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Drag Racing Videos: VW Paradise sets new dragster record!
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Biggest Local Drag Race, Car Show in December
The Fiji Car Club for the first time will be hosting a car show and the biggest drag race together on December 18th.
This was confirmed by the Vice President of Fiji Car Club, Sandeep Prakash.
"We are expecting a good turnout on the day of the event," he said.
"I'm sure we will cross 50 participants this year again as Christmas is coming up and this is the last race of the year," he said.
"We want everyone who has been taking part to partake in this event as we want to make it the biggest event for Fiji Car Club."
He said the ladies categories for the race were free of charge.
"Ladies participating throughout the year and who want to be part of this last drag race can race for free," Mr Prakash said.
"There are a total of 20- 25 women who have participated and they are definitely interested in racing in the next event."
As for male participants, the fee varies.
"For existing members, they can pay a fee of $25 and if you are not a member, you can pay $50 for membership on the day of the race and you can race for free."
Hampers to the winners of the categories will be sponsored by Pacific Energy.
Mr Prakash has also urged members of the club to send confirmation if they wanted to take part.
Spectators can watch the race and the car show free of charge and enjoy their day with their family members.
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In Collaboration with local artist Natasha Lee from @designbylacuna for Mother's Day 2021.
"The Gardener" is the second of the bespoke four-piece-collection titled "Reflections".
The Gardener highlights the nurturing aspect of a mother. I like to see flowers as representations of goodness, they evoke a sense of moral purity in when I see them. It takes effort to cultivate a garden. Seeding goodness sometimes looks like pruning (discipline); Other times it is coming home to a table full of your favourite foods (whether she cooks them or not). Moms seed goodness in the way they know best. While imperfect, they leave an indelible mark on what we see and think is good.
Small Frames measures (cm): 21.5(h) x 15(l) x 5(w)
Each poem is hand-calligraphed and assembled with pressed flowers in one of Lacuna's signature Dreamer Frames. The piece appears to be suspended in mid-air, giving a dreamy and delicate feel to the overall work. These are perfect to display on a desk or bedside table, as a daily reminder of gratitude and appreciation for your mom.
You will be contacted by the artist herself upon purchase. Delivery will be made 1-2 days after purchase. This purchase includes the option to pen a complimentary message for mom, as well as the write up of each poem.


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Ben Strong is a busy man. A 14-year veteran of Aston Martin, Strong stepped into the role of Senior Programme Manager at Q Advanced Operations — the Aston Martin division responsible for creating limited-edition cars — just two and a half years ago. In that time, the importance and prominence of Q by Aston Martin has increased greatly, thanks to its role in creating unique vehicles, Continuation models and high-profile collaborations — not to mention the special editions created by Q to honour events, partnerships and Aston Martin's heritage.
2020 is set to be a busy year, but 2019 brought Strong and the Aston Martin team a particularly special project that also kept them gainfully employed. In December 2018, Chris Corbould, the Special Effects and Action Vehicles supervisor on upcoming James Bond film No Time To Die, held his first technical meeting with Aston Martin, in which Strong and his team were asked to recreate eight iconic DB5s. It was a truly special project for all concerned. "It was my first Bond project for Aston Martin," Strong explains. "Any time you get the chance to make an Aston Martin for a James Bond film, you jump at it — especially when it involves the DB5, the most famous car in the world."
No Time To Die's automotive requirements were very specific and started with a series of meetings with special effects supervisors Corbould and Neil Layton, both of whom have worked on the Bond series for many years. "They came to talk us through what cars they wanted and what they were required to do in the script,"
says Strong. "We discussed how they'd be used and where they would be driven."
For a car like the DB5, the demands of a modern action film exceed the performance and engineering capabilities of the original cars, let alone taking their value into account. "There was also the question of the remotely-operated 'pod' cars [which allow stunt drivers to control the car while sitting on the roof, so the actors can be filmed inside the car]," Strong explains. "We realised that an original DB5 wouldn't
be able to support the pod structure and stunt driver."
What was non-negotiable, however, was the DB5's visual character. "We took an original Bond DB5 — owned by EON — and scanned it to create a virtual model. We then used that to design a spaceframe, chassis and suspension using contemporary components beneath carbon fibre body panels. These are completely modular, so they can be taken off and replaced on set." As a result, the film cars were very distinct from the Continuation model DB5s being crafted at Newport Pagnell using the same processes and replica components as their 1960s originals.
In total, eight DB5s were built for No Time To Die: two pod cars and six stunt cars. Apart from auto boxes in the pod cars, the eight "new" DB5s shared a common drivetrain. In addition, two "hero" cars — original DB5s — were used for close-up work. "On a personal level, the Bond project was a very special opportunity. The product we've put in the film is incredible. It was so rewarding to work on," says Strong.
Film timelines are notoriously tight, but despite having a Bond film on the go, Advanced Operations couldn't let other projects slip. "We had to rent a bespoke facility for the Bond cars so we had the space and privacy to get on with them," Strong says.
Those "other things" include the V12 Speedster (see p32), announced at the start of the year, as well as Aston Martin's boldest ever collaboration with Zagato. To celebrate the Italian styling house's centenary, Aston Martin is producing 19 DBZ Centenary Collection pairs, consisting of the DB4 GT Zagato Continuation and the DBS GT Zagato, the latter to be built by Advanced Operations. "Our challenges this year also include Valkyrie and DBX, both of which have a lot of Q content," he notes. Also underway are a limited-series Vantage inspired by the Aston Martin V8 Vantage DBS Superleggera edition using the same spec seen in No Time To Die.
Q has always been at the cutting edge of contemporary design. "The luxury of Aston Martin is that we've got such a varied history, as well as the ability to put a modern twist on things. It's why Q works so well with the design studio as we don't have the constraints of mainstream production," says Strong.
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The WinUtilities suite has just about every tool you could want to help keep your PC running well. It offers 21 different modules organized into four general groupings: system cleaners, system optimizers, system control, system tools, Registry tools, and file tools. Generally, using any module is simple, and requires that you do little more than click.
Some modules are outstanding; the system information one, for example, offers more information than you'll ever need about every part of your hardware setup. But although most modules are easy to use, they don't always offer helpful advice on what actions you should take based on what WinUtilities tells you. The Startup Cleaner, for example, only shows you what is in your startup folder, Registry, and other startup locations, and offers no advice on whether any of those programs need be run. TuneUp Utilities 2009 (also $50), by way of contrast, does offer that type of advice.
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Coronavirus Spread Video February 2, 2020Posted by Retired Geezer in COVID-19, Godzilla, Politics.
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If America is First, Who is Second? January 24, 2017Posted by skinbad in History, News, Politics.
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The Dutch make their case. They're not really considered Scandis, so I suppose it is possible.
Obama's Legacy: Hitting the Links January 17, 2017Posted by geoff in News, Obama's Legacy, Politics.
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President Obama played more golf than any president for the past 55 years!
During his eight years in the White House Mr Obama played a total of 306 rounds of golf, a commitment to the game his opponents called excessive and frequently used to attack his work ethic.
Mr Obama's passion for golf contrasted with that of his predecessor, George W. Bush, who played just 24 times in office. Mr Bush gave up entirely in 2003 because he felt images of him playing seemed insensitive while US soldiers were fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan.
That's 10 months of golf he played during his 96 months in office.
Actually below average for golfers, but few of them are leaders of the free world.
Well, I guess President Obama wasn't either.
Anyone Collecting "Why Trump Won" Examples? November 14, 2016Posted by skinbad in History, Politics, Stupid shit.
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I wonder how many volumes it would run. University of Virginia PROFESSORS (not students, well, not just students) want the president of the college to not quote TJeff in emails. You can imagine why.
Where's the expert on Stuff Jefferson Said when you need him? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
What They Used to Teach in Schools July 10, 2016Posted by Retired Geezer in Crime, Politics.
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Back 100 years ago.
Read it and weep:
Pin the Tail on the Donkey July 3, 2015Posted by Retired Geezer in Crime, Politics.
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Yep, Bill Whittle.
This is Fascinating June 27, 2015Posted by daveintexas in Ballistics, Crime, Economics, Handblogging, History, Literature, Man Laws, Mufuckin Pie!, Nature Shit, Philosophy, Politics, Sex, Sitemeter, slutbags, Stupid shit, Technology, Terrorist Hemorrhoids, WTF?.
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And a little unnerving. A real time map of global cyber attacks.
Idaho Interview July 12, 2013Posted by Retired Geezer in Heroes, Politics.
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Submitted Without Comment February 3, 2013Posted by Sobek in History, Politics.
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For Lincoln, the Democrats of his day claimed to be the party of the common man, but in reality, they were led by a wealthy – and especially southern plantation – elite, who did everything they could to discourage ordinary people from rising, and therefore threatening, their own status. And what made these plantation aristocrats successful was their ability to play the poor off against the middle class, in order to distract attention away from their own control of events. Joseph Gillespie, who was a long-time Whig political ally of Lincoln's, recalled that while Lincoln detested aristocracy in all its forms, nothing incensed him more than the claims of his Democratic opponents that the Whigs were the party of the rich. In 1840, when Lincoln was stumping southern Illinois on behalf of the Whig presidential candidate, William Henry Harrison, he found himself put up against a Democrat, Colonel Dick Taylor. And Colonel Taylor proceeded to rail against the Whigs as "aristocrats." Lincoln replied, cheerfully, that the shoe really belonged on the other foot. "Whilst Colonel Taylor had his stores over the county," Lincoln said, "and was riding in a fine carriage, wore his kid gloves, and had a gold-headed cane, he (Lincoln) was a poor boy hired on a flatboat at eight dollars a month, and had only one pair of britches. If you call this aristocracy," Lincoln said, "I plead guilty to the charge."
Lincoln believed that ambition was the thing which distinguished the American republic from all other monarchies which then ruled the earth. Because in America, even the humblest person with talent or determination can, with ambition, climb a ladder of their own to prosperity and happiness. "We stand at once, the admiration of the world," Lincoln claimed in 1856, "and we must enquire what it is that has given us so much prosperity. And we shall understand that to give up that one thing would be to give up all future prosperity. That cause is, that every man can make himself." This meant, though, that Lincoln required a free economy, with sufficient openness of movement to enable poor boys like himself to escape the drudgery of poverty and achieve what he called "progress and improvement of condition." That would never come, in Lincoln's judgment, if the United States remained tied to the Democratic dream of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. The Democrats, as Lincoln believed, were bitterly critical of open markets and this was because they saw danger – not opportunity – in a market economy. Because in a market economy while some rise, some fall, and those who already have it made are not necessarily very welcoming of others who rise to join them, and certainly can be very anxious at the prospect that they might fall. Lincoln, however, reveled in the opportunities of the market. He reveled in the credit created by banks, in the wages paid to free laborers who found wealth in selling their labor, rather than in cultivating the ground.
From "Mr. Lincoln: The Life of Abraham Lincoln," Allen C. Guelzo (The Teaching Company: Chantilly, VA), disc 2, tracks 8 and 11.
Dead-Horse-Kicking November 8, 2012Posted by skinbad in Politics.
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I've been reading about how Obama's vaunted ground game kicked the hell out Romney. My beef with this (which I haven't really seen discussed) is, isn't it a heck of a lot easier (more bang for the buck) to have a "ground game" in a densely populated urban area than in the suburbs–let alone rural areas? Setting up a voter registration tent or getting a bus to an apartment building to take everyone to vote early doesn't really compare to what would be needed in a farming community. I guess what I'm saying is the GOP can't just try to replicate the ACORN type activities and be successful, a different kind of ground game that is harder and relies more on personal responsibility would be needed. Funny how that works.
The French Revolution, Penthouse, African-American Firsts, and Mormons November 6, 2012Posted by skinbad in History, Politics.
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I've been reading tea leaves and entrails (and let me tell you, I'm not going back to Denny's any time soon ) and I realized today I've seen this act before. Join me in the Way Back Machine for a trip to 1984.
There was a different campaign of Hope, Change, and Nipple Covers in the air and Vanessa Williams proved to the world once and for all that American horndogs appreciate beautiful women no matter their chromatic hue as she became the first African-American woman to win the Miss America pageant.
My election day experience November 6, 2012Posted by digitalbrownshirt in History, News, Personal Experiences, Politics.
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After working 10 hours last night, I headed for the polls. I arrived around 6:30 am, 30 minutes before the polls open in Oklahoma. Despite my early arrival there were at least a half dozen people in front of me. We stood there in sub-40 degree temperatures waiting for the doors to open. As we stood there a poll worker came and asked us if we would let a handicapped man go to the head of the line and wait inside. The poor guy could barely walk with his cane. He was wearing a suit and hat. With every step he let out a little moan. I felt terrible for him. The worse part was that when we finally got inside to vote it turned out that his polling place had been changed and he had to go to the other poll to vote.
The other notable event was when a lady wasn't able to cast her vote because her ID didn't match the name she gave to the poll workers. I'm not sure if she was trying to commit fraud or if she just had a nickname on her ID instead of the actual birth name that is usually used for registration. She said she had some ID at home that would work and she'd come back later. I'm happy that we finally switched to using ID's this year for elections.
By the time I left around 7:15, the line went out the door and out to the street. It had to be at least 100 people lined up outside the building waiting to get inside. The parking lot was so full that cars were starting to park in the dirt lot next door.
God bless America.


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Entrance for Wine Club Members is free, Those who are not wine club members, do not have a booking nor present a pass for select events will be charged upon arrival.
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Flight of (3)Three premium icewines selected by our in-house experts.
Features a brief lesson on proper sampling technique, basic wine pairings, and other wine discussion.
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Do 3-4 rounds of this awesome Core Blaster.
So 30 seconds on for the excercise + 15 second rest between each excercise. 1 minute rest in between each round.
- Plank – belly pulled in nice and tight, glutes squeezed and pull in towards your elbows, don't let your back drop and keep your bum down and level – don't put your bum in the air!
- Reverse Plank – keep those glutes squeezed and up, don't let them drop!
- Flutter Kicks – Keep the movement controlled!
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Background Patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) who progress on standard therapies may be eligible for phase I trials. To better delineate the risk-benefit ratio, we assessed toxicities, clinical outcomes and prognostic factors. Methods Records of mCRC patients on phase I trials at our institution over 18 years were reviewed. Univariable (UVA) and multivariable analyses (MVA) were undertaken and a prognostic model developed. Results There were 187 enrollments on 37 phase I trials. Median age was: 59 (29–83) years and number of prior therapies: 3 (0–8). The clinical benefit rate (CBR): response (5.6%) + stable disease, was 43.1%. Median progression free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) was 7.7 weeks and 43.7 weeks, respectively. The MVA identified age > 60 years (HR 1.63, p < 0.004), albumin<3.5 g/dL (HR 3.69, p < 0.001), direct bilirubin>ULN (HR1.69, p < 0.01), and WBC ≥ 5.2 k/uL (HR 1.97, p < 0.001) as negative prognostic factors. A risk score based on the MVA revealed that patients with a score of 0–1 had an improved OS (58.7 weeks) compared to a score of 2 (49.9 weeks, p < 0.01) and 3 (14.1 weeks, p < 0.001). Conclusions Phase 1 trials may offer similar or better clinical outcome for mCRC patients than standard third line therapies; the prognostic model could assist in selecting appropriate patients.
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|English (US)
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|Investigational New Drugs
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|Published - Jun 15 2019
- Colorectal cancer
- Phase I trials
- Survival
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Oncology
- Pharmacology
- Pharmacology (medical)


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AGBU Academics & YP Paris Collaborate on Career Fair
Bringing together different generations for another year, AGBU Academics, the educational arm of the AGBU Paris Youth Group, organized a Career Fair on March 9, 2014 in cooperation with the AGBU Young Professionals of Paris (YP Paris) with local young professionals providing educational and vocational guidance to Armenian students in the fields of business, science, law, health, engineering, and more. This year's event also welcomed the addition of a mentorship program in which YPs were paired with students to serve as their professional mentors.
Key speakers included: Jacques Marachlian, a project engineer with Renault; YP Paris Chairman Paul Der Agopian, Engineering Department Manager of AGAP2; and YP Paris Treasurer Taline Mussalian, an accountant/auditor with PricewaterhouseCoopers. In addition, advice on how to write a cover letter and curriculum vitae (CV) was provided by Paul Der Agopian and YP Paris Vice Chairwoman Sarine Ajemian. Information on AGBU's internship programs was also made available.
For the full story in French, please visit here.


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Enjoy a unique medieval walk
Monells, a nice medieval spot in the middle of Ampurdán.
Accompanied by a guide we will go through its streets, we will walk under the arches and the porches and we will know its history. Its arcaded main square, heart of this beautiful town and protagonist of the movie "8 Catalan last names" is a MUST. Located in a rural environment, unique and quiet, it is a perfect activity to relax and enjoy a peaceful walk that ends with a small snack in Arcs de Monells, old "Mas Fábrega".This was a hospital in the fourteenth century and now houses a beautiful hotel that conserves the medieval look that conveys the same environment
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|What it includes
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|Transfers can be also organised.


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This film is probably best-known for two things: the fantastic Tom Jones theme song (sung by Jones but written by Burt Bacharach), and being the first screenplay from Woody Allen. It's very stupid, but that's the point. It's also one of the few films Allen has written for someone else, and unsurprisingly he was unhappy with the final result. After his bad experiences with this, What's Up, Tiger Lily? and working on the film of his play Don't Drink the Water, he vowed never to write a film where he wasn't the director—with the exception of Play It Again, Sam, which was nonetheless his project.
What's New Pussycat? Is a silly 60s sex farce that completely falls apart. It stars Peter O'Toole as Michael James, this babe magnet who, in typical Woody Allen fashion, goes to see a shrink, Dr. Fritz Fassbender, who is played by Peter Sellers in a ridiculous long-haired wig. Michael is planning to marry his fiancée, Carole Werner (Romy Schneider), but all these women just keep throwing themselves at him and he doesn't know what to do. He tries to reform himself, but it's hard to do in the face of passes from the likes of Paula Prentiss and Ursula Andress. Allen plays Michael's friend Victor Shakapopulis, who is his usual self-based character.
It's all set in and around Paris, and then in the French countryside. The plot becomes increasingly silly as it goes along, with plenty of high-jinks culminating in a go-kart race. It's pretty funny, which is what you want from a farcical comedy with sight gags and slapstick. And while its not one of Allen's best scripts, it comes from before he decided to try to be Ingmar Bergman, it's one of the "early funny ones".
O'Toole was a really under-rated comedic actor. Initially it was a Warren Beatty production, with Beatty getting it off the ground but then walking off the project before the production started. The sounds also includes the original version of Bacharach's My Little Red Book that's used in a very funny dance scene, and there's a very amusing cameo by Françoise Hardy at the very end. It was directed by Clive Donner, and this is certainly my favourite film of his I've seen so far.
While Allen famously doesn't do special features on his DVDs, this Eureka release includes a new audio commentary from film critics Emma Westwood and Sally Christie, plus the theatrical trailer and a booklet with a Simon Ward essay. This is a UK Blu-Ray debut and only the third Blu-Ray in the world after previously released US and German discs and the best of the three in terms of extras.
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The Crash
I got myself into this mess because I didn't take into account what was going on behind me. The Pathfinder had shed quite a bit of speed before it rammed into the back of my bike, but it hit me hard enough that I got launched over the handlebar and onto the road. Thanks to good gear, good luck, and alert drivers, I wasn't run over, killed, or even badly injured, but the impact cracked the subframe, which ended up totaling the bike. The driver was beside himself for letting his attention lapse, and he said that when he hit me he was sure I was doomed. The accident could have been the end of me, but the truth is, it would have been really easy for me to avoid the incident in the first place.
The Scenario
I was on my way home from work at dusk, riding down an entrance ramp that narrowed from two lanes to one before merging onto a major freeway. As usual, traffic slowed abruptly at the merger. I saw the domino line of brake lights moving toward me and pulled on the front brake lever well ahead of time. The driver behind me evidently wasn't as attentive. By the time I heard the SUV's tires chirp it was too late to react, and the next thing I knew I was tumbling along the Santa Monica Freeway in rush-hour traffic.
The Lesson
I completely failed to consider what was going on behind me when I got on the brakes, and, ultimately, that's what led to me getting rear-ended. A quick glance in the mirror would have clued me into the impending disaster, and I could have easily veered onto the shoulder. After getting rear-ended, I check my mirror every time I touch the brakes or even roll off the gas. It's become a habit.
There's certainly some valuable takeaway from this incident. For starters, you should always ride with a finger or two on the front-brake lever so you're ready to slow down at a moment's notice, but it's also important to remember that any time you reduce your speed you should check your six to see that the vehicles behind you are slowing, too, and monitor how quickly they're doing so. If you notice the slowdown with enough time, flash your brake lights to get the attention of drivers behind you, just in case they're gazing down at their phones.
Scanning traffic ahead of you will buy you reaction time, practicing your emergency braking will ensure you can slow down as quickly as possible, and planning an escape route—usually to either side of the car in front of you—means you have a backup plan if things really go wrong.


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HIV-positive patients with a CD4 cell count below 350 cells/mm3 have an impaired immune response to the seasonal influenza (flu) vaccine, Swiss investigators report in the September 10th edition of AIDS. They recommend that all HIV-positive patients should have an annual influenza vaccine to help them to establish flu-specific memory immune cells, the formation of which can be difficult after the immune system suffers serious damage.
The study was undertaken because investigators from Basel wished to assess responses to the seasonal influenza vaccine in HIV-positive patients. Blood samples were therefore taken from 24 HIV-positive patients and 31 HIV-negative controls immediately before administration of the seasonal flu vaccine in 2007-2008 and again approximately 30 days later. The production of two forms of influenza antibodies – IgM and IgG – and levels of flu-specific CD4 cells were measured.
All the HIV-positive patients had been taking antiretroviral therapy for at least three months and had a viral load below 200 copies/ml.
In HIV-negative individuals, median levels of influenza-specific IgM and IgG increased significantly after the receipt of the vaccine. In addition, increases in influenza-specific CD4 cell counts were observed in 92% of individuals.
Amongst HIV-positive patients with well-preserved immunity (a CD4 cell count above 350 cells/mm3), the administration of the vaccine lead to significant increases in levels of flu-specific IgM and IgG. However, only 64% of patients had an increase in their flu-specific CD4 cell count.
A poor response to the vaccine was seen in the HIV-positive patients whose CD4 cell count was below 350 cells/mm3. No significant increase in influenza-specific IgM antibody levels were seen, and only two patients had any IgM response at all. Moreover, only 44% of patients had an increase in their influenza-specific CD4 cell count. However, a significant increase in levels of post-vaccination influenza-specific IgG was observed.
"Increasing levels of IgG in this study group most likely reflects a memory response", comment the investigators. They believe that this finding is important and "provides an immunologic rationale supporting the recommendation of annual influenza vaccinations throughout the course of HIV infection."
Such vaccinations when a patient's immune system is intact build up "broad and long-lasting" B-cell memory.
The importance of such memory cells was shown in the recent H1N1 pandemic. Children were especially vulnerable to this strain of flu because they lacked the protective antibodies that are developed from contact with earlier strains of flu.
"These preliminary data should trigger future research aiming to understand the molecular basis of the observed lack of IgM-production", recommend the investigators.
The findings of the study also have significance for clinical practice as they "lend support to strictly enacting annual influenza-vaccination in all HIV-infected individuals regardless of their CD4+ T-cell count."
These findings, which broadly correspond with findings from a sample of US patients showing that lack of response to H1N1 vaccine was associated with a low CD4 count, suggest that people with HIV with higher CD4 counts may derive the greatest benefit from current influenza vaccines, and that more research is needed to determine how to improve influenza vaccine responses in people with low CD4 counts.
In parrticular, argue the authors of a recent editorial comment in the journal AIDS, ensuring annual influenza vaccination in people with higher CD4 counts is likely to promote the build-up of B-cell memory while immunological competence is still maintained, ensuring that any subsequent CD4 cell decline does not impair responses to future influenza vaccinations.
Fritz S et al. Virosomal influenza-vaccine induced immunity in HIV-infected individuals with high versus low CD4+ T-cell counts: clues towards a rational vaccination strategy. AIDS 24: 2287-90, 2010.


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(Rom 11:16a) If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy;
Paul sees the Gentiles and Jews as part of the same whole. The faithful Jews are the firstfruits sacrificed at the harvest in celebration. Their holiness makes the rest of the harvest holy.
(Rom 11:16b-) if the root is holy, so are the branches. 17 If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, 18 do not boast over those branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you.
Israel is the root — holy and supporting the wild branches — the Gentiles — grafted in. Remember, Paul says, do not despise the Jews. Your salvation comes from the root they provide.
Paul's image is not original.
(Jer 11:16-17) The LORD called you a thriving olive tree with fruit beautiful in form. But with the roar of a mighty storm he will set it on fire, and its branches will be broken. 17 The LORD Almighty, who planted you, has decreed disaster for you, because the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done evil and provoked me to anger by burning incense to Baal.
Once again, Paul is indirectly — but pointedly — comparing the Jews who reject Jesus to the idolaters in Judea just before the destruction of Solomon's temple by Nebuchadnezzar. This is what causes the natural branches to be broken off the tree!
(Rom 11:19-20a) You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in." 20 Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith.
Very plainly, Paul explains that Israel's branches were broken off because of unbelief (in parallel to idolatry). Unbelief results in damnation. Faith results in salvation. Failure to believe in Jesus, who is God in the flesh, is the equivalent of idolatry. It's a rejection of God himself, and so the results will be much the same as before.
(Rom 11:20b-22) Do not be arrogant, but be afraid. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either. 22 Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off.
Paul then warns the Gentiles: your salvation is not guaranteed. Your branches can be broken off, too! Remaining attached to the life-giving root is conditional.
(Rom 11:23-24) And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 24 After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
Israel can be restored to the root as well — if they come to faith in Jesus! God will be delighted to do just this. And Paul is hoping that his missionary work will bring this result.


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Noun, the process by which someone or something grows or changes and becomes more advanced.
Proof of Concept
Proving the FIRST one works is the Proof of Concept success point, but now you have to get a large number working, that's scaling.
Having a great idea is not enough. Being able to turn the idea into reality, the execution, is the challenging part of the work.
Devising and executing a winning strategy is harder than ever. Strategy is the critical component in progressing and aligning business units.


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Micro Credit
is the extension of very small loans (microloans)
to the unemployed, to poor entrepreneurs and to
others living in poverty who are not considered
bankable. These individuals lack collateral, steady
employment and a verifiable credit history and
therefore cannot meet even the most minimal qualifications
to gain access to traditional credit. Microcredit
is a part of microfinance, which is the provision
of a wider range of financial services to the
very poor.
is a financial innovation which originated in
Bangladesh where it has successfully enabled extremely
impoverished people to engage in self-employment
projects that allow them to generate an income
and, in many cases, begin to build wealth and
exit poverty. Due to the success of microcredit,
many in the traditional banking industry have
begun to realize that these microcredit borrowers
should more correctly be categorized as pre-bankable;
thus, microcredit is increasingly gaining credibility
in the mainstream finance industry and many traditional
large finance organizations are contemplating
microcredit projects as a source of future growth.
Although almost everyone in larger development
organizations discounted the likelihood of success
of microcredit when it was begun in its modern
incarnation as pilot projects with ACCION and
Muhammad Yunus in the
mid-1970s, the United Nations declared 2005 the
International Year of Microcredit.
concept of microcredit can be traced back to portions
of the Marshall Plan at the end of World War II
in the middle of the 20th century or even back
to the mid-1800s and the writings of abolitionist/legal
theorist Lysander Spooner who wrote concerning
the benefits of numerous small loans for entrepreneurial
activities to the poor as a way to alleviate poverty.
It is also tied to New York's Providence Fund.
However, in its most recent incarnation it can
be linked to several organizations starting in
the 1970s and onward.
is based on a separate set of principles, which
are distinguished from general financing or credit.
Microcredit emphasizes building capacity of a
micro entrepreneur, employment generation, trust
building and help to the micro entrepreneur on
initiation and during difficult times. Microcredit
is tool for socioeconomic development Sapovadia,
Vrajlal K., "Micro Finance: The Pillars of
a Tool to Socio-Economic Development" . Development
Gateway, 2006
Focus on Women
have become the focus of many microcredit institutions
and agencies worldwide. The reasoning behind this
is the observation that loans to women tend to
more often benefit the whole family than loans
to men do. It has also been observed that giving
women the control and the responsibility of small
loans raises their socio-economic status, which
is seen as a positive change to many of the current
relationships of gender and class.
to the Microcredit Summit Campaign:
billion people are living on less than a dollar
a day. Women are often responsible for the upbringing
of the world's children and the poverty
of the women generally results in the physical
and social underdevelopment of their children.
Experience shows that women are a good credit
risk, and that women invest their income toward
the well being of their families. At the same
time, women themselves benefit from the higher
social status they achieve within the home when
they are able to provide income."
microcredit organizations focus completely on
women borrowers. Pro Mujer, SKS Microfinance and
NamasteDirect are some organizations that directly
work with women. The Grameen Foundation, retired
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, and Hillary Rodham
Clinton all emphasize women when they speak about
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"Hey, I just received the picture and I'm really impressed, it's beautiful, both the picture and the frame are way better than what I expected. Well done, I hope they sell easily because you deserve it."
A daily walk through the woods gets me away from the artificial lighting of the office and helps my mind to relax. Being surrounded by nature energises me and overwhelms my senses. An hour for lunch never seems like enough time to take it all in.
One day in early September I saw what I mistook for a dog further up the path behind a chain link fence. As I approached I realised it wasn't a dog at all - but a Roe Deer. When I got within a few metres, it made a hasty retreat down the steep embankment and towards the lakes.
Over the next 2 weeks I kept my eyes peeled and began to see this deer several times on my walk through the woods. I had my camera at hand each day to try and capture the perfect photo. Upon hearing the noise of my camera shutter, the deer would be on the move again - so I had to pick these moments carefully and react quickly.
Eventually I managed to capture this photo with my telephoto lens. The zoom allowed me to feel closer to this wild animal than I could ever hope to be in person - a fleeting moment that I wish to share with you now.


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Owners of backyard chickens have had their feathers ruffled by a new state mandate.
A recent requirement from the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services will require all chicken keepers to register with the state, regardless of the size of their flock. The requirement is being met with accusations of "fowl play" from some chickeners who say the registry is part of a larger effort to subvert agricultural autonomy and prop up a regulatory system that favors Big Ag.
In July, Gov. Pat McCrory greenlighted recommendations from state veterinarian Dr. Doug Meckes to implement statewide emergency measures to prevent and control the spread of avian influenza. The virus causes catastrophic illness and death within affected poultry, overcoming the birds within hours or days. An outbreak of bird flu swept through 21 states earlier this year, resulting in the loss of around 50 million birds, and is considered to be the worst animal virus outbreak in U.S. history.
Though there are no known cases of human infection from bird flu, the virus does stand to have a devastating effect on North Carolina. The state's poultry industry includes some 4,200 poultry farms and an additional 4,000 backyard chicken flocks, spawns approximately 100,000 jobs and has a collective economic impact of close to $18 billion. Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project also reports that 41 percent of cash agricultural purchases in the region in 2007 came directly from the sale of poultry and eggs.
Though no new outbreaks of the virus have been reported since mid-June, the NCDA&CS notes that the state, which is positioned along the migratory path for birds that will soon be returning South for the winter, is under imminent threat of an outbreak.
Meckes' measures to prevent that outbreak include banning organized gatherings of avian species, such as agriculture shows and fairs, outbreak management plans for commercial facilities housing more than 200 poultry, and requiring every owner of poultry to register with NCDA&CS — even backyard chicken keepers with one or two birds.
"The requirement for poultry owners to register their flocks is so that the N.C. Department of Agriculture can communicate with both large and small poultry owners," says Ethan Henderson, a cooperative extension agent specializing in livestock. "This will enable NCDA to contact poultry owners to keep them informed about how to prevent infection in their flocks and to keep owners updated as the fall migration season approaches."
While there is no fee to register birds under the mandate, that hasn't kept the new requirement from upsetting several bird keepers. As word of the registration mandate spread, a popular Facebook Group, Asheville City Chickens, closed off its group to the public and began restricting new memberships. While some members acknowledged that registration would aid in responding to an outbreak, several of the group's members posted concerns over government overreach that they say would ultimately wipe out small-scale chicken keeping in the state.
Another recently formed Facebook group, NO to NC Chicken Registration, has become home to a sort of poultry registration resistance, proclaiming in its group description, "Who controls the food supply, controls the people." Speculation over a hidden rationale behind the issuance runs rampant throughout the group's discussion thread. Theories include the registration serving as permission for further inspection of registered farms; a desire by the state to lend further support to corporate agriculture by identifying and eliminating small chicken flocks; and the potential issuance of penalties resulting from non-compliance with the mandates of the memorandum. Others raised concerns that the vague language of the mandate, which grants the governor the authority to develope and implement "any and all emergency measures and procedures that are necessary to prevent and control this disease," could lead to further restrictions or the extermination of healthy birds.
David Williams, an attorney volunteering with the No to NC Chicken Registration group, has also questioned the legality of the registration mandate, citing the rulemaking process outlined in the N.C. General Statute, and criticized the lack of transparency and public notice in its introduction.
Meckes responded to public concern in late July with a letter titled "Why should I register my flock?" In the letter, Meckes asserts that flock data will be kept confidential and calls for voluntary compliance, explaining that the purpose of the rule is to allow for two-way communication between birdkeepers and the government. At this time, there have been no discussions of penalties for noncompliance.
It's important to note that not everyone is upset about the regulations. Transylvania County homesteader Jess Woodall, who is preparing to start her own backyard flock with her husband, was more tempered in her reaction to the registry. "We're not looking to get many chickens, just enough to supply eggs for ourselves," Woodall says. "If they required us to register, I wouldn't let that stop us from getting chickens. If it's truly about protection, I can see why they would want to implement those requirements."
Local business owners, including Cande Honeycutt-Killian of Owl Meadow Farm also spoke out in support of the mandate. "It is the government's responsibility to have a plan of action when a threat of this magnitude presents itself," Honeycutt-Killian says. "I have found our work with the [agriculture] department has been an asset and has provided a wealth of information."
Editor's note: Josh O'Conner is a member of the Asheville City Chickens group, but does not represent the group's current leadership.


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14 teams to compete for Giro d'Italia wildcards
All RCS Sport races to draw from same pool
RCS Sport, organisers of the Giro d'Italia, Milan-San Remo, Tirreno-Adriatico and Il Lombardia, has named the 14 teams which will comprise the pool of wildcard candidates for all of its events.
Italian squads Acqua & Sapone, Androni Giocattoli, Colnago-CSF Inox and Farnese Vini, Landbouwkrediet, Project 1t4i, Team Europcar, Saur Sojasun and Team Netapp made the list for the four places available for May's Giro d'Italia.
Only two spots are free for Tirreno-Adriatico, while the one-day events will include seven wildcard teams in addition to the 18 WorldTour teams.
Also in the list are new Pro Continental squads: the Chinese-registered Champion System team, Irish-registered but mainly Italian Utensilnord Named, and Russian outfit Rusvelo and the reinforced Colombia-Coldeportes squad.
The American squad Team Type 1-Sanofi made the cut, but its counterparts, UnitedHealthcare and Canadians Spidertech-C10 either did not apply or did not make the December 31 deadline and will not be eligible for those events.
Out of the running are Cofidis, Bretagne Schuller, Caja Rural, Andalucia, and Belgian squads Accent.Jobs-Willems Verandas and Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator.
The remaining teams will be considered at a January 10 meeting of the RCS Sport wildcard commission.
RCS Sport wildcard candidates for 2012:
Acqua & Sapone
Androni Giocattoli
Champion System Pro Cycling Team
Colnago - CSF Inox
Colombia - Coldeportes
Farnese Vini
Project 1t4i
Saur - Sojasun
Team Europcar
Team Netapp
Team Type 1 - Sanofi
Utensilnord Named
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By AILEEN JANEE CORPUS
When it comes to the effects of the coronavirus and quarantine, people are quick to point out the obvious: boredom at home, not being able to go outside, and difficulty connecting with others, but there are more effects than just the obvious.
Living paycheck to paycheck is one of the lesser known, long-term effects of the pandemic. Those who live by waiting on the next paycheck work like a balancing act: trying to balance how much money is used on food, but also save for bills.
Destiny Gonzalez, a junior at Redlands East Valley High School, understands this struggle. "It is worrisome, because you don't know if this check will last the time it needs to, " Gonzalez said. "Sometimes you have to cut some necessities off just to make it to the next paycheck."
Photo made with Autodesk Sketchbook, a drawing and sketching app. (Aileen Janee Corpus / Ethic News)
For others, this was just another way of living, but it is now harder due to pay cuts and layovers. REV senior Celeste Chala also experiences the hardship of balancing money, "My mom gets really stressed out even more now because the rent is higher especially in a house, even if she is paying half the rent."
REV sophomore Brooke Rowan and her family recognize the difficulty of adjusting to a lower budget, "As soon as we get [a check] we already know where the money is going, but we still seem to have a little bit of money to do some fun and cheap activities. Rowan and her family use their extra money "as vacations, trips to San Diego, [or] going to amusement parks."
Losing one's home, or commonly known as eviction, is another effect of the pandemic; it can bring extreme amounts of stress due to the fact that the tenant must leave at a certain date without accounting the amount of belongings in the home.
"It was the worst because the owner only gave us like a month to leave," said REV sophomore Natalee Lopez, "and it was 10 years worth of stuff in the house"
Renters living under the threat of eviction experience poorer self-reported health outcomes, such as high blood pressure, according to authors of a 2017 study published in ScienceDirect.
"The [eviction] was stressful to [my mother's friend]," said REV senior Celeste Chala, "it came to the point where [she was] so stressed out she had a seizure in Target. We were given a short amount of time and I believe that they expected us to pay some money up until move out day."
Especially during this time of extreme changes, mental health can be greatly improved or deteriorated. Some students find ways to make use of the extra time at home by self-care and learning new skills.
"[I have m]ore time for mental stability," said REV senior Gloria Bahena, "[and to] find peace within myself and develop new skills such as learning new languages." Bahena believes that without quarantine, her mental health would have definitely been worse, but that too much of a good thing cannot always be good.
Some students might feel drained after being on a computer for so long or not having enough face-to-face interaction with friends.
"Honestly, I am a very social person," said REV freshman Haylee Lyon, "and without physical contact, it's very hard to find a way to stay positive."
Other students feel relieved from not having to deal with drama at school, such as REV junior Chloe Moore, who said "I've had a lot of free time to focus on my mental stability. I'm so much happier, and I don't have to deal with drama at school."
Kaedyn Nelson a REV sophomore has been learning new skills and taking time to self-reflect. "I have started to learn how to drive, [and] I started dancing again," said Nelson. "Distance learning has forced me to really sit down and pay attention, and get good grades. Yes, my freshman year was very bad: I was in and out of trouble, and I lost my phone for another year. During quarantine I was so stressed with the fact that I couldn't go to school or see my friends or just go out anywhere, that I decided to make decisions to get me in trouble for the three months. After that I really focused on myself and what I could do better."
Making sure that there is food on the table, moving out of a loved home, or taking care of one's mental health are feats that anyone could be facing.
Rowan sees the light at the end of the tunnel, "I'm still sort of hopeful that we can get through this together as a whole."


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RFID vs Bar Code
RFID stands for Radio-Frequency IDentification. The acronym refers to small electronic devices that consist of a small chip and an antenna. The chip typically is capable of carrying 2,000 bytes of data or less.
The RFID device serves the same purpose as a bar code or a magnetic strip on the back of a credit card or ATM card; it provides a unique identifier for that object. And, just as a bar code or magnetic strip must be scanned to get the information, the RFID device must be scanned to retrieve the identifying information.
A significant advantage of RFID devices over the others mentioned above is that the RFID device does not need to be positioned precisely relative to the scanner.
RFID devices will work within a few feet (up to 20 feet for high-frequency devices) of the scanner. For example, you can scan an entire room at one time to track product rather than scanning individual bar codes. The RFID scanner is able to query all of the RFID devices and provide product location and information immediately.
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This is a guest post by Debbie Miller, social media guru for HyperDisk Marketing, where she manages social media accounts for numerous hospitality clients on a daily basis, writes copy for their websites and optimizes content for SEO. She is also the founder of Social Hospitality.
While it's a great thing that more and more businesses are jumping aboard the social media bandwagon, many still aren't really grasping the point of doing so.
There's a very finite distinction between social media marketing, and doing traditional marketing on social networks.
Social media marketing requires a strategy specific to social channels and content tailored to those platforms.
Simply using social media to market "traditional" messages will not do the trick. When a business distributes information on social networks, it is not social marketing, particularly if it is simply pushing out its own offerings, feeding miscellaneous news to its Twitter stream or, asking people to follow it.
That's one-way communication and you might as well be listing your business in the yellow pages for all the good it will do you.
What you need is conversation.
I look at my new Twitter followers on a regular basis and it's baffling how many of them, easily more than half, are doing social media without attempting to be social.
Managing Twitter and Facebook accounts can be time consuming, so scheduling content is definitely justifiable, but it shouldn't make up 100% of your Twitter stream. It's better to not be on these channels at all than to lack a conversational presence.
One-way social media marketing draws attention to the fact that you don't know how to properly utilize this particular space, and that you haven't taken the time to learn it, or find someone qualified to do it for you.
Even more importantly, your old-fangled marketing on new-fangled channels comes across as spammy and you know how much everyone detests spam.
There are appropriate spaces to do that and press releases, advertising and the like are still extremely valuable for your overall marketing initiative.
Acknowledge the distinction between social and non-social marketing.
Think of traditional PR and communications as a one-way street. Businesses would produce a press release, take out an ad in a newspaper, or buy time on the radio. Their consumers would read, hear or see it and then absorb it.
If you were lucky, they'd also act on it.
But they couldn't talk back.
Now they can.
Social media, in contrast to traditional marketing, is a two-way street.
Businesses can still use Twitter and Facebook to distribute the same information they always have, but the consumer now has the ability - and the desire - to talk back.
This new model permits the consumer to tell you how right or wrong your message is being received. And while this can be intimidating at first, it provides a lot of new functionality for businesses to connect with their audience in new ways, and on a human level.
Don't side-step the primary value of that human touch. Social media is not simply an automatic way of holding forth from on-high.
If you're not listening, responding to and engaging with your followers, you're missing the point, and ultimately, a larger opportunity.


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Dawson's Creek reunion: James Van Der Beek admits he's Team Pacey
To read more on the Dawson's Creek reunion, pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly on stands Friday. You can buy the full set of five covers here. Or purchase the individual covers featuring James Van Der Beek, Katie Holmes, Joshua Jackson, Michelle Williams & Busy Philipps, or the original foursome online or at Barnes & Noble. Don't forget to subscribe for more exclusive interviews and photos, only in EW. Watch the full episode of Entertainment Weekly Cast Reunions: Dawson's Creek, streaming now on PeopleTV.com or download the PeopleTV app on your favorite device.
The world is divided into two very loyal parties: Team Dawson or Team Pacey.
If you watched Dawson's Creek over the course of its six seasons, you definitely have a very passionate opinion about who Joey Potter (Katie Holmes) should have ended up with. (For the uninitiated, Joey and Joshua Jackson's Pacey rode off into the New York sunset together in the series finale.)
Creek creator Kevin Williamson says in his mind he was ride or die for Dawson and Joey… initially. "But when we saw the chemistry [between Holmes and Jackson], it was more surprising," says Williamson. "I'm so happy we did it."
Holmes was just thankful she wasn't forced to choose a side. "I'm glad that Kevin had to make the decision and we didn't," says the actress. But even Dawson himself might be Team Pacey. "It felt right to me," says James Van Der Beek. "It seemed like it made more sense."
For his part, Jackson loved the end result. Quips the actor, "Of course I did! My vanity knows no bounds."


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Tuesday, April 26, 2016
The Presidential Race, Gender-Bathroom Issue, Islamists Kill Canadian/Battle Against Islamic State, Obama European Trip, and Tom Brady Suspension Reinstated Among Top News/Talk Stories Yesterday (4/25). The activities of the candidates for president, the debate over the delegate process and today's Northeast primaries; controversy over laws affecting public restroom use by transgender citizens; the death of Canadian John Ridsdel at the hands of Philippine Islamists; President Obama's visit to European nations; and the NFL's four-game suspension of Tom Brady is upheld by a federal appeals court were some of the most-talked-about stories on news/talk radio yesterday, according to ongoing research from TALKERS magazine.
Hannity Re-Ups with KDWN, Las Vegas. Nationally syndicated superstar Sean Hannity sews up his Las Vegas affiliate for another three years. The Premiere Networks personality will continue to be heard on Beasley Media Group's news/talk KDWN through 2019. Station program director John Shaffer says, "We're ready and eager to continue what has been a very positive partnership with one of the greats in the talk industry."
WPRO, Providence Personality John DePetro Emcees Trump Rally. Ahead of today's Rhode Island primary election, the Trump campaign held a rally at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Warwick. WPRO, Providence late morning personality John DePetro served as emcee for the event. He's pictured here (right) with Donald Trump (center) and DePetro's son Daniel (left).
Odds & Sods. Eighteen-year Las Vegas radio pro JB King is promoted to operations manager for the CBS RADIO cluster there that includes: news/talk KXNT and sports talk KXST, as well as CHR KLUC, hot AC KMXB, alternative KXTE, and urban contemporary KXQQ…..iHeartMedia fires up new translator W292EG in Eau Claire, Wisconsin to carry the signal of news/talk WMEQ, Menomonie. The 34-watt translator at 106.3 FM lies between the Menononie and Eau Claire centers…..WBT-AM/FM, Charlotte talk show host Keith Larson is organizing his 14th annual motorcycle ride to help kids battling life-threatening illnesses and their families. It's called Keith's Ride and it takes place this Saturday (4/30). The event is escorted by the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office Motor Unit and supported by several other law enforcement agencies…..The nationally syndicated "Motley Fool Money" radio show adds Shamrock Communications' KNEZ, Reno "107.3 KNEWS" as its latest affiliate station…..CBS RADIO's news/talk KDKA-AM, Pittsburgh is hosting "Allegheny Health Network's Senior Life Today presented by LubriSyn HA" this Saturday (4/30). The event will feature vendors with informational booths and break-out sessions. KDKA personalities will be onsite throughout the day and the station will broadcast its Saturday programming live from site from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm.
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The Search for the Next AOC
Justice Democrats, the organization that brought you Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is hoping 26-year-old Jessica Cisneros will carry the torch in 2020.
The moment was immortalized in a one-minute clip on CNN: 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez arrived at her campaign's Election Night watch party, caught a glimpse of the results on a nearby TV screen, and clasped her hand over her Stila-painted lips. "Oh my God."
Ocasio-Cortez had just learned she'd defeated incumbent Representative Joe Crowley of New York—the "Queens Machine" and possible future Speaker of the House—in a 2018 primary election. In the span of a few hours, a bartender at a taco restaurant had become a household name—and the spokesperson for the progressive movement.
But Ocasio-Cortez's astonishing upset was also a crucial triumph for Justice Democrats, a fledgling progressive organization that, along with the group Brand New Congress, had recruited Ocasio-Cortez and helped shepherd her campaign to victory. Justice Democrats was founded in 2017 by veterans of Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign with the goal of supporting candidates up and down the ballot who follow a set of progressive principles, including refusing corporate PAC money and supporting Medicare for All. While Justice Democrats had endorsed 79 candidates in the 2018 cycle, only 26 of them were successful, including other now well-known progressive members of Congress, such as Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. But no victory registered like Ocasio-Cortez's upset, turning her into a three-letter political phenom: AOC.
For months after Ocasio-Cortez's win, Justice Democrats was riding high off of that accomplishment. In November, the organization's 24-year-old executive director, Alexandra Rojas, pledged to "repeat the playbook" in 2020. The group touted plans to expand its ambitions in pushing Congress to the left, announcing a campaign to recruit more working-class candidates to challenge establishment Democrats it viewed as insufficiently progressive.
With 2020 congressional primaries just months away, that playbook is about to be put to the test. Justice Democrats has so far endorsed a slate of eight candidates, including Jamaal Bowman, a school principal challenging Representative Eliot Engel of New York, and Morgan Harper, a former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau adviser who is taking on Representative Joyce Beatty of Ohio.
But it's Jessica Cisneros's primary bid against Representative Henry Cuellar of Texas that will serve as a kind of marquee race for the Justice Democrats next year. The primary election, on March 3, will be among the first elections with a Justice Democrats candidate on the ballot, and could set the tone and trajectory for the rest of its primary challenges. Since her campaign launched in June, Cisneros has secured the endorsement of Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and raised almost $460,000. For context, Ocasio-Cortez raised less than $60,000 in all of 2017 for her own race against Crowley.
Progressives have long been itching to oust Cuellar, who—even though Hillary Clinton won the district by nearly 20 points in 2016—has voted with Donald Trump nearly 70 percent of the time. That's led Cisneros, a 26-year-old immigration attorney, to label him "Trump's favorite Democrat," and separate herself by advocating for a slew of progressive policies, including Medicare for All, a $15 minimum wage, and the Green New Deal.
Immigration and border security are also massively important issues in Texas's Twenty-Eighth Congressional District, which spans nearly 300 miles along the U.S.-Mexico border. While Cuellar has spoken out against the construction of President Trump's proposed border wall, he has supported building sections of the wall in his own district. Cisneros has criticized Cuellar's position as inconsistent, but when I talked to her in an interview last month, her own vision for border security didn't seem totally coherent: "I'm only one person," she told me when I asked about it. "Obviously, the [system] that we have right now is broken."
Cisneros believes that the voters in her solid-blue district—even moderate ones—would vote for progressive policies like Medicare for All if they were given the opportunity. It's exactly the theory that Justice Democrats is hoping to prove nationwide, and Cisneros's candidacy will be one of the first in 2020 to test it. I talked to Cisneros about the importance of primary challenges, her thoughts on border security, and how she feels about being compared to Ocasio-Cortez. Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
Elaine Godfrey: You've said that Cuellar and his political positions don't represent Democratic values. What do you mean by that? What are values that Democrats should have?
Jessica Cisneros: There are so many positions and votes that he has made over the past 14 to 15 years that he's been in Congress that aren't reflective of the people down here. I think that that's because he's perpetuating this myth that Texas is super conservative, but we truly aren't. And I can say that because in the past three months that we have been knocking on doors, I haven't had a single person disagree with me on the progressive platform that we are running on. And we're having conversations about Medicare for All and what that means for our community here. We're having conversations about raising the local wage and getting the money out of politics. And those are all things that Cuellar isn't for.
Godfrey: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has instituted a new policy to help protect incumbents from primary challenges like yours.
Cisneros: Obviously, that's not going to deter us, right? I think this campaign and the energy behind it, and the progressive values that we're standing for, is attracting the right kind of people to work on our team. And we're really excited. Our team might be small, but we're definitely mighty. But I do think that policies like those are detrimental to Democrats everywhere. And the fact is that Cuellar is someone who really isn't aligned with our Democratic values. Democrats everywhere recognize that he's one less vote on their health care, one less vote on raising the minimum wage, one less vote on so many issues that Democrats hold dear.
So I think that the reason why we have had an overwhelming outpouring of support when we launched—not just from inside the district, but also from outside of the district—is because people recognize that if Jessica Cisneros wins, that's one more vote for Democrats everywhere.
Godfrey: Justice Democrats has gotten a lot of criticism for what it's doing. Some Democrats have argued that it's an eat-your-own approach to politics that could ultimately threaten the Democratic majority in Congress. Are you worried about that?
Cisneros: I think that primaries are a basic function of our democratic system and electoral system that we have. And I think primaries keep our democracy healthy. As a public servant, someone who's elected to hold office, people shouldn't take the responsibility lightly. They shouldn't feel entitled to that position, because ultimately, the voters are the people who hire our congresspeople. If we don't like the way that they're working, then we should have an avenue to be able to change that person and actually elect somebody who will represent us accurately.
Godfrey: You're in a district that runs along a huge chunk of the U.S.-Mexico border, so let's talk about immigration. Cuellar has called for tightened border security, but he has criticized Trump's idea of building a wall (while supporting it locally). Where should that increased funding go?
Cisneros: People I've met with in Starr County, which is part of the district, are very frustrated and betrayed. They feel betrayed, because the congressman wasn't fighting for their property [from being usurped for the wall]. I spoke to two women who are leading the fight down there, and they feel very frustrated because the land that their family has been living on for six generations, literally the border crosses it. They're about to lose it. And Cuellar might be saying one thing, that he doesn't support the wall and that he's standing up to Trump, but his votes really do say a different story.
If you were to actually come down here and visit those areas where the wall is going to be built, it's definitely some of the most peaceful and serene places I've seen in my entire life. It's not necessary to be investing all these millions of dollars, or tens of millions of dollars, into something that's not necessary. The border area really does need an increase in funding, but not to build a hateful symbol such as the wall.
Godfrey: What do you think that increased funding should go toward?
Cisneros: I think it should go toward our health care or investing in the infrastructure down here that we truly need. There are places in South Texas and along the border called colonias, areas of the United States where there are no paved roads, no streetlights, sometimes no drainage, no plumbing. That's where we should be investing our money—into our people. Helping small businesses start and, again, health care, because unfortunately Texas has some of the highest rates of uninsured people. And South Texas has some of the highest rates of poverty. For us to access our health care, we have to go into Mexico. People who have diabetes have to go get their insulin over there. So many of us go over there to go get dental work done, or to check up with the doctor, because we can't afford it here. So to me, that's where money should be going, to make sure that our communities have what they need to succeed.
Godfrey: Republicans have said that Democrats want open borders. What do you think about that criticism? How do you think about border security?
Cisneros: That's obviously a Republican talking point. I think that there's something definitely between open borders and the blatant human-rights violations that we see today under the Trump administration. In the system that we have right now, people are being turned away [at the border] when they're properly seeking asylum under the laws that Congress has passed; they've been doing it the right way. The most frustrating thing, especially as an immigration attorney, and knowing exactly how these laws interact, is that the only person in this who's circumventing the law is our president, Donald Trump. He's the one who is basically not paying attention to the laws that Congress has passed before. Instead, he's unilaterally denying these people humanitarian relief. So I think that's what we should be looking to and not use the open-borders argument as a distraction to actually not pay attention to the violations of law that this administration is doing.
Godfrey: You said there's something between open borders and the human-rights violations going on at the border. What is the something that's in between?
Cisneros: I'm only one person. I can't come up with an entire legal scheme for a very complex system. I think a lot of people don't know that immigration law is like the second-most complex area of the law, right behind tax law. So I think we definitely would need a group of people who are immigration experts to come up with an efficient system, because obviously, the one that we have right now is broken. And even before the Trump administration unilaterally curtailed asylum law, there were still so many things that we needed to fix.
Godfrey: Your district is blue, but does that mean that voters will support Medicare for All and a lot of these other progressive ideas that you're running on?
Cisneros: I definitely think so. Because, again, in those three months that we've been knocking on doors, I have not had a single person disagree with me on policy. I think that once you start laying out what these plans mean, and the benefits that it will have on our community, people understand that. And I think that Henry Cuellar has been doing a disservice to our community by not even giving us access or talking about these ideas with us.
Again, that's why primaries are so important, because it is a debate of ideas. It's not just one set person in there, it's more people, and that way people have options, and we can choose for ourselves what we believe is best for us.
Godfrey: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently endorsed Marie Newman, a Justice Democrat–endorsed candidate challenging Representative Dan Lipinski of Illinois. And some people are publicly musing about whether she'll endorse you in the primary, too. What do you think of the comparisons between you two—and what might an endorsement mean coming from her?
Cisneros: We would welcome an endorsement from the congresswoman, but we're not anticipating one at this time. We both are in the position of being underdogs. But we're trying to do our best to help the Democratic Party in our own way and provide true representation to our people here, in our respective communities. Obviously, the Bronx and Queens are very different from South Texas. But I think there are so many issues that unite us all throughout America, those things being access to health care and making sure that people have decent wages and addressing the climate crisis. There are so many things that we're in the same fight for, and I obviously admire her a lot.
I do think that a lot of people tend to draw comparisons as well because we're both young Latinas. But we are our own person, and I'm trying to be the best version of Jessica Cisneros that I can be for Texas 28.