sports sponsorship activation has changed drastically over the last few years with the advent of digital components, as Michael Hurley sees it, there are few sponsors actually negotiating out what they see in a team's deck. Hurley discusses how some of the old ways of thinking, especially when it comes to product level sponsorships, are no longer relevant and must be done al la carte. Hurley talks about an issue of whether the buyers, some being older, understand new technology enough to invest in it as an advertising medium, as well as some of the demographic problems facing NASCAR down the road with young people. Twitter: @mhurley1
Ep. 711 - James DeMeo (Sports Security Specialist) 0
James DeMeo returns to the podcast for his second stint (Ep. 505), this time discussing the security surrounding the Rio Olympic games, and some of the ways in which communication become critical in a massive environment. DeMeo talks about his belief of terrorism being a real threat, not just of the international flavor, but also of the local, small-time kind, as he covers some of the national issues facing United States venue management teams. DeMeo presents his consulting options for how to ensure that an NFL game doesn't become a police state, but in turn, makes every part of the venue team feel that they are equally trained and strategically empowered to handle situations that may occur. Twitter: @JDeMeo007
Ep. 710 - Bryan Bedford (Principal, The Bedford Agency) 0
Returning to the podcast for a second stint (Ep. 390), Bryan Bedford discusses his transition to opening his own sports marketing and player consulting firm in Oklahoma City. Bedford talks about utilizing his coaching past at TCU to help high school parents and students understand the college recruiting process, as well as walk through a college athletic football office's viewpoint. Bedford sees himself as a conduit to having families make better decisions, which eliminate some of the wasteful spending based on a lack of knowledge about the process. Twitter: @BedfordAgency
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The Stupidest Idea in the History of the World
David Swanson,
War Is A Crime
If you search on the internet for “the stupidest idea in the history of the world” you’ll come away thinking that maybe a top contestant is the invention of Youtube. Who knew so many idiots could do so much damage to themselves with so many motorbikes and diving boards and flame throwers?
If you survey the span of human history a little more seriously, some big ideas jump out, beginning with the creation of history itself. Maybe if we’d stayed unhistoric, hunted, gathered, and existed eternally as part of nature we wouldn’t have gotten into such a mess. But that’s too easy an answer, and way too much for people who ride surf boards off their roofs — and film it — to think about.
Other ideas are in the running, I think, from industrial farming, to religion, to racism, to fossil fuels, to science at any cost, to the creation of the United States Senate. And yet, one idea stands out for its wild improbability, creativity, long-lasting destruction on an enormous scale, and insidious ability to turn even people who don’t own video cameras and catapults into champion unwitting masochists.
The idea I’m talking about, and my nominee for Stupidest Idea in the History of the World, is the idea that any ordinary person should ever support a war.
While it’s undoubtedly true that the war propagandist is the world’s second-oldest, and least respectable, profession, he or she is a product of history who wasn’t needed in prehistoric times. Nobody needed to be sold on the idea of hunters fighting off lions and bears. It’s when they ran out of lions and bears and decided to keep their jobs by starting fights with other tribes of humans that persuasion became necessary.
Why in the world would people want to support fighting and killing other people and having those other people fight and kill you? What’s to be gained? A thrill? If you want a serious and useful and communal thrill these days you can do nonviolent resistance to fascist governments. Or you can join a fire department. If you want a useless and pointless thrill, you can jump off a 100-foot bridge with a 100-foot (but all too stretchable) bungee cord and a video camera. Back then, you could go hunting or exploring, or try to discover gravity or surgery. Never was the only thrill available war.
And yet, down through the ages, war has popped up again and again, here and there, around the globe. And where it takes hold in a culture it carries with it the false belief that it’s always around in every culture. Thus people manage to find that they support the stupidest idea ever for the stupidest reason ever, because supposedly they have no choice. Yet, choosing to support war because you have no choice in the matter remains a feat which people with developed brains find challenging.
The stupidest idea ever is a marvel of simplicity, and in its simplicity answers every challenge. Why should people of tribe A be willing to go to war with the people of tribe B just because the tribe A chiefs want to steal some stuff from tribe B? The answer is easy if you’re a certified idiot who juggles flaming torches on Youtube: Anyone in tribe A who opposes waging war on tribe B is, by magical definition, in favor of tribe B winning a war against tribe A. Or, as modern sophisticates like to put it: Either you’re with us or you’re with the terrorists.
OK, so that’s a nifty trick, but the stupidest idea ever must be more comprehensive. It must surprise us in its ability to destroy in new areas, to pass unseen behind the backs of its moronic supporters, and to gain partial support from the partially informed, limiting its actual opponents to the barest minority of freaks and misfits. I offer for your consideration, once again, the idea of supporting war.
Observe: the nations that wage the most war claim that they are under attack for no good reason and are forced to wage war to defend themselves, even as their wars make them more and more hated and less and less safe. While the nations that wage the least war have the fewest enemies threatening them in the world. But people who’ve begun supporting war will readily believe that sending killer robot planes over the homes of poor people thousands of miles away is defensive, and that when it creates hatred and hostility the answer must be yet more weapons.
In fact, the same people support manufacturing tons of weapons and selling them to other countries against whom theirs will later fight wars, and they support this as a jobs program even though it actually sucks jobs out of their society rather than creating them. That is to say, war-related jobs cost more per job than do jobs created by spending on just about anything else, even tax cuts. So, people support weapons-making because they have been misled into supporting war, and they support war because they have been misled into supporting the weapons industries, and then they just support both out of sheer stupid habit — which is, of course, the single most powerful force in the universe.
But the stupidity of war doesn’t end there. People who support wars can be brought to believe that wars are good for their victims. They think of each war as building better nations where it’s fought, even though that’s never actually happened. They talk of humanitarian wars even though humanity suffers. They imagine war is a solution to genocide, even though war kills more people and those people are just as disproportionately helpless innocents from one group in a war as in a genocide.
A recent U.S.-led war on Iraq destroyed that nation and killed some million people there, leaving behind chaos, violence, and environmental ruin; and war supporters think of Iraq as having benefitted. Someone explain to me how that’s not stupider than cleaning your loaded gun on Youtube or praying for god to make the other football team lose. And it gets even stupider when you hear how Iraqis supposedly benefitted. They benefitted by being given freedom, because wars bring freedom, even though — during the course of any war its supporters end up with fewer and fewer actual rights, due to restrictions justified by the war, even thought the war is justified by the cry of “freedom!”
How stupid can you get? War gets even stupider. It is the leading destroyer of the natural environment, but environmental groups will hardly touch it because they wouldn’t want their concern for the earth to interfere with their blind stupid loyalty to a tribe. And human rights groups and civil liberties groups are the same way. They want to have war without murder, torture, rape, or imprisonment — but opposing war would be unacceptable. Never mind that the atrocities increase in direct proportion to the war spending, they want to oppose only the atrocities. The war spending that generates the wars is viewed almost universally as an insurance against wars.
In the U.S. there are those who will object to murdering a U.S. citizen with a missile from a drone — and some will object even if the president does have a secret memo he won’t show us but which he claims re-writes the law and makes murder legal. Some will even object to murdering non-U.S. citizens with drones if they’re civilians. Some even extend their concern to militants suspected of fighting on the side in some local war opposed by the far-off and unthreatened United States. And some, the true radicals, will object to all killing of human beings outside of a proper war zone.
But try pointing out to them that murdering people remains cruel and evil, immoral, impractical and counter-productive, and in violation of laws like the U.N. Charter and the Kellogg-Briand Pact regardless of where you declare there to be a “war zone,” and you’ll run head-first into the brick wall of the Stupidest Idea in the History of the World.
That’s a powerful force to challenge, but it can be challenged, and it can be brought down, brick by brick.
You can get involved at WarIsACrime.org
David Swanson, author of War Is A Lie, is an activist, journalist, public speaker and radio host. His previous books include When the World Outlawed War and War No More: The Case for Abolition. Swanson serves as director of World Beyond War and host of Talk Nation Radio. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org. In the early 2000s, he helped to expose the “Downing Street Minutes” and other attempts to lie the United States and its allies into the Iraq War.
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Warheads Super Sour Spray Candy
Ultra-sour liquid candy in a spray bottle was first introduced to puckering mouths in Taiwan in 1975, and eventually came to the U.S. in 1993. The liquid candy is a simple formulation of sugar, flavoring, acids (for the sour), and glycerin. Once you have these ingredients, a home version is easy—just measure and stir. For your own ultra-tart spray candy hack, you’ll need six ingredients and three reusable small spray bottles.
The sourness in the real thing comes from citric acid and malic acid, both of which are natural ingredients found in fruits and vegetables. Malic acid is a more intense sour and can be found at Whole Foods or online, while citric acid can be found in many stores, including Walmart. If you can’t track down malic acid, you can still make the recipe with just citric acid (see Tidbits). The quality of the sour will be a little different, but I’m pretty sure no kids will be complaining about it.
The candy is flavored with unsweetened Kool-Aid mix, which is great because there are so many flavors to choose from. The real Warheads come in watermelon, green apple, sour cherry, and blue raspberry, but the blue raspberry Kool-Aid also has lemonade in it, so that one won’t taste quite the same as the real one.
To thicken your spray, you’ll need some glycerin. Glycerin—also a natural product—is developed from vegetable oil or animal fat and is often used in icing preparation. Glycerin helps thicken the liquid candy to make it more syrupy, and it also adds sweetness. You’ll find glycerin where cake decorating supplies are sold, or online.
While you’re online, also look for three 2.7-ounce reusable spray bottles. That’s where I found mine. This recipe will fill each bottle all the way up, with a little left over for a partial refill.
Making candy is fun! Check out my recipe for Haribo Gummy Bears here.
1/3 cup plus 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
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I’m not sure when it happened, but it appears Taco Bell recently changed its seasoned beef recipe. I hacked the recipe several years ago for the book TSR Step-by-Step, and I recall the recipe had much more oat filler, so that’s how I cloned it. Taco Bell came under fire in 2011 for the significant amount of oats in the recipe that the chain was listing as “spices,” and after that, Taco Bell was more transparent about ingredients. But somewhere along the way it appears the company tweaked the recipe to include less filler and more flavor, so I decided I had to create a new Top Secret Recipe for the beef.
This recipe makes a duplicate of the beef currently served at Taco Bell. If you want to turn it into a Chalupa—which the restaurant makes by deep frying the flatbread used for Gorditas—the instructions are here. But you can also use this new, improved beef hack for anything you’re copying, whether it's tacos, burritos, Enchiritos, Mexican Pizzas, or a big pile of nachos.
The secret ingredient in our hack is Knorr tomato bouillon. This flavor powder adds many ingredients found in the original recipe and provides the umami savoriness that’s required for a spot-on clone of the famous seasoned ground beef. To get the right flavor, you need to find "Knorr Tomato Bouillon with Chicken Flavor" powder, in a jar. Not the bouillon cubes.
Cheesecake Factory Oreo Dream Extreme Cheesecake
The Cheesecake Factory’s latest decadent dessert goes extreme with America’s favorite cookie. You’ll find Oreos in the middle of the cheesecake, in the cookie mousse layer, pressed onto the edge, sprinkled on the whipped cream, and even up on top where an Oreo wafer crowns each slice. In fact, I’ve designed this copycat Cheesecake Factory Oreo cheesecake recipe to use every Oreo in a standard size-package—all 36 of them!
This beautiful cheesecake starts with a chocolate cake layer, topped with a layer of chocolate buttercream icing, followed by a no-bake cheesecake layer, Oreo cookie mousse, and more chocolate icing. It’s a chocolate lover’s—and Oreo lover’s—dream, and not surprisingly, one of Cheesecake Factory’s best sellers.
When creating your own version of this dessert masterpiece at home, be sure to use a 10-inch springform pan. This is a big cheesecake, so you'll get 12 large slices out of it. The restaurant charges around 56 bucks for a whole cheesecake this big, but thankfully, a homemade version will cost you much less than that.
Jolly Rancher Hard Candy
The name Jolly Rancher has a friendly Western sound to it, and that’s why Bill Harmsen picked the name for his Golden, Colorado confection company in 1949. Bill sold chocolate and ice cream, but it was his hard candies that got the most attention, and that’s where Bill focused his efforts and grew his business.
The first Jolly Rancher hard candies came in just three flavors: apple, grape, and cinnamon. Eventually they added more flavors including cherry, orange, lemon, grape, peach, and blue raspberry. But today the main flavors have been cut to just five: cherry, watermelon, apple, grape, and blue raspberry. I’ve included clone recipes here for four of them: grape, cherry, watermelon, and green apple.
The flavors are all sour, thanks to malic acid, a very tart natural ingredient often used to make sour candies. If you can’t find malic acid, you can duplicate the sour taste with easier-to-find citric acid. I found some at Walmart.
You’ll also need super-strength flavoring from LorAnn in whichever flavors you chose to make. This is the most popular baking/candy flavoring brand, and you can find it online or in craft stores like Michael’s. Each small bottle is 1 dram, which is just under 1 teaspoon, and you’ll need one of those for each flavor.
Regardless of which flavors you choose to make, the base candy recipe will be the same. The hard candy is formed by bringing the sugar solution up to the “hard crack” stage, or the stage where the candy becomes hard and brittle when cool. You must get the candy to exactly 300 degrees F, and for that, you’ll need a candy thermometer.
The thermometer is essential here and will help you determine when to add the coloring, when to remove the candy from the heat, and when to add the malic or citric acid. If you cook the candy too long, it will begin to caramelize and darken and won't taste right. If you add the acid before the candy cools to 165 degrees F, it will burn and turn bitter. If you add it too late, it may be hard to mix.
This recipe makes over 60 hard candies. When cool, crack the candies apart along their score lines, wrap them up in 4x4-inch cellophane candy wrappers, and you should have more than enough hacked homemade hard candies to fill a candy bowl.
Click here to make more famous candy at home.
Cheesecake Factory Cinnamon Roll Pancakes
Menu Description: "Two fresh breakfast favorites are even better together with our buttermilk pancakes swirled with cinnamon-brown sugar."
This new Cheesecake Factory brunch item packs everything you love about cinnamon rolls into an extra-wide stack of pancakes, including buttery icing on top. To make pancakes that are caramel brown on their faces and super spongy with lots of air pockets, you’ll need a tablespoon of baking soda in the batter. When the alkaline baking soda collides with the acidic buttermilk, the batter will instantly puff up, making pancakes that are extra light and airy, and very dark on their surface, like pretzels.
The batter here makes plain buttermilk pancakes until the secret cinnamon filling is swirled over the top of the batter when it's poured into the pan. The combination of brown sugar, powdered sugar, cinnamon, and butter will melt into the pancake, making it look and taste like a sweet, buttery cinnamon roll. Hopefully you have a big griddle or very large skillet to cook these on. The original pancakes are 7 to 8 inches across, so you’ll need a big cooking surface if you want to cook more than one at a time. Or you could just make smaller pancakes.
Werther's Original Hard Candies
The famous hard caramel candy created in 1903 in the German town of Werther is easy to duplicate at home as long as you’ve got a candy thermometer and some rounded silicone candy molds. Realistically, you can make these candies any shape you want (one time I made some in a gummy-bear mold!), but the best shape for hard candies is something smooth and rounded. That’s what works best for a candy designed to be sucked on, rather than chewed. Just be sure to get enough molds to hold 50 or more bite-size candies at once.
This hack calls for fresh cream and butter just like the original, which was invented in Germany over 100 years ago and is now sold throughout Europe and North America.
I've hacked a lot of famous candy over the years. See if I copied your favorites here.
Qdoba Grilled Adobo Chicken
The 729-unit chain did not start its life as Qdoba. When the Mexican food chain was first founded by Robert Miller and Anthony Hauser in Denver, Colorado in 1995, it was called Zuma Mexican Grill, named after a friend’s cat. As it turned out, a restaurant in Boston had that same name and threatened to sue, so the partners changed the name to Z-Teca. It wasn’t long before two different restaurants threatened to sue for that name—Z’Tejas in Arizona and Azteca in Washington—and the partners were forced to change the name yet again. This time they called their restaurant Qdoba, a completely made-up name that was unlikely to be used by anyone else.
A signature item and consistent top seller is this marinated adobo chicken, offered as a main ingredient in most of the chain’s selections. Make this chicken by marinating thigh meat for a couple of days in the secret adobo sauce (a worker there told me they let it soak for up to 8 days), then grill and chop. Use the flavorful chicken in burritos, tacos, bowls, on nachos, and in tortilla soup.
I bet your craving some Qdoba Fiery Habanero Salsa right about now. Get my recipe here.
Hooters Daytona Beach Style Wings
Hooters debuted a new flavor and style of their famous chicken wings in 2013 with the introduction of Daytona Beach Style Wings—naked wings (not breaded) that are fried, sauced, and grilled. The new menu item was a sales success, eclipsing the famous buffalo-style wings the chain had become known for, and making it imperative that we have a delicious and accurate Hooters Daytona Beach style wings copycat hack. And now we do.
To build an identical home version you’ll first need to make a knockoff of the delicious Daytona sauce to brush over the wings. It’s a combination of barbecue sauce and the same cayenne sauce used to coat traditional buffalo wings, plus a few other important ingredients that make the sauce special—and things you won’t find in other hacks—like Worcestershire sauce and minced jalapeños. The wings are coated, grilled for just a minute on each side, then sauced again for maximum flavor. Stack the napkins close by and get something tall to drink, because these messy wings are guaranteed to deliver a super-spicy kick to your food hole.
Hostess Powdered Donettes
At the 2018 Salvation Army National Doughnut Day World Doughnut Eating Contest, held every June 1st, competitive eater Joey Chestnut consumed 257 Hostess powdered Donettes in six minutes to take home the top prize. There was a big smile on Joey's powdered-sugar-and-crumb-coated face that day as he raised a trophy to celebrate another glorious gastronomic feat.
If you had to guess who makes the top-selling doughnuts in America, you’d probably say Dunkin’ Donuts or Krispy Kreme, but you’d be wrong. According to Hostess, Donettes are the country’s most popular doughnuts—you rarely find a supermarket, corner market, or convenience store without at least a few packages on the shelf. Hostess Donettes come in several flavors, including chocolate, crumb, and strawberry, but the one most people turn to, and the one I grew up on (they were called “Gems” back then), is coated with a thick layer of powdered sugar.
Cloning the Hostess powdered doughnuts recipe is not hard, once you know the secrets. You'll make a stiff cake dough, punch out 2-inch rounds with a biscuit cutter, pierce the dough with a straw or chopstick to make a hole, then fry the doughnuts for 2 minutes until golden brown. After you roll them in powdered sugar you'll have around 20 fresh, home-cloned miniature doughnuts that will make you feel like a kid again.
And—just doing a little math here—it would take Joey Chestnut all of about 14 seconds to eat that entire plate of doughnuts you just made.
Olive Garden Warm Apple Crostata
Menu Description: “Northern Spy apples baked in a pastry crust topped with vanilla ice cream and a caramel drizzle.”
The most important component of a good crostata, or Italian baked tart, is a great crust. When cloning this top Olive Garden dessert, that's where I first focused my efforts, baking dozens of slightly different unfilled sugared crusts. Thankfully, flour is cheap. Once I had an easy, yet still delicious and flakey crust that was as good, if not better, than the real thing, I turned to the filling.
Olive Garden uses Northern Spy apples in the crostata, which are somewhat tart, firm apples often used in pies. But they are hard to find. If you can’t find Northern Spy apples, the much more common Granny Smith apples work just fine here. As for chopping the apples, I noted that the apple pieces in the real crostata have no uniformity—the apples appear to be sliced, then those slices are coarsely chopped, resulting in a mixture of small and large apple pieces. We'll do the same here.
After your crostatas have been baked to a golden brown, top each one with a scoop of ice cream and drizzle some caramel sauce over the top for a beautiful dessert no one will have the power to resist.
This recipe makes four crostatas, which is enough for eight people to share. If you have crostatas left over, they can be stored in a covered container for a couple of days, then reheated under a broiler until hot just before serving.
Want some more of my Olive Garden clone recipes? I've got a bunch right here.
Panda Express Honey Walnut Shrimp
Three components must be mastered to properly hack this top menu pick at the country’s largest fast Chinese chain: candied nuts, honey sauce, and perfectly battered shrimp. For the candied walnuts, I came up with a technique using the oven, which means there’s no candy thermometer required and it’s a no-brainer. For the sauce, you just whisk the ingredients together in a bowl.
To make your shrimp look like the shrimp at Panda Express, you don’t want them tightly curled up when they fry. You can keep them from curling by pinching the tail end of each shrimp after it has been floured and dipping it into the batter headfirst. When you pull it out, the weight of the batter will help unfurl the shrimp a bit, and if you then lower it slowly into the oil it will mostly stay that way.
When all the shrimp have been fried, bake them in the oven so that they are crispy and warm, then toss the shrimp and the nuts in the sweet honey sauce and serve.
Cheesecake Factory Cheeseburger Spring Rolls
Here's how to build a cheeseburger in crispy spring roll dough and make the secret 4-ingredient dipping sauce for a perfect hack of one of Cheesecake Factory’s newest appetizers. I found the best solution for a good clone was to first cook two 4-ounce Angus patties—with no less than 15 percent fat so the beef stays juicy—in a sauté pan until browned. I then sauteed some onion in the same pan and mixed it into the crumbled patties, with ketchup and diced American cheese.
I tried several different wrappers and found the thinnest wrappers to work the best. Try to find wrappers that say “super thin” on them. Thicker dough wrappers will blister when fried, which is not how the restaurant version looks, although the thicker wrappers still make tasty spring rolls.
Rice paper wrappers will give you a chewier, less crispy bite, and are a good option if you're interested in a gluten-free version. If you go with rice paper, you won’t need the cornstarch solution to seal them. Dipping the whole wrapper in a little water makes the rice paper pliable and naturally sticky.
Wendy's Chocolate Frosty (Improved)
It may look like it's all chocolate, but Wendy's founder Dave Thomas thought that a purely chocolate frozen dairy dessert would overpower his burger and fries, so he mixed chocolate with vanilla to create his signature ultra-thick shake, and in 1969, the Frosty was born.
My first crack at this iconic treat was revealed in a copycat recipe I published 25 years ago that called for mixing milk with Nestle Quik and vanilla ice cream in a blender. Tasty? Sure, it was. But the finished product was too runny, and the flavor wasn't perfect. That's why I recently holed myself up in the lab and created a formula that you churn in a home ice cream maker until thick and creamy, and it now tastes just like the real thing.
Unlike my previous recipe, which relied on premade ice cream and a drink mix, the scratch ingredients I used here allowed me to make small adjustments in flavor for a better match, and an ice cream maker is the perfect way to produce a thick, creamy consistency. So far, this is the best hack I've come up with to duplicate the treat that tests have shown is up to twice as thick as other famous desserts in a cup, including Dairy Queen's Blizzard and McDonald's McFlurry.
Kind Dark Chocolate Nuts & Sea Salt Bar
You probably think the dark chocolaty stuff that looks like dark chocolate on a dark chocolate Kind nut bar is all chocolate, but it mostly isn’t. There is chocolate in there, but chicory root is listed third in the ingredients statement, right after peanuts and almonds and way before cocoa, so the dark chocolate is actually a chocolate-flavored coating made mostly with chicory root fiber. Curiously, older labels list “chocolate-flavored coating” as the second ingredient, but newer labels don’t.
Chicory is the root of the endive plant and it’s beloved in New Orleans, where it’s combined with coffee drinks because its taste is so similar to coffee. Chicory also happens to taste a lot like chocolate, and it’s cheaper than chocolate, and that’s probably why it’s used here.
But just because Kind uses chicory, doesn’t mean we have to. For our hack, we’ll use real chocolate in the form of melting wafers you can find in most stores. I used Ghirardelli brand because it tastes great, but any easy-to-melt, dippable dark chocolate will do.
The bars are stuck together with honey and agave syrup heated to 260 degrees F, or the hard ball stage. The sticky mixture is pressed into a 10x5-inch loaf pan, cooled, and sliced into 8 bars. The bottoms are dipped in the pure chocolate, and more is drizzled over the top. About 30 minutes later, when the chocolate sets up, your bars are ready to eat.
Do you like dipping things in chocolate? Check out more of my clone recipes here.
Panera Bread Cinnamon Crunch Scone
After the success of Panera Bread’s Cinnamon Crunch Bagels, the popular sandwich chain went back into the development kitchen and came out with these incredible scones, filled with the same crunchy cinnamon drops found in the bagels and drizzled with cinnamon icing.
When first released, these scones were cut as triangles and frosted, but in 2018 the shape was changed to more “rustic”-shaped round blobs with drizzled or piped icing on top. I like to hack the latest recipe, so the newer version of this pastry is the version I’ve re-created here.
These are cream scones, so cream is the main wet ingredient that holds the dough together—but keep the dough crumbly as you mix it, and try not to compress it much, or you risk making the final product too dense. The best way to form the scones is to use both hands and shape the dough like you’re making a loose snowball. Then use one hand to place the dough onto the baking sheet and form it into a rough dome shape. The scones will flatten and spread out a little bit as they bake.
Bob Evans Farms Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Bob Evans built his first restaurant on a farm in Rio Grande, Ohio in 1962, primarily to sell his own brand of high-quality sausage. Business was good. Really good. There are now over 500 Bob Evans Restaurants in 18 states, each one decorated in a country-living theme that reminds us of the original farm location. Customers seem to like it. They also seem to like the packaged baked goods sold at each of the restaurants under the Bob Evans Farms brand, especially this top-selling, chewy, chocolate chunk cookie that can now be hacked in a snap by you. Try this Bob Evans chocolate chunk cookies recipe today. Make sure to buy chocolate chunks for baking!
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Ontario records slight dip in COVID-19 cases but deaths spike
Sean Davidson Multi-Platform Writer, CTV News Toronto
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Published Wednesday, October 21, 2020 10:16AM EDT Last Updated Wednesday, October 21, 2020 2:46PM EDT
TORONTO -- Ontario has reported a slight dip in the number of new COVID-19 cases but a spike in the number of deaths.
Health officials confirmed 790 new infections on Wednesday, which is a slight decrease from the 821 cases reported on Tuesday.
The majority of cases were found in Ontario's four COVID-19 hotspots, which are currently in a modified Stage 2. There are 321 new cases in Toronto, 127 in Peel Region, 76 in York Region and 57 in Ottawa.
Ontario also reported a spike in the number of deaths on Wednesday, logging nine new COVID-19-related fatalities. On Tuesday, the province added three deaths.
The nine deaths bring Ontario's total number of fatalities to 3,062. The total number of lab-confirmed infections in the province is now 66,686, including deaths and recoveries.
There were 719 more cases considered to be resolved by officials on Wednesday. The province now has a total of 57,325 recovered patients.
The record number of COVID-19 cases in Ontario reported in a single day was on Oct. 9 when 939 new infections were added.
Other regions of in province reporting more than 10 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday include Durham Region (43), Simcoe Muskoka (13), Hamilton (34), Halton (24), Niagara (19) and Waterloo (15).
The majority of the new cases (348) were found in people in the 20 to 39 age category. There were also 217 new infections in the 39 to 60 age category, 94 in the under 19 age group and 133 in people over the age of 60.
There are now 260 people being treated for COVID-19 in Ontario hospitals, down slightly from Tuesday. Of those patients, 71 are in the intensive care unit and 49 are breathing with the assistance of a ventilator.
Testing numbers in Ontario also increased on Wednesday after they crumbled on Tuesday to the lowest in weeks.
There were more than 32,000 tests completed in the previous 24-hour period, which gives Ontario a positivity rate 2.4 per cent.
Ontario is reporting 790 cases of #COVID19 as over 32,600 tests were completed. Locally, there are 321 new cases in Toronto, 157 in Peel, 76 in York Region and 57 in Ottawa. There are 719 more resolved cases.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) October 21, 2020
Meanwhile, Premier Doug Ford is expected to make an announcement on Wednesday afternoon at Queen's Park.
Ford will be joined by Minister of Health Christine Elliott, Associate Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Michael Tibollo and Associate Minister of Children and Women's Issues.
CTVNewsToronto.ca will stream the announcement live at 1 p.m.
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About Toronto Fashion Week
The Q&A: Donna Bishop on the Past, Present and Future of Fashion Talks
As the founder and host of Fashion Talks podcast, produced in partnership with CAFA, Donna Bishop is at the forefront of fashion conversation, as she interviews experts working in various areas of the industry, from designers to activists. This season at Toronto Fashion Week x RE\SET, she will be hosting three live-tapings of the podcast: “Cannabis – The Next Mega Category,” a look at the cannabis industry and its influence on fashion; “In Conversation with Fashion Designer David Dixon,” and “Won’t You Be My Neighbour?,” a discussion on how fashion shapes neighbourhoods around the world.
Aside from producing Fashion Talks, Bishop is a Director of Programming for Canadian Arts and Fashion Awards. She’s an established entrepreneur and a founder of Green Beauty, Canada’s first online boutique dedicated to natural skincare and cosmetics. She is also a fashion columnist for “Here and Now” on CBC Radio and a mentor for the Toronto Fashion Incubator.
WHAT INSPIRED THE CREATION OF FASHION TALKS?
I think fashion is our most intimate cultural expression, because we wear it every day. I love looking at culture, current events and social change through the lens of what we wear. I also am a huge fan of podcasts, so it was a ba-bing kind of moment to combine a medium I love with engaging, relevant, and entertaining conversations about how fashion influences the world we live in and vice versa.
HOW HAS YOUR BACKGROUND AS A FASHION JOURNALIST PREPARED YOU FOR THE ROLE OF A PODCASTER?
I do love to share stories and make connections. When I am doing a Designer Spotlight episode, it is about connecting with the designer and talking about when they knew fashion and clothing was more than simply covering their body. The other episodes are more about connecting ideas: What is the connection between fashion and LGBTQ+ communities? Were the 1980s the time when fashion became more democratized? How has the British Royal family influenced fashion through the ages?
WHO HAVE BEEN SOME OF THE MOST MEMORABLE GUESTS OF THE PODCAST?
Truly, I have loved every person I have had the honour of calling a guest on Fashion Talks. Talking with costume designer Luis Sequeira on the heels of his Academy Award nomination for The Shape of Water does stand out as a particularly memorable moment.
WHO WOULD BE YOUR DREAM PODCAST GUEST?
A first choice would be David Bowie, but obviously, that is impossible. André Leon Talley would be another top pick. He talks a lot of fashion as a cultural expression and has seen a lot in his career.
WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR FAVOURITE TOPICS TO DISCUSS WHEN IT COMES TO FASHION?
A topic that I am dying to explore is fashion and music: How does this relationship mould notions of masculinity and femininity? How have these industries worked symbiotically to push each other forward? Another topic is fashion and politics: How do we view notions of power through fashion? How have leaders, male and female, played with fashion and to what ends?
WHICH TOPIC ARE YOU MOST LOOKING FORWARD TO DISCUSSING NEXT WEEK?
How can I choose just one? I am so excited for all three talks. David Dixon has a very unique source of inspiration that I cannot wait for everyone to hear about. This collection is truly like nothing anyone will have seen before.
Discussing fashion within the landscape of our city neighbourhoods is an angle not often taken. Jeanne Beker has obviously travelled the globe, and Fotini Copeland has worked in New York and has so much to say about fashion and Yorkville and the Meatpacking District. Their stories of city transformation are fascinating.
Of course, with this being the first season post-legalization, the fashion and cannabis talk is incredibly exciting. We are in the precipice of a new lifestyle category that will permeate every industry, including fashion. Whether you are cannabis-curious, a cannabis enthusiast or not interested at all, you still need to take stock of what this means. People are going to leave that talk blown away.
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In the early morning hours of June 9th, 2009, a violent home invasion would take place in Mooresville, North Carolina.
Just after midnight, Matt and Angel Stewart were sleeping when an unknown individual opened fire on them from their bedroom doorway. Angel grabbed the couple's young son, who was also asleep in the room, and began running to a neighbor's house; while 31-year-old Matt - who had already been shot - jumped out of bed and heroically attacked the gunman.
Hours later, Matt's body would be found inside of the home, having become the victim of a mysterious and violent crime. But more than a decade later, questions continue to linger about what really happened that evening and why...
Special thanks to Freddie Wilson from the Unforgotten podcast for chatting with me, and for all of the research he has done on this case (without which, this episode would not have been possible). To learn more about his work, check out the Unforgotten podcast on your app of choice, or by heading to the following link: https://www.unforgottenpodcast.com/
Researched, written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan
Producers: Roberta Janson, Ben Krokum, Gabriella Bromley, Peggy Belarde, Quil Carter, Laura Hannan, Damion Moore, Brittany Norris, Amy Hampton, Steven Wilson, Scott Meesey, Marie Vanglund, Scott Patzold, Travis Scsepko, Aimee McGregor, Sydney Scotton, Sara Moscaritolo, Sue Kirk, Thomas Ahearn, Bryan Hall, Seth Morgan, Marion Welsh, Jo Wong, Patrick Laakso, Alyssa Lawton, Meadow Landry, Tatum Bautista, Teunia Elzinga, Michele Watson, Ryan Green, Stephanie Joyner, Dawn Kellar, and Elissa Hampton-Dutro
This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp, who offer online counseling services. Listeners of Unresolved can save 10% on their first month with the discount code "UNRESOLVED." Head to https://BetterHelp.com/unresolved and fill out the introduction questionnaire to let BetterHelp assess your needs and pair you up with a counselor that you'll love.
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Prosecutors: Cell phone recorded Fla. killing
Prosecutors in Florida say a man on trial for killing his wife accidentally recorded the crime on her cell phone.
LARGO, Fla. – Prosecutors in Florida say a man on trial for killing his wife accidentally recorded the crime on her cell phone.
During opening arguments Tuesday outside St. Petersburg, prosecutors said 45-year-old Ronald Earl Williams somehow activated his cell phone, which then called his wife's cell phone.
The phone's voicemail recorded Williams saying he was going to kill her and prosecutors say it recorded 31-year-old Mariama Williams' terrified screams immediately after.
Prosecutors are seeking a first-degree murder conviction and the death penalty on the grounds that the crime was heinous, atrocious and cruel.
Williams' attorney is arguing the killing was not premeditated.
Information from: St. Petersburg Times, http://tampabay.com
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Tag Archives: Alfredo Simon
Cingrani’s Return to the Rotation (and other notes from 7/20/15)
The Cincinnati Reds announced that left-handed pitcher Tony Cingrani would be returning from the DL with a shoulder injury on Wednesday against the Cubs and he will be inserted into the starting rotation after working in relief for the whole 2015 season so far.
For a refresher, or if you are unfamiliar with Cingrani, he is a former top pitching prospect in the Reds organization and he zoomed his way through the Minor Leagues, showing complete dominance with 1.45 ERA, 0.94 WHIP, and 11.85 K/9 vs. 2.70 BB/9 in the course of his Minor League career in 223.1 IP. He became a fixture on the Reds Major League roster in the 2013 season when he posted a 2.92 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, and 120 K/43 BB in 104.2 IP in 23 appearances (18 starts). With that strong rookie season, Cingrani was a popular pick to breakout even further in the 2014 season. However, Cingrani was a big bust in 2014 with injuries playing a role, and he finished the season making just 13 appearances (11 starts) to compile an ugly 4.55 ERA, 1.53 WHIP, and 61 K/35 BB in 63.1 IP.
It wasn’t necessarily just injuries though that prevented Cingrani from repeating his rookie season success. Also potentially playing a factor was his pitch usage. Cingrani has always been a pitcher to rely very heavily on his fastball as it is a pitch that he has now thrown a whopping 79.7% of the time in his short Major League career up to this point. There are just not any starting pitchers in the league who throw fastballs at that type of rate because it’s just not a good formula for success — for a point of reference, the highest fastball percentage of any starting pitcher this season is Gerrit Cole at 69.5%. With fastballs being thrown at the rate Cingrani has thrown them at, opposing hitters only have to worry about looking for a fastball most of the time and if that’s what they are guessing, then 4 out of 5 times they would be right. What Cingrani does have going for him with his fastball though is that he gets a lot of vertical movement on the pitch, or in other words, his fastball has rising action that can make it difficult for hitters to catch up to when it is up in the zone.
To go with the fastball, he will mix in an occasional slider and changeup, but his changeup just isn’t that great of a pitch as it has induced swinging strikes just a mere 4.2% of the time. So the lack of a quality third pitch offering also adds to the poor formula for success for a starting pitcher. Starting pitchers generally want to have at least three quality pitches and be able to use them all with confidence. Having at least three pitch options helps to keep opposing hitters guessing more to get them off balance.
So with such a heavy reliance on the fastball and a lack of a quality third pitch (and significant use of it), Cingrani would appear to profile more as a relief pitcher, despite what his Minor League success would suggest. In the Minor Leagues, he was likely able to get away with these things better because the talent level obviously is much lower than the Majors and his deceptive delivery probably aided him as well. So in his 2013 rookie season, it should have come as no surprise that he was able to carry over that same type of Minor League success over to the Majors initially. With Major League teams being so unfamiliar with him since they never had seen him before, that deception likely created a lot of confusion for hitters. But after more and more game film on him was made available with each additional start he made in the Majors, better scouting reports were probably generated and given to the hitters, which caused some regression for Cingrani as the 2013 season went on, and it must have also given hitters in 2014 better preparation when facing him.
So for the 2015 season, the Reds shifted Cingrani to the relief role where many scouts believed his mostly fastballs approach could be better utilized. It was believed that he could possibly be the heir apparent to Aroldis Chapman at closer since Chapman will be a free agent at the end of the 2016 season. As a reliever this season, Cingrani has shown occasional dominance, but poor control has gotten the best of him at times and he had a 3.47 ERA, 1.46 WHIP, and 26 K/17 BB in 23.1 IP before landing on the DL with a shoulder injury.
With the flawed pitch usage, poor control, and returning from a shoulder injury, it is hard to envision Cingrani’s return to the rotation going over very well. But with the Reds being sellers nearing the trade deadline, they could be shipping off Johnny Cueto and/or Mike Leake, which is going to leave them pretty starved for starting pitching. So it probably wouldn’t hurt to give Cingrani another shot at starting, but his best chance at a quality career may be in the bullpen ala Zach Britton.
For deeper season long fantasy leagues, he should be scooped up just knowing what his upside is as seen from his 2013 rookie season. In dynasty leagues, it would be a more fine addition if by some chance he is able to turn some type of corner. But overall, I wouldn’t be expecting anything extraordinary for him — but taking a chance on him isn’t the worst of ideas either. If you pick him up, then you just kind of have to cross your fingers that he makes adjustments because he’s not likely to succeed if he sticks with the same approach.
Let’s check out the rest of Monday’s action.
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All-Star Snubbery (and other notes from 7/6/15)
Posted on July 6, 2015 by Jason
For fantasy baseball purposes, the All-Star Game player voting and selection has zero bearing on anything, but the game and festivities themselves are a nice break in the action where we can have a short hiatus from constantly checking on box scores, live updates, MLB.tv, and the like. It’s a period where our significant others will be glad to have us paying more attention to them and less attention to a bunch of dudes in tight pants (*in most cases, wink wink).
So on Sunday the All-Star starters were announced, as voted on by the fans, and on Monday the rest of each league’s roster was released. As always, there were some interesting and undeserving selections that people are going to have some beef with. These were my AL All-Star predictions and these were my NL All-Star predictions. Overall, out of the 68 players that have been announced as All-Stars so far, I selected 50 correct for a 73.5% success rate. That’s lower than I would have expected, but these managers made some unexpected choices. Here are the rosters as reported by CBS Sports:
AL Starters (fan vote)
C Salvador Perez, 1B Miguel Cabrera, (injured, will not play), 2B Jose Altuve, SS Alcides Escobar, 3B Josh Donaldson,(leading vote-getter overall), OF Mike Trout, OF Lorenzo Cain, OF Alex Gordon, DH Nelson Cruz
The AL starters didn’t pan out as I exepcted, as I felt that the fans would get it right by electing Jose Bautista over Alex Gordon and I predicted that the Royals faithful would be able to get Kendrys Morales in over Nelson Cruz. So the Royals will have four starters, which I suppose is better than the eight that they were projected to have at one point. Cain is a borderline All-Star, but Gordon definitely has no business being here.
AL Reserves
C Russell Martin, C Stephen Vogt, 1B Albert Pujols, (will start in place of the injured Cabrera), 1B Prince Fielder, 1B Mark Teixeira, (replaces injured Cabrera on roster), 2B Jason Kipnis, SS Jose Iglesias, 3B Manny Machado, OF J.D. Martinez, OF Jose Bautista, OF Adam Jones, UTIL Brock Holt
Brian McCann got left off the team, which is probably the correct call, but another Yankee Mark Teixeira made it onto the squad because of the injury to Miguel Cabrera. Despite Alex Rodriguez’ strong performance to this point, he was omitted from the roster, which may speak volumes as to how the players and coaches feel about him. Jason Kipnis made it on as a reserve second baseman, but Brian Dozier definitely should have been included somehow. Jose Iglesias and his superior defense made it over Jose Reyes, which I do not have an issue with. But one big issue that I do have is Adam Jones making it onto the roster when there are outfielders like Brett Gardner and George Springer who are having much more impressive seasons. Brock Holt doesn’t really have the stats that scream “All-Star,” but I have no issue with him making it as the Red Sox representative because he really has been that team’s MVP with his ability to play all over the field.
RHP Sonny Gray, RHP Felix Hernandez, RHP Chris Archer, LHP David Price, LHP Dallas Keuchel, LHP Chris Sale, RHP Dellin Betances, RHP Brad Boxberger, RHP Kelvin Herrera, RHP Wade Davis, RHP Darren O’Day, LHP Glen Perkins, LHP Zach Britton
All the starting pitchers selected were no-brainers, but it got a little tricky with the relievers. Dellin Betances, Glen Perkins, and Zach Britton have undoubtedly been the the American League’s best closers, but Huston Street could have easily been selected over Brad Boxberger. Then there’s no issue with manager Ned Yost selecting his own setup man Wade Davis and the Orioles setup man Darren O’Day, but it is a bit of a homer pick by Yost to choose Kelvin Herrera. Herrera is having a nice season, but nothing too dominant, and this spot could easily have gone to Street or he could have chosen one of the outfield snubs.
AL Final Vote Candidates
SS Xander Bogaerts, OF Yoenis Cespedes, OF Brett Gardner, 2B Brian Dozier, 3B Mike Moustakas
Out of the final vote candidates, Brett Gardner and Brian Dozier are clearly the most deserving of being All-Stars, but given the strong backing for the Royals players this season, I expect Mike Moustakas to win the vote. Moustakas is having a breakthrough season at the plate being able to hit left-handed pitching now, but there are better players that deserve it more.
NL Starters (fan vote)
C Buster Posey, 1B Paul Goldschmidt, 2B Dee Gordon, SS Jhonny Peralta, 3B Todd Frazier, OF Bryce Harper, (leading vote-getter in NL), OF Matt Holliday, (injured, participation questionable), OF Giancarlo Stanton, (injured, will not play)
All the NL starters went as I predicted and everyone is deserving of the starting nod besides Matt Holliday.
NL Reserves
C Yadier Molina, C Yasmani Grandal, 1B Anthony Rizzo, 1B Adrian Gonzalez, 2B DJ LeMahieu, 2B Joe Panik, SS Brandon Crawford, 3B Nolan Arenado, 3B Kris Bryant, (replaces injured Stanton on roster), OF Andrew McCutchen, (will start in place of the injured Stanton), OF Joc Pederson, OF Justin Upton, OF A.J. Pollock
Right away there’s a snub that with Yadier Molina making it over Derek Norris. Having Molina as an All-Star is purely just a reputation pick because Norris has been the better offensive catcher all season long and though his defense hasn’t been as good as Molina’s, he still ranks pretty high up there for NL catchers. With Joey Votto’s recent slump, it’s no surprise to see Adrian Gonzalez selected by Bruce Bochy. Also no surprise to see is that Bochy went with the homer picks and selected his middle infielders, Joe Panik and Brandon Crawford to the team. One of them should have been left off the roster in favor of Troy Tulowitzki who has been ripping the ball as of late. Kris Bryant is a questionable pick to take Giancarlo Stanton’s place on the team, but the fans will surely like to see Bryant partake in the Home Run Derby if they can’t see Stanton. And it is a bit odd that Andrew McCutchen was selected over his teammate Starling Marte despite the fact that Marte has been having the superior season. Perhaps Marte’s recent oblique injury had something to do with it, but he is still on the active roster and not on the DL.
RHP Max Scherzer, RHP Zack Greinke, RHP Gerrit Cole, RHP Michael Wacha, RHP Jacob deGrom, RHP Shelby Miller, RHP A.J. Burnett, LHP Madison Bumgarner, RHP Trevor Rosenthal, RHP Mark Melancon, RHP Jonathan Papelbon, RHP Francisco Rodriguez, LHP Aroldis Chapman
I am a bit surprised that Clayton Kershaw is not on the All-Star roster, but I do not have a problem with A.J. Burnett appearing to be the one to have beaten Kershaw for it. Kershaw just hasn’t been as dominant this season, despite leading the league in strikeouts, and it’s a nice honor for Burnett to go to the game in what is going to be his final season in the Majors. It is a bit of an upset for Mark Melancon to make the squad over both Jeurys Familia and Drew Storen. Yes, Melancon has leads the league in saves, but Storen and Familia have been much more dominant. If Ryan Braun had been selected as the Brewers representative, then that would have left Francisco Rodriguez off, which also would have opened up a spot for either Storen or Familia.
NL Final Vote Candidates
RHP Johnny Cueto, RHP Jeurys Familia, LHP Clayton Kershaw, RHP Carlos Martinez, SS Troy Tulowitzki
Despite the Reds playing host to the All-Star festivities, I expect Clayton Kershaw to beat out Johnny Cueto for the final vote. MLB fans around the nation just love Kershaw too much for him to not win this 5-man popularity contest.
Now let’s look at Monday’s slate of action! Continue reading →
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Car-Car Finally Goes Vroom-Vroom With a Near No-No (and other notes from 7/1/15)
My pre-season love for Indians pitcher Carlos Carrasco was no secret as I tabbed him to be “This Year’s Corey Kluber,” but it just has not been happening for the 28-year old. Despite elite strikeout (9.85 K/9) and walk (1.93 BB/9) rates that were the big factors toward his great SIERA (2.89) and xFIP (2.85) entering Wednesday’s action, Carrasco was the owner of a mediocre 4.16 ERA and 1.22 WHIP. So he was hardly Kluber-izing the baseball nation and there is one key reason with a couple of causal secondary reasons that was preventing him from the big breakout.
The main reason that he’s been underwhelming and not meeting expectations this year lies in his BABIP (batting average on balls in play — measures the rate at which balls in the field of play go for hits), which sat at .336 coming into Wednesday. Then there are two reasons why his BABIP has been so high. The first reason being that his 32.8% hard hit rate entering the day was the 12th highest in baseball and much higher than his mark of 24.6% last season, which would suggest that he has been struggling with hitting his location a lot and the batters just mash it hard somewhere. The second reason why his BABIP has been so high is that the defense behind him rates very poorly as the 27th ranked team in both DEF and UZR. With a poor defense behind him, a pitcher is more likely to have a higher BABIP as balls get by defenders with lack of range, hits get by defenders because of the failure/misuse of a shift, or some combination of both. And this can be seen in more detail in “Sometimes A Pitcher Is Only As Good As His Defense.”
On Wednesday though, Carrasco finally had his big breakout game of the season where he came within one strike of completing a no-hitter before Joey Butler roped a single over the second baseman’s head that drove in a run for the Rays. Carrasco ended up being removed from the game after the hit since his pitch count was pretty high, but he finished the game with a spectacular line of 8.2 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 13 K with the W.
I think that Carrasco learned in order to avoid all the hits and high BABIP, he had to take things into his own hands and that the best way to combat having a bad defense is to just record a strikeout for half the outs to limit the defense’s opportunity to mess things up. And that’s what he did with exactly half of the 26 outs he got being of the strikeout variety. The 1-hit performance brought Carrasco’s BABIP down from .336 to .323. Carrasco figures to continue to improve his overall numbers over the second half of the season and be a fantasy asset, but it may not be to the extent that we hope for if he keeps on getting some bad defense behind him. Carrasco is now 10-6 with a 3.88 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, and 110 K/21 BB in 97.1 IP.
Let’s take a look at the rest of Wednesday’s notables:
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Metz to Promote Matz (and other notes from 6/25/15)
A couple of weeks ago with the Mets hanging on to a surprising 1st place lead in the National League East, it had been reported that top pitching prospect lefty Steven Matz would join fellow top prospect righty Noah Syndergaard in the Major League rotation around July 1. After losing 7 straight games to fall out of 1st place, the Mets are still a .500 baseball team and still can’t be counted out to win the division. So it is being reported that the Mets will call up Matz from AAA on Friday June 26 to be a part of a 6-man rotation for the time being. However, if Matz performs well enough, then Jon Niese could officially get the boot from the rotation or perhaps the Mets would look to trade Niese or Bartolo Colon for some help on offense, because they are really struggling to score (only 11 runs in their last 8 games).
I advised picking up Matz in re-draft fantasy leagues a couple weeks ago and here is some more information about him. Matz was a 2nd round pick by the Mets back in 2009 as a local boy out of a New York high school. He reported to instructional league in the 2010 season, but he felt discomfort in his arm and it was learned that he would need to undergo Tommy John surgery to repair the damage. So all of the 2010 season was gone for Matz and in his recovery during the 2011 season, he felt additional discomfort and had to be shut down for another wasted year. Finally in June of 2012, Matz made his professional debut and he ended up making 6 starts at the Rookie level of the Minors where he had a 1.55 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, 10.55 K/9, and 5.28 BB/9. The walk rate was really high, but that could largely be attributed to some rust after the two-year layoff. There was little doubt within the Mets organization that Matz had a special arm if he could remain healthy.
Fast forward to 2013 where he spent the whole season at the single-A level, making 21 starts with a 2.62 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, 10.24 K/9, and 3.22 BB/9. With the lowered walk rate, it gives further proof to the notion that high walk rate in the previous season was just him working out the kinks coming back from the injury. In 2014, he split the season at high-A and AA to display more of the same by compiling a 2.24 ERA, 1.19 WHIP, 8.38 K/9, and 2.24 BB/9 over 24 starts.
Matz then began 2015, his age 24 season, at AAA and has continued to show dominance with a 2.19 ERA, 1.11 WHIP, 9.37 K/9, and 3.07 BB/9 in 15 games (14 starts). What is really impressive about Matz’ Minor League career is that he has not struggled at any stop at any level and has provided consistent production upon each promotion. So will his next promotion yield the same results?
With comparisons being made to the likes of current southpaw greats Clayton Kershaw and Madison Bumgarner, the bar is being set pretty high for Matz. I am no baseball scout, but judging by the surface statistics, looking into his metric statistics, and the reports that I have read on him, I feel that Matz could eventually be mentioned in the same conversation with Kershaw and Bumgarner. Matz brings a mid-90’s fastball that he complements with an excellent changeup and an improving curveball that has been developing nicely. Matz has shown great ground ball tendencies in the Minors (54.8% this year and 49.7% for his career), and that helps him to prevent home runs as he has an incredibly low home runs allowed rate of 0.34 HR/9 in his Minor League career. A pitcher with excellent strikeout capabilities that profiles as a ground ball pitcher with the ability to keep the ball in the stadium is golden stuff.
Of course there is always the caution of top prospect pitchers struggling upon reaching the Majors — see Carlos Rodon, Archie Bradley, and Taijuan Walker. It is no doubt that some struggles should be expected of any rookie pitcher, but I think that the ones that that have the best chance to have early success with less struggles are the ones that have not displayed issues with their control/walk rates in the Minors — see Noah Syndergaard and Eduardo Rodriguez. Matz surely falls into the latter of the two groups to instill optimism for his immediate impact.
For upstart dynasty leagues, Matz should have been drafted, and for returning dynasty leagues he should have been scooped up last year if not sooner. For smaller number keeper leagues, Matz should have been picked up weeks ago. For any type of re-draft league, Matz requires an immediate pickup because he can be better than a good portion of the pitchers for the rest of the season. For DFS, his price should be relatively cheap for his first couple starts, which is going to make him a great bargain play (but beware because there will be many others who know the same, which will drive up his ownership rate).
For the remainder of the season, I will give Matz the line of: 5 W-3 L, 3.49 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 76 K, 28 BB in 80 IP.
Now let’s check out the rest of the action from Thursday’s slightly abbreviated slate!
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Devin the Red Devil (and other notes from 6/20/15)
It would be remiss of me to not highlight what a marvelous performance Max Scherzer put on for the Nationals faithful on Saturday as the big time ace was nearly perfect, but ended up settling for the first no-hitter of his career. Scherzer came within one pitch of getting the incredibly rare perfect game, but he plunked Jose Tabata on the elbow to spoil the perfect game and subsequently led to a rather anti-climactic completion of a no-hitter. There will be much debate about whether or not Tabata leaned into the pitch to draw the bean ball, but from watching it I believe that he did try to move his arm away from the pitch instead of into the pitch. The elbow was being brought down and in toward his body and just so happened to get clipped by the pitch. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it, but it was still a brilliant effort by Max who continues to be a “Scher thing,” but I will refrain from using him as the headline material here since he was the headliner after his previous amazing start.
Instead, the headline here refers to Reds catcher Devin Mesoraco. Mesoraco truly busted out last season to fulfill his post-hype sleeper status by hitting .273 with 25 HR, 80 RBI, 54 R, and 1 SB. Much of the same was to be expected this season from the Mesoraco who just celebrated his 27th birthday. But a week into the season, he began to have an injury issue that was labeled as a hip impingement. Initially, he was labeled as “day-to-day” and was given some time to recover from the injury. Though he was unable to get into his crouch behind the plate to catch a full game, the Reds kept him around on the active roster and sporadically used him as a pinch hitter.
The next thing we know, for weeks pass by and Mesoraco made all but 8 pinch-hit appearances with no starts. That doesn’t exactly seem to be the most optimal usage of a roster spot on the 25-man roster and it was a wonder why the Reds didn’t just put him on the DL to begin with. For season long fantasy owners of Mesoraco, it was just false hope that was being fed and also a waste of a fantasy roster spot as much as it was a real life roster spot. At least if Mesoraco was put on the DL then fantasy owners who have DL eligible spots in their leagues could have slotted him there and picked up a replacement.
More time went on and Mesoraco DH’d when the Reds visited American League parks, but then finally on May 22, nearly six weeks after Mesoraco was first diagnosed with the injury, the Reds placed him on the DL and then put him through a rehab and hoped that his injury would subside with more time. Then the Reds had the idea of trying him out in the outfield since he was still unable to play catcher, so this provided fantasy owners yet again with some hope to squeeze any sort of value out of him this season. Unfortunately, this also turned out to be false hope.
Mesoraco was pulled off his rehab stint after looking pretty awful in the field and visibly still hobbled. And on Saturday it was announced that Mesoraco would finally undergo season-ending surgery to repair the ailing hip. So the whole ordeal ended up being almost a ten week process where he gave fantasy owners a whole 28 plate appearances for a .250 AVG, 0 HR, and 2 RBI. Congratulations, Reds management — you have successfully jerked around the fantasy baseball community to ruin fantasy teams’ seasons all cross the globe.
Let’s see what else happened on Saturday…
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Max Is A Scher Thing (and other notes from 6/14/15)
When the Nationals handed out a 7-year/$210 million contract to Max Scherzer, it definitely raised some eyebrows. Scherzer’s contract was only $5 million less than 2-time reigning NL Cy Young, Clayton Kershaw, but though Scherzer was obviously a great pitcher in his own right, he did not have the same dominant track record as Kershaw. Also, Kershaw was 26 years old when he signed his mega deal, while Scherzer was 30. So the Dodgers figure to get all of Kershaw’s best years in this contract (and already have received one of his best), but the Nationals will have Scherzer, barring a trade, through his age 36 season and he could very well begin to digress in a couple seasons.
But for the time being, Scherzer has been worth every penny and it is best exemplified in his near perfect start on Sunday at Milwaukee. Scherzer had a perfect game through 6 innings until Carlos Gomez hit a bloop single that barely got over the glove of a leaping Anthony Rendon at second base. Scherzer did not let that phase him though, as he went on to finish the rest of the game for a complete game 1-hit shutout with an amazing 16 strikeouts. If you’re into the game score stat, Scherzer finished with a game score of 100, which is the best pitching game of the season (Corey Kluber and Chris Heston both had 98) and it is the highest score since Kershaw’s score of 102 nearly one year ago when he pitched a no-hitter with 15 strikeouts. For the season, Scherzer is now 7-5 with a 1.93 ERA, 0.88 WHIP, and 113 K/14 BB in 93.1 IP.
We all knew that Scherzer was one of the best pitchers in the game coming into the year, but let’s take a look at what is making him even more amazing this season. First, and probably most important, is his huge improvement in his walk rate. Coming up through the Diamondbacks Minor League system, Scherzer was the typical hard throwing prospect with some control issues and he compiled a walk rate of 4.13 BB/9. When he first entered the Majors, he had a little bit below average control, but steadily improved over the years to be above average in the area, and his career best came in his 2013 AL Cy Young season with 2.35 BB/9. But this season, he has taken it to the next level with a current 1.35 BB/9. He is doing so by throwing a first pitch strike a whopping 70.3% of the time, which is the third highest in the league and is shattering his previous career best of 64.5%.
Another reason for his continued dominance is that he is working with a lowered BABIP of .268, but even though that mark is much lower than his career rate of .303, there is some belief to it given that he is inducing more fly balls than ever this season being in the top 5 in the Majors in fly ball rate and fly ball/ground ball ratio. Fly ball pitchers are able to maintain a lower BABIP than ground ball pitchers because fly balls are more easily caught for sure outs. And even though he is allowing more fly balls, not many of them are leaving the stadium for home runs as he has allowed only 6 in 13 starts.
With these improvements this year, Scherzer is going to be able to continue to baffle hitters in his first season in the National League and is looking like as “Scher” of a thing as any pitcher out there. It is going to be a great race for the NL Cy Young.
Let’s check in on the rest of the Sunday card of games!
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Cash In With Cashner (and other notes from 5/22/15)
Let me first start by congratulating Andrew Cashner on a ridiculously awesome mullet. It suits him well. I’ve been known to grow out my hair pretty long in a mullet type fashion in the back, but I could never in my wildest dreams make it look as stylishly good as his.
Ever since Cashner came over to the Padres and became a full-time starting pitcher, he has to be one of the unluckiest pitchers when it comes to wins and losses, if not the unluckiest. In 2013 Cashner squeaked over the .500 mark with a 10-9 record off of a 3.09 ERA in 31 games (26 starts), and last year he went just 5-7 in 19 starts despite having a superb 2.55 ERA. Those seasons of mediocre win/loss records despite the sparkling ERA’s were surely attributed to pitching for a Padres team that had the 24th worst run scoring offense in the Majors in 2013 and the absolute worst in 2014.
On Friday night against the Dodgers, Cashner pitched 6 innings of quality baseball where he gave up one unearned run on 5 hits and 1 walk while striking out 3. However, he was once again unable to come away with one for the W column and was handed a no-decision. Cashner’s ERA improved to 2.89 and his WHIP to 1.27, but his record of 1-7 definitely does not reflect anything resembling what it should for a pitcher with his stats.
But what happened? The Padres offense was supposed to be vastly improved by adding guys in the off-season like Justin Upton, Matt Kemp, Wil Myers, Derek Norris, and Will Middlebrooks, so they must all be flaming out as disappointments, right? Well, not exactly actually. Upton, Myers, and Norris have all been enjoying good seasons, and the Padres are actually 11th in the Majors in run scored and have been the beneficiaries of their home field Petco Park turning into a launching pad of sorts.
When Cashner has taken the hill, his offense has only averaged 2.00 runs per game, and in 6 of his 9 starts, the offense has scored 2 runs or less. For comparison, his teammate James Shields has received at least 3 runs of support in all of his starts for 5.33 runs on average, and other teammate Tyson Ross has received 4.33 runs of support in his starts. So it’s not that he has been pitching for a team with a horrendous offense like in years past, he has just had the misfortune of his offense being powerless specifically in the games that he has started. He has been matched up versus the likes of Max Scherzer, Dallas Keuchel, Jon Lester, and Zack Greinke (twice), but he’s also opposed Brandon McCarthy, Ryan Vogelsong, Rubby De La Rosa, and Daniel Hudson. So the 2.00 runs of support per game are hardly excusable.
With an increase in slider usage from 15.9% last year to 19.9% this year, Cashner is striking out a lot more batters this season with nearly a +2.00 K/9 bump up to 8.68 K/9. The swinging strike rate that Cashner is inducing supports the increase in strikeouts as well, as it is up from 8.0% last year to 9.9% this year, and a large portion of that is from the slider. However, he has been a victim of the weird, inexplicable transformation of Petco Park into a more hitter friendly park that I alluded to earlier. He is allowing 1.29 HR/9 on a 14.3% HR/fly ball rate. That’s not something that is likely to continue as he has been very good at limiting the long ball regardless of where he has pitched (0.75 HR/9 on the road in 2013-14).
I think that Cashner is a good candidate that you may want to try and buy and cash in with him. By all metric systems, Cashner is pitching the best that he ever has since becoming a full-time starting pitcher and the win/loss record is a fluke that the Cashner owner in your league may not realize or just something they are getting tired of dealing with. It’s a very optimistic sign that he is striking out more batters, and with a legitimate reason that he is doing so (the slider). Things will turn around for him soon.
Let’s dive into Friday’s other games in action.
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Mike Birbiglia to promote his film, “Don’t Think Twice,” with Improv Across America bus tour, workshops
Posted by Sean L. McCarthy | May 4, 2016 | Movies, News | 1 |
Mike Birbiglia’s winning movie about an improv comedy group, Don’t Think Twice, will get a nationwide theatrical run this summer, starting July 22, 2016, in New York City, and preceded by a 20-city “Improv Across America” bus tour complete with free improv workshops.
Don’t Think Twice premiered in March at SXSW, and also screened at the Tribeca Film Festival last month.
Written and directed by Birbiglia, he also stars in the film alongside Keegan-Michael Key, Gillian Jacobs, Kate Micucci, Tami Sagher and Chris Gethard — they play members of an improv group that gets pulled apart when one of its members successfully auditions for a TV institution not unlike Saturday Night Live.
The film is emotionally powerful, and hits home for anyone who has ever performed improv, or sketch, or been involved in a group project, or has feelings, ambitions, hopes and fears.
Birbiglia’s “Improv Across America” bus tour will include free workshops led by Liz Allen — who coached the Don’t Think Twice cast in their rehearsals — with select improv comedy theaters including iO Chicago and Planet Ant in Detroit. The tour will also feature pop-up screenings of the film and appearances by Birbiglia, the cast and other special guests.
Birbiglia and producer Ira Glass previously led a national tour to promote their first film together, Birbiglia’s Sleepwalk With Me.
Don’t Think Twice also includes executive production from Cold Iron Pictures and The Film Arcade.
Of Film Arcade, Birbiglia said: “This a company that is young and willing to try things, which is the spirit of how we made the film. Hopefully no one is fact checking this. They’re not actually that young. They’re like, middle aged but they act young in that ‘It’s LA, no one is actually young’ kinda way. The point is, I love these guys and we’re bringing the movie everywhere.”
Updated May 25 with full tour dates — the dates below are for the film screenings, which will feature Q&As with Birbiglia and ticket info!
IMPROV ACROSS AMERICA for Don’t Think Twice
Thursday, June 2: San Diego, Ken Cinema @ 7:30 pm GET TICKETS!
Monday, June 6: Los Angeles, LAFF Premiere Arclight Culver City @ 6:45 pm GET TICKETS!
Tuesday June 7: Phoenix, Camelview at Fashion Square 14 @ 7:30 pm GET TICKETS!
Wednesday, June 8: San Francisco, Clay Theatre @ 7:30 pm GET TICKETS!
Friday, June 10: Seattle, Seattle Film Festival, Uptown @ 7 pm GET TICKETS!
Monday, June 13: San Rafael, CA, The Rafael @ 7:30 pm GET TICKETS!
Thursday, June 23 & Saturday, June 25: Nantucket Film Festival – Multiple Showings GET TICKETS!
Monday, June 27: Boston, Kendall Square Cinema @ 7:30 pm GET TICKETS!
Tuesday, June 28: Philadelphia, Ritz East @ 8 pm GET TICKETS!
Wednesday, June 29: Washington, DC, E Street Cinema, @ 7:30 pm SOLD OUT, Second Screening Added at 8:15 pm GET TICKETS!
Sunday, July 10: Dallas, The Magnolia @ 7:30 pm GET TICKETS!
Monday, July 11: Minneapolis, Uptown Theatre @ 7:30 pm GET TICKETS!
Tuesday, July 12: Detroit, Main Art Theatre @ 7:30 pm GET TICKETS!
Thursday, July 14: Chicago, Music Box Theatre @ 7:30 pm GET TICKETS!
Friday-Saturday, July 22-23: New York City, Sunshine Cinema with me and my producer Ira Glass – Multiple Screenings! GET TICKETS!
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Former Water Officials Receive Prison Time
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Former Virgin Valley Water District Chief Hydrologist Michael “Boomer” Johnson, left, conferred with his attorney Brian Cox prior to his sentencing hearing on Wednesday, Jan. 18.
Saying probation was not an option, Clark County District Court Judge Richard Scotti sentenced two former water officials to a minimum of three years in prison plus restitution of $1.3 million dollars to the Virgin Valley Water District on Wednesday, Jan. 18.
Former VVWD Chief Hydrologist Michael “Boomer” Johnson and Robert Coache, former Deputy State Engineer, State of Nevada Division of Water Resources, were convicted in November on felony charges of extortion by a public officer, a public officer asking for and receiving a bribe, money laundering and illegal financial transactions. They were also found guilty of conspiracy to commit extortion by a public officer, conspiracy by a public officer, and conspiracy to use monetary instruments from unlawful activities; all gross misdemeanor charges.
Johnson was also convicted of misconduct of a public officer while Coache was found not guilty of the same charge.
Judge Scotti sentenced the two men equally giving them 364 days on several counts concurrently and 12 to 32 months on other counts concurrently. However, the separate sentences will run consecutively giving them a total of 36 to 94 months in the Nevada Department of Corrections. They will be eligible for parole after three years. The monetary restitution was split equally between the two men.
The maximum range of prison time that could have been levied against them was 48 to 187 years.
Johnson, Coache, local businessman John Lonetti and former VVWD General Manager Michael Winters, allegedly arranged for water purchases and trades in 2008 with Southern Nevada Water Authority in which VVWD came out $3,8885,000 on the short end.
The complaint specifies that Johnson and Coache received $1,327,500 from Lonetti for their alleged actions in the 2008 deal. Lonetti was not charged in the criminal case and charges against Winters were dropped in 2014.
Deputy District Attorney Mark DiGiacomo, who prosecuted the case, said, “I am extremely happy to get justice for the Virgin Valley Water District ratepayers. The corruption was caused by a state official who is supposed to be protecting their rights and a hydrologist who is supposed to be working for them. That Lonetti was willing to give up $1.3 million to get this deal done, tells you that something was dirty about the deal. He could have paid a lawyer $100,000 to get the deal done.”
DiGiacomo was satisfied with the sentence even though he asked for four and a half to 12 years prison time. “A three to eight year prison sentence is a significant sentence in the criminal justice system no matter what crime you’ve committed. These are two individuals with no criminal history who were involved in a nonviolent crime. It’s a significant statement to the community.”
Johnson admitted to having engaged in the illicit 2008 transaction and the admission is on audio recording. Specifically, Johnson admitted that he was personally compensated by Lonetti in connection with the 2008 transaction between SNWA, Lonetti, and VVWD; that Johnson concealed from the VVWD Board Johnson’s real and personal involvement in the 2008 transaction; and that Johnson would not have been able to obtain his secret profits if VVWD had purchased [water shares] directly from Lonetti. Johnson also admitted that [he] and Coache used a portion of the secret profits to purchase a home in Las Vegas, NV in the name of their company Cibola Investments, LLC” among other purchases and investments.
“How can we expect there to be transparency and integrity in our public officials if we don’t punish them for straying?” Judge Scotti said after Coache’s attorney Bret Whipple asked that his client not receive any jail time.
Whipple argued that there were no victims in the case, especially VVWD, and that the $1.3 million should go to Lonetti rather than the water district. “The only victim is John Lonetti and he doesn’t believe he’s a victim,” Whipple said.
VVWD Board of Directors President Nephi Julien appeared at the sentencing hearing and read a victim’s statement that said in part that all of the district’s ratepayers were victims because of rate increases and a monthly $10 surcharge based on bond debt the district took on to pay for the water transactions.
Even though Johnson said he respected the guilty verdicts he asked the judge for leniency because “there was no direct harm to the Virgin Valley Water District and the transactions were beneficial to all parties including the Water District, Southern Nevada Water Authority and Lonetti. At no time did I attempt to defraud anybody or do harm to anyone.”
Coache also asked for leniency in his sentence explaining that he had lost his professional engineer’s license shortly after the guilty verdicts were rendered in November. “I couldn’t work for any government agencies after I was charged. After the verdicts, I had to shut down my consulting business. My family has gone through this for five and a half years,” Coache said. “To say that nothing has happened to me and my family is a ridiculous statement.”
DiGiacomo lauded the assistance he and his office received from the water district’s legal counsel Bo Bingham and his staff. “Without Bo, we likely would not have heard about this crime. Since the time that he brought the case to us, he’s been an asset. His lawyers know all of the discovery in the case. Our office just didn’t have time to read hundreds of thousands of pages of documents. Anytime we needed to know something he and his lawyers were fantastic about helping us. I still don’t understand water law like they do but I understand crime. That’s what I’m an expert in. While we didn’t always see eye-to-eye on the victimization of the water district and what that value is, we always agreed that these guys didn’t deserve the $1.3 million that they got.”
After criminal charges were filed against Johnson and Coache in May 2011, the water district filed civil charges against the four men for not only the 2008 water transaction but another one in 2005 in which the district allegedly lost approximately $8 million worth of water rights.
The civil case was settled in 2014 with Lonetti returning some of the water shares and close to $4 million to the Water District.
The civil settlement required Johnson to pay $200,000 to the water district but he has not paid any of it to date.
Note: Barbara Ellestad is also a member of the Virgin Valley Water Authority board of directors.
Chief Hydrologist Michael “Boomer” Johnson
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Five of the Best Manchester United v Arsenal games ever
by Sam Steen 31/10/2020, 22:42
For many football fans of a certain age the game between Arsenal and Manchester United is the definitive Premier League fixture.
While both sides may have fallen some way from their glory days and the epic Wenger/Fergie rivalry these games still drum up plenty of interest.
So ahead of their latest clash at Old Trafford tomorrow, we’ve decided to take a look back at five classic encounters between the old foes…
Arsenal 1-2 Manchester United (after extra-time, FA Cup semi-final replay) 1999
It’s difficult to look beyond this one, David Beckham put Manchester United ahead from distance before Denis Bergkamp levelled the score. Deep in stoppage time, the Dutchman had the chance to win it for the Gunners from the spot but Peter Schmeichel saved his effort and when Ryan Giggs picked up Patrick Vieira’s misplaced pass, he set off on a run that would go down in history.
Manchester United 0-1 Arsenal 2002
Arsenal made the trip to Old Trafford in May 2002 knowing that just a point against their bitter rivals would secure the Premier League title. In fact, Sylvain Wiltord’s 55th minute goal did more than that. It was a goal that won the title at their rivals ground, it ensured Arsenal had made it through the entire season without losing an away game and secured the London club’s second double in four years. Not a bad day’s work.
Arsenal 2-2 Manchester United (2003)
The following year Manchester United arrived at Highbury three points clear in the league, but Arsenal had a game in hand. A victory for the Gunners would give them the advantage and the momentum going in to the end of the season.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy gave the visitors a first-half lead, but a double from Thierry Henry seemed to have given Arsenal the win. The Gunners had barely finished celebrating when that man, Ryan Giggs, popped up again with a heartbreaking equaliser which secured the draw and helped the Red Devils regain the title by five points.
Manchester United 0-0 Arsenal (2003)
Just a few months later the rivalry between the two clubs was taken to a new level. This is probably the most iconic 0-0 draw in Premier League history. Eight yellow cards, a red for Arsenal Captain Patrick Vieira and a missed 91st-minute penalty from Van Nistelrooy that prompted Martin Keown to jump in front of and roar in to the face of the Dutch striker. Inches from defeat, Arsenal went on to finish the season unbeaten and win back the title from their northern nemeses.
Sorry Arsenal fans, probably best to look away now, we would 8-2 see you upset about this one.
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America Can Probably Forget About Federal Marijuana Legalization Anytime Soon
By: Mike Adams
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Cannabis supporters believe Sanders is their best shot at getting the issue of marijuana reform some solid representation in the White House.
The cannabis community could be heard screeching like a pack of teenage girls on Tuesday night the second it was announced that Democrat Bernie Sanders had won the New Hampshire primary. It was a small victory that could have enormous implications for the legalization of marijuana at the federal level — something that Sanders has sworn he’ll do on his first day in office.
So, yeah, eeeekkk!
Until now, many thought that Sanders was doomed to take it on the chin just like he did four years ago when he got passed over by the DNC for Hilary Clinton. But the fact that he made such a slam dunk this past week in the Granite State with 25.7% of the votes, well, that just solidified to many of his supporters that he could be the one the Democrats send after Trump.
Cannabis supporters are hopeful, too, that Sanders will be the man. They believe he is their best shot at getting the issue of marijuana reform some solid representation in the White House.
All of this optimism is because, right before the Iowa Caucus, Sanders told his supporters: “On my first day in office, through executive order, we will legalize marijuana in every state in this country.”
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Never mind that Sanders couldn’t actually step in as president and just legalize marijuana — that’s not possible through an executive order, and he could not force any state to legalize weed — but the fact that he is champing at the bit to end decades of marijuana prohibition in this country would undoubtedly be a huge weapon in the arsenal of the cannabis movement. This is especially true if the Democrats end up gaining control of both the House and the Senate — all of which is possible this election. But that’s precisely what could sabotage Sanders’ pursuit for the nomination.
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Sure, Sanders showed the nation this week that he has the strength to take on Donald Trump in November 2020. But it’s called politics for a reason, folks. The Democrats are still not sold on Sanders as their candidate. They are worried that his self-described socialist ideas are just dripping with too much liberal enthusiasm to secure the win in those states he needs to claim the presidency.
The Democrats are looking at the big picture this year, and they are worried that Sanders could screw them on their chance to take over Congress. Seriously, Democrats fear that nominating Sanders for the ticket could be enough to drive away suburban voters and cut them short on the support needed to put them in control of the Senate. Ironically enough, it’s the reason that people like Bernie could end up cutting his own throat. Just ask Rep. Anthony Brindisi (N.Y), who is up against Republican Claudia Tenney again this year. He’s simply not confident in Sanders’ ability to win over America.
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“My preference would be to see a more moderate candidate at the top of the ticket — someone who reflects more of the districts that delivered the majority in 2018,” Brindisi told NBC News. “And I don’t think (Sanders) really represents that.”
You see, more than the presidency, the Democrats desperately need those Senate seats this year. Without them, Republican-domination will continue to prevent them from accomplishing their agenda, including the legalization of marijuana. Last year, we watched the House push through a couple of bills aimed at changing the marijuana laws in this country. All of those efforts, however, were pretty much stopped dead in their tracks by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Much of the same shenanigans are expected this year. The House will move ahead on the issue, while the Senate will pump the brakes. Therefore, the Democrats must knock out the Republican competition if they want to move into their new Senate digs at the turn of 2021.
Yet, if the party focuses only on winning the presidency, it could still find itself helpless for another six years.
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All of this means that we could likely see Joe Biden getting handed the nomination. Many Democrats believe that he’s going to resonate better with those voters who identify as Democrats but do not subscribe to Sanders’ socialist ways. And if that happens, the nation can forget about marijuana legalization anytime soon. Biden said recently that he would not legalize marijuana at the national level. But he’s since shifted his opinion a bit, saying “I think it is at the point where it has to be, basically, legalized,” according to Politico. What he really means by that, nobody knows.
All we are saying is, don’t be surprised if Sanders gets passed over again in 2020 for the Democratic nomination. Because that is probably what we are going to see happen.
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Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, is encouraging young people to remain unwavering in their pursuit of excellence.
“You are our hope and future and I want to encourage you to continue to shine as an example to the rest of us,” he said.
“Never allow the positions that you have taken to pursue excellence to be mocked, to be in any way deterred,” he added.
The Prime Minister was addressing local authority representatives, youth mayors and members of the junior councils from the 14 municipalities during a courtesy call at Jamaica House in St. Andrew on Wednesday (November 27).
The visit was part of activities for Local Government and Community Development Month, which is being observed in November, under the theme ‘Building Resilient Communities through Local Governance’.
While noting that the youth are often negatively portrayed on social media, which is “feeding into the national consciousness that our young people are in crisis,” Prime Minister Holness said that there is a lot of good to be highlighted and promoted.
“I see, every day, young people who are doing very well, young people who represent the best of us, young people, who, regardless of their circumstance, the conditions of their existence, the socio-economic grouping that they come from… have decided that they are not going to take the path of least resistance,” he said.
“They have decided that they are going to strive for the highest ideals… that they are going to stand up for order and discipline in their schools,” the Prime Minister continued.
He said that the students from across the island who have been elected as youth mayors and council members are “a representation of the excellence of the country”.
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Criminal justice in Scotland is delivered by a number of different public, private and voluntary bodies. Five key agencies involved in the Scottish Criminal Justice System are explained below.
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Police Scotland also works with and supports victims and witnesses of crime by communicating certain details of a case after a crime is reported. This includes case numbers and the name of the officer assigned to your case, as well as whether someone has been arrested or charged and if stolen property has been returned. The police may need to take a statement from you or collect evidence such as photos or clothes. Once enough evidence has been collected, and a suspect identified, the police will send a report to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.
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Atelier Escha & Logy - Alchemists of the Dusk Sky PS3
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Atelier Escha & Logy takes place four years after the events of Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk, albeit in a land far away. The country Escha and Logy reside in was once very prosperous thanks to the power of alchemy. But time changes all things, and alchemy became a lost art. However, people have begun to rediscover its benefits while trying to find a way to prevent the reoccurrence of the "End of dusk."
Players will take on the role of either Escha or Logy and tackle various alchemic missions to accomplish their goals. Depending on how players accomplish each of the missions, the outcome of the game will be affected. Many enemies and obstacles will stand in their way, so not only will players have to level up their characters, but they will also need to craft new and more powerful items so they can advance the game's story.
Two paths. One goal. Players may choose to experience the story from either Escha's or Logy'sperspective. Escha's tale focuses on an alchemist's daily life. Logy's tale, has a more dramatic story and follows the traditional RPG experience. Massive customization Players can craft new items and weapons by using alchemy. There are over 180 ingredients to choose from with different effects and combinations. Many are hidden, so adventure off to find rare items! High speed combat Battles are fought in a turn-based manner, like many timeless RPG classics. Character actions and command inputs, however, have been optimized for a fast-paced experience. Over 100 hours of gameplay Combined with Escha and Logy there are 20 different endings, so players have something to look after even if they beat the game. Long selling series with a solid fan base Atelier Escha & Logy will be the 9th installment in the Atelier series beginning from the PS2 days. It is a series loved by many with a strong following.
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COVID vaccines for all will be here soon – why you should get one.
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When “Give Me Liberty” Means “Give Me Death”: The Crazy Rich Asians Perspective on COVID-19
Finally, there is light at the end of the tunnel. Our collective nightmare of suffering through the largest public health crisis in a century, wherein more than 300,000 Americans have died, may be coming to an end. Pfizer’s vaccine recently received emergency authorization from the FDA. Several other pharma companies are not far behind. This is cause for relief and jubilation; the end of this pandemic seems finally within reach.
But sadly, I know that many Americans will decide not to get vaccinated. While it is true that a few will have genuine medical or other well-founded reasons not to, the vast majority of anti-vaxxers will make their choice based on misinformation, unfounded biases, or mistrust of the system. Unfortunately, such anti-science, cultish values have grown in a morass of rampant lies and culture wars. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert said recently that he was stunned as to how millions of Americans still believe COVID is a hoax and that vaccines are not useful. A Gallup poll in mid-November reported that only 58% of Americans would be willing to take such a vaccine. A recent report by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) estimated that the number of people following anti-vaxxers on social media went up by 7.7 million since 2019 and that such platforms are making up to $1 billion a year in targeted advertising revenue. Right-wing extremist groups have concocted and spread outlandish conspiracy theories about vaccines being akin to slavery, or that the “deep state” will hijack the recipient’s DNA, knowing that if they sow doubt, there will be gullible people who may fall into their trap. The WHO lists vaccine hesitancy among its top ten global health threats.
COVID has been especially lethal for elderly people, but the good news is that vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna are reported to be 90% plus effective not just in younger people but in individuals older than 65 years also. Nursing home residents, the elderly, and healthcare workers are amongst the first ones who began receiving these vaccines in mid-December.
Every American who is eligible to receive the vaccine should get vaccinated when they become more generally available in the spring after receiving full FDA approval – not just to protect themselves, but also to protect those around them. For every infection prevented, a community sees five to ten fewer new cases. Herd immunity is achieved when the majority of individuals become immune so that susceptible hosts are hard to find and thus viral transmission abates naturally. Contrarily, when many people choose not to get vaccinated, herd immunity becomes difficult to establish and the vulnerable, higher-risk people in society pay the price. Thus, to crush the pandemic, this endeavor requires the buy-in of all Americans. It requires a team spirit – one for all, all for one. For those who may prioritize their interests over societal benefits, they would do well by viewing the economic benefits when the pandemic lets up. Their freedom to travel, eat at restaurants, and congregate again, is all intertwined with what is best for all – overcoming this pandemic quickly and successfully.
Of course, there should be understandable trepidation about the speed of discovery of these vaccines and their safety. Yes, the timeline of vaccine development has been at phenomenal speed, but that is because of the intense focus of governments and scientists in combating this pandemic. It is also a testament to the scientific advances that have occurred over the past several decades that have allowed us to perform research and manufacture successful vaccines faster than ever before.
The American public should rest assured that the approval process for vaccines in the U.S. is backed by a transparent, independent, and exhaustive deep-dive into the safety and efficacy by an independent board of career scientists and experts who are beholden to no one and are free of political influences. Vaccine manufacturers and the FDA had publicly pledged in the fall that they will not cut corners or compromise on the scientific rigor of vaccine trials. All data is critically evaluated, side effects are carefully analyzed, and efficacy in various groups of individuals is confirmed before the FDA approves such vaccines for the general public. Vaccination helped eradicate previous similar scourges that marred American life in the mid-twentieth century, such as measles and polio and the unnecessary childhood deaths and disability that these diseases wrought.
All of us owe some allegiance and civic responsibility to the society we live in. The citizen-societal relationship is necessarily a two-way street. When called upon to bolster the health of our communities and fight back this virus, we should all do our part by getting vaccinated. This will protect our nation’s health and bring back normalcy to our lives.
Dinesh Kalra, MD
Dinesh Kalra, MD, is an Associate Professor and an attending consultant at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL, with expertise in COVID-19 vaccines and COVID-related heart disease. He is a Public Voices Fellow through The OpEd Project.
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Congress Is Getting Ready To Demolish Dodd-Frank Regulations
Alan Pyke on Wednesday, March 7 2018 - 10:49am
The Senate will vote on a bill Tuesday that’s being touted by supporters as much-needed regulatory relief for small community banks — a sales pitch that conjures images of tellers greeting longtime customers by name as they kick farm dust off their boots at the door.
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Public Employers Must Address Harassment Too
Lee Saunders and Elissa McBride on Wednesday, March 7 2018 - 10:41am
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The #MeToo movement has challenged our nation to confront pervasive sexual harassment in the workplace. Women of every age, every background and every profession have faced harassment, and for too many perpetrators there has been no accountability. According to a study conducted by the nonprofit Stop Street Harassment, 81% of women (and 43% of men) report experiencing sexual harassment or assault.
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California Nurses Leader DeMoro Retiring, But Remains ‘On Call’
Joe Garofoli on Monday, March 5 2018 - 1:30pm
Sen. Bernie Sanders calls her “very tough” and “an invaluable ally.” Longtime consumer advocate Ralph Nader praises her as “the greatest labor organizer of her time.” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka admires her “iron will.” Filmmaker Michael Moore says she is “the pain-in-the-ass labor leader all workers need fighting for them.”
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The Trump Tax Law Will Hurt Hoosiers
Chris Davis on Monday, March 5 2018 - 1:24pm
The Trump tax cuts aren't tickling everyone's fancy, despite a little more money in your check. State Sen. David Niezgodski (D) and State Rep. Karlee Macer (D) were part of a town hall in Indianapolis, on what they say is the "TrumpTax’s disastrous impact on Indiana’s working families."
The town hall is part of a nationwide tour they say will shed light on the "devastating repercussions of Republican tax breaks for millionaires, billionaires and wealthy corporations at the expense of working families."
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Five Ways Unions Are Helping You Right Now…Even If You’re Not a Member
BlueGreen Alliance on Wednesday, February 28 2018 - 1:04pm
A workers’ rights case before the Supreme Court this week could have a dramatic impact on all of our lives. Janus v. AFSCME is a case that is designed to dramatically reduce dues and starve unions that are representing workers at the bargaining table. The Janus case is being pushed by some big corporations and CEOs as part of their well-funded attacks against collective bargaining.
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Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Is to Spend Less on Infrastructure
David Dayen on Wednesday, February 21 2018 - 12:48pm
When he finally unveiled his infrastructure plan on Monday, President Donald Trump offered cities and states negative $40 billion.
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SAG-AFTRA Launches 'Four Pillars of Change' Sexual Harassment Initiative
Emily M. Reigart on Wednesday, February 21 2018 - 12:24pm
At its recent bi-coastal meeting, the SAG-AFTRA National Board of Directors unanimously approved a Code of Conduct on Sexual Harassment to Advance Equity, which is part of a program to combat harassment and strive toward workplace equity called the Four Pillars of Change, according to an announcement.
“At its most basic, this code will — ultimately — help better define what harassment is and what members’ rights are in those situations,” SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris said in the release.
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The Future of Organized Labor is in the Supreme Court's Hands
Charles Wowkanech on Wednesday, February 21 2018 - 12:17pm
The U.S. Supreme Court soon will be the stage of one of the most consequential fights in the history of the American worker.
Anyone concerned with the future of middle-class jobs in our nation deserves to get the facts. Rather than sifting through the complexities of this legal battle, the goal of this article is to make clear to readers the real-life implications of this impending court decision.
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Category: Human Rights
Report: China, Russia, Cuba, Saudi Arabia & Pakistan to win top U.N. human rights posts
GENEVA, October 5, 2020 – Ahead of next Tuesday’s UN election of 15 nations to its highest human rights body, a coalition of non-governmental human
U.N. should reject Russia’s bid for human rights council seat
Mister Vice-President, UN Watch is deeply concerned about the human rights situation in occupied Crimea. According to the annual survey by Freedom House, the Russian
UN Watch written statements at the 45th session of the Human Rights Council
The following written submissions by United Nations Watch have been published by the UN as official documents of the 45th session of the Human Rights
UN Watch Takes the Floor to Oppose Election of China, Russia, Cuba
Testimony before the UN Human Rights Council’s 45th Session delivered by UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer, 24 September 2020. This Council’s founding charter,
UN Clash: Venezuela, Cuba Fail to Stop Activist’s Appeal to Expel Maduro From UNHRC
Following is the video and transcript of UN Watch director Hillel Neuer’s testimony before the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday, September 24, 2020, with
U.N. Must Expel Maduro From Human Rights Council After Inquiry Finds “Crimes Against Humanity”
GENEVA, September 23, 2020 — In wake of today’s findings by UN Human Rights Council investigators that Venezuela is guilty of “crimes against humanity,” an independent non-governmental human
70 NGOs Address UN Debate for Jailed Palestinian Peace Activist Rami Aman
I just took the floor at the United Nations and this is what I said: “Madam Chair, I deliver this statement on the petition for
UN Watch Writes to 14 Foreign Ministers Urging Action to Free Rami Aman
GENEVA, September 21, 2020 – A coalition of 70 NGOs led by UN Watch has sent letters to governments urging them to speak out for
Urgent Debate on Belarus: The United Nations Cannot Say It Didn’t Know
Urgent Debate on Belarus: The United Nations Cannot Say It Didn’t Know Testimony before the UN Human Rights Council, delivered by UN Watch Executive Director
Iranian Women’s Rights Hero Refutes Regime’s Lies at U.N.
GENEVA, August 13, 2020 — When the misogynistic regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran told lies at the 44th session of the U.N. Human
UN Watch’s Top Tweets in July 2020
Trending UN Watch tweets from July: UN Watch presses China on its repression of Uighur Muslims; U.N. hypocrisy on condemning Israel; Turkey turns UNESCO-listed Hagia
UK refuses to condemn China’s bid for UN rights seat
The UK tonight refused a call to lead the world and create a coalition of allies to vote against allowing China to join the U.N.
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Oklahoma Protects Rights Of Medical Marijuana Users
Posted by Brian in News on 29/Feb/2020 07:00
From Bearing Arms:
The full Senate voted unanimously Wednesday to protect the Second Amendment rights of medical marijuana cardholders.
Senate Bill 959, authored by Sen. Nathan Dahm clarifies that anyone authorized to use medical marijuana would also be allowed to have a concealed carry permit.
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Petition Against Canadian Gun Law
From Guns.com:
On Feb. 6, 2020, the petition against the Liberal’s proposed ban of”military assault rifles’ closed with record results. The petition, E-2341, which opened on Dec. 17, 2019, garnered a total of 175,310 signatures — the most signatures for any type of petition in the history of Canada.
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2A Sanctuary Movement Across The US
From Ammoland:
Democrats first established cafeteria-style law enforcement with their immigration sanctuary cities. Now, that same issue of local control was used to protect the right of self-defense.
What started in Illinois didn’t stay in Illinois. The second-amendment-sanctuary movement spread over the next few years from Illinois to Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, and to Texas. Bloomberg’s takeover of Virginia accelerated the second amendment sanctuary movement. In the three months since last November’s election, 91 of Virginia’s 95 counties passed 2A sanctuary resolutions. Some cities in Virginia did so as well. A few counties established militia that the sheriff could activate in case of emergency.
civil rights, county government, gun control, gun rights, local government, sanctuary county, second amendment, second amendment sanctuary, state government
Louisiana Constitutional Carry
House Bill number 72 is the “Louisiana Constitutional Carry Act of 2020.” H.B. 72 says that you may carry a concealed firearm unless you are a prohibited person under state and federal law. This is commonly called constitutional carry or permitless carry. In short, if it was legal for you to get a permit and carry in public then the bill allows you to carry in public. If it was illegal for you to carry in public, then it remains illegal for you to carry in public.
carry permit, civil rights, concealed carry, constitutional carry, gun control, gun law, gun rights, louisiana, pistol, state law
Allen West On Changing Demographics
From Huckabee:
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George Washington: Illegal Militia Founder
From Reason:
Without formal legal authorization, even from the Continental Congress, Americans began to form independent militias, outside the traditional chain of command of the royal governors. In February 1775, George Washington and George Mason organized the Fairfax Independent Militia Company.
american history, american revolution, colonial america, george washington, liberty, militia, revolution
Harriet Film Review
From Independent Institute:
One of the most overlooked movies of 2019 may have been Harriet, the historical drama about American fugitive slave Harriet Tubman. The movie breathes long overdue life into Tubman’s heroic efforts to rescue her family and others from slavery. Indeed, she may be one of the most underappreciated heroines of American liberty.
civil war, freedom, harriet tubman, liberty, movies, slavery
Supreme Court Urged To Review Red Flag Ruling
From California Gun Rights Foundation:
WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 21, 2020) — Today, attorneys for California Gun Rights Foundation, Second Amendment Foundation, and a California resident filed a petition at the U.S. Supreme Court seeking review of an improperly decided Ninth Circuit ruling. The recent case filings in Rodriguez v. San Jose can be viewed at www.cagunrights.org/work.
california, californistan, civil rights, gun control, gun rights, ninth circuit, red flag, red flag laws, second amendment, Supreme Court
Changing Attitudes Towards Firearms
“No one should have that many firearms,” the man said. My question is, why not? What’s wrong with having a large number of firearms? I’m not suddenly more dangerous because I have 12 guns than I was when I had 11. I can only fire so many at a time.
civil rights, culture, gun control, gun culture, gun rights
Safe Passage Bill Introduced
From The Truth About Guns:
So long as you are passing through and not committing some other crime, you are covered under Brooks’ bill, thanks to the interaction of the new definition of “transport” and the “crime other than the violation” clause.
civil rights, federal law, gun control, gun rights, state law, travel safety
Gun Control Toolkit Leaked
“This document,” noted SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb, “raises alarms because there’s a lot in it about taking someone’s guns, but only two paragraphs about returning firearms to their rightful owner.”
civil rights, due process, extreme risk protection order, fifth amendment, First Amendment, gun control, gun rights, red flag laws, second amendment
Saudi Intelligence Infiltrated Twitter
From Buzzfeed:
Alzabarah and Ahmad Abouammo, a colleague on Twitter’s global media team, regularly accessed and delivered information that could’ve led Saudi intelligence to identify anonymous dissidents. While news of the allegations against them has been public since November 2019, the extent of their roles and abilities inside the company have never previously been reported. Alzabarah, Abouammo, and al-Asaker did not respond to requests for comment.
corporate espionage, dissent, dissidents, FBI, intelligence, internet, middle east, saudi arabia, silicon valley, Twitter
How Dangerous Are AR-15s?
From FEE:
If we take the time to look at the raw data provided by the FBI, we find that all rifles, not just “assault-style rifles,” constitute on average 340 homicides per year from 2007 through 2017 (see Figure 1.). When we adjust these numbers to take under-reporting into account, that number rises to an average of 439 per year.
In any given year, for every person murdered with a rifle, there are 15 murdered with handguns, 1.7 with hands or fists, and 1.2 with blunt instruments. In fact, homicides with any sort of rifle represent a mere 3.2 percent of all homicides on average over the past decade.
AR-15, civil rights, crime, crime rate, data, gun control, gun rights, murder, rifles, second amendment
The Guardian Freaks Out Over Virginia Protests
From The Guardian:
But the pledge sparked a grassroots pro-gun movement whose size and intensity has surprised even longtime activists. In dozens of towns and counties, pro-gun Virginians have flooded local government meetings to oppose the new bills and to demand that their lawmakers pass “second amendment sanctuary” resolutions, which promise that local governments will not enforce state gun laws they see as unconstitutional.
First Amendment, gun control, gun prohibition, gun rights, protest, second amendment, self-defense, virginia
France Plagued With 100 Knife Attacks A Day
From Breitbart:
The figures, which come from the National Observatory of Delinquency and Criminal Responses (ONDRP), claim that between 2015 and 2017 there were around 44,000 victims of knife crime each year, or an average of 120 per day.
On average, 118,000 people in France say they were victims of some sort of violent crime involving an attacker who they were not living with such as assaults in public areas, schools, nightclubs, and other venues, Le Figaro reports.
crime, Europe, France, gun control, gun prohibition, self-defense, violent crime
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Robot Jockeys
ROBOT JOCKEYS….All hail our new robot overlords:
The United Arab Emirates says it will use robots as jockeys for camel races from next season.
….”The mechanical jockey is light in weight and receives orders from the instructor via a remote control system fixed on the back of the camel,” the daily Gulf News said, quoting an official statement.
There’s a picture here.
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THE FLASH: THE COMPLETE FIFTH SEASON Bolts On To Blu-ray August 27th!
May 22nd, 2019 by Brandon Peters
Just in time for the sixth season premiere of the highest-rated series on The CW, you will be bolting into stores to pick up The Flash: The Complete Fifth Season as Warner Bros. Home Entertainment releases the Blu-ray and DVD on August 27, 2019. Fans will be able to speed-watch all 22 electrifying episodes from the fifth season, plus the show’s 2018 Comic-Con Panel, three featurettes, deleted scenes, a gag reel and more! All three DC Crossover: Elseworlds episodes will be available only for fans who purchase the Blu-ray set. The Flash: The Complete Fifth Season is priced to own on DVD and Blu-ray), which includes a Digital Copy (available in the U.S.). Both sets have an order due date of July 23, 2019. The Flash: The Complete Fifth Season is also available to own on Digital via purchase from digital retailers.
#1 Series on The CW
THE FLASH:
THE COMPLETE FIFTH SEASON
Contains All 22 Gripping Episodes from the Fifth Season,
Plus a Crossover Featurette, 2018 Comic-Con Panel & Much More!
Own The Blu-ray™ & DVD August 27, 2019
Including All Three Episodes of the DC Crossover Event: Elseworlds Available Only on the Blu-Ray Set
Shortly after defeating The Thinker, Barry Allen/The Flash and his wife, Iris, were stunned by the arrival of their already grown, speedster daughter from the future, Nora (Jessica Parker Kennedy). However, acclimating to their lives as parents won’t be the only challenge they face, as Season Five pits Team Flash against Central City’s latest scourge – the DC Super-Villain Cicada (Chris Klein).
“The Flash is currently The CW’s highest-rated series, and after five strong seasons, The Flash remains a fan favorite,” said Rosemary Markson, WBHE Senior Vice President, Television Marketing. “In addition to the 22 Season 5 episodes, fans can enjoy over 2.5 hours of special features plus 2 bonus Crossover episodes from Arrow and Supergirl on the Blu-ray release.”
With Blu-ray’s unsurpassed picture and sound, The Flash: The Complete Fifth SeasonBlu-ray release will include 1080p Full HD Video with DTS-HD Master Audio for English 5.1. In addition to featuring all 22 episodes from the fifth season in high-definition, as well as a digital copy of the season (available in the U.S.), the 4-disc Blu-ray will also include all three crossover episodes, a tremendous value and collectors’ opportunity.
The Flash stars Grant Gustin (Arrow, Glee), Candice Patton (The Game), Danielle Panabaker (Sky High, Friday the 13th), Carlos Valdes (Arrow, Once), Hartley Sawyer (Caper, Glory Daze), Danielle Nicolet (Central Intelligence), Jessica Parker Kennedy (The Secret Circle, Black Sails), and Chris Klein (American Pie movies), with Tom Cavanagh (Ed, The Following) and Jesse L. Martin (Law & Order). Based on the characters from DC,The Flash is produced by Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television, with executive producers Greg Berlanti (Arrow, Supergirl, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Riverdale), Todd Helbing (Spartacus, Black Sails), Eric Wallace (Teen Wolf, Z Nation) and Sarah Schechter (Arrow, Riverdale, Black Lightning, Supergirl).
The Best of DC TV’s Comic-Con Panel San Diego 2018
The Evolution of Killer Frost
Inside the Crossover: Elseworlds
Villains: Modes of Persuasion
BLU-RAY: 22 ONE-HOUR EPISODES + 2 FULL CROSSOVER EPISODES
1. Nora
2. Blocked
3. The Death of Vibe
4. News Flash
5. All Doll’d Up
6. The Icicle Cometh
7. O Come, All Ye Thankful
8. What’s Past Is Prologue
9. Elseworlds: Hour One
10. Elseworlds: Hour Two
11. Elseworlds: Hour Three
12. The Flash & The Furious
13. Seeing Red
14. Memorabilia
15. Goldfaced
16. Cause and XS
17. King Shark VS Gorilla Grodd
18. Failure Is an Orphan
19. Time Bomb
20. Godspeed
21. Snow Pack
22. Gone Rogue
23. The Girl with the Red Lightning
Street Date: August 27, 2019
Order Due Date: July 23, 2019
BD and DVD Presented in 16×9 widescreen format
Running Time: Feature: Approx 990 min
Enhanced Content: Approx 156 min
Brandon Peters
Brandon is the host, producer, writer and editor of The Brandon Peters Show (thebrandonpetersshow.com) on the Creative Zombie Studios Network. At Why So Blu he is a Writer/Reviewer. Brandon is a lifelong obsessive film nerd. As eager to educate in the world of film as I am to learn. An avid lover of horror, schlock and trash. You can also find older essays on his blog Naptown Nerd (naptownnerd.blogspot.com).
Tags: Candice Patton, Chris Klein, Grant Gustin.
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This is a copy of the old wiki. I'm copying it almost exactly, so deal with (or fix) any minor errors that may occur.
This is a list of pages that existed:
Camino Doc Site Structure
Discuss Beta Site
Marketing Camino
Camino Docs Team
Features Main (full text)
Nightly Download Link
The Camino Community
Contributor Intro
Developing Camino
Building Camino
Official FAQ
Security Documentation
Find Documentation
Bug And Feature Request FAQ
About Talkback
Welcome to our new home!
Check out the site and tell us what's wrong. We're looking for bad links, spelling mistakes, any error you can find, really. After you've found something, come back here and leave a report at the website issues page.
To edit a page, simply click on it's link on the menubar. Once you are viewing the document, there is an option in the top right corner to "edit page". You will then be presented with a nice input window to make any changes or additions.
To add a page, simply type in the URL bar the name of the doc, with "YourTitleHere?" being the name of the new page you want to create.
for a web site document: http://www.wtmcgee.com/camino-docs/index.php/Web/YourTitleHere
For a FAQ - http://www.wtmcgee.com/camino-docs/index.php/Docs/YourTitleHere
For Help Documents - http://www.wtmcgee.com/camino-docs/index.php/Docs/YourTitleHere
and Other - http://www.wtmcgee.com/camino-docs/index.php/Other/YourTitleHere
this is OUR site - all of ours. Please contribute in any way you can. Thanks!
The Camino-Docs Team
Here are some suggestions:
Pick a page from the menu on the left that look interesting. Read through it. See anything you'd change? Click the "Edit Page" link at the top right of that page. Click a question mark next to an unlinked item to create the page that it will link to.
Look through the Site Structure page -- which outlines what we'd eventually like to have on the site. Feel free to add, remove, or move things around in that document. Or pick something that's on the list but that we don't yet have in the menu at left and create a page for it (see instructions above for creating a page.)
Visit the Camino Beta Site and think about what would make it most useful as a finished product. Add pages to the wiki, or discuss the beta site.
Make and discuss suggestions on how to market Camino.
Take a look at what's changed recently... and maybe change it some more.
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Xero Services in Vallejo, CA
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Xero is a New Zealand domiciled public technology company, listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. Xero offers a cloud-based accounting software platform for small and medium-sized businesses. The company has three offices in New Zealand (Wellington, Auckland and Napier), six offices in Australia (Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth), three offices in the United Kingdom (London, Manchester and Milton Keynes), three offices in the United States (Denver, San Francisco and New York), as well as offices in Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong and South Africa.
Xero’s products are based on the software as a service (SaaS) model and sold by subscription, based on the type and number of company entities managed by the subscriber.Its products are used in over 180 different countries.
About Vallejo, California
Vallejo (/vəˈleɪ(h)oʊ/ və-LAY-(h)oh; Spanish: [baˈʎexo]) is a waterfront city in Solano County, California, located in the North Bay subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area. Vallejo is geographically the closest North Bay city to the inner East Bay, so it is sometimes associated with that region. Its population was 115,942 at the 2010 census. It is the tenth most populous city in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the largest in Solano County. Vallejo sits on the northeastern shore of San Pablo Bay, 30 miles north of San Francisco, the northwestern shore of the Carquinez Strait and the southern end of the Napa River, 15 miles south of Napa. The city is named after General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, a native Californio, leading proponent of California’s statehood, and one of the first members of the California State Senate; the neighboring city of Benicia is named for his wife, Francisca Benicia Carrillo de Vallejo.
Vallejo is home to the Six Flags Discovery Kingdom theme park, the now-defunct Mare Island Naval Shipyard, and the regional office for Region 5 of the United States Forest Service. The colleges and universities in Vallejo are California Maritime Academy, the Vallejo Center campus of Solano Community College, and Touro University California.
Vallejo’s public transit includes the San Francisco Bay Ferry, which regularly runs from downtown Vallejo to the San Francisco Ferry Building. SolTrans buses carry passengers around the cities of Vallejo and Benicia, as well as offer express services to Fairfield, California, and Bay Area Rapid Transit stations in El Cerrito, California and Walnut Creek, California. Evans Transportation buses provide daily service to Oakland International Airport from a Courtyard by Marriott hotel adjacent to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom.
Vallejo has twice served as the capital of the state of California: once in 1852 and again in 1853, both periods being brief. The State Capitol building burned to the ground in the 1880s and the Vallejo Fire Department requested aid from the Fire Department at Mare Island Naval Shipyard. As there were no bridges at that time, the Mare Island Fire Department had to be ferried across the Napa River, arriving to find only the foundation remaining. This was the first recorded mutual aid response in the state of California.
Vallejo is also known for its naval and wartime history, the Zodiac Killer mystery, and as the hometown of Bay Area rappers E-40 and Mac Dre.
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== Global overview == HTML5 is different from HTML4 in a way that it addresses both document and application semantics making it more suitable for the web applications created today. HTML5 also reflects implementations better where they differ from HTML4 to ensure the language is implementable and compatible with the web. Inspired by the forward compatible error handling in CSS HTML5 defines detailed processing models where necessary to ensure that implementations become interoperable and that the language stays extensible in the future. HTML5 also integrates a new version of DOM Level 2 HTML so the element-specific APIs are defined along with the rest of the language. Because the language is mostly defined in terms of the DOM it's very easy to get an XML serialization as well. This XML serialization is called XHTML5 and is basically an update to XHTML1.x. == Syntax == ; Writing HTML5: HTML5 specifies its own syntax rules authors have to follow. HTML5 documents can be written in a way that looks exactly like XHTML although this does not imply that parsing such a document with an HTML parser will give the same result as parsing it with an XML parser. ; Parsing HTML5: HTML5 defines its own parsing rules (including "error correction") for text/html resources and no longer pretends that HTML is an application of SGML. == Elements and Attributes == === New elements === ==== Document Structure ==== * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-article article] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-aside aside] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-dialog dialog] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-figure figure] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-footer footer] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-header header] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-nav nav] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-section section] ==== Data ==== * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#audio audio] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-embed embed] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-m m] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-meter meter] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-source source] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-time time] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-video video] ==== Applications ==== * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-canvas canvas] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-command command] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-datagrid datagrid] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-details details] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#the-datalist datalist] (Web Forms 2) * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-event-source event-source] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#the-output output] (Web Forms 2) * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-progress progress] === New Attributes === An overview of all elements from HTML4 that got new attributes in HTML5. {| ! Element !! Attributes |- | a || media?, ping |- | area || ping |- | base || target |- | button || autofocus, form, replace, template |- | fieldset || disabled, form |- | form || data, replace |- | input || autocomplete, autofocus, form, inputmode, list, min, max, pattern, step, replace, required, template |- | li || value (no longer deprecated) |- | meta || charset |- | ol || start (no longer deprecated) |- | select || autofocus, data, form |- | script || async, defer |- | style || scoped |- | textarea || autofocus, form, inputmode, required |} HTML4 didn't have a concept of an attribute that applies to every element. HTML5 calls such attributes global attributes. The following attributes from HTML4 are made global attributes: * class * dir * id * lang * title The following new attributes are global attributes: * contenteditable * contextmenu * draggable * tabindex === Changed Elements === These elements have new meanings in HTML5 which are incompatible with HTML4. The new meanings better reflects the way they are used on the Web or gives them a purpose so people can start using them. ; [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-a a]: The a element without a href attribute represents a "placeholder link". ; [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-address address]: The address element is now scoped by the new concept of sectioning. ; [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-b b]: The b element now represents a span of text to be stylistically offset from the normal prose without conveying any extra importance, such as key words in a document abstract, product names in a review, or other spans of text whose typical typographic presentation is emboldened. ; [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-hr hr]: The hr element now represents a paragraph-level thematic break. ; [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-i i]: The i element now represents a span of text in an alternate voice or mood, or otherwise offset from the normal prose, such as a taxonomic designation, a technical term, an idiomatic phrase from another language, a thought, a ship name, or some other prose whose typical typographic presentation is italicized. Usage varies widely by language. ; [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-menu menu]: The menu element is redefined to be useful for actual menus. ; [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-small small]: The small element now represents small print (for side comments and legal print). ; [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-strong strong]: The strong element now represents importance rather than strong emphasis. === Dropped Elements === That these elements are dropped means that authors are no longer allowed to use them. User agents will still have to support them and HTML5 will probably get a rendering section in due course that says exactly how. (isindex for instance is already supported by the parser.) * acronym (use [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-abbr abbr] instead) * applet (use [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-object object] instead) * basefont * big * center * dir * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-font font] (allowed when inserted by WYSIWYG editors) * frame * frameset * isindex * noframes * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-noscript noscript] (only dropped in XHTML5) * s * strike * tt * u === Dropped Attributes === Some attributes for elements included in HTML4 are not allowed in HTML5: {| ! Element !! Attributes |- | [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-a a] || rev, charset |- | [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-area area] || nohref |- | [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-head head] || profile |- | [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-html html] || version |- | [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-link link] || rev, target, charset |- | [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-map map] || name |- | [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-meta meta] || scheme |- | [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-object object] || archive, standby |- | [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-param param] || valuetype |- | [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-script script] || charset |- | [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-table table] || summary |- | [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-td td], [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-th th] || headers, axis |} In addition, HTML5 has none of the presentational attributes that were in HTML4 (including those on <table>. Any attributes defined on ''elements'' that are not in HTML5 are (obviously) also not in HTML5. == APIs == HTML5 introduces a number of APIs that should help in creating web applications. These can be used together with the new elements introduced for applications: * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-2d 2D drawing API] which can be used with the new [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-canvas canvas] element * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#media API for playing of video and audio] which can be used with the new [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#video video] and [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#audio audio] elements * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#storage Persistent storage] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#offline Online / offline events] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#editing Editing API] in combination with a new global [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#contenteditable0 contenteditable] attribute * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#dnd Drag & drop API] in combination with a [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#draggable draggable] attribute. * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#network Network API] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#history API that exposes the history] and allows pages to add to it to prevent breaking the back button. * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#crossDocumentMessages Cross document messaging] * [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#server-sent-events Listening to server sent events] == Character Encoding == The character encoding can be declared using the meta element, but the syntax of the meta element has changed. In HTML 4.01 and earlier, the meta element was: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> In HTML5, the syntax was simplified to remove the unnecessary markup, yet still remain compatible with the encoding detection implemented in most existing browsers. <meta charset="UTF-8"> === HTML 4 Algorithm === Source [http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html#h-5.2.2 5.2.2 Specifying the character encoding], HTML 4.01 Specification. # An HTTP "charset" parameter in a "Content-Type" field. # A META declaration with "http-equiv" set to "Content-Type" and a value set for "charset". # The charset attribute set on an element that designates an external resource. === HTML 5 Algorithm === The exact algorithm that browsers must follow in order to [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-input0 determine the character encoding] is specified in HTML 5. The basic algorithm works as follows: # If the transport layer specifies an encoding, use that, and abort these steps. (e.g. The HTTP Content-Type header). # Read the first 512 bytes of the file, or at least as much as possible if less than that. # If the file starts with a UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32 BOM, then use that and abort these steps. # Otherwise use the special algorithm to search the first 512 bytes for a meta element that declares the encoding. The algorithm is relatively lenient in what it will detect, though since it doesn't use the normal parsing algorithm, there are some restrictions.
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====Articles in the Library Literature==== Albright, Meahan, K. Delecki and S. Hinkle. 2009. "The Evolution of Early Literacy: A History of Best Practices in Storytimes." [http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/compubs/childrenlib/index.cfm Children and Libraries], Spring, p.13-18. Arnold, R. 2003. "Public Libraries and Early Literacy: Raising a Reader". [http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ala/document/display.jsp?docID=10051367&page=1 American Libraries]. 34: 48-51. Arnold, Renea, and Nell Colburn. 2007. "[http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6420399.html First Steps - The Perfect Partner]". School Library Journal : SLJ. 53, no. 3: 34. Czarnecki, E., D. Stoltz, and C. Wilson. 2008. "Every Child Was Ready to Learn! A Training Package for Home Childcare Providers That Produced Proven Results in Early Literacy Outreach". [http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/pla/plapublications/publiclibraries/ALA_print_layout_1_510033_510033.cfm Public Libraries] Public Libraries. 47, no. 3: 45-51. Dahlgreen, MaryKay. (2004) “Ready to Read in Oregon: Building Best Practice in Library Service to Children.” [http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/compubs/childrenlib/index.cfm Children and Libraries], Winter, p. 4-10. Duke, N. K. 2007. "Let's Look in a Book: Using Nonfiction Reference Materials with Young Children". Young Children. 62, no. 3: 12-17. Lance, Keith Curry, and Robbie Bravman Marks. 2008. "[http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6590044.html The Link Between Public Libraries and Early Reading Success]." School Library Journal. 54, no. 9: 44-47. Oser, Cindy. (2006) “[http://librarystudentjournal.org/index.php/lsj/article/viewArticle/32/160 Babies and Libraries: Serving the Youngest Patrons of a Community].” Library Student Journal, September issue. Pannebaker, Susan. (2008) “One Book, Every Young Child.” [http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/compubs/childrenlib/index.cfm Children and Libraries], Summer/Fall issue, p. 36-9. Weiss, H., Caspe, M., and M. E. Lopez. (2008). Family involvement promotes success for young children: A review of recent research. In M. Cornish (ed.) Promising practices for partnering with families in the early years. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 1-19. ====Books==== Blakemore, Caroline, and Barbara Weston-Ramirez. Baby Read-Aloud Basics: Fun and Interactive Ways to Help Your Little One Discover the World of Words. New York: AMACOM, 2006. Butler, Dorothy. Babies Need Books: Sharing the Joy of Books with Children from Birth to Six. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1998. Carlson, Ann D. The Preschooler & the Library. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1991. Crago, Maureen, and Hugh Crago. Prelude to Literacy: A Preschool Child's Encounter with Picture and Story. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983. Diamant-Cohen, Betsy and Saroj N. Ghoting. [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=2634 The Early Literacy Kit: A Handbook and Tip Cards]. Chicago: ALA Editions, 2009. Ezell, Helen K., and Laura M. Justice. Shared Storybook Reading: Building Young Children's Language & Emergent Literacy Skills. Baltimore, Md: P.H. Brookes Pub, 2005. Ghoting, Saroj Nadkarni, and Pamela Martin-Díaz. [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=127 Early Literacy Storytimes @ Your Library: Partnering with Caregivers for Success]. Chicago: American Library Association, 2006. Glazer, Joan I., and Cyndi Giorgis. Literature for Young Children: Supporting Emergent Literacy, Ages 0-8. Indianapolis, Ind: Prentice Hall, 2008. Gordh, Bill. Stories in Action: Interactive Tales and Learning Activities to Promote Early Literacy. Westport, Conn: Libraries Unlimited, 2006. Matulka, Denise I. A Picture Book Primer: Understanding and Using Picture Books. Westport, Conn: Libraries Unlimited, 2008. Owocki, Gretchen, and Yetta M. Goodman. Kidwatching: Documenting Children's Literacy Development. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002. Peterson, Barbara. Literary Pathways: Selecting Books to Support New Readers. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2001. Rosenkoetter, Sharon E., and Joanne Knapp-Philo. Learning to Read the World: Language and Literacy in the First Three Years. Washington, DC: Zero To Three Press, 2006. Schiller, Pamela Byrne, and Thomas Moore. Do You Know the Muffin Man?: An Essential Preschool Literacy Resource. Beltsville, Md: Gryphon House, 2004. Snow, Sharon. Building Blocks: Building a Parent-Child Literacy Program at Your Library. Westport, Conn: Libraries Unlimited, 2007. Trostle-Brand, Susan Louise, and Jeanne M. Donato. Storytelling in Emergent Literacy: Fostering Multiple Intelligences. Australia: Delmar Thomson Learning, 2001. Van Kleeck, Anne. Sharing Books and Stories to Promote Language and Literacy. Emergent and early literacy series. San Diego: Plural Pub., Inc, 2006. == Library programs == [http://bld.lib.ca.us Beaumont Library District] (California)<br> [http://www.familyplacelibraries.org Family Place Libraries]<br> [http://www.bcplstoryville.org Baltimore County Public Library Storyville] (Maryland)<br> [http://www.multcolib.org/birthtosix Multnomah County Library] (Oregon)<br> [http://www.gailborden.info/m/content/view/231/579/ Gail Borden Public Library District Early Learning Center](Illinois)<br> [http://www.gailborden.info/m/content/view/487/523/ Gail Borden ELC Services and Policies] == Additional Resources == * [[Children's Services]] * [[Boys]] * [http://clel.org/ Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy]
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Madhuri Sathish is a journalism student at Northwestern University. She focuses on news, politics and social justice.
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The program coordinator of the Safe OUTside the System Collective in Brooklyn, N.Y., talks about the effort to foster community wellness among queer and trans people of color contending with police violence and criminalization.
Women of Color, Working Families Projected to Play Big Role in Nevada Caucuses
By: Madhuri Sathish | February 19, 2016
With the caucuses fast approaching on Feb. 20, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are focusing their campaigns on issues that impact families, health and communities of color.
Older Feminists Owe Millennial Women a Choice
By: Madhuri Sathish | February 9, 2016
Recent comments by Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright about Hillary Clinton vs. Bernie Sanders show a lack of confidence in younger feminists. Steinem’s infuriating transphobic comments have also been largely ignored.
Hillary Clinton Struggles to Excite Millennial Women
By: Madhuri Sathish | January 29, 2016
With the Iowa caucus fast approaching on Feb. 1, eyes are turning to millennial women and whether the Democratic frontrunner can win the support of these younger voters, who are polling in favor of the insurgent Bernie Sanders.
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Two Confirmed Responses and Five out of Six Patients with Initial Tumor Reductions from Early Dose Cohorts of SURPASS Trial, Presented at SITC
Download as PDF November 09, 2020 3:18pm EST
- Data support continued development of ADP-A2M4CD8 -
- On track to start Phase 2 trial in gastroesophageal cancers in the first half of 2021 -
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. and OXFORDSHIRE, UK., Nov. 09, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Adaptimmune Therapeutics plc (Nasdaq: ADAP), a leader in cell therapy to treat cancer, presented data from the dose escalation cohorts of its Phase 1 SURPASS trial using ADP-A2M4CD8 in a poster at the Society for the Immunotherapy of Cancer (“SITC”) Conference.
In these cohorts of heavily pre-treated patients with advanced cancers (n=6), three were treated with target doses of 1 billion SPEAR T-cells, and three with target doses of 5 billion. Most adverse events were consistent with those typically experienced by cancer patients undergoing cytotoxic chemotherapy or cancer immunotherapy.
“We have seen responses in two out of six patients treated in the safety cohorts of the SURPASS trial as well as antitumor activity in five of them. The responses and antitumor activity we have seen with our next-generation ADP-A2M4CD8 SPEAR T-cells, across a range of solid tumors, support our belief that this is a highly active product,” said Ad Rawcliffe, Adaptimmune’s Chief Executive Officer. “Based on these data, we will initiate the Phase 2 trial in gastroesophageal cancers in the first half of 2021 and look forward to identifying additional indications to take into late-stage development.”
There were two confirmed partial responses (PRs): one in a patient with esophagogastric junction (EGJ) cancer, previously reported, and one in a patient with head and neck cancer, reported as unconfirmed in May. The four other patients had best overall responses of stable disease (SD). Overall, five out of six patients treated had initial tumor shrinkage.
In vitro translational data using the manufactured products from patients in the SURPASS trial indicate that co-expression of the CD8α co-receptor on CD4+ ADP-A2M4 SPEAR T-cells enables them to kill MAGE-A4 expressing target cells with equal potency as CD8+ SPEAR T-cells targeting MAGE-A4. These data, combined with the responses and antitumor activity observed at low doses, indicate that ADPA2M4D8 may be a more potent product than the first-generation ADPA2M4 SPEAR T-cells.
Best Overall Response (BOR) and maximum changes from baseline in target lesions in Cohorts 1 and 2
Indication Dose x 109 BOR Tumor reduction
Head and neck 4.6 PR -63.16%
EGJ 1.2 PR -51.52%
EGJ 1.0 SD -34.07%
Ovarian 1.1 SD -16.13%
Esophageal 6.0 SD -13.37%
MRCLS 5.7 SD +1.35%
As of data cut-off: October 1, 2020
At SITC, Adaptimmune also presented a poster entitled “Inhibition of AKT signaling during expansion of TCR-engineered T-cells from patient leukocyte material generates SPEAR T-cells with enhanced functional potential in vitro.” These preclinical data indicate that AKT inhibition during the manufacture of SPEAR T-cells results in a more consistent expansion and phenotype of the final product. This process is currently being used for manufacture of ADP-A2M4CD8 for the SURPASS trial.
The Company also presented two posters summarizing data for the two completed Phase 1 trials with ADP-A2M10 (a previously terminated program).
About Adaptimmune
Adaptimmune is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel cancer immunotherapy products for people with cancer. The Company’s unique SPEAR® (Specific Peptide Enhanced Affinity Receptor) T-cell platform enables the engineering of T-cells to target and destroy cancer across multiple solid tumors.
This release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA). These forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties. Such risks and uncertainties could cause our actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements, and include, without limitation: the success, cost and timing of our product development activities and clinical trials and our ability to successfully advance our TCR therapeutic candidates through the regulatory and commercialization processes. For a further description of the risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking statements, as well as risks relating to our business in general, we refer you to our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on November 5, 2020, and our other SEC filings. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date the statements were made and we do not undertake any obligation to update such forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.
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SITC Abstract
Title: Initial safety, efficacy, and product attributes from the SURPASS trial with ADPA2M4CD8, a SPEAR T-cell therapy incorporating an affinity optimized TCR targeting MAGE-A4 and a CD8α co-receptor
Authors: David S. Hong1, Jeffrey Clarke2, Tanner Johanns3, Partow Kebriaei1, John V. Heymach1, Ahmed Galal2, Samuel D. Saibil4, Adrian Sacher4, Francine E. Brophy5, Gareth Betts6, Natalie Bath6, Will Spinner6, Alex Tipping6, Jessica Tucci5, Raymond Luke5, Trupti Trivedi5, Quan Lin5, JeanMarc Navenot5, Paula M. Fracasso5, Karen Miller6, Elliot Norry5, Mark Dudley5, Marcus O. Butler4
Affiliations (Institution, City, State, Country):
1The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States of America, 2Duke Cancer Center, Durham, NC, United States of America, 3Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States of America,4Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 5Adaptimmune, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America, 6Adaptimmune, Abingdon, United Kingdom
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Background: The ongoing SURPASS trial (NCT04044859) evaluates safety and efficacy of next-generation ADP-A2M4CD8 SPEAR T-cells co-expressing the CD8α co-receptor with the engineered MAGE-A4c1032 Tcell receptor (TCR).
Methods: First-in-human trial in HLA-A*02 positive patients (pts) with advanced cancers expressing MAGE-A4 antigen by immunohistochemistry. Eligible pts undergo apheresis, Tcells are isolated, transduced with a Lentiviral vector containing the MAGE-A4c1032 TCR and CD8α coreceptor, and expanded. Expansion, transduction level, cellular composition and function of the manufactured product (MP) are assessed in vitro. Prior to infusion, pts receive lymphodepletion with fludarabine 30 mg/m2/day for 4 days and cyclophosphamide 600 mg/m2/day for 3 days.
Results: As of 16 July 2020, 5 pts (1 with MRCLS, 2 with esophagogastric junction [EGJ] cancers, 1 with ovarian cancer, and 1 with head and neck cancer) were treated with ADP-A2M4 CD8 (range ~1 to 5.7 billion transduced cells). No DLTs or SAEs have been reported. To date, 1 pt with EGJ cancer had a partial response (PR per RECIST) and has had progression-free survival >6 months. One pt with head and neck cancer also had a PR. All other pts have had best overall response of stable disease.
MP expanded by an average of 15.3fold during manufacturing (range 5.9 to 25.6-fold). On average, 43% of Tcells in the MP expressed the TCR (range 23 to 63%). The fraction of CD4+ cells in the final MP varied (range 45 to 84%). Coexpression of the MAGE-A4 TCR and CD8α in CD4+ T-cells in the patient MP enabled CD4+ T-cells to kill tumor target cells directly in vitro. MAGE-A4 expression in tumor biopsies varied (H-score range 55 to 300). Transduced T-cells were detected in peripheral blood of all pts. IFNgamma increased transiently in the serum of 1 pt who responded.
Conclusions: ADP-A2M4CD8 SPEAR T-cells have shown an acceptable safety profile and pts with EGJ cancer and head and neck cancer have demonstrated evidence of antitumor activity. Translational data and early clinical results indicate that co-expression of the CD8α co-receptor on CD4+ SPEAR T-cells may increase the potency of the product by conferring additional killing activity to the helper T-cell subset. This dose escalation trial is ongoing and updated clinical and translational data will be presented.
Source: Adaptimmune Therapeutics plc
Released November 9, 2020
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Bockstead Crossing – a ghost story for Christmas
When Roger told him about Crossing Cottage being up for auction, he just had to see inside. Jim had been interested in railways all his life, and this was his local line – his home line. The Berkshire & Holloway Railway Company built the old crossing keeper’s house in 1892 – nearly a hundred years ago. Situated one country mile north of Bockstead village, the cottage accommodated a level crossing keeper through to 1966 when the branch line was closed to passenger traffic. Since then, the cottage had lain empty. Jim delighted in showing his new wife Eve those little architectural details that were unique to properties of the former Berkshire & Holloway. Look at those finials on the roof dormers, the distinctive pattern of the brickwork, the russet bricks – these would’ve been made locally, probably at the Hampstead Parva brickworks that used to be just up the road. It was as if the place had been hewn from the very land on which it sat.
Birdsong coloured the air. Eve made encouraging noises and they discussed which bits of the house they’d keep original and which bits they might refurbish; where they might extend and who’d do what. It was when they were sat in the car after the viewing that she said, ‘I don’t know though. It’s lovely, and I love it too … but there’s something not quite right. Why’s it so cheap?’
‘Specialist market. Not everyone wants a disused railway in the garden. It is isolated and, well, yes, it does need work.’ Experience had taught Jim to strike a conciliatory tone in moments like these. ‘They’ll be pulling up the track soon. Nice little front garden there.’ He’d have preferred to be keeping the track, but still – needs must.
Eve looked up at the landing window of the cottage. ‘It feels sad in there,’ she said. ‘Depressing.’
‘Well, it hasn’t been decorated in forty years. You’ll feel different once we’ve stripped off that godawful wallpaper. Honestly, love. It’s ideal.’
She looked at Jim with the soft brown eyes that he had married. ‘I think,’ she said, ‘that your cottage might be haunted.’
In the Rose and Crown that evening, Roger suggested that Eve’s fearful remark betrayed a touchingly simple nature. ‘Well played, mate,’ he added.
To Jim’s delight, there had been only one other bidder, and his own offer was accepted. On Saturday 15th October 1988 Eve and Jim moved into their new home. With Roger’s help, they heaved their bed up a bare staircase and unpacked just enough in the way of provisions to last the evening. Eve fried sausages on a camping stove while they sat around on boxes, drinking beer and smoking roll-ups. As best he could, Jim tuned in their old black and white portable television. He adjusted its loop aerial and twiddled the dial. The picture was fuzzy – except on BBC Two, where they had a clear view of someone prancing around on a stage. It looked and sounded horribly like an Italian opera – all rolled Rs and subtitles.
Jim grimaced. ‘Might end in a minute.’
‘I want All Creatures Great and Small,’ said Eve. ‘It’s on at eight-fifteen. BBC One.’
Her statement provoked sniggers from Roger and Jim. Roger mimed sticking his arm up a cow’s rectum. ‘Can’t beat a bit of Bully,’ he said.
‘That’s Bullseye,’ said Eve. ‘It’s a completely different programme.’
Roger and Jim exchanged twinkling glances.
‘And it’s on ITV.’
‘Bless her,’ said Jim.
‘Bless her,’ said Roger.
‘Awww!’ said Jim. He gave Eve a drunken hug.
‘Don’t laugh at me,’ Eve said with a girlish pout.
Jim lifted a green box from a pile of boxes. He took an extension lead from the green box and attached it to the telly. He then moved the telly up to the windowsill, switched it on again and twiddled. There was still some grain on BBC One, but they could at least now see Russ Abbot doing his funny faces instead of just hearing the studio laughs.
Eve was happy. ‘It’s on after this,’ she said.
They were fifteen minutes into All Creatures Great and Small when the first cow appeared on screen.
‘Shut up!’ said Eve.
After All Creatures Great and Small had finished, Roger gave the happy couple their moving-in presents. A bottle of Merlot, a good-luck card and then, especially for Jim, the hard-to-find third edition of E.R. Robinson’s The Berkshire & Holloway Railway: An Illustrated History: 1888 – 1978. This contained hundreds of photographs showing the building of the line, its heyday in the 1920s, its minor wartime role, through closure to passengers in 1966 and then its final years as a freight line serving the US Airforce base at Gresley. The rare third edition postscript gave an additional fourteen pages of photographs showing the railway in the months following its full closure in 1978 after the airbase was decommissioned. The book was renowned not only for its extensive photographic record but also for Robinson’s detailed yet engaging text. Jim wondered aloud if this might just be the best day of his life.
Roger left at ten, promising to return the next day to have a look at the brickwork and pointing. Eve needed the bathroom, so she went upstairs while Jim boiled the kettle. On the landing, she looked outside through the sash window. A full moon shone a soft silvery light on the lane as it approached the crossing gates, and she saw a section of rusted rails just beyond an extant gatepost of the former level crossing. By the gatepost, half-covered by a hedge, was something that looked like an old-style post box. Jim was right – this was an idyll. For a start, they’d been lucky to find a period property within their budget that had an upstairs bathroom. Apparently, British Railways had converted the box room only months before they’d made the crossing keeper redundant. Typical public sector profligacy, she thought.
In bed an hour later, she snuggled up to Jim.
‘Sorry, love, I’m whacked out,’ he said.
Eve frowned. Jim had brought Roger’s book up to bed with him and he was now wearing his reading glasses. ‘We’ll be alright here, won’t we?’ she said.
Jim grunted.
‘You do love me, don’t you?’
Jim gave her a squeeze. ‘Course.’
‘Only I thought … this being our first night … that you … we … might -’
‘Whacked out, love. Sorry.’ He gave her an exaggerated peck on the cheek then returned to his book.
In the morning, Eve went out for a short walk. She noted the piles of timber and rubble that had been left behind by British Railways. Hopefully, this would all be cleared after Christmas when the demolition crew would be arriving to lift the track. The hedges on the lane seemed taller and fuller in the daylight. Strangely, she couldn’t find the post box that she thought she’d seen through the landing window the night before. She looked around. This place was so still. Creepy even. There was a brittleness about the air as if she could take a hammer to the crisp blue day and shatter it to reveal something else underneath. Suddenly she experienced an overwhelming feeling of regret, and then of anger. Bloody Roger. But for Roger, she’d now be living on the new estate – closer to her mum, and in a nice modern two-bed house with appliances. When Jim and his new best friend Roger talked about railways, it was as if she didn’t exist – they just went into their own world. No, she mustn’t be silly. She loved Jim, and she knew that she would never compete with his interests. She’d make a go of Crossing Cottage for his sake.
Eve walked back inside and found Jim in the kitchen, still reading Roger’s book. She went upstairs to the bathroom. Not for the first time, she felt a shiver when she passed under the attic hatch.
Five minutes later, she sat down with Jim at the kitchen table. ‘Crikey, look at this,’ he said. Jim showed her a 1965 photograph of their cottage with the crossing gates still in-situ. The photograph was accompanied by a scanned image of a contemporaneous Berkshire Post news article. Its headline read:
High jinks on the railway – two dead
Robinson’s text summarised the Rail Accident Investigation Board report into a fatal accident that occurred at Bockstead Crossing in December 1965 – the last winter of passenger services on the line. Two teenage boys had been knocked down by the 8.27 to Gresley on Friday 23rd – the night before Christmas Eve. The locomotive driver was exonerated of any blame. Steam locomotives had poor forward visibility at the best of times, and this was a foggy night. Driver Jenkins and Fireman Smeeth had no reasonable way of seeing the obstruction before it was too late. Rulebook procedures had been complied with on approach to the crossing, and Smeeth confirmed that Jenkins had indeed sounded his whistle. These were experienced enginemen who both ‘knew the road’. The crossing keeper’s witness statement spoke of seeing the boys playing on the crossing before he chased them off with a ‘Gertcha’. They’d been ‘up to high jinks’ and had given him some cheek, apparently. To the best of his knowledge though, the boys had cavorted down the lane toward Spicers End, and that was the last time he’d seen them alive. The report concluded that the lads fell into harm’s way while playing ‘chicken’ across the track and that they had disobeyed instructions given by authorised railway personnel. The RAIB report cleared the crossing keeper of any blame and sympathised with the distress that he must have suffered on witnessing the aftermath of such a tragic and grisly event. On the next page of Robinson’s account was a portrait photograph of the man in question. Ernest Chapman was the last crossing keeper at Bockstead Crossing. A burly fellow who looked to be in his early sixties, he was shown posing with his bicycle at the crossing gates.
‘Don’t think much of Ernie’s taste in wallpaper,’ Jim said, looking around the kitchen. The kitchen wallpaper was a shinier version of the orange that was currently infesting the living room. ‘Bless him.’
Eve looked at the photograph. ‘He looks … horrible,’ she said. ‘Dead eyes.’
‘That’s just the way folk looked in photos. Stiff,’ said Jim. ‘They weren’t used to having their picture taken.’ He showed Eve a 1955 portrait photograph of the Gresley station master – another stern-looking chap. ‘See?’
Eve was unconvinced. ‘Suppose,’ she said. ‘Shall we make a start, then? Start with the wallpaper?’
There was a knock at the door.
The visitor was Roger’s mate Barry the roofer. Barry had brought his ladders with him. He was to make some temporary repairs and give a quote for the rest.
Jim began removing the living room wallpaper while Eve went to work in the kitchen. After five minutes of pulling and scraping, Eve appeared in the living room doorway.
‘Isn’t Roger’s second name Chapman?’ she said.
‘Umm, yes,’ said Jim. ‘I think it is.’
‘You don’t suppose?’
‘Dunno. Maybe. He didn’t say anything.’ He laughed. ‘Maybe we’re all related around here.’
Forty minutes later, Barry came down from the roof and joined them in the kitchen. Jim boiled the kettle.
‘It’s not terrible up there,’ Barry said. ‘Just that outside corner needs doing, really. Oh, and your soffits are rotten, and your gutters and downpipes have had it. That all needs doing pronto. Scaffolding up for about a week. Two men, twelve-foot square … eighteen, fifteen, erm, times two, ermmm, six by eight … three hundred … uh, six … no, five?’ He did an arithmetic show with his fingers. ‘Couple of grand, mate,’ he announced. ‘Four tops. Well, provided the ridge is okay. Don’t worry, Squire. I’ll look after you.’
The rest of that week was a whirl of Roger and Barry and various mates of mates who all needed to quote for this that or the other. Eve was back at work in the library and using the car, but Jim had two weeks holiday from his admin job, so he got on with stripping wallpaper and making tea for Roger’s trade contacts. Above the chimney breast in the second bedroom, one strip of wallpaper was curling from its top edge below the picture rail. Jim pulled it down as a single piece. On the plaster underneath, he saw an ink scrawl. It read:
None as no fear. None as innocent. Repent.
Jim felt a shiver. He supposed the writing was Ernie’s, that the old boy had been a staunch believer and maybe a bit bonkers. Eve mustn’t see this. Quickly, he took sandpaper to the daub and rubbed at it until it was illegible.
Unfortunately, once all the wallpaper in the cottage had been scraped and sanded away, the plaster was revealed to be in a terrible state. Sections just crumbled off to reveal powdery brickwork. Not to worry though – when it came to the plastering, Roger’s mate Kev was a dab hand.
In bed that night, Eve said to Jim, ‘Your cottage is like a public convenience.’
‘Our cottage, love.’
‘I do hope so. One of Roger’s, umm, friends, has been writing on the walls.’
‘Measurements,’ Jim said with a yawn.
‘No. Weird stuff. Umm … is one of them religious?’
On the night before Christmas Eve, the snow came. Just a light dusting but, twinkling in the moonlight and reflecting the warm lights of the house, it made Crossing Cottage look like the centrepiece of a Christmas card. Roger and his merry men had made a fine job of the old place. It was dried out, re-glazed, repointed, re-guttered, re-plastered, redecorated and relit. Only partially re-tiled, but you can’t have everything. Tonight, they were having a party. There was some risk involved here, as the merry men did not all see eye to eye on certain issues. Once done with admiring each other’s handiwork, they’d be a few drinks down and would then start being frank with each other, ‘clearing the air’ over their petty differences. This often led to a fight, so Roger promised Eve and Jim that he’d keep order. Above all, they wouldn’t break anything. If they did, then they’d put it right at their own expense, and quickly. Roger was in a particularly jovial mood this evening. ‘Might have a surprise for you lot later,’ he said. He winked at Jim. ‘You’ll love it.’
The drinks flowed from five in the afternoon, and merry men made festive cheer. Eve and Jim had equal dibs on music choices. Paul Simon’s Graceland was ignored while the men discussed their various parts in the house renovation, then they made supportive though not entirely enthusiastic noises over Wind and Wuthering by Genesis (Jim and Eve both loved this one and had bonded many times to its autumnal colours.) ‘Bit girly though, innit,’ said Barry. Jim decided that something more dramatic was in order. Caravan’s Nine Feet Underground suite was a good one for the lads. Sixteen minutes of up-tempo and slightly psychedelic weaving, then a wistful vocal section before returning to jazzy headbanging. It was during the quiet interlude of Caravan’s opus that there was a rumble and the cottage began to shake.
‘What the hell is that?’ said Eve. ‘Oh no … Jim!’ She got up and lifted the needle off the record.
The shaking was getting stronger, rattling the windows. Jim looked at Roger.
They all looked at Roger.
Roger looked at his watch. ‘Bang on time,’ he said. ‘Well, give or take …’
‘What?’
‘Lady and gentlemen, please step this way,’ Roger said. He opened the front door. From the Gresley direction, a bright light was shining along the rusted track of the old railway. The light was accompanied by a thunderous snarling racket, and it was getting louder.
Eve was horrified. ‘What the -?’
‘Behold the ghost train!’ said Roger. ‘Almost on time, as well.’ He winked.
A long-nosed diesel locomotive appeared through the snow. It sounded a two-tone horn.
‘Alright, Spike mate, don’t milk it,’ muttered Roger.
There was a squealing sound as the locomotive braked and skidded on the wet rails. It came to rest with its nose overhanging the road. A burly man tumbled down from the cab.
‘Spike, mate!’ said Roger. ‘Nice one.’
‘I’m too mashed to park it properly,’ said Spike, grinning and raising his beer can in a drunken salute.
Eight merry men packed into the cab. They roared away down the rusted line toward Gresley singing the snowman song: ‘We’re walking in the air; we’re walking in the scooby-doo …’ No-one could remember the exact lyrics, so they tried smutty variations (none of which worked quite well enough to be reproduced here). The merry men bumped along the rickety old line for a mile and a half, at which point they met the train of flat wagons that was now carrying the redundant rails from Gresley. This was the train of wagons from which Spike had uncoupled the Class 20 locomotive half an hour earlier. ‘Whoaaah!’ the men shouted. Spike executed a timely brake application and stopped fifteen feet short of the leading wagon. He received a round of applause. Roger told Jim that Spike was a member of the demolition crew and that he’d learned how to operate the locomotive from having tea breaks with its driver.
Jim peered out of the window on the second man’s side. No-one would ever see the old Berkshire and Holloway like this. He wished Eve had come along, that she hadn’t been such a drippy daisy. Really, the experience was most romantic – this frosted landscape of home, this unique and never to be repeated perspective on something that was history and would soon be gone forever – and all from the warmly lit cab of a Class 20. Roger was a bloody legend. No, this was the best day of Jim’s life.
Alone in the cottage, Eve put away Jim’s record. But for the faraway boom of men playing ghost trains, the room was silent. She was about to go upstairs to the bathroom when, glancing down to the skirting board by the door, she saw marks on the newly decorated wall. It was the same scrawled handwriting as before. This time it spelt just one word:
Vandals.
At eight-thirty on the evening of 23rd December, Thames Valley constabulary received anonymous notice of a stray locomotive disturbing the peace on the disused railway line between Gresley and Bockstead.
Outside the cottage the night sky was a tapestry of stars but, at ground level, a thick mist was settling. It was getting hard to tell where the snow ended and where the mist began. At eight forty-three, Eve watched a winking blue light flash across the velvet. The blue light appeared to be moving toward Gresley from the Spicers End direction.
In the cab of the Class 20, Spike demonstrated the sonic capabilities of an English Electric 8SVT diesel engine. Eight cylinders of over fifteen litres each exhaled through unfiltered exhausts, and the glorious racket of its thrumbling blattering bark made Jim want to bellow at the moon. The men were taking another run back toward the crossing when someone saw blue lights in the distance.
‘Kay-vee,’ said Barry the roofer. Barry didn’t like to admit this to anyone, but he’d been to public school.
‘Oops,’ said Roger. He gestured to Spike.
Spike braked to a halt and shut down the locomotive’s diesel engine. The flashing blue light was about half a mile away and it seemed now to be beckoning from a fixed position. The police must have arrived at the Gresley Road overbridge. Very soon, they would discover a train of flat wagons that had no locomotive attached.
It was a good twenty-minute stumble back to the cottage, and the spacing of railway sleepers was never designed to accommodate the gait of scarpering drunkards.
‘If you run,’ said Roger, ‘you won’t feel the cold.’
‘Bloody Roger,’ muttered Jim as he staggered away from the scene of the crime.
Eve had been putting it off, but she really did need the bathroom. It was urgent and in no way was she going to use the sink. She would run up the stairs, she would do the nasties – hell, even she was picking up Roger’s idioms now – no, she would do what she had to do – and then she would run back down again. She prayed for Jim’s return. Her anger at him would be measured. She mustn’t come across as needy, but he had to be made very aware that her toleration for Roger and his trade friends was finite.
The immediate problem was that she just couldn’t bring herself to open the door from the sitting room to the stairwell. Again, she dismissed the notion of using the sink. Jim would be back soon – well, at some point – hopefully without the merry men and hopefully before the police arrived. In pain, Eve went to the record rack and pulled out a Randy Crawford LP. To the echoing strains of One Day I’ll Fly Away, she made a dash for it.
She locked the bathroom door and sat down. Oh, the relief. Then, oh, what a silly she’d been. Eve supposed that the writing on the wall was Roger’s, that it was another of his little jokes. Of course, she was grateful that he’d organised all the work on the house. In fairness, he’d been rather more useful than Jim, who’d been taking something of a back seat lately. She didn’t like the way Roger seemed to be taking ownership of everything though. She didn’t like his hold on Jim, she didn’t like his jokes and she didn’t like his eyes. There. She’d admitted it. Yes, she was jealous and protective of Jim, but there was more. Really, she didn’t want Roger to feature in their life at all – and she thought that he probably knew this. She would not let Roger get the better of her. No way. She pulled the lavatory chain and washed her hands.
It was then that there was a pop and the bathroom went dark. There was no light around the doorframe. The power must have failed. The house was silent. Everything was out.
The trip-switch downstairs … a short circuit? Eve took deep breaths and let her eyes adjust to what meagre light there was from the tiny bathroom window. Cautiously, she stretched out her arms and walked forward.
With her hands still dripping wet, she felt for the lock and opened the bathroom door. The landing was bathed in moonlight and, outside the large sash window, the mist had thickened and taken on a silver-green hue. She heard laughter. Her first thought was that this was Jim and Roger coming back from their escapade. About time. They were both going to be made to understand the impact of their childish behaviour. She saw figures outside – two young lads play-fighting. The voices must have been theirs. She walked over to the window. Fresh white snow covered the ground, and the two lads were throwing snowballs at each other. A proper Christmas scene. Bless them, she thought. Oh no, one of them was now throwing snowballs at the house. She banged at the window in frustration. Where the hell was Jim?
‘Ernie!’ one of the boys shouted up at the window.
‘Errr-neeee …’ called the other. This kid was leaning against the post box, leering up at the house with a mocking expression on his pugnacious little face.
They were trying to scare her. Obviously, there’d been stories about the crossing and, somehow, the local riffraff had discovered that she was fearful. Bloody Roger. He was bound to be behind this somewhere. Hold on – the post box? That shouldn’t be there.
In a series of flickering pictures, she saw a third figure marching over to the two lads. The kid at the post box jutted his chin at the figure, then Eve saw the kid in a fetal position on the ground with his head receiving thudding blows from a working man’s boot.
The second kid ran. ‘Gonna report you, mister,’ he shouted. ‘You’re a bloody nutter, you are.’
Through the old window, Eve saw juddering images of the man running down Spicers Lane in pursuit. The next thing she saw was him dragging the now-unconscious boy onto the level crossing. The white painted timber gates of the old crossing were back again now, and the rails were smooth and shining like strip lights. The lippy kid started to shuffle away from the post box but soon he too was being dragged onto the railway crossing. The old man closed the crossing gates and then he was raining shattering blows down on the two shapes that were fouling the track. Eve heard the distant shriek of a steam whistle. There was a tremendous inward rushing sound and then somewhere within the vacuum there was a splintering crack. In slow motion, a translucent steam locomotive and its train of ghastly flickering carriages howled past the crossing. She screamed.
The old man turned toward the house. Ernie Chapman stared up the landing window of Crossing Cottage, and he had murder in his cold dead eyes. Mist and steam swirled in Eve’s vision and then, in the next moment, the figure had vanished.
Story © A.W. Brown, 2019
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Small Businesses Hope People “Shop Local” This Holiday Season
• November 29, 2020
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Madeline Hughes Andover Townsman, Mass.
WWR Article Summary (tl;dr) This new series in the "Andover Townsman" presents stories that explore the state of businesses in Andover and the strategies, struggles, and successes businesses face as the cold weather arrives and COVID-19 cases rise.
Over the past three years, it's been one crisis after another — the Merrimack Valley gas disaster, a flood that displaced her shop for about a year and now a pandemic.
But Lisa Schiavone, owner of the local store Helen Thomas, has adapted and pushed through.
"We are doing well, but it's a funny time," Schiavone, of Methuen, said. Most certainly the store is quieter, she said. She's selling artwork and collectibles via Instagram, Facebook, and even doing personal Facetime shopping trips for those who don't feel comfortable coming in these days. But it's also worrisome knowing that families from Phillips Andover Academy and Merrimack College will likely not stop by to shop on their way to bring students home.
Ann Ormond, Andover's director of business, arts and culture, is all too aware of the challenges local business owners face.
"I thought the gas crisis was bad." Ormond said. "This is worse."
However, she added, "This community has been very resilient and creative. They know each other well and they need to work together to survive."
Ormond has been working closely with businesses throughout the pandemic and is currently working on various local shopping incentives for the holiday season. These next few weeks are a make-it-or-break-it scenario for many businesses that have seen multiple crises over the past few years.
"Going into the winter, creativity is another big thing retailers have to think about," Ormond said. "Think 'how am I going to weather the winter?' You can't just hunker down. You have to be proactive."
Over the next few weeks, The Andover Townsman will be checking in with retailers, restaurants and other businesses to see how they are adapting and what local business owners want shoppers to know as they spend their dollars this year.
"If you are going to order something, try to order it from us first," Schiavone said. "You will get it and get it wrapped nicely. And you are helping so many people out."
Down the street Christina Cipro manages Shaban's of Andover, a men's apparel store.
"When we first reopened back in June we had tremendous loyalty and support as a family business," Cipro said.
But business has since petered out, she said.
A month ago when the weather was warm it was hard to find a parking space downtown, but that has since changed with colder temperatures and the rising numbers of COVID-19 cases, she said. She wants people to know Shaban's and fellow retailers are all adhering to the laws in place to protect consumers and workers.
"We (shop managers and owners) have all been talking locally that people feel obligated to shop local, but we haven't really seen it," Cipro said. "When is that going to exist?"
The small business community in town "tries to support one another," she said.
"Like I always ask, 'Did you go next door to Cristina's to get something for your wife?'" Cipro said. "I try to refer everyone around to be a good neighbor and support the downtown shops."
Shaban's isn't really able to pivot to online sales well, Cipro said, because so many things are customized and fitted for the shopper. So the store does special personal shopping hours, she said.
Likewise, Kay Demaso, owner of Quiet Pleasures Jewelry, hasn't turned to online sales because she thinks people need to be able to feel and see items up close to purchase them, she said.
Customers are coming in and distancing, she noted. There's only been one instance someone walked in without a mask, but she immediately grabbed it out of her purse to put it on, Demaso said.
So far this year, Demaso is thankful she's been able to pay her bills and hopes people continue coming into the store.
The strong and dedicated local following Demaso built in the 17 years she's owned the business feels like friends. Her favorite part is asking new grandmothers about their grandchildren, asking about anniversaries or other life moments, she said. That customer service is only available at small businesses like hers, she said.
"Small businesses support the town in a lot of ways — they contribute to the health and vitality of the town and they are local taxpayers," she said. The pandemic is not deterring some new entrepreneurs though.
Andover residents Gia Rosenberg Cyrier and Megan DeSanty opened Twenty20 Boutique in August. They are based out of a small office space on Elm Street but do all of their sales online. They specialize in flash sales of their products shown on their Instagram @twenty20boutique four days a week.
"It eliminates the time shopping going page after page," DeSanty said. "Instead we've curated different looks for the season you can shop more easily."
They then drop off products at local customers' houses that same day. And while they don't have a permanent brick-and-mortar presence, they will have a pop-up shop for Thanksgiving weekend and are working on collaborations with other businesses.
"I hope people consider shopping locally, especially now," DeSanty said. "Amazon isn't going to miss your order. To us every order really does matter. We get excited at every order big or small, returning customer or new." ___ Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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Popular Conceptions of Witchcraft in Scotland
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Conceptions of witchcraft led to a number of persecutions of witches in pre-modern Scotland. This article examines the popular view in Scotland.
The popular culture in Scotland consisted of the common folk. These were the less-educated citizens who also were a part of the lower socio-economic class. Their beliefs in witchcraft helped justify the misfortunes that occurred in life. Based on irrational fears and a persecuting frame of mind, pandemonium ran rapid throughout Scotland in which deviant, foul-mouthed common women were being accused while upstanding, law-abiding common folks were considered the accusers. Thus, conceptions of witchcraft and witches were formed and developed and led to a number of prosecutions and executions of witches in pre-modern Scotland.
Isobell Gowdie
Insight into the early modern mind on their perspective of witch beliefs in popular culture can be seen in the confessions of Isobel Gowdie. Confessing to interludes with the Devil, charms, curing diseases by enchantments and other unnatural powers, Isobel Gowdie shocked her strict Scottish neighbors by freely confessing to witchcraft. Her account as indicated in Confessions of Isobell Gowdie, spous to John Gilbert, in Lochloy, provided understanding to the undergoings of witchcraft and gave validation of a covenant between witches and Satan.
“The quhilk day, in prefence of me, Johnne Innes, Notar Publict, and Witneffes abownamet, all vnder fubfcrywand, the faid Issobel Gowdie, appearing penitent for hir haymows fines of Witchcraft,and that tho haid bein ower lang in that fervice; without ony compulfitouris, proceidit in hir Confessione,in maner efter following, to wit. As I was goeing betuix the townes of Drumdewin and the Headis, I met with The Devil, and ther covenanted,in a maner, with him;” (Pitcairin,602)
One of the elements of popular culture as presented in Isobel Gowdie’s confession is involvement with the Devil. Within the popular culture there was an underlying belief that witches made an agreement with the devil. “Sixteenth and seventeenth century discussions of witchcraft by educated commentators (both in the European Continent and in England) always insisted that a pact with the devil lay behind witchcraft…” (Sommerville, 2)
Another popular concept was the belief in fairies and other supernatural folk. Both considered good and evil, fairies were a host of supernatural beings. Isobell Gowdie admitted to having frequent deeds with fairies.
“The Qwein of Fearrie is brawlie clothed in whyt linens, and in whyt and browne cloathes, &c.; and the King of Fearrie is a braw man, weill favoured, and broad faced, &c. Ther wes elf-bullis rowtting and fkoylling wp and downe thair, and affrighted me.” (Pitcairin, 606 )
The emphasis on fairy superstition and contact with fairies are evident in her confessions and were brought up in the witch trials. However, author Brian Levack in his book Witch-hunts and Popular Cultures notes that regarding fairies, “although the elites seem to have been aware of some of the folklore concerning these creatures, their response was often to integrate them into the framework of demonology or ignore them altogether when they emerged in interrogations and trials for witchcraft.” (p. 96)
Overall, the Scottish society was brought up in the popular culture. Levack and other historians have revealed that unprinted witchcraft confessions add insights into the popular culture. The belief in fairies, the supernatural and Satan are popular signs of how Scotland saw the world around them.
Levack, Brian. Witch-hunts and Popular Culture. London: Longman, June 16, 2007.
Pitcairn, Robert. Ancient Criminal Trials in Scotland: compiled from the original records and MSS, with Historical Illustrations, etc., Vol. 3 Part 2. Edinburgh: Bannatyne Club, 1833, 602-616.
Sommerville, J.P. “Witchcraft”
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To recall, WhatsApp is the most popular text messaging app in India, it got huge popularity in the last couple of years and it is now a trend for people to send WhatsApp dares over chat and voice notes. In case you’ve got gamers on your list, here are the best Android Games to play when you’re isolated. When he's not working, you'll find him enjoying riding his motorcycle. As a party game, housie or tombola are the common games that most family members and friends prefer to play, along with other card games. Remove China Apps From Phone In this, each group member gets their turn to name something belonging to a particular genre. Therefore, we are here with some of the popular WhatsApp games that are fun, simple to understand, and can be played over text with friends and family.
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Sioux Falls' Smithfield plant will add 70 jobs, get $45 million expansion as bacon market sizzles
The old John Morrell and Co. plant in central Sioux Falls will get a face-lift and add 70 jobs as the current owner reacts to Americans' hunger for bacon.
Smithfield Foods will invest $45 million in its Sioux Falls operations, according to a Thursday announcement from the company.
Executives for the company say they plan to restore the plant's hog barn to "state-of-the-art" condition.
“At Smithfield, we’re committed to our continual investment in our facilities and farms in Sioux Falls,” President and CEO Kenneth M. Sullivan said in an emailed statement.
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The company has already invested $73 million in the former John Morrell site during the last five years.
In addition to updating the hog barn, this new investment from Smithfield will also include adding capability for a seasoned ground pork department and renovations designed to increase the speed of production of bacon.
The company is reacting to growing demand in the United States for bacon and foreign demand for ground pork.
The updates are scheduled to be finished in 2019, with work on the hog barn set to wrap in the fall.
"With these new projects, we’re proud to further strengthen our presence in this state," Sullivan said.
South Dakota's Governor-Elect Kristi Noem and Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken both applauded the investment.
“I’m thankful for Smithfield’s long-term commitment to Sioux Falls and their continued investment in our community, and proud to partner with them on this project," TenHaken said in an emailed statement.
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The Dark Side of Juicing: How the Global Trend Might Be Bad for Your Health - and the Environment /
The Dark Side of Juicing: How the Global Trend Might Be Bad for Your Health - and the Environment
Whatever happened to chewing? Whether it’s cold-pressed, blended or boiled, slurping your supper has taken the health food scene by storm in recent years.
Instead of eating it whole, juicing raw fruits and vegetables into a single drink has been praised by proponents as a quick, low-calorie blast of nutrients or even a detox for the body if taken as a multi-day cleanse. Formerly the domain of trendy New York City juice bars, you’ll now find bottled greens at your grocery store or local Starbucks. Although juicing may be on the wane (we’ll get to why later) its hip, fiber-packed cousin, “souping,” is climbing to the top of cleanse diet charts. Souping — which is exactly what it sounds like — “is the new juicing,” as the New York Times declared in February.
So what’s the deal with the liquid food craze? Is it really worth paying upward of $10 a bottle for pulverized produce (or in the triple digits for multi-day cleanses)? And how does drinking meals for consecutive days affect human health, or even the health of the planet?
Juice explosion
According to Racked, juice cleanses hit the market in 2009 and jumpstarted the juice craze. The favored variety is cold-pressed juice, which gets its name from a machine that presses juice out of produce and leaves behind the pulp. The technique is favored over blending because some say the heat generated from the fast-spinning blades of a blender destroys the enzymes and nutrients of fruits and veggies.
Health food bloggers like Food Babe Vani Hari even swore off coffee for juice, claiming its rich shot of enzymes, vitamins and minerals is like drinking a natural version of Red Bull. “When juice is separated from the fiber of fruits and vegetables, it is easier for your body to absorb all the nutrients, giving you an instant boost of energy,” she claims.
While juicing has been part of holistic health routines for a long time — brought to the forefront in the 1970s with Jack Lalanne’s line of Power Juicers — juicing has exploded in recent years. Juice bars have popped up across the country, documentaries have been made and celebrities such as Blake Lively, Jennifer Aniston and Beyoncé have touted juice-only diets such as BluePrint, Organic Avenue and the Master Cleanse.
The market research firm IBISWorld says the $2 billion juice and smoothie bar industry has grown steadily over the past five years, with the cold-pressed juice sector alone taking in $100 million annually.
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Marisa Moore, an Atlanta-based registered dietitian nutrionist, explains to AlterNet that on the one hand, juicing does indeed have positive health benefits.
“You’re getting a concentrated source of nutrients and you’re getting them fresh, quickly and easily,” she says. “People who have a hard time eating vegetables are prime candidates for juicing because they can get vitamin C and some of the antioxidants without having to sit down and eat them.”
On the other hand, juicing can be bad for human health, especially long-term regimented cleanses that claim to clear your body of “toxins.” Never mind that your body already does a great job at detoxing, Moore says that juicing for days on end means you’re not getting any protein and you’re zapped of energy. (And probably left very cranky.)
Moore's biggest qualm about juicing is that it can be very expensive and that valuable parts of the plants, such as skins and fiber, are left behind when it’s pressed.
Methane monster
Let’s also consider the environmental impact of juicing; a lot of food goes into those little bottles. A 16-ounce bottle of juice can contain up to six pounds of fruits and vegetables, the Huffington Post found.
Unless it’s composted or somehow consumed, leftover pulp is tossed into landfills where it emits “significant amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide,” personal trainer Johnny Adamic wrote in the Daily Beast.
He also argues that juicing is “a privileged, wasteful form of food consumption that’s worse for you than cooking and bad for the environment.”
Peak juice?
As diet crazes go, it looks like juicing is being squeezed out. Case in point: former NYC juice giant and Aniston-beloved Organic Avenue shut all its stores this past October and Racked even pondered, “Have we reached peak juice?”
Juicing operations can be prohibitively expensive; just consider the sheer volume of perishable fruits and vegetables a juice bar has to buy. Also, since cold-pressed juices are not pasteurized, they have a shorter shelf life.
“The profits are just not there anymore because it's a margin-sensitive environment,” Edward Balassanian, the founder of Seattle’s currently struggling Vital Juice told Racked. “The days of making $5 profit off a juice are gone. Now you make a $16 juice and it actually costs you $16 to create."
Let them eat soup
Enter souping. Drinking endless bowls of warm soup doesn’t just sound like a cozy reprieve from cold weather; the soup diet craze actually solves a lot of problems critics have with juicing.
Because it’s blended instead of pressed, the fiber is retained. Because it’s mostly vegetables, the sugar content is cut. And because soup can be plopped into a bowl and savored with a spoon, it actually feels like more of a meal. And certain plants, such as tomatoes, are said to be even healthier when they are cooked.
As with any regimented cleanse, souping is only okay for short stints. Even if it sounds more satiating, souping might leave you still feeling hungry. Furthermore, the fitness chain Equinox notes that the average calories in a day on Soupure’s three-day cleanse is only 1,200, much less than an active person needs.
Don’t forget to chew
So how does one juice or soup responsibly? Moore advises that vegetables, not fruits, should be the main ingredients in either packaged or homemade juices. Sure, pure vegetable juice can taste and smell a lot like lawnmower clippings, but the problem with fruit juice is that it’s basically sugar water, which can cause weight gain or other health problems if consumed in mass quantities. To sweeten up your juice, throw in low-sugar items such as lemon, lime or green apple instead of fruits that are higher on the glycemic scale.
Remember that a three-, five- or even seven-day cleanse can be a quick fix to drop pounds, but be warned about the potential of gaining back all the weight once you’re off the diet.
“If you’re trying to lose weight, the recommendation is to have solids not liquids,” Moore says, adding that actually chewing your food can leave you less hungry because you feel like you’re getting more food.
Juicing or souping may be the latest quick and easy diet craze, but Moore says the best way to stay fit and healthy is to have a balanced diet and get plenty of sleep and exercise.
“Always take notice if anything claims that it will change your life,” she says. “There’s not a magic bullet for health.”
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IRS gives social security recipients until Wednesday to file for $500 payments for their children /
IRS gives social security recipients until Wednesday to file for $500 payments for their children
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The Internal Revenue Service is facing backlash following its announcement late Monday that recipients of Social Security and Railroad Retirement benefits have until 12:00 pm ET on Wednesday to file for $500 coronavirus stimulus payments for their dependent children.
Those who miss the deadline—which the IRS set just a day and a half in advance—will have to wait until next year to receive the $500 payments to which they are entitled under the CARES Act.
The Wednesday deadline applies only to Social Security and Railroad Retirement recipients who did not file a tax return in 2018 or 2019 and who have dependent children under the age of 17.
The IRS set up a tool for non-filers to enter their direct deposit information online. Access the tool here.
In a statement, the IRS said "$1,200 automatic payments will be starting soon for those receiving Social Security retirement, survivor or disability benefits (SSDI), Railroad Retirement benefits, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and Veterans Affairs beneficiaries who didn't file a tax return in the last two years. No action is needed by these groups; they will automatically receive their $1,200 payment."
"For those benefit recipients with children who aren't required to file a tax return," the agency said, "an extra step is needed to quickly add $500 per eligible child onto their automatic payment of $1,200."
IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig said "we want to 'Plus $500' these recipients with children so they can get their maximum Economic Impact Payment of $1,200 plus $500 for each eligible child as quickly as possible."
"These groups don't normally have a return filing obligation and may not realize they qualify for a larger payment," said Rettig. "We're asking people and organizations throughout the country to share this information widely and help the IRS with the Plus $500 Push."
A deadline to receive the $500 payments has not yet been set for recipients of veterans benefits and SSI, but those groups should still enter their information using the online tool as quickly as possible, the IRS said.
The IRS announcement sent activists and lawmakers scrambling to notify the public about the deadline. Social Security Works, a progressive advocacy group, told Common Dreams that the deadline is "outrageous" and should not exist.
"It is impossible to tell from the outside if this latest outrage is the result of incompetence, mean-spiritedness, or both," Social Security Works president Nancy Altman said in an emailed statement.
"At first, the Trump administration informed the lowest-income Social Security beneficiaries... that instead of getting their payments automatically, they would have to provide the government with information the government already has," said Altman. "After enormous pushback from Congress and Social Security advocates, the Trump administration reversed course."
Altman described the deadline as "a new roadblock" in the way of vulnerable people at the worst possible moment.
"Adding insult to injury, the Trump administration is requiring that, to avoid that delay, they have to go online—notwithstanding that many of them do not have computers or internet service and are supposed to be sheltering in place—to provide the government with information that it already has," said Altman. "Since the Trump administration already has the information it is seeking, it should pay these benefits without putting additional burdens on Social Security beneficiaries."
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a center-left think tank, said it is "dismayed" by the deadline:
We are dismayed by the IRS’s new policy announcement that #SocialSecurity/Railroad Retirement benefits must file a… https://t.co/PPFEcGbtGu
— Center on Budget (@Center on Budget)1587426113.0
In a tweet late Monday, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) demanded that the IRS extend the deadline.
"The IRS was late in granting these recipients the right to payments without filing tax returns," said Blumenthal. "Now it gives inadequate notice for this dependent claim. It can do better."
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Stockton needs a genuine Smart City idea to save the beach, not just more rocks
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Rethinking the solution, Anditi MD shares his thoughts on Stockton as featured in the Newcastle Herald Opinion column, by Peter Jamieson, Anditi Managing Director.
A couple of days after the Newcastle Herald published an article on the Stockton ‘plughole’ , I received an email from Fred.
It got me thinking.
The next day I met Fred at Queens Wharf at 11am. He was having a beer, as is his custom, and, although I don’t normally drink that early in the day, I thought it would be rude not to join him. I’m glad I did.
Social distancing owing to COVID-19 had just started, so we sat apart. This was a bit of a challenge as Fred doesn’t hear or see as well as he used to. Fred has seen a few years and, although his eyesight and hearing aren’t as good as they once were, his brain is sharp.
Up until then, I had been looking at Stockton erosion trying to work out how to get the beach back to what it was.
Stockton residents have been told many things over the years, and they have been not told a lot more.
"One of those things is that Stockton beach, as we knew it, is not coming back".
In fact, it hasn’t been coming back since Governor Macquarie laid the first stone of Macquarie Pier in 1812, leading to the joining of Nobbys Island to Newcastle. Deepening the harbour in the late 70s early 80s triggered a whole new erosion event.
The reality is, that unless someone replaces the about 10 million cubic metres of sand that has been lost off Stockton, erosion is going to continue at an increasing rate.
We know that potential wave energy off Stockton beach is about 100 times greater than it was in 1812 when Governor Macquarie laid the first stone. Deepening the harbour contributed a significant component of this.
The Port of Newcastle is very important to Newcastle, the Hunter and the state. That’s a given.
Based on our analysis, as reported in the Stockton plughole article, my estimate is that having the Port of Newcastle has cost Stockton beach and, hence, City of Newcastle and the Stockton community, an average of about $4 million a year for the past 20 years.
As mentioned, historically, the damage goes back more than 200 years since Governor Macquarie.
Back to Fred. While I was thinking about how to find, fund and emplace 85,000 cubic metres/year of sand off Stockton just to maintain the beach as it is, Fred has a different vision.
Simply, Fred’s idea is to build an ‘energy barrage’, as he calls it, which would reduce the wave energy and rate of erosion off Stockton beach.
This could work like a submerged reef or artificial headland in terms of reducing wave height.
It would also provide the opportunity to generate power (and revenue) from the wind and waves.
Potential wave energy off Stockton beach is now more than 100 times what it used to be in 1816, a ‘dramatic increase’ from 1980 to 2000 is linked to the deepening of Newcastle harbour, picture by Newcastle Herald, data supplied by Anditi.
Fred’s idea is that the structures required for the energy barrage could be built in Newcastle and could be used also to create a safe harbour for small boats and yachts, adding to the tourist potential of Stockton and Newcastle.
The structure could be designed to help block the plughole and reduce sand loss to the north. This would make beach nourishment a more viable solution to re-establish some beach amenity.
Fred’s idea is to build an ‘energy barrage’, as he calls it, which would reduce the wave energy and rate of erosion off Stockton beach.
Since I first came to Newcastle in 1983 to study engineering, I have watched the sunrise over Stockton from Nobbys and have often thought that Stockton could have been to Newcastle what Manly once was to Sydney.
The ferry ride is shorter, the scenery is a breath-taking, the only real difference is that Stockton no longer has a beach.
Newcastle was founded in 1804. It took us a whole eight years to sign and put in place the first stone that changed Stockton forever.
Fred’s ideas represent the type of thinking that we need to explore as being part of a Smart City. Smart thinking is taking stock of the real situation at Stockton.
That is, working out what is feasible and what would be a smart outcome, before doing what we have done since 1812: put in tonnes of expensive rock, which impacts the amenity of Stockton beach.
Exploring alternative solutions, like Fred’s idea, is the sort of thinking that makes a Smart City.
We’d like to open the dialogue to find a ‘smart solution’ for Stockton. If you have any ideas, or if you’d like to be part of the conversation, contact us: solutions@anditi.com
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City of Arlington » News » MyArlingtonTX » News Archive » 2017 Archived News » March 2017 » Upward Bound TRIO Program Brings Students, Seniors Together to Help Animals
By Carol Weemes
Nimble hands worked together and friendships formed when students in the Upward Bound Program recently met with Golden PAWS senior volunteers to craft colorful blankets for homeless animals at the Arlington Animal Services Center.
Upward Bound, a Federal TRIO Program at the University of Texas at Arlington, received a grant from the Arlington Alliance for Youth and the shelter was chosen as a recipient of their generosity through their good deeds, camaraderie and community service. The TRIO Pre-College Programs are federally funded programs awarded to UT Arlington through grant opportunities with the U.S. Department of Education. The programs are designed to increase the motivation and academic skills of low-income/first generation youth.
"It is activities like the Blankets of Love, which engage our youth in ways that allow them to reach higher than they ever dreamt they were capable," said Lisa Thompson, TRIO Pre-College Programs Senior Director.
Golden PAWS shared their crafting experience with the students, who ranged from 9th graders through 12th graders. More than 30 blankets were created during their visit to the shelter.
"This was a fantastic opportunity for our students to give back to the community and to learn about responsible pet ownership," said Brianne Orr, Director of Upward Bound UT Arlington.
Animal Services Manager Chris Huff spoke to the group about responsible pet ownership, provided a tour of the shelter, and responded to group questions about shelter operations.
"It was really fun to make the blankets because we know it goes to a good cause. Special thanks to Golden Paws along with Arlington Animal Services for providing us with an enjoyable way to help our community," said Jonathan Rivera, Senior at South Grand Prairie High School.
UT Arlington's TRIO program supports high school students from Arlington, Grand Prairie, and Mansfield Independent School Districts and is a proud sponsor of Arlington's annual Animal Essay Contest.
Dreams become reality through great partnerships like these in The American Dream City.
Learn more about TRIO and Upward Bound Programs.
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How to Change Yourself and Your Life (the Only Guide You Need)
If you're reading this blog, you're probably an introspective person. You look at yourself, either occasionally or obsessively, and evaluate how you're doing. You've identified things in your life that you do well, and other things that you know are missing. You look around you, and it probably looks like everyone you know has an abundance of that quality you're lacking...self-confidence, business savvy, discipline, presence and charisma, etc. You say to yourself: I wish I could be different. I wish my life could be different.
This is what life is for everyone. This is the carrot that perpetually dangles in front of us, enticing us to chase it. A little more security. A little more respect and status. A little more comfort.
But it's that chasing that leaves us feeling alone and disconnected, because chasing is also a form of escape. When you chase something, you're saying "what I have isn't good enough." You split off from your situation, kind of the way a spirit leaves a dead body in a cartoon.
The irony is that we think once we get that security or that status or that personality flaw fixed, we'll finally be at rest--happy. Is that true? Do we really reach a state of satisfaction or do we just habituate and then start needing more? Five to seven years ago, all I wanted was a blog to express myself and help others, a business where I could be creative, and to be in a psych program. Now that I have those things, am I satisfied? Not at all. I want more...better.
The stuff, the security, the skills, the options, they're like gum. They lose their flavor and we end up needing more. It's an addiction that we build a tolerance to throughout our lives, needing bigger and bigger doses to feel good. The Buddha, on his deathbed, said "All conditioned things are impermanent." Conditioned things are things that depend on other things to exist. My security depends on my bank account, which depends on my job, my clients, the economy, global trends, the weather, politics, etc. They're inherently chaotic and unpredictable, always in a state of decay.
So where does that all leave us? What can you do when everything is so slippery that you can't really hold onto it? What if there was no security? No progress?
You stop.
And you see what you are.
You see where you are.
You greet yourself in your situation. Hello me. The spirit comes back into the body.
And what you start to see is that all this fucking craziness settles. The desperation, the agitation, the worrying. It just stops, because it was all a byproduct of this false notion that getting something will finally satisfy you.
And you smile.
Because your heart begins to thaw. Kindness starts to pervade, almost from no where.
And no you're just sitting, doing nothing. Nothing needs to be done anymore. Everything is just fine where it is. Maybe even more than fine. There is no pretending.
You change yourself not by becoming someone else, but by becoming what you already are, who you are, where you are.
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How can I tell my family that I don't want to spend the holidays with them?
My spouse and I usually split holidays to avoid the guilt of not seeing one side or the other. I've found myself gradually leaning toward spending more time with my spouse's family and less time with mine. To be frank - I like them better as people and they treat me better as a person.
Now, how do I (a) stop feeling like a horrible child for ditching my family and (b) get my family to understand that I love them, but I don't need to see them every holiday.
Guilty Gal
A FAMILY IS REALLY an organism. It grows slowly, and every person plays a role, like organs all have a role in the body. The patterns that develop within a family aren't always healthy. He person might become a scapegoat, another a victim, another the aggressor. Everyone's role is maintained with the help of everyone else. In that way, the family drama, or theater, persists even when one person starts to doubt its health.
You sound like a person who has begun to doubt the health of your family dynamics, in part because you've seen how healthy families function because of your in-laws. Now you're feeling the pressure to maintain your part in your family's drama by playing the role of the person who's shit on. That's normal. But I think the thing you want to remember is that love can be expresses in many different ways. You show you grandfather love differently from the way you show your partner love (hopefully), which is still different from the way you show love to a best friend or a mentor. For years, you showed love to your family in one way, and now that you've changed, and grown, your relationship and the way you express your love needs to change too. That's not a bad thing--it's a part of growing, in the same way you might outgrow a favorite jacket and then turn it into an art piece.
In sum, it's not your love that changes; it's how you share it.
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March 1, 2012 Family Disputes - Facilitation
FACILITATON WORKS FOR FAMILIES FACING SERIOUS DECISION-MAKING AFFECTING FINANCES, LIVING, QUALITY OF LIFE
Most families with children face numerous conflicts, whether during the teen years, relating to role changes in the family, because of job changes, because of school changes, because of serious illness and the attendant financial and role changes related to that, or because of any of a number of life’s stresses. Many families are able to work through the daily or routine conflicts on their own. However, when those conflicts are more serious or longer lasting, regardless of whether the family can or cannot work through the situation on their own, many families have found that setting up a meeting with a neutral mediator facilitator who assists the family in quality dialogue can be extremely beneficial.
By bringing in a neutral mediator facilitator, everyone involved can benefit from the presence of a neutral third party, who has the capability of slowing down interaction to help the family interact with greater sensitivity. This enables a family to better understand a situation from all perspectives, so they can explore various possibilities and make informed decisions that work for their particular family and situation. Another frequent outcome is that the process often times strengthens the bond within a family.
These meetings often last a few hours, and can generally be concluded in one session or two. If need be, the family can set up additional meetings to reach their resolution goals. In addition to high satisfaction with the process for all participants, families also welcome the privacy and brevity of this approach.
Family Mediators and Facilitators of Louise Phipps Senft & Associates/Baltimore Mediation believe in families and believe in Better Process…Better Outcome.
“Thank you so much, Louise. You did a terrific job–I think, without question, you genuinely elevated the level of deliberation and kept us on course. Not easily accomplished with a group vulnerable to meandering. Your able guidance allowed me to adopt a lower profile during that part of the meeting, which was important.” – Richard de Wyngaert, The Lumpkin Family Foundation President
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