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In part 1 of this interview, well loved and respected musician, songwriter, and producer Phillip Feaster chats with us about his journey. He shares a bit about his upbringing, as well as how he got started in the gospel industry.
Monday, November 19, 2018
Monday, July 9, 2018
The KOSIGN Podcast Episode: Brik.Liam
With our longest episode to date we get to know the incredible Brik.Liam a little better. We speak in depth about his latest project- TALP, the collaborators of that project, his experience opening up for the Lalah Hathaway & PJ Morton tours.. we get into it all. A highlight for me is our Brandy moment- bc yall KNOW thats my fave. You also get to know a little more about our producer Dougie!
An amazing singer, visual artist, and person- Brik has a load of insight and wisdom to share with us this episode. He's had so many experiences, and is not hesitant to share them.
For more info on Brik head over to www. BrikLiam.com :)
Monday, June 11, 2018
The KOSIGN Podcast Episode: Will Preyer
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@WillPreyer talks to us about his music career, being Houston grown, and relationships. His voice is rustic and smooth at the same time making it perfect for r&b music. Will represents the full singer/performer package.
His latest project- Take Me Home was released earlier this year. It's a fun addition to the music he's released in the past. He's currently working on another project that we touch on during this episode. What you'll learn most here though is that Will & Dougie are out of control. Enjoy! lol
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Monday, June 4, 2018
The KOSIGN Podcast: Episode REIGN
When it comes to sheer star power, Midwest born artist Reign has it. For years I've kept my eye on this girl waiting on her to push through again. Now that she's back- I had to grab her for the show. We had the best time! Follow Reign on all social media platforms @itsreignsworld! Enjoy! xo
Monday, May 7, 2018
The KOSIGN Podcast Episode: JC
When it comes to sheer talent and delivery Jon-Christopher aka JC is the man. Whether it be fitness or music, this guy performs at a level of excellence. As owner/operator of TriSet Fitness, JC's audacity meets his clients full force. Before he was killing the gym he was killing the stage as the bassist for well loved Jazz fusion band- Jaspects. A strong personality, matched with a brilliant mind, and drive- JC doesn't short stop at all.
In part one of our chat he opens up about what got him started in music, how he joined the band, and what led him into the fitness world. There's so much to talk about with JC!
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
The KOSIGN Podcast Episode: Mylah
Songbird @Mylah shares her journey with KayKi & Dougie in a casual conversation touching on just about everything! Mylah, an artist all the way around- a true singer/songwriter has stayed true to her sound and her vibe. In her most recent release, The Purge- Mylah emotes in a way that fans can truly relate!
Along with creating and curating an incredible career in music, Mylah talks the balance of mommyhood and how it impacts her day to day. She speaks to the importance of staying her course, and what she thinks about music today! This #KOSIGN is way overdue!
Get her new project- The Purge on all digital outlets! Also ATLANTA tonight I'm hosting a dope event for this chick! Come check out Mylah and a crew of some other dope women TONIGHT at Aisle 5 for The Purge x 199X Experience! For tickets Click Here!
Monday, February 26, 2018
The KOSIGN Podcast Episode: Chantae Cann
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The well loved and celebrated @ChantaeCann sits to chat with KayKi & Dougie about her ever so popular "People Make the World Go Round" video, her career after it, and her spiritual foundation. Chantae also shares her inspirations and influences while hinting at her dream collabs! She's not only that angelic voice we know and love, but she's absolutely hilarious too!
Currently on her Sol Empowered tour, you can catch Chantae Cann's live experience in a city near you!
Saturday, February 10, 2018
The KOSIGN Podcast Episode: Willie HyN
@WillieHyN!!! A favorite of mine. A true wordsmith, music lover, and comedian. In our interview Hyn opens up like never before about his journey, how he got started, his relationship with the incredible people on his team, and much more!
Willie Hyn speaks about his relationship with Musiq Soulchild, RoseBowlATL2 happening February 22nd (tickets available now!), and what we can expect from his next project - "The Roses are Dead Tour"!
Check it out!
Saturday, January 13, 2018
Purpose Tee Launch Party!
In honor of the relaunch of the #KOSIGN as a podcast I created these simple yet powerful statement pieces. In a variety of colors & styles for a variety of creatives.. they answer the question, "What am I on this earth to do?"
They send a direct message to the world about #purpose, #gifts, and talents. They also speak to why I am here in a way! I've got them coming for every #Creative I'm looking to #KOSIGN, so if you don't see your set repped yet.. stay tuned!
Makeup Artists
More to come!
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
KayKi KOSIGN Ep. 2: Visual Artist Corey Whitehead + KOSIGNs for Beyonce, Rapper Kay ID, & "Mom-Preneur" Toni Preyer
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Cumulative probability of cardiac events in postinfarction patients with and without peripheral arterial disease (PAD), defined based on symptoms of intermittent claudication. A, Secondary cardiac events, defined as unstable angina or nonfatal myocardial infarction or cardiac death. B, Primary cardiac events, defined as nonfatal myocardial infarction or cardiac death. C, Cardiac events, defined as cardiac death (P<.001 for all, log-rank statistic).
Cumulative probability of cardiac death in postinfarction patients with peripheral arterial disease taking (n = 43) and not taking (n = 35) β-blockers (P = .01, log-rank test).
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Narins CR, Zareba W, Moss AJ, et al. Relationship Between Intermittent Claudication, Inflammation, Thrombosis, and Recurrent Cardiac Events Among Survivors of Myocardial Infarction. Arch Intern Med. 2004;164(4):440–446. doi:10.1001/archinte.164.4.440
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Among coronary disease patients, concomitant peripheral arterial disease is a potent risk factor for future cardiac events and mortality. We sought to determine clinical and biochemical markers that might better elucidate the relationship between coronary and peripheral arterial disease.
Two months after an index myocardial infarction, 1045 patients provided detailed medical histories and underwent blood testing for selected hemostatic, lipid, and inflammatory markers. Patients were then followed up prospectively for a mean of 26 months.
Compared with individuals without intermittent claudication (n = 966), those with claudication (n = 78) (information was unavailable for 1 individual) were significantly older and demonstrated an increased frequency of diabetes mellitus, tobacco use, prior cardiac and cerebrovascular events, and depressed left ventricular function. Individuals with claudication were less likely to receive β-blocker therapy after the index infarction. Individuals with claudication had evidence of enhanced procoagulant and proinflammatory states manifested by relative elevations in plasma fibrinogen, D-dimer, C-reactive protein, and serum amyloid A concentrations. During follow-up, the presence of claudication was associated with an independent 2-fold increase in the combined end point of death or nonfatal cardiac event (38.5% vs 17.8%, P = .001) and a 5-fold increase in cardiac mortality (19.2% vs 3.6%, P = .001). Patients with intermittent claudication who were not treated with β-blockers had a significant 3-fold mortality excess relative to those receiving β-blockers.
Following myocardial infarction, the added presence of intermittent claudication is associated with heightened procoagulant and proinflammatory states and an underuse of β-blocker therapy and is a strong independent predictor of recurrent cardiovascular events.
ATHEROSCLEROSIS IS a systemic disorder with a propensity to affect multiple vascular beds. The presence of lower extremity peripheral arterial disease, whether symptomatic or clinically silent, is associated with significantly elevated risk for future cardiac events and mortality.1-4 Even among patients in whom coronary artery disease has already become clinically manifest, the additional presence of peripheral arterial disease portends worse outcomes.5-8 Whether the coexistence of peripheral arterial disease in coronary disease patients simply denotes a more advanced stage in the disease process or instead reflects a different, perhaps more aggressive, underlying pathophysiologic process is unclear. In an attempt to better understand the relationship between coronary and peripheral arterial disease, the present study examined differences in clinical variables; medical therapies; levels of multiple thrombogenic, lipid, and inflammatory factors; and prognoses within a large cohort of postinfarction patients with and without coexisting intermittent claudication.
This investigation is a substudy of the Thrombogenic Factors and Recurrent Coronary Events (THROMBO) study.9 One thousand forty-five patients were enrolled 2 months after an index myocardial infarction between October 3, 1994, and June 30, 1997. Patients of either sex who were 21 years or older and had been admitted to a coronary care unit at 1 of 13 participating hospitals with a documented acute myocardial infarction (enzyme-confirmed with symptoms or electrocardiographic changes) and who survived until 2 months after the index event were eligible for enrollment. Full details regarding enrollment and exclusion criteria are outlined in the primary publication.9
At the time of enrollment, a detailed medical history and listing of current medications were recorded. The presence or absence of intermittent claudication, defined clinically as the occurrence of exertionally related calf, hip, and/or buttock discomfort that occurred with walking and was relieved with rest, was determined at the time of study entry. Patients were followed up prospectively (mean, 26 months) for the occurrence of study end points.
Blood samples were obtained in the fasting state at the time of study enrollment, 2 months after the index myocardial infarction. The patients were advised not to take their morning medications and to refrain from smoking within 24 hours prior to blood draw. Oral anticoagulant therapy (warfarin sodium) was not withheld. Following blood draws, plasma was immediately separated by centrifugation and transferred into 1-mL cryovial containers. All specimens were stored at −80°C and transferred to designated core laboratories.
Specific assays for thrombogenic factors (D-dimer, fibrinogen, von Willebrand factor, factor VII, factor VIIa, and plasminogen activator inhibitor 1) and metabolic factors (cholesterol, triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, lipoprotein[a], and apolipoproteins AI and B) were performed using previously published methods, as indicated in the primary study publication.9 Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol was calculated via the Friedewald equation. C-reactive protein (CRP) and serum amyloid A (SAA) levels were measured using high-sensitivity assays.10
Primary end points for the THROMBO study were defined as death due to coronary heart disease or recurrent nonfatal myocardial infarction, whichever occurred first.
Secondary end points were defined as death due to coronary heart disease or recurrent nonfatal myocardial infarction or unstable angina pectoris, whichever occurred first. The association between intermittent claudication and death also was analyzed.
Baseline clinical characteristics and levels of blood variables were compared between individuals with and without intermittent claudication using the χ2 test, t test (2-tailed, unpaired), and nonparametric Mann-Whitney test, where appropriate. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to determine the association between hematologic variables and peripheral arterial disease after adjustment for clinical covariates and medications. Odds ratios describe the likelihood of the patient with peripheral arterial disease having a blood level of the tested variable in the high-risk quartile. The effect of the presence or absence of intermittent claudication on the time to cardiac events was assessed using the Kaplan-Meier method and the log-rank test. The Cox proportional hazards survivorship method (SASPHREG computer program; SAS Institute, Cary, NC) was used to determine whether peripheral arterial disease was independently associated with cardiac events after adjustment for the clinical covariates and medications listed in Table 1.
Intermittent claudication was present in 78 patients (7.5%), whereas 966 denied symptoms of claudication (information regarding intermittent claudication status was unavailable for 1 subject). Compared with individuals without intermittent claudication, those with claudication were significantly older, more frequently had diabetes mellitus, and were more likely to be current or previous smokers (Table 1). The groups did not differ in relation to sex, race, and prevalence of hypertension. Patients with claudication were more likely to have experienced prior cardiac symptoms (angina pectoris), have had a prior cardiovascular event (stroke or prior myocardial infarction), and exhibit left ventricular dysfunction (as measured by a history of pulmonary congestion and an ejection fraction ≤30%) than subjects without claudication.
Patients with and without intermittent claudication did not differ with respect to frequency of treatment with aspirin, lipid-lowering agents, or warfarin. Patients with claudication, however, were significantly less likely to receive β-blocker therapy than patients without claudication. Conversely, calcium channel antagonists, nitrates, and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors were more commonly prescribed among patients with intermittent claudication.
Evidence of a heightened thrombotic state was present among patients with claudication, as reflected by significantly elevated concentrations of fibrinogen and D-dimer and by nonsignificant trends toward increased concentrations of all other hemostatic factors that were examined (Table 2). Even after exclusion of patients taking warfarin at the time of enrollment, concentrations of these factors remained significantly greater among individuals with claudication. Among patients who were not receiving warfarin therapy, levels of factor VII (but not factor VIIa) were significantly higher in patients with vs without claudication (P = .02).
Relative to the post–myocardial infarction group without claudication, patients with intermittent claudication demonstrated a significant increase in concentrations of the inflammatory markers CRP and SAA. There was no significant difference in concentrations of lipids between individuals with and without intermittent claudication.
The association between peripheral arterial disease and levels of blood variables also was tested in a multivariate logistic regression after adjustment for clinical covariates. Advanced age (P = .02), diabetes mellitus (P<.001), prior myocardial infarction (P<.001), smoking (P = .004), and pulmonary congestion (P = .002) were significantly associated with the presence of claudication. After adjustment for these clinical variables, elevated levels of fibrinogen (odds ratio, 2.10; P = .005), D-dimer (odds ratio, 1.75; P = .046), and CRP (odds ratio, 2.41; P = .002) remained significantly associated with intermittent claudication. von Willebrand factor levels did not maintain significance after adjustment (odds ratio, 1.22; P = .47).
During the mean follow-up of 26 months, patients with claudication were 5 times more likely than those without claudication to have a fatal cardiac event (19.2% vs 3.6%, P = .001) and more than twice as likely to have any major adverse cardiac event (38.5% vs 17.8%, P = .001). Kaplan-Meier analysis demonstrated an early and progressive separation of the time-to-event curves for all adverse events based on the presence or absence of intermittent claudication (Figure 1).
Given the more extensive cardiac risk factor profile, increased incidence of prior cardiovascular events, and relative decrease in left ventricular function observed among individuals with intermittent claudication, Cox proportional hazards multivariate analysis was performed to determine if intermittent claudication was associated with adverse outcomes independent of these potentially confounding clinical variables. After adjustment for the clinical variables listed in Table 1, the presence of intermittent claudication remained associated with a significantly and independently elevated risk of future cardiac events and mortality (Table 3). Among all clinical variables examined, intermittent claudication was the most potent predictor of future adverse cardiac events. This association was not altered by medication variables added one at a time to the models. Likewise, the presence of intermittent claudication remained an independent predictor of nonfatal infarction or death during follow-up after adjustment for differences in inflammatory and hemostatic markers (hazard ratio, 2.51; P<.001).
Because β-blocker use might have affected the clinical course of patients, we evaluated the cumulative probability of cardiac events among patients with intermittent claudication in relationship to β-blocker use. As shown in Figure 2, patients with claudication who were not treated with β-blockers had a significantly higher mortality than those who received β-blocker therapy.
Among a large group of individuals who survived a recent myocardial infarction, the added presence of intermittent claudication is associated with significantly enhanced thrombotic and inflammatory states, as evidenced by increased levels of fibrinogen, D-dimer, CRP, and SAA protein. In addition, postinfarction patients with intermittent claudication were significantly less likely than individuals without claudication to receive β-blocker therapy, despite data suggesting significant survival benefits among patients with claudication who were treated with β-blockers (Figure 2).
Concordant with prior reports, a strong independent relationship was found in our cohort between the presence of intermittent claudication and the risk of subsequent major adverse cardiac events. Compared with patients without intermittent claudication, those with claudication were significantly older, more likely to have diabetes mellitus and a history of smoking, and more often had a history of prior cardiovascular events, severe left ventricular dysfunction, and pulmonary edema. Even after adjustment for these factors, intermittent claudication remained a strong predictor of cardiac events, including cardiac death and nonfatal reinfarction. In summary, our findings suggest that an association exists between the heightened prothrombic and proinflammatory states observed among postinfarction patients with claudication and adverse outcomes in this subset.
Among patients with symptomatic peripheral arterial disease, long-term outcomes are poor relative to matched controls.1,2,11 In a study of 2777 male veterans with claudication followed up for a mean duration of 47 months, an annual mortality of 12% was observed, which was significantly greater than that of the age-adjusted US male population.2 Two thirds of deaths in this cohort were attributable to cardiac disease. In a separate population-based study1 of 8343 men aged 40 to 65 years, intermittent claudication was associated with an independent 1.5-fold increase in all-cause mortality during a 21-year follow-up.
Poor outcomes have also been noted among patients with coronary artery disease and peripheral atherosclerosis, the latter serving as a harbinger of adverse cardiac events and mortality among individuals with clinically stable coronary disease,5 those undergoing coronary bypass surgery,6 and those presenting with myocardial infarction.7,8 Within our cohort of clinically stable survivors of a recent myocardial infarction, the added presence of symptomatic peripheral arterial disease was associated with a greater than 2-fold excess of recurrent nonfatal coronary events and a greater than 5-fold increase in cardiac death during the ensuing 26 months.
A large body of evidence derived from clinical, pathologic, and in vitro analyses has implicated thrombosis and inflammation as critical components of coronary arterial plaque rupture and its attendant clinical sequelae. In population-based studies,12-16 blood levels of hemostatic markers, including fibrinogen, D-dimer, von Willebrand factor, and tissue plasminogen activator, and serum concentrations of markers of inflammation, including CRP and SAA protein, correlate with the presence or subsequent development of clinically overt coronary heart disease. In addition, among apparently healthy men, baseline levels of fibrinogen and CRP are independent predictors of the future development of symptomatic peripheral arterial disease.17,18 Elevated serum concentrations of different inflammatory and thrombotic factors have been shown among various patient populations to correlate with future adverse cardiovascular events.9,19,20
In our study population of patients after myocardial infarction, the additional presence of intermittent claudication was associated with significantly increased concentrations of fibrinogen, D-dimer, and CRP. Therefore, while patients with coronary disease exhibit a heightened tendency toward thrombosis and inflammation relative to healthy controls, patients with symptomatic coronary and peripheral arterial disease demonstrate further alterations in thrombotic and inflammatory markers. Interestingly, no significant differences in lipid factors were observed between patients with and without peripheral arterial disease regardless of lipid-lowering therapy. Lack of differences in lipid profiles between patients with and without symptomatic peripheral arterial disease could be explained by the atherosclerotic enrichment of our overall population consisting exclusively of postinfarction patients.
Although postinfarction patients with concurrent symptomatic peripheral arterial disease demonstrated elevated serum levels of selected inflammatory and thrombotic markers relative to postinfarction patients without coexisting claudication, the issue of "cause and effect" remains uncertain. Specifically, it is unclear from our study whether a heightened inflammatory and thrombotic state among individuals with coronary artery disease predisposes to the development of peripheral arterial disease, or is merely a reflection of more diffuse atherosclerosis that has already developed.
Among post–myocardial infarction patients enrolled in our study, elevated D-dimer levels together with elevated apolipoprotein B and lower apolipoprotein A levels were independent predictors of primary cardiac events after adjustment for clinical predictors of adverse events. Interestingly, in our study population, while fibrinogen and CRP were predictive of future primary cardiac events in a univariate model, these factors did not emerge as independent predictors of primary cardiac events in a multivariate model that included other clinical predictors of adverse outcomes, including the presence of intermittent claudication. Most important, the presence of claudication remained independently associated with adverse cardiac events after adjusting for elevated D-dimer, elevated apolipoprotein B, and lower apolipoprotein A levels.
Randomized clinical trials have demonstrated that β-adrenergic receptor antagonist administration following myocardial infarction is associated with significant reductions in early and late mortality.21-23 In our study population, only about half of the myocardial infarction survivors with symptomatic peripheral arterial disease were receiving β-blocker therapy 2 months following their index event, a proportion that was significantly less than that observed among patients without claudication. The reasons for this more limited use of β-blocker therapy among postinfarction patients with claudication are likely multifactorial. Because of concerns that β-blocking agents may further reduce blood flow through diseased peripheral arteries, the presence of claudication has been viewed as a relative contraindication for this form of therapy.24 More recent studies,25,26 however, suggest that β-blockers do not reduce peripheral perfusion or adversely affect walking capacity in patients with intermittent claudication and are, in fact, well tolerated in these individuals. Given the adverse prognostic implications of peripheral arterial disease following myocardial infarction, coupled with the known survival benefits of β-blocker therapy, individuals with peripheral arterial disease might be expected to benefit especially from this form of therapy. In our postinfarction patients with intermittent claudication, those treated with β-blocker therapy experienced a 3-fold reduction in cumulative cardiac mortality, compared with patients not treated with β-blockers.
The diagnoses of myocardial infarction and intermittent claudication were based on clinical definitions. While the study used standard criteria to define the presence of intermittent claudication, routine confirmatory lower extremity arterial testing (ankle-brachial indexes and duplex ultrasonography) was not performed. Although the presence of intermittent claudication correlates well with the presence of underlying arterial obstructive disease, other nonvascular syndromes can produce leg pain and may have been present among some patients considered to have claudication.
The present study provides further evidence that in postinfarction patients symptomatic peripheral arterial disease is associated with worse outcomes. Individuals with concomitant intermittent claudication and coronary artery disease demonstrated hematologic evidence of heightened thrombotic and inflammatory states compared with patients with coronary disease alone. Postinfarction patients with intermittent claudication were also less likely to receive β-blocker therapy, despite the survival benefits of this therapy. In addition to emphasizing the need for the more appropriate use of β-blocker therapy in this high-risk group, these findings also raise the question as to whether therapies specifically targeted at thrombosis (such as clopidogrel bisulfate27) or at inflammation may have a special role in these patients.
Corresponding author and reprints: Wojciech Zareba, MD, PhD, Heart Research Follow-up Program, Cardiology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Campus Box 653, Rochester, NY 14642 (e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com).
Accepted for publication March 28, 2003.
This study was supported by grant 5R01 HL48259 from the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
We thank Elizabeth Carroll, MS, and Mark Andrews, BBA, for their expert assistance with data analysis.
Thrombogenic Factors and Recurrent Coronary Events Investigators
Coordinating Center
Staff: Arthur J. Moss, MD (program principal investigator), Wojciech Zareba, MD, PhD, David Oakes, PhD, Mary W. Brown, MS, Patricia Severski, BS, Mark Andrews, BBA, Nancy Kellogg, Deborah Ramsell, Bonnie MacKecknie.
Core Laboratory Coordinators
Lipid Core Laboratory, University of Rochester Medical Center: Charles Sparks, MD; Hematology Core Laboratory I, University of Rochester Medical Center:Victor J. Marder, MD; Hematology Core Laboratory II, St Luke's–Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY:Harvey Weiss, MD, Beatriz De La Fuente, MD; Electrocardiogram Core Laboratory, St Luke's–Roosevelt Hospital: Henry Greenberg, MD; CRP and Serum Amyloid A Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital: Paul M. Ridker, MD; Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston: Nader Rifai, PhD.
Principal Investigators From Participating Centers
Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC: William Little, MD; Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York: Rohit Arora, MD, Alan Simon, MD, Brian Stizik, MD; Highland Hospital, Rochester: John Gillespie, MD; Jewish Hospital of St Louis, St Louis: Ronald J. Krone, MD, Lawrence Beraducci, MD; Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY: Monty Bodenheimer, MD; Maimonides Medical Center: Edgar Lichstein, MD; Oklahoma Research Foundation, Oklahoma City: James H. Morrissey, PhD; St Luke's–Roosevelt Hospital: Robert B. Case, MD, Henry Greenberg, MD, Judith Hochman, MD; UMDNJ (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey)–New Jersey Medical School, Newark: Edward Dwyer, MD; University of Arizona Medical Center, Tucson: Frank Marcus, MD; University of Rochester Medical Center:Chang-Seng Liang, MD; USUHS (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences), New Market, Md: Robert Goldstein, MD; Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC: Lucy VanVoorhees, MD.


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Client: Clarks Demolition
Location: Mistley, Essex
Date: 07/06/2018
At tbf Scaffolding we can get involved with projects at any stage required and our recent work with Mistley Quay, for Clarks Demolition, will aid in the new development of up to 45 new luxury dwellings.
This locally high-profiled development will see the Old Maltings transformed into new high-end accommodation. The building is set within an area of 'Manningtree and Mistley's Conservation Area' with a large number of listed buildings in close proximity including the recently listed Quay Wall and two neighbouring maltings buildings.
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This restaurant opened its doors in 2006 at La Cavada, just 20 minutes from Santander, near the Somo and Loredo beaches. Innovative cuisine with a traditional base, conveniently paired with the 200 entries from all over the world found in the wine list. Rigorous, inquisitive minds at work in the kitchen under the direction of Noelia Cobo. A dialogue between roots and modern times in the house risottos, the seasonal dishes and the space. Stone, brick, inmaculate white walls and contemporary furnishings, with a retro touch. The cava - located in the old cold cellar- and the wine store, are two must-sees.
Seasonal mushrooms and vegetables. Our risottos. Cod over pig's feet cream with olive caviar. Game meats.


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Just when you think you have heard it all, lo'and behold along comes a whirlwind of stupid and the morons start falling out of the trees. Such was the case at a Biden campaign virtual town hall. I give you a Democrat Member of the US House of Representatives, Marsha Fudge:
In a Biden virtual town hall, @RepMarciaFudge says governors are only opening businesses where black people might get Covid19, not "country clubs and tanning spas" pic.twitter.com/qJbzJ1rT4u— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) April 27, 2020
April 28, 2020
It's a well known fact that whites don't get haircuts, do their nails, go to the gym, or eat in restaurants. It's science, amirite?— Max Diesel Incognito Mode (@MaxDieselRI) April 27, 2020


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Admit it. You used to watch "Murder, She Wrote", or currently watch "Castle". You have probably seen one of the "CSI" shows. You have probably seen so many tv shows in which someone gets killed that you can predict, with some certainty, "whodunnit".
You have probably not codified this process. You have probably not sat down and figured out all the cliches and all the repeated, limited ways there are to divert attention away from the bad guy. You just instinctively know.
Well, my friend Bob Ingersoll has done this, thus saving us all a great deal of effort. Thank you, Bob.
Bob wrote these "rules" out last month. They make eminent sense. So, for the first time ever, and perhaps the only time, here on Bevboy's Blog, I have a guest column, courtesy of Bob Ingersoll.
Please read carefully. There will be some spoilers in this post. People who read this post and then watch some of the movies or TV shows I'm talking about will have the identity of the murderers revealed. So proceed at your own risk after this
After years of reading murder mysteries in books and comic books and watching murder mysteries on TV and in the movies, I have developed several rules all based on cliches of the genre and all of which have served me pretty well in those years. And still do.
I have the MONTE MARKHAM RULE. It goes: Excluding the short-lived PERRY MASON revival in which Markham played Perry Mason, any time you see Monty Markham in a murder mystery, HE dun it!
I remember once watching an episode of MURDER, SHE WROTE and seeing his name as a guest star in the opening credits. Mind you, not one minute of the actual episode has bee shown, just some stock footage with the title of the episode, the guest start (in alphabetical order), and the writing and directing credits. NO plot. I said, "He did it," and my wife asked me who. I said whomever Monte Markham is playing did it. She asked how I could know that, when not one second of actual story had been shown and I explained the Monty Markham rule. My wife watched the episode with me and had me point out which character was Monte Markham, when he appeared. I think she was hoping the rule would be wrong, because she was almost angry when, at the end, he did it.
I have the RULE OF THE SUPERFLUOUS CHARACTER. That one goes: in a murder mystery if one of the supporting characters seems to be getting more screen time than his or her character deserves, he or she is probably the killer. (This doesn't work in a pure whodunnit, of course, as it must be stocked with several suspects all of whom must get some degree of screen time.) Where it works is other murder mysteries, ones which aren't whodunnits just murder mysteries. Basically, this character is given more screen time this his or her importance to the story would merit, so that the viewer can't complain that the murderer was a minor and unimportant character. So, when a character is given more screen time this his or her importance to the story would seem to merit, I scream "The Rule of the Superfluous Character" and suspect him/her. It seldom lets me down.
The best example I can give is an episode of the old Smothers Brothers show FITZ AND BONES, which aired for about a month back in 1981. It was about a TV reporter in San Francisco (Dick) and this bumbling cameraman (Tom). In one episode they're investigating some crime (if memory serves it was a series of arsons). Fitz and Bones cover these arsons. And each time they show up to cover one, they find a female reporter and her camera man already there. After a while Fitz starts to suspect the the reporter is starting the fires, so that she can show up to cover them first (with her prior knowledge of where and when to be) and thereby build up her reputation.
I noticed after about the first fire that any time Fitz and Bones were scooped by this news team, Fitz would have a conversation with the news woman. But Bones would always have a conversation with her cameraman, as well. It was never as long or as detailed a conversation as Fitz was having with the news woman, but it was always there. I realized, "Hey, this cameraman is getting more screen time than he really merits for this story." And I realized he would have the same motive (build up the newswoman's reputation and he could ride along on her coattails). So my suspicions latched on him. And I wasn't wrong.
Another rule which often works (and this one works either for crime dramas or whodunnits) is the RULE OF THE FAILED ATTACK. If one of the suspects suffers an attempted murder (that is someone tried to kill him or her but failed for some reason) that person is the killer, who faked an attack to divert suspicion. Recently, when TCM ran the Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes movies and I watched them all, it happened twice. One character had a failed attack on his life, he faked it to divert suspicion and was the murderer. Same ploy was used in one of the Philo Vance novels and movies (I won't mention which one) which I saw sometime last year and one of the stupid Matt Frewer Sherlock Holmes movies that ran on Hallmark (which I saw recently and again I won't mention which one).
Agatha Christie used this play incessantly. It got to the point that any time I was reading an Agatha Christie novel and one of the characters had a failed attack on his or herself, I suspected that character. I was right every time. One time, the character was a nine-year-old girl and when she had the failed attack, I said, "Well if Agatha's following her usual ploy, this girl is the murderer." She was.
And, finally, here are a few of other rules of thumb that frequently point to the murderer in bad whodunnits:
1) If one of the characters has what seems to be an iron-clad alibi, he or she is the murderer. (I remember an episode of the 1994 BURKE'S LAW revival in which Doug McClure is the highest bidder an an auction and is killed with the statute he purchased. Two of the people at the auction weren't actually in Los Angeles, one was in Paris and the other in Hong Kong and they participated in the auction by closed-circuit television hook-ups. I immediately suspected one of them because they had the perfect alibies (how could they kill a man in Los Angeles when they were on another continent?) When only one of them showed up in the list of guest stars, I knew he was the killer. (He faked his alibi, of course, by setting up a closed-circuit broadcast from his hotel in Los Angeles and pretending it came from France).
2) If one of the characters is color-blind he/she is the murderer.
3) If one of the characters is left-handed he/she is the murderer.
I once submitted a Superman story to Julius Schwartz called "Eliminate the Impossible" in which Superman solves a murder mystery where, as a joke, I made one of the suspects the butler, one left-handed, and one color-blind. I really wish he had bought it.
I followed that up with this post:
And there is of course, those times when someone who would go on to be a huge Hollywood star appears in a murder mystery early in his or her career before he or she is a huge star and is the murderer. I remember watching an installment of one of the more famous mystery series of movies in which a huge star is one of the suspects and thought, well he (or she) can't be the murderer he (or she) is ... (Fill in the blank with said performer's name. And when you do it, do it in all caps, it was that big a name.) Only the movie was made before he or she was ... (Fill in the blank with said performer's name. And when you do it, do it in all caps, it was that big a name) and he or she was just a young character actor. And was, of course, the murderer.
(which was a reference to AFTER THE THIN MAN.)
Hope this helps.
Thanks, Bob. I'd add one more to the list. If you watch a show in which there is a recognizable guest star, a person who was formerly a star of his own show or played a big part on a show, then that actor is playing the guilty character on the show you're watching. There are so many examples of this that it isn't funny, but the one I'll use involves D.B. Woodside. He played a prominent role on "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer", and, later, on "24". I saw him recently on "Castle". When I saw him, before he had said a word, I thought, "He did it. He's the murderer!" And, he was.
What are your murder mystery cliches, my friends?


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It is just DARN cold. Temperature at 1:00 PM is at -5 with wind chill of -25. Stay warm, stay safe. Don't let the blue, clear sky fool you. IT IS COLD.
When The Big Chill hits Canada, things can get downright scary.
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Canadians know cold.
And when they talk about it, you pay attention. These reports caught our eye, not only because they made us shiver, but also because more often than not they were prefaced with "I swear this is true." Some of these accounts may indeed be apocryphal, but taken together, they give new meaning to the phrase "It was so cold that … ."
Several children got stuck to their playground equipment and had to be thawed off; Moosomin, Saskatchewan; December 19, 1983.
When a Winnipeg hotel caught fire, a person trapped by the flames simply poured a pitcher of water out the window and slid down the icicle; December 24, 1879.
In Kapuskasing, Ontario, tires fell off the rims of cars, January 15, 1994.
The snapping cold made sleds squeak so loudly that it scared the horses; Iroquois Falls, Ontario; January 23, 1935.
When cattle peed, they had to keep moving so that the icicles they made didn't freeze them to the ground; southern Saskatchewan; January 1938.
Outside of town, you could hear the school bus creaking 10 to 15 minutes before it reached the driveway; Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; January 1938.
Winnipeg's old downtown Louise Bridge over the Red River shrank more than 5-1/2 inches; February 1, 1996.
–22° to –40°F
Lake Ontario froze hard enough for motorists to drive safely between Toronto, Ont., and Rochester, N.Y., over the lake— if the wheels on their cars would turn; February 1934. Lake Ontario has completely frozen over only twice in history: February 1934 and the winter of 1874–75.
Smoke froze in the chimney and choked out the fire, and ravens just nodded at each other rather than squawking; Rivers, Manitoba; 1948.
Frigid Factoids
Seawater freezes at 29°F.
Because mercury freezes at –38°F, alcohol is used in thermometers in colder zones. It freezes at –173°F.
Fifty to 70 percent of body heat is lost through the top of your head, but only if the rest of your body is covered up. (Your mother was right, as usual.)
Taken from https://www.almanac.com/it-was-so-cold
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John Marshall Harlan
John Marshall Harlan
The second Justice John Marshall Harlan (1899-1971) preached the virtues of judicial restraint and federalism as a persistent dissenter from the reformist decisions of the Warren Court.
Dissenting was a Harlan family tradition. The grandfather whose name John Marshall Harlan bore had been a member of the turn-of-the-century Supreme Court whose lonely protests against racist rulings had made him a legend. The father and son of that first Justice Harlan were also lawyers. His namesake was born in Chicago on May 20, 1899. The second Justice Harlan attended elementary and secondary schools in the United States and Canada, then enrolled at Princeton in 1916. Following his graduation in 1920, he attended Balliol College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar, staying on to study law there and ultimately receiving both B.A. and M.A. degrees. Upon his return to the United States he commenced an apprenticeship with the Wall Street law firm of Root, Clark, Buckner & Howland, meanwhile completing his formal education as a part-time student at the New York Law School, which awarded him an LL.B. in 1924.
Law Practice
Harlan's association with Root, Clark continued for three decades. The firm made him a partner in 1931, and he became its leading trial lawyer in 1941. Harlan handled a number of spectacular and highly publicized cases for his law firm. He represented boxer Gene Tunney in a contract dispute and the New York City Board of Education in litigation arising out of its attempt to employ Bertrand Russell. Especially impressive was his defense of the Ella Wendell will against imposters claiming to be heirs of the multimillionaire spinster. Harlan also argued several appeals before the Supreme Court, in one case winning a ruling that became a landmark in the fields of corporate law and civil procedure.
Although lengthy, his service with Root, Clark was not continuous. He interrupted it several times for public service. When one of the firm's senior partners, Emory R. Buckner, was appointed U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York in 1925, Harlan became his assistant. In that capacity he participated in the prosecution of former Attorney General Harry Daugherty for official misconduct and in efforts to enforce prohibition. After returning to Root, Clark in 1927, Buckner and Harlan took leave again the following year to serve as special prosecutors for the state in an investigation of municipal graft in Queens.
During World War II Harlan joined the armed forces, rising to the rank of colonel and winning several decorations for his work as head of the Operational Analysis Section of the Eighth Air Force in England. He also served with the Air Force's Post-War Planning Section. After a few years back in private practice, in 1951 Harlan became the general counsel of the New York State Crime Commission, a body created to study the relationship between organized crime and state government.
Supreme Court Justice
Soon after he completed that assignment, President Eisenhower appointed Harlan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Harlan spent less than a year there before being elevated to the Supreme Court on November 8, 1954. His nomination encountered resistance from southerners, who feared this Harlan might share his grandfather's well known hostility to legalized segregation and hoped that delaying his confirmation might keep the Court from implementing its recently announced ruling in Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Not until March 28, 1955, was Harlan able to take his seat.
He quickly established a reputation as a "lawyer's judge" who wrote carefully crafted and scholarly opinions which explicated in great detail the reasons for his decisions. Harlan also worked hard. During the ten year period beginning with the Court's 1958 term, he authored more opinions per term than any other Justice. The reason was that he so seldom agreed with his colleagues. During his 17 years on the Court, Harlan wrote 613 opinions. Of these, 296 were dissents and another 149 were concurrances. Only 168 times did he speak for the majority.
Judicial Philosophy
Harlan served on a Court, headed throughout most of his tenure by Chief Justice Earl Warren, which was revolutionizing American constitutional law, making it an instrument for the promotion of egalitarianism, the protection of the disadvantaged, and the accomplishment of a wide variety of reforms. In the process, the Warren Court greatly expanded the role and power of the federal judiciary and considerably reduced the autonomy of the states. Harlan marched to a different drummer. Although conservative in the sense that he believed the Court should consider historical tradition and not lightly overrule its earlier decisions, he did not oppose the substance of the Warren Court's liberal reforms. Harlan was personally committed to racial justice, adopted forward positions on the enforcement of the Bill of Rights in a federal context, and sometimes took quite libertarian stands in speech and privacy cases. But he thought reform should come about through legislative action which reflected popular consent rather than through imposition by judicial fiat. Harlan preached endlessly about the need for judicial self-restraint.
An even more persistent theme in his dissents was federalism. Harlan idealized diversity and pluralism and loathed what he viewed as the compelled uniformity the Court was forcing on the country. He protested his colleagues' insistence that virtually all elected members of state and local government represent districts of equal population. He also fought a long losing battle against imposing most federal criminal procedures on the states by incorporating them into the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Harlan thought the Constitution required of state criminal procedure only fundamental fairness, not compliance with every rule the federal courts had to follow. By binding the states to national standards of its own making, he argued, the Supreme Court was precluding them from engaging in potentially productive experimentation.
His futile fight for federalism and restraint continued until cancer forced him to resign in September 1971. Although often defeated, Harlan was never vanquished, and after his death on December 29, 1971, his reputation, like that of his famous grandfather, continued to grow.
Further Reading
There is no book-length biography of Harlan, and his personal papers at Princeton remain a largely untapped resource. There is a good "Biographical Note" in David L. Shapiro, editor, The Evolution of a Judicial Philosophy: Selected Opinions and Papers of Justice John M. Harlan (1969). Norman Dorsen's "John Marshall Harlan, " in The Justices of the United States Supreme Court 1789-1969: Their Lives and Major Opinions, edited by Leon Friedman and Fred L. Israel (1969), Volume 4, and the same author's nearly identical "The Second Mr. Justice Harlan: A Constitutional Conservative, " in New York University Law Review (April 1969) are also informative. Dorsen's "John Marshall Harlan, " in The Burger Court 1969-1978, edited by Leon Friedman (1978) analyzes the last years of Harlan's tenure on the Court. Henry J. Bourguignon, "The Second Mr. Justice Harlan: His Principles of Judicial Decision Making, " in Supreme Court Review 1979 (1980) and J. Harvie Wilkerson III, "Justice John M. Harlan and the Values of Federalism, " in Virginia Law Review 57 (October 1971) are perceptive studies of Harlan's jurisprudence. Stephen M. Dane, "'Ordered Liberty' and Self-Restraint: The Judicial Philosophy of the Second Justice Harlan, " University of Cincinnati Law Review 51 (1982) is not as good. □
Harlan, John Marshall (1833-1911)
John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911)
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Supreme Court. John Marshall Harlan was one of the most influential Supreme Court justices in history, partly because he disagreed with his colleagues on some of the most pivotal cases to appear before the court. "He could lead but he could not follow. . . . His was not the temper of a negotiator," Attorney General George Wickersham said of Harlan. In his thirty-four years on the court, Harlan wrote opinions on 703 cases, but he was more noted for his 316 vigorous dissents. Harlan disagreed profoundly with Justice Stephen Field, the court's intellectual giant, for whom liberty of contract and natural rights became almost sacred, untouchable by state of federal law. Harlan was more willing to let state legislatures regulate business enterprise and working conditions and did not think judges should base decisions on their own political philosophy.
Political Background. Harlan was born in Boyle County, Kentucky. During the Civil War Harlan and his father were staunch unionists. President Abraham Lincoln rewarded the elder Harlan by appointing him federal prosecutor of the state; the younger Harlan, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 1861, became a colonel in the state's volunteer infantry. Though he supported the Union, Harlan was a harsh critic of the Lincoln administration. He supported the Constitutional Union presidential nominee in 1860 and in 1864 campaigned actively for Democratic candidate George McClellan. Harlan opposed the Thirteenth Amendment to end slavery as a "flagrant invasion of the right of self government" that he would oppose even "if there were not a dozen slaves in Kentucky." After the war Harlan became reconciled to the importance of Reconstruction, the federal policy that emancipated African Americans and extended full citizenship rights to them. At the 1876 Republican convention he supported Rutherford B. Hayes. When Hayes became president, he sent Harlan to Louisiana to resolve a dispute between white Democrats and black Republicans. In October 1877 Hayes appointed Harlan to the Supreme Court. Harlan was confirmed despite opposition from southerners for his support of Reconstruction and from Republicans for his criticism of Lincoln.
Civil Rights Cases. Harlan's first major dissent was in the Civil Rights Cases (1883), when the court struck down the 1875 Civil Rights Act. The court found this law, which forbade racial discrimination in public accommodations, to be beyond the power of Congress. Harlan, who had seen the racial turmoil of the 1860s and 1870s, recognized what would happen if private prejudices were codified into law. According to Harlan racial discrimination in public accommodations was a "badge of servitude" that Congress had to prohibit under the provisions of the Thirteenth Amendment. He also evoked the Fourteenth Amendment, which granted the federal government the affirmative power to protect U.S. citizens.
Judicial Restraint. Harlan consistently admonished his fellow justices to show judicial restraint in their renderings. He opposed the court's substitution of its own opinion for that of the Congress or a state's legislature. When the court struck down the income-tax law in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan £sf Trust Company (1895), Harlan dissented and warned the other justices that they were not judging the law but were entering into a political debate in which they had no part. He affirmed that Congress had a right to levy taxes. As for the argument that giving Congress the power to levy a tax on income or to protect the civil rights of American citizens would destroy the rights of the states, Harlan responded that "the best friends of states rights . . . are those who recognize the Union as possessing all the powers granted to it in the Constitution, whether expressly or by implication."
Legacy. Though Harlan was often a lone voice, his vitriolic dissents have fared much better than many of his colleagues' majority opinions. In United States v. E. C. Knight Company (1895) Harlan advocated a broader role for the federal government in regulating the economy, and in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) he rejected the doctrine of "separate but equal." In both of these cases, as well as in Civil Rights and Pollock, his dissenting opinions later became law. Harlan lectured on constitutional law at Columbian (now George Washington) University from 1889 until his death. In 1893 he served on the Bering Sea Arbitration Tribunal, which settled a dispute between the United States and Great Britain over Alaskan fisheries. His grandson, John Marshall Harlan II, was also a Supreme Court justice and noted dissenter.
John E. Semonche, Charting the Future: The Supreme Court Responds to a Changing Society, 1890-1920 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978);
Tinsley E. Yarbrough, Judicial Enigma: The First Justice Harlan (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).
John Marshall Harlan
John Marshall Harlan
John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911) was the lone voice on the U.S. Supreme Court supporting legal equality for African Americans during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
John Marshall Harlan was born on June 1, 1833, in Boyle County, Ky. He graduated from Centre College in 1850, then studied law at the University of Transylvania and in the office of his father, a former congressman and Federal district attorney. In 1861 he moved to Louisville to begin his own lucrative law practice.
Originally a Whig, Harlan supported the Constitutional Union party in 1860 and remained a unionist when the Civil War broke out. He recruited a regiment which fought on the side of the North but resigned his colonelcy in 1863 in order to succeed his father as the state attorney general. After the war Harlan entered politics as a Republican, gaining the support of black and white Kentuckians.
Reconstruction in the South
The origins and social credentials of Harlan and many other Kentucky Republicans throw doubt on the often-used generalization that white Republicans in the Reconstruction South were all disreputable, out-of-state "carpetbaggers" who exploited unsophisticated former slaves. Indeed, Harlan regarded the electorate as discerning voters and anticipated close and even unfavorable attention from black voters when, during his race for governor, he agreed to represent an alleged member of the Ku Klux Klan accused of participating in a lynching. Harlan (who won the case) contended that every man, whatever his politics, deserved as good a lawyer as he could pay for.
In the Republican convention of 1876, Harlan nominated his law partner Benjamin H. Bristow but, seeing the contest deadlock between Bristow and James G. Blaine, released Bristow's delegates and secured the nomination of Rutherford B. Hayes. One personal result was a break between Harlan and Bristow, whose careers had been closely parallel. Meanwhile, Harlan, in strong presidential favor, was named associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, taking his seat in December 1877.
Supreme Court Justice
During the racially tense decades that followed, Justice Harlan was almost the only man in high Federal office who spoke for the equal rights of African Americans. This concern would have cost him any elective post, but life tenure on the Court allowed his voice to be heard. Harlan alone dissented in U.S. v. Harris (1882), in which the 14th Amendment was declared not to provide African Americans with Federal protection, even from lynching. He dissented again in the Civil Rights Cases (1883), in which the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment was held not to guarantee equal access for African Americans to privately owned places of public entertainment or accommodation.
Harlan's most famous dissent was in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). The 14th Amendment says, "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States"; Harlan contended that a Louisiana law segregating African Americans into separate railroad cars was a violation thereof. Separate was not equal, he argued in a minority opinion, and he predicted, correctly, that "Jim Crow" segregation would soon extend far beyond railroad cars. He was also a dissenter in Berea College v. Kentucky (1908), which held that a Kentucky school segregation law could be made to apply to a long-integrated private college.
His Sense of Constitutionality
Harlan's contribution to racial justice was less an appeal to egalitarianism or to feelings of white guilt than to white feelings of self-confidence. In Plessy, he included an appeal to Anglo-Saxon pride which, he suggested, needed no assistance from segregation laws. Indeed, he saw no inconsistency in his championship both of the rights of oppressed African Americans and of burgeoning corporate enterprises. In his view each deserved protection from infringement on the basic right to develop to full capacity.
Harlan was also committed to the idea that the nation, as well as individuals, should maintain its strength. He dissented when the Supreme Court declared that the income tax was unconstitutional (Pollock v. Farmer's Loan and Trust Company, 1895). Similarly, in support of the premise that the states had "police power" to provide for the public welfare, Harlan joined Oliver Wendell Holmes in dissenting in Lochner v. New York (1905).
A firm believer that the American Constitution and laws passed within its framework meant what they said, Harlan accepted neither Justice Stephen J. Field's appeal to "natural law" in the 19th century nor Chief Justice Edward Douglass White's doctrine of the "rule of reason" in the 20th, as he made clear in his dissent in Standard Oil Company v. U.S. (1911). The majority had held that certain monopolistic practices in restraint of trade were "reasonable" and, hence, allowable despite the Sherman Antitrust Act. Harlan died on Oct. 14, 1911, in Washington.
In 1857 Harlan had married Malvina F. Shanklin; they had six children. In 1955 his grandson and namesake was appointed to the court on which the first John Marshall Harlan had long been the most distinguished justice.
Further Reading
The only biography is Frank Latham, Great Dissenter: John Marshall Harlan (1970). The Bristow Papers at the Library of Congress are important. A study of Harlan is Floyd Barzilia Clark, The Constitutional Doctrines of Justice Harlan (1915; 2d ed. 1969). Allison Dunham and Philip B. Kurland, eds., Mr. Justice (1956; rev. ed. 1964), has a biographical sketch of Harlan. Leo Pfeffer, This Honorable Court: A History of the United States Supreme Court (1965), is a good background study.
Additional Sources
Beth, Loren P., John Marshall Harlan: the last Whig justice, Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1992.
Yarbrough, Tinsley E., Judicial enigma: the first justice Harlan, New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. □


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Last summer I took the family to Busch Gardens. It started raining when we got there, but it was fairly light. Within a few minutes of us getting inside the gates, we were caught in a torrential downpour. I thought we were going to have to build an ark. All the rides shut down and we were busy trying to find someplace to stay dry. We had to settle for not completely soaking wet as we huddled under one those tables with an umbrella sticking out of its middle. After about a half hour the rain slowed before coming to a stop shortly after that. The rides re-opened and we were able to have a great time walking, standing in lines, buying overpriced food, standing in lines, walking, standing in lines some more, and occasionally get to the front of those lines and getting on rides. It's an American tradition.
Around these parts, we have a weekly tradition known as Thursday Movie Picks hosted by Wanderer at Wandering Through the Shelves. And yes, this week's topic is amusement parks. I like them because I love roller coasters. However, I absolutely hate the long lines I have to wait in to ride them, if you couldn't tell. Just thinking about them puts me in a hating mood. That means we have to go there. Where? We're going to talk movies that suck.


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This term in The Arts we have been working on making a movie. Our movie is going to be about a news presenter asking kids what they think "imagining" is. We asked students from Room 9 what they thought imagining is. We also do different scenes where we are doing things that are imaginative, like creating unicorns. Our movie will be shared with others later in the term.
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The Benefits of Exercise during Pregnancy
(PHILADELPHIA) – Researchers collected and re-examined clinical trial data on exercise during pregnancy and whether it plays a role in preterm birth, and found that exercise is safe and does not increase the risk of preterm birth. In addition, women who exercised were less likely to have a C-section than those who did not. The study was published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
Historically, women were discouraged from vigorous exercise during pregnancy because of the risk of preterm birth. "The thinking was that exercise releases norepinephrine in the body, which is a chemical that can stimulate contractions of the uterus, and thus lead to preterm birth," says senior author on the study Vincenzo Berghella, M.D., Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine and Professor at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University. "But numerous studies including this new meta-analysis, have since shown that exercise does not harm the baby, and can have benefits for the mom and baby."
Dr. Berghella and his co-authors pooled data from nine randomized controlled studies – one of the strongest types studies involving human subjects – in which pregnant women were divided into two groups. Of the 2,059 women who were included in the analysis, about half (1,022 women) exercised for 35-90 minutes 3-4 times per week for 10 weeks or up until their delivery, whereas the other half, (1,037 women) engaged in no exercise.
The researchers found that there was no significant increase in preterm birth, defined as delivery before 37 weeks, in women who exercised than in those who did not. There were, however, a few benefits. Women who exercised were more likely to deliver vaginally – 73 percent of exercising women delivered vaginally whereas 67 percent of non-exercising women delivered vaginally. Likewise, there was a lower incidence of C-section in women who exercised during pregnancy – 17 percent of exercising women had a C-section versus 22 percent in those who did not. There was also lower incidence of gestational diabetes, and lower rates of high blood pressure in the exercising group.
All of the women included in this analysis were carrying a single baby (not twins), had normal weight to start with, and had no health conditions that prevented them from exercising.
"The results of this analysis support current guidelines from the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), which sets the recommendations for our field," says Dr. Berghella. "However, there are many reasons women pull back on exercise during pregnancy – discomfort, an increase in tiredness and feeling winded by low level exertion. This paper reinforces that exercise is good for the mom and the baby and does not hold any increased risk preterm birth."
The authors report no conflicts of interest.
Article reference: D Di Mascio., et al, "Exercise during pregnancy in normal-weight women and risk of preterm birth: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials," Am J Obstet Gynecol, doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2016.06.014, 2016.
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text: Visiting Fellowship - David Bainbridge Lead Research Organisation: Swansea University Go back Overview Organisations People Publications Abstract Fundingdetails Bainbridge will be taking a sabbatical from his Senior Lecturer post at the University of Waikato, New Zealand from January/July 2007. During that time he will collaborate with researchers from the Universities of Illinois and Canterbury. He will also take up an invitation to visit research institutions and universities in the Singapore (e.g. NTU). We are requesting a modest amount of support funding to enable Bainbridge to be based at the University of Swansea in the FIT Lab (part of the Computer Science Department) for 4 months (March/June inclusive) and to benefit from his wide and internationally connected expertise and experience. At Swansea, Bainbridge will work on novel approaches for combining mobile devices and digital libraries. This project work will complement on-going FIT Lab projects on mobile digital libraries and the digital divide and more generally, mobile information access.While based at Swansea, Bainbridge will visit and work with Rger, a colleague he has collaborated with over the last five years in the area of multimedia digital libraries. Recently accepting a chair at the Knowledge Media institute (KMi), at the Open University, Rger has twice had sabbatical visits to Bainbridge in New Zealand. Based at KMi, Bainbridge will have the opportunity to be exposed to a wider body of work/ narrative hypermedia, social software, and semantic technologies/interrelated to his area of expertise. During his stay in the UK, Bainbridge would also undertake short visits to other collaborators: UCL (Prof. Ann Blanford), Queen Mary's (Prof. Mark Sandler) and Leeds (Dr. Kia Ng) who work with Bainbridge in the areas of HCI, music digital libraries, document content analysis, respectively. Organisations Swansea University (Lead Research Organisation) People ORCID iD Matt Jones (Principal Investigator) Harold Thimbleby (Co-Investigator) http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2222-4243 Publications The following are buttons which change the sort order, pressing the active button will toggle the sort order Author Name descending (press to sort ascending) Title Publication Date Published 10 25 50 D Bainbridge (2007) Digital Libraries on an iPod: beyond the client-server model D Bainbridge (2007) A map-based Place-browser for a PDA Jones M (2008) "Narrowcast yourself" M Jones (2008) Fishing for Information: Geo-blogging with Gestures and Sensors


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Thanks to a couple big trades at this past weekend's Chicago Sports Spectacular, and a big Monday mailday I am on pace to reach my 2019 goal of 400,000 Cubs baseball cards.
Since I headed to Chicago mid-afternoon on Friday, I had a pileup in my mailbox come Monday. A total of six packages containing nearly 3,000 Cubs baseball cards were inside.
Erik in Ohio sent a package that included a familiar card. Or wait, is it familiar? At first glance this Sportsflics-type card appeared to be Sammy Sosa. The only other card like this I have seen was from the 1990's featuring Sosa and maybe Ryne Sandberg. Nope, this was David Bote. And on the back it says, "Cubs Season Ticket Holder." Very cool, I had no idea these even existed.
The Fun Foods pins that were released in 1984 were….FUN! Here's Ron Cey. I discovered these pins early in the One Million Cubs Project and thought they were so cool I went on a big shopping spree on Sportlots to complete the Cubs set.
I love Bowman colors, and here's a blue refractor of Marco Hernandez numbered 51/250.
Some exciting news came out this week to Topps Montgomery Club members. The 2020 membership has some added value with exclusive presales on online products. The first was announced and it's Bowman Heritage. This is a product I loved, but they ran out of designs to use and it was discontinued several years ago. I'm excited to see what type of design they use. It is scheduled to be released online soon. This Felix Pie is an example of the 2007 Bowman Heritage product.
Tony in Arizona sent some goodies that were not part of my collection. I was giddy to see this Javier Baez because…I haven't seen it before. Black borders look really sharp on cards, and it's numbered 294/299.
More Javy Baez that are new to my collection. A Topps Gallery gold from 2017 and a 2019 Topps Chrome refractor.
More gold, and this is a Cubs pitcher that didn't really live up to expectations when he signed as a free agent. Brandon Morrow from 2018 Topps Update.
I loved Topps Total like this 2004 Topps Total Michael Barrett. Topps brought back the product earlier this year, but as an online product. In my opinion, which I blogged about my dissatisfaction, Topps Total should be a cheap, low-end product.
Recently I held a Twitter blowout sale with some random memorabilia that I have acquired. One piece of the collection was something I considered framing for myself, but it really doesn't fit into what I display in my basement (Cubs, Wisconsin Badgers, and Pearl Jam). Shane in Texas reached out for a trade and we made a deal. He sent some Javy Baez cards.
Cole Roederer is one of my favorite Cubs prospects and he was in this year's Bowman Platinum.
Johnny Field was one of those players that got some rookie cards in this year's Topps products that most fans and collectors are asking, "WHO?" Field received an insert from the 1984 subset and this is a blue border.
Sports Card Hub in New York sent a nice package that included several Kris Bryant cards.
Ken in California included an Aramis Ramirez jersey relic.
His package also contained a whole bunch of Ryne Sandberg cards.
Albert in Washington, D.C. sent over a large flat rate box that had plenty of good Cubs stuff. One envelope inside had a bunch of oversized Cubs with several Dave Kingman and Bruce Sutter 1980 Topps 5×7 cards, and a couple Ryne Sandberg oversized oddballs.
Speaking of Ryne Sandberg, I've always been fascinated by his brief tenure with the Philadelphia Phillies. I still need to pick up his 1980 Reading Phillies card (it's not cheap), but I was able to secure a 1981 Oklahoma City 89ers PSA graded card. This is a Tri-Star Obak from 2009 that pictures Ryno in his 89ers uniform.
A few Greg Maddux rookie cards were also included.
My first box topper from 2008 Topps Heritage features a rookie card of Kevin Hart alongside Nick Swisher and Carlos Ruiz.
After the weekend at the Chicago Sports Spectacular and this big mailday I am pacing at more than 400 cards per day in 2019 (that includes Sundays and holidays as well), and current projections have me reaching just more than 403,000 Cubs baseball cards by the end of the year.
One Million Cubs Project Stats
Monday's (11/25/2019) Cards: 2,819
Monday's (11/25/2019) Packages: 6
January's Cubs Count: 9,343
February's Cubs Count: 8,980
March's Cubs Count: 15,704
April's Cubs Count: 11,651
May's Cubs Count: 7,273
June's Cubs Count: 7,690
July's Cubs Count: 10,803
August's Cubs Count: 11,929
September's Cubs Count: 9,127
October's Cubs Count: 15,675
November's Cubs Count: 26,012
Total Trades/Donations: 304
Trade States of Origin:
Arizona (5)
Alabama (5)
California (22)
Colorado (5)
Connecticut (17)
Delaware (2)
Florida (11)
Georgia (3)
Idaho (3)
Illinois (29)
Indiana (7)
Iowa (2)
Kentucky (2)
Maryland (12)
Massachusetts (11)
Michigan (2)
Minnesota (3)
Missouri (5)
Nebraska (2)
Nevada (2)
New Hampshire (2)
New Jersey (15)
New Mexico (4)
New York (29)
North Carolina (6)
North Dakota
Ohio (18)
Oregon (3)
Pennsylvania (9)
Rhode Island (2)
South Carolina (2)
South Dakota
Tennessee (8)
Texas (10)
Vermont (5)
Virginia (2)
Washington (5)
Washington, DC
West Virginia (7)
Wisconsin (12)
Countries of Origin
Canada (1)
Korea (2)


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Understanding SEO, And Why You Should Use SEO?
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Not many people realize that writing an article in digital media requires SEO. But not a few people who understand what SEO is and why you should use SEO. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a way to make our site or blog at a level of visibility in search engines. Understanding more easily, SEO will make a website into the front row in search engines such as Google, Yahoo, or Bing.
So, when internet users want to search for content by entering keywords or keywords that relate to the contents of the content on your site, then your website will appear on the first page of search engines. Why should you use SEO? Because this is a trigger for more internet users to visit your site. If you are still confused with the understanding of SEO, the following SEO illustration briefly.
SEO illustration
A car company has a website in which there is a price list for the type of car type A, type B, and type C. If the website uses the correct SEO, when there are users who search for the keyword "type A car prices", then the website This car company will appear on the first page in the search engine. That's like a little picture of SEO activities that are right on target. The site will be easily found by consumers who will certainly benefit the company.
Why SEO?
Why does a website have to use SEO? The answer is because SEO has a very influential advantage on a website, especially on the sites of companies that sell products or services. Here are the reasons why a site must use SEO.
1. Increase Visitor Traffic
The more internet users who search for the contents of the content on your site according to certain keywords, the more visitors visit your website. That is because the links that point to your site are on the main page in the search engine.
2. Increase Sales
The current plurality of internet users makes people more search for a product or service through search engines. If your company's site uses good and correct SEO, the search engine will direct users to enter your company's site. Prospective customers who visit are usually those who are ready to buy.
3. Consumers Looking for Services or Products
As we know that to sell a product or service requires a marketing to make sales. This is indeed effective, but it will be even more helpful if a company uses SEO for its website. Because the digital age makes people rely more on the internet to find a service or product. And not the owner of a company that is busy looking for consumers.
4. Low Cost but Effective
When compared to selling services or products using advertising, SEO certainly has a much more affordable price. Especially for you small business owners who have limited finances but want your business to be known by potential customers. You can create your own site using SEO or if you can't do it yourself, you can use SEO services that are much cheaper than advertising.
That is the reason why SEO is important for a website. If you are a business owner in this digital age, of course, you will need a website so you don't compete with similar competitors. However, if your site does not use SEO that is good and right, then do not expect if potential customers will glance at the products or services in the company that you have.
Thus the article about Understanding SEO, and Why You Should Use SEO. Hopefully this article is useful.


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Perfect Touch Landscapes is not your typical landscaping company in Everett, WA. When you call on our team of experts, you'll quickly learn that we are capable of so much more than simply mowing and maintaining your lawn. While proper lawn maintenance is certainly one of the services that we offer here in Everett, Bothell, and the surrounding areas of WA, Perfect Touch Landscapes also offers a wide range of other lawn care services. From landscape design and tree services, to hardscape construction and water feature design, installation and maintenance, Perfect Touch Landscapes can tackle just about any service related to outdoor maintenance.
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Activist and publisher, Omoyele Sowore, has called for justice for Kayanmata seller, Hauwa Muhammed aka Jaruma who has been remanded in Suleja correctional center over a post she made about business tycoon and actress Regina Daniels' husband, Ned Nwoko on social media.
Nwoko who had written a petition against Jaruma, accused the popular Kayanmata seller of publishing falsehoods on her Instagram page against him and his wife, Regina.
Jaruma was arraigned before an Abuja Upper Area Court on charges centering on defamation of character, false news publication and intimidation.
Police Prosecutor, E. A Inegbenoise, told the court that Nwoko had reported the matter through a written petition from his lawyer to the FCT Police Command for proper investigation on January 20, 2021.
While Inegbenoise pleaded with the court to allow Jaruma to remain in police custody pending investigation, her lawyer, James Odibe, who made an oral bail application, urged the court to grant the defendant bail on self-recognition or in the alternative, in the most liberal terms.
The presiding judge, Justice Ismailia Abdullahi ordered that Jaruma be remanded in Suleja Correctional Centre pending the bail hearing on Friday, January 28.
Abdullahi then adjourned the matter till February 23, 2021, for trial.
Reacting to this development via his Instagram page, Sowore stressed that defamation is a civil matter and that Jaruma must be freed.
He wrote;
"#FreeJaruma: It is disheartening that Nigeria Police Force continues to deploy itself to despicable VIP mercenary activities.
"This so-called Billionaire Ned Nwoko has done so much damage to lots of innocent citizens in his community with the aid of the Nigerian police.
"Jaruma is his latest victim.
"This culture cannot stand! Defamation is a civil matter! Let @jaruma_empire go!
# RevolutionNow #WeCantContinueLikeThis"


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Touhenboku brings a whole new look (and menu) to the Distillery District
When Touhenboku Ramen announced that it was setting up shop along the cobblestones in the Distillery District, we assumed that the neighbourhood could look forward to a new destination for, well, ramen. As it turns out, there are very few noodles on the menu at the Japanese chain's third location, which recently opened for business at 42 Gristmill Lane, in the former Café Uno space. The new restaurant has a more sedate, upscale vibe than Touhenboku's first two outlets, and it's got an entirely different focus when it comes to food: sushi. Instead of steaming broths, the menu lists a variety of traditional nigiri and sashimi options, plus some fairly elaborate maki, like a unagi roll with shiso, ube and Japanese mountain potatoes. (There's also an omakase tasting menu for $45.) It's an intriguing twist, for sure, and a welcome addition to the neighbourhood—though Touhenboku may want to consider redesigning its mascot, which appears to be wearing a bowl of soup as a hat.


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Iowa State University faced another setback Thursday in its efforts to prevent the university's chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws from printing T-shirts with images of pot leaves, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit refused to grant a stay of a district court order to allow the student group to print the shirts.
In January, James Gritzner, a judge with the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, ruled that ISU had violated students' free speech rights by changing student organization rules to apply them in a non-viewpoint neutral manner, banning NORML ISU from printing T-shirts with university logos and images of pot leaves. (ISU made the decision under pressure from state lawmakers and Iowa's drug czar, Steven Lukan.) Gritzner ordered that ISU allow NORML ISU to print the T-shirts, subsequently denying ISU a stay of the ruling while the university took its case to the appellate court.
The appellate court's denial of a stay means that ISU will have to continue to approve T-shirt designs submitted by NORML ISU, which the student group will be able to print without the university's interference — at least until the appeals process is over, which NORML ISU's attorneys said Thursday could take over a year.
The cat design pictured above is one of the design concepts the university has already approved. You can take a look at others in the document below.


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Special Type of Mud discovered by Lena Blackburne
Players, especially pitchers and catchers, can give credit to Lena Blackburne for discovering a variety of mud in the Delaware Valley that when rubbed on baseballs removes gloss without discoloring or harming the balls. And, umpires to this day still rub it on baseballs before games.
A major league shortstop, third baseman, manager, coach and scout Russell Blackburne played six of his eight seasons with the Chicago White Sox. He also managed then in 1928 and 1929.
After playing in 1919 Lena Blackburne managed in the minors and piloted the Kansas City team to a Junior World Series in 1923. He returned to the majors as the White Sox manager for two seasons, 1928 a sixth place finish and a seventh place finish in 1929.
Later he was a coach for the White Sox, the St Louis Browns and the Phil A's and much later a scout.
An aggressive, intelligent playing shortstop, Lena Blackburne played during the Dead Ball Era of the early part of the 1900s. A standout amateur player in Philadelphia he worked his way up to the Chicago White Sox in 1910 and was the first player to get a hit in brand-new Comiskey Park in Chicago (July 1, 1910). The 5 ft 10.5 inch, 160-pound Russ Blackburne also went by the nickname of Slats. Baseball Players
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Creative Volunteering Reaps Rewards
Donating time or skills is usually as easy as finding a need, signing up and showing up. But living in a world without one of your five senses can make that difficult. Mel Finefrock wanted to find a way to volunteer where she didn't feel like a liability. Mel is blind, so volunteer opportunities fitting her specific abilities are limited.
"I've been at an event where we were boxing food and it felt chaotic to me. There's a lot of movement, a lot of noise and not knowing the room very well, I didn't feel like an asset there," the Richardson, Texas, State Farm® employee says.
Mel has hereditary cone/rod dystrophy. Half of her family has it going back 11 generations. "I started with a considerable amount of vision. I knew colors and objects, but since they knew my sister and I were going to go blind, we learned Braille and how to use a cane at a young age."
Mel has light perception and can see certain colors, such as a deep blue sky, a dark green lawn or a red fire engine. When Mel was a child, she loved to draw, but when she began to lose her vision, she moved to writing as a creative outlet.
"I've been writing stories since I was a kid, but I think a lot of times my stories and poems come from an image in my mind. I couldn't preserve it satisfactorily through drawing or photography, so I turned to writing," Mel says.
Mel has participated in a disability-focused creative writing contest, Pen 2 Paper, hosted by the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities (CTD) since 2010. So, it made sense that Mel would donate her time to the organization that supports those with disabilities and she could use her expertise in creative writing, editing and living with a disability.
Mel submitted a piece to Pen 2 Paper in 2010 called "The Color of Music" about how a blind girl and deaf boy communicated. It received an honorable mention. Then Mel won first place with a poetry piece submitted in 2012 called "Optical Illusions," which shared her view of the world as her eyesight failed – floating T-shirts, mistaking a small tree for a person, dreaming in color.
"I have a little light perception and at the time was going through a lot of vision loss," Mel shares.
In 2016, Mel won first place in the nonfiction category for a piece she submitted about her relationship with a physical therapist after an accident she had in 2014. Following these successes, the Pen 2 Paper coordinators had propositioned her to be a voluntary judge, but the timing was never right.
Finally, last year Mel felt she could volunteer some time to judge the contest. She devoted 15-20 hours judging the poetry and nonfiction categories, the two categories she excelled in as a participant. Overall, Pen 2 Paper received 240 submissions in three categories: Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry.
"I finally felt like I was in my element. I could do the work in the comfort of my little apartment while sipping Earl Grey tea and enjoying a breeze from my open sliding glass door," she says. "It felt like coming home. I'd read stories and learn about artists with disabilities. We were giving them a voice. It was really fulfilling."
Winners receive a gift and their pieces are posted on the website. When Mel won for poetry, she received a book of poems by a poet with Cerebral Palsy.
The CTD works to make Texas a better place for people with disabilities through governmental advocacy, public education and outreach and collaboration. The CTD adopted the arts as a means of advocacy, resulting in Pen 2 Paper, Cinema Touching Disability, and the Very Special Arts of Texas collaborates with Malvern Books in Austin to host the Lion and Pirate open mic series, which Mel recently participated in by reading two of her poems from her book, "Patchwork Poetry."
"The combination of all my poems in my book is a self-portrait. I wanted to give them a glimpse of who I was," she says.