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You know Emily Osment from 'Hannah Montana,' you love her on 'Young & Hungry,' and you'll be completely obsessed with our #WCW because of these four reasons.
In a recent tweet, I made this long overdue declaration: "Emily Osment is the most underrated comedic actress of our time." I have done the research and can definitively inform you that this statement is gospel. But rather than continuing to shout the truth out into the ether, I'd like to present the world with cold, hard facts. If you've been sleeping on Emily Osment, consider this your alarm clock.
Many of Emily Osment's fans grew up watching her in the Spy Kids sequels and, more than likely, the Disney Channel's Hannah Montana. Since the series' wrap, she has been a shining example of a child star leading with talent, grace, and a good head on her shoulders. Osment pursued music, attended college, and continued her career in comedy with Freeform's Young & Hungry. After every episode of the sitcom, I walk away blown away by Osment's commitment to comedy and presenting an ambitious albeit misguided woman with hilarious complexity. She's an underappreciated artist and comedian and our ultimate #WomanCrushWednesday. These reasons might seem obvious, but here's why we're completely obsessed with Emily Osment.
She defined our childhoods.
Duh! Before her course charted toward the House of Mouse, Osment co-starred in Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams and Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over as the devious Gerti Giggles. But we really got to know Emily Osment in a little show that made absolutely zero impact on the '00s zeitgeist in any way. I kid, of course.
On the Disney Channel's pop culture phenomenon Hannah Montana, Osment starred opposite Miley Cyrus as Lilly Truscott, the titular part-time pop star's happy-go-lucky best friend. Osment stole many a scene as Lilly, even as early as the pilot. ("Halfway there" still inspires a chuckle to this day.) Watch the clip above and try to handle the nostalgia.
She's got a killer voice.
Don't write her off as another Disney darling who grabbed a recording contract out of requirement from the network. No, she's got powerhouse pipes and can write catchy bangers and beautiful acoustic ballads. Osment made her music on her own terms and created, dare I say, one of the best pop albums of the current decade.
Fight or Flight, her debut album, took flight in 2010 with earworms produced by Nellee Hooper and Toby Gad. It's worth noting that Wikipedia calls "Let's Be Friends" one of the most "iconic songs of today," and we can't argue. Wikipedia doesn't lie, right? But we must keep waiting for EO2 to save the music industry.
She's an underrated comedy queen.
Listen up, kids. If you aren't watching Emily Osment on Young & Hungry, you're missing one of the greatest comedic performances on television. It's about time she gets the credit she deserves. Reminiscent of Lucille Ball and Osment's Young & Hungry guest star and Golden girl Betty White, Osment grounds Gabi Diamond's zaniest antics in a place of ambition and strength of character.
She's a dreamer, a spitfire, and a loose cannon, traits Osment sinks her teeth into with riotous abandon. In Season 5's midseason finale (and the series' best episode to date), Osment scores the biggest laughs for Gabi's full-blown meltdown. Whether in drama mode for Cyberbully or Mom or in comedy queen mode on Young & Hungry, watching Osment act is always a delight.
And finally, this tweet.
It's just one impeccable example of Osment's excellent social media presence. She cracks jokes and communicates with fans, but her most admirable online quality is using her voice and platform to speak on important issues. Whether it's wearing her preference for pizza to the patriarchy on her sleeve (as seen on Snapchat) or calling out harmful inconsistencies, she's refreshingly honest. Now, how do we get on the guest list to Emily Osment's whiskey nights?
Catch Emily Osment in Young & Hungry, available to stream on Netflix and returning to Freeform later this year!
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Ever wished you could see what it's like to spend a day in the life of a plastic surgeon — all gory details included?
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But a Miami doctor is betting that curiosity will get the better of us as he streams his practice's nips and tucks live on Snapchat.
Dr. Michael Salzhauer joined the ephemeral messaging app under the username therealdrmiami. He's already a "social media freak," according to Vice, and he's active on Twitter and Instagram (but the photos are graphic, so click at your own risk).
He is apparently best known for his Brazilian butt lifts, or BBLs.
Here's a before and after photo of one of his surgeries:
"This is the most fun I've had since medical school," he told Vice, referring to the media he's constantly sending out during his 12-hour workdays. "[T]he social media allows me to express my creativity, to reach out to patients, to connect to them on a human level, and not so much the buttoned-up, white-coat, I'm the doctor sort of thing."
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Why Not Having Sex Could Mean The Death Of Your Relationship
It's about a lot more than just getting it on.
Anyone who's ever been in love remembers those nights of barely sleeping, losing count of how many times you've had sex, and becoming aroused all over again every time you brushed up against the object of your infatuation.
But as time goes on, that tends to happen less and less. Sometimes you're too exhausted to want to get it on, sometimes there are kids involved that have to be bathed and put to bed, and sometimes you're just not into it.
In a longstanding relationship, or any marriage past the newlywed phase, it's normal for a few days to go by without having sex – maybe even a week or two, depending on the circumstances. But if it's been so long that you can't even remember the last time you got down and dirty, beware: your relationship could be on its way out.
If you're in a sex-starved marriage, you probably know it – and you probably already know it's not good. But maybe, just maybe, you think it's normal. Maybe you think sexual attraction is bound to fade, and it's not a big deal. Here's why you couldn't be more wrong…
Let's get physical (and emotional)
There's a lot more to sex than just the physical part. Sure, the phrase 'making love' is a little cringe-worthy, but there's something to it. Having an orgasm feels good – and masturbating every day might make you feel like a million bucks – but it's a totally different thing than having sex with someone you love.
Why is sex so powerful? When we have an orgasm, our brains release all kinds of chemicals, including oxytocin, the so-called 'love hormone.' But it's not just chemical. When we have sex, we're at our most vulnerable; we are usually, literally, naked. Letting someone else see you in that state, and experiencing intense pleasure together, is in itself a bonding act. Relationship expert to the stars Audrey Hope says sex is a powerful combining of energies.
"Everything is energy, and so in the act of making love, you combine energies. Imagine for a moment trying to keep the relationship close without that watering. It's like a plant that gets no care or water."
And Hope says sex is the first thing to go when relationships hit rocky periods.
"It's always an alarm. If you are angry, resentful or hurting from your partner, you won't even want to sleep facing each other. Sex is a language," she explains.
And if you're not speaking it to each other, you're in trouble…
Familiarity breeds contempt?
In the early days of your relationship, you couldn't keep your hands to yourselves. So what happened?
Rabbi Shlomo Slatkin is a licensed clinical therapist who founded The Marriage Restoration Project along with his wife Rivka. Together, they run private marriage retreats to help couples stay together – and not just together, but happily together. He says couples should expect that initial heat to fade.
"The passion of intimacy during the romantic stage of a relationship is normal. It's also normal that when the romantic stage dissipates and the neurochemicals that were flooding your brain and dulling the pain receptors begin to decrease, that you won't be as excited about your partner."
Any type of pleasure, explains Rabbi Slatkin, loses its novelty when it becomes constant. He also notes that men and women approach sex differently.
"While for men it is more physical, for women, there is a strong emotional component," Slatkin explains.
And when you feels safer and more emotionally connected, you can usually be more present for physical encounters.
The power principle
Sex is powerful: it can make us a little crazy. Licensed marriage and family therapist associate Melody Li works with couples in private practice in Austin, Texas. She says that in troubled relationships, it's common for one or both partners to withhold sex from each other.
"Sometimes it's intentional, as punishment, and sometimes it's not – for example, not feeling in the mood."
But, she says, when couples stop having sex, they lose out on something that could potentially help heal their relationship.
"When sex is pushed aside, feelings of resentment and loneliness can build up, causing further disconnection. Couples begin the count the weeks and months they haven't had sex and see it as an indicator of the health of their relationship."
Getting back on track
So, if you and your SO are already caught in that vicious cycle of not connecting physically, and then not connecting emotionally, how can you turn things around? Once resentment and hurt have built up, reaching out might seem like the last thing you want to do. But, says Li, that's exactly what you need to do.
"I sometimes encourage couples to engage in sexual intimacy even if it sounds irrational and vulnerable."
That's because the chemicals released by your brain and body during sex can foster a sense of closeness, which in turn creates an opportunity to tackle relationship issues in a safer and more open environment.
Rabbi Slatkin even recommends actually putting sex on your calendar, to remind yourself of its importance.
"Although it may not sound so spontaneous, by removing distractions and getting fully present, it's possible to reawaken this aspect of your marriage."
Sex, he says, is essential to a successful relationship, serving as a barometer of your emotional connection. "It is not something to be ignored."
And according to Hope, "daring to show your partner the real you at all costs" is the secret to love. And the real you? She isn't wearing any clothes.
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Comment: How important do you think sex is in a relationship?


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by Alex Knapp WCW Mayhem Year: 1999 System: PlayStation and Nintendo 64 Developers: Electronic Arts, Kodiak Interactive Publisher: Electronic Arts In retrospect, WCW Mayhem is a pretty fascinating game.
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Wrestling Game StArcade: WCW/NWO Revenge
by Alex Knapp WCW/NWO Revenge Year: 1998 System: Nintendo 64 Developers: Asmik Ace and AKI Publisher: THQ Good news/bad news time, folks.
Wrestling Game StArcade: WWE 2K14
by Alex Knapp WWE 2K14 Year: 2013 Systems: PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 Developer: Yuke's Publisher: 2K Sports Well, folks, another WrestleMania has come and gone. Whatever your thoughts are on what transpired Sunday, I feel it appropriate to, in… Read More ›
WWE Pay-Per-View Roundtable: WrestleMania 31
by Daniel Johnson, Kyle Childers and Dave Pendleton – Tyson Kidd and Cesaro (c) (with Natalya) vs. The Usos (with Naomi) vs. Big E and Kofi Kingston (with Xavier Woods) vs. Diego and Fernando (with El Torito) for the WWE… Read More ›
Wrestling Game StArcade: WWF European Rampage Tour
by Alex Knapp WWF European Rampage Tour Year: 1992 Systems: MS-DOS PC, Amiga, Atari ST and Commodore 64 Developer: Arc Developers Publisher: Ocean Software Every now and then, the World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment takes the time to acknowledge that… Read More ›
WWE Pay-Per-View Roundtable: Fastlane 2015
by Daniel Johnson, Kyle Childers and Dave Pendleton Editor's Note: Part of The Johnson Transcript since 2012, Kyle Childers/Hawk Jefferson is a cornerstone of the WWE Pay-Per-View Roundtable series and the author of the Hawkeye's Hangout series. Elsewhere Childers is… Read More ›
Old School Flashback: Someone Actually Wins a Competitive Match with an Abdominal Stretch
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Giving thanks for Anderson Valley — a Pinot Noir sweet spot
I'm asked with surprising frequency which wine region in California I'm fondest of. Always, I demur out of professional courtesy and a dislike of outrunning angry mobs.
But in my heart, the answer hasn't shifted much for most of a decade: Anderson Valley.
It was the first spot I ventured to when I came west, looking for signs of hope amid the state's vineyards. Even today, with a boomlet of tasting rooms and a handful of ambitious new restaurants like Stone and Embers along Highway 128, this remote slice of western Mendocino remains a simulacrum of California wine in the pre-pretense days.
I'm confessing because Mendocino wine has been struggling of late. Although the region has enjoyed a minor rally as Pinot Noir's fortunes have risen, its wines remain something of an insider's choice.
And what better time for this little disclosure than Thanksgiving? Pinot Noir remains the quintessential (but not only: http://is.gd/twheel) wine for the holiday, with its shades of autumnal comfort. And here are wines that speak of bounty close to home.
As vintages go, 2012 was a lamb, if a rather fatted one. A dry winter, but no big heat spikes, no ill-timed rains, just steady and moderate weather and an oversize crop.
That sort of year could yield easygoing but snoozy wines. But the results in Anderson Valley, at least for Pinot Noir, found a charming middle ground — ripe but not dull, savory but not thin. After three tricky years, 2012 was a godsend — and not just for Anderson Valley. Great specimens could be found throughout Mendocino County.
In part, that's because many of these wines are increasingly coming from hillside sites. If you look at my current top roster, you'll recognize well-established names like Cerise and Morning Dew, Deer Meadows and Demuth, along with newer plantings like Wendling.
That remains at least partly true, and some of Anderson Valley's best defenders, including Littorai and Copain, have cellars elsewhere. But the dance card of homegrown talent — labels like Knez, Drew, Baxter and, lately, Balo — is stronger than ever.
Together, they're upholding California's best traditions. It's precisely the sort of dedication for which we should all give thanks.
A Top 10 for Mendocino Pinot Noir
2012 Waits-Mast Deer Meadows Vineyard Anderson Valley Pinot Noir
2012 Drew Morning Dew Ranch Anderson Valley Pinot Noir ($55; 13%): While Drew's Fog-Eater bottling is also a standout, this effort from the vineyard farmed by Pinot legend Burt Williams (Williams Selyem) is quintessential Anderson Valley — packed with complex flavors, not showing an ounce of fat. Coppery mineral, orange, cucumber, thyme and conifer, damson plum and savory spice. Utterly pure flavors.
2012 Knez Anderson Valley Pinot Noir ($32; 13.5%): Winemaker Anthony Filiberti has crafted extraordinary bottlings from both of Peter Knez's vineyards, Cerise and Demuth, but this mix of the two sites is flat-out gulpable. Subtle, shaded in its flavors, with bright raspberry, mandarin peel, toasted cardamom and mineral intensity from the ripe vintage, a signature of the best hillside plantings.
2012 Copain Wendling Anderson Valley Pinot Noir ($65, 13.6%): This debut from a younger planting across the road from Wells Guthrie's stellar Kiser planting is stunning — brooding with damp earth and warm forest, and a mix of intense dark fruit and brilliant pomegranate highlights on the palate. It's taut, almost raw in its flavors, begging for some time to show its depth.
2012 Baxter Valenti Vineyard Mendocino Ridge Pinot Noir ($48; 13.2%): One of two standouts from this 1,200-foot site near Greenwood Ridge, west of Anderson Valley, here handled by the two Phil Baxters (Jr. and Sr.). An innate tension, with the coppery iodine bite that seems to mark Valenti, plus chewy cherry skin, black currant and an herbal thyme-like side.
2012 Balo Vineyard Suitcase 828 Estate Anderson Valley Pinot Noir ($38; 13.6%): Single-clone wines can be a boondoggle. They give up the complexity found in a diversity of vine material. But the Mullins family, with winemaker Jason Drew, pulls this one off, highlighting a little-known (unofficially "imported" via Oregon) selection of Pinot Droit vines. It's an unusual creature, with stiff tannins and a pronounced sanguine quality that ties together bright pomegranate, watermelon skin, bass tones of toasted clove and dark fruit.
2013 Folk Machine Vecino Vineyard Potter Valley Pinot Noir
2013 Donkey & Goat Broken Leg Vineyard Anderson Valley Pinot Noir ($38; 12.9%): A forthcoming release from Tracey and Jared Brand of Berkeley. Notably citrus-edged: kumquat and citron, with distinct spice from the use of whole clusters that bolsters its tart fruit. Its flavors are tightly wound, but there's enough ripeness to please partisans of the more austere, Loire-ish style.
2012 Comptche Ridge Vineyards Mendocino County Pinot Noir ($47; 13.2%): A familiar vineyard to Anthill Farms fans, located outside the tiny town of Comptche, now in a different guise from owners John and Mark Weir. Profound bayberry, verbena and mint flavors, and an intense mineral core. Subtle, with a silken quality to the fruit.
2012 Skewis Wiley Vineyard Anderson Valley Pinot Noir ($50; 14.4%): A new vineyard for Healdsburg's Skewis, one in the valley's deep northern end. A bigger footprint for Anderson Valley, happily balanced with brightness: candied plum, fenugreek, roasted thyme, deep cherry compote, and terrifically juicy all through.
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Several years ago I bought a Gretsch hat that was black, had an orange patch on it and flames on the bill. I purchased it at CAAS at the Broadway Sounds booth. Of course they dont have one anymore and I lost the hat
I would like to find another one....if you have an extra that you would sell, please send me an email.
Thanks in advance for any leads...all of my internet searches have only found black ones with black patches, not what I want.
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[this was my commentary before the surprising October payrolls]
Despite my better judgement, I was listening to CNBC on Wednesday after the FOMC statement was released. One of the commentators said something to the effect of "the change in wording regarding the next meeting was not very relevant." I could not disagree more. Not only did the FOMC insert "at the next meeting," they changed "how long to maintain [the current target range]" to "whether it will be appropriate to raise [the target range]." You need to have a serious reading comprehension problem to think this was NOT a signal from the Fed to the markets that a rate rise is coming.
Yellen is very deliberate with her communications. If you are in the camp of the CNBC commentator, you need to ask yourself, "why now?" If the old and new phrasing are "equivalent," the Fed could have made this change at any time in the past 6 months. While market volatility has stabilized, the economic data is currently turning south. There was no need to make any change to this part of the statement. But they made the change! Watch for the next Fed Minutes in 2.5 weeks. There is a chance it may validate my interpretation of the statement change.
The next two payrolls will be critical, but it appears that most economists think payrolls will rebound and the UR will continue to drift lower. Under these circumstances (the next two payrolls being similar to the current consensus), the Fed will most certainly hike in December. But as previously mentioned, economist estimates tend to be sticky, so we need to see how the data actually evolves. Even if the data stays around the current levels (and no noticeable improvement), the Fed is better than 50-50 to hike in December.


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Start by going to the settings icon which is located either on the home screen, or in the app drawer. Under the Accounts heading, click Add Account.
Then select Corporate (this may be displayed as Microsoft Exchange Active Sync on your phone).
Enter your Email Address and Password. If you have an auto-discover record set up on your account already, your phone will automatically find the required server settings. Click Next.
Username: Your email address
Password: Your mailbox password (set inside Service Console)
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Server: exchange.server-secure.com
Ensure "Use Secure Connection (SSL)" is ticked. Click Next.
Your phone will now search for the settings from the server. This may take some time depending on your connection.
If you are presented with a Remote Security Administration Prompt, click OK.
Once your phone has obtained the server settings you can configure the account to your requirements. Click Next.
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An apocalyptic journey through the dark heart of the new Russia. Three strangers meet in a Moscow bar one late night and spin fantastic stories, all of them lies. They depart and journey their separate ways through a landscape filled with de ocaying meat, wild dogs, ravenous crones, cloned piglets, and modern industrial horrors. A completely unique and disturbing film, 4 was held up by Russian censors who wanted 40 minutes cut, but relented after the film won acclaim at film festivals around the world.
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"The stark surreal images evoke a mixture of terror and absurdity that comes as close to the experience of an actual nightmare as anything Ive seen on the screen." -Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES
"Ilya Khrzhanovsky's nightmarish Russian tone poem stunned audiences at January's Rotterdam Film Festival. We can safely tell you to believe the hype. Strange and sick-making, 4 will haunt you for days." -TIME OUT NEW YORK
"This jaw-dropping whatsit is a grandiose study of barbarism and decay, a treatise on the way of all flesh." -Dennis Lim, VILLAGE VOICE


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One month and one day ago, the Islanders' season turned around in a game at the Garden. So on Tuesday night, back at the Garden, they stared down a 3-1 deficit to the Rangers and never flinched.
"I really think we controlled most of the game," said John Tavares, the Islanders star who was speaking about his team, but could have been speaking about himself, putting on a superlative performance en route to a 5-3 win. "Even though we got down two goals early, we were the better team, just stuck with it and capitalized on our opportunities when we got them."
If the Islanders are the better team, they have a long way to go before they prove it. Yet, there was hardly a better player on the ice than Tavares, who tallied three assists, making two great plays to set up Thomas Vanek's game-winner with 4:38 remaining, and eclipsed the two goals of the Rangers' opposing superstar, Rick Nash.
"I think we know these division games for us are so big," said Tavares, whose 62 points are second in the league only to the Penguins' Sidney Crosby. "We dug ourselves a hole, so any time we can take a regulation win in a division game, it's important."
That hole was hardly deeper than on Dec. 20, when the Islanders came into the Garden a beaten and beleaguered team. Yet, that day's 5-3 win started a run of 12-5-0, getting the Islanders to 21-24-7 and once again sniffing the outside of the postseason conversation, five points out of a wild-card spot.
The Rangers, now at 27-22-3, have managed to pull themselves out of their own respective hole, coming in 11-3-1 in their past 15. Nevertheless, even after Nash scored twice in opening 11:07, getting his team-leading goal total to 16 with nine in the past nine games — and even after Chris Kreider's power play goal midway through the second made it 3-1 and wiped out a goal from the Isles' Matt Martin late in the first — the Rangers never held the momentum in this one.
"I don't think [it felt like] it was a 3-1 game at the time," Rangers captain Ryan Callahan said. "I thought they were controlling most of the game for a large amounts of it. We got off to that lead, but then we have to try and grab control of that hockey game. We need to up our intensity, our energy, for whatever reason we didn't do it."
No, it was the Isles who had the intensity in this one, and when they did make their requisite mistakes — of which there were plenty — Kevin Poulin managed to win the duel of the backup goalies against Cam Talbot. While Thomas Hickey and Colin McDonald beat Talbot to tie the game late in the second, when the third rolled around, it was Poulin standing firm against all 13 Rangers shots, even those in the frantic waning seconds with the Blueshirts' net empty.
"It's not starting to wear on me," said Islanders coach Jack Capuano, who smiled, but whose words were belied by the weary look of his face.
His team had trailed in nine of the past 13 games, and yet in six of those games, with deficits of two or more, they came back for wins.
The Isles still are 5-11-3 in the Metropolitan Division, a number that recalls those dark days of November and early December probably more so than the players in the room. Yet, a couple more against the Rangers, and things might look a whole lot better.
"Winning," said Vanek, "cures a lot of things."


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There is a saying, coined by the late Edward Lorenz, an early pioneer of the chaos theory, that "the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil can set off a tornado in Texas." This observation is known as the butterfly effect: the concept that small changes can have large downstream effects.
Today, the life sciences industry is operating at the tip of a butterfly's wings.
This evolving milieu is characterized by a shifting regulatory environment, calls for pricing reform, mounting pressure to innovate, concerns over data quality and drug safety, and worries about the industry's reputation.
Life sciences experts at YourEncore have identified six areas in the pharmaceutical industry that are particularly susceptible to the butterfly effect. These areas are poised for the kind of disruption that initially may seem insignificant, but may have a large and lasting ripple effect.
Each of these are discussed in detail, along with our point of view (POV) in Pharm-ers Almanac 2016: The Butterfly Effect.
Biosimilars Take Flight
Biologics are among the most expensive drugs in the pharmaceutical industry. With eleven biologics losing their patents this year, many biosimilars are expected to enter the market. Despite a discounted rate of 20-30 percent, a 2014 Rand analysis predicts that biosimilars will only decrease U.S. spending on biologics by about 4 percent, begging the question: is the manufacture of biosimilars a necessary evolution of the market or a distraction from big pharmaceutical's innovation and investment in other new drugs to address unmet needs?
FDA Nets Drug-Device Combination Products
The popularity of drug-device combination products has been soaring. The market for combinations of drugs, biologics, and devices is expected to grow to $31 billion by 2019. However, growth in this sector is threatened by a lack of alignment with FDA, in which there are countless examples of combination products taking upward of five years to receive approval. How can drug and med device companies best operate within the regulatory framework today and in the future to deliver innovative solutions to patients in a reasonable time frame?
Price Puddling
With the price hike of Mylan's EpiPen making recent headlines, this hot topic is leaving the pharmaceutical industry in a difficult position. How do companies balance the thirst for innovation by patients and the value their medicines deliver with the cost of delivering that innovation and building a sustainable business?
CROs vs. Cocooning
Nearly two-thirds of pharmaceutical and biotech companies spent between $10 million and $50 million in 2014-15 for outsourcing. However, issues with quality have some pharmaceutical companies talking about retaining in-house resources, with nearly 35-55 percent of sponsors reporting moderate to significant dissatisfaction with a contracted project. What's the cause of this? Does the success of a CRO engagement begin with the selection process, or does it come down to management?
Regulatory Wing Clipping
Legislative and regulatory changes in the pharmaceutical industry are in their chrysalis stage, and soon will be ready to radically emerge and make their impact on developers. By the looks of it, we should expect an invasion of new regulations and their interpretation, which will slow down the rate of approvals. Are all these upcoming regulations a barrier or an opportunity?
Inspection Migration
The rising costs of drugs and biologics calls for increased drug imports, and worries about supply chain quality are putting oversight of drug development, manufacturing, and marketing by regulators under a magnifying class. How can the pharmaceutical industry prepare for increased quality oversight?
Individually, any of these trends can be disruptive to a drug developer. In aggregate, they can pose a significant butterfly effect on the industry. While developers cannot stem the tide of change, YourEncore can help you anticipate and prepare for these changes.
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On Friday, we decided to take in the "scenery" of Round Rock.
Here we are on part of the Chisholm Trail, which was used to transport cattle from Texas to Kansas in the late 19th century. Not quite the Oregon Trail, but the other statues at this park definitely looked like they came straight out of the computer game!
Not very round. They'd have been better off calling it "Pancake Rock." Wouldn't that make a nice town name? lol.
Me and ol' Bessie.
After all that *spectacular* (cough, cough, yeah right) sightseeing, we hit up the pool at Megan's apartment to cool off. The pool wasn't cool at all though. This is Texas--there is no relief from the killa heat!
That night, as is our tradition whenever we get together, we hit up the Melting Pot for fondue. My sister and I started this tradition, so we thought we'd let Mam and KB into our tradition.
Me, KB, and some glorious liquid cheddar :)
In retrospect, this looks absolutely disgusting. At the time, though, it tasted like PURE GOLDEN HEAVEN FONDUE.
The three of us "sisters" (KB is practically my sister)--Me, Megatron and KB.
THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM FOR CHOCOLATE FONDUE!!!! These were the "dippers"--cheesecake, marshmallows, strawberries, bananas and rice krispie treats!
We got the "featured chocolate" which was a passion fruit Yin n' Yang--it was dark chocolate and passion fruit-infused white chocolate. After this, we went home, put our elastic pants on, and watched True Blood until 2am. I told you I got them all hooked! GREAT SUCCESS!
The Saturday morning after our fondue feast, none of us were really hungry until lunch. We had the most fantastic Greek food, but I forgot to take a pictures (needless to say, I was a little burned out on the food pics). After lunch we swung by the Mexican Bakery again so I could get some cookies to bring home to Wes.
Before our flight home, we had an hour to kill, so we trekked it down to 6th Street in Austin to see where the world's first Whole Foods (and the adjacent Whole Food Headquarters) is located. According to someone I talked to who lived in the area 20 years ago, the first WF was this little dirty hole-in-the-wall store.
My, how things have changed in 20 years.
I didn't get any good pics of the inside, but I swear to you--this was the most BEAUTIFUL and HUMUNGOUS Whole Foods I've ever seen. They had every possible "bar" you could think of (salad bar, cheese bar, wine bar, trail mix bar), but guess what "bar" they DIDN'T HAVE...
The new Lara Bars! I've been wanting to try the Cookie Dough one, but alas, not even the mecca of the Whole Foods chain could keep them in stock. Instead, I got three of their regular ones for the flight home--coconut cream pie, banana bread and cinnamon roll. I gave KB the cinnamon roll one, so I can't wait to hear what she thought!
Well, that's the best of the best of the Austin trip! And remember that sketchy hotel room? My sister works at the Police Department, so let me know when I got home that the whole "crime scene" in the room next door was nothing more than a busted toilet and broken water main. REALLY?!?!? Then why did they need eight police officers to take a report? Round Rock must have slow crime days :)
I have so much good news to share tomorrow with ya'll and it's FUN FRIDAY, so be ready for some new recipes and jams!


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Detailed below is a range of Maglite Incandescent 2D Torches in a choice of 5 distinctive colours associated with such a renowned brand. These traditional torches have a proven 25 year record of excellent reliability, robustness and performance. Each torch features an adjustable beam, an output of 19lm and a 10 hour burn time. Illuminating up to a distance of 229m these torches are perfect for rugged outdoor applications, such as hill walking, camping and the like.
Protected from impacts they are also water resistant and corrosion resistant. With a spare lamp safely secured in the tail cap this range is a great choice at a low price.


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Pouf The Magic Ottoman!
Along the lines of bohemian chic I mentioned earlier this week, I love this white leather pouf from Shabby Chic and have been trying to figure out how I can justify the splurge! More party seating, is one rationale. Not a particularly practical one, but hey, we all need more party seating, right? I saw these pretty, brightly colored poufs at The BellJar in the Mission recently, and I love these fun colored poufs as accent pieces and additional seating to any living room.
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Greetings from a field trip to Leipzig. Riding trains is so nice. There was a certain silence and peace after all the exiting passengers left the platform. The train was standing by to depart.
Humanity always benefits from building and maintaining public transportation systems. Cars separate people, whereas transit creates space that lets people be together to practice respect of each other and let us go about our business.
New art standing by and the tools to take care of it.
Last October I collected autumn leaves in Plänterwald and mounted them at home. Now one lear later I wanted to return the leaves to the same forest to be digested back into the planet naturally. I brewed an oolong tea to celebrate the occasion.
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This is a page from the master plan document that describes the "University Area" within the "Urban Zone". The page includes the overall character description of the area, art element concepts/descriptions, a context map, an aerial photo showing locations of art elements, and an oblique aerial image showing the future parkway. The SH-121 Southwest Parkway is a new $800 million parkway in Fort Worth Texas that connects commercial areas, a cultural district, neighborhoods, and natural areas. The Art Plan connects people to the Parkway, its natural and built environments, and the adjoining neighborhoods through an experience of art. In order to contextualize the project at a regional scale, the Art Plan considers the Parkway's place within the framework of the Trinity River Watershed, with its multiplicity of land uses and natural characteristics. It also calls for more intimate experiences that express ideas about aesthetics, nature, and infrastructure. As such, the Art Plan conceives of the Parkway as a corridor where nature and culture co-exist and interplay in diverse ways.


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There is a disturbing trend going around.
It's out of control.
I dare say, it is possibly the most threatening event of the first few days of 2016.
That's right, folks … I am talking about the use of "spirit animal" getting out of hand.
I have recently heard on a TV program and read three different articles where the term was used and what they were calling their spirit animal wasn't even an ANIMAL – one was a person, one an inanimate object, and the other was food.
What is the world coming to if Janis Joplin, leather couches, and Oreos are your spirit animal??
On second thought – – – – Oreos can stay as a spirit animal. I love Oreos.
On third thought – – – – Oreos can't be a spirit animal, we have to stand strong together; if we don't, next thing you know someone is gonna think string cheese or Lauren Graham is their spirit animal.
On fourth thought – Lauren Graham is awesome and is my spirit animal, so humans stay acceptable because, as human beings, technically and otherwise, we are animals; but out goes inanimate objects and food!
Well, all food except Oreos.
Now that we got that pesky matter out of the way we can move on to more pressing and important topics, like the fact that it's a new year.
Listen, I love a new year. I love the fresh start feeling it brings. I love that it's filled with hope, promise, light, and love. I love that people see a blank slate – 365 days to make with what you will.
What I struggle with is that soon enough the feeling dies down, soon enough two weeks or two months have gone by and reality sets in. The reality of how hard it is to change sometimes. The reality that comes as pressure builds when expectations of others or self are not being met, that goals are slipping through our fingers like water.
Reality isn't what we see on social media, it isn't what we see on T.V., sometimes it isn't even what we see or read in blogs like my own. I seek for the real, I seek to portray what is really happening but so much of that can't be conveyed.
Whenever I think about the difference between what is sometimes portrayed as reality on TV and what is real, I think back to a horrible moment I had when I was nineteen, when I watched my dear aunt Norma, who I love and has since pass away, have a heart attack in a hospital.
(***I pause now to place a trigger warning out there for anyone that might have experienced a trauma related to hospitals or serious medical conditions – I try to portray this story as real as I remember and as such some words and parts could be triggering***)
I went with my other aunt, Margie, and my father to visit Norma in the hospital, where she was recovering from a very severe infection in her foot. We had a hard time finding her because she had moved floors due to over crowding, going from a general care floor to the cardiac unit – after reading this story, some people might call that move coincidence or luck, I see as the hand of God. Norma had never had heart trouble and was doing well when we got there. She was sitting up in bed and we were all talking and laughing. At some point, my dad left to go somewhere and my aunt Marge helped Norma walk into the bathroom.
I was standing by the door, killing time and looking out at the nurses station, which had this huge bay of TV's that seemed to be monitoring heart activity for every room. I was fascinated by all that stuff given that my favorite show for basically all of the 90's was E.R.
I was watching those monitors as my aunt got back into bed and slowly, then rather quickly, something began to happen. The nurse was focusing on my aunt's screen and lines started moving in that screen in odd and crazy directions and before I could even really know what was happening, the nurse was on the loud speaker – lights were flashing above the door – people were running into the room – a nurse was yelling at my aunt, "Norma! Norma! Do you hear me?!".
I stood in the corner, frozen.
The veracity with which they threw the head of her bed down and started trying to revive her was shocking. The chest compressions were nothing like what T.V. tried to portray as reality – a male nurse was on top of the bed pushing down on her chest with such force I thought he was crushing her, breaking her. I think I was crying at that point but not sure. I remember them bringing out paddles and shocking her and her body practically leaping off of the bed. I wanted them to stop. My perfectly fine aunt was laughing with me minutes before – what was happening couldn't be happening.
They got some sign that she was back, at least for the moment, because the next second, they were wheeling her out of the room and down the hall. I was left standing by the door, with my aunt Margie, as I watched my father come walking, almost running, down the hall towards us from the opposite direction with a pale, worried expression on his face. Someone had paged him and I'm pretty sure I had been the one to ask someone to page him but I couldn't remember then and I still can't remember now how that all happened. What I do know is that experience was traumatic, real, and shocking. So much more than words here could ever express and certainly more than what T.V. had always tried to show.
My aunt survived that night and lived for a few more years and I know that it was because she had been given a miracle – been placed on a cardiac unit that was equipped to respond to her heart attack and her actual dying for a few seconds, with speed and a deeper knowledge than maybe she would have had on a floor not equipped to monitor even the slightest change in heart rhythms.
Why would I bring this up here, now? Why would I bring this up when I'm talking about a New Year and hope and light?
I bring this up because it always comes to my mind when I think about what I'm told is real versus what I experience as real. What I see on TV is sometimes called reality, but what I experience, in both the good and bad parts of my life, is filled with so much more than can be conveyed in the media.
I bring this up because I hate resolutions. I hate the idea of fixing all these things that are seemingly wrong with me and failing two weeks into a new year, or two hours into a new day.
I bring this up because I hate resolutions but I do want to believe in change, in growth, in hope. I want to believe that I can find a way to improve without judging my imperfections and lack of progress too quickly. I want to believe that I can be real about the good and the bad in myself and that I can learn that just because dark times or moments or moods or emotions enter my heart doesn't mean that light can't come with them.
I used to believe that joy was an emotion that came only after I finally cleared the darkness out of my life and heart; that it only came when I finally was free of my pain, trauma, weakness, and shortcomings.
I was wrong and if you believe that you are wrong! Joy can come now! Even if it's only 30 seconds or 30 hours or 30 days – it still can come. Pain is a part of life. It comes, in hundreds of forms … but so does joy.
I felt alone in my pain for so long. I felt unseen in my pain for so long that when I finally turned towards it and let myself look at it all, I believed that turning away from it and into the joyful moments of my life meant the pain and trauma went back to being unseen and if unseen then unreal and if unreal then I was nothing.
So instead of resolutions I want a theme for the year, I want something that can allow me to be all of me – the good, the bad, the funny, the serious, the survivor, the victim. I want something that can let me cry with deep pain when I feel alone, when the hole in my heart that is there because I am not a wife and mother can be felt in it's entirety, but also something that can fill me with laughter and joy when I take stock of my family, my friends, my job, and the richness that is my life. To me, that can only be one theme:
So, that will be me this year. I will allow my struggle to be as real as it is but I will know that struggle can be done with joy – pain is part of life, part of the journey, but suffering doesn't have to be.
I hope that in whatever you seek to do this year, you do so with compassion for yourself, for others, and with the knowledge that you are more than a sum of your worst parts – you are life, you are joy, you are goodness, you are perseverance ….
You, my friend, can be your own spirit animal.
Happy 2016 – let us all struggle with joy this year.


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The energy efficiency community has worked hard to engage lenders and consumers in what is estimated by the Rockefeller Foundation and Deutsche Bank to be a $279 billion market for energy efficiency investment. Great advances have been made in the federal and public sector's program development arena, yet private sector transaction volume remains frustratingly low. In an effort to understand nuanced obstacles to market participation, ACEEE and Energi Insurance Services convened a group of small to mid-size lenders to discuss opportunities for increasing both lender and consumer participation in the energy efficiency space. Lender representation spanned state and local commercial banks, community banks, community development financial institutions (CDFIs), credit unions, and "green" lenders. This paper presents the obstacles identified in the convening and offers recommendations to the energy efficiency community to foster growth in the market for energy efficiency financing.
Small commercial buildings – those smaller than 50,000 square feet – offer substantial and immediate energy efficiency opportunities and cost savings. The Small Buildings and Small Portfolios (SBSP) sector contains 95 percent of all commercial buildings by number and represents 47 percent of the energy consumption in all non-mall commercial buildings. However this building stock has received little attention in the growing energy efficiency marketplace compared to larger and institutionally owned counterparts, in part because of the market's vast scale, physical diversity, and the disparate interests of its stakeholders.
While acknowledging these challenges, this study estimates that profitable investments in energy conservation can generate $30 billion in annual energy cost savings, improving the financial performance of millions of small businesses throughout the United States.


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In order to watch Bounce TV on my high-definition television and the other local stations that I could not receive through the cable box connected to that TV, I used a two-way splitter to connect a VHF/UHF antenna to my HDTV. With the local stations programmed in, I gained access to 50 extra channels. I can now "Bounce" and enjoy classic movies and shows geared toward the AA community.
I recently watched a 1980s Soul Train program on Bounce that featured the Brothers Johnson. After their performance of "Stomp!" (not to be confused with Kirk Franklin's gospel song), the main group members (George and Lewis Johnson) presented Don Cornelius with a platinum record plaque. Cornelius commented, "Once in a while someone gives you something nice enough to hang on the wall."
While not platinum records, but worth as much to me as thoughtful gestures, I have received several extremely nice doll-related gifts that were designed to hang on the wall. Some of these are shared below:
One of my initial doll-related gifts, a throw or blanket, was received in 2003 from the WeLoveBlackDolls group as part of a congratulatory gift package after my first book was published. Made from a picture of a group of my dolls, it can be used as wall hanging.
|The throw measures 45 x 63 inches and features Magic Attic Keisha, My Twinn "Danika", and Robert Tonner's Penney.
|Framed canvas of book cover image
Meeting master carver, Floyd Bell at the 56th United Federation of Doll Clubs Convention held in Dallas, Texas in 2006, led to a collector-artist friendship. Bell and I have collaborated on articles for Doll Reader and Dolls magazines. In late 2007/early 2008, he surprised me with a beautiful Music Dolls on Canvas framed portrait of his 6-inch carved "Music Dolls." The dolls commemorate the 2007 UFDC 58th Convention theme, Music! Music! Music!
|Music Dolls on Canvas by Floyd Bell #4/500 features his music doll grouping of 6-inch carved dolls. This portrait also hangs in my doll room/office.
In late February/early March 2011, I received a painting, ready for framing, from renowned doll artist, Goldie Wilson.
|Girl with Blue Bow was shared in a March 3, 2011 blog entry. It sits on a shelf in my doll room/office
I bartered for and purchased for myself the following two doll-themed items suitable for hanging.
|Six rag dolls and six stuffed fabric hearts are attached to this doll wall hanging by Delton Products Corporation. Not shown in the image are the cloth loops at the top which accommodate a wooden dowel used for hanging it.
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For people of almost any age, swimming is one of the best ways to stay healthy in mind and body. If you want to make a habit of daily swim in your own home but find it expensive to install a pool, then you should try to invest in a swim-spa. It is a great way for swimming and relaxing. They consume less space compared with a swimming pool and also effective in terms of cost. This is a miniature bathroom pool and much more. They are more practical and convenient option to use regular pool. Swim Spa is offered in various sizes and you can put them everywhere you want, whether it is a small backyard or your bathroom. You can even find the model that can contain 4-5 people.
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Pop Song Lyrics
The below is taken from a chat board that is long since gone, and was part of a much larger post string. I've aggregated the "good bits" to create an easier read and added a few embellishments here and there. Thanks to Jason "The Millenial" for the great tips!
Good lyrics are an important part of any pop song – and good lyric writing is easier than it seems. Here are some tips:
Can You Sum It Up?
You should be able to sum up the entire message of your song in one short phrase. Try it with any pop song on the charts right now, and then try it with your own music. For example, "Someone Like You" by Adele could be summed up with this phrase: "You left me, but I still love you".
If you can't sum up your song with one simple phrase, you're trying to incorporate too many ideas, or your idea isn't clear enough. Keep it simple.
Paint A Picture
Instead of abstract lyrics, paint a picture with sensory details.
Great lyrics paint a picture for the listener by providing a wealth of sensory detail that describes a story (tell us the who, what, where, when, and why).
Your lyrics should be simple and unfold like a story – you'll alienate your listeners if your lyrics are too abstract.
Make Every Line Count
A song is too short for filler – thus, every line in your song's lyrics should serve a function (develop the story, drive your main idea, provide contrast, etc…). Take out phrases that are repetitive, and words like "just" and "really".
Title – And Title Placement
When choosing a song title, pick something original and unique – not something that's been overused a thousand times. Take a look at the song titles of this week's top 10 country hits for some great examples:
1. Keep Me in Mind
2. Let It Rain
3. Drink In My Hand
4. Tattoos On This Town
5. Easy
6. I Don't Want This Night To End
7. You
8. All Your Life
9. We Owned The Night
10. Reality
With the exception of #7 (and maybe #5), every title on that list makes me want to listen to the song.
The titles of most pop songs almost always appear in their lyrics – usually at the beginning or end of their choruses.
The title is often the song's "hook" – which is usually the first or last line in the chorus. Listeners expect to hear the song's title in these places – if your song's title isn't clearly evident after listening to it, how will they find it and buy it?
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Ashmnu Bagadnu אשמנו בגדנו In The Plural
Hat tip: I thank Hadassa for getting me on this track.
We are in this together, whether they like it or not! It's not enough just to say "Ashmnu Bagadnu אשמנו בגדנו."
Most Jewish prayers are in the plural. Many Jewish prayers and rituals are only permitted to a minyan, quorum of ten men. The words Ashamnu Bagadnu אשמנו בגדנו "We have become guilty, We have betrayed G-d," from the "Vidu'i," are the cornerstone of the Yom Kippur Prayers, when we ask G-d for forgiveness for all our sins. Note that they end with the suffix "nu" "נו." That's the first person plural, "we/our."
How will supposedly Torah observant people reply to G-d when asked why they only supported Jewish rights to their little corner of the world? People like Meir Rubinstein, mayor of the haredi town Beitar Illit, don't see themselves as part of the Jewish People's mitzvah, G-d given commandment, to settle the Land of Israel, Eretz Yisrael ארץ ישראל. A call for "exceptions" to the YESHA building freeze brings us back to "you can't be a little bit pregnant."
Rubenstein is no different than the secular Lefists in Tel Aviv who don't understand that without recognizing Jewish Rights to places like Shiloh, Shechem and Hebron, they have no right to be in Tel Aviv.
We are in this together, whether they like it or not! It's not enough just to say "Ashmnu Bagadnu אשמנו בגדנו." We must sincerely admit where we have sinned as members of the entire Jewish Nation/People and do everything in our power to correct them (our sins.)


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With Strength, Don't Neglect Flexibility
Especially critical to Rogers and Klaus' success and safety is core strength and flexibility–both key, often neglected elements of fitness. Having a strong core–the erector muscles of your lower back and the rectus abdominis, obliques and transverse abdominis of your stomach–will help you avoid nagging back injuries that can not only make for a painful golf swing, but can also knock your training off-track. A firmed-up midsection will help you handle heavier weight with exercises such as squats and standing shoulder presses, which translates to more muscle gain. Lastly, increased flexibility will reduce injuries and muscle soreness and give you greater range of motion.
On days when he doesn't jump out of a plane several times, Klaus usually lifts weights for an hour to an hour and a half. Because his work recruits even the smallest and most out-of-the-way muscles, Klaus performs a variety of exercises for each area of the body to ensure a comprehensive workout.
While most guys focus on their "beach muscles," Klaus concentrates mostly on his core, performing crunches and back extensions (he also includes lat pull-downs and rows to strengthen his upper back). This not only provides him with stability during free fall, but also builds those boxer's abs that most women prefer to beach muscles anyhow.
Rogers does a rather brutal daily abs workout utilizing a Swiss ball. His typical routine includes crunches, crunch twists, trunk rotations, reverse crunches and flail sit-ups. Generally, he does sets of 40 repetitions, but occasionally he'll throw in a five-minute sit-up "sprint" (this shocks the muscles and stimulates development). To round things out, Rogers does some light upper-body work with dumbbells, often using the Swiss ball as a seat or bench in order to target stabilizer muscles.
Klaus also goes for a short run (two or three miles) once or twice a week and stretches extensively every day. "Lifting weights makes my muscles strong, but the stretching allows me to use them," he says. "There's no way I could perform some of the tricks I do without getting injured if I didn't have the flexibility." For guys who lift weights regularly, Klaus says full-body stretching will enable them to get the most out of their newly developed strength.
Rogers took up yoga several years ago, and it has been his primary fitness activity ever since. "I haven't found any other kind of exercise that gives you so many benefits," he says. He cites increased strength, flexibility, balance, concentration, relaxation and general body awareness as benefits he's drawn from yoga that have helped him as a camera flyer and with all of his physical activities. Rogers does his yoga workouts at home with a video called Power Yoga, instructed by California-based fitness guru Bryan Kest. Rogers performs the 45-minute routine four times a week.
Wherever you are in your fitness program, you'll benefit by paying attention to core strength and flexibility. So adopt some of the Yahoo! team's training into your own regimen; for example, try taking a yoga class once a week, and include a variety of ab exercises with a Swiss ball two or three times a week. Even if you have no plans to step out of a perfectly good airplane, you'll know you could.
Combining elements of skydiving, snowboarding and high-velocity camera work, the spectacular and very extreme sport of skysurfing involves a pair of athletes at 15,000 feet recording a live video that is scored by judges stationed on the ground. The skysurfer, in this case Stefan Klaus, performs a series of tricks on a specially designed "skyboard" during free fall, while his camera flyer, Brian Rogers, follows him with a helmet-mounted camera.
Klaus' role as skysurfer, which requires him to maneuver a 59-inch board at 120 mph–a rate of speed called "terminal velocity"–and perform hundreds of spins at a rate of up to three per second, emphasizes strength, balance and quick reflexes. Meanwhile, Rogers must contort his body in a variety of ways, and slow down and accelerate his fall in step with his partner's changing moves, providing interesting angles without losing focus (a major point deduction). Agility and stability are paramount.
Skysurfing may sound like a sport invented by overcaffeinated Fox executives, but it's genuine–executing the one-minute routines is an intense effort and calls on a broad range of physical and mental attributes.
"Skysurfing is very physical," says Klaus, who was born and raised in Switzerland and spent much of his childhood pursuing extreme vertical challenges in the Alps. "Being in good shape is important. Even though it's only one minute when you're actually doing something, that minute is incredibly intense, because you're concentrating the whole time. You're burning adrenaline, and you're spinning and doing all these tricks." On an average training day, Rogers, a native of South Carolina, says he and Klaus will do eight to 10 jumps, leaping aboard the next plane within two minutes of landing in the drop zone. How does he feel at day's end? "Totally spent."
The sport requires a variety of mental skills, too. Above all, naturally, a skysurfer needs to have some serious nad. Beyond that, good old-fashioned discipline and a capacity for extreme focus and concentration are mandatory. But the most striking mental quality you see in skysurfers like Klaus and Rogers, who won the X-games skysurfing gold medal last year, is an inexpressible passion for flying–a passion much like a surfer's mystical love of wave riding. Everything else–the guts, the focus and the discipline–is critical, but secondary.
Searching for the right words, Rogers says, "What can I say? It's flying! I love flying. It's an incredible rush of adrenaline."


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1. Starboard recently replaced the entire 12 Directors of the Board at Darden Restaurants, which owns Olive Garden (and previously, Red Lobster). Unless you are starting a new religious organization, I have to ask why you need 12 people on your Board. Institutional imperative at its finest. (Interestingly enough, Starboard brought back one of the displaced Directors, so now they have 13…complete head-scratcher).
2. Taylor Swift recently scored a #1 hit with her newest single, which consisted of 9 seconds of white noise. That's the power of a brand. In contrast, U2 recently gave away their music for free and people were asking Apple for a way to give it back. Contrarian trade is: Short Taylor, Long U2….
3. History repeats itself or at least it rhymes. Someone famous said this. Many examples out there, but here is one. Payday lenders had their standards tightened a few years back and now some states are loosening them.
4. A few weeks ago, I wrote about Conn's. This Washington Post article is a great in-depth story about Rental America. The company profiled is Buddy's Home Furnishing, but the concept is not that different.
4. Just a great video of a Buffet lecture. Couldn't think of a better way to spend an hour. For any non-investors, the first 5 minutes of the lecture offer a great life lesson, applicable to anyone.
5. Great article on Peter Lewis, who built Progressive Insurance into what it is today. The article is from 1995 and written by Carol Loomis, author of Snowball. Thanks to Jon Shayne for pointing it out to me.
6. How to Create Jobs, 101. Angie's List
Start with 97 Layoffs, see article.
Two months later (I am not making that up, check the dates on the articles), announce expansion plans with $25m in state and city incentives.
Here's the money quote from the article that sums it up nicely: "In 19 years, the company has never turned an annual profit. Last month, it laid off 97 members of its sales force. Angie's List has alternated between hiring sprees and rounds of layoffs for several years."
See here, for my previous thoughts on Angie's List. Not much has changed, except a 40% decline in the company's value.
7. Newspaper Reading: I typically read the newspapers in reverse order on the weekends. This past week, I came across the following headlines, Markets Tumble and Market Soar in succession. I guess nothing happened.
8. Speaking of market turbulence, I was waiting for my trademark to be approved before releasing it, but I thought I would share my soon-to-be trademarked, Reverse Headline Market Indicator (I am open to name suggestions). The strategy involves the CNN website. If CNN's leading headline is anything connected with the market, do the exact opposite. Last week, the leading headline was Ebola (with a sub-headline about the markets tumbling).


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Fabric: A score of amazing silk fabric from our lovely neighbour who was cleaning out her stash!
Pattern: Self drafted - I had some fun with the set in sleeves - since there was a bit of excess fabric I made a pleat and fell in love!
Headband: Sized down to a child's size using THIS tutorial for an adult headband!