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REVIEW: Post Eurogamer Thoughts
Seeing some of the enormous queues made me wonder whether or not getting to front of them would be classed as time well spent or not. Never the less I had a go at a few titles, some unexpected highlights and some confirming what I’d already thought.
Filed under: Review | Tagged: Assassins Creed, Assassins Creed 3, Capcom, Devil May Cry, DMC, EA, Electronic Arts, Eurogamer, Eurogamer Expo, Far Cry, Far Cry 3, Konami, Lara Croft, Metal Gear, Metal Gear Rising, Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid Rising Revengence, MGS, Namco, Namco Bandai, Need For Speed, Need For Speed Most Wanted, NFS< Most Wanted, Ni No Kuni, Nintendo, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo Wii U, Playstation, Playstation 3, Rayman, Rayman Legends, Square, Square Enix, Tomb Raider, Ubisoft, Wii, Wii U, Xbox, Xbox 360, ZOE, Zone of the Enders | Leave a comment »
PREVIEW: Eurogamer Expo
Eurogamer kicks off today marking its fifth year running and third at Earls Court. The expo offers members of the public and game industry regulars a chance to meet up, be social and play many of the new releases that are still a long way from being released. Although for me personally this years expo hasn’t got a lot to offer, there is most definitely something for everyone and if you’re over the age of eighteen then even more as well.
Below is a list of where you are likely to find me throughout the course of the day.
Filed under: Preview | Tagged: Assassins Creed, Assassins Creed 3, Capcom, Devil May Cry, DMC, EA, Electronic Arts, Eurogamer, Eurogamer Expo, Far Cry, Far Cry 3, Konami, Lara Croft, Metal Gear, Metal Gear Rising, Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid Rising Revengence, MGS, Namco, Namco Bandai, Need For Speed, Need For Speed Most Wanted, NFS< Most Wanted, Ni No Kuni, Nintendo, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo Wii U, Playstation, Playstation 3, Rayman, Rayman Legends, Square, Square Enix, Tomb Raider, Ubisoft, Wii, Wii U, Xbox, Xbox 360, ZOE, Zone of the Enders | Leave a comment »
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Add Another Name to the Lamestream Media’s Liberal Hall of Shame
Posted on October 11, 2011 by Kempite
Picture from Roll Call
As most of us know, the lamestream media is dominated by mushy minds that have been brainwashed by liberal propaganda and media elites. Of course there are in fact many true journalists, who if charged with delivering just the news, can do so without even subtle hints of political bias. But journalists of that sort seem to be far and few between . They are also the ones whom the liberal media holds up as evidence when they try to claim that the media is not biased. Sadly though, there are far more examples of media bias than there are of impartial reporting.
Take for example the treatment of the rise of the TEA movement as compared to the spread of the “Occupy” protests which have taken place.
While TEA Party protests and demonstrations gathered tens of thousands and even hundreds of thousands, the Occupy “Whatever” protests have
produced numbers in the hundreds. But despite the obvious lack of populist appeal of the liberal endorsed demonstrations, the mainstream media tends to downplay the TEA movement and inflate the Occupy protesters. For example, when anywhere from 200,000 to 400,00o or more TEA activists showed up in Washington, D.C. , on September 12th of 2009, newspapers reported that there were tens of thousands in attendance. But now that a few thousand leftwing, anti-capitalists band together with big union organized, professional, protestors, the event is described as “outrage” that “ has spread all the way to Anchorage, Alaska” and as “a group of protesters that is certainly growing in size and diversity.” Those comments came from so called “reporter”cilia Vega. On that same “unbiased” news” program, Vega and World News anchor David Muir, spoke of how the Wall Street protests have supposedly “gone global“
But as the TEA Party rose, it was described as little more than a group of angry Republicans and was accused of being violent and racist. That certainly isn’t the case here. Put a smiley face button on a person wearing a tie died t-shirt and put in their hands a sign with anything liberal written on it, and you have what the mainstream media is describing as being similar to “the Arab Spring of uprisings in the Mid East.”
As I said, none of this is new. We have all come to expect liberal bias from the mainstrem media. And I am not talking about clearly defined opinion programs such as Hannity or the Rachel Maddow Show, or periodicals like National Review or New Republican. I mean straight news services like CBS News, or The New York Times.
Which brings us to today’s new entrant into the Mainstream Media’s Liberal Hall of Shame.
His name is Steve Peoples and he works for Roll Call while the Associated Press often farms out some of his work.
Now according to Asssociated Press their mission is to “be the essential global news network, providing distinctive news services of the
highest quality, reliability, and objectivity with reports that are accurate, balanced and informed.”
Given that description, I find it hard to accept Mr. People’s October 10th story (and I do mean story) entitled “GOP presidential candidates keep focus off the economy“.
In it, Peoples, along with contributors Holly Ramer and Philip Elliott, try to live up to the AP’s mission of objectivity by writing a piece which insinuates that Republicans are trying to avoid the topic of the economy.
Peoples writes;
In an election that’s supposed to hinge on jobs and the economy, the Republican presidential contest in recent months has been defined by almost everything else.
Immigration and children’s vaccines. Race and religion. Homosexuality and health care. The issues range far from the economic woes that concern most voters, but they have captivated Republicans in New Hampshire and other early voting states, providing the candidates with ways to distinguish themselves from their rivals. The biggest applause lines on the campaign trail usually have little to do with a candidate’s economic positions.
I am not sure if Mr. Peoples realizes it or not, but we are not electing a Chairman of the Federal Reserve and their running mate, the Secretary of Treasury. We are in the midst of a long campaign to elect or reelect a President and Vice President of the United States. That responsibility deals with a host of issues, including those that are a part of the economic priorities that no one is doubting. As such, all issues are, and should be discussed. Additionally perhaps, Mr. Peoples missed the coverage of the economic programs which almost all of the Republican candidates dedicated their very first major policy announcements to.
To be sure, there is no doubt that the economy is in such dire straits that it is indeed a priority. To deny that would be like claiming that it is more important to put someone’s cigarette out while a woman is hanging out of the window of an inferno filled house, right in front of your face. But it is equally absurd to deny that the economy is not a primary issue in the Republican presidential primaries. Republicans have been and continue to make it a theme of their campaigns. Why wouldn’t they? Furthermore, the economy is just about the only issue that all the Republican running for President have similar ways to address. And all agree that the first thing to do is everything that President Obama is not doing.
Did Mr. Peoples dare write a similarly “objective” piece in 2009 about President Obama when many argued that the President made “a colossal miscalculation” by choosing the wrong priorities and instead of focussing on the economy “like a laser beam”, he essentially prevented government from dealing with anything else other than healthcare reform? Which ironically has proven to do little more than exacerbate the economic predicament we are in by creating a greater uncertain future among investors and businesses. I seem to have missed the story that Mr. Peoples and his liberal collaborators wrote about the President not devoting enough time to the Obama economy back then.
Did Mr. People’s accuse President Obama of avoiding the issue of the economy when he turned the nations’ attention to repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell? Did he criticize the President and prompt people to provide him with quotes criticizing President Obama for traveling to El Salvador to discuss immigration and drug trafficking with President Mauricio Funes, instead of focussing on the economy? Or does Mr. Peoples just not understand that the presidency of the United States does not allow one to drop all else for the sake of just one aspect of life in America.
Even though his opinion on this issue is greatly flawed, Mr. Peoples’ article might have a place in an opinion oriented tabloid if it were written by an admitted partisan author. But it has no place in a newspaper or on an online newspaper, and especially not coming from a “news” outfit that claims its job is to be objective. You see, there is a difference between opinion and news. White House 2012 makes it clear that it covers the Republican race for the White House. It does so by also making clear that it covers the race from a conservative viewpoint and with opinions of the facts. Contrarily, the Associated Press bills itself as a news organization, a “premier” news organization, that delivers the news, not editorials.
You might think that this one story is not enough to hold one person up as a example of unsavory journalistic conduct. And that might be right……..if it was the only example. But it’s not.
Before jumping to conclusions, I tested my suspicions about Steve Peoples by researching past stories he wrote.
While there were many accounts of obvious bias that he penned under AP’s banner of objective reporting, one of the most interesting discoveries was an article by Tom Blumer for News Busters. In his September 7th piece entitled “AP’s Partying Peoples and Blathering Blood Celebrate Tea Party Negatives in Cooked AP-GfK Poll“, Blumer writes that Steve Peoples tailored an interpretation of poll results to “celebrate” negative sentiments towards the Tea Party that were created by a skewed AP-GfK . Blumer goes on to note that somehow, People’s article “failed to report on the president’s growing negatives found in a separate AP-GfK poll report with the same respondents.”
It is all just indicative of how careful Americans must be when it comes to trying to have a real picture of public sentiments and our political environment.
One must really be careful about what information they use as a foundation for establishing their own conclusions. What may seem to be fact is often in fact, not. Steve Peoples is just one example of that. And there are many other examples of Peoples’ and the AP’s crimes against journalistic integrity, but suffice it to say, White House 2012 is confident in the knowledge that Steve Peoples truly deserves to be hung in the Lamestream Media’s Liberal Hall of Shame.
The Associated Press’ picture has already been hanging there for quite some time now
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The Field Is Set: And Herman Cain Could Win
Posted on October 5, 2011 by ikefriday
Sarah Palin has now announced she will not be running. It appears the 2012 GOP Primary is ready to kick off. So you heard it here first: barring a major disqualifying gaffe, Herman Cain will win the 2012 primary. Here’s why.
Cain passes on the right to pull even with Romney
Ok, seriously. No one knows at this point how this is going to go down. Candidates surge and fall, as Rick Perry has proven. I don’t really know that Herman Cain is going to win the primary. But he does have a clear path to victory. Right now it is his race to give up.
But wait, isn’t Romney leading the polls?? Yes, but as I pointed out in my last blog Romney’s majority is an illusion caused by a split vote among social, TEA party candidates. As Perry continues to fade and Cain continues to pick up his supporters, you will see more polls like the most recent CBS poll that shows Cain and Romney tied. Perry’s demise is all upside for Cain while Romney maintains his solid base of support.
So why Cain? Why didn’t Bachmann, Gingrich, or Santorum gain any momentum from Perry’s fall? Perry dropped 11 points in this CBS poll while Cain jumped 12 points. Gingrich and Santorum both got small bumps, but are still considered unelectable and still cannot shake their baggage from the last 20 years. Santorum continues to come across as an unelectable champion of family values with a support base that loves what he says and believes but won’t vote for him because they’d rather have Obama gone than lose with the most socially conservative candidate on the stage. For Gingrich, conservatives have already written the USA Today, Time Magazine and New York Times headlines in their heads about his failed marriages, hypocrisy in the Clinton impeachment, global warming commercials with Nancy Pelosi, and other things from his decades in the spotlight.
Bachmann, with a relatively small public history, is a different story. Although her message, naivete on some issues, and ability to stir a TEA party crowd mirror Herman Cain, she somehow comes across differently. While Herman Cain gets away with announcing that no future President will raise the rates on his 999 plan, Bachmann promises $2 a gallon gas and becomes the laughing stock of the mainstream media and even conservatives. Bachmann tells stories of raising her kids and foster kids and is seen as homely and amateurish. Cain tells stories of him and his brother sneaking drinks from the Whites Only drinking fountain as kids and the story simply tugs at anyone’s heart strings. Bachmann embellishes Perry’s Merck connection and the potential health risks of the HPV vaccine and the media drags her through the coals on it. The media tried to make hay out of Cain’s comment about blacks being brainwashed into voting Democratic and the story was dead on arrival.
Perhaps the greatest difference that speaks to American hearts is that Cain is not bitter or angry. Yes, he is the first to tell us that Obama’s policies are destroying the country. But he does it with an air of policy sincerity, not partisan gamesmanship. Cain doesn’t seem to have a racist bone in his body, to the extent that some Democrats seem to think he is racist against blacks. Cain simply comes across as a successful American who believes in America and in every American’s ability to become whatever they want to be. Cain brings back with sincerity something that politicians have been falsely touting for years: a sincere belief in the American dream and the ability of Americans to achieve it. His simple, Reaganesque faith in the American people and freedom will be enough to preserve his seat as the top social conservative. As other social conservatives call it quits, Cain will continue to swallow up their supporters and surpass Romney.
Just a month ago Cain was barely on the radar. With Perry’s self-destruction and the Florida straw poll, Cain now has the potential momentum to carry him through. The key will be surviving early Romney primary wins until the race narrows to just Cain and Romney. From there he can coast to GOP victory.
Filed under: Chris Christie, Herman Cain, Iowa, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, New Hampshire, Newt Gingrich, Polls, President Obama, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Sarah Palin, TEA Party | Tagged: $2, 999, bachmann, Barack Obama, black, blacks, cain, cbs, cbsnews, Chris Christie, christie, clinton, democrat, family, family values, florida, Florida straw poll, Gingrich, global warming, godfather's, GOP, gop 2012, herman, Herman Cain, hpv, hpv vaccine, impeachment, merck, Michele Bachmann, mitt, Mitt Romney, new york times, newt, Newt Gingrich, nyt, obama, Palin, pelosi, perry, pillsbury, politician, Primary, primary 2012, race, racism, Republican, Rick Perry, Romney, santorum, sara palin, sarah palin, segregation, tea, Tea Party, time, time magazine, usa, USA Today, Whitehouse, whitehouse 2012 | 3 Comments »
Republican Morning Memo for Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Posted on April 26, 2011 by Kempite
Why Haley Barbour isn’t running
How Haley Barbour’s moves shakes up the 2012 field
Nate Silver, “Schmuck of the Week”. And it’s only Tuesday
Santroum says health law fueled his possible presidential run
With gas prices on the rise, Pawlenty hangs energy policy around Obama’s neck
Surprise! Ron Paul to begin his third campaign for President today in Iowa
President Obama tries to make his campaign seem like the underdog rather than the incumbent
Jim DeMint. Not running for Prez, but headed to New Hampshire to make sure that a Republican President is elected
The potential First Spouses. A look at the spouses of the potential Republican presidential candidates
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The Pomposity of the New York Times’ Nate Silver
Wow. I believe pompous arrogance would be the most fitting way to characterize Nate. Silvers recent analysis entitled On The Largely Irrelevant News About Haley Barbour Not Running for President.
First of all, for Mr. Silver to characterize Haley Barbours decision not to run for the Republican presidential nomination as irrelevant, is mind numbingly ignorant. The Barbour decision is one of the most important decisions to have been made regarding the 2012 presidential election to date. As noted in White House 2012, Governor Barbours decision not to run, has freed up many supporters and much money. Furthermore; whether Silver wants to deny it or not, that decisions has increased the chances that one of the top tier Republican presidential contenders, Governor Mitch Daniels, will run. This is far from irrelevant.
But beyond this, Mr. Silver takes it upon himself to bestow great credit to himself for never having given much thought or ink to the possibility of a Haley Barbour presidential candidacy. This is not something which I believe he deserves either personal or public credit for. Perhaps part of the reason as to why Silver did not take the potential candidacy of Governor Haley Barbour seriously was because he is utterly blind to the art of political campaigning and its powerful ability to overcome some negative perceptions, and to accentuate positive ones. Perhaps another reason is because Mr. Silvers liberal biases do not allow his mind to be as open as he would have us believe.
Haley Barbour is conservative, a point that I am sure did not go unnoticed by the New York Times Nate Silver. And it is that point which more than likely accounted for his tendency to not take Barbours potential candidacy seriously.
The fact of the matter is that for Mr. Silver to give himself a Super Bowl ring for Monday morning quarterbacking a game that has not yet even begun, is a bit silly. For him to imply thepossesion ofsome greater political instinct or knowledge than others, including Jonathon Martin of Politic, simply because he had not given much ink to the possibility of a Barbour presidential candidacy, is utterly ridiculous.
Two days prior to Governor Barbours announcement, I made my own assessment here in White House 2012 and in it I questioned the certainty of a Barbour presidential campaign. The accuracy of that post did not give me license to arrogantly discount the opinions of others and claim or imply that I have shrewder political instincts than George Will, Charles Krauthammer or Jonathon Martin.
The truth is that Mr. Silver may not have wanted to advertise the possibilities that existed within a Barbour candidacy, but that didnt make him any more correct than those who refused to deny those possibilities. While Barbour had several obvious handicaps, most of which White House 2012 acknowledged, he also had the capacity to rise above them. His fundraising ability is almost unmatched, his organization reach and ability was endless, and his record, policies and vision were more than powerful enough to build a credible candidacy on. But Mr. Silver claims he never believed so, so he deserves credit.
Credit for what? Denying the potential that existed? I dont think so.
Although I tend to believe that Haley Barbour and his family, decided against a run for President because of the obstacles, I do not believe the decision was reached because they concluded that they could not overcome the obstacles. I believe they decided not to run because they did not know exactly how committed they were to insuring that they overcame those obstacles. It is that uncertainty of commitment that Haley Barbour cited as the reason for deciding not to run. Yet in his analysis, Nate Silver suggests that his colleagues would be best advised to not take what those they write about so literally. I suggest that Mr. Silver listen to what those he writes about have to say and instead of automatically discounting the truth in what they say, perhaps he should first be open to thepossibility of thetruth.
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour Skips 2012 GOP Presidential Race (usnews.com)
Haley Barbour Is Out (observer.com)
Haley Barbour of Mississippi Bows Out of 2012 Run (mydd.com)
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour Not Running For President (sayanythingblog.com)
Daniels Would Have Backed Barbour (politicalwire.com)
Inside Haley Barbour’s Camp, Advisers Were Split On Whether He Should Run (huffingtonpost.com)
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Hung Out to Dry
Posted on January 20, 2011 by ikefriday
If ever there was a time for conservatives to stand up for Sarah Palin, now would be it. Palin is certainly a front runner for the Presidency, even as a TEA Party outsider in the Republican Party. This makes her an easy target.
Oops, did I say target? The absolute ridiculousness with which the left has attempted to tie Jared Loughner to Sarah Palin should have every Republican up in arms. The ease with which Loughner’s actual political leanings and mental stability can be documented should add fuel to a conservative fire that overturns years of a subtle left-wing bias in the media. It should be pretty obvious right now which way the mainstream leans.
So why aren’t conservatives standing up for Palin? When given the chance to stand up for Palin and shred the media’s unjust attacks, Newt Gingrich stated that Palin is the one who needs to be more careful about what she says. Immediately left-wing bloggers seized on Gingrich’s words and reposted them with glee.
Shortly after the Tuscon shooting, left-wing loudmouth Keith Olbermann associated Loughner with Palin. Though he obviously put his foot in his mouth, speaking out of ignorance, mainstream Republicans did not respond. Finally Palin did.
The result? Palin was attacked by the left for responding. But she was also attacked by the right. Ross Douthat, supposedly a conservative New York Times columnist (yeah, I hear they found bigfoot and UFOs too), echoed the establishment complaint that Palin’s response was unpresidential. I wonder if anyone ever confronted Andrew Jackson, blood flowing from an open wound, gun still smoking, fresh from winning a duel (or losing as he did on one occasion) that he was acting unpresidential.
This one was a slam dunk. Loughner was a druggie, fed on 9/11 conspiracy theories and hatred of women in power. He didn’t listen to talk radio and certainly wouldn’t have followed the details of Palin’s TEA Party successes this past fall. Republicans had a chance to take on the the lies that were coming out and show the country exactly how the left had chosen to politicize the shooting. But they didn’t.
I have tried to reconcile the lack of conservative response. The person who came closest to defending Palin and the TEA Party movement was the President himself when he called on Americans not to blame each other or point fingers.
Most likely, mainstream potential candidates are trying to avoid putting themselves in a situation where they face the same grueling attacks that Palin has. Possibly, some establishment candidates may be secretly satisfied to see their stiffest competition for the 2012 primaries knocked out as a result of the media’s unnecessary roughness.
Filed under: Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin | Tagged: 2012, 9/11, ABC, andrew jackson, conservative, conspiracy, douthat, duel, election, gifford, Gingrich, jared loughner, keith olbermann, left, liberal, loughner, media, new york times, newt, Newt Gingrich, nyt, olbermann, Palin, President, primaries, right, ross douthat, sarah palin, shooting, target, tea, Tea Party, tuscon, Whitehouse, whitehouse 2012 | 3 Comments »
Dark Horse Potential?
From George Washington to Teddy Roosevelt to Dwight Eisenhower, the US has a long tradition of the “war hero” President. In most cases, this has been beneficial for the US.
So why not have a candidate who has stayed out of the political rancor of the last three elections, has a blank political slate, has served both President Bush and Obama, and has succeeded once already in a war that was pronounced unwinnable? It should also help that he has a Masters of Public Administration and Ph.D. in International Relations from Princeton.
I am speaking about the highly decorated four star general, Gen. David Petraeus. Even the Moveon.org attack ad in the New York Times from a few years ago has done nothing but bolster Gen. Petraeus’ popularity among most in America. After the last few White House occupants, Petraeus seems to carry an air of honor and earned respect that seems almost unworthy of this highest post.
General David Petraeus
Gen. Petraeus is certainly qualified. So why isn’t he showing up in any media chatter or straw polls? Probably because among all the candidates who have claimed they have no interest in running, his claim sounds the most sincere. When asked about it in a 2007 Foxnews interview, Petraeus offered what he called a “Shermanesque” response. Sherman was the popular Civil War general, who when asked if he would run for office responded by saying “I will not accept if nominated, and I will not serve if elected”.
Was Petraeus simply participating in the time honored tradition of denying Presidential ambitions until the time is right? I tend to feel that was sincere, but only time will tell.
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Rick Perry’s Jeremiah Wright Moment
Posted on October 8, 2011 by Kempite
On Friday afternoon, at a meeting of the annual Values Voters Summit in Washington, D.C., Texas Governor Rick Perry found himself involved in a controversy not of his own doing. Instead it was the man who introduced him to the evangelical audience that brought the controversy on to Rick Perry.
At around 2:30 in the afternoon, in his introduction of Perry, Southern Baptist Convention leader Robert Jeffress, who recently endorsed the Governor, described Perry as “the most pro-life governor in the United States of America.” He also touched upon the gaffes made by Perry in the last debate by saying, “do we want a candidate whois skilled in rhetoric, or one who is skilled in leadership?”. He went on to call him “a committed follower of Christ.”
But 45 minutes later, when speaking to reporters, Jeffress told reporters that Mormonism is a “cult” and that voting for former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney would “give credibility to a cult”. He also stated that he endorsed Perry only as an individual, and that he would not tell his church members how to vote. But he further stated that he is planning to give a sermon this Sunday in which he talks about “how a Christian should vote.” Jeffress added that among the criteria is that the person they vote for be a Christian.
According to a live blogger at the summit reporting for the Washington Post, Jeffress also told reporters that many evangelicals were afraid to talk about Mormonism but would have a hard time voting for a Mormon candidate.
At the same time Jeffress also confessed that as a pastor he was “not nearly as concerned about a candidate’s record on fiscal issues or immigration issues” as he is with their social conservative bona fides.
That however is a view which contradicts the political realities of the 2012 election. And as demonstrated by the highly motivated TEA movement, is not the most important aspect that they are seeking in a candidate. In fact for many of them, it is just the opposite. They are looking more for a Republican candidate who while having moral values, will stay out of people’s personal lives.
That fact was not missed by Governor Perry. For he delivered a speech that focused less on faith and more on his record of job creation.
Despite the fact that the group he was addressing was gathered together to celebrate the fundamentals of the Christian faith and socially conservative values, Perry chose to make the point that he was running on a message of economic recovery. Such was most likely a tactical campaign decision based on an attempt to not allow rivals to paint him as a religious fanatic who would take the same priorities as Jeffress, to
Washington in 2013.
Ironically though, the remarks made by Jeffress did little to help his endorsed presidential candidate. In fact, Jeffress only did more to hurt Perry.
Evangelicals have no problem with Rick Perry. They know all that Jeffress tried to convey to them about Perry at the Values Voters Summit. However, Perry will have a problem with voters who are leery of having a President focused more on social issues than the economic and foreign affairs issues that the office of President was designed to addressed and which are in desperate need of being addressed properly. For those people, Jeffress did little to win over any converts to Perry. And at the same time, he pushed a very sensitive button regarding religious tolerance and bigotry.
But Jeffress is probably less concerned with getting Rick Perry elected than he is with selling a new book that he has coming out.
For his part, after Jeffress made his off the cuff remarks, Rick Perry had his campaign distanced the him from Jeffress. They noted that it was the organizers of Values Voters Summit that chose Jeffress to introduce the Texas governor, not the campaign. However it was later confirmed that Perry approved of having Jeffress introduce him. Based upon Jeffress’ longstanding and well publicized history of religious intolerance, Rick Perry should never have allowed Jeffress to have the opportunity to be an representative of Perry’s supporters. Allowing Jeffress to introdcue him was indeed a big mistake. Either that or Perry does not see much wrong with Jeffress’ intolernace and bigotry.
Perry spokesman Robert Black did released a statement that read “The governor does not believe Mormonism is a cult. He is not in the business of judging people. That’s God’s job.”
Whether that is true or not, no one can’t know for sure. All we can do is take Perry at his word. But interestingly enough the words that Jeffress speak do happen to be suspiciously scripted.
According to CBS, during Jeffress’ post Perry speech comments, he claimed “I did not talk about my Mormon views” with Perry, and added, “I’m not insinuating that the governor shares those at all — he may not.” described himself as only an acquaintance of Perry’s. “I did not talk about my Mormon views” with Perry. He continued, “I’m not insinuating that the governor shares those at all — he may not.”
Jeffress then said the following words which rang some alarm bells with me;
“I haven’t gone coyote hunting with him,”.
They were the very same seemingly unrehearsed words he spoke in an MSNBC interview on August 14th [see the interview below] . Personally, it sounds to me as though there is a lot more coordination between Jeffress and Perry’s campaign than some are willing to admit.
In another interview, this one on Fox News Live, back in June of this year, Jeffress expressed his disappointment in Mike Huckabee’s decision not to run for President. He also stated that without Huckabee in the race, Chrsitians may be faced with having to hold their noses and vote for the lesser of two evils. Jeffress then claimed to being non-partisan and then professed that he is only concerned with “the next President being committed to eliminating the tide of un-Godliness and evil that is sweeping our country”. He even admits “while Romney may make a good President”, but adds, “we better understand that if we vote for Mitt Romney we are not voting for a Christian”.
Observe the video for yourself. I believe you will find this religious leader to be preaching a level bigotry that is so obvious, that is actually offensive. I can only say that thank God most true Chrsitians are not as ignorant, bigotted, and intolerant as Robert Jeffress is. And when I write “intolerant”, I do not mean it in the politically correct sense which is to deny the truth. I mean it in the sense of trying to defy logic and closing doors based upon perceptions, not actual facts.
The only way for Rick Perry to really nip this in the bud is to do more than distance himself from Jefresss. In many ways this could be Rick Perry’s Jeremiah Wright moment. That is why Perry needs to denounce Jeffress for his prejudices and defend Mitt Romney for having what may be religious differences but are most certainly Christian values. If he does do not do so, Mitt Romney could turn what initially seems to be a relatively minor verbal hiccups, into a major issue that he could turn around to his advantage.
In this day and age, for Americans to hold prejudices against a political leader because of their faith, is nothing other than an example of backwards thinking and a contradiction to the very constitutional principles that the G.O.P. is trying to stress the need for our nation to return to.
As for Robert Jeffress, I am sorry to say this, but he is an ass.
I say so not neccessarily because of his beliefs but because of his obvious insincerity and the mixed messages that he as a religious leader, sends. Personally, I think he is more concerned with selling his new book than he is with either whom our next President is, or Jesus.
But how does Mitt Romney feel about it all? We may get the chance to find that out on Saturday, when Mitt is scheduled to address the Values Voters Summit himself. His approach to the evangelicals gathered there will be quite interesting, especially in light of the assault made upon him and his faith by Perry supporter Robert Jeffries.
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Hubbard's Career-Best Leads Bucs at Linfield
PORTLAND, Ore. – Jacob Hubbard tossed a personal record 177-feet 1-inch in the hammer throw to lead the Whitworth track and field team at Saturday's Linfield Open.
Hubbard's throw inches the senior closer to national qualifying position, which will include the top-20 marks in each men's event. Today's toss will rank 30th in NCAA Division III.
In addition to the personal record, Whitworth also posted several other strong marks at the Linfield Open. Rhett Streeter and Kameha Medallada led the way with 100-meter dashes that were just a tenth of a second slower than their personal-best times. Both placed third with Streeter crossing the finish line in 10.97 seconds and Medallada finishing in 12.41 seconds.
Kayla Rambo also had a strong day in the discus, securing a top-three finish with a 135-foot 11-inch throw. The freshman is currently qualifying position for the national championships thanks to her toss at the Northwest Conference Championships last weekend.
The Bucs return to Oregon on May 10 and 11 to complete their regular season at the West Coast Invitational, which is hosted by Willamette.
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Fitzgerald leads Miss St to 23-9 win over No. 8 Auburn
Posted 10:10 pm, October 6, 2018, by Associated Press
STARKVILLE, MS - OCTOBER 06: Kylin Hill #8 of the Mississippi State Bulldogs runs with the ball as Darrell Williams #49 of the Auburn Tigers defends during the first half at Davis Wade Stadium on October 6, 2018 in Starkville, Mississippi. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images)
STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Nick Fitzgerald ran for 195 yards and two touchdowns and Mississippi State’s defense had another dominant performance in a 23-9 victory over No. 8 Auburn on Saturday night.
Mississippi State (4-2, 1-2 Southeastern Conference) came into the game among the nation’s top 10 in scoring defense, and the Bulldogs were brilliant on that side of the ball once again. The Tigers hit on a couple big plays, but once they neared the end zone the Bulldogs clamped down.
Auburn (4-2, 1-2) settled for three field goals, which wasn’t nearly enough.
Mississippi State’s offense was a two-man show between Fitzgerald and Kylin Hill. The 6-foot-5, 230-pound Fitzgerald became the SEC’s career leader for rushing yards for a quarterback with a 39-yard run in the fourth quarter. He passed former Florida star Tim Tebow for the top spot.
Hill finished with 126 yards on 23 carries, including several crucial runs in the second half. The Bulldogs finished with 349 yards rushing.
The Tigers were a mess on offense and a couple big mistakes nullified two touchdowns.
The first was when Jarrett Stidham overthrew a wide-open Darius Slayton for a sure six points. The second was when JaTarvious Whitlow ran for 41 yards but fumbled just before crossing the goalline. Mississippi State recovered in the end zone for a touchback.
Stidham finished 19 of 38 passing for 214 yards. The Tigers managed just 304 total yards.
The Bulldogs have struggled on offense over the past two weeks, scoring a combined 13 points in losses to Kentucky and Florida. They couldn’t throw against the Tigers, but the Fitzgerald-Hill combo was enough to push them to the win.
After a tight first half, Mississippi State finally broke through for a touchdown when Fitzgerald barreled through Auburn’s defensive line on a 1-yard dive in the second quarter. It was the Bulldogs’ first touchdown in eight quarters — dating back to the second quarter of the team’s 28-7 loss to Kentucky on Sept. 22 — and gave them a 13-3 lead heading into halftime.
Fitzgerald added a 21-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter to seal the win.
Auburn’s offense never got going and it cost them an SEC victory. Stidham looked uncomfortable the entire night and big mistakes proved costly. The Tigers will likely take a plunge in the AP Top 25 on Sunday.
Mississippi State’s offense started slow, but the Bulldogs were good enough on the ground to grind out a win. The defense continues to be excellent. Now the Bulldogs get a week off before heading to LSU for an interesting game in Baton Rouge.
Auburn hosts Tennessee next Saturday.
Mississippi State is off next weekend and travels to play LSU on Oct. 20.
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A Banana Peel Made College Students Cry… No, Seriously
Is there anything anyone ever says or does that WON’T offend someone else? Apparently, the answer is no. A story on CampusReform.org tells of the tragic tale of what happened when a college student discovered a banana peel hanging from a tree… no really, stop laughing. That actually happened.
According to the story: “A Greek Life retreat at the University of Mississippi was promptly cancelled this weekend after a banana peel was found hanging in a tree.” You know, reasons to cancel an event may vary. They could be cancelled because of bad weather, or because of an active shooter in the area, or because of the threat of terrorism. A banana peel found hanging on a tree, apparently, can now be placed under the same category as those things for causes to cancel an event.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! But wait, it gets better. According to the story: “’To be clear, many members of our community were hurt, frightened, and upset by what occurred at IMPACT,’ Interim Director of Fraternity and Sorority Life Alexa Lee Arndt remarked in an email between Greek leaders, according to The Daily Mississippian. ‘Because of the underlying reality many students of color endure on a daily basis, the conversation manifested into a larger conversation about race relations today at the University of Mississippi.’”
You know, I’d like to be a fly on the wall at that event so I could hear just exactly how the conversation went from “Hey, we found a banana peel hanging from a tree” to “you know, this could seriously harm people of color… BLACK LIVES MATTER! BLACK LIVES MATTER!” I mean, c’mon! How? Exactly how do you go from talking about a banana peel hanging from a tree (which apparently is now a big topic of conversation in the University of Mississippi) to talking about race relations in our society?
I just hope we, as a nation, will be able to get over this nightmare which will henceforth be known as “The Banana Peel From Hell of 2017”. Give me a break. Are we Millennials so insanely sensitive that a banana peel hanging from a tree will give us nightmares for weeks? That a banana peel can make us feel “hurt, frightened and upset”?
But let me tell you how this “nightmare” of a situation began. According to the CampusReform.org story: “Apparently, student Ryan Swanson admitted to discarding the banana peel in a tree after he was unable to locate a garbage can, and it was later spotted by Alpha Kappa Alpha President Makala McNeil, who leads one of the campuses[‘s] historically black sororities.”
Oh, so it was that 'jerk' Ryan Swanson who caused this huh? I just hope he knows the extent of the 'damage' he caused to the people of his community. Discarding a banana peel in a tree? Who does that? Psychopaths and Trump supporters, that’s who...apparently...
And you know what’s interesting? The poor guy actually APOLOGIZED for that. “Although unintentional, there is no excuse for the pain that was caused to members of our community,” Swanson wrote in his apology. “I have much to learn and look forward to doing such and encourage all members of our community to do the same.”
He’s writing as though he was a bully and caused some serious damage to people around him. And, to those other students, they might legitimately see Swanson as a bully. A bully to them, a bully to the planet, a bully to that tree, a bully to that banana peel and a bully to all of society.
And according to Makala McNeil, the person who found the banana peel: “The overall tone was heavy. I mean, we were talking about race in Mississippi and in the Greek community so there’s a lot involved.” (Yeah, a lot of b.s.) McNeil then recalled that she and her friend were “all just sort of paranoid for a second” after spotting the banana.
There are a lot of sentences in this article I thought I’d never say. This girl felt “paranoid” after spotting the banana. This guy was sorry for discarding the banana peel on the tree. The event was canceled due to students finding a banana peel hanging from a tree… Just what in the world is wrong with our society? Or better yet, my generation?
And the worst part might be this: according to The Daily Mississippian, some students left the retreat in tears, with McNeil saying that they “didn’t feel welcome” and “didn’t feel safe”.
So a banana peel hanging from a tree caused an entire event to be cancelled, students to leave the event in tears and in need to find safe spaces, and made them feel that they weren’t welcome and didn’t feel safe.
Well of course they didn’t feel welcome and safe. This could only mean one thing: the rise of the planet of the apes! It’s no longer just a movie!
I can’t recall the amount of times I had to face palm while writing this article. I typically write articles with passion to defend Christ, defend Trump or attack the Left. And I think that this one was the most sarcasm-filled article to date. But can you blame me? STUDENTS FELT UNSAFE AND UNWELCOMED BY A BANANA PEEL!
I seriously hope that the generation that comes after mine sees the stupidity of this generation and works to make society less ignorant and maybe just a little bit more abundant in the “guts” department.
If my generation is getting scared by a banana peel hanging from a tree, I would honestly not have much hope for our country. I legitimately hope that the next Democrat president won’t be a Millennial. Because at that point, the POTUS will be a BOTUS, the Baby of the United States.
However, knowing that this article itself was WRITTEN by a Millennial, I do have SOME hope for my generation and the future of this country. If there are more Millennials out there that are simply Millennials because of the year they were born in and not because of their quite literal insane liberal views, then the future doesn’t look so bleak, after all.
“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own”
Although, that one is mostly for me and those worried about this generation, not the subjects of this article.
Author: Freddie Drake.
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Can "puppy breaks" help bark away physician stress?
Tanya Albert Henry
Contributing News Writer
Dogs and other pets have comforted patients in hospitals, clinics and nursing homes for years. Could these animals also be a good stress-management technique for doctors, nurses and other health professionals caring for those patients?
Preliminary results from one hospital that’s tried it indicate the answer is yes.
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Once a month, physicians, nurses and others on staff at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and at Rush’s suburban Oak Park campus have a chance to get away from the hustle and bustle of treating patients and spend some time petting therapy dogs.
Paws that refresh
It’s part of a program called Pet Pause that aims to reduce stress and promote well-being in the high-pressure work environment.
Nursing leadership runs the program and in 2016 they began studying the impact it was having on staff members who participated. When a staff member agrees to participate in the study, they had their blood pressure measured and then self-reported stress levels on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest level of stress. Those two measures are collected again after staff members finish petting the dogs and head back to work.
The study wrapped up in September and researchers are crunching the final results from the nearly 700 participants at the two sites. But a preliminary look at data from the first 10 months of the program shows that the dogs are having a positive impact, said Mary Heitschmidt, PhD, APRN, CCRN, principal investigator of the study. Heitschmidt is the director of clinical research, co-director of the Center for Clinical Research and Scholarship, and assistant professor at Rush.
For example, coming into the room to pet the dogs, participants on average said they had a stress level of 4.75 on that one-to-10 scale. After petting the dogs, the physicians, nurses and others who participated in the Pet Pause study reported a stress level that averaged 3.25.
“People like it,” Heitschmidt said of the program. “It’s a good break and it increases morale.”
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Putting together the Pet Pause Program hasn’t required much monetary investment, but it has required a lot of teamwork between the hospitals, nursing students and the therapy-dog owners to bring the pieces together.
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Residents’ collections are inspiration for Maine College of Art students
January 9, 2014 /in Bright Spots: News and Events, Porch Light Blog, The Beacons: Stories Worth Sharing /by Mindy Woerter
Update: The artwork created through this partnership will be featured as part of Portland’s First Friday Art Walk on Feb. 7 at Oak Street Lofts! Bayside East residents will be at Oak Street Lofts to share the special objects that inspired the artwork created by the students. We hope to see you at 72 Oak Street from 5-8 p.m.!
Behind each piece of artwork hanging in the community room at Bayside East is a story. There’s the story of the treasures brought home by a young man stationed overseas, or the story of a cultural tradition transplanted in a new community. And there’s the simple story of preserving a community’s history through newspaper clippings.
Looking at the 11 prints on the walls, the stories might not be apparent. But for the residents of the Portland senior community, the artwork represents memories of cherished items collected over the years, as seen through the eyes of local art students.
A Bayside East resident shows Maine College of Art students an item he’s collected
From September to December, a class of Maine College of Art students spent several hours talking with a group of residents of Bayside East and seeing first-hand the objects that hold special meaning for them. Residents brought odds and ends gathered over the years, like collections of old newspaper clippings, gifts given to them by loved ones, and even colorful traditional African clothing made by hand.
Through stories and questions, the students learned why these objects were so important to their owners. Then, they created original prints using the objects and stories as influence.
The semester-long project wrapped up in December with a potluck party at the property. The students unveiled their art to the residents and talked about their process. Each student made multiple prints so that the residents could also hang one in their apartment.
One of the residents, Bill, had showed students a geisha doll he’s had for over four decades, purchased overseas when he was serving in the Navy. The doll became a source of inspiration for one student, who made a black-and-white print of its likeness that now hangs in the community room kitchen.
“My 45-year-old gal – it’s nice to see her out,” said Bill.
This partnership is just one way Avesta has been exploring community partnerships to help enhance our residents’ sense of home through art. The importance of art goes beyond aesthetics – it’s a vital part of creating a sense of community and making our residents feel at home.
Partnerships with other organizations also strengthen relationships between our residents and members of the larger community, creating connections that can have a lasting impact. The residents visited the students in their studio to see first-hand how printmaking is done. They also got a personalized tour of the college’s facilities on Congress Street, which was especially meaningful for one resident, who used to work in the building back when it was the Porteous department store.
“It’s community development for both, for us and for (Maine College of Art),” said Bill of the project. “What it brings to the room is what we were looking for. This is extremely nice to have.”
Kate, a student, said they were all initially nervous about leaving the classroom and “stepping out of our comfort zone,” but those feelings quickly dissipated as they spent more time with the residents. “We had a really fun time, they were interested people we wouldn’t normally interact with,” she said. “They were fun to talk with – they always had something interesting to say.
“Every time you have students get out somewhere else, it’s beneficial to your art,” she added.
Rod, one of the residents, said the opportunity to interact with young people held more meaning for him now that he’s getting older and most of his own children have moved away. “Getting to know them has been really great. They’re obviously a really great bunch of kids,” he said. “I think programs like this are really great — this way, you don’t just house older people and forget about them.”
The connection that developed between the residents and the students was great to see, and I’d like to thank Professor Pilar Nadal and her students for enhancing the lives of our residents through art. And a big thank-you to Bill, Phil, Doug, Rod and the other residents who participated in this project and shared their time, energy and hospitality.
Avesta looks forward to working with the Maine College of Art to repeat the program with another group of residents next fall.
* Thank you to Pilar and her students for providing some of the photos for this blog post.
By Mindy Woerter, Communications Manager
Tags: Art, Community, Cumberland County, Inside Avesta, Maine College of Art, Our Residents, Portland, Programming
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By: Suzanne Wright
Narrated by: Jill Redfield
Brilliant Story
Polished, dignified and reserved in all things. That is a true nobleman.
Lady Clara of the Redding, a living statue of perfection, has been raised a true Redde noblewoman. She has been taught to never show emotion, to never raise her voice, to touch as little as possible, and to never act wildly or rashly. According to her people’s custom, the new generation cannot begin until the current one is settled. She is the last of her siblings without a husband and her pregnant sisters will remain in stasis until she’s married.
After Clara denies all suitable males on her home world, her parents are left with one choice - send her to a primitive planet where several noblemen await marriage. The men hardly appear picky about their choices, a perfect arrangement for a reluctant bride.
An uninhibited woman to match his untamed soul. That would be his ideal wife.
Lord Vladan, Ealdorman Honorary of the Draig is not like his noble brothers. Adopted into their family after a mining accident killed his parents, he is every bit as titled as his new brothers, and every bit as welcome into the fold. Yet he can’t help but feel the pull of his commoner past. He loves his family, and will always do as duty demands, but a part of him still yearns to shift into dragon form and run free in the wild. It is a side he indulges every chance he gets. This is how he knows his bride will be the most wild of creatures, for he wants passion, not perfection. Surely the gods are mistaken when they bind him to the most refined, reserved, frustratingly perfect creature in the universe.
Warning: This audiobook contains an alpha male reluctant to take his place as a nobleman preferring to run free in the forest and a woman unwilling to marry anything but a cultured and refined gentleman. Oh, and she doesn't like to get dirty. Well, until now. Contains adult content.
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Awesome book and series
The Reluctant Lord is book 7 of Dragon Lords series by Michelle M. Pillow. It tells the love story of Clara and Vlad.
Lady Clara of Redding is a noblewoman who has been taught never to show emotion, to raise her voice or in any way to act undignified and, most importantly to touch or allow herself to be touch as little as possible. Clara has mental abilities that make her able to communicate with animals, heal others and to destroy.
Lord Vladan, Ealdorman Honorary of the Draig is the adopted son in the Draig household. He has finally come of age that will allow him to attend his first Breeding Festival. While Clara is repressed Vlad is the opposite of her in every way. He is wild, reckless, always ready to laugh and free spirited.
I love the stories and characters that Ms. Pillow comes up with. Her stories are always so full of passion, love, action, intrigue, excitement, adventure, villains to concurre, sexy heroes and feisty stubborn females. Oh and humor, lots of humor. My favorite part of the story was when they all met Clara. She was wearing a cone-shaped wig, skin painted white and a costume that would fit in the 1800's. No one knew what to make of her and thought that she might have a cone shaped head because of the height of the wig. That still makes me laugh thinking about it. Loved it.
I highly recommend this series!!!
Dragon Lords
1. Barbarian Prince
2. Perfect Prince
3. Dark Prince
4. Warrior Prince
5. His Highness the Duke
6. The Stubborn Lord
7. The Reluctant Lord
8. The Impatient Lord
9. The Dragon's Queen
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Feed the ceffyl a solarflower!
I read the ebook and listened to audiobook. Rebecca Cook is an excellent narrator. I will look for more of her work.
The only other book in this series I've read is #2, The Perfect Prince, but the plot was easy enough to follow.
Contents: About six sex scenes (most scenes are quickies or fade-outs). A little bloody violence. Minimal or no swearing or profanity. Only a few typos.
Setting: In the future, on an alien and somewhat primitive planet.
As for the story, what a delightful surprise! I totally enjoyed this "dragon-shifter meets empath" erotic romance. It's got a solid story, not just sex scenes, which can get so boring.
An intriguing story. Fairly light. Laughed aloud several times. It's opposites attract, with a playful, sexy prince falling for a hands-off noble lady (but be warned, he feels a mating call towards her). It's heartwarming, seeing the rigidly straight-laced Lady Clara -- terrified in the beginning -- learn to enjoy life on an alien and primitive planet (poor child -- decked out in that horrendously heavy get-up).
Pillow penned a coherent and engaging plot, complete with an environmental pitch against fracking that fit neatly into the narrative (I could imagine her soapbox). Vivid scenes in the mine shaft. Good fight scene with nasty aliens, the Troe. Adorable (and funny) scenes with great horned herds of ceffyls. Solarflowers!
And tongue-in-cheek — I roared when the gift from Clara's family was revealed.
This book's got danger, passion, humor, and friendship. It's also poignant and sometimes sweet. Secondary characters added to the fun, especially in the mining village. Moving scene at the end, with Clara's esteemed mother, Great Lady of the Redding.
This was ok, but it didn’t delight me.
Light on plot.
I think I would have liked more interesting relationship development. Clara is sent to a place where she will be matched with a husband. Vlad likes her from the start. He treats her nicely and she likes him back. The main conflict is that they are from two different cultures. His culture that is warm and touching. She has been raised in a cold and untouching family.
Clara has some empathic talents. A mining collapse adds danger.
Vlad is a dragon shifter. Almost nothing was done with that. But that might be because it is done in other books. This is book 7 in the Dragon Lord series.
AUDIOBOOK NARRATOR:
Rebecca Cook was excellent as a narrator. Good emotional interpretation. Ok voices for men. No breathing noises.
Narrative mode: 3rd person.
Genre: paranormal romance.
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This book was very different from the others in the series, I was constantly irritated by the h and her elitist views.
Pam louis
Fantastic story
I loved it! This book was a lot going on. The bride is from a world that emotions are frowned on. the dragon lords are full of emotions. When his Crystal lights up he knows that she is the one so he does everything he can to make it work. I think it might be the sweetest dragon lords book yet! Pillow doesn't disappointed. Great story, great action and I couldn't put it down. This series is amazing !
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Would you listen to The Reluctant Lord again? Why?
I enjoyed this book very much. The narrator was fantastic, the story was great.
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Reluctant Lord?
When they were trapped inside the cave and it's up to Lady Clara to save the day
What about Rebecca Cook’s performance did you like?
She did a fantastic job with this book. Her voice is clear and she switched things up from male to female perfectly.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Her Noble Warrior
I was gifted a copy of this audible for my honest review
New and different world
Great start to a new series of stories. It is a whole new world to discover with personable men and strong women. The characters are real and believable while being interesting and different. The different shifter allows for an expansion of ideas and novel situations. I loved the interactions of strong women who are trying to better themselves with the dominant but flexible male. Looking forward to reading them all.
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Another great addition to the series. I love how Ms. Pillow can tell the story , same premise but quite different for each. This was a different one all right... two very different people from very different cultures are mated. The story is about how they make their differences mesh and how they evolve as a couple despite their quite a few misunderstandings and mishaps. Very entertaining listen, especially with Rebecca Cook's voice which I am a big fan of. Thank you for the many hours of enjoyment.
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I bought this title because I just finished the Phoenix and Mercury pack. I can't wait for the next installment in either of those series. Love them. I was intrigued by this stand-alone by Suzanne. I love how her female leads are really badass. No damsels in distress or women who say they're tough and then are pull the dumb routines of not standing up for themselves, giving up immediately and falling into bed with the male lead, being led into traps, can't fight worth a damn or falling in the woods while running from the killer and then just screams. Well in this book only 2 of those things happened. I was ready to throw in the towel by the time I got to chapter 7. Kenzie was annoying and constantly going on and on about how hot Blake was. If I had the physical book I would've thrown it against the wall. But I stuck with it and kept listening. As the book went on it got more interesting as the mystery of who was stalking her seemed intriguing.
The one plot point I really didn't care for is how everyone treated Kenzie's mother like a fragile vase. She was pathetic, selfish and allowed her daughter to live through hell all for what she wanted. To not have one character call her on her bs was a missed opportunity. In Suzanne's other novels I've read she always has someone called out on their bad behavior, whether its a mother, father, brother, friend or foe doesn't matter. It never goes unanswered but in this novel she just let it pass. Stupid! Blake's big secret about B3 is so dumb, big freaking deal. I can't believe he was scared to tell Kenzie. All and all the universe Suzanne created was believable and interesting to "read" about but a good content editor would've shored up some scenes that dragged, content that should've been cut altogether, gave some good twists for the secrets and tightened up the book so it would have been a little shorter but I think better. IMHO. Samantha Cook's narration was good, not extremely distinctive in the voices but good enough you don't get totally confused about who is talking. Overall a 3* book.
The Erotic Book Review
Blake Made Me Shiver!
Kensey Lyons has not had an easy upbringing. Her stepfather is on death row and her Mother married him to escape her reality. Rumors, misconceptions, lies, and betrayal have been the story of her life, but to her credit she takes it all in stride, picks her battles, and refuses to let her past define her.
She knows who she is, and she will not let anyone intimidate her and she will not play games or answer to anyone. One thing that she can’t shake is who her stepfather is …a serial killer …. dark, unfeeling, and unbeknownst to her, tied to a person in her present. She has made it a point to never get in too deep, but, the new guy in town who gave a bad first impression is making that impossible.
Blake Mercier is a successful business man whose main goal is to protect his investments. Having Kensey work at his most recent acquisition has him on edge. He’s heard several rumors and myths that seem believable at first, but he must admit that there’s something about her.
He’s intrigued and when he makes his move, his plan is to remain unattached. He never thought he would fall, but Kensey quickly changed his rules, made him vulnerable, and smoothed out his rough edges.
I was pleasantly surprised because I am so used to Suzanne Wright’s PNR stories and she nailed it with this read. I loved the drama and the suspense of the story. Not knowing who the stalker was until later was brilliant. I guessed wrong up until that moment.
Having people spread rumors about you can be hurtful no matter your age. To always have to defend yourself and be in the presence of the very people spreading the rumors can suck.
The Ugly:
The stalker turning out to be a person you trusted is very ugly. Not only that, they are just as sick if not more than her stepfather.
Worth the Read?
I normally don’t like stalker reads, however, Suzanne did an excellent job in keeping the suspense alive. These two characters were passion enhanced with adrenaline. They ran hot and cold, but never lost their spark. The very definition of magnetic and I could not get enough.
The trust, the openness, and Blake’s dirty mouth kept me on edge. I simply loved them. Love is a crazy thing and will make you step so far outside of your box that you have no clue what you’re doing. He wanted her safe, she wanted to spread her wings. They have to find a way to meet in the middle, but danger is so much closer than they think. A 5 Star EBR Must Read!
Suzanne delivers yet again!
I am a huge fan of Suzanne Wright and Shiver is just another example of her story telling expertise. Told with humor and passion, the chemistry between Blake & Kensey is intense and is felt throughout the entire book. Samantha Cook's performance is stellar and adds that extra dimension that I always enjoy from written word to audible listening.
mamarita
I thought it was an awesome book. I liked the length of it, the story was good, and the audible was good. Got my monies worth out of that credit. Thank You.
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fantastic!!!
I love this so much. I'm a big fan of Suzanne Wright's stories and one clicked this as soon as I saw it. As I listened to it I wasn't disappointed. In pure Wright fashion this is a sexy alpha story and still action packed. Great narrative, good story, hot alpha male vs sassy alpha female. Can't wait for more.
Such a unique erotic mystery romance
And SHIVER you will when you read the amazingly hot love scenes. I love Ms Wright’s two Pack series, but this was just as great. I usually always figure out “who done it”, but not completely this time. Ms Cook was a terrific narrator also. This is a true “don’t miss” listen.
Audrey Ragsdel
I absolutely loved this book and I look forward to reading the next book. thanks for the thrills.
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Sterling Biographies
Albert Einstein: The Miracle
De : Tabatha Yeatts
Lu par : A. C. Fellner
Thanks to his monumental accomplishments, Albert Einstein's name is synonymous with genius. With his famous E=MC² and insights into quantum physics, this legendary scientist not only revolutionized the way we understand the universe, but paved the way for such diverse technology as lasers, cell phones, electron microscopes, DVD players, atomic weaponry, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Featuring kid-friendly explanations of the scientific principles, this compelling biography follows Einstein from his childhood through his early career struggles, and on to the theoretical breakthroughs and groundbreaking writings that won him the Nobel Prize. Equally important, we get a complete portrait of the man, who - deeply affected by the Holocaust - dedicated his life to pacifism and equal rights for all.
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Where does Sterling Biographies rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Was surprised to learn that Einstein was a flirtatious guy, with good humour and a very moral, loving view on life and living creatures. He wasn't exactly an angel either though, when it comes to his personal relationships. But hey - nobody's perfect:)
This book gives a balanced, engaging look.
What about A. C. Fellner’s performance did you like?
Narration is top notch.
Fair Biography
I bought this audio book out of curiosity, to know more about Albert Einstein, his life and his work.
I think it did it in a reasonable way, covering his personal and scientific career, though this last aspect, turned out to be boring for me to listen to... Never the less necessary, to fit in to the book over all context.
Over all I rate it a 3 Star
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ISOBEL GUNN
by Audrey Thomas | Read by Duncan Fraser
Historical Fiction 4 hrs. Abridged © 2002
Thomas brings listeners a fictionalized biography of Isobel Gunn, a native of the Orkney Islands, as told by fellow countryman and minister Magnus Inkster. Seeking to improve her fortune, the impoverished Isobel disguises herself as a man and joins the "Company of Adventurers" to hunt pelts in Upper Canada in 1806. Duncan Fraser performs the story in thick accents as he becomes the minister, the uneducated traders, Isobel, and a snooty British manager. Thomas follows Isobel's life and her relationship with Magnus from early childhood through her death and continues the story thorough the lives of her descendants, up to the present. The final scene of the abridged audiobook leaves many questions as the saga ends abruptly. Nevertheless, this is a fascinating glimpse into nineteenth-century Canada and Orkney. M.B.K. 2003 Audie Award Finalist (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine [Published: APR/MAY 03]
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News: “Rainbow Pupper” mural has a new home on the BeltLine
Andrew Alexander September 25, 2018
Rainbow Pupper, the puppy dog that sparked a turf war, officially has a new home.
In mid-August, Atlanta artist Linda Mitchell painted Rainbow Pupper on the back of a skate ramp in the Old Fourth Ward Skate Park as part of the annual Art on the BeltLine program. Just five days after she’d completed the mural, it was defaced.
Rainbow Pupper was defaced in his first home at the Old Fourth Ward Skate Park, but the mural now has a new home (above) beneath Park Drive on the interim BeltLine Trail near Piedmont Park. (Courtesy Atlanta BeltLine)
As reported by ArtsATL contributor Doug Deloach, the skate park is located approximately on the same spot where once stood a decaying concrete industrial parking lot and loading dock, which was commandeered by skaters in an outlaw occupation more or less tolerated by city officials. A city-sanctioned skate park opened on the site in the spring of 2011.
From the beginning, the back of the skate park’s most prominent feature, the vertically sloping wall on which skaters perform trick maneuvers, was recognized as a prime target for street artists. A first mural for the wall, commissioned and completed in 2011 by popular street artist Never, had become faded and tagged over the years.
During preparatory discussions for her mural, BeltLine officials indicated to Mitchell the likelihood that some members of the skater/graffiti community might find her project unwelcome. Nevertheless, when she was told only a few days after completing her mural that the work had been tagged to the point of near obliteration, she was angry and frustrated.
Mitchell and a group of volunteers cleaned the tags off of her mural on August 28, but shortly afterward, it was defaced again.
Mitchell was given a new location for Rainbow Pupper on the interim trail near Piedmont Park’s dog park under the Park Drive bridge. “We are still in talks with the local skater eco-system, the parks department and the community about the next creative iteration of the vert ramp,” says Miranda Kyle, arts and culture program manager for Atlanta BeltLine, Inc.
Mitchell completed the new version of Rainbow Pupper on September 20. “I had to get a bit creative with wrapping the image around the pillar to make him as large as possible on the smaller wall space,” says Mitchell. “I’m sad that the first incarnation didn’t survive at the Skatepark, but I’m delighted that my Pupper is back.”
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Asbury Methodist Village has earned its reputation as a leader of senior living in Montgomery County, Maryland, through nearly a century of service to older adults. The people who live at Asbury Methodist Village are doers, committed to living with purpose. That is why redefining the expectations of aging is at the core of everything we do.
Residents of this community follow the same inspiration as those who work here – to discover unique ways to celebrate life, engage in the community and explore new services to redefine exceptional senior living. Our not-for-profit status ensures that we put residents first. As part of Asbury Communities, we gain financial strength, a commitment to outstanding and innovative services, and a strategic vision for the future. View the Asbury Annual & Social Accountability Report.
Asbury Methodist Village enjoys the financial security and benefits of being part of the 16th largest not-for-profit retirement system in the United States, which holds Financial Strength and Stewardship as an Asbury Core Value.
Asbury Methodist Village strengthens its fiscal health by:
Requiring an annual audit to review the system’s consolidated annual statements. See our Audited Consolidated Financial Statements and IRS Form 990 below.
Seeking annual review from Fitch Ratings to assess financial performance. Asbury Methodist Village is among a small percentage of CCRCs whose bonds hold an investment-grade bond rating, currently BBB Stable.
Participating in a national accreditation process through CARF International.
Asbury Methodist Village has accreditation through CARF International, earned by less than 20 percent of the nation’s continuing care retirement communities. An independent survey team continues to find our innovative community in compliance with more than 600 measures of quality and financial strength related to long-term viability.
Staying true to our Methodist roots, Asbury Methodist Village is proud to hold EAGLE accreditation from the United Methodist Association of Health & Welfare Ministries. EAGLE stands for Educational Assessment Leading toward Excellence and places high priority on communities that reflect Mission- and purpose-driven values in the culture.
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Our Mission and faith-based heritage is reflected in our Benevolent Care program, managed by the Asbury Foundation. Should a resident outlive their financial resources through no fault of their own, they will be able to apply for assistance with monthly fees, food, medical care, medications and health insurance. Participation in this program is strictly confidential.
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As part of the Asbury system, Asbury Methodist Village is overseen by a volunteer Board of Directors charged with continuing the success of the community. Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg, MD., Asbury Solomons, Bethany Village and Springhill are owned and operated by Asbury Atlantic, Inc., which is the provider and legal entity responsible for providing services to the residents of this community.
Day-to-day operations of Asbury Methodist Village are managed by the community’s executive director and leadership team. They are supported by Asbury Communities, Inc., which is the 501(c)(3) sole member providing Asbury Atlantic and other entities in the Asbury system with support with strategic guidance and clinical, compliance, communications, finance, human resources, IT and marketing services.
Residents are valued members of this community, bringing a wealth of experience, varied backgrounds, and new ideas to our campus. The Coordinating Council of Asbury Village (CCAV) provides residents and the Asbury Methodist Village administration a regular platform for addressing priorities and concerns. The meetings are attended by the Officers of CCAV, members of the resident-run Partnership Advisory Committees and Resident Councils, and Asbury Methodist Village leadership. All residents are encouraged to attend.
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Home › News › Republic of Ireland › General Election 2011
TV debate ‘snub’ for Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams may be blessing in disguise
Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams
By Liam Clarke
Publicly, Sinn Fein are protesting about not being on tonight’s RTE Prime Time party leaders’ debate, the key one of the Irish election campaign.
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Privately, some party supporters are satisfied enough that the line-up will be confined to the big three Dail parties of Fine Gael, Labour and Fianna Fail.
It means that other leaders, more experienced in southern politics, won’t be able to stoke lingering doubts about Gerry Adams’ alleged IRA record or his knowledge of the economy.
At this point it is more important to rivals landing a glove on him, particularly Micheal Martin whose once mighty Fianna Fail machine is battling Sinn Fein for third place in the Dail.
As things stand the republican party is set for a step-change in Dail representation.
It is likely to easily pass the seven-seat threshold for being recognised as an opposition party in the Dail with full speaking rights, offices, research facilities and other privileges.
Despite a 1% drop in the most recent poll in yesterday’s Irish Times, it is still favourite to double or even treble its current Dail representation of five seats.
Sinn Fein don’t want to risk any slip-ups.
A poor performance by Gerry Adams in a 2007 RTE debate saw the party vote plummet below predictions.
In 2007 Adams was pinned down on points of economic detail by Michael McDowell of the Progressive Democrats.
It hurt Sinn Fein, but Mr McDowell’s party was destroyed, regardless of his debating victory.
The PDs lost six of their eight seats and this year they have |disappeared from the ballot paper altogether.
So there is more to be lost than gained in high-wire TV debates in the final days before polling.
Sinn Fein is pleased that Gerry Adams’ personal support is holding up despite a critical media and some underlying suspicion of him.
An earlier poll showed that the vast majority of people don’t |believe him when he denies being in the IRA and don’t trust him on the economy either, but 29% are still satisfied with the way he is doing his job.
That is up two points on the |beginning of the month when his candidacy was announced, and well above Sinn Fein’s 11% support.
The Irish Times polling was completed last Thursday, two days before an ‘Anyone But Adams’ campaign was launched by Helen McKendry, the daughter of Jean McConville, a Belfast widow who was killed and secretly buried in the Louth constituency.
Mr Adams denies claims that he was involved in the abduction.
Paula McCartney, the sister of IRA murder victim Robert |McCartney, joined the protest and believes it made an impact.
However, even after factoring that in, Drogheda bookmaker Paul Kingston makes Adams 20/1 on favourite to take a seat.
“People who are supporting Sinn Fein already know about these accusations and have taken them into account,” Mr Kingston said.
He believes Mr Adams would take about 20% of the first-|preference vote in the four-seat constituency and get elected to the second of four seats.
Taoiseach takes power and a pay cut
Ireland's newly elected Government has made its first move towards reform by cutting its own pay.
Labour's deal with FG was opposed by second TD
By Áine Kerr A second Irish Labour Party TD quietly voted against going into coalition with Fine Gael, it emerged last night.
Republic of Ireland's bailout terms ‘won’t be eased’
The new Irish government's hopes of easing the €85bn (£72bn) bailout burden have been dashed.
Coalition talks put focus on economy
By Fionnan Sheahan and Fiach Kelly Coalition negotiation teams from the two winning parties in the Irish election have spent their opening day of talks going through up-to-date economic briefings.
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The Flowerbox Building: A Sustainable Gem in a Storied Setting
Posted On Fri, October 3, 2014 By Michelle Cohen In Architecture, Cool Listings, Features, Landscape Architecture
Built in 2007, The Flowerbox condo building at 259 East Seventh Street, about mid-way between Avenues C and D, is considered by many to be one of the city’s most beautiful new developments–and definitely a neighborhood standout, featuring a vertical garden that waters itself.
The building boom that started with the 21st century and has continued apace since the end of the most recent economic downturn has given Downtown Manhattan an impressive collection of starchitect-designed creations, complete with Sky Garages, Boxwood Mazes and plenty of glass curtain walls. But the Flowerbox Building continues to charm with its design, quality and curb appeal.
The building’s developer, Seth Tapper, grew up next door in one of the historic townhouses on what has long been one of the East Village‘s most magical blocks. As the son of filmmaker David Tapper, whose documentary, The Street of the Flower Boxes, celebrated life on the block, he was raised in a creative family who enjoyed the neighborhood when others shunned it. He never forgot the street’s charm–even in the city’s dark days of the 1970s; when he returned to see the house years later, he chose the two vacant lots next door to his childhood home as a development site to prevent what he feared would be bland condos rising where the lots–and the house–stood in disrepair.
Photo courtesy of Verdant Gardens Design.
Derek Sanders, architect, designer and Downtown entrepreneur (Mercer Hotel, La Esquina), was his design choice after Sanders won an open contest the developer held. No one had tried to sell luxury condominiums off Avenue D before. With the block’s festive flower boxes that his father had immortalized on film–and artist Jeff Koons’s giant puppy made from flowers–as influences, the result was one of the city’s most attractive and innovative new buildings. All of the building’s apartments were in contract within months of becoming available for purchase.
Somehow both Gaudi-esque and orderly in its design, with 12-foot-high floor-to-ceiling steel casement windows defining a facade highlighted by the vertical landscape of eighteen-inch-deep planters that span the width of the lower floors. Filled with lush greenery, the planters are self-irrigating. The building’s name–along with its inspiration–was based on the idea that in any neighborhood, flowerboxes in windows are a sign that residents care about their building and their neighborhood. Modern and sculptural in effect, the horizontal planters at the building’s floorplates, created by Mac Carbonell from Verdant Gardens Design, contain over 500 plants and 80 different species, yet still retain the the look of well-tended townhouse flowerboxes.
Duggal Greenhouse in Brooklyn Navy Yard. Photo courtesy of PlantWall Design.
Green Wall at Phyto Universe NYC. Photo courtesy of Vertical Garden Patrick Blanc.
Vertical “living walls” like these are increasingly attracting interest. Both the growing (no pun intended) number of people who live in city environments and concerns about climate change and environmental impact have led to more recognition for landscape architecture that integrates greenery with masonry. Some of the city’s vertical gardens include one created by PlantWallDesign inside the Duggal Greenhouse in the up-and-coming Brooklyn Navy Yard. Another creator of living walls, Patrick Blanc. (a frequent collaborator with starchitect Jean Nouvel), designed the living wall decor for the Phyto Universe spa and salon.
Pulltab-designed interior at the Flowerbox condo building.
Inside, loft-like apartments are spacious and finishes are peerless. No expense was spared in crafting the building’s details–radiant floor heating and double-height living rooms in all units, for example–and residents have created their own oases among the stunning Village views. Additional perks include central air, a part-time doorman a private keyed elevator and a garage.The building was launched with two-bedroom, two-bath apartments ranging in size from 1,539 to 2,780 square feet. Several apartments have significant outdoor space. Taking advantage of the neighborhood’s unique community garden culture, all of the building’s bedrooms face a community garden.
Tapper also lent a hand on the restoration of his family home. Its owners at the time, also a filmmaker and his family, worked with architect Galia Solomonoff who had designed the upstate New York art museum Dia:Beacon. Solomonoff updated the 1880s house with a new foundation and mechanicals, using flexible, durable natural materials like original pine floors and a glass and wood rear façade that opens into to the yard. The little house would be able to remain in place for more centuries.
The surrounding blocks make living here easy: There’s 9th Street Espresso–stop by for a perfect red eye; Alphabet City Wines is half a block away, and (relative) newcomer Bobwhite serves up a modern version of down-home Southern food. The delightfully landscaped community garden at 9th and C is another local treasure, and classic favorites like Zum Schneider and Esperanto restaurants are just across the Avenue. Tompkins Square Park, with its award-winning dog runs, chess tables and summer outdoor concerts is only blocks away.
On the market: #3E
Apartments at the Flowerbox Building don’t change hands often and rarely appear on the market. One of the building’s units, #3W, recently entered contract. Currently available is #3E. Listed for $2,650,000, this two-bedroom, two bath home is flooded with natural light and highlighted by the building’s signature flowerboxes. The apartment’s 12-foot lofted ceilings, oak floors, teak cabinetry and radiant heating were built to last. The chef’s workshop of a kitchen features a 6-burner Viking range with heatlamps and grill, a Viking refrigerator and soapstone worktops.
A private balcony offers outdoor space and both the master and second bedroom face a quiet community garden. There’s also a laundry room, lots of storage space, and modern amenities like a customized private elevator entrance, a pre-installed flat screen plasma TV with a 7-point audio speaker system, two-zone Wi-Fi, automated window shades and Artemis fans.
[Listing: 259 East 7th Street #3E; Douglas Elliman by Alexander Furst and Rachel Borkowski]
Photos courtesy of Douglas Elliman.
Lead photo courtesy of Verdant Gardens Design and CityRealty
Tags : 259 East 7th Street, Alphabet City, East Village, Flowerbox Building, Landscape architecture, Living wall, luxury condos
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You don’t have to be a pro or train like one to benefit from these expert tips on riding, fueling, and recovering
By selene yeager
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You may not have 20 hours a week to spend on your bike like a pro, but that doesn’t mean you can’t reap the benefits of a little pro-level training—especially the habit-building that doesn't always happen in the saddle. Try these tricks from pro trainers’ playbooks to train, ride, and race better than ever, no matter your riding style or goals.
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Save the efforts for the end. Instead of pumping out intervals 15 or 20 minutes into a ride when you’re all warmed up, save them for the finish when you’re a little fatigued. You’ll reap both mental and physical rewards, says Rob Pickels, team manager of BCS Elite Devo at Boulder Junior Cycling and lead exercise physiologist at CU Sports Medicine and Performance Center. “Doing efforts when you’re slightly tired improves your mental toughness. It’s easy to ride well when you’re fresh, but race-winning moves are often [needed] exactly when you least want them to occur. Being able to settle in and do work when all the alarm bells are going off in your body is worthwhile,” he says.
It may also make you more efficient, he says. “Doing higher-intensity efforts in a glycogen-depleted state, like the end of a ride, may help build your mitochondria. So your fast-twitch fibers that you use during higher power-output efforts become more oxidative—they burn more fat and less glycogen.” Being a better fat burner at higher intensities is a definite performance booster in endurance sports like cycling.
Go to bed a little hungry. “The best pros go to bed just a little bit hungry,” says Allen Lim, PhD, who has worked as a sports scientist for pro Tour teams and now runs Skratch Labs in Boulder, Colorado. You don’t want to be ravenous, but going to bed full generally means you’ve overeaten, says Lim. “It helps you maintain weight,” says Lim, which can be a challenge for many recreational athletes. “When you go to bed a lot hungry, you’ll probably lose one to two pounds per week. Go to bed moderately hungry, you lose about a pound a week. Just kind of hungry—you could eat, but no big deal if you don’t—helps maintain weight.”
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Write your script. Many recreational riders allow negative self-talk to dictate their training and racing, says Kristin Keim, PsyD, a performance consultant and member of the US Olympic Committee Sport Psychology Registry. “Maybe your legs are feeling heavy as you’re warming up for a key ride or race. That’s not the end of the story. It doesn’t mean you’ll have a bad day. It’s just a sensation," she says.
"Deal with whatever sensation you have—nerves, heavy quads, a high heart rate, whatever it is—by acknowledging it and choosing the story around it,” she suggests. “Say, ‘Okay, my legs feel heavy, but lots of riders put out great performances even when they don’t have ‘good legs,’ so I can, too.’ Because it’s true. That feeling could go away in 15 seconds and you could have the best race of your life. But if you let it be the whole story, that won’t happen.” (Regardless, one bad ride doesn't mean you're not getting better. See how far you've come by logging your rides in the Bicycling Training Journal.)
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Learn to cook. You can’t properly fuel, mend, and build your hard-working muscles with lots of processed food. Eating out or grabbing take out isn’t ideal either because you really don’t know what you’re eating as far as sugar and other hidden ingredients go. “The best pros learn to cook with whole-food ingredients,” says Lim. “When a rider takes the time and makes the effort to cook for themselves, they perform better because it improves their diet and eating habits.” (We follow these five great tips for making healthy recovery foods at home.)
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High-Speed Imaging of Paw Withdrawal Reflex to Objectively Assess Pain State in Mice
View ORCID ProfileIshmail Abdus-Saboor, View ORCID ProfileNathan T. Fried, View ORCID ProfileMark Lay, Peter Dong, View ORCID ProfileJustin Burdge, Ming Lu, View ORCID ProfileMinghong Ma, View ORCID ProfileXinzhong Dong, View ORCID ProfileLong Ding, View ORCID ProfileWenqin Luo
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Rodents are often used for studying chronic pain mechanisms and developing new pain therapeutics, but objectively determining the animal’s pain state is a major challenge. To improve the precision of using reflexive withdrawal behaviors for interpreting the mouse pain state, we adopted high-speed videography to capture sub-second movement features of mice upon hind paw stimulation. We identified several parameters that are significantly different between behaviors evoked by innocuous and noxious stimuli, and combined them to map the mouse pain state through statistical modeling and machine learning. To test the utility of this approach, we determined the pain state triggered by von Frey hairs (VFHs) and optogenetic activation of two nociceptor populations. Our method reliably assesses the “pain-like” probability for each mouse paw withdrawal reflex under all scenarios, highlighting the improved precision of using this high resolution behavior-centered composite methodology to determine the mouse pain state from reflexive withdrawal assays.
Chronic pain affects over one hundred million people in the United States, yet the mechanisms responsible for pathological pain signaling are still not fully understood. To interrogate this, reliable animal models that mimic key features of pain in humans are imperative1. However, it is very challenging to objectively measure pain state in rodents, as pain is a complicated and subjective experience and rodents are non-verbal.
The current assays to score pain in rodents can be broadly classified as operant pain assays, spontaneous pain detection assays, and reflexive withdrawal assays1–4. Operant assays typically involve animals successfully completing a task or learning to avoid or prefer an enclosed chamber that is associated with pro- or anti-nociceptive stimuli/experiences5–8. Since these assays require normal learning/memory processes in the animal to report its pain state, the failure of an animal to learn/remember a pro-nociceptive chamber/task may not necessarily indicate a lack of pain. Spontaneous pain detection assays, such as the grimace scale or paw licking/biting, have the advantage of mimicking the spontaneous pain that is commonly observed in the clinic9. Nevertheless, spontaneous measurements of pain are more difficult to quantify and not as conducive to high-throughput pre-clinical testing.
Over the past 50 years, the most widely-used measurements of pain in rodents have been reflexive withdrawal assays, in which a noxious or innocuous stimulus is applied to a region of the rodent, such as the paw or the tail, and the withdrawal frequency or latency is quantified as a readout for the animal’s pain state2–4. The underlying assumption for this assay is that noxious stimuli trigger “pain” sensation, whereas innocuous stimuli trigger “non-pain” sensation. Obvious advantages to reflexive assays are the ease of the procedures, the ability to test many animals in a short time period, and the similarities to human reflexes that allow for the interpretation of the results based on human experience. While these assays have led to many important discoveries in the pain field, they also have some well-recognized limitations. First, the definitions of noxious and innocuous stimuli rely on subjective human judgment, which will generate inconsistency when different research groups cannot reach a consensus on the quality of a stimulus. For example, despite the popularity of the von Frey hair (VFH) test, there is no consensus on the sensation that is triggered by VFHs in rodents10–12. Second, humans and rodents could have a different sensory experience to a given stimulus (i.e., a stimulus that is innocuous to humans could be noxious to rodents), so the human sensory experience may not be reliable for annotating the quality of a stimulus when it is applied to rodents. Third, there is not always a linear relationship between stimulus intensity and the experimental read-out (frequency of withdrawal reflex), as a high frequency of paw withdrawal is observed for both noxious pinprick and innocuous dynamic brush13,14.
One main reason that current reflexive assays in rodents utilize a combination of stimulus quality assessment and binary scoring (presence or absence of the withdrawal reflex) is because the movements occur rapidly on a millisecond scale, making it challenging to quantify and distinguish movement patterns with the unaided eye or consumer-grade cameras. Inspired by the application of high-speed videography in fly, fish, and mouse to map movement features of specific behaviors and dissect underlying neural circuits and genes15–18, we adopted high speed imaging (500 to 1000 frames per second (fps)) to capture movement features of the mouse paw withdrawal reflex in response to four natural mechanical stimuli (static cotton swab, dynamic brush, light pinprick, and heavy pinprick). Prior to performing high-speed behavioral analysis, we used whole animal in vivo calcium imaging to confirm that cotton swab and dynamic brush mainly activated intermediate and large diameter dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons (low-threshold mechanoreceptors for triggering “touch” sensation), whereas pinprick preferentially activated small diameter DRG neurons (high-threshold nociceptors for triggering “pain” sensation). Using these four well-defined innocuous and noxious mechanical stimuli, we characterized sub-second paw and head movement features of the withdrawal reflex in CD1 and C57 male and female mice. We identified six distinguishing movement features, which include both reflective and affective aspects of pain related behaviors, and combined them using principal component analyses to map each withdrawal reflex into “pain” vs. “non-pain” domains. We further predicted the probability of being “pain-like” for each withdrawal reflex using machine learning. To test the implication of our new approach, we applied this method and our established parameter database to study paw withdrawal in response to three VFHs. We demonstrated for the first time, to our knowledge, the sensation that is triggered by different VFHs under baseline conditions. Lastly, with this method, we revealed that acute optical activation of a broad population of nociceptors, using TrpV1Cre mediated recombination (TRPV1-ChR2 mice), led to a characteristic “painful” paw withdrawal, whereas optical activation of a more specific population of nociceptors, MRGPRD+ non-peptidergic nociceptors (MRGPRD-ChR2 mice), led to a non-painful paw withdrawal under baseline conditions. Under chronic inflammation, the same optical activation of MRGPRD+ non-peptidergic nociceptors triggered “painful” paw withdrawals, which were completely reversed to non-painful withdrawals following analgesic administration. Since TRPV1-ChR2 and MRGPRD-ChR2 mice show an indistinguishable high frequency (>70%) of paw withdrawal upon optical stimulation under all conditions, these results highlight the improved precision of our new method to annotate the mouse “pain state”. Taken together, we have developed a new method that combines high-resolution mapping of paw withdrawal movement features with statistical modeling to determine the mouse pain state. Our method should help to improve rigor and reproducibility of rodent pain research.
In vivo calcium imaging to determine stimulus quality
We sought to use high-speed videography (500 to 1000 fps) to record sub-second, full-body movements of mice in response to mechanical stimuli applied to the plantar surface of the hind paw to extract behavior parameters that allow us to differentiate the mouse “pain state” (Fig. 1a). We began our analysis with four natural mechanical stimuli that are widely considered by the field as innocuous or noxious. They are static cotton swab (gently pressing a blunted, cone-shaped cotton swab against the plantar surface of the hind paw, which represents an innocuous static mechanical stimulus), dynamic brush (sweeping a soft-bristled makeup brush from the proximal to distal plantar surface, which represents an innocuous dynamic mechanical stimulus), light pinprick (gently placing a needle on the plantar surface, which represents a potentially noxious mechanical stimuli), and heavy pinprick (forcefully pushing a needle onto the plantar surface, which represents a noxious mechanical stimuli).
Figure 1. Sub-second temporal mapping of mouse behavioral features in response to paw application of natural mechanical stimuli.
(a) Schematic of behavioral setup showing lateral placement of high-speed camera in relation to a contained, yet freely behaving mouse. (b-e) Representative single frame images taken from high-speed videos of CD-1 male mice following stimulus application. (f-i′ and m-p′) Responses of CD1 and C57 male mice to paw stimulation of cotton swab (CS), dynamic brush (DB), light pinprick (LP), and heavy pinprick (HP) are plotted as raster plots, showing when six behavior features (color-coded in the figure) occurred after stimulus onset within the first 2 s (f-i, m-p) or the first 200 ms (f′-i′, m′-p′). For each raster plot, the times when the behaviors occurred are shown on the X-axis, while the Y-axis and each horizontal line show a single trial/animal. Each horizontal line from the two columns of raster plots for a given strain is from the same trial. (j) Percentage of paw raise towards a given stimuli for CD1 males, n = 10. (k) First movement, whether head (black) or paw (grey), after stimulus application for CD1 males. (l) Latency of head and paw movement upon each stimulation for CD1 males. (q) Percentage of paw raise towards a given stimuli for C57 males, n = 10. (r) First movement, whether head (black) or paw (grey), after stimulus application for C57 males. (s) Latency of head and paw movement upon each stimulation for C57 males.
We first examined the sensory neuron activation patterns evoked by these four stimuli with in vivo calcium imaging, where we could record Ca2+ transients of ~1500 dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons per trial with the genetically encoded calcium indicator GCAMP6 driven by the Pirt promoter (Supplemental Fig. 1)19. We applied each stimulus to the hind paw of lightly anesthetized Pirt-GCAMP6 mice in an innocuous to noxious order while recording DRG Ca2+ influx. Robust and rapid Ca2+ influx occurred within DRG neurons following the application of all four stimuli, and the number of activated neurons positively correlated with the stimulus intensity (i.e., the lowest intensity stimulus, cotton swab, activated ~5 neurons/trial and the highest intensity stimulus, heavy pinprick, activated ~15 neurons/trial (Supplemental Fig. 1a-h, m). On average, we observed Ca2+ transients increasing between 1 and 4 fold over baseline following the application of stimuli (Supplemental Fig. 1i-l, Supplemental Raw Data File 1). Moreover, cotton swab and dynamic brush predominantly activated intermediate (20 to 25 μm) or large (>25 μm) diameter DRG neurons, while the light and heavy pinprick stimuli predominantly activated small (< 20 μm) diameter DRG neurons (Supplemental Fig. 1n, o). These activation patterns are consistent with the notion that cotton swab and dynamic brush stimuli preferentially trigger “touch” sensation by activating large-diameter low-threshold mechanoreceptors whereas pinprick stimuli preferentially trigger “pain” sensation by activating small-diameter high-threshold nociceptors.
High speed imaging of paw withdrawal reflex revealed distinctive movement features in response to innocuous and noxious mechanical stimuli
With confirmation about the stimulus quality, we then applied these four mechanical stimuli to the plantar surface of a randomly chosen hind paw of fully acclimated mice. To test for potential genotype- and/or sex-specific features, we examined stimulus-evoked responses in male and female CD1 and C57 wild-type mice (n = 10 for each group). All four mechanical stimuli evoked movements of the stimulated paw, the head, and the entire body, which would generally be completed within 500 ms (Supplemental Videos 1-16). We found similar patterns in both male (Fig. 1) and female mice (Supplemental Fig. 2). A typical movement sequence involved the stimulated hind paw moving away from or the head turning toward the stimulus, followed by the whole body turning. We focused on the movement features of the paw and head because they are most closely related to the stimulus onset and thus most likely reflect sensation evoked by the stimuli. The paw-associated movements usually started with the paw being raised to a maximum height. It would then be held at the apex, returned to the wire mesh, or begin a sinusoidal paw-shake (Fig. 1b). In some pinprick trials, the mouse would jump into the air with all four paws rising away from the stimulus (Fig. 1c). The mouse would then return its paw to the mesh, often in a guarding manner (only toes or heel of the paw in contact with the mesh) (Fig. 1d). The head-associated movements involved orientation/turning of the head toward the stimulus. In some instances, primarily with noxious pinprick stimuli, the mouse would display orbital tightening, which occurs in mice during pain-related grimace (Fig. 1e)9.
Figure 2. Quantification of the three most relevant behavior parameters.
For all data, a single dot represents a given trial from either C57 of CD1 males. (a-d) The maximum height of the first paw raise of the stimulated paw. (e-h) The paw velocity of the first paw raise of the stimulated paw. (i-l) The pain score for a given animal to each stimulus. The pain score is a composite measurement of orbital tightening, jumping, paw shaking, and paw guarding. Statistical significance between stimuli are determined by one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s multiple comparison test. Red asterisks represent p-values < 0.05 when comparing CS to LP or CS to HP (LP or HP > CS), while red stars represent p-values < 0.05 when comparing DB to LP or DB to HP (LP or HP > DB). The blue asterisk indicates a statistic difference, p-values < 0.05, when comparing CS to LP (LP < CS). The error bars represents SEM, while the longest horizontal line represents the mean.
For both C57 and CD1 male mice, the likelihood of observing paw and/or head movement and the temporal order between paw/head movements depended on the stimulus type (Fig. 1). Paw movement occurred in 30-40% of trials with cotton swab for males of both genotypes, 70% in C57 and 100% in CD1 with dynamic brush, and nearly 100% for both genotypes with pinprick stimuli (Fig. 1j, q). Head movement showed the opposite trend; it occurred in 80-100% of cotton swab and dynamic brush trials but only 47-60% of light and heavy pinprick trials (Fig. 1f-p’). For both genotypes, paw movement was initiated earlier than head movement in most pinprick trials, while the order was more variable for cotton swab and dynamic brush stimuli (Fig. 1h, i, o, p, k, r). For dynamic brush, light pinprick, and heavy pinprick, the latency to the head response was ~ 50 ms for both genotypes (Fig. 1l, s). The paw response latency was also ~ 50 ms for pinprick stimuli and 100 ms for dynamic brush. The latency to paw or head movement for cotton swab was much longer, taking more than 500 ms for a response. Together, these results suggest that innocuous mechanical stimuli preferentially trigger an “exploring head turn” reflex whereas noxious mechanical stimuli are more likely to evoke a quick “avoidance paw withdrawal” reflex.
Moreover, the prevalence of certain movements, such as orbital tightening, paw shake, jumping and paw guarding (Fig. 1b-e), are closely correlated with the stimulus quality. Their incidence is rare (10%) in the cotton swab trials (Fig. 1f, f’, m, m’), occasional (15%) in the dynamic brush trials (Fig. 1g, g’, n, n’), and more frequent in the light pinprick (60%) and heavy pinprick (85%) trials (Fig. 1h-i’, 1o-p’). These behavior features were suggested to be associated with affective aspect of pain sensation20.
A subset of movement parameters account for the majority of variance in the responses
To determine which movement features best distinguish between behaviors in response to innocuous and noxious stimuli, we measured a set of parameters for approximately half of trials with CD1 and C57 male mice as a pilot analysis, including: 1) the total time the paw is in movement (total paw time), 2) the total time the paw is in the air (paw air-time), 3) the total time the paw is held at the apex (paw at apex), 4) the total time the paw is in movement after reaching the apex (paw time after apex), 5) paw lift height, 6) paw lift velocity, 7) response latency (whether it be the head or paw), 8) the duration of head movement, 9) the duration of full-body movement, 10) the total behavior time, and 11) a pain score that provides a total incidence count of paw shaking, jumping, paw guarding, and orbital tightening, in a given trial. With these multi-dimensional data, we first tried to decide which of the 11 parameters could account for the majority of variance and were thus likely to be useful for distinguishing responses to innocuous vs. noxious stimuli. We found that total paw time, paw-air time, paw at apex, and paw time after apex were highly correlated (Supplementary Fig. 3a), suggesting that these four parameters were measuring the same underlying effect and contributed redundantly to the overall variance. Therefore, we focused only on paw air-time, a parameter that has been used for rodent pain behavior studies before for further analyses. We then performed an iterative exploratory factor analysis with the remaining 8 parameters (Supplementary Fig. 3b). We found that response latency, duration of head movement, duration of full-body movement, and the total behavior time either had low factor-loadings or cross-loaded onto multiple principle components, suggesting that they minimally accounted for the total variation within the system or contributed little in differentiating “pain” vs. “non-pain” responses. The last iterative exploratory factor analysis also revealed a low factor loading for paw-air time (0.205 in Supplemental Fig. 3b), suggesting that it too contributed minimally to the total variation within the system and thus is not an effective parameter for differentiating behaviors induced by each stimulus. In contrast, three parameters (paw height, paw velocity, and pain score) had high factor-loadings (0.904, 0.873, and 0.819, respectively, in the final iterative factor analysis) (Supplemental Fig. 3b) and featured an increasing trend in raw values with increasing stimulus-intensity, indicating that they likely accounted for the majority of the system’s variance and would be the most useful for differentiating between behaviors evoked by innocuous and noxious stimuli. This result was further supported in that only these three parameters had some significant differences between the behaviors evoked by innocuous versus noxious stimuli (Fig. 2) (Fig. 1 and Supplemental Fig. 2 and 4 show the other measurements). Therefore, we subsequently used these parameters, which encompass both reflexive and affective components of the pain response, to analyze withdrawal reflex behaviors from all mice (Fig. 2).
Figure 3. Statistical analyses to integrate four parameters into one normalized PC score.
(a-l) Z-scores of individual mice are plotted relative to the combined mean from the 4 groups of sex/genotype in Figures 1, 2. Each dot represents an individual mouse. Multiple trials of the same mouse from the same stimulus were averaged first for this analysis. Plotted are Z-scores for paw height (a-d), paw velocity (e-h), and pain score (i-l). The first principal component was plotted following calculation of Z-scores for individual measures and obtaining eigenvalues (m-p) (see Methods and Supplementary Table 1).
Figure 4. Machine learning predicts “pain-like” probability for each paw withdrawal reflex.
Trained support vector machine (SVM) analyzed each behavior trial and output its probability of being pain-like. (a - d) Predictions made following training with CS and HP trials from CD1 males. (e - h) Predictions made following training with CS and HP trials from CD1 females. (i - l) Predictions made following training with CS and HP trials from C57 males. (m - p) Predictions made following training with CS and HP trials from C57 females. Red circles denote trials used for the training of the SVM. Each dot represents the averaged response of an individual mouse.
A combination of distinguishing movement parameters can indicate mouse pain state
Although each of the three parameters provide information that helps distinguish movements induced by noxious vs. innocuous stimuli, they are expressed in different dimensions with regard to absolute values and units. In addition, it is unclear what the exact “pain vs. non-pain” threshold is for each parameter. To take advantage of the entire set of information, we sought to combine these three different parameters into a one-dimensional score using a principal component analysis (PCA): first converting the raw data to normalized Z scores within each dataset (Fig. 3a-l), and then applying a PCA on converted Z scores to determine the relative contribution for each parameter (as reflected by eigenvalues, see Supplemental Table 1). The first principal component score (PC1 score) of the three-dimensional dataset was computed as a weighted total value. To account for potential genotype/sex differences, the PCA was performed separately for the four genotype-sex combinations, generating four separate sets of eigenvalues to calculate PC scores.
With this transformation, we were able to plot the PC scores for reflex behaviors in response to each stimulus within males and females of both genotypes (Fig. 3m-p). We found that: 1) different from the withdrawal frequency, mean PC scores were positively correlated with increasing stimulus intensity (i.e., PC scores for cotton swab < dynamic brush < pinprick) in males and females of both genotypes, such that higher intensity noxious mechanical stimuli (heavy pinprick (blue)) which triggered “pain” sensation, results in mostly positive PC scores while lower intensity innocuous mechanical stimuli, such as cotton swab (orange) and dynamic brush (magenta) which trigger “non-pain” sensation, results in mostly negative PC scores; 2) mean PC scores for light pinprick trials (cyan) were the most variable across genotype and sex (i.e., PCs scores were positive for most CD1 male trials but negative for most CD1 female trials, suggesting that light pinprick may trigger a different sensation in male and female mice); and 3) for a given stimulus-type in a given strain/sex combination, there was considerable variation in PC scores among different mice, which may be caused by variations of the internal state of each animal during testing (i.e., alert, resting, etc.) or the slight stimulus variability from trial to trial. Taken together, our PC-based analysis suggests that the PC score of each mouse can be used to map its individual “pain state” and intensity, with a score of “0” serving as the potential threshold to separate pain versus non-pain domains.
Machine learning classifies withdrawal behaviors as a probability of being pain-like
To further classify mouse pain state based on their reflexive behaviors, we used a machine-learning approach to predict the probability of each trial being pain-like. Specifically, we used the PC scores of cotton swab and heavy pinprick trials from one group of mice to train a support vector machine (SVM) (Supplemental Table 2). Cotton swab and heavy pinprick trials were chosen because their triggered behaviors can be defined as “non-pain” or “pain” with high confidence and the corresponding PC scores showed the most consistent patterns across genotype/gender. The trained SVM was then used to predict the probability of being “pain-like” for all trials.
We first determined the predicted pain-like probability for withdrawal reflex triggered by dynamic brush or light pinprick within the same genotype/sex group (Fig. 4, red circles indicate the training data). To do this, the SVM was trained with cotton swab and heavy pinprick data from CD1 males (Fig. 4a), CD1 females (Fig. 4f), C57 males (Fig. 4k), or C57 females (Fig. 4p). The pain-like probabilities for behaviors triggered by dynamic brush ranged from 0.20 to 0.33 and for light pinprick ranged from 0.47 to 0.65 (Fig. 4a, f, k, and p). Thus, these results suggest that dynamic brush had a low probability of evoking pain-like sensation (< 0.33) in each sex of both genotypes, despite the ~100% responsive rate. Notably, the SVM predictions revealed that only responses of CD1 males to light pinprick had a high probability of being pain-like (0.65). In all other groups, the probability was no greater than 0.55. Thus, similar to PC scores, these results suggest that mice with different genetic backgrounds or sex may sense light pinprick as noxious or innocuous.
Given the known effect of genetic background and sex on pain sensation, we next asked whether a SVM trained with cotton swab and heavy pinprick from one sex and genotype could reliably classify similar trials from the other sexes/genotypes. Under these training conditions, we found a consistently high pain-like probability for heavy pinprick trials (range of 0.69 to 0.96) and a low pain-like probability for cotton swab trials (range of 0.08 to 0.28). Dynamic brush was also consistently predicted to have a low probability of being pain-like (range of 0.14 to 0.39) while light pinprick was consistently predicted to have a boundary probability of being pain-like (range of 0.39 to 0.68). Notably, these predictions for dynamic brush and light pinprick, when trained with a different sex or genotype, are more variable than the predictions made when training with the same sex and genotype. Thus, SVM trained with cotton swab and heavy pinprick data from one sex/genotype group could be used to reliably classify responses to the same stimuli from another group. Classification of responses to other stimuli, such as dynamic brush or light pinprick, however, work best with training data sets from matched sex/genotype group.
High-speed imaging analysis of paw withdrawal reflex triggered by von Frey hairs
We next sought to validate the usefulness of our approach by analyzing the paw withdrawal reflex of CD1 male mice in response to three VFHs (0.6 g, 1.4 g, and 4.0 g). These filaments are often used to measure mechanical threshold or mechanical pain responses in mice21. Although each VFH delivers a well-defined amount of mechanical force, whether it triggers an innocuous or noxious responses for a mouse under a given condition is uncertain.
CD1 male mice responded to 50% of 0.6 g VFH trials, 90% of 1.4 g VFH trials, and 100% of 4.0 g VFH trials (Fig. 5a) (Supplemental Videos 17-19), similar to what is reported in the literature 14,21. Paw height was significantly greater for 4.0 g VFH compared to 1.4 and 4 g VFH (p = 0.004 and 0.027, respectively) (Fig. 5b). Likewise, paw velocity was also significantly greater for 4.0 g VFH compared to 1.4 and 4 g VFH (p < 0.0001 and 0.012, respectively) (Fig. 5c). Conversely, no statistical difference (p > 0.215) in pain score was found between any of the filaments (Fig. 5d). The PC score of each response to a given VFH was calculated using the Z scores of the three parameters and the previously obtained eigenvector values from CD1 male data (Supplemental Table 1). On average, PC scores were positive (0.246) for 4.0 g VFH and negative for 0.6 g (-0.957) and 1.4 g (-0.498) (Fig. 5e). Additionally, the SVM generated from and trained with cotton swab and heavy pinprick data from CD1 males predicted a high pain-like probability for the 4.0 g VFH (0.80), a low pain-like probability for the 0.6 g VFH (0.33), and a boundary pain-like probability for the 1.4 g VFH (0.51) (Fig. 5F). Taken together, the analysis using our new method reveals that the 4.0 g VFH filament likely evokes a pain-like withdrawal reflex, the 0.6 g VFH likely evokes a non-pain withdrawal reflex, while 1.4 g may be near the mechanical threshold separating pain from non-pain responses. As far as we know, this is the first clear “sensory quality interpretation” for withdrawal reflex triggered by different VFHs.
Figure 5. Analysis of mouse paw withdrawal reflex in response to von Frey hairs.
(a) Responsive rate for each VFH filament. (b) Paw height, (c) paw velocity, (d) and pain score were quantified for each VFH filament. (e) Principal component score plot for each VFH filament. (f) SVM predications for each VFH filament. SVM was trained with CS and HP data of CD1 males. N = 10 CD1 male mice.
High-speed imaging analysis of paw withdrawal reflex triggered by peripheral optogenetic activation of different primary afferent populations
Optogenetics is a powerful gain-of-function approach to study primary somatosensory afferents 18,22–25. Briefly, channelrhodopsin (ChR2) is expressed in different DRG neuronal populations and application of transdermal light is used to activate ChR2+ afferents in the skin. Interestingly, optogenetic activation of different populations of DRG neurons reported in the literature thus far all triggered paw withdrawal reflex, raising the question of how to interpret the meaning of the paw withdrawal when using peripheral optogenetics.
Here we tested whether the high-speed imaging and statistical analysis method we established using wild type mice and natural mechanical stimuli could be applied to the analysis of light-induced withdrawal behaviors of transgenic mice. For this purpose, we generated two mouse lines. For the first line (TRPV1-ChR2 mice), we crossed TrpV1Cre 26 to the Ai32 Cre-dependent ChR2 line27 to express ChR2 in the majority of nociceptors (91% of CRGP+ and 95% of IB4+ nociceptors) and a few large diameter DRG neurons (13.4% of NFH+ mechanoreceptors (Supplemental Fig. 5). For the second line (MRGPRD-ChR2), we crossed an inducible Cre mouse line generated in our lab MrgprdCreERT2 28, to Ai32 in which ChR2 is specifically expressed in non-peptidergic MRGPRD+ C-nociceptors (Supplementary Fig. 6).
Figure 6. Optogenetic activation of MRGPRD+ neurons leads to “pain-like” or “non-pain” paw withdrawal reflex depending on the animal state.
(a) Diagram showing the treatment paradigm and experimental design for paw reflexive behavior assays with MRGPRD-ChR2 mice. (b) Percentage of animals displaying a paw raise. WT indicates ChR2f/f littermate control, orange bars indicates TRPV1-ChR2 mice at baseline, blue bars indicates MRGPRD-ChR2 mice at baseline before CFA injection, 3 days post CFA, and painkiller injection at 3.5 days after CFA. (c) Latency between first blue light stimulation and paw raise. (d-f) quantification for paw height (d), paw velocity (e), pain score (f). (g) PC scores of TRPV1-ChR2 and MRGPRD-ChR2 mice at baseline, after CFA, and CFA + painkillers using eigenvectors derived from wild type mice of both sexes and genotypes. (h) SVM pain-probability graphs using all wild type mice of both sexes and genotypes as training datasets, to predict the probability of a pain response for TRPV1-ChR2 and MRGPRD-ChR2 optogenetic responses in baseline, after CFA, and CFA + painkillers.
Hind paw stimulation with blue laser light (10 mW) of ChR2-only littermate control mice did not cause paw withdrawal, as we have previously reported28 (Fig. 6a, b) (Supplemental Video 20), suggesting that the blue laser stimulation itself does not cause non-specific sensation. Blue laser light hind paw stimulation of TRPV1-ChR2 mice induced a paw withdrawal in 100% of mice with a response latency of ~150 ms (Fig. 6b, c) (Supplemental Video 21). Paw height, velocity, and pain score were quantified as previously established (Fig. 6d-f). Since these transgenic mice are on a mixed C57 and CD1 genetic background and contain both males and females, we calculated PC scores using eigenvalues derived from a combined dataset of C57 and CD1 wild type male and female mice (Fig. 6g, Raw Data File 2, and Supplemental Table 1) and predicted the “pain-like” probability using an SVM trained with CS and HP from male and female CD1 and C57 mice (Fig. 6h). We also did analysis in a sex-specific manner (Supplemental Fig. 7, Supplemental Table 1 & 2). Overall, our results revealed that optogenetic activation of TRPV1-ChR2+ afferents triggered paw withdrawal reflexes with positive PC scores (Fig. 6g) and a high probability of being “pain-like” (Fig. 6h).
Next, we examined behavioral responses induced by blue laser light stimulation of MRGPRD-ChR2 mice. Similar to TRPV1-ChR2, we found that 91% of MRGPRD-ChR2 mice displayed a paw withdrawal under blue laser light stimulation (Fig. 6b) (Supplemental Video 22). Most (6 out of 7) MRGPRD-ChR2 mice had no response under green laser light stimulation (Fig. 6b). The blue light-triggered paw response in MRGPRD-ChR2 mice had a latency of ~700 ms (Fig. 6c), which is ~15 times slower than natural mechanical stimuli and 4-5 times slower than blue-light-induced responses in TRPV1-ChR2 mice. Paw height, velocity, and pain score were quantified and PC scores were calculated in a similar manner as TRPV1-ChR2 mice (Fig. 6d, Supplemental Table 1, Raw Data File 2). Interestingly, PC scores of the MRGPRD-ChR2 mouse paw withdrawal reflex in response to blue laser were, on average, negative (-0.873) (Fig. 6g). The SVM also predicted a low probability that these responses were pain-like (Fig. 6h). The results were similar when the PCA1 was generated or the SVM trained in a sex specific manner (Supplemental Fig. 7). Taken together, these results show that acute activation of MRGPRD+ DRG neurons under baseline conditions robustly triggers paw withdrawal responses, but not “pain-like” behaviors/sensations.
To examine whether activation of MRGPRD+ neurons can trigger “pain” sensation under other conditions, we induced chronic inflammation in one hind paw of control and MRGPRD-ChR2 mice by injecting hind paws with complete Freund’s adjuvant (CFA) as previously described29 (Fig. 6a). We found that, although blue laser triggered a similarly high rate of responses, paw velocity, paw height, and pain score differed significantly between baseline and CFA conditions (Fig. 6c-f). The PC scores (0.578) and SVM predictions both suggest that activation of MRGPRD+ neurons under chronic inflammation evoked a “pain-like” withdrawal reflex (Fig. 6g,h) (Supplemental Video 23). Subsequent administration of meloxicam (2 mg/kg) and buprenorphine (0.5 mg/kg), commonly used anti-inflammatory and opioid-like analgesics30, inverted PC scores (-0.842) and SVM predictions to the non-pain domain, without affecting response frequency (Fig. 6b, g, and h) (Supplemental Video 24). Together, these results suggest that optogenetic activation of non-peptidergic nociceptors induces pain under inflammatory conditions. Our findings not only highlight the interesting physiology of this population of DRG neurons, but demonstrate the utility of our method to determine the pain state of mice with light-induced somatosensory behaviors.
We present here a novel method combining high-speed videography and statistical modeling to objectively interpret sensations associated with the mouse paw withdrawal reflex. Compared to the traditional measurements (scoring of withdrawal versus no withdrawal or quantification of withdraw latency), our approach quantifies six different behavior parameters on a sub-second scale and combines them to assess the mouse pain state. With machine learning, we are able to further determine the probability that a given paw withdrawal behavior is “pain-like” on a trial-by-trial basis. In short, this new approach would greatly improve our ability to use the rodent paw withdrawal reflex as a behavioral readout for “pain” sensation to study underlying cell and molecular circuit mechanisms or screening for new therapeutics that modulate pain.
Development of a new method to quantify mouse pain state with improved objectivity and precision
A major concern in the pain research field is that only 11% of pain therapeutics entering Phase 1 clinical trials ever become approved by the US Food and Drug Administration31. Although many factors likely contribute to this low success rate, one concern is whether pain was accurately assessed in preclinical animal models, which heavily rely on reflexive behavioral assays32. The withdrawal reflex rate is interpreted as an indication of a “painful” or “non-painful” sensation based on the experimenter’s own subjective experience/judgement of the stimulus quality and animal state, which inevitably introduces ambiguity and potential bias that may impact the translation of preclinical findings. To address this issue, we developed a “behavior-centered” method, which allows the behavior itself to indicate the animal’s experience.
We first stimulated wild type mice with four commonly used mechanical stimuli, whose qualities were verified using in vivo calcium imaging (Supplementary Fig. 1). With a combination of high-speed imaging, statistical modeling, and machine learning, we characterized the detailed movement features of the paw withdrawal reflex in response to innocuous or noxious mechanical stimuli to distinguish between “painful” from “non-painful” paw lifts (Fig. 1 and Supplemental Fig. 1). The non-pain lift also features the orientation of the head toward the stimulus prior to the movement of the paw, as opposed to the pain-like withdrawal reflex that most often features movement of the paw first. This may reflect the engagement of spinal cord circuits that remove the paw from potential danger before the engagement of supraspinal circuits that would alert and direct the animal’s attention toward the stimulus33.
It is interesting that the PC scores, a weighted total combining relative normalized values from all six movement features together through statistical modeling, are distributed along a stimulus/sensation spectrum, with positive scores correlating to “pain-like withdrawal” and negative scores correlating to “non-pain lift” (Fig. 2,3). Our results suggest that these PC scores may be used as a scale to determine the mouse pain state, similar to the pain rating systems used for human pain assessment34. Further, we found that the SVM predictions, a machine learning method, can be used to predict the probability a particular withdrawal is “pain-like” after training with cotton swab (“non-pain”) and heavy pinprick (“pain”) trials (Fig. 4). This predication is accurate within the same stimulus categories, regardless of genetic backgrounds and sexes, demonstrating that this method may be useful cross-strain and cross-sex. It is also notable that these PC scores and SVM probabilities display individual variability even among the same stimulus, genetic background, and sex. This may be due to the fact that the internal state at the time of testing and the delivery of a given somatosensory stimulus would vary from trial to trial, despite identical genetic background and sex of mice. Thus, our approach enables the interpretation of sensation independently of presumptions about the stimulus quality and could be used to determine the pain status at the individual level.
High-speed videography increases the resolution of movement features associated with distinct somatosensory stimuli
Our work adds to a very short list of papers using high-speed videography in rodents to map the movements following stimulus application to the paw18,35,36. Mitchell et al. used 500 fps recordings of rat hind paw withdrawals from an infrared laser, and identified paw shaking, orientation of the head toward the stimulus, and paw guarding with their analysis35. Further, they reported the presence or absence of these behaviors in an ordinal rating system for the assessment of pain intensity. Browne et al. used 1000 fps recordings to determine how mouse body position impacts the response to single-unit optogenetic activation of nociceptors, and focused on the latency to vibrissae, body, and paw movement18. Similarly, Blivis et al. used 500 fps to measure the timing of body and paw movements of rats induced by a noxious stimulus, uncovering a gating mechanism for these movements when the animal was on only its hind paws36. Our findings push beyond these elegant studies by not only identifying the presence/absence of “pain” associated sub-second behavior features, but by developing new statistical methods to integrate multiple relevant behavior parameters that allow us to quantitatively access mouse pain status (Figs. 3 & 4). Compared to the traditional method, the employment of high-speed imaging and this integrated scoring system greatly improves precision and confidence in annotating the mouse “pain” state.
Proof of Concept Case 1: Von Frey hairs can induce “non-pain” or “pain-like” paw withdrawals
The VFH test is one of the most widely-used somatosensory assays2. However, at present there is little consensus about the sensory quality of each VFH in model organisms. Here we used our method in CD1 male mice to understand the sensory experience induced by three different VFHs (Fig. 5). We found that the 4.0 g VFH induced a “pain-like” paw withdrawal, and thus is likely to be a noxious stimulus for these mice. On the other hand, 0.6 g and 1.4 g induced withdrawal behaviors more similar to those induced by cotton swab and dynamic brush, suggesting that they are likely innocuous mechanical stimuli. Notably, mice showed similar pain associated features (i.e., pain score) in response to all three VFHs (Fig. 5d, Supplemental Fig. 8). Thus, without using high-speed imaging and our composite principal component analysis, it would be challenging to distinguish the “quality” of these responses. Additionally, although 0.6 g is often considered as the 50% “pain” withdrawal threshold37–40, our analysis suggests that it is well under the pain threshold (PC score of “0” and “pain-like” probability of “50%”). Instead, PC scores from 1.4 g trials are very close to the “0” threshold and have an ~50% probability of being “pain-like”, suggesting that the 1.4 g VFH is close to the threshold that separates touch and mechanical pain in mice. Our results are interesting in light of recent genetic studies ablating the mechanosensitive ion channel PIEZO2, which is critical for touch sensation41. When Piezo2 is deleted from all DRG neurons and Merkel cells, a deficit in VFH responsiveness is only observed at 3.0 g and below42. When Piezo2 is deleted in Merkel cells only, a deficit in VFH responsiveness is observed at 1.5 g and below43. Together, these ablation studies place the threshold that separates “pain” from “non-pain” at approximately 1.5-3.0 g, which is remarkably similar to what is indicated by our new method where only 4.0 g is classified as “pain-like”. To the best of our knowledge, our behavioral platform is the first to objectively demonstrate what sensation each VFH actually triggers in mice.
Proof of Concept Case 2: Analysis of paw withdrawal reflex evoked by peripheral optogenetic approach
Non-peptidergic MRGPRD+ nociceptors are a molecularly and anatomically unique class of small diameter primary somatosensory neurons44. They are polymodal high-threshold C fibers responsive to mechanical, chemical, and thermal stimuli based on physiological recordings45–47. In addition, genetic ablation studies suggest that these primary afferents are tuned for detecting noxious mechanical stimuli48. Paradoxically, however, when non-peptidergic nociceptors were acutely activated by either chemogenetics or optogenetics using place preference assays, no place aversion was observed49,50. These gain-of-function studies raise the question of whether acute activation of these neurons in vivo is sufficient to trigger pain sensation. Here we analyzed paw withdrawal reflex upon acute peripheral optogenetic activation of ChR2+ MRGPRD+ neurons using our new method. Although acute activation of this neuronal population leads to almost 100% of paw withdrawal at baseline conditions, our PCA and SVM analyses indicates that these withdrawals fall into the domain of being “non-painful” (Fig. 6). This is in great contrast to the light evoked “pain-like” paw withdrawal reflex of TRPV1-ChR2 mice, in which ChR2 is expressed in a broader population of nociceptors. The results from TRPV1-ChR2 mice indicates that “pain” sensation can be triggered by peripherally stimulating transgenic mice expressing ChR2 with light, while the results from MRGPRD-ChR2 mice, which contains two copies of ChR2 conditional alleles and is even stimulated with a higher laser power, likely reflects the true biological functions of these neurons. Our result is in agreement with previous operant assays (chamber preference studies) 49,50, which suggest that, under baseline conditions, acute activation of MRGPRD+ non-peptidergic nociceptors is not sufficient to evoke “pain” sensation. This is also consistent with human self-report of “tingling” but not “pain” sensation after taking beta-alanine, a chemical that activates MRGPRD51. Interestingly, the VFH mechanical forces used in these previous loss-of-function study were 1.2 g and below48. Since our new data indicates that 1.4 g is close to the mouse mechanical pain threshold under baseline conditions, results using 1.2 g may indicate a change in the sense of touch but not necessarily mechanical pain. Collectively, these studies (both loss-of-function and gain-of-function) suggest that while non-peptidergic neurons may normally play a role in mechanical sensation, acute activation of only this population is insufficient to trigger “pain” sensation at the baseline condition.
Can MRGPRD+ nociceptors mediate “pain” sensation under any other conditions? Interestingly, when we used CFA to induce chronic inflammation in the mouse paw (a chronic pain model), we did observe a “pain-like” response to optogenetic activation of these afferents, as indicated by the PCA and SVM (Fig. 6). This was completely reversed by analgesic treatment (Fig. 6). Our result is congruent with the loss-of-function data, where mice without non-peptidergic nociceptors displayed much lower mechanical allodynia after chronic pain induction48.
Moreover, we noticed that for both TRPV1-ChR2 and CFA-injected MRGPRD-ChR2 mice, the high probabilities of light inducing pain was driven mainly by the contribution of the pain score (i.e., orbital tightening, paw shaking, jumping, and paw guarding) but not paw height or velocity (Fig. 6 & Supplemental Fig. 8). This is in contrast to the 4.0 g VFH where the high probabilities of being pain-like are driven by the contribution of paw height and velocity (Fig. 2, 3; Supplemental Fig. 8). Though the neuronal mechanisms underlying these differences are not fully understood yet, our results highlight the complexity of "pain expression phenotypes" in animals and the strength of including parameters indicating both reflective (paw height and velocity) and affective (pain score) aspects of pain for analysis20.
In summary, these experiments demonstrate the improved precision of our new quantitative approach with high-speed videography, which would be a vital tool in deciphering the meaning behind paw withdrawal behaviors. As more labs use peripheral optogenetic approaches to study the somatosensory system and neural circuits underlying pain sensation, our results also bring caution against presumptions for interpreting light-induced behaviors that are mainly based upon the neuronal population that expresses ChR2.
In conclusion, we present here a new method combining high-speed imaging and statistical modeling to analyze the paw withdrawal reflex for interpreting the pain state of mice. One drawback of our current methodology is the reliance on manual annotation of the high-speed videos, which is time-intensive and potentially error prone. In future versions of this platform, we aim to automate the quantification and annotation process of the high-speed videos to increase analysis speed and reduce potential human error. In addition, the prediction precision will be increased when more datasets (different genetic background and sex) are used for SVM training, which is particularly important for analyzing transgenic mice that are usually in a mixed genetic background (Fig. 6). Our study here generated a database of pain-associated behavior parameters for ten CD1 and C57 male and female mice (Supplemental Raw Data file 2), which represents only an initial dataset for this method. Future studies with more animals and additional genetic background/sex would improve the robustness of the SVM predictions. Therefore, one future direction is to make this platform an open access website, where any interested lab could deposit their behavior videos and perform the analysis online. As more behavior data is collected and analyzed, the more precise and powerful this SVM prediction will become, and the more useful this will be for the whole rodent pain research field.
Mice for behavior testing were maintained in a conventional animal facility in the John Morgan building at the University of Pennsylvania. Mice for in vivo calcium imaging were maintained in a barrier animal facility at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. All procedures were conducted according to animal protocols approved by the university Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) and in accordance with National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines. CD1 male and female mice were purchased from Charles River Laboratories and C57BL/6 male and female mice were purchased from Jackson Laboratories. MRGPRD-ChR2 mice, MrgprdCreERT2;ChR2f/f (Ai32 homozygous), were generated in our lab as previously described28. MRGPRD-ChR2 mice were treated with tamoxifen between P10-P17 to induce robust ChR2 expression in MRGPRD+ neurons. TRPV1-ChR2 mice, TrpV1Cre;ChR2f/+ (Ai32 heterozygous), were generated by crossing TrpV1Cre and Ai32 together. Pirt-GCAMP6 mice were generated by crossing PirtCre mice to Rosa-GCAMP6 mice, as previously described19. TrpV1Cre (stock no. 017769)26 and Rosa-ChR2-eYFP (Ai32) (stock no. 012569)27 mice were purchased from the Jackson Laboratories.
Whole animal L4 DRG neuron calcium imaging combined with hind paw stimulation
The L4 DRG of Pirt-GCAMP6 mice was surgically exposed and imaged, with subsequent data analysis performed using ImageJ (NIH) as previously described19. Briefly, for all imaging experiments, mice at 2 months or older were anesthetized by i.p. injection of chloral hydrate (560 mg/kg). After deep anesthesia was reached, the animal’s back was shaved and aseptically prepared. Ophthalmic ointment (Lacrilube; Allergen Pharmaceuticals) was applied to the eyes to prevent drying. During the surgery, mice were kept on a heating pad (DC temperature controller, FHC) to maintain body temperature at 37 ± 0.5 degrees Celsius as monitored by a rectal probe. Dorsal laminectomy in DRG was performed usually at spinal level L6 to S1 below the lumbar enlargement (occasionally at lower than S1) but without removing the dura. A 2-cm-long midline incision was made around the lower part of the lumbar enlargement area; next, the paravertebral muscles were dissected away to expose the lower lumbar part which surrounds (L3–L5) vertebra bones. The L4 DRG transverse processes were exposed and cleaned. Using small rongeurs, we removed the surface aspect of the L4 DRG transverse process near the vertebra to expose the underlying DRG without damaging the DRG and spinal cord. Bleeding from the bone was stopped using styptic cotton. After surgery, mice were laid down in the abdomen-down position on a custom-designed microscope stage. The spinal column was stabilized using custom-designed clamps to minimize movements caused by breathing and heart beats. In vivo imaging of whole L4 DRG in live mice could be performed for 1–6 hr immediately after the surgery.
The four stimuli (cotton swab, dynamic brush, light pinprick, and heavy pinprick) were applied to the freely hanging hind paw as described in the following section. The microscope stage was fixed under a laser-scanning confocal microscope (Leica LSI microscope system), which was equipped with macrobased, large-objective, and fast EM-CCD camera. Live images were acquired at typically eight to ten frames with 600 Hz in frame-scan mode per 6–7 s, at depths below the dura ranging from 0 to 70 mm, using a 5X 0.5 NA macro dry objective at typically 512 X 512 pixel resolution with solid diode lasers (Leica) tuned at 488 and at 532 nm wavelength and emission at 500–550 nm for green fluorescence. DRG neurons were at the focal plane, and imaging was monitored during the activation of DRG neuron cell bodies by peripheral stimuli. The imaging parameters were chosen to allow repeated imaging of the same cell over many stimuli without causing damage to the imaged cells or to surrounding tissue. Raw image stacks (512 X 512 to 1024 X 1024 pixels in the x–y plane and 20–30 mm voxel depth; typically 10 optical sections) were imported into ImageJ (NIH) for analysis. A neuron displaying Ca2+ ΔF/F0 higher than 20% is considered as a positively responsive neuron.
High-Speed Videography
To capture mouse kinematic movement features at high temporal resolution, we recorded behaviors at 500 or 1000 frames per second (fps) with a high-speed camera (FastCAM UX100 800K-M-4GB - Monochrome 800K with 4GB memory) and attached lens (NikonZoom Wide Angle Telephoto 24-85mm f2.8). With a tripod with geared head for Photron UX100, the camera was placed at a ~45° angle at ~1-2 feet away from the Plexiglas holding chambers where mice performed behaviors. The camera was maximally activated with far-red shifted 10 mW LED light that mice cannot detect and thus would not disturb their behaviors. All data were collected and annotated on a Dell laptop computer with FastCAM NI DAQ software that is designed to synchronize Photron slow motion cameras with the M series integrated BNC Data Acquisition (DAQ) units from National Instruments.
Somatosensory behavior assays
Mice were acclimated to a small rectangular or round Plexiglas chamber where they could move freely but could not stand up. Selected mechanical stimuli were delivered to one hind paw when mice were calm, still, and with all four paws on the raised mesh platform. Mice were habituated to the testing chambers for one week before behavioral tests were performed. C57 and CD1 mouse lines were used, with an equal number (10) of male and female mice included. Some animals were tested multiple times, and in these cases, the quantification of behavior features was averaged across multiple trials for a given animal. Stimuli were applied to the hind paw of each mouse through the mesh floor. Cotton swab tests consisted of contact between the cotton Q-tip and the hind paw of the mouse until paw withdrawal was observed. Dynamic brush tests were performed by wiping a concealer makeup brush (e.l.f.TM, purchased at the CVS) across the hind paw from back to front. Light pinprick tests were performed by touching a pin (Austerlitz Insect Pins®) to the hind paw of the mouse. The pin was withdrawn as soon as contact was observed.
Heavy pinprick tests were performed by sharply pressing this pin into the paw so that it was pushed upwards. The pin was withdrawn as soon as approximately 1/3 of the pins length had passed through the mesh. For application of von Frey hairs (VFHs, Stoelting Company, 58011), we used 3 different forces: 0.6 grams, 1.4 grams, and 4 grams. As previously described, each VFH was directed at the center of the plantar paw and pressed upward until the filament bent13. For the four natural stimuli and VFHs, an animal that did not respond within 2 seconds of stimulus delivery was considered as non-responsive. For inducing chronic inflammatory pain, ~10 μL of Complete Freud’s Adjuvant, CFA (Sigma, F5881) was injected into the plantar surface of 3% isoflurane anesthetized mice as previously published52. For analgesic painkiller treatment, a 50 μL cocktail of meloxicam (2 mg/kg, Penn Veterinary Hospital) and buprenorphine (0.5 mg/kg, Henry Schein Animal Health, 059122) were injected subcutaneously into the back of restrained mice. Approximately 45 minutes separated injection of painkillers and behavioral testing.
Scoring behavioral movement features
Onset of head turn is defined as a movement of the animal’s head from a stationary position towards the stimulated hind paw. Paw height and paw velocity were extracted from the high speed videos and processed with Photron FastCAM software. Paw height was scored in millimeters for the first paw withdrawal as the distance from the mesh floor to the highest point following natural or optical stimulation. Paw velocity of the first withdrawal was scored as the distance in millimeters from initial paw lift to the highest point, divided by the time in seconds between the two points. The pain score is a composite score of four individual behavior features: orbital tightening, paw shake, paw guard, and jumping. For example, if a given animal displayed one of those features, it would receive a pain score of 1. An animal was scored as displaying an orbital tightening if its eyes went from fully open to partially or fully closed following stimulus application. Paw shaking was defined as high frequency paw flinching. Jumping was defined as all four paws off the mesh floor at the same time following a stimulus application. Lastly, paw guard was defined as any abnormal placement of the paw back to the mesh floor following stimulus application.
Peripheral optogenetics
To optically activate the nerve terminals of MRGPRD-ChR2 mice through the hind paw skin of freely behaving animals, mice were placed in the same setup and given the one-week habituation as described above for natural stimuli. All mice were scored blind to genotype and ChR2f/f littermates without the Cre-driver were used as negative controls (mice were genotyped after finishing the behavior tests). In addition, 10 mW 532 nm green laser light (Shanghai Laser and Optics Century, GL532T8-1000FC/ADR-800A) was shined to the hind paw of control and MRGPRD-ChR2 mice as another negative control. To induce a behavioral response in MRGPRD-ChR2 mice, we shined 20 mW 473 nm blue laser light (Shanghai Laser and Optics Century, BL473T8-150FC/ADR-800A) to one of the hind paws. To induce a behavioral response in TRPV1-ChR2 mice, 10 mW 473 nm blue laser light was used. For both green light control and blue light experiments we used 10 hz 20 mW sinewave light generated by a pulse generator (Agilent 10MHZ Function Waveform Generator, 33210A) connected to the laser source. For all stimulations, the laser light was delivered via an FC/PC optogenetic patch cable with a 200 μm core opening (ThorLabs, M72L01) and there was approximately 1 cm of space between the cable terminal and the hind paw skin. Light power intensity for each experiment was measured with a digital power meter with a 9.5 mm aperture (ThorLabs, PM100A). Lastly, light was only applied to mice standing on all four paws, calm and still, but not in the process of grooming.
Tissue preparation and histology
Procedures were conducted as previously described53. Briefly, mice used for immunostaining were transcardially perfused with 4% PFA/PBS, and dissected tissue (either skin or spinal cord and DRGs/TGs) was post-fixed for 2 hr in 4% PFA/PBS at 4° C. Tissue used for immunostaining was cryo-protected in 30% sucrose/PBS (4% overnight) before freezing, except the c-FOS experiments where tissue was kept at room temperature and proceeded directly for vibratome sectioning. Frozen glabrous skin, DRG/spinal cord, and TG sections (20-30 mm) were cut on a Leica CM1950 cryostat. Immunostaining of sectioned TG, DRG, spinal cord, and glabrous skin tissue, was performed as described previously53,54. The following antibodies were used: chicken anti-GFP, 1:1000 (Aves, GFP-1020), rabbit anti-CGRP, 1:1000 (Immunostar, 24112), conjugated IB4-Alex594, 1:200 (Molecular Probes, I21411), guinea pig anti-VGLUT1, 1:1000 (Fisher, AB5905), rabbit anti-NFH, 1:1000 (Sigma, N4142), and rabbit anti-cFOS, 1:100, (Santa Cruz, sc-52).
c-FOS staining
For c-FOS staining following optogenetic stimulation, MRGPRD-ChR2 mice were manually restrained and scuffed for 10 minutes while 10 Hz 20 mW blue light was shined directly to the ear and ear canal. We waited approximately 1.5 hours after optogenetic stimulation, and transcardially perfused the mouse with 4% PFA followed by a four hour post-fixation period. We then cut 50 μm sections with a vibratome followed by performing free-floating immunohistochemistry53.
An exploratory factor analysis with orthogonal Varimax rotation was conducted with SPSS to determine which of the initial eleven parameters contributed to at least 10% of the variance. We initially found that four parameters (total paw time, paw airtime, paw at apex, and paw time after apex) were highly correlated so we only used one (paw air-time) for subsequent analysis, leaving a total of eight parameters (Supplemental Fig. 3a). We then performed three iterations of an exploratory factor analysis using an eigenvalue cut-off of 1.0 with each being confirmed to have patterned relationships with the bartlett’s test of sphericity (p < 0.001). We then removed parameters that had either low factor loadings or cross-loaded onto multiple factors (Supplemental Fig. 3b). We considered factor loading coefficients of < 0.35 as low and not significantly contributing to a particular principle component. The first iteration revealed three Principle Components (in blue) that accounted for 62.7% of variance (Supplemental Fig. 3b – Iteration 1). Analysis of the rotated component matrix revealed that response time and head duration cross loaded onto multiple principle components so they were removed. The second iteration revealed two Principle Components (in blue) that accounted for 60.9% of variance (Supplemental Fig. 3b – Iteration 2). Analysis of the rotated component matrix revealed that full turn duration cross loaded onto multiple principle components and total time had a low factor loading (i.e., < 0.35) so they were removed. The final iteration revealed a single Principle Component (in blue) that accounted for 57.3% of variance with paw-air time having a low factor loading (Supplemental Fig. 3B – Iteration 3). We settled on three of the remaining parameters (paw height, paw velocity, and pain score).
We performed dimension-reduction with a Principle Component Analysis using the paw height, paw-air time, paw velocity, and pain score. The contributing weights, as represented by eigenvalue, for each syllable of each genotype/sex database, were determined using SAS. We could then combine normalized z-scores for each syllable into a single one-dimensional principle component for every stimulus trial. This process was conducted independently for males and females of both genotypes, generating their own set of eigenvalues for each syllable that could then be used to transform the three-dimensional data (paw height, paw velocity, and pain score) to a single dimension (Supplemental Table 1). Individual behavioral movement features, VFH filaments, and TRPV1-ChR2 and MRGPRD-ChR2 groups were compared using ANOVA followed by Tukey’s multiple comparison with p-value threshold set to 0.05.
We classified paw withdrawal reflexes into “pain” and “non-pain” categories, using four measurements obtained from the high-speed imaging data: paw-air time, paw velocity, paw height and pain score. A classification pipeline consisted of the following steps (scikit-learn, 0.18.1): 1) the first principal component (PCA1) was derived from the training data, 2) the first component scores for the training data were used to train a support vector machine (SVM) with radial basis function kernels (kernel coefficient gamma = 1, penalty parameter C = 1), and 3) for a given trial, the SVM predicts the probability of the presence of a “pain” response based on that trial’s component score for the training-data PCA1. The data used to generate the PCA1 and train the SVM for each figure can be seen in Supplemental Table 2.
I.A.S, N.T.F., X.D., and W.L designed experiments. I.A.S, N.T.F., J.B., P.D., and Mark L. carried out experiments. Ming L. and L.D. performed statistics and machine learning analyses. All authors contributed to the writing and editing of the manuscript.
Supplemental Figure 1. Whole animal DRG neuron calcium imaging combined with hind paw stimulation of natural mechanical stimuli.
(a-h) Images of GCAMP6 florescence before (baseline) and during hind paw stimuli of cotton swab (a, e), dynamic brush (b, f), light pinprick (c, g), and heavy pinprick (d, h). Scale bar of 50 μm the same on all images. (i-l) Example Ca2+ transients from 1 of 4 representative mice with each stimulus (stimulus name is directly above each graph) showing time-windows of activating neurons before, during, and after stimulus application. Note: stimulus was applied for approximately 1 second at the time-point of 24 seconds. (m) Number of activated neurons per DRG, determined by Ca2+ influx (ΔF/F0 > 20%), in 4 Pirt-GCAMP6 mice (2 trials/mouse). (n) Soma size per activated neuron, determined by Ca2+ signal, in 4 Pirt-GCAMP6 mice (2 trials/mouse). For each of 4 animals tested, the percentage of small, medium, or large diameter neurons are plotted and the 4 animals are combined here. Data are plotted according to the 4 stimuli used in panels c-j. Errors bars represent SEM. (o) Graph shows all raw data values combined for four different animals with four different stimuli - cotton swab, dynamic brush, light pinprick, and heavy pinprick. The four different animals are distinguished by either open circles, closed circles, open squares, or closed squares. Each shape represents a single neuron. Red asterisks represent p-values <0.05 when comparing CS to LP or CS to HP (LP or HP > CS), while red stars represent p-values <0.05 when comparing DB to LP or DB to HP (LP or HP > CS).
Supplemental Figure 2. Sub-second temporal mapping of female mouse behavioral features in response to paw application of natural mechanical stimuli.
Responses of CD1 and C57 female mice to paw stimulation of cotton swab (CS), dynamic brush (DB), light pinprick (LP), and heavy pinprick (HP) are plotted as raster plots, showing when six behavior features (color-coded in the figure) occurred after stimulus onset within the first 2 s (a-d, h-k) or the first 200 ms (a′-d′, h′-k′). For each raster plot, the times when the behaviors occurred are shown on the X-axis, while the Y-axis and each horizontal line show a single trial/animal. Each horizontal line from the two columns of raster plots for a given strain is from the same trial. (e) Percentage of paw raise towards a given stimuli for CD1 females, n = 10. (f) First movement, whether head (black) or paw (grey), after stimulus application for CD1 females. (g) Latency of head and paw movement upon each stimulation for CD1 females. (l) Percentage of paw raise towards a given stimuli for C57 females, n = 10. (m) First movement, whether head (black) or paw (grey), after stimulus application for C57 females. (n) Latency of head and paw movement upon each stimulation for C57 females.
Supplemental Figure 3. Exploratory Factor Analysis reveals four parameters that account for majority of variance.
Data is derived from ~50% of trials from both C57 and CD1 males. (a) Correlation matrix between all 11 movement parameters. Data-cells marked by a gradient of red indicate correlations above 0.75. (b) Iterative exploratory factor analysis. Each iteration has three panels: 1) Cumulative “Total Variance Explained” for each principle component. Principle components with eigenvalue greater than 1.0 are highlighted blue. 2) “Component Matrix” with factor loadings for each parameter that makes up the associated principle component highlighted blue. 3) Scree plot for each principle component. Note that each iteration removes parameters that either have a low factor loading (< 0.35) or cross-load onto multiple factors (highlighted red).
Supplemental Figure 4. Stimulus-evoked movement features excluded from further analyses with PCA and SVM.
(a, b) Paw air time measurements for CD1 males (a) and C57 males (b) after application of the four natural stimuli mentioned in the main text. Paw air time refers to the time when the animal’s stimulated hind paw is in the air. (c, d) Total paw air time measurements for CD1 males (c) and C57 males (d) after application of the four natural stimuli mentioned in the main text. Total paw air time refers to the time when the animal’s stimulated hind paw is in the air, including the time when it first moves in paw before lifting away from the surface. (e, f) Paw at apex measurements for CD1 males (e) and C57 males (f) after application of the four natural stimuli mentioned in the main text. Paw at apex refers to the time when the animal’s stimulated hind paw is held at its maximal point in the air. (g, h) Paw from apex measurements for CD1 males (g) and C57 males (h) after application of the four natural stimuli mentioned in the main text. Paw from apex refers to the time when the animal’s stimulated hind paw is coming down from its maximal height towards placement back on the surface. (i, j) Total behavior time measurements for CD1 males (i) and C57 males (j) after application of the four natural stimuli mentioned in the main text. Total behavior time refers to the time the animal first begins a movement (either head turn or paw lift) until the time these movements are completed.
Supplemental Figure 5. Histology of the dorsal root ganglia, spinal cord, and plantar paw skin of TrpV1Cre; Ai32 mice.
(a-c) DRG sections immunostained with antisera directed against GFP, which recognize ChR2-EFYP fusion protein, and CGRP, and the percentages of overlap are shown with bar graphs (d, e). Corresponding double immunostaining was done on spinal cord tissue (s-u). (f-h) DRG sections immunostained with IB4 and antiserum directed against GFP, and percentages of overlap are shown with bar graphs (i, j). Corresponding double immunostaining was done on spinal cord tissue (v-x). (k-m) DRG sections immunostained with antisera directed against GFP and NFH and percentages of overlap are shown with bar graphs (n, o). Corresponding double immunostaining was done on spinal cord tissue with antisera against GFP and VGLUT1 (y-z’). Plantar paw skin double immunostaining was performed with antisera directed against GFP and NFH (p-r). n = 3 mice between P21-P28 for histology with DRG, spinal cord, and plantar paw skin.
Supplementary Figure 6. Genetic targeting and activation of ChR2 in MRGPRD+ neurons.
(a, b) Representative confocal image of immunostaining with dorsal root ganglia sections of MrgD-ChR2 mice, showing no overlap between DRG neurons expressing ChR2-EYFP and CGRP, but complete overlap between those expressing ChR2-EYFP and binding IB4. (c, d) Similar expression patterns are observed after immunostaining with the trigeminal ganglia sections for antisera that detect ChR2-EYFP, CGRP, and IB4. (e, f) Immunostaining with the dorsal spinal cord sections of MrgD-ChR2 mice showing efficient targeting of ChR2-EYFP to central terminals that do not overlap with CGRP+ (e) but IB4+ (f) central terminals. (g, h) Immunostaining showing efficient targeting of ChR2-EYFP to peripheral terminals in the dermal plantar paw (g) and ear skin (h) of MrgD-ChR2 mice. (i-l) Immunostaining of c-FOS with the upper cervical spinal cord sections following optogenetic ear stimulation of MrgD-ChR2 mice shows increased number of c-FOS+ neurons in the ipsilateral (blue light) superficial dorsal horn (i, j) compared to the contralateral side (no light) (k, l). j and l are magnified from the white box areas in I, k. (m) Quantification of c-FOS cells following optogenetic stimulation of MrgD-ChR2 mice. P-value is from student’s t-test and error bars represent SEM. n = 3 mice. Scale bars are 50 μm.
Supplemental Figure 7. First Principal Component (PC) scores and SVM predictions for optogenetic paw withdrawals in a sex specific manner.
(a-c) Each dot represents a single animal. (a) PC scores of TRPV1-ChR2 and MRGPRD-ChR2 mice at baseline, after CFA, and CFA + painkillers. Eigenvectors derived from wild type male mice (C57+CD1) and represented by black dots, or eigenvectors derived from wild type female mice (C57+CD1) and represented by magenta dots. (b, c) SVM pain-probability graphs using wild type male mice (C57+CD1) (b) or wild type female mice (C57+CD1) (c) as training datasets, to predict the probability of a pain response for TRPV1-ChR2 and MRGPRD-ChR2 optogenetic responses in baseline, after CFA, and CFA + painkillers.
Supplemental Figure 8. Z-scores for paw height and velocity, and pain score comparing Von Frey hairs with optical stimuli.
Data are compiled and plotted the same as Figure 3. Shown are the Z-score measurements for paw height (a, b), paw velocity (c, d), and pain score (e, f). (a, c, e) are measurements from Von Frey hairs at 0.6 g, 1.4 g, and 4 g and correspond to the data shown in Figure 5. (b, d, f) are measurements from TRPV1-ChR2 mice (baseline) and MRGD-CHR2 mice (baseline and post-CFA) and correspond to the data shown in Figure 6.
Supplemental Table 1. Eigenvalues for calculating the first Principal Component (PC) scores.
These values were determined using SAS software using the Supplementary Raw Data File 2.
Supplemental Table 2.
Data used to generate and train the SVM to make predictions about pain-like probabilities.
Supplemental Raw Data File 1.Ca2+ transients (ΔF/F0) of activated DRG neurons with whole animal imaging. These arbitrary ImageJ values show the time-windows before, during, and after hind paw stimulation of cotton swab, dynamic brush, light pinprick, and heavy pinprick. Time-point 4, which corresponds to ~24 seconds into imaging, is when the stimulus was applied. Mean refers to an individual neuron.
Supplemental Raw Data File 2. Behavioral Parameter Raw Data. Paw air time, paw velocity, paw height, and pain score for each trial for CD1 male, CD1 female, C57 male, C57 female, MrgD-ChR2, and Trpv1-ChR2 mice as well as VFH for CD1 male mice. Z-scores and PCA1s are also plotted.
We thank members of the Luo and Ma lab for helpful discussion of this work and comments on this manuscript. We thank Michael Granato for technical and intellectual consultation at the onset of this work. We also thank Dragan Vujovic, Mercedes Davis, Minah Kwon, and Mikayla Joffe for technical assistance. This work was supported by National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 grants (NS083702 and NS094224) and the Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in the Neurosciences to W.L. I.A.S. and N. T.F. are supported by NIH grant (Kl2GM081259), and LAS is also supported by Burroughs Wellcome Fund grant PDEP and NIH K99 grant (DE026807).
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Blake Hill Preserves makes glorious marmalades and more
By Elizabeth Mindreau Globe Correspondent,February 8, 2016, 10:00 p.m.
It’s marmalade season in Vermont. Third-generation English preserve maker Vicky Allard; her husband, Joe Hanglin; and their team at Blake Hill Preserves in Grafton, Vt., are busy turning crates of fresh citrus from California into glistening jars filled with luscious flavors such as bergamot-lemon and Seville orange ($5.99-$7.99). Since 2009, Blake Hill has been producing award-winning chutneys, conserves, jams, and preserves using seasonal fruit, spices, and cane sugar, with no commercial pectin, corn syrup, citric acid, or artificial preservatives.
They are a natural accompaniment to the many fine cheeses produced in the region, and Blake Hill recently collaborated with celebrated Vermont cheesemaker Jasper Hill Farm. The project, creating pairings for each of Jasper Hill’s four cheeses, “was a dream come true,” says Allard by e-mail. The line includes a confit, a conserve, a mostarda, and a marmalade ($2.50-$7.99).
Blake Hill has been so successful, it has outgrown its current production facility. In a few months the company will move into Artisans Park — home of Harpoon Brewery and other businesses — in Windsor, Vt. At the new digs, customers will be able to buy preserves, watch them being made, and take cooking classes. The only thing Blake Hill has to leave behind is the hill itself. Available at Bacco’s Wine & Cheese, 31 St. James Ave., Boston, 617-574-1751, www.baccoswineandcheese.com; Ball Square Fine Wines, 716 Broadway, Somerville, 617-623-9500, www.ballsquarefinewines.com; Cellars at Jasper Hill, Boston Public Market, 100 Hanover St., Boston, 802-535-9229, www.bostonpublicmarket.org; and www.blakehillpreserves.com.
Elizabeth Mindreau can be reached at ermindreau@gmail.com.
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Disney, ESPN Boss Bob Iger Set to Throw Big Fundraiser for Democrats Seeking Re-election in 2018
Warner Todd Huston
Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger is set to throw a giant fundraiser to benefit a half dozen Democrats running for election in this year’s 2018 midterm elections, according to reports.
Iger, who heads Disney, ESPN’s parent company, is preparing for the February 22 gala which will urge supporters to donate $32,400 a person to attend, Variety reported.
The event is aimed at filling the campaign coffers of Senate Democrats such as Claire McCaskill (MO), Joe Manchin (WV), and Heidi Heitkamp (ND). The six Democrat Senators Iger hopes to boost are all running in states that Donald Trump won in 2016.
Iger is a big Democrat donor having given $25,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and over the last two years $50,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
As Disney CEO, Iger is supporting Democrats in other ways, too. The Mouse House chief was the main reason ESPN host Jemele Hill was never meaningfully punished for breaking ESPN’s ban on “front-facing” employees engaging in controversial political talk on social media.
Hill called President Donald Trump a white supremacist in one Tweet, urged a boycott of the Dallas Cowboys over owner Jerry Jones’ politics in another, and repeatedly engaged in extreme political views in interview after interview. But, despite all this ESPN refused to take any meaningful action to punish the host for breaking the company’s policies of comportment.
One of the main reasons Hill was allowed to skate on her actions is that Bob Iger personally interceded to make sure the Trump-hating host was let off the hook.
“It’s hard for me to understand what it feels like to experience racism,” Iger said about Hill at a meeting of members of the media last October. “I felt we needed to take into account what other people ESPN were feeling at this time and that resulted in us not taking action.”
Because of that, Iger insisted that Hill’s “perspective” was worthy of consideration in “context.”
“I felt we had to take context into account,” Iger added. He then exclaimed that ESPN needed to consider the fact that “there were a lot of people out there that were outraged” by Trump.
With the weight of the owning company’s CEO coming down on her side, ESPN bosses had little choice but to take no action against Hill for her continuing violations of the network’s social media rules.
Iger might also be holding the fundraiser to grease his own political wheels. The Disney CEO has been heavily courted by democrat donors and activists who want Iger to run for the Democrat nomination in 2020. Playing a big hand in helping several Democrat senators win re-election, might turn them into useful allies should Iger seek the nomination.
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Oh What A Lovely War
Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, Charles Chilton, Gerry Raffles and members of the original cast
Oldham Coliseum Theatre
8 to 30 September 2017
Slightly missing all of the major anniversaries, the Coliseum has revived Joan Littlewood's savage satire for the centenary of the penultimate year of the First World War.
When Littlewood first staged this show in Stratford East in 1963, a lot of survivors of both World Wars were still alive, patriotism and unquestioning obedience to authority was considered the norm—although this was rapidly changing—and the Lord Chamberlain would ban from performance any play that portrayed a living politician on stage, or anything else he didn't think was good for the public to see.
Half a century later, when suspicion of our politicians and condemnation of the leaders of that war is the prevalent view rather than that of radicals and Communists, Oh What A Lovely War is still able to rile the establishment, as Michael Gove's piece for the Daily Mail in 2014 shows, when he named this show, together with Alan Bleasdale's The Monocled Mutineer and Blackadder Goes Forth, as pedlars of "left wing myths" about World War I.
Heavily influenced by Brecht's political theatre, Littlewood staged "The War Game" as a variety show, with a cast dressed as pierrot clowns performing songs of the period and sketches that lampooned the people running the war, all performed with bitter irony and well-researched satire. Behind this, photographic images of the horrors of the trenches are mixed with a newspanel bringing news of losses: and what their lives had bought: "November... Somme battle ends... total loss 1,332,000 men... gain nil."
Kevin Shaw's production is more panto than pierrot, with plenty of knockabout comedy, some of it ill-judged and missing the comic timing, and half-hearted attempts to involve the audience. There's little variety in pace and tone throughout, so the stark contrasts between the silliness of the sketches and the shocking reality of life in the trenches and the human cost of the war don't come across.
The slides and the newspanel captions occupy the same screen in Foxton's set, the latter designed like silent movie caption cards, but the screen is often obscured by performers and the show never stops for us to take in the enormity of what the screen is telling us—"By November 1916, two and a half million men killed on Western Front"—so they are easily missed.
The moment when the seriousness does start to come through is when Field Marshall Haig appears in the second act, in a beautifully subtle performance by Jeffrey Harmer, contrasting with all of the grotesques surrounding him. This is exactly right, as the grotesquery is in what he says rather than how he behaves: "in the end they will have five thousand men left and we will have ten thousand and we shall have won." It's all a numbers game.
Where this actor-musician production shines is on the musical side, with some beautiful singing ranging from haunting solos to full-cast chorus in harmony (spoiled only slightly by a very dull vocal sound in the PA) and great musicianship on multiple instruments. Musical director Howard Gray has done a terrific job with this musically talented cast.
On the acting side, the performances vary: Richard J Fletcher is in full panto mode most of the time, which works in some parts better than in others; Lauryn Redding is a very strong presence in many of the female-led numbers; Anthony Hunt is great in many of his parts but looks uncomfortable as the MC at the start, a part which really requires a good stand-up comic; Matt Connor and Reece Richardson stand out in several roles. In fact the Coliseum should be commended for investing in a production that puts ten performers on stage without a co-producer to share the bill.
Fifty-four years on from its controversial debut, it is too easy to make this show come across as a nostalgic singalong show with a few serious moments but nothing to challenge what we already know and think. In a production that muddies both the entertainment and the political message, both are weakened to leave something that impresses intermittently but doesn't really have much to say to us.
Reviewer: David Chadderton
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Best Sonos Music Service For Classical Music
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minor-key piece by fellow classical composer Albinoni. It turns out the type of music can determine whether listening will help or hurt our productivity. As I’m sure you suspect, the best type.
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What music services work with Sonos? Interested in Sonos but not sure if your favorite music service is supported?. With support for over 30 different music services, Sonos will fill your house or office with music—whether you only want to hear your favourite 80s one-hit-wonders or a playlist of new music. TuneIn is one of the best.
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While the other music services offer files up to 320kbps, Qobuz and Tidal offer unlimited streaming access to CD-quality FLAC files at 16bit/44.1kHz for a monthly subscription charge. One of Sonos’s b.
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By Bumble Bee Team - 07 March 2014 - Comments
Bumble Bee Seafoods Announces Exclusive Partnership with Sapmer
Industry Leaders Partner to Bring Sashimi-Quality Products to North America
SAN DIEGO (March 3, 2014) – Leading North America seafood company Bumble Bee Seafoods has announced an exclusive partnership with tuna catcher and processor, Sapmer, the France-based company internationally recognized for its high-quality standards and sustainable fishing. The partnership will result in Bumble Bee Seafoods’ successful move into the premium food service arena delivering sashimi-quality frozen tuna to North American restaurants and food retailers.
“More discerning retail and food service buyers in North America are looking for the next level of quality frozen seafood products and this partnership fills the demand,” said Bumble Bee President and CEO, Chris Lischewski. “We’ve had our eye on this growing niche in the frozen industry for some time and Sapmer’s approach represents the quality we’ve been looking for in a partner.”
Sapmer, founded in France’s Reunion island in 1947, is the second-largest tuna fleet in France. A long-time supplier to the Japanese market, the company is recognized in the industry for engineering a unique process for freezing and processing sashimi-quality tuna, one that it’s eager to introduce to new markets including North America.
“The relationship between Sapmer and Bumble Bee is based on synergies in our approach to producing quality products in a sustainable fashion,” said Sapmer CEO, Yannick Lauri. “We couldn’t have chosen a better partner to introduce our sashimi-grade yellowfin and skipjack to the North American market.”
This partnership comes on the heels of two other Bumble Bee endeavors in the frozen category including the announcement of its premium fresh frozen seafood under the Bumble Bee SuperFresh™ line and the recent acquisition of its latest subsidiary, sashimi-quality tuna company Anova Food, LLC. According to Lischewski, as the first branded company to introduce ultra-low temperature (ULT) tuna to the North American market, Bumble Bee plans to continue to pursue the frozen industry holistically. This most recent collaboration with Sapmer allows it to offer more variety to its retail and food service customers, adding to a premium frozen tuna portfolio which already includes ULT sashimi grade and Clearsmoke™ treated tuna.
About Bumble Bee Seafoods
Bumble Bee Seafoods, headquartered in San Diego, is North America’s largest branded shelf-stable seafood company, offering a full line of canned and pouched tuna, salmon, sardine, and specialty protein products marketed in the U.S. under leading brands including Bumble Bee®, Brunswick®, Snow’s® and Beach Cliff®, and in Canada under the Clover Leaf® brand. The company also produces premium fresh frozen seafood under the Bumble Bee SuperFresh™ line. Bumble Bee SuperFresh™ seafood is cleaned, cut and fresh frozen within hours, then chef prepared with high-quality all natural ingredients.
Bumble Bee’s mission is to provide healthy and nutritious product and meal solutions that are sourced sustainably. Its BeeWell for Life® brand philosophy and signature program by the same name encourage consumers to eat healthfully and deliciously while maintaining an active everyday lifestyle. Bumble Bee is a founding member of the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation — a first-of-kind initiative in the U.S. involving a coalition of retailers, non-profit organizations and food and beverage manufacturers with a mission to help reduce obesity, particularly childhood obesity by 2015. The company actively promotes the responsible stewardship of global fisheries resources and is a founding member of the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) — a global partnership of scientists, tuna processors and WWF, the global conservation organization.
For more information on Bumble Bee Seafoods and the BeeWell for Life® program, visit www.BumbleBee.com and www.BeeWellForLife.com. Join fans of Bumble Bee and healthy living at www.facebook.com/BumbleBeeFoods.
About SAPMER
SAPMER is the historical deep-sea fishing operator in the waters of the French Southern and Antarctic Territories (TAAF) based on the island of Reunion. Having been created in 1947, SAPMER now operates a wholly-owned fleet of four freezer-longliners for Patagonian Toothfish and a Freezer pot Lobster vessel for Rock Lobster, and seven tuna purse seiners (on board -40°C deep freeze) for its tuna fishing activity (Yellowfin and Skipjack) in the Indian Ocean.
Positioned on strong-valued ‘niche’ activities, SAPMER is dividing its activities into two categories:
Fishing activity which includes Toothfish and Rock Lobster sales fished in the Southern Seas (Economic Zones of the French Southern and Antarctic Territories – TAAF) and whole tuna sales (Yellowfin and Skipjack) fished in the Indian Ocean.
Value-enhancing and processing activity (sashimi loins, steaks) of halieutic products.
In 2013, SAPMER achieved revenues of 91.6M€ (85% of which was made from exportations outside Europe, mainly Asia).
SAPMER is listed on Alternext Paris – ISIN code FR0010776617 – ALMER.
For more information on SAPMER, visit www.sapmer.com.
Megan Verardi, FleishmanHillard
Posted: March 7, 2014 by Bumble Bee Team in Press Room
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Scott promotes Shumlin's health care regulator
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Famous astronomy professor had a 'playbook' for picking up female students, another professor claims
Peter Jacobs
University of California at Berkeley astronomy professor Geoff Marcy.
A prominent astronomy professor at the University of California at Berkeley who violated the school's sexual-harassment policy had a "playbook" he used to pick up female students, another professor in his field told The Chronicle of Higher Education.
UC Berkeley astronomy professor Geoff Marcy plans to step down as a faculty member at the university, BuzzFeed reported Wednesday.
After an investigation earlier this year, UC Berkeley found that Marcy violated the university's sexual-harassment policy on multiple occasions between 2001 and 2010, BuzzFeed reported last Friday. The school reprimanded but did not fire Marcy.
"Four women alleged that Marcy repeatedly engaged in inappropriate physical behavior with students, including unwanted massages, kisses, and groping," BuzzFeed reporter Azeen Ghorayshi writes.
However, University of Memphis physics professor Joan T. Schmelz told The Chronicle of Higher Education that these four women are "just the tip of the iceberg." Schmelz chairs the American Astronomical Society's Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy and worked with women who believed Marcy had harassed them.
"I heard this so many times," she told The Chronicle, "that I realized it was standard practice for him."
Schmelz eventually realized that Marcy had a "playbook" for picking up female students, according to The Chronicle:
Mr. Marcy, she says, would isolate a female student in his lab or find a way to talk to her privately on the campus, away from others. During the talk, he would make a slightly inappropriate comment, touch or kiss the student, and then apologize, according to what women told her. Depending on the reaction he got, she says, he would either back off or take another step forward. Students, she says, complained that he had given them rides home, taken them out to coffee, and told them he and his wife had an open relationship.
UC Berkeley has been criticized for its perceived leniency in reprimanding a star professor who violated the school's sexual-harassment policy. The latest hit against the university came from a group of 22 UC Berkeley astronomy professors, who wrote an open letter Monday calling for Marcy's dismissal.
"We urge the UC Berkeley administration to re-evaluate its response to Marcy, who has been found in violation of UC sexual harassment policy," the astronomy faculty members write. "We believe that Geoff Marcy cannot perform the functions of a faculty member."
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In a letter posted on his UC Berkeley faculty page last week, Marcy apologized for what he called "mistakes I've made."
"While I do not agree with each complaint that was made, it is clear that my behavior was unwelcomed by some women," Marcy writes. "I take full responsibility and hold myself completely accountable for my actions and the impact they had. For that and to the women affected, I sincerely apologize."
Marcy is well known for his discoveries of exoplanets, which are outside our solar system. He has been considered a contender for a Nobel Prize in physics.
UC Berkeley sent Business Insider in response to our request for comment on the "playbook" accusation:
The university has imposed real consequences on Professor Geoff Marcy by establishing a zero tolerance policy regarding future behavior and by stripping him of the procedural protections that all other faculty members enjoy before he can be subject to discipline up to and including termination.
Under existing university policy, the campus administration does not have unilateral authority to impose discipline on members of the faculty. Sanctions can be imposed only after a lengthy process, including a hearing before a faculty committee, in which outcomes are uncertain.
The university concluded that establishing clear behavioral standards governing his interactions with students inside and outside the classroom, and requiring him to waive his procedural rights in the event he violates the agreement, was the most certain and effective option for preventing any inappropriate future conduct.
The UC system has, for some time, been evaluating and revising its procedures for addressing sexual harassment, and we are committed to working with the appropriate university officials to evaluate improvements to the faculty disciplinary process as it relates to sexual harassment.
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Trump said tax cuts would be 'rocket fuel' for the US economy. Here's why they weren't.
Rebecca UngarinoJan 20, 2019, 19:33 IST
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President Donald Trump said tax cuts would be the "rocket fuel our economy needs to soar higher than ever before."
A little over one year after the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was signed into law, that expectation hasn't panned out, a new Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysis has found.
One reason for this is growth expectations are a bigger driver of capital expenditures than the actual cost of capital - which tax cuts theoretically lowered.
The analysis of the disconnect between what Republican lawmakers expected and what has transpired comes amid the longest government shutdown on record and calls for slowing growth.
"The investment boom that wasn't."
That's how Bank of America Merrill Lynch economists categorized what's happened in the US economy since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was passed a little over a year ago. What was theoretically supposed to be a boon for US companies - and by extension, the broader economy - has not had its intended effect.
The analysis comes against a backdrop of fresh calls for an economic slowdown, an unprecedented government shutdown, and uncertainty surrounding US-China trade relations.
Indeed, the current economic picture stands somewhat in contrast to what Trump said upon the release of House Republicans' tax reform bill in late 2017 - that tax cuts would be the "rocket fuel our economy needs to soar higher than ever before."
On the heels of the tax package that gave a boost to the country's wealthiest, corporations returned much of their tax-cut-fueled earnings back to shareholders in the form of stock buybacks and juicier dividends. Goldman Sachs said $1 trillion in buybacks, a record, were authorized in 2018. More granularly, S&P Dow Jones Indices estimated in May that corporations spent $564 billion on buybacks and $428 billion on dividends in one year through that month.
The "tax cut story" has always seemed overdone, Bank of America said, as expectations of future growth are a bigger driver of capital expenditures than the actual cost of capital - which corporate tax cuts theoretically lowered. And investors have indeed soured on growth expectations, the firm has found.
"Leading indicators of capex have been weakening for a year now, and in the fall US indicators started to turn down as well," global economists Ethan Harris and Aditya Bhave told clients Friday. "Falling growth expectations are undercutting capital spending growth, with more weakness ahead."
The duo also pointed out that as the partial government shutdown, trade war, and Brexit uncertainties loom, risks to both growth and capital spending will increase.
"In the past year our biggest fear has been that policy shocks would undercut confidence and growth expectations, undercutting a potential capital spending recovery," they wrote. "The evidence is building that fear is reality."
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"The two factors that drove US outperformance in 2018 - fiscal stimulus and business investment - are set to fade this year, in our view," said Philipp Hildebrand, Jean Boivin, and Elga Bartsch of the BlackRock Investment Institute in a note to clients on Friday.
"The growth kick from fiscal stimulus - an unusual late-cycle booster via corporate tax cuts and greater government spending - has likely peaked and should fade over the course of 2019."
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China’s PDD, backed by Tencent, to raise up to $1.6bn in US IPO
The e-commerce giant, one of China’s fastest growing start-ups, is offering 85.6-million American Depositary Shares, with Tencent good for $250m worth
17 July 2018 - 14:49 David Ramli
ONLINE ECONOMICS: Chinese online discounter Pinduoduo, a Facebook-Groupon mash-up, is challenging Alibaba and JD.com. Picture: REUTERS
Beijing — Pinduoduo (PDD), the Chinese e-commerce operator backed by Tencent, plans to raise as much as $1.6bn in a US initial public offering (IPO).
The Shanghai-based firm is offering 85.6-million American Depositary Shares at $16 to $19 apiece, it said in a stock exchange filing.
Tencent, the leader in Chinese social media and gaming, and existing shareholder Sequoia Capital both expressed interest in buying $250m worth of stock, the company added.
PDD became one of China’s fastest growing start-ups by creating a sort of Facebook-Groupon mash-up that challenged the e-commerce duopoly of Alibaba and JD.com.
It popularised a format where people spot deals on products from fruit and clothing to toilet paper, then recruit friends to buy at a discount. It can offer savings of up to 20% on market prices by letting consumers buy directly from manufacturers, cutting out middlemen and advertising.
Founded by ex-Google engineer Colin Huang, the three-year-old start-up is said to have targeted a valuation of as much as $30bn, putting it on par with the likes of on-demand services giant Meituan-Dianping.
Based on its filing, PDD would be valued at about $21bn after the IPO. Huang, who launched his career in Silicon Valley before returning home to become an entrepreneur, would control the majority of the company’s voting rights through Class B shares.
"As our three-year-old platform is still burgeoning, we know we face many obvious challenges and uncertainties ahead," the company said in a letter to shareholders.
PDD said Monday it’s handled 262.1-billion yuan ($39bn) of transactions in the 12 months to June for more than 300-million active buyers. That sort of growth helped its valuation jump about 10 times in an April fundraising, people familiar with the deal said at the time. It’s reported a tripling of revenue to $278m in 2017, though losses rose 55% to $79.5m.
Besides its reputation for low prices, PDD has benefited from a large base of users in poorer cities and rural areas. Its daily active users surpassed that of JD in January and reached 55.9-million in June, according to research from Shenzhen-based consultant Jiguang. Alibaba’s Taobao app had 172-million daily active users and JD 34.3-million, it said.
The e-commerce start-up, however, pointed out several risks to its business model, including the potential damage from counterfeits on its site — a persistent and endemic problem in Chinese e-commerce.
PDD’s rapid growth has also led to cases of botched deliveries and damaged merchandise, prompting complaints from unhappy customers. And the bulk-buying business model has waned elsewhere, most famously with Groupon.
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When Does ‘PLL’ Return in 2015? This List of January Premiere Dates Will Help You Keep Track of Your Favorite Shows
By Alanna Bennett
The holidays are great and all, but they're also a total drag. All of our favorite shows either go on break until it's time for the second half of the season or are taking their sweet time inching toward the premiere date of the first episode of their new season. Either way, we have to wait and I am done with it. Scandal can't just give us a winter finale like that and then leave us hanging, oh no. Of course, I can't make time move faster and there's no way I'm going to just magically stop watching Jane the Virgin or Scandal. The only conceivable thing to do is to make sure I'm as prepared for their return as possible. So when do your favorite shows come back? Here's a handy guide.
Between January and April 2015, there are going to be a rash of shows either coming back or debuting for the first time. So for those who are obsessively waiting for their favorite shows or looking to pick up some new favorites along the way, Deadline has provided these specific post-New Year's premiere dates that you should be aware of.
January 4:
Downtown Abbey (PBS, Season 5 Premiere)Revenge (ABC, Season 4B Premiere)
Marvel’s Agent Carter (ABC, Series Premiere)Pretty Little Liars (ABC Family, Season 5B Premiere)Switched at Birth (ABC Family, Season 4 Premiere)Cougar Town (TBS, Season 6 Premiere)
American Idol (Fox, Season 14 Premiere)Empire (Fox, Series Premiere)
Archer (FX, Season 6 Premiere)Portlandia (IFC, Season 5 Premiere)
Glee (Fox, Season 6 Premiere)
January 11:
Shameless (Showtime, Season 5 Premiere)House of Lies (Showtime, Season 4 Premiere)Episodes (Showtime, Season 4 Premiere)Girls (HBO, Season 4 Premiere)Togetherness (HBO, Series Premiere)Looking (HBO, Season 2 Premiere)
Parks and Recreation (NBC, Season 7 Premiere)Kroll Show (Comedy Central, Season 3 Premiere)
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (FXX, Season 10 Premiere)Man Seeking Woman (FXX, Series Premiere)Broad City (Comedy Central, Season 2 Premiere)
The Fosters (ABC Family, Season 2B Premiere)Chasing Life (ABC Family, Season 1B Premiere)Jane the Virgin (The CW, Season 1B Premiere)Hart Of Dixie (The CW, Season 4 Premiere)
Justified (FX, Season 6 Premiere)
TV Promos on YouTube
The Americans (FX, Season 3 Premiere)Suits (USA, Season 4B Premiere)
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC, Season 11B Premiere)Scandal (ABC, Season 4B Premiere)How to Get Away With Murder (ABC, Season 1B Premiere)
February 1:
The Blacklist (NBC, Season 2B Premiere, After the Super Bowl)
Nashville (ABC, Season 3B Premiere)
Allegiance (NBC, Series Premiere)
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The Walking Dead (AMC, Season 5B Premiere)Better Call Saul (AMC, Series Premiere)
February 19:
The Odd Couple (CBS, Series Premiere)
The Voice (NBC, Cycle 8 Premiere)
Survivor (CBS, Cycle 30 Premiere)The Amazing Race (CBS, Cycle 26 Premiere)
House of Cards (Netflix, Season 3 Premiere)
March 1:
Once Upon A Fan on YouTube
Once Upon a Time (ABC, Season 4B Premiere)Secrets and Lies (ABC, Series Premiere)The Last Man on Earth (Fox, Series Premiere)Battle Creek (CBS, Series Premiere)
The Following (Fox, Season 3 Premiere)
Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. (ABC, Season 2B Premiere)Hell’s Kitchen (Fox, Cycle 14 Premiere)
CSI: Cyber (CBS, Series Premiere)Broadchurch (BBC America, Season 2 Premiere)
DIG (USA Network, Series Premiere)American Crime (ABC, Series Premiere)
Undateable (NBC, Season 2 Premiere)One Big Happy (NBC, Series Premiere)
Mr Selfridge (PBS, Season 3 Premiere)
Bones (Fox, Season 10B Premiere)
Call the Midwife (PBS, Season 4 Premiere)
Weird Loners (Fox, Series Premiere)Younger (TV Land, Series Premiere)
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Wolf Hall (PBS, Series Premiere)A.D. (NBC, Limited Series Premiere)Odyssey (NBC, Series Premiere)
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Nick Cannon Isn’t Writing an Album About Hating Mariah Carey, So That’s One Way to Be Amicable
By Jamie Primeau
Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images
It's been a pretty rough winter in terms of celebrity break-ups. From unexpected divorces to long-time couples parting ways, there's been a lot of heartbreak in Hollywood lately. While Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey split up back in August, there's at least some good news regarding these two. Apparently there's nothing but love between them! After Vibe reported Cannon was writing a new album where he dissed his ex-wife, Nick Cannon defended Mariah Carey. He first called out the magazine directly, writing:
@VibeMagazine Vibe, I rock with yall too tough to allow you to report false silliness. There is no album or songs!
After that, Cannon posted a series of tweets explaining he would never insult his former wife.
I will never say anything negative about @MariahCarey We are forever a family rooted in love.
Since 140-characters aren't enough, he continued:
I am always an open book but Personal matters are just that "Personal." So please respect my family and respect the process.
It's really sweet that he stood up for his wife and asked everybody to respect his privacy, as well as his family's. Considering he could've just let the rumors slide, it's great he spoke up. And it's even better news that there's no album dissing Mariah. But before we go overboard and overly praise Cannon for being such a chivalrous ex-husband, I'd like to point out one tweet directed at the media. It was a bit much.
Huh? Was that #ChokeYourself hashtag really necessary? I mean, I get it, having false stories printed can really enrage a person, but no need to be violent. Then he followed up with these tweets:
OK, so that harsh hashtag aside, he raises some valid points. It doesn't matter what the media says about his relationship, as long as he knows the truth. And in the new year, things can only get better, right? For the sake of their kids, I'm glad to hear they're remaining on good terms!
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Victoria’s Secret opens second location in Southcentre Mall
By LISA TAYLOR
Retailers look at Calgary locations in their expansion plans
On the morning of Nov. 3 at 10 a.m. sharp, the barred doors to Victoria's Secret in Southcentre Mall slid open and the crowd hustled inside.
Customers encountered a dark front room filled with luxurious, lacy lingerie. On the walls were black-and-white photos of the famous Victoria's Secret supermodels. A back room was accented with pink, and scents like the Very Sexy fragrance filled the air.
The opening of Victoria's Secret in Southcentre follows the opening of the popular lingerie company's first Calgary store in Chinook Centre five months ago.
Victoria's Secret is just one of five new stores open in Southcentre Mall this fall. The Disney Store, Sephora and Victoria's Secret all opened recently, and Express and Henry Singer will open later in November.
Southcentre's general manager Shawn Hanson said from what he's been hearing, these stores are what customers want.
Victoria's Secret launched its second Calgary location in Southcentre Mall Nov. 3, one of five new and popular franchises to be added to the shopping centre this fall.
Photo by: Lisa TaylorHanson said the opening of so many new stores is reflective of Calgary's consumer culture not being too phased by the struggling economy.
"I think a lot of retailers are looking at Canada, and Calgary specifically, as being strong markets for them to expand in," Hanson said.
Customer Tracy Speight was one of the first to arrive before the Victoria's Secret opening. She had just purchased a beautiful evening gown to wear to her company's Christmas gala and came to mall's newest addition looking to buy a well-fitted bra that wouldn't show through her gown.
She also agreed that Victoria's Secret and other stores opening in Southcentre suggest that Calgary's economy is looking better.
"If big names like this are coming up from the [United] States into Canada, I would say it's showing that we're still spending money and things are going well."
However, Jaimie Cugnet, who has been a fan of Victoria's Secret for quite some time, said that getting all these new stores doesn't necessarily reflect that the economy is doing well.
"I think there's a demand for more variety and for more stores that have become popular in the States," said Cugnet. "It also seems that women tend to keep shopping during a recession, and Victoria's Secret is definitely geared towards women."
Cugnet said what keeps people shopping at this specific store is the way it makes women feel.
"When I wear clothing from Victoria's Secret, I feel sexy," Cugnet said. "There's something about it that makes you feel good, whether it be their lingerie, bathing suits or their Pink sweat-suit line."
Speight added: "Women are crazy about Victoria's Secret because they have fantastic, beautiful and high-quality products."
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Shaun Derry: Cambridge United showed character to claim dramatic 3-2 win over Newport County in League 2
Cambridge United manager Shaun Derry was proud of the courage shown by his players after they fought back to beat Newport County 3-2 in League 2
Michael Vaughton
Cambridge United manager Shaun Derry. (Image: Getty Images)
Shaun Derry hailed his Cambridge United side for holding their nerve and plugging away as they came from behind to claim a dramatic 3-2 victory over Newport County in Sky Bet League Two.
The hosts had numerous shots saved by visiting goalkeeper Joe Day and cleared off the line before finding themselves 2-0 down to a couple of strikes from former U’s striker Ryan Bird at the Cambs Glass Stadium.
But headers from substitute Barry Corr and Leon Legge levelled matters, before the Welsh side had Mitchell Rose sent off for a foul on Luke Berry inside the six-yard box in the 90th minute.
With Berry receiving treatment and Corr told to go off by referee Trevor Kettle to have a previous head wound looked at, George Maris took the penalty.
His shot was saved by Day, but defender Mark Roberts pounced to bury the rebound.
Cambridge United vs Newport County live score updates: Odds, predictions, action from League 2 game
“It was a big disappointment finding us 2-0 down as I never felt we deserved it, especially after the first-half showing,” said U’s boss Derry.
“I couldn’t believe we hadn’t got the ascendancy at half time, but that just highlights what the league’s all about – it’s about going to the 95th minute.
“We did it on Tuesday against Yeovil (claiming a late draw) and we’ve done it again today, so it just highlights what types of characters we’ve got in the ranks and good players as well.
“We kept to the plan, kept our nerve, plugged away and got three important goals.”
Both Newport goals came two minutes after shot-stopper Day had produced excellent saves.
“It was incredible. It also happened on Tuesday night on the back of some domination and positive bits of play from us,” said Derry.
“To concede in the way we did was poor on our behalf. There are a lot of mistakes made at our level, and I understand that, but the mistakes we’re making at the moment have been costly because I think the performances generally over the last seven or eight games have been good.
“Our defenders will be disappointed with the goals we’ve conceded, but to get them (Roberts and Legge) both on the score sheet is a massive bonus.
“I’m pleased for Mark and pleased for him to have that foresight – it’s great somebody’s grabbed it by the scruff of the neck and got the winner.”
Corr came on at half time for the injured Paul Lewis, who had been playing well but sustained a broken nose, and made an immediate impact.
“I think he (Corr) lifted the stadium when he came on the pitch,” said Derry. “We’ve been waiting for that talisman and for our goal scorer to come back, and we’ve had to be really patient.
“When Barry stepped onto the pitch I think it really gave everyone a buzz, and for him to get the first goal just gave everyone that added incentive to get right behind us.
“And I thought the fans in the second half were excellent, absolutely excellent.”
Newport were incensed with the late penalty decision which saw Rose shown a red card.
Derry felt the referee made the right call having seen a replay of the incident, although he was unsure as to why Corr was not allowed to remain on the pitch to take the spot kick.
“Blood wasn’t flowing, that was the interesting part of it. There was no blood showing whatsoever, so it was a strange decision to allow both of our penalty takers to be off the pitch,” said Derry.
“But we got the goal and it was a penalty. I’ve looked at it and it was a clear penalty, so the referee made the right decision.”
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
Clostridiu...
Litvin, Marina Reske, Kimberly A. Mayfield, Jennie McMullen, Kathleen M. Georgantopoulos, Peter Copper, Susan Hoppe-Bauer, Joan E. Fraser, Victoria J. Warren, David K. and Dubberke, Erik R. 2009. Identification of a Pseudo-Outbreak of Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) and the Effect of Repeated Testing, Sensitivity, and Specificity on Perceived Prevalence of CDI. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, Vol. 30, Issue. 12, p. 1166.
Simor, Andrew E. 2010. Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of Clostridium difficile Infection in Long-Term Care Facilities: A Review. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Vol. 58, Issue. 8, p. 1556.
Burns, Karen Skally, Mairead Solomon, Katie Scott, Louise McDermott, Sinead O'Flanagan, Darina Fanning, Seamus Kyne, Lorraine Fenelon, Lynda and Fitzpatrick, Fidelma 2010. Clostridium difficile Infection in the Republic of Ireland: Results of a 1-Month National Surveillance and Ribotyping Project, March 2009. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, Vol. 31, Issue. 10, p. 1085.
Khanna, Sahil and Pardi, Darrell S 2010. The growing incidence and severity ofClostridium difficileinfection in inpatient and outpatient settings. Expert Review of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Vol. 4, Issue. 4, p. 409.
Dubberke, Erik R. Butler, Anne M. Yokoe, Deborah S. Mayer, Jeanmarie Hota, Bala Mangino, Julie E. Khan, Yosef M. Popovich, Kyle J. and Fraser, Victoria J. 2010. Multicenter Study of Clostridium difficile Infection Rates from 2000 to 2006. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, Vol. 31, Issue. 10, p. 1030.
Kirk, M.D. Hall, G.V. Veitch, M.G.K. and Becker, N. 2010. Assessing the incidence of gastroenteritis among elderly people living in long term care facilities. Journal of Hospital Infection, Vol. 76, Issue. 1, p. 12.
Zilberberg, Marya D. Tabak, Ying P. Sievert, Dawn M. Derby, Karen G. Johannes, Richard S. Sun, Xiaowu and McDonald, L. Clifford 2011. Using Electronic Health Information to Risk-Stratify Rates of Clostridium difficile Infection in US Hospitals. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, Vol. 32, Issue. 07, p. 649.
2011. Hospital Airborne Infection Control. p. 217.
Polgreen, Philip M. Yang, Ming Kuntz, Jennifer L. Laxminarayan, Ramanan and Cavanaugh, Joseph E. 2011. Using Oral Vancomycin Prescriptions as a Proxy Measure for Clostridium difficile Infections: A Spatial and Time Series Analysis. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, Vol. 32, Issue. 07, p. 723.
Guerrero, Dubert M. Nerandzic, Michelle M. Jury, Lucy A. Chang, Shelley Jump, Robin L. and Donskey, Curtis J. 2011. Clostridium difficile Infection in a Department of Veterans Affairs Long-Term Care Facility. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, Vol. 32, Issue. 05, p. 513.
Benoit, Stephen R. McDonald, L. Clifford English, Roseanne and Tokars, Jerome I. 2011. Automated Surveillance of Clostridium difficile Infections Using BioSense. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, Vol. 32, Issue. 01, p. 26.
Barbut, Frédéric Jones, Gabrielle and Eckert, Catherine 2011. Epidemiology and control of Clostridium difficile infections in healthcare settings. Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, Vol. 24, Issue. 4, p. 370.
Black, Stephanie R. Weaver, Kingsley N. Jones, Roderick C. Ritger, Kathleen A. Petrella, Laurica A. Sambol, Susan P. Vernon, Michael Burton, Stephanie Garcia-Houchins, Sylvia Weber, Stephen G. Lavin, Mary Alice Gerding, Dale Johnson, Stuart and Gerber, Susan I. 2011. Clostridium difficile Outbreak Strain BI Is Highly Endemic in Chicago Area Hospitals. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, Vol. 32, Issue. 09, p. 897.
Dubberke, E. R. Haslam, D. B. Lanzas, C. Bobo, L. D. Burnham, C.-A. D. Gröhn, Y. T. and Tarr, P. I. 2011. The Ecology and Pathobiology of Clostridium difficile Infections: An Interdisciplinary Challenge. Zoonoses and Public Health, Vol. 58, Issue. 1, p. 4.
Dubberke, Erik R. and Olsen, Margaret A. 2012. Burden of Clostridium difficile on the Healthcare System. Clinical Infectious Diseases, Vol. 55, Issue. suppl_2, p. S88.
Cecil, Jane A. 2012. Clostridium difficile: Changing Epidemiology, Treatment and Infection Prevention Measures. Current Infectious Disease Reports, Vol. 14, Issue. 6, p. 612.
Khanna, Sahil Pardi, Darrell S Aronson, Scott L Kammer, Patricia P Orenstein, Robert St Sauver, Jennifer L Harmsen, W Scott and Zinsmeister, Alan R 2012. The Epidemiology of Community-Acquired Clostridium difficile Infection: A Population-Based Study. The American Journal of Gastroenterology, Vol. 107, Issue. 1, p. 89.
Arvand, Mardjan Moser, Vera Schwehn, Christine Bettge-Weller, Gudrun Hensgens, Marjolein P. Kuijper, Ed J. and Heimesaat, Markus M. 2012. High Prevalence of Clostridium difficile Colonization among Nursing Home Residents in Hesse, Germany. PLoS ONE, Vol. 7, Issue. 1, p. e30183.
Han, Zhuolin McMullen, Kathleen M. Russo, Anthony J. Copper, Susan M. Warren, David K. and Dubberke, Erik R. 2012. A Clostridium difficile infection “intervention”: Change in toxin assay results in fewer C difficile infection cases without changes in patient outcomes. American Journal of Infection Control, Vol. 40, Issue. 4, p. 349.
Lessa, F. C. Gould, C. V. and McDonald, L. C. 2012. Current Status of Clostridium difficile Infection Epidemiology. Clinical Infectious Diseases, Vol. 55, Issue. suppl 2, p. S65.
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Clostridium difficile Infection in Ohio Hospitals and Nursing Homes During 2006
Robert J. Campbell (a1), Lynn Giljahn (a1), Kim Machesky (a1), Katie Cibulskas-White (a1), Lisa M. Lane (a1), Kyle Porter (a2), John O. Paulson (a1), Forrest W. Smith (a1) and L. Clifford McDonald (a3)...
Ohio Department of Public Health, Columbus, Ohio
Center for Biostatistics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
Healthcare data suggest that the incidence and severity of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in hospitals are increasing. However, the overall burden of disease and the mortality rate associated with CDI, including the contribution from cases of infection that occur in nursing homes, are poorly understood.
Objective.
To describe the epidemiology, disease burden, and mortality rate of healthcare-onset CDI.
In 2006, active public reporting of healthcare-onset CDI, using standardized case definitions, was mandated for all Ohio hospitals and nursing homes. Incidence rates were determined and stratified according to healthcare facility characteristics. Death certificates that listed CDI were analyzed for trends.
There were 14,329 CDI cases reported, including 6,376 cases at 210 hospitals (5,217 initial cases [ie, cases identified more than 48 hours after admission to a healthcare facility in patients who had not had CDI during the previous 6 months] and 1,159 recurrent cases [ie, cases involving patients who had had CDI during the previous 6 months]) and 7,953 cases at 955 nursing homes (4,880 initial and 3,073 recurrent cases). After adjusting for missing data, the estimated total was 18,200 cases of CDI, which included 7,000 hospital cases (5,700 initial and 1,300 recurrent cases) and 11,200 nursing homes cases (6,900 initial and 4,300 recurrent cases). The rate for initial cases was 6.4-7.9 cases/10,000 patient-days for hospitals and 1.7-2.9 cases/10,000 patient-days for nursing homes. The rate for initial cases in nursing homes decreased during the study (P < .001). Nonpediatric hospital status (P = .011), a smaller number of beds (P = .003), and location in the eastern or northeastern region of the state (P = .011) were each independently associated with a higher rate of initial cases in hospitals. Death certificates for 2006 listed CDI among the causes of death for 893 Ohio residents; between 2000 and 2006, this number increased more than 4-fold.
Healthcare-onset CDI represents a major public health threat that, when considered in the context of an increasing mortality rate, should justify a major focus on prevention efforts.
COPYRIGHT: © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2009
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, MS A31, Atlanta, GA 30333 (CMcDonaldl@cdc.gov)
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Concerts in the Park begin tomorrow--and One-Eyed Doll on Saturday at the Boardwalk
The Soft White Sixties
The annual outdoor concert series, Concerts in the Park, begin tomorrow in Sacramento. 5 p.m. until 9 pm on Friday evenings throughout the summer, mostly local bands and talent, beginning tomorrow with Island of Black & White, Drop Dead Red, Riotmaker, and DJ Epik.
The one I'm most looking forwards too, of course, is The Soft White Sixties on July 10th. If you haven't seen and heard them yet... be there!
Kimberly Freeman, One-Eyed Doll
Then on Saturday evening, One-Eyed Doll is back at the Boardwalk in Orangevale. Gives everyone who missed them last time another chance! Don't waste it... they're wonderful.
The heart, and the art, of Montreal
Street art, Montreal, Canada
So... I was in Montreal for the final one of this year's Marillion weekends (and yes, there will be photos soon, I promise). First visit to Montreal: lovely city, lovely people, and I really enjoyed the French-ness of everything.
Musician, Street art, Montreal, Canada
Walking along Rue Sainte-Catherine, couldn't help but stare at the street art. Vivid, expressive, and sending some very strong messages.
Part of a building on Rue St Catherine, Montreal, Canada
See more examples in the Toon's Tunes Montreal gallery!
One more Marillion weekend... and the sky above the rain.
Ice cracking, Atlantic Ocean west of Greenland
This coming weekend, I will be in Montreal for the third and final Marillion weekend of 2015. You should be there. Really.
It's been a few weeks of intense travelling, and some spectacular views--the concerts, of course, but also from my window seat. Check out these shows put on by Mother Nature!
See more in the From My Window Seat gallery. All taken with Nokia Lumia phone.
Leaving Seattle
Witches. Take a listen. Then go see One-Eyed Doll. OK?
Kimberly Freeman of One-Eyed Doll
While the Marillion Weekends are happening, I'm so attuned to their music, anything else is having a hard time finding ear-space or listening-room, and it's difficult to give anything else the fair hearing a review deserves. New albums are piling up, music that was ordered a while back and recently received; it's gathering dust and probably will until after Montreal.
One album that I can't miss mentioning, though, is One-Eyed Doll's release, Witches. Well worth the wait... if you haven't heard them yet, now is the time. Witches is a mix of heavy rock, theatre and beautiful vocals. Spooky-good. "Prayer", almost orchestral, then "Black In The Rye", more reminiscent of the previous album, "Dirty"... and later in the album, my personal favourite: "Stillness".
Take a listen to "Prayer" here:
And be aware: you really, really won't know the full One-Eyed Doll experience until you've seen Kimberly and Junior live, on stage, in a venue near you. Check their website tour page for dates all over the USA--and if you're in Northern California, head to the Boardwalk in Orangevale on May 2nd.
Steve Rothery Band: delightful!
Steve Rothery, Steve Rothery Band, PZ, The Netherlands
If you have the chance to see the Steve Rothery band live, jump on it. As well as performing at the Marillion Weekends, the bands album, The Ghosts of Pripyat is available now.
Oh, I mentioned it before, did I? Then you should take note already. OK?
The Steve Rothery Band are Mr. Rothery of course, Dave Foster also on guitar, Leon Parr on drums, Yatim Halimi on bass, and Riccardo Romano (also of RanestRane) on keys.
Dave Foster and Yatim Halimi
Steve Rothery and Leon Parr
Leon Parr, Steve Rothery, Riccardo Romano
More photos in the Toon's Tunes Steve Rothery Band gallery.
The story of an unreadable 32-gigabyte CF card: what was lost is now found
From the pit, Marillion Weekend, The Netherlands
Anyone who shoots a lot of photos, whether a wedding photographer, sports journalist, wildlife or music photog, knows that one horrible day, a memory card may fail. You can lose everything that was on the card, if you haven't yet been able to back it up. A 32-gigabyte card can hold an enormous number of images, even when Raw file sizes are more than 20Mb each. What happens when you lose that precious work?
This happened to me on the last evening of the Marillion PZ weekend. I'd had a warning during the afternoon, when a strange error message ("Do you want to format the card? Y/N") (Um, no!) prompted me to switch off the camera, restart and see it was fine, back up the card immediately, and then relegate it to my only-as-a-last-resort memory card. Unfortunately, I had to use it again, late in the evening, as all the others were full. Yes I did think I had taken enough cards with me. I guess that's another lesson learned.
When I went to back up this one card, late at night, it told me there were no images. It lied: I knew there were at least 100 which had not yet been backed up. In the scheme of a 7,000+ image weekend, 100 isn't many to lose, but who knows... that one, best-of-a-lifetime image might be in there.
The secret with an unreadable card (or disk, or any other computer media) is not to do anything else with it. Don't try taking another photo. Don't try writing anything else to it. You need something that will read from the card, but not change anything.
Back home, I tried several different software products, all of which promised to restore data from memory cards, and all of which failed. The majority of these products allow you to try first--see if anything can be found--before purchasing and restoring the files. All worth trying, but in this case, useless.
I could see there was data on the card. But everything said the folder that should contain the images was empty.
Last resort--I took it to Best Buy's Geek Squad to see if they could help. The nice guy there also tried everything: the software they had could "see" the files, but not restore them. It could "see" files of the right size! So they were still there... just not readable. Darnit.
Then he found a software package that I had not discovered online: http://cardrecovery.com. I returned home with my card, downloaded the trial software... and voila! It started discovering the image files. (An immediate indication that this software "knew" image files was that it asks you to select the type of files you are trying to recover--in my case, Canon raw).
Under $40 and not only do I have my lost images back, I also have a few from last year's Aftershock festival, which were deleted each and every time I reused this memory card but which had never been overwritten, I guess. So the software does what it says--finds and restores not only damaged files, but also those that have been deleted.
Something for your toolkit?
This weekend, I'll find out if my one best-of-a-lifetime shot has been restored. I don't think it's in this set, but there are some pics that will make people happy. And that's what counts.
Refugee camps, ISIS, Damascus, 1948... and revisiting Gaza
As I read the news this morning about ISIS (IS) entering a Syrian refugee camp, the Yarmouk camp near Damascus, capturing and trapping around 18,000 people... and then reading that the camp has been in existance since 1948... it's horrific.
Why, why, why are people still living in camps so many years later? This still doesn't make sense to me. In other parts of the world, people have been displaced, gone through very hard times, and then one day grown into new homes.
People shouldn't have to live like that. They should be able to build homes and futures for themselves and their families.
It doesn't always mean going back "home", because that place may no longer be there.
Here's my story of Gaza, and Polish refugees, from 2012. It rings true as much today for me.
Oh and while the BBC broke the news, CNN mentions nothing... nothing. So much for journalism today.
(And maybe the BBC are just being inflammatory... maybe Yarmouk is not a "camp", but an area of Damascus that has long been inhabited by families who arrived there in 1948... it's not clear. Where have all the good journalists gone...)
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The Week: Media news - Eden McCallum reviews Five
The TV channel Five has appointed the independent consultant Eden McCallum to carry out a review of the business.
In October, Five's chief executive, Dawn Airey, warned that there would be a review to reduce costs, which would force redundancies, only one day after joining the business. Eden McCallum is set to make its recommendations before the end of the year, with changes planned for 2009.
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Zavones guest speakers at Marriage as Mission Forum
Joe and Louise Zavone. Photo supplied.
Joe and Louise Zavone will be guest speakers at this year’s Marriage as Mission Forum, Sunday June 2 at St Christopher’s Pastoral Centre, Manuka.
The aim of the forum is to encourage ordinary Catholic couples to understand and value the importance of their own marriage in the current cultural and ecclesial context.
Louise Zavone had only just moved to Canberra in June last year when the inaugural Marriage as Mission Sunday was launched in the Archdiocese of Canberra Goulburn.
She moved from Sydney to serve as an Executive Secretary with the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference and to join her husband Joe who had taken the helm as Principal at St Edmund’s College Canberra at the beginning of the year.
Lara Kirk, coordinator of the Marriage as Mission event, remembers her surprise and delight when the Zavone’s turned up, knowing that Louise had only just moved to Canberra.
“It was so encouraging to have them there. It was a real testament to their commitment to Canberra that they’d give up a precious afternoon on the weekend to join other couples who cared about encouraging a vision for marriage in this Archdiocese.
Joe & Louise met as early career teachers when they were teaching at Mount Carmel Catholic High School, in Varroville NSW. Joe remembers that first awkward conversation starter when he commented on the unusual design of the ‘Swatch’ watch that Louise was wearing at the time. Louise thought it was lovely that someone had noticed but she didn’t realise that it was the beginning of a very special relationship.
They were married in early February, 1996 and they have lived in Bradbury, Camden, Stanmore and Waterloo in NSW until settling in Kingston in 2018.
Joe and Louise have both spent the last three decades in Catholic education.
Louise most recently worked as a Religious Education Officer for Sydney Catholic Schools for almost 10 years and she has served on a number of advisory groups and other organisations, including the Sydney Archdiocesan Justice and Peace Advisory Council.
In her current role, Louise is Executive Secretary to the Bishops Commission for Life, Family & Public Engagement, the Bishops Commission for Christian Unity and Interreligious Dialogue, the Episcopal Panel for Canon Law and the Episcopal Panel for Doctrine & Morals.
Recently she has joined the Women’s Interfaith Network Group here in Canberra and is really enjoying getting to know these wonderful women from a variety of faith backgrounds.
Joe worked at St Patrick’s College in Campbelltown, St Scholastica’s College in Glebe (Deputy Principal) and at Christian Brothers’ High School in Lewisham (as Deputy Principal) before moving to Canberra.
Joe loves being involved in the dynamic faith community that is the Catholic school and derives great energy from seeing young people grow and develop in an environment that offers them opportunities for hope, joy and love in their own specific contexts and worlds. Joe has a particular interest in the development of Catholic pedagogy and the influence of charism on the structures and routines of school life.
As speakers at the Marriage as Mission event, Louise & Joe hope to share some of their journey as a married couple, both the highs and the lows.
Marriage & Family Sunday will kick off with an opportunity for couples to renew their marriage vows at the 11am Mass at St Christopher’s Cathedral.
After Mass there will be a light lunch and Marriage Expo, upstairs in the dining area of the St Christopher’s Pastoral Centre so that married couples can socialise and familiarise themselves with the various ministries, groups and movements within the Archdiocese which seek to support marriage.
Then from 1-3pm there will be a Marriage as Mission Forum during which Joe & Louise will speak, a panel of Marriage Formation Groups will answer questions and couples will have a chance to discuss and propose future directions for supporting and promoting the vocation of marriage.
Register at http://bit.ly/marriage_mission2019 Enquiries: Lara.Kirk@cg.org.au
Cherry tree’s blossoms herald hope for survivors
Chris Gordon- 24 October 2018
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The 90 kDa ribosomal S6 kinases (RSKs) are a group of serine/threonine kinases involved in diverse cellular processes, including growth, survival, and motility.1 BI-D1870 is a cell permeable, ATP-competitive inhibitor of the four vertebrate isoforms of RSK, RSK1-4 (IC50s = 31, 24, 18, and 15 nM, respectively).2 At 100 nM, it also significantly inhibits polo-like kinase 1, Aurora B, maternal embryonic leucine zipper kinase, and mammalian STE20-like kinase 2.2,3 BI-D1870 acts at the N-terminal kinase domain, but not the C-terminal domain, of RSK.2,3
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2. Sapkota, G.P., Cummings, L., Newell, F.S., et al. BI-D1870 is a specific inhibitor of the p90 RSK (ribosomal S6 kinase) isoforms in vitro and in vivo Biochemistry Journal 401(1), 29-38 (2007).
3. Bain, J., Plater, L., Elliot, M., et al. The selectivity of protein kinase inhibitors: A further update Biochemistry Journal 408, 297-315 (2007).
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Trump, Putin agree U.S.-Russia relations have deteriorated
President Donald Trump declared Wednesday that U.S. relations with Russia "may be at an all-time low." Russian President Vladimir Putin echoed the sentiment following his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
Leaders are clashing over Syria, investigations into Russian interference in U.S. election
The Associated Press · Posted: Apr 12, 2017 9:45 AM ET | Last Updated: April 13, 2017
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump were hopeful they could reset relations between the countries. (Joshua Roberts/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via Reuters)
President Donald Trump declared Wednesday that U.S. relations with Russia "may be at an all-time low." His top diplomat offered a similarly grim assessment from the other side of the globe after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
"Right now we're not getting along with Russia at all," Trump said during a White House news conference. It was stark evidence that the president is moving ever further from his campaign promises to establish better ties with Moscow.
The level of trust ... has not improved but has rather deteriorated. — Vladimir Putin , Russia's president
Only weeks ago, it appeared that Trump, who praised Putin throughout the U.S. election campaign, was poised for a potentially historic rapprochement with Russia. But any such expectations have crashed into reality amid the nasty back-and-forth over Syria and U.S. investigations into Russia's alleged interference in the American presidential election.
"It'd be a fantastic thing if we got along with Putin and if we got along with Russia," Trump said. "That could happen, and it may not happen," he said. "It may be just the opposite."
Putin echoed Trump's sentiment Wednesday following his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, saying trust had eroded between the United States and Russia under Trump.
International community denounces chemical attack
ANALYSIS | 'Beyond a red line': Syria attack tests Trump's changing foreign-policy attitude
"One could say that the level of trust on a working level, especially on the military level, has not improved but has rather deteriorated," Putin said in an interview broadcast on Russian television.
He doubled down on Russia's support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, repeating denials that Assad's government was to blame for the gas attack last week and adding a new theory that the attack may have been faked by Assad's enemies.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson enter a hall during their meeting in Moscow on Wednesday. Lavrov said Moscow was trying to understand the 'real intentions' of the recent U.S. missile strike against Syria. (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)
Tillerson reiterated the U.S. position that Assad must eventually relinquish power in Syria, but appeared to take a slightly softer line with Russia.
"We discussed our view that Russia, as their closest ally in the conflict, perhaps has the best means of helping Assad recognize this reality," he said.
Putin and Tillerson know each other well from Tillerson's days as Exxon Mobil CEO. Putin had even honoured Tillerson with a friendship award.
Chilly reception
Earlier Wednesday, Tillerson met with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, who greeted him with unusually icy remarks, denouncing the missile strike on Syria as illegal and accusing Washington of behaving unpredictably.
Lavrov said Russia was trying to understand the "real intentions" of the Trump administration. He said Moscow has lots of questions about the "very ambiguous" and "contradictory" ideas emanating from Washington.
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"We have seen very alarming actions recently," Lavrov said. "We consider it of utmost importance to prevent the risks of replay of similar action in the future."
One of Lavrov's deputies was even more undiplomatic.
"In general, primitiveness and loutishness are very characteristic of the current rhetoric coming out of Washington," Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told Russia's state-owned RIA news agency.
But Lavrov said some progress had been made on Syria at the meeting and that a working group would be set up to examine the poor state of U.S.-Russia ties. He also said that Putin had agreed to reactivate a U.S.-Russian air safety agreement over Syria, which Moscow suspended after the U.S. missile strikes.
Tillerson noted the low level of trust between the two countries.
"The world's two foremost nuclear powers cannot have this kind of relationship," he said.
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Moscow's hostility to Trump administration figures is a sharp change from last year, when Putin hailed Trump as a strong figure and Russian state television was consistently full of effusive praise for him.
The palpable tension hanging over Tillerson's trip spoke to a widening chasm between the former Cold War foes.
"Frankly, Putin is backing a person that's truly an evil person," Trump said in a Fox Business Network interview, referring to Assad. "I think it's very bad for Russia. I think it's very bad for mankind."
ANALYSIS | False hopes? U.S. attack on Syrian airbase raises expectations
FBI reportedly got court order to monitor Trump adviser
Trump said the U.S. had no plans to become more deeply involved in Syria and only fired the missiles because of last week's deadly chemical weapons attack that killed dozens. Turkey has said tests showed sarin gas was used.
"Are we going to get involved with Syria? No," Trump said in the interview, which aired Wednesday. "But if I see them using gas … we have to do something."
Accusations against Moscow
The White House has accused Moscow of trying to cover up Assad's use of chemical weapons after the attack on a town killed 87 people last week.
Trump responded to the gas attack by firing 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian air base on Friday. Washington warned Moscow, and Russian troops at the base were not hit.
The U.S. fired dozens of Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian air force base last week, saying it was in retaliation for the regime's use of chemical weapons against a rebel-held town. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ford Williams/U.S. Navy/Associated Press)
Moscow has stood by Assad, saying the poison gas belonged to rebels, an explanation Washington dismisses as beyond credible. Putin said that either gas belonging to the rebels was released when it was hit by a Syrian strike on a rebel arms dump, or the rebels faked the incident to discredit Assad.
Russia blocked a Western effort at the UN Security Council on Wednesday to condemn the gas attack and push Assad to co-operate with international inquiries into the incident.
It was the eighth time during Syria's civil war that Moscow has used its veto power on the Security Council to shield Assad's government.
'What a shame': Trump's supporters in Russia feel betrayed by missile strike
With files from Reuters
'Beyond a red line': Syria attack tests Trump's changing foreign-policy attitude
False hopes? U.S. attack on Syrian airbase raises expectations
Will Tillerson's Russian Order of Friendship pay dividends in Syria talks?
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Fox 44 Friday Night Football: Area Round
by: Matt Roberts
Posted: Nov 24, 2018 / 12:26 AM CST / Updated: Nov 24, 2018 / 01:14 AM CST
Area Round High School Football Scores
Midway Beats Sachse 56-28
La Vega Beats Melissa 68-21
Argyle Beats China Spring 52-14
Connally Falls to Pleasant Grove 24-6
Lorena Beats Liberty-Eylau 51-43
Gilmer Beats Fairfield 24-14
Franklin Beats Troy 34-7
Cameron Yoe Beats Diboll 59-34
Holliday Beats Clifton 24-21 in Overtime
by Matt Roberts / Jul 17, 2019
COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- The Volley's continue between Texas A&M's Jimbo Fisher and Texas' Tom Herman over the resumption of their rivalry on the football field.
Jimbo Fisher has maintained since he took the job that if it benefit's Texas A&M to play Texas he's all for it. Herman has said on multiple occasions that he wants to continue the rivalry, outlining a few of those reasons on Tuesday at Big 12 Media Days.
HOOVER, Alabama -- Texas A&M will look to take the next step in year two under Jimbo Fisher, a year that will feature match-ups against some of the toughest teams college football has to offer.
The Aggies will see defending National Champion Clemson at their place in week two, before getting into the meat of the SEC schedule that includes back-to-back road games in November against teams that played in a New Years Six Bowl Game.
WACO, Texas -- The Baylor defense will look to improve in their 3rd season under Matt Rhule, and will have several key pieces returning including the leading tackler in 2018, Clay Johnston.
Johnston, a senior from Abilene, has shown flashes dating back to his freshman year, and on the cusp of his final season at Baylor Head Coach Matt Rhule loves what he's seen from Johnston on and off the field.
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Godwin caught 69 passes for 1,101 yards and five touchdowns as Penn State’s top receiver in 2015 and just the third receiver in program history to pass 1,000 yards in a season. He was named All-Big Ten second team by the media and third-team all-conference by the media.
Gesicki caught 13 passes for 125 yards and a touchdown last season.
Penn State running back Nick Scott tries to stop tight-end Mike Gesicki as he runs down the field with the ball during the Blue-White game on Saturday, April 16, 2016 at Beaver Stadium. Abby Drey adrey@centredaily.com
Penn State linebacker Jason Cabinda and Charlie Shuman look for who has the ball during the Blue-White game on Saturday, April 16, 2016 at Beaver Stadium. Abby Drey adrey@centredaily.com
Penn State running back Saquon Barkley runs down the field with the ball during a two minute drill at spring practice on Wednesday April 13, 2016. Abby Drey adrey@centredaily.com
Six Penn State football players recently shared whom they think made the biggest strides this offseason. Some picks, such as LB Micah Parsons, might not be a huge shock. Others should be a pleasant surprise.
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Stratton plowed in again for a short score.
Another BEA punt preceeded a third straight Clearfield scoring drive. After getting flagged for holding at midfield, the Clearfield offense appeared to have stalled, but with a flick of his wrist, Lezzer uncorked another deep ball, this one to Dylan Graham for a gain of 36 yards. A 19-yard run from Lezzer then set up Stratton who scored easily from two yards out to give Clearfield a 21-0 lead just nine minutes into the game.
“He’s a special player and he had a great year last year as a sophomore,” Clearfield coach Tim Janocko said. “We’ve watched him come on and he just continues to get better every week.”
Lezzer got on the board himself with a one-yard run to begin the second quarter then hit Jordan down the seam for an 84-yard passing score to trigger the running-clock mercy rule with 9:46 to play in the first half.
The Eagles (5-3), who got speedy running back Dion Barnard back from injury, only managed two first downs and forced Clearfield into just two third down situations in the first half. Barnard played a few defensive snaps and did not carry the football.
Instead, Dakota Bartley handled much of the load for BEA. Bartley managed to rip off two 22-yard runs in the first half but was held in check by an aggressive Clearfield defense for much of the night.
The Bison notched four sacks and four tackles for lost yardage.
“We played really good defense,” Janocko said. “They had a couple of times where they made a run here and there, but pretty much we swarmed all night. I thought we went to the ball really well.”
Lezzer scored on an 11-yard run in the second quarter before reserve running back Seth Ford capped Clearfield’s scoring with 18 seconds to play in the first half.
Moving the ball in small increments on offense — converting just one of nine third downs — and not able to stop Lezzer on defense, BEA was relegated to making plays on special teams.
Bryan Greene, who made three touchdown-saving tackles on big Clearfield gains, continuously cut around Clearfield’s kickoff coverage unit. Greene muffed the initial kickoff, but was stellar afterward, setting his team up past the 35 six times.
Punter Tony Riley had to be on his game and he responded well. Riley, constantly faced with pressure on punts, narrowly had four punts blocked but still managed a 32-yard average. Riley’s best punt came early in the second with the Eagles trailing 35-0. Riley booted a ball from his own territory all the way to the Clearfield one-yard-line where Greene downed the ball.
But the Eagles’ defense couldn’t capitalize and yielded a 34-yard gain to Stratton on the next play.
“When you’re going against a team and you’ve got a guy like Lezzer there, he’s just Mr. Everything and he does a great job,” Tobias said. “It’s tough because you’ve got to stop him and then you’ve got guys on the outside who can run. They’re a great football team. They’re 8-0 for a reason.”
Lady Eagles celebrate district title
After great season, State College girls lacrosse falls to Downingtown West
Is P-O’s Jon Condo, a 13-year NFL vet, done with football? Condo talks NFL, Philipsburg in Q&A
Philipsburg native Jon Condo, who’s played in the NFL the last 13 seasons, recently caught up with the CDT during a visit to his hometown. He talked in-depth about the love for his hometown, whether last year was his final NFL season and some of the best memories from his career.
MORE HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
Philipsburg’s Emily Whitehead beat cancer. Here’s how her foundation helped others fight on Friday
Here are State High’s plans for the temporary replacement for historic Memorial Field
Centre County athletes honored for success on and off the field with sports HOF scholarships
‘I had so much fun’: 7 county softball players reflect on careers at PSBCA All-Star Game
BEA had one of its best years ever in athletics. Here’s what contributed to its success
How BEA’s Gage McClenahan went from a season-ending injury to committing to Cornell wrestling
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Paradigm, Anthem, MartinLogan Brands Sold to Original Owner
Original owner Scott Bagby, along with John Bagby, have secured 100% ownership interest in 3 audio brands.
At the High End Munich 2019 show last week, Paradigm, Anthem and MartinLogan showcased their latest products. The three companies each hold strong usage positions in the latest CE Pro 100 brand analysis.
Jason Knott · May 14, 2019
Venerable Canadian audio brands Paradigm, Anthem, and MartinLogan have been sold back to a familiar name. Original founder Scott Bagby, along with John Bagby, have announced the purchase of Paradigm Electronics, Anthem Electronics, and MartinLogan Loudspeakers, effective May 10, 2019. Terms were not disclosed.
Scott Bagby, one of the original founders of Paradigm Electronics, continues as Chairman and assumes the role of CEO. John Bagby, who has been active in many areas in the business over the last several years, takes on the role of Managing Director.
“This is an exciting time in the industry and we look forward to the opportunity to move into the future with all three brands. We will continue to maintain and adhere to the core values of each brand as we strive for continuous innovation to deliver products with superior performance and value," Scott says.
"We will continue to maintain and adhere to the core values of each brand."
— Scott Bagby
"We will operate with integrity and respect, building on the great relationships and strong friendships created over the years. This is our commitment to the industry."
Paradigm, Anthem, and MartinLogan are iconic brands all based in Mississauga, Ontario, with a strong history of excellence and a commitment to the industry.
In addition to products that excel on innovation and class-leading performance, industry partners across all three brands can expect a renewed commitment on ease of doing business, focusing on enhanced training and support, the company says in a press release.
Anthem is a premium manufacturer of AV receivers, amplifiers and processors. Paradigm makes high-end freestanding, bookshelf and architectural speakers. MartinLogan makes electrostatic speakers as well as subwoofers.
Related: Paradigm, Anthem, MartinLogan Demo at Munich High End Show
All three brands fared well in the recent CE Pro 100 Brand Analysis:
Anthem is the No. 1 brand of home theater preamps/processors, with a 30% marketshare (tied with Integra for the top spot). Anthem is the No. 4 AVR brand with a 31% marketshare.
Paradigm is the No. 6 most-used-brand of freestanding loudspeakers among the CE Pro 100, with a 27% marketshare. Also, Paradigm is the No. 7 brand in architectural speakers, with a 22% marketshare.
MartinLogan is the No. 10 brand in freestanding loudspeakers with 15% of the CE Pro 100 market.
The Bagbys note that it is a time of change in the industry, and based on their years of combined audio experience and innovative and entrepreneurial backgrounds, they believe they are well positioned to move these three brands into the future.
In 2005, Shoreview Industries, a private equity firm out of Minneapolis, acquired a controlling interest in Paradigm with Scott continuing with a minority position. Together they created SVI Holdings, which then acquired MartinLogan Loudspeakers a short time later.
With the purchase of the three brands completed last week, Shoreview Industries has exited the business.
Jason Knott is Chief Content Officer for Emerald Expositions Connected Brands. Jason has covered low-voltage electronics as an editor since 1990, serving as editor and publisher of Security Sales & Integration. He joined CE Pro in 2000 and serves as Editor-in-Chief of that brand. He served as chairman of the Security Industry Association’s Education Committee from 2000-2004 and sat on the board of that association from 1998-2002. He is also a former board member of the Alarm Industry Research and Educational Foundation. He has been a member of the CEDIA Business Working Group since 2010. Jason graduated from the University of Southern California. Have a suggestion or a topic you want to read more about? Email Jason at jason.knott@emeraldexpo.com
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Jail for former engineer who stole computer items worth S$62,000 from IMDA
File photo of the State Courts in Singapore. (Photo: Xabryna Kek)
By Lydia Lam
18 Feb 2019 11:30AM (Updated: 18 Feb 2019 11:40AM )
SINGAPORE: A former engineer who stole S$62,000 worth of laptops and other computer items while working for the Info-communications Media Development Authority (IMDA) was sentenced to two years' jail on Monday (Feb 18).
Soh Jun Sheng, a 23-year-old Malaysian and Singapore Permanent Resident, joined IT company NCS from Mar 26 last year, the court heard.
This was while he was on court bail for breaking into a house in Chiselhurst Grove to steal S$4,650 worth of electronic items on Nov 16, 2017.
As part of his new job with NCS, Soh provided IT support to IMDA as directed by the NCS service desk, issuing or changing laptops for IMDA employees.
He was given access to a few secure rooms in IMDA, where computers and accessories were kept, and decided to steal from these rooms to pay off debts to his father, close friend and the bank.
Within weeks of joining the company, Soh began stealing items from IMDA, including 30 Lenovo ThinkPad laptops, six iPads, six Lenovo monitors, 17 docking stations, 80 Lenovo power adaptors, 25 laptop bags, and 32 Lenovo mice.
Soh formatted the hard drives of seven of the laptops he stole so that he could bypass security systems originally installed by IMDA and sell them.
An IT associate from NCS made a police report and Soh was arrested on Jun 4. Raids at his home and office uncovered numerous computer devices and accessories, some of which were his own.
Investigations revealed that he had sold several of the stolen items on Carousell under his username "1sell2buy", earning about S$28,000.
All the sold items were recovered from buyers, except for two Lenovo power adaptors which the buyers had sent overseas.
Soh pleaded guilty on Monday to nine charges, including criminal breach of trust as a servant, theft and several charges under the Computer Misuse and Cybersecurity Act.
Another 15 charges were taken into consideration.
ACCUSED HAS GAMBLING DISORDER: DEFENCE
Deputy Public Prosecutor Tan Hsiao Tien asked for a term of at least two years' jail, pointing out that Soh had committed most of the offences while on bail for the first theft charge.
Additionally, he did not make any restitution and the items stolen were worth a large sum of money, she said.
Soh's defence lawyer Henry Lim asked instead for a term of 20 to 22 months' jail, saying that his client had a gambling disorder.
He had spent most of the money he earned from the sale of the stolen goods in casinos, on debts or daily expenses, the court heard.
District Judge Hamidah Ibrahim said she agreed with the prosecution's submissions and that there was a need to send a deterrent message.
She ordered the stolen items to be returned to their rightful owners and granted the defence's request for Soh to have a word with his father before serving his sentence.
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Charity Name Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana Tarrant Area Food Bank Vermont Foodbank West Texas Food Bank California Emergency Foodlink
Location Indianapolis, IN Fort Worth, TX Barre, VT Odessa, TX Sacramento, CA
(90.23) four stars
(95.76) three stars
Financial Rating three stars
A&T Rating four stars
(100.00) four stars
Financial Metrics
Program Expenses 93.8% 96.1% 91.5% 93.1% 98.6%
Admin Expenses 1.2% 1.1% 2.9% 4.1% 1.2%
Fund Expenses 4.9% 2.7% 5.5% 2.6% < 0.1%
Fund Efficiency $0.04 $0.02 $0.05 $0.02 $0.00
Program Growth 0.5% 4.1% 8.1% 1.9% 4.3%
Working Capital 0.31 0.21 0.37 1.04 0.47
Liabilitites to Assets 5.8% 4.4% 4.4% 24.0% 2.3%
Total Revenue $55,675,602 $63,884,152 $23,922,065 $12,889,212 $41,747,586
Total Expenses $45,462,977 $61,702,181 $23,714,436 $12,418,548 $41,035,733
Excess/Deficit $10,212,625 $2,181,971 $207,629 $470,664 $711,853
Net Assets $24,318,304 $14,162,910 $8,754,167 $14,044,299 $19,355,732
% of Expenses $49,453
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Benefits of buzzy classes and how to build on them
By Gabriella Boston
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CrossFit participants do training push ups on kettlebells. (Getty Images)
In this era of CrossFitters, SoulCyclists and yogis, as well as barre, Zumba and Insanity devotees, people often focus on one — and only one — fitness format.
So what exactly are you getting if you are doing only that one particular routine — say, yoga — and what are you missing out on?
We asked a couple of fitness experts and an endurance athlete to guide us through the field of popular fitness routines — their upsides, their limitations and what you might add to them to round out your program.
What you get: Using a ballet barre for balance, you typically will perform a combination of small ballet-inspired movements and static poses that provide isometric training. "A barre class offers a nice combination of balance and coordination," says Anthony Wall, director of professional education for the American Council on Exercise. "It works postural muscles, which improves stability." Postural muscles include both the front body (such as abdominal muscles) and, more important, the back muscles that help lift the body up. Barre also improves muscular endurance: the ability of muscles to sustain force against resistance over time.
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What to add: A barre class is unlikely to improve external-load-bearing strength (as free weights do) or aerobic fitness (as from power walking or running). "So you might add kayaking or hiking for that aerobic component," Wall says.
And maybe some weights: "In order to improve bone density, you need some extra load and impact," says Linda Haupt, regional group fitness director for Gold's Gym on the East Coast.
What you get: A high-intensity interval body-weight class such as Insanity or P90X (both branded products) usually lasts up to 30 minutes and features drills that drive the heart rate into an anaerobic zone — more than 80 percent of maximum heart rate. Gold's Gym uses a version called Grit, developed by the Les Mills brand.
"It's very efficient and includes agility, speed, dynamic jumping and strength — it's full-body," Haupt says. The post-exercise fat burn is higher and longer with this type of training than after aerobic exercise, she says.
What to add: You're not getting much aerobic work with high-intensity intervals, so adding running, cycling or swimming would be a good complement, Wall says.
Haupt says she would also recommend adding some flexibility training.
What you get: CrossFit is a brand that features high-intensity intervals but, unlike Insanity, also uses external loading. "With the high intensity, you are improving your cardiovascular system," Wall says, and the external load bearing improves strength. Other benefits include weight loss and, maybe most important, the social aspect — the feeling of being part of something larger.
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"You could do the same type of exercises elsewhere, but CrossFit offers a community, a sense of belonging that we all want," Wall says.
What to add: Haupt suggests incorporating some mobility and stability work, maybe through yoga. Wall recommends adding an aerobic component, too.
What you get: Indoor cycling can mean long-distance, steady-state drills, Wall says, which can be an excellent way to build aerobic capacity. But the most popular format focuses on short, high-intensity intervals — in other words, anaerobic work, he says. Like CrossFit, it helps improve the cardiovascular system and encourages weight loss. It also strengthens the legs.
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What to add: Wall suggests adding something like boxing to strengthen the upper body and core as well as to work on rotating the body to complement the static body position on a bike.
Haupt agrees and adds that lateral movement (side to side) is crucial for injury prevention for runners and cyclists. Stretching — in particular, hip flexors, gluteus and hamstrings — can help not only with recovery and injury prevention but also with performance.
What you get: Yoga can mean a lot of things, Haupt says, and the benefits will depend on the style of yoga you are practicing. With Ashtanga, a powerful, fast-moving style of yoga, you might get your heart rate up, and with something like Iyengar, where you hold poses for a long time, you might work more muscle endurance, she says. But generally speaking, yoga focuses on balance, flexibility, breathing, relaxation and meditation.
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What to add: A cardio component — whether aerobic or anaerobic — to improve the cardiovascular system, Haupt says. Also, some external load bearing would be beneficial to create more strength and improve bone density.
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What you get: Zumba is a program that incorporates dance and aerobic fitness. Like CrossFit, Zumba has a social component that encourages participants to keep coming back, Wall says. And like any dance-based routine, it improves coordination and balance.
Haupt adds that with all the hip and lateral moves, it also helps strengthen the core and pelvic area.
What to add: Haupt suggests adding a strength component, particularly for the upper body, and additional stretching for the lower body, including hips. Yoga or Pilates could fit the bill.
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Engaging views and analysis from outside contributors on the issues affecting society and faith today.
CP VOICES do not necessarily reflect the views of The Christian Post. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author(s).
CP Current Page: Voices | Wednesday, April 24, 2019
By Ray Pennings, Voices Contributor | Wednesday, April 24, 2019
America is in the midst of a culture war that has fractured social trust. While Americans may not be on the battlefield at home, it increasingly feels like a war is raging for the American heart, mind, and soul. Americans are growing weary of a culture that feels chaotic and negative, and increasingly suspicious of its leading institutions.
Among those institutions, religious spaces are often viewed as ammunition factories in the culture wars or as bunkers for like-minded combatants. Others argue that these spaces offer valuable—if not crucial—incubators of public goods and virtue, and much-needed spaces of belonging.
At their best, these spaces can play a key role in developing a new civic vision of principled pluralism. As defined by philosopher James Skillen, principled pluralism brings different, and even contradictory, perspectives together in the search for justice and the common good. It allows for genuine disagreement without degenerating into the toxic rhetoric that so often passes for debate today.
Independent schools, especially religious schools, are one area that many sadly overlook as a possible incubator of principled pluralism.
Think tank Cardus has been collecting data on American high school graduates since 2011. The Cardus Education Survey has found, for example, that religious school graduates make more charitable donations and are, in some cases, are more likely to have volunteered than public school graduates. Graduates from Protestant schools are much more likely to go on a social service trip and to donate money or goods to an important cause or organization. Catholic school grads are the most consistently positive on giving and volunteering, showing a higher likelihood of volunteering outside their congregation and donating to charity. In other pro-social behaviors, such as political interest, trust in organizations, and an obligation to participate in civic affairs, religious independent school graduates largely match the levels of engagement of public school graduates. In brief, the culture of suspicion independent religious schools face works against efforts to tame the American culture war.
But it’s not just the broader culture that needs to reconsider the value of religious schools. Christians need to do so as well.
Cardus collaborated with Barna Research recently to survey 650 Protestant and Catholic clergy to gather their perceptions and experiences of education, child development, and spiritual formation. Perhaps our most important finding is that churches, parents, and schools are not speaking to one another about education nearly enough.
In fact, the majority of both Protestant and Catholic clergy say they haven’t had a question from a parent in the last year about what school might be best for their child. Of those Protestant pastors who have been approached, just 48 percent said they recommended an independent Christian school. Only two percent of mainline Protestant and 14 percent of non-mainline pastors have addressed school choice in a church setting in the past year, though 19 percent of mainline and 30 percent of non-mainline pastors did so in another setting.
Catholic priests were much more likely to recommend Catholic schooling (90 percent). They were also more likely to address school choice in any setting, possibly because of historical links between Catholic churches and schools.
Places of worship also offer important community spaces where parents, teachers, and church leaders gather to develop a shared sense of meaning in the midst of societal tension and confusion. However, our recent survey of church leaders shows fracture within the church. Faith leaders are withdrawing from key conversations with both parents and teachers on education and faith formation. Further, their hesitation to recommend religious schooling suggests a lack of information about the valuable contributions these institutions make, and the need for stronger relationships among churches, parents, and schools.
Building a society that is deeply diverse and “just” means thinking about those particular spaces or communities of practice that are poised to help cultivate important civic virtues. Religious schools and places of worship, at their best, offer vital seedbeds of belonging, trust-building, and civic formation for principled pluralism. As communities of practice and belonging—based on shared norms and values—these spaces are important incubators of human flourishing, civic virtue, and yes, principled pluralism too.
But faith spaces don’t automatically translate into spaces of grace. Faith communities must come to understand their role, think critically about the challenges before them, and collaborate with one another. Faith leaders play a vital part in driving the needed conversations and collaborations, even in—and perhaps especially in—the sensitive areas of education and civic formation.
Ray Pennings is executive vice-president of think tank Cardus.
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AMD launches its Epyc server chip to take on Intel in the data centre
Epyc is a multimodule SoC based on the 'Zen' architecture of its Ryzen Threadripper PC processor, offering a whopping 32 cores
Marc Ferranti (IDG News Service) 21 June, 2017 06:00
It's not just the folks at AMD who hope that that the company's Epyc server processor, officially launched Tuesday, will break Intel's stranglehold on the data-center chip market.
Enterprise users, web hosting companies and hyperscale cloud providers all want competition and choice in server chips to curb costs and fuel innovation.
"OEMs have been looking for an alternative to Intel for a long time, and with Intel having 98 percent market share I can say that there's absolutely a need, from the OEM point of view and the channel point of view," said Patrick Moorhead, principal at Moor Insights & Strategy.
Judging from specs, performance benchmarks and memory features as well as the supporting voices from software and hardware makers in the data center ecosystem, Epyc has the best shot of any chip to hit the market in years at putting a crack in Intel's dominance.
"For AMD to penetrate the market, win hearts and minds, to create value that customers are willing to pay for, we have to be disruptive," said Dan Bounds, senior director of data center products and enterprise solutions at AMD. "To come in and have a product that looks and smells like the competition really isn't useful."
Though AMD has been teasing Epyc's features for some time, and leaks of spec sheets have been circulating this past week, Tuesday's launch is the first official public unveiling of details for the whole product stack.
The bottom rung features the Epyc 7251, which offers eight cores supporting 16 simultaneous threads, and a base frequency of 2.1GHz that tops out at 2.9GHz at maximum boost. The top of the line Epyc 7601 has a whopping 32 cores, 64 threads and a base frequency of 2.2GHz, with maximum boost at 3.2GHz. Intel's Xeon chips, meanwhile, have up to 24 cores.
AMD's Epyc processor family ranges from eight cores to 32 cores.
As more and more data moves to the cloud, data center servers are put increasingly under stress. Adding cores to processors will help servers react quickly, for example, to search requests as well as recognize images and process video faster.
But the Epyc story doesn't stop at the number of cores the processor offers. All the processors, up and down the product range, offer eight memory channels supporting up to 2666MHz DDR4 DRAM, 2TB of memory and 128 PCIe lanes. TDP (thermal design power), the maximum amount of heat expected to be generated by a chip, ranges from 120W at the low end of the range up to 180W for the monster 32-core model.
To top it off, all of this is offered in a single-socket chip, which can be paired with another Epyc chip in a two-socket system.
At the high end, in approximately the $4,000 range, AMD internal benchmarks show the Epyc 7601 single-socket package offering 75 percent higher floating point performance (for spreadsheets, graphics and games, for instance) and 47 percent higher integer processing performance (for whole-number and text processing, for example) than Intel's E5-2699A v4. Interestingly, AMD benchmarks show 70 percent higher integer performance over Intel in the mid-range, $800 price point level, with the Epyc 7301 facing off against the Intel E5-7630.
At the Tuesday unveiling, AMD has a variety of partners doing demos to back all of this up. Pricing is important, but it's the entirety of the SoC (system on a chip) that gives AMD a foothold in the data center.
"What makes it so attractive is that it's not just AMD selling something for less," said Moorhead. "It's that a single socket server with all of the bandwidth and cores that are available will allow people to make smaller servers so you can have a higher density, and density is key particularly with the hyperscalers or even people in hosting."
Essentially, Epyc allows data centers to fit more servers into a smaller space, saving power, space, and operating costs. The greater the scale, the greater the savings.
AMD's Epyc processor is available in one-socket and two-socket models.
AMD says it's the balance of performance and scalable memory that is its big differentiator. "The floating point performance we believe gets us a seat at the table and allows us then to unpack our memory bandwidth story and our memory performance," said AMD's Bounds.
Having the same memory capability and the same I/O footprint across the product range, from the 8-core version to the 32-core version, is key, Bounds said. "It's a massive, massive differentiator and disruptor over Broadwell and will continue to be so over Skylake," he said, referring to Intel's current and next-generation Xeon architecture, expected to be officially launched in July.
While Skylake will offer a performance hike over Broadwell, the expected 15 percent boost will not be enough to make up the gap with Epyc, especially in the single-socket package, while the memory scalability will also help AMD's new chip to stay competive, Moorhead agreed.
Epyc will be socket-compatible with the next generation of the product family, and it also has a dedicated security subsystem, where AMD is burning cryptographic functions into the silicon of the memory controllers, effectively encrypting memory, Moorhead noted.
This is AMD's third big try in the server market; it has had enough success and failure to say it knows what it takes to be successful.
When it came out with the Opteron Dual Core processor in 2005, offering a twofold single-socket performance advantage over Xeon, it grabbed 20 percent of the market within two years. But a few years later, bugs and postponements in the launch of its Barcelona chip architecture allowed Intel to recapture lost ground.
Then, AMD moved away from X86 architecture and embraced ARM, but Intel made technical advancements such as increasing power efficiency, reducing advantages that ARM offered. Several makers of ARM-based chips have gone out of business and by the time AMD released ARM-based servers, there was little interest.
At the March summit for the Facebook-founded Open Compute Project (OCP), Microsoft said it was working with Cavium and Qualcomm to embrace ARM as part of its Project Olympus next-generation modular system architecture for cloud computing, but that alone is likely not enough to bring about actual deployments of ARM server chips anytime soon.
Meanwhile, also at the summit, AMD announced that it too was working with Microsoft to incorporate Epyc into Project Olympus. Unlike ARM chips, Epyc, which incorporates the X86-based "Zen" architecture of its recently launched Ryzen Threadripper processors for PCs, does not require software makers to rewrite code already tuned to x86.
A big part of AMD's Epyc rollout involves highlighting support it's getting from the industry, including declarations from HPE, Lenovo, Dell-EMC, Asus and Gigabyte. On the software side, Microsoft, Red Hat, VMWare, Xen, Suse and Citrix have certified or are in the process of certifying applications and databases for Epyc.
Ultimately, though, the proof that Epyc can make a dent in the market will come when the hardware makers come out with Epyc-based systems, and users deploy them. Some Epyc servers are expected out in the next few quarters, with ramp-up of production extending into 2018. Likely, cloud providers and hosters will be among the first users.
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CAC IS NOW HIRING A COMMUNITY LAWYER
Applications accepted until: March 15, 2016
Start Date: Immediately upon hire: The Elmhurst-based Citizen Advocacy Center is a more than 20-year old, dynamic, award-winning, nonprofit organization dedicated to building democracy in the 21st century by strengthening the public’s capacities, resources, and institution. CAC is seeking an energetic person who is able to advance our mission by using legal advocacy skills, including public speaking/media relations, writing, and litigation. Lawyers with excellent research, writing, speaking, advocacy, mentoring and litigation skills are encouraged to apply.
Responsibilities of this position are set forth in the attached job description. The ideal candidate will have had at least two years of litigation and advocacy experience and want a long-term career in public interest legal advocacy. Lawyers with less experience but with long-term public interest dedication may apply.
Start Date: Immediately Full-Time
Compensation: $28,000 - $35,000, depending on prior experience and hours worked, with a potential to increase with the growth of the organization and job performance; excellent benefits, including health care, vacation, and pension when vested
CAC is an equal opportunity employer
Interested applicants should email a cover letter and resume to Ms. Maryam Judar, Executive Director at CAC@CitizenAdvocacyCenter.org.
Prior to submission of cover letter and resume, please review the job description as well as the Intern Edition of CAC’s 2015 newsletter, Everyday Democracy, which is posted on the Citizen Advocacy Center’s website, www.citizenadvocacycenter.org.
JOB DESCRIPTION: COMMUNITY LAWYER FOR THE CITIZEN ADVOCACY CENTER
PROVIDE LEGAL ASSISTANCE
Provide legal assistance to citizens and organizations that telephone, visit our storefront office, or email CAC with questions or concerns about the laws that protect and ensure citizen participation in the decision-making process and about issues of public significance. Answer legal questions that are matters of public concern and fit within our mission and criteria of building democracy for the 21st century.
Conduct legal research and public interest litigation at all levels of state and federal court.
Supervise the legal projects of student interns and other volunteers, including cooperating attorneys.
Refer citizens who have legal problems that are outside the scope of the CAC's service or beyond CAC’s capacity.
ORGANIZE COMMUNITIES
Work to promote democracy, teach leadership skills, and maximize power and participation of community groups.
Develop the sustainability of communities through grassroots organizing. This includes building community groups from scratch, developing new leadership where none existed, and organizing the unorganized.
Help community groups organize campaigns and plan strategies that will enable them to advance a community cause. Improve communities by sharing information on issues identified by community members including legal information, raising questions, exploring options and alternatives, setting goals and deadlines, solving conflicts, and creating positive change.
ADVOCATE/ EDUCATE
Educate citizens and youth about how to be an active, informed, and effective community participant through speeches, written materials including lesson plans, one-on-one conversations, and the media.
Advocate on behalf of the democratic process and issues that affect the well being of the communities and the citizens served by CAC, by writing, giving public comment at government meetings and speaking to community groups and professional organizations.
Work with policy makers at all levels of Illinois government to promote policies and practices the increase government transparency, accessibility and accountability
Work with policy makers and educators to build youth civic engagement policies, opportunities and curricula.
MONITOR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS/INSTITUTIONS
Work in collaboration with executive director to manage and facilitate grant programs per objectives established by executive director.
Monitor local governments for abuses of power and undemocratic practices.
Hold government officials and entities accountable when antidemocratic policies are being implemented that dissuade public participation.
Litigate, when necessary, to hold public officials accountable for acting contrary to the public interest or to reform anti-democratic policies.
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Track Work to Affect Metrolink’s Orange County and Inland Empire-Orange County Service
LOS ANGELES – On the weekends of Jan. 12-13, Feb. 9-10, March 2-3 and March 9-10, regular Metrolink service will only be available as far south as the Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo Metrolink Station on the Orange County (OC) and Inland Empire-Orange County (IEOC) lines. The tracks between the Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo and Oceanside stations will be […]
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Illegal Aliens tell of ballot-harvesting in California to flip the House blue
. By Stephen Frank, California Political News and Views In Orange County the Democrats harvested 250,000 absentee ballots—enough to kill off four members of Congress, a State Senator and Assemblyman. Now we find out, through a technicality in the law, the harvesters in many cases were illegal aliens!! “The Times describes how California’s famed ballot-harvestors, […]
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Orange County Releases Official Vote Count and the Numbers Don’t Add Up – One Precinct Has 120% Turnout
Orange County released its official vote count on Monday and the numbers don’t add up. Orange County, a conservative area just south of Los Angeles, California turned all blue after Democrats produced hundreds of thousands of votes weeks after election day using a practice known as “ballot harvesting.” The amount of mail-in ballots counted in Orange County […]
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Orange County’s Booming Foreign-Born Population Coincides with Democrat Electoral Sweep
By John Binder . Orange County, California — once considered a conservative holdout in the blue state — has been electorally swept by Democrats in the midterm elections, coinciding with the region’s booming foreign-born populations. Until the midterm elections, four of Orange County’s six congressional districts were held by Republicans, including Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) […]
Costa Mesa becomes O.C.’s latest city to oppose California’s “sanctuary state” law
By LUKE MONEY . In a contentious vote early Wednesday, the Costa Mesa City Council became Orange County’s latest governing body to declare official opposition to Senate Bill 54, a California “sanctuary state” law that provides expanded protection for undocumented immigrants. The 3-2 decision to adopt a resolution against SB 54 prompted cheers and chants of […]
CA Poll: Majority of OC Residents Oppose ‘Sanctuary Cities’
by TONY LEE A majority of Californians in Orange County oppose sanctuary cities, according to a UC Berkeley Institute of Government Studies (IGS) poll released on Friday. The poll found that 51% of Orange County residents oppose the state’s sanctuary laws for illegal immigrants while 47% approve. Orange County has been leading the anti-sanctuary revolt in the Golden […]
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Orange County supervisors vote to fight California ‘sanctuary’ laws
SANTA ANA, Calif. — The Orange County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to move against the state’s “sanctuary” laws, adding a powerful voice to a growing backlash in some conservative parts of California to the state’s pro-immigration policies.
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California Members of The Remembrance Project at the DACA Counter Rally
Last Thursday, three Orange County Republican Congress Members district offices were protested by Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, DACA recipients, who are members of the group United We Dream. The protests were part of a bus tour that targeted California Republican Congress Members. Counter rallies were staged in support of enforcing immigration laws in front […]
The New San Bernardino – Downtown Station Metrolink Services Now Operating
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Orange County D.A.: Lawsuit Against Planned Parenthood’s business partners DaVinci Biosciences and DV Biologics for Selling Baby Parts
Orange County District Attorney in California announces a criminal lawsuit they are bringing against Planned Parenthood’s business partners DaVinci Biosciences and DV Biologics for the illegal sale of aborted baby hearts, lungs, brains, and intestines for profit. Stay tuned for more information on this breaking story as it develops. If DaVinci Bio is guilty, Planned Parenthood is […]
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Hartsville, SC- Chris Wallace may not have gotten the press his two Hartsville High School teammates got for their work on the mound this past year, but the Hartsville senior did enough to catch the attention of Coker College head baseball coach Dave Schmotzer.
"What really attracted us was that Chris is a pretty good two-way player, with him you get two players in one," Schmotzer said. "We were very attracted by the success he had in the Red Foxes' championship run, he threw three good games in the playoffs. He is a good student and a good citizen, which are two qualities we really look for here at Coker."
Wallace was second on the team in wins, posting a 7-1 record with a 1.27 ERA. In 42 1/3 innings, Wallace allowed 14 runs of which eight were earned. He allowed 23 hits, striking out 38, while walking 12 batters.
He threw the Red Foxes' lone no-hitter of the season, holding West Florence hitless back in March.
Wallace has signed a national-letter-of-intent to attend Coker College and play baseball for the Cobras.
"Coker is a perfect fit for Chris," said Hartsville head coach Corey Lewis. "He is the first player from Hartsville High School to go to Coker in a while to play baseball.
"We are looking for him to do big things at Coker. Maybe this will open the doors for some more of our kids to go to Coker in the future," Lewis said.
Wallace chose Coker College over going to Florence-Darlington Technical College.
"I liked the way Coach Schmotzer talked," Wallace said of his decision to stay in Hartsville to play baseball. "I think he will help me mature in baseball."
Wallace added that he was happy to be still playing in Hartsville.
"It is going to be nice playing in front of a bunch of faces that I know," Wallace said.
Schmotzer has had a lot of success landing Hartsville High School players, one of whom includes current Red Fox assistant coach Michael Camak. Greg Batchelor is also another major local recruit for Schmotzer in past years.
"Having a local kid is a goose bump experience, he will bring recognition to the program, and he will bring fans to the stands," Schmotzer said. "He falls right into that mold of great local players like Michael Camak and Greg Batchelor. It's not about recruiting just a local kid, it's about recruiting the five-star local kids and we got that in Chris."
Wallace's numbers on the mound could have been better, but he spent the majority of his time behind the plate as the Red Foxes' number one catcher. He batted .265 with a home run and 21 RBIs.
While Wallace played in a pair of positions at Hartsville High, Schmotzer is expected to use him as pitcher, a move about which Wallace is happy.
"We expect him to have an immediate impact on the mound for us," Schmotzer said. "We think he will come in and immediately get some good innings on the mound for us. I look for him to get some big innings for us pitching this year, while he backs-up senior catcher Julio Gomez. It is important that we don't put too much pressure on his arm to start."
"Coach Schmotzer told me that I will have the chance to be a weekend starter, and that is something that I would want to do my first year," Wallace said. "Plus, they have a senior doing the catching now."
Lewis feels that Wallace would be able to play either position for Coker the next four years.
"He is more than capable of doing both jobs at Coker," Lewis said. "From what I understand they are going to look at him primarily to pitch. He has command of three pitches and excellent control. When he is on, he is as good as we had this year. He can step right in and get hitters out at that level.
"Everybody understood that Chris was really better than a number three pitcher. He was just stuck in that role, because he was more valuable to us a catcher. He did throw two really good games for us in the playoffs."
Wallace said that Schmotzer told him to start running to get ready for next season.
"I will be throwing out of the bullpen later this summer," Wallace said.
Schmotzer said the main thing that Wallace has to work on is the mental part of the game, which is the biggest difference between high school and college ball.
"He needs to work on his strength, which will come with maturity, and his conditioning, just like all players," said Schmotzer. "He will also have to work on making a mental adjustment to the college game. In college you have to be ready to play every day mentally, so that will be an adjustment at first, but I feel Chris will catch on quickly."
Wallace was happy the way his senior season ended at Hartsville. Not only did the Red Foxes win the state title, but he was selected to play in the North/South All-Star baseball game.
"It (winning the state championship) brought a lot of recognition to Hartsville," Wallace said.
Wallace hasn't decided what he is going to major in at Coker.
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We are very pleased to see the launch of the Barcelona Declaration and proud to join as signatories, sending an important message about the impact of drug use, drug policy and the stigma associated with drug use on women. The Declaration was arrived at during a meeting of people who identify as women, from across Europe and Central Aisa, in Barcelona during February of 2019. The declaration notes that there are various inequalities faced by women globally connected rates of HIV and hepatitis transmission, punitive responses, and the stigma and discrimination faced by sex workers.
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World of Warcraft Legion Review – Amazing New Class, Continent, PvP
Check out the in-depth World of Warcraft Legion review below. Find out more about the World of Warcraft Legion raids and new PVP and PvE modes. See how we rate the game.
World of Warcraft Legion. © Blizzard Entertainment
World of Warcraft Legion is the latest expansion to the massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Blizzard Entertainment. It was announced in 2015 and released one year later, on August 30, 2016. Players continue leveling up from 100 to 110, while adding a brand-new area on Azeroth to explore. The Demon Hunter hero class is available and those who choose it start at level 98.
Key facts about World of Warcraft Legion
World of Warcraft Legion introduces the Demon Hunter as a brand-new hero class, which serves a damage and tanking role.
The game increases the level cap from 100 to 110, while demon hunters start at 98 and are limited to one per server.
World of Warcraft Legion has changed the PVP system altogether, introducing new skills that can only be used in battlegrounds and arenas.
Players get to explore the new continent of Broken Isles and harness the power of artifact weapons.
All classes have suffered major changes in World of Warcraft Legion, at an unprecedented scale compared to previous expansions.
The World of Warcraft Legion games
Some aspect about World of Warcraft Legion are still shrouded in mystery. We know for certain that the core structure has remained the same. After players choose the character they must opt for a PvP or a PvE server and start leveling up. Their choice will determine whether it will be possible for them to attack their peers indiscriminately, or if combat will be restricted to certain areas and battlegrounds. Role-playing servers are still available for both player versus player and player versus environment realms.
Players use a set of abilities, with each new level presenting them with the option of choosing between new skills. Developers chose to make these decisions more important in World of Warcraft Legion. They are also adding a new layer of complexity to the gameplay. The game promises to be slightly more difficult than its predecessors, bearing more resemblances to the original World of Warcraft.
When players die, the character turns into a ghost and is resurrected at a nearby graveyard, while only suffering durability loss to their equipment. In the long run, the weapons and equipment need to be repaired and the costs differ depending on their quality. Players can either travel as a ghost to their corpse and get resurrected or use the spirit healer for the purpose. The downside is that in exchange of being brought to life immediately, players suffer resurrection sickness for the next 10 minutes.
Those who are successful in battlegrounds gain experience pointsand tokens that can be used to purchase weapons and gear. Both the winners and the losers collect honor points and the aforesaid tokens. Those who succeed receive significantly more than the vanquished.
Screenshot of World of Warcraft Legion. © Blizzard Entertainment
Gameplay of World of Warcraft Legion
World of Warcraft Legion continues the events of World of Warcraft Warlords of Draenor, as the mortal races of Azeroth back the full attack of the burning Legion. The MMORPG game marks the introduction of the Demon Hunter class and customizable artifacts that are specific to each class. Players have a new continent to explore which goes by the name of The Broken Isles. They can level up by completing hundreds of new quests.
World of Warcraft Legion players start leveling up from 100 if they already have a high character. Those who have pre-ordered the game have access to a free boost. Player versus player gaming has changed greatly. It features a brand-new PVP honor system that will trigger new talents available exclusively in battlegrounds and arenas. The honor talents are earned by leveling up. That's why those who use equipment from quests and raids will find out that their bonuses will be nullified.
Players have the option of configuring a set of stats specific to their specialization to be more effective in PVP. World of Warcraft Legion introduces artifact weapons, which are significantly more powerful than regular ones. A total of 36 of them are available right from the start. They include some of the legendary weapons wielded by prominent heroes in the franchise. To receive these items, players will have to complete certain quests and the weapons can be upgraded and customized.
Major class changes in World of Warcraft Legion
The World of Warcraft Legion gameplay has changed as a result of modifications suffered by all the existing classes. The specializations changes make some of the classes more versatile. They encourage players to contemplate new ways of harnessing the strength of their characters of choice. In the new expansion, every single class will have its very own order hall. This is where it can pick up exclusive quests, upgrade their weapons and change its look.
The introduction of a brand-new class that goes by the name of Demon Hunter, is an essential pillar of World of Warcraft Legion. The new characters wield demonic magic to kill their opponents and they are truly unique. Savvy World of Wracraft players will notice that they bear some similarities to the death knights. Players who choose them can assume the damage-dealer and tanking role in raids and instances. Demon hunters wear leather armor and fight with warglaives, such as those owned by Illidan.
An interesting thing about the new class is that only those who choose one of the two elvish races will be able to play them. Some restrictions have also been imposed on the number of demon hunters per realm. For instance, players are restricted to a single one and they need to have a level 70 character as well. Their story in World of Warcraft Legion begins when they are freed to help mortal races fight the Burning Legion.
World of Warcraft Legion Pre Release Quests
The hype surrounding World of Warcraft Legion started well before the pre-release quests were available. These missions ramp up the tension and prepare players for what’s to come. It all begins with the confrontation between the forces of Azeroth and the Legion. The opening chapter is massive in scale and features some of the most emblematic characters in the franchise. Don’t hold your breath for a happy ending because this is one of the most dramatic expansions in the series so far.
Blizzard has released one quest chain per week and the first one happens to be the best. The cinematic sets the stage and gets players fully immersed into the World of Warcraft Legion atmosphere. Major changes happen and without spoiling the fun, we can only say that the end will leave you breathless.
Screenshot of World of Warcraft Legion Expansion Reveal
Demon Invasions were accessible for only three weeks starting on August 9 and there were six zones for players to explore. Scattered all around Azeroth they require a bit of traveling, but are definitely worth the effort. Players as low as level 10 can join the fight to repel the invaders and receive a lot of XP points.
The last pre-Legion quest for World of Warcraft Legion takes players to the floating city of Dalaran and fallen Karazhan. Familiar foes re-emerge and those who have played the prequels will find great pleasure in exploring the former dungeon. The quest for the Pillars of Creation will take players to new places and they learn about the Broken Isles. Meanwhile, all six invasion locations are up simultaneously and occur every two hours, with better rewards for killing bosses.
World of Warcraft Legion First Impressions
You only have one chance to make a good first impression. World of Warcraft Legion is supposed to breathe new life into a franchise that struggles to maintain its subscribers. The new release promises to restore its former glory and the first impressions are favorable to say the least. Some of the most memorable cinematics were already released with previous patches. The official unveiling of the game seemingly went unnoticed, except to those dedicated players who were there at midnight.
Given the disappointing manner in which World of Warcraft Warlords of Draenor continued the saga, this was a pleasant surprise. Story-wise, the narrative returns to the format that made the game so popular in the first place. You no longer switch between alternate timelines and main characters return in the spotlight. They look genuinely concerned about what the future will bring and there is an overwhelming feeling of impending doom.
The addition of the Demon Hunter, in conjunction with the free character boost has prompted players to choose this class. Inspired by Illidan Stormrage this class is fast, moves around with dazzling speed and can inflict a lot of damage. The other specialization is tanking, but with damage dealing beings so fun, it’s unlikely to see many playing tank.
The starting zone of this new class looks amazing and is a reason good enough to check it out. The landscape hasn’t changed dramatically, as it did in World of Warcraft Cataclysm. However, the graphics are much better and players now have computers powerful enough to render them properly. At the first glance, any fan of the series will realize that the world design was greatly improved.
New characters and class overhauls
The reason for why prequels failed to capture the lost glory of the franchise, is that they’ve got very little novelty. World of Warcraft Legion promises to change all that and the modifications made so far are truly groundbreaking. Players will notice that the classes they were so familiar with have changed almost beyond recognition. These modifications go beyond the visuals and most core mechanics were altered or transformed completely.
The return of talent trees in World of Warcraft Legion makes you feel like playing vanilla WoW all over again. It’s a bit of work, but the kind of effort definitely worth making and it is guaranteed to keep players hooked for a while. The same goes for the crafting professions, which once again have meaning and add value to the game. The dreadful garrisons are gone and players can no longer craft everything they need within the confinement of those walls.
I can’t speak for all players, but the animations look significantly better for my class. I assume this is the case for all and this makes it a pleasure to discover the new abilities. The introduction of “artifact” weapons has already generated mixed reactions and it’s easy to understand why. On one hand, there is a lot of enthusiasm about the prospect of wielding legendary weapons. Anyone who is familiar with the World of Warcraft lore will instantly recognize them and feel a certain degree of pride wielding them.
At the same time, there are some disgruntled by the fact that everyone is wearing the same weapons. Before jumping to conclusions and bashing Blizzard for this decision, players should remember that the transmog ability is just one click away. There are countless possible combinations and past performance suggests that most players are quick to use transmog.
Questing and leveling up
What killed the fun in World of Warcraft Warlords of Draenor were less engaging questing. Leveling up is again exciting, thanks to superb voice acting and a plethora of diminutive cut scenes. This massively multiplayer online role-playing game was always about atmosphere and the new expansion sets the mood. It is the music that works wonders throughout the single player and adds depth to questing. Developers never had the intention of reinventing the wheel and questing follows the same core principles.
Those who have played all expansion packs so far will surely notice a couple of important differences. Quests flow smoothly and shifting between main missions to side quests feels more natural. The most avid players hit the 110 level in less than one day after the official expansion. While I can only commend them for their passion, I fear that they might have missed out on the very essence of World of Warcraft Legion. Each zone tells a story and Blizzard put a lot of work in designing these new areas.
For the time being, the emphasis is on the main storyline and the few quests. Blizzard has already hinted that the former raid instance Karazhan will return in a different way. Players will instead enter a dungeon with another four companions and defeat the first tough bosses in this expansion. This will also present them with a chance to test the quality of World of Warcraft Legion in terms of raiding. This dungeon will feel like a raid of diminutive proportions, more competitive than regular instances, yet manageable.
With so many players complaining that the latest expansions were too easy, we might have a surprise. Scalable difficulty for rating is unlikely to go away, but the game promises to be much more challenging at high level.
Plot of World of Warcraft Legion
The World of Warcraft Legion plot starts after Archimonde is defeated at Hellfire Citadel, but manages to send Gul’dan through the dark portal. The maleficent creature continues his wrongdoing and after finding the corpse of Illidan, he plots the return of the Burning Legion. The mortal races scramble to contain this threat and once again need to join forces to survive the impending onslaught.
Players learn the power of the new artifacts and master them to destroy the invaders, while learning to trust the Demon Hunters once again. Some characters that were present in previous installments have returned in this expansion, such as Turalyon and Alleria. Most of the action in the game takes place in the new continent Broken Isles, located in the Great Sea.
These consist of six distinct zones which go by the name of Azsuna, The Broken Shore, Highmountain, Stormheim, Suramar and Val'sharah. Fans of the franchise will celebrate the return of the city of Dalaran which harbors in the southern area of the new continent.
Development of World of Warcraft Legion
The World of Warcraft Legion was released in August 2016, but alpha testing started in late 2015. The game is available on PCs and Macs and players could preorder it to receive a free boost and early access to the newly introduced class. The developers chose to keep much of the plot secret, but announced a complete overhaul of both PVP and PVE.
Where can I download World of Warcraft Legion?
Blizzard Entertainment was The World of Warcraft Legion available for download. Those who placed an order before the official release got a one level 100 boost. Overwatch is another game available both on the website and by using the gaming client. The same goes for already popular titles such as StarCraft 2 Heart of the Swarm and Heroes of the Storm.
What are others saying about World of Warcraft Legion?
In anticipation of a new expansion, the fans and professional game reviewers were buzzing with enthusiasm. The pre-release quests allow players to catch a glance and what the new expansion has to offer. Very little is told about the Broken Isles and the creatures inhabiting them. Players and professional reviewers alike were utterly impressed with the dramatic quests and the changes they bring. Some had a hard time letting popular characters go, but most embraced the plot twist wholeheartedly.
The Demon invasions left a lot to be desired for expert players, but were much appreciated by casual ones. World of Warcraft Legion reviews highlight the fact that while defending Azeroth from invading demons, players hone their skills. With the classes and talents changing so much, it takes a while to pick up and master the new mechanics. They provide great practice for the actual game and will help a lot with the learning curve.
The World of Warcraft Legion is expected to set an important milestone for the franchise by making PVP great again. Everyone is watching with interest how the changes made to all the classes will impact the gameplay and how the new Demon Hunter class will perform. As always, the new expansion drew criticism in regard to the new class being overpowered. It is expected for Blizzard to nerf the Demon Hunter to keep PVP balance, therefore competitive.
World of Warcraft Legion tournaments
The World of Warcraft Legion tournaments are not that far-fetched anymore, due to the PVP changes. Honor points and honor talents were introduced, with players leveling up in the PVP scale up to top level 50. From this point onward, players can choose to reset the level by opting in for Prestige mode or keep playing and focus on either arenas or battlegrounds. The former promises to be the most exciting ones and the new challenges have the potential of making these team skirmishes exciting again.
My rating of World of Warcraft Legion
I find it impossible to stay away from any World of Warcraft expansion, but I’m particularly interested in this one. All the changes announced by the developers are music to my ears because it finally looks like they are paying attention to what the fan-base is asking for. I like the PVP changes announced and even though I’m mostly a PvE guy, I’m anxiously waiting to test my skills against my peers. For their commitment to make World of Warcraft a better game, I’ll take a leap of faith with a review score of 9/10.
World of Warcraft Legion promises to open a new chapter in the World of Warcraft series, by revamping PvP and greatly improving the questing experience. Azeroth is once again in mortal danger but the heroes of the Horde and the Alliance step up to face the Burning Legion.
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The story, which is set on the slopes of a bleak mountain, is of an ageing sculptor who has lost all interest in the world around him, and the emotions that come into play when both he and his wife are drawn to others.The clash of symbolism and realistic situations makes this play a tremendous designer’s challenge.
Director Josette BushellMingo had previously worked as a director and actor with the Royal National Theatre, RSC, Manchester Royal Exchange, and Young Vic and created the role of Rafiki in the UK premier of the Lion King. She is a cofounder of PUSH, the major festival celebrating contemporary Black arts and Black artists. Her flare for a strikingly visual, total theatre style provided the opportunity to approach this uncompromising, honest and rarely performed play as a new text.
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Restaurant News Bites: Let the Summer Specials Begin!; a Taste of Summer in Rancho Mirage Returns; and Tons More!
Local Restaurants Offer Splendid Summer Specials
The summer giveth to Coachella Valley foodies … and the summer taketh away.
As for the “taketh away” part: This is your annual reminder to call ahead before heading off to your favorite local bar or restaurant … because it may very well be closed. Some places take a couple of weeks off; others take off the whole damn season.
However, an increasing number of places are choosing to stay open throughout the summer, because they recognize that most locals and even a fair number of sun-loving visitors are, in fact, here. Some restaurants offer up amazing deals, too—which leads me to believe that the summer is the best time to be a foodie in the Coachella Valley.
Here are four of the summer deals out there that have caught my eye thus far:
• Eight4Nine Restaurant and Lounge (849 N. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs) is offering a $29 three-course meal Sundays through Thursdays. I’m partial to Willa Jean’s fried chicken, by the way.
• Bernie’s (69830 Highway 111, Rancho Mirage) is offering a $29 three-course menu daily; options include a 7-ounce cut of prime rib, and Wagyu meatloaf.
• The Purple Palm Restaurant (in the Colony Palms Hotel, 572 N. Indian Canyon Drive, Palm Springs) has its three-course “love to the locals” dinner for $39, Sundays through Thursdays. The almond wood-roasted strip steak sounds amazing!
• Shame on the Moon (69950 Frank Sinatra Drive, Rancho Mirage) is giving diners three great deals: a three-course dinner (soup or salad, entrée and dessert) for $21; and two different four-course dinner menus (soup or salad, appetizer, entrée and dessert), for either $29 or $38, Sundays through Fridays. Wow!
Visit the restaurants’ Facebook pages and websites for more information—and let me know about other great specials not listed here; if we get enough, we’ll publish a roundup of these suggestions at CVIndependent.com!
Taste of Summer Returns to Rancho Mirage
Rancho Mirage restaurants are again teaming up to offer up delicious food at a discount—and benefit great causes while doing so.
Here’s how it works: People can buy $10 wristbands, and anyone with those wristbands will be able to enjoy $4 offers at participating restaurants during the promotion periods: July 7-16, Aug. 11-20 and Sept. 8-17. All of the wristband proceeds will go to an impressive list of charities.
Wristbands are available from the charities themselves; at the Rancho Mirage Chamber of Commerce (71905 Highway 111, Suite H); or at the launch party, taking place from 5 to 7 p.m., Thursday, July 6, at Pirch, also located at 71905 Highway 111, in Suite H.
RSVP for that launch party, and get a list of participating restaurants and charities, at www.tasteofsummerranchomirage.com.
Now open and earning rave reviews: Chef Tanya’s Kitchen, at 706 S. Eugene Road, over in the industrial area near Ramon Road and Gene Autry Trail in Palm Springs. The “plant-based kitchen that’s totally bitchin’” is a vegan restaurant, open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday (with expanded hours until 8 p.m. on Wednesday), helmed by Tanya Petrovna, the founder of Native Foods. Visit www.cheftanyapetrovna.com for more info. … After being closed for nine months due to the sudden death of the owner, Willie Boys finally reopened on June 2. The Morongo Valley barbecue joint and music venue, a popular destination for valley denizens, is located at 50048 Twentynine Palms Highway; get updates and information at www.facebook.com/willieboyssaloon. … The Arrive Hotels empire continues to grow: Chris Pardo and co. christened the Palm Springs Fan Club with a shindig on June 3. What exactly the space, adjacent to Arrive, at 1541 N. Palm Canyon Drive, in Palm Springs? “Palm Springs Fan Club is a cocktail lounge and event space,” according to the Facebook event page for that aforementioned shindig. “Designed with a nod to the iconic wind farms just outside Palm Springs city limits, Palm Springs Fan Club is a playful and unique location for pop-ups, receptions, meetings and weddings.” OK then! In other news, Pardo recently announced an Arrive hotel will be opening in Austin, Texas, in 2019. … Coming soon: Venezia Restaurant and Pizzeria, to the former Spaghetteria/Caffé Italia space at 2500 N. Palm Canyon Drive, in Palm Springs. While a slightly faded sign on the building inaccurately says to expect an opening in “early 2017,” the restaurant’s Facebook page says the opening date is close enough that the restaurant is now hiring. Visit www.facebook.com/veneziapalmsprings for more info. … Just in time for the scorching temps: Vinny’s Italian Ice and Frozen Custard, at 190 N. Palm Canyon Drive, in downtown Palm Springs, is open for business. Get info at www.facebook.com/vinnysitalianiceandfrozencustard. … Popular La Quinta poke joint Pokehana, at 78742 Highway 111, is opening a second location in Palm Desert this summer—and we’re hearing rumors that yet another Pokehana could come to the valley by the end of the year. Watch www.pokehana.com for updates.
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Restaurant News Bites: Chop House Returns, Inside Jackalope Ranch; Local Joints Earn Big Honors; and Tons More!
New: Chop House at Jackalope Ranch
I must confess: Before I walked into the new Chop House for a media preview dinner on Jan. 31, I thought the move by Lee Morcus and his Kaiser Restaurant Group to re-open the steakhouse inside of Jackalope Ranch was a gimmick.
I am a big fan of the Chop House. If memory serves, the first meal I ever ate in the Coachella Valley was at the old Palm Desert Chop House (which is now a Kaiser Grille), and I had many special meals at the downtown Palm Springs Chop House before it closed last year. I was sad to see the Chop House go, and I feared Morcus and co. were simply taking a room inside the sprawling, 660-seat Jackalope Ranch; calling it “Chop House”; throwing some old Chop House items on the menu; and calling it a day.
Boy, was I wrong.
Not only did Morcus revamp and bring back the full Chop House menu; he completely renovated one of the spaces inside the Jackalope Ranch complex, and created a new, dedicated kitchen specifically for the Chop House. He’s treating the restaurants as separate entities: A special occasion here or there aside, diners can only get the Chop House menu in the Chop House area, and can only get the Jackalope Ranch menu in the other areas.
I liked what I saw and tasted. The ahi tuna tartare ($16) was amazingly fresh, and the heirloom tomato and buratta salad ($12) was excellent. Unfortunately, I had to leave early due to other commitments, so I didn’t get to sample any of the main courses, like the 36-ounce Tomahawk rib chop for two ($98, with two sides).
Morcus is clearly taking the new Chop House seriously. He spoke at great length about all of the work he and his team have put into the new space, and talked passionately about the quality of meat he serves—aged at least 28 days, and never pre-sliced.
He also hinted at future plans for the Jackalope Ranch complex: He mentioned the possibility of a separate microbrewery/restaurant concept taking over a third kitchen in the building, and noted that Indio could perhaps use a hotel on some of the adjacent vacant land.
The Chop House at Jackalope Ranch is located at 80400 Highway 111, in Indio. For more information, call 760-342-1999, or visit www.thejackaloperanch.com/chop-house.
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The Incredible Hulk Plays Defense For Terrorism Again, Begs 'Isreal' For Restraint On Palestinian 'Day of Rage'
In the aftermath of President Trump’s decision to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and formally recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s eternal capital, the Palestinian Authority — a longtime terror group, allied with fellow terror groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad — called for a “day of rage.” Now, if it’s a day ending in “y,” it’s a potential day of rage — a complete list of “days of rage” from the Palestinians is longer than the list of bad Nicholas Cage movies. Here are just a few from 2017: Palestinians declared a day of rage in April 2017 to support terrorist Palestinians who were on a hunger strike in prison (the hunger strike wasn’t even real, as video showed); Palestinians called for a day of rage during Trump’s visit to Israel in May; Palestinians participated in a day of rage in July 2017 after Israel installed metal detectors near the Temple Mount following a Palestinian terrorist attack; now they want their fourth round of rage this year alone.
Whoop-de-do.
But the latest three day rage festival from the Palestinians has now drawn the attention of world famous actor and Hulk CGI avatar Mark Ruffalo, who tweeted about “Isreal” (his spelling):
Isreal, please show restraint in the face of these protests. This is a terrible blow to any hope for peace or a life beyond apartheid for your neighbors. Please, all parties, use restraint. https://t.co/PO2PwnuAiD
— Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) December 7, 2017
Ruffalo has a long history of anti-Israel propagandizing. Earlier this year, he retweeted noted insane person Max Blumenthal, who has accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing”; during the Gaza War, he claimed that Israel had blown up a hospital (Hamas was using it as a terror headquarters).
@joelakayaki @markruffalo Sorry, I thought blowing up Hospitals was something that all human beings could agree was off limits.
— Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) July 17, 2014
He then refused to acknowledge the fact that Hamas regularly uses human shields:
@LaneShari1 Do you honestly think these people, these fellow human beings, would use their own children as shields? Use your heart.
He also propagandized on behalf of Hamas after the terrorist group kidnapped and murdered three Israeli teenagers:
Wow. It Turns Out Hamas Didn’t Kidnap and Kill the 3 Israeli Teens After All https://t.co/WpqHckSErT via @intelligencer
Ruffalo’s solution to the Israeli-Arab solution, not coincidentally, is the same as Hamas’: one state, meaning the destruction of Israel wholesale.
@RealBradWesley How about one state? How about solve your differences democratically? Instead of relying on military, rely on people?
— Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) August 3, 2014
Ruffalo’s a great actor. But as great actors repeatedly prove, their ability to read lines and interpret character gives them little insight into the real world and the nature of terroristic evil.
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DevOps' Inevitable Disruption of Security Strategy
Black Hat USA programming will dive into the ways DevOps-driven shifts in practices and tools are introducing both new vulnerabilities and new ways of securing enterprises.
With DevOps principles taking root and reaching greater maturity at an increasing number of enterprises today, security strategists are in for some major disruption of the status quo in the coming years. That's the message being brought forward by a number of talks at next month's Black Hat USA, which will feature discussions on the impact that DevOps-driven practices and tools will have on the security world.
"The way software is being delivered is fundamentally changing. Security, frankly, just has to catch up," says Kelly Shortridge, vice president of product strategy for Capsule8, who will be co-presenting a talk titled "Controlled Chaos: The Inevitable Marriage of DevOps & Security." "There is almost a Copernican revolution right now where the primitive models that we've held dear for decades and are the basis for a lot of security strategies no longer apply to this cloud and microservices world. So we have to rethink things in a lot of ways."
One of the most obvious fronts needing rethinking is with containerized workloads, which are self-encapsulated instances of application components that are changing the face of IT architecture. Containers aren't explicitly a DevOps tool per se, but the DevOps philosophical push to make small, incremental changes to software through automation and microservices — breaking up large applications into smaller, reusable chunks — has been a catalyst for recent container adoption.
On the whole, enterprises are experiencing a stratospheric explosion in containers and an increasing reliance on container orchestration tools as a crucial part of the software delivery and operational toolchain. As evidenced by sessions scheduled at Black Hat, security researchers are already starting to probe the security and resilience of containers and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes. For example, Ian Coldwater, lead platform security engineer at Heroku, and Duffy Cooley, staff cloud native architect at VMware, will present "The Path Less Traveled: Abusing Kubernetes Defaults," a talk that will explore the attack surface exposed by running a default configuration of Kubernetes — essentially exploiting the as-designed features of the platform.
Early exploration and research such as this notwithstanding, the average security practitioner still remains largely in the dark about container architecture, its unique peccadillos, and its inherent risks, says Shortridge's colleague, Brandon Edwards, chief scientist for Capsule8.
"A lot of people sort of just group them up with [virtual machines] or similar technology, but they're not,” says Edwards, who is co-presenting his own talk, "A Compendium of Container Escapes," which will offer a primer for security professionals to get their arms around the basics of the container attack surface. "Containers have completely different security properties, so we're just going through a variety of different ways of how they can be broken and where the security properties of containers exist and where they don't."
Edwards will also bring forward some predictions about the kinds of hacks and vulnerabilities we're likely to see in the next 12 months as security researchers and attackers start truly digging into containers.
The mystery of containers for security people is a microcosm of the larger ripples caused by the disruptions wrought by rapidly changing software delivery methods. Security teams struggling to keep up are still wont to apply old models to the new technologies, which comes down to misperceptions about them, Shortridge says. For example, the false equivalency that Edwards mentioned about containers being perceived as lightweight virtual machines will throw off strategists' thinking.
"So if you're operating off that assumption, then your threat models are going to be all wonky and wrong — particularly if you weren't mapping the workloads and understanding how different systems are working with each other,” she says, explaining that misunderstandings about new technologies also lead to a naïve belief that old technologies can be ported to these modern systems. "So they might think, 'Is there a firewall just for containers?' But that doesn't make any sense, and it's not what we actually need."
That lack of understanding is a microcosm of the larger industry ripples caused by DevOps software delivery methods.
The good news is that for security people who can accept this is where IT is going and are willing to make the pivot to support it, it quickly becomes apparent that DevOps practitioners share many of their goals and that the new mode can open a lot of opportunities to simplify security work, Shortridge explains. This includes foundational principles like system resilience, repeatability, and traceability of processes. She says that the security triad of CIA — confidentiality, integrity, and availability — is likely to morph into what she calls the DIE triad in the modern DevOps world: distributed, immutable, and ephemeral.
"They roughly involve the same characteristics. Distributed computing is similar to availability — you want to make sure that none of your resources are centralized," Shortridge says. "For immutable, that's like integrity. You want to make sure that data stays the same, right? You don't want tampering or modification. And then for ephemeral, you also want to try to drive the value of assets down to zero, to make persistence less valuable, which you can do with a modern infrastructure. In a lot of ways, your job as a security person becomes a lot easier under this paradigm."
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Labour can’t afford to lose its working-class heartlands by backing remain
Political Manipulation
'What is going on with Labour, Brexit and the second referendum? On one level it looks pretty straightforward. In recent elections the party lost many more votes to the Greens and Liberal Democrats than to the Brexit party, through paying the price for Jeremy Corbyn’s Euroscepticism and fence-sitting. The simple solution is to guarantee another vote on any deal with Labour as the enthusiastic party of remain in any such contest. This aligns with shifting demographics in the country and a detectable Brexit remorse. What’s not to like?
Media coverage tends to give the impression that the only people who think that Labour should not back a second referendum are a few MPs from somewhere up north who are scared witless by Nigel Farage and their electors, and a couple of Corbyn’s closest aides. So it appears self-evident the party should stop triangulating, offer some leadership and hoover up the votes of remainers.
This argument also interprets the 2017 snap election, when Labour did surprisingly well, as a “Brexit realignment”, in which Labour gained 30 seats and its highest vote share since 2001. It saw a particularly large increase in vote share among younger voters, gained a 15-point lead among graduates and made significant advances in urban metropolitan areas. It held a substantial lead among remain voters and made significant improvements among social classes ABC1. There is no reason, then, not to double down and embrace a new vote.
Opponents of this orthodoxy, and I am one, say Labour needs to retain a longer-term perspective.
Simply put, we have not won a majority since 2005. Sure, Labour lost more remain voters during the course of recent elections; but the party has lost more voters of the kind who voted leave over the course of a generation. And, critically, leave voters are more impactful in the majority of English marginal seats. This debate has become an unresolved numbers game, an internal stalemate, despite the millions piled into polling by the People’s Vote campaign.
In any case, political parties do not just exist to chase votes. They are traditions built around competing theories of justice and democracy; alternative approaches regarding how society should be organised. For Labour, the Brexit dilemma goes to a tension at the heart of the party regarding its character and purpose; even existence.'
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Zendaya Says Her SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING Character Is Not A Love-Interest
According to Zendaya, she's not playing a love interest in Spider-Man: Homecoming and the characters/roles listed on the daily call sheets were frequently changed to purposely throw off bloggers.
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Filed Under: "Homecoming" Source: THR
Is Zendaya playing Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man: Homecoming? Or is she playing Michelle Gonzales? Back in August, The Wrap and Vulture both reported that Zendaya would actually be playing Tom Holland's love interest in the Jon Watts directed pic, and it was said Watson's role was meant to be a major reveal/plot twist in the film. However, the actress/singer has given a recent interview to The Hollywood Reporter, seemingly debunking that report. "People are going to react over anything. But nothing [about my role] is fact. It’s like, you guys are just making s#^t up at this point and then reacting to it. Whenever we were on set, one of us gets some random character name [on the call sheet]. [Bloggers were] like, 'Oh they must be so and so.' And we just crack up about it, because it’s like, 'Whatever you want to think. You’ll find out.' It’s funny to watch the guessing game."
In examining her statement, it appears that Watts applied a little subterfuge to the call sheet, listing different characters each day just in cast the information ever leaked [which it did - see reports on the Shocker]. So could rumors that Zendaya is playing MJW be attributed to the fact that she was apparently listed as a different character on each daily call sheet?
Zendaya would go on to add, "My character is not romantic. My character is like very dry, awkward, intellectual and because she’s so smart, she just feels like she doesn’t need to talk to people, like 'My brain is so far ahead of you that you’re just not really on my level.' So she comes off very weird. But to me, she is very cool because she’s deep. She’s always thinking about something, always reading."
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Chip and Joanna Are Not Happy With Past Fixer Upper Clients Renting Out Their Homes
You're not the only one who can't believe the "barndominium" is now a vacation destination.
Spending the night in a home renovated by Chip and Joanna Gaines on an episode of Fixer Upper may sound like a dream come true, but not all fans agree. More and more homes seem to be popping up on rental sites like Airbnb and VRBO, leaving HGTV watchers wondering why anyone would have the couple decorate their home, only to move out right away.
According to the Waco Tribune, the homeowners that do this say they didn't go on the show with the intention of securing rental income. But as Chip and Joanna become more of a household name, tourists are flocking to Waco — so it can be tempting to decide to turn your home into a vacation rental and make a pretty penny. Moving forward, the show plans to tackle this problem by screening applicants more thoroughly.
When asked how Chip and Joanna feel about couples seemingly taking advantage of their time on the show, Magnolia spokesman Brock Murphy issued the below statement on behalf of the couple:
"We have no problems with our clients' interest in using sites like VRBO and Airbnb to rent out their homes. In fact, we get it. But we are going to be more strict with our contracts involving Fixer Upper clients moving forward. We want to honor our national viewing audience," he continued. "We want to do remodels for clients' homes. That's the true intent of our show, and we want to ensure that does not get lost in this new vacation rental trend. What started off with perfectly understandable intentions could cast a shadow of a doubt on the much bigger picture, and we are going to do our best to protect that moving forward."
Currently, there are about 12 previous Fixer Upper homes for rent, including the Gorman House, the Mailander House, the Shotgun House, the Barndominium, the Chicken House, and the Midcentury Modern House. The Harp House will be available to rent soon as well.
As the Waco Tribune points out in a follow-up story, these seemingly innocent rentals have the ability to tarnish the Fixer Upper brand. Here's hoping season four introduces us to some sweet families who are actually looking for their forever homes!
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Marrakech to Host World Summit on Protection of non-Muslims in Muslim Countries
OP - January 28, 2016, 03:55 PM
Just found the IslamiCity forum. My first impressions are it seems to be more moderate, adult and rational (but unfortunately less active) than Ummah.Com. Openly athiestic and others members are calmly tolerated. Of course they have the resident 'flat earther'.
No matter, I found this on their site. Hope many positive things will emerge from this Summit
http://www.islamicity.org/9868/marrakech-to-host-world-summit-on-protection-of-non-muslims-in-muslim-countries/
Hundreds of Muslim scholars will meet at a summit in Marrakech from January 25 to 27 to discuss the rights of religious minorities living in Muslim-majority countries.
The summit named “Religious Minorities in Muslim Countries: The Legal Framework and Call for Action” is expected to issue a declaration to protect religious minorities in the Muslim world based on the principles of the Charter of Medina, the first Muslim constitution.
The summit will kick-off in Marrakech on Monday. It will be chaired by the Moroccan Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs in cooperation with the Forum for the Promotion of Peace in Muslim Societies a think tank based in the United Arab Emirates.
According to a joint statement by the organizers, around 300 Muslim scholars, government officials, experts and religious leaders who advocate for the protection of non-Muslim minorities will attend the conference.
This conference comes at a time marked by a surge of terrorist attacks, hate crimes, and the increasing violations to the rights of religious minorities in Muslim countries, namely in the Middle East where minorities flee extremism, the statement noted.
Organizers have chosen Morocco to hold this summit due to its moderate position, appreciation of cultural diversity and its advances in human rights in the last few years.
Morocco is described as a “tolerant” country where Christians do not face persecution nor physical or mental abuse.
This summit presents an opportunity to prove that “violations of religious minorities’ rights are totally at odds with the spirit of peace, moderation and togetherness that have always prevailed among various components of majority Muslim countries,” the statement stressed.
etc .... more if u click link.
BerberElla
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Reply #1 - January 28, 2016, 06:52 PM
It is a tad more tolerant than other Muslim countries on religion, but honestly it is only a tad.
Not so long ago a gay guy was beaten by a mob, before that some teenage girls were beaten due to what they were wearing. So like I said, it's just a tad less intolerant than other countries.
Also you are in more danger in Morocco if you are black African, than if you were a christian. Different focus for the hate.
Inhale the good shit, exhale the bullshit.
But what about the Summit itself? If they come out with some statement or solutions re treatment of minorities? Will people in Muslim countries take notice of it.
Is the IslamiCity forum run by Moroccan Muslims ? So far I haven't seen any egregious remarks about specific sects, but I haven't looked through it thoroughly. Its tenor is just a refreshing contrast to Ummah.com.
yeezevee
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Quote from: puzzlelover on January 28, 2016, 08:13 PM
puzzlelover that news of "Marrakech to Host World Summit on Protection of non-Muslims in Muslim Countries" which is published first in morocco world news.com is nothing to do with islamicity.com forum .. they just linked that newssimilar any religious forum that often links on recent news reports on Islam..
Do not let silence become your legacy
I renounced my faith to become a kafir,
the beloved betrayed me and turned in to a Muslim
Cynical, I know, but it seems like a prime suicide bomber target to me.
Helaine
Reply #5 - January 30, 2016, 02:14 AM
Do they have atheists/Christians/Hindu/whatever speaking there?
It's just pretty damn useless for muslims to discuss treatment of minority without including the minority in question and asking what they experience, what they feel, etc. It's a confirmation bias chamber.
Apparently they had some input from some minorities according to this NPR article:-
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/01/28/464688623/muslim-leaders-vow-to-protect-rights-of-religious-minorities
While some prominent Muslim leaders belittle the plight of non-Muslims in their countries, those who came to this meeting heard testimony from other faith leaders about the conditions in their countries.
Sheikh Sattar Jabbar Hilu, speaking on behalf of his Sabian sect in Iraq, said they and other minorities face killing and deportations, and the situation is getting worse.
which ends thus :-
But this is not the first time mainstream Islamic scholars and Muslim government officials have tried to challenge extremism in the name of Islam. Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institution studies extremist movements. And he worries efforts by these traditional Muslim scholars may not reach the right people.
"One of the audiences you're trying to persuade here are those who are on the fence, young, angry Arabs and Muslims who are looking for something to believe in," Hamid says. "The problem with these kinds of status quo scholars and governments is that they are seen as illegitimate and not credible.
"If you want to convince people who are predisposed to radicalism," he says, "you have to provide voices that they're going to see as legitimate. You don't come with these government-sponsored clerics, who are very much part of the ruling establishment in the Middle East, which itself has been a big part of the problem."
And this is the link to the Declaration issued by the Summit:-
http://www.marrakeshdeclaration.org/marrakesh-declaration.html
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Another building on stilts challenged by locals
Joe Anuta
CityRealty
An Upper East Side preservation group is challenging the city's approval of a tower that would raise some of its condos on stilts to achieve greater heights, better views and higher prices.
The Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts and planning consultant George Janes—who has challenged several of the city's biggest development projects—filed objections to 249 East 62nd St. in early November.
The base of the building seems fairly traditional, with about 15 stories worth of apartments rising from the sidewalk. Atop those units, however, is a mostly hollow pedestal stretching another 150 feet into the air. It contains a few floors of mechanical space with extraordinarily high ceilings, along with some amenity space. Most importantly, it is largely exempt from rules governing how much can be built on a particular plot of land, allowing the height of the overall tower to rise without being penalized with the loss of much square footage. Beginning at around 300 feet up, another 12 floors of apartments are proposed to be stacked on top of the so-called mechanical void.
The group's challenge includes a number of objections to the math used to calculate the size and layout of the building, arguing that it is too big for the site and needs to be differently shaped. But the document also questioned why the city's Department of Buildings ever approves such large mechanical voids, which are becoming increasingly common in Manhattan development projects.
The critics might not get many answers. While these voids have drawn ire from the City Council and the Municipal Art Society, the Department of Buildings has not seemed to mind them. In 2016, Janes and a rival condo tower unsuccessfully challenged a similar void in JD Carlisle and Fosun Group's luxury project at East 30th Street and Madison Avenue. Other towers have employed them without incident.
In this case, the department is still reviewing the challenge. The Florida-based developer, Real Estate Inverlad, did not respond to a request for comment by press time. The firm is partnering with South Carolina-based Third Palm Capital on the project.
Legalizing basement apartments easiest fix for housing crisis: RPA
Pair of illegal hotel operators reach $1 million settlement with city
In-home concierge service Hello Alfred strikes major deal with Related
Sales launch for mixed-use site where Flushing Mall once stood
Retail vacancies remain high, giving tenants more wiggle room
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Charles Leclerc finds praise from F1 front-runners 'amazing', 'crazy'
After having praised heaped upon him by F1 world champions Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel, rookie Charles Leclerc says he finds it "amazing" and "crazy" to be spoken about so positively.
Charles Leclerc says he finds it "amazing" and "crazy" to have received high praise from Formula 1 world champions Sebastian Vettel, Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg following his impressive start to his rookie season.
Reigning Formula 2 champion and Ferrari junior Leclerc stepped up to F1 this year with Sauber, and led the team to its first consecutive points finishes in almost three years in Baku and Spain.
The Monegasque driver has been tipped to become one of F1's future stars, with four-time champions Vettel and Hamilton singing his praises during Wednesday's FIA press conference ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix.
Asked about the comments, Leclerc said it was a huge boost to receive such praise from so many established drivers, having also been complimented by 2016 world champion Nico Rosberg and 2008 runner-up Felipe Massa during the F1 Live Twitter show after the race.
"It feels amazing. Also Nico now, when I was with him in the F1 Live, he spoke very highly about me," Leclerc said.
"Of course I was in front of him, so it was difficult for him to say anything bad! But he still said many good things about me, Felipe also.
"But to have four drivers with so many prizes speaking of myself that way and saying positive things about me is crazy. It’s great to hear that.
"On the other hand I try not to listen at it too much and focus on the job, things to improve myself.
"But it’s always very special to hear those positive things from these drivers."
Brawn: Naive to expect action-packed Monaco Grand Prix
Why ‘complete’ Ricciardo holds all the aces after Monaco masterclass
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Embassy of Ireland, Tanzania
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Bringing Women and Girls Closer to Dignified Menstrual Health Management
Photo credit: East Africa Group 2018
Every month millions of women and girls around the world face the challenge of managing their menstrual period without clean, convenient, comfortable sanitary products. In Tanzania, estimates suggest 85% of girls resort to unhygienic solutions, most commonly strips of cloth, which are difficult to keep clean and more likely to spread fungi and infection, or leak blood onto the user’s clothes. The potential humiliation that results, plus inadequate water and sanitation facilities in schools, results in thousands of school girls missing school due to menstruation.
Global campaigns to improve menstrual hygiene management (MHM) have gathered pace in recent years but policy changes by national governments have been slow in coming. In 2017, the Kenyan government introduced free pads for girls in primary school, raising the bar for political intervention. Development bodies and campaign groups in Tanzania were already calling for reforms. Though free pads for school were rejected as unaffordable, cross-party support was built for the wider issue, especially within the Tanzania Women’s Parliamentary Group.
The Tanzanian Gender Networking Programme (TGNP), a leading gender CSO, saw an opportunity to campaign to further galvanise support for MHM with parliamentarians and policy makers. TGNP in turn called upon experts at Institutions for Inclusive Development (I4ID), a programme funded by Irish Aid, for technical support on the advocacy strategy.
I4ID was invited to chair an informal coalition of actors working on different aspects of MHM. The coalition agreed to pursue a focused, tactical approach, centered initially on securing a VAT exemption on pads, and concentrating advocacy activity around International Menstrual Hygiene Day. The I4ID team engaged with parliamentarians, civil servants and development partners and equipped MPs with precise information about the cost and potential impact of the VAT exemption. BBC Media Action, one of I4ID’s consortia partners, produced two radio programmes focused on menstrual health management.
By the time International Menstrual Hygiene Day (MHD) arrived support was far-reaching. A social media campaign had hundreds of thousands of supporters. More than 45 MPs, plus a handful of Tanzania’s most senior politicians, attended the MHD celebrations in Dodoma. A female MP raised the issue in parliament, securing a meeting with the Minister of Finance. The following week the Minister for Finance announced the removal of VAT on sanitary pads during his 2018/ 19 budget speech.
The cost of some brands of sanitary pads immediately fell and further price reductions are expected as markets adjust, demand rises and distribution channels improve. I4ID is now working with product companies to invest in marketing and distribution, to improve access, affordability and product awareness, and ensure lower prices are implemented by retailers.
Significant barriers to safe menstrual hygiene management remain, but the success of the VAT campaign has demonstrated MPs’ responsiveness to inclusive campaigning and focused advocacy and campaigners are hopeful that their commitment will yield further concrete policy changes that help women manage their periods safely and with dignity.
I4ID is funded by Irish Aid and UKAid since 2017
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International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation – 6th February 2019
Embassy supports Moot Court hearings on Gender Based Violence
Changes to Consular Fees payment Process
From Monday, 15th July 2019 the Embassy of Ireland will no longer accept cash payments for consular services. All payments that are not made online must be lodged directly by the applicant in Euros in the Embassy’s bank account. A receipt of payment must be submitted with the application for the consular service you are seeking.
Ireland Signs New Agreement with REPOA
Ireland Signs New Agreement with REPOA. Supporting Research and Evidence-Based Policy Advice for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction.
Promoting positive and transformative change for women and girls through higher learning institutions
In 2018 Tanzanian activists and development organisations united to call for the abolition of tax on sanitary pads. Their campaign succeeded, bringing millions of girls and women closer to clean, dignified menstrual management as products become more affordable.
The Importance of Female Peacekeepers
An article by Captain Carbery on the importance of female peacekeepers.
Government of Ireland – International Education Scholarship (GOI-IES) Call for Applications
The 2019 Government of Ireland – International Education Scholarship funding call is open.
Today is the International Day of Zero Tolerance of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Female Genital Mutilation is a practice that violates children’s and women’s rights and has the potential to cause serious medical, emotional, psychological and social complications.
Call for Applications for the Emigrant Support Programme 2019 is now OPEN
Through the Emigrant Support Programme, the Government provides financial support to organisations engaged in the delivery of front line advisory services and community care to Irish emigrants, particularly to the more vulnerable and marginalised members of our community abroad, including the elderly.
In Tanzania the Demographic and Health Survey found that 40% of women have experienced physical violence and 20% have experienced sexual violence.
Ireland launches a new partnership with TradeMark East Africa.
Promoting trade and investment in Tanzania and building business linkages between Tanzania and Ireland.
Joint Op-ed by Ambassadors of Ireland, Norway and Sweden on International Human Rights Day
Text of a joint Op-ed by the Ambassadors of Ireland, Norway and Sweden published on the 10th December 2018.
Irish community and Embassy partners celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in Ireland
The Embassy celebrated this historic anniversary at an event with our partners and the Irish community, hosted at the residence of the Irish Ambassador.
New partnership promoting human rights in Tanzania launched
This week, Ireland also launched a new partnership with the Tanzanian Legal and Human Rights Centre to support the promotion and protection of human rights in Tanzania.
Ireland Invests €1.3 (Tsh 3.4 bn) to Support Youth Empowerment in Tanzania
This week, the Embassy of Ireland launched a new partnership with IYF (International Youth Foundation) as part of its investment this year of €1.3 million to support the empowerment of Tanzania’s young people.
Applications for the Courtney Fellowship Programme in Burindi Now Open
2019/20 Courtney Fellowship Programme Call for applications
Girl Power and better health care in Misungwi, Tanzania
Applications for Irish Aid Scholarships Now Open
Applications are now open for the 2019-2020 Irish Aid Scholarship Programme (Fellowship Training Programme).
Next call for AADP applications launched at Africa Ireland Economic Forum
New call for proposals under the Africa Agri-food Development Programme, funded by the Irish Government.
Embassy supports dialogue forum on ending FGM, early marriage and teenage pregnancies
The Embassy of Ireland today supported a dialogue forum on ending female genital mutilation (FGM), early marriage and teenage pregnancy, held at the Dar es Salam University College of Education (DUCE).
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Home > Trailers > One Piece is going open world, and its opening cinematic looks good
One Piece is going open world, and its opening cinematic looks good
News by Matt S.
If any anime property could benefit from going open world, it is One Piece. The anime is about high adventure on the open seas, after all, and what better way to achieve than than to give you the freedom to get yourself involved in adventure on the open seas.
One Piece World Seeker represents a big step forward for the property - or at least an attempt to take the property forward - so hopefully the developer, Ganbarion, can pull it off. It's a talented developer, that has a deep familiarity with the One Piece property, so we're hopeful.
There's not long to wait for the game now - it releases on March 15 throughout the west. Ahead of the launch, Bandai Namco has shared the opening cinematic, and it's everything that you would expect from a One Piece game.
- Matt S.
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The military-themed movie Wolf Warrior 2 features Wu Jing in multiple roles, including director and star, and is set in an unnamed African country facing a civil war. The cast includes Chinese actress Yu Nan and US action star Frank Grillo, who is known for his role as Crossbones in Captain America movies. [Photo provided to China Daily]
Top regulators have issued rules to curb film stars" exorbitant pay and prevent tax evasion, demonstrating the country"s determination to anchor the rapidly expanding showbiz industry to a sound development.
The notice was jointly released by Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, State Administration of Taxation, State Administration of Radio and Television and the China Film Administration on Wednesday.
It reiterated a guideline released in September requiring all performers or celebrities of a production, which could be a movie, TV show, or an audiovisual production tailored for video-streaming sites to not be paid more than 40 percent of the production"s total cost. In addition, the leading cast members" pay must not exceed 70 percent of the total payment to the cast.
Regulators will tighten scrutiny over contracts signed by television show production companies and the participating celebrities to ensure the stars" pay is reasonable, the notice said.
Aside from the effort to fight unhealthy competition of inflating salaries to recruit celebrities, the authorities also will step up punishment against tax cheating and evasion.
Government funds and tax-free, nonprofit foundations are forbidden to invest in movies, TV shows or online productions which feature strong entertainment and commercial characteristics, the notice said.
Recently, an online controversy broke out when a former TV presenter displayed contracts that purportedly showed that a Chinese A-list actor was concealing income.
The actor denied the allegation and the former TV host later apologized and recanted his insinuation.
Chinese tax authorities launched a nationwide investigation on tax evasion practices in the film and television industries earlier this month.
The exorbitant pay to stars would force a production to cut other costs, such as those for costumes, props and post-production, harming its quality and bringing a bad influence to the entire industry, said Jiang Yong, a Beijing-based industry analyst.
Double contracts for the same acting work－with one hidden to promise much higher pay and the smaller copy handed to tax regulators－have existed in the industry for several years, said Zheng Xiaoqiang, a Beijing-based lawyer specializing in the sector.
But Zheng added he believes the notice exemplifies the Chinese government"s determination to fight the illegal activities and create a better future for the industry.
A source who insisted on anonymity said some production companies now give stars more titles than just announcing them as performers, as a way to avoid breaking the rules. The stars can "serve" as executive producers or consultants, with these "jobs" to be paid with extra money not included in pay for acting, the source said.
"Giant stars who can bring in a high box office revenue or a high rating are still rare in China, but the market is huge. So it has led production companies or broadcasters to contend for them with high prices," the source said.
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Oaktree Capital to Sell 48% Stake in Taiwan’s Fusheng Group, Valuing Company Around $1B—Sources
Rick Carew And Fanny Liu were first to report that Oaktree Group LLC is exiting its flagship Asian private-equity investment in a deal that could value the business around $1 billion..
The article as it appeared on Dow Jones:
16:15 HKT: *Oaktree Capital to Sell 48% Stake in Taiwan’s Fusheng Group, Valuing Company Around $1B—Sources
16:15 HKT: *Oaktree Hires UBS to Run Fusheng Sale, Still Early Stages – Sources
16:15 HKT: *Oaktree’s Fusheng Sale Will Offer Two Business Units to Separate Bidders – Sources
16:15 HKT: *Lee Family Owns 52% of Fusheng; Won’t Oppose Oaktree Sale — Fusheng Official
16:15 HKT: Oaktree Capital to Exit Taiwan’s Fusheng Group
By Rick Carew And Fanny Liu
HONG KONG–Oaktree Group LLC is exiting its flagship Asian private equity investment, Fusheng Group, according to people familiar with the situation, in a deal that could value the business around $1 billion and signals the shift of the big U.S. investor away from buying controlling stakes to potential distressed investments in Asia.
Oaktree has hired UBS AG to sell its seven-year-old stake in the Taiwanese conglomerate, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
The sale process of Fusheng, which was worth US$850 million when Oaktree bought it in 2007, is still at an early stage and it is unclear which bidders could emerge.
Oaktree owns a 48% stake in the conglomerate, which manufactures golfing equipment, air compressors, and electronic products. A key provision in its agreement that was triggered in March allowed it to sell its stake, or “drag along” its majority partner, Taiwan’s Lee family, in a sale of the business, even though Oaktree holds the smaller stake.
The “drag along” provision, negotiated in the original deal, gives Oaktree certain protections and a greater degree of control over the sale process, despite the share structure. It is unclear whether the final sale will result in buyers purchasing only Oaktree’s shares or full control of the business. It is also possible that the Lee family could increase their ownership.
A company official at Fusheng told The Wall Street Journal that the majority shareholders won’t contest the sale by Oaktree, whose seven-year-ownership is relatively long for private-equity firms in Asia. “We understand that it is about time for a private-equity firm like Oaktree to seek an exit,” the Fusheng official said. “We won’t oppose that.”
Oaktree made a splash when it took Fu Sheng Industrial Co. private in 2007, valuing the business at over $850 million in one of the largest foreign private equity deals in Taiwan at that point. Effectively, Oaktree bought out the public shareholders. The Lee family rolled over its 52% into the business and the two shareholders worked together to restructure the businesses under the Fusheng Group banner.
Write to Rick Carew at rick.carew@gmail.com
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Musos elated as Samas give reggae its own category
Upbeat Eastern Cape artists now set their sights on top awards
By Zipo-Zenkosi Ncokazi - 15 May 2019
Reggae vibes are set to rock the Samas.
The SA Music Awards have finally given the beloved genre of reggae its own category – best reggae album.
No one could be happier than Mthatha reggae artist Ras Vuyo, who has been nominated in the category for his debut album Diversion, released last year.
Vuyo said: “I was really happy upon hearing the news.
“It made me feel good because I believe I make quality music that is on an international standard. It is about time that we see the SA music industry recognising reggae.”
He said the album was doing really well, especially overseas, where he was nominated for best african reggae artist last year at the Reggae France Awards.
He felt reggae was more celebrated overseas than it is in SA. The fact that reggae was combined at the Samas into a category with dancehall, soul and R&B undermined reggae.
“Reggae music is already not getting enough airplay, so that is the first point of disadvantage.
“I think there are many misconceptions when it comes to the genre, like that reggae music is only for weedheads and followers of the Rastafarian religion, but all those are false perceptions.
“Reggae actually played an important role in the liberation of SA,” he said.
Vuyo said reggae was about the message and that his music was “edutainment”.
“Society has so many issues and we all have to try to find ways to help it heal. Music is a powerful tool and I use my music to send a message, to provoke your thoughts and to revive the mind and soul.”
His song Agenda 2063 was the “African Union's 50-year plan for the unification of Africa”.
He applauded the people who worked behind the scenes to forge the reggae breakthrough. “They made the organisers realise that the genre is big.”
A fellow nominee in the category, Port Elizabeth-born reggae and dancehall artist Nkululeko Madolo, aka Black Dillinger, also received the announcement with excitement.
Commenting on his Facebook page while on tour in PE he wrote: “Dem decriminalisation Marijuana, now they just did the same to South African reggae category Sama finally and officially announced the independent nomination, especially for reggae music. They used to mix reggae with pop, gospel and kwaito lol … Free@last and now what we need is your crucial support South African reggae lovers.”..
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Transgender Kids
Posted on November 17, 2017 November 16, 2017 By Nigel
A little while ago I watched Louis Theroux’s documentary about transgender kids. I was completely engrossed by the show and the stories of children not knowing, or in fact knowing if they are in the right body or if they are the right gender.
Since watching the show I have struggled to decide if it is right for children to be having gender consultations, therapy and in some cases drugs for a gender re-assignment. I will say though that it is the fundamental right of any human being to be who they want to be, and that choice must never be taken away, whatever their age.
One particular case I found of particular interest to me was that of a five year old boy who decided and told his parents that he wanted to live his life as a girl. This resonated with me because I have five year twin girls, and it got me thinking and actually it was a very deep thought that kept me awake for a couple of nights about how I would handle this situation if one of my twin girls decided they wanted to be a boy.
The parents of this five year old boy decided to attend a clinic for consultations and try to find out if in fact the little boy wanted or needed to be a girl. The therapist in charge concerned me if I’m honest with the belief that making a picture in sand could actually give some valuable information about how the five year old was feeling and genuinely felt they were a girl in a boys body. The picture he created in the sand could have easily been done by either of my twin girls.
I personally think Louis Theroux is one of the best documentary makers around today especially on what are considered controversial subjects. A couple of questions he asked left me feeling even more unsure about transgender kids. The first question was to the therapist. He asked her what if at five years old you go down the route of gender re-assignment and 10 years later the person says it was a mistake. Surely waiting until a person can fully understand the decision of gender change is a better way forward? At five years old, your ability to understand such a huge decision is not there. Louis asked the five year old why do like being a girl, and the reply was shocking because it completely highlighted their lack of understanding of such a massive decision that will make their lives more difficult as well as a lifetime of drugs to balance their hormones. Anyway, their reply was it’s more fun being a girl. Surely that is not a reason to start a child of just five years old on their transgender journey.
Back to my original thought now. How would I cope and deal with the situation, if one of my five year twin girls said they wanted to be boy. If I’m honest I’m not really sure, although I am sure that my decision would be not to ignore or dismiss the idea, but to encourage that it would be something that they could decide upon as they get older and more understanding of everything that is involved. Although I might add that I would never stand in their way, and support them, because I would not want to lose my child.
There were many children interviewed on the show of various ages and at times especially with the teenagers, I felt confident that what they were doing what was right for them, but overall I felt they were far from 100% certain. But that could likely be the case as far as adults are concerned. It is after all a life changing decision that there is no turning back from.
One particular dads comment will stick in my mind for a long time. It was not that he was against his 8 year old son wanting to be a girl, but he refused to allow it on the basis that in ten years time his child decided it was a mistake and the father will have the burden of having to live with a decision that he made for his child. This leads me to think that yes if you want to change your gender wait until you are of an age that it is solely your decision.
How would you deal with your child telling you that they want to change gender? I would love to hear your thoughts.
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Alan Herbert says:
I’ve had these same thoughts Nigel, since I listened to a radio programme on this subject.
I agree at that age children are too young to make an informed decision.
It’s a tough one alright and one that I’m sure unless you are in that situation thinking about just leaves more and more questions.
Really interesting thoughts on a complex issue. I doubt I have the mental energy to really run through such scenarios in my head for my little girl – it sounds exhausting! I’ll have to try and track down the show, it all sounds very interesting. #ThatFridayLinky
What a very thought provoking post. I love Louis Theroux’s documentaries although I haven’t seen this one. I think, I could think and assume I’d know how I would react but I bet it’s just like becoming a parent. (In a sense that, pre kids I had all these thoughts and ideals but nothing could actually prepare me for what lay ahead and wasn’t until I was in it that I really understood it with all it complexities)
Kirsty HF says:
I too watched the documentary and was left feeling quite concerned. Such consequential decisions being made by and for such young children. Like you, I’m of the opinion that a child should wait until they fully understand the ramifications themselves before making such life-changing alterations. If a young child wants it that badly and they know they’re being listened to, they should understand the reasoning for delaying such an involved process. Always hard watching these programmes as a parent now! Good food for thought. #ThatFridayLinky
Jamie Smith says:
I think it is a very tough subject. For me, it would be hard at first to come to terms with but I’d fully accept and support my child in their decision.
Ultimately you can’t expect a person to live a life in which they don’t feel themselves. If one of my children was gay it wouldn’t affect a single thing between myself and them.
I’d actually be extremely proud of them as they’ve had the courage to express how they feel and that is a massive step.
Stuart says:
I didn’t watch the documentary but it’s a very topical subject and I’d say wait until their old to make their own choice. I think as a society we place too much emphasis on gender with kids – toys, games, books that are pink or blue etc. We should just let them be kids and enjoy what they enjoy. If it means a boy dressing up as a girl then fine but I don’t think what a 5 year old says needs to be taken literally all the time.
Lisa - Little Orange Dog says:
I started watching it, then realised I’d seen it previously and just couldn’t watch it again, for most of the reasons which you’ve highlighted. I too felt they were far too eager to give drugs to young children. I have no issue with children wanting to live as the opposite gender, but you can allow them to do so without going the whole hog at such young ages. I agree with the dad who refused to make that choice for his child. #thatfridaylinky x
Maria | passion fruit, paws and peonies says:
I would support, explore and openly discuss how they felt until they were older to take steps further themselves. Apart from anything else – medical technology and procedures update and (hopefully) improve so the later the better x #ThatFridayLinky
Tom Cox says:
Really well said Nige. I completely agree with all of this. I often find being a gay man som epeople put being gay, transgender, non-binary all in the same boat but they are all so individual. Being gay isn’t a choice, it’s a sexual preference. Gender identitys go immensely deeper than sexual preference. It’s not about sex 99% of the time, it’s inside of you. At five years old, that’s way too young to make a decision. I like what you said about waiting til you’re 18 so the decision is yours and solely yours. IF, and it’s a big if, you realise further into the process you have made a mistake, then it’s down to you. It’s all so tricky isn’t it? I guess it’s case by case because the last thing we ever wnat is our kids to hide who they are or what they want. It’s so hard. I’ll always remember my brothers mates growing up laughed at me for playing with My Little Pony and mum had a go at them… she supported me no matter what i wanted to do. Exactly how it should be. Great post!
We watched that documentary with great interest and concern because my boy (5 at the time) used to use phrases like ‘I feel like a girl inside’, ‘I feel different’, ‘I don’t like boys things’. He wanted pink rooms and dolls and was very affectionate and effeminate. He wanted to play with girls, not boys and had no interest in sport. Fairies and imaginative play were his thing.
I see both sides of the argument; if you’re in the ‘wrong body’ then the sooner it’s resolved the better, however if we’d plied ahead into that line of things we’d be in a big mess right now. The little man is just a happy poster boy for gender neutrality and it’s since transpired that he has dyspraxia (which makes him think a little differently, affects self consciousness and makes sports more difficult for him). Our thought process at the time was wait and assess but we were ruling out checking out if he may be transgender. We were open to it happening and all the challenges it would bring. We’d love him:her unconditionally but jumping in too quickly and being wrong (as it appears we would have been) would have had huge implications in our child’s life.
Another great post.
Great post – I’m always interested in docs like this, and I’m always a bit torn as to whether children of that age can really make such a big decision. Regarding your quote from the little boy, I wonder whether it is that he doesn’t understand the consequences of that decision, or is it that he just doesn’t know how to articulate his feelings properly yet. It seems to me that people of all ages facing the same dilemma can sometimes struggle to find the words to explain how they feel. Can’t imagine what it must be like for these parents to have to make these decisions.
Fran Back With A Bump says:
I’ve just drafted a similar post actually and will have to watch that documentary now. I think it’s such a tough one to call, you wouldn’t want your child to live their life miserable for being the “wrong” gender but equally what if they changed their mind? thanks for hosting #thatfridaylinky
For one so young, the consequences of making the wrong decision would be disastrous. In fact I recall a documentary some years ago about an Iraqi man who had settled in the UK. Deciding he wanted gender re-alignment, he had it. Several years later, decided it was a mistake and was going to have surgery so he could revert back to being male. Point being, even adults can regret such a major decision. Sure, there are those who know from a very young age. I guess the risk is you are, in these circumstances, condemning them to an unhappy childhood if you don’t permit the surgery at a young age. I think it’s a case of each case is unique but rushing to a decision would be wrong. Thanks for hosting #thatfridaylinky
Very complex topic. I don’t have the right answers but hope I would love my child whatever decisions they wanted to make on such matters. As time goes on and so much stuff in the news is so very challenging, I wonder if we need to really come to terms with valuing “people” rather than specific genders or identities but as I say I don’t have the right answers. I think you are brave to post on this topic in the current climate.
Oldhouseintheshires says:
This is such a great post.
I watched this too and I was uncomfortable with the 5 year old for exactly the same reasons you point out. Many, many children play around with their gender at this age and it may be that they grow up to be gay or transgender but it also may be that they dont. They are exploring their identity in the same way that they play with different toys. However, I have read a lot about this and I think that many transgender people feel they were born in the wrong body from toddlers and that feeling becomes very stressful the older they get. This is why some therapists believe that tackling this early is better for the long term mental health of their patients. I feel caution is a better view. Let a 5 year old wear and play with what they want but change their name and gender? No I think wait. Wait until puberty and perhaps give them puberty blockers and when they are about 15/16, let them make their choice. It’s such an emotive and hard thing though and I felt for the parents when they said they had to grieve for the child they thought they had. #thatfridaylinky
I think children are too young to make such a committed, life altering decision. By all means, let them live as a different gender if that’s what will make them feel happy and complete, but the step to make physical changes to their body is not one to make lightly.
A few years ago I interviewed a guy I grew up with that had his son reveal that he wanted to live as a girl right around that same age. It was fascinating and really got me thinking as well #thatfridaylinky
Laura - Autumn's Mummy says:
I have no idea how I’d respond in that situation. I truly believe that some children of that age DO feel/know that they were born as the wrong gender. But how can you differentiate between the children who do actually need to undergo gender reassignment surgery and those who aren’t going to feel like that forever? I’d be supportive, but I think the risks are too great at that age to start making any big decisions. #ThatFridayLinky
Gosh this is tough one to call, it’s important that you support your child and want them to be happy but could they change their mind as they grow #thatfridaylinky
I’ve watched shows on this before and they said that five year olds KNOW that they were born into the wrong body. I struggle with this as most five year olds change their minds on everything so often. Now don’t get me wrong I’m not against any f this. If my children said this to me I wouldn’t ignore it but then I would start them on a journey that could be the wrong decision.
I understand what the ‘professionals’ say that it is ‘easier’ to start the journey pre-puberty but just because it is ‘easier’ doesn’t mean it is right. I think explore their emotions and feelings and then when they can make an informed decision then they can make it. #ThatFridayLinky
Heather Keet says:
I also feel like children can explore roles without making the permanent commitment of surgery until they are legally old enough to do so for themselves. We always argue that kids need to be tried in court as kids because their brains are not fully developed like an adult. I believe the argument should be the same for gender reassignment. If a boy identifies as a girl, she can use the girl’s restroom, change in a girl’s locker room, dress as a female and be referred to as a she throughout her growing up. No one needs to be concerned about what is under the clothing – she can then decide on surgery when she is an adult. This way you respect the child’s feelings without the permanent decision they may regret.
Bravo to you for being open-minded, there is no better gift you can give to someone! #ThatFridayLinky
I have no idea how I would respond. I simply can’t imagine what it must be like to feel the wrong gender. I only know that I would want to make my children happy #thatfridaylinky
I like to think I’d be ok with it, but untill it happens you never know, will we as parents overthink it? it is such a lifechanging decision, but who are we to stop them if they’re unhappy?? it is such a difficult position to be in!
I do not think a five year old can comprehend the decision of changing gender though. It doesnt matter how intelligent they are, im sorry. They wont get it! #thatfridaylinky
What a tough topic, and a hot one too. Gender fluidity, male, female, them, they… The best you can do as a parent is, to listen, be supportive, seek assistance, and stay open. Who knows just how much we don’t know! I will look out for this documentary. Thanks, for this post. xo #ThatFridayLinky
This is such an interesting post! I really enjoyed that documentary to and it certainly does get you thinking. It’s such a tough one for me as I strongly believe that everyone should be able to be whoever they are without judgement. But would I allow my child to change gender at such a young age, probably not. Although I can’t be sure to be honest. I do know I would always listen, be supportive and understand, although I am swaying towards them being old enough to be responsible for their decisions. It’s a tough one! #ThatFridayLinky
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PUNTERS are being tempted by the prospect of a lightly-raced UK stayer pulling a Melbourne Cup shock for the second year running.
Charlie Appleby-trained Cross Counter has been a late mover in the market in the past 24 hours, shortening to $9 to be third favourite behind Yucatan - which has eased from $5.50 to $6 - and Magic Circle, which remained steady at $8.
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1. BEST SOLUTION (Barrier: 6, TAB odds: $12)
Best Solution's narrow victory in the Caulfield Cup was his fourth in a row and his third Group 1 win on the bounce. The muddling way in which the Caulfield Cup was run makes it a difficult race to assess but he showed good determination to hold off Homesman after going for home about 600m out. The bin Suroor-trained galloper has never raced beyond 2400m, which is obviously some query, but fitness certainly won't be an issue given he's raced eight times this year - all at 2400m. He's drawn to settle in the first five or six from the favourable alley.
Why he can win: He's racing in career-best form, winning five of his eight starts this year. Although they walked in the middle stages of the Caulfield Cup, he exerted a fair bit of energy early after missing the kick from barrier 15 and was still able to sustain a long sprint at the end of 2400m.
Why he can't: No form beyond 2400m. The Caulfield Cup was run about 50L slower than the Caulfield 2400m record, so it was always going to be difficult for the backmarkers to make ground on Best Solution after Cosgrave pinched a margin turning for home. Makybe Diva (2005) is the only horse since Think Big (1975) to carry more than 57kg to Cup victory.
2. THE CLIFFSOFMOHER (9, $17)
Aidan O'Brien-trained galloper who ran an eye-catching fourth at his Australian debut in the G1 Caulfield Stakes, clocking the quickest final 600m, 400m and 200m splits in a fast-run affair. He backed that up with a third in the Caulfield Cup, finishing 1.85L off Best Solution. While his last-start effort was sound, it's a bit concerning how much he wanted to lay in over the concluding stages and if he repeats those antics here, it's hard to see him running a strong two miles. His 1.75L victory in the G2 Mooresbridge Stakes (2011m) at Naas earlier this year reads well given Yucatan finished third in that event.
Why he can win: Both of his runs in Australia have been encouraging and he comes into this with a strong fitness base. Owner Lloyd Williams has made this race his own in modern times.
Why he can't: His racing manners were ordinary in the Caulfield Cup, wanting to duck in behind the leaders in the straight. It's very difficult to win a race like the Melbourne Cup if you over-race or hang at various stages, particularly at the business end.
3. MAGIC CIRCLE (17, $8)
This son of Makfi resumed from a six-month spell to take out the Chester Cup (3749m) by 6L, before repeating the dose in the G3 Henry II Stakes (3264m) at Sandown (UK). Prince Of Arran, an impressive winner of the G3 Lexus (2500m) on Derby day, finished 9L off Magic Circle at Chester, so that form looks solid. The Williams-trained galloper hasn't raced since May and there are conflicting reports about his work at Werribee but his record over two miles is superior to a vast majority of his rivals here.
Why he can win: Has won his last two starts by a combined margin of 12L, smashing Prince Of Arran at Chester and Red Verdon at Sandown. His record on paper suggests he's a typically dour UK stayer but he's really put a space on his rivals over the final furlong at his last couple of starts.
Why he can't: Hasn't raced since May which is a bit of a concern for a horse whose best form is at 3200m+. A firm track would be against him.
4. CHESTNUT COAT (4, $67)
This Japanese galloper was wide early in the Caulfield Cup last start before finding a spot just forward of midfield. He was left flat-footed when the pace quickened at the 600m and drifted through the field before just plugging home in the straight for 13th, beaten 10.4L. It was an ordinary Australian debut but his fifth in the G1 Tenno Sho Spring (3200m) three-back is solid form for this. He was beaten just 1.8L in that highly-regarded two-mile race and finished 1.5L clear of G1 Underwood Stakes (1800m) runner-up Tosen Basil.
Why he can win: His Tenno Sho run over this distance was full of merit. The stop-start nature of the Caulfield Cup didn't suit him so you could forgive his effort there. Drawing barrier four means he should enjoy a lovely run just off the pace.
Why he can't: Although the race wasn't run to suit, his Caulfield Cup effort was plain and he certainly didn't attack the line - clocking a pedestrian 13.02 seconds for his final furlong.
5. MUNTAHAA (13, $12)
Muntahaa's victory in the Ebor Handicap (2816m) last start was dominant, charging from midfield to salute by a widening 3.25L. It's worth noting that the time for the race was the quickest since Caulfield Cup winner All The Good's Ebor victory in 2008. Prior to that, the Gosden-trained galloper finished fourth to Best Solution over 2414m at Newmarket, beaten 4.5L. Jockey Jim Crowley has had three rides in Australia for two wins and a second on Qafila in the G2 Wakeful Stakes - he's in super form.
Why he can win: Was awesome winning the Ebor Handicap in slick time last start which is the race Heartbreak City won before finishing a narrow second to Almandin in this race two years ago.
Why he can't: Well-beaten by Best Solution two-back, albeit over 2414m. He's a horse who mixes his form and can often follow a good run with an ordinary one.
Muntahaa rolls in the sand during a Werribee trackwork session. (Photo by Michael Dodge/Getty Images)
6. SOUND CHECK (16, $31)
Mike Moroney-trained import who was beaten a long way in the Caulfield Cup at his Australian debut. The 10.25L margin is somewhat forgivable though given he dropped right back to the tail in a very slowly-run race. His last 100m was satisfactory and he'll relish the extra distance here and the likelihood of a more genuine tempo. Two-back he was just 0.3L off Best Solution over 2400m at Hoppegarten and his overall form this year has been terrific, posting back-to-back victories over 2800m and 3200m in April/May.
Why he can win: Nothing really went right for him in the Caulfield Cup but he looks much better suited here. He's had five runs at 2800m and beyond for three wins and a close-up second.
Why he can't: His lead-up run in the Caulfield Cup told us very little and certainly wasn't the ideal Melbourne Cup trial.
7. WHO SHOT THE BARMAN (18, $34)
Waller-trained veteran who made his debut back when Moses was playing full-forward for Jerusalem. This will be his fourth Melbourne Cup after finishing third in 2014, 11th in 2015 and fifth in 2016. His last-start fourth in the Moonee Valley Cup (2500m) was his best this preparation, working home from 11th at the 400m to finish 2.4L off Ventura Storm. While victory would certainly shock, he's one to consider for wider exotics on the strength of his G1 Sydney Cup (3200m) win earlier this year.
Why he can win: Won the G1 Sydney Cup earlier this year and his most recent effort was his best since that victory. The booking of big-race rider Ben Melham is a positive.
Why he can't: He's very old. No horse has ever won the Melbourne Cup as a 10-year-old.
8. ACE HIGH (22, $61)
There's no sugar-coating it, Ace High was terribly disappointing in the Caulfield Cup last start and you couldn't possibly back him here based solely on that run. He rolled to the front and slowed the pace to a crawl but was almost the first horse beaten when the tempo suddenly lifted at the 600m. Other than a slow recovery, the son of High Chaparral showed no abnormalities when vetted post-race. If you can forgive that run, there was plenty to like about his win in the G2 Hill Stakes (2000m) prior when clearing out over the final 150m. That Randwick victory was his first since winning the G1 Victoria Derby (2500m) in dominant fashion here last spring.
Why he can win: Won the Victoria Derby by 2L and was unlucky not to win the ATC Derby (2400m) as well when just nosed out by Levendi. He has an adaptable racing pattern so the wide draw isn't a major concern.
Why he can't: Awful in the Caulfield Cup after enjoying a soft run up on the pace. Although visually impressive winning the Hill Stakes two-back, the horses he beat in It's Somewhat and Egg Tart have not franked the form at all.
9. MARMELO (10, $13)
Marmelo finished ninth in this race last year when a $7 equal-favourite. It was a disappointing effort given the run he had in transit but his form since has been outstanding. The son of Duke Of Marmalade finished a close second to gun two-miler Vazirabad over 3000m back in May before recording back-to-back wins at York and Longchamp. At his most recent run he placed second in the G2 Prix Kergorlay (3000m) at Deauville, finishing 3.5L clear of the third-placegetter. That race was the event Protectionist won on his way to a devastating victory in the 2014 Melbourne Cup. Marmelo will carry the same weight as he did last year and is a little older and a little wiser.
Why he can win: He was poor in last year's Melbourne Cup when well-fancied but he's done everything right since. His form around Vazirabad reads very well for this and his work at Werribee has been most encouraging. The horse who knocked him off last start in Holdthasigreen has since won a Group 1 in France over 3000m.
Why he can't: Ordinary in this race last year after winning the Prix Kergorlay.
10. AVILIUS (11, $13)
This Cummings-trained import won his first four starts in Australia before bumping into a pretty handy mare by the name of Winx last start. His Cox Plate effort was solid rather than spectacular, grinding home for fourth, beaten 7.75L. While Avilius didn't exactly savage the line, he was stepping back from 2500m to 2040m in what was openly described by his trainer as a warm-up run for the Cup. His win in the G3 Bart Cummings (2500m) - which was a truer staying test than the Caulfield Cup - was strong, albeit narrow, and he should appreciate being back at Flemington.
Why he can win: He really hasn't put a foot wrong since arriving in Australia and the Cox Plate run should have him at peak fitness for this following starts over 1600m, 1900m, 2000m and 2500m. Trainer James Cummings learnt from the Melbourne Cup master in Bart and should know exactly what it takes to win this race.
Why he can't: He might be a year too early given he's only raced beyond 2040m twice in his career. Even the lightly-raced Rekindling had four 2400m+ runs under his belt when he won last year's Cup.
11. YUCATAN (23, $6)
Recorded a scintillating victory in the Herbert Power (2400m) last start, with James McDonald easing him down abruptly over the final 100m. The final winning margin was 1.25L but it could have easily been 4L or greater. The O'Brien-trained son of Galileo certainly didn't have things all his own way there either, going back early before sustaining a wide run around the field in a race run at a solid tempo. His European form is mixed and he's never raced beyond 2419m so there is a query on whether he can repeat the brilliant level he reached last start.
Why he can win: Melbourne Cup trials don't get much better than his Herbert Power performance, smashing the clock and his opposition. That was his first run in Australia so there could be even further improvement to come second-up.
Why he can't: Sensational last start but he is a bit temperamental and was pretty plain two starts ago on the back of an impressive win. Can he sprint as quickly as he did last start at the end of 3200m? The distance is a query given we've never seen him beyond 2419m. Barrier 23 is no luxury either.
Yucatan wins the Ladbrokes Herbert Power Stakes. (Photo by Vince Caligiuri/Getty Images)
12. AUVRAY (1, $101)
This Freedman-trained galloper isn't a great beginner so he's likely to end up buried back on the fence from the inside alley. Two starts ago he hit the line solidly for sixth in The Metropolitan (2400m), finishing 1.7L off Patrick Erin. He struck a heavy track at Randwick last start and was very plain, labouring home to finish 8.5L off the winner. The veteran stayer finished fourth in this year's Sydney Cup, with Sir Charles Road, Zacada and Who Shot Thebarman beating him home.
Why he can win: Rock-hard fit coming off runs over 2300m, 2400m and 2600m.
Why he can't win: A myriad of reasons. But simply put, he's just not good enough.
13. FINCHE (15, $23)
French import who was poised to strike at the top of the straight in the G3 Geelong Cup (2400m) last start before the fitter Waterhouse pairing of Runaway and Northwest Passage drew clear. Finche, who was carrying 59kg, still worked to the line okay and will strip fitter for this. He was an impressive winner over 2500m at Deauville two-back, beating Tiberian by 1.75L. That galloper ran okay for seventh in last year's Melbourne Cup after covering additional ground.
Why he can win: There was plenty to like about his victory two starts ago and his Australian debut in the Geelong Cup was solid given the winner had a 5kg weight advantage on him. He's only lightly-raced and open to further improvement.
Why he can't: He's never raced beyond 2500m. Northwest Passage, who beat Finche by 0.75L last start, was only average in Saturday's Lexus Stakes (2500m) at Flemington.
14. RED CARDINAL (5, $34)
Weir-trained son of Montjeu who finished 11th in this event last year as a $16 chance. He's had five starts since for one minor placing, which came over 2600m on a heavy track at Randwick two starts ago. His last-start performance in the Moonee Valley Cup (2500m) was plain at best but he should appreciate the extra distance here given he's a two-time winner over 3200m. The blinkers go on for the first time and he's well-drawn in barrier five with Oliver doing the steering.
Why he can win: Has won two from three over this trip. The Weir factor always looms large, even though Red Cardinal's form this campaign has been only fair.
Why he can't win: Beaten 11.25L in this race last year when in much better form. Ventura Storm beat him by a long way last start.
15. VENGEUR MASQUE (2, $81)
This Monsun gelding won the G3 Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2600m) last spring but has done very little since, with zero placings from six starts this year. He worked to the line okay in the Caulfield Cup last start after losing his spot when the pace quickened at the 600m, eventually finishing 4.75L off the winner Best Solution. His effort in the Bart Cummings (2500m) was plain but his overall record here is sound (6:1-2-0).
Why he can win: He ran the sixth-fastest final furlong in the Caulfield Cup and should appreciate the extra journey here.
Why he can't win: Hasn't placed in six runs this year and just isn't going well enough to figure.
16. VENTURA STORM (7, $34)
Lindsay Park galloper who finished 21st in this race last year, beaten 30.15L. He also struggled in the Sydney Cup back in April, finishing 8L off Who Shot Thebarman - so his 3200m form is pretty underwhelming. However, he does come into this race in strong form, having taken out the Moonee Valley Cup (2500m) at his most recent run. That victory followed an unlucky 10th in the Caulfield Cup when stuck in behind runners at a vital stage. The son of Zoffany was just 1.85L off Winx in the G1 Turnbull Stakes (2000m) four starts ago.
Why he can win: Has put together a solid block of form, which is something he has struggled with in the past. Zahra should give him every possible chance from barrier seven.
Why he can't win: His two runs over this distance have been very ordinary. Others look to be coming out of stronger form races than the Moonee Valley Cup where he beat Trap For Fools and Libran.
Jockey Mark Zarra rides Ventura Storm to victory in the McCafe Moonee Valley Gold Cup on Cox Plate Day. (AAP Image/Mark Dadswell)
17. A PRINCE OF ARRAN (20, $21)
A Prince Of Arran is on the quick back-up after taking out the Lexus Stakes (2500m) on Saturday - a victory that secured his place in this field. Jockey Michael Walker admitted post-race that he probably got to the front a bit too early but the horse was strong enough to fight off the challengers, most notably Brimham Rocks who finished half-a-length away. That win followed a terrific third to Yucatan in the Herbert Power (2400m) after being held-up for clear running at the top of the straight. The son of Shirocco has raced over this distance six times for one win and two placings.
Why he can win: His two efforts in Australia have been very good and he gets in relatively light here with 53kg. He was G2-placed over this distance four-back before finishing second to one-time Melbourne Cup favourite Withhold in the Northumberland Plate (3269m).
Why he can't win: Lexus winners have not fared well in this race in recent times, with Cismontane (2017), Oceanographer (2016) and Excess Knowledge (2015) all battling in the Cup. He was good in the Herbert Power, but Yucatan was better.
18. NAKEETA (3, $101)
This Iain Jardine-trained stayer ran home nicely for fifth in this race last year at $41. Unfortunately he's done nothing since to suggest he can improve on that placing, stepping out six times for zero placings. Muntahaa beat him by 7.25L in the Ebor Hanidcap (2816m) three-back, so it's hard to see him turning the tables on that galloper. Nakeeta's last-start performance in the Moonee Valley Cup (2500m) when beaten 14.25L does not bode well for this.
Why he can win: Ran home from 14th at the 400m to finish fifth in this event last year and carries the same weight (53kg) here.
Why he can't win: Beaten 14.25L in the Moonee Valley Cup last start and his overall form this year has been well below average.
19. SIR CHARLES ROAD (14, $81)
Kiwi galloper who beat Ventura Storm over 2600m at Randwick last preparation before finishing third in the G1 Sydney Cup (3200m). His form this campaign has been solid but the fact that he was beaten by Red Alto in the Bendigo Cup (2400m) last start doesn't read overly well from a Melbourne Cup perspective. A bit of sting out of the track would help his cause.
Why he can win: Rarely puts in a poor one and is quite adaptable in terms of his racing pattern. He ran well over this trip in the Sydney Cup earlier this year.
Why he can't win: Class is the major query. He always tries his heart out but isn't blessed with the same turn-of-foot as many of these. The Bendigo Cup doesn't look the right form reference for this.
20. ZACADA (24, $81)
Zacada ran out of his skin to finish a close second to Who Shot Thebarman in the Sydney Cup (3200m) earlier this year but he's been poor in four runs since. He settled in the last few in the G3 Geelong Cup (2400m) last start and failed to improve his position at any stage, finishing 12th, beaten 7L. Damian Lane will have to produce a genuine miracle from barrier 24.
Why he can win: His Sydney Cup run over this distance was very good (and very surprising given he was sent out at $91!).
Why he can't win: Hasn't done a thing in four runs since and was spanked by Runaway in the Geelong Cup last start.
21. RUNAWAY (12, $34)
Waterhouse and Bott-trained on-pacer who looks the likely leader from barrier 12. He ran his rivals ragged to take out the Listed VRC St Leger (2800m) here back in April before finishing third in the G1 SA Derby (2500m). He was tipped out for a spell following his poor showing in the Listed Andrew Ramsden (3200m) but his form since returning has been most consistent, albeit against inferior opposition to what he meets here. The son of Manhattan Rain pulled out plenty to win the Geelong Cup (2400m) last start - a race that has produced three Melbourne Cup winners since 2000.
Why he can win: If you take out his failure in the Andrew Ramsden, his form at 2000m and beyond is rock-solid. He maps to lead and if the track is favouring on-pacers, he could take a bit of catching.
Why he can't win: The VRC St Leger has turned out to be a very ordinary form race, with runner-up Rezealient and third-placegetter Wolfe Tone recording just one win between them since. With that in mind, Runaway is yet to really prove himself beyond 2400m.
22. YOUNGSTAR (8, $15)
This Waller-trained daughter of High Chaparral is the only mare in the 24-horse field. She had genuine excuses when seventh in the Caulfield Cup last start, getting a mile back in a very slowly-run affair. She finished 4.55L off Best Solution but clocked the fastest final furlong in the race. Two-back she finished second to her superstar stablemate Winx in the G1 Turnbull Stakes (2000m), beaten just one length. Her form this preparation has been terrific without winning and she's drawn favourably here in barrier eight. Youngstar has never raced beyond 2400m, which is an obvious query, but she gives the impression that she'll handle the longer trip.
Why she can win: Her Caulfield Cup run was much better than it looks on paper and all four of her efforts this preparation have been full of merit. The expansive Flemington track suits her style of racing, as she showed with an outstanding second to Winx two-back. Has no weight on her back.
Why she can't win: Has never raced beyond 2400m and the Caulfield Cup was the first time she's stretched beyond 2200m. Although she hit the line nicely last start, it probably wasn't the best grounding for a Melbourne Cup given it was little more than a dash home.
The Charlie Appleby-trained Cross Counter. (AAP Image/James Ross) NO ARCHIVING
23. CROSS COUNTER (19, $9)
This lightly-raced Appleby galloper has stepped out seven times, missing a top-two finish only once. He was last seen finishing second in the G2 Great Voltigeur Stakes (2400m) at York on August 22, following dominant back-to-back victories over 2414m at Goodwood and Ascot. He broke the Goodwood course record when taking out the G3 Gordon Stakes two-back, finishing 4.5L clear of the runner-up and 12.5L ahead of third. This will be the first time beyond 2414m but he's an improving stayer with a decent turn-of-foot. Charlie Appleby-trained runners have to be respected in everything over here.
Why he can win: Comes here in outstanding form and arguably should have won his last three starts. He finished 1.5L clear of Kew Gardens last start, with that galloper then winning the G1 Doncaster St Leger Stakes (2921m) in dominant fashion at his next outing.
Why he can't: Inexperience. He's raced less than 10 times and has never raced beyond 2414m. This is also his first time travelling beyond the UK, which is a genuine query given some horses just don't acclimatise to Australian conditions as well as others.
24. ROSTROPOVICH (21, $21)
This son of Frankel was beaten a long way in the Cox Plate but the run was better than it looks on paper. He had to do a bit of work in the early stages to get up outside of the leader D'argento and was under pressure before the home turn. The proven weight-for-age performers put paid to him easily but he battled on okay in the straight to finish a length clear of the early leader, and a length off Avilius. That trip was certainly short of his best and he should take great benefit from that run. Four-back he finished a 0.5L second to early Melbourne Cup fancy Latrobe in the G1 Irish Derby (2414m) at the Curragh.
Why he can win: Comes here with a similar profile to last year's winner Rekindling: O'Brien-trained (Aidan), light weight, and a solid grounding at 2400m+ this year. His Cox Plate run should hold him in good stead for this.
Why he can't: Although O'Brien has put plenty of miles into Rostropovich's legs this year, the entire is still yet to race beyond 2414m.
Yucatan is the horse to beat if he repeats his Herbert Power performance but barrier 23 has made his task a little more difficult. The $16 on offer for Marmelo is hard to ignore on the strength of his form this year. He was plain when well-fancied in this race last year but he comes back a more mature horse and no doubt his trainer Hugh Morrison would've learnt a lot during his time out here last spring. Cross Counter and Muntahaa round out an international first four.
1. Marmelo (9)
2. Yucatan (11)
3. Cross Counter (23)
4. Muntahaa (5)
$100 BETTING STRATEGY
Marmelo is obviously the main betting play but if Yucatan wins, we at least get something out of the race. No damage done if Cross Counter or Muntahaa salute.
$50 on Marmelo (9) at $13
$30 on Yucatan (11) at $6
$10 on Cross Counter (23) at $9
$10 on Muntahaa (5) at $12
This article originally appeared on punters.com.au and was republished with permission.
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Teacher Burnout Research
The average length of a teaching career in the United States is now down to eleven years (Stephens 2001). One quarter of all beginning teachers leave teaching within four years (Benner 2000). The length of an urban teaching career is even less since fifty percent of beginners leave in five years or less (Rowan et al. 2002). But teachers who leave have less of a negative impact on schools and students than those who burn out but remain in teaching. It has long been established that burnouts who remain use significantly less task oriented behavior (i.e. less hands-on, active learning), and provide fewer positive reinforcements to their students (Koon,1971). They also have negative effects on student performance (Young 1976). The research supports the contention that stress affects teachers effectiveness with students(Blas 1982). When teachers feel good about their work student achievement rises(Black 2001).
<http://www.educationnews.org/teacher-burnout-in-black-and-white.htm>
Schools cite benefits of dresscode and student uniforms, but researchers see little evidence of effectiveness.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2005/01/12/18uniform.h24.html
How copyright could be killing culture
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050117/DOCS17/TPEntertainment/Film>
The high cost of getting permission to use archival footage and photos threatens to put makers of documentaries out of business
Ethics Issues Snare School
Some superintendents have landed in murky ethical waters this school year for their ties to for-profit companies, highlighting the temptations administrators face as industry and education increasingly intersect.
<http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2005/01/12/18consult.h24.html>
Buy from those companies that support your political views: A listing
<http://www.buyblue.org/alphalist.php>
http://www.goodpassword.com
Lil' Fingers is a storybook site for toddler age children with some free toddler stories, activities and holiday sections.
http://www.lilfingers.com/
Resources on Fundraising
I have put together the best ideas and sites I could find on this subject.
<http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/fundraisers.html>
Toyota International Teaching Program
<http://www.iie.org/Template.cfm?&Template=/programs/toyota/default.htm>
Applications now online. Why not? For primary and secondary teachers.
<http://www.iie.org/Template.cfm?&Template=/programs/fmf/default.htm>
Would you be good in business? Take the test
<http://www.canada.com/search/story.html?id=bb1b8695-9a90-4728-a9b1-0c054287ad46>
Forum for dealing with Spyware, Adware, Security, & Privacy threats
http://www.spywarewarrior.com/
What Teachers Make
or You can always go to law school if things don't work out
By Taylor Mali
http://www.taylormali.com/index.cfm?webid=13
Blog Rankings, Which ones get the most views daily.
<http://www.truthlaidbear.com/TrafficRanking.php>
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. ~Horace Mann
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. ~John Cotton Dana
Linux is free only if your time is worthless. ~ Unknown
To err is human. To really foul things up requires a computer. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (pg. 670) has this from the 1978 Farmer's Almanac.
I code therefore I exist - somewhere between heaven and html. ~ Ad Hales
There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. ~ Jeremy S. Anderson
"People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts" - Paul Hindemith
About 1 in 10 of the nations 50,000 Title I schools were identified for schoolchoice in each of the first 2 years since enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA) of 2001.
About 31,000 students, transferred to a school of choice in 2003-2004.
Forty-one percent of eighth-grade math teachers majored in math in college. In English, one-fifth of all teachers did not have at least a minor in English literature, communications or journalism.
In history and physical science, more than half of the teachers have never studied the subject in any concentrated way.
<http://www.ed.gov/nclb/methods/teachers/teachers.html>
<http://www.teachersnetwork.org/ntol/howto/align/reportsam>
In case you are keeping them in the classroom or are considering a pet.
http://allaboutfrogs.org/info/doctor/sick.html
"The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally kill themselves in really stupid ways. Of necessity, this honor is bestowed posthumously."
<http://www.darwinawards.com>
Educator Sexual Misconduct
Written in response to a requirement in the federal No Child Left Behind Act, the 156-page report -- Educator Sexual Misconduct: A Synthesis of Existing Literature -- by a university-based expert on schoolhouse sexual misconduct concludes that the issue "is woefully understudied" and that solid national data on its prevalence are sorely needed.
<http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/misconductreview/report.pdf>
Nearly 10 percent of American students are targets of unwanted sexual attention by public school employees.
National Intelligence Council has prepared a 123-page report entitled, "Mapping the Global Future". It pulls together a great deal of information and opinion on a very broad topic: the future of humanity. <http://www.futurebrief.com/project2020.pdf>
Creat a Free Paper CD Case
This site will allow you to create a paper case for your CD's. Use this website to create a PDF file which can be printed and folded to create a paper CD case. Be sure to read the About section for directions on how to fold it properly or you WILL go nuts. http://tkurc.mky.us/index.php
Bill Gates Strikes a Pose for Teen Beat Photospread, 1983 This is hysterical. Notice the mac in the corner, and the blue screen of death.
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How I Learned That Being Good in Bed Isn't About Bikini Waxes and Perfect Moans
Until age 28, Lizzy Goodman didn't have sex, she performed it. He taught her to go all in.
By Lizzy Goodman
We met at a mutual friend's birthday dinner in New York City. I was 28 and just post breakup. James, as I'll call him, was older, an artist in his forties. Seated next to each other, we'd been making appropriate conversation about things he loved that I wanted to be able to say I loved, like Paul Bowles and the Hôtel du Cap, when he casually said, as easily as he'd recommended The Sheltering Sky, "I know exactly how you need to be fucked." I looked around, sure someone else had heard. (No one had.) Then I blushed. Then I met his gaze.
For the next few weeks we texted back and forth. I was baffled by his blend of authority and vulnerability. He'd describe in explicit detail what he wanted to do to me, then admit that I made him extremely nervous, as if confidence and openness were one and the same. He liked me. He didn't hide it. But he had no plans to be my boyfriend, and I didn't really want him to play that role either. He was too weird, too wild, too not-of-my-world for the long run.
And yet I felt completely invaded by him. The next time we saw each other was at a record release party a few weeks later. I told myself I didn't care if he showed up, even as I dressed for him: leopard-print, supershort silk DVF wrap dress, suede Chloé platform boots, lots of black eyeliner. I felt him walk in the door. He asked me to walk him to the bodega for cigarettes. I wasn't ready yet, I kept saying in a manic stream-of-consciousness rant as we made our way down the block. He listened attentively, said nothing, and then, when we were safely out of view of our friends, grabbed both my wrists in one hand, shoved me into the shallow doorway of some grimy East Village apartment building, and slid his other hand up my dress. After that, it was on. We slept together for the better part of a year. When it began, I was one person; by the time it ended, I was someone else.
I'd lost my virginity more than 10 years earlier, but until James, I hadn't really had sex. I mean, I had, but with few exceptions I approached it like everything else in my life: something to analyze, get good at, master. I avoided Internet porn in my adolescence, but I'd still gotten the clear message that what I needed to be good at sex was a rigorously groomed bikini line; a toned, tanned body; and the ability to chastely moan. James wouldn't stand for that kind of soft-core posturing. It wasn't even an option. With my arms pinned behind my waist and his hand firmly gripping the back of my neck, I didn't need to go through the motions of being dominated because I actually was totally overcome, physically and, by extension, emotionally. He met my relentless stream of chatter with bemused silence, and in response I shut up, on the outside and inside. The voice in my head that nattered on during sex, wondering if my stomach looked fat in this position or if that noise I just made was gross, faded away. And because of James's willingness to tell me the truth about what he was thinking and feeling and wanting, in bed at least, all the while radiating alpha authority, I too started to be accountable for my own desires. I had to show up and be myself rather than just impersonate a girl having sex on Melrose Place, which was essentially what I'd been doing for a decade. The result was a reframing of my perception of sex from anesthetized to alive, from slick and stylized to rough and ragged. And a rewiring of the very notion of being "good in bed."
We parted when the chemistry faded, about eight months in, and I wondered what mark he'd really left on me. After all, I'd never really loved him; I'd known he'd leave my life as soon as he entered it. That was part of the thrill, really; since I didn't want him to be my man, I could try on a rowdier version of myself without worrying I'd be obliged to keep her. But a switch had been flipped. Before James, I thought good sex was about control, but it turns out for me it's about release. The more I let go, the more he wanted me; the more I enjoyed myself, the more powerful I became.
This article originally appeared in the February 2016 issue of ELLE.
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Lesson Plan on the Columbian Exchange
Do you need a lesson for Columbus Day? This intermediate lesson plan on the Columbian exchange gives your students listening comprehension, reading, and past and present perfect tense practice.
Warm-up (about 5 minutes):
Ask your students what some of the effects of Columbus’s voyages were. (You might list their answers on the board.)
Introduction (1 minute):
Mention that in addition to the political, economic, and cultural changes brought by European colonization of the Americas, there were major biological effects: new foods, animals, pests, and diseases introduced to the New World (western hemisphere) and to the Old. Today we will examine some of those effects.
Presentation & Practice 1: Listening Comprehension (10 minutes)
Set the scene by reading/dramatizing the first 3 paragraphs + paragraphs 6-7 of this Wall Street Journal article on globalization. (It’s all interesting but the complete article is far too long and hard for intermediate ESL students.)
Announce beforehand that the introduction is about the beginning of a trading relationship involving several countries that lasted for centuries. The next paragraphs tell about potatoes and sweet potatoes, two crops from the Americas that changed the history of Europe and China. Write these words on the board and point out that
• exchange means to trade or sell one thing to get another
• vessel in this case means ship
• collide means to bump into
• predominance means having greater importance and power
Ask students to listen for answers to the worksheet (or whiteboard) questions. (See Evaluation 1.) They should discuss and record the answers in small groups after each section: paragraphs 1-3 and 6-7, then 21-25 plus a summary of 29-30.
Pause before paragraph 21 to say the next part will be about the effects of two New World tubers, potatoes and sweet potatoes, on Europe and China. Explain that a tuber is a thick underground stem. Potatoes and sweet potatoes are tubers.
Then read paragraph #21 (starting “ Compared with grains,”) to 25, & the simplified summary of paragraph 29-30 below.
Summary of paragraphs 29-30: In the summer of 1845 ships accidentally brought a very bad potato disease called ‘blight’ from South America to Europe. Beginning in Belgium and France, it spread quickly through western Europe and England and into Ireland.
People in Ireland were very poor, and depended more on potatoes than the rest of Europe did. When their potato crop was destroyed, more than a million people died and even more had to leave Ireland in order to survive. There are still fewer people in Ireland than there were in 1845.
(Lesson Plan on the Columbian Exchange) Evaluation 1 (10 mins.)
Give students these questions on the board or a worksheet.
(This and the other evaluations and worksheets for this lesson are also available as a pdf. Right click to download-- "save link as...")
1. Where did the exchange mentioned at the beginning of this article happen?
2. What were the main products traded?
3. Who brought them?
4. Where did they come from?
5. The article mentions four foods that are now common in certain states or countries but were not there before Columbus. Can you and your friends remember three of these foods and the places famous for them now, that didn’t have them before 1492?
6. What New World food helped feed much of Europe, end frequent famines (times when many people could not get enough to eat and died of hunger), and let Europe become powerful?
7. What happened when Chinese farmers planted sweet potatoes on hills before they had much experience with ways to prevent erosion?
1. In Manila (the Philippine Islands)
2. silver and silk (and porcelain)
3. The Spaniards brought silver and the Chinese brought silk (and porcelain).
4. silver—mines in the Americas; silk—China
5. oranges- Florida, tomatoes- Italy, chocolate- Switzerland, chili peppers- Thailand
6. potatoes
7. flooding (that led to political instability—bring that out in the discussion afterwards if none of the groups followed the connection.)
Practice 2: Reading (10 min.)
Have students read this short Simple-English Wikipedia article and the following two paragraphs taken from The Impact of Disease on History (see Reading Comprehension Lesson Plans—text slightly modified.)
Smallpox killed enough of the Aztecs and then the Incas to make the Spanish conquests possible. Smallpox spread south to the Incan empire even before the Spanish arrived there, and killed the old Inca, his heir, and many of their people. Their deaths led to a war over who should be the next king. That division among the Incas allowed a tiny Spanish force to conquer that great empire.
Smallpox, measles, and other Old World diseases went on to kill a large proportion (some estimates suggest over 90%) of native Americans, including those in what later became the U.S. The Pilgrims and later European settlers found only small Indian settlements and a nearly empty “wilderness” in areas that had had much larger populations before those diseases spread through the Americas.
Evaluation 2 (Reading): Group Competition (5 min.)
Divide students into groups of four or five students each. Pass out these questions to each group or have them written on the board or a poster but covered until students have finished their reading. Tell them they have up to three minutes to write one-word answers to these questions, and whichever group answers them all correctly first wins. They should raise their hands as soon as they have recorded all their answers. (If two groups finish correctly within seconds of each other, you could call it a tie.)
1. What Old World animal made a great difference in the lives of native Americans on the Great Plains in North America?
2. Name an important drink that comes from the Old World but is an important product in Latin America.
3. True or false: Bananas have always been an important food in the tropical parts of the Americas.
4. True or false: The Old World had many more domesticated animals than the New.
5. What came from the Old World and made it possible for a few Spaniards to conquer the Incas?
6. True or false: The Pilgrims and early colonists in New England found large areas of land with few native Americans because the native peoples had mostly moved to warmer climates.
1. horses/ the horse
2. coffee
3. F
4. T
5. smallpox
6. F (actual reason: native American populations there had been greatly reduced by epidemics of smallpox, measles, and other Old World diseases.)
Practice 3: Perfect Tense Review (about 10 min.)
Pass out the Present and Past Tense Review Worksheet as individual work or homework. (See pdf.)
Application (Small group discussion: 5-10 min.)
Ask students to list at least 4 foods from the Old World and 4 from the New that they have eaten. If they could only have foods that came from one of the hemisphere, which would they choose? Why?
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Why You Should Take a 'Wait-and-See' Approach to New-Product Launches
Instead of being first to the marketplace, being last may actually present more opportunities.
Image credit: Pandora
Daniel Wesley
Founder and CEO of Quote.com
Imitation, they say, is the sincerest form of flattery. It's also a common tactic in savvy product-makers' arsenals.
Related: 3 Reasons You Should Spy on Your Competition
While most inventors would love to create something completely new, that's not always necessary. Often, it's enough -- and a brilliant marketing tactic, even -- to imitate your rivals and then add a few tweaks.
Consider the case of Pandora Premium: Pandora waited until Spotify and Apple Music's paid streaming services were vetted by a discerning -- and vocal -- public. By the time Premium launched in March, Pandora leapfrogged over the issues plaguing its competitors, solidifying itself as a smarter, less-glitchy solution for music lovers, thanks in part to what it's calling the Music Genome Project.
Clever, indeed. Pandora used imitation and a delayed launch to woo paid streaming-service users with the promise of a more personalized experience. Did Spotify and Apple Music feel particularly flattered? Probably not. But Pandora won the battle all the same by waiting to pounce rather than joining the early fray.
Patience ain't sexy, but it pays off.
This strategy of seeming to procrastinate flies in the face of conventional thought. But there's a method to the madness -- after all, even Aesop know the tortoise would beat the hare in most races.
Imagine this: You, and everyone you know, is excited about a new gadget's release. The minute it hits the shelf, you have one in hand. Rushing home, you can't wait to tinker with it. But your dreams are dashed: You discover its battery will take 24 hours to charge.
Suddenly, your social news feed is flooded with your friends' posts, all voicing the same disappointment. Everyone is in a state of delayed gratification. Before you ever hit the "on" button, you have a bad taste in your mouth.
But, what if a similar gadget company has been waiting in the wings, purposely postponing a launch so its engineers or coders can read the social chatter about the competition's latest gadget? That palpable disappointment described here would most definitely be noticed. And the company that has waited would certainly make sure that when its product comes out a month later, its battery is fully charged.
Seem like a minor detail? Not to users who would see it as an instant improvement.
Related: A Blueprint for a Killer Product Launch (Infographic)
This "what-if?" scenario illustrates the power of patience and observation. Instead of being first to the marketplace, being last may actually present more opportunities and stability. And this observation applies not only to companies delivering products but to those, like my own, delivering websites; tangibility doesn't matter.
Don't just rest easy -- rest smart.
Regardless of the solution they eventually offer, entrepreneurs who hang back can avoid early fatal flaws that interrupt fantastic consumer experiences. Three of the biggest shortcomings of first-to-launch products? Poor marketing, uber-techiness and overspending.
Splurging on expensive Super Bowl commercials, for example, might sound exciting, but it can kill profit margins and target the wrong audience. Similarly, gadgets such as the iPhone 3D Touch take consumers too long to figure out. And, the steeper the learning curve, the less likely people will see the value in the product, despite its bells and whistles.
The lesson here is that businesses should practice old-fashioned penny-pinching rather than throwing their fiscal resources down a deep hole.
Want to avoid these kinds of errors? Consider these tips to make your product launch successful from the start:
1. Watch, look and listen.
Social media is a not-so-secret listening channel. Everyone tweets, blogs, posts and snaps their experiences with new products, especially those that garner tons of media coverage. Gauge consumer feedback carefully: What are buyers noting that designers and developers missed? What seems too technology-driven and not practical enough for the average user?
One example of this phenomenon is the problem of repeated 911 dialing on some T-Mobile phones. Instead of making one call, the 911 call continuously rings overwhelmed emergency call centers. At least two deaths have been attributed to this issue. There's no doubt that T-Mobile's competitors will make sure the same won't happen with its cellphone systems.
2. Use negative sentiment to your advantage.
Capitalize on negative press swirling around your competition by waiting to release a similar product. You'll avoid possible public relations nightmares and have a better chance of endearing customers to your organization because you've addressed all the imperfections and weaknesses of your competitors' solutions.
Lyft and Uber have been entangled in a fight like this for a while. When President Donald Trump's travel ban rather circuitously led to #DeleteUber momentum, Lyft took advantage of the opportunity to outshine its rival. Not only did Lyft donate to the American Civil Liberties Union, but it has also enjoyed a 7 percent increase in customers since January 29. Lyft wasn't hasty, and it swung with the popular sentiment pendulum.
3. Differentiate yourself through great execution.
You might think you have a revolutionary product, but what if the market disagrees? If your top competitor just released a similar product and its sales are flailing, you owe it to yourself to analyze what's happening. Could it be that the market for your product just doesn't exist yet? If so, how can you pivot so you can produce an actual game-changer, not a wannabe?
Segway knows all about this challenge: It discovered its product's market was limited by cost and individual desire. By the time it was put to bed, it was no longer a technological marvel -- it was just a punchline. Chances are good that leaders of a company waiting to market a Segway-like creation put plans on hold when they saw the fallout and chose to execute their innovations differently.
4. Do the common uncommonly well.
Many times, entrepreneurs overlook the simple aspects of their products in favor of complicated elements. Instead, focus on offering your item's main features better than anyone else can. As you read through social media posts and dig into articles on your competition's products, figure out where things went awry. Make sure you don't stumble over the same roadblocks.
Useful products don't have to be complex to be meaningful to the average user. For instance, Apple is going up against Venmo, QuickPay and Square Cash to allow iOS device users to text money to one another. It's easy to see how this could be an asset for iPhone and iPad customers, and it's not outrageously imaginative. Apple has merely found a smoother path to streamline a service people want and already use.
Related: 4 Questions to Ask Before Doing a National Product Rollout
In sum: Never be afraid of mimicry. In the business world, it can be the key to outshining your top contenders. While we love a story of bold innovation, innovation doesn't always keep the lights on. Sometimes, it's far wiser to come in second or third where the spotlight is less blinding -- there, you can see where you're going.
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Pre-Budget 2019
#4 Things Fintech Companies Expect From Upcoming Budget
The fintech market is forecasted to touch USD 2.4 billion by 2020.
Vanita D'souza
Senior Correspondent, Entrepreneur India
January 18, 2019 4 min read
The fintech industry is at a very nascent stage in India and yet, has been able to disrupt the entire financial sector with cutting-edge innovation, technology and consumer first attitude.
In fact, according to NASSCOM report published earlier last year, transaction value among fintech companies was estimated to be approximately USD 33 billion in 2016 and is expected to reach USD 73 billion in 2020, growing at a five-year CAGR of 22 per cent.
To top it all, the fintech market is forecasted to touch USD 2.4 billion by 2020.
From a fintech committee to government’s commitment to support blockchain initiative, union budget 2018-19 had a lot of interesting announcement for the startups in the segment to cherish upon.
With the interim budget just around the corner, leading fintechs companies from the country share their wishlist with Entrepreneur India:
Strengthening the Fintech Committee
In the last union budget speech, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced the setting up of the fintech committee within the Ministry to Finance to support the growth and development of the domestic fintech space. The committee was also expected to look into ease regulations which would further boost entrepreneurship in the space.
Adhil Shetty, CEO, BankBazaar.com expects this budget to take up from where the last budget had left off.
“We hope that this budget further strengthens the mandate of the fintech committee to make India the top fintech innovation centre in the world by ensuring policy to fast track paperless and presence-less access to finance,” he shared.
Concessions on Digital Transaction
The fintech industry is hoping that the government will look at schemes that would promote digital transactions, which further support the Digital India scheme.
There are incentives for merchants who accept digital payments, however, Mandar Agashe, Founder and Vice Chairman, Sarvatra Technologies thinks similar initiatives can be introduced to the customers who use digital payments online as well as offline merchants.
“Currently there are no incentives for end users or customers to use digital payments which can be introduced in this budget so that there is an incentive for both parties (customer as well as the merchant) to use digital payments. This way even those customers using bank apps or government apps who don’t provide cashback like other consumers apps will have the incentive to use digital payments,” Agashe said.
Additionally, he also feels fintech companies working in rural India should be given subsidies for building awareness which will enable them to onboard more and more rural population on to the digital platforms.
Clarity on e-KYC
The 2018 Aadhaar Verdict, which stalls private companies from accessing the data stack, has created turmoil in the industry and growth has been hampered as getting a customer’s e-KYC is no more a cake walk.
The fintech industry is hoping the government could provide a solution to this problem.
“We hope the government provides more clarity on the e-KYC process which has created a lot of ruckus in the system. An alternative and smoother way of processing KYC should help ease the cumbersome process of new customer acquisitions. Also, a new policy framework for adoption of newer technologies like Electronic National Automated Clearing House (e-NACH) and DigiLocker will help the industry and the end consumer at large,” V Raman Kumar, Founder & Chairman, CASHe noted.
From Google to Facebook, 2018 has been a year of data breaches. Considering the kind of data financial companies deals with, the Indian government should look at building a breach-proof cybersecurity system for the country.
Even though the government has strengthened its measures to curb cyber frauds with the National Security Council Secretariat functioning as the nodal agency, Gaurav Chopra, Founder and CEO, IndiaLends says, “they should implement stricter laws and policies and conduct programmes to spread awareness about cyber threats and how to deal with them.”
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2018/2019 English Premier League
Fulham Fulham FUL
Newcastle United Newcastle United NEW
Jonjo Shelvey (9')
Ayoze Pérez (11')
Fabian Schär (61')
Salomón Rondón (90')
Fulham thrashed by Newcastle in final Premier League appearance
Newcastle put 4 past relegated Fulham (1:28)
The Cottagers ended a miserable season with sorry performance against Rafa Benitez's men at Craven Cottage. (1:28)
Already-relegated Fulham's season in the Premier League came to an end with a whimper on Sunday as they were hammered 4-0 at home by Newcastle United.
Goals from Jonjo Shelvey, Ayoze Perez, Fabian Schar and Salomon Rondon meant Rafael Benitez's Newcastle ended the season in 13th place.
"I am really proud of this group of players, and the fans were fantastic. To finish 13th is important for everyone," Benitez told reporters. "We can see the potential of these players."
He struck a cautious note over his own future as manager, however, as talks with the Newcastle hierarchy continue.
"We'll see what happens next week," he said. "Hopefully we'll find a way to move forward together."
Scott Parker, now in charge at Fulham on a full-time basis, faces the task of engineering his side's return from the Championship after ending the season in 19th place.
Shelvey smashed in his first goal of the season in the ninth minute, bringing down a high corner kick outside the area before unleashing a thunderbolt over the heads of the Fulham defenders and beyond the reach of keeper Sergio Rico.
Perez doubled the visitors' lead two minutes later when Rico parried a shot from Mohamed Diame into the path of the Spaniard, who deftly flicked in his 12th goal of the campaign.
Newcastle's Schar headed in a Matt Ritchie corner in the 61st minute, and Rondon scored a fourth shortly before the final whistle, bursting into the area and firing straight into Rico's chest before directing the rebound into the far corner.
"We were lacklustre, we lacked conviction at times and we were vulnerable on the break," Parker told reporters. "This club needs a culture, it needs an identity and that's what we're going to do.
"I've no doubt the owners will be doing everything in their power to keep the best players. Standards need to go up at the football club. If me and my coaching staff are driving the culture here, I know we'll be successful. It's going to be a busy summer in rebuilding."
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3 AFC Bournemouth 0 0 0
4 Brighton & Hove Albion 0 0 0
5 Burnley 0 0 0
6 Chelsea 0 0 0
7 Crystal Palace 0 0 0
8 Everton 0 0 0
9 Leicester City 0 0 0
10 Liverpool 0 0 0
11 Manchester City 0 0 0
12 Manchester United 0 0 0
13 Newcastle United 0 0 0
14 Norwich City 0 0 0
15 Sheffield United 0 0 0
16 Southampton 0 0 0
18 Watford 0 0 0
19 West Ham United 0 0 0
20 Wolverhampton Wanderers 0 0 0
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A New Way to Say 'Awesome'
You told us, we listened
By Miles Raymer
Recently I resolved to stop using "awesome" in everyday conversation. Ever since teenagers in the '80s unmoored the word from its original meaning (i.e., "inspiring great admiration, apprehension, or fear"), it's come to describe pretty much every non-negative emotion humans are capable of feeling. The word now means so many things that it's almost meaningless, and has become more of a verbal tic than anything else, a content-free piece of verbal clutter.
I took to the Esquire blog to share my resolution, and to call for readers to find alternatives to "awesome" in order to decrease their dependence and spice up their conversations. I offered a few suggestions, including "spectacular" (for a kind of classic feel) and "tight" (because I'm friends with an avid user of the word).
Our readers responded on Facebook with a slew of suggestions as well. Some of the suggestions were along the lines of "marvelous," "superb," and even "dandy," which all have an old-timey appeal. They seem like the kind of thing a character on Downton Abbey would say upon receiving a piece of good news like finding out a loved one had ducked a lethal influenza outbreak, possibly while twirling his mustache.
While some suggested returning to slang of a more recent vintage, like the hippie-era standbys "groovy," "heavy," and "cosmic," others proposed boldly moving into wild lexicographical territory with "scrumtrulescent" (popularized by Will Ferrell) and "blastastic." Others are still trying to make "fetch" happen.
One of my personal favorite alternatives comes from blogger Susie Lindau, who offered an entire range of replacements for words and phrases that were done to death in 2013. Her suggestion for a new "awesome"? "Hideous," which is a massive semantic curveball since its definition is almost the polar opposite of "awesome," but kind of just sounds right, and sort of suggests that whatever's being described is so incredible that it's repulsive. It's the same kind of hyperbole that put "awesome" on the slippery slope that's brought us to this point, but it also rolls off the tongue nicely. I can already imagine some kid at a skate park using it when someone lands an exceptionally gnarly trick.
But whatever you want to use instead of "awesome" is just dandy, as long as you're trying something new. In fact it might be for the best if each of us came up with our own personal alternative to the A-word. "Awesome" has become an oppressive Tower of Babel of casual slang, uniting all of us in its use while detracting from the richness of having these little personalized quirks in our language. Let's tear it down and replace it with a multitude of dandy, scrumtrulescent choices.
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Developers can test Windows 8 apps on an iPad and Here’s How
6.7.2013 Roberto Arduous
There is still a few months to go for the Windows 8 commercial launch, but there’s a significant challenge that Microsoft will initially face when it comes to attracting developers of popular tablet apps to its platform: Attracting them and bringing them to the platform.
Apart from the feat of convincing the developers of iOS or Android tablet apps that it’s worth the investing their time in turning their apps into Metro apps for Windows 8 tablets, there is also a practical concern that hits right in the guts: Having the right hardware for the task.
A quite surprising and unlikely mediator is looking to help bridge this span. Last Thursday, remote desktop software producer Splashtop is launching its new iOS app, the rather not-so-attractively named Win8 Metro Testbed, which will give app developers the chance to test their apps before the official launch on the Windows 8 platform… on an iPad, sounds cool but why on an iPad? Splashtop’s president of its Asia/Pacific region and chief marketing officer Cliff Miller, said this of the potential Windows 8 developers the company is targeting:
If they want to test their apps with touch gestures there’s only one way to do that and that is to buy a Windows tablet, and that can cost $500 to $1,000 or more. … And when it comes to 99 percent of Win8 tablet developers — well, they have iPads.
Now, there are no Windows 8 tablets on the market just yet and Microsoft has unveiled a public preview of the software, but the finished version of the desktop/tablet OS is supposed to roll out to the public sometime in October. Developers can test their apps on Windows 7 tablets in the meantime, but to Miller’s point, it’s a massive expense for small individual developers and small-time shops. (Though this might be less of a concern with larger companies).
Despite this, Microsoft needs to have a mobile store chockfull of mobile applications from popular, brand name developers of all styles, shapes and sizes to grab consumers attention and bring them to the platform keep consumer and business users alike. That’s why it’s critical that developers start to hop on the wagon (not the bandwagon as of yet) and test their apps soon. So why not meet these developers where they already are?
The iPad is the most popular tablet in terms of hardware sales, and it has the most tablet apps available right now, with 200,000 — Google does not break out the number of Android slate-optimized (native tablet) apps anymore, but it was around 1,300 last summer. The iOS platform also has the most general interest among mobile developers: A joint survey conducted by IDC and Appcelerator released in March, found that 89 percent of developers surveyed said they were interested in making iOS apps, followed by 78.6 percent interested in Android, and very low for Windows, with 37 percent for both Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8 tablets.
Splashtop’s Win8Metro Testbed isn’t cheap by App Store standards: The regular price is $49.99, though for a limited time it will be discounted at $24.99. But it’s certainly more affordable than a brand new device, with tablets going for high prices as mentioned above.
What’s interesting though is that Apple would allow or want an app like this on its own platform. After all, its very existence is encouraging iOS developers to sell their wares on a competitor’s (and potential big competitors) platform. But Apple also gains, in a way, from this arrangement because it signifies that iOS is still the main preference/priority for appmakers, and it is showing that it is loyal to the customers that are returning this loyalty.
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Japan arrests man for stabbing police officer, taking gun
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese police on Monday arrested a man on charges of stabbing a police officer and grabbing a loaded handgun in a western city near Osaka, which hosts a summit of the G20 grouping next week, police said.
The 33-year-old suspect, caught while lying on a bench beneath which the stolen gun had been placed, has denied the charges, a local police official said.
“We are taking a grave view of the incident, which caused great anxiety among residents,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a regular news conference.
“With a G20 summit scheduled next week, we will reinforce vigilance and guard even more strictly.”
A large-scale search for the suspect began on Sunday, after the stabbed officer was found lying in front of a police box in the city of Suita. On Monday, he was unconscious and in a critical condition, authorities said.
One of the bullets originally loaded in the stolen gun seemed to have been fired, but police have heard of no reports of related injuries or damage, the police official said.
Violent crime is rare in Japan but occasional high-profile incidents have shocked the nation.
Sunday’s incident follows a case last month in which a knife-wielding middle-aged man killed a girl and an adult, injuring 17 people near the capital, Tokyo.
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Mercedes show Achilles heel as unbeaten run comes to an end
Formula One F1 - Austrian Grand Prix - Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Austria - June 30, 2019 Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton in action during the race Christian Bruna/Pool via REUTERS -
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By Abhishek Takle
SPIELBERG, Austria (Reuters) – Mercedes showed their Achilles heel in the Austrian heat on Sunday, with the Formula One champions suffering defeat for the first time this season.
Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas went into the race at the undulating Red Bull Ring having won all of the season’s eight races, six in one-two formation, as well as the last 10 in a row.
They could have turned the run up to 11, equalling McLaren’s modern-era record from 1988, but instead a combination of soaring temperatures and the characteristics of the 4.3km circuit left them vulnerable.
Max Verstappen won for Red Bull, ahead of fellow 21-year-old Charles Leclerc in a Ferrari. Bottas had to settle for third with Hamilton only fifth — the first time he has been off the podium since Mexico last October.
“We never saw our performance because we were racing with our hands tied behind our backs,” team boss Toto Wolff told reporters.
“We tried to work on mitigating the performance loss, but at the end it was really painful to watch cruising, not being able to defend or attack.”
Wolff said his team’s cars had the speed to win but were unable to unleash it on a hot day with air temperatures touching 33 degrees centigrade at the start of the race and track temperatures in the 50s.
“Today exposed our Achilles Heel,” said Wolff.
“We were running the engine way turned down, lifting and coasting for up to 400 metres — it’s almost having no throttle rolling downwards — and still able to pull in some decent lap times.
“So I think…we would have a chance to fight for the win but we were limited by the cooling problems.”
Hamilton said he wouldn’t have been able to challenge for the win, even if he hadn’t had to lift and coast as Wolff described and hadn’t also damaged his front wing.
That damage cost him crucial time in the pits where his car was fitted with a new nose.
“There’s not much to say really. I was just pushing as hard as I could but just limited by temperatures,” said the Briton, who has won six of the nine races this season and holds a 31-point lead over Bottas in the standings.
“I had to just cruise back there basically.”
Bottas could at least draw some consolation from clawing back five points on his championship leading team mate.
“I felt like we couldn’t really race today,” said the Finn. “I’m happy that I managed to be on the podium and also get a few points against Lewis.”
(Editing by Alan Baldwin/Pritha Sarkar)
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The End of Ice
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The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption Hardcover
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The author who Jeremy Scahill calls the "quintessential unembedded reporter" visits "hot spots" around the world in a global quest to discover how we will cope with our planet's changing ecosystems
After nearly a decade overseas as a war reporter, the acclaimed journalist Dahr Jamail returned to America to renew his passion for mountaineering, only to find that the slopes he had once climbed have been irrevocably changed by climate disruption. In response, Jamail embarks on a journey to the geographical front lines of this crisis--from Alaska to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, via the Amazon rainforest--in order to discover the consequences to nature and to humans of the loss of ice.
In The End of Ice, we follow Jamail as he scales Denali, the highest peak in North America, dives in the warm crystal waters of the Pacific only to find ghostly coral reefs, and explores the tundra of St. Paul Island where he meets the last subsistence seal hunters of the Bering Sea and witnesses its melting glaciers. Accompanied by climate scientists and people whose families have fished, farmed, and lived in the areas he visits for centuries, Jamail begins to accept the fact that Earth, most likely, is in a hospice situation. Ironically, this allows him to renew his passion for the planet's wild places, cherishing Earth in a way he has never been able to before.
Like no other book, The End of Ice offers a firsthand chronicle--including photographs throughout of Jamail on his journey across the world--of the catastrophic reality of our situation and the incalculable necessity of relishing this vulnerable, fragile planet while we still can.
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Piano no Mori 2nd Series
Started by Ryu, Apr 09 2018 02:00 PM
Title: Piano's Forest -The Perfect World of Kai-
Japanese: ピアノの森
Airing dates: 8/4/2018 (TV series 12 episodes) and 27/1/2019 (2nd season)
Theatrical release date: 21/7/2007 (animated film)
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Music, School, Seinen
Original creator: Makoto Isshiki
Directors: Gaku Nakatani (TV) and Masayuki Kojima (film)
Series directors: Ryūtarō Suzuki (S1) and Hiroyuki Yamaga (S2)
Written by: Aki Itami, Mika Abe (TV) and Ryūka Hōrai (film)
Music by: Harumi Fūka (TV) and Keisuke Shinohara (film)
Character designers and chief animation directors: Sumie Kinoshita (TV) and Shigeru Fujita (film)
Art directors: Hirotsugu Kakoi (TV), Kazuki Higashiji and Toshiharu Mizutani (film)
Sound directors: Yukio Nagasaki (TV) and Fusanobu Fujiyama (film)
Directors of photography: Mutsumi Usuda (TV) and Rumi Ishiguro (film)
Color design by: Chie Yoshimura (TV) and Tomoko Yamamoto (film)
Key animation by: Tōru Yoshida (TV)
Sound work manager: Tadayoshi Itō (film)
Editing by: Akinori Mishima (TV) and Yoshihiro Kasahara (film)
Planning by: Masao Maruyama, Tsuyoshi Yoshida and Yōko Matsushita (film)
Line coordinator: Masayuki Narai (film)
Producers: Miho Ichii, Rika Tsuruzaki, Tatsuji Yamazaki and Yuichiro Saitō (film)
Executive producers: Jun'ichi Kitagawa and Takashi Kamikura (film)
Associate producers: Tomoyuki Saitō and Yoshihiro Iwasaki (film)
Animation producer: Kōji Takeuchi (film)
Studios: Fukushima Gainax (S1), Gaina (S2) and Madhouse (film)
Network: NHK (licensed by Netflix)
Opening theme: "Umi e" by Kai Ichinose (arrenged Etude Opus 10 No.1 from Frederic Chopin)
Ending theme: "Kaeru Basho ga Aru to iu koto (帰る場所があるということ)" by Aoi Yūki
S2 ED theme: "Hajimari no Basho (はじまりの場所)" by Rie Murakawa
Movie ED theme: "Moonshine ~Tsukiakari~ (〜月あかり〜)" by Nao Matsushita
Performance by pianists: Ayano Baba, Harumi Fūki, Kamuro Sahara, Kotone Uehara and Modan Oyama
Main cast: Kai Ichinose (一ノ瀬海) voiced by Sōma Saitō (TV), Ryōko Shiraishi (young), Aya Ueto (film) and Johnny Yong Bosch (EN)
Shūhei Amamiya (雨宮修平) voiced by Natsuki Hanae (TV), Yō Taichi (young), Ryūnosuke Kamiki (film), Griffin Burns (EN) and performed by Ryōma Takagi
Sōsuke Ajino (阿字野壮介) voiced by Junichi Suwabe (TV), Hiroyuki Miyasako (film), Kyle McCarley (EN) and performed by Kyōhei Sorita
Competition participants: Pang Wei (パン・ウェイ) voiced by Yūichi Nakamura (TV), Yūki Wakai (young) and performance by Niu Niu
Lech Szymanowski (レフ・シマノフスキ) voiced by Kenn (TV) and performed by Szymon Nehring
Takako Maruyama (丸山誉子) voiced by Aoi Yūki (TV), Cristina "Vee" Valenzuela (EN) and Mayuko Fukuda (film)
Sophie Ormesson (ソフィ・オルメッソン) voiced by Mariya Ise (TV), Erika Harlacher (EN) and performance by Juliette Journaux
Karol Adamski (カロル・アダムスキ) voiced by Katsuyuki Konishi (TV)
Kōsei Hirata (平田光生) voiced by Toshiyuki Toyonaga (TV) and Jason Palmer (EN)
Supporting cast: Takeshi Saga (佐賀武士) voiced by Kōji Yusa (TV) and Kaiji Tang (EN)
Kōtarō Shiba (司馬高太郎) voiced by Hiroshi Yanaka (TV)
Namie Amamiya (雨宮奈美恵) voiced by Marie Miyake (TV), Atsuko Tanaka (film) and Julie Ann Taylor (EN)
Arisa (亜理沙) voiced by Ryō Hirohashi (TV) and Erika Harlacher (EN)
Daigaku "Kinpira" Kanehira (金平大学 "キンピラ") voiced by Motoko Kumai (TV), Hiroyuki Amano (film) and Doug Erholtz (EN)
Reiko Ichinose (一ノ瀬怜子) voiced by Maaya Sakamoto (TV), Chizuru Ikewaki (film) and Reba Buhr (EN)
Yōichirō Amamiya (雨宮洋一郎) voiced by Hideyuki Tanaka (TV) and Joseph Whimms (EN)
Jean-Jacques / J.J. Theroux (ジャン・ジャック / J=J・セロー) voiced by Bin Shimada (TV)
Shiraishi (白石) voiced by Anna Mugiho (TV), Mayumi Tanaka (film) and Barbara Goodson (EN)
Adam Yasinski (ヤシンスキ) voiced by Kanehira Yamamoto (TV)
Simon Hausner (シモン・ハウスネル) voiced by Keisuke Misaizu (TV)
Raphaël (ラハエル) voiced by Jun Miyamoto (TV)
David (デイビッド) voiced by Hiroyuki Endō (TV) and Zach Rice (EN)
Victoria (ヴィクトリア) voiced by Risa Hayamizu (TV)
Pang Hao (パン・ハオ) voiced by Hironori Kondō (TV)
Pavras (パヴラス) voiced by Eiichirō Tokumoto (TV)
Igori (イーゴリ) voiced by Kenta Zaima (TV) and Tony Azzolino (EN)
Juzef (ユゼフ) voiced by Hitoshi Bihu (TV)
Christina (クリスティナ) voiced by Natsuki Mori (TV)
Anna (アンナ) voiced by Anna Mugiho (TV)
Synopsis: Shūhei Amamiya transfers to Moriwaki Elementary filled with hope and ambition. But it doesn't take long before he gets picked on by the class bullies, and gets involved in a dare to play the mysterious piano in the forest. Igniting his meeting with an equally enigmatic child, Kai Ichinose, who seems to be the only one capable getting sound out of the thought to be broken piano.
Piano no Mori? sounds like a male SoL...not many of those ever show up...
a MiLF ep.1 hooked me, until It's all over I'll see that film to not spoil myself!
Watched S1 Piano Forest... mediocre... writing isn't using the potential of the characters setups well enough... it's alright, but even the music isn't being used well... or not well enough... compared to those series that did this so well.... such as Nodame... etc.
Piano Forest S2, story improving in 2nd stage contest but Not yet at animation
mediocre... writing isn't using the potential of the characters setups well enough... it's alright, but even the music isn't being used well... or not well enough... compared to those series that did this so well.... such as Nodame... etc.
i think that's because studio Gaina (without x), Madhouse did better as film
Haven't seen any S2 yet.... but the problem is usually falling back on the usual tropes... not giving the characters an 'edge' of difference compared to the other characters/tropes.... some sad background setup isn't enough if it doesn't carry thru... suddenly our MC is all nice and pretty without any affect on previous troubled times on their lives/faces etc... people going thru tough times get that 'look'... though not often in anime... they fall back on the usual tropes and character drawings.... all pretty and nice... no 'edge'... same thing happens with the story...
Ok... I looked up top.... there was a film back in' 07... didn't know that. Was it essentially S1? This MC looks like a young??? that 'cool' guy in that original anime on the Rakugo storytellers? his 'friend' that dies young.... the story setup was there early on.... this MC needs something like that to 'ground' him more.... he's too carefree, good looking, seems to be too talented... maybe that's what the marketplace in Japan wants?? of course, the audience will usually get bored after a while, but when marketing to the youth audience, there's always a new batch every year.... thus the repetitive nature of it all.... they don't remember the older stuff, even if it was better.
So, the story is improving but not the animations? It's always the story that counts... IMO.... a good story can make up for a lot of dull or cheap artwork, special efforts etc... an 'good' audience will forgive a lot, knowing the production budget is low, so expecting little... or so I think. Isn't most animation of the same quality control level? Only the really good or bad sticks out, right?
I do think they need to up the quality issue... Nodame is the example I keep comparing it to.... very well done that was... just enough music highlighted to bring the audience into the story... especially for those that aren't classical music fans... the charactes evolved, grew up etc.
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Wisconsin teen Jayme Closs found alive after being missing for nearly three months
Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald announced Thursday that Douglas County officials located the 13-year-old.
Wisconsin teen Jayme Closs found alive after being missing for nearly three months Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald announced Thursday that Douglas County officials located the 13-year-old. Check out this story on fdlreporter.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/01/10/missing-wisconsin-teen-jayme-closs-found-alive/2543367002/
Haley BeMiller, Green Bay Press-Gazette Published 8:35 p.m. CT Jan. 10, 2019 | Updated 5:59 a.m. CT Jan. 11, 2019
13-year-old Jayme Closs has been found in nortwest Wisconsin, authorities said Thursday. She had been missing since her parents were found killed in October. Authorities say a suspect is in custody. (Jan. 11) AP
GREEN BAY, Wis. – A missing 13-year-old girl was found alive Thursday nearly three months after her parents were found shot to death in their Wisconsin home, authorities say.
Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald announced that Jayme Closs was located Thursday afternoon by officials in Gordon, a town of fewer than 1,000 people in northwestern Wisconsin. A suspect was taken into custody shortly after, Fitzgerald said.
Fitzgerald said no further details are available at this time, citing a “fluid” and active investigation.
A news conference is scheduled for 10 a.m. CST Friday at the Barron County Sheriff’s Department.
KARE-TV, in Minneapolis reported that Jayme was found in Eau Claire Acres, a small development about 6 miles east of Gordon, according to the town of Gordon's board chairman.
The Star Tribune of Minneapolis reported that a source with knowledge of the investigation said Jayme escaped from a home in Gordon and approached a neighbor, identified herself, said she’d been kidnapped, and asked the neighbor to call 911.
"I mean I’m shocked," Jayme's aunt, Kelly Engelhardt, told KARE. "It's what we’ve prayed for every single day."
Engelhardt told KARE that she thinks Closs will be home Thursday night or Friday. She said the family does not believe Jayme is physically hurt that they know of, and that the FBI told the family she is talking and answering questions.
Jeff Closs, Jayme’s uncle, told KARE that the family is in shock.
Oct. 15, 2018: Jayme Closs, 13, went missing on the same day her parents, James, 56, and Denise, 46, were found shot to death in their home outside Barron. (Photo: Associated Press)
"We’re all just so grateful and happy," he said. "We thought it was going to be a different ending and we’re so happy. ... Hopefully she’s OK, we don’t know what condition. Just she’s alive."
Closs disappeared on Oct. 15, the same day her parents, James, 56, and Denise, 46, were found shot to death in their home outside Barron, about 70 miles south of Gordon. Authorities ruled the deaths homicides.
In a Facebook post announcing Closs had been found, Fitzgerald thanked the family "for their support and patience while this case was ongoing. We promised to bring Jayme home and tonight we get to fulfill that promise."
Teenager was located in Douglas County on Jan. 10. Trent Tetzlaff, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Jayme is a student at Riverview Middle School. Her parents were longtime employees at Barron's Jennie-O Turkey Store.
Police received a 911 call at 12:58 a.m. from Denise Closs' phone on the night of Jayme's disappearance. The sound of yelling was audible in the background, according to the call log. But the dispatcher wasn't able to connect with the caller, so it's unclear who dialed 911. Authorities have said Jayme was home at the time of the slayings.
Officials arrived at the family's home to find the front door kicked in.
A neighbor, Joan Smrekar, told USA TODAY Network-Wisconsin that she and her husband heard two gunshots at around 12:30 a.m. on Oct. 15. But Fitzgerald previously said the neighbors' account is unsubstantiated.
The incident rattled the quiet northwestern Wisconsin community that, up until then, had been focusing much of its energy on celebrating local "The Voice" contestant Chris Kroeze. But residents came together to mourn James and Denise Closs and pray for Jayme's safe return, making lanterns and erecting Christmas trees in the hope of lighting her way home.
Law enforcement officials, meanwhile, spent months bewildered by the case. Criminal justice experts have called it unusual and said it's not common for a missing child to be linked to a double homicide. And the "million dollar question" during the investigation, Fitzgerald previously said, was whether the incident was random or targeted.
Although police received more than 2,000 tips, they had few leads until now.
Fitzgerald announced that Closs had been found at about 8 p.m. Thursday. Just hours earlier he had tamped down a rumor that she had been found in Walworth County in southeastern Wisconsin.
Tree of Hope for Jayme Closs, Barron
Students embrace with Superintendent Diane Tremblay by the Tree of Hope for Jayme Closs Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, outside of Riverview Middle School in Barron, Wisc. T'xer Zhon Kha/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin T'xer Zhon Kha, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Students hang Christmas ornaments on the Tree of Hope for Jayme Closs Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, outside of Riverview Middle School in Barron, Wisc. T'xer Zhon Kha/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Students decorate Christmas ornaments before the lighting of a Tree of Hope for Jayme Closs ceremony Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, outside of Riverview Middle School in Barron, Wisc. T'xer Zhon Kha/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
A projector screen shows a message "Tree of Hope" during the Tree of Hope for Jayme Closs ceremony Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, outside of Riverview Middle School in Barron, Wisc. T'xer Zhon Kha/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
The Christmas tree gets lit up as a ceremony of Hope for Jayme Closs Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, outside of Riverview Middle School in Barron, Wisc. T'xer Zhon Kha/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
A person uses her iPhone light on a program during Tree of Hope for Jayme Closs ceremony Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, outside of Riverview Middle School in Barron, Wisc. T'xer Zhon Kha/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
The Lakes Choir Boys performs during the Tree of Hope for Jayme Closs ceremony Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, outside of Riverview Middle School in Barron, Wisc. T'xer Zhon Kha/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Hormel Foods CEO JIm Snee gives a special message during the Tree of Hope for Jayme Closs ceremony Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, outside of Riverview Middle School in Barron, Wisc. T'xer Zhon Kha/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Participants light up lantern to release during the Tree of Hope for Jayme Closs ceremony Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, outside of Riverview Middle School in Barron, Wisc. T'xer Zhon Kha/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Lanterns being released during the Tree of Hope for Jayme Closs ceremony Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, outside of Riverview Middle School in Barron, Wisc. T'xer Zhon Kha/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
People release lanterns during the Tree of Hope for Jayme Closs ceremony Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, outside of Riverview Middle School in Barron, Wisc. T'xer Zhon Kha/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
A message of "Hope" seen on an ornament hangs on the Tree of Hope for Jayme Closs Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, outside of Riverview Middle School in Barron, Wisc. T'xer Zhon Kha/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
An ornament hangs on the Tree of Hope for Jayme Closs Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, outside of Riverview Middle School in Barron, Wisc. T'xer Zhon Kha/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
A Closs family member makes a speech during the Tree of Hope for Jayme Closs ceremony Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, outside of Riverview Middle School in Barron, Wisc. T'xer Zhon Kha/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin T'xer Zhon Kha, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
People listen during the Tree of Hope for Jayme Closs ceremony Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, outside of Riverview Middle School in Barron, Wisc. T'xer Zhon Kha/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin T'xer Zhon Kha, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
A person wipes away tears during the Tree of Hope for Jayme Closs ceremony Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, outside of Riverview Middle School in Barron, Wisc. T'xer Zhon Kha/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin T'xer Zhon Kha, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
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The Soul & Flare of Jamaican Songtress @RickiSimmonds
Ricki Simmonds | Songstress
Ricki Simmonds is a Jamaican born artist that reigns from Cleveland, Ohio. Originally from Kingston, Jamaica, Ricki relocated to Cleveland, Ohio as a child. Ricki released her first project entitled Salience in July of this year. Her sultry voice on top of her chic, tomboy style embrace the artistic songstress soul that makes Ricki Simmonds who she is. While her look and her style is always changing, her radiant vibrational rhythm always remains the same. Tracks like "Beautiful Lover" and "Wil Out" remain to be in my daily rotation. Take a listen for yourself and get to know this siren.
What inspired you to begin your music career and how does your Jamaican ancestry inspire your music?
A relationship with a lover of mine who is also an artist who encouraged me to get into art. I would sing and paint and had drawing everywhere but I was very secretive about it all. Jamaica really inspires my music with the way I sing my accent. I think that’s what makes my music the way it cause it’s Cleveland and Jamaica mixed in one. I listen to a lot of dancehall and reggae and I’m always inspired by both.
Your voice is so hypnotic and mesmerizing. What inspires your sound and your passion to create?
Love is my muse. It inspires me to create. I know everyone says love is a verb but for me it’s a thing, something you can feel and do.
I like to have passion for whatever I do because if not then I won’t be my best at it and when my feelings are involved it’s so much greater. Even if it’s not that I’m in love with someone but the music, I’m in love with making good music.
Here is a clip Ricki's latest performance at #INDIVIBES sponsored by INDI Media. Watching the crowd fall in love with Ricki over the course of her set was a moment that I'll never forget. Her voice seduced the crowd from start to finish.
How do you define your music? What is the most important lesson being a young millennial woman in the arts has taught you?
I call my music new soul cause I’m aware that it’s different but at the same time I’m not. The biggest lesson I’ve learned is be YOU to the fullest even if it make other people mad. People will talk whether you doing bad or good so you have to just live life to the fullest and fulfill YOUR dreams.
A photo posted by Simmondsricki@gmail.com (@rickisimmonds) on Oct 26, 2015 at 5:01pm PDT
What next for your career?
To find happiness in whatever I”m doing. I want to be more behind the scenes than infront the cameras so let’s hope it’s something of that sort.
A token of advice for our readers?
Give love, be you and live life to the fullest.
Watch Ricki's visual debut in her video for "Beautiful Lover" shot by HIGH ART
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“Sway on,” George W. Bush
News // Peggy Fikac
Peggy Fikac July 17, 2016
TOPSHOT - L-R: Former first lady Laura Bush, former US president George W. Bush, US First Lady Michelle Obama and US President Barack Obama join hands during the singing of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" during an interfaith memorial service for the victims of the Dallas police shooting at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center on July 12, 2016 in Dallas, Texas. President Barack Obama attended a somber memorial Tuesday to five police officers slain in a sniper ambush in Dallas, as he seeks to unify a country divided by race and politics. / AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGANMANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images
Photo: MANDEL NGAN, Staff / AFP/Getty Images
AUSTIN — The memorial for five slain Dallas officers was alternately solemn and joyful, a picture of unity in the face of tragedy as the Democratic president and his Republican predecessor urged Americans to treat each other with kindness, understanding and a dedication to the values that make our country strong.
So what lit up the internet? Former President George W. Bush swaying, mugging and swinging his arms as officials joined hands while “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” closed out the service.
On one side was his wife, Laura, who appeared taken aback at best before she finally gave a smile. On his other side was First Lady Michelle Obama, who seemed to make a game effort to strike a balance between being friendly to the former president and maintaining her composure.
Social media comments, tweets and posts took off: “Laura should have swatted him,” said one. “Dancing on stage at a funeral George Bush is by far my favorite George Bush,” said another. One said it “makes my heart hurt.”
Some wondered whether Bush had been drinking, a particularly cutting suggestion since Bush has discussed the problems alcohol caused him before he said he gave it up following a 40th birthday hangover. Others suggested drugs. Some proposed dementia had crept up on the 70-year-old.
But Bush has always had an inclination to act a little silly on occasion, even when it might not seem a strictly appropriate occasion. Some posted an earlier short video of him demonstrating his dance moves.
But not everyone piled on.
His defenders included Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, who managed Al Gore’s 2000 campaign against Bush.
“He was feeling the spirit. Please, allow him to sway on,” she tweeted.
Amen, actually.
Bush’s performance was far from the only light moment at the memorial, as at most great services.
Dallas Police Chief David O. Brown drew chuckles and applause as recalled that as a tongue-tied teenager, he recited the lyrics of love songs to win over girls. For those who were really special, he said, “I had to dig down deep and get some Stevie Wonder.”
He went on to quote Wonder’s “I’ll Be Loving You Always” for the officers’ families, asking them to imagine him back in 1974 “with an Afro and some bell bottoms and wide collar.”
President Barack Obama played off Brown’s speech with a quip of his own: “I’m so glad I met Michelle first, because she loves Stevie Wonder.”
Then the president launched into thought-provoking remarks about race, law enforcement and Americans’ relationship to each other, a speech that was beautifully preceded by thoughtful comments from Bush.
“At our best, we practice empathy, imagining ourselves in the lives and circumstances of others. This is the bridge across our nation’s deepest divisions,” Bush said.
Bush spokesman Freddy Ford made that point in a response directed at “internet commenters,” adding in an email Friday that he was “shocked and dismayed that this is what people are taking away” from Tuesday’s service.
“I would encourage any and all cynics looking for something to criticize to find a different subject than a memorial for fallen peace officers, and to watch more than just the clip of President Bush swaying to the music at the end of the ceremony,” Ford said.
The memorial was “a somber ceremony to honor the dead but also “a hopeful moment about moving forward together as a united nation,” he said.
“The Battle Hymn of the Republic was selected to conclude the memorial because it is a joyful, spiritual, triumphant song,” Ford said, and it moved Bush.
Democratic strategist Harold Cook found no problem with the behavior of the Republican former president and former Texas governor.
“Aside from the hyper-partisans who just can’t stand him and would try to find anything wrong with anything he did — no matter what that thing is — I think most people thought it was funny, including me,” Cook said. “And more power to him, because that was a day when funny was a pretty good deal.”
Well, perhaps there was one other category of people who didn’t find it funny. Or one person, anyway, Cook acknowledged.
“I’ll guarantee, based on Laura Bush’s body language, he got a good talking-to in the car on the way home. She was not amused,” Cook said. “Which is kind of funny, because everybody else was amused.”
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Peggy Fikac is Austin bureau chief and columnist for the San Antonio Express-News, delving into politics and policy in areas including the state budget, where the intersection of the two is compelling.
She covers Gov. Greg Abbott, who won the state’s top seat after a nationally noticed campaign against Wendy Davis; dug into Ted Cruz’s ascent to the U.S. Senate; covered George W. Bush as governor and during his races for president; and has bird-dogged Rick Perry’s tenure as Texas’ longest-serving governor, his White House ambitions and his indictment.
Peggy was bureau chief for the Houston Chronicle as well as the Express-News for more than five years when the two combined their Austin operations.
She previously worked for the Associated Press, where she covered the late Ann Richards during both of her campaigns for governor and specialized in public education and legislative coverage. Peggy also has been the correspondent for three Rio Grande Valley newspapers, starting as a senior at her alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin.
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NC gets warning from WV on ending judicial public financing
May 24, 2013 - With its trailblazing public financing program for judicial elections targeted for elimination by Republican state leaders, North Carolina got a visit this week from two prominent West Virginia conservatives who made a case for why such programs benefit a state's people and economy.
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April 25, 2013 - A bill that would have ended North Carolina's renewable energy program appears dead in the water. How did the program's defenders prevail in the state's current archconservative environment?
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March 29, 2013 - The state's Republican leaders are trying to solve a problem they created so they can help themselves politically by solving it. They might be undermining democracy, but you have to give them credit for their brazenness.
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March 26, 2013 - A provision of the North Carolina constitution designed to suppress the black vote is no longer enforceable under the Voting Rights Act, and a bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to give voters a second chance to remove it.
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Augusta Wood | If These Walls Could Talk, They Might Not Feel So Alone
by Flaunt Editorial Staff
AUGUSTA WOOD. “STEPS” (2016). ARCHIVAL INKJET PRINT. 16 X 16 INCHES. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND DENK GALLERY, LOS ANGELES.
“What is behind me and what is in front of me continuously overlap,” Los Angeles-based artist Augusta Wood tells me, gathering in one beautiful phrase her thoughts on life, experience, and, more specifically, her creative process. Her book, I have only what I remember, combines photography with memory, existence with architecture, and light with time to create what she calls “a more complete image.” This book is composed of works created in her grandparents’ now vacant 1955 modernist New York home, which feature projections of family photographs hauntingly layered over the now desolate home in which the memories were made.
Wood had a childhood steeped in art and carries talent in her genes—her grandparents were artists, and her parents avidly took Wood to museums, on architectural tours, and to live performances. According to Wood’s father, she made an early declaration (at age 5) that she would become an artist. Although Wood claims she would become a “migratory bird” if possible, artist seems to be defining her just fine at present. She recently held a solo exhibit, Parting and Returning, at Denk Gallery in Los Angeles, which evolves on her combinatory process to integrate drawing, and she is looking to continue meshing drawings and photographs “into a shared space” in her future work.
AUGUSTA WOOD. “LAKE” (2016). ARCHIVAL INKJET PRINT. 8 X 8 INCHES. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND DENK GALLERY, LOS ANGELES.
I get a sense of Wood’s dedication to her craft when she explains the reality behind the process of creating I have only what I remember: sitting alone in an empty home, cold, working through the night, and sleeping atop a foam pad on the floor. “Any slight noise was startling,” she tells me. “I said hello to the ether and talked to the house. I was completely solitary. Out of practical necessity, I set up the projections and photographed them with my 4x5 camera at night, as projections do not register in daylight. I would start at dusk and work until 3 or 4 in the morning.”
AUGUSTA WOOD. “FAMILY PORTRAIT” (2016). ARCHIVAL INKJET PRINT. 16 X 16 INCHES. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND DENK GALLERY, LOS ANGELES.
All told, she spent a month in the home living and working alone, finding company in familiar sounds and in the making of art. “Once I was working, I was immersed, creating and living in my own kind of personal installation from room to room. The sound of the running projectors and the images cast kept me company.”
The photographs in I have only what I remember, as well as in her later project exploring similar themes Whether it happened or not, use a unique technique of overlapping images on slides and then capturing their projections on various surfaces. “The use of overlapping slide projections made conceptual sense for these two projects as a way to investigate the history and influence of two houses from my past, as the architecture, the art, and the everyday in both homes were documented on slide film over the course of my upbringing. It also refers back to the role of analogue photography and Kodak Carousel slide projection as the method of image making and sharing in the mid 20th century.” This process not only yields a beautiful finished product, it produces a nostalgic experience for Wood throughout the process of creation. Wood notes the “hum of the projector” and “the smell of dust floating illuminated.” She emphasizes the role of light in the creation of her photos: “There is nothing else like light passing through film.”
The resulting images are haunting, melancholic, and richly resonant, evoking that sweet sting of a happy memory from an era now lost to time; intangible moments reborn in new light. Wood tells me the process “feels mysterious, ghostly and ethereal,” and I can only imagine how intense those feelings must be. The titles, I have only what I remember and Whether it happened or not, come from the Mark Twain quote: “When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not...” This plays with the imagination of adolescence, but I also think of something darker— the realizations forced upon us when entering adulthood, or the memories that resurface with new meanings later in life.
Written by Devin Hendricks
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NCAA Finalists Well-Represented At JO Nationals
May 14, 2019Amanda Cheney
Not many gymnastics fans could have predicted which NCAA teams would finish in this year’s top four. With Oklahoma, LSU, UCLA, and Denver finishing the 2019 season on top, some might be wondering what next season will look like for these teams.
Every year senior NCAA gymnasts graduate and move on from the sport but that also means new recruits join collegiate teams. Three out of the top four NCAA teams have incoming 2019 class recruits who have qualified and will compete at Junior Olympics Nationals this coming weekend, May 18-19. Here is who they are, what NCAA team they are committed to, and what you can expect to see them accomplish at nationals.
The 2019 Oklahoma Sooners national championship team had at least two seniors in all four event lineups. Graduating seniors Brenna Dowell, Nicole Lehrmann, and Alex Marks were all well-known names and will leave Oklahoma with big shoes to fill.
Brooke Weins (5280 North)
Brooke Weins will be competing at J.O. Nationals for the second season in a row. She started her 2019 club season with two all-around wins and most recently won the Colorado state vault title with a big 9.800 score. Weins finished sixth all-around at regionals to qualify herself to nationals this year. Vault has been her best event and will most likely be her highest score this weekend. Weins is also a consistent beam worker, finishing second on the event at her state meet and fourth at regionals. Solid routines on both of these events could be good for Oklahoma as they will lose two lineup spots in Brenna Dowell and Nicole Lehrmann next season.
Below are Weins’ 9.550 vault and 9.425 beam routine from 2018 J.O. Nationals:
All four of LSU’s seniors were used in lineups throughout the 2019 season. LSU will have to replace Sarah Finnegan in the all-around; McKenna Kelley on floor and vault; Lexie Priessman on bars, floor, and vault; and Julianna Cannamela on vault. However, with the names that are set to move to Baton Rouge in the fall, LSU could have one of the strongest incoming classes in the NCAA.
Kai Rivers (Twistars)
Kai Rivers is one of the strongest gymnasts in this LSU recruiting class. Rivers is the all-around package. She has been a level 10 gymnast since 2014, and since then Rivers has qualified to nationals every single year. She holds two national titles on vault, bars, and all-around and also has one on floor. In 2017, Rivers won the all-around title at the prestigious Nastia Liukin Cup. To qualify to nationals this year, Rivers finished second at the Michigan state championships with a 38.725 and won the regional beam and all-around title as well.
Rivers has a jam-packed bar routine that includes a Shaposh, giant full to reverse Tkatchev connection, and ends with a big double layout dismount. You can watch her 9.800 state championship routine here:
Other skills to look out for at nationals are Rivers’ double layout on floor and her clean Yurchenko full on vault.
Kiya Johnson (Texas Dreams)
Kiya Johnson is going out in style in her last year as a club gymnast. She has not scored lower than a 38.300 competing in the all-around since January 2018. This season, she won the Texas state championship with a huge 39.400 all-around and finished on top of the regional championship with a 39.175. Johnson took home the regional vault title with a perfect 10.0 vault. At nationals this weekend, she will look to defend her 2018 all-around and floor national titles.
Here is her national championship floor routine from 2017, complete with a double layout and tucked full in.
Denver surprised a lot of people this past season, and although the Pioneers will bring back a number of the same gymnasts next season, they will be losing consistent bars, beam, and floor scores from Kaitlyn Schou and Claire Kern. Both of Denver’s incoming freshmen have qualified to nationals and both bring different strengths to the table.
Emma Brown (Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance)
Emma Brown is a very consistent level 10 competitor. At regionals, she finished third all-around and placed in the top five in every event. She has qualified to every J.O. Nationals since 2014 and finished sixth all-around in 2018. Also last year, Brown finished ninth on both bars and beam at nationals. Take a look at how easy it is to watch her lines on both of these events.
With Emma’s consistency on bars and beam and her clean yurchenko full on vault, she could be a contender for a few lineup spots at Denver next year.
Akoray “AK” Subject (Twin City Twisters)
AK Subject is not the first Denver recruit from Twin City Twisters. Maddie Karr, one of Denver’s top all-around gymnasts, came from the same club gym and they both have an explosive style of gymnastics. AK won vault, bars, and floor and finished second in the all-around at regionals this year. She has a powerful Yurchenko full, huge tumbling passes on floor, and spunky, upbeat choreography that will go perfectly in the collegiate world. AK’s bar routine includes a Shaposh to immediate bail handstand and ends with a solid double layout dismount. She placed fourth on bars at nationals last year and third in 2017.
Watch her 2018 national meet here:
The UCLA Bruins are losing one of the biggest names in college gymnastics: Katelyn Ohashi. They also have to say goodbye to Brielle Nguyen and Stella Savvidou. The majority of the incoming recruiting class is made up of international elites, but there is one future Bruin who has had a successful level 10 career.
Emma Andres (Byers Gymnastics Center)
Emma Andres will finish her senior club gymnastics season by competing at her first ever J.O. Nationals. She has been a level 10 gymnast since 2015 and has consistently scored higher every year since. Andres’ senior year has been her most successful and also highest scoring level 10 season. At the NorCal State Championships she had a few personal best scores. Emma scored a 38.100 in the all-around and had a 9.600 on vault and a 9.525 on both beam and floor. She has a very unique beam mount and continues on with a gainer layout directly into a back handspring for her acro series.
Watch her high scoring state meet below:
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Floor is such a fun event in the summer, because the possibilities for huge upgrades are endless! Tumbling into the pit and hoping to transfer these skills to the floor won’t cut it, though, so here are 10 drills to use in the summer to work on upgrades and clean up the basics. If you have a favorite drill we missed, make sure to tell us in the comments.
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