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Brilliant SummerFest Repretory Inspired and Performed by Virtuosos
Sunday afternoon's SummerFest 2021 concert began inauspiciously when a slick introductory video rolled on for several minutes without sound. Only skilled lip-readers could follow Music Director Inon Barnatan's narration, although it proved amusing to guess the identities of archival photos of composers and historic performers that flashed across the screen.
Barnatan stopped the video and came out to the edge of the Baker-Baum Concert Hall stage to give us the live version of what we did not hear from the video. From that point on, however, the program unfolded with uncanny precision and SummerFest's predictable musical prowess. The Calidore String Quartet, a welcome newcomer to SummerFest, opened with a rewarding account of Claude Debussy's G Minor String Quartet. Displaying a marvelously tight ensemble and a bright sonority with a provocative edge, Calidore's urgent Debussy made a strong case to align the composer the Expressionist rather than the Impressionist musical camp.I was impressed with cellist Estelle Choi's earnest, focused drive, and with first violinist Jeffrey Myers' shimmering, sprightly solos, notably in the Scherzo. In the slow movement, which the composer marks "sweetly expressive," second violin Ryan Meehan and violist Jeremy Berry caressed melting themes that contributed to the movement's ardent glow. A young ensemble, although they have been playing together since 2010 when they met at L.A.'s Colburn School, Calidore has won numerous prestigious awards, and this vibrant Debussy performance easily confirmed their achievement.
At the moment, I confess that I cannot think of a duo I would rather hear perform together than pianist Barnatan and cellist Alisa Weilerstein.—their chemistry is simply nonpareil. In Benjamin Britten's daunting 1961 Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 65, written for the legendary Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, the duo elegantly negotiated its quicksilver changes from quiet, tentative but suspenseful dialogues to brilliant fireworks that shook the hall with resonant thunder, making a compelling case for Britten's unfamiliar work.
In this serious but always inviting sonata, the composer followed his own path, devising a five-movement structure with a passacaglia-like elegy as the central movement. Avoiding the easy cliches of Neo-classical pastiche and the strict formulas of the 12-tone serialists who occupied the high ground when Britten wrote the work, the sonata sounds at home with the musical styles from the end of the last century that flourished after classical music finally put away the 12-tone school straightjacket.
In the early years after World War I, Igor Stravinsky created several piano showpieces drawn from his successful orchestral ballet Petrushka for the eminent concert pianist Artur Rubinstein. Roman Rabinovich served up three of these Petrushka movements with joyous abandon. For the "Russian Dance," he summoned an orchestral brilliance and keen sense of the composer's humor; "In Petrushka's Cell" exhibited an aptly frightening chiaroscuro that verged on burlesque, and "The Shrove-Tide Fair" admirably captured the excitement of the orchestral version in purely pianistic mode.
To climax another SummerFest marathon, virtuoso clarinetist Anthony McGill gave an unmatchable account of Mozart's Quintet in A Major for Clarinet and Strings, K. 581. Over the years, McGill has been a frequent guest at both La Jolla SummerFest and San Diego's Mainly Mozart Festival, and while there was no surprise in the opulent sonority and the imaginative, supple phrasing he brought to this clarinet showpiece, there was certainly abundant pleasure. His accomplished colleagues in the quintet were violinists Tessa Lark and Jun Iwasaki; violist Jonathan Vinocour, and cellist Alisa Weilerstein. It would be difficult to imagine a more sublime crew for this late Mozart gem.
This program was presented by the La Jolla Music Society in The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center in downtown La Jolla on Sunday, August 1, 2021; SummerFest 2021 continues in La Jolla through August 20, 2021.


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Capital Comedy Review: The drive-in experience and BCP is back
The relativativity of the perception of time is interesting to me. Like how summers when you were a kid seemed to last a lifetime, but as an adult two months can just fly by. I'm feeling this phenomenon when I consider the last time we had Derek Seguin on the Yuk Yuk's Ottawa stage, all the way back in March. Given that we're just finishing off July right now, four months doesn't seem like too long ago, but in other ways an eternity.
Derek Seguin is super brilliant and I'm a huge fan of his comedy, as well as Derek as a person. He's really great. We have the pleasure of hosting him on Yuk's stage a few times per year and that is an honour. Just about each and every one of his tickets usually sell well in advance of his shows. Yuk's also seems like a preferred venue for comics who want to record their albums as well for some reason. A considerable number of iTunes charting comedy albums were recorded in the club.
So it was very cool when we learned Derek was coming in March and had hired someone to record his latest album. Derek was scheduled to perform Thursday March 12th to Sunday March 15th and as the weekend grew closer, and the COVID began to rage, it was becoming apparent that things were not okay. Derek recorded his album, PanDerek 1st Wave, on the Saturday night, then Derek and the club cancelled the Sunday show and voluntarily closed in advance of mandates.
Yuk's remained closed until four months later, reopening this past Friday with the advent of stage three in Ontario. For people like me, who are addicted to performing stand up comedy, that four months seemed very long. Venue closures forced people in the comedy community to be creative with their comedic outlets with online shows popping up, like Trevor Thompson who performed an impressive seventy episodes of Trevor's Pad. Usually a staple of Yuk's show lineup, it temporarily moved into Trevor's actual Pad, and now back onto the Yuk's stage every Wednesday.
Personally, I am not really good at sitting still, so when I could no longer go to work in person I got busy on some things I've always wanted to do. Things like cleaning my garage and basement. I built a website, chrisborris.com, check it out and also opened a store to sell tee shirts, trivialamusements.com, later expanding into soaps my hot wife Erin makes. I wrote a bunch and hung out with my kids, did my taxes and basically got my life together. I took advantage of the time to the best of my ability.
Four months of not performing seemed even more of a lifetime when the first opportunity to perform presented itself. Across North America, at the height of the pandemic, a new kind of show began popping up — the drive-in comedy show. I first regarded these in other cities with skepticism. People would honk approval instead of clapping. Then when I learned of an Ottawa version starting up, I was curious, and then finally when I was asked to be on a show, I became super excited.
That excitement quickly gave way to something I hadn't personally felt in comedy for a long while. I was nervous like it was the first time I was ever performing and it might as well have been. These were new circumstances. I had done a lot of writing, and had some strong ideas about trying new stuff right away, but when I got there and saw the number of people in a surprising number of cars I quickly decided this was not a show for messing around. I don't know the exact number but there were a lot of people in the audience.
The show was hosted by the very funny Sebastien Bourgault and featured some of the best comics in the city, as well as Los Angeles, Canadian Matt O'Brien and Ottawa's own Julia Hladkowitz. I was up third and followed Adam Adjokatchar and David Brennan, both of whom did very well in spite of a months long absence. By the time I climbed up on the stage the crowd had been honking nicely for a while, and I started into my set.
I found there was a definite adjustment period for the first minute. I tried a couple of things off the cuff and without being able to hear a personal reaction it was strange. I took a meandering path but eventually got to my actual jokes and they got some honks from the crowd and then the rest started to roll pretty well until I forgot one of my favourite jokes, mid joke. That's not ideal for sure but after a few supportive honks (yes there were different kinds of honks. It was weird) I pulled it together and kept going, and ended up having one of the best times ever on stage.
It was really cool and fun, and I hope they keep doing these shows because it was special. Friday July 17 also marked the beginning of Ottawa moving to stage three of the Ontario reopening plan, and while I was on stage outside, Yuk's on Elgin was opening for business for the first time. The Mark Hatfield show was on Friday and Saturday. Yuk's closed Sunday and Monday, but then we were back Tuesday night with Big Comedy Parade.
Big Comedy Parade is a collection of five local Ottawa performers in which I'm really proud to be included. I'm the boring old guy who basically does little more than speak mostly nonsense and some truth into the microphone. We have actor/impressionist/musician/
Big Comedy Parade started as a staff show. All five of us were working at Yuk's and we put on a show called Staff Infection, which a lot of people came to see. We were fairly successful drawing a crowd and the shows were incredible. I would put a BCP show up against any. They're really special. Tuesday night at Yuk's was no exception.
Probably the thing that surprises me most about Big Comedy Parade is how well we all get along. In an industry that is legitimately prone to attracting anti-social personalities, we five tend to work very well together. I can hardly recall any conflict between us other than general open hostility toward Mitch, but that's a big part of his function anyway.
I've never been more happy to perform for twenty-one people on a Tuesday. Everyone did really well, including Mitch even though he brought notes up. I was impressed because I didn't know he could even read so that was cool. In spite of the four-month break these people didn't miss a beat. Everyone had some new material and it was working first time every time which is extremely rare. I forgot the same joke again at the same point which could have been embarrassing except Mitch yelled the next line of my joke from the back and then I was on track again.
The audience of twenty-one might as well have been one hundred. They were so good and supportive. It was in my opinion one of the best shows we've ever had. They didn't miss a beat. Working with such a talented group of people seems to make each individual in the group constantly push to improve. I believe that's what's happening with Big Comedy Parade, and I also think people should come to one of our shows if you like to laugh and be happy.
A long time had passed since I'd performed last, but returning to the stage this past week has been almost correspondingly rewarding. I had a ton of fun. I was reminded why Ottawa is a superpower city in stand-up for the production of world class comedians. I was reminded why I love comedy and just exactly how good it is for me.
The next couple of weeks will be interesting at the club on Elgin street as we have fabulous comedian Kyle Brownrigg, July 23 to the 25. Sunday the 26th marks the beginning of the Mike MacDonald Summer Comedy Competition which is one of my favourite times of the year. Come out to one of those. If you're interested I'm hosting all of the Tuesday shows. Finally, from July 30th to August 1st, we come full circle with Derek Seguin coming back to the club. Get tickets soon for all of these as they will go fast given that capacities are significantly reduced for customer safety.
I'm really looking forward to seeing Derek. It seems like it's been at least three lifetimes since I last saw him. Thanks for reading. I hope to see you at a show.

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A large, partly pedunculated mass on the scapular area of a wild-caught captive Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) consisted of a multiloculated keratin cyst inhabited by a new species of harpirhynchid mite (Harpirhynchus quasimodo). The mass did not interfere with flight or behavior. This is the first record of such an infestation of cowbirds in Florida.


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St. Vincent
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Ted Melfi
Melissa Mccarthy
Bill Murray
Naomi Watts
Terrence Howard
Chris O'dowd
Film Details
Technical Specs
Maggie a struggling single woman, moves to Brooklyn with her 12-year-old son, Oliver. Having to work very long hours, she has no choice but to leave Oliver in the care of Vincent, a bawdy misanthrope next door. Vincent takes Oliver along on his trips to the race track, strip club and dive bar, and an unlikely friendship is born. The man is a mentor to the boy in his hedonistic way, and Oliver sees the good in Vincent that no one else can.
Ted Melfi
Melissa Mccarthy
Bill Murray
Naomi Watts
Terrence Howard
Chris O'dowd
James Andrew O'connor
Richard Ford
J Elaine Marcos
Katharina Damm
Niles Fitch
Larry Gray
Jeff Bowser
David Filippi
Kerry Flanagan
Donna Mitchell
David Iacono
Deirdre O'connell
Lenny Venito
Scott Adsit
Maria-christina Oliveras
Nate Corddry
Melanie Nicholls-king
Sade Demorcy
Gabriel Hernandez
Addison Rose Melfi
Alexandra Fong
Greta Lee
Ron Mclarty
Amber Clayton
Tom Durkin
Jonathan Huggins
Frank Wood
Reg E. Cathey
Ray Iannicelli
Elliot Santiago
Orlagh Cassidy
Brenda Wehle
Kimberly Quinn
Brian Berrebbi
Fred Evanko
Ron Bush
Ann Dowd
Joann Lamneck
Emma Fisher
Jaeden Lieberher
Dario Barosso
Maria Elena Ramirez
Tim Wilson
Joseph Abrams
Mike Ahern
Tommy Allen
Suzy Mazzarese Allison
Candice Alustiza
Allie Ames
Travis Anderberg
Peter Anders
Osvaldo Andreaus
Takara Ashley
Sydney Axelrod
Alex Bach
Melanie Backer
Leah Baker
Jasmine Ballou
Randall Balsmeyer
Cassandra Barbour
Laura Figueiredo Barreto
Puloma Basu
Wesley Battle
Matthew Donald Berninger
John Billeci
Carter Bissell
Alan Blagg
Don Block
Frank Bonsangue
Dave Bowers
Scott Brady
Chris Brandt
David Branum
Andrew Brauer
Michael Brewer
Bernard Brongniart
G Mac Brown
G Mac Brown
Marissa Brown
Susanna Brown
Scott Bucciero
Robert Buckman
Chris Bull
Peter Bundrick
Alejandro Camarena
Chris Carmody
Bryan Carrigan
Dave Chameides
John Chapman
Don Cheadle
Peter Chernin
Ted Chu
Marcel Ciurea
Amy Joy Clark
Joe Clark
Pashelle Clayton-robinson
Nicholas Collie
Yana Collins Lehman
William Conacher
Patty Majorczak Connolly
Paul Contos
Benjamin Cooper
Willie Cooper
John Coots
Jeffery Cornell
Marko Costanzo
Brian David Cote
Gerald Crawford
Brianna Cruz
Meghan Currier
Sonny Curtis
Efrain Cyntje
Christian Dalley
Nathan Matthew David
Rick Derby
Tom Devitt
Luciano Digeronimo
Bob Dillon
Jessica Dolinger
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Onsy Elshamy
Radical Face
Robert Fernandez
Richard Figueroa
Dann Fink
Liz Fisher
Andrew Fishman
Sarah Flack
Kevin Flynn
Marta Font
Richard Ford
John Forsdahl
Beth Friedland
Samuel Friedman
Sara Furey
Ian Gaffney-rosenfeld
Eduardo Garabal
Chris Gennarelli
Susana Gilboe
Susana Gilboe
Lou Gisone
Chris Gombos
Ginger Gonzalez
Keith Gordon
Robbie Gottlieb
Max Grafe
Stephen Grivno
Heather Gross
Adam Hall
Eva Hannon
Patrick Head
Richard Hebrank
Chris Henderson
Christopher Hensel
Jery Hewitt
Katie Hickman
Elizabeth Himelstein
Jeffrey Hinnes
Charlie Hoffman
Beth Holmes
Colin Hooker-haring
Lawrence Hoover
Ashley Hudson
Melissa L Jackson
Adam Jamebozorgi
Tommy James
Tommy James
Jefferson Airplane
Bobby Johanson
Nils Johnson
Lily Hayes Kaufman
Danielle Keehn
Brendan Kehoe
Brian Kelly
James W. Kenny
Dan-ah Kim
Robert L King
Cashizz Klay
Denny Kortze
Donald A Kozma
Kim Krafsky
Pete Kreinbihl
Beth Kuhn
Eoin V Lambe
George Lara
Sean T. Lee
Jack Lewars
Kay Liberman
Lindsay Bellock Lieber
John Lindley
Brittany Loar
Ivana Lombardi
Hamilton Longyear
Lisa Lorms
Dexter Loscher
Ray Lowe
Meghan Lowry
James Lucadamo
Jess Magee
Kasia Walicka Maimone
Corie Mandel
Rachael Maricich
Mike Marino
Julie Marr
Liz Martin
Mari Martinez
Tony Martinez
Rafael Matos
Izzy Mcallister
Brian Mccarthy
Kathryn C. Mcginnis
Ryan Mcmahon
Molly Mcmillen
Lisa Mcpherson
Dixon Mcphillips
Ted Melfi
Ted Melfi
Amanda Messenger
Emily Miller
Michael Miller
Sean Moe
Gerardo Monge
Debra Moore
Kris Moran
Mike Morini
Adrien Moscovici
Ben Murray
Malcolm Chin-soong Murray
Siddiq Muwakkil
Richard Nelson
James Nichols
Kaity Nielson
Atsushi Nishijima
James Nolan
Ed Novick
Ayo Ogundele
Jon Oshima
Kim Ostroy
Insight Out
Kyra Panchenko
Joseph Paprota
James Parsons
Film Details
Technical Specs
Miscellaneous Notes
Limited Release in United States October 10, 2014
Expanded Release in United States October 17, 2014
Wide Release in United States October 24, 2014
Project was included on the 2011 Black List.
Released in United States on Video February 17, 2015
Released in United States 2014
Limited Release in United States October 10, 2014
Expanded Release in United States October 17, 2014
Wide Release in United States October 24, 2014
Released in United States on Video February 17, 2015
Released in United States 2014 (Opening Night: East Hampton)
Released in United States 2014 (Centerpiece)
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Springfield, Mo. – On June 12, 2022, at 12:45 a.m., officers with the Springfield Police Department responded to the area of West Bypass and Chestnut Expressway in reference to a two-vehicle crash.
The initial investigation indicates a white, 2000 Chevrolet Silverado driven by Ronica Tollison, 37, from Willard, and occupied by Britany Toothman, 34, from Willard, was traveling eastbound on Chestnut and turned northbound onto West Bypass when a black, 2009 Ford F350 driven by Nick Maples, 22, from Clever, was traveling westbound on Chestnut Expressway at a high rate of speed. The vehicles collided in the intersection.
Tollison and Toothman died of their injuries on scene, and next of kin has been notified.
Maples, the driver of the Ford, displayed indications of impairment and was arrested on scene. No other vehicles were involved and nothing else was damaged in this crash.
The investigation is ongoing as to the circumstances involved in the crash. This was the eighth fatal motor vehicle crash in Springfield in 2022.
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A Pelly Crossing mother incarcerated at the Whitehorse Correctional Centre (WCC) has been unable to hold her infant for nearly eight months due to the jail's COVID-19 measures prohibiting unrestricted personal visits.
It's a situation her lawyer says is emblematic of the lack of resources for incarcerated women, particularly Indigenous ones, in the territory, and one that's only been compounded by a global pandemic.
The Department of Justice, however, says the measures are needed for everyone's safety.
Charabelle Silverfox was six months pregnant last May when she was arrested and charged, along with her sister, with first-degree murder in relation to the 2017 slaying of Derek Edwards.
The case has yet to go to trial.
Silverfox gave birth to her son, Zyryce, in August 2019 and up until late March, was able to hold and breastfeed him twice a day, every day; her husband, Calvin Menzi, moved from Pelly Crossing to Whitehorse so that the baby could regularly visit.
But as the once-distant threat of COVID-19 crept closer to home, and Yukon began to impose restrictions on once mundane activities and so, too, did the WCC.
The jail suspended personal visits for inmates on March 24; they were reinstated in May, but now may only take place in a "secure" area, where inmates and visitors can see and speak to each other, separated by walls and clear panels. Previously, visits took place in an open room.
Silverfox was still breastfeeding when the jail suspended personal visits; she hasn't been able to touch Zyryce since.
"It's hard, it's hard for a mother to be away, to not be able to touch their baby, their loved ones, just for a second," she told the News earlier this fall.
"That's all you've got in here, your thoughts, so you get lost in your thoughts and you just think about your children, your loved ones."
Corrections officers, she said, have told her she's the first person to have gone into the WCC pregnant and given birth while in custody; the system hadn't ever dealt with a situation like this before.
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The News requested, twice, interviews with corrections officials about Silverfox's situation, personal visits during the pandemic and supports available to pregnant inmates or those with infants.
Both were ignored. Department of Justice spokesperson Fiona Azizaj instead responded to questions by email, writing that the department would not, for privacy reasons, "comment on an individual or their personal circumstances."
She did confirm, however, that one person in the last four years has given birth while under the WCC's care.
Speaking generally, she wrote that the corrections branch "has transitioned to the provision of individualized care plans for all Whitehorse Correctional Centre clients," which are "dynamic documents and are updated as the needs of the individual evolve over time."
Azizaj also said that due to the evolving nature of the COVID-19 situation, "there is no estimated timeline for when in-person, contact personal visits will resume at the Correctional Centre."
"The Corrections Branch is committed to maintaining humane operations at the Correctional Centre while mitigating the risks of COVID-19 to the custodial population," she wrote.
"… This measured approach to limiting in-person contact personal visits has been implemented to protect the individuals who work and reside at the Whitehorse Correctional Centre."
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A myriad of studies have shown that skin-to-skin contact between mothers and their infants is crucial for the healthy emotional, mental and even physical development of children.
The most critical time for that is the first few years of a child's life, University of British Columbia professor and former prison doctor Ruth Elwood Martin said in an interview, and just because someone is incarcerated doesn't mean bonding can't happen. She's spearheaded several initiatives around women's health in prisons, including developing guidelines for mother-baby units in Canadian correctional facilities.
The specially-designed units allow for mothers, with the approval of prison officials, to keep their babies with them, with the intention of preserving the mother-infant relationship.
"The critics against them would say, you know, 'A jail is not the right place to house a baby,' but I think in the long-run… everything has to be done to keep that infant with its mother and to support that nuclear family," Martin said.
Even better than a unit, though, would be to have the mother in the community, she added, with options such as electronic monitoring bracelets available to ensure compliance with bail or sentencing conditions.
Martin hasn't worked with Silverfox nor in the Yukon but repeatedly described her situation as "tragic."
"For a newborn that's breastfeeding, for that father to bring that baby in twice a day, and then for COVID to hit? … You can hear my horror."
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Besides Zyryce, Silverfox and Menzi have two other children — a five-year-old daughter and an eight-year-old son they raised together.
"It's definitely, like, a lot more difficult and stuff taking care of kids without her and just managing doing everything," Menzi said.
The difficulties go beyond changing diapers or making meals; Menzi spent his first six months in Whitehorse living in a hotel while he searched for housing and, until COVID-19 hit, was driving to the jail with the baby at lunchtime and again at 5:30 p.m. for one-hour visits.
The visits don't happen as often anymore, nor do they last as long, because Zyryce, who's now walking, gets restless sitting behind the barrier.
At one point, Silverfox said, she was inquiring almost daily about when open visits would be allowed again; she's since given up on asking.
It's frustrating, she added, to know that people outside can get tattoos and haircuts or go out to eat, while parents at the jail can't even hold their children.
"It kind of feels like everyone forgot about us," she said.
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Silverfox and her lawyer, Jennifer Cunningham, said they'd approached the WCC with the idea of repurposing one of the jail's unused spaces to a mother-baby unit while Silverfox was still pregnant.
It was a proposal supported by Menzi, who said he would rather the baby stay with Silverfox full-time even if it meant he would see him less often.
Those efforts were unsuccessful, and Cunningham said applying for bail isn't a realistic option, in part, because the territory lacks the resources needed — a halfway house for women, for example — to craft a strong enough bail plan.
Silverfox's situation is "part of a larger problem," Cunningham said, and is "illustrative of the way that Indigenous women are treated in the Yukon."
"By failing to provide services, we're perpetuating systemic racism and colonialism through our institutions," she said. "Ms. Silverfox is also an intergenerational survivor of residential school and the lack of access to her child perpetuates that residential school legacy."
Asked if the WCC was considering, or had considered, creating a mother-child unit, Azizaj wrote that officials "are always looking at how we can adjust programming to best meet the needs of those at the Whitehorse Correctional Centre."
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Silverfox says she's learned to take things one day at a time; she has no other choice.
She thinks often about the WCC allowing open visits again, and likes to consider every day that passes as a step closer to finally being able to see her family without a barrier in the way.
"It's like this big dream I'm always hoping will happen," she said.
"… I play through it in my head a lot because (Zyryce) is getting big. Is he going to remember me? Is he going to think, 'Oh, she can finally touch me again, she's not behind glass?'"
She's also looking forward to hugging her older kids and her husband, and maybe sneak a kiss in if she can.
The dream of that reunion keeps her going.
"It makes me feel sad (thinking about it) but I know once it happens, it's going to be joyful," Silverfox said.
"There's going to be no words for it."
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This is about the final week (week 7) of the mindfulness course I did.
I definitely noticed this week that I have established a formal mindfulness practice habit. When I don't do it, I miss it. As well as continuing to formally practice mindfulness meditations this week, we were asked to reflect on what we had learned about ourselves and mindfulness over the past 50 days. You can read about my MBSR takeways here Tonight was our last meeting and the atmosphere in the room was different. I guess this was to be expected. In a sense it feels like an ending. From now on we are flying solo and each of us must choose whether, and how, to continue.
We must ask ourselves if after 50 days we are sufficiently committed to mindfulness to continue formal practice alone.
There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses; only results (Kenneth Blanchard)
Meditations We did a long seated Awareness of Breath meditation followed by the Body Scan. Combining meditations and being mindful for longer definitely has a greater calming effect on me. I felt very still when we stopped. We followed this with Mindful Walking, something I had not experienced before. We walked in circles – fast around the outside of the room, slowly in the middle. I tried a few steps in the outside ring but it didn't sit with my inner sense of calm so I started walking in the centre of room alone. I gave my attention to the sensation of walking and enjoyed feeling my feet roll through slow stepping. I got lost in it. Commitment
We all shared our future intentions with regards to mindfulness going forward. I will repeat each MBSR week, review the notes and use that week's meditation. I will formally practice each morning before work on weekdays. I will practice Mindful Movement (taichi) on weekends as well as a short awareness of breath meditation. I will take time in each day to pause, breathe and connect with the present. I will find ways to share the benefits of mindfulness with others.


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Cannabis – A devil in disguise. A sweet relief. Young teen's best friend. Commonly known as marijuana.
It has many nicknames, such as bud, Mary-Jane, nug, dank, the list goes on. You can vape it, smoke it, bake it, torch it up, blaze it, pretty neat expressions, aren't they? Wrap it up in a cigarette, use a bong, put it in the cookie dough, endless possibilities lie with this mixture of dried flowers, stems, and leaves.
Cannabis is in the top misused drugs among all countries, worldwide. If you have a plug, or if someone knows someone, you'll most probably end up your night chilling, zoned out on your couch, watching some TV with a fat joint between your fingers. Many people will tell you you can't get addicted to it, but… should we even tell they're so wrong?
Today we're going against those popular beliefs by showing you the 9 most common signs and symptoms of cannabis addiction and categorizing them in physical and mental signs in order to make things clearer.
Physical symptoms and signs of cannabis addiction
1. Red eyes
This could be your first association when it comes to this matter – red, bloodshot eyes, as you could see it portrayed in so many movies and cartoons. And no, it has nothing to do with waking up or rubbing your eyes as you may have thought when you were younger and more naive. Why is that, you may ask? Due to blood vessels and capillaries dilution (eye capillaries included), the blood flow increases, making eyes red. In most cases, eye drops usually help with this symptom, but at times even that isn't enough for masking things like this.
2. Cottonmouth
Next up is dry mouth, commonly known as cottonmouth. Intense marijuana enjoyers find themselves licking their lips all the time in order to supply them with some moisture and hydration as it often feels like there's no a single drop of fluid left there. Saliva production drops due to THC binding to the cannabinoid receptors CB1 and CB2, which causes glands to stop doing their job, sort to say. So if you see someone drinking an immensely large amount of water or consuming some other beverage excessively, you have a reason to suspect they took a nice, long hit before going out.
3. Hunger
You thought we'd forget about munchies? You best believe we're not. THC collaborates with ghrelin, a hormone that stimulates appetite, which makes your taste buds and smells receptors all tingly and ready for some food. This additionally makes you want to devour all that sits in front of you, whether it's a good old bag of chips, a juicy burger, or some leftover pizza from last night – trust us, you'll not be much of a chooser when it comes to hunger. Eating greedily while high is no strange thing, and if it happens often, that's a sign that things are moving towards addiction.
4. Sleeping disorder
If you find your friend or anyone you know having insomnia and being extremely lethargic along with other symptoms from these lists, that could be one of the signs that they're experiencing addiction. As we have previously mentioned some receptors, some of them play a big part in why this happens. THC interacts with those who are in charge of your wake/sleep cycle and makes consumers drowsy, sleepy, and shaky. They might want to lie down or stay indoors if they feel like they could hit the hay, or it'll simply make them a night owl, causing them to stay up all night and lose some sleep.
5. Lack of tidiness
Not paying attention to the environment and personal hygiene might be a strong clue that someone's in this enchanted circle if combined with other signs. Their clothes, furniture, hair, and skin will be soaked up in the unpleasant smell of that thick smoke. Ungroomed beard, greasy hair, not showering for days or making their sheets, even doing the dishes – those are all the hints. They're usually ignored by an individual themselves, as the only thing on their mind is how to get their daily dose of Mary-Jane.
And now that we went through some physical basics, let's focus on the other side of the issue.
Mental symptoms and signs of cannabis addiction
1. Responsiveness issues
As mentioned before, delayed responsiveness and zoning out are definitely among the relevant signs. Strong abuse of this recreational and in many countries even illegal drugs can cause long-term damage to the central nervous system and irreparable harm. In case you or anyone you know are worried you're experiencing problems like these, we're leaving you a link you can visit here for some good and additional advice.
2. Irritability
Irritability and agitation can be a general sign of this state. Some people aren't really aware that this mighty plant can make them grumpy and they don't even realize how their nervous attacks look from other perspectives. Some pieces of research have shown some emotional decrease, aggression encasement, and hostility among regular consumers. This state can truly affect the overall wellbeing and mental health, while impulsiveness can lead to some medical conditions, such as high blood pressure.
3. Mood swings
Tightly linked to the previous paragraph, dramatic switch in energy and mood swings can be one of many red flags. This can change your perception of the world, your self-image, outlook, and many other things. So if someone is acting strange, seems off, and isn't acting like their normal and usual self, it can be a warning that something isn't right.
4. Social distance
Nowadays, it's normal to see people being anti-social, and no one is judging here – it's completely fine if you consider yourself an introvert. However, when someone is a social butterfly, loves being around others and all of a sudden you're seeing them abusing and misusing the weed, as well as distancing themselves, that's a major alert that things went south.
We hope we've given you some helpful insight that'll make you think twice when you're sharing your thoughts about why marijuana is or isn't an addictive drug. The point is – if you or a person you love are having any issues, whether they're mental or physical, we would suggest reaching out to someone who could help or preferably seek some professional and medical advice. This way you can make sure this is dealt with on time, so it doesn't cause some damage beyond repair.


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Welcome to Snowflake's Startup Spotlight, where we learn about awesome companies building businesses with Snowflake. In this Q&A we'll hear from Dave Balter, CEO and Founder of Flipside, a blockchain analytics company. Read on to find out how Flipside is helping companies succeed in Web3 through use of data.
What inspires you as a founder?
Generally, I'm driven by creating something out of nothing. The "never been done before" and "that isn't possible" tend to be inspirational moments, and the ability to empower a team to execute and deliver on that inspiration is what it's all about.
Why does Flipside exist? What problem does it solve?
Flipside exists to make Web3 easy to master. But we don't just provide data; we're on call to enable ecosystem success, whether you're a company looking to integrate generalized crypto data or a Web3-native protocol, DAO, or blockchain aiming to build ahead of industry trends.
Unlike other data providers, Flipside builds Web3 success from the ground up.
In the ecosystems we cover, we:
- Standardize data curation to make cross-chain data usable.
- Maintain validators and provide governance support.
- Activate analysts for directed insights and on-demand analytics.
- Craft client marketing campaigns.
- Deploy user acquisition and retention strategies.
- Build tools for organizations and analysts, like our SDK, API, Badger, and more.
- Offer real-time support with dedicated protocol advocacy, governance, and analysis teams.
With our real-time blockchain data availability, all analysts and builders in the system can gain access to data that allows them and their businesses to thrive.
What sets Flipside apart from others in your market?
Most data providers do just that—provide data. But it's not enough to drop some chain data in your lap and say, "Good luck!"
At Flipside, we go further by building holistic mechanisms for success built atop data. We gather, maintain, and analyze the most comprehensive, cross-chain Web3 data to pinpoint the fundamental workings of the industry and its users.
We help companies and blockchains answer the question "What is a user?" in a rapidly developing, cross-chain environment, then build tools and analyses to help clients understand and grow their user base.
Another standout feature is our cross-chain data. On an individual basis, blockchain data is often open source and somewhat accessible through various chain explorers. But inconsistent methods and constant innovation mean that comparing data across blockchains is less effective than comparing apples to zebras. With our data standardization, it's never been simpler to understand and activate Web3 at scale.
What is the coolest thing Flipside is doing with data?
A lot of users ask us what the latency is on our real-time data. By definition, when any latency is involved, one's data isn't truly real time. The way to be the most real-time possible with blockchain data is to actually query a blockchain node's database directly.
We've developed a way to query a node's database with SQL and combine it with existing data using Snowflake. This opens the door for some really exciting use cases that combine real-time data with Flipside's labels and other dimension-based tables.
Keep an eye out for these features in the coming months.
Tell us about your Snowflake journey.
Prior to Snowflake, Flipside was running a legacy cloud data warehouse. While it was fantastic early in our business, we found that as we grew, we were spending a significant portion of our time tuning the data warehouse instead of building solutions for our community of analysts.
We arrived at a fork in the road. We asked ourselves, What technology is going to allow us to spend more time solving problems for our users instead of spending time managing our warehouse infrastructure?
We evaluated a wide array of solutions, from AWS to Spark to Snowflake. While Spark-based solutions looked promising, they still required a significant time investment that we felt would be better allocated to serving our users' needs. Ultimately, we identified Snowflake's managed offering as the obvious solution that would allow us to ship updates quickly to customers while not sacrificing performance.
Our team of analysts now ships new curated views of blockchain data every week, our platform serves millions of query executions each month, and we have reduced our query run times by many orders of magnitude—all while scaling month over month.
How has Snowflake enabled you to push the envelope in your market?
First, the managed nature of Snowflake allows us to focus on the user in ways we couldn't before.
Second, features like user-defined functions enable us to call systems external to our database. This opens the door to exciting new use cases around real-time data and remixing blockchain and other third-party data sets.
Finally, data shares and Snowflake Marketplace allow us to disseminate our data beyond a walled garden and watermarked dashboards. Our data is now integrated behind the scenes, powering dozens of products.
Paint a picture of Flipside before Snowflake vs. after Snowflake.
Before Snowflake, we spent a lot of time tuning and managing our data warehouse infrastructure to keep it at peak performance. It was also an arduous process to share our data with users that wanted direct access.
Since the Snowflake integration, we spend a lot less time and money on infrastructure tuning and more time focused on responding to the needs of our users. We also spend more resources on UI/UX improvements and developing features for advanced users and builders.
What's next for Flipside? What do you have your eye on for the year ahead?
Blockchain data, as open as it is, is ironically incredibly difficult to extract from a network, make sense of, and put to use. Now, accessing and using our data in a meaningful way is as easy as a click of a button with Snowflake data shares. An organization or financial institution doesn't need to know about blockchain nodes, data modeling, or engineering—the heavy lifting is already done. We're excited to bring more optimized functionality of Web3 data to future partners through Snowflake.


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Dev Hynes starts "Negro Swan"exactly where "Freetown Sound" left off. He continues his message of empowerment to those that are underrepresented but in an entirely different sonic landscape. Hynes has always been a genre-bender but on this latest project he does it better than ever. He draws from contemporaries like Frank Ocean and Solange but instead of getting lost in their shadow he creates a sound all his own. His ethereal fusion of jazz, hip hop, R&B, and art pop is truly something unique and given his ability to write compelling songs this would be a project I would be sad to miss.
The opening song, "Orlando," gives us stories of Hynes' troubled past growing up in Essex. He lets us know right away that he wasn't exactly accepted by his peers and ruthlessly bullied as a child, to the point where he stopped wanting to be himself. This is a recurring theme throughout the album, being forced conform to other people's expectations but eventually rising above that to be comfortable with who you are. On the song "Dagenham Dream," Hynes talks about being bullied so incessantly that he, "Had to act just like others just to get around." Finding community and a place where you are accepted is another theme that can be found on "Negro Swan"especially on the track "Family," where transgender activist Janet Mock speaks on the outro about finding community and, regardless of any blood relation, calling that community your family. These feelings are addressed throughout "Negro Swan" seem to be amplified by the spacey, meditative production that gives the album a very nocturnal and introspective feel. Sonically speaking, this album definitely doesn't want to hang out with the cool kids. Hynes is perfectly fine taking aspects of genres and melding them together until he gets what he envisioned. There's clearly a lot on Hynes' mind and he creates the perfect instrumental background for his ideas to be on full display.
The centerpiece of the album, "Charcoal Baby," is where Hynes' ideas coalesce beautifully into a truly great song. The opening guitar riffs are reminiscent of Blood Orange's earlier albums like "Coastal Grooves" but eventually the guitar gets lost in a swell of bright synth pads and drums that make me think of a Tame Impala song. I think Hynes described the vocals in this song the best in his interview with Pitchfork when he said, "For the vocals, I wanted something that felt a bit more joyous for, quite simply, a celebration of black skin." The song ends with Hynes singing over and over, "Can we break sometimes?" over a dreamy saxophone passage that brings the song to a close. This song is followed by the most hip hop-inspired song on the album, "Chewing Gum." On this song Blood Orange is joined by Memphis MC Project Pat and A$AP Rocky who has collaborated with Hynes before on the song Hun43rd off Rocky's album "TESTING." While the Rocky verse seems slightly out of place and doesn't add much to the song, Hynes creates a hypnotizing atmosphere with the repetition of the hook, "Tell me what you want from me."
This song is one of the many dreamy cuts that finds its place on the album along with other standouts such as Jewelry, Nappy Wonder and Saint. Each of these songs bring the same spacey, jazz infused production with a sticky hook and Hynes' vocals to back it up. Each track on the album bleeds effortlessly into the next but not so much that they lose their individuality. The topics usually change from song to song but without taking away from the theme of the album with many tracks focusing on being yourself and finding where you fit in. "Negro Swan" isn't shy about bending genres to create the ideal background to deliver its message of acceptance and empowerment of those that may be considered outsiders. It's this combination that makes "Negro Swan" a fantastic listen and well worth your time.


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In 1993, after the United States had rallied on Sunday to win a dramatic Ryder Cup—the last time the Americans won in Europe—Seve Ballesteros and Nick Faldo sat together during that night's press conference. Bernard Gallacher had captained Europe to two close losses, and someone asked Europe's two biggest stars who should lead the team at Oak Hill in two years. With a wide smile, Ballesteros said, "It should be Nick. I think he'd do a great job."
"What?" Faldo said, genuinely shocked and a little concerned that Ballesteros was serious. "You want me to decide who to put in the team, get everyone ready to play, decide who is going to play each day and win my matches? No way."
Gallacher captained Europe again two years later, and Europe won—with Faldo coming from behind to beat Curtis Strange in a crucial singles match.
The last time a Ryder Cup captain played in the matches was 1963, when Arnold Palmer was a playing captain for the U.S. team. That was long before the Ryder Cup expanded from Great Britain & Ireland to include all of Europe in 1979, and the matches went from "hit-and-giggle" golf, as Jack Nicklaus once put it, to very serious business. That year was also only the second time the matches were 18 holes apiece—as opposed to the 36 they'd been through 1959.
Here is the list of Presidents Cup captains who also have played in the matches since they began in 1994: one. Hale Irwin went 2-1 for the Americans in the inaugural event at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, a 20-12 U.S. victory.
And that's the way it should stay, especially if the PGA Tour wants the Presidents Cup to be taken more seriously, which—to put it mildly—it wants to see happen.
There has been talk all fall that Tiger Woods might name himself as one his team's four captain's picks for the matches in December, which will be played in Melbourne—the only place where the International team has ever won.
There's no doubt the tour would love to see Woods play, and so would the TV networks that will televise the matches in the middle of the night because of the 16-hour time difference between Melbourne and the East Coast of the United States.
But there are a myriad of reasons Woods shouldn't name himself. Let's start with his health—which is always an issue. The week before the matches, Woods is going to play four rounds in the exhibition he and his foundation run in the Bahamas. Then he has to fly across the world to Australia and, if he's playing, will need to play practice rounds and tee it up as early as Thursday, if he puts himself in the lineup on the first day.
That might not sound terribly daunting, but Woods has said he needs to pick his spots to play as he approaches his 44th birthday with a back that's always going to be a question mark. There's no need for him to play in Australia. His only playing goal right now should be to prepare for the Masters.
He has no choice but to play in the Bahamas. He has a choice at Royal Melbourne.
There's also this: If Woods picks Woods, he will have to jump himself over someone who finished ahead of him in the Presidents Cup points standings. Tony Finau, Gary Woodland, Rickie Fowler and Patrick Reed finished ninth through 12th. Woods was 13th.
There are those who want to see Woods play who are making the case that Woodland has done little since his U.S. Open win in June—though he did finish T-5 in last week's CJ Cup @ Nine Bridges in South Korea. But Woods has done close to nothing since his dramatic Masters win in April—and he had knee surgery two months ago.
Reed, Fowler and Finau all have Ryder Cup experience—Woodland does not. Neither does Kevin Na, who has been mentioned as a possible pick with his win last month in Las Vegas.
Fowler's first Ryder Cup was in 2010, and he quickly became a U.S. team fixture (except in 2012, when he was injured for much of the year), even when he didn't make a team on points (2016 Ryder Cup), because he's so well-liked and plays such an important role in the team room.
"There was never any doubt I was going to pick Rickie," said Davis Love III, the U.S. captain at Hazeltine National. "There's no one he can't play with, and he helps everyone relax in the team room." His selection by Woods, then, seems more than reasonable.
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It's probably important for Woods to put Reed on the team for a reason 180 degrees different than Fowler: Reed has had trouble fitting into the U.S. team room at times. In 2014, when Phil Mickelson spoke on Saturday night to Reed's first Ryder Cup team, he looked at Reed and said, "We need to know you better."
Reed didn't disagree, but he has still struggled to be part of the group at times. He earned his Captain America nickname in 2016 because of his partnership with Jordan Spieth—and a spectacular singles win over Rory McIlroy—but Spieth made it clear to Jim Furyk in Paris that he'd prefer to play with his pal Justin Thomas.
Woods has a good relationship with Reed—he was the vice-captain assigned to Reed's informal pod in 2016—and Reed wears red on Sundays at tournaments as an homage to Woods. A happy, motivated Reed would be a boon to Steve Stricker's team at Whistling Straits next year, and Woods has as good a chance as anyone to sit Reed down, captain to player, and tell him, "Here's why I picked you, and here's what I need you to do."
There is also the experience question. The Presidents Cup doesn't carry the same pressure as the Ryder Cup, in part because it has been around only since 1994—as opposed to 1927—and in part because the U.S. is 10-1-1 in the event as opposed to a 3-9 record in the Ryder Cup since the Presidents Cup was launched. The Americans expect to win the Presidents Cup; they hope to win the Ryder Cup.
Spieth's first international team competition was in the 2013 Presidents Cup, at Muirfield Village. He said that event, won easily by the U.S. team, helped him prepare for what was to come a year later in the Ryder Cup.
"I know it's not the same as the Ryder Cup," he said, "but I walked on the first tee the first day and saw Jack Nicklaus and George [W.] Bush standing there. I'd been playing on the Web.com Tour at the start of the year, and now I'm on the tee with Mr. Nicklaus and President Bush. That will make you nervous. It took me a few holes to get past that. But when I walked onto the first tee a year later at Gleneagles, I was nervous—don't get me wrong—but the Presidents Cup experience helped settle me down."
Spieth won't be on this year's team—he finished 27th in the standings—but he is certainly someone who merits captain's pick consideration if he's in the ballpark. This time around, he's not.
Playing the Ryder Cup without Presidents Cup experience doesn't mean you can't play well as a rookie. Brooks Koepka went 3-1 at Hazeltine, but then again, he has since gone on to win four major championships.
Woodland should be part of Stricker's team next year. Everyone agrees he would have a Fowler-like effect on the team room, and he can be comfortably paired with anyone. Giving him the experience he'll gain by playing Presidents Cup can only be a good thing. Plus, he deserves to be on this team.
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Finau went 2-1 on Furyk's Ryder Cup team in Paris, including crushing Tommy Fleetwood in singles, 6 and 4, after Fleetwood and Francesco Molinari had gone 4-0 the first two days. Finau should certainly be on this team after just missing a spot among the automatic eight.
The only two players outside players nine through 12 in the Presidents Cup ranking worthy of serious consideration were Mickelson—who finished 16th in the final points standings—and Woods. Mickelson essentially withdrew himself from consideration last week, saying he hadn't played well enough to deserve a spot. That had to be painful because he has been on every U.S. team since the inaugural Presidents Cup.
Woods hadn't played at all since August—other than the Monday's four-man MGM Resorts The Challenge: Japan Skins, although he will play in Japan this week at the PGA Tour's inaugural Zozo Championship. If he wins that, or even finishes top five, then considering himself would be justified. Even then, though, it still makes more sense to go with the players ahead of him in the points standings.
At a pre-Challenge press conference in Japan, Woods didn't remove himself from consideration for a spot. He went on to say that he had been "consumed" with his preparation for making his picks. One would think he'd be even more consumed with all the rest of the duties that go with being a captain during the week of the matches.
If the tour—which owns, operates and runs the Presidents Cup—wants it to be taken more seriously, Woods playing just to bring more attention to the event should be something it doesn't want. The event will get more attention when the International team begins to win more often. That's what happened to the Ryder Cup when Europe began to win.
Of course, the tour will want Woods to play. He is uniquely popular in the world of golf. No one with a vested interest in the Presidents Cup is going to tell him not to play. Which is why Woods needs to be the adult in the room and take the Faldo approach: I need to devote 100 percent of my time while in Australia to being the captain.
It's the right thing for him, for the event and for golf.


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LaCenterra at Cinco Ranch has been sold to PGIM Real Estate, part of Prudential Financial Inc.'s (NYSE: PRU) businesses, on behalf of institutional investors.
Mark Seedorff, Atlanta-based executive director of south region transactions at PGIM Real Estate, led the transaction, according to a press release. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Houston‐based Vista Equities Group and its equity partner, Denver-based Amstar Group, developed the 34-acre, 412,900-square-foot outdoor mixed-use retail lifestyle center in Katy. LaCenterra is within the 8,100-acre Cinco Ranch master-planned community developed by San Diego, California-based Newland Communities.
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I'm running a SEM in which I have several very positively skewed endogenous variables. Unfortunately, even when I log transform these variables they are still quite non-normal. Kline (2011) p64 writes that "Some distributions can be so severely non-normal that basically no transformation will work", and so I gave up trying to transform them more.
Kline (2011) provides another option on p177-178:
[An] option for analyzing continuous but severely non-normal endogenous variables is to use a normal theory method (i.e., ML estimation) but with nonparametric bootstrapping, which assumes only that the population and sample distributions have the same shape. In a bootstrap approach, parameters, standard errors, and model test statistics are estimated with empirical sampling distributions from large numbers of generated samples. Results of a computer simulation study by Nevitt and Hancock (2001) indicate that bootstrap estimates for a measurement model were generally less biased compared with those from standard ML estimation under conditions of non-normality and for sample sizes of N ≥ 200. For N = 100, however, bootstrapped estimates had relatively large standard errors, and many generated samples were unusable due to problems such as nonpositive definite covariance matrices. These problems are consistent with the caution by Yung and Bentler (1996) that a small sample size will not typically render accurate bootstrapped results.
In this answer @michael-chernick writes that
The theory of the bootstrap involves showing consistency of the estimate. So it can be shown in theory that it works for large samples. But it can also work in small samples. I have seen it work for classification error rate estimation particularly well in small sample sizes such as 20 for bivariate data.
Some questions:
1. Those two quotes seem at face value to be in conflict with each other, but I note that @michael-chernick was answering a question that did not involve SEM. Does SEM require a larger original sample size for successful bootstrapping? If so, why?
2. If Kline is right that bootstrapping will work poorly with a low N, what should I do if I have a low N? Say for the sake of argument I have a sample size of 100 and no way to collect more data. Should I go ahead with bootstrapping, and if so should I bootstrap using the transformed variable (remembering that the transformation didn't do a great job of resolving the non-normality) or the original variable?
Kline, R. B. (2011). Principles and practice of structural equation modeling. Guilford publications. Chicago
Yung, Y. F., & Bentler, P. M. (1996). Bootstrapping techniques in analysis of mean and covariance structures. Advanced structural equation modeling: Issues and techniques, 195-226.


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First-time landlady bags the Banbury Guardian Pub of The Year award
The New Inn in Middleton Cheney has come top of the Banbury Guardian's public poll to find Banburyshire's pub of the year.
The pub is ran by landlady Nina Houston whose path into the publican business has not been a usual one.
Nina has been at the helm of the pub for just a year but before that led a very different life.
Nina said: "I worked in a solicitors buying and selling houses. Very dull really in comparison.
"The 9-5 life was really boring and I've worked in pubs part -time on and off since I was 15 and the life of the pub always appealed to me.
She added: "I've always loved this pub because I'm from the village. It was the right pub at the right time in the right place."
Nina's ties to the community have helped as she went to school with many people she can now call customers as well as friends.
Since taking over the 17th century inn Nina has made only subtle changes, instead focusing on traditional values.
Nina said: "We've tried to build up a good food reputation, we have a good regular drinking base and just keep it clean and tidy, open with friendly staff."
"We're here, we're open, we serve food and drinks and hopefully we do it well."
Coming second in the poll was the Ye Olde Reindeer Inn in Parsons Street and third was The Bell Inn in Middleton Road.


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Two years ago in August 2018, Huawei became the second-largest smartphone maker in the world overtaking Apple, controlling around 30 per cent market share. The only company that was ahead of the Chinese giant was the South Korean company Samsung. It was the same time when the trade war between China and the United States was picking up with Trump's rhetoric going high every passing day.
In these two years, the trade war reached a level where Trump banned Huawei from using semiconductors designed based on American secret design which is the dominant model used in the market. And the effect of the semiconductor ban is that, Huawei, which was competing for global domination two years ago, is now considering an exit from the market as per a report by famous analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
Previously the Chinese technology giant with annual revenue of more than 120 billion dollars has said that its "survival" is at stake after USA's semiconductor (chip) export restrictions on the company. "We will now work hard to figure out how to survive," said Guo Ping, rotating chairman, at Huawei's annual analyst conference. "Survival is the keyword for us now."
The US released new guidelines regarding the export of semiconductors, the most essential part of any consumer electronics and technology equipment. As per new guidelines, any foreign company which seeks to export semiconductors based on secret American design has to apply for a license to the US Department of Commerce, which the department is most likely to deny.
Moreover, Google banned Huawei and Honor phones were also banned from Google apps and services. So, Huawei phones will neither have efficient American semiconductors nor Google's apps and services. And, therefore, the phone is of no utility for the consumers if it does not have the most essential apps and efficient functioning.
In May last year, the US banned American technology export to Huawei by its companies, but, on the other hand, many countries in East Asia like Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea manufactured consumer electronics essentials using American technology. Therefore, it was easy for Huawei to game the US export ban and import these products from other East Asian countries, but with new rules in place, even these countries will not be able to supply equipment to the Chinese giant.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), a Taiwanese company that manufactures semiconductors based on secretive American design, announced that the company would not take any new order from Huawei.
Huawei is the second-largest customer- accounting for 14 per cent of total orders- to the Taiwanese company which manufactures semiconductors for all top consumer electronics of the world including Apple. Therefore, the ban is bound to hurt TSMC's business but they would have to follow American rules, as they use secretive American technology to design chips.
Semiconductor, popularly known as the chip, is very essential in manufacturing any modern electronic equipment ranging from Smartphones to Refrigerators, and with the ban on access to it; Huawei would head nowhere in the global technology race.
Previously Huawei's rotating chairman Guo Ping said American is doing to protect its technology supremacy and trying to crush the competition because his company is taking the lead in global tech innovation. "Any other country or company with more advanced technologies may put US supremacy at risk," he said.
Most of the Chinese technology companies are copycats of their American counterparts and theft of American intellectual property. So China has a Baidu search engine modelled after Google, Alibaba modelled after Amazon, Tencent modelled after Facebook so on and so forth. These companies are dependent on American giants in one or the other way for software innovations or hardware equipment, and could not survive for long without the American support.
Therefore, once America pulls out and puts a ban on the use of equipment and services developed by American companies, the Chinese technology industry would collapse like a House of Cards.
A technology war has started between the US and China, as rightly argued by Global Times, the mouthpiece of Chinese Communist Party, but with all consumer electronics and technology giants like Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan on his side, it is not hard to predict who will win in this war.


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The world as we know it has been turned upside down by the coronavirus pandemic. As we welcomed the New Year in, who would ever have guessed what lay ahead! COVID-19 was first reported in China at the end of December last year (which is where the "19" in its name comes from – 2019). Since then, over 27.31 million people worldwide have been reported as having had COVID. Of these more than 19.38 million have already recovered, about 7.03 million are currently infected and, sadly, about 893,463 people have died so far.
It is now September – almost 7 months since our first case in South Africa – and here we find ourselves in the midst of the COVID-19 storm in South Africa with thousands of new cases reported every day. We hear that there have been over 638,517 cases of COVID-19 to date and that about 14,889 people have died so far. We know that the infections are spreading rapidly now and it is likely that we all know somebody who has had COVID or is currently at home (or in hospital) with it. We may even have had COVID ourselves.
It seems to be 'everywhere'. Little wonder that people are feeling anxious and concerned. BUT… it is not all bad news.
We mustn't get confused when it is said that there have been over 638,517 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country. This is the total of all the cases that have been reported since 5 March. It is not the number of people who are sick/infected at present. Many of these people have already recovered and no longer have the disease. According to our latest official statistics, more people have recovered from the disease than are currently infected ('active cases'). Almost 563,891 people have recovered so far, and about 59,737 people are
currently 'active cases'. This translates into a recovery rate of 88.6%. This is positive news.
Our biggest concern has been about saving lives. We know from the experience in other countries that many, many people have lost their lives due to the coronavirus. The case fatality rate is the number of people that have died, divided by the total number of confirmed (known) cases of COVID-19.
The case fatality rate varies across the world and very much depends on the testing strategy of a country. (The more people you test, the more cases you find. When you divide deaths by a higher number of cases you get a lower-case fatality rate.)
Some countries have case fatality rates of over 10%. The average worldwide is 4.0%. South Africa currently has a case fatality rate of 2.3%. Which means that we are not seeing the high number of deaths that we would have expected and that other countries have experienced. This can, of course, change going forward but for now we are comforted by this positive news.
With our pandemic starting a little later than many other countries, together with the time we bought with Lockdown 5, we have learnt a lot from other countries' experience. We have more information about COVID than was available earlier this year and it seems to be working for us. We now have a better idea of what treatments work and don't work, and we
have learnt that dexamethasone is a useful medicine to help reduce the severity of the disease in seriously ill patients. We also know that ventilators are not always the best or first option and we should rather use oxygen (especially high flow nasal oxygen) instead whenever possible.There is still much to be learnt but we are in a better place treatment wise
now than before. And it will only get better, too, as the results of numerous studies become available.
We know that, as a country, we are in the peak of our COVID epidemic at present. We always knew it was coming and it is here now. We also know that the Western Cape was the first Province to start surging and that this was to be followed by other provinces. Eastern Cape was next and now Gauteng and KZN are in the midst of the storm.
The good news is that we see that the Western Cape seems to be passing its peak and the number of infections is slowing down. Gauteng may be beginning to show the first signs of slowing too, although we cannot be sure. KZN is in the eye of their storm right now and other provinces are starting to take off too.
The good news is that the peak won't continue indefinitely. We do expect to continue Having lots of infections for the next 6 weeks or so, and then it should start slowing down. The experts say that October should be better and that there should be very few infections by December. Hopefully, by that time, there might be good news about a vaccine.


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Leo Messi scores 40th La Liga goal
Lionel Messi scored his 400th La Liga goal yesterday, a total his coach Ernesto Valverde described as "monstrous", as Barcelona terrorised Eibar to reclaim their five-point cushion at the top of the table.
Messi scored after being teed up by Luis Suarez, who added two goals to his own tally either side of the Argentinian marking another historic record at the Camp Nou.
The 3-0 victory saw Valverde's side restore their advantage over Atletico Madrid, who had briefly cut the gap to two points after beating Levante earlier in the day.
Real Madrid won too, beating Real Betis, but remain 10 points adrift of Barcelona.


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I am vociferously passionate about good books. And I hate adverbs.
This is not your classic romance story, but holy hell if it doesn't include some of the most intricate descriptions of true love that I have ever read.
I went into a highlighting frenzy reading this, and after finishing, it took me well over a week to just digest it.
I adored this book, it took me somewhere else, where I have never been, into situations I have never understood, and 'splained it all to me. Lovingly. With a bite.
See, most of us have never been close to anything BDSM, and view pain as, well, pain. Not as something to be sought out and relished. I still don't think I'm into pain, but the submission and bondage parts? Those I understand.
The strong, strong characters in this book make it all feel both believable and true, and the fact that a strong woman is finally taking the floor and speaking straight to my heart is truly a gift. There are so painfully (sic!) few of those around.
Nora is true, honest, raw and absolutely stunning in her perceptions. She sees through mountains of fluff in seconds, and calls every bluff on the block.
Now, the male protags in this story are no less enticing. First of all (in order of appearance I think) is Zach, Nora's editor. Now, this is a beautiful way of doing things, a Writer writing a book about a Writer writing a book, pure metafiction, and just brilliant.
So, as Nora has to rewrite her book to Zach's directions it turns into an introduction of BDSM for him, and a lovely challenge for her. In every way.
I love this free woman. She takes what she needs, gives what others need, and smiles and is on her way again. Utterly freeing.
Then Søren enters the scene from the left wing, and everything starts to tingle, a haze descends and a shiver of fear and excitement ripples through the audience. Me, that is. He is the real deal. Honest, true, faithful and the king. Of what, you will have to read the book to understand. My words here cannot describe him. Suffice it to say I am still thinking of him, wondering, wanting to know more about that dark shadow he wears like a cloak, the darkness that he is with his whole being.
There are more people in this story, women and men, all rounded characters that feel real, but the one that broke my heart was Wesley, Nora's assistant and intern. The boy is utterly lovely and sweet, and so out of his depth he is drowning without knowing it. Ms Reisz really did a magick number on him, poor boy!
A few excerpts are in order, as it is my habit to sprinkle a review with good words:
"J.P sat on the floor of his office, piles of manuscripts stacked about him like a paper Stonehenge in miniature." What a vision. Zach's boss is really drowning in it.
"I don't want to write this story any more than you want to read it." Wheew. Harsh.
Nora's book certainly opens with some intense wording. "…a man's hips were his seat of power." Now, that is how you describe why you like to watch a man walk by. Yes.
"The Club at Nine. Wait blindfolded." That's a voicemail in Nora's book that is sure to bring the reader up sharp.
And finally, one to describe Nora: "Suddenly, she didn't look tired or worried anymore. She looked wild and beautiful and so alive. 'Celibate, Zach? Have you met me?'"
Now, a short word on my experience with the text itself. This book is made of amazing writing; utterly beautiful, and shock-full of backdrops that sing with exquisite wording.
Ms Reisz paints an intense picture in every scene, where words dribble down the canvas, sometimes putting fire to it. Sometimes dousing the flames and cooling the pain. It is plain uncanny how she works her brush.
I love her words, they swirl around me, and pull me in, show me new things, things that are shiny and things that are so dark I choke. Then I wake up, shake my head and wish I was dreaming again. Like I said, uncanny.
When you're finished with The Siren, you will be hunting for more, more words, more people, more anything, to stave your hunger. To discover her page Tiffany Reisz and all the extras there was such an added bonus—to the umpteenth degree. There are whole stories there, back stories with the whole world she has created, for free, to peruse, to delve into, to muse over. Go see for yourself.
This was a truly unique experience. Thank you, Ms Reisz, for giving us a story that gets us thinking. Thank you also for showing that BDSM is something real, and not something that you need "curing" from or "saving" from.
Life is about finding your pack, and running wild.
And while I'm scared to pieces of some of the stuff from most every single page of your book, I am also in awe of your display of woman-power, your English usage and your way of portraying (FUCKING FINALLY!) a strong woman. A real woman. A beautiful woman.
Thank you. On behalf of all us other women out there. Thank you.
I was NOT asked to read this book by anyone, I paid for it with my own money.


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I could feel my tongue hanging out and my tail wagging writing this post. It's been too long and I am too excited! So many thoughts amassing here: you've got the completed book series; our orange tree and its heady coverage of blossoms (and first crop of oranges); Harry Potter (an unlikely twist, I know!); and of course this orange and breadcrumb pie – an old-fashioned beauty I think you should make 🙂 Continue reading Orange crumb pie
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Cheese souffle + best-dressed French salad
December cooking is the best, isn't it? Christmas, obviously, plus all those extra get togethers with good friends and family … That feeling it's the end of the year and time to mark and celebrate it in lots of ways, including through the food we eat. Some of the things that may happen in our house: Continue reading Cheese souffle + best-dressed French salad
Pâté, Spanish pickled vegetables
Lots of things converging here: the homemade olives we are tickle pink with; a Spanish-inspired quick pickle featuring said olives and other puckering bits (and delicious vinagery carrot!); my friend's mother's pâté recipe, which is as much a celebration of onion and nutmeg as it is chicken livers. I've made these two dishes multiple times through December and January – peasant food that is fit for a Christmas table, or for get togethers and celebrations of any kind. Continue reading Pâté, Spanish pickled vegetables
Real raspberry jelly slice
Sometimes it's an interesting dish from the other side of the world that excites me; other times it's seasonal produce or food from our own garden, or the challenge of making something from scratch. And then there is another side to me – totally smitten with the old-school Australian/British baking of my childhood. The things my Nana made, and the cakes you could buy at our local country bakery (which of course you still can, and which we do, whenever we're on a road trip. We dip into what we call 'the bakery fund', which extends to my husband buying pies, pasties and sausage rolls whenever there's a reasonable opportunity – especially if there is 'award-winning' something announced in the bakery window, i.e. in every second town.) Continue reading Real raspberry jelly slice
Sultana polenta cake
'Sultana cake' is probably not the thing you lust after … but bear with me! This cake is beautifully buttery without being particuarly high in butter, and the sultanas … well, I like sultanas, but in this cake they taste somehow better than plain sultanas – juicy and mellowed and more sophisticated. It's definitely a case of a thing being more than the sum of its parts. Continue reading Sultana polenta cake
Apricot pie
Yes, I'm banging on about apricots again. But this time it's a little different – I didn't go searching, ladder in tow, for an unloved tree in our neighbourhood, because we had apricots on OUR OWN TREE this year! Continue reading Apricot pie
Christmas pudding
I adored my nana's Christmas cake and pudding. A few days before Christmas her cake sat upon our sideboard wrapped in a fancy red tinsel cuff, my brother and I just busting to eat a piece. Her pudding was not on display but we knew it was coming … With custard and thick cream after our Christmas lunch, it was almost an otherworld experience. I remember my brother and I had three helpings once – and nana's pudding didn't even have money in it! Continue reading Christmas pudding
Chocolate walnut biscuits
It's been an interesting week this week. Is it that I've had less appointments and urgent things to do, or are things getting slightly easier at home? Some telling things have happened. While my husband was at work and the kids and I were hanging out, I had a day where I managed to fit in craft plus baking with my three year old daughter. The two of us finished decorating some origami tigers, then made a batch of chocolate walnut biscuits. She was delighted. It might not sound like much, but since having a son 9 months ago, craft and baking (and blog writing, and other things …) have been on my list of things that are just about impossible to get around to, for the moment. Continue reading Chocolate walnut biscuits


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The Demon Orobas is a Fallen Angel and 55th of the 72 Spirits of Solomon. Orobas is a prince in Hell, where he governs 20 Legions of Demons. He makes his first appearance as a horse but then changes to a man upon command. He discovers all things past and present and bestows great favours. He gives true answers to questions about the past, present, and future; divinity, and the creation of the world.
Orobas is faithful to magicians and does not like them to be tempted by any other Demon. Prior to his fall, he was in the angelic order of thrones.
From "The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King" (1904) Written by S.L. MacGregor Mathers
OROBAS. – The Fifty-fifth Spirit is Orobas. He is a great and Mighty Prince,appearing at first like a Horse; but after the command of the Exorcist he putteth on the Image of a Man. His Office is to discover all things Past,Present, and to Come; also to give Dignities, and Prelacies, and the Favour of Friends and of Foes.
He giveth True Answers of Divinity, and of the Creation of the World. He is very faithful unto the Exorcist, and will not suffer him to be tempted of any Spirit. He governeth 20 Legions of Spirits. His Seal is this, etc.
From the "Pseudomonarchia Daemonum" ( 1583 ) Written by Johann Weyer (Johann Wier)
Orobas is a great prince, he commeth foorth like a horsse, but when he putteth on him a mans idol [image], he talketh of divine vertue, he giveth true answers of things present, past, and to come, and of the divinitie, and of the creation, he deceiveth none, nor suffereth anie to be tempted, he giveth dignities and prelacies, and the favour of freends and foes, and hath rule over twentie legions.
Original Text: Orobas magnus Princeps: procedit equo conformis: hominis autem indutus idolum, de virtute divina loquitur: vera dat responsa de præteritis, præsentibus, futuris, de divinitate and creatione: neminem decipit, nec tentari sinit: confert prælaturas and dignitates, amicorum item and hostium favourem. Præsidet legionibus viginti.
From the "Dictionnaire Infernal" (edition of 1863 ) Written by Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy
High prince of hell, Orobos commands 20 legions. He appears in the form of a beautiful horse or as a man, who speaks of the divine essence. He knows of the past/present/future, can discover falsehoods, grants favours and help, and can reconcile enemies.
Original Text : Orobas, grand prince du sombre empire. On le voit sous la forme d'un beau,cheval. Quand il paraît sous la figure d'un homme, il parle de l'essence divine. Consulté, il donne des réponses sur le passé, le présent et l'avenir. Il découvre le mensonge, accorde des dignités et des emplois, réconcilie les ennemis, et a sous ses ordres vingt légions.
From Demonologia:
This Demon has the unusual quality of complete truthfulness. An honest nature isoften the path to winning the good will of both friends and enemies. Not only does herefuse to lie, but he will not allow the magician to be deceived by others. When Scotwrites of him putting on a "mans idol" he means simply the shape of a human being.Collin de Plancy has combined the two separate forms of this Demon into a single monster that has the head and hindquarters of a horse, but the torso and arms of a man.