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WannaCry Ransomware Hackers Are Most Likely From China
Since the arrival of WannaCry ransomware, the researchers have been unable to find the exact forces behind the attack. A new analysis by Flashpoint highlights the possibility of WannaCry's affiliation to Chinese hackers. The firm performed a linguistic analysis of ransom notes in WannaCry samples and arrived at this conclusion. There are some things we know about WannaCry ransomware for sure. It was created by cyber criminals using an exploit that was the part of NSA's exploit leaked by a group named The Shadow Brokers. The ransomware went on to affect hundreds of thousands of computers running Windows 7, Vista, and XP.
In a blog post, Flashpoint has listed the results of its linguistic analysis of WannaCry ransomware messages. The team analyzed the ransom notes individually for content, accuracy, and style.
Flashpoint found that WannaCry samples had language configuration files with translated message in different languages. It was found that almost all notes were translated using Google Translate. Only one English and two Chinese notes were likely to have been written by a human. It was also found that the English note was used as the source text for other translation and its writer could've been non-native.
Coming back to the two Chinese notes, they were different from each other in format, content, and tone. Google Translate also fails in Chinese-English and English-Chinese conversion tests.
The analysis revealed certain unique characteristics that indicate that a Chinese expert wrote it. A specific typo made it clear that the note was written using a Chinese-input system. The Chinese note also used proper grammar, punctuation, and syntax.
The text has certain terms that narrow things down to Southern China. A compelling indicator was the lengthiness of the Chinese note.
While Flashpoint underlines the possibility of a China-based force, they don't forget to mention that such hints were intentionally included to mislead. You can read about the research in detail here.


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But if you're going to travel with your pet this summer, there are some things you need to know to keep your pets from getting lost.
After all, the question "how did they spend their summer vacation?" should never be answered with a tragic story.
July is Lost Pet Prevention Month!
Pet Hub and GoPetFriendly have put together this great infographic to help you make the right choices when you're traveling with your pets. (enlarge it to read it better). That way you can prevent them from getting into a situation where they'll become separated from you.
the experts at PetHub.
- If your pet is missing on vacation, the first thing to do is to keep calm, and act quickly. "The more quickly you respond positively to the situation, the more likely you are to find your pet while he's still in th immediate vicinity. If you're staying at a hotel, campground, or other lodgings, make certain to alert the management and owners of the venue that your pet is missing. It wouldn't hurt to ask others staying there to also keep an eye out, just in case your furry friend is still roaming around the building."
- Print up "Lost Pet" flyers, complete with a picture, and ask the owners and staff of these establishments to stay on the lookout.
"Especially when it comes to cats, many pets prefer to stay within a
comfort zone, and will end up at the first place that seems comfortable,
friendly, and offers food."
- If none of these tactics offer any results, it's time to start calling shelters, animal control authorities, local veterinarians, and emergency clinics. "It is, of course, preferable that your pet is found close to home, safe, and healthy, but if someone has picked him up as a stray or he's been in an accident, making these unpleasant calls will help you locate your lost friend."

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Reshiram, Zekrom and Kyurem are in Pokemon Go Raids in November, get your remote raids on the Pokebattler Raid Party app!
Shadow Raids are here! Get your Shadow Lugia and Shadow Zapdos counters ready!
New Team Rocket counters are here! Get your Shadow Regigigas counters ready!
This site was created by Celandro (aka Ryan Barker) in July 2016 with the help of some of his coworkers. Ryan's wife Shelley Barker is also providing some much appreciated help on this labor of love.
The original calculation engine for this site was open sourced and a newer version of it now backs this free to all battle simulator site. Funding for this site is primary coming from the kind subscriptions of a small percentage of our users.
Special thanks to all the redditors who did research along the way including /u/homu, /u/Qmike, /u/pulsivesilver, /u/dondon151, /u/PEEFsmash,/u/hilmmas, /u/doublefelix921, /u/the_desert_rain, https://pokemongo.gamepress.gg, /r/pokemongodev and /r/thesilphroad.
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Here is the latest 2020 chart.
You say it takes decades to switch to electric cars, here in Europe the last petrol car will be sold in 2030, don't know how they want to upgrade the grid in just 9 years,...
I do not know about Europe, but it would not be a problem in the U.S., according to what I have read. As I said above, the only thing you have to increase is fuel, for nighttime generation. The smart controllers should prevent blackouts during the day. As I said, the power companies offer a discount to customers who use these. The power company remotely turns off air conditioning or electric car chargers during peak hours.
You would have more than 9 years to upgrade, because the average car lasts for 11 years these days. (https://www.caranddriver.com/r…ny-miles-does-a-car-last/) I think that is the half-life, meaning about half of all cars are still in service after 11 years. Not long after that, most will wear out. The decline is not steady for the whole life of the car. It accelerates after 11 years. Very few last for 20 years. Anyway, in 2030 there will still be many gasoline vehicles in use in Europe. The number will gradually decline. In 2041, about half of them might be in service. But maybe not, because before that, most gasoline stations will go out of business, forcing gasoline car owners to switch to electricity. I illustrated this trend here, on pages 2 and 3:


text: May 18 election hours away – The Star. Apparently President Zuma only started tweeting last week, while the DA leader Helen Zille has been doing it throughout the campaign. A recent survey shows 56.6 percent of registered and likely voters supporting the ANC, but the DA leads in its "online strategies" (I don't know how they measure that… maybe followers online?)


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Model Name: Origami Penguin
Designed by: Jo Nakashima
Difficulty level: He has it listed as low intermediate and I would agree.
My thoughts:
This is the second model that I attempted after a very long break. My then future wife got me in to origami years ago. My marriage proposal to her was 1000 paper cranes. Back then instructions were all in books and I soon got frustrated with the more complex models. Through a series of recent conversations I became aware of all the videos on YouTube. It has reopened this world to me and I have been having fun with it.
I chose the penguin because there is a connection between my wife's work and penguins so it would be fitting for her to take to work. I also, on viewing the whole video, though it was one that I could do. There was one step that I had trouble with. With books I would have given up but with YouTube I just kept replaying it until I figured out what his fingers were doing and what the end result was going to look like.
I wanted to rank these some how and that started me think about what I was getting out of this. I want to happy with the end result of the model. I am using it as a way to relax so calm at the end is a goal. I also want to feel intellectually challenged, work my brain a little.
Happy: 8/10 I could do better on the tail if I made another one.
Relaxed: 9/10 Only one step frustrated me.
Intellectual: 9/10 It was good to think through these again and I figured out the frustrating step.


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Corporate Finance & Capital Markets
12th February 2020
Olayanju Phillips[1]
In light of the rapid adoption of technology in the financial services sector, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("the SEC" or "the Commission") spearheaded the development of a regulatory framework for the operation of FinTechs in Nigeria with the inauguration of a FinTech Roadmap Committee ("the Committee") at the 3rd quarter meeting of its Capital Market Committee ("CMC") in 2018.[2]
The terms of reference of the Committee were as follows:
- Develop a FinTech roadmap for the Nigerian Capital Market;
- Inform the SEC on approaches to innovation within the Financial Services sector;
- Promote access to capital in the Financial Services sector;
- Enhance financial inclusion in our economy;
- Foster greater transparency within the Financial Services sector;
- Enable more efficient compliance in regulator regime;
- Serve as a think tank which will provide guidance on independent research for examining the role and value of FinTech in the financial ecosystem; and
- Seek efficient and responsible policy regulatory regimes that balance financial innovation and consumer protection.
The Committee submitted its report titled "The Future of FinTech in Nigeria" ("the Report")[3] which was formally launched by the SEC on 29th October 2019 at the Nigeria Fintech Week. The Report identifies certain challenges against the growth of FinTechs in the Nigerian capital market and proposes solutions.
The following are the challenges identified by the Committee:
- Regulation
The existing regulatory framework in the Nigerian capital market neither provides enough clarity on the role of FinTech companies nor clearly articulates their licensing and compliance requirements. In addition, there is uncertainty on how regulators intend to treat certain FinTech products like crypto assets. This lack of clarity creates uncertainty in the minds of innovators. Another regulatory problem is the length of time it takes to register a FinTech company with the Commission.[4]
- Access to Data
The efficiency of every FinTech company is dependent on access to data, and the limited data makes it difficult to identify potential customers, develop applications to meet the specific needs of investors and monitor competition. Access to data is also important for regulators to adopt the use of supervisory technology (SupTech). The Nigeria Data Protection Regulation 2019 will potentially affect FinTech's access to data, because of the requirement of lawful processing.[5]
- Cybersecurity
FinTechs rely on data, which is vulnerable to attack and misuse. The interconnected financial systems further accentuate the threat of data theft and cybersecurity. If the risk of cyber security is not curtailed, then it may lead to financial instability.[6]
- Capital Market Liquidity
The Nigerian capital market is overdependent on foreign capital for liquidity. Thus, there is a need to grow the domestic contribution as a shock absorber to adverse changes in the market and address the capital flight associated with foreign capital and the dearth of liquidity in the market. Furthermore, the crowdfunding industry has been stifled by regulation. While donation-based and reward-based crowdfunding are permitted by extant regulation, equity crowdfunding is considered illegal.[7] This has curtailed the growth of the retail market.
- Lack of Market Confidence
FinTechs fall under Non-Banking Financial Institutions (NBFIs), which are perceived as weaker institutions compared to Banks. This causes a dip in the market's confidence in FinTechs. Other problems causing low market confidence are:
- Low Investments participation;
- Poor trading operations process/infrastructure;
- Poor communication of value proposition; and
- Dearth of innovative solutions to bring FinTechs into the mainstream market and encourage retail and institutional participation in their funding.
- Institutional Knowledge Gap
As a result of lack of awareness, a typical retail customer would rather have his/her money in a bank account or invested in land/property than the capital market. To achieve better participation, capital market operators and FinTechs must collaborate to educate the public about their service offerings.
- Lack of Innovation
The industry is not dynamic and innovative in providing solutions for retail investors. Government has to offer incentives to encourage investment in FinTech innovation. Regulators must adopt a more innovative approach and the operators need to deploy more solutions to engage and encourage broad based participation. In addition, more products and services must be designed around the investment needs of the public, and not just High Net-Worth Individuals ("HNIs").
- Weak Digital Infrastructure
Infrastructures such as power, high-speed broadband, cloud infrastructure, and IOT infrastructure are lacking; and where available are not optimal. The cost of setting up infrastructure required to power FinTech solutions is usually passed to the final consumer. The right digital infrastructure will create safer, efficient, and more transparent platform for financial services, building confidence, and ensuring speedy services delivery and stability in the system.
- Underdeveloped Venture Capital/Growth Funding Structure
There is a low level of participation of venture capital/growth funds in FinTech investments. The non-existence of numerous marketplace platforms where FinTech startups can demonstrate their innovative offerings to potential investors, and the absence of developed platforms for alternative funding markets providing capital formation for FinTech startups are challenges facing FinTech startups. In addition, the absence of a single source of guidance or regulation around funding for FinTechs through venture capitalists in Nigeria subjects the process to variation and uncertainty.
- Lack of Incubator-accelerator Entrepreneurial Support System
The report admits that while there have been attempts by the innovative hubs to offer support to startups, the effect has not been felt across the FinTech startups community. In addition, the quality of the incubation/accelerator entrepreneurial support system for FinTech in Nigeria is heavily reliant on foreign technical support and investment. The need for these support systems is underpinned by the fact that many local startup founders have a technical background in technology and are not familiar with industry practices in capital markets and banking.
After identifying the foregoing problems, the Committee recommended as follows:
1. Deepening Market Penetrations
In order to improve the penetration of investment products, the Committee
recommends that:
A. Collaboration
i. SEC should collaborate with the CBN to streamline customer onboarding and simplify the process of new product registration.
ii. SEC should collaborate with Self-Regulatory Operators to provide access to information for FinTech oriented public/startups.
iii. SEC should collaborate with the National Pension Commission to ease tension between fund and pension managers, share knowledge with the Commission to effectively allocate available assets and revise regulations, such as the SEC Rules.
iv. SEC should collaborate with the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) to promote the adoption of FinTech as distribution channels for the promotion and sales of insurance products and educate consumers on how insurance works.
v. SEC should collaborate with educational institutions to develop industry relevant curriculum, create cross-country financial literacy programs and hold seminars and conferences on financial literacy in capital market.
vi. The government should collaborate with universities and other tertiary institutions to deepen training and research in software skills and engineering, provide grants for training prospective software developers to high globally recognised standards and implement fiscal policies to provide tax breaks for institutions and individuals investing in startups and FinTechs.
B. Fostering an Innovative Environment
i. SEC should intensify its efforts to raise awareness on the benefits of investing in the Nigerian capital market.
ii. SEC should encourage the development and introduction of FinTech-led innovation in the market.
iii. SEC can collaborate with Nollywood or leverage YouTube and Facebook to develop and disseminate short videos on financial literacy, to educate the public.
iv. SEC should create a sandbox and collection of Application Programming Interface (API) services that can be made available to FinTech firms to create innovative solutions.
C. Invest in RegTech and Process Improvement Technologies
RegTech platforms will strengthen inspection and investigation processes and ensure transparent enforcement and prosecution of digitized rules/codes.
2. Consumer Protection, Security and Data Privacy
A. The Committee recommends that SEC should collaborate with regulators and government agencies to develop FinTech oriented privacy and security policies. Global privacy regulations, such as the Convention No108,[8] the OECD Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data,[9] and the EU General Data Protection Regulation,[10] should be reviewed and adapted to Nigerian startups. Competition rules should also be enforced to prevent formation of data provider monopolies.
B. FinTechs should comply with industry standards in data exploitation, data minimisation, information security, responding to cyber incidents and periodically assess their security posture for systemic vulnerabilities.
3. FinTech Friendly Regulation/Policies and Compliance
To address the regulatory challenges that FinTechs encounter, the following were recommended:
A. SEC to drive a harmonized regulatory agenda by creating a centralised committee of all regulators (charged with the responsibility of formulating and ratifying policies and regulations for FinTechs) and allow different FinTech businesses to be regulated by different bodies within the committee. Equity financing/crowdfunding are to be regulated by the SEC, while payments and lending are to be regulated by the CBN. In addition, SEC and other regulators in the industry should leverage on the regulatory sandbox to be made available to FinTechs by the Nigerian Inter-Bank Settlement Scheme instead of building individual ones. The Commission should also work with other government agencies to provide incentives to startups.
Due Date: Q4, 2020
B. Cryptocurrencies, Virtual Financial Assets and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)
i. SEC should decide on the preferred classification of cryptocurrencies; preferably as commodities or securities but NOT as currency.
ii. SEC should be responsible for regulating Virtual Financial Assets Exchanges.
iii. SEC should regulate equity-based crowdfunding while the CBN should regulate interest-based crowdfunding.
iv. SEC should issue guidelines and standards for white papers and ICOs.
v. SEC should have clear taxonomies of tokens based on their nature, characteristics, and economic realities as their determining factors.
Due Date: Q1, 2020
C. Accelerating Investments in FinTechs
i. SEC needs to establish a clear FinTech vision and agenda.
ii. SEC should consider creating "Speed Funds" where HNIs can invest in FinTechs through the capital markets.
iii. SEC should shorten the timeline for registration of FinTech companies.
iv. SEC, Self-Regulatory Organisations and Exchanges should ensure that listing requirements are FinTech-friendly.
Due Date: Q2, 2021.
D. Directory Services
i. SEC should create a RegTech platform as a one-stop shop to manage registration, licensing and approval of FinTechs, and a directory service where useful information about FinTechs in Nigeria can be accessed.
ii. SEC should organise hackathons to develop software solutions for automation of SEC's regulatory processes.
iii. SEC should create a FinTech Office to manage investor relationships, engage and provide regulatory clarifications to new entrants, facilitate regulator-innovator-market-engagements, coordinate the communication and dissemination of relevant industry information, and provide support and advisory services to the industry.
Due Date: Q2, 2021.
E. Capacity Building
i. SEC should invest in capacity building for its employees charged with regulation.
ii. SEC should look to publish a report on FinTech in the Nigerian capital market, on an annual basis.
Due Date: Q1, 2021.
F. Engagement with FinTechs
i. SEC and other regulators should cooperate more with FinTechs through forums and engagement sessions.
ii. SEC should create an innovation Hub within the Commission.
Due Date: Bi-annually, Quarterly.
With the buzz in the Nigerian FinTech space and the growing interest of entrepreneurs and foreign investors in FinTech companies that solve problems in the financial industry, the establishment of a Roadmap Committee and a blueprint for the development of FinTech companies in Nigeria is a step in the right direction. It is our hope that this Report will provide clarity to investors and entrepreneurs alike on the policy plan of the SEC for the integration of FinTech companies into its operations. The Committee provided a timeline for the implementation of its recommendations between Q4 2019 and Q4 2021 and expressed its availability to assist the Commission with the process of implementation.
For further information on this article and area of law, please contact
Olayanju Phillips at: S. P.A. Ajibade & Co., Lagos by
telephone (+234 1 472 9890), fax (+234 1 4605092)
mobile (+234.814.468.3333) or email
[1] Olayanju Phillips, Associate, Corporate Finance & Capital Markets department, SPA Ajibade & Co., Lagos, Nigeria.
[2] Held on the 14th of November 2018 at the Federal Palace, Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos. See 'Notification for Third CMC Meeting in 2018' (SEC Nigeria, 19 October 2018) <https://sec.gov.ng/notification-for-third-cmc-meeting-in-2018/> (accessed 22 January 2020).
[3] Fintech Roadmap Committee of the Nigerian Capital Market, 'The Future of Fintech in Nigeria', April 2019 <https://sec.gov.ng/report-of-the-fintech-roadmap-committee-of-the-nigerian-capital-market/> (accessed 22 January 2020).
[4] The registration process involves an application for approval from the Commission by filling the FinTech assessment form http://sec.gov.ng/regulatory-sandbox-assessment/. The SEC engages the FinTech company and registers it if it meets its requirements. The length of time it takes to receive SEC's approval to offer a FinTech product depends on the nature of product and whether the SEC has existing Rules or Guidelines to regulate them.
[5] Pursuant to Para 2.1 of the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation 2019, data may no longer be collected, processed or shared with third parties, except with the lawful consent of the data subject. Furthermore, by the provisions of Para 2.2, the consent of the data subject must obtained for each purpose the data will be processed, unless the processing is necessary for compliance with a legal provision, performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party, to protect the interests of the data subject or of another person, or in the public's interest.
[6] In a bid to curb these threats, the Cybercrimes Act (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) Act, 2015 criminalizes unlawful access to a computer with intent to obtain confidential information, unlawful interception of communications, unauthorised modification of computer data, computer related forgery, identity theft and impersonation (See sections 6,7,8,11 and 13 of the Cybercrime Act, 2015). Significantly, there are no requirements for reporting cyberbreaches and intelligence sharing across organisations to build cyber resilience in the Act. Proactive safeguards to be put in place by data controllers and data processors are also conspicuously absent.
[7] Section 22(5) of the Companies and Allied Matters Act CAP C20 LFN 2004 prohibits private limited companies (which most FinTech companies are registered as) from inviting the public to subscribe for any shares or debentures of the company or deposit money to it. Section 67 of the Investments and Securities Act also prohibits all persons from making invitations to the public to acquire or dispose of any securities of a corporate entity or to deposit money with any corporate entity for a fixed period or payable at call, unless the body corporate is a public company. Furthermore, a public company may only offer its shares to the public through a registered Exchange, subject to certain restrictions placed by the Commission, including approval of the Commission and registration of the securities.
[8] Council of Europe, Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to the Automatic Processing of Individual Data, 28 January 1981, ETS 108, available at: <https://www.refworld.org/docid/3dde1005a.html> (accessed 28 January 2020).
[9] Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Guidelines Governing the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flow of Personal Data, 23 September 1980, available at: <https://www.refworld.org/docid/3dde56854.html> (accessed 28 January 2020).
[10] Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) <http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj> (accessed 28 January 2020).
Download PDF: Highlights of the Report on the Future of FinTech in Nigeria – Olayanju Phillips


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When I went to med school at the University of California at San Francisco---they have a big ol' medical center there up on Parnassus Heights just southeast of Golden Gate Park---I would sometimes cartoon during lectures. Sort of multi-tasking. These came to be included in a yearbook we did for our class. (I don't think most classes made up yearbooks, but under the direction of the late Dr. Robert Rood, we did.)
Here are some of those pictures:
See: 2nd year cartoons 3rd year cartoons 4th year cartoons
You can see all kinds of other cartoons on this website!
During the first semester we all took anatomy.
A recurrent nightmare still?
Around that time wind-up doll jokes and cartoons were funny.
The neuroanatomy test would have these small bits of brain and we were supposed to identify them! Yikes!
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Evelyn Lozada just doesn't get it. Actually, none of the Basketball Wives seem to get it. "It" being colorism and why Evelyn's comments about OG being "ugly" combined with other problematic comments (think: Ling Ling) have roots in racism.
The longstanding beef between Evelyn Lozada and OG isn't letting up any time soon and with the squad meeting up for a much-needed mansion getaway a.k.a opportunity for production to capture what brewing tension provides the most drama, we predict it won't be long before Evelyn and OG clash over their impending lawsuit and colorism drama.
If you haven't been keeping up with the squad, OG joined BBW during season seven and, in Layman's term, shook sh*t up. Because of her outspoken nature and bold fashion sense, she immediately faced ridicule from the other girls. We chalked it up to typical realty TV cattiness but soon the jokes turned to OG's physical appearance. She was blatantly called "ugly" by numerous cast mates, who reiterate they didn't call her ugly because of her skin color. And it wasn't only Evelyn. Malaysia Pargo and newcomers Feby Torres and Kristen Scott equally called OG "ugly" and all deny it was related to her skin color.
Evelyn recently spoke to LoveBScott.com about the drama, "I have never made comments about this person's skin color, race or anything that should ever make it accurate or appropriate to label me a colorist or a racist." She added, "I will just say, I have treated this person how I have treated her because I don't like her, and that has nothing to do with the shade of her skin or her race. If you look at the facts here, the only person bringing up color and race in a derogatory, divisive and destructive way is her."
However fans quickly pointed out Evelyn's colorist behavior after she used a monkey gif, on Instagram, in response to the brewing colorism controversy. Do we need to go into details about the long history of Black's being compared to primates? Nah?! OK, good. Evelyn denied she was comparing OG to a monkey and also denied she was perpetuating the trope Black women are angry and aggressive despite calling OG aggressive on several occasions. She suddenly claimed her Afro Latina heritage, which came across as inauthentic and defensive.
Feby, in particular, denied OG's colorism accusations, during a reunion show taping, saying "my daughter is dark like you, same complexion, baddest thing ever." Feby's daughter with baller Lance Stephenson is indeed dark skin, but that's what makes her refusal to see why her comments are problematic perplexing. Because of her daughter's complexion, Feby, who is a light skin woman, should be well aware of the plight her beautiful young daughter will most-likely face walking through the world as a dark skin Black women. Her failure to recognize that same plight in OG is confounding.
In a confessional interview, Kristen, also denounced OG's claims. "Being a dark brown skin woman, I don't know what she's talking about," she said. "I've never witnessed the things she's said and I can't stand by for her to use something so important to her advantage."
Kirsten and OG are only shades apart, yet Kristen's denial of OG's colorism claims points to the exact ignorance that colorism is.
In her 1983 book, In Search of our Mothers' Gardens, Alice Walker defined colorism as "prejudicial or preferential treatment of same-race people based solely on their color." Colorism often works in tandem with featurism. Featurism, according to Melanation.org, is defined as "society accepting or preferring certain features over others (i.e. European features over African features). Of course, it isn't just any type of features but features that uphold the Eurocentric standards of beauty."
Evelyn, Feby, Kristen and Malaysia may not have directly said anything about OG's skin color, or broad nose or full lips, but it's a clear player in this situation. Kirsten may not have faced oppression because of her skin tone because she has Eurocentric features like a slim nose and fine hair that have kept her exempt from the same treatment OG experiences. Kirsten's disconnect is evidence of the deeply rooted self-hate within the Black race and for the Black race.
Colorism and racism has shaped our society's beauty ideals that are founded in the belief light, and all the things that come with it, is right. For these grown ass women to ignore how their comments have been directly connected to colorism is not only offensive, it's clear we have a long way to go in our understanding of how the roots of racism are ingrained in our day to day. Basically, we still have a long way to go and pretending it's not a thing won't bring us any closer to the finish line.
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TRAVERSE CITY, MI (AP)-- A proposal to draw natural gas from as many as 500 wells in Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula by using hydraulic fracturing is attracting attention from environmentalists.
The Detroit News reports Monday that Calgary, Alberta-based Encana Corp. proposed the wells.
Spokesman Doug Hock says the company is "in the early stages" of new drilling in Michigan.
Encana is focusing on Michigan's Antrim and Collingwood shale formations, which run from the tip of the Lower Peninsula to the middle of the state. The company's mineral rights are mostly in Cheboygan, Emmet, Kalkaska and Missaukee counties.
Hydraulic fracturing, widely known as "fracking," involves pumping water laced with chemicals and sand at high pressure into wells. State regulators and industry representatives say the process is environmentally sound, but critics say it can pollute.


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The Queer Biker Invasion of Death Valley, or QBIDV for short, is a hallmark tradition in the LGBTQ culture here in the West. The ride originally started 26 years ago when Michael wanted to publish a simple ride that others could join him without a lot of planning and overhead. Some 26 years later the ride is still going on today.
Every year I get excited about crossing the Sierras to enjoy the beautiful fall color found in this part of the state. It's always a mishmash of green, peak color, and you just missed it brown. The ride goes through a number of different climates so the full color is will to pop out somewhere. I also knew I needed some time on my bike to just ride it by myself. I wanted to find the zen that my new motorcycle was happiest in. I struggled a bit trying to keep up with the group last month in June Lake. While I enjoy the company of riders, I wanted to have a bit of time to myself as well.
With the entrance fees to national parks going up significantly in the past couple of years many of us bypass Yosemite in favor of Sonora Pass. It's a touch longer, but the slightly northern pass has significantly fewer minivans, RVs, and tourists overall. It makes for much better motorcycling! Plus, Conway Summit between Bridgeport and Lee Vining is often a hotspot for fall color. QBIDV QBIDV is always the long weekend including the second Monday in October. It is Canadian Thanksgiving for you folks up north! Being slightly later in the season the fall color was likely to be further south and at lower altitudes.
I met the group in Manteca – the second stop in the ride. This year it just didn't make sense to ride into San Francisco to turn around and come back through the East Bay. We had a lovely ride through the valley and climbing up to Kennedy Meadow for lunch. Kennedy Meadow was one of my first backpacking trips when I moved to California. It was great to see the outpost again so many years later. It's a very different California here. It's very much rural and country – a stark contrast to the Bay Area world I call home.
As the group approached the Tioga gas mart for our final gas top, much of the group wanted to ride Highway 120 out to Benton. That section of the road is well known for the sharp climbs and drops leading to an intense roller coaster effect. I had ridden that stretch of highway last month and was looking forward to seeing some fall color further down US Highway 395. Much of the Aspen at higher altitudes were already past peak.
Finding fall color!
I broke off from the group to find some fall color on my own. The June Lake Loop has always been a favorite of mine.
It's a 12-mile curvy loop that swings by four alpine lakes. While many of my fellow riders didn't expect to see color there, June Lake did not disappoint. Several spots on the surrounding mountains had Aspen shining bright yellow!
Anel and I visited Rock Creek many years ago on our Eastern Sierra Lakes Tour. The sharp, jagged mountains in the background always impressed me as a beautiful backdrop. Fast-forward a couple of years I find that Apple is a beautiful picture of the lake as a background for its flagship watch. Lo and behold I find out that Mack Lake is just west of the parking lot at Rock Creek. Although it was late in the day, the ride up to Rock Creek was too good to pass up.
In this part of the Sierras, there are four major pass crossings that are favorites among motorcyclists: Tioga Pass 120, Sonora Pass 108 Ebbetts pass 4, and Carson pass 88. However, there are many small out and backs that are truly wonderful to ride. Rock Creek does not disappoint. Starting at Tom's Place near US Highway 395, Rock Creek Road climbs from 7000 feet to just under 10,000 feet over 10 miles. The pavement is great, so let's keep riding!
Surprisingly, at this altitude, there is quite a bit of fall color along Rock Creek. The sun was quickly dropping as well as the mercury so it didn't leave much time for pictures. As motorcyclists sometimes we want to eke out is much of the day riding as we can. About halfway down the road, I had to stop and don my heated gear. The temperature just got too cold for just an Aerostich and a long-sleeve T-shirt.
Rock Creek Lake this time of year always reminds me that seasons are changing. Crossing Sonora Pass in the heat of the day is always misleading with her 60 degree sunny days with the wind at your back. Here at 10,000 feet with temperatures in the 30s before dark one message is clear: winter is coming.
The lake however with its glacial blue waters always calls me back…


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Have you ever wondered what in the world can make a golf ball fly so far to the left or to the right? How do you hit those unintentional duck hooks or wicked slices? Why can you never turn or move the ball when you really want to or have to, say to hook it around a tree. Some of these problems have to do with the players swing, and some has to do with the golf ball the player is using.
The golf ball of today has so much technology packed into such a little piece of equipment it's incredible and picking the right one is almost as important as having the proper irons fitted to your game. Some fitting experts believe that almost 50 % o players are playing with the wrong type of ball. One of the main characteristics in the golf ball is the amount of spin the ball is designed to attain. There are some simple guidelines to follow so you get the proper spin golf ball. Here are the three main types of spin golf balls.
Low Spin Golf Balls
The lower spinning golf balls will help to eliminate the side spin on your shots, which in turn eliminates the chances of that big slice or hook. The ball will end up flying straighter through the air at the target. The one thing to mention about these types of balls is that they may not travel as far through in the air but they make up for it when they hit the ground. Due to the minimal amount of spin produced the balls will roll further when they hit the ground and not spin back. It's because of these two characteristics that these types of balls are geared toward higher handicappers. They help them hit their shots straighter and they also run out on the fairways.
Mid Spin Golf Balls
The mid spin golf balls are basically here to fill the gap between the low and high spinning balls. They are designed to incorporate both feel and distance together. Thus they attract a huge rage of golfers and with mid handicap games. These golf balls produce a nice feel and control to them as well as allowing some good distance when needed. This will vary depending on the manufacturer as they are offered by most.
High Spin Golf Balls
The high spinning balls are designed mainly to do what the name says; produce a lot of ball spin while they are in the air. A high spinning golf ball will produce a longer carry due to the backspin that happens at impact. They will not get any run on the fairways but they have a huge advantage around the greens. It is this added spin around the greens that allows the player a little more control should they know how to use it. It will help the ball stop quicker on the greens sometimes even with backspin. These balls are mainly used by the lower handicapped players who can take advantage of the characteristics.
Now that you know the different spinning golf ball types, it is important to use them to your advantage. Having the ball that is best suited to your skill level and game should give you a leg up on your playing partners or competition. Try out different balls and take notice of the amount they spin. This simple observation can make a huge difference in your game.


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Sunday, December 31, 2023
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We had a few questions about sun and skin health, come our way – so you asked, we answered! See? We're not just beefcake aerobics bunny personal trainers with a kinesiology degree…we want ALL PARTS OF YOU to be healthy (and that includes your eyeballs!)
Can I get a tan through a window?
Yes! The glass will block short wavelength (anything below 3,000 angstrom units, for you inquisitive scientific folks) radiation of the sun, but will still allow longer wavelengths of the suns radiation to pass through and affect your skin. That being said, even though you are protected from one spectrum of radiation, you can still get tanned from over exposure behind glass. While clear glass will allow around 75% of the light through, laminated or green glass will help to filter out all of the UVA light. Similarly this is why wine and olive oil is packaged in glass that is green.
Can I tan on a cloudy day or in the shade?
While clouds may block out sunlight, UV radiation can still pass through and will cause your skin to begin the pigmentation process as described earlier. As you may think that you are completely protected on a cloudy day in July, some experts still recommend using protection from with a light moisturizer with minimum SPF15. While tanning or burning won't happen as quickly, it's still good to be aware of the risks. Another important note would be to use sunscreen if you are near a reflective surface such as water, concrete, snow or ice, as these materials will reflect the suns radiation onto any of you exposed skin.
I should get polarized lenses protect my eyes, right?
Unfortunately, the polarization of glass has nothing to do with protecting your eyes form Ultra-Violet radiation. Polarized sunglasses only help to prevent glare off of reflective surfaces such as concrete or water, which can be beneficial if you are out on the water or driving but do not protect against UV radiation. The most important properties when selecting sunglasses are finding ones that block 100% or 99% of ultraviolet light in both UVA and UVB spectrums. Because the front of the eye is subjected to 99% of Ultra Violet radiation there is a high susceptibility to intraocular damage. Cataracts, damage to the cornea and macular degeneration are precursors caused by the effects of radiation, and will ultimately result in visual impairment and even blindness.
If I have a tan, I'm more protected from the sun and skin damage!
False! The tanned look you have is because the skin has already been damaged, and yes, it IS trying to protect itself, so congratulations, you now have a built in SPF of….FOUR! Maybe. It is still important to ensure that you are taking great care to avoid excessive UV exposure through sunscreen, hats, and so forth.
Do you have questions about health and fitness? Send them our way and we'll do our best to answer them. Thankfully, topics regarding inorganic chemistry and advanced math don't typically fall into "health and fitness" so…we'd have to refer you to a different professional for those kinds of questions. And no, a hybrid, two part question like "I would like to protect myself from the harmful rays of the sun and wish to construct an awning to do so. What kind of material will block the UV rays and if my house is 15 feet tall and I want an awning that provides 6 feet of shade, how much material would I need to construct this" still is out of our realm of our expertise. Though I would recommend using Pythagorean theorem and a sun dial at some point in your calculation if this were grade 8 math class.


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CopperJoint Offers Launch Discount On New Wrist Brace For Carpal Tunnel
CopperJoint has been making some of the finest copper infused supports for a long time now. The company recently announced that they will be offering introductory discount on wrist brace for carpal tunnel.
The wrist brace for carpal tunnel has quickly become one of the top selling products. It has been made using the finest quality of materials and even when worn whole day long, it is not likely to lead to any skin irritation.
Stefano Starkel, the founder of the company was quoted as saying, "We are happy with how the response has been coming. We want to reach out to a wider group of people so that they too can benefit from the services of the product. This is why we have decided to offer an introductory discount and hope that more and more customers will make the most out of it."
The wrist brace for carpal tunnel has been made to offer the right support to people who suffer from different kinds of wrist related injuries. Even those who have had major hand surgery done can seek relief by wearing this band.
The breathable fabric ensures that it won't lead to any kind of skin irritation. The wrist brace has been designed to offer optimal muscle support and protection and thereby brings in pain relief using holistic methods of healing.
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17 Dec
The Rail Silk Road
The Silk Road is now rising again, which will connect East Asian countries and Europe. The New Silk Road, which is a network of highways, railways, and airports linking...[ read more ]
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The Arctic Route : Chinese Polar Silk Road
The week went by with more discussions on the new route being developed by China through the Arctic to Europe. I had mentioned in my blog during Maritime Week...[ read more ]
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Shipping Industry: Global Trends
2017 was a turning point for the global shipping industry. With the following global trends set to change the fortunes in 2018, the current year looks promising too. Megaships...[ read more ]


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Shh..football is sleeping
Watch at any kid participating in a sport - most love to celebrate.
From a kid playing their first snap to a pros playing their last - there is nothing more feel good in sports than letting your emotions take over in a game-winning situation.
While celebrations aren't what they were once when I was a kid in pro football, they're still always interesting to photograph because you never know what a player and or team may do when they score.
Some are wild and outrageous, others are peaceful, spiritual and then there is everything in between.
Maybe it's because my wife and I have a newborn at home, but I loved the reaction of wide receiver Rishard Matthews #18 of the Miami Dolphins after scoring against the Redskins.
Giving the crowd a quiet gesture, he cradled the football as if it was a newborn child.
To these superheros, family comes first I'm sure, even if it's literally a football in their arms after scoring a go-ahead touchdown.


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|Kittens: "You need us in your life". See 50 reasons below.
This week we asked the Cat Protection Society to brainstorm ten reasons to adopt a cat. Naturally that took about ten seconds. But they kept going...and came up with fifty good reasons to adopt a cat. All VERY good reasons.
Cat Protection's shelter on Enmore Road is always brimming with beautiful cats and kittens. They do a very good job looking after them, but they don't want them to stay permanently. So as you read this, and you are currently without feline OR you are considering adding to the pride, think about paying a visit to CPS.
In no particular order, here are just 50 very good reasons we think you should adopt one (or two) of our fabulous felines.
1. To experience love
2. To keep you company
3. To keep you sane
4. To keep you entertained
|...and to justify your purchase of that fancy glass table.
5. They are spiritual guardians over your home
6. To teach you another language
7. To keep you warm at night
8. To give you a darn good reason to get out of bed in the morning
9. To teach you unselfishness
|Hero: he gives me a darn good reason to get out of bed in the morning. And a darn good reason to get in it at night!
10. To enrich their lives
11. To know that animals have feelings
12. To experience a uniquely wonderful relationship
13. To experience joy
To experience unconditional acceptance
|Because foster kitties need furever homes.
15. To strike up conversations with good looking strangers in the pet food aisle
16. To be reminded to be humble
17. To be needed and trusted
18. To make your life more meaningful and purposeful
19. To be wowed
|Geoffery the Burmese performs a somersault and is captured on camera a nanosecond before landing. Definitely a "wow" moment.
20. To be wooed
21. To be motivated to do more yoga
22. They can be very funny
|Cats have a great sense of humour.
23. To give you a reason to come home at night
24. To make you curious
25. To teach children about responsibility
26. To teach children about kindness
To make life-saving room at the shelter for a new
cat in need
|Because behind every crazy cat guy is...a crazy cat. Of course.
28. To hear them purr
29. To improve your non-verbal communication skills
30. Lower maintenance than dogs
|Cats are lower maintence than dogs (although Phil is an honorary cat).
31. More entertaining than a pet fish
32. To give your kids a friend who will keep their secrets and help them get through the tough times growing up
33. Cats don't often answer back
34. Nothing makes you more zen than patting a nice kitty
35. Their calm company will reduce your stress
|Even their amazing feats of share-chairing are a site to behold.
36. Helping with mental illness
37. To give peace to a person who loved their cat but could no longer care for them
38. They look super cute!
39. To keep your dog company
To keep your cat company
|Who's got the remote? Cats can be awesome companions for dogs.
41. To help you assess the worthiness of your new boyfriend/girlfriend
|Because they put up with our quirks: The first (and last) time Michael tried the "cats in wigs" trend.
43. To cheer you up when you're sad
44. To keep you on your toes
45. To improve your health
46. To have hundreds of gorgeous photos on your smartphone
To be connected to one of nature's creatures and
understand that the world isn't just made up of people
|It is widely known that cats are the single justification for the smartphone.
48. To inspire you
49. To know that the simple act of adopting one cat changes their world forever, for the better
50. Because EVERY cat deserves a loving and responsible home
|Honestly peeps, do you need more reasons??? Hero and Mike say "Go and check out the Cat Protection society and find the love of your life. And PS two cats are better than one!!!".
Visit www.catprotection.org.au for more information and more cat awesomeness.


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With less than a month left of Big Brother 19, the game has slowed a lot. Currently, the Big Brother house won't even humor the possibility of keeping Mark Jansen over Matt Clines. We see no path where Matt walks out the doors over Mark tonight. Due to the house's pure blind loyalty, we have no hope for an exciting live eviction episode this Big Brother 19 week.
If any excitement comes from this week, it could be with who wins the Head of Household competition. Paul Abrahamian used the week to set targets on everyone but himself. This is a good strategy, but if he doesn't handle these next few evictions with care, he may suffer a similar fate to the one he experienced on Big Brother 18.
Mark Campaigns Some More
Anyone who complains about a Big Brother houseguest fighting for their life until the very end, is not a true Big Brother fan. As fans, we want to see them pull out every move to win the game. All the weeks prior to this one, Big Brother 19 houseguests have not really campaigned to stay in the game. They either let their egos get in their way, or rightfully realized that the house was too blind to Paul's deceptions to keep them.
Paul and his minions decided to laugh and make fun of Mark for trying to not go out without a fight. However, Mark continued on this path and tried the entire day to campaign to one person after another. They just repeated his information and mocked him.
Mark Versus Paul…Over Cody!?
Paul has continuously talked badly about Cody Nickson since he left the game. Mark, being a sort-of friend to him, decided to tell Paul to stop it. Mark's argument was that Cody is out of the game, so why does any of this matter now? He didn't feel like Cody did anything to warrant this much hatred and discussion.
Paul disagreed. He basically berated Mark for defending Cody. He claimed that Cody wouldn't do the same for Mark, and that he wasn't a good person. Mark just didn't want to discuss it anymore. However, Paul continued. Once Paul got in a room without Mark, he said how Mark was a bully just like Cody.
Mark just felt drained by the whole house and their continuous hypocrisy and drama. We are too, Mark. We are too.
Keep it here all summer for Big Brother 19 news, spoilers, exclusives, and recaps! Make sure to subscribe to CBS: All Access to get your live feeds and enjoy more exclusive content. Don't forget to follow us on Facebook and Twitter to stay updated on all the Big Brother 19 news!


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underpinning - ideas for action...
'coverage-processes-influences' (CPI) model
Frans Meijers carefully pulls together the findings from evaluations of mentoring in Dutch technical schools. His findings are based on what students, teachers, mentors, and programme managers say. Frans finds a lack of coherent thinking on the purposes and possibilities for this work. He also finds a lack of any attempt on the part of management to engage with on-the-ground people concerning the issues it raises. There is no reason to suppose that is a Dutch, and not also a British, problem. But Frans knows how to learn from bad news, and his report sets out the terms on which a useful planning programme can be set up - posing six well-aimed questions.
more stories
update of an earlier Café piece, Too Many Lists and
Not Enough Stories, on the uses of narrative in careers
work. This version includes more quotations from useful
published biography. Argues that we need the same kind of
thoroughness in narrative thinking that we once devoted to the
DOTS analysis. It is a companion pdf to Learning from
Experience because experience can only be
set out in story form.
Explains why careers work gets less policy and media attention than it deserves. Suggests that we need now to 'look wider', 'think again', 'earn credibility', 'push boundaries' and 'keep-up'. The monograph examines untapped thinking about how people learn. It uses the analysis to point to today's influences on the lives of our students and clients. And it develops ideas about for we now need to do to help them.
Based on Bill's thinking for the QCA in the run-up to the current curriculum reform. This shorter version looks at the implications for careers education and guidance. The core proposal is for 'LiRRiC' – life-role relevance in curriculum. Shows how careers education and guidance can be taken off the edge of timetable, integrated with the whole curriculum without losing its distinctiveness, and become a key player in on-going curriculum reform. Click 'go' on the right to get this version. The full report LiRRiC: Life-role relevance in curriculum is in the moving-on section.
start for Connexions - in 'Youth Matters'


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Sunday, August 24, 2008
Musical Science - Muppet Style
Enjoy a little "Ode to Joy"
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I absolutely LOVE the muppets. Beaker and Dr. Bunsen Honeydew are my favourites.ReplyDelete
I love the Swedish chef, who sometimes tosses something in the air (a chicken or a ham?) and sometimes it doesn't come back down! Where did it go?!.....ReplyDelete
That is great! I miss the muppets!ReplyDelete
i love me some muppets. my son has most of the dvds. that was a very nice interlude there for my spaced out brain thank you.ReplyDelete
Loving the muppets! Where did my link go? Pop over and check out my new template at The Nurse Practitioner's Place some time.ReplyDelete
Another one that is funny from Carmen that features Beaker and the Swedish Chef...ReplyDelete
That is a riot! I almost wet my pants....Who knew the muppets were on YouTube? Bad temptation...
I loved the muppets when I was a kid! What memories this brings back...ReplyDelete


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Chukka Boots
Chukka style safety work boots, designed to come up just under the ankle bone, this design of the Chukka boot allows better articulation of the foot, ideal for trades people such as plumbers and electricians who spend time sat or kneeling in confined spaces. Safety Chukkas are also widely used in factories and warehouses as they offer great foot protection at competitive prices, with benefits as well as safety toe protection such as pierce resistant mid soles, oil and fuel resistant sole, anti static properties. We have added safety symbols to every safety boot, so at a glance you can see what each boot is tested for. More details are available HERE
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EXCLUSIVE: His Dark Materials writer Jack Thorne is writing four-part family drama Best Interests for BBC One. It marks the first commission for Chapter One Pictures, the Sophie Gardiner-run production company set up by Anonymous Content, Casarotto Ramsay and United Agents.
Deadline revealed that the trip of management and talent agencies had established the indie in March 2018 with Gardiner, who was previously head of drama at Howards End producer Playground Television, set as Managing Director.
Its first order is a "compelling" and "thought-provoking original" from the prolific Thorne, who is also behind series including The Virtues, National Treasure and This Is England as well as the Harry Potter musical.
Best Interests is the story of a family driven apart by having to make choices no parent would ever want to make. Andrew and Nicci's daughter, Marnie, has a life-threatening condition. The doctors believe it is in her best interests to be allowed to die, but her loving family disagree. They start a fight that will take them through every stage of a legal process, as they struggle to contemplate this huge decision. Who decides? And in whose best interests will it be?
The series was commissioned by Piers Wenger, Controller of BBC Drama and Charlotte Moore, Director of BBC Content. Executive Producers are Gardiner and Toby Bentley (Kiri) for Chapter One Pictures, Thorne for his indie One Shoe Films, and Lucy Richer for BBC One. The series will be produced by Abi Bach (The Honourable Woman).
Filming will take place in 2020 with casting announced in due course.
Thorne said, "As a parent of a three year old I've looked at the cases in the media about 'best interests' with some fascination and a little dread. When the worst happens, how do you keep your head when everything around you feels wrong? We are going to try and tell a nuanced story that talks about this issue from all sides. I'm so happy to be working with Piers Wenger and the BBC again and to be part of the great folk at Chapter One Pictures. "
BBC's Wenger said, "This heartbreaking story delves deep into the inner turmoil these two parents experience when faced with their worst nightmare. Jack Thorne's talent for tackling the most complex and challenging real life stories with consideration, wisdom and vision will make this a series to remember.""
Gardiner added, "We are delighted and proud that the first commission for Chapter One Pictures is a Jack Thorne project of such calibre, and thrilled for it to be on BBC One. Jack writes these important stories of our time with such compassion, wit and intelligence, it'll be a privilege for us to help bring it to life."
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For the second time in a year, The Lens has published an anti-Israel/anti-Semitic opinion piece. The first article was published April 8, 2016, entitled "Jim Crow is alive and well — and shaping Israeli policy toward Palestinians," by Tabitha Mustafa, a community organizer with New Orleans Palestinian Solidarity Committee and Peace by Piece New Orleans.
The more recent anti-American/anti-Semitic/anti-Israel rant, entitled "With a Bigot like Bannon at Trump's side, 'Never Again' is Happening Right Now," was co-authored by Rachel Lee and Hannah Wolfman-Arent, on behalf of an organization called Jewish Voice for Peace.
As a Jewish woman who has suffered a direct connection to the Holocaust, I am well aware that putting the word "Jewish" in one's organization's name is sometimes a cover for an anti-Semitic agenda. Further, posing as "Jewish" does not mean that you are in any way informed about the Holocaust, World War II or the National Socialist government of Germany at that time; nor does it mean that you are knowledgeable about events in the Middle East or Israel. It definitely does not mean that you are immune from generating vicious propaganda for your own purposes.
As to the more recent article, oddly enough despite its title, Bannon does not take center stage in this malicious outburst. The real uber-villain of this hit piece is Israel, followed closely by the American Jewish community and American Jews.
The authors present a series of unsupported allegations together with smears aimed at trashing the Jewish community. The authors open with, "And so in the past few weeks, as we process the election of a man who has promised mass deportation and religious bans while rising to power on a juggernaut of white nationalist propaganda, we recommit to never again letting fascism rule." They go on to declare that "we have learned the warning signs of fascism all our lives."
Now the authors set the stage to blame the Jews and be disgusted by them:
"The very same Jewish institutions that taught us about our genocide are utterly failing to take a stand, opting instead to normalize dangerous choices, stifle dissent and, in the process, expose their own hypocrisy. When the Jewish Federations of North America told Donald Trump in an open letter that 'we very much look forward to working closely with you and your administration,' we were disgusted — but not surprised. Many of the repressive approaches to governing that we fear in a Trump presidency have long been tacitly accepted by Jewish institutions that promote a defend-Israel-at-all-costs philosophy."
Yes, there are warning signs of fascism, but they emanate from groups like Jewish Voice for Peace, starting with the disinformation this organization generates. This is the group that invites Rasmea Odeh, a convicted terrorist killer, to serve as a guest speaker at its national conference recently held in Chicago. Odeh, who was freed by the Israelis in a prisoner exchange and who then lied to gain entrance into the United States, was subsequently convicted of immigration fraud and ordered deported. Odeh received a standing ovation in Chicago. Is this how Jewish Voice for Peace purports to instruct us on keeping America free of fascists?
In their article, those signs of fascism that so frighten the authors are difficult to dig out from the pile of clichés/canards that they had built up, but we can try to discern them from the following bullet points that highlight their primary message:
- It is time to end our unconditional support for Israel, a state that routinely violates human rights — incarcerating and murdering Palestinians, while occupying and demolishing their homes.
- It is time for us to see that the State of Israel engages in the same militaristic and racist practices that Bannon's rhetoric encourages in the United States.
- It is time for American Jews to recognize the systemic racism practiced in OUR name by the state of Israel and by OUR own leaders.
So here we are, two sides of the same coin: American Jews, Jewish Federations and Israel on one side of the coin and racism, militarism, murder, incarceration, fascism on the other. What is to be done, according to the authors? First and foremost, American Jews must reform, especially all Jewish Federations, especially the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans. Talk about fascism and fascists! They propose murky programs based on smears and intimidation that can only make a bona fide fascist proud.
The authors are not finished with shaming American Jews. Several months ago, Congress by unanimous consent passed the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act in response to the surging numbers of campus discrimination cases and actual violence against Jewish students — in some incidents for supporting Israel, but in many others for simply being Jewish. These cases are too numerous to list here, but can found on any search engine under "Anti-Semitism on Campus."
The Jewish community, according to these authors, had the effrontery to support the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act and, according to the authors, should be ashamed of themselves since this act "aims to suppress pro-Palestinian campus activism." Here the authors resort to an outright lie, and again, provide no evidence or support of any kind that peaceful activities and constitutionally protected activities of Palestinian students and/or their supporters have been hampered. The authors' lack of concern for Jewish students subjected to bigotry, harassment and physical violence speaks to the agenda of Jewish Voice for Peace.
One must wonder about The Lens' pattern of selective outrage against one country, Israel and against one people, the Jews, when there are daily well-documented and proven human rights atrocities committed by Syria, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, Hamas and numerous others.
The Lens' editors I am sure would agree that we all have a responsibility to check sources and evaluate conclusions before presenting opinions that are little more than disinformation campaigns.
Marsha Halteman grew up in New Orleans. In 1990 she left the city to work for a pro-democracy think tank in Washington, DC, The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. She returned to New Orleans in 2014.
The Lens Opinion section is offered as a forum for vigorous community debate. Including this one, readers have contributed four columns on the Israeli/Palestine issue in the past year or so. Not mentioned above, the column by Tabitha Mustafa inspired a rebuttal from Allison Padilla-Goodman, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League. It ran under the headline, "Dialogue and compromise — not boycotts — key to easing Israel-Palestine torment."
Views expressed in the Opinion section are not necessarily those of The Lens or its staff. To propose an idea for a column, contact Lens founder Karen Gadbois.


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I had the honor last week of being the opening keynote speaker for the Sporting & Fitness Industry Association Leadership Summit, held in New Orleans. In attendance were CEO's of several major sporting/fitness companies, as well as retailers in the industry; overall, about 200 very senior level executives representing a vast cross section of a major US industry.
My keynote focused on 5 key themes:
- The BIG MISS : how companies miss out on market and business model transformation, particularly when fast moving digital technologies completely change customer interaction and the very concept of a 'product,' as well as the rapid emergence of new competitors
- Interaction : embedded technology changes everything!
- Acceleration: the result is that the pace of innovation in the sporting and fitness industry is rapidly shifting to the speed of innovation of Silicon Valley
- Reinvention: this results in a need to continually reinvent new products, new sources of revenue, and to generation "chameleon revenue" where revenue has not previously existed
- Generations: 10 to 15 years out, in changes in even more major ways ; at some point in our lifetime, we'll see the last kid ever use a baseball bat that doesn't have some sort of computer chip embedded in it
Much of what I had to cover was the massive impact that digital technologies are having on all apsects of the sports and fitness industries. It ties into an observation by one analyst that "in the next 10 years, it is estimated that 40% of the S&P 500 will no longer exist if these companies fail to keep up with these technology trends."
I reached out to Derek Sprague, the President of the PGA of America, prior to my talk, for his thoughts on how the game of golf has been transformed by digital technologies in just the last 5 years. He had two brilliant observations:
- "In the last five years, video software, launch monitors and game tracking devices (like Game Golf) have brought the technology tools of elite professional players to the masses. Understanding how to integrate volumes of performance data into traditional teaching methods has become "commonplace for PGA Professionals."
- "Not only that, but yield management and mobile-oriented buying platforms aren't just for hotels and airlines anymore. As consumer expectations for technology driven experiences increase exponentially, answering the phone and handwriting tee times onto a paper tee sheet are no longer the norms. "
It was a great talk with great feedback, with one tweet noting, "@jimcarroll: One of the most fascinating conference speakers I've ever heard. #sfialeads"


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The Horse is Dead!2 min read
Seriously, it needs to stop being beaten!
As of writing, Gerald McCoy is a Buccaneer. If that changes we'll be among the first to say. McCoy is due to make $13M dollars this year after he signed a 7-year contract extension in 2014 worth $98 million, a record at the time. So many people focus on that little bit of information they have lost sight of reality. People bring up issues about McCoy and his attitude when responding to critics. Yet completely forget what he has done for the team and the Bay Area.
Since being drafted McCoy has recorded 297 tackles, 53.5 sacks and receives multiple recognition and accolades. The stats don't really tell the story. The disruption that number 93 causes to an offensive line draws the kind of attention that is game planned. Sadly until the addition of Ryan Nassib and Jason Pierre-Paul, there has been little to no help on that line. Outside of Michael Bennett, who has been noteworthy on that defensive line? McCoy has basically been out there on his own! I don't blame him for being upset at the lack of respect shown to him.
All year, every year McCoy is active in the community. Donating money and raising funds and awareness for many charities.
This talk of being traded is fan driven. By fan bases who want McCoy. The fact that fan forums around the league feature wish lists with the name Gerald McCoy should tell Tampa fans we're lucky he's a Buc.


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The Chris Greene Quartet has been a highly visible part of Chicago's jazz scene since 2005, and has maintained a stable lineup from the beginning, with the exception of Steve Corley, who has held the drum chair since 2011. Damian Espinosa on piano and keyboards and Marc Piane on acoustic and electric basses have been onboard since the beginning. Unique among Chicago bands, most of whom feature, by necessity, constantly shifting personnel, the CGQ has been able to develop a true group sound and feel, harking back to bands from the classic age of jazz when groups could stay together for long periods of time. While honoring the tradition, the CGQ incorporates elements of funk, hip-hop, rock, pop, the blues and reggae, reflecting their diverse backgrounds. CGQ is also recently was honored at the 2018 Chicago Music Awards with an award for "Best Jazz Entertainer" and recently won the "Best Jazz Band" category in the Chicago Reader "Best of Chicago" Poll.


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The Francis Crick Institute
The Francis Crick Institute Laboratory, opened in 2016, is supported by the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, the Wellcome Trust, and University College London, King's College London and Imperial College London. The emphasis on research training and early independence of gifted scientists in a multidisciplinary environment provides unique opportunities for UK medical science, including clinical and translational research.
The Francis Crick Institute has been referred to as the most significant development in UK biomedical science for a generation. It has been built at a cost of nearly £700 million and is directed by Nobel Laureate and geneticist Sir Paul Nurse. What will it contribute to biomedicine, and how will it do it?
The Crick arose from discussions in the Medical Research Council (MRC) about the future of the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), the MRC's largest research institute. The NIMR's laboratory in Mill Hill was getting old and its location – far from a university, medical school or teaching hospital – made it difficult to fulfil the MRC's scientific and translational aspirations. A particular concern was the need to provide a laboratory base for medical scientists with clinical duties and also to have a laboratory of sufficient scale to allow joint research with industry scientists. The search for a new site ended with the identification of land to the north of the British Library and to the west of St Pancras station. This was agreed to be an excellent location, close to many London universities and to first-rate general and specialist hospitals, such as Great Ormond Street Hospital, Moorfields Eye Hospital and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square. Recently, the Alan Turing Institute has started work in the British Library and is due to be accommodated in a purpose-designed building next to the Crick. Transport links are superb – with trains, tubes and buses close by – and, notably, the institute is within easy reach of GlaxoSmithKine (GSK) and Astra Zeneca's principal research laboratories in Stevenage and Cambridge, respectively.
But in order to justify investment on the scale required, the new institute needed to be more than a simple translocation to a new site.
After discussion and negotiation, the MRC, Cancer Research UK (CRUK), the Wellcome Trust and University College London (UCL) created a partnership: CRUK's London Research Institute (LRI) would join the NIMR, with researchers from UCL contributing expertise in the physical and clinical sciences. Importantly, the Crick was not simply to be a merger of LRI and NIMR but a new entity with a different ethos – a multidisciplinary institute with a substantial new investment in the biomedically related physical sciences, which, through the clinical sciences, would place increased emphasis on research in human biology and its perturbations in disease.
Such was the excitement surrounding the initiative that King's College and Imperial College London joined as full partners in 2011; the Crick now had six partners all contributing to the cost of the new building. The MRC and CRUK transferred the running costs of their former institutes to the Crick, and the Wellcome Trust made a strategic award of £70 million over 5 years in addition to a major contribution to the capital development.
The Francis Crick Institute became a legal entity on 1 April 2015, when researchers from the NIMR and LRI transferred to the employment of the Crick. The next major event was the completion and handover of the Crick's building in August 2016, followed by its opening by Her Majesty the Queen on 9 November.
The building
It is impossible to write about the Crick without mentioning its magnificent building (Fig 1). The remit of the architects was challenging. The new building had to accommodate almost 1,300 researchers and about 200 administrative and support staff; be capable of housing the most sensitive scientific equipment; provide a substantial animal facility; and include containment facilities that would allow research to be carried out on the most virulent strains of influenza. The central London site had to relate to the British Library to the south and to St Pancras station to the east, and be sensitive to the concerns of those living in the social housing to the north and west. Although the plot was larger than that required by NIMR, the introduction of other partners made space tight.
One solution adopted by the architects (HOK and PLP Architecture) was to dig down, so one third of the building is positioned underground. The apparent mass above ground was reduced by placing the curved roof (which echoes the Barlow Shed of St Pancras) away from the main walls, such that it is not visible from the street. Most importantly, the building is open – open to the public and open to the researchers inside. The public have access to the exhibition space and they can see scientists working in the building: having coffee or lunch, discussing their results and reading papers. Scientists work in large open-plan lab spaces. There are clear lines of sight so that it is easy to see colleagues; the architects were made aware of the desirability of promoting chance interactions and a prominent feature is the large central staircase that people will use several times a day. Of particular importance, there are large collaboration spaces in the centre of each floor, and on the bridges that connect the labs across the atrium. In some respects the building is an experiment in social engineering and the impression so far is that the experiment is working.
What makes the Crick different?
The Crick inherits great scientific momentum from the NIMR and LRI but as its new identity evolves, it will differ from similarly sized institutions. First, its scale means that it will not need to focus on any one subject, such as tumour immunology, infectious disease or regenerative medicine. Consistent with this approach, the institute will have no departments or divisions to drive strategy, and the lack of departments will also encourage research groups to interact with colleagues in different research areas. As described above, the Crick's building is designed to promote interactions. The focus of the institute will be research excellence with an emphasis on securing outstanding early-career researchers with little heed to their subject area. The Crick intends to use its independence to ignore the usual journal-based metrics of success and appoint and assess on the basis of the importance of the questions they are addressing and their potential to answer them.
The Francis Crick Institute's career structure will also reflect and encourage this strategy. Early-career researchers will be recruited, in the first instance, for 6 years. They will receive generous core support with no need, in their first few years, to apply for external grants. After 6 years, subject to review, they will be eligible to remain for 6 more years, after which they will leave the institute for senior positions elsewhere. No exceptions will be made, which will ensure that the institute has turnover, maintains its excellence and fulfils its national role by attracting the best scientists to the UK, by providing the best training possible and then placing them in the best institutions in the country. One of the ways the Crick will measure success is not by asking who it retains, but who leaves and where they go. This career structure is designed to maintain excellence, allow the Crick to be nimble in its science and enable the institute to fulfil its national role as research and health priorities and opportunities evolve.
As a new and independent institute, the Crick has an opportunity to set bold precedents in its recruitment strategy, and one area in which the institute hopes to excel is equality and diversity. The Crick has no intention to lose the best scientists because they are women, or gay, or come from the 'wrong' ethnic or social background. Unconscious bias training will be undertaken and part-time working will be supported.
International recruitment will be key to the Crick's success and, indeed, to the success of UK biomedicine. However, a threat to both is Brexit.
The Greater Crick
The Crick differs from other institutes in its constitution: it has three parent universities and their associated medical schools and health providers. It is this link with the London universities that will be key to the expansion of its scientific horizons – in the clinical sciences and in subjects such as chemistry, material science and the data sciences. Researchers from the universities will be encouraged to take up short- to medium-term appointments in the Crick. These may be through sabbaticals, satellite groups (where a university-based group leader sends group members to the institute to work with a Crick group leader) or secondments (where an entire university-based group moves to the Crick for a period of up to 6 years). The Crick partners have been through two rounds of this process so far, which has already succeeded in bringing new types of science to the institute. A reciprocal arrangement is planned for the Crick to enable its researchers to work in partner university departments, a process that should begin next year.
The Crick and its partners are enthusiastic about these interactions, which inspired joint activities even before the building was completed. These have included the Crick PhD programme, in which all students have a university-based co-supervisor. Shared supervision has proved to be a powerful way to encourage interactions. There has been an inspiring series of interdisciplinary symposia on wide-ranging subjects, such as imaging, tuberculosis and mathematical biology; these meetings will soon be complemented by joint symposia with the Alan Turing Institute.
There has been little opportunity, at this early stage of the Institute's history, to expand internationally beyond links already established in the parent research institutes. However, the Crick's proximity to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine should catalyse new programmes in global health. The potential of developments along these lines has given rise to the concept of the Greater Crick – the Greater Crick embraces the partnerships and promotes interactions between them; and, importantly, envisages the Francis Crick Institute as a functional entity beyond the physical confines of the new laboratory, harnessing the full potential of London's biomedical science.
Clinical science
The Francis Crick Institute is dedicated to understanding the scientific mechanisms of living things, with the objectives of understanding why disease develops and of finding new ways to treat, diagnose and prevent illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, infections and neurodegenerative diseases. To achieve these aims, the Crick is adopting multidisciplinary approaches and, as already emphasised, plans to engage in clinical research in partnership with the London medical schools. In particular, it hopes to shift its research emphasis towards human biology, the essential basis of translational medicine.
To this end, the Crick appointed one of us (KP) to advise the Crick on clinical and translational work in the years leading to the official opening and he has now been succeeded as clinical research director by Sir Peter Ratcliffe from Oxford. Ratcliffe's research, for which he has lately been presented with the 2016 Lasker Award, concerns the mechanisms by which cells sense oxygen levels to direct a range of adaptive responses that are important in cancer, cardiovascular and metabolic disease. As a clinician, he joins Akilesh Reddy, a neurologist recruited from the University of Cambridge to continue his studies of circadian rhythms, Rob Wilkinson, who studies patients in South Africa who are infected with tuberculosis and HIV, Charlie Swanton, a cancer researcher exploring genetic diversity in tumours and its consequences on clinical outcome, and Peter Oppenshaw from Imperial, who has a long standing collaboration with the NIMR in infectious disease. These senior clinicians will work with researchers from the three universities and recruit clinical research fellows. Medical students from UCL's MB/PhD programme will be encouraged to undertake their research in the institute's laboratories. It is intended to institute a regular Crick Grand Round, in partnership with the three medical schools.
Other initiatives are being explored in which the Crick collaborates with medical schools around the UK. For example, applications for renewals of the English Biomedical Research Centres have the opportunity to propose a 'buddy' system, in which Crick non-clinical group leaders partner with clinician researchers. And the N4 group of universities – Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and Sheffield – have set up a programme with support from the Wellcome Trust that enables their best clinical PhD students to spend time in the Crick to develop their science and be in a strong position to compete for career development fellowships in their parent medical schools. It is anticipated that these various initiatives will create a more medical mindset in the institute.
A key objective for the Francis Crick Institute is to facilitate the translation of discovery science. This is a challenging and difficult process and the research emphasis at the Crick is on basic biomedical science. However, in order to ensure that translational opportunities are not lost, the Crick has introduced an innovative programme in which a team led by David Roblin, a medically qualified and distinguished pharmaceutical scientist, ensures that the potential of the Crick discovery research is recognised and that arrangements for its translation, often in association with industry partners, are smoothly and efficiently expedited. The mindset that is being promoted is that the Crick is open to translation. In the same way that a critical mass of clinicians can 'medicalise' a basic research institute, a critical mass of industry researchers is needed to provide expertise in translational science and enhance awareness of translational opportunities. To this end, the Crick has created an open innovation partnership with GSK, the UK's largest pharmaceutical company. The partnership began with an 'awayday' enabling informal interactions between industry and institute scientists and has now evolved into a 'Linklab' partnership in which GSK scientists work in the Crick alongside Crick researchers, and Crick scientists work in GSK's hub in Stevenage. The Crick and GSK both contribute resources to the partnership, including space, personnel, equipment, reagents and consumables.
The partnership benefits from the proximity of GSK's research labs at Stevenage and the institutions' complementary areas of expertise. Importantly, intellectual property belongs to the Crick and research findings from the collaboration are to be published in peer-reviewed journals so that the discoveries can be accessed by the research community. The shared objective is accelerating the development of new treatments.
The partnership is already a success. From a standing start, there are now nine collaborative projects in the areas of infectious disease, including malaria and tuberculosis, and four in oncology. It is anticipated that the success of this scheme will soon attract similar arrangements with the research laboratories of other healthcare companies.
The Crick is a magnificent resource for UK medicine. Its research builds on the distinguished record of its founding institutes but its strategy and constitution – particularly the Greater Crick – have unique potential to develop the careers of the most talented researchers and to address some of the most important and challenging questions in biomedical science.
Conflicts of interest
KP was a senior consultant to GlaxoSmithKline from 2005–2016. JS is the science director for the Wellcome Trust.
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