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Sunshine hammers El-Kanemi 5-0
Sunshine Stars recovered from mid-week defeat against Dolphins to hammer struggling El-Kanemi Warriors 5-0 on Sunday to reclaim the top spot of the Globacom Nigerian Professional Football League (NPFL).
With Enyimba’s Week 25 fixture against FC Taraba taking place on Monday evening, the Akure Arsenal took time to decimate the Maiduguri side, with Paul Onobi and Prince Aggreh scoring a brace each while Tunde Adeniji added his name on the score-sheet.
Onobi’s strikes in the 31st and 54th minutes set the Gunners on the cusp of eventual comprehensive victory with Aggreh making it 3-0 in the 67th minute. Tunde Adeniji added the fourth, five minutes from end of regulations time before Aggreh completed his brace in the 90th minute to seal a memorable home win for the title-chasing Sunshine, increasing its points tally to 46, one more than second-placed Enyimba.
Warri Wolves fired-up its contention for the league crown with a 1-0 victory against visiting Wikki Tourists. Gbolahan Salami’s 36th minute strike from the penalty spot was all that the Warri based club needed to claim decisive victory and 44 points, just one point behind Enyimba.
Kano Pillars’ 12 years, 202 home-match undefeated streak crashed following a 1-2 defeat against Nasarawa United at the Sani Abacha Stadium, Kano. The reigning league Champions were stunned by the Lafia based club with two early quick goals from Mannir Ubale and Yaro Bature in the 12th and 16th minutes respectively. Although, captain, Raibiu Ali pulled one goal back for the struggling Sai Masu Gida in the 46th minute, Nasarawa United held on to the lead till the end of the game.
In Oghara, Sharks FC of Port Harcourt snatched a vital 1-0 away victory against struggling Bayelsa United to bolster its fight to escape relegation. Abia Warriors also overcame Heartland FC of Owerri by a lone goal in an explosive Oriental derby played at Umuahia Township Stadium with Chisom Chikatara scoring the decisive goal in the 18th minute.
Tony Okpotu’s 72nd minute goal gave Lobi Stars 1-0 victory over FC Ifeanyi Ubah at the Aper Aku Stadium, Makurdi.
In Uyo, hard-fighting Giwa FC battled Akwa United to a 2-2 at the Nest of Champions home with Giwa FC. The visiting Jos club stunned Akwa United when informed striker, Edoh Ocheme opened scoring in the 35th minute. Efforts of the home team to rally back paid off when Aniekan Ekpe equalized from the spot in the 60th minute with Ukeme Davies firing the host into the lead four minutes later. The lead, however, lasted barely ten minutes before the visitors drew level and held on till the end to share the points.
Similarly, Enugu Rangers failed to shook off its mid-week Federations Cup semi-finals loss as it was held by relegation threatened Dolphins of Port Harcourt to a 1-1 draw at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu.
By Olisemeka Obeche
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THREE OF A KIND
— Jan 19th, 2001
Guess the connection:
Biker gang, Hell's ______; drug campaign: 'Just say ____; 3 Stooges: Larry, ___ and Curly.
Answer Tomorrow:
Yesterday's Three of a kind:
Q: In alphabetical order, L, __ (s), N; using hands to talk is ____ language; actress ________ Diaz.
A: M's sign Cameron
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Guess the connection: Sled dogs; to tear up; other wise known as a mountain lion or puma. Answer tomorrow. Yesterday's Three of a Kind: Q: Dennis Johnson once played point guard for this Seattle team; game, ___ and match; Popular 60s sitcom "My Three ___." ... [Read More...]
Guess the connection Sportwear with the "C" logo; umbrellas keep _____ off your head; wrestling headgear is designed to protect the _____. Answer tomorrow Yesterday's Three of a Kind: Q: Rudolph couldn't play in reindeer _____; AKA telephoned; three-letter trade name for canned bug spray. A: ... [Read More...]
Guess the connection: _____ Fell was Mr. Roper on Three's Company; Player control foul used to be called _____; Never hit on a ____ 17. Answer tomorrow. Yesterday's Three of a Kind: Q:John ____ was a steel-drivin' man; Jack Nicklaus has ____ from playing in the Masters; There's ___ ... [Read More...] | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.7173333168029785, "wiki_prob": 0.2826666831970215, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1412369"} |
Givenhansco Unifies Enterprise Suite
Responding to producers’ demand for greater efficiency and computing power in operations management, GivenHansco Inc. has developed Keystone, a one-platform
Responding to producers’ demand for greater efficiency and computing power in operations management, GivenHansco Inc. has developed Keystone, a one-platform system offering ready mixed and aggregate operators of all sizes batch controls, dispatch, GPS tracking, and accounting functions.
Enterprise systems for construction materials producers have traditionally comprised a collection of products communicating through bridges and interfaces, e.g., dispatch and accounts receivable interfacing with an off-the-shelf accounting package, note GivenHansco developers. The result is disparate systems, a plethora of databases, and administrative glitches when, for example, one system is updated only to break the interface to another.
The first and only single-platform, multidimensional business automation solution for concrete and aggregate businesses, product developers contend, Keystone encompasses all facets of producer financial and operational areas sharing a common platform and database. Its technology is flexible and scalable to serve producers with single or multiple users, plants, or operating companies. System components have a common configuration for ease of use, and sliders simplify navigation. Running off one data set assures security, functionality, versatility, and predictability, GivenHansco affirms.
Keystone Accounting includes Quoting, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Point-of-Sale, Inventory, Payroll, and Cash Management. Keystone Controls operates batch plants and silo load out. Keystone Dispatch brings the latest technology to truck routing and tracking with an easy-to-use, intuitive interface. Keystone GPS vehicle tracking is available as a stand-alone; or, it can interface directly with many dispatch systems.
Keystone allows users to track the path of an order ticket from generation to collection, noting the impact a ticket has on the bottom line. Thus, on one database, the system records an entire sequence of transactions Û from the first interaction with a customer (the quote) through all subsequent activity to the final income statement. It can manage all in-coming and out-going cash transactions on a single platform, including accounts receivable, CODs, accounts payable, payroll, and service fees.
Developed in stages, Keystone is now available for implementation as Phase I. Since the current product fits many Û but not all Û producers, compatibility on a case-by-case basis is determined via product demonstration and site survey. While the system’s breadth and depth are constantly evolving as additional functionality is delivered, Keystone currently offers these modules:
Truck Dispatch Billing
Truck Scheduling Accounts Receivable
Truck Demand Accounts Payable
Batch Controls General Ledger
Aggregate Ticketing Inventory
Block Ticketing Payroll
Point-of-Sale Cash Management
GPS Truck Tracking Time Keeping
Quoting Financial Reporting
Silo Load Out Links/Statusing
Operations Reporting DataScope (Executive Reporting)
Keystone technology incorporates Borland Delphi 2006 and InterBase Version 7.x. Based on a field-proven, multi-tier framework developed and refined over the last four years, the system is compliant with current Windows standards and easily upgradable to emerging standards, such as Windows Vista. The multi-tier design provides a higher range of scalability than legacy client/server applications, GivenHansco developers note. Since no direct connection exists between desktop and database, they add, security is enhanced, while database engine upgrades can be performed with reconfiguration of each desktop. A high-performance, SQL 92-compliant, back-end database ensures reliability, as well as openness to third-party reporting tools.
Accordingly, company officials cite the following Keystone benefits:
Consistency Û Screens look alike and share the same data, so cross training is innate and uncomplicated.
Efficiency Û Transactions using common data are seen by all, e.g., credit hold, etc. Consequently, data needs to be entered only once, eliminating double entry and double work. Reporting is meaningful and timely.
Repeatability Û A common look and feel makes daily processes routine, thereby saving time.
Predictability Û Sharing the same data produces reliable results. Inconsistencies caused by running similar processes against different databases are avoided.
Simplicity Û A common look and feel among clear, uncluttered screens facilitates navigation.
Integrity Û One set of data is managed and audited. Updating one database does not break the interface to another.
Security Û One set of data is accessed, and guarding one entity is easier than securing many.
GivenHansco, Columbus, Ohio; 866/310-0060; www.givenhansco.com
KEYSTONE’S DATA-MINING MODULE
To Keystone’s one-platform batch, dispatch, GPS, and accounting system GivenHansco has added executive-level financial modeling and extended capabilities. Unveiled in late January at World of Concrete 2007, DataScope uses advanced tools to extract and organize data to be viewed in a specific format or exported to widely used standard PC products. The combination of data mining and multi-dimensional viewing capability enables dynamic, customer-unique reporting Û all in real time and on demand.
GivenHansco President Gary Given affirms, With DataScope, you can pull up the information you need to analyze your finances and quickly see a comparison to prior periods. A simple click drills down to reveal details that clearly show what is behind the numbers. And, DataScope mines Keystone Accounting data in real time. Beyond merely generating a report, it allows producers to spot trends that can affect sales, cash, and profits. | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6102223992347717, "wiki_prob": 0.38977760076522827, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1262290"} |
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Summary: To reflect on the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 2021, director Reyes offers a bold hybrid cinema experience exploring the brutal legacy of colonialism in contemporary Mexico. Through the eyes of a ghostly conquistador, the film recreates Hernan Cortes' epic journey from the coasts of Veracruz to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, the site of contemporary Mexico City. As...
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American mania : when more is not enough
Whybrow, Peter C.
Summary: An analysis of the American consumer culture cites modern statistics in obesity, depression, and panic disorders, drawing on detailed case studies to explain how today's affluent society is directly related to key social and medical issues.
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2006
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American midnight : the Great War, a violent peace, and democracy's forgotten crisis
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Summary: "A character-driven look at a pivotal period in American history, 1917-1920: the tumultuous home front during WWI and its aftermath, when violence broke out across the country thanks to the first Red Scare, labor strife, and immigration battles"--
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
A paradise built in hell : the extraordinary communities that arise in disaster
Solnit, Rebecca.
Summary: Explores the phenomenon through which people become resourceful and altruistic after a disaster and communities reflect a shared sense of purpose, analyzing events ranging from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake to Hurricane Katrina.
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2010
Boom, bust, exodus : the Rust Belt, the maquilas, and a tale of two cities
Broughton, Chad.
Summary: "In 2002, the town of Galesburg, a slowly declining Rustbelt city of 34,000 in western Illinois, learned that it would soon lose its largest factory, a Maytag refrigerator plant that had anchored Galesburg's social and economic life for half a century. Workers at the plant earned $15.14 an hour, had good insurance, and were assured a solid retirement. In 2004, the plant was relocated to...
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2015
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.9 BRO
It was all a dream : a new generation confronts the broken promise to Black America
Allen, Reniqua
Summary: "In the last few decades, any hope of economic progress for black Americans has been slowly and steadily undermined. This quiet crisis was only exacerbated by the recession, which cut black households' wealth by over 30 percent. Black millennials watched their parents try to play by the rules, buying homes and aspiring to the trappings of middle-class life, only to sink deeper and deeper into...
1 available in Adult, Call number: 330.9 Allen 2019
Zeitgeist : the movie
Summary: Zeitgeist: A highly controversial documentary in three parts. The first part dissects the origins of Christianity, the second gives an overview of numerous questionable aspects of 9/11 and the third explores the Federal Reserve Bank and its ability to control the economy.
Publisher / Publication Date: G.M.P. LLC 2007
There is nothing for you here : finding opportunity in the 21st century
Hill, Fiona
Summary: Foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness Fiona Hill reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia--and shows how we can return hope to our forgotten places. In this deeply personal account, she shares what she has learned, and explains that only by expanding opportunity can we save our democracy.
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Sweetness and power : the place of sugar in modern history
Mintz, Sidney W. (Sidney Wilfred)
Summary: In this book the author shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with its use first as an...
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Guatemala human price of coffee
Summary: Coffee is second only to oil as the world's most valuable traded commodity, but small-scale producers rarely profit from it. This program reveals the hardship and uncertainty faced by coffee farmers in Guatemala, and how many are taking steps to obtain better prices and build better lives. Analyzing the country's traumatic history and the lingering effects of its civil war, the video sheds...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Shutdown : how COVID shook the world's economy
Tooze, J. Adam
Summary: "Deftly weaving finance, politics, business, and the global human experience into one tight narrative, a tour-de-force account of 2020, the year that changed everything--from the acclaimed author of Crashed. The shocks of 2020 have been great and small, disrupting the world economy, international relations and the daily lives of virtually everyone on the planet. Never before has the entire...
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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Summary: Presents the theory that the American dream, all but abandoned in the United States, has been adopted successfully in other countries, including Italy, France, Finland, Slovenia, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Tunisia, and Iceland, looking at such areas as worker benefits, public expenditure for the common good, and state-funded higher education.
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2016
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A dream called home : a memoir
Summary: From bestselling author Reyna Grandewhose remarkable memoir The Distance Between Us has become required reading in schools across the country comes an inspiring account of one woman's quest to find her place in America as a first-generation Latina university student and aspiring writer determined to build a new life for her family one fearless word at a time. When Reyna Grande was nine years...
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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Pity the billionaire : the hard times swindle and the unlikely comeback of the Right
Frank, Thomas
Summary: A look at why the worst economy since the 1930s has brought about the revival of conservatism.
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt 2012
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Race after technology : abolitionist tools for the New Jim Code
Benjamin, Ruha.
Summary: "From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce white supremacy and deepen social inequity. Far from a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, Benjamin argues that automation has the potential to hide, speed, and even deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even...
Publisher / Publication Date: Polity 2019
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Mexico City largest city
Summary: This program defines Mexico City's globalization in terms of winners and losers, examining how, in the world's largest metropolis, immigration challenges are linked to poverty and population influx from surrounding rural areas. Contrasting the city's high-tech facilities and fashionable neighborhoods with its sprawling slums and their struggling inhabitants, the program outlines the...
The new wild west : black gold, fracking, and life in a North Dakota boomtown
Briody, Blaire
Summary: The New Wild West is the definitive account of what's happening on the ground and what really happens to a community when the energy industry is allowed to set up in a town with little regulation or oversight - and at what cost.
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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Mi María : surviving the storm, voices from Puerto Rico
Summary: The seventeen oral histories collected here are stories of surviving the storm and its long aftermath as people waited for relief and aid that rarely arrived. The book offers a multivocal peoples' history of disaster that fosters a greater understanding of the failures of governmental disaster response and the correlating perseverance of the people impacted by these failures, highlighting the...
Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2021
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Costa Rica ecotourism and economic development
Summary: Home to more biodiversity than either Europe or North America, Costa Rica has shown the world how to benefit from the environment without destroying it. This program treks across the Central American nation with a spotlight on ecotourism and how it fits into Costa Rica's overall economy. Visits to a banana farm, a coffee plantation, the Monteverde Cloud Forest, and the Tortugero National Park...
Narco cultura
Summary: To a growing number of Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas, narco-traffickers have become icons, glorified by musicians who praise their fame and success. In this new constituency, they represent a pathway out of the ghetto, nurturing a new American dream fueled by money, drugs, and violence. The film is an explosive look at the drug cartels' pop culture influence on both sides of the border...
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All the presidents' bankers : the hidden alliances that drive American power
Prins, Nomi.
Summary: "All The Presidents' Bankers is a compelling narrative of how a small group of private bankers and their financial institutions shaped America's economy and its global position since the start of the twentieth century. Through personal, political and professional networks, these bankers strategically exercised, and continue to exercise, disproportionate control over the destiny of billions of...
Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2013
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.1 PRI
Purgatorio : a journey into the heart of the border
Summary: Rodrigo Reyes₂ provocative essay film re-imagines the Mexico/U.S. border as a mythical place comparable to Dante₂s purgatory. Leaving politics aside, he takes a fresh look at the brutal beauty of the border and the people caught in its spell. By capturing a stunning mosaic of compelling characters and broken landscapes on the border, Reyes reflects on the flaws of human nature and the powerful...
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Mexico journal life in the earth
Summary: Urban punks with green hair and green thumbs, the members of Tierra Viva transform toxic Mexican earth into vegetable gardens. Their actions make up one remarkable part of this wide-ranging Mexican odyssey. Depicting Michoacan farmers who are fighting the trend to move to the cities-and preserving the winter home of the monarch butterflies-the program also journeys to Magdalena Bay,...
The power of crisis : how three threats--and our response--will change the world
Bremmer, Ian
Summary: "Renowned political scientist Ian Bremmer draws lessons from global challenges of the past 100 years--including the pandemic--to show how we can respond to three great crises unfolding over the next decade. In this revelatory, unnerving, and ultimately hopeful book, Bremmer details how domestic and international conflicts leave us unprepared for a trio of looming crises--global health...
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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A Bouquet of Forget Me Nots on First Friday
First Fridays at First!, First Lutheran Church, Torrance
DAVID J BROWN
Ken Aiso and Valeria Morgovskaya.
What makes a melody truly memorable? This thought came to mind during most of the items in this recital by the Japanese violinist/ violist Ken Aiso and Ukrainian pianist Valeria Morgovskaya, the second in Classical Crossroads Inc.’s Friday lunchtime series. Google the question and you’ll get more answers than you could ever be bothered to read through: one that I quite liked involved achieving, in the melody’s progress, a balance between repetition and non-repetition, and between predictable and unpredictable elements.
For me this certainly fits the pairs of falling 2nds and 5ths followed by upward scales, hesitant and imploring, that herald “The Swan” from Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals, played here in an arrangement for viola and piano that suffered nothing in its translation from the original’s ‘cello and two pianos. The close rapport between Mr. Aiso and Ms. Morgovskaya kept it cool and up to the Andantino grazioso marking, no drawn-out Pavlovan “dying swan” effect here.
Another recipe for memorable melody I came across was that they often move mostly in single scale steps. This is certainly true of Rachmaninoff’s “Vocalise”—the last of his 14 Romances Op. 34 originally written for high voice and piano—which like “The Swan” has been given many arrangements. The performers again chose the one for viola and piano, and here I wondered at first whether their playing of this often lachrymal piece needed a little more overt emotion. However, their carefully graduated turning up of the flame as they approached its single ff climax in the central section proved me wrong.
Elgar and Caroline Alice,
shortly after their marriage.
Yet a third short piece with an unforgettable main melody followed, and one within which all the above ingredients for earworming can be found. Elgar’s Salut d’amour has probably been arranged for as many different combinations of instruments as the Saint-Saëns and Rachmaninoff pieces, but here we had it in its original form for violin and piano, as composed in 1888 by Elgar as an engagement present for his fiancée, and once again the lack of swooning in Mr. Aiso’s playing was all gain—a legacy perhaps of his years with London’s premiere period-instrument band, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, whose programs were high on my list of must-listens when I lived there.
Koichi Kishi (1909-1937).
Entirely new to me were both the next piece, Dance of the Dragon for violin and piano, and its composer Koichi Kishi. Thank you as ever, Wikipedia, for outlining Kishi’s humbling range of achievements in his short life of only 28 years… not only as a violinist, composer and conductor (of his own works, with the Berlin Philharmonic, no less!), but even as a film director.
The brief Dance of the Dragon was an explosive change of mood before yet another of those ineradicable melodies—and one whose its predominance of wide leaps largely undermines recipe #2 above. This was the “Meditation” from Massenet’s opera Thaïs of 1894, and all of Mr. Aiso’s virtues of discreet vibrato, spot-on intonation, and judicious choice of tempi were once again on full display.
Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908).
Then came the final and biggest piece in the listed program, and one that really allowed him to show off his virtuoso credentials. Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen Op. 20—this time in the composer’s own arrangement for violin and piano from his orchestrated original composed in 1878—is a 10-minute, four-part fantasy on “Gypsy Airs”, and for the violinist full of fearsome challenges.
These, whether fast double-stops, seamless spiccato runs, ringing pizzicato chords, or high harmonics of other-worldly eeriness, were all negotiated by Mr. Aiso without the slightest ruffling of the aplomb he displayed throughout the recital. All this got a deserved standing ovation from the fortunate audience in First Lutheran, after which Bach’s famous “Air on the G String” as encore formed the perfect return to earth.
“First Fridays at First! – fff”: First Lutheran Church, Torrance, 12.15pm, Friday, October 4, 2018. Photos: The performers: Courtesy Loyola Marymount University; Elgar: Medium website;
Koichi Kishi: YouTube; Sarasate: Wikimedia Commons.
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We anticipate this game to be decided at the point of attack. If Jacksonville’s offensive line, which has permitted the fifth-fewest sacks, can continue to guard Lawrence from Parsons and the other Dallas pass-rushers, they have a genuine opportunity to win. If they falter, they will likely get blown off the field. The most welcome sign of Jacksonville’s current play is Lawrence’s emergence. Through the similar 5-game stretch, the second-year pro has a QBR of 69.7—which would be fifth amongst season rankings—1,632 yards, ten touchdowns, and no interceptions.
They also play the New York Jets in Week 16 and the Tennessee Titansm who they defeated on Sunday, to close the season in Week 18. On Thursday, Etienne after once again dressed totally and went through group warmups, while also taking place in a drill with a couple of wide receivers through look at these guys the media viewing portion of practice. Earlier this week, Pederson described Etienne’s injury, which occurred immediately after five plays and two carries in a win over the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday, as a foot sprain. He mentioned it occurred on the exact same surgically repaired foot that Etienne injured final season as a rookie.
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A fourth-round pick by the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2017, Dobbs has in no way began an NFL game and last attempted a pass in 2020. The Jaguars via eight games had 4 red-zone turnovers – three interceptions by Lawrence and a lost fumble by operating back Travis Etienne Jr. They also turned the ball more than on downs in the red zone in Week 1 at Washington, losing the five games in which these turnovers occurred by a score or much less.
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The Baltimore Ravens will also make it, even as their star quarterback functions back from an injury. The Los Angeles Chargers, stuck in neutral for considerably of the season, have secured adequate wins on the back of their star quarterback, Justin Herbert, to position themselves for the postseason as well. Miami’s Tua Tagovailoa could not be a star quarterback like the rest of the field, but the Dolphins delight in a dynamic passing offense related to these of the other AFC contenders. “You want as a quarterback to play as superior as you can, mainly because when your quarterback plays nicely, it provides you a possibility to win every single week,” Lawrence stated. “That is just the nature of what we do in this organization, so I fully grasp that. But seriously just generating the plays that are there . Now, guys came through, had some great catches. I imply, you appear at Evan and Zay and Ags .
This is another game the Jaguars could also win that they have been originally projected to drop. For one, the Jaguars would have to win at least six of their final seven games to finish above .500 this year. Just 3 teams — the 2010 Seattle Seahawks, 2014 Carolina Panthers, and 2020 Washington Football Team — have earned a playoff spot with a losing record.
In addition, they have to have the foundation of a best-tier offense. The Mets verify many of these boxes, but buying a title seldom functions out in baseball. In the end, the Atlanta Braves have a better general major-league roster with much you could look here wiser spending in their group make. I anticipate the NL East to be won by the Braves, giving them the inside track to a World Series title. Coming off a year-extended NFL suspension for betting, I will “bet” that Calvin Ridley requires the fantasy globe by storm and puts up WR1 numbers playing his initially season in Jacksonville.
But this would be an best place for Wilson to find out and get effectively, as he’d be finding coached by the most effective in the company, and practicing alongside the league’s gold typical. The Chiefs have been up and down, but they did score 15 fantasy points in Week 14 against Denver. They picked off Russell Wilson twice and scored a touchdown. Denver has permitted the third-most fantasy PPG to opposing defenses (9.five). I imply, it really is never excellent when Patrick Star is roasting your QB. The Texans have permitted 9.9 fantasy PPG to opposing defenses, the second-most in the NFL.
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Cleveland Metroparks Police Seek Tips in Double Homicide in Rocky River Reservation
By Vince Grzegorek on Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 9:44 am
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Cleveland Metroparks police chief Katherine Dolan, in a very short news conference this morning, revealed little about the two homicide deaths in the Rocky River Reservation earlier this week.
Carnell Sledge, 40, and Katherine Brown, 33, were found deceased north of Lorain Rd. and east of Valley Parkway around 5:22 p.m. on Tuesday. Brown died of a gunshot wound to the head and Sledge died of gunshot wounds to the head, Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner Thomas Gilson said.
Dolan said, based on the information they have, authorities believe this was an isolated incident and that the parks remain safe. She did not elaborate, however, and a Metroparks spokesperson said no further details would be released as to not jeopardize the investigation.
Cleveland Metroparks detectives are working the case in coordination with BCI and the coroner's office.
Anyone with information is asked to call Cuyahoga County Crimestoppers at 216-252-7463.
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Space Force’s talent management system focuses on development, work-life balance
Scott Maucione@smaucioneWFED
The Space Force is trying to make itself the most progressive military service when it comes to hiring and retaining service members.
The new military branch has billed itself as a “start from scratch” enterprise, that won’t be held back by traditions of other military services.
Gen. Jay Raymond, chief of space operations, and Roger Towberman, chief master sergeant of the Space Force, are promising the service will embrace a new kind of talent management...
Gen. Jay Raymond, chief of space operations, and Roger Towberman, chief master sergeant of the Space Force, are promising the service will embrace a new kind of talent management that focuses on recruiting people who are not propensed to go into the military, prioritizes work-life balance and uses data to better place guardians.
“If there’s something measurable, like a 100 meter dash, I can line a bunch of people up and I can tell you who the best person is probably,” Towberman said. “But if I start talking about Kanye and Jay Z it gets a little mucky, right? If we started talking Belichick and Lombardi, some of you would debate that. So why do we think we can rack and stack people?”
The Space Force released its talent management strategy called The Guardian Ideal on Tuesday. The service currently has over 12,000 guardians, both military and civilian.
In it, the service outlines how it will be different from the other military services who are trying to dig themselves out of the trenches of an industrial-age human capital system.
“We must think differently about talent management for the Space Force to be successful,” the strategy reads. “We are creating a regulated market approach to talent management that integrates and strengthens equity, development, and human dignity. It empowers individuals to pursue pathways that are informed by both their preferences and an understanding of Space Force requirements To that end, we are designing and implementing a new talent management approach to tap into and build upon each person’s unique strengths to power interconnected high-performing teams.”
The strategy allows permeability within the service and professions so that members are not stuck in one profession they decided on when they were 18 years-old. It also will attempt to cater people interested in specific fields to follow their passions and give the military a wide array of options and colors for its needs.
The strategy is based around a handful of key concepts with concrete goals.
The Space Force plans to connect in a collaborative environment by creating interconnected, high-performing teams to take on big goals. To do that, the service plans to create service-wide expectations.
“The Space Force must take decisive action to establish new expectations for its teams in line with our operating construct and desired culture,” the authors of the strategy wrote. “These expectations must be clear and aligned to the new talent management construct.”
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The service will also manage its career positions based on competencies and experiences guardians need to achieve instead of prescribed career fields.
“We are developing an organizational concept to maximize opportunities for full and part-time guardians. This model allows for permeability with industry and optimizes the work life balance and flexible career management options for all guardians,” the strategy states.
The plan will build competencies within its human capital system.
“We’re placing less emphasis on what you know today, and really getting after what is your potential,” said Jason Lamb, Space Force talent strategist, during a roundtable with reporters at the Air Force Association Conference Tuesday. “What are your talents? There are so many of us who don’t even know the limitations that society has placed on us. How many of those young ladies who have natural skills and abilities aligned to STEM, but were placed into academic programs that did not bring out that natural ability, or they were discouraged at home for whatever reason. If we can find that ability and nurture it and grow it when it really suits that individual, we think that’s a real path to tap into potential to achieve amazing things for the person, and service.”
The service will use different tools and tests to assess competencies and skills to inform developmental needs and help guardians understand where they need to grow to get to where they want to go professionally.
Guardians will be given feedback, coaching and mentoring to build on that development. Guardians will be assessed by boards for promotions and assignments as a whole individual and not as a handful of requirements.
The plan also focuses on something the service has been hyping since its inception: creating a digital service.
The Space Force will establish a digital cadre that will form a core of software coders, data scientists and IT experts. The service has created and filled 50 of those positions and will triple that by 2022.
“We have folks who have cyber expertise, some of it homegrown, some of it from years of working at computers. And leaders who have self-identified as technically savvy,” said Patricia Mulcahy, Space Force’s chief human capital officer. “We’ve sent them to a boot camp for some critical coders, and that’s a 12-week camp that will bring the wires together. Then space operators will go back out into their domain in an area or discipline that can apply what they most recently learned in just one particular discipline.”
The service will lean heavily on data to prove that its plan is working and will use data to automate processes to unburden guardians from mindless tasks.
The data goes to the individual level, some guardians are wearing rings that track sleep patterns and other biometrics to better their resiliency.
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CultureBooks Birthday Tribute To Jane Austen: 5 Feminist Moments From Her Novels
Birthday Tribute To Jane Austen: 5 Feminist Moments From Her Novels
By addressing women’s domestic confinement and limited self-expression, Jane Austen comes closest to a feminist perspective in her time.
By Jyothsna Belliappa Dec 15, 2017 5 min read
It is a truth perhaps not so universally acknowledged that feminist writers have a rather difficult relationship with Jane Austen. We love her biting social commentary and her sense of irony; we’re awed by her satirical wit and sparse prose and of course, we enjoy her romantic intrigues.
But we’re troubled by her unbending morality, her preoccupation with marriage, her tendency to reward well-behaved women with upward social mobility and punish rebellious ones with uncertain futures (the exceptions being the impetuous Marianne Dashwood who marries the ever faithful – and wealthy – Colonel Brandon and her sensible sister Elinor who makes a less lucrative but happy marriage with Edward). The limited information we have on Austen’s life (thank you, Cassandra Austen, for burning most of your sister’s letters) has resulted in endless though ultimately unsatisfactory speculation on her possible feminism.
For every admirer who argues vociferously that Jane Austen was a feminist writing about love and marriage with her tongue in her cheek, there are others who claim with equal fervour that she was firmly located in the (patriarchal) conventions of her time. So on the eve of her 242nd birth anniversary (16th December), rather than ask if Austen was a feminist, perhaps it would be more fun to explore five feminist moments in her novels.
When Fanny Price refuses to marry a man she doesn’t respect.
“I am so perfectly convinced that I could never make him happy and that I should be miserable myself.”
Prudish, self-sacrificing and diffident, Fanny Price is possibly the most difficult of Austen’s heroines to like. She creeps about Mansfield Park ready to do everyone’s bidding, never asking anything for herself, submitting herself to fate. Yet when her uncle and benefactor, Sir Thomas, instructs her to marry the elegant and eligible Henry Crawford she finds the courage to refuse.
Having watched the charming and flirtatious Henry toy with the affections of both Sir Thomas’s daughters, Fanny disapproves of his principles and suspects his motives. Her decision is not an easy one as Henry, for all his faults, seems to sincerely admire Fanny and offers her financial stability and social status, not to mention a chance to upstage her condescending cousins.
But Fanny stands firm despite the remonstrations of the authoritarian Sir Thomas who point out that as the eldest daughter of an impoverished family she is unlikely to receive a better offer. In a world where women had few options for financial security, Fanny’s unbending resolve is impressive. “We all have a better guide in ourselves if we would attend to it,” she asserts, “than any other person can be.”
When Sophie Croft calls out her brother’s misplaced notion of chivalry.
“I hate to see you speak as if women were all fine ladies instead of rational creatures.”
When the handsome and dashing Captain Wentworth makes an impassioned speech against the naval practice of allowing officers’ wives to travel onboard ship with their husbands, his sister denounces his sexism, claiming that any reasonable woman may be just as happy on the sea as on land. A naval wife herself, she goes on to describe her travels to ‘the East Indies’ and her four Atlantic voyages.
Captain Wentworth is probably trying to impress the pretty Miss Musgroves with his misguided “gallantry”, as he calls it, by suggesting that women are much better off staying safely at home (probably sewing samplers and pining for his return) but Sophie opposes this foolish idea by commenting that, “We none of us want to be in smooth water all our days.”
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When Jane Fairfax breaks off a relationship that’s going nowhere to become a governess.
“I am not at all afraid of being long unemployed.”
The beautiful and talented Jane Fairfax’s life is not easy. She has little income, no prospects and a drab home with her aunt. Moreover, she is in love with the irresponsible Frank Churchill whose financial dependence on his aunt requires him to keep their engagement a secret. Her immature lover goes on to make her miserable, openly flirting with another woman and spreading frivolous gossip about Jane with the ostensible purpose of hiding his feelings for her in public.
But Jane is too self-respecting to put up with Frank’s behaviour for long. She breaks off the engagement and makes arrangements to take up a teaching position, preferring the rather dull life of a governess to an uncertain relationship with a spineless man. And with her intelligence and musical talents, she soon finds lucrative employment. Given Austen’s penchant for happy endings, Jane and her somewhat reformed lover are reunited, but not before she shows him that she is more than capable of taking control of her life despite the emotional costs involved.
When unsophisticated Catherine Morland presages an entire subdiscipline of history in her conversation with Henry Tilney.
“Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences…the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.”
As many twentieth-century feminists have argued, textual history is largely preoccupied with the experiences of powerful men, silencing the voices of women and marginalised groups. But long before subaltern and feminist histories began to emerge, Austen makes a telling comment on malestream history though Catherine’s innocent remarks.
Catherine suggests that a lot of historical accounts must be invented (or at least exaggerated) to make the central (male) characters look good. In a lively discussion that follows she amuses Henry by commenting that (academic) history seems to be written as if its sole purpose is to torment young students: a plea for more emotive and transparent accounts which engage the lay reader.
Persuasion again
When Anne Elliot helps Captain Harville understand why heartbreak is harder for women than for men, despite what popular literature suggests.
“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree… I will not allow books to prove anything.”
Saddened by how quickly his late sister’s fiancé replaces her with another woman, Captain Harville confides in Anne who suggests that men tend to move on from heartbreak more quickly than women. When Harville protests that literature suggests otherwise Anne refuses to accept his claim, arguing that most novels and poems of their time are written by men. Harville and Anne discuss with impressive frankness the pain of separation, the fear of never seeing a loved one again and the grief that follows the bereavement.
Anne reasons that it is women’s “fate rather than our merit” to be always confined at home where “our feelings prey upon us” without the active professional lives that allow men to overcome their losses. The conversation ends with one of the most poignant lines Austen ever wrote. “The only privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it),” says Anne, “is that of loving longest when existence and when hope is gone.”
It is with this comment on women’s susceptibility to grief, which is attributed not to some mythical “feminine sensibility”, but simply to women’s confinement within domesticity and their limited avenues for self-expression that Jane Austen comes closest to a feminist perspective on the gendered norms of her time.
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Jyothsna Latha Belliappa has a PhD in Women’s Studies from The University of York, UK and is interested in issues of gender, work, education and personal life. She divides her time between teaching, writing research and long meandering walks in nature.
Nicholas Ennos says:
The novels of Jane Austen were actually written by her cousin Eliza de Feuillide as I show in my book “Jane Austen – a New Revelation”. She could not publish under her own name because she was the illegitimate daughter of Warren Hastings, the Governor General of India. Eliza was born in Kolkata in India in 1761 and moved to England with her mother when she was about 6 years old. After Warren Hastings returned to England she often visited him so she had a very good knowledge of India. Eliza was a feminist in the sense that she believed women should have the same classical education as men. She herself received such an education, paid for by her father.
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Sunny days and cool nights bring color to campus
Fall on Penn’s campus, as ever, is awash in a majestic spread of gold, red, and orange. The beauty highlights the necessity of mitigating climate change, which could lead to less stunning foliar color.
As urban campuses go, Penn has always been a rare green oasis. And now, an oasis of deep orange, bright red, and vibrant gold—the traditional markings of peak fall in the mid-Atlantic. It’s the shift to cooler nights, and a good dose of sunlight, that trigger leaves to turn, breaking down the chlorophyll that gives leaves their green color, and shutting down their metabolism of photosynthesis to prepare for winter. The drop in chlorophyll levels bring out the yellow and orange pigments, and synthesize a new red pigment. The result is a stunning canvas for a camera lens.
The timing of COP26 coincided with Penn’s peak leaf-peeping timeline—which helps emphasize the urgency of the climate crisis. “Leaf color displays may be less stunning if the climate changes, for example by causing warmer fall nights in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions,” says Doris Wagner, the Robert I. Williams Term Professor of Biology in the School of Arts & Sciences. “Another factor that can impinge on the fall foliar color display is premature leaf drop triggered by summer droughts, storms in early fall with high winds and rain, or early frost.”
But why do some trees—such as broadleaf trees—drop their leaves in the fall to begin with? “Leaves lose a lot of water to the atmosphere during photosynthesis, with broad, fleshy leaves incurring much larger water losses than pine needles or small scaly leaves,” Wagner explains. “The lost water is replenished from the soil via water uptake in the roots and water transport through the tree trunk and branches to the leaves. If photosynthesis were triggered in broadleaf trees on a sunny winter day, the water lost not could not be replenished if the ground and the water in the tree is frozen.”
But with prolonged droughts becoming more common, like in California in recent years, trees cannot replenish water lost from leaves via the soil. The result is a loss of foliage and even tree death.
While Penn’s trees are carefully maintained, so well to earn Tree Campus USA accolades year after year, the larger picture of fall foliage is in a delicate balance with the climate crisis. Enjoying the beauty and majesty of a campus awash in color can also serve as a call to action to tread lightly and consciously.
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Show Name Show Name & Juliet 10 Little Indians 1776 39 East 3rd Annual Opera Festival 4 to 11 6 Guitars 6 Rms Riv Vu A Boy Growing Up A Breath of Scotland (1966) A Breath of Scotland (1967) A Bridal Trip A Certain Party A Chorus Line (1976) A Chorus Line (1979) A Chorus Line (2008) A Community of Two A Country Girl A Couple Blaguards A Daughter of the Gods A Day in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine A Day in the Death of Joe Egg A Doll's House (1937) A Doll's House (1945) A Doll's House (1971) A Doll's House Part 2 A Family Affair A Festival of Carols A Flea in her Ear A Full House A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum A Gentleman's Guide To Love & Murder A Gift for the Bride A Good Fellow A Hatful of Rain A Jew Grows in Brooklyn A Joy Forever A King of Nowhere A Little Bit of Fluff A Little Night Music A Man's World A Marriage of Convenience A Matter of Gravity A Midsummer Night's Dream (1921) A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) A Mix-Up A Night of Love A Night Off A Night With Janis Joplin A Pair of Queens A Pair of Silk Stockings A Pair of Sixes (1915) A Pair of Sixes (1916) A Raisin in the Sun A Runaway Girl A School for Scandal (1907) A School for Scandal (1940) A School for Scandal (1966) A Servant of Two Masters A Shot in the Dark A Streetcar Named Desire A Successful Calamity A Tailor-Made Man A Taste of Honey A Thousand Clowns A Thurber Carnival A Voyage 'Round My Father Abe Lincoln in Illinois Abie's Irish Rose (1926) Abie's Irish Rose (1943) Abie's Irish Rose (1944) Aborn English Grand Opera Co. 1912 Aborn English Opera Co. 1911 Aborn Grand Opera Co. 1917 Absent Friends Absurd Person Singular Academy of Canadian Cinema: Genie Awards Academy of Canadian Cinema: Genie Awards (1980) Academy of Canadian Cinema: Genie Awards (1981) Academy of Canadian Cinema: Genie Awards (1982) Academy of Canadian Cinema: Genie Awards (1984) Accent on Youth Acting Shakespeare Actors' Fund Benefit Adam and Eva (1921) Adam and Eva (1923) Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God Advise and Consent Affairs of State Afgar Ages of Man Ah, Wilderness (1935) Ah, Wilderness (1941) Aida Ain't Misbehavin' Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations Aladdin (1927) Aladdin (1976) Aladdin (2013) Aladdin and his Magic Lamp All About Us All Quiet on the Western Front All the Comforts of Home Aloma of the South Seas Along Came Ruth Amadeus American Idiot An American In Paris An Evening at the Royal An Evening With Beatrice Lillie An Evening with John Irving An Evening with Ofra Harnoy An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin An Evening with Peter Ustinov An Evening With Stephen Schwartz Anastasia (1955) Anastasia (2019) And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little And So to Bed (1927) And So To Bed (1928) And So to Bed (1945) Andre Philippe Gagnon (1996) Andre Philippe Gagnon (1997) Angel Street Angela is Twenty Two Animal Farm Anna Christie Anna Lucasta (1947) Anna Lucasta (1948) Anna Russell's Old English Comedy Co. 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(1919) South Pacific (1953) South Pacific (1954) Spamalot (2006) Spamalot (2008) Spellbound Spice of 1922 Spite Corner Splinters Spoils of War Spring Again Spring Awakening Spring Meeting Spring Melody '64 Spring Melody '65 Spring Thaw '63 Spring Thaw '65 Spring Thaw '66 Spring Thaw '67 Spring Thaw '68 Spring Thaw '69 Spring Thaw: Ha Ha Springtime for Henry (1933) Springtime for Henry (1946) Springtime for Henry (1950) St. Francis of Assisi Stage Door Stalag 17 State of the Union Step on a Crack Stephen Leacock Stocks and Stockings Stomp (2009) Stomp (2013) Stomp (2017) Stone Flower Stones in his Pockets Stop and Go Stop the World, I Want to Get Off Strange Fruit Strange Interlude Stratford Festival Company: Two Gentlemen of Verona Stratford Festival Company: The Broken Jug Street Scene Strictly Ballroom The Musical Strictly Dishonorable Stuff Happens Sugar and Spice Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Summer The Donna Summer Musical Sunrise at Campobello Sunshine Town (1955) Sunshine Town (1968) Susan and God (1939) Susan and God (1940) Sweeney Todd (1982) Sweeney Todd (2007) Sweet Bird of Youth Sweet Charity Sweet Little Devil Symphony in Two Flats Syncopation Take it Easy Take it From Me (1918) Take it From Me (1920) Talk, Talk, Talk Tamburlaine the Great Tangerine Tap Dogs Tarnish Tartans on Tour Tea and Sympathy Tea for Three (1919) Tea for Three (1923) Teahouse of the August Moon (1955) Teahouse of the August Moon (1966) Tell England Temporary Mrs. Smith Tenth Anniversary Season Opera Festival Terminus That Championship Season That Lady That Winslow Boy That's That The Abbey Players (REP) (1931) The Abbey Players (REP) (1938) The Abbey Theatre Players (REP) (1933) The Abbey Theatre Players (REP) (1934) The Actor's Wife The African Ballet (National Ensemble of Guinea) The Alarm Clock (Vaughan Glaser REP) The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse The American Light Opera Co. (REP) The American Opera Co. The Animal Kingdom The Appeal The Apple Cart (1931) The Apple Cart (1957) The Audience The Bachelor The Balkan Princess The Band's Visit The Barber of Seville The Barretts of Wimpole Street (REP) The Barretts of Wimpole Street The Bat (1921) The Bat (1922) The Bat (1923) The Battle The Beauty Spot The Beggar's Opera The Belle of Bond Street The Belle of New York The Best of Spring Thaw The Big Leap The Big Parade The Bird of Paradise (1913) The Bird of Paradise (1914) The Bird of Paradise (1915) The Bird of Paradise (1916) The Bird of Paradise (1917) The Bird of Paradise (1918) The Bird of Paradise (1920) The Bird of Paradise (1921) The Bird of Paradise (1922) The Blindness of Virtue The Blue Bird (1912) The Blue Bird (1913) The Blue Bird (1914) The Blue Dragon The Blue Flame The Blue Moon The Blue Mouse (1909) The Blue Mouse (1910) The Blushing Bride The Bodyguard The Bohemian Girl (1908) The Bohemian Girl (1910) The Bohemian Girl (1911) The Bohemian Girl (1912) The Bohemian Girl (1925) The Bonstelle Players: Bunty Pulls the Strings The Bonstelle Players: Girl of the Golden West The Bonstelle Players: Little Lord Fauntleroy The Bonstelle Players: Little Miss Brown The Bonstelle Players: Mary Jane's Pa The Bonstelle Players: Merely Mary Ann The Bonstelle Players: Our Wives The Bonstelle Players: Raffles The Bonstelle Players: Sherlock Holmes The Bonstelle Players: The Darling of the Gods The Bonstelle Players: The Great Divide The Bonstelle Players: The Tempremental Journey The Bonstelle Players: The Witching Hour The Book Of Mormon (2013) The Book Of Mormon (2014) The Book Of Mormon (2017) The Book Of Mormon (2019) The Boston Grand Opera Co. (1916) The Boston Grand Opera Co. (1917) The Boy Friend (1956) The Boy Friend (1984) The Boy Friend (2006) The Boy With Tape On His Face The Boys in the Photograph The Breadwinner The Breden-Savoy Gilbert and Sullivan Comic Opera Company (1948) The Bridge The Broken Wing (1921) The Broken Wing (1923) The Caine Mutiny Court Martial The Canadian Opera Co.: Carmen, Cinderella The Canadian Players (1962) The Canadian Players (1963) The Canadian Players: Man and Superman & Othello The Canadian Players: Private Lives, Masterpieces of Comedy The Captain and the Kings The Cat and the Canary The Cat and the Fiddle The Caucasian Chalk Circle The Chalk Garden (1956) The Chalk Garden (1957) The Cheater The Chimes of Normandy (1908) The Chimes of Normandy (1912) The Chinese Prime Minister The Chocolate Soldier (1911) The Chocolate Soldier (1914) The Chocolate Soldier (1932) The Chocolate Soldier (1946) The Christian (1908) The Christian (1910) The Cinderella Man The Circle (1922) The Circle (1977) The Circus Girl The City That Stopped Hitler The Cocktail Party (APA-Phoenix Rep) The Cocktail Party The Colbourne and Jones Co. (REP) The Color Purple The Constant Wife (1928) The Constant Wife (1952) The Corn is Green The Cowboy and the Lady The Crisis The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time The Curtain Rises The D'Oyly Carte Opera Co. (1927) The D'Oyly Carte Opera Co. (1929) The D'Oyly Carte Opera Co. (1935) The D'Oyly Carte Opera Co. (REP) The D'Oyly Carte Opera Co.(REP): The Mikado, The Gondoliers The Dance Theatre of Rio De Janeiro: Brasiliana The Dancing Girl The Dark at the Top of the Stairs The Dark is Light Enough The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady The Dawn of a Tomorrow The Day After the Fair The Debtors The Desert Song (1928) The Desert Song (1929) The Desert Song (1946) The Desert Song (1949) The Devil The Devil Also Dreams The Devil Passes The Devil's Disciple The Diary of Anne Frank The Distaff Side The Doughgirls The Dover Road (1922) The Dover Road (1923) The Drawer Boy The Dream Girl The Drowsy Chaperone The Drunkard or "The Fallen Saved" The Dumbells The Durbar The Dynasts The Eagle has Two Heads The Earl of Pawtucket The Easiest Way The Edward Terry Repertory Co.: Bardell vs. Pickwick The Edward Terry Repertory Co.: Flander's Widow The Edward Terry Repertory Co.: Liberty Hall The Edward Terry Repertory Co.: Sweet Lavender The Edward Terry Repertory Co.: The Magistrate The Edward Terry Repertory Co.: The Toymaker of Nuremberg The Elephant Man The Emperor Jones The Encounter The English Light Opera Co.: The Beggar's Opera , Merrie England The Fall of Berlin The Family Carnovsky The Fantasticks The Fawn The Fighter The Fighting Hope The Firefly The First Mrs. Fraser The First Year The Firstborn The Flame The Flashing Stream The Flirting Princess The Fog The Foreigner The Fortune Teller (The Victor Herbert Festival) The Fourposter (1953) The Fourposter (1954) The Fourth Annual Opera Festival The Fourth Canadian Ballet Festival The Fourth Estate The Full Monty The Gamblers The Gay Parisienne The Geisha The Ghost Breaker The Ghost Goes West The Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Co.(REP) The Gin Game The Gingerbread Lady The Gingham Girl The Girl from Brazil The Girl Who Smiles (1916) The Girl Who Smiles (1917) The Girl With the Green Eyes The Glad Eye The Glass Menagerie (1948) The Glass Menagerie (1997) The Gold Diggers The Golden Age The Golden Years of Music Hall The Goldfish The Gondoliers The Good Companions (1932) The Good Companions (1933) The Good Earth The Good Times are Killing Me The Goose Hangs High The Gorilla The Graduate The Grass is Greener The Grasshopper The Great Match The Great Morton The Great Mr. Handel (1944) The Great Mr. Handel (1945) The Great Mr. Handel (1946) The Great Mr. Handel (1947) The Great Mr. Handel (1948) The Great Pursuit (The Idler) The Great Waltz The Great World Festival of Magic and Witchcraft The Great Ziegfield The Green Goddess The Green Hat The Green Pack The Green Pastures (1933) The Green Pastures (1934) The Greenwich Village Follies The Guilty One The Ham Tree The Happiest Millionaire The Harder They Come The Hasty Heart The Hawk The Heart of Cellini The Heart of Robin Hood The Heidi Chronicles The Henrietta The Hindu The Hollow Crown (1964) The Hollow Crown (2004) The Honor of the Family The Hostage The House in Paris The Housemaster (Bachelor Born) The Idler THE ILLUSIONISTS - Live From Broadway (2017) THE ILLUSIONISTS - Live From Broadway (2016) THE ILLUSIONISTS - Magic of the Holidays The Importance of Being Earnest (1939) The Importance of Being Earnest (1947) The Importance of Being Earnest (1997) The Impossible Years The Inferior Sex The Innocent Eye Test The Irish Rovers The Iron Crown The Ivy Green The Jazz Singer The Jolly Bachelors The Judas Kiss The Killing of Sister George The King and I (1955) The King and I (1966) The King And I (2018) The King of Cadonia The King's Jester The Kiss Burglar The Kiss Waltz The Kissing Girl The Kreutzer Sonata The Lady of Coventry The Last Card The Last Confession The Last Empress The Last of Mrs. Cheyney The Last of the Red Hot Lovers The Last Ship The Late Christopher Bean (1933) The Late Christopher Bean (1943) The Letter (1927) The Letter (1944) The Liars The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Parts I and II The Life of Emile Zola The Light Above The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical The Lion King (2000) The Lion King (2011) The Lion King (2014) The Lion King (2019) The Little Brother The Little Damozel The Little Drummer Boy The Little Foxes The Lodger (Who Is He?) The London Palladium Show The Lord of the Rings The Lottery Man The Lottery of Love The Loving Couch The Luck of the Navy The Mad Show The Madwoman of Chaillot The Magistrate The Maid of the Mountain (1920) The Maid of the Mountain (1923) The Maid on the Mountain (1920) The Male Animal (1940) The Male Animal (1941) The Man and His Mate The Man From Home The Man in Black The Man in the Box The Man Who Came Back (1918) The Man Who Came Back (1922) The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941) The Man Who Came to Dinner (1944) The Man Who Came to Dinner (1949) The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife & Androcles and the Lion (REP) The Man Who Stood Still The Man With a Load of Mischief The Marie Tempest Repertory Co. 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The Perfect Alibi The Phantom of the Opera 2007 The Phantom of The Opera 2015 The Phantom of The Opera 2018 The Phantom of The Opera 2020 The Philadelphia Story The Piper The Play That Goes Wrong The Play's the Thing The Plays of Shakespeare The Pleasure of His Company (1959) The Pleasure of His Company (1974) The Polish Mime Theatre The Potters The Price The Prince and the Pauper The Prince of Mah Jong The Prisoner of Zenda The Private Secretary The Producers The Purple Mask The Pursuit of Happiness The Queen's Husband The Quinneys (1916) The Quinneys (1927) The Railway Children The Rascals: Once Upon A Dream The Rat Pack The Real Inspector Hound The Real Thing The Red Mill The Red Petticoat The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary The Return of Eve The Riddle: Woman The Ringer The Rivals The Road to Happiness The Road to Rome The Road to Yesterday The Robert B. Mantell Rep. Co.(REP) The Robert B. Mantell Repertory Co. (REP) (1914) The Robert B. 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The Robins Players: Widow By Proxy The Robins Players: Within the Law The Roosevelt Story The Rose of Algeria The Rothschilds The Royal Family The Ruined Lady The Russian Grand Opera Company The San Carlo Opera Co. The Scarlet Lily The Scarlet Pimpernel The Scenario The School for Scandal The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe The Secret Garden (1992) The Secret Garden (2011) The Secretary Bird The Seven-Year Itch The Shining Hour The Show Off (APA-Phoenix Repertory Co.) The Shrike The Silent House The Silver Whistle The Simon and Garfunkel Story The Sir John Martin-Harvey Repertory Co. (REP) (1924) The Sir John Martin-Harvey Repertory Co. (REP) (1926) The Sir John Martin-Harvey Repertory Co. (REP) (1929) The Sir John Martin-Harvey Repertory Co. (REP) (1932) The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1932) The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1945) The Skin Game The Sky Pilot The Snow Maiden by Kalinka Performing Arts The Solid Gold Cadillac The Sothern and Marlowe Rep Co. 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The Things That Count The Third Party The Thirteenth Chair The Three Penny Opera (1961) The Threepenny Opera (1969) The Thunderbolt REP The Time of Your Life The Tony Bennett Show The Trial of Mary Dugan The Two Mrs. Carrolls The Two Virtues The Two Worlds of Charlie F The Unbroken Road The Unknown Purple The Vagabond King (1927) The Vagabond King (1928) The Vagabond King (1945) The Very Idea The Victory Girl The Vinegar Tree The Visit The Visit(New Phoenix Rep) The Walter Hampden Repertory Co. The Walter Hampden Repertory Co. (REP) (1930) The Walter Hampden Repertory Co. (REP) (1921) The Walter Hampden Repertory Co. 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Tayo Odutola · December 27, 2019
Chicago IL based producer/rapper Hunnid wraps up the year on a grand note as he drops a handful of tracks for his listeners. The first is the energetic/cinematic jam titled “Hang On” that serves as a form of introduction for the veteran act. Armed with a unique flow and detailed lyrical style, he brings the listener close to the action alongside his co-defendant Ceeno.
The second track titled “Chicago Nights” features singer Perry Vee. Backed by an 808-driven lush backdrop, Hunnid describes the day to day activities in the windy city. From the streets tot he booth and back, he breaks down the ups and downs as he tries to survive from day-to-day.
The third track”G Code” has a solid hard-hitting trap beat and showcases Hunnid in his element as he delivers a catchy hook and hard lyrics about life. Along for the ride is Jizzle and Vonno who both add their 2 cents to the subject at hand.
Hunnid was born and raised in the Southside of Chicago, which is a neighborhood known for its poverty and crime. Because of this Hunnid is devoted to bringing light to the issues of his community and helping in any possible way. His music often references both the good and the bad of being raised in such an environment. However, his mission transcends music as Hunnid participates in any events that involve the progression of his community.
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Q: How many championships has the Denver Broncos won?
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How many times have the Denver Broncos won a Super Bowl?
Twice.
How many Super Bowl titles do the Denver Broncos have?
The Denver Broncos have won two Super Bowl titles in six appearances.
How many Super Bowls have the Denver Broncos won and lost?
They have won two and lost four.
How many times have the Denver Nuggets won the NBA championships?
0 they have never won
Who won the NFL Suberbowl in 1999?
The Denver Broncos
How many championships have the Denver Broncos won?
The Denver Broncos have won two Superbowls and four additional AFC championships.
How many division Championships have Denver Broncos won?
They have won 6 division Championships ...
How many conference championships has Denver Broncos won?
How many championships has Denver Broncos won?
2 (1998 and 1999).
Who has won American Football League Championships?
How many division titles have the broncos won?
As part of the AFL (1960-1970), the Denver Broncos had no division titles. As an AFC team in the NFL, Denver has won 10 division championships, 6 conference championships, and 2 Super Bowls (XXXII and XXXIII).
How many AFC championships have the Denver Broncos won?
6 ... 1977, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1997, 1998.
How many time has Denver Broncos won their division?
As of the 2008 season, the Broncos have won 10 division championships (1977, 1978, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1996, 1998, 2005).
How many chamionships have the Denver Broncos won?
How many AFC Championships have the Broncos ever won?
How many rings Denver Broncos have?
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Lena Headey And Nick Frost To Star In Serial Killer Thriller ‘Svalta’ – Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz) and Lena Headey (Game Of Thrones) have been cast as the leads in comedic thriller Svalta, which will reteam the two actors after they starred together in Fighting With My Family.
Scheduled to shoot in Finland next year, the film will follow a family on their summer vacation to a remote island with a dark past. There, they discover that a serial killer is on the loose and that unfortunately for them, the hostile locals have no interest in helping them.
Pic will be directed by Steffen Haars and Flip van der Kuil and is written by Brit comedy actor Frost who will reunite on-screen with his Fighting With My Family co-star Headey. Wayward Entertainment, Resolute Films, Film Service Finland, XYZ Films and Frost are producing, with XYZ Films handling world sales.
Steffen Haars and Flip van der Kuil first rose to prominence as founding members of the Dutch comedy group New Kids. Among their films to hit at the Dutch box office are New Kids Turbo, Bro’s Before Ho’s and Ron Goossens: Low Budget Stuntman. All four of their features have played in selection at Austin’s Fantastic Fest where they have been awarded jury prizes including Best Feature and Best Director.
Frost is well known for his roles in Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World’s End, and Paul. Recent credits include the aforementioned Fighting With My Family, HBO series The Nevers and CBS’s Why Women Kill.
Headey is best known for HBO smash Game Of Thrones, and movies Dredd, The Purge, and Fighting With My Family. She will next be seen in HBO series The White House Plumbers.
Frost said: “Take a gentle English family and send them on holiday to a tiny Swedish island full of maniacs. Simple. Not so much Nuts In May. More ‘Nuts in Mayhem’. After working with Lena in Fighting with My Family I couldn’t imagine anyone else in the world I’d want to play Susan. So I was absolutely thrilled when I heard she’d not only read the script but she actually liked it enough to do me the great honour of saying yes and once again being my on-screen wife.”
XYZ is in post-production on Netflix original Havoc, directed by Gareth Evans and starring Tom Hardy and Forrest Whitaker. Recent movies include Blackberry, which recently sold to IFC Films, and the Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead film Something In The Dirt which premiered at Sundance 2022.
Frost is repped by Independent Talent Group and Think Tank Management. Headey is repped by CAA and TMT Entertainment Group.
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SaaS Growth Marketing: Zero to $2M ARR in 18 Months – with Chris Ronzio [209]
SaaS Growth Marketing: Zero to $2M ARR in 18 Months
Chris Ronzio is the founder and CEO of Trainual, a SaaS product that helps companies to onboard employees, automate training, systemize processes, and put everything about your business in one place.
Paid advertising doesn't work. That's what I often hear from the founders of SaaS companies.
They tell me that they tried Facebook and Google ads, but it was too expensive to acquire customers and so they focused on other growth strategies like content marketing instead.
And when we hear things like that, it's easy to dismiss a growth channel and do what everyone else is doing. But sometimes, we find success by doing what everyone else is not doing.
Chris Ronzio was running a consulting business in Arizona. He realized that many of his clients were struggling with the same issue. So one day he hired a developer to build a simple tool for him. And he started using that tool to help his clients run their businesses better.
Some years later, Chris decided that he'd had enough of consulting. He really wanted to build a product business. And he realized that the simple in-house tool he'd been using with his clients all those years could actually be turned into a SaaS product.
He decided to go all in with this new business. And he quickly got to a few thousand dollars in monthly recurring revenue by selling his product to his consulting clients.
But finding more customers beyond his consulting clients wasn't so easy. He tried a bunch of things that either didn't work or had disappointing results. But he kept looking and trying different things and eventually he found a way to get customers – by using Facebook ads.
Initially, it was expensive to acquire customers using Facebook ads. But Chris kept at it and eventually he figured out how to get customers profitably. He knew how much a customer was worth and how much he could spend to acquire a new customer.
And once he had that working, he took a calculated risk. He started spending as much as he could on Facebook ads. At one point, he had over $300,000 worth of credit card debt. But it enabled him to grow the business much faster.
He went from zero to over $2 million in annual recurring revenue in less than 18 months.
In this interview, we talk about the ups and downs that Chris experienced. We explore some of the mistakes he made and what he learned from those mistakes. And we dig into exactly what he did with this Facebook advertising campaign to acquire those customers.
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Articles from the January 12, 2023 edition
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By Mike Motz News January 12, 2023
Cheyenne Officials Sworn In
Mike Motz, Sidney Sun-Telegraph On Thursday morning, January 5, Judge Derek Weimer conducted the swearing in of elected officials in Cheyenne County. Weimers started the proceedings by saying, "This...
Suspect in Winners Robbery Still at Large
Mike Motz, Sun-Telegraph On Monday, January 2, at approximately 2:40 a.m. Winners, an entertainment venue featuring skill games with payouts, as well as video games and pool tables, located at 574 Cha...
By Barbara Perez News January 12, 2023
Missoula Children's Theatre Returns with "Aladdin"!
Missoula Children’s Theatre is once again making its annual stop in Sidney, and local students will have another opportunity to be a part of this yearly tradition. Auditions will be held for the Missoula Children's Theatre production of ALADDIN on...
Sidney Library Hosts New Group for Area Teens
A new group for teens is meeting once a month at Sidney's Public Library to discuss and learn about the importance of free speech and communications in modern society. Library Director Amanda Eastin had the idea for the group, which is a small group...
By Barbara Perez Community January 12, 2023
Grace to Grieve Workshop Coming to Sidney
Grief can often seem to be almost insurmountable and never-ending. Andrea Waitley experienced her own depths of grief when her husband died of kidney cancer at only 46 years old. He was a strong believer and though she was crushed at losing him,...
By Steve Erdman Opinion January 12, 2023
The 108th Legislature
The 108th Legislature has begun. The legislative session began on January 4 and will extend through the month of May. This will be the longer 90-day session. The reason for the longer session has to...
By Ivy Joy Johnson Opinion January 12, 2023
Delta Dawn When the Light Comes On: Week Two
I beg you, Brethren, by the mercies of God, that you not be conformed to the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable will of God...
By Mike Sunderland Opinion January 12, 2023
Pushing Buttons
Do you remember the TV show this quote is from: "Push the button, Max!" It was invariably followed with, "That's the wrong button!" instantly followed by chaos. No fair peeking at the answer. After...
Opinion January 12, 2023
Great article on the HVAC! I just finished reading the headline article on your paper today about the HVAC system. It was nice to read an article that gave the facts for both sides, without bias! Or, maybe I'm biased, but you named both sides equally...
Obituaries January 12, 2023
Karen L. Langley
Karen L. Langley, age 75, of Sidney, NE passed away at her home on Tuesday, January 3, 2023. Memorial services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Monday, January 9, 2023 at the Faith Methodist Church in...
Julia E. Anciaux
Julia "Julie" E. Anciaux, age 77, of Sidney, passed away in Sidney, NE on Friday, January 6, 2023. A Wake Service will be held at 6:00 P.M. on Thursday, January 12, 2023 at St. Patrick's Catholic...
Linda F. Lenzen
Linda F. Lenzen, age 90, of Sidney, NE passed away Monday, January 2, 2023, in Sidney. A Rosary Service will be held at 10:00 A.M. on Friday, January 6, 2023 followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at...
Jeffrey L. Pippitt
Jeffrey L. Pippitt, age 77, of Sidney passed away peacefully on Sunday, January 1, 2023. Memorial services honoring Jeff's life will be held at 10:30 A.M. on Saturday, January 14, 2023 at the Christ...
Marge A. Schmitt
Marge (Gerk) Schmitt, age 90, of Sidney, passed away peacefully in Sidney on Friday, December 16, 2022. The Rosary will be recited at 10 AM with Mass of Christian Burial to follow at 10:30 AM on...
Eloise Eileen Wilson
Eloise Eileen Ellis Wilson, 94, of Loveland, CO and a longtime Sidney, NE resident, passed away Sunday, January 8, 2023, in her home at Lakeview Commons with her family by her side. Eloise was born...
By Mike Motz Sports January 12, 2023
Raiders Keep Rolling With Big Wins Over Gering, McCook
Sidney's Red Raider Basketball team continued their hot streak, downing Gering and McCook over the past week to improve their record to 8-and-2 on the season. Sidney was able to overcome a slow start...
Lady Raiders Roll Past Gering, McCook
Sidney's Lady Raider Basketball team showed they had put their bad performance against Gordon-Rushville on December 30 in the rearview mirror as they opened the new year with two convincing wins over...
Raider Grapplers Downed by Ogallala and McCook
Sidney's Red Raider Boys and Girls Wrestling teams traveled to Ogallala Thursday for a triangular meet with Ogallala and McCook, and were unable to defeat either team in their duals. For the girls, Si...
Coyotes Open New Year With Two Wins
The Potter-Dix Coyote Basketball team looked to continue their strong start of the season into the New Year, and had a close victory against Bayard followed by a blowout win over South Platte during...
Lady Coyotes Struggle In Start Of New Year
Potter-Dix's Lady Coyote Basketball team has struggled early in the season trying to get their offense on-track, and the changeover to 2023 did not change their fortunes yet. The Lady Coyotes dropped...
Lady Warriors Rebound Against Hay Springs
After a disappointing loss against Perkins County to end 2022 and blemish their unbeaten record, Leyton's Lady Warrior Basketball team rebounded and got back on the winning track with a big win...
Warriors Stay Unbeaten To Start New Year
Leyton's Warrior Basketball team had a very strong start to the 2022-23 season, cruising through their schedule with almost every game won by a large margin. They started 2023 in similar fashion,...
Bulldogs Open Year With Win And Loss
Peetz's Bulldog Basketball team started 2023 on the right foot with a big win over Weldon Valley on Friday, but then stumbled against a tough Merino team on Saturday. The boys traveled to Weldona on Friday, and started off the game hot, banging down...
Storm Starts New Year With Win; Lady Storm Still Winless
Storm Starts New Year With Win; Lady Storm Still Winless Creek Valley's Storm Basketball team battled hard at home on Saturday against the Minatare Indians, and came away with their first win of the season, putting down the visitors by a final score...
City of Sidney Declares Snow Emergency
Due to the forecast of the Winter Storm Warning, the City of Sidney has declared a snow emergency effective Tuesday, January 17, at 5:00P.M. The snow emergency shall remain in effect until further...
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Research & Commentary: Wireless Spectrum Sales
By Matthew Glans
Wireless communications have improved the lives of millions of people across the United States and the world. However, the rapid expansion of wireless services has brought growing pains: The electronic spectrum on which most communications are broadcast is a limited resource that is quickly filling up.
The most significant issue in spectrum regulation today is the proposed sale of advanced wireless broadcast spectrum rights by cable television providers SpectrumCo (which consists of cable providers Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House) and Cox Communications to Verizon Wireless, a company providing wireless services.
The $3.6 billion deal would give Verizon broadcast spectrum in the 1700 MHz range, ideal for mobile broadband and covering more than 80 percent of the U.S. population. This would open up to the market a wide band of unused spectrum, which is not as fully utilized in the United States as in other countries. According to the Technology Liberation Front, British consumers have 3.5 times the available spectrum as Americans, and the Japanese have around two times as much.
This growing spectrum shortage has emerged primarily because of the slow issuance of new spectrum by the Federal Communications Commission through competitive auctions and Congress’s indecision over allowing voluntary transfers of broadcast spectrum already owned by broadcasters such as SpectrumCo.
Opponents of the spectrum sale argue it would reinforce what they claim is a wireless duopoly between AT&T and Verizon. They say it would create a noncompetitive environment where each company would avoid direct completion with the other.
Proponents say the sale would increase competition in the wireless market and free up a large amount of spectrum the cable companies are not using. The new deal also would give cable providers an infusion of capital through the spectrum sale and allow them to purchase access to Verizon’s wireless network on which to launch their own products and services.
The following articles examine wireless spectrum auctions, the growing spectrum crunch, and the Verizon/SpectrumCo sale from multiple perspectives.
Let’s Make a Deal: Broadcasters, Mobile Broadband, and a Market in Spectrum
http://heartland.org/policy-documents/lets-make-deal-broadcasters-mobile-broadband-and-market-spectrum
In this panel discussion moderated by Adam Thierer, then-president of the Progress & Freedom Foundation, the speakers take a look at the future of spectrum policy in America and, in particular, consider what the future holds for the broadcast spectrum and broadcast spectrum holders, as well as those in the mobile broadband sector who want more spectrum.
DC Must Adopt Sense of Urgency for Impending Spectrum Crunch
http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2011/12/23/dc-must-adopt-sense-urgency-impending-spectrum-crunch
Writing in the Heartlander, John Stephenson, director of the Communications and Technology Task Force at the American Legislative Exchange Council, assesses the government’s failure to address the wireless spectrum crunch and identifies its political and economic effects.
FCC’s Broadband Plan Brings Spectrum Shortage to Lighthttp://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2010/04/10/fccs-broadband-plan-brings-spectrum-shortage-light
The Heartlander digital magazine reports on the Federal Communications Commission’s National Broadband Plan and the arguments over opening up more spectrum for wireless broadband. The FCC’s plan assumes the spectrum is being wasted by the traditional broadcast television industry, and there is much disagreement over how to use and distribute the available spectrum.
Congress Mandates FCC Spectrum Auctions
http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2012/02/24/congress-mandates-fcc-spectrum-auctions
The Heartlander reports on a mandate, contained in the bill passed by Congress on February 17 to extend payroll-tax cuts and unemployment benefits, that the Federal Communications Commission conduct auctions of wireless spectrum for commercial use.
Verizon/SpectrumCo: What’s the Deal?http://www.publicknowledge.org/blog/verizonspectrumco-what%E2%80%99s-deal
Kara Novak of Public Knowledge discusses the opposition to the Verizon/SpectrumCo deal and opponents’ belief that if the FCC allows such transactions to go forward the companies will find collusion easier than ever and consumers will pay the price.
‘Spectrum Crunch’ Tied to FCC’s Actions
http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2012/03/26/spectrum-crunch-tied-fccs-actions
The Heartlander reports on the Verizon/SpectrumCo spectrum sale and quotes several telecom experts on how the spectrum crunch is largely a result of FCC mismanagement of that resource.
Competition, Convergence, and the Verizon-Cable Deal
http://digitalliberty.net/competition-convergence-verizon-cable-deal-a88
Digital Liberty examines the Verizon/SpectrumCo deal and its effects on competition in wireless services, observing, “The move frees up spectrum desperately needed for consumers, increases competition in the wireless industry, and emphasizes just how much ‘anytime, anywhere’ is the future of TV and content consumption.”
Freeing Spectrum Frees Consumers
http://www.protectingtaxpayers.org/index.php?blog&action=view&post_id=191
In a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance argues allowing wireless companies to bid on spectrum leads to better services for consumers. “The move will increase competition in the mobile market, give consumers more choices in wireless providers, and expand access to affordable mobile services,” the alliance states.
House Democrats Urge Scrutiny of Verizon-Cable Deals
http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2012/06/house-democrats-urge-scrutiny.php
Juliana Gruenwald of National Journal reports on congressional Democrats’ opposition to the SpectrumCo deal. These opponents called on federal regulators to “closely scrutinize Verizon Wireless’ bid to buy spectrum from and enter into marketing agreements with a group of cable firms, saying the deals could threaten the competitive goals of the 1996 telecommunications act.”
Free Market Groups Urge FCC to Approve Verizon/SpectrumCo Deal
http://digitalliberty.net/free-market-groups-urge-fcc-approve-a107
Several free-market groups appeal in a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski to allow the sale of spectrum from SpectrumCo to Verizon. “The Verizon-SpectrumCo deal presents a rare opportunity to bring new spectrum online,” the groups write. “Under it, unused spectrum ideal for 4G service that is held by cable companies would be sold to Verizon, who would in turn offer cable companies access to the spectrum, opening up a whole new market for wireless products and services. As we’ve written before and outlined in the letter, the deal is poised to increase competition, expand consumer access to wireless broadband, and continue to put downward pressure on prices.”
Matthew Glans
Matthew Glans joined the staff of The Heartland Institute in November 2007 as legislative specialist for insurance and finance.
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Diadora’s Mythos 280 Runner Returns in True-to-the-Original Form
Diadora first debuted the Mythos 280 as part of its 2009 running catalogue, and now the classic running sneaker is set to see a re-release for the first time ever. Originally created in partnership with Gelindo Bordin — who won the marathon at the Seoul Olympic Games in 1988, becoming the first-ever Italian distance runner to take gold in the event — the Mythos is an important part of brand history, even more so now that Bordin is Diadora’s marketing and merchandising director.Uppers are constructed from a retro silver and black mesh, one that’s accented with swooping heel and cut-out forefoot overlays. A signature Diadora logo appears on the midfoot, connected to the forefoot overlay for a unique look. Red hits are introduced on the heel and toebox, while tongues feature a special graphic that combines a golden Olympic wreath with an Italian flag and one more Diadora hit. Down below, EVA foam midsoles are reinforced with wavy red TPU plates, providing a blend of responsiveness and comfort.The Diadora Mythos 280 will release via the Diadora webstore come February 20, and is limited to a scant 600 pairs. A retail price has yet to be announced.For more footwear news, check out a new Under Armour runner that the brand says is its “fastest shoe yet.”Click here to view full gallery at HYPEBEAST | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.527266800403595, "wiki_prob": 0.527266800403595, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line3320"} |
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What Can You Learn From Fortnite Pro Game Guides?
Author Frank Gammer Reading 5 min Views 16 Published by July 24, 2022 Modified by July 24, 2022
Fortnite is arguably one of the most popular games in the world, even if you look outside the battle royale genre.
Sure, the demographics are pretty clear as the game targets much younger audiences than your average gamer. On the other hand, it does not mean that you should not try Fortnite if you are older.
Similar to other games, Fortnite requires some time to get used to, particularly when it comes to the game’s graphics. Visuals can be a bit off-putting at first, but you should get adjusted after a few games.
Having said all that, some new Fortnite players might find that they want to approach the game from a casual point of view. Others, meanwhile, might want to make the most out of what the game has to offer.
If you fall in the latter category, you should check out some of the available Fortnite pro game guides because they can teach you a lot.
How to Optimize the Game’s Performance
How to Meet Other Players
How to Approach the Game Competitively
One of the first things that you can learn from game guides is how to optimize the game’s performance.
Considering that Fortnite does not have high system requirements, few performance worries should be there in the first place. Nevertheless, you might still encounter some issues, such as random crashes and FPS drops, and figuring out the solution without proper guidance can be quite difficult.
Your computer might be missing the necessary storage to install Fortnite as well. Knowing how to check space on Mac and free it, for example, becomes necessary in such cases.
One final thing to note about performance is that even if you are satisfied with how the game runs at the time, you can likely improve it and make your experience even better.
How to Play the Game on Different Devices
The odds are that you will likely play the game on a computer. First-person shooter games are usually the best when you can use a mouse and a keyboard.
On the other hand, you might also want to try Fortnite on a different device. Mobile games are quite popular these days, and it is common to see some renowned titles getting ported from PC to iOS or Android. If there is no official port, however, you might be able to find a guide that will teach you to use emulators and other tools to test the game on different platforms.
Besides the example of mobile games, you might also want to try Fortnite on a gaming console.
Each gaming machine is different, so if a guide helps you in a way to be better at playing the game, you should take advantage of one.
The nature of battle royale games makes one think that it is not really a sociable experience. Your goal is to be the last one standing. It is not a cooperative effort that involves you working together with other players, right?
Fortnite is not an exception. Nevertheless, one might still find that even in battle royale games, playing with a group of friends can be a lot of fun. Going up against players you know gives a different sense of joy when you beat them.
So, coming back to the nature of battle royale games, since they are not that social, it can be difficult to find players who would like to play together.
This is where guides come in. You can look through various options that let you connect with other players who enjoy Fortnite.
How to Create Your Stream Setup
If you wish to stream your games, there should be dedicated guides for Fortnite players. Of course, it might be better to approach it from a general streaming perspective, but if you plan to primarily focus on streaming Fortnite, there are bound to be some valuable ideas in available guides.
In a similar vein, you can also find plenty of information about current Fortnite streamers. Watching other players stream the game on Twitch TV or YouTube is another great way to improve your stream setup.
The last bit about Fortnite pro game guides is the competitive side of things. As already mentioned, some players like to approach video games casually, but there is a group that likes a competitive environment.
It is one thing to play Fortnite casually and another to participate in actual competitions. Every little bit helps when you want to gain an advantage over other players, and since Fortnite is one of those games where small margins matter a lot, you want to look for any advantage you can get.
Of course, ultimately, your win rate comes down to regular practice, but you should not discard the value one can get from valuable pieces of advice.
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Hailey Baldwin and Justin Bieber Are Marrying in L.A. and Their Guest List Includes Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott
Okay! So! Hailey Baldwin and Justin Bieber already got married at a courthouse this September, BUT it looks like they're back at it for round two. The newlyweds are reportedly getting married again in a bigger blow-out ceremony, and while previous reports stated the wedding would take place this coming February, TMZ has some new info.
According to the outlet, Hailey and Justin will marry in Los Angeles on March 1 (not February 28 as previously reported) and the ceremony will coincide with Bieber's next birthday because apparently he wants to be a "married man" by the time he's 25. Sure, why not!
The wedding is said to be a "religious affair," and the guest list sounds like it's going to be full of A listers, including Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott, who already got a Save the Date email.
Interestingly, TMZ's report makes it sound like Hailey and Justin have moved the date of their wedding a total of three times, because this is the third batch of Save the Dates they've sent out. On that note, mark your cals! But use a pencil.
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Abend, Hallett, (15 Sept. 1884–27 Nov. 1955), book and magazine writer and lecturer on international affairs
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book and magazine writer and lecturer on international affairs
University of Illinois; Stanford University, California...
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Abrahams, Israel, (26 Nov. 1858–6 Oct. 1925), author and lecturer; reader in Talmudic and Rabbinic Literature in University of Cambridge; formerly Senior Tutor at Jews’ College, London; first President of the Union of Jewish Literary Societies; President, Jewish Historical Society of England, 1905; Hon. President, University of Glasgow Theological Society, 1907; first Lewisohn Lecturer, New York, 1912; President Society of Historical Theology, Oxford, 1921
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Achebe, Prof. Chinua, (16 Nov. 1930–21 March 2013), author; Professor Emeritus, University of Nigeria, since 1984; Charles P. Stevenson Professor of Languages and Literature, Bard College, Annandale, 1990–2009; David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies, Brown University, since 2009
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Scott Bair's 7-round NFL mock draft: Falcons land edge rusher at No. 8, fill out class with skill players and linemen
Jermaine Johnson II and Jahan Dotson highlight this group
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After weeks (okay, months) of talking about the NFL Draft, we're finally here. Only a few hours left, at this point, before Terry Fontenot, Arthur Smith and staff make the first Falcons pick at No. 8 overall. Or a different slot after a trade. They'll take a player we've all been attaching to them, or one we'll scramble to research after paying zero attention to him all spring.
Anything's possible in an NFL draft this uncertain. That was a term used by Fontenot, Smith and NFL executives across the league leading into a selection process where folks can't even identify a clear and obvious No. 1 pick.
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Seven-round mocks: Tori McElhaney, Kris Rhim
Eight at No. 8: Kayvon Thibodeaux, Kyle Hamilton, Malik Willis, Charles Cross, Garrett Wilson, Sauce Gardner, Jermaine Johnson II, Travon Walker
So don't feel bad when your mock is all wrong, and don't puff out your chest when you stumble blindfolded into some correct picks. I won't do either when comparing my seven-round mock to the 2022 Falcons draft class. That is, unless I get more right than Tori and Kris. Then I'll never let them live it down.
So, after 12 mock drafts, 12 mock draft roundups and two other seven-round mocks from us at AtlantaFalcons.com, here's the last bold prediction. May I (not-so-) humbly present my seven rounder. Feel free to blow up my mentions saying how great it is.
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FILE - In this Dec 12, 2020, file photo, Southern California wide receiver Drake London (15) runs the ball during the second half of an NCAA football game against UCLA in Pasadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)
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Oregon defensive lineman Kayvon Thibodeaux runs the 40-yard dash at the NFL football scouting combine, Saturday, March 5, 2022, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
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Georgia defensive lineman Travon Walker (48) poses for a portrait during the NFL Scouting Combine, Friday, March 4, 2022 in Indianapolis. (Todd Rosenberg via AP)
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Oregon defensive lineman Kayvon Thibodeaux (45) poses for a portrait during the NFL Scouting Combine, Friday, March 4, 2022 in Indianapolis. (Todd Rosenberg via AP)
Oregon Ducks defensive end Kayvon Thibodeaux (5) gets set to run around the edge during an NCAA college football game against the Stanford Cardinal, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021, in Stanford, Calif. Stanford defeated Oregon in overtime, 31-24. (Ryan Kang via AP)
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Notre Dame Fighting Irish safety Kyle Hamilton (14) runs during the Rose Bowl NCAA college football game against the Alabama Crimson Tide on Friday, Jan. 1, 2021 in Arlington, Texas. Alabama won, 31-14. (Ric Tapia via AP)
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Liberty quarterback Malik Willis (16) throws the ball at the NFL football scouting combine, Thursday, March 3, 2022 in Indianapolis. (Ben Liebenberg via AP)
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Notre Dame defensive back Kyle Hamilton poses for a headshot during the 2022 NFL Scouting Combine on Friday, Mar. 4, 2022 in Indianapolis. (Aaron Doster via AP)
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Liberty quarterback Malik Willis poses for a portrait during the NFL Football Scouting Combine, Thursday, March 3, 2022 in Indianapolis. (Todd Rosenberg via AP)
Liberty quarterback Malik Willis (7) is pursued by Mississippi linebacker Cedric Johnson (33) during the second half of an NCAA college football game in Oxford, Miss., Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021. Mississippi won 27-14. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Notre Dame defensive back Kyle Hamilton (51) runs a drill at the NFL football scouting combine in Indianapolis, Sunday, March 6, 2022. (AJ Mast via AP Images)
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Mississippi State offensive lineman Charles Cross (06) poses for a portrait during the NFL Scouting Combine, Friday, March 4, 2022 in Indianapolis. (Todd Rosenberg via AP)
Ohio State wide receiver Garrett Wilson (39) participates in a drill at the NFL football scouting combine, Thursday, March 3, 2022 in Indianapolis. (Ben Liebenberg via AP)
Mississippi State offensive lineman Charles Cross (06) runs the 40-yard dash at the NFL football scouting combine, Friday, March 4, 2022 in Indianapolis. (Ben Liebenberg via AP)
Mississippi State offensive lineman Charles Cross (67) blocks Auburn safety Smoke Monday (21) during the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021, in Auburn, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
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Georgia defensive lineman Travon Walker (48) runs a drill at the NFL football scouting combine in Indianapolis, Saturday, March 5, 2022. (AJ Mast via AP Images)
Georgia defensive lineman Travon Walker (44) against Arkansas during an NCAA college football game in Fayetteville, Ark. Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Woods)
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Cincinnati defensive back Sauce Gardner runs a drill during the NFL football scouting combine, Sunday, March 6, 2022, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
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Cincinnati defensive back Sauce Gardner poses for a portrait during the NFL Football Scouting Combine, Friday, March 4, 2022 in Indianapolis. (Todd Rosenberg via AP)
FILE - Cincinnati cornerback Ahmad Gardner (1) reacts after intercepting a ball thrown by Murray State quarterback Preston Rice during the first half of an NCAA college football game in Cincinnati, in this Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, file photo. Gardner was selected to The Associated Press Midseason All-America team, announced Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean, File)
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USC wide receiver Drake London poses for a portrait during the NFL Football Scouting Combine, Thursday, March 3, 2022 in Indianapolis. (Todd Rosenberg via AP)
Ohio State wide receiver Garrett Wilson poses for a portrait during the NFL Football Scouting Combine, Wednesday, March 2, 2022 in Indianapolis. (Todd Rosenberg via AP)
Ohio State wide receiver Garrett Wilson catches a pass over Clemson cornerback Derion Kendrick during the first half of the Fiesta Bowl NCAA college football playoff semifinal Saturday, Dec. 28, 2019, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)
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CORRECTS TO SECOND HALF, NOT FIRST HALF - Southern California wide receiver Drake London (15) catches a pass in the end zone for a touchdown as Arizona State defensive back Kejuan Markham (12) and linebacker Kyle Soelle (34) defend during the second half of an NCAA football game Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, in Los Angeles. USC won 28-27. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
First round (No. 8 overall): EDGE Jermaine Johnson II, Florida State
This pick fills a need and adds an extraordinary talent. And, just because Travon Walker, Aidan Hutchinson and Kayvon Thibodeaux were off the board already, that doesn't mean I'm settling for Johnson. The edge rusher is fast, skilled and relentless, with the size (and willingness to play the run) required in the Falcons scheme. He was incredibly productive in 2021, and spare me your stopwatch times on how long it took him to get to the quarterback. He'll get better and more efficient over time and will be a standout pro. Bank it.
Second round (No. 43 overall): WR Jahan Dotson, Penn State
Dotson could be a late first round pick. There's no doubting that, and odds are solid he won't be around at No. 43. But there are so many receivers viewed as late first-round/early second-round picks that a prospect could slip just a little bit and be sitting there for the Falcons. That's what happened here, in my simulation, and I jumped at the chance. He might not be a YAC bro in the truest sense, but he can create separation and run reliable, crisp routes and make big plays on the ball. The Falcons need receivers and found a good one to start the second round.
Second round (No. 58 overall): LB Troy Andersen, Montana State
I can feel your disapproval already. A linebacker? From a college I've never heard of? No thanks. Bear with me here. He's a big dude at 6-3 and 243, but he ran a 4.42. The Falcons need a new middle linebacker for the long term, and Andersen has all the traits you want in that role. He's fast and aggressive and competitive as heck and doesn't mind mixing it up. He'll need to improve in some areas, but he'll have a season to do it with Rashaan Evans already here. This is a good spot for Andersen and the Falcons.
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Third round (No. 74 overall): EDGE/DL Cameron Thomas, San Diego State
This is one of my favorite middle round players in the draft, someone I think can contribute in a number of spots in a number of packages for the Falcons defense. He's a bigger guy at 6-3 and 265 and plays hard, aggressive football. He had 20.5 tackles for losses in 2021 and plays the run and pass hard. He's willing to make plays anywhere and never stops in his pursuit. I like that in a player.
Third round (No. 82 overall): WR David Bell, Purdue
The Falcons add a target with good hands and ball skills, who can win matchups and catch passes in traffic. He's also known as a tough player – catching a theme here?? – and finds ways to win with a 40 time (4.65) that won't impress you. There was a bit of a WR run at my point in the third round, but I still ended up with someone who can battle, compete and win at the NFL level.
Fourth round (No. 114 overall): RB James Cook, Georgia
We landed a Dawg, and a pretty good one at that. While the Falcons have plenty of veteran rushers, they need a younger presence who can contribute now and into the future. Cook could well be that guy. He's a player who can make sharp cuts and has good vision, analysts say, and is a productive receiver who can be used in a number of different ways, as Arthur Smith is wont to do with his running backs.
Fifth round (No. 151 overall): DT John Ridgeway, Arkansas
Ridgeway is a massive human at 6-5, 321, a big-bodied nose tackle who has zero problem dealing with two gaps and consuming blockers so others can make tackles. That's an important role in the Falcons defense, and while Anthony Rush is there now, Ridgeway can compete for a base defense role while hoping to be a longer-term solution there.
Sixth round (No. 190 overall): OT Kellen Diesch, Arizona State
Analysts says Diesch has quick feet, good balance and good technique, something you want from offensive lineman who might project as reserves. The Falcons need depth a tackle, and Diesch could be an option to provide that. In the sixth round, that's the baseline of what you're looking for.
Sixth round (No. 213 overall) S Quentin Lake, UCLA
Lake had good production as a senior, with three interceptions and nine passes defensed. He was a four-year starter who analysts say has good field vision and football IQ, which will help him adjust at the next level. He's someone able to make plays deep and closer to the line of scrimmage and, as important as anything for players taken this late, could be a solid special teams player. And he went to UCLA (that's my school!) which is an added bonus.
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Median Absolute Deviation Calculator
Created by Julia Żuławińska
Reviewed by Bogna Szyk and Jack Bowater
What is the median absolute deviation?
How to calculate median absolute deviation?
Median absolute deviation example
Here we come with yet another way of analyzing a dataset - the median absolute deviation calculator! If you're looking to learn how to calculate median absolute deviation, you're in the right place. Keep reading to learn the MAD definition and formula. And if mathematical equations aren't your language, don't worry, we also give you a step-by-step solution and an every-day-life median absolute deviation example.
So, input up to 50 numbers and get the median absolute deviation for your dataset!
In statistics, deviation means the difference between an observed value and a statistically significant central point. You measure it to see how spread out the points of a dataset are. In a set that can be characterized by the normal distribution, we recommend using standard deviation. For non-normal data, you can use median absolute deviation.
But what is absolute deviation and median?
Absolute deviation means that it doesn't matter if a number is bigger or smaller than the central point - the distance between them is always positive.
Median is the "middle" number of a sorted set. It always has the same amount of numbers below and above it. In a dataset containing an even amount of numbers, the median is the average between the two middlemost numbers.
By calculating the median absolute deviation, also known by its acronym MAD, you determine the median of the positive deviations around the median. Somewhat confusing? We'll look at the formula and a step-by-step solution in a second.
💡 The acronym MAD is also used to describe mean absolute deviation. It's similar in concept, but not the same. Learn more about it in the mean absolute deviation calculator.
The median absolute deviation formula is:
MAD = median(Xi - m), where
m is the median of a dataset; and
Xi is the dataset in question.
You calculate median absolute deviation around the median. Here's how to do that in a few steps:
Sort the dataset and find the median. (Learn how to do that in our median calculator).
Subtract the median from each data point.
Find the absolute value of each number.
Sort the numbers.
Find the median of the new dataset.
Let's use these five steps to solve a MAD exercise.
Let's say you organized a running race between you and some of your friends. You all ran 100 m and wrote down your results: 12s, 16s, 12s, 11s, 14s, 15s. How to calculate the median absolute deviation of your running times?
First, sort the dataset, [11, 12, 12, 14, 15, 16], and find the median. m = 13
Get the new dataset by subtracting the median from each data point:
11 - 13 = -2
14 - 13 = 1
Find the absolute value of each point:
|-2| = 2
|1| = 1
Sort new points: [1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3]
Find the median: MAD = 1.5
Before you go, learn more about deviation and other ways of analyzing a dataset with the mean median mode calculator and the variance calculator.
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Hello everyone!! My name is Jan and this is a slightly different blog post than normal because this is one of my!!! wips!!! that I finished!!
This was originally an anthology submission for the OUT THERE YONDER Queer Anthology submission that I applied for with Ais, (spoiler alert I didn’t get picked LOL) And it’s just been sitting in my laptop with only Ais, and three of my irls who’ve read it. I always post on Twitter about my wips but I never?? Post them?? I either never post my wips or finish them and it’s been eating me alive so.
Here’s my queer horror/thriller anthology submission called Dream in a Dream. A small YA short featuring a clueless and soft sapphic, two girls in love, and a himbo.
Aprox 4-8 thousand words
“We had met once again in a dream. But this time you were either too close or too far away to touch that we ended falling apart too quickly- diving into the dark blue of a dream that was within a dream.”
It was like that moment when one felt as if they were falling through space as they slept. Where all she wanted to do was wake up from this nightmare but ended up drowning instead.
She blinked hard once again and saw the synchronization of their dreams.
Or rather, the ending of one.
“You promised you would go.”
Angel stood in front of her with her arms crossed, a look of serious disappointment on her face.
Nina bit her lip. “I promised I would see.” She tilted her head up and eyed the mysterious blaze of flashing lights from behind Angel. “I saw. Now, I’m leaving.” She attempted a one-step turn away before her best friend stopped her, taking her by the wrist.
“Come on Nina, this carnival only comes once every ten years,” Angel pouted. She tightened her grip on her and tugged her tightly once more. “It’s just one night, how bad can it be?”
Screams of horror and mixed delights filled the air as the wind swept through Nina’s arms. If she squinted and tried to look past the horrific billboard of a clown’s red open mouth that indicated the entrance, and the smoke that drifted in the air from the old haunted house and the blending of colors from the moving disco lights, then maybe she could see what Angel saw in the Dream Crawlers Night Circus, but instead she simply saw a horror film come to life. Sure, there were also shrills of happiness, laughter and jokes between groups of friends as she spotted people in interesting Halloween costumes stroll past them as they wandered into the mouth of the clown, but in Nina’s eyes, all she saw was the descent straight into hell.
Compared to Angel, in contrast to her name, loved and breathed everything horror and gory, while Nina would cry on sight if she spotted anyone wearing the iconic Scream mask. The fact that it was also the scariest night of the year wasn’t doing anything in her favor. Usually on Halloween, Nina and her friends would be tucked away at home, watching reruns of the latest trashy reality show they would be binging at the moment and baking mac and cheese. It was tradition for them, but unfortunately for Nina, today out of all days was the 10th year anniversary of the Dream Crawlers Night’s Circus. Which also happened to be the night of the blood moon.
The Dream Crawlers were a group of performers that traveled the globe, consisting of entertainers, trapeze artists, and magicians that did shows back to back from Vegas, Paris, and Rome. They were a pretty big deal if a small town like Vaniville even heard of them miles away from the city. It was most likely because the headliner and founder of The Dream Crawlers was a legend that was born and raised there. Yin Lucas was an absolute king that Vaniville praised. He was the pride of the town, being recognized for his artistry of dance. He was the one who founded the Dream Crawlers, founded and sought more artists in their own little circus with the intent of bringing dreamlike magic to the world.
The last time the Dream Crawlers came to town Nina had only been nine-years-old. She remembered hearing the excited squeals of the older children as they finally made their stop home. She remembered seeing the red and yellow posters cluster together down the street and the lights of the circus brightening up the center of the city like a beacon as their iconic circus music blared loudly in the air.
Their concept of bringing dreamlike magic to the world sure sounded good. In fact, it sounded amazing. Well, according to Angel it did. To Nina, it was terrifying. The distorted sounds of laughter morphing in with the horns and organs. The merging of every color making the hallways look like they have stumbled upon the bottom of the ocean while walking through the galaxy. It was a funhouse come to life, where patterns and lines morphed into one, where artists enticed you with their magic of shifting reality and everything horror came to life. Nina was pretty sure she saw Freddie Krueger wander inside on psychedelics, twirling and twirling around a knife in his hand.
Despite everything in her worst nightmares being right in front of Nina, Angel was also in front of her, and she was simply too hard to ignore.
“Do you honestly want to go back home and make mac and cheese when we could be here?” Angel made wide gestures with her arms, indicating everything all bloody and gruesome around her like they were at Disneyworld.
“Yes,” Nina replied. She wrung her wrist out of Angel’s clutch. “You know I don’t do this kind of stuff.”
And it was true, she didn’t. Nina despised horror. She could barely watch It without her toes curling up in fright. Not only was the Night Circus based on horror, but it was also reality jerking. People say they walk out unknown when they first arrived, their eyes swirling in astonishment and confusion. Nina was barely running on three hours of sleep, and she was sure that if she was to walk into this nightmare festival, she wouldn’t be able to sleep for another three days.
Angel pouted. “It’ll be fun.” She urged her once more, looking as other people passed into the mouth of the clown. “Nina, you know I’ve been waiting for this day forever.”
“Then you can go without me, I’ll just wait for you there.” Nina pointed away to the multiple lines of food trucks and tables. Even though the sun was just beginning to set, the circus already had more locals wander in. Unlike Nina, most of them had smiles on their faces, their Halloween costume shining out brilliantly. They matched Angel just as well. What with their excited faces and interesting costumes. This Halloween Angel was wearing all white. She had exclaimed it was a play with her own name. A white dress that flowed right before her knees, long sleeves that blew gently in the wind and a halo on top of her head to top it off.
She looked beautiful. Angel had always been beautiful to her, but Halloween was the one night that she liked to go beyond with her makeup and outfit. Specks of glitter were found here and there among her eyelids, her lips were shining in red gloss, looking full and luscious. After realizing she had been staring, Nina’s throat suddenly went dry, and she cast her view somewhere else.
It should’ve been another regular Halloween for them, Nina thought dreadfully. Staying inside, baking food, and being within the comforts of her home. But there they were, arguing in front of a damn circus. Nina in her regular sweats and Angel in her halo. What a sight it must’ve been.
“Look. You can either go home and be a party pooper all by yourself or you can hang out with me and the rest of your friends in this totally cool place.”
Nina merely stared at her. “What do you mean?”
Angel pointed behind her.
Nina turned and immediately heaved a sigh. Sure enough there they were: the rest of their little group of friends, standing a few feet away from the ticket booth, all in their own righteous costumes.
Louis wasn’t hard to miss with his long legs and green hair. It appeared that this year their friend decided to dress up as the Joker for Halloween; with his red lipstick spread messily over lips as an attempt at the iconic red smile and matched his striped purple pants with a linen blazer. He was grinning widely at the presence of two shorter girls; Rila and Lily, who this year looked like they simply decided to dress as two colors: red and yellow for some reason.
Nina’s heart pounded as her eyes flicked back to Angel’s opened hand. She could just say no. She could say no and go home, watch another episode of Jersey Shore and call it a night. But Angel’s eyes poured into hers. Nina sighed, knowing it was useless trying to get out of something with her. They both ultimately knew who had won in this argument. Wherever Angel went, Nina was sure to follow.
She sighed, taking Angel’s hand, and ignored the shivers her touch made down her spine. “If I see more than one clown in there I’m walking home.”
“Oh please,” Angel rolled her eyes as they made their way towards their friends. “If any clown, murderer, or demon on psychedelics even thinks about approaching you, they’ll just have to deal with me.” She squeezed Nina’s hand and smiled at her. Even in the dying light she looked incredible, the halo and sparkles she dabbed around her eyes made them pop out brighter, her lips look shinier.
“You’re my hero,” Nina said weakly.
Louis seemed to be in the middle of an intense argument by the time Nina and Angel had walked up to them. He gestured at his clothes with wide arms, his voice loud. “Oh come on guys, I actually tried this year-”
“Hey guys,” Angel said. She raised an eyebrow at the trio before them. “What are we talking about?”
Louis’ gaze shifted to Angel for a second before he gestured his hand out again grandly to her. “See?” he exclaimed. “At least Angel’s costume makes sense, and Nina’s…” his voice trailed off. “Nina, what are you supposed to be?”
“Sleeping,” she answered. “Is it not obvious? I came in my pajamas.” Thanks to Angel dragging her straight after class, Nina didn’t have the opportunity to dress up like everyone else and instead merely wore a black crew neck and sweats. “I came here against my will.”
“Thanks to me, I also came prepared,” Angel stated. They all watched as she reached into her tote bag, pulling out red devil horns.
Nina sighed, resisting the urge to smile as Angel placed them upon the top of her hair.
“Cute,” stated Rila, wrapping her arm around Lily. “You guys are doing a couple costumes, just like us.”
Angel merely beamed while Nina’s gaze traveled from their friends’ adjoined arms to the ground. The only couple here were Rila and Lily.
She cleared her throat. “What are you two supposed to be?” Nina asked.
“Isn’t it obvious?” Rila asked. She wrapped her hand around Lily and tugged her so that they were both standing in front of Louis.
Even Louis was just as confused. He raised an eyebrow. “What-?”
“We’re a traffic light,” said Lily. She pointed upwards at her red sweater, then to Rila’s yellow tank top, then to Louis’ green hair. “See?”
He rolled his eyes. “Ha, ha, very funny.”
Angel snorted a laugh. “Louis, you look like broccoli.”
Louis scowled, clearly already annoyed that it’s been less than five minutes of their meet up and he was already getting clowned over his very own clown costume. “I happen to think my hair looks amazing, thank you very much.”
Nina did a quick headcount of their group, noticing that only one other person was missing. “Where’s Jessie?”
Rila frowned. The last member of their little circle had been MIA for a while, taking the hardest classes than the rest of them this semester. It looks like even Jessie would have to take a raincheck on Halloween this year too. “Studying for the certification exam,” she answered. “She said that she might show up tonight if she finishes her practice test quickly.”
Nina frowned. She hasn’t talked to Jessie in months.
Noticing the drop-in atmosphere, Angel nudged Nina by the elbow. “You know Jessie would be here if she could, right?” She pointed her finger accusingly towards her. “Don’t you dare be a party pooper tonight.” She held out her pinky towards Nina only. “All right? Promise me that you’ll try to have fun.”
She could only stare at Angel’s pinky in defeat. Even though Nina knew that she was inevitably going to do whatever Angel wanted, she wrapped her pinky around hers. “I promise.”
Angel squealed, throwing her arms around them all. They turned until they stood right in front of the clown’s mouth, watching as smoke left in between each gap of its teeth.
With her heart threatening to break out of her chest, Nina swallowed and glanced one last time over at Angel. She was talking to Louis and making fun of his hair, picking at the strands in between her fingers with a wide grin spread about her face. She briefly remembered Angel mentioning this carnival at the beginning of October, had heard about it every now and then but never thought much about it. Now that the Night Circus was right in front of her eyes, Nina swore all she did was blink and time transported itself to now. Maybe she should take the sleeping pills her doctor prescribed.
“Win me a stuffed bear?” Lily asked Rila.
Rila kissed her girlfriend on the temple of her forehead. “You got it.”
The red and yellow traffic light broke apart from the rest of them, taking each other by the arm and screamed, running straight into the belly of the beast.
“Hey! What happened to sticking together?” Louis yelled after them. He groaned, and pulled apart from Angel’s grasp. He stepped forward and gave a look of tiresome over to both Angel and Nina. “They drank a little bit before coming here.” With that, he ran after the two runaway traffic lights. The Joker became the joke once again.
Nina sighed defeatedly. There was no going back now. Her hand traveled from grasping Angel’s arm to her hand as she fumbled with each finger, counting them underneath her breath.
“You know I’m only doing this for you, right?” She asked her.
“I know,” Angel said ruefully. She was grinning happily, clearly pleased with how the night was turning out in her favor. She began dragging Nina, pulling her towards the entrance of the clown’s mouth, her voice as loud as ever. “Now come on, come on!”
Nina tried to ignore the sounds of the distorted laughter of clowns and other terrifying things known to man, keeping her focus only on Angel’s face. “Don’t leave my side.”
Angel turned around, walking with her back as they entered the carnival. “Never.”
“Does she know?”
Nina turned towards Louis. He was standing beside her underneath the blinding lights of the carnival. His hands were deep in his pockets, his red lipstick smeared messily over his mouth.
From a few feet away from them were the rest of their friends. Rila, Lily and Angel, laughing to their heart’s content as they threw darts at balloons. Each time they hit a balloon there would be a puff of smoke and slowed laughter, sounding like the same clown they heard when they first walked in.
Angel was laughing with stars in her eyes, squealing every time a puff of smoke and glitter would explode from the small balloons. Her shoulders would scrunch up every time a new pop of noise or ringing of a bell would pierce the air. The red and purple glow from the lights illuminated off of her face, highlighting her skin and making her smile as white as the moon.
“Know… that you like her.”
Nina’s heart swelled in pain. It didn’t surprise her that Louis knew about her feelings for Angel. They were as obvious as can be. He caught her staring at Angel for a second too long at their last hang out, pulled her aside by the arm and said that he could see them together ‘til the end of the time.
But Nina had always kept her feelings to herself. She remembered the day like it was yesterday. It was snowing outside her house. They were watching a movie when Angel suddenly gasped and ran outside without pulling on her coat. Nina had to run after her, with her arms full with both of their jackets. She was yelling at Angel that she was going to catch a cold if she didn’t put it on. But Angel merely shook her head and said that she was already warm as she threw her arms up as if to catch the falling snowflakes.
“How on Earth are you warm?” Nina yelled.
“I’m warm,” Angel reassured her. Then she reached over and took Nina by the hand. Her touch was warm like firewood, and it sent jolts of electricity down Nina’s spine as her fingers wrapped around her own. That was when Nina knew she liked her best friend. Because she was warm.
Angel had no idea.
Nina shook the memory away as the carnival formed around her again.
Louis nudged her. “You still haven’t told her?” His voice sounded sad and concerned, almost as though he pitied her for pining over the person she was always with.
Nina shrugged. “Why should I?” They watched as Angel, Lily and Rila all squealed in excitement. The deep laughter of a mechanical machine soon followed afterwards as fake spiders dangled from the booth, landing on top of her hair.
Angel snatched onto it ruefully, making the booth clerk yell at her in alarm. She was laughing as Rila took her turn at distracting the clerk as Lily went and took a plushed skeleton off his wall of toys. In another second they were off, running into the next main attraction they could find. Their laughter mixed in with the screams of terror that faded into the night. Within seconds they joined hands and ran deeper into the carnival, disappearing through the smoke that swam in the air.
Louis sighed, as they slowly trailed after them. “You should tell her how you feel. There’s no time like the present.”
“She’s already my present,” Nina replied as they passed through skin crawlers moving like shadows with them. She tried focusing her gaze on the back of Angel’s hair, keeping her halo in sight as they walked through the crowds of people in monstrous demon costumes. Within each step she took made her feel like she was diving deeper and deeper into darkness. The string of light bulbs kept getting dimmer the more they walked. The machine generated laughter became lower and slower, stopping and starting within itself as though its record had scratched. She swallowed the lump that began to grow achingly deep inside her throat. They passed a clown with red liquid trickling down its mask, holding up a machete as he stared after them. A small woman giggled after them, baring only sharp rigged teeth as sharp as sharks as they passed underneath a banner, pointing them in the direction of the main event.
She pressed closer to Louis, trying to keep her breathing steady. Her chest was tingling with anxiety as they walked, nearly bumping into his body.
Angel, however, seemed as though she was having the time of her life. Her hands were clasped together with Rila and Lily on either side of her. She laughed and pointed at beings that made Nina look away. She stuck her tongue out at a demon with horns before pushing their shoulder. Rila burst out cackling at the sight of the demon, screeching how fake their costume looked as Lily wiped her tears from laughing. She pointed at the figure and exclaimed how they looked like a monster that used to hide underneath her bed as a child just as Rila thumped her chest out towards them.
“I feel like I should tip the poor dude for Rila and Lily,” Louis cringed. Lily wrapped her arms around Rila’s waist and pressed a kiss against her forehead, saying that she was the bravest knight in shining armor she’s ever met. The sight made Nina’s heart twist with pain. Angel was looking at them with adoration drawn across her face, her smile as bright as the stars.
Louis shoved his shoulder against Nina’s, jerking out his chin towards them. “See how it completely worked out between Rila and Lily? Why don’t you give it a shot with Angel?”
“Because,” she said. “I don’t want to ruin our friendship.”
Her friend beside her nodded solemnly without saying another word. As understanding as Louis tries to be, Nina knew that he wouldn’t get it. He wouldn’t understand how it felt to like someone so much to the point of it hurting her like she was being stabbed in the heart every single day she was with her. It hurt. Of course it hurt. To like someone who couldn’t possibly like you back, being the only one to stare at the person you liked the most, knowing they would never look at you the way you looked at them
Nina swallowed thinly as Angel and their friends laughed and screamed into the carnival. Her eyes were brilliant against the hanging light bulbs that scattered among the tents. Smoke filled the air making it difficult to see, but Nina saw her perfectly among everything else. Everytime a figure in a dark costume would pop out and jump at her, Angel would simply grin and jump back at them with her hands outstretched, as if to claw her way into their hearts.
Her feelings for Angel grew unintentionally. Like a flower fresh in bloom once spring had come around. It was like coming up for fresh air whenever she was with her. But it also felt like she was drowning at the same time. Being held underwater as she watched the one person she liked not know how she felt.
It was practically agony.
Nina could never tell Angel how she felt. She’s never tried. She didn’t want to scare her, even if Angel was fearless and wasn’t scared of anything. Nina’s own feelings scared herself.
“I just don’t want you to waste your time,” said Louis. His gaze was only held in front of them, getting lost into the sea of attractives that were deep inside of the Night Circus. He sounded sad. As sad as she’s ever heard him before. “Rila and Lily were both friends too, remember?”
Nina groaned. It was true, she remembered it all too well just like him. How Rila pined over Lily for months before they started dating. How she was so overwhelmed with her emotions that she cried because she felt so strongly about her.
Nina dug her hands into her pockets as they walked. Her stomach churning around deep inside her gut as it usually did whenever she thought about telling Angel her feelings. She watched their friends disappear, turning the corner before plunging into the darkness of a tunnel, their laughter echoing through as soon as they stepped through.
Her shoulders scrunched up as a man in a ski mask popped out at her, rearing their chainsaw prop loudly beside her ear. Nina shut her eyes quickly and latched onto Louis’s arm.
“Relax. We’ll be out of this tunnel in no time,” he said.
No time, my ass, Nina thought. The sounds of high laughter and screaming reverberated inside her ears as they bounced off the walls of the tunnel. She didn’t want to open her eyes. She didn’t want to. Not only was Nina afraid of this stupid carnival, but she was even more afraid of the dark.
But she could hear Angel somewhere in the distance. Her voice was as light and airy as bells chiming through a windy spring day. It was the only thing she could focus on. It was the only sound she heard.
“Nina!” she heard her cry. “Nina, open your eyes! Come look at this!”
“She’s calling you,” Louis said.
“Yeah, I can hear her,” Nina snapped.
After taking a deep breath, Nina opened her eyes.
Holographic words were written on the walls, moving along the gray stone from a hidden projector, wrapping around each rigged end. Words that spoke of darkness and despair. A low wind was blowing underneath her arms, making her shoulders hunched up together. A whispering was echoing its way from the other end, their voice raspy, almost like the wind itself. Smoke was coming out from the other side. Nina heard even more loud shrieking from the other end. Screams of absolute terror and madness driving into her skull like nothing else.
Rila and Lily were looking up at the walls with their eyes wide with fascination. The words that were being displayed glitched and changed every second, but Nina could only make out a few of them. She squinted her eyes, and saw the word DISAPPEAR slowly make their way across, before quickly being replaced with the words WELCOME TO THE NIGHT.
Facing the opposite of Rila and Lily was Angel. Her white dress was brighter than anything else. Her eyes are wide and marvelous like she’s never seen anything else quite like this in the world.
Her head quickly turned to Nina, and she beckoned her hand towards her rapidly.
Louis gave her a slight shove. “She’s waiting for you.” He untangled her arm off of him and gave her another shove. “Go.”
And with that, Louis walked away.
His words echoed all throughout her skull. Go tell her that you like her. There’s no time like the present.
I can’t, she helplessly thought as she wrapped her arms around herself. It’s one of my biggest fears.
After taking a deep breath, Nina trudged herself towards Angel.
“About time!” she smiled. She reached over and grabbed her by the hand, pulling her closer beside her. “Look.”
She pointed to the wall in front of her, just as the holographic letters made their way across them once more. The words moved soundlessly, glitching among the rough stone, but Nina could make them out just fine. “AND SOMETIMES I HAVE KEPT MY FEELINGS TO MYSELF,” she read. “BECAUSE I COULD FIND NO LANGUAGE TO DESCRIBE THEM IN.”
And just like that, the hairs on the back of Nina’s neck stood straight up. Her body felt dead and cold as the words moved away, only to be replaced by the same ones.
She swallowed. “Um, what-”
“Cool, right?” Angel said. Nina turned to look at her, and saw that she was still smiling her smile that she fell for. “That quote reminds me of you. Because you like reading. Isn’t it cute?”
“It’s c-cute,” Nina struggled to reply. “But-”
“Maybe he’s the one who comes up with these quotes.” Angel’s eyes went up at all the flickering words around her. The words glitched and streamed across the surface endlessly. Words as dark as the night, drifted across Nina’s eyes.
“Do you think we’ll get to meet him, tonight?”
Nina blinked. “Meet who?”
“Yin Lucas,” she said. “You know? The maker of all of this? I hear he’s hot as hell.”
“Oh.” Nina replied. “I don’t know if he’ll actually be here,” she said quietly. “Don’t the organizers of these kinds of things just stand backstage and watch?”
Angel pouted. “I guess.” She turned her head away. “I thought this place was supposed to make your dreams and wildest fears come to life.” She began trailing away. “I don’t see any of my dreams or fears here.”
Nina watched as she left, before turning her gaze back to the quote on the wall. The words glitching and repeating on the same slab of stone over and over again. Unmoving from its spot.
Her heart dropped to the very bottom of her stomach. I HAVE KEPT MY FEELINGS TO MYSELF, it read, BECAUSE I COULD FIND NO OTHER LANGUAGE TO DESCRIBE THEM IN.
Her fingers began to tremble. The quote right in front of her, no matter how hopeful and lyrical it was, only filled her with despair and terror. That quote was the quote Nina had been planning to use to tell Angel her feelings, all those months ago when first realized she liked her best friend. She had pocketed that quote, knowing it deep inside her heart.
Nina glanced away from the wall, seeing Angel jump up and down excitedly with Rila and Lily as they pointed over at something in the distance, their voices screeching for Nina to hurry up.
Louis waved her over, with a smile on his face. But Nina only looked back at the wall, her throat tightening more and more by the moment.
The words were disappearing and reappearing within each second, almost as if they never were there in the first place.
Then, in a small flash, a few more words were written right underneath the first quote. Making Nina’s heart physically stop.
Tell her, Nina. Tell her before it’s too late.
Nina’s eyes widened at it. She leaned forward, sounds of screaming and wailing whispers filled her ears once again. She raised her hand forward, to trail her finger along the stone, watching as the holographic words appeared on her own skin. Her own name, showing brighter than the moon.
“Hey,” Louis’ voice suddenly said. Nina jumped, jerking away from the wall with her heart hammering harshly against her chest. “You okay?”
Nina looked at him, her voice becoming lost in her throat. “I-”
“Nina! Louis!” Angel called in the distance. “Come on! We’re going to miss it!”
Louis raised an eyebrow before beckoning his head out towards them. “We should get going.”
“B-but,” Nina stammered, her hand still on the wall with the projected words flickering on her skin. “Look! Why does it say this?”
Louis’ forehead creased together. “Say what?”
Nina looked back and saw that her name and Angel’s were still there, instead of flickering like a broken light bulb, were melting away like blood across a surface. Or else.
Louis laughed, his voice echoing inside the tunnel, mixing in with the pitched screams. “Come on.”
“But,” Nina’s voice had gone quiet. “Didn’t you see?” Her eyes were squinting down at the words written on the wall. She turned to look at her friends, but saw that they were already disappearing deep into the tunnel, wrapping themselves into the shadows.
Louis cocked his head to the side, walking backwards with his hands in his pockets. “See what?”
Nina made one hopeless turn to the wall. Watching her name melted towards the floor. In another flash, Nina saw another set of words, flickering right before her feet.
You won’t make it out tonight.
“Nina!” Angel called impatiently. “Come on! What are you doing?”
Nina’s eyes darted to the end of the tunnel, her breathing becoming heavier and heavier by the minute. She blinked and glanced to the writing on the wall, expecting to see the message there once more, but instead saw nothing.
It said my name, Nina thought. Her palms began getting sweaty, her throat was closing up.
“What are you doing?” Angel said.
Nina pointed. “There was-”
“I don’t see any mass murdering clowns on psychedelics,” she declared after turning her head side to side. She then reached forward and clasped her hand in hers. “Nina, come on. I said that I was going to protect you, didn’t I? Now keep up, I think I saw something cool up there.”
She began pulling Nina without getting an answer.
Angel’s voice was still as airy and light as she hummed within each step she took. As though she was singing a song underneath her breath like they were taking a light stroll in the park. Nina tried calming herself, now that she was right beside Nina, and tried to take slow, deep breaths but her mind kept going back to the words on the wall as they moved all around them. Across their arms, along their clothes, on top of Angel’s hair.
TELL HER, NINA. TELL ANGEL OR ELSE.
“About time you come out of there,” Rila said as soon as the two of them emerged from the darkened tunnel. She had her arm wrapped around Lily’s shoulders. “We were just about to miss it.”
Nina gulped, directing her eyes away from the tunnel. She cleared her throat. “Miss what?”
Angel pointed. “That.”
She pulled her once more. There was a huge tent in front of them. One with a flag that blew away in the wind at the very top. She heard the shrill of voices more clearly now. Their voices were distinct and louder now. Nina heard the deep voice of an announcer, saying, Come one! Come all!
“Let’s go in here,” Angel smiled. She was pointing at the sign before the tent, it’s etters shining brilliantly.
Nina squinted her eyes and read. Each single word was written as dark as blood.
SPINEBREAKER.
Test your fears. Enjoy the show.
An off feeling began to spiral deep inside Nina’s gut. Voices as raspy and deep as Freddie Krueger sang into the stars, screams made the hairs of the back of her neck stand straight up, and the pitch black void of the entrance beckoned and urged her to walk inside.
“What is this place?” Nina asked.
“I read online that this is the main event,” Angel explained. “Where you really see your dreams and darkest nightmares come to life.”
“But you’re not afraid of anything,”
“Exactly,” Angel winked. “Let’s see what kind of prize I win.”
A girl ran out of the tent crying, her hands covering her face as she wept. “Gone!” she cried. “They’re all gone!”
Nina stared after her, her mouth open in disbelief. Meanwhile Angel was still staring at the tent as though it had all the answers in the world. Did she not see the girl?
“Guys-” Nina said. Her hands were trembling even more by the second. Something was very off about the tent. She stared down the entrance, where the whispering and screaming had gotten louder and louder into her ears.
Test your fears, she heard a voice whisper. Enjoy the show.
Nina stepped. “I don’t-”
But Angel was already pulling her inside. “Let’s go! Let’s go!”
Rila and Lily squealed, disappearing soon into the dark as Angel followed them. Nina gave one helpless look over to Louis, who shrugged with his hands deep in his pockets.
They plunged deeper into the darkness, until Nina saw nothing at all.
Test your fears, the voice whispered once again. Enjoy the show..
Nina was alone.
Her eyes blinked to adjust to the lighting. Bright lights blared back at her from above.
The tent was empty. With only empty seats pointing directly at a stage down below. Ropes dangled from the ceiling, as though being the ropes you would find acrobats dangling from. There was an empty cage filled with nothing, and a lone whip, laying on the floor.
Nina looked around, and saw that there was an invisible glass wall separating each seat.
She tried sitting up, and instead felt something hard pinch against the skin of her wrists. Nina glanced down, and saw that wooden straps were on either side of her, holding her down.
Panic quickly spread across her chest as she looked around her. Where the hell is everyone?
She budged against the shackles, relentlessly, and felt hot pain shoot down her skin, felt the wooden straps pinch into her skin, twisting her wrists.
“Hello?!” she called out. She tried her best getting out of her seat, jumped up and down with tears beginning to build up on her eyes. “ANGEL?!”
“Nina!”
Nina turned and saw Louis, sitting in a cubicle just like hers, wrists and ankles shackled to the chair just as hers.
“What happened?” she yelled.
He shrugged, struggling to free his wrists. “I don’t know!” He jerked his wrists again.“Where is everyone?
“I have no idea,” Nina replied. “I don’t know what happened.”
She struggled to move once more, and heard Louis. He was yelling, yelling for help as she tried freeing herself. There wasn’t anyone else in the stands beside them. The arena was as empty as can be. What the hell happened to all the noise they heard outside?
Nina spotted someone sitting in the first row. Hair as red as blood.
Their arm went up, to tuck a strand behind their ear, and Nina managed to get a glimpse of a tattoo on the side of their skin. A long tattoo of a dragon.
“Jessie?” Nina yelled. “Is that you?”
“Jessie,” Nina cried as loud as she could. “Where is everyone? Where’s Rila and Lily? Where’s Angel?”
Jessie didn’t move one bit.
“What’s wrong with her?” Louis yelled. “Hey! Jessie! Jessie, are you okay?”
And slowly, almost like a balloon drifting alone in the air, Jessie turned.
Where her eyes should be, where only black holes instead. Black empty holes. Her mouth was open as well, with the same blackness.
Jessie’s head tilted upward, and she swayed side to side, lifeless.
A voice boomed loudly on the speakers, making Nina jump in alarm, her shoulders scrunched together. “PLEASE TAKE YOUR SEATS. WE’LL START THE SHOW SOON.”
“What is going on?” Louis yelled.
“PLEASE TAKE YOUR SEATS. WE’LL START THE SHOW SOON.”
Someone began to clap.
Slowly, loudly, echoing all throughout the arena.
Nina squinted her eyes and saw a figure come out of the shadows, walking directly into the center of the stage.
A man walked out, wearing a nice suit. He had brown wavy hair, spread across his forehead and he was walking with a cane. His skin was as white in the stage lights, his eyes as golden as though fire was inside of them.
Louis whispered. “Who the hell-”
Nina squinted her eyes. Could it be?
“It’s him,” Nina whispered. “It’s It’s Yin Lucas.”
Lucas flashed a smile in her direction. “Welcome,” he said. “Welcome Dream Crawlers, to my Night Circus.”
“What’s going on?” she demanded. “Where’s Angel?”
He continued. “SPINEBREAKER is our main event of the night, ladies and gentlemen. We test your fears. We bring your dreams to life. We see if your spine can really break.” He grinned devilishly, making chills shoot down Nina’s back. “Only the ones who can survive their living fears can leave the night. The ones that don’t, well.” He shrugged and pointed his cane over to Jessie. “Your soul becomes mine.”
“What the fuck?” Louis yelled. “Let us out of here! Where’s our friends? WHERE ARE THEY?”
“Angel,” Nina gasped. “You took Angel.”
With one more look towards her, Lucas grinned once more. “She volunteered. She’s our first contestant of the night.”
But Angel isn’t afraid of anything, Nina thought. She’s Angel. She’s fearless, she’s-
A scream cut into the night, and Nina jerked straight up. A scream so painful and awful filled her ears. It was Angel’s voice. It was her beautiful voice, shrieking with everything she’s ever had inside of her.
“Angel!” Nina cried. She looked at the stage once, only to see Lucas vanish like a whisper in the dark.
“Angel!” she screamed. “Angel, where are you?”
“Don’t worry,” said Lucas’s voice from right beside her. Nina jumped, he was leaning his body over her cubicle, his face just inches from hers. “She’s about to go on.”
“Where is she, you piece of shit?” Nina asked him. She tried to move her arms from her seat, feeling the buckles bite into her skin. She looked at him once more, a thin wall of tear sprung up in her eyes. “Where’s Angel?”
“Everyone gets their turn.” Lucas smiled. “You’ll get yours.”
“What are you?” she asked. “The devil? Are you the fucking devil?”
Lucas’s eyebrows rose. “The devil?” he said. “I’m touched. Really. No, I’m not.” He smiled down at her, just as red began to fill up his eyes, like hellfire was engulfing his body. “I’m the devil’s associate.”
Nina moved helplessly. “Let me go-”
“Shh-” he said. He directed her head back towards the stage. “It’s starting.”
Just like the windup of an old toy, carousel music began to play, as if broken, then all together at once.
Several lights turned on, a spotlight turned towards the center. A chainsaw reared up, and clowns began to fill the stage. It was everything in her worst nightmares. Every demon she’s ever dreamed of. Every killer from every horror movie. Every ghost and monster. All in one place.
Then came Angel.
She walked slowly. Her hair was strewn all across her face, her face was wet with tears.
Angel.
She screamed.
Her hands went to her face, covering herself as the clowns advanced towards her, surrounding her all at once. The chainsaw reered once more, louder and louder by the second and Angel screamed, trying to push past them, trying her best to move away.
She stumbled on her feet and fell to the ground, sobbing as she crawled from the clowns. She reached a door in the middle of the stage and opened it before stepping through, only to reveal a small woman, thin as can be, skin taut around the bones, eyes black as the galaxy. She was whispering, giggling in fact and Angel wept, cried for her to move so that she could go home before the woman grew ten inches straight up, towering over Nina, her hair becoming spiders, crawling towards Angel, making her shriek and back away, her voice ringing like a thousand bells all at once.
Angel was crying. “Nina, why did you leave?”
“I’m here!” Nina cried out. She attempted to move as she watched Angel cry and cry. Her heart was breaking into thin little pieces within each second she said her name. “Angel, I’m here,” she wept. “I’m here.”
How could this be the fearless Angel that she knew?
Lucas was watching the show with a fascinated look on his face. “Let me go,” she begged him. “Let me go instead of her.”
Angel screamed again, burying herself into the corner as a man with a knife came towards her with blood spilling out of his mouth. “No!” she screamed. “No, go away! Nina! NINA!”
Lucas looked at her with his eyebrow curled up. “Oh?” he said. “You’re willing to face your fears for her place?”
“Yes.” Her lower lip was quivering, her eyes were spilling out water down the sides of her cheek. “I’m more afraid of this than she is. Take me instead, I’m begging you.” She trembled, feeling more hot tears slide down her face as Angel’s screams filled her ears.
Lucas smiled, wrapping his fingers around the head of his cane. “As you wish.”
He snapped his fingers and everything disappeared.
Nina opened her eyes to whiteness.
She turned, and saw nothing of the carnival that was once there. No Louis. No tent. No Lucas. And no clowns.
Her heart thumped. What did he do to Angel? She thought. She ran forward towards nothing, and met with the same white wall.
“HELLO?” she yelled, waving her arms up and down as though Lucas was somewhere high above, watching her. “ANGEL BETTER BE SOMEWHERE SAFE.” She gulped, wrapping her arms around herself, feeling as hot tears rolled down her cheek. “Please let her be somewhere safe.”
A small ding chimed through the room. And Nina’s eyes went up, her heart rate beginning to pick up. This is it, she thought. They’re coming.
She dug her nails hard into the palms of her hands, feeling blood begin to seep through.
Lucas’s voice whispered in her ear, sounding like music and the tolling of bells all at once. “Are you ready?” He said, the sensation as chilling as ice sliding across her skin. “Turn around.”
Nina gulped, and turned.
There, standing in front of her, was Angel.
“Angel,” Nina whispered. She reached a hand out, to touch her, to cup her by her cheek. She was okay. Angel was all right, she was safe-
“You love me,” Angel said.
Nina pulled back. “W-what?”
“You love me,” Angel repeated. Her eyes went up to meet hers, her breathing was slow and steady. “Don’t you?”
Nina gulped. “I-”
Angel simply stared at her, not once moving a muscle to touch her hand, to touch her skin. She simply stared.
“Nina,” she whispered. “Why-”
Nina’s eyes focused on behind her and she grabbed Angel’s hand, just as a figure with a knife plunged towards her, stabbing the spot where Angel once was.
There was blood pooling down from their eyes, their smile as broken with stitches holding it together. Their hair was black and stringy, open wounds were seen here, flesh pumped out like an open heartbeat.
The figure was gurgling their words, sputtering more and more blood as they inched towards them.
Nina clasped her hand in Angel’s, backing them away. “Angel,” she said. “Run.”
The killer swung their knife once more as laughter began to echo all around them. Laughter and whisperings of the tunnel they were once in. She heard cackling and screaming, heard Louis’s voice telling them to run. Heard Rila’s and Lily’s voice to help them no matter what.
They ran, hopelessly into the white room, unknowing where they were going as more and more skin crawlers appeared. Screaming, and running towards them. All with claws for teeth and knives for hands.
Angel was sobbing again screaming as they ducked underneath the reaching arm of a spider, with black drool foaming at the mouth.
“FACE YOUR FEAR! FACE YOUR FEAR!” The same voice echoed all around them. They ran and ran, backing away from killer clowns, ran from grudges with black hair covering their face, from skeletons with their head spinning around and around above their neck.
Lucas’s voice rang overhead again. “Break your spine, Nina,” he taunted. “Face your fear.”
“What is he talking about?” Angel screamed. “You’re already facing them!” She broke away from Nina’s grip and tilted her head up towards the sky. “LET US GO!”
Nina’s heart thumped. She grabbed Angel’s hand again, nearly yanking her to her feet as the killers came closer and closer, their faces becoming larger and larger, their eyes darker and darker.
“This isn’t her greatest fear,” Lucas hummed overhead. “These are your fears. Not hers.”
Angel’s face fell. “What?”
The lump in Nina’s throat broke and she squinted her eyes shut. No, she pleaded. No, please. I’ll do anything else. Anything else you ask of me.
“DO IT,” yelled the voices once more. “DO IT OR ELSE.”
Nina stopped running, pulling Angel with her. Her greatest fear, she thought. She had to face her greatest fear.
Her face was wet with tears as she slowly opened her eyes. Her heart was breaking right inside of her chest, into small little thin pieces.
The screaming around them came to a mute. The skin-crawlers were gone.
She started sobbing, sinking to her knees as the words echoed again and again inside her head. “DO IT,” they yelled. “DO IT OR ELSE.”
“Angel,” she said softly. She looked up at her best friend, who was staring down at her as she trembled.
“What’s your biggest fear, Nina?” Angel said. “I thought this circus already was it. What are you so afraid of?”
Nina’s lip trembled, and she tugged on her hand to pull her down with her. She slid to her knees.
“You,” Nina wept. “You’re my biggest fear.”
Angel’s eyes poured into hers. “What?”
“I love you,” Nina cried. Her lower lip throbbed, the tears poured down her cheeks as she sobbed. “I love you,” she repeated. “I’ve always been in love with you. You asked what I was most afraid of and it’s this. It’s love. Telling you that I am hopelessly in love with you is my greatest fear.”
Angel knees buckled. “Nina-”
“You don’t have to say anything,” she replied in a shuddering gasp. “You don’t. I had to tell you. That’s my greatest fear. Telling you is my greatest fear.”
Angel merely stared back at her, shock fallen for words.
Nina waited. Waited for Lucas’s voice to ring overhead again, to tell her that she did it. So that this could all be over. She waited to leave.
“Nina,” Angel whispered. She looked up at her once again, and saw that the girl she loved was crying too. “Nina,” she repeated. Her hand went up to cup her by the cheek. “Why were you so afraid?”
She gulped. “I didn’t want you to be scared.”
Angel laughed. Her laugh sounded like music. “I’m afraid of a lot of things,” she said weakly. “But I’m not afraid of you.”
In one single movement, Angel reached forward and pressed her lips against Nina’s, her hand cupping the back of her neck as she kissed her. She kissed her hard and determined, mumurming her name within each kiss. “Nina, Nina,” she whispered.
Finally she pulled back, and Nina stared at her best friend. Stared at the girl she loved with all her heart. She did it. She finally told her. She finally told her after all this time.
Angel’s head tilted to the side and she huffed, smiling back at her. “I’m proud of you,” she said softly. “I love you too.”
The words made Nina’s breath hitch. Her hands stopped trembling as she reached up to take Angel’s hands in hers. I love you.
“My Nina,” she whispered, leaning her forehead against hers. “If only this wasn’t a dream.”
Nina’s eyes shot open, and she jerked away from Angel. “What?”
Angel watched as Nina thrashed around in her bed, sobbing and screaming. Her hands scrunching up her blankets as she sobbed and sobbed. “No,” she cried out. “No, leave her alone! Angel. ANGEL!”
Tears sprung up in Angel’s eyes as she watched. She went down on her knees, taking her hand in hers.
“I’m here,” she said. “Nina, I’m here.”
“Some nightmare,” Louis commented. He was standing up, with his hands in his pockets as he looked at Nina. “I wonder what she’s dreaming about.”
“Her greatest fear,” Rila said. She and Lily were on the other side of Angel, all watching Nina as she went through her worst nightmare. Today was the day. The day of the Night Crawler’s Dream Circus.
Bringing their wildest nightmares and dreams to life.
They got Nina first.
Angel’s chest scrunched together in pain. This was it. This was part of the deal. For her to leave her nightmare, she had to put Nina in hers instead.
She looked to her right, straight into the mirror where the reflection of Lucas looked back at her.
He winked and placed a finger in between his lips.
Angel nodded. She knew Nina just had to face her fear from this nightmare. She knew it’s what had to be done for her to leave. But Nina wasn’t waking up from her dream.
She wondered what Nina’s greatest fear was. Her greatest fear was watching her be in so much pain. Watching the girl she loved be in so much pain.
I love you, Angel thought. I love you, Nina.
That’s my greatest fear.
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bloom(ing)
it was a dark winter night
my heart in tatters and in shreds
i could not see sunlight no matter how many times it peaked behind the clouds
my flowers were wilted and dead
then came sudden sunlight
piercing through the winter clouds
a star in a blighted sky
a fresh new spring had come out for a day
and i started to bloom.
Posted byjanuisance January 12, 2021 January 12, 2021 Posted inart, nuisanceTags:blurb, poetry, writingLeave a comment on bloom(ing)
In a Thousand Words, I Exist
There’s this quote by Fydor Dostoyevsky (I’ve read a few of his words in my World Lit class) and I just want to talk about it, I feel like talking about it would be good for me.
So, the quote goes:
“‘I exist.’ In thousands of agonies- I exist. I’m tortured on the rack -but I exist! Although I sit alone- I exist! I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, knowing the sun is there.'”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
When I read that for class, it made me think about how sometimes people feel alone even in a room full of people. Maybe that’s just a quote from Tumblr, I know I lived, breathed, inhaled fake deep quotes from Tumblr back in 2013, but I often think about how true that people do feel like that. Because sometimes, even now I feel that way too.
Sometimes, when my words get too jumbled up in my head, and no matter how many times I cry, scream, or even attempt to explain what I’m possibly thinking about in my head to my friends or family, I feel like they will never quite understand what I’m trying to say, what kind of sentence or paragraph or even book I’m trying to decipher to them. How, at the end of the day, although I go through all this agony and loneliness, even though I attempt to talk about how I feel, how even though there are glorious amounts of people that care and surround me- why do I still feel alone?
And I hate feeling like that.
I hate feeling like the quiet and the loneliness is taking over when I try again and again to get away, to just breathe and read a page one step at a time, but in the end, my heart starts pumping loudly against my ears before I know it, and my breath gets shaky, and the quiet and the anxiety will never ever let me be free.
I almost seem to never get away from it.
Then, there’s that weird part of my brain that tells me that I’m not alone. And I know it. I have evidence of it. I have pictures of myself smiling and having fun with people that care about me, and I know they care about me. So why does loneliness seem to thaw away at any event that I’m in?
That quote makes me think about you can just open up your window and scream out into the night sky and as your screams echo throughout the city and come back to you, you get this sort of eerie silence. Because you know that there are other people living as well. They’re in front of you, but they never responded.
I have to remind myself that in a thousand agonies, I do exist. And there is life outside with people even if they don’t respond, even if they don’t understand what I’m trying to say. Just as Dostoyevsky said. There is a beauty in knowing that the sun is there. And I do. The sun will always be there, coming up for a new day even when the night and darkness falls upon me for many nights. The sun will rise.
Dostoyevsky said, “In thousands of agonies- I exist.”
And I do. I do exist. I feel real. Even at nights when I don’t.
You exist as well. We are all living in our thousands of agonies, we are all existing.
This is my own version of agonies.
In a thousand words, I exist.
In a thousand words, I’m trying to exist.
In a thousand words, I am alive.
I really like my world lit class, I get introduced to various writers that I haven’t ever read works from. I used to think that I don’t like old Victorian-era writing, but it is marvelous. There is a beauty in marvelous things.
This is a old post from my old blog so I decided why not move my thoughts here :,)
I hope everyone is well! Stay safe.
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UTC Sheffield computing students win national robotics challenge
26th May 2017 (24th January 2020) by Baker Dearing Educational Trust
UTC Sheffield computing students have shown that their level technical skills are top of the class by winning a national robotics competition.
Two teams of Year 10 and Year 12 students attended a national Vex Robotics UTC Championships at Silverstone UTC in Northamptonshire this month on May 10th. The UTC Sheffield Year 12 students were crowned the competition champions whilst the group of Year 10 students won the judges award for innovative programming.
The event, involving three UTCs, was the first of its kind, and is part of wider moves by UTCs to address the skills shortages in science, technology, engineering and maths. Sarah Clark, Principal, UTC Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park, said:
I am so proud of our computing students. They have learnt how to successfully apply their engineering, design and computer science knowledge and skills to a sophisticated technical challenge. These are the type of skills that equip them for a great future in the workplace or at university.
Students took part in several challenges. They included operating a robot, previously designed by the students in the months prior to the competition, to move large stars and beanbags over a central fence onto the opposing team’s side. The competition tested teamwork, problem solving, delegation, project management, programming, design and building skills.
Colin Smith, Curriculum Director for Computing, UTC Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park, said:
Both teams were outstanding. The Year 10 team picked up the judges’ award trophy for their programming. The Year 12 team took home the tournament champion trophy. They excelled because of the opportunities that they get through their education using robotics equipment at the UTC. As well as having access to advanced technology in extra enrichment sessions, all students study robotics as part of the computing curriculum.
Bridie Gaynor, Competition Support Manager of Vex Robotics, added:
This was the first UTC only event and we hope it will become an annual fixture in both the VEX Robotics and UTC calendars, with more taking part next year. The teams performed superbly under the pressures of competition. The perseverance of the students was great to see. They had many restraints that they had to work around and like true engineers, they all managed to do that successfully. I look forward to seeing all of the teams at further competitions.
For more information about UTC Sheffield, please visit www.utcsheffield.org.uk
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Insider trading scandal topples head of Taiwan’s top research body
By Maria Burke2016-05-16T00:00:00+01:00
A top academic in Taiwan has resigned after being implicated in an insider trading scandal involving a biotechnology company.
Wong Chi-huey, a well-known chemist, is president of Taiwan’s foremost research body, Academia Sinica, which consists of 24 research institutes and seven research centres. Wong is under investigation for his dealings with OBI Pharma, a Taiwanese biotech company, once owned by the US firm Optimer Pharmaceuticals which Wong helped to set up.
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In 2006, Wong became president of Academia Sinica, which supports research ranging from physical and life sciences to humanities and social sciences
Since March, an investigation has been underway into whether senior OBI executives and major shareholders violated any regulations by selling shares shortly before the company announced disappointing clinical trial results for its new breast cancer drug. The company says the allegations are unfounded. Wong’s daughter is a major shareholder and it is claimed that she sold 10,000 of her shares before the trial results were made public in February. Taiwanese press reported that Wong had spoken positively about the company and its drug despite the trial results falling short of expectations.
Wong’s offer to resign as head of Academia Sinica in March was rejected, and in April the institution published an open letter where Wong apologised, but denied any wrongdoing. However, with public pressure mounting, Taiwan’s president, Ma Ying-jeou, announced on 10 May that he was accepting Wong’s resignation. Wong’s decision to stay on in the post ‘to uphold Taiwan’s reputation and prevent turmoil in [Academia Sinica’s] administration was a superfluous consideration’, according to a statement issued by the president’s office.
An editorial in Taiwanese newspaper The China Post points out that while the share transaction may not have been illegal, Wong has to convince the nation that it wasn’t a conflict of interest when he publicly endorsed OBI Pharma’s technology. ‘Wong may not have been thinking too much in terms of investments when he expressed confidence in a company that was originally a subsidiary of a biotech firm he set up in the US. He may have been speaking as a scientist.’ But the paper stressed he had to prove his innocence.
Wong became president of Academia Sinica in 2006, and was due to stand down this October. He is also holds a chair in chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute in the US. A spokesperson for Scripps said that he will continue to hold his position there.
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Financial incentives and fertility
Alma Cohen, Rajeev Dehejia, Dmitri Romanov
Using panel data on over 300,000 Israeli women from 1999 to 2005, we exploit variation in Israel's child subsidy to identify the impact of changes in the price of a marginal child on fertility. We find a positive, statistically significant, and economically meaningful price effect on overall fertility and, consistent with Becker (1960) and Becker and Tomes (1976), a small effect of income on fertility, which is negative at low and positive at high income levels. We also find a price effect on fertility among older women, suggesting that part of the overall effect is due to a reduction in total fertility.
Review of Economics and Statistics
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Cohen, A., Dehejia, R., & Romanov, D. (2013). Financial incentives and fertility. Review of Economics and Statistics, 95(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1162/REST_a_00342
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USA TODAY'S coverage of the 2020 election continues this weekend as Joe Biden wins a bitterly fought presidential election and as states work to finish counting their remaining ballots.
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Joe Biden, Kamala Harris address Americans
President-elect Joe Biden delivered a celebratory message but also a message of healing for the nation in his first remarks Saturday following a bitter and divisive battle for the presidency.
“America has always been shaped by inflections points, by moments in time we’ve made hard decisions about who we are what we want to be,” Biden said at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware, where the horns from hundreds of cars and cheers could be heard between his words. “Folks, we stand at an inflection point.”
Biden’s remarks came as President Donald Trump continues to contest the results of the cliffhanger election, arguing without evidence that hundreds of thousands of votes are in question. His address, in addition to setting the tone for a Biden transition and presidency, were a symbol that the Democrat was working to move the nation past the contentious election.
The former vice president sought to drive that message home from the very beginning of his remarks – saying voters had delivered a “clear victory, a convincing victory.”
“Folks, the people of this nation have spoken,” he said.
Reciting one of his slogans from the campaign trail, Biden said he ran for president for all Americans, not just Democrats.
“For all those of you who voted for President Trump, I understand the disappointment,” Biden said. “I've lost a couple of times myself. But now let's give each other a chance. It's time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature, see each other again, listen to each other again."
Biden was introduced by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, wearing all white in nod to the suffragist movement. The first woman vice president, Harris said she wouldn’t be the last.
“Every little girl that’s watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities,” she said.
Georgia county pauses count over 'issue involving reporting'
A poll worker is forced into “hiding” and an issue “involving reporting” have turned the Georgia ballot-counting in Fulton County on its head as the state barrels ahead with its election process in the wake of President-elect Joe Biden’s win over Donald Trump.
Fulton County was down to counting provisional and military ballots going into Saturday. By Saturday night, with new results coming in from DeKalb County and other locations, Biden’s statewide lead had expanded to more than 9,100 votes.
But the state pressed pause when an issue in Fulton County from Friday emerged. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger did not offer specifics, but tweeted Saturday that they are returning to the election site. He wrote:
“Fulton has discovered an issue involving reporting from their work on Fri. Officials are at State Farm Arena to rescan that work. I have a monitor & investigators onsite. Also sent Dep. SOS as well to oversee the process to make sure to secure the vote and protect all legal votes.”
Biden has collected 72.6% of the votes in Fulton County as of Saturday.
– Savannah Morning News
Trump files lawsuit against Maricopa County in Arizona
President Donald Trump's campaign is suing Arizona elections officials, alleging Maricopa County poll workers "incorrectly rejected" votes cast in person on Election Day.
The suit — filed along with the Republican National Committee and the Arizona GOP — contends poll workers deviated from procedures meant to ensure voters who make mistakes on their ballots aren't disenfranchised, possibly affecting final vote counts.
It calls for officials to identify and reinspect Election Day ballots from Maricopa County that contain apparent "irregularities in connection with the voter’s selection of a candidate."
Maricopa County tabulation machines are programmed to alert voters when their ballots contain such irregularities — stray markings, for instance, or an "overvote," the marking of more options than is allowed in a particular race. Whenever this happens, a screen pops up detailing the problem and the machine's green "Cast" and red "Return" buttons light up.
The voter then has a choice: “Spoil” the ballot and fill out a new one, or have the machine proceed with the existing ballot after seeing a warning that indicates contests containing problems such as overvotes won't be counted.
A training video for Arizona poll workers emphasizes: "Only voters will press these 'Cast' and 'Return' buttons.”
The lawsuit, however, alleges that poll workers disregarded those instructions by "pressing, or inducing voters to press, the so-called 'green button' on tabulation devices when confronted with alerts signaling apparent defects or irregularities."
Three days before the lawsuit was filed, though, the Maricopa County Attorney's Office — headed by Republican Allister Adel — had repeatedly disputed the idea that any ballots were rejected without voters having a say.
In cases of irregularities, it said in a letter to the Attorney General's Office on Thursday, voters were provided the opportunity to spoil damaged ballots and cast new ones. And "whether voters do so or not" was "entirely up to them."
Arizona and Maricopa County elections officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
– The Arizona Republic/azcentral.com
The moment Biden found out he was declared president-elect: 'Pop, Pop! We won!'
Biden, who shares a close relationship with his grandchildren, reportedly learned the news that he had been named president-elect from them on Saturday.
According to NBC and CNN, Biden and his wife, Jill, were on their patio enjoying the weather when his grandchildren rushed to share the news, saying: “Pop, Pop! We won!”
The president-elect’s granddaughter, Naomi Biden, shared a photo of the celebration on Twitter:
– Savannah Behrmann
Trump returns to White House, where crowd of Biden supporters revel outside
After spending much of the afternoon at his golf club in Sterling, Virginia, President Donald Trump returned to the White House, where just outside the compound the street filled with people celebrating his loss to President-elect Joe Biden.
Throngs of people flooded the street in front of Lafayette Park, situated just north of the White House, and spilled into nearby Black Lives Matter Plaza. Crowds broke into chants and hoisted up "Biden Harris 2020" signs as cars honked in celebration.
The traffic, however, did not snarl the president's arrival. Trump's motorcade arrived just after 3 p.m. EDT, traveling up 15th Street and into the South entrance of the White House complex. The president was spotted entering the White House at a side entrance on West Executive Avenue, avoiding most of the festivities just outside.
"Both Lafayette Park and Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House remained empty as construction workers prepared to build grandstands for the inaugural parade of his successor.
– Courtney Subramanian and David Jackson
‘The whole city is buzzing’: Scranton celebrates Biden win
Joe Biden’s ascension to the White House holds special significance to Scranton, the northeast Pennsylvania city where the former vice president grew up and which helped tilt the Keystone State in Biden’s favor.
“The whole city is buzzing with energy, and for the past three days, it’s been incredibly stressful for everybody,” said David Connors, 32, speaking from his Scranton home. “It’s been a huge release.”
The city, he said, is protective of those it calls its own - and Biden fits into that category.
“For so many in Scranton, this feels like a local win,” he said. “We know this guy. We know Joe.”
Shortly after the race was called for Biden on Saturday morning, supporters started gathering outside Biden’s childhood home in the city’s Greenridge section, snapping selfies.
Among the group was Connors’ niece Quinn Hemphill, 22, a Scranton-native who was there within an hour of the race being called. She said a group of about 15 were there wearing Biden-Harris t-shirts and kids holding signs reading “Scranton Loves Joe.” The group had grown to roughly 40 by the time she left.
“It’s inspiring to be able to drive 10 minutes to his childhood home that raised an eventual president,” she said.
In Wilmington, Kelly Callahan, 43, has been in the packing lot outside the Chase Center since Tuesday. She found out that CNN had called the race from a member of the foreign press.
“We got the chills, crying, screaming, and then we just screamed and jumped on the back of the truck and screamed, ‘We won!’ And then everybody started screaming, ‘oh my god, oh my god we won,’” she said. “It was quite a scream when it did go up. It was pretty neat.”
She had a sign, reading “Congratulations Mr. President-Elect & Madame Vice President-Elect,” waiting in her car since Election Day — and was finally able to display it on the windshield of her car.
Zach Rossetti, 25, a native of Scranton, Pa., who had also been waiting in the parking lot all week, had “actually given up.” He was on the highway on his way home when his mom called him and told him to turn around. Now, he’s dancing around the parking lot with a Biden flag wrapped around his shoulders. “This is the best moment of my life,” he shouted.
Obama: ‘I could not be prouder’
Former President Barack Obama quickly weighed in on his former No. 2’s White House win.
“I could not be prouder to congratulate our next president, Joe Biden, and our next first lady, Jill Biden. I also couldn’t be prouder to congratulate Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff for Kamala’s groundbreaking election as our next vice president,” Obama said in a statement Saturday.
Obama said Biden’s “got what it takes” to deal with the unprecedented challenges facing the country.
“We’re fortunate that Joe’s got what it takes to be president and already carries himself that way. Because when he walks into the White House in January, he’ll face a series of extraordinary challenges no incoming President ever has – a raging pandemic, an unequal economy and justice system, a democracy at risk, and a climate in peril,” the former president said. “ I know he’ll do the job with the best interests of every American at heart, whether or not he had their vote.”
To the volunteers and activists who helped Biden’s campaign, Obama had this message:
“Your efforts made a difference. Enjoy this moment.”
— Deidre Shesgreen
Harris video goes viral: 'We did it'
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was not with President-elect Joe Biden when they got the news that they were heading to the White House.
But she shared the moment when she told the former vice president of their win to her to 8.5 million followers on Twitter.
“We did it. We did it, Joe. You're gonna be the next president of the United States,” Harris said with a laugh in a phone call to the former vice president. Harris, wearing sunglasses, a sweatshirt and leggings, was outside when making the call.
Biden was called as the winner of the 2020 presidential election on Saturday.
The video on Harris' Twitter account has been retweeted more than 200,000 times and has been liked more than 800,000 times.
— Rebecca Morin
Trump was at Virginia golf club when race was called
When news outlets called the presidential race for Joe Biden on Saturday, President Donald Trump was at his golf course in northern Virginia, just a few miles from the White House.
The president left the White House around 10 a.m. EDT with golf-appropriate shoes, a windbreaker and a white Make America Great Again hat. His motorcade drove by groups of the president’s supporters as well as people holding pro-Biden signs, including one that read “Good Riddance.”
He arrived at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, at 10:39 a.m. The race was called roughly an hour later.
The Associated Press snapped a photo of the president and his golf group.
Giuliani: 'He's not going to concede'
President Donald Trump's attorney dismissed a question about whether the president will concede the presidential race on Saturday, arguing that there are hundreds of thousands of ballots in question.
"Obviously he’s not going to concede when at least 600,000 ballots are in question," Giuliani said in a press conference in Philadelphia.
Giuliani's remarks came less than an hour after Democrat Joe Biden was projected to win the race. He offered no evidence to back up the claim that 600,000 ballots are in question.
— John Fritze
Biden’s home state of Pennsylvania sends him to the White House
From Scranton to the White House: Joe Biden’s home state of Pennsylvania pushed him past the 270 electoral vote to become the 46th president of the United States.
For days, mail-in ballots were being counted in key Democratic strongholds of the state like Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. And with each ballot counted, the former vice president’s lead over President Donald Trump continued to grow.
Biden was sitting at 264 electoral votes, awaiting results from Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia and North Carolina. Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes pushed him over the mark.
The day of the general election, Biden stopped at his childhood home in Scranton’s North Washington Avenue, where he signed the living room wall.
“From This House to the White House, with the Grace of God,” the former vice president wrote, along with his signature and the date, 11-3-2020.
Trump revives baseless claims of election fraud
President Donald Trump refused to concede the election to Democrat Joe Biden Saturday morning, contending the contest is “far from over.” Trump issued the statement minutes after Biden was declared the victor in Pennsylvania, cementing the electoral college victory he needed to become the 46th president of the United States.
“Joe Biden has not been certified as the winner of any states, let alone any of the highly contested states headed for mandatory recounts, or states where our campaign has valid and legitimate legal challenges that could determine the ultimate victor,” the president said in a three-paragraph statement issued by his campaign.
Trump cited Pennsylvania as one example where the campaign believes it has a legal case, claiming “our legal observers were not permitted meaningful access to watch the counting process.”
Trump said he plans to take his fight to the courts.
“I will not rest until the American People have the honest vote count they deserve and that Democracy demands,” he said.
— Ledyard King
Celebrations across the country following Biden's win
Nationwide, people took to the streets in celebration of President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 elections, after he reached the 270 vote minimum to beat President Donald Trump.
Pennsylvania was called for Biden by the Associated Press at around 11:30 a.m. EST, and the response immediately after was swift.
Cheers and car horns honking were heard throughout the streets of America's major metropolitan cities, including New York City, Los Angeles and Philadelphia — which was crucial in clinching the Biden win. Some even busted out bubbly beverages outside.
Biden wins Nevada
Democratic nominee Joe Biden won Nevada despite President Donald Trump’s repeated campaign visits there.
Nevada was called after the presidential race was already called for Biden, who will become the 46th president.
Nevada -- one of the nation’s fastest-growing states -- has become increasingly Democratic in recent elections, a trend that in part has relied on an increase in left-leaning Hispanic voters. With just six electoral college votes, the state had received outsized attention from the presidential candidates.
While Trump played defense in most battlegrounds, he went on offense in Nevada and Minnesota in an effort to take those states away from Democrats.
— Bart Jansen, Anjeanette Damon and James DeHaven
Kamala makes history
California Sen. Kamala Harris will make history as the first woman elected vice president, now that Joe Biden won enough states to capture the White House.
Biden beat Donald Trump four years after Hillary Clinton came up short in her bid to be the first female president.
Harris, 56, was the first African American woman and the first Asian American person on a major party's presidential ticket.
HISTORICAL WIN: Harris breaks glass ceiling as first female vice president
Trump issues statement following Biden's win
“We all know why Joe Biden is rushing to falsely pose as the winner, and why his media allies are trying so hard to help him: they don’t want the truth to be exposed. The simple fact is this election is far from over. Joe Biden has not been certified as the winner of any states, let alone any of the highly contested states headed for mandatory recounts, or states where our campaign has valid and legitimate legal challenges that could determine the ultimate victor. In Pennsylvania, for example, our legal observers were not permitted meaningful access to watch the counting process. Legal votes decide who is president, not the news media.
“Beginning Monday, our campaign will start prosecuting our case in court to ensure election laws are fully upheld and the rightful winner is seated. The American People are entitled to an honest election: that means counting all legal ballots, and not counting any illegal ballots. This is the only way to ensure the public has full confidence in our election. It remains shocking that the Biden campaign refuses to agree with this basic principle and wants ballots counted even if they are fraudulent, manufactured, or cast by ineligible or deceased voters. Only a party engaged in wrongdoing would unlawfully keep observers out of the count room – and then fight in court to block their access.
“So what is Biden hiding? I will not rest until the American People have the honest vote count they deserve and that Democracy demands.”
- President Donald J. Trump
Biden defeats Trump in presidential election
Joe Biden, the former vice president and longtime fixture of national politics, is projected to win the state of Pennsylvania, multiple news organizations declared Saturday.
That means Biden will have the required 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the presidency.
"I am honored and humbled by the trust the American people have placed in me and in Vice President-elect Harris," Biden said in a statement after the projections were announced.
"In the face of unprecedented obstacles, a record number of Americans voted. Proving once again, that democracy beats deep in the heart of America. With the campaign over, it’s time to put the anger and the harsh rhetoric behind us and come together as a nation," he said. "It’s time for America to unite. And to heal."
Biden won a bitterly fought contest for president after vowing to usher in a robust response to the once-in-a-century pandemic and a renewed focus on civility that has been largely absent during four years of chaos and division under President Donald Trump.
Biden’s projected election victory, which was not decided until long after some Democrat and pollsters had predicted, would put the nation on an entirely different course after voters selected one of the most unconventional presidents in history to shake up Washington just four years earlier.
The Democrat, making his third run at the White House this year, campaigned on a promise of expanding access to health care and investing in middle-class jobs while combating the COVID-19 pandemic with a more vigorous response from the federal government. He promised to restore international relations with allies in Europe and Asia whom Trump bickered with, while confronting adversaries he argued Trump coddled in Russia, China and North Korea.
But by far the biggest difference between the two men was stylistic: Biden had run largely on his character and temperament, offering it as a contrast to the bombastic, unconventional approach Trump has taken to the presidency for the past four years. Biden essentially proposed to rebuild a functioning federal government based on his experience as vice president under President Barack Obama and his 36 years in the Senate representing Delaware.
He contrasted his approach with Trump’s lack of a national plan to address the coronavirus pandemic, and the president’s inability to broker a compromise with Democrats in Congress to deliver additional stimulus to millions of Americans who were left jobless by the pandemic.
Throughout the course of the campaign, Trump tried to frame Biden as far left – a “socialist” in his words – despite the former vice president’s long career as a centrist in Washington and the fact he ran to the right of more liberal candidates in the primary, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. Biden never embraced a “Medicare for All” system of health care or the so-called Green New Deal for the environment backed by liberals.
– Bart Jansen
New vote totals show Trump gaining on Biden in Arizona
President Donald Trump is gaining on Democratic challenger Joe Biden in Arizona but it might not be enough.
The latest batch of votes released around 11 a.m. EDT showed Trump getting 26,992 and Biden receiving 19,513, which dropped the former vice president’s lead to 20,573 out of nearly 3.3 million cast.
This is the last large release of results expected from Maricopa County, which has 70% of the state's population.
Arizona had about 171,000 votes entering Saturday. with roughly 123,000 votes left to count. that means Trump will have to win about 60% of the remaining votes to catch Biden.
– Ledyard King and The Arizona Republic
Pennsylvania expected to update vote count Saturday morning
Pennsylvania is set to release its latest batch of newly tabulated votes as the presidential count creeps into its fifth day.
Former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump in the Keystone State by 28,877 out of more than 6.6 million votes cast. A little more than 89,000 ballots remain to be counted, according to the State Department website.
Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald told CNN that Pittsburgh still has about 20,000 mail ballots to count – and about 17,000 provisional ballots. He said both of those ballot categories are trending about 80% for Democratic candidate Joe Biden.
If the margin holds or expands, that would give Biden the 20 electoral votes he needs to reach 270 and win the presidency.
Pennsylvania is one of five states that have yet to be called.
Biden has secured 264 electoral votes and President Donald Trump has won 214 electoral votes. Biden could reach the threshold with a win in one of these states: Nevada, Georgia, Pennsylvania or North Carolina. Trump would need wins in all of those states.
– Ledyard King, USA TODAY and Scott Fisher, USA TODAY Network Pennsylvania Capitol Bureau
Where the presidential election stands as of Saturday morning
Georgia: Biden’s lead has grown to slightly more than 7,000 votes with provisional ballots still to be counted. Regardless, the state is headed to a mandated run-off under its election rules.
Nevada: The Silver State has counted about 87% of its vote, with results still coming in from Clark County, the state's most populous county that leans Democratic. Biden has been leading in the state by nearly two percentage points, over 22,600 votes. Updates are expected around noon EST Saturday.
North Carolina: Biden trails Trump by more than 70,000 votes, but as many as 150,000 more absentee ballots have yet to be counted. Most analysts expect Trump to win.
Alaska, with three electoral votes, also has yet to be called. And Arizona, which the Trump campaign still believes is in play, is expected to provide an update around 11 EST from Maricopa (Phoenix), its largest county.
Biden in a speech on Friday said he was on the verge of winning.
"We don't have a final declaration, a victory yet, but the numbers tell us a clear and convincing story: We're going to win this race," the Democratic nominee said in a speech Friday night.
Meanwhile, the Trump campaign is pursuing a number of legal challenges as updated vote totals in several states point to a narrowing path to victory.
Trump campaign legal fund also used to pay down debt
Over the last four days, the Trump campaign, as well as the Republican National Committee, have sent a flurry of text messages and emails urging supporters to contribute to the president's court challenges.
But a disclaimer on the website states that 50% of any donation will go toward the campaign's general election debt retirement and the other half toward the campaign's recount account, The Wall Street Journal first reported.
A separate fundraising effort by the "Trump Make America Great Again Committee" states that 60% of contributions will go toward campaign debt while 40% goes to the RNC.
"President Trump is FIGHTING BACK to defend the integrity of this Election, but he can't do it alone," one email reads. "He needs YOU to step up and join him by contributing to our critical Election Defense Fund."
Joe Biden's campaign has also launched a fundraising effort in anticipation of a drawn-out legal battle. While the fine print does not include any disclaimer about retiring campaign debt, it does indicate that a portion of the donation would go toward the Democratic National Committee and the remainder would benefit the former vice president's recount account.
USA TODAY has reached out to both campaigns for comment. The RNC and DNC typically play a key role in supporting election litigation efforts.
– Courtney Subramanian
Biden remains close to required electoral college votes
Democratic nominee Joe Biden is still in need of six or more electoral college votes to push him to the required threshold of 270 needed to win the presidency.
As it stands, Biden has secured 264 electoral votes from presidential races in states that have been called, and President Donald Trump has won 214 electoral votes. Biden could reach the threshold with a win in one of these states: Nevada, Georgia, Pennsylvania or North Carolina. Trump would need wins in all of those states.
Which states haven't been called yet?
While there are several states still counting ballots, eyes are on a few battleground states that remain uncalled: Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Alaska also has not been called but is more likely than not to go for Trump.
In Georgia, Biden gained the lead over President Donald Trump early Friday morning. Over 4,000 votes currently separate the two candidates, or about 0.1%, as of 4 a.m. EST Saturday. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, said Friday morning the state would have a recount because of the slim election margin.
Nevada, meanwhile, has counted about 87% of its vote, with results still coming in from Clark County, the state's most populous county that leans Democratic. Biden has been leading in the state by nearly two percentage points, over 22,600 votes. Updates are expected throughout the weekend.
More:Why ballot-counting in Nevada is dragging on
Pennsylvania sees Biden leading by a margin of 0.4%, more than 28,800 votes. He surged ahead of Trump on Friday as results were updated with mail ballot counts that heavily favored the former vice president.
North Carolina, where Biden still trails by more than 70,000 votes, remains uncalled as election officials prepare to count late-arriving absentee ballots over the coming days. The outcome might not be final for another week as election officials count what could be more than 150,000 more absentee ballots.
Trump seeks to undermine Biden's lead with uncertain legal strategy
Trump's tweets on Friday showed he sees the courts as his best path forward to reelection, but experts say his campaign's lawsuits in battleground states lack a discernible strategy.
"I had such a big lead in all of these states late into election night, only to see the leads miraculously disappear as the days went by," Trump tweeted, reiterating a claim that has been widely debunked for days. "Perhaps these leads will return as our legal proceedings move forward!"
Trump's new campaign:Flurry of election lawsuits in search of strategy
Trump's early lead was reversed in key states because officials counted in-person, day-of votes first, and those favored Trump. But after the president spent months pushing baseless claims that mail-in voting leads to widespread fraud, record numbers of mail ballots were enough to give Biden the lead in most of the remaining battlegrounds. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9654942750930786, "wiki_prob": 0.9654942750930786, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1006573"} |
World Wildlife Day and Fish For The Future
Today, World Wildlife Day is celebrated under the theme “Recovering key species for ecosystem restoration”. The underwater ecosystem dominates the surface of the earth with oceans, coral reefs, and estuaries covering about three-quarters of the Earth’s surface area. The world’s oceans contain the richest diversity of species of any space on Earth, while marine algae absorb a large amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide and provide the majority of the earth’s oxygen supply.
Our oceans are an infinite source of wonder. However, the prevalence of unsustainable fishing practices in the seas has impacted marine biodiversity through habitat destruction. The Fish For The Future pillar of The Datai Pledge seeks to address threats and imbalances to marine ecosystems. Integral to these initiatives is the recognition that all the different audiences need to benefit – nature, fisheries, fishers, and tourism.
Research indicates that although Malaysian reefs have a relatively high average level of live coral cover at 44.26%, a decline has been recorded over recent years. This is largely due to human impact such as over-fishing, pollution, coastal development, and climate change.
The Fish For The Future programmes have focused their efforts on the conservation and propagation of coral reefs and the marine life which these reefs support. The first initiative was the insertion of five Artificial Reefs in Datai Bay; steel devices that provide a safe haven for fish to feed and populate as well as a settlement site for coral larvae and rehabilitated corals from our Coral Nursery.
We have worked with the Department of Fisheries Malaysia, who have been sponsoring coral frames and coral nubbins to plant on such frames and our Artificial Reefs.
Another initiative is the Coral Restoration Programme, an ongoing effort by our team of marine biologists consisting of Coral Rescue, Rehab, and Replant initiatives in Datai Bay to aid in conservation and research work.
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Grammys: Joan Rivers Left Out of ‘In Memoriam’ Tribute
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The 2015 Grammy Awards Melissa Rivers accepted her mom’s prize — best spoken word album for Diary of a Mad Diva — at the Grammy Premiere Ceremony before the telecast. “If my mother was here tonight, she would not only be honored and thrilled to win, she would most likely have [the trophy] copied and on the air on QVC by 11,” Rivers quipped in true Joan fashion.
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While it was Joan’s first Grammy win, she was nominated once before, with a 1984 best comedy album nod for What Becomes a Semi-Legend Most? Another comedian who died this year, Robin Williams, was included in the segment, though he won five Grammys before his death.
Billboard‘s request for comment was unanswered by the Grammys at press time.
There are often omissions in awards-show “in memoriam” segments. Just last year, Slayer’s Jeff Hanneman was left out of the montage, and Alice in Chain’s Mike Starr was left out of the tribute in 2012, the year after he died.
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Fingal’s best young entrepreneurs make it to County Final
€50,000 investment fund to be won by six young entrepreneurs in the county, aged between 18 and 35
The search to find Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur (IBYE) is advancing to the County Final stage, which takes place on Thursday 30th November in County Hall, Main Street, Swords and is being organised by Local Enterprise Office Fingal.
IBYE, which has a €2 million investment fund, is run by all 31 Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) and is supported by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation and Enterprise Ireland.
At the upcoming IBYE County Final on Wednesday 30th November, Local Enterprise Office Fingal has an investment fund of €50,000 to award to six local entrepreneurs across three categories: Best Business Idea, Best Start-Up Business and Best Established Business.
IBYE Co-ordinator - Anne Donaldson, Head of Enterprise in Fingal – Oisín Geoghegan, Entrepreneurs Academy – Noel Davidson and Chief Executive of Fingal County Council – Paul Reid.
Over 100 Fingal IBYE applicants were invited to the prestigious business networking event “Celebrating Entrepreneurship”, with Mayor of Fingal, Cllr. Mary McCamley and Chief Executive of Fingal County Council, Paul Reid.
The competition is now in its fourth year and Oisin Geoghegan, Head of Enterprise with Local Enterprise Office Fingal said that the standard of entries is higher than ever. “The exceptionally high standard of entries will make the competition tough and challenging, but it will also help bring out the full potential of entrants and inspire them to succeed whether they win at the County Final stage or not. We see the IBYE initiative as a springboard for young entrepreneurs here locally, who want to start or expand a business. They will have the support of their Local Enterprise Office all year around.”
The fifteen finalists selected from over 100 applications are: in the Best Idea category, Alan Griffin of Portmarnock, Suzanne Culleton of Malahide, Orla McLaughlin of Baldoyle, Kevin Kelleher of Malahide and Justin Perry of Portmarnock. In the Best Start-Up category: Sean Murray of WeBringg from Castleknock, Liam Brennan of ScoobyBox from Baldoyle, Bernard Nolan of MediMe from Malahide, Marck Kulik of Smart Trace Ltd from Malahide and Agnes Chvojka of Aggies Food Studio from Castleknock. In the Best Established category: Gary Egan of Egan Mechanical Services from Clonee, Emma Smith of FX Makeup Academy from Malahide, Ryan Scott of Drop Chef from Sutton, Seamus Tighe of Everest Granola from Blanchardstown and finally Mark Coleman of The Hot Seat from Rush.
Paul Reid Chief Executive of Fingal County Council said “Fingal has the youngest and fastest growing population in the country, with a growth of 8% in the last five years. It is essential to Fingal’s continued economic prosperity that job creation and business start-ups continue to be supported and allowed to grow, and this scheme provides a tried and tested channel for young entrepreneurs to succeed.”.
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RAF Dallachy Strike Wing – exploring Moray’s war-time past
Considering RAF Dallachy, you may be already aware that Scotland is pretty well interpreted from a visitor point of view. Sometimes though, the past is overlooked, its memorials too easily passed by.
Park in many designated carparks and you find the inevitable panorama or information board – history, geology, nature conservation and wildlife are just some of the usual themes.
Yes, we are pretty good at these – though many now belong to that era when local councils and tourism groups had a bit of cash for such tourism fripperies, say, a couple of decades back.
Some of these ‘information points’ are getting a bit time-worn. But, overall, we are still pretty good at interpretation for visitors, as part of our ‘tourism infrastructure’.
However, there are still places where you have to dig around – or just be very observant – to find out the significance of a place.
The east bank of the River Spey looking upstream from the mouth. RAF Dallachy lay beyond the trees, on the far left.
Spey Bay For Dolphins
Take for example, the mouth of the River Spey in the old county of Moray. Summer haunt of ospreys, hunting grounds for our unpredictable Moray Firth dolphins, the estuary here has a carpark at the road end that is nearly always busy.
The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society have a wee café and gift shop here.
Inevitably there are – yes – information panels, to waylay the shingle-beach strollers and earnest tooried birdwatchers. (Eh? Oh, a toorie is what I call a woolly hat with a bobble or tassel.)
Just about every car though, en route to the River Spey estuary carpark, has passed by another informative feature, though few will have stopped there.
This one isn’t in weatherproof plastic or acrylic or whatever they make info boards out of. (That was never my problem. I just had to write ‘em sometimes.)
No, this informative place has some of its wording in gilt letters, carved in stone.
RAF Dallachy Strike Wing Memorial
It should still be there when all these other plastic panels have crumbled and faded away. It is the solemn memorial to RAF Dallachy, an RAF Coastal Command Strike Wing airfield.
You can find it on the east side of the road at the strung-out little village of Bogmoor.
Probably the red of poppy wreaths will catch your eye.
Dallachy – A Strike Wing airfield
What is left of the taxiways and runways is just a few minutes walk away.
There are no other information panels in the immediate vicinity. Only a curious foursquare mostly boarded up structure in a barley field. This was the control tower.
Deviate from the main A96-to-Spey-Bay road (the B9104) via the cosy bungalows and cottages of the wee settlement of Nether Dallachy and you will find yourself driving round what was the perimeter track of the old airfield.
At several points the distinct bow-shape of dispersal points on either side of the road are quite plain, though I don’t imagine that folk, unless they look at the Google street view of the Spey Bay area, recognise them for what they are.
Beaufighter Road
But just imagine, if you had come along this way over 70 years ago. You would have been within the airfield boundary and you might have met, coming the other way, a flight of taxiing aircraft, each with two big radial engines roaring.
There’s a westerly blowing and you might have seen them reach the eastern side of the field, turn into wind and take off.
Imagine, the crew probably glimpsing the River Spey below them, with its braided estuary channels, before they began their turn out, over and beyond the big shingle beaches that run round to Lossiemouth.
Then it was away to the north-east because the planes were bound for Norway.
Dallachy Strike Wig Memorial wording. Drama and death distilled into a paragraph or two.
Some of the young men who flew were already far from their own land, because 404 Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force was here, as was 455 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force and 489 Squadron Royal New Zealand Air Force, as well as units from home.
And, especially, if somehow you had seen them take off on the 9th February 1945, you would have seen aircraft that left the ground, in this tranquil stretch of coastal Moray, and never returned.
Neither did the young men who flew them. That date, almost at the end of World War II, became known as Black Friday in the annals of Coastal Command, when the Dallachy crews suffered their greatest loss of any Strike Wing in a single operation.
What is left of the RAF Dallachy control tower, lost in the barley-fields of rural Moray. Bin Hill of Cullen on the right.
But that is another story, though well documented should you choose to explore it – with even marine archaeology playing its part in unravelling what happened that day in Førde Fjord, far across the North Sea.
(See, for example, tv series, “Secrets of the Deep: WWII Beaufighters” Season 2 Episode 1.)
But if you are wandering down to the mouth of the Spey, on the east side, look out for the memorial at Bogmoor. Park, if you can.
Walk through the gate that leads to the control tower. Maybe even walk a bit of the perimeter track.
Oi! Get off that bike – the concrete hasn’t set yet! One of several moments frozen in time on the runway at RAF Dallachy.
Look closely both on the southern perimeter track and at the western end of the main runway and there are the tiniest glimpses of the past.
These presumably date from the winter of 1942-3 when the runways were under construction.
Set into the concrete are footprints: a naughty dog or two, a tentative roe deer and a few enquiring birds (probably crows), as well as the hobnail boots of someone I like to think of as the foreman of the concrete laying squad.
There are bike tracks as well, including one who seems to have got off his machine when he realised he was leaving his mark.
I like to imagine him as ground-crew perhaps, with the civilian workmen in the squad shouting at him to get off their latest bit of cement-laying!
Today, it’s a tranquil scene, with the birds of summer, the yellowhammers and whitethroats, singing. There are now abandoned bits of farm machinery and silage bales on concrete hard standings that once saw busy ground crews working to keep their aircraft at readiness.
Admittedly, the east ends of both runways are disappearing under less than picturesque heaps of tangled metal – the working materials of a recycling centre.
And then there is that forlorn control tower with its ghosts.
Where the planes once thundered past, the runway has returned to nature – knapweed, yellow-rattle, vetch and, most poignant of all, the bluebells of Scotland, have found a home.
The main accommodation blocks were on the higher ground to the south. Their remains – mostly just foundations – are now deep within woodland.
But you can still see the outlines of the huts, sometimes with broken porcelain plumbing scattered around, as well as air-raid shelters.
To be honest, it’s slightly spooky – made worse on the occasion during a winter dog walk there when the dog wouldn’t budge as soon as I entered the wood.
Refused to come another step. Spooked me, let me tell you! Just saying.
Mind you, he is a comfort-loving Border Terrier.
Anyway, today there is the memorial, there is the control tower and the silent vanishing runways. And a street called Beaufighter Road which runs into the village of Nether Dallachy and along much of the northern and eastern parts of the old airfield perimeter.
More information on RAF Dallachy in the Fochabers Folk Museum
Beaufighter seat from Norwegian fjord. Red arrow marks cannon shell impact. Makes you think…
Just a few minutes’ drive from Dallachy, the community museum at Fochabers has a lot of background on the wartime role of the airfield.
It also has the sobering exhibit of a Beaufighter crew seat with a cannon-shell hole in it – from the ‘Black Friday’ operation mentioned above.
The shell wounded navigator F/O ‘Spike’ Holly and their aircraft crash-landed in a fjord.
Holly and his pilot P/O P.C. Smith were taken prisoner. Lots more detail in the highly recommended museum – and information on 144 Squadron RAF on the (currently not secure) website http://aircrewremembered.com/smith-percival.html
Along with some other relics from the crash site, the seat was recovered from the fjord by Norwegian divers in 1979 – and actually given to F/O Holly!
Those Strike Wing crews were based in rural Moray for the last six months of the war. And they flew off across the grey sea and saw and did terrifying things amid the mountains and fjords of occupied Norway.
Worth a few minutes of your time, just to remember them, wouldn’t you say…before you go down to the peaceful and endlessly-flowing River Spey, in case the Moray Firth dolphins are about?
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Turtles and a Bird, March 13, 2021
Saturday's Critters, Weekend Reflections, and I'd Rather B Birdin'
Lee County, Mississippi, USA, March 12, 2021
The turtles are out - it must be Spring!
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The American Kestrel, Falco sparverius, is easy to identify by the two dark marks on the side of its face.
I hope you have a nice, peaceful, happy weekend!
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RedPat March 13, 2021 at 12:30 PM
The turtles sure know how to suck up the sunshine!
eileeninmd March 13, 2021 at 1:04 PM
Oh wow, that is a lot of turtles. Maybe they are doing a line dance. Nice sighting and photo of the Kestrel. Thank you for linking up and sharing your post! Take care, have a happy weekend! PS, thank you for the comment on my post.
Villrose March 13, 2021 at 2:25 PM
Turtles! I love them :)
William Kendall March 13, 2021 at 2:57 PM
Quite a lot of turtles!
~Lavender Dreamer~ March 13, 2021 at 3:13 PM
Wow! Look how many turtles you saw! And we love the Kestrel, he's small but so majestic!
Marie Smith March 13, 2021 at 6:36 PM
Wonderful photos of the turtles!
Small City Scenes March 13, 2021 at 10:38 PM
Oh my gosh, look at them turtles. Wow! Kestrals are super cool
Anni March 14, 2021 at 7:10 AM
I haven't noticed any turtles around here. Enjoyed seeing your out, sunning themselves. And the Kestrel...one of my favorites! Have a glorious week ahead & thanks so much for linking up at IRBB this week!
David M. Gascoigne, March 14, 2021 at 7:38 AM
The turtle convention is great to see!
Phil Slade March 14, 2021 at 9:06 AM
So many turtles. It makes me wonder how many turtles live in that lake, and also, there must be an awful lot of food for the turtled to sustain so many through their upcoming breeding season.
Ella March 14, 2021 at 9:14 AM
I can only see so many turtles at the zoo! 🐢
The American Kestrel is very beautiful!
Yvonne March 14, 2021 at 3:56 PM
That's a ton of turtles for that once lonely log. Great photos.
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Crafting A Student Short: An Interview With 2 SVA MFA Computer Arts Alumni
By Cartoon Brew Connect | 03/27/2018 1:27 pm | Be the First to Comment!
Two 2017 graduates of School of Visual Arts’ MFA Computer Arts department recently sat down with a current student, Devan Worth [Graduate Student at School of Visual Arts, MFA Computer Arts, with anticipated graduation in 2019], and offered insights into their creative process, the making of their thesis short films, and experiences in school and out.
Making A Student Short: An Interview With 2 SVA MFA Computer Arts Alumni
by Devan Worth
Perhaps the hardest part of learning animation, with all the software, techniques, and even just the hotkeys you will need to drill into your head, is not knowing if any of it will be enough to keep viewers of your work interested and engaged – or at least get your message across.
Last week, I had the opportunity to speak with two recent alumni of School of Visual Arts’ MFA Computer Arts, Ninaad Kulkarni and Kirsten Cho, who have both had tremendous success showing their graduate short films at many important festivals and award ceremonies. Being a first-year student only months away from working on my own thesis, I pried into their creative minds about how their films came to be, and how they have grown from the experiences of making them.
Devan Worth: At SVA you were both just arriving in New York City and suddenly taking a full schedule of classes, even while you worked on your theses. Was this at all challenging? What were your courses like?
Kirsten Cho: For me, [moving to New York City] was the biggest challenge in my life, because at that time I knew nobody here and I couldn’t speak English as well … I felt I had to do everything by myself, but at the same time it was the biggest step for my career as a designer.
[In our discussion, Kirsten further noted that Production Issues courses really helped with her thesis, noting that her professors during her thesis year were especially helpful in compositing her film and correcting mistakes each week. Both Kirsten and Ninaad reminisced over courses like Animation Culture and Digital Matte Painting, which both introduce exciting contemporary and classic works of animation history, and require students to reproduce similar pieces.]
Ninaad Kulkarni: The hardest thing, I would say, was trying to make the most out of what everything SVA MFA Computer Arts offers. As you know there are three different tracks – Animation, Motion Graphics, and Fine Art – and I wanted to do all of them! Because they are all amazing and two years is just not enough.
[Ninaad also recounted taking over nine extra courses, through audits and workshops, during his time at the school with topics including cinematography, vr storytelling, and 2d animation.]
What was the hardest part of your process overall?
Cho: When I was in Korea, I’d only handled 2d software, such as After Effects. I learned Cinema 4D here… Now I use it all the time, but before being here I didn’t know any 3d at all.
[Kirsten went on to explain that not only did she build the majority of her film in Cinema 4D, but animated and rendered in Cinema 4D as well for two months. Having just learned the software in less than a year at SVA before producing her film, her accomplishments are all the more impressive. Some of her major accomplishments include the Student Academy Awards, the Adobe Design Achievement Awards, and the AT&T Film Awards for which she won the first prize. “I needed to do everything by myself so,” she added about her thesis experience,” from writing the story, to making the storyboards, and animatics, modeling, texturing, animation, lighting, rendering, and compositing. It was hard, yeah!”]
Kulkarni: One of the biggest challenges is to learn and unlearn when you’re coming here – you come in with the mindset that you know a lot of stuff, I think a lot of us have done some work in the past, but if you come with that mindset you’re not going to take a lot from here.
Was there any part of the process you found to be the most fun?
Kulkarni: Thesis semesters are definitely the toughest and the most fun. You have a good combination of sleepless nights and eureka moments… You know, when you are working all night, it’s four in the morning, you have not moved an inch in your project, and suddenly something sparks up and you’ve cracked it! Then from there it’s just two months of dedicated work on that one thing. That was what made it fun.
Cho: I like everything I’ve done, but if I have to choose one I would say the story part. I could imagine anything I wanted, like what if we can choose our baby’s personality? What if this would happen… what if that could happen… that was the most interesting part.
Kirsten Cho won a Student Academy Award for her short “E-delivery.”
How are things different now, in terms of your work, having graduated from SVA MFA Computer Arts?
Kulkarni: [My work] has definitely taken leaps and bounds, jumps ahead. [laughs] I knew what I wanted when I came for this masters, but I was very surprised with how much there was to offer, not only from the city but the instructors. And the response we’ve gotten at festivals is just amazing, I would say for both of us.
Cho: Right. [laughs]
Kulkarni: The good thing about SVA too, is that they take you through the back-end as well. So something that would be so tedious becomes just a simple Python script. Simple tasks like applying a certain attribute to, say, 100 trees in my scene – before I would have been going through each tree to apply that attribute, where now it’s just a script.
Not only teaching the fundamentals of creative tools like Cinema 4D and Autodesk Maya, but delving deeper into the code and hardware that make such programs possible is an essential part of the curriculum. Doing so allows students like myself to change comfortably between very different programs with the same fundamental knowledge of the code to expedite my workflow.
Cho: I can handle lots of programs [now], like C4D and After Effects, which I like the most.
How has it been taking your films around to festivals? Have you gotten any particularly interesting reactions?
Kulkarni: Yes actually! I suppose the film is about science in some way, but I would have never thought the science community would accept it in that sense – it recently screened at the Raw Science Film Festival, where I got to rub shoulders with astronauts who had showed up, and [Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist] Kip Thorne… It was amazing how a three-minute piece is being accepted by these people.
Cho: I think there are mainly two different kinds of reactions [to my film]; some people just think it’s fun, because my film has some of sense of humor, but others take the film very seriously, which is kind of scary!
[Kirsten talked about how one part of the SVA curriculum required her to synopsize and pitch her project to several staff members and instructors as she was making the film. Having to go through several feedback sessions and representing the piece to so many people, she began to feel more confident in presenting her work internationally, where she has won over 25 nominations and awards.]
Kulkarni: It’s one thing to make a film but I’ve realized it’s a different job to represent your project; the school has poised us as professionals in the industry. It has really made us ready to represent ourselves whether it’s the Museum of Modern Art, where my film screened, or the Woodstock Film Festival, or any of these festivals. To give a face to your work – thats something that they’ve done really well.
Memorabilia from the film festival run of Ninaad Kulkarni’s short “KCLOC.”
What I really admire in both of the films is that you can really feel that these were things you were thinking deeply on at the time – where would you say that inspiration came from?
Kulkarni: For me, I was trying to compare how different where I come from is from New York City. Of course that was based on many conversations I was having with friends from here, but there was this constant lack of time that forced me to investigate. So it started from there, and it was only later in the process I realized it was not about my perception of time, but how I could gather various perspectives on it, and how I can tell my perspective through those voices. So that’s how KCLOC came about for me.
Cho: I just wanted to critique the state of humanity. Nowadays people are really bound by machines likes smartphones and computers, and I want to show our potential future to all of them. [Visually, I] was looking to emulate some of my favorite 3d artists, getting the machines just right and movements into rhythm.
Would you go back and tweak anything in your films?
Cho: No! It’s done! [laughs]
Kulkarni: Partially yes. I mean I don’t think I’ve ever looked at a project and been like, ‘That is perfect.’ I’ve seen it at so many festivals now, and I spot so many problems in it, which of course I won’t highlight because everyone would know what the problems are. [laughter] I would never go back to the project – I would try to implement it in the next project – and that’s what drives you to do more work, and better work.
Before wrapping up our discussion and leaving me to start thinking and planning for my own thesis, Ninaad offered me a touching piece of advice, which I think carries beyond SVA and to any student of animation: “You’re going to be fine once you are finished here, and you will never stop learning. It’s just a matter of doing what you want to do and what you set yourself up to do.
Ninaad is currently involved in several exciting projects, including a virtual reality collaboration between Bill Plympton and SVA MFA Computer Arts, a personal vr project concerning the partition of India and Pakistan, and a commitment to host the upcoming NAB Show Live Animation panel. Tune in and be sure to watch his thesis film, KCLOC, as it continues to tour.
Kirsten is currently freelancing animated motion graphic design, having just completed a design for the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics. You can watch her film and other work here.
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The Jim Henson Hour Smokey Robinson “Health and Fitness” Muppets
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The Jim Henson Hour, starring the Muppets, was an hour-long prime-time anthology series for NBC which showcased for a variety of Jim Henson Productions’ television work, including fantasy productions like The Storyteller. The short-lived series aired over the course of four months in 1989.
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Umariha, Raipur(k) (Rewa), Madhya Pradesh
Schools in UMARIHA
About PS UMARIHA 61
PS UMARIHA 61 was established in 1962 and it is managed by the Department of Education. It is located in Rural area. It is located in RAIPUR(K) block of REWA district of Madhya Pradesh. The school consists of Grades from 1 to 5. The school is Co-educational and it doesn't have an attached pre-primary section. The school is Not Applicable in nature and is not using school building as a shift-school. Hindi is the medium of instructions in this school. This school is approachable by all weather road. In this school academic session starts in April.
The school has Government building. It has got 4 classrooms for instructional purposes. All the classrooms are in good condition. It has 2 other rooms for non-teaching activities. The school has a separate room for Head master/Teacher. The school has No Boundary Wall boundary wall. The school has doesn't have electric connection. The source of Drinking Water in the school is Hand Pumps and it is functional. The school has 0 boys toilet and it is functional. and 0 girls toilet and it is functional. The school has no playground. The school has a library and has 104 books in its library. The school does not need ramp for disabled children to access classrooms.The school has no computers for teaching and learning purposes The school is not having a computer aided learning lab. The school is Provided and Prepared in School Premises providing mid-day meal.
PS SUBHASH TOLA DUARI(CLOSE) PS DHAKHRA(CLOSE) PS MANPUR PS HARI.BASTI DWARI MS BOYS DWARI PS BOYS DWARI PS DAI TOLA DUARI PS UMARIHA-61 PS LARH PS BELA (ITAR)
Village / Town: Umariha
Cluster: Hss Dwari
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District: Rewa
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Annual Literary Agents Panel: What Writers Must Know About Working With Representation Today — and Tomorrow
In a fast-changing marketplace, it’s more important than ever to have an advocate to fight for you when going the route of traditional publishing.
This annual program again presents writers with a panel of stellar Southern California agents who will provide a look at their world today.
We’ll cover what you need to know to find the right representative, how to get their attention, “do’s and don’ts,” what kind of feedback you can expect to receive, and the steps you should take to create the strongest and longest-lasting relationships with writers and editors — as well as touch on what the future of the author/agent relationship will be in our new era of publishing, film/cable, and technology.
We will also have a top Hollywood motion picture and TV agent who specializes in working with newer writers, for those who are pursuing screenwriting rather than (or in addition to) book writing. And we’ll be examining the E-book factor, transitioning from self-publishing to traditional publishing, book-to-film deals, and more. Come join us!
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AGENTS UPDATE 2011: What You Need to Know to Be a Savvy Player in Today’s Publishing Game
Robin Quinn
In a changing marketplace, it’s more important than ever to have an advocate to fight for you when going the route of traditional publishing.
Our May program presents a panel of stellar Los Angeles agents and a prominent literary attorney who will provide a look at their world today. We’ll cover what you need to know to find the right representative, how to get their attention, and the steps you should take to create the strongest relationship. In addition, we’ll look at hot genres like YA, self-publishing’s influence on the book market, the ebook factor, and what you need to know to be a savvy player in the publishing game in 2011.
We also have a manager of screenwriters to cover representation when writing for film and TV. Come join us for insider insights into an ever-evolving world!
Moderator: Robin Quinn
Ashley Grayson and Carolyn Grayson — Grayson Literary Agency
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Ivan Hoffman — Literary Attorney
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Time For Strawberry Sumac Cake — And A Very Special Cookbook
Posted on August 8, 2022 by foodgal 4 comments
Sumac and strawberries make for a fabulous marriage in this moist, tender cake.
It still boggles my mind that more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on June 19, 1865, the state of Texas finally “learned” that all slaves were now free, becoming the last state in the Confederacy to recognize that action. Even then, some plantation owners refused to acknowledge the edict, and kept their slaves to work one more harvest.
A year later, though, Black Texans were finally able to rejoice in their freedom with food, music, and dance at the first Juneteenth celebrations.
Now comes the first cookbook to showcase Juneteenth. “Watermelon & Red Birds” (Simon & Schuster), of which I received a review copy, is by Nicole A. Taylor, a food writer who splits her time between New York City and Georgia, and produced the short documentary, “If We So Choose,” about the desegregation of an iconic southern fast-food joint.
The cookbook title refers not only to the native-born African fruit, but to the African American and Native American belief that red birds flying through the skies represent ancestors returning to spread luck.
Each chapter begins with an essay that reflects on Black culture and history. The recipes represent convivial food and drink shaped by both the traditional African American table and today’s modern sensibilities.
Not cinnamon sugar, but sumac sugar gets sprinkled all over the top while the cake is still warm from the oven.
Enjoy everything from “Watermelon Ginger Beer,” “Rodeo Turkey Legs,” and “Peach & Molasses Chicken” to novel creations like “Hisbiscus Sichuan Snow Cones” and “Radish & Ginger Pound Cake.”
Red sumac berries (dried and ground here) were a staple for Indigenous and Black Americans in the South.
“Strawberry Sumac Cake” caught my eye for its use of the Middle Eastern-Mediterranean spice that’s usually used in savory dishes.
The reddish-brown powdered spice has a fruity tang. It’s reminiscent of tamarind or — if I’m being honest — of Pixy Stix, that powdered candy of my childhood that came inside paper straws.
Here, it’s used in both the batter and in the sugar topping that gets sprinkled all over the top of the cake after baking.
The batter for this cake includes a good measure of yellow cornmeal to give it a pleasant gritty, hearty texture. But there’s enough all-purpose, too, to give it tenderness. There’s also a generous amount of olive oil, which ensures a rich, moist cake.
Strawberry halves get arranged over the top before baking.
Chopped strawberries flavored with a little sugar, sumac, and almond extract get gently stirred into the batter. After filling your round baking pan with it, strawberry halves then get arranged all over the top.
I don’t know if I’d necessarily know that sumac is in the batter by just eating the cake, itself. However, once the final garnish of sumac-sugar gets dusted all over the top, the tangy fruitness of the spice comes through more clearly. It’s not necessarily sour tasting, but adds a gentle twang that heightens the taste of the strawberries. In fact, if you’re like me and like a slightly more pronounced acidic note, add a pinch more than the 1/4 teaspoon sumac called for to the 2 tablespoons sugar that make up the topping. I added that suggestion to the recipe below.
The cake — and the book — are a celebration that’s been a long time coming.
With summer berries at their peak, now’s the time to indulge in this lovely cake.
Strawberry Sumac Cake
(Makes one 9-inch pan; serves 6 to 8)
For strawberries:
1 cup chopped hulled fresh strawberries (1-inch dice), plus 1 cup strawberries, halved
1 teaspoon ground sumac
1 cup plus 1 tablespoon “everyday” olive oil
1 cup stone ground yellow cornmeal
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 cup half-and-half
1/4 teaspoon ground sumac (or a dash more if you like it a little tangier)
For the strawberries: Combine the diced strawberries,, sumac, sugar, and almond extract in a small bowl and set aside to macerate while you’re preparing the cake.
For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9-inch round cake pan or springform pan with 1 tablespoon olive oil.
In a large bowl, whisk together the all-purpose flour, cornmeal, salt, baking soda, and baking powder to combine. Set aside.
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment or in a medium bowl using a handheld mixer, beat the eggs and 1 cup sugar on medium-high speed until very pale and light yellow in color, about 3 minutes. The mixture should thicken and make ribbons that slowly lose their shape when they fall off the whisk attachment. With the mixer on high speed, slowly add the remaining 1 cup olive oil and beat until everything is combined and the mixture is thickened further.
Reduce the speed to medium-low ans lowly begin adding the dry ingredients in three additions, adding the half-and-half halfway through. Mix until just combined.
Remove the bowl from the stand mixer and fold in the diced strawberries and their liquid. Pour the batter into the prepared pan, smoothing the top with a spatula. Arrange the halved strawberries on the top. Bake for 40 to 50 minutes, until the cake is golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
In a small bowl, mix the remaining 2 tablespoons sugar with the sumac. Sprinkle the cake with the sumac sugar while still slightly warm.
Allow the cake to cool in the pan on a wire rack for 20 minutes. Turn the cake out of the pan onto the rack or release the springform ring and remove it. Let cool completely before serving. Store leftover cake in an airtight container or wrapped in plastic wrap at room temperature for up to 4 days.
Adapted from “Watermelon & Red Birds” by Nicole A. Taylor
More Strawberry Recipes to Enjoy: Red Velvety Strawberry Cake by Alex Guarnaschelli
And: Guilt-Free (Or Almost) Strawberry Shortcakes
And: “Here’s Your Damn Strawberry Ice Cream” by Humphry Slocombe
And: Balsamic Strawberry Muffins
And: Strawberry Buttermilk (Or Kefir) Tart
And: Strawberry Galette with Basil Whipped Cream
And: Strawberry Poppy Seed Crisp
And: Strawberry Tabbouleh
And: Strawberry-Rosemary Preserves
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Carroll McNeill
Yet again, you have whispered miracles to my pantry, Carolyn! Somehow I acquired a lifetime supply of sumac, most of which I have been on the cusp of giving away. Admittedly, the 2t or so called for in this recipe will not diminish that in a hurry, but you have inspired me to try harder to recollect what I sourced it for in the first place. I’m thinking a salad involving sumac, followed by a sumac chicken main, and then this for dessert…I tell ya, these pandemic cooking projects will be the stuff of legends!
Also, you know how much I love all things almond-flavored. Does that come through in the flavor profile of the finished product here, or would a tad extra of that too be amiss?
Hi Carroll: That is too funny! I, too, had some excess sumac in my pantry. So, this recipe helped me use up most of it. I wouldn’t say the almond flavor is really evident. It’s just another layer in the back note. However, you could definitely add more almond extract, if you like. Enjoy!
John / Kitchen Riffs
I’m out of sumac, but rest assured I’ll be getting some so I can make this. Terrific cake, and sounds like an interesting cookbook. Thanks!
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The Low Down on Criminal Law in Politics Revealed
Whether or not you flip your child in, or she or he is picked up on a warrant, your little one shall be taken to Juvenile Court to be processed and detained. They are now in jail and cannot be released until showing earlier than a choose. Here’s a significant distinction between the grownup and juvenile legal justice methods. If an grownup is arrested in Tennessee, he or she can be taken before a magistrate and given a bond within a number of hours. Adults have a constitutional right to bail in all circumstances except capital crimes the place the proof is clear or the presumption is nice. Youngsters wouldn’t have such a proper in Tennessee. Whether or not to set bail or not is completely at the discretion of the choose. In other phrases, some kids at Shelby County Juvenile Court docket will keep in jail till their trial. The decision of whether or not to launch or not will likely be made at the detention hearing.
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In a grand jury, the prosecution presents its case against you. If the grand jury agrees that there’s evidence to assist that you simply dedicated against the law, they will difficulty an indictment. You will then be given a courtroom date for the beginning of your legal trial. The prosecution will current its case against you by giving proof and calling witnesses to testify against you. Your protection team will cross examine the witnesses and supply counterarguments to the prosecution’s case. With a purpose to prove your guilt, the prosecution must present that the evidence exhibits that you are responsible beyond an affordable doubt.
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What about criminal Legislation deterrents?
When being questioned in a police interrogation, something one says can later be introduced in a courtroom of law. The significance of getting illustration current earlier than saying anything is unquestionable. Having their advice and representation can mean the difference between being discovered responsible and serving a prison sentence, or being found harmless and being allowed to go free.
I am going to then cover strolling together with your heels and toes touching versus taking pure steps and strolling along with your arms pinned right down to your sides versus swinging them. When conducting the inquiry on this manner, the jurors are making the conclusions and finding the reasons behind them on their very own. By having the jurors “discover” the methods by which the exercises are designed for failure the jurors are more likely to assert the notion as their very own than for those who had lectured them on the topic.
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Shore Thing #1
Living on a Dare
Grace Kilian Delaney
159 ratings43 reviews
Stuntman Draven O’Connor never turns down a dare—even if it means getting down on one knee to propose to his former college roommate and friend. The same man he’s been crushing on since the first day they met. The same man that has grown distant over the past year. And the same man who just agreed to be his fiancé.
Julien Bouchard is tired of living a lie. He spent the past year exploring his sexuality in secret, enduring countless dates with women to appease his mother, and dodging his best friend, Draven, who knows everything there is to know about him, except the one thing that could change their friendship. Ready to face his friend, he meets him at a bar and is greeted by an unexpected marriage proposal. The dare isn’t surprising; it’s the scorching hot kiss that sends Julien’s head and heart in a tailspin—and gives him an idea for the perfect plan.
But his plan hits a bump when news of their fake engagement spreads to their families as fast as a wildfire, forcing them to confront their true feelings about each other and hope they don’t get burned.
GenresM M RomanceRomanceContemporaryLGBTGayContemporary Romance
First published April 19, 2019
7 books62 followers
Author, musician, and human slave to the dog and cat that rule her house, Grace Kilian Delaney enjoys giving her characters a dark sense of humor and a happily ever after.
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Cadiva
A good, solid read with a lot of my favourite tropes included and a couple of likeable characters.
I've not read this author before so I've no idea of their style but I thought they handled the fake engagement element in a well-paced fashion.
Although I was a little frustrated by all the "I've always loved you but now I'm scared to tell you" sections once Jules told Draven he was bisexual, the family dramas did help to anchor the narrative.
There's no real angsting, the contrast between the two men in how they come to terms with their feelings felt properly earned and there's lots of really sweet moments.
The set up for book two is there but handled fairly subtly and I shall probably pick that up too.
#ARC kindly received from the author in return for an honest and unbiased review.
For the most part I actually enjoyed this book - then the ending happened, and I absolutely HATED it.
Content warnings include: homophobia (mostly from a parent and from relatives), overbearing/controlling bordering on abusive parents, sex on-page, describtions of and references to accidents on a stunt set, character gets laid off, character gives up on their dream job to be closer to a romantic partner.
I'll talk about the good things first:
I found Living on a Dare to be a rather fresh take on the fake engagement trope. Draven and Jules have been friends for 10 years, with both of them crushing on each other at some point but both holding back (Draven because he assumes Jules in straight, Jules because he is/was uncomfortable with his own bisexuality and the repercussions of coming out.)
Then Draven proposes to Jules when his friend dares him to - a joke Jules is in on. But an acquaintance happens to see the proposal, and word gets back to Jules' parents, which is where the trouble begins.
While the ups and downs of Jules and Draven's relationship didn't always make sense to me, every now and then this otherwise average book had such incredibly charming scenes that I kinda fell in love with. I adored the palpable familiarity between the two protagonists, the way they joked around, and several of the side characters were great too (I adore Quinn already!)
And then.... the ending happened.
Rant under the spoiler tag.
If there is one kind of ending I hate in romance books, it's when one of the characters gives up a big opportunity in order to be with their romantic partner. Yeah, jobs or school and such aren't everything, but neither are romantic partners.
And that isn't even really what happened here.
Here it somehow gets even worse.
Because yes, Jules gets an offer for his absolute dream job. A job he wants desperately, one at a company he looked up to for 10 years, one that would challenge him, and while there are other job prospects, they wouldn't challenge him and have no opportunity for advance or personal growth like the dream job would. The big but here is that the dream job is based away from Draven.
So they talk about it. They both agree Jules should take the job, because Draven travels a lot for his own job anyways and because they both know Jules would regret not taking the job and end up resenting Draven for it. Several side characters spout the typical "everyone knows long distance relationships don't work" (which FUCK YOU) BULLSHIT, but Draven and Jules are set on making it work, because Jules is sure he can relocate back to Draven after one or two years.
Draven also has the option to relocate to his own job's base right where Jules' dream job is located, but it would lead to him being demoted (at least at first) so they aren't really considering that option??
Then some stuff happens where Draven gets hurt that upsets them both, leading to both of them set on moving to where the other is.
Which dOESN'T end with Draven going to Jules, keeping his job and working his way back up to where he was before at the same company. Nope. Instead it's JULES who QUITS HIS DREAM JOB in order to work at one of the boring jobs that don't challenge him, doing the exact thing they earlier established would eventually ruin their relationship.
Yeah, there are some more outside factors like their families and all that might have been factored into the decision, but ultimately this book ends with one of the characters in a position that was explicitly stated SEVERAL TIMES BEFORE would make him unhappy. Loving your partner aside, if you spend 40+ hours a week (and for Jules it will be A LOT MORE than just 40 hours) at something that bores you and gives you zero stimulation, where you have no opportunity to advance or challenge yourself (something that Jules says himself he wants in a job).... not even coming home to someone you love is gonna make up for that.
Yeah, not everyone is happy in a long distance relationship - but Jules and Drake were willing to make it work and find solutions. One scare for both of them throwing over ALL of their reasonable plans and ending with Jules in a position that will make him unhappy in the long run and will probably ruin his relationship is super upsetting to read, and I FUCKING HATED IT. That's not a happy ending. That's bullshit.
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Lelyana's Reviews
It's not easy when you're in love with your best friend forever.
Draven always loved Julien, but Julien was straight. Well at least until one night, a dare made Julian gay. LOL
Turns out that Julian's actually a bisexual, but in the closet. The dare was like an open door for Julien to come out to his parents, so he didn't deny it.
Lies after lies had become a reality for both of them. The long forgotten feelings appeared then they had to compromise with everything. Parents, works, friends, and especially, the feeling.
Living on a dare is an adorable friends to lovers, fun with almost no angst. Just something I needed when I didn't want to think hard while I read.
Recommended 👍
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Don Bradshaw
2,304 reviews93 followers
Honestly this was not quite a four but close enough to bump it up. This was my first book by Ms Delaney and I think that I will be reading more.
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Athira
A fun read with some of my favourite tropes. This is my first book by this author and I quite liked it. This is a dual POV book and I love Jules and Draven together. There were times I just wanted to hit their heads and scream at them to get their shit together. There is much angst. Jules' parents wins the 'A+Parenting' award!
I loved the secondary characters. Tate is just amazing. Jules' brother, Quinn, was one of my favourite characters. I'm looking forward to reading his book. It was a fun, lighthearted read. Jules and Draven are quite adorable together.
*ARC provided by the author in exchange for an honest review
Lena Grey
“Falling in love with your best friend is quite difficult, for you would have to learn to keep the feelings just to avoid ruining your friendship.” ~ Maria Bastida
Draven and Julian have been good friends for a long time. Draven has been in love with Julian for almost that long. Julian gave Draven a lot of mixed signals which Draven tried to “translate”. He really wanted his dear, affectionate, loving friend to be gay. When Julian started dating women, Draven’s dreams were dashed and he relegated himself firmly to best friend category.
Their relationship continued, closer than most friends, but never lovers. It isn’t ideal, but Draven adores Julian and can’t imagine him not being in his life, so he deals with it. At one point, Draven goes through a particularly rough time involving a failed relationship and when he needs Julian, atypically, Julian doesn’t step up the way he always had in the past. It hurts Draven deeply, but not so much that he is willing to give up on their friendship.
After being mostly ignored for almost two years, Draven is determined to track his friend down and demand an explanation. The next time he is in town, Draven contacts Julian to let him know he is there and asks him to meet him at a bar. All he gets from Julian is a maybe, but Draven still hopes he will show up. While waiting for him, Draven’s boss and friend talk about his dilemma with being in love with his straight friend and how he is afraid of commitment since his ex screwed him over. Draven denies it and, as a joke, his friend dares him to propose to the next man who walks in the door. Of course, the next man who walks in happens to be Julian. The smile he gives Draven melts his heart and reminds him why he loves the man so much. They embrace, technically longer than they should, but Draven isn’t going to let go until Julian does. That’s just rude, right? Since Draven has accepted the challenge, he gets down on one knee and proposes. Julian thinks it’s hilarious and quickly accepts. With all the shouts and whistles of the other men in the crowd, this calls for a kiss, so they oblige. Draven expects to get a peck at best, but the kiss Julian lays on him is spine-tingling and intense. Has something changed since the last time they were together? Draven wonders but is afraid to entertain the thought.
This is a sweet but angsty friends-to-lovers story. With the parents he has, no wonder Julian is so confused about his sexuality and no wonder why it takes him so long to come to terms with it. I felt really sad for Draven, wanting to be with Julian so much while Julian seemed to be so oblivious, or at least unable to entertain the thought of being gay. As William Shakespeare put it: “All’s well that ends well.” – and this certainly fits in the case of this endearing story. Thanks, Grace, for giving Draven and Julian their hard-earned happy ending.
Merissa (Archaeolibrarian)
Living on a Dare is the first book in the Shore Thing series, and we start off with two friends, Draven and Julien. Draven is gay, and has known it for years. Julien is struggling to come to terms with his bi-sexuality, and as such, pushes Draven away until he is sure. Both of these have had feelings for the other for years, but neither thought anything would come of it. It takes a dare to bring their feelings to the surface, but even then, there is a lot of confusion going on.
This was a great story, with plenty of action and steam. I loved how these two worked together, although I could also slap them upside the head at times! There is a great cast of supporting characters too. I actually loved Julien's mum, and the role she played. This is the first in the series, and I can't wait to see what comes next.
A sweet, hot, humorous story that I definitely recommend.
* A copy of this book was provided to me with no requirements for a review. I voluntarily read this book, and the comments here are my honest opinion. *
Merissa
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Nothing special, just a sunny day in my garden with a good book.
DB Kimmers
Grace Kilian Delaney’s books always make me feel good, and who doesn’t need that!? What starts out as a dare, blends into a little family drama, backed by tons of humor, and morphs into two friends becoming lovers in the wonderful coming out journey, Living on a Dare.
Draven O’Connor and Julien Bouchard know each other well. Except they can’t seem to tell the other what they truly want. A friendship that’s been fragile due to a secret they’ve both been hiding is about to get a boost. As Julien walks through the door of a bar the last thing he expects is a proposal. But this dare may just be what the two of them need.
When Julien’s high-society, bigoted parents get word of his “engagement” to his college roommate, and a man, an invite to a small family dinner has them putting their own son on display in the worst possible manner. With Julien’s world crashing down around him and Draven willing to do anything to get back the ease they once shared, keeping up this rouse for a while doesn’t seem so bad.
But as the lie keeps on building, and they struggle with Julien being “outed” – twice – they find themselves living on a dare. A dare, that both hope will be a truth once domestic bliss begins to rear its head. If only they could communicate that to each other.
What starts out as a dare, blends into a little family drama, backed by tons of humor, and morphs into two friends becoming lovers in the wonderful coming out journey, 'Living on a Dare'.
With moving scenes which address the fear of commitment, turmoil over respecting each other as “friends with benefits”, one man struggling to look beyond his hurtful past to see the bright future before him, and another yearning to become who he truly wants to be, Delaney creates a wonderful, heartfelt journey of romance between two people who know each other well.
You can’t help but be captivated by their emotionally realistic passion – erotic, alluring and powerful. And the humor – oh so lively and witty! Little inside jokes only two close friends can share. Like their rating scale called the “pucker factor”… you gotta read the book to find out.
I’m able to see how the author’s writing has matured in this novel, told in alternating points of view. While I usually struggle with first person narrative, Delaney writes great, easy to follow thoughts and conversations that really put you in the mind’s eye of each character, moving the story along with feeling.
If you enjoy playfulness, compassion, friendship, growing love, commitment, and characters who draw you in at every turn, you can’t go wrong with Grace Kilian Delaney’s Living on a Dare. And I’m betting you’re as charmed as I am by Julien’s brother, Quinn, that you will be waiting for the follow-up in this Shore Thing series, Dancing with a Star.
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Anne Pine
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Such a fun read! I love the friends to lovers trope, and this does not disappoint! There's just enough angst to add some drama without taking away from the lighthearted feel of the story that makes it so funny and sweet. Both the main and supporting characters are likeable (when they're supposed to be), and the foundation for what I assume will be the next book's love story is set up nicely.
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Tanja OMGReads
I'll be honest and say that I didn't like Julien at first. He really rubbed me the wrong way. But after having met his parents I could understand him a lot better and slowly he began to show what kinda man he really is.
As for Draven; I loved his personality. He was outgoing, funny and so passionate towards his work and love for Julien. They chemistry was hot and the banter has me laughing out loud.
All in all this was a nice first read by the author for me. Definitely picking up more books in the future to read.
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3.5⭐
This is my first read by this author and I quite enjoyed her writing style. Loved her use of the fake relationship trope and the intimate scenes were well written. I loved Draven but Julien took me much longer to warm up to.
Jacquie Stewart
Just read a sample and I will be picking this up again later when my tbr allows
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I have to admit that the fake boyfriends trope has been overdone recently, IMO. However, the unique plotline of this book made it a very entertaining read and kept it from being just another book in the trope. The characters are well developed, and the storyline was entertaining.
Draven and Jules became friends back in college. Draven is out and proud, and comes from a loving and tactile family. Jules, on the other hand, comes from a very sterile environment, lacking warmth and the support he found in his friend.
Fast forward several years, and the two men are living on opposite sides of the country. They have remained close until the last year. Unfortunately, when Draven needed his friend the most, Jules was having a crisis of his own, and it hurt their friendship in a serious way.
When Draven comes to Boston, once again hoping to see Jules, he and his friend/boss are waiting at a bar. As tradition goes, Tate dares a commitment fearing Draven to propose to the next person to enter the bar. That person just happens to be Jules.
Jules is in the line of work he loves, but his job is wearing him down. He's secretly on a journey of self-discovery, as he comes to terms with the fact that he is bi, and it's not just because he's attracted to Draven. When Draven proposes, he goes along, not thinking about the repercussions of saying yes and the scorching hot kiss that followed happening in public.
Soon, things get out of hand, but Jules is not ready to tell his mother the truth. The lies bother Draven, and his past makes him question every motivation, feeling, and desire; both Jules' and his own. Eventually, after circumstances give them time to be together, the lines between friends and lovers blur. But, even with love, real life adult decisions have to be made, like them or not. However, when a choice between love and everything else needs to be made, love wins.
I think I really enjoyed this story for a couple of reasons. First of all, even though it eventually was used as something else, the fake relationship does not happen out of necessity. Secondly, the two men have been friends for years, and this is not a GFY situation. The author tells a good story, and I am so looking forward to seeing what happens with Quinn and Xander. This is definitely a happily ever after for Draven and Jules.
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Carra
So, this story has me a bit on the fence. This is the first book I’ve read by this author, and the writing style suited me just fine—the story flowed well, I enjoyed both Draven and Julien’s characters, and I love the friends-to-lovers trope. There were some strong supporting characters as well, ones who sparked enough interest that I’d be interested in their stories too (Quinn, Julien’s brother, was particularly amazing).
Even though I liked the main characters, Julien did frustrate me at times. First with his reticence in admitting his sexuality to Draven (especially after what happens in their first scene together once Draven pops the question), then with his interactions with his parents—his mother in particular. And talk about frustrating—Julien’s mother made me want to get right up in her face to put her in her place since Julien couldn’t seem to fully unleash to do it himself.
There’s no question about the chemistry between Julien and Draven, and there are plenty of intimate scenes to illustrate. It’s not just all physical between them though, they’re solid emotionally too. The only major angst point really comes when Julien gets a dream job offer that would put the two of them on opposite coasts…which brings up my fence-sitting point.
The last part of the story with the events that happen after the job offer felt like they were constructed to quickly insert drama to pull Draven and Julien apart and then put them back together again. It didn’t feel true to the rest of the story for me, and left me feeling somewhat off-balance. Am I happy with the way things finally ended up? For the most part, yes. I just wasn’t a fan of the devices used to get there.
Overall, Living on a Dare wound up being a 3.5-star read for me, and is meant for readers 18+ for adult language and sexual content. Quinn gets a story next, and I will most likely be checking it out since I really liked his character here.
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A good start to this series.
Living on a Dare is the first book I've read by Grace Kilian Delaney and I enjoyed it. It's a pretty quick and entertaining read. It's told in first person POV, alternating between Draven and Julien and has a couple of good tropes: friends to lovers and fake engagement/marriage.
There's not much angst to the story and it didn't really give me a lot of feels as I read it, but that doesn't mean I didn't like it. Other than Julien's homophobic parents it a fairly light read but I wouldn't exactly call it fluffy. Both men have hang-ups to overcome for their relationship to work. Draven got burned by his last long-term boyfirend and Julien has some insecurities because of his parents.
Julien's brother, Quinn, was an interesting secondary character and I'm looking forward to reading his story in the next book.
An advanced copy of this book was provided to me but my review was voluntary and not influenced by the author.
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Amy Stauffer
This book includes several of my favorite tropes, including fake relationship, friends to lovers, first time, and sexual awakening. Having them all together had me chomping at the bit to read this story. It did not disappoint.
Dares can be fun, and some may even change your life. Draven loves dares and never turns one down. He accepts an outrageous dare, which, with a twist of fate, brings his estranged best friend back into his life. As his fiancé. Yup, he just proposed to a man he hasn’t even talked to in a year, and has had a crush on longer than that. Julien has his own secrets, and one hot kiss later, and he’s on a journey of revealing it. Can they find happiness, or will it crash and burn—like a stunt gone wrong?
This was a fun book to get lost in. It was well written, and I liked the characters. It had just the right amount of angst, to give it a sense of realness, yet stayed light enough to be enjoyable. I’m looking forward to the next book in the series.
***Copy provided to Bayou Book Junkie for my reading pleasure. A review wasn’t a requirement. ***
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This is the first book I’ve read by this author and it will definitely not be my last. I loved how this author betrays this story. The storyline was light and sweet always making you smile.
Draven and Jules have been best friends since college. Draven a stuntman that will never turn down a dare. So he takes the dare and ask Jules to marry him. The same man he’s be crushing on forever. Jules is tired of living his life as lies bile up. An overbearing mother, always putting herself first. He’s been dodging Draven because he’s scared of what could happen to their friendship when the secret is out. Never did he expect a proposal but with Draven a dare is a dare.
“ A lightbulb? Who the heck sticks a lightbulb in their ass?”
“Not a very bright idea is it?”
These two are simply beautiful together. So sweet and adorable. Even though they had some obstacles to over come, it was a light hearted read. Smiles and laughs all the way around. I can’t wait for Quinn’s Book!
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When I read the blurb to this story, I thought it was an interesting concept. Two friends from college who had gone their own way after graduation, and while they both had feelings for the other, they each had their own reasons for not admitting their feelings. Draven has crushed on Julien since they became roommates in college, but he kept his feelings to himself because he believed that Julien was straight. But when Julien keeps him at a distance since their graduation, Draven feels heartbroken. On a dare from his boss and friend, he proposes to Julien.
I found it hard to like Julien as a character. I understand his stiffness with his family, but he's obviously bisexual, had sex with men who know his parents, and yet can't admit it to his out gay friend, Draven. Draven is a funny guy who wears his heart on his sleeve and although I softened to Julien, my frustration with his secret and his relationship with his parents weren't enough to win me over in the end.
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Living on a Dare is a great friends to lovers romance. Grace Kilian Delaney managed to entertain me with Draven and Julien. The bet is cute, and the pretend relationship is even cuter.
Their relationship consists of secrets, lies, pretending, homophobia, and some hot sex. The angst is excellent and is well developed, entertaining, and fun. The high society attitude of Julien's mother is insane, but enjoyable. She is definitely a smothering mother.
I found myself surprised at the length of deception, as it's a little crazy, but it's a delightful ride, and certainly enjoyable.
Written in dual person pov, it's fun getting to know both men's perspective. I enjoy the writing, but I am rating it 4 stars instead of 5 because I felt there was some background missing, thus distracting me.
Overall, Living on a Dare is a fun, light read and I look forward to reading the next book in the series.
Rebecca Clark
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Phenomenal book. College roommates and best friends Julian and Draven. Both men have pined for the other, though Julian hadn't realized until later. Julian's mother and father made me cringe every time I read their parts. Hated how Julian let them treat him, but it's relatable. Especially the "what ifs". What started as a harmless prank proposal brought the real feelings to the surface along with Julian learning the extent of his family's tolerance. Not many steamy moments, but the ones that were there are very hot. I loved reading how sweet and easy flowing things are with the guys. Draven had a really bad relationship that caused him to be very guarded, but both laid their insecurities in their own time. Was a nail biter when Draven had an accident. Happy when things smoothed out for the couple. Definitely recommend this book.
Siobhan Flynn
Draven and Jules are best friends but there is the issue of unrequited love between the both of them and it starts to drive a wedge between them. I did get annoyed with Draven at times as he was punishing Jules slightly due to past hurts and expecting him to guess what wasn't said. Jules is really caught up in his work and doesn't have any spare time for friends and he misses that closeness they once had. A joke gone too far has Jules's mother up in arms and taking over his life. I genuinely enjoyed their interactions and how they both didn't see what was in front of their faces, the heat level was just right, not too heavy or lacking. We come full circle with the ruse and it makes my heart happy to see everyone get what they want. Jules's brother was interesting and i can't wait to get my hands on his book.
Draven and Julien have been close friends since college. Draven has always been attracted to Jules, but since Jules was straight it was something Draven learned to accept. Jules isn’t quite as straight as his friend thinks. A silly dare has Draven proposing, and Jules’ acceptance kiss was an eye opener for both men. Their engagement moves right along, dragging both men with it.
I liked all the characters, even Julien’s nightmare mother. The only issue I had was that their insecurities were a little off with their personalities. I haven’t read this author before so I’m not familiar with the writing style, might just be my issue. This book was a nice introduction to the author.
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Belinda Zamora
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Best friends secretly in love with one another and a ridiculous dare.
What could go wrong? Or could this actually be a blessing in disguise?
I absolutely loved the chemistry between these characters.
Julien had a lot of obstacles in his way, namely still being in the closet to appease his mother who was not a nice person.
Driven has always been the rock Julien depends on and he's going to need him more than ever as he takes a page from Draven's stunt work life to plunge headfirst into the unknown and change everything in his life or risk losing Draven.
They both had insecurities to work through and failure to communicate on both their parts just seemed to make things worse until they finally got their act together.
The epilogue was a beautiful ending to their HEA.
Hm. Not sure how I feel about this book, quite honestly. On one hand I enjoy it a lot, especially their friendship. On the other hand though I don't find the "love" believable. It doesn't feel like a romantic love to me. The whole time they're together I feel....strange. Like watching two of your best friends making out. And they're a platonic kind of friends so it's weird seeing them making out? Yeah, like that. It's weird. And I kinda don't like it that Jules is basically using Draven's goodwill. Hm. So I'm not sure about this book. Sometimes the conversations and the banters feel stilted like it's written by someone who's not sure how deep friendship between Jules and Draven goes. BUT I also enjoy it. So hm. Conflicted.
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Modwena
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This is the first book that I have read by this author but knowing that it was a combination of so many of my favourite tropes meant I had to give it a go.
I love the way the author combines the fake relationship and best friends to lovers trope and the way that Draven struggles with trust issues due to a past relationship, even when it comes to his best friend. For me, the struggle that Draven faces, even when it comes to one of the people he trusts most helps to give the relationship more depth.
I found this couple really endearing and am very much looking forward to the next in this series.
Coline Peterson
Really enjoyed this fast reading, well written, friends to loves book. I couldn't believe it when Draven proposed to me the first time I had seen him in over a year on a dare. We had been best friends all through college, but between my high preformance job and some personal issues going on in my life and I was just not up to having to deal with my best friend so I ghosted him. Even thought we're not really ingaged someone outed me, and now my family knows about it and everything has changed between us. But the sad part is all I can do is hang on and hope he realizes I want us to be really together forever.
I've always loved him...but he flees to the east coast. I'm on the west coast working as a stunt many in LA. When a mutual friend dares us to become engaged...we do...for totally different reasons. Now I want to make it real.
I love him but I'm willing to do almost anything to evade all the women my mother is forcing on me. So when he proposes, I accept. Now I want to make it real.
Family pressure is difficult to stand up to...unless you really don't feel they're your family. Maybe love will be enough.
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Kathryn Manzella
Grace Kilian Delaney's Living on a Dare is the first book in A Shore Thing Novel series. It is an amazing story between best friends who find love while pretending to be engaged. I love Draven and Julien together. They are best friends and so sweet together (and hot)... they just have some obstacles to overcome. The story is fun, sweet, sexy and definitely satisfying.
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Dutch MP (Member of Parliament) Arne Weverling harvested the first peppers cultivated without daylight from the PlantyFood growth cell of Certhon this week.
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Vertical farming and cultivation without daylight is attracting worldwide attention. Does it have a place side by side with greenhouse cultivation? For Certhon that does not really matter. “We focus on the customer and ensure that he gets a profitable system,” director Hein van der Sande explains. “You’re looking for the best cultivation method for a region. Sometimes that is a greenhouse and sometimes a system without daylight. It depends on the circumstances.” In addition, he sees, there is actually a lot of similarity between the two. “If you look at the technology of a three-screen greenhouse and climate computer, the step to a container is not that big anymore. It is glass versus sandwich panels. Sunlight is indeed free, but in certain circumstances it can also be an enemy. Look at the Middle East, for example. You must determine and calculate and then look at the wishes of the customer.”
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“Greenhouses will not disappear because of the rise of cultivation without daylight”, Hein says. Certhon therefore developed the PlantyFood cultivation method in addition to the greenhouse assortment. “PlantyFood is a combination of technology and knowledge. Together it makes the most optimal usage of space and energy possible,” Jeroen van Lent, Certhon’s specialist in cultivation without daylight, explains. On the Certhon grounds there is a test room for the PlantyFood cultivation method. In this growth cell, tests are carried out for propagation, breeding and large scale commercial production. Tomatoes and cucumbers have already been harvested and now, Dutch MP Arne Weverling picked the first bell peppers.
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100 days ago, yellow and red bell peppers were sown for the first time. They were lit for 14.5 hours a day. “The fruits are good,” Jeroen says. “We did not have any setbacks.” This cultivation leaves a fruit on the first node, instead of the 2nd or 4th in the summer and winter cultivations. The peppers are grown with lamps with a sunlight spectrum. They are quite wide and imitate the sunlight – hence the cell is not as wildly purple as in many other growth cells. As in the other fruit vegetable cultivations, no crop protection products have been used in the PlantyFood growth cell. “You grow very organically. It is not impossible for something to enter, but of course the chance is very small.”
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In the future, Certhon wants to investigate whether the production of peppers can be increased like that of tomatoes, which showed almost a doubling of the yield. “The yield has been stable for some time at 30-33 kg,” Hein relates. “In a growth cell, you can realize the optimal conditions for 365 days a year. Now, we’re looking for the best way to handle that. Are you going to increase the density, or cultivate in pots and automate further? This also depends on the user’s wishes.” Similar studies are also being carried out in collaboration with customers in other fruit vegetables and leafy vegetables, but also in ornamental plants: for example, in phalaenopsis and freesias.
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Juventus-Genoa Preview: Round 22 — The Ciro Immobile Bowl
Time to start playing like Juventus again, don't ya think? /nod
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Here I am a week or so ago thinking Juventus are set to face their former manager for the first time since he got replaced by the legendary Antonio Conte — until a monkey wrench was thrown into this guy's storyline generator. Genoa had to go and sack the man who made Milos Krasic's ears bleed for about nine months straight after the team went suffered another disappointing defeat.
One for old times' sake, okay? Sure!
Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelosh!!!
There will be no grand return to Turin for Gigi Delneri. It's too bad. I missed seeing Sgt. Slaughter go absolutely nuts on the sidelines while, at the same time, we all sat there trying to figure out what the hell he was screaming to his players. And I'm pretty sure said players were in the same boat, too.
But the managerial position at Genoa has become a revolving door the past three season. In the past 30 months, they've gone through seven managers. No, seriously. That's the truth. I didn't make that figure up at all. If I was trying to fool you guys, it'd be with something a lot more interesting than changing managers as much as Marco Borriello changes hairstyles.
Luckily we have another thing to talk about regarding two teams who are heading in opposite directions this season: Ciro Immobile.
That's right. The 22-year-old striker who is co-owned by both Juventus and Genoa will play his second ever game against the club he grew up at. The Juve brass certainly have a close eye on the Italy Under-21 international's progress this season, and now they'll get an up-close look at just how much progression he has made in his first-full Serie A season.
But unlike the last time Juventus and Genoa played, maybe Ciro can keep his name off the scoresheet? Just an idea.
We know about where each team is in the table, so here's a stat that pretty much all that needs to be said about the success Juventus has had against Genoa recently.
1 - Genoa have won only one of their last 18 league matches vs Juventus (3-2 in April 2009). Awe.
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Arguably the most important thing of all: Genoa, despite having a reasonably talented squad, has sucked away from home and this game is at Juventus Stadium. Could that be the simple recipe for success? It could be.
That's all I got. That's pretty much all you need to know about the recent history of this matchup. Carry on.
Injuries. Sooooo many injuries.
Giorgio Chiellini is still weeks away from his return. Andrea Pirlo is an injury doubt. So is Leonardo Bonucci. So is Sebastian Giovinco. So is what seems like half of Juventus' usual starting lineup. Luckily for us, Claudio Marchisio returned mid-week against Lazio in the first leg of the Coppa Italia semis. And while it doesn't as seem as drastic as it was against Lazio, the lineup could look a lot different just because of who isn't there rather than who is.
Dammit.
1. Ciro Immobile. We might as well just get it out of the way, right? Forget all the talk about him moving back to Turin during the January transfer window. Genoa are fighting relegation, so why would they give up the striker with the most potential within their ranks right now? As strange as it may sound, keeping young Ciro at Genoa will probably be the best move for Juventus — especially if there are plans to bring him back to base in the summer. He'll get playing time. He'll hopefully score a good number of goals and show the entire Juve cast of talent evaluators that he is ready for the big stage.
2. Sebastian Giovinco and Mirko Vucinic's health. And, if they aren't completely healthy, how well either Fabio Quagliarella and/or Alessandro Matri fills in for the diminutive Italian ant striker fella and the Montenegrin. The striker rotation from the early part of the season seems to be replaced by Giovinco and Vucinic becoming the unquestioned starting pair up front. However, with both battling the injury bug right now, it could be time for Juve's other two healthy strikers (no, not Nicklas Bendtner) to take advantage — or at least try to do so — of an opportunity to play from the opening whistle.
3. The overall health of the squad following Friday's final pre-match training session. "We'll continue to evaluate (insert injured player's name here) situation" seems to be a sentence that Antonio Conte is saying all too often the past couple of weeks. And it's with good reason — as noted above, a number of crucial players are battling to be at full fitness right now. Until Conte gives the go ahead, I don't know what to think. Juventus should get the job done regardless of who the starting strikers are, though.
4. Paolo De Ceglie or Federico Peluso? Even taking the last-minute screw-up against Lazio into consideration, I'd like to think that PDC has the upper hand on the left wing-back job while Kwadwo Asamoah continues to work his magic down at the Africa Cup of Nations. But Conte has been known to throw a surprise or two our way when it comes to his squad selection. And if he feels like rewarding Peluso for his goal against Lazio in the Coppa, then he won't wait long to do so.
5. Whether Genoa actually look like a team that just got a new coach and wants to put up a fight to not get relegated or the same one that has sucked for the overwhelming majority of the season. I'll start this point with one stat: In 10 games away from the Luigi Ferraris this season, Genoa has scored seven goals. That's second-worst in all of Serie A, "trailing" only Palermo, who have scored just four goals in 11 away matches. And they're looking to try and get something going at Juventus Stadium? Welp, good look with that.
My starting XI (3-5-2): Buffon; Barzagli, Marrone, Caceres; Lichtsteiner, Vidal, Pogba, Marchisio, De Ceglie; Giovinco, Vucinic
KICKOFF TIME: 8:45 IN ITALY, 2:45 ON THE EAST COAST, 11:45 A.M. (thank god) ON THE WEST COAST
OFFICIALLY OFFICIAL: Luca Pellegrini ends Frankfurt loan, heads out to Lazio From one loan deal to another, although this one involves a homecoming of sorts.
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Alexander Gustafsson on Potential Return ‘I am talking with UFC’
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Alexander Gustafsson (18-6) is officially retired, but all signs point to “The Mauler” stepping back into the Octagon at some point. “I’m talking with the UFC, we are going back and forth” says the Swede to MMA Viking at Allstars Training Center’s open house in Stockholm.
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Gustafsson announced his retirement from the sport in his post-fight interview following his loss to Anthony Smith at UFC Fight Night: Gustafsson vs. Smith in front of his hometown fans in June. However, the feeling not to fight didn’t last. “It came quite fast… I was home for a couple days, and I had itching in my hands and wanted to get back and train.”
“I’m about 240-245 lbs. I’m a heavyweight right now” jokes Gustafsson about his weight after an indulging summer. “I’ve had a good time with family and friends. It has been a good two and half months.”
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“I am in no man’s land” says the light heavyweight title challenger about his status as he begins to start training again without any official fight. “I just want to train and get into shape. Let’s see how it goes”.
“Luke Rockhold would be a good payday”
The Swede warmed up to a potential showdown with American Luke Rockhold when presented with the idea. “Would love a fight. A fight against Luke would be a great way to comeback. He is a tough guy, a legend.”
The Allstars Training Center fighter is trying to figure out what has kept him from performing better. “We are trying to figure out what I do wrong in competitions. I felt so good before the last fight. Something is not right, and I need to fix it.”
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Is The Ebola Virus Real?
From Dr. Lawrence Broxmeyer, M.D.
© U.S. Library of Congress
Today, the Ebola, and for that matter the Marburg virus have assumed general acceptance. Yet according to David Rasnick, PhD, a previous member to the Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel of South Africa, there is no convincing evidence, and “certainly no confirmatory evidence of human isolation”, in either case. This is — to be certain — not only a direct challenge that the “Ebola” is behind the current Ebola outbreak — but that the virus is pathogenic at all. Nor is Rasnick alone. If the virus called Ebola is not causing the current epidemic, then what is?
If by October, 2014, Ebola had laid claim to what WHO (the World Health Organization) claimed was well over 4,000 deaths since its February outbreak — certainly this ought to be weighed in the light of the approximately 600,000 Africans slain by TB during the same window. Furthermore, by October, 81% of world-wide Ebola mortality took place in Liberia and Sierra Leone. While Librarian health officials warned as early as 2009 that TB was skyrocketing out-of-control — a mixed scientific coalition from Sierra Leone and Germany cautioned that Sierra Leone’s tuberculosis level was not only the highest in West Africa, but filled with resistant strains of TB and tuberculous Mycobacterium Africanum that had “reached an alarming level”…..raising the question of possible consequences” for a future new TB epidemic.” Indeed almost half of all TB cases in the West African Ebola zone are caused by Mycobacterium africanum.
The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) recently declared:
“Diagnosing Ebola in a person who has been infected for only a few days is difficult, because the early symptoms, such as fever, are nonspecific to Ebola infection and are seen often in patients with more commonly occurring diseases, such as malaria and typhoid fever.”1 Only a sin of omission. then, would explain why anyone or any group would not want to specifically mention the most commonly occurring cause of infectious death in Africa — tuberculosis — whose sky-high rates in West Africa make Ebola look like a dropper-full of water squeezed into the Mississippi.
If by October, 2014, Ebola had laid claim to what WHO (the World Health Organization) claimed was well over 4,000 deaths since its February outbreak2 — certainly this ought to be weighed in the light of the approximately 600,000 Africans slain by TB during the same window of time.3 Furthermore, if by October 17th, 2014 world-wide Ebola mortality stood at 4,811 then surely 81% of these deaths took place in Liberia and Sierra Leone. While Librarian health officials warned4 as early as 2009 that TB was skyrocketing out-of-control — a mixed scientific coalition from Sierra Leone and Germany cautioned that Sierra Leone’s tuberculosis level was not only the highest in West Africa, but filled with resistant strains of TB and tuberculous Mycobacterium Africanum that had “reached an alarming level”…..raising the question of possible consequences” for a future new TB epidemic.”5
Indeed almost half of all TB cases in the West African Ebola zone are caused by such Mycobacterium africanum — an unusual, yet just as deadly member of the tubercular family, exclusive to West Africa — and fast becoming a microbe of great public — and now global concern. That tubercular M. africanum can and has already caused tuberculosis in the United States is a matter of record.6 Furthermore, there is a body of evidence that M. africanum requires more sustained contact, even among household members—certainly mirrored in the current outbreak. Meanwhile, health officials continue to insist that "casual contact" cannot transmit Ebola—precisely the same claim that they've long made with TB.
Surely the CDC is aware that there is not a sign or symptom of Ebola, including its hemorrhagic tendencies that cannot be found in acute disseminated miliary (blood-borne) tuberculosis, once called “galloping consumption” — the single most feared form of the disease ever. And most likely it is also aware that such tuberculosis has its own viral-like forms, some of which can simulate the Ebola. Such viral TB is generally acknowledged to be TB’s preferred form — as a survival strategy to storm any inclement conditions the microbe might find itself in.7
Then why did the CDC not mention TB, by name, in their short-list of possibilities that could cause Ebola-like symptoms? If such oversight stopped there it would be unremarkable, but it seems to have been carried over in the very design of the most recent CDC-approved tests to detect Ebola.
A River named Ebola
In September of 1978, about 40 years ago, a team — including a 27-year-old fresh out of medical school, who was training as a clinical microbiologist at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, received a blue thermos from Zaire. It was filled with the two 5ml. clotted blood specimens of an African-based Flemish nun. The Belgium doctor who sent it, Jacques Courteille, practicing in Kinshasa, included a note saying that he was at a complete loss for the nun’s mysterious, yet deadly illness. Also, could the samples be tested for Yellow Fever? This thermos had traveled from Zaire’s capital city of Kinshasa, on a Sabena commercial flight to Belgium — inside its deliverer’s hand luggage. When the samples were received, Peter Piot, the 27-year-old medical graduate and his colleagues, among other things, placed the blood samples under an electron microscope. To be sure Piot’s interest was virology and a virologist he would soon become, best known for his work on theorizing the ‘viruses’ behind Ebola and AIDS. To this effect he contributed heavily to the voluminous literature that HTLV-1 had a role in AIDS, which it did not. Nevertheless Piot would become a pioneer, and part of the group that included veterinarian Max Myron Essex in trying to define what AIDS was at WHO’s 1985 Conference in Banqui, Africa.
Figure . Dr. Peter Piot
Piot on the Ebola: “We saw a gigantic worm like structure — gigantic by viral standards. It’s a very unusual shape for a virus, only one other virus looked like that and that was the Marburg virus.”8
Figure 2. Piot (on the right), at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, in 1976
But the new “virus” needed a name. Piot relates the interesting tale of how Ebola came to be named as Ebola:
“On that day our team sat together late into the night we had also had a couple of drinks discussing the question. We definitely didn’t want to name the new pathogen “Yambuku virus”, because that would have stigmatized the place forever. There was a map hanging on the wall and our American team leader suggested looking for the nearest river and giving the virus its name. It was the Ebola River. So by around three or four in the morning we had found a name. But the map was small and inexact. We only learned later that the nearest river was actually a different one. But Ebola is a nice name, isn’t it?”9
Depends upon how you look at it.
Figure 3. The Ebola River, Circa 1976
Piot’s specimens proved negative for Yellow Fever and he mentions that the tests for Lassa fever and typhoid were also negative. What, then, could it be? Piot: “To isolate any virus material” small amounts of the blood samples were injected into VERO cells and into mice. Several of these mice subsequently and abruptly expired — “a sign that a pathogenic virus was probably present in the blood samples that we had used to inoculate them”.10
The fact that the mice died did not mean that it was at the hands of a “pathogenic virus.”
Piot’s boss, Stefaan Pattyn, who Piot admitted “could be a bit of a bully”, supposedly specialized in the study of mycobacteria — tuberculosis and leprosy, yet seemed unaware of the hemorrhagic consequences of acute TB, nor had he taken the time to use special stains and cultures to detect its viral-like cell-wall-deficient forms. Instead Pattyn followed his current passion, shared by Piot. Pattyn had recently worked in Zaire for six or seven years and exotic viral illnesses were now “right up his alley”.11 So Pattyn’s team likewise never really considered a strain of acute miliary TB or its viral cell-wall-deficient forms in his rule-outs for an acute hemorrhagic or epidemic fever — among them Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium africanum.
From Past to the Present
The Ebola of its day on steroids, “galloping” acute consumptive tuberculosis could kill in days — the mere memory of which, just a few generations ago, brought terror to the faces of those who had witnessed and were describing it. To Dubos12 “galloping consumption” was not an isolated, but a frequent diagnosis in the 19th and early 20th centuries. And despite persistent myths to the contrary, in the early phase of any new TB epidemic from a new and virulent strain, tuberculosis manifests itself as an acute disease and only much later as the chronic pulmonary tuberculosis that we know in today’s western world. An example of this can be found in the high mortality during the 1918 influenza pandemic, when African-Americans were brought to fight in France during World War I — large numbers of them dying from a fast-tracked tubercular “galloping consumption”.
Many often underestimate the speed, contagiousness and ferocity of a TB epidemic. Khomenko’s 1993 study13 should have cemented the notion that the explosive contagiousness of just such Ebola and influenza-like viral forms of tuberculosis are exactly the stuff that previous epidemics and pandemics could have been made of. But it didn’t.
In the US, the CDC and NIH seemed to feel differently, ignoring the historic possibility. There was much the same viral passion, at that time over “Influenza”, when in 1990, a new multi-drug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis outbreak took place in a large Miami municipal hospital. Soon thereafter, similar outbreaks in three New York City hospitals left many sufferers dying within weeks. By 1992, approximately two years later, drug-resistant tuberculosis had spread to deadly mini-epidemics in seventeen US states, and was reported, not by the American, but the international media, as out of control. Viral forms of swine, avian and human TB can be transmitted from one species to another. So can exotic strains of tuberculosis and Mycobacterium africanum, imported into the United States through countries such as Liberia. By 1993 the World Health Organization (WHO) had proclaimed tuberculosis a global health emergency.14 That emergency has never been lifted.
Anderson pointed out that such acute, untreated disseminated, “galloping”, blood-dispersed TB could kill in hours or days15 — its mortality, according to Saleem and Azher even today approaching 100%.16 Ebola itself can take up to a month to kill its victims, said Ben Neuman17, an expert in viruses at Britain’s Reading University — although there are many cases that also kill in hours or days. Not only were tubercular hemorrhaging and fever both mentioned by Fox18, but hemorrhaging of the serous cavities, the gums, and the nose, into the joints, the skin, and the bowels. Appleman19, in the American Journal of Ophthalmology, considering massive spontaneous hemorrhages into the vitreous, mentions that Axenfeld considered acute tuberculosis an important possibility in the rule-out for bleeding into the eye. Coughing-up blood has always been a well-known scenario for TB. Hemorrhages of significance from the ear secondary to tuberculous otitis media are also on record.20 And the possibility of acute disseminated tuberculosis attacking the bone marrow and through fibrosis causing a partial shutdown of platelets; changing the very morphology of those platelets; as well as interfering with their function — all combine to create a clear and present hemorrhagic danger. Even today, bone marrow biopsy is at times a valuable diagnostic test for tubercular involvement. In addition Extrapulmonary (outside of the lungs) tuberculosis is the most frequent cause of a prolonged Fever of Unknown Origin (FUO) and has been for a long, long time.21
A fact initially carefully minimized by certain Ebola ‘authorities’ — and clarified by Feldmann in the New England Journal (October 9th, 2014 issue) is that in the current Ebola outbreak “less than half” of the people infected have visible hemorrhaging.22 This was just enough to prompt some virologists to rethink Ebola’s designation from Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever, to the “Ebola virus Disease”. So much for “hemorrhagic fever.” Yet even then, in a 1978 publication of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization regarding the 1976 Ebola outbreak in Zaire it was admitted that hemorrhaging, although from “multiple sites” was “principally [from] the gastrointestinal tract”.23 But patients with TB spread to the gastrointestinal tract can also have fever, abdominal pain, and can have gastrointestinal/rectal bleeding that patients with Ebola can have.
Mortality Rates of Both Diseases about the Same
Nor do the parallels stop here. In September, as the CDC justifiably warned against nonessential travel to Sierra Leone — available data from the two Ebola facilities in that country came in with Case Fatality Rates (CFRs) for Ebola that ranged between 50% and 72%. This, although considerably higher than the 37.7% CFR that Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health was reporting24, averages out to an agency reported fatality rate of 61% — not much different from the approximately 67% mortality given for the untreated active tuberculosis that currently rages in West Africa and many other places around the world.25
Meanwhile, The World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) latest “Situation Report” summed-up that although the rate of Ebola infections were picking up speed at an alarming rate in West Africa, the fatality rate was 53% overall, ranging from 64% in Guinea to just 39% in Sierra Leone.26 If this 53% figure was designed to make the situation more bearable, it hardly achieved its goals.
A Flaw in Diagnostic Test Design?
Moreover, the design of present diagnostic tests for Ebola, in certain respects, don’t meet the sniff test. An August 6, 2014 article in the L.A. Times mentioned27 that an unapproved Ebola test-tube diagnostic assay, developed by the U.S. military, was just approved for use in the US under a special emergency-use provision.
Critics claimed that the two PCR systems to be used for Ebola testing in such “emergency situations” were unapproved. But there is more. While an instruction booklet issued by the Food and Drug Administration28 showed impressive results for detecting and thereby being positive for known “Ebola” samples — it sadly failed in its inadequate selection of those pathogen’s that might be cross-reacting and therefore making for false positive Ebola tests.
The instruction booklet, Version 2, that accompanied the new Ebola assay mentions:
“9.2.2.2 Bacterial Cross-Reactivity: Bacterial cross-reactivity of the EZ1 assay was evaluated by testing purified nucleic acid of bacteria that potentially could be infecting the majority of the population. No cross-reactivity was observed in the human DNA or any of the bacteria tested (Table 51).”29 [Bold print theirs]
Yes. The only problem being that a glance at Table 51 shows practically every bacteria in existence except for the one subset of pathogens “that potentially could be infecting the majority [of West Africa’s] population” and those pathogens are again — Mycobacteria tuberculosis and its related Mycobacterium africanum.
Such diversion is no trivial point. As time went by it became obvious that attempts were in the pipeline to link the pathogenesis of Ebola and AIDS, right down to their sexual transmission (a poorly kept secret is that TB can also be sexually transmitted30). So mistakes made during the AIDS probes would have to be avoided with Ebola.
For example, in the past, as the first scientist to propose HIV-virus testing, veterinarian Max Myron Essex knew that tuberculosis and its allied mycobacteria gave a false positive for the HIV virus in his tests in almost 70% of cases. Such cross-reactivity between HIV and tuberculosis was so significant, that it forced Essex31 and his protégé, Congo physician Oscar Kashala, to warn that both the HIV screening test, the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and western blot results “should be interpreted with caution when screening individuals with M. tuberculosis or other mycobacterial species.”31 This, of course, automatically meant throwing away HIV serum diagnostics for, according to WHO, at least a third of the people in the known world that WHO (The World Health Organization) has proclaimed presently harbor tubercular infection.
So why then was Mycobacterium tuberculosis noticeably excluded from the CDC’s Table 51 and not included in those pathogens tested for cross-reacting and therefore possibly giving false positive tests for the Ebola? Did the originally panel (Version 1) chosen by government scientists actually include Mycobacterium tuberculosis and related microbes in its design — only to find that indeed these mycobacteria caused positive tests for Ebola as in the HIV affair? Did they feel that such results might muddy the waters, be too difficult to explain, and subsequently remove them? This is not known.
A group of researchers from Oxford University and the University of Leuven have just determined that HIV is “almost certain” to have begun its spread — from Kinshasa, now the capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo.32 Whether this research bears out or doesn’t, Kinshasa itself has long been a hotbed for tuberculosis — and now Ebola. On top of that, a doctor in rural Liberia, swarmed with Ebola patients, says he’s had extremely good results with HIV treatment — albeit such treatment was born out of admitted desperation.33 The US NIAID, having gotten wind of this, is carefully looking into the use of some of these HIV-antiretrovirals to control Ebola. This just might work, but will it answer the reason as to why it works? The NIH, for example, has long known, though mechanisms not yet clearly worked out, that HIV treatment suppresses both the tuberculosis and the fowl tuberculosis that are currently the leading causes of infectious death in AIDS. To this effect the NIH, decades ago recruited University laboratories to look into the reason why.34
Therefore are the HIV drugs working against an “Ebola” which is estimated to have killed well over 3,000 African’s so far this year or the TB that killed 600,000 Africans in that same window? There still remains much work ahead to determine this. Antiretrovirals have major side effects.
The Ebola virus (also referred to as Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever) is often compared to the Marburg virus. So we have this, written in July, 2005, regarding that outbreak:
“Angola is in the grip of the world’s worst ever outbreak of the Marburg virus. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), as of 5 April, 156 of the 181 people reported infected have died. The Ebola-like virus causes a fever that, in fatal cases, is usually accompanied by severe internal bleeding and shock. There is no vaccine or medical treatment and up to 80 per cent of infected people die within three to seven days. Three-quarters of those affected are children under five. Diagnosing an infection with the Marburg virus can be difficult as its initial symptoms are similar to those of malaria or tuberculosis. They include diarrhea, stomach pains, nausea, and vomiting and severe chest pains.”35
The heavy mortality and morbidity under the age of five with Marburg brings to mind specifically a tubercular involvement, in which most children are affected also in the same age group. What has been called ‘The Golden Age of Resistance’ against TB mortality has always been, for unknown reasons, ages six thru fifteen.4 In this same vein, during the Zaire Ebola outbreak of 1976, women 15-29 years of age had the highest incidence of that disease.36
“We saw a gigantic worm like-structure — gigantic by viral standards. It’s a very unusual shape for a virus” Peter Piot.
Figure 4. The Serpentine Form of the Ebola Virus. Magnification: approximately x60,000.
Micrograph from F. A. Murphy, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.Courtesy: CDC Dr. Frederick A. Murphy
To some it might be considered “worm-like”, to others serpentine.
TB OR EBOLA?
Figures 5A through 5G. Which of the serpentine, worm-like forms above is the Ebola virus?The correct answer is Figure 5 F. Figures 5A,5B and 5C are L-Forms (Or Cell-Wall-Deficient Forms) of TB Under theElectron Microscope. (Michailova, L et al. Morphological variability and cell wall deficiency in ‘heteroresistant’ strains. Internat Journ of Tuberc and Lung Dis, 9:,8, Aug 2005:.907-914:,911). Figure 5D. Worm-like lethal tubercular cords from an atypical TB under the Electron Microscope. (Julián E, Roldán, M Journ. Of Bact Apr. 2010 p.1751-1760. P.1756). Such virulent cords are also represented in Figure 5E (Darzins, E. The Bacteriology of Tuberculosis Minneapolis. 1958. 488pps. p296) and Figure 5G.
Both the Ebola virus and the Marburg virus are called Filoviruses because they form filamentous infectious viral particles. Filoviruses, however, are not alone. Mycobacterium. tuberculosis, which commonly lodges in and multiplies in the white cell defenders of our body (called macrophages) — also become filamentous once inside a macrophage.37 (See figures 6,7)
Figure .6 Filamentous Cell-Wall-Deficient Forms of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Figure 7. Filamentous Forms of the Ebola. Magnification: approximately x40,000.
Micrograph from F. A. Murphy, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.
According to the WHO, close contact with the bodily fluids of people infected with Ebola, for example in hospitals or at burials, has in the past increased the risk of infection. Health workers have been advised to wear a mask and gloves.38 Yet physicians all masked and gloved up have contracted Ebola and Marburg.
WHO’s statement is misleading. As far back as 1995 the ability of Ebola to aerosolize or spread through airborne transmission was reported, studied and confirmed.39,40 Ebola, is a communicable airborne infection, just like tuberculosis.
Tubercular Monkeys, Apes and Fruit Bats
“Ebola virus has been found in African monkeys, chimps and other nonhuman primates such as fruit bats in Africa. A milder strain of Ebola has been discovered in monkeys and pigs in the Philippines.”41 Interestingly Infection by M. africanum has also been reported from chimpanzees and African green monkeys. And in 1970-71 the CDC estimated that tubercular infection in individuals in contact with these and other non-human primates was 60 to 100 times that of the population at large (Richardson, 1987). Both African moneys and great apes are susceptible to TB.42 Early studies suggested that the new strain of Ebola had emerged in West Africa, but according to epidemiologist Fabian Leendertz, a disease ecologist at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, who led the large team of scientists to Guinea, it is likely the virus in Guinea is closely related to the one known as the Zaire Ebola Virus, identified more than 10 years ago in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.43
It is felt that the new strain probably arrived in West Africa via infected straw-colored fruit bats from another part of Africa and seems to be related to that Zaire Ebola virus identified more than 10 years ago in the Congo. These bats migrate across long distances and are commonly found in giant colonies near cities and in forests. Fruit bats, however, are widely eaten in rural West Africa supposedly as a delicacy.
But the same fruit bats can carry mycobacteria from the mycobacterial tuberculosis complex.44,45,46
Previous Ebola outbreaks saw catastrophic death rates in gorilla and chimpanzee populations, which led some scientists to think that they were the ones responsible for the disease spreading.
Old World monkeys are very susceptible to human and cattle tuberculosis. Unlike humans, monkeys have no natural resistance to the disease. When they do catch it from a human, it usually spreads very fast and fatally in their bodies (as in acute miliary tuberculosis) and to areas other than their lungs. During their illness, they can spread the disease to anyone who comes in contact with them or their waste.
The current Ebola virus began in West Africa, a hotbed of tuberculosis. (See Figure 8)
Figure 8: Map showing the true severity of the tuberculosis problem; in 2006-2008 - the last period before WHO's TB statistics dived as a result of including many TB cases into the wastebasket of "AIDS-defining illness". Note that the darker-colored regions are mostly in Africa. (Source: WHO
Another map recently put out by WHO lumps Ebola deaths in West Africa under the puzzling single category “probable, confirmed, and suspected”.47
So what is the take-home message here? At best that “Ebola-like” does not always mean Ebola; at worst that Ebola does not mean Ebola.
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Broxmeyer, L. AIDS: What the Discoverers of HIV Have Never Admitted: Latest Edition. 2014, July. 142 pp http://www.amazon.com/AIDS-Discoverers-Admitted-Latest-Edition/dp/1495457044/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1412347161&sr=8-3-fkmr0&keywords=Lawrence+Broxmeyer+AIDS%3A+What+the+discovers+of+HIV+have+never+admitted.
Kashala O, Marlink R, llunga M, Diese M, Gormus B, Xu K, Mukeeba P, Kasongo K, Essex M. Infection with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and human T cell lymphotropic viruses among leprosy patients and contacts: correlation between HIV-1 cross-reactivity and antibodies to lipoarabinomannan. J Infect Dis. 1994 Feb;169(2):296-304.
Schlanger, Z., Researchers Pinpoint Origin of HIV Pandemic Newsweek, October 2nd 2014. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/researchers-pinpoint-origin-of-hiv-pandemic/ar-BB740Xi
Izadi, E., A Liberian doctor is using HIV drugs to treat Ebola victims. The NIH is intrigued, The Washington Post, October 2, 2014. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/10/02/a-liberian-doctor-is-using-hiv-drugs-to-treat-ebola-victims-the-nih-is-intrigued/
Broxmeyer, op. cit., pp.6-17
Shetty, P. Worst ever outbreak of Marburg virus hits Angola, SciDevNet, April 7, 2005. http://www.scidev.net/global/health/news/worst-ever-outbreak-of-marburg-virus-hits-angola.html?from=related%20articles&stay=full
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WHO: "Ebola virus disease", Fact sheet no. 103, updated September 2014, http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/
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The Mayo Clinic Diseases and Conditions. Ebola virus and Marburg virus. Aug 6, 2014. http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases
Kaufmann AF, Moulthrop JI, Moore RM: A perspective of simian tuberculosis in the United States—1972. J Med Primatol 4:278286, 1975.
Vidal, J., "Ebola: research team says migrating fruit bats responsible for outbreak", The Observer, 24 August 2014. http://tinyurl.com/lzdgqry
Scott, H.H., "Report on the deaths occurring in the Society's gardens during 1925", Proc. Zool. Soc. London. 1926; 96:231-244
Griffith, A.S., "Tuberculosis in Captive Wild Animals", J. Hyg. (Lond.) 1928 Nov; 28(2):198-218.
Hamerton, A.E., "Report on the deaths occurring in the Societies gardens during 1930.” Proc. Zool Soc. Lond. 1931: 101:527-555).
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Dr. Lawrence Broxmeyer, MD
Pennsylvania internist/researcher Lawrence Broxmeyer, MD, was on staff at N.Y. affiliates of Downstate, Cornell, and NYU for 14 years. He was lead author and originator of a novel way to kill AIDS mycobacteria. (Journal of Infectious Diseases, 11/15/2002}. His ideas on phagotherapy are still in use today. He appeared in Patho-Biotechnology, by Landes. His peer-reviewed articles are on PubMed. His books include "Parkinson’s—Another Look", "Autism: An ancient Foe" and "AIDS: What the Discoverers of HIV Have Never Admitted." SEE: AIDS: What the Discoverers of HIV Have Never Admitted: Latest Edition
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Industrial Augmented Reality Apps Gain Momentum
The augmented reality (AR) market in industrial industries, specifically the logistics and manufacturing sectors, will reach an inflection point in 2017 and grow by more than 400 percent over the previous year, according to the latest worldwide market study by ABI Research.
This momentum will continue into 2018 with shipments expected to jump from 440,000 in 2017 to more than three million. Given the current growth trajectory, industrial AR shipments are now forecast to reach 16 million by 2021.
This adoption will occur as large multi-national companies -- such as Boeing, DHL, GE, and Shell -- complete trials of the technology alongside the support of device manufacturers and platform vendors.
Augmented Reality Market Development
"Many companies see the potential value of AR within the space, and while a level of misunderstanding surrounding the technology and its capabilities can cause challenges, trials will allow workers to test and understand the benefits of the technology," said Shelli Bernard, research analyst at ABI Research.
According to the ABI assessment, industry players are collaborating to improve education surrounding the technology’s current capabilities, which will ensure that implementations meet an organization's expectations in utilizing augmented reality apps.
The benefits to AR applications in the workforce are currently believed to be substantial. These apps can improve worker safety, streamline workflow processes, and significantly reduce company travel costs through remote expertise solutions.
As application and platform providers like APX Labs, Ubimax, and Vital Enterprises work alongside device manufacturers like Epson and Vuzix to deliver a wider array of solutions, AR use case awareness will continue to grow through successful trials and end user education.
Driving the majority of today's AR implementations in industrial industries are larger, multi-national corporations that have adequate R&D budgets. They will likely experience a substantial ROI from their AR deployments.
Outlook for Industrial AR Use Cases
ABI believes that as the technology continues to prove its worth, this will lead to the development of additional programs in vertical markets. In the near future, AR will demonstrate the most value in specialized fields in which workers are distributed over large geographic areas.
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Tag: Patrick Leahy
USA Freedom Act Still Won’t Protect Americans’ Liberties
By TMC in Politics
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-NH) introduced the version of the USA Freedom Act on Tuesday.
Leahy’s bill, like the House’s, would still provide the NSA with access to enormous amounts of American phone data. Though it would require a judge to issue an order to telecos for “call detail records” based on a “reasonable, articulable suspicion” of association with terrorism or a foreign power, the NSA will be able to use that single order to obtain the “call detail records” of a suspicious entity, as well as those of entities in “direct connection” with it and entities in connection with those.
While that would permit the NSA to yield thousands of records off of a single court order, on a daily basis for six months, the NSA and the bill’s architects contend that it bans “bulk collection.”
Leahy’s bill would go further than the House version in narrowing the critical definition of “specific selection term,” a foundational aspect of the bill defining what the government can collect. The House definition is a “term specifically identifying a person, entity, account, address, or device,” which privacy groups have lambasted as unreasonably broad.
Seeking to plug that loophole, Leahy would prevent the NSA or the FBI from accessing a service provider’s entire clientele or a wholesale “city, state, zip code, or area code.”
Although the Leahy bill has the support of several civil libertarian groups and major tech firms like Facebook and Google, it does not revive some privacy proposals that those organizations considered crucial but the intelligence agencies and their advocates in Congress stripped from the House measure.
There are still some really big loopholes, as noted by emptywheel’s Marcy Wheeler:
Leahy’s bill retains the language from USA Freedumber on contact chaining, which reads,
(iii) provide that the Government may require the prompt production of call detail records-
(I) using the specific selection term that satisfies the standard required under subsection (b)(2)(C)(ii) as the basis for production; and
(II) using call detail records with a direct connection to such specific selection term as the basis for production of a second set of call detail records;
Now, I have no idea what this language means, and no one I’ve talked to outside of the intelligence committees does either. It might just mean they will do the same contact chaining they do now, but if it does, why adopt this obscure language? It may just mean they will correlate identities, and do contact chaining off all the burner phones their algorithms say are the same people, but nothing more, but if so, isn’t there clearer language to indicate that (and limit it to that)? [..]
I remain concerned, too, that such obscure language would permit the contact chaining on phone books and calendars, both things we know NSA obtains overseas, both things NSA might have access to through their newly immunized telecom partners.
In addition, Leahy’s bill keeps USA Freedumber’s retention language tied to Foreign Intelligence purpose, allowing the NSA to keep all records that might have a foreign intelligence purpose.
That’s just for starters. She is also concerned about the vague language will still be used to allow bulk collection. She doesn’t think it’s strong enough
The question is whether this “agency protocol” – what Chief Justice John Roberts said was not enough to protect Americans’ privacy – is sufficient to protect Americans’ privacy.
I don’t think it is.
First, it doesn’t specify how long the NSA and FBI and CIA can keep and sort through these corporate records (or what methods it can use to do so, which may themselves be very invasive).
It also permits the retention of data that gets pretty attenuated from actual targets of investigation: agents of foreign powers that might have information on subjects of investigation and people “in contact with or known to” suspected agents associated with a subject of an investigation.
Known to?!?! Hell, Barack Obama is known to all those people. Is it okay to keep his data under these procedures?
Also remember that the government has secretly redefined “threat of death or serious bodily harm” to include “threats to property,” which could be Intellectual Property.
So CIA could (at least under this law – again, we have no idea what the actual FISC orders this is based off of) keep 5 years of Western Union money transfer data until it has contact chained 3 degrees out from the subject of an investigation or any new subjects of investigation it has identified in the interim.
In other words, probably no different and potentially more lenient than what it does now.
And one more thing from Marcy: Leahy’s version still will allow the FBI uncounted use of backdoor searches:
I strongly believe this bill may expand the universe of US persons who will be thrown into the corporate store indefinitely, to be subjected to the full brunt of NSA’s analytical might.
But that’s not the part of the bill that disturbs me the most. It’s this language:
‘(3) FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION.-
Subparagraphs (B)(iv), (B)(v), (D)(iii), (E)(iii), and (E)(iv) of paragraph (1) of subsection (b) shall not apply to information or records held by, or queries conducted by, the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The language refers, in part, to requirements that the government report to Congress [..]
These are back door searches on US person identifiers of Section 702 collected data – both content (iv) and metadata (v).
In other words, after having required the government to report how many back door searches of US person data it conducts, the bill then exempts the FBI.
The FBI – the one agency whose use of such data can actually result in a prosecution of the US person in question.
We already know the government has not provided all defendants caught using 702 data notice. And yet, having recognized the need to start counting how many Americans get caught in back door searches, Patrick Leahy has decided to exempt the agency that uses back door searches the most.
And if they’re not giving defendants notice (and they’re not), then this is an illegal use of Section 702.
While the Senate version may be a good enough reason for some civil libertarians, privacy groups and technology firms to back, it still falls far short of what is needed to protect Americans’ constitutional rights and privacy.
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Congressional Game of Chicken: Filibuster Reform Discussed Again
The side show over filibuster and Republican obstruction of President Barack Obama’s appointments to cabinet positions and to vacant seats on the bench, especially to the DC Circuit which hears some of the most important constitutional cases, has once again begun amidst the main event of the failure the roll out of the ACA. Senate Republicans filibustered a judicial nomination to the DC Circuit Court
President Obama’s latest choice to fill one of the vacancies on a powerful appeals court went down in a filibuster on Tuesday as Senate Republicans blocked another White House nominee – the third in two weeks – and deepened a growing conflict with Democrats over presidential appointments.
By a vote of 56 to 41, the nomination of Cornelia T. L. Pillard, a Georgetown law professor, fell short of clearing the necessary 60-vote threshold. [..]
The disagreements carried over onto the Senate floor on Tuesday, as Democrats accused Republicans of blocking a perfectly qualified woman for political purposes, while Republicans said Democrats were desperately looking for a wedge issue.
Looming underneath their disagreements about Ms. Pillard is the likelihood – which appeared to grow considerably on Tuesday – that the fight will escalate and result in a change to the Senate rules to limit the minority party’s ability to filibuster judicial nominees.
Senator Richard J. Durbin, the chamber’s No. 2 Democrat, warned Republicans that they were pushing the Senate dangerously close to a tipping point.
The Republicans attempt to reframe the argument saying that the DC Circuit isn’t as busy as other courts such as the 2nd Circuit in New York. The court handles most of the legal challenges to federal agencies, putting it at the center of fights over regulations – including the healthcare reform law and Obama’s push to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. After Tuesday’s vote, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) said, “We’re going by the standards that Democrats set in 2006.”
Their strategy: lock in the current 4-4 court by eliminating the empty seats and redistributing them to other circuits, because some other courts (ones that aren’t the first recourse for people suing Congress over legislation) have more cases. “In 2012, there were 512 ‘administrative appeals’ filed in D.C.,” said Grassley on Tuesday. “In the 2nd Circuit, there were 1,493. Stated differently, in D.C. there were only 64 administrative appeals per active judge. The 2nd Circuit has nearly twice as many with 115.”
That framing, which seemed like a stretch-no one also denies that the D.C. Circuit gets more pivotal cases than the 2nd Circuit-has since been universally adopted by the right. Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, the sort of Republican whom Democrats like to cut deals with, has endorsed Grassley’s Court Efficiency Act because it would “bring a reasonable end to the destructive partisan fights to which both parties have contributed.” A third-party ad hitting Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor (a Gang of 14 member) right now accuses him of trying to “pack a key court with liberal judges” because he doesn’t want to eliminate the three open seats. Grassley points out that Democrats blocked a 2006 Bush nominee on the grounds that the seat didn’t need to be filled-what more evidence does he need?
“We’re going by the standards that Democrats set in 2006,” said Grassley after Tuesday’s vote. “They said that we didn’t need any more judges. And that’s exactly what I’m telling ’em, what they said! We’re just doing what they said. They set the standard and they can’t say we’re doing this because we’ve got a Democratic president, because I got a judge removed, the 12th one removed, when we had a Republican president.””
The problem with Grassley’s argument is that in 2006, the Republican’s got what they wanted. By threatening the “nuclear option,” the Democrats backed down and three very conservative, ideologues were appointed to the DC circuit. Funny how the Republicans can now support that which they opposed seven years ago.
Support for filibuster reform picked up a new supporter after the vote, Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Patrick Leahy (D-VT).
“If the Republican caucus continues to abuse the filibuster rule and obstruct the president’s fine nominees to the D.C. Circuit, then I believe … a rules change should be in order,” Leahy said on the Senate floor, just before Republicans blocked Nina Pillard’s confirmation to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
“That is not a change that I’ve wanted to see happen,” he continued. “But if Republican senators are going to hold nominees hostage without consideration of a nominee’s individual merits, drastic measures may be warranted.”
Leahy, laughing at the Republican excuse that each judge costs $1 million per year, stated the Republican government shut down cost billions of dollars that would have funded those appointments for years.
Contributing editor at the National Journal and resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, Norm Ornstein laid out his reasons why it was time to stop the filibuster madness
Mel Watt was nominated by President Obama to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency-and was blocked by a Republican filibuster. The rationale that Watt was not qualified for the position was flimsy at best. If individual senators wanted to vote against him, they certainly have the right to do so on any basis. But to deny the president his choice for this post, a veteran and moderate lawmaker with sterling credentials and moral character, via filibuster, is nothing short of outrageous. Only two Republicans in the Senate, Rob Portman and Richard Burr, Watt’s colleague from North Carolina, voted for cloture.
Watt was not the only victim of a drive-by filibuster; so was Patricia Millett, a superbly qualified and mainstream nominee for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Only two Republicans supported cloture here; Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, and three others voted “present” (which was no help, since anything but a vote for cloture is meaningless with a rule requiring 60 votes, period, to end debate). The rationale here was even more flimsy than that used against Watt, namely that Obama is trying to “pack” the D.C. Circuit. FDR tried to “pack” the Supreme Court by adding seats to the existing Court. Barack Obama is moving to fill long-standing vacancies on the D.C. Circuit. On this Circuit, thanks to a slew of retired judges appointed by presidents long gone, conservatives have an edge that Mitch McConnell is determined to keep no matter what.
When Harry Reid and McConnell reached a deal on filibusters in January, it was clear that a key component of that deal was that Republicans in the Senate would give due deference to a newly reelected president in his executive nominations, and would only oppose judicial nominations for courts of appeals under “extraordinary circumstances,” which clearly means judges without clear qualifications or experience, or extreme ideologies. No one could accuse Millett of either of those characteristics. This is all about denying a president the right to pick judges to fill existing vacancies. Two more nominees for the D.C. Circuit are coming up soon, the real test of whether Republicans will continue to flout the January agreement and threaten fundamental comity in the Senate. [..]
If the other two D.C. Circuit nominees are filibustered and blocked, I would support Harry Reid’s move to change the rules now, to move from a 60-vote requirement to stop debate and vote to a 40-vote requirement to continue debate. The argument that if he does so, Republicans will do the same thing when they take the White House and Senate is a bad one: Can anyone doubt that McConnell would blow up the filibuster rule in a nanosecond if he had the ability to fill all courts with radical conservatives like Janice Rogers Brown for decades to come? I hope it does not come to this-and that the problem solvers in the Senate keep their titles, preserve their institution, and stop the filibuster madness.
But does Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have the votes? Even with Leahy’s support this time, there may not be the 51 votes needed.
“If we can’t move ahead based on how the procedures have been perverted, we need to fix the procedures. That’s the deal,” said Larry Cohen, president of Communications Workers of America, which is leading a coalition lobbying for changes to filibuster rules.
Cohen said Reid “is willing” to change the rules but “the question is whether the leader can get 50 Democrats, not 49 or 48, to sustain that motion.”
A senior Democratic aide said Reid has not conducted a recent whip count and questioned how outside groups or rank-and-file Democratic senators would know the vote count if the leader attempted a rule change immediately.
“Any declarative statements at this point are extremely premature,” said the senior aide.
A cloture vote on the nomination on Robert Wilkins, a third nominee to the court, will be held in the near future. The Republicans have already indicated that his nomination will also be filibustered. We’ll see if reform of this antiquated, misused rule gains more support after that.
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It’s The End Of The Internet As We Know It (And Orrin Hatch Feels Fine)
By Dominic-chan in Action
Cross-posted to CandyBullets, MyLeftWing, The Stars-Hollow Gazette and firefly-dreaming
If you follow my website (CandyBullets) you’re probably well aware of the threat posed by the “IP PROTECT ACT” known more commonly as the Internet Blacklist bill. You’re may also be aware that this bill was recently halted in the Senate by the true Democrat Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) who prevented the bill from coming up for a vote in the Senate (where it would doubtless pass) however a House version will be introduced this week with help of Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) — probably tomorrow. If you’re not familiar with this bill then I suggest you become acquainted (the full text of the bill may be found here.)
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US Wants MORE CIA in Pakistan, $ for Weapons, Using Wikileaks as Excuse
By AmericanRiverCanyon in Barack Obama, Iraq
Like clockwork in being timed with the latest wikileaks release:
After increasing the number of drone attacks in September, now the US is pressuring Pakistan to let in more covert paramilitary and CIA forces to increase the unknown, classified number that are already there – to support the death by drones program that is killing an unknown number of militants and civilians. The story in the WSJ also says that Pakistan’s Inter – Services Intelligence agency, ISI, is currently doing most of the intelligence gathering and that CIA chief Leon Panetta has called them “very cooperative.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/…
The Obama administration has been ramping up pressure on Islamabad in recent weeks to attack militants after months of publicly praising Pakistani efforts. The CIA has intensified drone strikes in Pakistan, and the military in Afghanistan has carried out cross-border helicopter raids, underlining U.S. doubts Islamabad can be relied upon to be more aggressive. Officials have even said they were going to stop asking for Pakistani help with the U.S.’s most difficult adversary in the region, the North Waziristan-based Haqqani network, because it was unproductive.
Pakistani officials believe the CIA is better able to keep details of its operations largely out of the public eye, although the agency’s drone program has received widespread attention and is enormously unpopular with the Pakistani public.
U.S. military forces on the ground remain a red line for Islamabad. A senior Pakistani official said if the Pakistan public became aware of U.S. military forces conducting combat operations on Pakistani territory, it would wipe out popular support for fighting the militants in the tribal areas. Whether covert CIA forces would cross that line however, remains an open question.
Back in July, the public relationship wasn’t so cozy.
HuffPo, 7/6/10
…. but the US – Pakistan relationship is at the heart of Washington’s counterterrorism efforts.
But the CIA became so concerned by a rash of cases involving suspected double agents in 2009, it re-examined the spies it had on the payroll in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. The internal investigation revealed about a dozen double agents, stretching back several years. Most of them were being run by Pakistan. Other cases were deemed suspicious. The CIA determined the efforts were part of an official offensive counterintelligence program being run by Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, the ISI’s spy chief.
Recruiting agents to track down and kill terrorists and militants is a top priority for the CIA, and one of the clandestine service’s greatest challenges. The drones can’t hit their targets without help finding them. Such efforts would be impossible without Pakistan’s blessing, and the U.S. pays about $3 billion a year in military and economic aid to keep the country stable and cooperative.
Pakistan has its own worries about the Americans. During the first term of the Bush administration, Pakistan became enraged after it shared intelligence with the U.S., only to learn the CIA station chief passed that information to the British. The incident caused a serious row, one that threatened the CIA’s relationship with the ISI and deepened the levels of distrust between the two sides. Pakistan almost threw the CIA station chief out of the country.
July 2010 – HuffPo says 8 years after the war in Afghanistan, a very poor and not very large country, was not going so well, the Obama administration finally became “concerned” about their intelligence partners in the region. Three months after the first batch of wikileaks were released, April 5, 2010.
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Live Blogging the Torture and Accountablity Panel Update Final Update
By Something The Dog Said in Action
This is the panel the Dog has been waiting for! Torture and accountability. On the panel we have Vince Warren,. Rep. Jerry Nadler, Marcy Wheeler and Melisa Goodman. The Dog is going to try to live blog this for those playing our home game.
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Weekly Torture Action Letter 20 – Leave Lady Justice Her Blindfold!
By Something The Dog Said in Action, Barack Obama
Happy Monday and welcome to the Dog’s ongoing letter writing campaign for accountability for the Bush Era State Sponsored Torture program. The premise of this campaign is to write decision makers every Monday urging them to do the right thing in terms of our international treaty obligations and our Federal statutes. This means to investigate the enormous amount of prima facie evidence and where warranted by the evidence, to prosecute. The Dog writes a letter every week, which you, the activist, can either cut and paste or use as the jumping off point for your own letter.
“Originally posted at Squarestate.net“
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Weekly Torture Action Letter 19 – Investigate For The Sake Of Our Troops
Happy Monday and welcome to the Dog’s on going letter writing campaign for accountability and the rule of law for the apparent Bush Era torture programs. The premise of this campaign is the Dog will write a letter to one of the key decision makers (with carbon copies to others) and provide the links to reach these worthies. Your job, gentle reader, is to either use the letter as a jumping off point for your own letter, or just cut and paste the letter and send it off under your own signature.
Weekly Torture Action Letter 13 – Judge Sotomayor And The Judiciary Committee
Happy Monday and welcome the Dog’s ongoing letter writing campaign. For those of you joining for the first time the idea is every Monday the Dog writes a to decision makers about accountability for the Bush Administration State Sponsored Torture program. This letter can be cut and by any reader or used as the jumping off point for your own letter. The point is to keep the pressure up on the decision makers to make those who apparently committed one of the worst possible crimes accountable for their actions. Today’s letter is to Sen. Patrick Leahy and the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee.
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Uniting American Families Act update
By Casual Wednesday in GLBT
On Monday afternoon, I posted a diary discussing the Uniting American Families Act. It also got Front Paged here (thanks, benign overlord administrators) I also received an excellent e-mail about the issue.
I titled the diary “The gay rights bill you don’t know about.” I should have checked some tags first. Heh.
At any rate, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a very informative hearing on the bill Wednesday morning.
To recap, UAFA does one simple thing. It would allow American citizens to sponsor same sex partners for immigration just like married couples. The Senate bill is sponsored by Patrick Leahy of Vermont while the House version is sponsored by Jerrold Nadler of New York. Follow me below for a recap of the hearing.
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The gay rights law you don’t know about
By Casual Wednesday
On Wednesday morning, June 3, at 10 a.m. the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA). (If you are in town, the hearing is in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.) C-Span does not have Wednesday’s television schedule up yet, but the Committee website offers a webcast of the hearing.
UAFA would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to allow a citizen to sponsor a same sex partner for citizenship.
This might be one of those bills that ultimately goes nowhere or it may fundamentally change the course of both the gay marriage and immigration debates. Follow me below the fold for more on this bill.
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Considered Forthwith: Senate Judiciary Committee
By Casual Wednesday in Congress
Note: this turns Orange and will appear at Congress Matters Sunday at 8 p.m.
Welcome to the tenth installment of “Considered Forthwith.”
This weekly series looks at the various committees in the House and the Senate. Committees are the workshops of our democracy. This is where bills are considered, revised, and occasionally advance for consideration by the House and Senate. Most committees also have the authority to exercise oversight of related executive branch agencies. If you want to read previous dairies in the series, search using the “forthwith” tag or use the link on my blogroll. I welcome criticisms and corrections in the comments.
This week I will look at the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. The committee’s jurisdiction is very similar to the House Judiciary Committee (the Forthwith diary is posted here). There is one big difference, though. The Senate committee gets to hold hearings on judicial confirmations, so this seems timely.
Additionally, the committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on an important gay rights/immigration bill (see Uniting American Families Act below).
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Birth of a Whitewash: Who Testified at Leahy Torture Commission Hearings?
By Valtin
There has been plenty of controversy on the issue of conducting a Congressional or independent investigation into the interrogations policy and torture activities of the Bush administration over the last seven or eight years.
One of the primary worries by those who oppose a “truth and reconciliation”-style investigation is that it would preempt possible prosecutions, or at worst, be a cover-up of some of the worst crimes involved. Those who favor such an investigation believe that is only with a broad investigation will all the information really be unearthed.
The hearing today by the Senate Judiciary Committee — “Getting to the Truth Through a Nonpartisan Commission of Inquiry” — chaired by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), was called to explore options for investigating past torture and counter-terrorism policy. The committee called six witnesses, some for, some against such an investigation. But a close look at the backgrounds and affiliations of even most of the pro-investigation witnesses should give us deep pause, and ask what kind of commission are we being set up for?
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Concord University & New River Career & Technical College help area students ‘Gear Up’
By Joshua Bolden
BLUEFIELD, W.Va. (WVVA) - Concord University & New River Career & Technical College help area students ‘Gear Up.’
This Friday area students will descend on Raleigh County Convention Center for the inaugural ‘Gear Up Southern West Virginia’ kick off event.
The highlight of the day will be scholarship giveaways. Concord University and New River Community and Technical College will each give out two $500 scholarships. The day will include various activities including games, raffles and prizes. EJ Carrion—best-selling author, successful entrepreneur, and preeminent thought leader on student success—will serve as the key-note speaker for this event.
Concord University (Press Release)
Funding for Gear Up comes from a federal grant created to increase the number of students considering secondary education whether it is college, university or trade school.
“We want to help students get to where their dreams are. We believe it’s more affordable for them to stay with in Southern West Virginia and west Virginia educational systems but we will help them reach their dreams wherever that may be, said Concord University’s Kristen O’Sullivan who is helping oversee the initiative.
“I’ve been able to work in many different programs in West Virginia and I love our state,” said Sullivan.
“Our job is to help these people reach their dreams. It’s the best.
Kristen stopped by WVVA @ Noon with Joshua Bolden to discuss the opportunities this will provide.
Watch more above.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/iran-nuclear-deal-talks-advance-as-u-s-offers-sanctions-relief-11619024783
Iran Nuclear Deal Talks Advance as U.S. Offers Sanctions Relief
Biden administration signals openness to easing measures against oil, finance and other sectors, but Tehran wants to see specifics
While Iran says it isn’t trying to build nuclear weapons, a look at its key facilities suggests it could develop the technology to make them. WSJ breaks down Tehran’s capabilities as it hits new milestones in uranium enrichment and limits access to inspectors. Photo illustration: George Downs
By Ian Talley
, Benoit Faucon
and Laurence Norman
Updated April 21, 2021 6:31 pm ET
The Biden administration has signaled it is open to easing sanctions against critical elements of Iran’s economy, including oil and finance, helping narrow differences in nuclear talks, according to people familiar with the matter.
Despite the progress, senior diplomats warned that weeks of difficult negotiations over the 2015 nuclear agreement lie ahead and progress remains fragile. Talks in Vienna are complicated by domestic politics in Washington and Tehran and by Iran’s refusal to meet directly with the U.S. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9129106998443604, "wiki_prob": 0.9129106998443604, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1333103"} |
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Justika Receives Seed Funding from East Ventures
Justika, a legal services marketplace in Indonesia, announced today that it has secured seed funding led by East Ventures, with participation from Skystar Capital.
Justika is a digital platform created to connect people who need legal services with lawyers and other support services, such as company establishment agents and translators. The Justika platform is not only innovating how people find lawyers, but also how lawyers work.
The company uses natural language processing (NLP) technology to match clients with attorneys based on the specialization of services. Once matched, clients can consult a lawyer and get a reply in less than five minutes.
Furthermore, lawyers can also provide other services depending on the client’s needs, such as review or drafting of documents, telephone consultations, negotiations, and advocacy in court.
On the other hand, lawyers can easily establish relationships with clients through the Justika platform.
Justika will use this seed funding to expand public access to legal services in Indonesia through product development, marketing, and talent recruitment in various legal fields to provide more added value to users.
Currently, Justika focuses on three areas of law that society often faces: family law, law involving small and medium-sized businesses, and property law. In addition, Justika plans to expand and provide access to other legal services that the community needs.
Three Pioneers Working Together in Justika
As part of Hukumonline, Justika brings together three pioneers from various fields such as Ahmad Fikri Assegaf, Chairman and Co-founder of Justika, senior partner at AHP (Assegaf Hamzah & Partners) who has more than twenty five years of experience in the this field.
There are also co-founder of Hukumonline, a portal Indonesia’s largest law firm; Melvin Sumapung, CEO and Co-founder of Justika with a background in business strategy with experience creating legal technology products since 2017; and Husein, CTO and Co-founder of Justika, a founder with experience in the gaming and agri-tech industries.
Justika combines Fikri’s experience in law with Melvin and Husein’s innovation. Fikri, together with Arief Surowidjojo, Ibrahim Assegaf, and the Indonesian Center for Law and Policy Studies (PSHK), founded Hukumonline more than 20 years ago.
Today, Hukumonline plays an important role in providing better access to justice through online databases, legal analysis, legal clinics, and news. Justika’s presence further enhances technology-based legal services in Indonesia.
Access to justice is one of the main concerns, according to Fikri. “The key is educating the public to democratize access to lawyers and solve legal problems.”
Melvin says that strong perceptions of the complexity and difficulty of obtaining legal services are a real obstacle for many. “Justika is trying to solve this problem by facilitating the community to get legal services quickly and affordably.”
Husein added, “Our technological innovations allow clients and lawyers to take advantage of features to access legal services in new ways and also streamline the way lawyers work, for example, providing document templates and inheritance calculators for Muslim clients.”
Many People Have Yet to Find Access for Legal Services
According to the 2019 Research Report on Access to Justice in Indonesia released by the Indonesian Judicial Research Society, the Indonesian Legal Roundtable, and the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation, around 110 million Indonesians have faced significant legal problems in the last two years.
71% of them give up on finding solutions because access is difficult, either because they don’t know what to do or don’t know where to go. Despite the challenges, Justika believes that there is great potential in this industry.
With an “untouched” legal market worth around USD 7.5 billion, Justika plans to expand their user base and increase their product line. Justika plans to double their revenue by targeting 7,000 unique monthly paying users next year.
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Buckhorn claims area residents “prosecuted for being muslim”
TBG_admin February 12, 2017
In an interview with NewsChannel 8 Weekend Morning on Sunday, Tampa mayor Bob Buckhorn claimed that people in the Tampa Bay area are being “prosecuted for being muslim”. NewsChannel 8 reporter Paul Mueller did not challenge Buckhorn’s obviously false claim.
Mueller referred to a recent meeting Buckhorn had with the Islamic Society of Tampa Bay, and asked Buckhorn why he needed to “be so focused on” Trump’s executive order on immigration.
Buckhorn throws a beanball
Buckhorn responded as follows (video): “There were grown men who came up to me crying, who had been in this country, who were legally in this country, who were not terrorists, they were good, hardworking Americans, but they were so fearful of what was going on in this country, that they were being persecuted, and prosecuted, for being muslim.”
However, there is no law that would allow prosecution of a person for “being muslim.”
Buckhorn took an oath of office in which he swore to “support, protect and defend” both the US and Florida Constitutions. Should he ever encounter evidence that the free exercise of a religion was being hindered, he would be duty-bound to take action beyond just telling a reporter about it.
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Extreme sex stories: A brother and sister.
At first I didn’t know it was her. Just a brilliantspill of bright blonde hair and a small slim body in apink La Sucia Hijastra Latina Betty La Ternurita Se Folla A Su Padrastro PORNO EN ESPANtildeOL blouse and snug faded blue jeans, standing in lineat the coffee shop. I was behind her and I looked herover, admiring her lovely hair and her cute little ass.But then I heard her order a tall mocha and recognizedher voice.“Make it two,” I said, sliding a ten dollar bill overthe counter to the barista.For a fraction of a moment the beautiful little blonderegarded me with suspicion, but then she realized Ambitious Licie Blowing Well itwas me and her face lit up with surprise and delight.“Oh my God!” she cried. She threw her arms around meand I laughed into her golden hair as she hugged me.“Oh, Andy,” she said against my neck, “I can’t believeit’s you. Where have you been? It’s so good to seeyou!” “It’s good to see you too, Nikkie,” I said.She stepped back and we looked at each other. Icouldn’t be sure of what she thought about me, but myown reaction to seeing her was the same as it hadalways been: startled, and just a bit sad. My babysister was My Step Father Caught Me Watching Porno And Disciplined Me Very Rigid For It Squir7een still the most beautiful girl I’d ever seen.“It’s been so long,” she said. “I’ve missed you somuch.” “I’ve missed you too.” I took my change from thebarista, who was beaming at us as if she wasresponsible for some grand romantic reunion. I grabbedNikkie’s hand and said, “Let’s go sit down.”We got a table near the door and sat across from eachother.“Well, Nikkie,” I said, “you’re still as lovely asever.”Nikkie smiled shyly and replied, “Oh, thank you, Andy.You’re always so sweet.” She reached over and lightlypunched my shoulder. “You’re still a cutie too. So,what have you been doing? Where’ve you been? Are youstill in school? Are you doing okay?” “Hold on,” I said, laughing, “one question at a time.”I filled her in on what I’d been up to in the threeyears since we’d last seen each other: I hadn’t La Sucia Hijastra Latina Betty La Ternurita Se Folla A Su Padrastro PORNO EN ESPANtildeOL leftthe city, just kind of hung around downtown, movingfrom one job to the next while I got through college;I’d worked as a janitor, as a security guard, acabinetmaker (the best paying job I’d had, though itonly lasted one summer), even a car wash attendant. Butnow that I had my bachelor’s degree I was working as aproofreader at a small downtown publishing firm. Thehours were lousy, the pay even worse, but it wasn’tdangerous or physically demanding and I had the chancenow to pay more attention to my writing.“So, what are you doing, Nikkie?” I asked.“Me? I’m on my break,” Nikkie replied with amischievous grin.“Two tall mochas,” the barista called from the coffeebar.“You little brat,” I said, then went and got ourdrinks. When I returned I said, “So, if you’re on yourbreak, you must be working.” “Sure am,” Nikkie replied. “I’m an administrativeassistant at the adult education center next door.” “The place next door? Kind of a rough clientele, isn’tit?” From what I’d heard, the place mainly catered tothe homeless, and to people recovering from dg andalcohol ae.“Nothing I can’t handle,” my little sister replied witha shrug. She sipped Beautiful Girl Sex By The Window Russian Porn Part1 at her coffee and said, “Besides, Idon’t really have much to do with the students. MostlyI just push paper and make typing noises on thecomputer all day. Which I’m gonna have to get back to.I’m only on a fifteen minute break.” “Yeah, me too. But Nikkie, I want to talk to you sobad. What do you say we get together later on? Probablynot tonight because I’m working late. How abouttomorrow? It’s Saturday.” “That would be great,” Nikkie said. My baby sister puther soft hand on top of mine. “I’d love to spend moretime with you, Andy. Get caught up and everything.” “Then it’s a date,” I said.We got up from the table and headed for the door. Whenwe got outside we hugged each other goodbye. Nikkiekissed me on the neck and said, “I live on the cornerof Second and Trade Street. Apartment 208. Can you makeit around noon?” “Absolutely,” I said. I could smell the sweet scent oflilacs in her beautiful hair as she continued to Depiladora Falou Que Era Para Facilitar A Depilaccedil_atilde_o Mas Ela holdme.“Oh God, Andy, I really have missed you.” “I know, sweetheart.” I kissed her quickly on the lips.“See you tomorrow.” “Can’t wait,” Nikkie said. I turned to go but shestopped me with a hand on my arm. “Hey, did you meanit?” “Did I mean what?” “When you said it was a date. Are we going on a date?”She had that mischievous grin on her face again.“Sure,” I said. “If you want it to be a date, thenit’ll be a date.”Nikkie smiled and her big blue eyes shined.“Wonderful,” she said.We parted reluctantly and I walked back to work,absently drinking my espresso and telling myself that Iwas an incredibly lucky guy; I had a date with the mostbeautiful girl in the world.The neighborhood Nikkie lived in wasn’t the best in thecity, but it wasn’t the worst either. Mostly low incomeapartment buildings and mom RealityKings HD Love Seductive Shae and pop shops, with acoffeehouse, a bohemian theatre, an antique store, anadult bookstore, and restaurants scattered here andthere. I’d been a little surprised when she told me heraddress; for the last year or so since she’d moved outof our parents’ house we had lived only six blocks fromeach other and didn’t even know it.I’d gone into some of the shops, had bought coffee onthe corner, had watched a few independent films at thetheatre and frequented the adult bookstore on a regularbasis, and yet we had never run into each other. Notthat Nikkie had ever gone into Black Bull Impregnates Cuckolding Wife Angie Moon After Ruining Her the adult bookstore,though I wondered now as I drove past its garish neonsign and bright red door and parked in front of herapartment building, if she’d ever seen me going in orcoming out. It was probably a relatively good thingthat we hadn’t reunited until now.As I entered Nikkie’s building and followed theapartment numbers down the hallway and around thecorner, I thought about her, about how much she’dchanged in the last three years, and how much shehadn’t changed. She was sixteen when I left home, justa cute young kid who looked younger and purer than shereally was. She still looked too young and too pure,but it seemed more like just appearances now.I wasn’t sure what it was about her that gave me thatimpression; maybe something in those beautiful blueeyes, or her posture, or the way she’d looked at me andtalked to me, more like a downtowner than a young girlfrom Shower Sex They Both Came At The Same Time the upper middle class neighborhoods of the WestEnd. Maybe it was just how nice her ass had looked inthose blue jeans. Whatever it was, I knew as I came upon apartment 208 that I was dealing now with someonewho was going to be new to me in some ways and yet justas familiar as ever.I knocked and a few moments later Nikkie opened thedoor. She was wearing a simple white dress with tinypink flowers all over it and her sunlight colored hairwas tied back in a ponytail. She looked so fabulousthat for a second I was speechless.“Hi, Andy,” she said, giving me a big sweet smile.“Hi, Nikkie,” I said. “Are you ready for our date?” “Sure,” Nikkie replied with a giggle. “Just hold on forone teeny minute, okay?”She ducked into the bathroom and I waited there in thedoorway. While I waited a very pretty brown-haired girlwith large doe eyes and a nice little body came to thedoor. She looked like Tomochka Tribute To You From Arthur From France she was about my age.“Hi,” she said, “I’m Maggie, Nikkie’s roommate.” “Hi, Maggie,” I said, “I’m her brother Andy.” “Yeah,” Maggie said, looking me over. “Her brother. Theone she ran into yesterday. She hasn’t stopped talkingabout you since. But did you, um, did you say you weretaking her on a date?” “Yes, but it’s not that kind of date.” “Yeah, okay.” Maggie continued to scrutinize me and itwas obvious that she didn’t believe me. I didn’t knowwhat to do with that, so I just stood there andscrutinized her as well. She opened her mouth to saysomething more but just then Nikkie came out of thebathroom.“Ready,” she announced. She slipped her arm aroundMaggie’s waist and pecked her on the cheek. “Bye, hon.Don’t wait up for me.” She giggled again.Maggie responded by taking Nikkie in a full embrace.She kissed her on the lips, then held my sister’s facein her hands and said softly, “Bye, sweetheart.” Shegave me a pointed FIRSTANALQUEST HARDCORE ANAL POUNDING WITH THE BEAUTIFUL ARIEL TEMPLE look, making it clear that she didn’tcare for me very much, then let go of Nikkie and wentback into the living room.“Let’s go,” Nikkie said.We walked together down the hallway, holding hands.“Wow,” I said. “What was that all about?” “Oh,” Nikkie replied, “that was just Maggie being aclown. She’s a big clown.”I suspected there might be more to it than that but Ididn’t say anything.I took her to a small Italian restaurant on the NorthEnd. Sotavento’s, a dim quiet place on Pearl Streetthat served the best spaghetti and meatballs in thecity. Nikkie was delighted by the place, she’d neverknown it existed, and she was just as crazy aboutItalian food as I was. We got a table for two in theback, ordered our lunch, then began to get caught up oneach other’s lives.We talked a little more about our jobs; she said sheonly worked part Drunken Vanda time, for minimum wage, sitting infront of a computer all day managing records and makingforms and typing correspondence. Nikkie talked abouther work in a bored disinterested kind of way thatseemed designed to make me bored and disinterested too,but I wasn’t at all.I was fascinated with her, with the idea of mywonderful baby sister actually out there in the world,taking care of herself. Even her nonchalance wasintriguing, and when I filled her in on the dry factsof my own work, how I spent as many as twelve hours aday poring over manuscripts for continuity andmistakes, I noticed how her eyes bore into me, how sheleaned forward and smiled slightly when I talked. Shehung on my every word.Our lunch came and we ate while we talked about life inthe city.“I love living downtown,” Nikkie declared, “simply loveit. So different from our old neighborhood. There’sjust so much to see, and so much to do. Peopleeverywhere. And the buildings, you know, some of themare just so cool looking. The old buildings, the reallyclassic ones.” “Yeah, the buildings,” I said, “and the women. I Mofos Megan Rain Pervs On Patrol don’tknow why, but downtown Darlington seems to have morebeautiful women per capita than anywhere else in theworld.” “Maybe it’s something in the water.” Nikkie speared ameatball with her fork and pretended to examine it. “Orthe meatballs.” She popped it into her mouth.‘I don’t know,’ I thought to myself, ‘but whatever itis, you’ve gotten the lion’s share.’“So Andy,” Nikkie said, twirling pasta around her fork,“do you have a girlfriend?” “Not at the moment,” I said. “There’ve been a few girlsbut they didn’t last.” “What were they like?” “They were wonderful, of course. Lovely and smart,confident, funny, lots of fun. But they didn’t wantanything serious. The problem was they always waiteduntil I told them I loved them before they let me knowthat. One girl even moved to San Jose after I told herhow I felt about her.” “Oh, you poor guy,” Nikkie said.“Love is a fucking nightmare,” I said, immediatelyregretting the angry tone in my voice.Nikkie chewed a mouthful of spaghetti, swallowed, andsaid, “Sounds to me like they weren’t so smart afterall. I’d kl for a guy who loved me. Especially ahottie like you.”I laughed, surprised and pleased by my sister’scompliment. I thanked her and said, “But what are yousaying, Nik? No guy has fallen in love with you 花季少年小李和小杜互相口交 yet?” “Nope. Not a one.” “I find that impossible to believe. I would think you’dhave guys fighting over you night and day.” “Well, there have been guys, and they’ve told me theyloved me, but….you know, it wasn’t my heart theywanted to get into.” Nikkie smiled an embarrassed smileand I realized that she didn’t resent those guys.“You know, Nikkie,” I said, leaning forward and lookingdirectly into her eyes. “This is one of the reasonsI’ve always adored you. Because there’s no bitternessin your beautiful heart.”Nikkie’s smile widened, her face bright, her eyesglittering.After lunch we drove back downtown. Nikkie said shewanted to see a movie, but she didn’t want to watchanything in the regular theatres. “Something offbeat,”she said, which naturally pointed the way to thebohemian theatre, which was showing a series of foreignfilms that week. It was only a block away from herapartment building, so we parked in the same spot I’dparked in earlier and walked together down to thecorner of Fourth Street and Milton Avenue. When we gotthere we found that ‘Justice Undone,’ a film fromIceland, was only ten minutes away from starting.We bought tickets, sodas and popcorn, and sat in theback row just as the opening credits began to roll.There were only about fifteen other people in thetheatre, which lent an intimate quality to theatmosphere. ‘Justice Undone’ contributed to this, ormaybe just fell in line with it; a dark and somberfilm, it told the story of a man in a small isolatedcommunity who is put on trial for having a sexualrelationship with his sister. Something of anembarrassing development for Nikkie and me; we hadn’tknown what the movie was about.When the show was over we walked together up FourthStreet to the corner coffee shop, both of us silent. Ididn’t know what Nikkie thought about the film and it’ssubject, but I knew what my impression was: I wasstartled and a little sheepish, especially regardingthe scenes that were still lingering in my mind. I felta strong desire to talk about these things but at thesame time was reluctant to do so. Sex had never seemedto me like an appropriate topic of conversation forsiblings. I’d decided not to say anything, but thenNikkie brought the subject up herself.“Well,” she said once we were seated with our coffee,“that sure was a weird little movie.” “Definitely offbeat,” I said.Nikkie gave a concessive nod and smile.“Sure was. Guess I asked for that one. Literally.” Shegiggled. “But it wasn’t really a bad movie. Actually,it was pretty good. Just….confusing. I mean, what wasthe whole point? The guy got off with a light sentence,and it seemed like the town didn’t really know whatthey wanted to do. I mean, they wanted to punish him,but then they hardly punished him at all. And what wasthe point of the sister killing herself? She was theone who started the whole thing. And what does thetitle mean? Justice Undone. Which justice was undone?”She shook her head and sipped at her coffee. “I justdon’t get it.” “Maybe that was the point,” I said. “The confusion, theunclear motivations, the uncertain conclusions. Afterall, the brother and sister were consenting adults, sowhere, really, is the crime? What they did was againstthe law, but the brother was put on trial and convictednot so much for committing i’t as for offending thesensibilities of the community. The film ultimatelyleft the issue unresolved because people are generallyso ambivalent about it.”Nikkie thought about this for a minute, then said,“Yeah, maybe. Or maybe the director just didn’t knowwhat he was doing.”I laughed, but the discussion appeared to be over nowand I was disappointed; I’d hoped we could talk aboutthe two sex scenes, both of them very explicit, almostpornographic, in which the brother and sister first hadintercourse and, later, the sister performed oral sexon her brother. I could still see these scenes behindmy eyes, and I thought about them as I watched Nikkienurse her coffee and change the subject. My adorablesister.After coffee I asked Nikkie what she wanted to do next.“Let’s go look at the bay,” she said. “The waterfrontis so beautiful at sunset.”It was getting close to sunset, and she was right;Friday Bay in the twilight was a remarkable visualtreat. We walked again, back down Fourth Street, pastthe theatre and to the next block, turned onto CanalStreet and walked two more blocks down to the parkoverlooking the bay. We strolled along the promenade,talking about other movies we’d seen and liked. Westopped at a concession stand that was just gettingready to close and bought hot dogs and sodas, then saton 验证视频 a bench and ate and talked as the light faded fromthe sky.“Did you ever see ‘Henry and June?’” Nikkie asked me.“It was such a beautifully made film, and MariadeMedeiros is just plain gorgeous.” “I agree,” I said. I finished off my hot dog. “FredWard did a good job too. Caught the character of HenryMiller perfectly.” “I like Henry Miller. He’s one of my favorite writers.Him and Anais Nin. They seem like opposite sides of thesame coin. I like Jack Kerouac too. It’s a shame theynever made any decent movies from his books.” “Wouldn’t it be great if they did? A quality adaptationof ‘On The Road’ or ‘The Dharma Bums?’ Or ‘DesolationAngels.’” “Yeah, Andy, if they could do it. But whoever did itwould have to be able to bring out the sadness inKerouac’s work without losing any of the joy. He andHenry Miller were like that. They wrote jubilantlyabout life but there was always that subtle despairunderneath it all.” Nikkie balled up her trash andhanded it to me. “Their books always make me think ofyou.” “Me?” I asked as we stood up. I tossed the trash in atrash can as we walked out onto a fishing pier. “Whyme?”Nikkie shrugged her pretty shoulders and said, “Idunno.”We walked out to the end of the pier and stood at therailing. The light was almost entirely gone now and thelights on the bay and the distant shore glittered. Istood behind Nikkie and put my arms around her waist. Ihugged her to me and slutty teens get twats eaten out kissed her ponytail.“I’m not sad right now,” I said.We watched the boats on the bay for a while, thenNikkie said, “I really like some modern writers too.Like Larry McMurtry, and Lynne McFall. Oh, and PatConroy. ‘The Prince of Tides’ just made me totally cry.I like Sarah Schulman too.” “I’ve heard of Sarah Schulman,” I said. I looked downat my sister. “Isn’t she a lesbian writer?” “Yeah. Maggie turned me on to her. She’s not aseloquent as writers like Pat Conroy, but she’s stillvery talented. Funny and gritty. She was inspired byJack Kerouac. In fact, the title of her novel ‘GirlsVisions and Everything’ comes from a line in ‘On TheRoad.’” Nikkie looked up and saw the way I was lookingat her. She gave me a wry smile and said, “Don’t worry,Andy, I’m not a lesbian.” “What about Maggie?” I asked.Nikkie looked back out at the water and said, “Shethinks she’s in love with me.”I wasn’t surprised by this remark, though I wasintrigued by Nikkie’s tone of voice; it suggested amixture of affection and disappointment, conflictedfeelings. I wanted to ask her more questions butcouldn’t decide what I wanted to know.Nikkie sighed and said, “Gee, Andy, this is all sobeautiful. I’m having such a wonderful time with you.”I kissed her cheek and told her that I loved her. Mybaby sister smiled and turned around in my arms. Oureyes met, fell deeply into each other, and suddenly wewere kissing. Not passionately, but there was nodenying the romantic and even erotic energy in the wayour lips touched, pressed together. The kiss onlylasted a few seconds, then Nikkie looked at me andsaid, “Andy. Why does the nicest guy I’ve ever met haveto be my brother?” “I was just wondering the same thing,” I said.We strolled back to Nikkie’s apartment building and Iassumed our time together was over, but then Nikkietouched my shoulder and said, “Let’s go to your place.” “Sounds good to me,” I said.We got in my car and drove the six blocks to mybuilding. We went inside and I dug two beers out of therefrigerator while Nikkie looked around. She lookedover the titles in my bookcase, and the titles of themovies in my video collection as well. I was a littleembarrassed; there were several videos with titles like‘Desires of the Flesh’ and ‘Living in Sin.’ She waskind of smirking at these when I handed her a beer.“Interesting collection of movies you’ve got here,” shesaid. “‘Forbidden Angels’….’Girls GoneWild’….’Lesbian Cheerleaders’….” She giggled andlooked at me. “‘All That Jizz?’” “Sorry,” I said. I went over to the stereo and turnedon an oldies station, then sat on the sofa. Nikkiecontinued to look at the videos for a minute before shejoined me.“I think I’d video xác minh like to see ‘Lewd Adventures,’” she said.“Sounds lewd.” She giggled again and I apologizedagain. “Sokay, big brother. I know guys are into thatkind of stuff. Everybody needs to spice up their sexlives one way or another.” She took a big swallow ofher beer, then looked at me. “I should warn you,” shesaid, holding the bottle up next to her face, “I can’thave too many of these. I’m a ridiculously quick drunk.No more than three, otherwise I pass out.” “Okay,” I said, “only three beers for Nikkie.”She smiled at me, the sweetest loveliest smile I’d everseen, then swallowed more beer. I drank too as ‘Sha-Boom’ burbled out of the stereo. It wasn’t until thatsong was over and another tune, ‘Shake Rattle and Roll’came on that Nikkie spoke again.“I had a boyfriend,” she said, “who used to watch thatstuff all the time. And he always wanted me to watch itwith him. I’m not really that much into porn, but I’dwatch. The movies, I mean. Sometimes it could be fun.Like when he wanted to do the same stuff that thepeople in the movie were doing.” “Really,” I said, not quite sure what to do with thatinformation. Nikkie nodded.“Yep. Learned how to give very memorable….well, oralpleasure.” She smiled a little and I realized she wasblushing. “Sorry. You probably don’t want to hear aboutmy sordid sex life.” “No, go right ahead, Nik. Tell me all about it.” “Really? You want to know about all that?” “Sure. The more sordid the better.”My baby sister laughed and said, “Okay, but let mefinish this beer first. Much easier to confess when I’mintoxicated.” She took a long swig, close to emptyingthe bottle, and I told her to take it easy since shewas only getting two more of those. Nikkie replied,“That’s funny. Most guys can’t wait to get me tutor4k. mature teacher seduced into spontaneous orgy with insatiable disciple drunk,”then she burped and laughed at herself.I couldn’t believe it; she was already buzzed. Iwondered how many men had seen her like this, how manyhad taken advantage of it. How many had waited untilshe was passed out. Part of me didn’t want to know,because I’d just end up uselessly hating those men, butanother part of me wanted very much to know. To hearall the details.Nikkie finished her beer and handed me the emptybottle. I went to the kitchen and pulled another beerout of the fridge. When I returned ‘Mack The Knife’ wasplaying. I handed Nikkie her drink and sat next to heragain, closer to her this time. Nikkie twisted the capoff and drank, and as she did I looked her over. Shewas thin and shapely, with narrow hips and smallishbreasts, and long smooth legs. I found myself staringat those legs, wanting to caress them. To caress her.“Yeah, I know,” she said, letting her head loll againstthe back of the sofa. “I’m a hottie, I can’t help it.”I felt I should apologize for staring at her, but atthe same time I wanted to tell her that she really wasa hottie, the hottest girl I’d ever seen. I ended upnot saying anything. I finished my beer instead whileNikkie made some serious headway on her second. ‘MackThe Knife’ reached its garish conclusion and a stringof commercials began.“You ever been in love?” Nikkie asked.“Are you paralyzed fantasy kidding?” I replied. “I fall in love at thedrop of a hat.” “Really? Not me. I don’t fall in love so easily. Imean, really in love. But when I do fall, I fall prettyhard.” Nikkie had her beer resting on her smooth flatbelly now, and she was staring at my bookcase as shetalked. “That’s how it was with Brian. The guy with thevideos? I was totally in love with him and wanted to dowhatever he told me. I guess that’s something I’m kindof into, you know? Being told what to do. Beingsubmissive. So when we were doing the whole porn videothing, he was pretty much ordering me to do it. Itworked out for both of us, because he got to imagine hewas doing it with all those beautiful women and I gotto act out this love slave fantasy I had.” “Love slave?” I couldn’t believe my sweet and innocentlittle sister was talking like this.“Well, it’s not like he tied me up and whipped me oranything. But he did get to do pretty much whatever hewanted with me. His favorite thing was oral sex, ofcourse. I learned how to do it just like the porngirls, and I got very good at it. We did all kinds ofdifferent, acrobatic positions too. And even anal sex.Brian ruled my life. He didn’t love me but he ownedme.” “Wow, Little Nickel,” I said, using an old pet name forher that I’d discarded years ago, “that doesn’t soundlike you at all.” “Yeah, I’m a big surprise,” Nikkie said, and took aswallow of her beer. “We all have our own secret sexfantasies, Andy. That was mine. One of them, anyway. Ihave several.” “What are some of the others?”Nikkie thought for a moment, then asked, “You ever dothreesomes?” “No. Have you?” “No. But that’s one of my fantasies. Me and two guys.Or even me and a guy and another girl, I suppose 验证视频. Ialso have this gang re fantasy, but it’s just afantasy. I’d never want to act on it. But I have actedout the stranger on a train fantasy.” “Stranger on a train?” “Yeah, you know, in Erica Jong’s ‘Fear of Flying.’ Thefantasy of meeting a total stranger on a train andfucking the daylights out of him. I’ve done that a fewtimes, though never actually on a train.” “How many men have you been with?” I asked.“Not really that many. I’ve had three boyfriends,including Brian. Two or three strangers on a train. Andabout five guys who just fucked me and forgot me. So Iguess that makes, what? Ten? Eleven? Twelve?” Nikkielaughed and said, “Wow, I’m a slut.” “How many women have you been with?” “Guys always want to know that.”Nikkie drained the last of her second beer and handedit to me. I went and got her another one, and a secondone for myself. When I came back I sat close enough toher that our thighs were touching, and I put my armaround her shoulders. Nikkie rested her head against myneck. On the stereo Chubby Checker started up with‘Let’s Twist Again.’“Okay,” my sister said, “do you mean women I’veactually had sex with, or do I include making out?” “Include making out,” I said, my voice low.“Okay…. let’s see…. there was Daphne, my bestfriend in junior high, we made out once…. andCamille, my best friend in high school, we also madeout once…. we masturbated each other…. and thenthere was this girl at a party when I was in collegethat one year, last year…. I was drunk and these guyshad dared her to go down on me. She did, but tell youthe truth, I was so wasted I didn’t feel a thing. Andthen, of course, there’s Maggie.” “Yeah, right, Maggie. I don’t think she likes me verymuch.” “She’s just jealous.” “Because she’s in love with you?” “She thinks she is,” Nikkie said. She drank more beer.The bottle was half empty now but she didn’t seem tohave progressed very far beyond a good buzz. “Shewasn’t lying when she said I wouldn’t stop talkingabout you. I was just so glad to see you again.” “Are you two lovers?” I asked.“I dunno. I wouldn’t say lovers. We do it every once ina while. But Andy, it’s really just kind of a fun thingfor me. Maggie knows that, I’ve told her enough times.She just takes it all too seriously. I mean, she’s evenstopped dating other women, which I think is justtotally uncalled for.”I was going to ask her something else, some directquestion hot blonde stepmom with huge tits gets fucked hard by a stranger big black cock about what she and Maggie did together in bed,but instead chose to imagine it. I recalled a scenefrom one of my videos (‘Desires of the Flesh’) in whicha beautiful blonde girl and an equally beautiful brown-haired girl made passionate love to each other withlips and tongues and fingers, lots of tit-sucking andcunt-licking. The women were lousy actresses, butthey’d been surprisingly convincing in the sex scene,almost convincing enough to make me believe they wereenjoying themselves.I replayed that scene in my mind, substituting thebrown-haired girl with Maggie and, of course, theblonde with Nikkie. I liked the resulting image,especially when the lesbian scene was done and theinterloping male appeared and promptly proceeded to geta tag team blowjob from the girls. In the video thathad pretty much ruined the lesbian scene, but in myfantasy it only made it more pleasurable, since the guywas now me.“What about you?” Nikkie asked.“What about me?” I asked. I was hoping she wasn’t goingto ask me if I’d ever been with a man.“What’s your favorite sex fantasy?” She half squintedat me. “I bet it has something to do with lesbians.” “Well, you’re close,” I said. “I’d say lesbians are mysecond favorite sex fantasy. I don’t think you want toknow what my favorite thing is.” “Oh come on,” Nikkie said, nudging my shoulder with herbeer bottle. “I told you, so you tell me.” “Okay, um, you’re probably going to think this isgross, but…. I think about you.”Nikkie surprised me by smiling.“Really?” she said. “You have sex fantasies about me?”She looked at her beer, then took another swallow.“What do you think about me? I mean, you know, whathappens in your fantasies?” “Well,” I said, wishing I’d gotten buzzed too, “just aminute ago I was picturing you and Maggie together. ButI’ve also had lots of other types of fantasies aboutyou. You doing it with other guys, doing it with blackguys, doing it with women…. actresses, mostly….and, um…. doing it with me.” “Yeah? Well, I’m not surprised. After all, I’m such ahot babe.” Nikkie giggled and drank more beer. “It’sreally not a bad thing, Andy brother. I’t fantasiesare pretty common. Everybody has them. Or most peopledo, anyway. I know I’ve had them. About you, I mean.It’s the thrill of crossing boundaries.”Chubby Checker was done and now Elvis came on with‘Can’t Help Falling In Love.’“Oh, I love this song,” Nikkie said. “It’s so fuckingromantic.” She looked at me and asked, “Will you dancewith me? Come on.” She set her beer on the coffee tableand wobbled to her feet, then took my hand. I got upand we went around to the other side of the coffeetable. I took my lovely baby sister in my arms andhugged her to me and she rested her head against myshoulder. We danced silently for a minute, swaying andsolemnly listening to the King’s deep silver voice:Wise men say…. only fools rush inBut I can’t help…. falling in love with youShall I stay…. would it be a sin?If I can’t help…. falling in love with you.“You know what I think about that movie?” Nikkie asked.“‘Justice Unknown?’ Or undressed? Or whatever? Ithink there was something wrong with the town. Thedirector was trying to say sexmex – camila lovesick cousin something about society.” “What do you think he was trying to say, Nik?” “That there’s something wrong with society when wewon’t tolerate two people being in love. I mean, youcould argue that the brother and sister symbolizedother socially forbidden couples, like two women or twomen or interracial couples. But even if you take themliterally, there’s still something wrong with the town,because the brother and sister are consenting adults.They weren’t hurting anybody, they were just in love.”Nikkie paused for a moment, then in a sad voice said,“I think people should be allowed to love whoever theywant.” “I agree, sweetheart,” I said. I kissed the top of herhead and she looked up at me. “Nikkie…. I have totell you this….” “Go ahead,” Nikkie said, touching my cheek with herfingertips. “Tell me.” “I’m in love with you. I always have been. I don’tthink I’ve ever loved anyone as much as I love you.”There, I said it.Nikkie’s thin pretty lips curled into yet anotherbrilliant smile and her beautiful blue eyes glistened.“Oh Andy, that is so sweet.” Her voice wavered a littleas she said, “I’m in love with you too.”We’d stopped dancing, which was just as well sinceElvis was nearly done with his song. I touched Nikkieunder the chin and kissed her. She murmured a littleagainst my lips, then I felt her tongue sliding shylyinto my mouth. We french-kissed through most of thenext song, whatever it was. As it ended we parted lips,and Nikkie spoke softly into my ear.“Hey Andy,” she said, “I have another sex fantasy I’vealways wanted to act out.” “What is it?” I asked.“I’ve always wanted to give you a blowjob.” “Really. What a coincidence, Nikkie. I’ve always hadthat same fantasy.” Nikkie laughed and I asked, “Do youreally want to do that?” “Of course I do.” She kissed my neck. “Tell you what.I’ll make you a deal. You go down on me and I’ll godown on you.” “Are you sure, Nikkie? I mean, you’ve had a lot todrink, for you anyway, and I didn’t bring you indo colmek amelia kartika putri samarinda here justto take advantage of you.” I didn’t really want to sayall that, but I loved my baby sister and I wanted to besure we weren’t going to do anything she didn’t want todo. I actually considered saying no, but I knew Iwasn’t going to go that far.“Don’t be silly,” Nikkie said, her voice soft andloving in my ear. “Why do you think I came here, Andy?And why do you think I got tipsy? I want to do this.I’ve wanted to suck your cock ever since I was twelve.”She kissed my neck again. “Don’t you want to eat mypussy, big brother?”I couldn’t resist then. I had no desire to. I slid myhands up her back and found the zipper on her dress,pulled it slowly down to her waist. Nikkie let go of meand I pulled her dress off her shoulders, let it fallto the floor. She stepped delicately out of it andstood now in just her tennis shoes and her white cottonpanties.Her body was the loveliest thing I’d ever seen. She waspale and smooth, perfectly slim, her breasts small andround and firm, topped with tiny pink nipples. Itouched them, just with my fingertips, caressed them,then gently cupped them in the palms of my hands.Nikkie had her eyes locked onto mine, and she wasn’tsmiling now.“What do you want me to do?” she almost whispered.“Just tell me, Andy. I’ll do whatever you say.” “Lay down on the floor,” I replied.Immediately Nikkie stepped back and lowered herselfonto the carpet. She lay on her back with her legstogether and her hands joined over her belly. I kneltbeside her and removed her shoes, then slowly pulledher panties over her narrow hips and down her long thinlegs. Her cunt too was beautiful, two full lips nestleddemurely behind a feint veil of golden cunt hair.Nikkie let her legs fall open, proudly showing herselfto me. I quickly took my shirt off and she watched me,idly touching herself.I crawled on top of her and settled myself between herlegs, began kissing her. I started with her beautifulperfect face and worked my way down, along her throatand collarbone to her breasts. I kissed each of them,licked them, took each of her sweet little nipples inmy mouth and sucked on them, making them hard. Nikkiesighed, gliding her fingers over my back and shoulders.She started to move her hips a little, gently pushingher cunt up against my hard-on. I nibbled and suckedher breasts for another minute, then started downwardagain, moving along her smooth flat belly.I got 甜美可爱妹子第一次下海拍片 太嫩了 to her cunt hair and finally to her cunt.Nikkie’s fingers were in my hair now as I kissed herthere and breathed deeply the delicious scent of her. Itouched her cunt lips with my tongue, licked slowly andlovingly. My baby sister’s body tensed minutely and shecaught her breath. I licked her again, lapped at her,then pushed my tongue inside of her.Nikkie gasped and moaned. I could already taste herwarm juices and drank them in. I licked and sucked onher cunt as her hands left my hair, glided up her ownbody to her breasts. As I ate my sister’s cunt shecaressed herself, gently squeezing her small breasts,pulling on her nipples. She moaned and sighed as Icontinued to go down on her, cried out softly when Ifound her clit and began sucking on it, cried outagain, more sharply this time, as she came. Nikkierelaxed then, apparently thinking I was done, but Iwasn’t; I continued to lick and suck her cunt until shecame twice more, her splendid body trembling with theforce of her orgasms. Afterward she collapsed, splayedout on the floor with her face turned to her side andher eyes closed, her breathing heavy but controlled.I moved back up her body, almost pinning her to thefloor, and peppered her breasts and throat and facewith kisses. At the same time I unfastened the fly onmy jeans and pulled my hard-on out. I didn’t reallythink about what I was doing; I was driven by desireand love and I wanted suddenly just to be inside ofher, so as I continued kissing her I guided my cock upto her cunt and pushed the head past her lips. Nikkiereacted with surprise, gasping and snapping her eyesopen, but she made no attempt to resist as I pushed mycock into her.“Oohh, Andy,” she breathed as she clutched my biceps,“this wasn’t part of the deal.” “I know, Nikkie, but I couldn’t help it. I want to fuckyou. Do you want me to stop?” “No.” Nikkie slipped her arms around me and pulled medown against her. “No, my love, I don’t want you tostop. I want いきなり手コキフェラをしてくる淫乱痴女のテクを我慢できたらご褒美SEX！彼女主観でイケメンM男が連続絶頂 you to do whatever you want to me. You ownme now.”We kissed and I began fucking her, slowly sliding mycock in and out of her cunt. She was warm and wetinside, snug but not too snug, and I was amazed at howgood it felt to be inside of her, how right it seemed.I’d imagined countless times that making love to mylittle sister would be both hot and romantic, but evenin my best dreams I’d never been able to envision this.Nikkie was exquisite as she moved and writhed beneathme, matching the thrusts of her hips with the thrustsof my cock.I started out slow and steady, took my time with her,wanting just to enjoy the astounding sensation offucking her, but wanting her to enjoy it too. We fuckedfor a long time, our bodies developing a thin sheen ofsweat as we gradually increased our speed and passion.Nikkie moaned and sighed, kissed me feverishly as shedug her fingernails into my back. She swayed andthrashed with me until finally, shuddering in my arms,she came with a loud kittenish mew, her cunt pulsingand pouring her warm come all around my cock.This time we both collapsed on the carpeted floor,tired and satisfied. We lay there for several minutes,just breathing and holding each other. Occasionally wekissed or softly murmured our love to each other. Mycock was still hard inside Nikkie’s luxurious body andevery once in a while I would move minutely, sliding itout a little then back in, just to remind myself of howlucky I was, not only to be inside of her but to bewith her at all.“Andy,” Nikkie finally said, “you didn’t come.” “I know,” I replied. “I’m saving it up for that blowjobyou promised me.” “Good,” my sister giggled, “because I still want to dothat. And you know what? Because you were so greatgoing down on me and fucking me, I’m going to give youto best blowjob you’ve ever had.” She kissed me on thelips, then pushed gently against my chest, signalingfor me to get up.I pulled my cock out of her cunt, then got to my feet.I let my jeans slide down my legs, and my cock stuckstraight up in the air, hard and glistening withNikkie’s come.“How do you want me?” she asked.“On your knees,” I replied, trying to make it soundlike an order. I wasn’t sure I was comfortable withthat little game but I reminded myself that this was asmuch her fantasy as it was mine.Nikkie pulled herself up to her knees in front of meand took my cock in her small delicate hand. She lookedat it for a moment, almost as if she was sizing up thetask before her, then unceremoniously took it in hermouth. She slid her lips over the head, then down overthe shaft, taking almost the entire length in before Ifelt my cock nudging at the back of her throat. Thenjust as slowly she mi gran polla.. modelo :gaysexy1960 drew her mouth back, sucking on meas she went. She did this three times, then pulled mycock out of her mouth and kissed the head.“I can taste my pussy on you,” she whispered, thenimmediately took me back in her mouth and resumedsucking.I touched her hair as she worked, played with her cutelittle ponytail, placing my other hand on the back ofher head. Nikkie sucked and stroked me expertly,pausing on occasion to slide her tongue up and down thelength of my cock. She kept her eyes closed and herhand and mouth moving steadily, and I could see she hadindeed learned how to do it just like the porn girls.She continued to go down on me as she glided one of herhands over her small pale breasts, then down betweenher legs. She rubbed herself anúbis dança sobre um dildo enquanto exibe o seu grande pau with her fingertips,sucking and stroking me at the same time, and beforelong she was moaning again, bringing herself closer andcloser to orgasm.I could feel my own orgasm approaching too, thepressure building in my balls as my cock grew harder.And just as Nikkie mewed and gasped, her mouth open nowand her tongue out, my cock throbbed and I poured comeinto her mouth. It spilled all over her tongue, down toher throat and dribbling down her chin. Nikkiecontinued to stroke me as she swallowed, sucked my cocka little more, then squeezed it, drawing out the lastfew drops. She licked the head of my cock clean, thenkissed it again.“Wow,” she said. “I’ve always wanted to do that.”She was looking up at me and smiling, that samewonderful smile that always seemed to be on her face inone form or another, her lips shining with my come, andagain I felt that bittersweet combination of sadnessand surprise. This was my baby sister, my LittleNickel, and I couldn’t see how I could ever have helpedbut to fall in love with her. I got down on my kneeswith her, embraced her, and kissed her cheek. Nikkiereturned my embrace, pressing her small soft breastsagainst my chest. She kissed my neck, then held me,caressing my back with her fingers.“Andy,” she said softly, “I don’t want arwen takes care nikki nutttz’_ mature pussy to the tip of gusto to go home. Iwant to stay here with you.” “I’d like that, Nikkie.” “I don’t want to deal with Maggie anymore, or withanybody else. Just you.” “You don’t have to, sweetheart. You can stay here withme for as long as you like.” “I want to be here forever,” my sister breathed.Later that night we made love again in my bed, thenslept. In the morning I woke to find Nikkie sucking mycock and we fucked again. Afterward we lay in bed andtalked. We agreed that what we had was special, rare,and too amazing to resist. 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Abu Dhabi Holidays
All about Yas Marina Circuit
Feel the roar of the engines at Abu Dhabi’s spectacular Yas Marina Circuit, home to the Formula 1™ Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Snaking its way through the glamourous Yas Plaza district on Yas Island, this sweeping racetrack attracts the best names in racing year after year.
You too can experience the exhilarating thrills of race day by getting behind the wheel. Take on your family and friends in a fast-paced Formula Yas 3000 race, reach 130mph-plus in an Aston Martin GT4 or hop into the passenger-side of a Chevrolet Drift Taxi to experience high-velocity G-Forces.
Find out more about what’s on and when at Yas Marina Circuit’s website.
Formula 1™ fans, general motoring enthusiasts and action-loving families who want high-octane thrills while they’re on holiday.
Stepping into the shoes of the fastest drivers in the world as you to take to the grid like the biggest names in Formula 1™.
The big weekend
If you’re lucky enough to visit Abu Dhabi in late November, you’ll be in town at the same time as the biggest show in the calendar – the season ending Formula 1™ Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
This day-night race is always a special date in the motorsport calendar and attracts visitors from across the world.
Book well in advance to watch the action unfold. Take your seat by the starting line or reserve a spot in one of the grandstands located around the track for great views.
Get behind the wheel
Take the wheel of some of the fastest cars around with a racing experience day at Yas Marina Circuit. Feel the adrenaline rush of open-wheel racing with a Formula Yas 3000 session. Modelled on the F1™ race car, these high-speed vehicles are the closest you’ll get to driving the real thing. There’s also the chance to get behind the wheel of an Aston Martin GT4 for even more fast-paced action.
Explore the track under your own steam on a TrainYas open day. Cycle, run or walk your way around the track and soak up the atmosphere. Whatever your chosen pace, you’re free to join your friends and family for a fun-filled, healthy way to enjoy the circuit. Cycling is open to members of the Abu Dhabi Cycling Club, but anyone can explore the circuit on foot.
Get set, go!
Younger race fans can enjoy the thrills of Yas Marina Circuit in a whirlwind go-karting experience. Yas KartZone is a purpose built 800 metre track modelled on the circuit itself where younger drivers can enjoy competitive racing or drive laps at their own pace. Karts are fast enough to feel all the excitement of racing while being the right size and speed for little racers to feel comfortable behind the wheel.
Exhilarating experiences
Speed kings and queens will love Yas Marina Circuit’s purpose-built drag strip. You’ll reach top speeds of over 120mph in a matter of seconds as you roar down the drag’s two-and-a-half mile (four kilometre) straight. You can jump in one of the experiences’ Mercedes or Chevrolet drag racers or take your own car along to Drag Night to compete against rival teams from around the city.
Getting to Yas Marina Circuit
The racetrack is located in lively Yas Island, so getting there by car is straightforward from all corners of Abu Dhabi.
Getting to Yas Marina Circuit from Abu Dhabi Corniche
It takes about 28 minutes to get to the circuit from Abu Dhabi Corniche. Head along Corniche Street before merging with the Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Highway (E12). Follow E12 across Saadiyat Island, joining Al Falah Road. Leave Al Falah Road at Al Athari Street, following signs for the circuit.
Getting to Yas Marina Circuit from Saadiyat Island
The journey from Saadiyat Island takes about 23 minutes. Join the Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Highway (E12). Take the highway eastwards, before merging with Al Falah Road and follow signs for the circuit.
Getting to Yas Marina Circuit from Abu Dhabi International Airport
The circuit lies opposite Abu Dhabi International Airport, so the journey only takes 10 minutes by car. Leaving AUH arrivals, head along Al Khaleej Al Arabi Street. Take a right at Al Rahah Street and then merge with Yas Dr Street in Yas Plaza, where you’ll see the circuit.
Get the latest F1™ merchandise and souvenirs of your day at the Yas Central gift shop.
Lockers are available for rental while you are at the racetrack on a first-come, first-serve basis.
There are several prayer rooms for your privacy located near the grandstands and at Yas Central.
Buggies and mobility vehicles are available for hire and there is easy access to all the main areas of the site. There are also free hop-on, hop-off golf caddies to assist those getting around the site.
Yas Marina Circuit: FAQs
Is there parking at the Yas Marina Circuit?
There is plenty of parking available at the racetrack. When you book you will be given a designated parking area. This will depend on the experience you have booked – and details will be on your ticket or event confirmation email.
What are Yas Marina Circuit’s opening hours?
Yas Marina Circuit is open from 9am to midnight, seven days a week. The racetrack will be closed for sporting and entertainment events throughout the year, so check the calendar before you go to see if it is going to open for non-event visitors during your stay.
Does Yas Marina Circuit have a dress code?
Loose-fitting, comfortable clothing that covers your shoulders, arms and legs will be suitable for a day at the track. If you’re cycling or running the course, you will want to wear comfortable exercise clothing. Yas Marina Circuit hosts a number of events that may have specific dress code requirements, so check with the event organisers before you arrive.
Are there conference halls on-site?
There are several conference halls, ballrooms and business meeting venues on-site for hosting large events and gatherings in a spectacular setting. Visit the Abu Dhabi Yas Marina Circuit website for further information.
Yas Waterworld
Cool off after your racetrack run with a trip to Yas Waterworld, the capital’s premier water theme park. Zip down 40 slides and experience wave machines and amazing rides.
Find a change of pace at the enchanting Louvre Abu Dhabi. Explore historic works and modern artworks that cover humanity’s whole story.
Saadiyat Island Beach Club
Take a break after the action-packed racetrack and head to the pristine sands of Saadiyat Island for a premium beachfront experience.
The first lap was completed by F1™ driver Bruno Senna, nephew of late, great triple-world champion Ayrton Senna.
Sebastian Vettel won the first grand prix here in 2009.
The back straight is the longest straight on the world Formula 1™ calendar.
The venue has a whopping 41,093 seats, with five grandstands.
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Brave new heights with high wall indoor rock climbing and indoor skydiving adventures at this record-breaking attraction, featuring the world’s largest climbing wall.
Leave behind the Formula 1™ race cars and take to the sand dunes around Abu Dhabi in an incredible 4x4 dune buggy.
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How a Toy Photographer Shot Star Wars Scenes for LEGO
Benedek Lampert is a Hungarian photographer who has attracted a following online for his imaginative small scale photos of toys. His work recently caught the attention of LEGO, which hired him for a special campaign.
Lampert has spent over five years dedicated to the genre of toy photography, and he felt honored last year when LEGO featured one of his works on its Instagram page, which boasts over 7.5 million followers.
But then Lampert received an email out of the blue with an offer to shoot some photos for the brand.
“The email totally surprised me, I have never thought this could be possible,” Lampert says. “My task was to take some photos with the LEGO Star Wars sets. It’s a big step that a big company like LEGO operates with toy photographers.”
The campaign is titled “This Is How We Play,” and the goal is to inspire LEGO fans of all ages to see beyond the cold plastic bricks and into new worlds with their imaginations.
“The campaign reminds us that LEGO is more than just a building according to the manual,” the photographer says. “It is also a source of creativity and you can use the bricks almost for anything!”
Lampert began playing with LEGO himself when he was a child. After growing up and becoming a photographer, Lampert decided to combine his loves by creating small scenes with LEGO and other toys and shooting cinematic photos of them.
For this campaign, Lampert first came up with ideas by watching Star Wars movies and TV series. Each photo takes about two days to complete. On the first day, Lampert visualizes, sketches, builds, and does test shots.
“After that I analyze the photos on the computer and try some post-processing methods,” Lampert says. “After that, on the next day, I shoot the final picture.”
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On the camera equipment side of things, Lampert purchased a Laowa 15mm wide-angle macro lens for this campaign.
“I can move the figures very close to the lens so they seem bigger and at the same time the background is still visible,” Lampert says. “Sometimes it was difficult because of the bigger scenery and the massive perspective distortion. After all, the result is a more realistic and dynamic photo series!”
Here are some of the other photos Lampert captured for the LEGO campaign:
Here’s a 5-minute behind-the-scenes video with a closer look at how some of these photos were set up:
You can find more of Lampert’s work on his Instagram.
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We were all so busy scrambling to avert one apocalypse today, we didn’t even see another one rearing its head in the distance. SlashFilm recently spoke to power-producer David Heyman at the junket for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and questioned the Hollywood player about the plans for Warner Bros.’ impending Willy Wonka film. Without making any concrete announcements about what to expect from the early-in-development project, Heyman did drop one rather ominous prophecy when asked whether the script would be a remake of the popular Gene Wilder-starring film or the Tim Burton-directed version.
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Fortis Inc, the Canadian energy firm has recently confirmed that it would be selling its 51 percent stake in British Columbia’s Waneta Expansion hydroelectricity plant for nearly C$1 billion to two public sector partners. The company apparently aims to utilize the proceeds from this sale for its five-year investment plan.
According to Fortis, Columbia Basin Trust and Columbia Power Corp will purchase the interest of Fortis in the facility, which had built a second powerhouse four years ago for the Waneta Dam. Since the 335 MW plant started production in 2015, it has been operated and maintained by a subsidiary of Fortis, FortisBC Inc., and the company will continue operating the facility in addition to buying its surplus output, it has informed in a statement.
Barry Perry, Chief Executive Officer of Fortis, stated that this deal completes the asset sale funding component of the company’s five-year capital investment strategy. The firm’s $17.3 billion five-year plan for its regulated utility business in North America will be benefiting from these funds, while Fortis may further issue new debt to raise capital. Reportedly, Fortis will also utilize $1 to $2 billion of proceeds obtained after selling non-core assets, along with common equity from the company’s dividend investment plan.
The company said it expects to close the deal within 90 days. The transaction will be subject to the receipt of regular approvals and the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. RBC Capital Markets was the exclusive financial advisor to the company on this deal.
For the record, the 335 megawatt Waneta hydroelectric generating facility expansion was constructed by FortisBC Inc. within the allotted budget and before deadline. The Columbia Basin Trust and Columbia Power Corp were already owning the other 49 percent stake in the plant. Both the entities are 100 percent owned by the British Columbia government.
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LIA Sargent
“She has encouraged me to reach beyond myself and broaden my awareness of the world.“
Cecilia Elam Edwen – Actor, Physical Therapist – Sweden
Daisuke Suzuki
The Voice of Toshi Yoshida on American Dad
Actor / Voice Actor – Los Angeles – from Hamamatsu City in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
“I came from Japan to become an actor in the US. I didn’t (don’t) speak good English. I didn’t have much previous experience in acting and I was too concerned about doing it right, which made me tense, nervous, timid, and scared at the beginning. I was too constrained to be myself. There was no freedom and I was too much in the head. Lia Sargent was a movement teacher at my school at that time and her class changed me forever. Lia’s serious, yet fun, personality and her ability to see talent and creativity beyond language and to show how fun it was to act, freed me from all those constraints I put around me. It allowed me to reach my creativity without getting blocked. She also helped me gain so much control over my entire body and I felt the entire body was responding to my mind quickly. Lia is my best coach and she is awesome.”
Phil Scarpaci
Director / Actor / Writer / Producer – Scarpaci/Kelly Productions – Los Angeles
“I have observed Lia in the role of teacher. She is patient, kind, funny but holds students accountable for their part in their own growth and development. She challenges with humor and supports with humanity. The result is students who trust their instincts and have confidence in their abilities. I have had the privilege to work with her as an actor. She is thorough, imaginative and constantly questing for depth and dimension in the work. She is always well prepared and collaborative. She brings a positive attitude with her and uses humor to get through difficult situations. Lia sets a high standard for professional behavior and demonstrates her commitment to that standard with every aspect of her work.”
Jamey Schrick
Actor – Los Angeles
“Lia Sargent was my first acting coach in Los Angeles. I came into town roaring, thinking I could turn a musical theater degree and a stint in a Pinter one-act into a serious Oscar-worthy TV and film acting career. Immediately I realized, under Lia’s tutelage, that the only acting career worth having would be the one devoted to being playful and imaginative in the quest for presence and honesty. This required setting aside arbitrary hurdles for success and getting back to the love of the art. Her class was open, safe, and based around observations of experiences and human beings, brought into focus with physical movement exercises, unique improvisational games and intensive scene work. It was challenging, often funny, and full of opportunity for risks. That we eventually developed a show out of the classwork was not because that had ever been our goal, but because it was the natural pouring out of the joy Lia gave us for the craft and freedom of being connected to our work.”
Mariko Brause
Creative Director – Idea Resource Systems – Los Angeles
“Lia has worked with our company as a freelance Voice Over Instructor since 2015 and we have been thankful of her dedication and professionalism every time. The classes that Lia has taught for us has been for Japanese voice over and acting students with no English communication skills. We have seen difficulties in the past of students opening up and being comfortable acting in front of instructors’ due to the language barrier. As a Creative Director, it takes great effort to finding an instructor that have interpersonal skills, flexible and open-minded to cultural differences and of course can execute a fun and productive learning experience.”
Amy Paukulis
Sound / Music / EFX – Engineer – Los Angeles
“Lia is the consummate professional. Engineering demo reels with her has been a pleasure. She knows what it takes to get the right performance from an actor, directing the talent to create the perfect demo. She has an incredible ear for the overall tempo and style of a reel and knows exactly what to fine-tune to get the best results. Lia is dedicated, hard-working, and knows her stuff. Her years of experience combined with her patience, kindness, and flexibility make her unbeatable to work with.”
Ryan James Paukulis
Voice Actor – Los Angeles
I’ve been working with Lia for over 2 years and she has been nothing but amazing! She knows how to bring out the best in me as an actor. There have been times in which I have been stuck with line readings, etc. and she was able to help pull me out of those slumps every single time. She is honest about my work, but at the same time, sweet and helpful. She has taught me to love my work, without being too harsh on myself. I would not call myself a voice actor if I had never met Lia. Overall, Lia has been fantastic to work with and I highly recommend her.
Mike Prendergast
Singer / Voice Actor – Los Angeles
“I was lucky to have found Lia several years ago. She is kind, patient, imaginative. She knows how to help you tap into new approaches, new ways of interpreting a concept, a character. She genuinely takes an interest in your perspective and then gives feedback. She lets you make decisions and helps you learn from those decisions, giving you the tools to approach a character on your own. I couldn’t ask for a more supportive acting and voice over coach.”
Cecilia Elam Edwen
Actor / Physical Therapist – Sweden
“Lia Sargent’s process-based approach to finding your inner language through body has left me with a whole new level of acting, performing and presenting. It has helped me in my skill to build from the ground and up around character work. By allowing the students to be included in the process I think we all reached a whole new level in our craft. Beyond the artistic value, she has by her positive persona and thus, positive environment encouraged me to reach beyond myself and broaden my awareness of the world around me. She is an amazing multi-talent, not only professionally, but also in seeing each individual, supporting you and helping you to become the best that you can be. It is something I will always have with me in whatever I do.”
Wendy Rodriguez
Actor – St. Antonio, Texas
“Training in Lia Sargent’s class was one of the most exciting and invigorating experiences I had as an actor, and as a person. I acquired more knowledge and understanding of my craft in the year that I studied under her than I have in the entire 15 years since becoming an actor. Lia has such an amazing gift that makes you feel comfortable and secure in her class, which made it easy and effortless for me to take risks as an actor that I would not otherwise take. Not only did I gain a better sense of myself and my craft, but I made life-long and meaningful friendships with Lia, and with my fellow acting classmates. If you get the opportunity to study with Lia…..TAKE IT!”
Mick Gallagher
“Studying with Lia was one of the most extraordinary times of my education in acting. I started off being very uncomfortable in front of others, but eventually was able to find comfort in those same people, I began to trust them, to work with them, to open myself up to new ideas. To get out of my comfort zone and be in a safe environment for exploration, play, and begin to have consistency in my work. With her support and guidance, I began seeing who I was as an artist and the many things I was capable of doing. I don’t know if Lia taught me more about stage or life, but she certainly instilled in me the drive and passion to achieve more.”
Angela Kay
Filmmaker / Content Producer / Editor – Little Whale Media – London England
“Not only does Lia Sargent have an incredible Acting and Directing pedigree, she is also a diverse and seasoned performer in her own right. I personally found Lia a joy to work with. She has an innate ability to keep you focused, push your boundaries and evolve you as a performer through her own great talent, boundless enthusiasm and infectious energy. I highly recommend Lia as a coach, whether you are just breaking into the industry or a seasoned performer wanting to take your craft to the next level.”
Pattie Kelly
Producer – Film / Commercial / Theatre – Scarpaci/Kelly Productions – Los Angeles
“I have known Lia since 2000 when we cast her in a world premiere play. She was and is an amazing actor and we stayed in touch and worked on other projects for the next few years. Since then, Lia has worked with SKP since 2010 as a casting director for us on many projects. She is diligent, thorough, has an amazing rapport with actors and is a consummate professional. With her background as an acting coach, she has a wonderful way of directing and working with auditioning actors to draw their best performances out.”
Yensin Noree
Actor / Stand Up Comedian & Emcee – Los Angeles
“Lia is so lovely to work with. She’s just absolutely wonderful. She’s generous of spirit and wants to bring out the best in you. She gives knowledgeable, intuitive corrections that guide you to do better and better. She builds your confidence. She has a genuine understanding of technique and the business of the business. I feel so lucky to have met her and to have her in my world. Raised in the business, she has the depth of experience to advise and guide you.”
Michiko Ishihara
Actor – Tokyo, Japan
“I have been acting for almost 20 years, mostly in Japan. I started looking for a great acting coach in LA in 2009. In 2011, gave Japanese actors the opportunity to try her workshop that my wonderful friend told me about it., I was afraid my English was not going to be good enough.
I got lucky and talked to her before class. She had such a great personality that soon I was so excited and I forgot to be nervous. I had a wonderful experience at the workshop! I have since taken more workshops and private lessons. She has a great heart and great energy. I think actors who have different careers in different countries and actors of every level could learn many things about acting from her. Because she likes multicultural influences and she is really good at bringing out the best in people. She has given me a lot of support and encouragement in improving my career!”
David Richard Thompson
President / Co-Founder
WFPF- World Freerunning Parkour Federation
Secretary General – International Parkour Federation- IPF (non-profit)
“I’ve seen Lia in the booth directing countless episodes of anime episodes for television. In the middle of directing, I’ve seen her hop out of the studio and jump in to play her own lead character in the series, or add a voice where one was missing, all the while skillfully directing herself yet being open to direction from the sound engineer in the booth. I’ve seen her perform in countless memorable top-quality theatre productions around Los Angeles. Whenever I am working on a new project I talk to Lia about it. She has worked with me and advised me on fundraising initiatives for my non-profit. When I’m working on one of my professional productions or projects she always gives me support and encouragement yet always gives just me one tiny little “note”, one little perspective, that makes me see my own project in a new way. I almost always, without exception, take her suggestion and fold it into my project, and it always makes the project better. She thinks outside of the box and I consider her one of my most trusted and dependable advisors.”
Hollie Hummel
“What I love about working with Lia Sargent is she eases you out of your comfort zone into a world of incredible possibilities. I once climbed a fake mountain that had my muscles so sore I felt like I climbed the real thing. Still today her encouraging words and belief in me have walked me through some uncomfortable moments in life.”
Grant Patrizio
“Lia Sargent works hard, works YOU hard, and plays just as hard. On top of all of that, she personalizes it to help actors get the most out of their training. It’s that kind of personalized hard work that helps actors separate themselves from the rest of the pack, giving them more tools to use for auditions and roles. I learned more from Lia’s voice class than words can say. Do yourself a favor; work with Lia, and let Lia work with you. It’ll do wonders for you.”
Daniel Light
Actor – Mexico City
“Well… *ahum* (clears throat)
Where to start,
Lia has been by far one of the best acting teachers I’ve had.
She was always pushing us to use our imagination beyond what we knew our limits to be.
She encouraged us to breakthrough ourselves and not be afraid of doing silly stuff. To experience, to play, to explore. Not only with the body but also with the mind.
Many exercises she taught me I still use nowadays.
Her laughter in class was always a safety net for us. We were not afraid to try. Thus, we found within ourselves great characters and extraordinary situations to play on stage.
Never a dull moment.
Thank you Lia!!!”
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A case of stereotactic radiation in skull base solitary fibrous tumor: More harm than good?
Peter L. Santa Maria, Waleed M. Abuzeid, Jayakar V. Nayak, Steven D. Chang, Nikolas H. Blevins
Results We present a case with > 10 years follow-up of radiation following skull base SFT, initially misdiagnosed as schwannoma, where radiotherapy did not improve recurrence or metastatic behavior and led to complications during subsequent surgical resection.
Conclusions SFT often masquerades as schwannoma, especially in the skull base. Careful immunohistochemistry, including CD34 expression, is critical to the diagnosis and management. This case highlights that total tumor resection of SFT remains the gold standard of treatment. Stereotactic radiation is not recommended in the management of skull base SFT.
Objective Due to its location, total resection of a skull base solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) can lead to morbidity with injury to lower cranial nerves, and a decision must be made between subtotal resection with possible stereotactic radiotherapy or total resection with cranial nerve morbidity. We report the long-term outcomes and review the literature of a case of stereotactic radiation in SFT to provide evidence for making this decision.
Design A retrospective case review.
Setting An academic tertiary referral center.
Journal of Neurological Surgery Reports
solitary fibrous tumor
stereotactic radiation
Dive into the research topics of 'A case of stereotactic radiation in skull base solitary fibrous tumor: More harm than good?'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Solitary Fibrous Tumors Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
Radiosurgery Medicine & Life Sciences 77%
Skull Base Medicine & Life Sciences 76%
Neurilemmoma Medicine & Life Sciences 27%
Cranial Nerves Medicine & Life Sciences 27%
Radiotherapy Medicine & Life Sciences 16%
Morbidity Medicine & Life Sciences 13%
Diagnostic Errors Medicine & Life Sciences 11%
Santa Maria, P. L., Abuzeid, W. M., Nayak, J. V., Chang, S. D., & Blevins, N. H. (2014). A case of stereotactic radiation in skull base solitary fibrous tumor: More harm than good? Journal of Neurological Surgery Reports, 75(2), e214-e216. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0034-1387196
A case of stereotactic radiation in skull base solitary fibrous tumor : More harm than good? / Santa Maria, Peter L.; Abuzeid, Waleed M.; Nayak, Jayakar V. et al.
In: Journal of Neurological Surgery Reports, Vol. 75, No. 2, 21.07.2014, p. e214-e216.
Santa Maria, PL, Abuzeid, WM, Nayak, JV, Chang, SD & Blevins, NH 2014, 'A case of stereotactic radiation in skull base solitary fibrous tumor: More harm than good?', Journal of Neurological Surgery Reports, vol. 75, no. 2, pp. e214-e216. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0034-1387196
Santa Maria PL, Abuzeid WM, Nayak JV, Chang SD, Blevins NH. A case of stereotactic radiation in skull base solitary fibrous tumor: More harm than good? Journal of Neurological Surgery Reports. 2014 Jul 21;75(2):e214-e216. doi: 10.1055/s-0034-1387196
Santa Maria, Peter L. ; Abuzeid, Waleed M. ; Nayak, Jayakar V. et al. / A case of stereotactic radiation in skull base solitary fibrous tumor : More harm than good?. In: Journal of Neurological Surgery Reports. 2014 ; Vol. 75, No. 2. pp. e214-e216.
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Plato's Gorgias
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of Plato's most striking dialogues, in which he addresses the real nature of power and freedom, and the relationship between pleasure and true self-interest. As he tests these ideas, Plato creates powerful speeches, notably from Callicles who claims that laws of nature trump man-made laws, that might is right, and that rules are made by weak people to constrain the strong in defiance of what is natural and proper. Gorgias is arguably the most personal of all of Plato's dialogues, with its hints of a simmering fury at the system in Athens that put his mentor Socrates to death, and where rhetoric held too much sway over people. With Angie Hobbs Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield Frisbee Sheffield University Lecturer in Classics and Fellow of Downing College, University of Cambridge And Fiona Leigh Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at University College London Producer: Simon Tillotson
The Great Stink
The Irish Rebellion of 1798
The Nibelungenlied
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Demosthenes' Philippics
The Morant Bay Rebellion
The Fish-Tetrapod Transition
The Knights Templar
The Electron
Plato's Atlantis
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Michael E. Cohen 31 August 2017
Dropbox Dropping Support for Older Operating Systems
Dropbox has begun notifying users of its service to inform them that, as of 16 January 2018, it will automatically sign out any computers running certain older operating systems. The Mac systems include those running Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard through 10.8 Mountain Lion; Windows Vista systems will also lose desktop support on that date. Not that it matters much, but you won’t be able to download or install the Dropbox desktop app on those systems after 3 November 2017.
Although the vast majority of Mac users have updated their Macs to later versions of OS X and macOS, some continue to run older versions. Many tend to be folk who, like me, have kept a Snow Leopard system operating in order to run PowerPC-based applications; Snow Leopard was the last Mac OS that supported Rosetta, the PowerPC emulator that enabled Intel-based Macs to run such apps (see “Rosetta and Lion: Get Over It?,” 23 May 2011).
This is not to say that such older systems will be completely cut off from accessing Dropbox files. Dropbox says that older systems running a “supported browser” should still be able to access files through the Dropbox Web site. We’ll see how long Web browsers compatible with those older operating systems remain supported. Dropbox provides more information about the end of desktop support for older systems in its help center.
There are undoubtedly many reasons, in addition to the Snow Leopard example I mentioned above, for users to stick with older versions of Mac operating systems — the old saw that “the way to recognize pioneers is from the arrows in their backs” comes to mind. Nonetheless, computer operating systems, like everything under the sun (and the sun itself), have finite lifetimes, and laggards now suffer the same fate as pioneers.
Adam Engst told us “Why You Should Upgrade (On Your Own Terms)” (4 September 2015), and his advice about upgrading still holds true: “wait if you want, but don’t wait too long.” Dropbox’s latest news illustrates why you don’t want to wait too long.
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Comments About Dropbox Dropping Support for Older Operating Systems
This is a problem with “the cloud”. When apps depend upon “the cloud”, apps can stop working entirely. This is very different then the old days where obsolete equipment and operating systems may no longer get updates, but at least the obsolete apps on them continue to work.
We’re getting to the point where you can no longer keep old equipment even if it works good enough for you. You must keep it up to date.
Several sites for the ten year anniversary of the iPhone were going to use the original iPhone for a day or so to report what the original iPhone was like. However, AT&T no longer supports the EDGE protocol. The original iPhone no longer works.
I think you make a highly relevant observation.
It almost seems to me as if it might be time to experiment with simply refusing to update if you have a workflow that works for you. Why should you throw away working hardware or risk updating to a newer version of something if all it ends up doing is cost you time, money, and the risk of breaking your workflow while adding lots of never asked for fluff?
Sure people will be quick to point out the lack of new features. To that I say so what. Most of the new "features" coming out are gimmicks (Dropbox is a great example, the MBP TouchBar is another) that add clutter and complexity at best, instability and unreliability at worst. Others might point out the lack of security updates. But at this point I'd be willing to take that bet. Why should I be forced to keep up this senseless feature inflation just so I can remain safe? As a private citizen I'm not a prime target. I can surf, email, and use my apps carefully. That might just work.
B. Jefferson Le Blanc
And it might not. There's plenty of old malware around looking for people like you. You don't have to be a big corporation to be victimized.
David Illig
This is not rocket science. Dropbox isn't going to stop working for me; I keep MacOS up to date.
If "works good enough for you" means that losing access to the Dropbox app (and other modern apps) is not a problem you're still good.
I also can't get teary-eyed over a 10-year-old iPhone no longer working. How's that battery?
One of the arguments in favour of upgrading is that you get security updates. I have never had a security problem even when I was up to date. This is largely because I am careful and perhaps a low target. I even suspect that running older operating systems is a security feature, as many of the newer exploits use newer bugs!
The biggest issue with using older systems, as you say, is finding software that will run on them. Web browsers are the main issue. Safari on Snow Leopard is unusable. Safari on Mountain Lion is a bit better, but Facebook just falls over. Fortunately, Firefox 48.0.2 still works, although it is not officially supported.
There is an active older systems community, and they are still developing software compatible with the older systems. Pale Moon uses the Gecko engine (Firefox) but is targeted at machines as old as Snow Leopard and Windows XP. (The Mac side could use a bit of help though.)
Skype recently logged out everyone using anything older than OS X 10.9 and told them Skype would no longer work for them, ie, upgrade OS or else. Fortunately, there is an easy hack that makes it work again, proving that there was no technical reason to exclude people with older systems.
Sometimes it is tempting to go to Windows where backwards compatibility is generally assured. Or Linux where no-one is forced to do anything.
"Sometimes it is tempting to go to Windows where backwards compatibility is generally assured."
Amen! I dropped Snow Leopard on one last machine and have regretted it every day since. I look at the PC here and it's a very fast machine that can still run Eudora. Hell, a bit of compatibility magic and the PC can even run VisiCalc just to prove the point. Plus, high powered PCs have staggering expandability and wide software options.
I've been a hard core Apple loyalist since 1979, going through dozens of computers. But lack of backwards compatibility, lack of clarity on the direction forward (a trash can now and vague promises for later) and Cook's million bucks to hate group SPLC (which pretends to be anti-hate) suggest it's finally time to make the obvious move to Windows.
Dennis B. Swaney
I expect Dropbox to be out of business within 5 years, 10 at the most. They ticked off thousands of their loyal PAYING customers by killing the Public folder feature. Thousands had used it to provide links to documents, photos, etc. for their websites. Dropbox could have just eliminated it for new users and grandfathered their older users for the feature, but noooooo they had to actively drive away their customer base. A lot are moving to pCloud.
The Public folder was redundant. You get better functionality from a specific link to the file. That said, it seems unnecessary to remove it.
Tell that to the thousands of paying Dropbox users who just had all their carefully crafted links on all their web pages disappear. The workaround(s) are too cumbersome to do the same job(s). Basically, DP just decided to say "Foxtrot Yankee" to a large group of their paying customers.
Bryan Nunweek
The TenFourFox browser still seems to work perfectly well for dropbox in PPC Leopard…
Cherri Nelson
There is a large community of us graphic artists who started with the first Macs, 512k, fat Mac, with software such as MacPaint & MacDraw. We were the first to use Illustrator 88, PageMaker, QuarkExpress and so on. We had to have those programs to work the occasional freelance jobs and keep up to date. We spent thousands of dollars on those programs, thousands!
Graphic artist don’t make a lot of money, most of are retired living on fixed incomes and can’t afford monthly subscriptions. I still use CS 6.5 for volunteer work, so do most my retired graphic friends. One friends last owned version is InDesign 3, horrors.
Adobe, Microsoft etc., makes no allowances for seniors, no discount for customers who began with them and want to continue to use what we’ve paid thousands for and still own.
This one makes me see red. We're stuck!
Now Google Drive is being wound up. No this is not bad news despite the headlines. It is being replaces by Google Backup and Sync which seems to be better. For one thing, you can choose which folders it backs up, rather than having to put everything a single folder. For another, it works from Lion up.
This issue is as old as computers. Complaining about DropBox ending support for old systems is shoveling sand against the tide.
All the major web browsers stopped supporting anything older than OS X 10.9.x Mavericks last year. That doesn't mean you cannot run older versions, it just means you don't get feature and security updates. For some people these issues are trivial. On the other hand, if you want or need access to the modern web, you have to keep your stuff up to date.
The simplest solution is the one Michael mentions. Keep an old computer around to run the old software you need—and if you're smart you'll keep it off the web. Use a new computer where functionality and performance are important.
As for Microsoft supporting old systems, that is a thing of the past. They are following Apple's lead and leaving the laggards behind. Anything older than Windows 7 is dead meat. And even that has a definite EOL date. They are trying hard to move everyone to Windows 10. I have no doubt this is to reduce support costs, as it is with Apple.
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USWNT Big Board – Projecting the 2023 World Cup roster, who joins Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe and Rose Lavelle
Edward Smith September 9, 2022
The USWNT roster has plenty of question marks going into the 2023 World Cup. But some players like Alex Morgan, center, are a lock. Brad Smith/ISI Photos/Getty Images
This is the point in the four-year cycle when the World Cup starts feeling real. The major continental tournaments of summer are in the books, teams have qualified, rosters are starting to get more consistent and opponents for friendlies are becoming more challenging. The 2023 Women’s World Cup begins in just over nine months. The draw? That’s six weeks from now.
Now, the pressure will ratchet up for players in the coming months as they try to make their dreams reality and position themselves higher up the depth chart with strong performances for club and country — or else, they will fall out of roster contention if form dips.
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The U.S. women’s national team head coach, Vlatko Andonovski, spent the past year overturning the core of a roster that won the past two World Cups to usher in a new generation. So which Americans will be on the plane to Australia and New Zealand in search of a three-peat?
ESPN will answer that question on a rolling basis throughout the next nine months, starting now with our USWNT Big Board, Vol. 1. A team loaded with so many bona fide stars offers some certainties, but the recent turnover within the team leaves plenty of roster spots up for grabs on the 23-player team. Add in the handful of potential starters who are recovering from injuries, and the field is further clouded.
How we’re doing this
Let’s start with the obvious: The team of 23 going right now will not be the team of 23 going to the World Cup (and for all we know, this could become a 26-player roster like the men’s edition in Qatar).
Injury situations guarantee impending changes, but form will also ebb and flow, the team’s needs will change, and other injuries could take place. Basically, nothing is official until it is on paper in FIFA’s hands and the roster deadline has passed.
This is a ranking, by position, of how things stand right now. That means players with long-term injuries would not be on the roster if the World Cup started today. Plenty will change in the coming months as some of these players face competition unlike any they’ve faced before, including an Oct. 7 showdown with European champions England at Wembley.
Within each position, we’ve made tiers of players to add nuance to where things stand:
Tier 1: Roster locks. These players are either clear starters or pushing to be one, and as of today, would be on the plane for the World Cup.
Tier 2: The bubble. Players on both the right and wrong side of it, because if you aren’t a lock, you are part of the bubble where nothing is certain.
Tier 3: Outside looking in. Players who have had a passing look with the team without tangible progress, players performing well for club but who haven’t gotten a look, or players who were once integral but no longer seem part of the plans.
Wait and see: Former locks racing against time. This is a special category to account for injuries and absences — these are players who were once locks, but now need to recover quickly enough and regain their status for a spot on the plane. There are enough of them that it needs its own category because an injured starter can’t be Tier 1 right now, but we expect they should have a clear path to return to that tier — if they get back to 100% in time.
Tier 1: Alyssa Naeher, Casey Murphy
Tier 2: Aubrey Kingsbury
Tier 3: Adrianna Franch, Jane Campbell, Bella Bixby, Phallon Tullis-Joyce
Wait and see: None
Alyssa Naeher, center, has not been challenged enough to lose her starting spot for the USWNT. Brad Smith/ISI Photos/Getty Images
The No. 1 goalkeeper job remains Alyssa Naeher‘s to lose. Casey Murphy made a strong run at it earlier this year on the heels of some stellar performances in 2021, but she has struggled at times this NWSL season for the North Carolina Courage, a team whose erratic form frequently allows multi-goal thrillers — not exactly a goalkeeper’s dream game.
If anyone is going to challenge Naeher, it’s Murphy, but there is work to be done. Naeher is a two-time World Cup champion and was the starter for the 2019 triumph. After that, Aubrey Kingsbury is in a bubble of her own as the choice No. 3 right now, a position which she has had locked down for the entire calendar year.
Bella Bixby and Jane Campbell are the last goalkeepers to receive call-ups outside of that trio, and those came for relatively experimental games in Australia last November. Adrianna Franch hasn’t played for the U.S. in nearly a year following her emergency duties at the Olympics, where Naeher got hurt in the semifinal. Andonovski spoke on multiple occasions this year about learning from that moment, which is why Murphy has earned significant minutes this year, including at World Cup qualifying. Kingsbury still only has one cap.
Andonovski wants two options who are ready to be the No. 1 come the World Cup and right now, his trio is as set as it could be.
On the plane right now: Naeher, Murphy, Kingsbury
Full-Backs
Tier 1: Emily Fox, Kelley O’Hara, Sofia Huerta
Tier 2: Hailie Mace
Tier 3: Carson Pickett, Imani Dorsey, Caprice Dydasco, Kristen McNabb, Merritt Mathias
Wait and see: Crystal Dunn, Casey Krueger, Emily Sonnett
34-year-old Kelley O’Hara has been one of Vlatko Andonovski’s preferred options at right-back, even as he has tested new up-and-comers. Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images
Ah, full-back: The position of eternal questions for the U.S. men’s and women’s teams alike.
Emily Fox is clearly the starting left-back right now and has been all year. Andonovski tabbed her for that role last year, when she was an NWSL rookie, and he said he would spend the year building up her minutes to get her ready for the World Cup. That is exactly what happened and Fox offers the U.S. pace to go with a unique attacking profile in the position.
Of course, left-back was previously the position held down by Crystal Dunn, who gave birth to her first child in May and has not played yet this year. She trained with the USWNT in the most recent camp and expects to play some minutes for club and potentially country before the end of the year. Yes, she can play in the midfield, but her services are of greater need for the USWNT at full-back. At her peak, Dunn is the best the team has at the position.
By the time the World Cup kicks off, the question might not be Fox vs. Dunn, but rather who gets which side? As for now, Dunn is still trying to get back on a pitch during a game, so we’ll revisit that.
Right-back is where were find more questions. Kelley O’Hara (recently, but not significantly injured) is the incumbent there and continues to show why when healthy. The health caveat is an important one that has been a factor for some time. Emily Sonnett‘s injury is significant enough to have been season-ending for the Washington Spirit, or she would otherwise be Tier 1 based on how she has rotated into Andonovski’s lineups.
Sofia Huerta has earned her most extensive trial as a U.S. international after making the one-time switch from Mexico, a dream she thought she had lost after blowing her initial opportunity in the previous cycle. Huerta continues to make her argument as the best crosser from wide areas in the entire USWNT pool, and her defensive game has largely improved.
She did misplay the ball that led to Nigeria’s goal on Tuesday and ended the USWNT’s 880-minute shutout streak, but she was stellar on both sides of the ball and played a role in two goals in the first game against Nigeria, a 4-0 win. Whether Huerta is the starter remains a question, but right now she is solidly part of Andonovski’s plan. How she plays against England will tell how ready she is for a World Cup.
Casey Krueger also gave birth to her first child and has not played this year. She was used semi-frequently as a reserve full-back in 2021. The wild card, though, could be Hailie Mace, who only joined the USWNT for games against Nigeria as a replacement for O’Hara, but impressed enough in training to earn looks off the bench in both matches. Mace is in her best form ever in the NWSL as a wing-back for the Kansas City Current, who play a 3-5-2, but she had not been in camp in over four years prior to last week.
For all of the above players, there’s still time to get on the roster — especially at this position.
On the plane right now: Fox, Huerta, O’Hara
Center-Backs
Tier 1: Becky Sauerbrunn, Alana Cook, Naomi Girma
Tier 2: Abby Dahlkemper
Tier 3: Sam Hiatt, Alex Loera, Sam Staab, Emily Menges
Wait and see: Tierna Davidson
Naomi Girma, right, has made a strong case to join the USWNT in 2023 as a starting or reserve center-back. Sofia Huerta, left, is pushing for a full-back spot. Brad Smith/ISI Photos/Getty Images
Center-back is also a curious position right now. Becky Sauerbrunn, Alana Cook and Naomi Girma have been the three players rotating into those two spots almost exclusively since Tierna Davidson tore her ACL in March. Cook is the preferred starter alongside Sauerbrunn, who is the captain, but Girma has the skillset to claim the starting role.
Is there even a bubble after that? The most likely candidate for that is Abby Dahlkemper, but since returning from broken ribs earlier this spring, she has fallen out of favor as the starting center back alongside Girma at San Diego Wave FC, and the calls from Andonovski have stopped, too. Dahlkemper needs to get back in the XI for San Diego before she gets back into a USWNT camp, and does have the potential. She played every minute for the USWNT at the 2019 World Cup and has a passing range to rival any center-back.
From there, the rest of the talent pool is inexperienced, with Cook and Girma still early into their international journeys. A peek at the 55-player preliminary roster for the CONCACAF W Championship suggests that any of Alex Loera, Sam Hiatt, Emily Menges or Sam Staab are in Andonovski’s peripheral thoughts. Combined, they have zero caps.
Davidson’s return will be the most important to this position, and she could double as an emergency No. 6. Sonnett and even Mace also provide versatility between full-back and center-back, which is always a helpful trait when deciding on bubble spots. As it stands today, the USWNT is one more injury away from a major depth problem.
On the plane right now: Sauerbrunn, Cook, Girma
Tier 1: Rose Lavelle, Lindsey Horan, Andi Sullivan
Tier 2: Ashley Sanchez, Kristie Mewis, Taylor Kornieck, Sam Coffey
Tier 3: Morgan Gautrat, Savannah DeMelo, Jaelin Howell, Lo’eau LaBonta, Vanessa DiBernardo, Mikayla Cluff, Emily Madril, Dani Weatherholt
Wait and see: Sam Mewis, Julie Ertz
It’s difficult to envision a scenario in which Rose Lavelle, pictured, is not on the plane to Australia and New Zealand. Robin Alam/ISI Photos/Getty Images
Midfield features the most interesting bubble section. Rose Lavelle, Lindsey Horan and Andi Sullivan are Andonovski’s starting trio as the Nos. 10, 8 and 6, respectively, but there are at least three spots behind them wide open for the taking, although Ashley Sanchez is looking more likely and should claim one of those reserve spots. Plus, what happens when Sam Mewis returns?
Lavelle is undroppable and in form, and Horan is best as a two-way midfielder when asked not to shoulder too much of the defensive responsibility, which can also be said for Mewis. Catarina Macario might also be part of this conversation, but we’ll get back to that.
Sam Coffey earned her first cap on Tuesday and played the entire match in the No. 6 role. As debuts go, it was solid if not necessarily spectacular, which is about as much as anyone could ask for in a thankless role. As wild as it seems to go from first cap to World Cup, Coffey’s case for inclusion right now is as good as anyone else’s in the position, especially on form.
Julie Ertz previously defined the No. 6 role, so much so that it has been difficult for observers to evaluate any of her replacements. Ertz gave birth to her first child earlier this year and her playing future is unclear. Andonovski might know more about that, but for now, he must plan for life without Ertz.
Kristie Mewis has filled in at the No. 6 in a pinch, but it has largely looked forced. NJ/NY Gotham FC is rounding out an awful season, which has not helped her club form. Still, her ability to play in any of the three positions is to her benefit. Morgan Gautrat played her best club season to date in 2021, earning a recall to the USWNT, but she only played 45 minutes at February’s SheBelieves Cup and has not played for the Chicago Red Stars since April 2 due to injuries.
Savannah DeMelo will have something to say about all this, and Racing Louisville FC teammate Jaelin Howell might still, too. For now, though, it’s possible the final midfield spot comes down to Coffey and Taylor Kornieck. Given current injuries and the numbers game of roster composition, they both go as of today.
Also, at what point does Lo’eau LaBonta‘s NWSL form warrant a look in camp? She played for Andonovski at FC Kansas City, so there is familiarity there and a precedent set by Kristie Mewis’ return to the USWNT following a great league campaign.
On the plane right now: Lavelle, Horan, Sullivan, Sanchez, K. Mewis, Coffey, Kornieck
Tier 1: Sophia Smith, Mallory Pugh, Megan Rapinoe
Tier 2: Margaret “Midge” Purce, Trinity Rodman
Tier 3: Christen Press, Morgan Weaver, Tobin Heath, Ally Watt
Wait and see: Lynn Williams
Mallory Pugh, center, previously tumbled down the depth chart and did not even make the squad that went to the Olympics last year after playing in the preceding World Cup, but she has reclaimed her spot on the USWNT. Ronald Martinez/Getty Images
Sophia Smith and Mallory Pugh are NWSL MVP candidates and have the starting winger positions on lock for the U.S. national team. There really is not a debate. Both reiterated against Nigeria how dynamic they can be and why they are threats to any defense they come up against. The largest remaining criticism is their conversion rate at times, but that’s also a matter of setting realistic expectations for any forward — each is averaging better than a goal every other game in 2022.
Megan Rapinoe is also a lock as far as Andonovski’s plans go. Such a firm position sparked controversy when she returned to the team ahead of World Cup qualifying, which Andonovski said was always going to be the plan. There were some external concerns about that being too much of a choice based on leadership and not form, but those have since been squashed.
Rapinoe continues to affect games off the bench, as she did on Tuesday when she assisted Lavelle’s game-winning goal only 73 seconds after entering the match, and she is back to being a 90-minute player for OL Reign, notching four goals and three assists in four games in August. In short, Rapinoe is going to a fourth World Cup with sights set on winning a third straight.
Trinity Rodman might be next in line off the bench. In 2021, she put in an NWSL Rookie of the Year campaign that nearly doubled as worthy of MVP talk. She hasn’t quite had a sophomore slump, but the Washington Spirit’s generally horrible form has not helped Rodman’s case. Smith and Pugh are also playing extremely well, so Rodman’s role remains that of a reserve.
Margaret “Midge” Purce is in the mix after missing out on last year’s Olympics. Lynn Williams is the player who could disrupt the depth chart upon her return, but that likely won’t be until 2023. Elsewhere, Morgan Weaver will need a solid stretch run with the Portland Thorns to push her name back into the conversation, as would Tobin Heath, who was once a sure starter on the USWNT’s World Cup-winning teams but hasn’t been in the picture in nearly a year.
Christen Press‘ absence from the CONCACAF W Championship roster was the most surprising given her form. She tore her ACL two days before the public announcement of the roster, but had already been informed she would not be on the roster. The necessary recovery time for that injury likely puts her back on the field around the start of the 2023 NWSL season, which would make for a tough timeline to get back into the mix for a third World Cup.
On the plane right now: Smith, Pugh, Rapinoe, Purce, Rodman
Tier 1: Alex Morgan
Tier 2: Ashley Hatch
Tier 3: Mia Fishel, Bethany Balcer, Kristen Hamilton, Cece Kizer, Jessica McDonald
Wait and see: Catarina Macario
Alex Morgan, pictured, is the undisputed No. 1 at the No. 9 position — at least until Catarina Macario returns from injury. EPA/Miguel Sierra
Alex Morgan is once again the clear No. 9, as if nothing changed at all. That is not true, of course. Earlier this year, Andonovski began building the team around Macario as the false nine who seamlessly interchanged with Lavelle in the attacking midfielder role, which left Morgan on the outside, not earning call-ups.
The results with Macario were brilliant at times even if they featured growing pains against lesser competition. But Macario’s injury coincided with Morgan’s career-best form, and Morgan handily beat out Ashley Hatch in the competition for the starting role in the meantime.
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Assuming Morgan stays in this form and Macario picks up where she left off, Andonovski has a champagne problem. He is not going to move away from the 4-3-3, and he isn’t going to drop Lavelle. So one of Morgan or Macario would have to sit, and they would rotate as needed in the World Cup (how’s that for a super-sub in either case). Otherwise, Macario could become part of a “double-10” alongside Lavelle — that would trigger a question of who as a pure No. 6 would then carry the defensive load, all while Macario would take a spot in an already crowded midfield depth chart.
Meanwhile, Mia Fishel remains in top form for Tigres as one of the best forwards in Liga MX, but Andonovski said last week that he has not had any conversations with her. Given the general lack of depth right now at the No. 9 position, and that Liga MX plays through the winter (when the NWSL is off), there remains an opportunity for her to change that.
On the plane right now: Morgan, Hatch
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European Democracy: the Force Awakens
By DiEM25 | 25/02/2016
To the initiators of DiEM 2025,
To the friends of democracy and Europe and all its citizens,
Dear Yanis, You have a dream. It’s ours too.
A particular idea of Europe drives us. An open, transnational and sovereign Europe. A large, mobilized, popular and inclusive European democracy. Nevertheless, day after day, the European continent falls further in political and moral powerlessness. An upsurge from the extreme right, and a xenophobic and antagonistic downturn, we cannot stand this confiscation of our European dream anymore by “every-man-for-himself” movements and governments subservient to the interests of a few.
Our Europe is different. To a level that meets its values, respects its citizens and welcomes those seeking refuge. We dream of a citizen Europe with shared sovereignty where all Europeans would trust their national and local parliaments again and would decide together their common future in the European Parliament. A continent unified in diversity and solidarity, where sharing a currency and supranational institutions manifests the feeling of a common destiny. Yes, we want to get democracy out of dark rooms where the European Council, and thus the Member States sequester it. Everywhere in Europe and beyond, ecologists have “democracy as a project”. We stand for the democratic renewal in Europe as a necessary condition for an exit from the crisis, even if it is not enough. We have been convinced for a long time of the necessity of an European sovereignty and thus an European Constituent Assembly!
We are not naïve. We know that, in the name of a certain kind of European integration, policies are conducted that enslave both the citizens and the very idea of Europe. But we are realistic. Nothing can be built on ruins. Beyond us stand six decades of peace, rapprochement, shared prosperity and gradual reunification of a continent once divided by incessant wars and games of nuclear superpowers. Yet do not forget all those who are already working on a change for Europe. At the heart of the institutions, there are not only cold technocrats or neoliberal politicians in the pocket of multinationals. We have never confused political Europe with European policies.
Some of us are in Berlin for the launch of DiEM25 and it is exactly because we are daily activists for democracy, ecology, solidarity and tolerance and think that we need to go even further towards the alternative. We think that the answer to the social, economic, democratic, moral, climate and energy crises requires the implementation of radically new politics. In parallel to democratic reform, the necessary solidarity between Europeans and generations requires the abandonment of the myths of infinite growth and materialistic consumerism. Climate change compels us to rethink everything on small and large scales, from energy to food, debt to migration, mobility to wealth sharing, from foreign policy to commercial strategies. It’s time to finally enter the 21st century.
To feed this new imaginary, to make it desirable and share it with as many people as possible, we need concrete projects, coming from our fights, ingrained in reality and on the field: basic income and maximum wage, local and complementary currencies to the Euro, renewable and citizen controlled energies, agroecology, common goods, cooperatives, education, culture there is plenty to tackle in the future! And above all, we will have to rethink our political identities: yesterday’s labels are expired. The important thing is not where we come from, but where we want to go together.
You are Europe, we are all Europe, even those who prefer the cosy comfort of false certainties from the nation state. It is necessary to overcome our fears and fantasies, to transform our societies and to write together a new page of history. Europe is the future of our collective and plural sovereignty, of a just and sustainable prosperity.
Dear friends of democracy, dear friends of Europe, dear initiators of DiEM2025, you are right to think that a difference can be made. With our differences and similarities, let’s try!
Long live democracy. Long live Europe. Long live the European democracy.
Signatories:
Florent Marcellesi (spokesperson, EQUO in the European Parliament, Spain),
Julien Bayou (spokesperson, Europe Écologie-Les Verts, France),
Karima Delli (MEP, France),
Michel Reimon (MEP, Austria),
Rui Tavares (ex-MEP, Portugal),
Vedran Horvat (Croatia),
Adam Ostolski (spokesperson, Polish Greeen Party),
Laura Carlier (spokesperson, FYEG, Belgium),
Teo Comet (spokesperson, FYEG, Finland),
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Factoring and Multiples
What is the gcd of 55 and 15?
The GCF is 5.
Q: What is the gcd of 55 and 15?
The GCD of 12 and 15 is 3.
GCD: 5
What is the gcd of 9 and 15?
What the GCD of 3 and 15?
The Greatest Common Divisor (GCD) for 3 15 is 3.
Greatest Common Divisor (GCD) for 15 28 is 1.
What is the GCD for 30 45 and 75?
The GCF is 15.
What are common multiples of 55 and 88?
GCD: 11 LCM: 440
What is the GCD of 45 and 210?
Greatest Common Divisor (GCD) for 45 210 is 15.
What is the GCD of 10.15.25?
Greatest Common Divisor (GCD) for 10 15 25 is 5.
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This past week an American corporate icon passed away. Jack Welch, the titanic leader of General Electric for two decades, drew his last breath on March 1st.
Much has been written about the leadership style, power, success, and passion of this man. Frankly, I’m grateful to have lived it firsthand. From 1995 to 2002, I was a part of the GE structure. In 1993, Mary and I moved from Goshen, Indiana to Kansas City to be part of a global risk management business. Not long after, General Electric purchased the business under the watchful eye of Mr. Welch and Gary Wendt, one of his lieutenants and fiercest internal rivals.
By 1996, Mary and I, along with our three kids, were in Folkestone, Kent along the English Channel leading a global technology project for a GE Capital subsidiary. And with that I merged my personal and professional journey into the unmistakable and rigid Welch GE culture.
During this period, GE became the largest corporation in the world (when measured by Market Value). Jack lived for shareholder value. Customers. Clients. Employees. All downstream from the shareholder.
To that end, Jack pioneered and promoted corporate strategies that unapologetically leveraged his workforce in order to garner Wall Street affection. Every employee was measured against the Four E’s. Energy. Energize. Edge. Execution.
Measurement systems were established to assess and quantify results in each of these four categories. Measures that defined, shaped, and galvanized a culture. In part this played out through the corporate insistence that every manager had to “rack and stack” every employee under their supervisory stewardship. In my case, 36 technology professionals. Computer programmers, systems analysts, database architects… and the support staff beside them. 36. Top to bottom. Then, whatever slight measure of subjectivity had been applied, was no longer valuable. The rest was pure math.
The top 10% were your “A” performers.
The next 15% were “B’s.”
Then 50% as “C’s.”
Rounding out the curve, 15% as “D’s.”
And yes, 10% at the bottom.
And the bottom 10% were gone. Period.
The “D’s” were on Performance Improvement Plans. And the vast array of “C’s” were messaged with a patronizing pat on the back expressing gratitude for their “solid” performance. In fact, too much encouragement and motivation to this “C” group meant only one thing…that somebody on their team who currently possessed a B, or an A was under attack. There was no win-win here. It was a classic Zero-Sum game. Your bigger piece of the pie meant that your colleague’s piece just shrank. This was how GE defined Edge. And yes, it was toxic to a team.
Make no mistake. It worked. For a while. In fact, the assessment culture was healthy for a time. Honest conversations with employees who really did need to move on. A corporately-induced fire in the belly of a leader who owed it to his employer and the shareholders to make sure that good stewardship existed.
But a Zero-Sum game doesn’t last long. Fierce internal competition is antithetical to teamwork. It’s adversarial to trust. And it pours high octane fuel on the embers of competition. And while this might delight Wall Street, it eroded morale and ultimately betrayed the very stockholders it had befriended.
Zero-Sum. I win when you lose. Your gain comes at my expense. If you look good, I need to find a way to look better or to tarnish the luster on your shine. Performance deteriorated into politics, and before long, a paycheck and stock options were about the only thing you could use as motivation.
A legacy that Wall Street rewarded. Stockholders won. Jack won.
Twenty years later. I reflect on the lingering legacy of Jack. I test it against a leader who said that in order to save my life I would have to lose it. For others. For the overlooked. For the broken. The least. Self-sacrifice for a Kingdom. Treasure where the “Bulls and Bears” don’t run.
And as for a Zero-Sum game…Jesus talked in infinite and unbounded terms. He invited the celebration of others and their gifts. This was no game for the Messiah. Abundant life was not at the expense of others, but a means to serve.
The invitation of Jesus was to die to myself. That was his definition of “Edge.” It is the ultimate definition of edge.
Shortly after Jack left GE in 2002, he received a $417 million severance. Jesus, at the age of 33 hung on a cross. And “Follow me” was His invitation.
Edge redefined.
‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ (Matthew 25:40, NIV)
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Indians Residing In 10 Countries Can Soon Use UPI Services: 10 Facts
UPI services will be enabled for NRIs in 10 countries. These include Canada, Hong Kong, Oman, the US, Australia, Singapore, UAE, the UK, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. NRIs in these countries wouldn’t be required to have an Indian phone number to use UPI services.
The big UPI move will help international students, family living abroad and local businesses, said officials.
According to the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), NRIs with bank account types such as Non-Resident External (NRE) and Non-Resident Ordinary (NRO) accounts will be able to avail of UPI services using their international phone numbers.
An NRE account is used by an NRI to transfer foreign earnings to India while an NRO account helps these residents manage their income earned in India.
Currently, one must have an Indian phone number to generate a UPI Id and use the services.
The NPCI has laid certain conditions for the member banks to allow UPI services for NRIs. It states that member banks must ensure that such UPI accounts are allowed only “as per the extant FEMA (Foreign Exchange Management Act) regulations and adherence to the guidelines/instructions issued by the concerned regulatory departments of Reserve Bank of India from time to time”.
The conditions further state that banks must do the “necessary Anti-Money Laundering (AML)/ Combating of Financing of Terrorism (CT) checks, and compliance validation/account level validations” of the UPI accounts. All onboarding or transaction-level checks will be applicable for such UPI accounts.
The partner banks have been given time till April 30 by the NPCI to comply with the directions.
Once the service is rolled out, NRIs living in the 10 countries will be able to open a UPI account using international phone numbers having the respective country code.
The Payments Corporation also plans to extend UPI services to other countries in near future.
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By Lydia's House December 16, 2019 January 31, 2020 cute kids/Life Lately/News/reflections
Life and work in 2019
By Mary Ellen Mitchell, Lydia’s House co-director
As I reflect on the last year, first I’m grateful for the opportunity to be in leadership here at Lydia’s House and to have my work and family so integrated in this experiment in shared life and community. Our children are better for it; our days are more meaningful. As such, perhaps the piece of life that stood out most boldly for the Mitchell-Eilerman contingent of this operation was this operation, with Lydia’s House taking a new role in our family as the employer of both me and Ben for 7 months of the year. We collaborated on Virginia Coffey Place, an 8 unit apartment building that the organization bought and Ben led toward rehabilitation. It was totally trashed when we acquired it but I’d long believed the Holy Spirit was leading us to this project. Located on the street we live on, we’d watched it deteriorate and then vacate over a decade. Under Ben’s leadership, with a ton of support from staff and volunteers and donors, it’s now beautiful and not only does it have low income apartments, but also a Montessori preschool and an art studio. Driving past its new facade never gets old, and we actually stop by daily because Jacob is a student at the preschool.
Virginia Coffey Place, final exterior
The inaugural class of Azalea Montessori
With Jacob in school, I’ve steadily moved into more work hours, and it seems Lydia’s House is evolving into a new phase of organizational development. I’ve increased lobbying and advocacy, gotten to know our reps at every level of government, and Meridith and I participated in larger conversations around family homelessness. We hired our Occupational Therapist, Laura, almost full time and hired a maternal care advocate/ doula. These people also have become companions in the journey, befriending Ben and the kids and sharing prayer and reflections on day to day life. Meridith, of course, remains a cornerstone, and is also like an aunt/ sister/ spiritual guru to us all. Together we also have many-years of relationship that have grown and changed with our original Lydia’s House families, some of whom now attend school with Jacob or live on our street.
Laura (our OT) and Jacob camping
Fall brought some change for us with Virginia Coffey Place complete. We started to discuss Ben’s next steps and within weeks he was offered a job at Over the Rhine Community Housing. It was an organic progression, with Ben still supporting homeless families but now in an organization that owns over 400 units. He is working with kindred spirits and has an office near downtown, which he loves. He’s focused on putting housing on-line for the very poor, doing more real estate development/ less architecture.
Ben at the start of the Virginia Coffey renovation
Our neighborhood relationships have grown in complex and good ways. Behind us will soon be Jacob’s best friend and former Lydia’s House baby, JoJo, whose adopted parents rehabbed an abandoned property. Next door to us, Ben helped our friend/ former LH live in volunteer Anne upgrade a house and it is now beautiful, complete with bold colored walls and carefully chosen art. Jacob visits her almost daily and we were happy to welcome her parents for Thanksgiving. The kids put on a talent show in their honor and, while we decided that maybe singing isn’t going to be their thing, their dance moves are pretty awesome and Sam is a budding magician.
Both Annie and Sam are now in Catholic school, which was a hard choice, because we (like many) want to support the local public school. They now attend Good Shepherd Catholic Montessori and while we don’t love the 20 minute commute, we do love the Montessori classroom, hands on math, complex self-chosen projects, and the fabulous religious education using the Catechism of the Good Shepherd. Religion is actually Sam’s favorite class (truth), and he’s preparing for first communion. Annie loves recess on the giant hill and runs a “stick and dye shop.” She takes it pretty seriously and gives daily updates. She’s also enjoyed studying the revolutionary war and continues her interest (obsession) with Harry Potter and Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
After we realized there was no way that 5 of us could camp in the VW camper that we’d had since pre-marriage, we sold it. Sadness. In the search for her replacement we finally landed on a tiny “Wolf Pup” that sleeps 5 and has a bathroom. Our mini-van can haul it! We did an interior rehab, because that’s what we do, and it now has a pink door and floral print curtains and leather cushions. It looks good. We took it on a long trip to Michigan which was fun and also a needed family getaway after an intense spring work-wise. We’d never been to Michigan and we spent over 2 weeks swimming in cold lakes, eating soft serve, climbing sand dunes and thinking “why haven’t we come here every summer?” Over the course of the trip our friends Laura Menze and the Doans met us at stops, which was a nice way to break up the kids getting bored with each other.
Summer also included a weekend camping trip to visit Underground Railroad sites in Ripley Ohio, the Catholic Worker reunion in Bloomington, Episcopal Family Camp with Lydia’s House Families, and Annie’s total favorite: Camp Joy. If I had to predict what she’ll do as an adult, I’d say she’ll be working at Camp Joy.
This year marks 11 years of marriage for me and Ben; Sam is 7, Annie turned 10 (!!) and Jacob is 3. 2019 felt like something… some kind of shift or mile-marker where I looked back and thought “Ben and I have built a good life, here in Norwood, at Lydia’s House, at our church, with extended family, and with friends that feel like family.” Not everything was/is idyllic—our personal house is often a mess, Sam broke his arm this spring, we got head lice at a camp, working together as a couple was challenging. Mostly though, we’re happy with this life we’ve chosen/constructed/ been gifted.
Jacob and his best friend at camping trick or treat
Anyway, may this serve as an update of the behind the scenes, and we hope to bring you some more personal reflections on 2019 throughout January.
If you’re reading from far away, come visit! We’d love to share some local pizza on a Friday night or take you to Sam’s favorite magic store or put on a talent show with no singing.
Mary Ellen (on behalf of the Mitchell-Eilerman crew)
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Hospital Workers Fired, Resign Over Vaccine Policy
Written by Carolyn Crist
From the WebMD Archives
June 23, 2021 -- More than 150 hospital workers at Houston Methodist were fired or resigned on Tuesday after refusing to follow a policy that requires employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
The hospital system required its 26,000 workers to get vaccinated or receive an exemption by June 7. Among those, 178 employees refused to get a shot and were placed on a 2-week suspension. On Tuesday, 153 were fired or had resigned, The Associated Press reported.
Workers who received a vaccine during the suspension period were allowed to return to work. The hospital didn’t specify how many workers met the policy and returned to work, according to The New York Times.
Jennifer Bridges, a registered nurse who has led the pushback against the policy, told the AP that her director called on Tuesday to ask if she received the vaccine. She replied, “absolutely not” and was terminated.
“We all knew we were getting fired today,” she told the AP. “We knew unless we took that shot to come back, we were getting fired today.”
As the policy deadline approached this month, Bridges and dozens of other employees protested outside of the hospital and said they wouldn’t get a vaccine. In addition, she and 116 other employees filed a lawsuit against the policy, claiming that the hospital was “forcing its employees to be human ‘guinea pigs’ as a condition for continued employment.”
On June 12, the lawsuit was dismissed in a district court in Texas. U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes said the vaccine requirement didn’t break federal laws. He also denounced the comparison of the policy to medical experiments done in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.
“The hospital’s employees are not participants in a human trial,” Hughes wrote in the ruling. “They are licensed doctors, nurses, medical technicians, and staff members.”
Hughes wrote that the policy is part of the job, and if employees don’t want to follow the requirement, they can work elsewhere. Those who filed the lawsuit have already appealed to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the AP reported.
“I’m hoping if we win this at a federal level, then they’re going to create laws to protect employees from having to go through this anywhere else in the country,” Bridges told the AP.
Legal and medical ethics experts have said the COVID-19 vaccine requirement is like other mandates for health care workers, such as receiving a flu shot or other required vaccines, The New York Times reported. The requirements will likely be upheld in court if employers provide exemptions for medical conditions or religious objections.
“Health care workers have three special ethical responsibilities,” Arthur Caplan, PhD, a medical ethicist at the New York University School of Medicine, told the newspaper.
“One is to protect the vulnerable, people who are really at risk of a disease,” he said. “Secondly, put patient interests first. It doesn’t say, ‘put your choice first.’ Third, they’re supposed to do no harm.”
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Winning Was the Easy Part
Now Joe Biden needs to repair a badly broken country.
By Franklin Foer
Getty / The Atlantic
When President-elect Joe Biden last served in Washington, he lived on the campus of the United States Naval Observatory. Each time his motorcade exited its gates and veered onto Massachusetts Avenue, it passed the Master Clock, a digital timepiece perched in front of the compound’s driveway that synchronizes every other government clock.
Through the car window, Biden would stare, transfixed: “Red numbers glowed, ticking away in metronomic perfection: 5:11:42, 5:11:43, 5:11:44, 5:11:45,” he writes in the opening pages of his memoir about his son’s death. The clock would fade into the distance, but Biden clung to its image, “still marking the time as it melted away.”
Electoral triumph is usually the moment when candidates imagine themselves to be politically invincible and luxuriate in boundless reveries about all that they might accomplish. But even before the Democrats looked likely to stall in their effort to retake the Senate, Biden’s campaign carried an unspoken sense of limits. He will be 78 when he finally takes office, older than anyone who has assumed the presidency before him. The Master Clock might not be an everyday presence in his life anymore, but it will loom in his calculus.
Franklin Foer: Joe Biden has changed
Whereas his recent predecessors have entered the White House hoping for an eight-year stay, Biden’s defining misfortunes have brutally impressed the fact of finitude upon him. Although he has never openly mulled the possibility of serving for only one term, realism dictates the thought.
Throughout the campaign, the knowledge of such a truncated moment of opportunity seemed to liberate him more than confine him. In the beginning of his third bid to become president, Biden styled himself a cautious moderate who stood as a bulwark against the Democratic Party’s ascendant left. But as he began to inch closer to the achievement of his life’s elusive goal, shaken by the pandemic and the inequalities it exposed, he channeled that ascendant left. He riffed aloud about how he intended to reprise Franklin D. Roosevelt’s transformational tenure. In the final week of the campaign, he even took a pilgrimage to Warm Springs, Georgia, the spa where FDR would periodically recuperate and the site of his death.
Biden has always been an easy target for cruel jibes, with his stentorian speeches, the shoulder massages he would dole out to colleagues, and his cheesy catchphrases. This image has proved hard for him to escape. Even with Biden having won more votes than any other presidential candidate in history, the press and official Washington will be slow to take his ambitions seriously.
The left looks at his nostalgia for the Senate gym, the days of a good bipartisan schvitz, and doubts that he has the fighting spirit required to push forward a robust agenda in the face of filibusters and a revanchist Supreme Court.
Without a congressional majority, Biden’s belated dreams of transformation no longer feel plausible. As a creature of the Senate, he may be reluctant to wield executive power with the aggression of his predecessors. But because he may not have to worry about reelection, he has no reason to proceed with political caution, and every motive for disproving those who have pegged him as a mediocrity. His Justice Department can take apart concentrations of economic power and embrace the bipartisan animus toward Big Tech to remake the internet; he can re-create the civil service and the regulatory state that Trump just demolished; he can use the pandemic and economic crisis to push for public investments in green infrastructure and health care; he can dare the Senate Republicans to block a $15 minimum-wage hike and the other popular aspects of his program.
If Biden resembles any recent figure in political history, it’s George H. W. Bush, who arrived in the Oval Office as a member of the Washington establishment in good standing. Both men’s résumés—and relentless global travels—exhibit the sort of experience that editorial pages used to fetishize. Although Biden is technically a Baby Boomer, his manners and squareness suggest generational proximity to Bush. Like Bush, Biden prides himself on his own decency. His equivalent of Bush’s handwritten notes is the personal cellphone number that he doles out to strangers.
Where Bush had to contend with the rise of evangelicals and firebrands like Newt Gingrich, who shifted the Republican Party away from his variety of moderation, Biden will preside over a Democratic Party undergoing its own profound ideological transformation. That similarity suggests both a danger for Biden and an opportunity.
Bush skillfully ended the Cold War, but he couldn’t manage his own party. Biden has already demonstrated greater deftness. After the protests that followed the killing of George Floyd, Biden denounced systemic racism far more bluntly than any nominee in history. After Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders propounded the Green New Deal, Biden borrowed from it heavily. With his politician’s sense for the limits of the possible, he seems genuinely exhilarated by the shifting of those limits.
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Biden’s task isn’t simply to enact an agenda, but to put the country back together again. The past four years have wrecked American society and its institutions, leaving a polity that may be divided beyond healing, pockmarked with conspiracy theories and dogged by a pandemic that continues to kill. Put differently, the country is much like the Biden family after its defining tragedy: dazed and grieving.
In the face of devastation, Biden propelled himself and his sons relentlessly forward. As a young widower, he drove them to school, blasting Elton John’s “Crocodile Rock” from the car radio, willing normalcy’s return. In an effort to heal, he rushed to wrap himself around others in mourning. Like Steven Spielberg’s E.T., he seems to instinctually believe in the healing power of physical connection—even if that intimacy can sometimes feel a bit too close. As the Irish literary critic Fintan O’Toole has written of Biden’s grasp, “There is something religious in this laying-on of hands. It is an act of communion.”
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Bulgarian Prosecutor-General: Sunny Beach is a ‘state within a state’
Bulgaria’s Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov has described the Black Sea resort of Sunny Beach, site of a June 2016 shootout that left one person dead and one critically injured, as a “state within a state”.
In the shootout, Dimitar “Mityo The Eyes” Zhelyazkov was critically injured and one of his bodyguards killed and another injured.
The incident, the first of its kind in Bulgaria for a number of years, caused a local media and political uproar and drew coverage in the foreign media. Bulgaria’s authorities responded to much-publicised tax and police checks in the resort.
Tsatsarov, speaking in a July 12 interview with local Nova Televizia, said that the very functioning of the Sunny Beach complex creates conditions for crime.
“Sunny Beach is a sort of economic and administrative state within a state,” Tsatsarov said, describing it as a place attractive to anyone who wanted to earn income illicitly.
There were groups about which there was evidence that they operated in ski resorts in winter, and in Sunny Beach in summer, he said.
Bulgarian Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov.
“This is a matter of a war for territory, a war for control of trade,” Tsatsarov said. The war, he said, was over taxi ranks, places to sell ice cream “and everything else”.
The state should take up its rightful place, he said, adding that what was going on was brazen crime.
Initially, police and government figures claimed that the shooting involving “The Eyes” had been a dispute over a parking place outside the beach bar where the shooutout happened. Later, Tsatsarov and others said that it had not been about parking, but a territorial dispute over control of the proceeds of crime.
‘Mityo The Eyes’ Zhelyzakov
Tsatsarov denied allegations that prosecutors and police acted against one group but provided an “umbrella” to others.
Commenting on the case of state investigator Ivan Hristov, dismissed in connection with allegations of being close to “The Eyes” and of running businesses incompatible with his official duties, Tsatsarov said that Hristov had been accused of using his official position to obtain unlawful benefits for the development and carrying out of private businesses – hotels, restaurants, mobile phone repair services.
“A man who is engaged in such activities cannot in parallel carry out the functions of an investigator,” Tsatsarov said.
Separately, in media interviews, Hristov has denied any form of wrongdoing and has said that he was being targeted for the sake of specific interests.
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HomeSportGAADCU ladies dominate Pats to reach O’Connor Cup semi-final
DCU ladies dominate Pats to reach O’Connor Cup semi-final
Gavin Quinn
March 8, 2017 GAA, Sport
DCU's Leha Caffrey sizes up a tackle in Drumcondra. Credit: Darragh Culhane
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O’Connor Cup quarter-final
The DCU Senior ladies’ Gaelic football team has qualified for O’Connor Cup weekend after a strong display saw them overcome local rivals St. Patrick’s College (Pats) by nine points on Wednesday afternoon in a physical affair in Drumcondra.
Stephen Maxwell’s side were slow to start but never looked back when they took the lead mid-way through the first half with Sarah Rowe and Aisling Sheridan terrorising the Pats defence from the very first minute while Rutledge and Atkinson’s work rate in the middle third proved decisive.
Pats never threw in the towel as they looked to reel DCU in during a cagey last ten minutes that prompted the referee to stop the game due to an off the ball altercation with just five minutes remaining. Pats kept pushing and were rewarded with Niamh Kelly converting a last gasp penalty, but it would only prove a consolation as DCU emerged victorious by nine points.
It took nine minutes for either side to register the first score of the game in a blustery Drumcondra, a period that saw DCU register four consecutive wides as their forwards looked to struggle settling into the game.
Pats took advantage of DCU’s lack of accuracy, racing to a two-point lead courtesy of two short range Kelly points, one a free and one from play. DCU continued to register wides before Mayo’s Sarah Rowe cut inside her marker and slotted over a beautiful left footed strike.
The home side replied with another Kelly free, won after DCU failed to deal with a long ball sent in from midfield as Pats looked to be in control, leading by 0-3 to 0-1.
DCU seemed to almost kick into action soon after as Sheridan began to terrorise Pats’ defence, first winning a key free before kicking a point of her own of the right, Éabha Rutledge’s free-taking proved decisive as DCU took control of the quarter-final tie.
More frees from Rutledge were complemented by excellent scores in the form of Lauren Magee’s close range effort and an excellent end to the half that saw Sarah Rowe blow Pats away with two demoralising scores to make it 0-9 to 0-3 at half time.
Pats were struggling to create scoring chances with their half-forward line drawn into the midfield battle, isolating their full-forward line. They looked to start the half well thanks to yet another Kelly free from close range left them five adrift.
Hopes of a second half fight back were all but extinguished however as the game reached the final quarter thanks to scores from Éabha Rutledge and Sarah Rowe but it was the exploits of Aisling Sheridan that stole the show as the corner-forward sent DCU into a commanding lead thanks to three outstanding points from play.
Pats refused to roll over and continued the same level of intensity despite the inevitable result in the last ten minutes with Muireann Ní Scanaill and Ellen O’Brien ensuring it was not to be easy for Stephen Maxwell’s side.
Their hard work was rewarded in the closing stages when a well taken Griffin penalty salvaged a consolation for the resilient Pats side, the goal seeing Pats’ tally reach 1-04 to DCU’s 0-16.
The O’Connor Cup weekend will be hosted by Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology on the weekend of the 10th and 11th of March as the DCU ladies look to end a famine of six years without triumph in what is sure to be an exciting weekend.
St. Patrick’s College: H. Lynch; R. Lawless, Sarah Jane Winder, C. Purdy; A. Leahy, S. Cleary, R. Lenehan; M. Ní Scanaill, E. O’Brien; S. Hughes, A. Darcy, C. Traenor; N. Kelly (0-04 (0-03 f)), S. Shannon, L. Griffin (1-00 Pen).
Substitutes: E. Mullen, S. Murphy.
Dublin City University: A. Tarpey; K. McKinney, G. O’Loughlin, H. Hegarty; L. Caffrey, L. McGinley, K. Murray; K. McDermott, L. Magee (0-01); S. Woods, M. Atkinson (0-01), E. Rutledge (0-05 (0-04 f); A. Sheridan (0-05), E. Woods, S. Rowe (0-04 (0-01 f)).
Substitutes: N. Rickard, K. Fitzgibbon, M. Mohan, A. McAuliffe.
Image credit: Darragh Culhane
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Meet DJ Gabrielle Kwarteng
Gabrielle can be found at Soho Grand spinning a very special collection of curated vinyl. As one of the hotel’s resident deejays, we wanted to share a little more about who she is and what inspires her flair for sound.
New York City native, Gabrielle Kwarteng has always taken the role as a music curator for as long as she can remember. As a child, she began building her sonic taste buds with her parents’ cassette collection of Ghanaian highlife, Nigerian Afrobeat, American disco, soul, and jazz just to name a few. She enjoyed controlling the room through these musical waves, which eventually transpired into her DJ career. Having also lived in two other artistic capitals, London and Paris, and traveled to a lot more, Gabrielle has amassed a music collection – vinyl and digitally – that stems globally.
Her DJ sets are rarely one note, as she seamlessly weaves in the most obscure genres, including Japanese disco, Brazilian funk, Ethiopian jazz, with music’s most recognizable disco, funk, and soul hits.
What’s on your current playlist?
GK: My current playlist is pretty eclectic and ranges from psychedelic instrumental rock like Khruangbin’s Como Me Quieres to Ethel Beatty’s soulful I Know You Care to Peggy Gou’s latest house track Shero. I’d say that it’s close to impossible to find just one type of genre on my playlist.
Your Soho Grand playlist?
GK: I have a few records that I tend to pack almost religiously for my Soho Grand sets, and they include Deee-Lite’s What Is Love, Lucas Arruda’s Melt The Night, Marta Acuna’s Dance Dance Dance (which is probably one of my favorite songs ever), and Jo Bisso’s Love Somebody (Danny Krivit edit).
Tell us about your relationship with Soho Grand?
GK: One of my favorite things about DJing at the Soho Grand is the energy that fills the room once I crank the music up, which I find to be a way to announce to the patrons that I’m there to get the party started. Grand Bar and Lounge is one of the most beautiful spaces that I’ve ever DJed in and it’s an amazing feeling to be a part of the space just by creating an ambiance through musical vibrations.
What’s your personal soundtrack to NYC?
GK: I’d say it’d have to be between Meli’sa Morgan’s Still In Love With You (House Version) and Khruangbin’s second album, Con Todo El Mundo. I’m a native New Yorker and I’ve always found the city’s chaos and non-stop upbeat energy to be a part of my personality and nature and house music, in my opinion, perfectly encapsulates this. Still In Love With You (House Version) is sort of like my catwalk track because NYC is definitely one long catwalk. On the other hand, I also need to balance out this perpetual chaos with tranquility and a slower pace, and Khruangbin’s latest melodic album does that for me. It’s one of the most meditative projects I’ve ever heard.
What’s your favorite album?
GK: I just have too many and I’d be here for hours trying to decide.
When you’re not spinning vinyl at the hotel, what are you doing?
GK: Listening to records at home, record shopping, working out, trying new vegan restaurants and dishes, and reading.
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It's Time to Eliminate Social Security Tax
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Published: 25 January 2022 25 January 2022
By Paul Gessing
In the wake of Gov. Lujan Grisham's State of the State address, Republican House Minority Leader State Rep. Jim Townsend, said that during the speech he thought the governor "almost became a Republican." He's not wrong.
After three full years and legislative sessions (not to mention multiple special sessions and the constant invocation of her "emergency" powers) of governing as a hard left "progressive," the Gov. seems to be tacking to the center in advance of her reelection bid this fall. This may be both good policy as well as good politics.
Specifically, in her State of the State address Lujan Grisham announced that she wants New Mexico to stop taxing Social Security. New Mexico is one of just 13 states in the nation to do this and bi-partisan efforts have been made in recent years to eliminate or vastly reduce the tax. Her support for repeal is welcome.
The Gov. acknowledged that the state has the money, as evidenced by her ambitious budget which contains a 13.5% spending increase over last year. The $80 million or so in "lost" revenue from ending the tax is a drop in the bucket when compared with the flood of new revenues. This is a flood that seems likely to continue with high oil prices and record production in the Permian Basin. So, New Mexico has plenty of money to cut taxes. In fact, the Gov. and Legislature should be looking for ways to use this flood of new money to both cut and reform taxes in ways that help diversify the economy.
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One Year of President Biden: American Energy Independence Lost
Washington, D.C. – Today marks 365 days since Joe Biden took office, and also the one-year anniversary of a series of events that have eroded American energy independence. On the first day of his administration, President Biden cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline and began a series of attacks that would deliver gas prices that are now more than 33 percent higher, massive inflation and home heating costs that have increased as much as 54 percent. The Biden Administration claims they are not to blame for these huge increases, but it is clear their attacks on energy have real consequences. Power The Future, a non-profit organization that advocates for American energy workers, has outlined the actions taken by the administration that have undermined American energy independence.
"From day one, President Biden targeted American energy workers and now everyone in the country is seeing the results," said Daniel Turner, Founder and Executive Director of Power The Future. "The fact that the Biden Administration is recognizing their one-year anniversary by blaming others and fighting for Vladimir Putin's pipeline should be a huge red flag to American families. Joe Biden isn't fixing this problem because the problem is Joe Biden."
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Governor Lujan Grisham Fights to Increase Taxes and Gas Prices to Fund Green Agenda
Albuquerque – Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham outlined her legislative agenda today, which will include out-of-touch proposals to raise taxes and further increase the cost of gas. Each of these proposals come as New Mexico receives $5.3 billion in record tax revenue from the energy industry while Santa Fe leadership makes the state a national leader in unemployment.
"While Santa Fe is flooded with cash, there's clearly a drought of common sense from the Governor," said Larry Behrens, Communications Director for Power The Future. "These proposals are so out-of-touch it's difficult to understand why the Governor would even want them, until you remember the Governor is fighting for campaign donations from radical environmentalists first and New Mexico's families last."
How NM voter laws compare to other states and nations
When we vote in-person or request an absentee ballot for a state or federal election in New Mexico, we don’t have to show any identification. How do our voter laws compare to those of other states and nations?
According to Ballotpedia, New Mexico is one of 15 states that does not require voter ID for in-person voting. Republicans control the state legislature in 3 of the states, there is split legislative control in another and the remaining 11 states all have Democrat control.
At the other end of the spectrum, there are 20 states that have photo ID requirements for in-person voting. Two states have Democrat controlled legislatures while all the remaining 18 have Republican controlled legislatures. The remaining 15 states have non-photo ID document requirements.
Fixing New Mexico's Failed Educational System Must Be a Priority
By House Republican Leader Jim Townsend (Artesia)
As the 2022 Legislative Session begins, lawmakers are going to be confronted with a slew of problems. No one needs to be reminded that New Mexico continues to land at or near the bottom of every critical ranking to know that our state is in dire need of change. From crime, healthcare, economic opportunity, child wellbeing, and education, the progressive policymakers who are leading our state have failed in creating a thriving New Mexico. And once again, these same elected lawmakers will try to chip away at some of these mounting problems rather than fixing what we all know is the core problem --- a failed educational system that is shortchanging our children and grandchildren while also offering a bleak future for our state.
How do we expect incomes to rise, crime to decrease, and the quality of life to improve when New Mexico's public K-12 schools are dead last compared to every other state? We can't. But, the progressives' solution is simply to throw more and more money at this, a broken system. In other words, we are draining our savings account to continually repaint and patch walls on a house that has a deteriorating foundation; the house just needs to be rebuilt.
We also have failed to recognize our school funding formula, an idea meant to provide equality in education across the state, has actually resulted in creating major disparities in the quality of education statewide. In far too many cases, we are locking low-income families into attending failed schools simply because of their address. Sadly, kids in the far northeast heights of Albuquerque are receiving a far better learning experience than those in central Albuquerque or the south valley.
Defeat of Cruz Nord Stream 2 Sanctions Further Weakens America
Biden's congressional enablers each deserve their own chapter in Profiles in Cowardice.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Power The Future released the following statement in after the Senate defeated a bill that would impose sanctions on businesses linked to Vladimir Putin's Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which will allow the Kremlin to further exert influence in the region and weaken America's standing in the world:
"The American left has spent the last five years complaining about Russian collusion, yet they supported a measure that would enrich and empower Vladimir Putin," said Daniel Turner, Founder and Executive Director of Power The Future. "As if that hypocrisy were not appalling enough, these same senators who were so quick to decry American-based pipelines that support jobs and energy independence had no problem greenlighting both for Russia. In less than a year, President Biden has presided over a precipitous decline in America's standing in the world, starting with the erosion of our energy independence. He has had help from these congressional enablers every step of the way, and each deserves his or her own chapter in Profiles in Cowardice."
Power The Future Slams Biden Administration for Re-Imposing Obama Era Regulations in National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska
Anchorage, Alaska – Today, Rick Whitbeck, Alaska state director of Power The Future, issued the following statement on the Biden administration's decision to return to Obama-era regulations in the vast National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska on the North Slope that prohibits potential oil and gas leasing on an additional 7 million acres of reserve:
"The next time the Biden Administration claims they are powerless to stop high gas prices, remember this decision. For generations, the people of Alaska have done their part to deliver affordable and reliable energy to our nation and the decision by the Interior Department not only hurts jobs and our economy but also provides another nail in the coffin of American energy independence. Alaska and America can do better."
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Is there an FDA approved therapy for Gaucher disease?
Gaucher disease has several FDA approved treatments. The main treatment used in Gaucher disease is enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) which is given to replace the missing enzyme in Gaucher disease. In the United States, there are 3 approved enzyme replacement therapies available. Substrate reduction therapy (SRT) is also an FDA approved therapy option. Unfortunately, no therapy is available that crosses the blood-brain barrier so no treatment is capable of fixing the neurological symptoms found in types 2 and 3 Gaucher disease.
Due to the different approval processes around the globe, not all products may be available in your country.
Gaucher disease [Internet]. National Disorders of Rare Diseases [updated 2014]. Available from: http://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/gaucher-disease/
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What are the symptom based treatments for Gaucher disease?
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Is there gene therapy for Gaucher disease?
Are there medications a patient with Gaucher disease should avoid?
What is the role of gene therapy in treating Gaucher disease?
Enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) works by providing the body with synthetic (artificial/man-made) enzyme to clear the stored waste product (fat) that has built up in the body's cells (the lysosome) causing the symptoms of Gaucher disease. Regular intravenous (IV) infusions of the recombinant enzymes (ERT) have been demonstrated to be safe and effective in reversing those features resulting from hematologic (blood) and visceral (liver/spleen) involvement. ERT is well tolerated. Individuals with type 1 Gaucher disease report improved health-related quality of life after 24-48 months of ERT.
Weinreb N, Barranger J, Packman S, et al. Imiglucerase (Cerezyme) improves quality of life in patients with skeletal manifestations of Gaucher disease. Clin Genet. 2007;71:576-88.
Patients on enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) are usually dependent on this treatment for life. Some individuals can have infusion-related reactions to ERT, but these are typically mild and do not occur that frequently. ERT also involves Intravenous (IV) administration, which the patient may have to receive from a treatment center and requires administration by a nurse. ERT is also very costly. However, home therapy is an available option in many countries. Talk to your doctor to determine if this is an option for you.
National Gaucher Foundation Inc. [Internet] [updated 2016]. Available from: http://www.gaucherdisease.org/
In the United States, there are three recombinant glucocerebrosidase enzyme preparations currently available. All are based on the human gene sequence, but are distinguished according to the cell types involved in their production: imiglucerase (Cerezyme®) generated in Chinese hamster ovary cells; velalglucerase alfa (VPRIV®) from human fibroblast-like cell line; and taliglucerase alfa (Elelyso®) from a carrot cell line. The experience with all three types of ERT appears comparable.
Not all countries have the same approved products. Check with your physician to determine which products are available in your specific country.
Ben Turkia H, Gonzalez DE, Barton NW, et al. Velaglucerase alfa enzyme replacement therapy compared with imiglucerase in patients with Gaucher disease. Am J Hematol. 2013;88:179-84.
Substrate reduction therapy (SRT) works by reducing the amount of fat (GL1 substrate) made by the body that will eventually be turned into waste products. The goal is to limit the fat buildup (GL1 substrates) to a level that can be effectively cleared by the naturally occurring enzyme (all living people with Gaucher disease have a little enzyme) with residual activity. As SRT is a small molecule, the benefit is an oral medication.
Miglustat is recommended as a treatment alternative for those with hypersensitivity to ERT or poor venous access (problems with multiple need sticks).
Ceredelga is a first-line therapy for the treatment of adult patients with Gaucher disease.
Dwek RA, Butters TD, Platt FM, Zitzmann N. Targeting glycosylation as a therapeutic approach. Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2002;1:65-75.
Symptom based treatments for Gaucher disease include:
Analgesics for bone pain
Joint replacement surgery for relief from chronic pain and restoration of function
Bisphosphanates (e.g. Boniva) and calcium for osteoporosis
Prophylactic antibiotics
Blood transfusions
Gaucher disease. [Internet]. Gene Reviews [updated May 14. 2015]. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1269/
The following tests are used to monitor the effectiveness of Gaucher disease therapy:
MRI or ultrasound to measure liver and spleen volume to monitor the size of the liver and spleen
Complete blood count to evaluate platelets levels and monitor anemia
Gaucher Biomakers: Chitotriosidase activity, TRAP, and ACE
Therapeutic Goals were developed many years ago to help clinicians and patients monitor their progress when receiving treatment for Gaucher disease. These guidelines determine if you are responding appropriately to therapy.
Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) has been undertaken in individuals with severe Gaucher disease, primarily those with chronic neurologic involvement (type 3 Gaucher disease). Successful BMT can correct the metabolic defect, improve blood counts, and reduce increased liver volume. In a few individuals, stabilization of neurologic and bone disease has occurred; however, the morbidity and mortality associated with BMT limit its use in individuals with type 1 and type 3 Gaucher disease. Therefore, this procedure has been largely superseded by enzyme replacement therapy.
However, in developing countries, a BMT may be an alternative and should be considered only when other treatment options are not available.
Gene therapy involves the introduction of GBA into hematopoietic stem cells. There is quite an interest in gene therapy for the treatment of lysosomal storage disorders. Clinical Trials. gov (www.clinicaltrials.gov) provides the most up-to-date information on clinical trials in this exciting field.
Enquist IB, Nilsson E, Ooka A. et al. Effective cell and gene therapy in a murine model of Gaucher disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006;103:13819-24.
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) should be avoided in individuals with moderate to severe thrombocytopenia.
Chaperone-mediated enzyme enhancement therapy uses pharmacologic chaperones, which serve as a folding template for the defective enzyme. Such agents may restore enzyme activity and clear stored substrate. The drug isofagamine, which has been shown to exhibit these properties in research studies, is currently in clinical trials to establish its safety and efficacy when given to adults with type 1 Gaucher disease.
Steet R, Chung S, Lee WS, Pine CW, Do H, Kornfeld S. Selective action of the iminosugar isofagomine, a pharmacological chaperone for mutant forms of acid-beta-glucosidase. Biochem Pharmacol. 2007;73:1376-83. | {"pred_label": "__label__cc", "pred_label_prob": 0.6871904134750366, "wiki_prob": 0.3128095865249634, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1651211"} |
Filibuster exception would allow Democrats to push through their voting rights reform bill over unanimous Republican opposition
Top Democrats in the House are spearheading a new effort to convince the Senate to carve out a historic exception to the filibuster that would allow them to push through their marquee voting rights and election reform legislation over unanimous Republican opposition.
The sweeping measure to expand voting rights known as S1 fell victim to a Republican filibuster last month after Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell and his leadership team unified the conference to sink the bill in a party-line vote.
Now, furious at Republicans for weaponizing the filibuster against Joe Bidens legislative agenda, House majority whip James Clyburn is pushing Senate Democrats to end its use for constitutional measures, according to sources familiar with the matter.
The rare and forceful effort from a member of the House leadership to pressure changes in the Senate underscores the alarm among Democrats that the filibuster may be an insurmountable obstacle as they race to overturn a wave of Republican ballot restrictions.
Ending the use of the filibuster for constitutional measures and lowering the threshold to pass legislation to a simple majority in the 50-50 Senate is significant as it would almost certainly pave the way for Democrats to expand voting across the US.
The voting rights and election reform legislation remains of singular importance to Democrats as they seek to counter new voter restrictions in Republican-led states introduced in response to Trumps lies about a stolen 2020 presidential election.
Clyburns proposal to change Senate rules is intended to be limited. It would not eliminate the filibuster entirely, and would allow senators in the minority party to continue to deploy the procedural tactic on other types of legislation.
The problem, as Democrats see it, is that Republicans in recent years have all but rewritten Senate rules to force supermajorities even for bills that carry bipartisan support. Filibustering bills, once extremely rare, has now become routine.
The proposal to create an exception to the filibuster for constitutional measures mirrors the exception Democrats carved out for judicial nominations in 2013, after Republicans blocked former President Obamas picks for cabinet posts and the federal judiciary.
Clyburns proposal is particularly notable, the sources said, since it is broadly supported by the rest of the House Democratic leadership and is considered by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to be the only way to break the logjam in the Senate.
The effort to create exceptions to the filibuster is being led by Clyburn in large part because of the influence he carries with the White House and the affinity he enjoys with Biden on a personal level, the sources said. Clyburn, a South Carolina congressman, was influential in securing his state for Biden in the 2020 race for the Democratic nomination something that rescued Bidens campaign from disaster.
When Biden endorsed partial reforms to the filibuster in March, the prospect of Democrats taking action to defang the minority partys ability to stall legislation, shifted almost overnight from a theoretical question to a possible reality on Capitol Hill.
The details of what Biden endorsed was far less important than the fact he backed reform at all, and Clyburn, encouraged by that reception, has spoken to White House counsellor Steve Ricchetti and Vice President Harris to back his proposal, the sources said.
McConnell, the top Republican in the Senate, told the Guardian on Monday he was deeply unimpressed by Clyburns maneuvers. If its not broken, it doesnt need fixing, McConnell said of the filibuster, adding he would absolutely oppose any changes.
Clyburns outreach to top Senate Democrats and the Biden administration comes after Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer brought the issue of filibuster reform to the forefront by forcing votes last month on some of Bidens most high-profile measures.
The idea was to show to moderate Democrats opposed to filibuster reform most notably Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema that Republicans under McConnell will sink any Democratic policy proposals in an attempt to obstruct the administration.
Schumer is still strategizing over how to advance S1 after vowing to reintroduce the bill following its defeat, according to a source familiar with his thinking. In the fight for voting rights, this vote was the starting gun, not the finish line, Schumer said.
But carving out an exception to the filibuster for constitutional measures such as voting rights legislation, first floated by the number three Senate Democrat Patty Murray, appears to be the primary option despite resistance from the likes of Manchin and Sinema.
Democrats open to making the change have previously indicated that their argument that the minority party should not have the power to repeatedly block legislation with widespread support resonates with the wider American public.
They have also suggested that only partially ending its use could have fewer consequences for them should their political fortunes reverse as soon as after the 2022 midterms and they are thrust into the minority, trying to block Republican legislation.
The people did not give Democrats the House, Senate and White House to compromise with insurrectionists, House Democrat Ayanna Pressley wrote on Twitter after Republicans blocked S1, illustrating the sentiment. Abolish the filibuster so we can do the peoples work.
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We can't say anything concrete about how Steve Fielding voted on increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
How Steve Fielding voted compared to someone who agrees that the federal government should increase the protection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage sites
These are the most important divisions related to the policy “for increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites” which Steve Fielding could have attended. They are weighted much more strongly than other divisions when calculating the position of Steve Fielding on this policy.
Steve Fielding
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Opinion | What is the future of feminism in a two-party system?
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By India Krug, Senior Staff Columnist
This is it. This is the column that gets dredged up when I run for office. At the very least, it’s getting me haunted by Phyllis Schlafly. The questions at hand — can conservative women be feminists? And how must the Democratic Party adapt its fight for gender equity?
To answer the first question, we have to define intersectional feminism. Conceptualized by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, the theory of intersectionality explores how problems such as racism and sexism often overlap, creating multiple levels of social injustice.
Intersectionality equips us to better fight for structural change. Institutions built by rich, white, slave-holding men cannot possibly serve and protect all of us — they were never meant to. Equity means acknowledging the generations of those who have been disadvantaged by such institutions and passing legislation accordingly.
Here’s where we hit our first roadblock. Conservatives tend to argue that sexism is incidental, not systemic. This means many of the more than half of white women voters who supported former President Donald Trump in 2020 probably believed that their personal experiences with sexism were isolated incidents. It also means that conservative policies rarely account for these disparities, because how do you legislate interpersonal relations?
For example, conservatives argue the gender pay gap is due to women choosing lower-paying jobs or wanting to be mothers. By attributing the pay gap to personal behavior, conservatives are absolved from questioning why women are financially punished for having children, why women are overrepresented in low-paying jobs and why different jobs are valued less under capitalism in the first place.
The reality is, conservative ideologies will never lead us to equity. Support of gun rights led to 172 House Republicans voting no in March on the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act, which organizes responses to domestic violence and sexual assault. Concerns about state’s rights led to 49 Senate Republicans voting no just this Wednesday on the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, which would reinstate the preclearance process that prevents states from passing voter suppression laws.
In addition, Republican inaction on climate change greatly affects low-income communities who are unable to move away from areas with air pollution and food apartheid. Their opposition to affordable health care, child care and education, safe abortions, a higher minimum wage, reparations and welfare all point to a reality — conservative policies do not aim to achieve economic equity and social justice, which are the main goals of intersectional feminism.
White women are less likely to support women’s issues because they identify more strongly with conservatism and religion. So, they believe in small government and God — fine. But let’s get to the bottom line. If you’re someone who thinks women benefit from legislation such as the VAWA and the VRA not passing, it shows how much a broken system actually works for you. And it shows how little you think about the consequences of your vote, because you will likely never experience them.
White conservative women — simply being a woman is not enough. It’s not enough to appreciate that feminism is about choice when your vote to ban abortions takes away someone else’s choice. It’s not enough to be a leader in your church without acknowledging that often — too often — organized religion is used as a stick with which to beat other women. It’s not enough to support your female friends. It’s not enough.
And Democrats — it’d be nice if you could pass something. I mean, really. Supporting moderate candidates doesn’t seem to be working. Watering down bills because you think you can sneak them by Republicans doesn’t seem to be working, either. The party needs to be more radical and less symbolic.
For example, the Equal Rights Amendment was introduced nearly 100 years ago and it still hasn’t passed. In the meantime, could we come up with a more specific piece of legislation than the ERA? If the point of the ERA is to codify gender protections into constitutional law, it should’ve been rewritten with comprehensive, infallible language. The addition of “equality of gender, gender identity and sexual orientation” would allow judges to confidently rule with more nuance.
This brings me to my last point. The future of the feminist movement relies on embracing gender expansive individuals. Existing legislation about women’s rights needs to be more inclusive and bold. I can confidently say the inclusion of other gender identities does not mean the erasure of women, even though some second-wave feminists may disagree. We have always said that feminism benefits everyone. So, Democrats, act like it.
The main themes of intersectional feminism — social and racial justice and economic equity — will never result from conservative policy. But they cannot stand to live as abstractions in the Democratic Party, either.
India is The Pitt News’ informed rebel girl. Write to her at [email protected] or follow her on Twitter @indialarson_, but you better like her tweets.
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Proton Pump Inhibition Enhances the Cytotoxicity of Paclitaxel in Cervical Cancer
Cancer Res Treat. 2017;49(3):595-606
Cancer Res TreatJournal ArchiveCancer Res Treat. 2017;49(3)
Publication date (electronic) : 2016 September 27
doi : https://doi.org/10.4143/crt.2016.034
Taejong Song, MD, PhD1, Hye-Kyung Jeon, MSc2, Ji Eun Hong, MSc2, Jung-Joo Choi, MSc2, Tae-Joong Kim, MD, PhD2, Chel Hun Choi, MD, PhD2, Duk-Soo Bae, MD, PhD2, Byoung-Gie Kim, MD, PhD2, Jeong-Won Lee, MD, PhD2
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
2Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Correspondence: Jeong-Won Lee, MD, PhD, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 81 Irwon-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 06351, Korea Tel: 82-2-3410-1382 Fax: 82-2-3410-0630 E-mail: [email protected]
Co-correspondence: Byoung-Gie Kim, MD, PhD, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 81 Irwon-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, 06351, Korea Tel: 82-2-3410-3513 Fax: 82-2-3410-0630 E-mail: [email protected]
*Taejong Song and Hye-Kyung Jeon contributed equally to this work.
Received 2016 January 21; Accepted 2016 September 11.
This study was conducted to investigate whether a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) could enhance chemosensitivity via the inhibition of vacuolar-type H+ ATPase (V-ATPase) in cervical cancer.
The expression of V-ATPase was evaluated in 351 formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded human cervical cancer tissues using immunohistochemistry and compared with clinicopathologic risk factors for disease prognosis. The influence of cell proliferation and apoptosis following V-ATPase siRNA transfection or esomeprazole pretreatment was assessed in cervical cancer cell lines using 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, respectively.
Immunohistochemical analysis revealed that V-ATPase was expressed in about 60% of cervical cancer tissue samples (211/351), and the expression was predominantly found in adenocarcinoma histology (p=0.016). Among patients with initially bulky cervical cancer (n=89), those with V-ATPase expression had shorter disease-free survival (p=0.005) and overall survival (p=0.023). Co-treatment with V-ATPase siRNA or esomeprazole with paclitaxel significantly decreased the cell proliferation of cervical cancer cell lines, including HeLa and INT407, compared to cell lines treated with paclitaxel alone (p < 0.01). Moreover, V-ATPase siRNA or esomeprazole followed by paclitaxel significantly increased the expression of active caspase-3 in these cells compared to cells treated with paclitaxel alone (both, p < 0.05).
V-ATPase was predominantly expressed in cervical adenocarcinoma, and the expression of V-ATPases was associated with poor prognosis. The inhibition of V-ATPase via siRNA or PPI (esomeprazole) might enhance the chemosensitivity of paclitaxel in cervical cancer cells.
Keywords: Uterine cervical neoplasms; Vacuolar proton-translocating ATPases; Proton pump inhibitors; Esomeprazole; Small interfering RNA; Antineoplastic agents
Cancer of the uterine cervix is the second most common malignancy in women worldwide [1]. Although it is accepted that early-stage cervical cancer is curable with radical surgery, radiotherapy, or chemoradiation, the prognosis in patients with bulky tumors or adenocarcinoma histology is relatively poor [2,3]. Moreover, although chemotherapy for advanced-stage or recurrent cervical cancer has been applied, it is not effective and has merely a palliative purpose because of chemoresistance [4]. Therefore, a new therapeutic strategy for these patients to overcome chemoresistance in such patients is urgently needed.
One of major mechanisms of chemoresistance is increased acidification of the tumor microenvironment. Proton pumps such as vacuolar type H+-ATPase (V-ATPase) are major regulators of cellular pH [5]. V-ATPases pump protons across the plasma membrane and across the membranes of a wide array of intracellular compartments [5]. Some human tumor cells, particularly those selected for multidrug resistance, exhibit enhanced V-ATPase activity [6]. Therefore, treatment with proton pump inhibitor (PPI; esomeprazole), which directly inhibits V-ATPase at the cellular level [7,8], may be an option for reversing multidrug resistance. Here, we investigated whether PPI increased the sensitivity of tumor cells to cytotoxic agents via inhibition of V-ATPase in cervical cancer.
1. Tumor samples
This study was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board at Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea. A total of 351 patients with cervical cancer who underwent type I-III radical hysterectomy with or without pelvic/paraaortic lymph node dissection at Samsung Medical Center between February 2002 and May 2009 were included in this study. Patient inclusion criteria were (1) availability of tissue samples for tissue microarray construction and (2) early-stage cervical cancer that were candidates for surgery because pathological findings provide the most accurate information about tumor volume, depth of tumor invasion, and lymph node metastasis. Cervical cancer patients with the pathology of sarcoma, malignant melanoma, or neuroendocrine carcinoma, including small cell carcinoma, were excluded. After surgery, patients received adjuvant treatment according to their pathological findings. Patients then underwent follow-up examinations approximately every three months for the first 2 years, every 6 months for the next 3 years, and every year thereafter. Disease-free survival was defined as the period between initial treatment and relapse. Overall survival was measured from the time of initiation of therapy to the time of death or the date of final contact. Data for patients who had not experienced relapse or death were censored as of the date of the final observation.
2. Immunohistochemical analysis
All hematoxylin and eosin–stained slides were reviewed and representative tumor tissue samples were selected. The corresponding formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue blocks were retrieved and the selected area was circled on the slide with a marker pen for tissue microarray construction. Each 6.0-mm tissue core was selected from the representative region of each paraffin block using the AccuMax (IsuAbxis, Seoul, Korea) as described previously [9]. For immunohistochemical studies, tissue microarray blocks were sectioned into 4-μm-thick slices. The primary antibody used was rabbit polyclonal V-ATPase subunit C1 antibody (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Santa Cruz, CA). Tissue sections were deparaffinized three times in xylene for a total of 15 minutes and subsequently rehydrated. Immunostaining for V-ATPase was performed using a Bond-max automated immunostainer (Leica Biosystems, Melbourne, Australia) and the Bond Polymer Refine Detection Kit (Vision Biosystems, Melbourne, Australia). Briefly, antigen retrieval was conducted at 97°C for 20 minutes in ER1 buffer. After blocking the endogenous peroxidase activity with 3% hydrogen peroxidase for 10 minutes, primary antibody incubation was conducted for 15 minutes at room temperature at an antibody dilution of 1:200. Negative controls (substitution of primary antibody for Tris-buffered saline [TBS]) were run simultaneously. The immunostaining was evaluated independently by two pathologists who were blinded to patient outcome. A previously described scoring method [10,11] was used for the evaluation of V-ATPase expression. A case was considered positive when more than 1% of the epithelial cells in 10 random, high-power fields were positively stained.
3. Cell lines
Human cervical cancer cell lines (HeLa, SiHa, ME180, MS751, and CaSki) were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (Manassas, VA). The INT407 cell line was obtained from the European Collection of Cell Culture (Salisbury, UK). The HeLa cell line was cultured in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (Gibco BRL, Rockville, MD), the INT407, SiHa, ME180, and MS751 cell lines were cultured in MEM (Gibco BRL); and the CaSki cell line was cultured in RPMI (Gibco BRL). All media were supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS; Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO) and 0.1% penicillin-streptomycin (Sigma-Aldrich). All cells were grown at 37°C in a humidified 5% CO2 atmosphere.
4. Western blot analysis
For analysis of V-ATPase expression, cells were lysed in PRO-PRE Protein Extraction Solution (Intron Biotechnology, Seongnam, Korea). Protein concentration was determined using a BCA protein kit (Thermo Scientific, Rockford, IL). Cell lysates (50 μg of total protein) were separated in 12% acrylamide gels by sodium dodecyl sulfate–polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and then transferred to Immobilon PVDF membrane filter paper (Millipore, Billerica, MA). Membranes were blocked with 5% skim milk in TBS containing 0.1% Tween-20 for 1 hour at room temperature. Protein bands were probed with V-ATPase subunit C1 antibody at a 1:1,000 dilution (Santa Cruz Biotechnology), tubulin and glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase antibody at a 1:3,000 dilution (Epitomics, Burlingame, CA), and then labeled with horseradish peroxidase-conjugated anti-rabbit antibody (GE Healthcare, Piscataway, NJ) and anti-goat antibody (Santa Cruz Biotechnology). Bands were visualized by enhanced chemiluminescence using an ECL kit (Amersham Biosciences, Buckinghamshire, UK) according to the manufacturer’s protocol.
5. Small interfering RNA transfection and drug treatment
V-ATPase V1C1 small interfering RNA (siRNA) and negative control siRNA were obtained from Santa Cruz Biotechnology. Cells were seeded at 5×103 cells/well in a 96-well microplate in RPMI 1640 with 10% FBS. All siRNAs were transfected into the cells using Lipofectamine 2000 (Invitrogen, San Diego, CA) according to the manufacturer’s protocol. After 24 hours of siRNA transfection, cells were treated with various concentrations of paclitaxel (Sigma-Aldrich) and then incubated at 37°C for 48 hours. Esomeprazole (AstraZeneca, Mol̈ndal, Sweden) was resuspended in normal saline at a concentration of 5 mg/mL. Cells were seeded at 3×103 cells/well in a 96-well microplate in RPMI 1640 with 10% FBS. Cells were pretreated or not with esomeprazole (20-30 mg/mL) based on the protocols in previous reports [12,13]. After 24 hours of treatment, cells were treated with various concentrations of paclitaxel and incubated at 37°C for 48 hours.
6. 3-(4,5-Dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide assay
3-(4,5-Dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay is based on the conversion of MTT to insoluble MTT-formazan by cleavage of the tetrazolium ring by mitochondrial dehydrogenase enzymes of living cells. MTT solution (Amresco, Solon, OH) was subsequently added to each well. After 4 hours of additional incubation, the medium was discarded, 100 μL of acidic isopropanol (0.1 N HCl in absolute isopropanol) was added, and the plate was shaken gently. The absorbance at a wavelength of 540 nm was recorded by using a Falcon microplate reader (Becton Dickinson Labware, Franklin Lakes, NJ) and the percentage viability was calculated as follows: (optical density [OD] of drug-treated sample/control OD)×100. Additionally, the mean percent viability was calculated from cytotoxicity experiments at different paclitaxel concentrations that showed a significant difference from the control (p < 0.05). Each sample was assayed in triplicate, and the experiment was repeated three times.
7. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
For analysis of active caspase-3 expression, cells were lysed in PRO-PRE Protein Extraction Solution (Intron Biotechnology). The protein concentration was determined using a BCA protein kit (Thermo Scientific). Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kits were used according to the manufacturer's instructions to measure concentrations of active caspase-3 (Invitrogen). All samples were measured in triplicate.
8. Measurement of intracellular pH change
The change in intracellular pH was measured as previously described [14]. Briefly, cells grown as a monolayer on a 35 mm confocal dish (#200350, SPL Lifescience, Pocheon, Korea) were loaded with 1 μg/mL BCECF-AM (2′,7′‑bis‑(2‑carboxyethyl)‑5‑(and‑6)‑carboxyfluorescein; Invitrogen) solution. The distribution of fluorescence was determined using a confocal microscope (LSM700, Zeiss, Jena, Germany) with excitation and emission wavelengths set to 488 nm and 525 nm, respectively [15]. The intensity of the fluorescence signal was measured using a VICTOR2 plate reader (Perkin-Elmer, Boston, MA), and the values were corrected to cell numbers by MTT assay [16]. Each sample was assayed in triplicate, and the experiment was repeated three times.
9. Statistical analysis
After using the Shapiro-Wilk test to confirm that the data were normally distributed, the Wilcoxon rank sum test was used to compare the median values, and the two-sample t test was used to compare the mean values. The chi-square test or Fisher exact test was used to compare the frequency distributions between categorical variables. Disease-free survival and overall survival curves were evaluated with the Kaplan-Meier method and compared using the log-rank test. The Cox proportional hazards model was used to calculate the hazard ratio and the 95% confidential interval (CI). The SPSS software ver. 17.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL) was used for all statistical analyses. All p-values were two-sided and were considered statistically significant at p < 0.05.
1. Immunohistochemistry and its clinical significance
We assessed V-ATPase expression using immunohistochemistry in tissue microarrays composed of 351 human cervical cancer tissues. V-ATPase was predominantly expressed in the cell membrane and cytoplasm, and representative results of immunohistochemical staining for V-ATPase are shown in Fig. 1A. Immunohistochemical analysis demonstrated that V-ATPase was expressed in 60.1% of cervical cancer tissue samples (211/351), and the expression rate of V-ATPase in cervical adenocarcinomas was 73.4% (Fig. 1B), which is significantly higher than that of squamous cell cervical cancer (57.1%, p=0.016). During the median follow-up period of 65.5 months, a total of 351 patients included in this study had a disease-free survival of 84.4% and overall survival of 95.0%. When the disease-free survival of all 351 patients was analyzed based on the V-ATPase expression (S1 Table), V-ATPase was not correlated with disease-free survival. However, when the analysis was confined to 89 patients with bulky cervical tumor (defined as tumor diameter > 4 cm), patients with V-ATPase expression had shorter disease-free survival (p=0.005) and overall survival (p=0.023) than those without V-ATPase expression (Fig. 1C, S2 Table). Moreover, when confined to 55 patients with bulky V-ATPase positive tumors, patients with adenocarcinoma had shorter disease-free survival than those with squamous cell carcinoma (p=0.005) (Fig. 1D).
Vacuolar-type H+ ATPase (V-ATPase) was predominantly expressed in cervical adenocarcinoma, which was associated with poor prognosis. (A) Representative V-ATPase staining from cervical cancer (a, no staining; b, weak staining; c, moderate staining; d, strong staining, ×400). (B) Expression of V-ATPase in cervical cancer according to histology based on immunohistochemistry (IHC) (n=351). (C) Kaplan-Meier curves showed disease-free survival and overall survival according to V-ATPase expression in 89 patients with bulky cervical cancers (tumor diameter > 4 cm). (D) Kaplan-Meier curves showed disease-free survival according to cell type in 55 patients with bulky V-ATPase positive tumors.
2. V-ATP V1C1 siRNA transfection significantly enhanced cytotoxicity of paclitaxel in cervical cancer cells
We measured the basal expression of V-ATPase in various cervical cancer cell lines of HeLa, SiHa, MS751, INT407, and CaSki using Western blot. V-ATPase protein was expressed in most cervical cancer cell lines, with the exception of ME180 cells (Fig. 2A). Subsequently, in vitro experiments were performed to assess whether blocking V-ATPase by specific siRNA transfection enhanced the sensitivity to chemotherapy in cervical cancer cell lines. Based on our immunohistochemical results of V-ATPase expression, we used HeLa and INT407 cells, which were originally derived from cervical adenocarcinoma, for subsequent analyses. After HeLa and INT407 cells were transfected with V-ATPase siRNA or control siRNA, the expression of V-ATPase was determined by western blot analysis. V-ATPase expression was decreased at 48 hours after V-ATPase siRNA transfection in comparison to that in the controls (Fig. 2B), suggesting that V-ATPase expression was effectively down-regulated by the V-ATPase siRNA. We then assessed the effects of V-ATPase siRNA transfection on cell survival after treatment with cytotoxic drugs. As shown in Fig. 2C, pretreatment with V-ATPase siRNA significantly enhanced the cytotoxicity of paclitaxel in HeLa and INT407 cells compared with paclitaxel treatment alone. However, V-ATPase siRNA transfection did not enhance the cytotoxicity of cisplatin in HeLa cells or the cytotoxicity of paclitaxel in SiHa cells originating from squamous cervical cancer (S3 Fig.). To assess cellular apoptosis, active caspase-3 was measured using ELISA in HeLa and INT407 cells following treatment with paclitaxel with or without V-ATPase siRNA pretreatment. The results showed that V-ATPase siRNA transfection significantly enhanced the apoptotic activity of chemotherapy in HeLa and INT407 cells (Fig. 3).
(A) Expression of vacuolar-type H+ ATPase (V-ATPase) in various cervical cancer cell lines. (B) Expression of V-ATPase was decreased by V-ATPase siRNA in HeLa and INT407 cells. (C) The effects of V-ATPase siRNA transfection on cell viability with paclitaxel in HeLa and INT407 cells. GAPDH, glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01.
Effects of vacuolar-type H+ ATPase (V-ATPase) siRNA transfection on cell apoptosis with paclitaxel in HeLa and INT407 cells. (A) Cell death was observed by light microscopy in HeLa and INT407 cells (×100). (B) Expression of active caspase-3 was measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in HeLa and INT407 cells. *p < 0.05.
3. Esomeprazole pretreatment significantly increased the cytotoxicity of paclitaxel in cervical cancer cells
Subsequently, in vitro studies using esomeprazole were repeated to assess whether esomeprazole pretreatment, such as blocking V-ATPase by specific siRNA transfection, enhanced cytotoxicity and apoptosis. The results showed that esomeprazole pretreatment significantly enhanced the cytotoxicity of paclitaxel in HeLa and INT407 cells compared with paclitaxel treatment alone (Fig. 4A). Interestingly, the effects of esomeprazole pretreatment in HeLa (37%) and INT407 (47%) cell lines derived from adenocarcinoma were more remarkable than those in SiHa (11%) and MS751 (18%) derived from non-adenocarcinomas such as squamous cell carcinoma (S4 Fig.). The effects of esomeprazole pretreatment (20 μg/mL concentration) on apoptosis also significantly increased the expression of active caspase-3 in HeLa and INT407 cells when compared with paclitaxel treatment alone (Fig. 4B and C).
Effects of esomeprazole (ESOM) pretreatment on cell survival and apoptosis with paclitaxel in HeLa and INT407 cells. (A) ESOM pretreatment significantly enhanced the cytotoxicity of paclitaxel in HeLa (37%, p < 0.01) and INT407 (47%, p < 0.01) cells when compared with paclitaxel treatment alone. (B) Cell death was observed by light microscopy in HeLa and INT407 cells (×100). (C) Expression of active caspase-3 was measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in HeLa and INT407 cells. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01.
To verify that esomeprazole treatment induces cytosolic acidification through inhibition of V-ATPase activity, we measured the changes in intracellular pH following esomeprazole treatment based on the intensity and distribution of BCECF using a confocal microscope (LSM700). We used HeLa cells that showed high expression of V-ATPase and were originally derived from cervical adenocarcinoma based on the results of earlier cell survival and apoptosis studies. Live-cell imaging of the BCECF distribution within the cells revealed that immunofluorescence staining after esomeprazole treatment was weak compared with that of no treatment, suggesting that esomeprazole treatment induced a decrease in intracellular pH (Fig. 5A). As shown in Fig. 5B, the fluorescence intensity ratio showed that intracellular pH decreased significantly after esomeprazole treatment in HeLa and INT407 cells treated with esomeprazole for 3 hours (both, p < 0.01).
Changes in intracellular pH. (A) Live-cell imaging of the BCECF intensity in HeLa cells with/without esomeprazole (ESOM) treatment using a LSM700 confocal microscope (×400). (B) The cytosolic pH of HeLa and INT407 cells treated with 30 μg/mL ESOM for 3 hours decreased (both, p < 0.01). *p < 0.05.
In this study, we found that the V-ATPase expression in cervical cancer was significantly increased in patients with adenocarcinoma histology and was correlated with poor disease-free survival and overall survival in patients with bulky cervical tumor. Moreover, the inhibition of V-ATPase via PPI (esomeprazole) or its specific siRNA enhanced the cytotoxicity of paclitaxel in cervical cancer cells. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study of V-ATPase in cervical cancer.
Bulky cervical tumors in early cervical cancer are known as prognostic factors for survival after surgery, and patients with bulky cervical tumors often receive additional adjuvant therapy or neoadjuvant chemotherapy [17]. In the present study, we also found that patients with bulky cervical tumors had a 1.21 hazard ratio for recurrence (95% CI, 1.06 to 1.37) (S1 Table), and V-ATPase expression was correlated with poor prognosis in patients with bulky cervical tumor. Bulky solid tumors contain poorly perfused dense tumor tissue [18,19], such as hypoxic tumors, in which protons and lactic acid are inefficiently removed from the extracellular space, creating an acidic extracellular microenvironment [20]. Therefore, proton pumps including V-ATPase are overexpressed to compensate for alkalization of the cytoplasm in the acidic microenvironment of the bulky hypoxic tumor [21,22]. However, when the activity of V-ATPase is inhibited using esomeprazole or its specific siRNA, the acidic pH of the tumor microenvironment is dramatically neutralized, which induces chemosensitization, inhibition of tumor proliferation, and apoptosis [22].
The results of the immunohistochemical analysis showed that the expression of V-ATPase in cervical adenocarcinomas was significantly higher than that of squamous cell cervical cancer (73.4% vs. 57.1%, p=0.016). This finding is consistent with those observed for non-small cell lung cancer [11]. The expression rate of V-ATPase was 83.7% in lung adenocarcinoma, which was significantly higher than that of squamous cell lung cancer (71.4%, p < 0.001) [11]. In clinical practice, cervical adenocarcinoma is commonly more resistant to chemotherapy drugs than squamous cell cervical cancer [2,3]. Furthermore, our in vitro study assessing the effects of esomeprazole pretreatment on cell survival after treatment with cytotoxic drugs demonstrated that the effects of esomeprazole pretreatment (37%-47%) in HeLa and INT407 cells derived from adenocarcinoma were more remarkable than those (11%-18%) in SiHa and MS751 cells derived from non-adenocarcinomas such as squamous cell carcinoma (S4 Fig.). Together, these findings indicate that V-ATPase expression is potentially related to drug resistance in cervical adenocarcinoma.
PPIs such as esomeprazole and omeprazole, which are used clinically to suppress gastric acidity in peptic disease, are activated by acidic conditions. These inhibitors tend to decrease intracellular pH and increase extracellular pH via inhibition of V-ATPases through a covalent interaction [23]. PPIs have been shown to have anti-proliferative and proapoptotic effects on certain cancer cell lines, including B-cell leukemia, hepatoblastoma, melanoma, stomach cancer, sarcoma, and pancreatic cancer [24-27]. In the present study, while esomeprazole itself did not directly affect cell viability, it functioned as a chemosensitizer in cervical cancer cells. It remains unclear whether these findings are tumor specific or depend on tumor aggressiveness itself, regardless of tumor histology [28,29]. However, it is clear that modification of tumor acidity by blocking V-ATPase is a promising strategy for enhancing the sensitivity of the current cytotoxic treatments in cervical cancer.
Although the inhibition of V-ATPase via siRNA or PPI did not enhance the chemosensitivity of cisplatin in the present study, the results of a study performed by De Milito et al. [30] evaluating the effects of PPI pretreatment on human melanoma and osteosarcoma growth and cisplatin sensitivity in xenografted SCID/SCID mice differed. Specifically, they evaluated the effects of PPI pretreatment on human melanoma and osteosarcoma growth and cisplatin sensitivity in xenografted SCID/SCID mice and found this treatment sensitized tumor cell lines to the effects of cisplatin, resulting in decreases in the IC50 value by up to two-fold. Based on these findings, they concluded that oral pretreatment with PPI was able to induce/increase sensitivity of human solid tumors to cisplatin.
A search of clinical trial registries on April 8, 2015 yielded two phase II trials of PPI as a chemosensitizer in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy registered at ClinicalTrials.gov. One was a completed trial on metastatic breast cancer (NCT01069081) that had not yet been published and another was an ongoing trial on castration-resistant prostate cancer (NCT01748500). Accordingly, further clinical trials investigating PPI in cervical cancer are needed.
It should be noted that this study had several limitations. Specifically, we did not validate the results of our study based on analysis of other PPIs such as omeprazole, lansoprazole, pantoprazole, or rabeprazole. We also did not perform an in vivo study to assess the potential clinical relevance of the in vitro results. However, positive aspects of this study include use of a large number of cancer tissue samples (n=351) with a long median follow-up period (65 months).
In conclusion, V-ATPase expression in cervical cancer was predominantly found in adenocarcinoma and was correlated with poor prognosis, especially in patients with bulky cervical tumor. Moreover, inhibition of the V-ATPase via PPI (esomeprazole) and its specific siRNA enhanced the sensitivity of chemotherapeutic agents in cervical cancer cell lines. These data suggest that a PPI may be useful as a chemosensitizer in treatment of patients with cervical cancer.
Supplementary materials are available at Cancer Research and Treatment website (http://www.e-crt.org).
S1 Table.
Cox regression analysis of disease-free survival in cervical cancer (n=351)
Cox regression analysis of disease-free survival in bulky cervical cancer (n=89)
S3 Fig.
(A) Effects of vacuolar-type H+ ATPase (V-ATPase) siRNA transfection on cell viability with cisplatin in HeLa cells. (B) Effects of V-ATPase siRNA transfection on cell viability with paclitaxel in SiHa cells.
Effects of esomeprazole (ESOM) pretreatment on cell viability and apoptosis with paclitaxel in SiHa and MS751 cells. ESOM pretreatment significantly enhanced the cytotoxicity of paclitaxel in SiHa (11%, p < 0.01) and MS751 cells (18%, p < 0.01) when compared with paclitaxel pretreatment. *p < 0.05.
Conflict of interest relevant to this article was not reported.
This research was supported by a grant from the Korea Health Technology R&D Project through the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI), funded by the Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea (HI14C3418), and supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), funded by the Ministry of Education (2013R1A1A2013612), as well as by a grant from the Korean Health Technology R&D Project, Ministry for Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea (HI14C1940). Additional funding was also received from the National R&D Program for Cancer Control, Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs, Republic of Korea (1520100).
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Strong 2022 expected for European private equity M&A
Drivers for a robust M&A market remain intact after a record 2021
Record European PE activity – 760 mid-market deals worth €277bn, including 63 €1bn+ deals in 2021
Average LBO valuation of 12.7x EBITDA, driven by ever increasing valuation premiums for high quality assets
Record 28% share of software & technology deals in H1 2021, before settling to a new normal of 20% in H2
Normalisation of sector mix in H2 as industrial and consumer returned to their pre-Covid combined share of 50%
UK, France and DACH accounted for a combined 64% of European PE deals, a new high watermark
Acceleration in growth capital – 375 mid-market deals worth €73bn, primarily in software, e-commerce, fintech
Record PE exit value of €229bn as firms reap opportunity to sell quality portfolio companies at high valuations
Bigger buyout funds – record €86bn raised from just 61 vehicles closed, the lowest number since 2013
PE firms are increasingly looking to benefit from secular growth themes associated with ESG investments
Baird expects PE deal velocity to remain high in 2022, supported by $405bn of dry powder in Europe
Record private equity deal activity and value
Europe saw record PE deal activity in 2021 with 760 deals (EVs over €50m) worth €277bn, surpassing 2007 deal value. This elevated level of activity was driven by a combination of pent-up M&A demand after the Covid pause in H1 2020 and inflated M&A supply ahead of anticipated tax rises. Larger secondary (and tertiary) buyouts were completed, including in Q4 2021 which saw the highest quarterly deal value despite a fall in the number of deals.
2021 was the first year to see capacity constraints across much of the M&A market. Popular due diligence advisors and consultants were “sold out” in 2021 and the sheer volume of W&I (warranty & indemnity) insurance led to capacity constraints in the underwriting market, increasing pricing and coverage exclusions. Many lenders deployed their full budget for 2021 before year end, becoming more selective in Q4 2021. All lenders and are now ready to utilise their 2022 budget, though some will continue to shy away from credit opportunities in more difficult or cyclical sectors.
Ever increasing valuation premiums for high quality assets
The average EBITDA multiple was at a record level in 2020, driven by the high proportion of Covid-resilient technology and healthcare activity. Valuations continued to expand in 2021, driven by an increasing “valuation premium” between top quartile and median assets. These elevated valuations were supported by a strong European debt market with leverage and pricing at pre-Covid levels given healthy competition from both banks and debt funds.
Sector mix normalisation – a year of two halves
PE activity by sector changed considerably between H1 and H2 2021. In H1 2021, the 28% share of software & technology PE deal activity was double pre-Covid (2019) and quadruple 2014. Software & technology and healthcare will remain to be the sectors of choice for PE firms willing to pay up for high quality / growth businesses. We expect these sectors to maintain a share of mid-market PE activity in 2022 similar to H2 2021, reflecting a new normal in the region of 20% for software & technology and 10% for healthcare.
In H2 2021, non-tech sectors returned to their pre-Covid share of deals. We saw a normalisation in sector mix as industrial and consumer targets, many of which were negatively impacted by Covid in 2020, transacted in H2 2021.
In the industrial sector, there was strong PE appetite for consumer-facing industrial subsectors (e.g. packaging, building products) in H2 2021. Some industrial sale processes launched in 2021 have not yet signed as potential buyers, both strategic and private equity, conduct further due diligence on the target’s ability to maintain profitability margins through the supply chain and inflation crisis, which peaked in Q4 2021. We expect heavy-industrial subsector activity to return in 2022 as supply chain disruptions ease in mid-2022, providing a clearer financial outlook for targets.
In the consumer sector, disruptive high growth business models are attracting attention (e.g. direct-to-consumer / e-commerce, digitally native vertical brands, natural / free-from foods, consumer wellness) from acquirors as such companies continue to take market share from large traditional CPG (consumer packaged goods) players. If Covid related restrictions are largely removed post-Omicron, we envisage more M&A activity within in-person consumer subsectors (e.g. restaurants, gyms) in 2022. Potential buyers will focus their due diligence on the financial impact of Covid over the last two years as well as the validity of the target’s business plan reflecting the new normal.
Sector mix by region shows the story of two halves in 2021, especially in DACH where software & technology was at a record 37% of deal count in H1 before quickly switching back to industrial as the most active sector in H2. We expect DACH PE activity in 2022 to be similar to H2 2021. Meanwhile in the Nordics, industrial activity is unlikely to be the most active sector in 2022 as the region’s software businesses are scaling up, attracting more private equity attention.
Evolving regional trends
The UK, France and DACH accounted for a record 64% of mid-market PE deals in 2021. Since Covid, DACH has overtaken France as the second largest region for mid-market PE deals, after the UK. With so many private equity firms to choose from, target companies looking for capital are also looking to their PE partners for proven expertise in internationalisation, add-on acquisitions, digitisation and increasingly ESG. PE firms with a proven track record in these areas have a competitive edge over their peers when convincing founder-managers to partner with them. This is particularly true in DACH where 50% of PE activity is primary deals compared to near 40% for the rest of Europe.
Over the last decade, an increasing number of European companies have been acquired by Transatlantic PE firms or PE firms with offices only in the US. 2021 saw a marked rise in acquisitions of European assets by US headquartered portfolio companies of US based PE firms. Buy-and-build platforms are taking a global approach, and are able to pay high valuations for add-on acquisitions, benefitting from potential synergies as well as capital from their PE owners.
Continuation funds – increasingly used for the best assets
There was a marked increase in the use of single asset continuation vehicles by GPs (general partners) in 2021, who saw clear benefits of holding onto prized assets for longer when their existing fund-life may be limited:
Continue to grow an asset they know and avoid reinvestment risk
Maintain or increase AUM (assets under management), while “realising” a return and carry
Earn incremental economics on new secondaries capital, while offering LPs (limited partners) optional liquidity
Provide a third party validation of valuation for the asset, aiding track record and future fundraising for the GP
This trend is likely to continue in 2022, supported by $40bn of dry powder in the European secondaries market. Many secondaries investors are pursuing single asset standalone funds to cherry pick the best assets currently held by GPs. A few years ago, continuation vehicles were primarily used by large-cap sponsors, and is now increasingly adopted by mid-market GPs, providing an alternative to selling their best asset(s) to a strategic buyer or PE firm.
Acceleration in growth capital, primarily supporting tech companies
After steady rises in European growth capital activity in recent years, 2021 saw an exponential surge, doubling mid-market activity to 375 deals and tripling deal value to €73bn. 60% of this activity was supporting tech companies.
Venture capital firms and growth equity funds are writing larger checks in late stage companies, following a similar trend in the US. European growth equity dry powder has almost tripled since 2017 to $40bn, allowing a greater number of companies to stay private for longer, especially in the software & technology sector where an IPO (initial public offering) is a well-trodden route. There are now 120 private unicorns in Europe, 70 of which graduated in 2021.
Record private equity exit value
2021 saw a record PE exit value of €229bn, 40% above the five year pre-Covid average (2015 – 2019) despite a 10% fall in the number of exits. PE firms have increasingly created supply and demand for one another in the form of secondary (and tertiary) buyouts, reaping the opportunity to sell quality portfolio companies at high valuations in 2021. We expect a similar PE exit activity in 2022 from strong 2016 – 2018 vintages and a robust valuation environment.
Record buyout fundraisings
While fundraising by European buyout firms in 2021 reached a record €86bn, the number of funds closed was the lowest in 8 years. PE firms with successful track records continue to attract a higher proportion of LP money:
Successful PE firms are fundraising above their targets, resulting in larger equity tickets than prior funds
Record European PE dry powder of $405bn – preference for platform deals with add-on opportunities
Increasing proportion of mid-market sector specialists relative to generalist funds, following trends in the US
The number of fundraisings by European PE firms that have software & technology as a key focus has remained flat in 2021 compared to 2017. However, the amount raised by such firms has quadrupled in the last four years. Over the same period, PE firms that focus on other sectors (e.g. generalist, consumer) have seen their fundraising reduce 40%. Success breeds success – several new healthcare focused PE firms, set up over the past decade, have now raised larger second and third funds after the successes of their first funds.
ESG and private equity’s risk averse approach
As our wider society becomes more aware of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, ESG is becoming an imperative for investors, including PE firms. As consumers, corporations and governments allocate more capital to products, services and infrastructure that are ESG compliant, PE firms seek to benefit from the secular growth themes associated with ESG investments. New “impact” funds are being raised with a broad remit from a sector perspective.
Whether or not a fund has an ESG focus, PE firms are taking a risk averse approach by actively avoiding investments in companies that may garner negative media attention or is difficult to sell in the future due to ESG misalignment. PE portfolio companies, like many other corporations, are increasing transparency through annual sustainability reports.
The view that there is no or very limited trade-off between impact investing and financial returns is now widespread. Supporting businesses in (sub)sectors where there is an alignment between shareholder value and the fundamental positive purpose to society or the environment, offers potentially high returns through transformational improvements.
Robust 2022 outlook – PE M&A drivers remain in place
After a record level of global M&A activity in 2021, many participants in the M&A market, both in Europe and the US, are taking a slight pause to catch their breath and evaluate priorities in 2022. We may therefore see a lower level of European mid-market PE activity in Q1 2022, followed by a stronger Q2 and H2 2022.
Analogous to the end of 2020, there is a huge amount of PE dry powder at the end of 2021 despite record capital deployment throughout the year. This provides a backdrop of strong M&A demand in 2022, similar to 2021. If the supply of high quality targets in 2022 is lower than 2021, we could see M&A valuation levels tick up even further. PE firms will therefore continue to be very selective, choosing which companies they are willing to pay up for, which is changing from targets that are “Covid resilient / beneficiaries” to targets with “post-Covid secular growth themes”.
If a new coronavirus variant does not take hold after Omicron, 2022 will bring normality back in Europe, easing Covid restrictions. With the vast majority of adults in Europe vaccinated, in-person consumer subsectors and travel & leisure are expected to recover, creating an environment ripe to initiate M&A sale processes for companies in these sectors.
Pressures from the macro environment, such as global supply chain disruption and high inflation, are starting to dissipate, creating the foundation for a more stable economic recovery in 2022. Private equity as an asset class has demonstrated its resilience in the last two years, and continues to outperform public markets over long periods of time.
Baird Global Investment Banking – record year in 2021
More than doubled activity in 2021 – 214 M&A deals worth $105bn, 85% with private equity involvement
Great client outcomes – 15.4x average sell-side EBITDA multiple and $530m average sell-side deal size
Contact a member of our European team to discuss these trends in further detail:
Vinay Ghai Managing Director
Oliver Meyer Managing Director
Tahs Siddique Director
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What to know about the 100 US ‘Switchblade’ drones heading to Ukraine
By loboinstitute_yowwy3 March 18, 2022 News, Print
As published by ABC News ByLuis Martinez andMatt Seyler
In a White House list of weapons being sent to Ukraine as part of a new $800 million military support package announced by President Joe Biden Wednesday — among nearly 10,000 anti-armor weapons, 800 anti-aircraft Stinger systems, and thousands of rifles — appeared 100 “tactical unmanned aerial systems.”
But these aren’t the large U.S. drones you’re used to seeing.
The 100 unmanned systems heading to Ukraine are actually small “Switchblade” drones, a U.S. official told ABC News.
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A U.S. Air Force MQ-1B Predator unmanned aerial vehicle carrying a Hellfire missile land…
Unlike long-range Predator drones, which look similar to small planes and fire missiles at targets, the smallest Switchblade model fits in a rucksack and flies directly into targets to detonate its small warhead.
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Less than 2-feet long and weighing only 5.5 pounds, the Switchblade 300 can be launched from a small tube that resembles a mortar, after which it can fly for up to 15 minutes. The larger Switchblade 600 is effective against armored targets and can fly for more than 40 minutes, but weighs 50 pounds, according to the manufacturer.
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The U.S. official could not say whether one or both of the systems would be included in the 100 units destined for Ukraine.
Both Switchblades use onboard sensors and GPS to guide them to their targets. Both also have a “wave-off” feature so that human operators can abort an attack if civilians appear near the target or if the enemy withdraws.
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I can’t fault him on handgun choice
I caught this one over at The Firearm Blog.
King Abdalla II of Jordan and his SIG MCX
In this video, King Abdalla II of Jordan is participating in a vehicle tactics demonstration with his son, Hussein, who is also a crown prince and the heir to the Jordanian throne.
First thing to note is the fact that King Abdalla isn’t running around firing an AK into the sky like their Arab neighbors*.
What The Firearm Blog fails to mention is that King Abdallah II trained at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, the same school as Princes Harry and William, is a 35 year veteran of the Jordanian military, and commanded Jordan’s special forces unit.
The other thing that caught my eye about this video is that the King runs a 1911.
The man has the entire defense budget of Jordan at his disposal to get whatever he wants and he runs a 1911.
I have to give him props for that.
It’s good to be the king.
*If you want to understand Saudi Arabia, what you need to do is think of the worst, redneck trailer park imaginable, winning the Powerball when it hit $900 million.
Before Saudi Arabia was known for it’s oil, it was a desert shit-hole of nomadic tribes murdering each other over camels and goats. There is virtually no arable land in the country and very little water for irrigation. Without a strong history of agriculture, the industrial revolution passed right over it. Unlike central Asia, there were not many long distance trade routes that passed through the lower part of the peninsula for large commerce hubs to be developed.
It was an impoverished national of tribal violence with no appreciable value to Western Civilization. It sucked so much even the British didn’t want it to be part of their Empire. King Al Saud united the country in the 1920’s.
Then oil was discovered in the 1930’s. Foreign oil developers were brought in because the Saudis had no education or industrial know-how of their own and the country became wealthy practically overnight. Every member of the royal family (this being a tribal nation means just about every cousin that can trace linage back to Al Saud) gets a cut.
The normal social development that a nation goes through to go from tribal backwater to First Wold rich never happened there. Money just poured out of the ground by the billions.
So the opulence and the idiocy go hand in hand. It’s hyper nouveau riche.
Saudi Arabia is every idiot, inbred, toothless, jobless, illiterate, meth smoking, piece of trailer trash garbage who ever went out back to shoot up an old car while drinking Keystone Lite (the Saudi royal family are notorious drunks and drug users), except with the revenue of one-fifth of OPEC at their disposal.
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5 thoughts on “I can’t fault him on handgun choice”
Hey, if the king wants a 1911 (with a tac rail no less), the king gets a 1911.
Me personally, I can shoot other guns fairly well (imho), but the 1911 just feels better.
And aren’t we being told feelings are all-important?
D. Fosdick says:
Wonder what his BBQ gun looks like? Bet it’s a gold-inlaid, ivory-grip 1911.
His family seems to have a history of interest in technology. His father, Hussein, was well known around the world of ham radio.
rd says:
“Before Saudi Arabia was known for it’s oil, it was a desert shit-hole of nomadic tribes murdering each other over camels and goats.”
And water holes, don’t forget the water holes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=il-CWVHDnvU
Hopefully MBS can start a reformation in KSA.
emdfl says:
If you want to know what keeps him moving, look up pictures of his wife. OTH when I was stationed at the US Embassy in Jordan(’02-’05) he and his wife would drive into downtown Amman, get out of their vehicle, and walk around engaging in small talk with the local population.
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Photo Features Celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day With These Shows Stephanie J. Block in The Pirate Queen, Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance, and Christian Borle in Peter and the Starcatcher are just a few reasons to shout “Argh!” on September 19.
By Dan Meyer
Ahoy, Playbill mateys! September 19 is National Talk Like a Pirate Day and what better way to celebrate than with a look back at our favorite Broadway shows featuring those swashbuckling ship commanders?
From Tony winner Kevin Kline as The Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance to Tony winner Christian Borle as a young Captain Hook in Peter and the Starcatcher and 2019’s Best Actress in a Musical Tony winner Stephanie J. Block as The Pirate Queen, there are plenty of pirates to remember on this day!
Check out our gallery below to see who plundered the high seas on stage.
Celebrate International Pirate Day With a Look at These Pirate Themed Shows
Talk Like a Pirate Day is celebrated September 19.
The Pirates of Penzance
The Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Pirates of Penzance got the Broadway treatment when a musical adaptation opened on Broadway in 1981, starring Kevin Kline and Rex Smith.
Kevin Kline would go on to win the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical that year for his portrayal of The Pirate King.
His wasn’t the first foray into the world of pirates for George Rose, pictured here in The Pirates of Penzance. He also played Captain Hook in the 1979 production of Peter Pan.
Rex Smith, Kevin Kline, and cast in The Pirates of Penzance
Kevin Kline, Linda Ronstadt, and Rex Smith
Rex Smith, Linda Ronstadt, and Kevin Kline
The Pirate Queen
2019 Tony winner for Best Actress in a Musical Stephanie J. Block (The Cher Show) starred in The Pirate Queen, which opened in 2007 at Hilton Theatre. The musical follows the story of 16th-century pirate Grace O’Malley, who was one of the last Irish clan leaders to resist the English conquest of Gaelic Ireland. Hadley Fraser played Tiernan, O'Malley’s childhood sweetheart.
Joan Marcus
Despite her feelings for Tiernan, Grace agrees to marry rival clansman Donal O’Flaherty, played by Marcus Chait, at the urging of her father Dubhdara, played by Jeff McCarthy, in an uneasy alliance to protect Ireland against an English invasion by Queen Elizabeth I.
Stephanie J. Block and Marcus Chait in The Pirate Queen
Stephanie J. Block and cast in The Pirate Queen
Cast in The Pirate Queen
Drama Desk Nominee Linda Balgord as Queen Elizabeth I in The Pirate Queen
Peter and the Starcatcher
Peter and the Starcatcher earned nine Tony Award nominations, winning five. The prequel to Peter Pan tells the story of how the characters from Neverland came to be, including the pirate Black Stache, who eventually turns into Captain Hook. The show opened on Broadway in 2012, starring Celia Keenan-Bolger as Molly (eventual mother to Wendy, John, and Michael), Adam Chanler-Berat as The Boy (Peter Pan), and Christian Borle as Black Stache.
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Christian Borle won the Tony for Best Performance by a Featured Actor as the audacious captain of the Jolly Roger, Black Stache.
Kevin Del Aguila played Black Stache’s first mate Smee.
Christian Borle in Peter and the Starcatcher
Sandy Duncan and George Rose
George Rose and Sandy Duncan in Peter Pan
George Rose and cast in Peter Pan
Finding Neverland Playbill - Opening Night
Continuing the trend of bringing audiences to Neverland were Matthew Morrison as J.M. Barrie and Kelsey Grammer as Captain Hook in Finding Neverland.
Matthew Morrison and Kelsey Grammer in Finding Neverland
Jay Armstrong Johnson and Hunter Foster
Larry Pry/The Muny
Hunter Foster and the cast of Pirates!
Hunter Foster, Kathy Fitzgerald and the cast of Pirates!
Jon Rua, Hunter Foster, Jay Armstrong Johnson and the cast of Pirates!
Cats Playbill - June 2000
Tony nominee Stephen Hanan portrayed the pirate cat Growltiger in the original Broadway production of Cats, in addition to several other characters like Gus the Theatre Cat.
In “Growltiger’s Last Stand,” Gus remembers one of his greatest roles—the so-called pirate who dies valiantly after a meeting of the swords.
SpongeBob SquarePants Playbill - Opening Night
The Skivvies’ Jason Michael Snow (right) opened the second act of SpongeBob SquarePants as Patchy when it made its pre-Broadway debut in Chicago. On the original cast recording, Snow sings “Poor Pirates,” written by Sara Bareilles, with Curtis Holbrook (left) and others.
Jon Rua took over the role of Patchy when SpongeBob SquarePants opened on Broadway at Palace Theatre.
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The puppet designers of the original 1982 production of the horror-musical and the Off-Broadway revival compare and contrast notes.
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Bella Hadid Quietly Refollows Selena Gomez
Bella Hadid Publicly Declares Her Selena Gomez Feud Is Over
Bella has given plenty of hints peace was coming.
By Alyssa Bailey Published: May 4, 2020
Bella Hadid gave a clear, public sign that the 2017 drama she and Selena Gomez had over The Weeknd is very done, and that their relationship is truly in a much better place now. Hadid quietly refollowed Gomez on Instagram this weekend. Selena Gomez fan account TheSelenaRundown was among the first to notice.
Gomez and Hadid now both follow each other on Instagram again after a mutual unfollowing in 2017 while Gomez was dating The Weeknd. Gomez and The Weeknd went public with their relationship in January 2017, just months after Hadid and The Weeknd had broken up in November 2016. Hadid immediately unfollowed Gomez when that news came out. Gomez and The Weeknd unfollowed Hadid in March 2017. When Gomez and The Weeknd broke up in October 2017, he started dating Hadid again in the spring of 2018, before they split this past August.
Gomez was the first to refollow Hadid, back in November 2019. She still follows her.
Hadid liked multiple photos of Gomez, including one last May and one Gomez posted on her account in February before fully committing to following the singer on IG over the weekend.
The move comes after Gomez and Hadid had a little drama on Instagram in November 2019. Hadid made headlines for deleting her Instagram that Gomez left a supportive comment on.
That created drama among Selena Gomez fans, especially after Gomez commented "That sucks" on a fan account that pointed out Hadid took down the post. Gomez later clarified that there was a misunderstanding about what happened. She asked fans to not harass Hadid. "I shouldn't of spoken without knowing the truth. I'm sorry," Gomez wrote. "Please don't be hurtful. She is a wonderful person, and it was all a misunderstanding."
TMZ reported then that Hadid and Gomez privately talked things out. Multiple sources connected to Hadid said at the time that the model "actually went out of her way to reach out to Selena this weekend to squash any potential beef." Hadid following Gomez on Instagram signals there are absolutely no bad feelings between the girls now. Both are currently single, by the way, although Hadid has been on-off with The Weeknd for years now. Gomez said at the end of 2017 that she remains friends with The Weeknd after their breakup. She has recently shown her support for him by featuring his music on her quarantine playlists.
From: ELLE US
Alyssa Bailey
Senior News and Strategy Editor
Alyssa Bailey is the senior news and strategy editor at ELLE.com, where she oversees coverage of celebrities and royals (particularly Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton). She previously held positions at InStyle and Cosmopolitan. When she's not working, she loves running around Central Park, making people take #ootd pics of her, and exploring New York City. | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.9178258180618286, "wiki_prob": 0.9178258180618286, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1860983"} |
Veira Group introduces Linux-based Coolita 2.0 solutions for the Indian Smart TV market
India’s ODM for Smart TVs Veira Group has introduced Linux-based Coolita 2.0 solutions for the smart TV market. With this development, Veira Group enters a new tech territory in partnership with the proprietary Coolita OS which is Skyworth’s first self-developed smart TV operating system. With the release of the Coolita 2.0 solutions, Veira intends to sell 5,00,000 smart TVs equipped with the new OS for the top Indian brands. The new OS offers a variety of entertainment options and applications, such as YouTube, Prime Video, Zee5, Hungama, SonyLiv Etc. with a range of global and local content. Other features of this lite TV OS include pre-installed lite cloud games, a built-in Internet browser, an app store and a Data Saver that provides real-time data reminders to help people efficiently manage their data usage. Any Smart TV device that is connected to LAN can be used to watch a movie with network-free screen projection. With an exceptional user experience, platform stability, and affordability, Coolita is expected to become one of the leading & preferred Smart TV OS’s in India.”Veira Group has always been at the forefront of new technology directions & strategic collaborations to make smart TV experience more accessible to the Indian audience. After WebOS, one such strategic partnership at Veira is Coolita 2.0 solutions. Brands looking for inexpensive, authorized & Licensed Smart TV OS solutions are strongly recommended considering Coolita OS. In contrast to open-source platforms, Coolita 2.0 offers an OS platform with fully licensed applications. With a customized & smart interface, it’s a seamless user experience,” said Sharan Maini, director of operations, Veira Group.Veira recently announced that it had started producing and manufacturing Web OS Hub 2.0 Smart TVs. The company aims to manufacture a total of over 1,00,000 webOS-powered smart TVs.
Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/gadgets-news/veira-group-introduces-linux-based-coolita-2-0-solutions-for-the-indian-smart-tv-market/articleshow/96937016.cms | {"pred_label": "__label__wiki", "pred_label_prob": 0.7704986333847046, "wiki_prob": 0.7704986333847046, "source": "cc/2023-06/en_middle_0102.json.gz/line1550136"} |
Tribute to Comrade Oupa Lehulere
Puseletso Lebyana 18/07/2022
As youth, we always look forward to learning from our leaders and gaining as much information from them. That was the hope many young activists from different organisations had before hearing about the passing of one the most intelligent leaders of our time, Comrade Oupa Lehulere. Comrade Oupa was a teacher and mentor to many activists. His teaching method was better from the usual teaching methods enforced by the education system. He interacted with his audience and listened to them, He never made anyone feel inferior. He had a way of making people see thing in a different way, made one have in-depth understanding of the working-class struggles.
One of his employees Kgaogelo Leso (24), reflects on how he met Oupa. “I knew Khanya College through Equal Education, came in 2019 as a monitor for Jozi Book Fair. In 2021, I joined Khanya as a staff member. I got to work with Comrade Oupa closely, which was a dream come true.” He also recalls Oupa being a great father and mentor to the working class. During lockdown, they would have night session, editing videos and doing graphic work. “He would remind me about the importance of reading and understanding my work.”
Carmelicia Erasmus (23) says She found out about Khanya College through a friend and started working at Khanya College in 2021 as a monitor with comrade Maria and Oupa. “I generally was not interested in politics and discussing it but I got lured and intrigued by the amount learning that was taking place. I never worked close with comrade Oupa but saw the intellect he had and through this I’ve learnt that he was the kind of person who was always trying to encourage and allow people to be critics of situations and thought.” said Carmelicia
Those who knew him closely recall how he loved jazz music, good coffee, food and that he was a fan of H.I.E Dlhomo. He was a great author to others who have read his work. The working class has lost an icon but his memories will forever be with us through his work and the people he influenced. We hope that his beacon will be passed through from generation to generation.
This article was submitted as part of the Imbila Yesu publication produced daily for the duration of the Winter School in 2022 (17-22 July 2022). It appeared in Edition 1, released on 18 July 2022.
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Strategic Communications and Resilience – Speech by Director Matti Saarelainen
The speech was held by Director Matti Saarelainen in Bucharest 28th of February 2019.
“This morning I’m going to take my 10 minutes to talk about three things:
1) How states and institutions can response to Hybrid threats effectively (and Strategic Communication’s role in that)
2) Where EU and NATO can improve their response to Hybrid Threats
3) What the Hybrid CoE is doing to enable Member States and the institutions to build capability in this area
1. How: Given the theme of this conference I wanted to focus on the centrality of communication to effective Hybrid response. A few thoughts.
Separation anxiety- Strategic Communication suffers from a degree of separation anxiety- it is often treated as a separate field, with separate experts and communities. But at Hybrid CoE we see it as an intrinsic part of the response.
Effective resilience requires an open conversation with our population about unfolding Hybrid events (and our response to them) which maintains trust in our values, democratic processes and governance structures. Resilience also requires persuasive communications as we prepare our populations- campaigns which encourage them to change their behaviour and improve their own personal resilience are critical- whether we are asking them to put aside peanut butter or improve password security.
Separately, Effective deterrence of Hybrid threats requires States to demonstrate: resolve, coherence, capability, agility, willingness to attribute and desire to act in concert. To shape the adversary’s perception, we need to make sure our actions are effectively communicated- to achieve ultimate impact. Our strategic communicators are best placed to do this.
All this speaks to the importance of strong- connective tissue between strategic communicators, policy makers and the intelligence community. They should not be an afterthought in the national or institutional crisis response structures. They should be at the policy making table, thinking not just about how to communicate the government or institution’s response but what that response should be. They also need to be in close contact with the intelligence community. Strategic communicators often have a detailed understanding of the open source debate surrounding a Hybrid event ( and access to the tools required to analyse it). Given the challenge of information sharing within and between governments open source material can and should be the bedrock of our resilience and deterrence strategy. A strong relationship between these two communities will ensure it is effectively leveraged.
2. Where: Mr. Chairman, you asked me to focus on where I think the EU and NATO response was strong and where there was room for improvements. Hybrid CoE has a unique perspective, being neither EU, nor NATO and given one of our core goals is acting as a neutral facilitator between the two. A couple of thoughts on each.
On strengths, I want to pause a moment on vulnerabilities and values. Often the values which are central to these institutions: respect for human rights, strong democratic institutions, the market economy, freedom of speech and media and rule of law are singled out as intrinsic vulnerabilities. And there is no doubt many of these have been exploited by our adversaries for their own ends. But they are also the values with which we won the Cold War. They are in fact our strength. They form the foundation of our resilience as institutions (and the resilience of the member states within them). It is both glib and true to say we need to be better about communicating them.
On a more practical level, EU and NATO have developed a strong set of commitments and actions on countering Hybrid Threats. There is a good level of awareness of Hybrid and political will, at the most senior levels, to address it. The key now is to implement these effectively and and communicate that implementation with impact. While initiatives are key, it is their implementation which will shift the dial.
And with that I turn to a discussion on where the collective response could be improved… At our inauguration Commissioner King encouraged the Centre to be challenging… So, in that spirit a few areas for the EU and NATO to consider.
Hybrid threats are full spectrum in nature. The use of multiple means in coordination and with malign intent to achieve a political ends requires a coordinated response. At Hybrid CoE, when we talk about deterrence our underlying principle is that we will most effectively deny the benefit or impose cost on our adversary if all aspects of government and society are coordinated in their response. The same is true at the institutional level. Between them, EU and NATO have the capabilities to detect and respond to a hybrid attack. They also have the tools to effectively impose cost and deny benefit to the adversary. There is still a need at a strategic level to have discussions between the two organisations about using these capabilities and tools in a coordinated and coherent way, as part of a campaign to protect the values that are central to the institutions. So strategic level discussions about a coordinated response is key.
This however requires a whole of institution response to Hybrid within each organisation. The bureaucratic vulnerability, as we call it at the Centre is the single biggest spoiler in any actor’s response to Hybrid threats. Siloes, blocks and poor information flow hampers response. On the EU side this means coherence between the Commission, EEAS, Council and Parliament and on the NATO side this is fusion across the civilian military divide. Both organisations are restructuring their approach to Hybrid internally, so we are keen to see the results. The logical extension of this is the creation of informal communities across the organisations (more on that later).
Agility is also key in cross institutional response and where there is always room for improvement at the national and institutional level. Particularly when it comes to crisis responses and political decision making. The PACE exercises have been key in exercising the organisations alongside each other. There is no substitute for exercising to test agility. Coherent and parallel exercising will remain important and the Hybrid CoE was pleased to support a joint NAC/PSC scenario-based discussion last autumn which tested this agility and provided an opportunity for a strategic discussion about a coordinated response. They will also support the exercises proposed as part of the Finnish EU Presidency.
Member States provide a key role in encouraging and supporting effective institutional response to Hybrid Threats. They also critical to overcoming some of the key barriers to closer institutional cooperation on Hybrid Threats. I continue to encourage all Hybrid CoE Member States to support their institutions in overcoming these barriers and being more ambitious in their implementation of these actions.
3. What the Hybrid CoE does to support the institutions and Member States to improve response.
In the last nearly two years we have focused our work in four key areas which we believe to be key to improving the Euro-Atlantic region’s response to Hybrid threats.
Networks: We have built practitioner networks across our 20 member states, EU and NATO and the private sector. These networks train, exercise and share best practice with one another, as well as coordinating action and testing policy response options. We have practitioner networks on: energy, drones, maritime security, technology and hybrid warfare, strategic communication, open source data, countering hostile states and legislative resilience. A networked response requires a networked solution.
Training: One of the Centre’s core goals is to improve the capability of its member states to counter Hybrid threats. Training is an important way in which we do this. We have two flagship training events. One on using open source material to counter Hybrid threats. As I noted earlier, open source material is a critical enabler in building situational awareness and responding to Hybrid Threats. We train analysts and policy makers from across our Member States EU and NATO to analyse open source data and use it as part of their policy response to countering disinformation. We have run this course twice already and will run it on a further three occasions this year. This builds and supports our digital community of analysts across our 20 member states EU and NATO. We also train journalists to counter disinformation (with thanks to NATO support).
The second flagship training is on countering electoral interference. Elections, as I need not tell this community, are particularly susceptible to Hybrid attack. The two day event aims to bring together strategic communicators, intelligence and other government practitioners involved in securing elections- it and exercises them together. Facebook and Microsoft are our private sector partners. This roadshow will take place in six capitals this year.
Exercising and scenario based discussions are mainstreamed in most of our activities because they are so critical to ensuring agility and testing the ability to coordinate. We have held two strategic multinational exercises on Hybrid Threats with participation of our member states, EU and NATO. We have also held numerous subject specific exercises on everything from de-synchronisation of energy supply networks, to countering electoral interference (and in support of the Romanian Presidency last week hosted an exercise on mass casualties – to support EU and NATO crisis response). In addition to running our own exercises we run them for institutions- the NAC/PSC scenario-based discussion is a case in point. We also support others with scenario development.
Trend Mapping and Intellectual Matchmaking: There are plenty of actors out there willing to admire the problem but at Hybrid CoE we are actively engaged in trying to counter it. Trend mapping has been key to this. We have a unique methodology for doing this which brings nominated academic experts from across our Member States (we call them our expert pools) together with practitioners working on that topic to map emerging trends in the Hybrid landscape. In Madrid last week we held a trend mapping exercise in this academic/practitioner format behind closed doors on Russia. We find this intellectual matchmaking the most effective way of ensuring cutting edge academic thinking makes it into the policy making bloodstream.
High Level Retreat: Finally, we host an annual EU/NATO high level retreat in Helsinki for senior leaders from both organisations. This outcome focused event gives staff from both organisations the chance to talk (beyond the confines of staff to staff cooperation) about emerging challenges and how the two institutions can develop a collective response.
It has been a pleasure to address you this morning. At the Centre we aim to lead the conversation on Countering Hybrid Threats. I look forward to hearing what follows.”
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Battalion Chief Robert Avsec (Ret.) served with the Chesterfield (Va.) Fire & EMS Department for 26 years beginning as a firefighter/EMT; he retired as an EMT-Cardiac Technician (ALS provider) certified by the Commonwealth of Virginia. During his career he was an active instructor, beginning as an EMT Instructor, who later became an instructor for fire, hazardous materials, and leadership courses at the local, state, and federal levels, which included more than 10 years as a Contract Instructor with the National Fire Academy. Chief Avsec earned his bachelor of science degree from the University of Cincinnati and his master of science degree in Executive Fire Service Leadership from Grand Canyon University. He is a 2001 graduate of the National Fire Academy's Executive Fire Officer Program. Since his retirement in 2007, he has continued to be a life-long learner working in both the private and public sectors to further develop his "management sciences mechanic" credentials. He makes his home near Charleston, W.Va. Contact Robert at [email protected]
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