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It took less than two minutes to step off the Amtrak in Boston before I saw a man hoist his Patriots hoodie past his nipples and slap his bare belly. His friends laughed approvingly and swigged Gatorade that I suspected was spiked with vodka. It was Tom Brady jerseys and high fives as far as the eye could see. The scene was such a Boston-sports-fan cliché that it seemed like a parody.
I was at South Station on this sweatpants-gray early February afternoon where I was about to be picked up by Brianna Wu, who is best known as a game developer and a prominent critic of the Gamergate movement. Wu and I were about to embark on a slapdash trip across Boston even more disorienting than walking into a scrum of Brady jerseys. (I realized later the Pats' Super Bowl victory parade had just ended.) "Go Pats!" the 39-year-old Wu yelled from the driver's seat of her Audi TT as we pulled away from the station.
Then we stopped. Wu had to do a TV spot.
"When I made my first TV appearance, my hair was a mess and my eyes were bloodshot. Gamergate was vicious about it," Wu told me as she brushed her long, chestnut hair from inside a Boston-area CNN affiliate greenroom. "It was a bad way to introduce myself to the American public."
In the event your only knowledge of Gamergate comes from the Law and Order: Special Victims Unit episode in which Ice-T says "n00bs," a recap: The Gamergate movement was a loosely organized collective of gamers who claimed to want to raise awareness of ethical lapses within the gaming journalism world, but who became notorious for their tendency to threaten women. The movement's ostensible focus was ferreting out perceived moral violations, starting with accusations that feminist game developer Zoe Quinn had an inappropriate romantic relationship with a video game journalist. The journalist had not reviewed her game, but that did not stop members of the movement from beginning a sustained campaign of harassment against Quinn. From there, the movement expanded to attack other women in gaming culture, including feminist critic Anita Sarkeesian, and people, like Wu, who defended the people Gamergate was targeting.
In October 2014, Wu tweeted jokes about the movement. Shortly thereafter, self-identified Gamergaters retaliated by publishing Wu's address and other personal details on the internet, and issuing a string of death and rape threats. This behavior terrorized Wu and her husband, Frank, so much that they fled their Boston home. Even as she and her husband became temporary couch surfers, Wu continued to speak out against the harassment. "They've threatened to rape me. They've threatened to make me choke to death on my husband's severed genitals. They've threatened to murder any children I might have," she wrote in a Washington Post op-ed.
Her outspokenness incensed some Gamergaters, including Milo Yiannopoulos, who would later become a figurehead of another loosely organized movement driven by an ideology of grievance that frequently champions white nationalism, xenophobia, and misogyny — the so-called "alt-right."
Wu's experience with Gamergate made her a go-to pundit when news shows need a talking head to discuss issues of online harassment — which is why we stopped for CNN. Wu was determined to look more polished on TV this time around, but we'd gotten caught in an icy downpour after getting lost on our walk from the car garage to the studio, so her hair required hasty blow-drying. "I didn't become an engineer to deal with this," she said ruefully, gesturing with a lanky arm at her cable-ready black sheath dress, riding boots, and restyled do, the trappings of American presentability on her 6-foot-2 frame.
Raised in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and educated at Ole Miss, Wu retains a trace of Southern softness to her speech. She cohosts Rocket, a podcast on technology and geek culture, and she's got this kinetic daffiness that makes her a good, loopy conversationalist. She's passionate, but not especially perspicacious. She can be authoritative when she's speaking on feminism and cybersecurity; half the time we hung out I felt like she was my boss and the other half I felt protective of her. She seemed fundamentally kind in a raw way. She did not seem like a politician.
Wu cofounded an indie game studio called Giant Spacekat in 2010, when she was in her early 30s. Four years later, the women-led startup released a warmly received iOS game called Revolution 60. She's a regular freelance writer, and six weeks before we met, she had announced her intention to run for the congressional seat representing Massachusetts's 8th District in 2018. Yet despite her professional profile, Wu wasn't going on television to speak as a candidate, entrepreneur, or host. She had been asked to opine on a suite of antiharassment tools Twitter had released that day, because she is still most famous for being harassed online.
The entire incident was dredged up again recently, because this year, the FBI published a heavily redacted account of its Gamergate investigations. The 173-page file primarily shows the FBI looking into allegations connected to unidentified women who, based on their locations and the details given, could conceivably be Wu and critic Anita Sarkeesian; the FBI made no arrests based on its investigation. Wu told me she's livid about the files, and that most of the information she passed to the FBI isn't in them. What's more, Wu said she has experienced a fresh surge of online harassment since she announced her intention to run for office. "I spoke at Harvard this weekend and we had to sweep it for bombs beforehand," she tells me matter-of-factly.
"I'd love for people to stop referring to her as 'a main target of Gamergate.' She's a person with accomplishments and goals, it feels too reductive to just intro her that way," Amanda Warner, who cofounded Giant Spacekat with Wu after meeting her on Craigslist in 2010, told me via email. Warner praised Wu's big-picture vision and warm personality.
But Wu is embracing the notoriety. Her campaign slogan puts a positive spin on the incident: "She fought the alt-right and won."
Wu's new opponent isn't a troll, though. He's an establishment Democrat.
Massachusetts' 8th District includes parts of Boston, as well as towns like blue-collar Quincy and upscale Milton. It's the same district John Quincy Adams and Tip O'Neill represented. (Quincy is also the birthplace of Dunkin' Donuts, which makes it more Boston than Boston proper.)
By the time the primary will take place in November 2018, Wu will have lived in Boston for about a decade, after relocating there from the Bay Area with her husband in 2008. She moved around a lot as a child and young adult — around Mississippi, Florida, a brief stint in D.C., and stretches in Cupertino and Colorado. "I've lived here the longest of anywhere as an adult, so it's my home at this point," she said.
But her ties pale in comparison with those of the man she is trying to unseat. Wu's political opponent will be the 8th District's incumbent Democrat, Stephen Lynch, a gruff former ironworker with a reputation as one of the more conservative voices among the state's representatives. Lynch doesn't see this as a particularly notable distinction. "Calling me the least liberal member from Massachusetts is like calling me the slowest Kenyan in the Boston Marathon,'' he told The Boston Globe in 2010. "It's all relative."
Wu, however, points to Lynch's conservatism as the reason she has decided to oppose him. "I get so angry when things like the Muslim ban come out and Stephen Lynch just very carefully doesn't say anything for a freaking week. He's supposed to be a Democrat. He's supposed to have our back on this, and he's sitting there," she told me as we drove to her CNN appointment.
"People on my campaign have said, 'There are easier races for you to win here.' It's really true. I picked a really tough person to go up against, but it's not about, 'What is the easiest race for Brianna Wu to come in and win?' It's about what will do Massachusetts the most good. And this guy, he's a freaking dinosaur."
I knew Wu was a long-shot candidate, but I wanted to know how long. I asked a few long-term observers of local politics about Wu's strategy. "Stephen Lynch is born and bred from the area. He's a labor union guy. So politically speaking, he has a grassroots system in place. That gives him a tremendous edge over any opponent," Boston University associate professor Thomas Whalen told me over the phone. "But if this past year has taught us anything, it's that you can't rely on what happened in the past. The rule book has gone out the window."
Whalen noted that while South Boston is traditionally conservative, the dynamics of the area have rapidly changed in the past 10 years, in ways that could benefit Wu — more professionals, more young people.
"I would put her in the dark-horse category. Take her seriously. Given the national mood, and given that we're likely going to have a midterm that will be a reaction to the Trump presidency, a candidate like her could garner a lot of votes from Bernie Sanders supporters."
Longtime Boston-area political reporter David S. Bernstein has been closely watching the race, but he doesn't have Whalen's faith that the area's changing demographics are enough to make Wu a contender. Via email, he told me, "I believe Wu's odds of beating Lynch in the Democratic primary are nil."
As we tooled around Boston, Wu shared plenty of intimacies, things most politicians do not typically share with reporters. She went to rehab after college to deal with an Ambien dependency. She's adopted, and is estranged from her wealthy, conservative, Mississippian parents, as well as her two younger siblings. "I always felt like an alien growing up," Wu said. She even told me that she has recently decided to look for her biological mother. She won't tell me where she lives — Gamergate paranoia lingers — but one subject she is happy to elaborate on is how she decided to run for office.
"I personally blame Obama for Hillary losing," she said. "Because he had a chance to step in and show leadership and squash the alt-right and its tactics of harassment early on. He had that opportunity." Wu told me she had two separate calls with the White House about online harassment, but that nothing ever came of them.
Wu is new to Democratic Party politics. She followed her parents' political leanings as a teenager, and was a Republican until she was 23. During George W. Bush's first term in office, she worked in D.C., but grew dismayed by aggressive foreign policy. She switched parties, but her participation was limited to volunteering for campaigns, in particular Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential bid, for which Wu wrote an op-ed explaining why she supported Clinton's stance against the alt-right's sexist, xenophobic, and racist ideology.
In general, her pre-campaign stance closely hewed to Clinton's centrist Democratic vision. "Activism is great, but I'm a capitalist," Wu told Inc. in 2015. "I'm an entrepreneur. The ultimate solution to this stuff is going to be showing that it's economically profitable to address this market. That's the big play. That's how you win. That's my mission, activism through capitalism."
Wu spent election night despairing among the crowd at the Javits Center, until she resolved to turn Clinton's defeat into a galvanizing moment. "I realized I could not feel good about spending the next four years making pleasant distractions for a living," she said. She saw Clinton's failure as a moment to recalibrate the Democratic Party leftward. "I voted for Hillary, I supported Hillary, I think she would have been a great president, but I'm kind of tired of a party that tiptoes around an issue like universal health care," she said. "Health care is a freaking human right. I want a party that will just strongly stand up there and just say that.
"Not to mention women's reproductive health care. The way that we treat women in this country is atrocious."
Wu has put Giant Spacekat on hold as she runs, but she said she wants to bring a startup mentality to running for office. Talking to her, though, it's clear she's reckoning with the simple fact that many progressives — the Sanders voters she'll need — do not share her zeal for Clintonian politics or startup culture's libertarian, bootstrap-fetishizing ethos. She is struggling to see eye-to-eye with the left. "I'm someone that wrestles with complexity. I'm immediately suspicious when someone's really sure about something. This [national] conversation we've been having about Nazis, and the ability to punch them, it's been really distressing to me, personally, to see so many leftists I respect advocating violence."
Wu is not a progressive, although she is flirting with the definition. "I'm really soul-searching about that right now," she said when I asked about her views on the economy. "This system just isn't working for us. It's clearly not working. We can make these lovely arguments about the way capitalism was 40 years ago and live that reality, but the truth of it is, the 1 percent has kind of captured our government and has paralyzed it." Like many people in the tech world, Wu is confident that automation of jobs will prompt a widespread employment crisis, one that will make universal basic income (regular, unconditional payments from the government to every citizen) worth seriously pursuing.
That isn't one of her main platforms, though. Wu highlights three issues on her campaign website. The first two play to her strengths. She wants to turn Massachusetts into a technology hub, using her background as an engineer and tech entrepreneur to advocate for the Boston Bay to rival the Bay Area — in terms of a tech-focused economy, but not in terms of culture.
"I don't think that Silicon Valley can be saved when it comes to women and people of color. I don't," she said. "When Gamergate first started, I really expected the game industry to turn around and adjust their hiring practices. We got it to be a little bit better for a while, but if you look at the numbers, we're right back to the same old same old. Bad hiring practices, bad output. Nothing has really changed, we've just gotten a lot of lovely speeches."
I first became interested in the Wu campaign because of her second stance: She wants to turn cybersecurity into a national security issue. It felt significant to me that there might be somebody in Congress who understood how important the internet is, who grasped the vocabulary and general technical layout of cybersecurity, because Congress is notoriously ignorant about technology. After the Edward Snowden leaks, it became apparent that the legislative branch did not have the technical knowledge to even ask the right questions about the intelligence community's surveillance tactics, let alone understand the boundaries. And in 2016, senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Richard Burr (R-N.C.) proposed an anti-encryption bill that would've forced technology companies to undermine their own security by creating loopholes to allow government access, which could've doubled as security holes that could be exploited by foreign hackers and other bad actors, creating enormous vulnerabilities that would've left both regular Americans and any officials who used technology at risk. That she understands the digital world and the crises it can produce is, to me, Wu's most compelling selling point, and the reason she is an interesting post-Clinton iteration of a new Democratic politician.
Then there's this aspect of her campaign: Wu wants to hoard Massachusetts taxes as a bargaining tactic against conservative states that attempt to defund public health care initiatives. "Something that I do believe is that Massachusetts spends so much and gets so many more federal dollars taken from us than are invested here. When it comes to appropriations in Congress, I would like to see us work harder to keep more of that money here in Massachusetts," she said, eliding her website's stated platform of using tax money as a bargaining chip. "Because Massachusetts pays so much more into the federal government than we get back, we are in a powerful negotiating position. States that destroy cost-saving measures like the Affordable Care Act should expect to clean up their messes with their own tax dollars," Wu's platform reads. It's an oddly menacing theory — punish people who receive federal money to strongarm their lawmakers — and one that misunderstands how budget negotiations and tax collection and distribution work. Legislators do not have the ability to make bespoke changes to federal spending allocations as part of their iterative negotiating tactics. State taxes are allocated in each state, and federal taxes are collected at the individual level and not controlled by individual legislators. That this is one of her three tentpole platforms is unsettling, and obvious ammo for critics who say Wu is unprepared to hold office.
I followed up with Wu to ask her to explain that platform again. She backtracked on the proposal significantly, noting that she had to find a message that would appeal to the 8th District's traditionally socially conservative voters as well as its newer progressive inhabitants. "We're rethinking how we talk about this issue," she wrote me in an email. "What we're going to do is turn this messaging into a kind of positive, rather than make the core message taking money from red states."
Wu said that she still thinks Massachusetts deserves more federal money, but did not explain how exactly she would accomplish rearranging the federal budget.
The budget platform stance isn't the only sideways approach in Wu's candidacy. She's an off-the-cuff tweeter, more prone to sharing bad jokes than almost anything else, and sometimes her eccentricity gets her in trouble. For instance, she recently tweeted about how the moon could be used as a base from which to drop giant rocks on Earth as a weapon. It wasn't a joke, but it was such a baffling Shower Thoughts argument that it earned Wu a round of web mockery. Wu, however, sees her unpolished, spontaneous Twitter habit as a plus in the campaign. "People don't read my Twitter account to find some PR person running it. They want to know what I really think," she said. "I think that's the formula for politicians going forward."
Poorly considered tweeting and a lack of political experience certainly worked for Donald Trump, but Wu is trying to attract the opposite of Trump's fan base, and the oddness of one of her flagship proposals coupled with a frequently quirky public persona is, I suspect, going to make her campaign more difficult.
Here was an unconventional candidate, focused on cybersecurity and online harassment, issues often overlooked and misunderstood by traditional politicians, announcing herself as ready and willing to bring an updated approach to the legislative process. Yet I was perturbed by the fact that she'd promote a three-pronged platform with one prong that fundamentally misunderstands the system it's trying to reimagine. And the excuse of doing so to appeal to conservative constituents suggests ideological flexibility but not common sense — are conservative constituents so uninformed that they wouldn't realize the plan won't work?
I was discombobulated when I arrived in Boston, but even more so by the time Wu dropped me off at my hotel. This was partly because we could not find her car, and called an Uber to drive us around in the rain until Wu could remember where she parked it. She chatted amiably with the driver and I looked out at the rain and wished I was with someone who knew where they were going. That unmoored feeling extended beyond that incident. Trump's election has jumbled the political playing field into unrecognizable terrain. It's an easy time to feel lost, but the appeal of elected officials is the promise that they know how to navigate. Wu is ready for a fight, but she seems adrift on a shifting playing field.


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Hackney Empire, in co-production with London Musical Theatre Orchestra, will presents a special concert version of musical KING, marking 50 years since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr and 30 years since the first performance of the late Martin Smith's acclaimed show.
Appearing in KING, being staged for two performances on Saturday 30 June and Sunday 1 July 2018, will be a cast of West End stars including Cedric Neal (Motown the Musical, Chess) as Martin Luther King Jr., Sharon D. Clarke (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Caroline, or Change) as Alberta King and Debbie Kurup (The Bodyguard, Girl from the North Country) as Coretta King. Joining them is the London Musical Theatre Orchestra conducted by Freddie Tapner, who return to Hackney Empire following the success of Mack & Mabel last year. KING is directed by Susie McKenna with new orchestrations by Simon Nathan. The concert will feature Hackney Empire's renowned Community Choir.
Martin Luther King Jr knew he would marry Coretta Scott from their very first meeting. Over the course of their marriage, alongside their brothers and sisters within the movement, they fought for the rights of African American people in a divided United States. KING tells the story of their life together, and the strides, successes and sacrifices of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement that saw them change the course of history.
Since its inception two years ago, LMTO has performed eight public concerts to sold-out houses and critical acclaim. LMTO founder and conductor, Freddie Tapner, says:
"It is a great privilege to be partnering with Hackney Empire on this project. Now feels like just the right time to be presenting this astonishingly powerful work, and with brand new orchestrations by Simon Nathan, I cannot wait to hear Martin Smith's score come to life again for the first time in 30 years."
Susie McKenna has written and directed Hackney Empire pantomimes since 1998 becoming creative director there from 2010-2017. Other credits at Hackney Empire include Once on this Island, A Midsummer Night's Madness and Ha Ha Hackney. Most recently she directed Oranges and Elephants at Hoxton Hall.
Martin Smith was one of the West End's brightest musical theatre stars starring in, amongst many others, Something's Afoot, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The March of the Falsettos, City of Angels and as Che in Evita, as The Phantom in Phantom of the Opera, and was the only actor to play both Marius and Jean Valjean in Les Misérables.
Smith was also a prolific composer with his musical KING being one of his most treasured pieces. It was originally performed as a one-off, semi-staged concert in 1988 at the Prince Edward Theatre. Sadly, Smith never lived long enough to progress his vision further, dying in 1994 at the age of 37.

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Homecoming Pep Rally and Tailgate
At the end of the spirit-filled week, South Forsyth High School held a pep rally to introduce the varsity football team and the cheerleaders in an effort to hype up the students and faculty before the homecoming game. During the pep rally, the students of SFHS were dressed in their class colors: seniors sported black, juniors embraced the blue, sophomores had on grey attire, and freshmen showed off their white apparel. The pep rally featured performances from both the cheer and dance teams. Senior football players and coaches competed against each other in a Homecoming queen race where the coaches dressed up their assigned football player in dresses and crowns. The marching band played upbeat songs while the students and staff cheered along. Afterward, the students filed out of the arena to enjoy the games and activities offered throughout the campus. Waves of black, blue, grey, and white could be seen around the school. They enjoyed popsicles throughout the rest of their school day while participating in events such as a water balloon fight and a dunk tank. Students paid to get a chance to dunk their teachers in a water tank. The school day ended with smiles and laughter as the students and faculty of SFHS readied themselves for the game that same evening.
"I think the tailgate was very fun," remarks freshmen Saachi Singh. "It helped me connect with my fellow South Forsyth classmates. I got to play the bean bag toss and hang out with old Lakeside friends."


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Sindome was an amazing game in several aspects, and one of the worst games on the internet in other aspects. Johnny, bless his heart, was an amazing fellow that actually seemed to take pride and care in his players. He did a few little coding tweaks specifically for my character to add some coded flavour to them. Nothing mechanically just a couple custom emotes that I could prompt with an alias that was built into my character rather than my client. I see in some of these reviews Cerberus is still around. Screw that guy, screw him with a ten foot pole, I don't know why Johnny keeps him around, he chased off half the players I played with with his metagaming characters. He's fine with NPCs though, strangely enough, but if he has his own player character he's a jerk.
Otherwise, this game was great, a good solid friendly (despite the cries of toxicity, the player base from an OOC point of view is primarily positive, I've often had a player use the OOC comm to be like "Sorry bro, but thems the biz") group at the time I played several years ago. Staff were often doing little things to encourage sudden roleplay, though the limited amount of staff to the 50-60 players (before Cerberus chased most of them off for awhile) did mean sometimes you could be waiting a few days if you were trying to get Staff to puppet an NPC for a player arc.
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Southgate Assures Tammy Abraham Of His Chances In England
The senior national team coach of England Gareth Southgate has successfully convinced the Nigeria's to own Tammy Abraham to banish the idea of representing Nigeria…
Michael James has it that the coach had a meeting with 20 years old shortly after watching him in action for Swansea City in their 1-2 loss to Arsenal at the Emirates.
According to Times, Southgate assured the 20-year old that he could gate-crash his World Cup squad for England, even if he doesn't make the next squad of England which will be released on Thursday.
Although there are other strikers ahead of Abraham in the pecking order of forwards available to coach Southgate, he, however, assured Abraham that one or two striking slots are up for grabs.
Daniel Sturridge and Danny Welbeck's poor injury record, as well as Jermain Defoe who is close to 36 years old, could play in his favor when Southgate releases his squad for the World Cup.
The assurances made the forward who 13 caps for England at Under-21 level and four Premier League goals from nine starts to shelve plans of switching allegiance to Nigeria despite holding talks with the President of the Nigeria Football Federation ( NFF) Amaju


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This scan is the work of Cosmo Wenman. All I did was decimate and resize the mesh to work better on my printer. I am posting it here only because it make makes a great subject for the 3d print contests. You can find the original higher resolution scans and many other amazing works at cosmowenman.com.
From Mr. Wenman's site:
This 3D capture was made from a marble resin cast molded directly from the Pietà. A label on the back of the cast reads:
"This facsimile copy is authorized by the Vatican Museums. It is produced under the supervision of the Reproduction Studio of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from direct impression molds of the original sculpture developed by the Department of Scientific Research of the Vatican Museums."


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WHEREAS, the American Federation of Teachers has had a long history of support for reproductive rights and for Planned Parenthood; and
WHEREAS, attacks by extremist groups and politicians on reproductive rights and women's health and economic well-being are a major part of the ongoing war on women in the United States; and
WHEREAS, those opposed to safe, legal abortions for women have demanded an end to federal funding to Planned Parenthood and even threatened a government shutdown to get it. They have made outrageous allegations to attack Planned Parenthood. Their goal is to ban all abortions and cut women off from needed healthcare. They have even fought against insurance coverage for birth control; and
WHEREAS, an extremist organization pretending to be a medical research organization interviewed a Planned Parenthood doctor for three hours and subsequently publicized an eight-minute, selectively edited video of the interview in an attempt to discredit and defund Planned Parenthood; and
WHEREAS, the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993 allows a woman to legally consent to donate fetal tissue after an abortion. It was instrumental in developing the polio vaccine. Current studies use the tissue to research AIDS, muscular dystrophy, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other diseases. Planned Parenthood does not profit monetarily from such tissue donations; and
WHEREAS, essential preventive care comprises 85 to 90 percent of Planned Parenthood services, including contraception, sexually transmitted disease testing and treatment, cancer screenings and more. Abortion care comprises a small but crucial percentage of its services and is available only in some clinics. By law, no federal money has been used for abortion services since 1976; and
WHEREAS, approximately 700 Planned Parenthood clinics across the country provide the only place for affordable, reliable healthcare in their communities, and millions of people utilize their services each year:
RESOLVED, that the American Federation of Teachers stands with Planned Parenthood and the millions who depend on its healthcare services, including contraception, cancer screenings, STD testing and treatment, and legal, safe abortions; and
RESOLVED, that the AFT condemns the decades-long assault on Planned Parenthood by anti-abortion groups that demand barriers to reproductive healthcare and make it as difficult as possible for women to access the healthcare they need; and
RESOLVED, that the AFT will call upon all of its state affiliates, locals and members to urge their legislators, both state and federal, to stand up for women's health and defend, not defund, Planned Parenthood.


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After a couple of weeks of a needed vacation, hosts Matthew Greenfield, a/k/a MC Homeless, and Joey Baloney return with Episode 43 of the Sex Drugs And UFOs podcast. This week, the duo deal with a plethora of subjects, ranging from Greenfield's vacation in Ohio to CBD discussions to Tinder, and revisiting the internet talk of storming Area 51. Once again, there are no filters, but who cares? They talk about the things you're afraid to.
Sex Drugs & UFOs EP 43: CBD Fake News, Ohio Cuisine, Black Metal, Tinder, and Area 51
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Computational methods are powerful in capturing the results of experimental studies in terms of force fields that both explain and predict biological structures. Validation of molecular simulations requires comparison with experimental data to test and confirm computational predictions. Here we report a comprehensive database of NMR results for membrane phospholipids with interpretations intended to be accessible by non-NMR specialists. Experimental 13C-1H and 2H NMR segmental order parameters (SCH or SCD) and spin-lattice (Zeeman) relaxation times (T1Z) are summarized in convenient tabular form for various saturated, unsaturated, and biological membrane phospholipids. Segmental order parameters give direct information about bilayer structural properties, including the area per lipid and volumetric hydrocarbon thickness. In addition, relaxation rates provide complementary information about molecular dynamics. Particular attention is paid to the magnetic field dependence (frequency dispersion) of the NMR relaxation rates in terms of various simplified power laws. Model-free reduction of the T1Z studies in terms of a power-law formalism shows that the relaxation rates for saturated phosphatidylcholines follow a single frequency-dispersive trend within the MHz regime. We show how analytical models can guide the continued development of atomistic and coarse-grained force fields. Our interpretation suggests that lipid diffusion and collective order fluctuations are implicitly governed by the viscoelastic nature of the liquid-crystalline ensemble. Collective bilayer excitations are emergent over mesoscopic length scales that fall between the molecular and bilayer dimensions, and are important for lipid organization and lipid-protein interactions. Future conceptual advances and theoretical reductions will foster understanding of biomembrane structural dynamics through a synergy of NMR measurements and molecular simulations.
Original language | English (US) |
Pages (from-to) | 818-839 |
Number of pages | 22 |
Journal | Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes |
Volume | 1808 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 2011 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biophysics
- Biochemistry
- Cell Biology


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How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse |
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When the inevitable zombie apocalypse occurs, will you be ready? Will you know how to survive? Will you know which loved ones to sacrifice? These are the crucial questions addressed by Dr Dale Seslick and his team of experts in this vital seminar. How To Survive A Zombie Apocalypse returns to the Fringe with a brand-new show. The FringeGuru archive tells that I reviewed last year's performance, and I was not a fan that time; I'm therefore delighted to find that everything I liked last year has been retained, and everything I didn't like has either been reconsidered or reworked, with the addition of a whole lot of new and innovative material as well. The result is a show that is now the comedy success it deserves to be. Of the group of characters last time round, three are back. Dr Dale returns, of course, and his dry televangelist-like manner handles the preposterous with a sincerity that drives the show forward. Also back are researcher Judy (she's been doing experiments on fat people, we learn) and craggy-faced survivalist Donald (the man for the job because "he's survived a very, very long time"). One character has been cut, and I don't know if the cast changes were by accident or design, but the reduced lineup helps keep things moving along. The final role, that of simpleton schlock horror fan Tristen, has been recast and rewritten – and while he still acts as an outlet for comic absurdity, he does so as part of a rounded performance by the whole team. The cast begins engaging with the crowd early, and, in a neat touch, prepares name badges for everyone in the line outside. These will become important later on because this year, it's a simulation of the fight for survival – only one member of the audience can survive. The simulation gives a strong focus to proceedings, and the routines benefit from this outcome-based approach ("can you survive?" rather than "how do you survive?"), keeping them zingy. It also gives the show a life beyond the stage, as nightly survivors will compete in an onine competition to determine an overall victor. The seminar has some good interactive elements, with the audience both reacting to and questioning the instructors. The experts mix up some nicely scripted routines alongside sharp-witted banter with the crowd – I was particularly impressed by Dale's dismissal of a woman who complained that her rugby-playing vegan son could survive the zombie apocalypse ("Does he drink protein shakes?" the doctor enquired). Like any improv group, the Apocalypse team are to some extent at the mercy of the crowd. Thankfully, the sell-out audience I was part of (on Friday 13th, no less) seemed responsive and up for the task at hand. I'm glad that I can now count myself among the Apocalypse admirers, and commend it for your interest. For, while the survival of the human race is serious, it's also – I'm pleased to say – a laughing matter. |
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Mobile computing's prevalence and relevance makes it one of the most talked about and 'disruptive' technology advances of the 21st century.
It is altering the landscape of new technology development beyond recognition, as well as consumer and organizational behavior. Consumer demand for mobile technology is the driving force behind the speedy progression of this market, with innovative companies such as Apple, Samsung, Google, and Microsoft leading the way.
Today, business-to-consumer engagement is often represented in the form of a mobile "app". For example, a banking organization can allow a consumer to check their balance, deposit funds, and interact with many other banking services. Mobile provides a platform by which an organization can now gather valuable market and consumer research, test new products and services, as well as extend to new markets, faster than ever before. The platform holds important business value as it is so widespread – nearly every consumer has a mobile device.
Going mobile
Telecommunications is a frontier for pioneering technology. The introduction of "Voice over Internet Protocol" (VoIP) technology was a minor revolution, enabling people to transmit voice data via Internet, LAN, WAN and wireless networks. Overnight, VoIP changed the telecommunications market forever – creating new leaders, and forcing others out.
Mobile computing unlocks new markets for business while connecting consumer and business together like never before. Juniper Research predicts that next year there will be 200+ million more users of mobile based banking services than today. This is a trend which raises the importance of mobile computing as an IT strategy, making IT organizations wonder how to respond.
To add to this, BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is also creating significant excitement in the industry. Smart consumers are demanding access to services they can use from their personal mobile devices. IT organizations are now under immense pressure to work out how these services can be delivered while also adhering to corporate policy and security, and government regulation.
The popularity of tablet based computing has added to this trend. According to industry analysts, it is expected that tablet device purchases will overtake mobile phone device purchases in the next two to three years. The mobile computing market and workforce are expanding, which means today's business organizations need to take notice of the warning signs: 'If you're not in mobile, you've missed the market'.
What price progress?
Being in the mobile market takes considerable effort. To support a diverse customer base, providers must provide services across an array of mobile platforms. Native apps are device-specific, and development companies will need to develop a separate application for each mobile platform – Microsoft Windows Phone 8, Apple iOS and Google Android to name but three. These duplicate efforts drive up development and maintenance costs. Furthermore, going to mobile expands business demands and will force them to find extra processing capacity to answer the increasing demand. Basically, being in the mobile world is a pricey ongoing pursuit.
Be smart and adapt
Many of today's core business applications are written in tried and trusted enterprise-class languages, such as COBOL and PL/I. These applications have served many businesses well for decades. They are proven, paid for and include much of that core IP in businesses.
However those applications are driven from interfaces that are anything but modern. Adapting how those business services are made available to the new breed of mobile-based consumers is a real technical challenge. There are new paradigms such as JVM and .NET along with new platforms – zEnterprise and Windows 8 – which present challenges requiring functional and performance testing.
The key word here is "adapt". Adapting will enable businesses to continue successfully, keeping costs down and consumers happy. Everyone's a winner.
The use of smart technology to make backend services available (for example, using a web service based application deployment model) is essential for modern business-to-consumer engagement. This allows mobile device apps to gain access to critical business services that provide the real value to the consumer.
This also means that the same business function is being provided – whether accessed via a mobile device, a web browser, by phoning up the organization's call centre or visiting a store.
How Micro Focus can help
Through innovative technologies such as Visual COBOL, Micro Focus allows organizations to tap into these valuable business application services, extending access to the mobile device. By allowing the same tried-and-true applications to live on in a new paradigm (Web 2.0, Mobile), Micro Focus enables organizations to reduce the new investment required to build a much needed range of mobile services.
Visual COBOL also supports the creation of brand new front-ends to existing core applications, which can then be exported across a variety of platforms, thereby streamlining the process of building out this new delivery channel.
A 21st century organization must have a mobile strategy, not just for internal applications, but also for customers. The demand for mobile hardware and new business services is expanding faster than anyone anticipated. With mobile now acting as another strategic platform, organizations can promptly respond to market change and capitalize on it. This emerging market force is too big to ignore.
It's time to innovate an effective mobile strategy. Visual COBOL, through the power of application re-use, delivers your organization a powerful toolset to capitalize on the mobile market.
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On Nov. 9, when reports first surfaced that at least four women accused Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore of having made inappropriate sexual advances at them when he was in his 30s and they were underage teens, many prominent Republicans quickly responded to the news by saying Moore needed to step down from his candidacy if the allegations were true.
But Moore also has his share of defenders, including Alabama state auditor Jim Zeigler, who did not deny the allegations but dismissed them as unworthy of note, and also defended Moore by citing various Biblical accounts of old man/young woman pairings, including Jesus' earthly parents Mary and Joseph. Here's five things to know:
1. Zeigler Called the Allegations Much Ado About Little
On Nov. 9 the Washington Post reported that four women gave on-the-record accounts claiming Roy Moore had initiated sexual encounters with them when he was in his early 30s and they in their early teens. One woman, Leigh Corfman, said she was 14 and Moore 32 when these events occurred.
Moore denied the allegations. But Jim Zeigler, the Alabama State Auditor, told the Washington Examiner that "There is nothing to see here … the allegations are that a man in his early 30s dated teenage girls." Zeigler also defended Moore by citing Biblical examples of men involved with younger women. "Take the Bible. Zachariah and Elizabeth for instance. Zachariah was extremely old to marry Elizabeth and they became the parents of John the Baptist. Also take Joseph and Mary. Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter. They became parents of Jesus. … There's just nothing immoral or illegal here. Maybe just a little bit unusual."
In addition, Zeigler defended Moore's apparent preference for teenaged girls far younger than he by pointing out that Moore eventually married one of them. He said that Moore began dating his eventual wife Kayla around the same time as his alleged encounters with Corfman and his other accusers. "He dated her. He married her, and they've been married about 35 years. They're blessed with a wonderful marriage and his wife Kayla is 14 years younger than Moore," Zeigler told the Examiner.
2. Zeigler Later Defended his Remarks on Twitter
On Twitter, Zeigler goes by the name "Auditor Jim Zeigler," and his bio says "Zeigler is the elected State Auditor of Alabama. He advocates against wasteful government spending, a never-ending battle." Unsurprisingly, a scroll through his past tweets shows strong support for Roy Moore an President Trump, and strong dislike of Hillary Clinton. On Oct. 31, for example, he tweeted a news story under a quote from him: "Jim Zeigler: 'Hillary's opposition will backfire. If she continues to criticize Roy Moore, it will help Moore in Alabama.'"
Thursday afternoon, after his Biblical defense of Moore's alleged behavior became known, he went on Twitter to defend himself against critics there. One woman who goes by Jennifer Garlen tweeted "Remind me never to let @jimzeigler anywhere near my teenage daughter or a civics classroom full of young girls. Shame on him! Disgusting." In response, Zeigler tweeted "Roy Moore married a woman 14 years younger and they have a blessed marriage 33 years later."
Despite his earlier suggestion to the Washington Examiner that Moore's alleged behavior was no big deal if it happened, Zeigler later made three other tweets dismissing the allegations, replaying to various tweeting critics that "He did not do this. 38 years ago." "Moore says it is not true. This allegation came 38 years later. He denies." and "No child molestation took place."
3. Zeigler is not the Only Alabama Republican to Defend Moore
According to Daniel Dale, the Toronto Star's Washington correspondent, various state-level GOP operatives in Alabama have offered him various defenses of Moore. Dale tweeted that Marion County GOP chair David Hall told him that "It was 40 years ago. I really don't see the relevance of it. He was 32. She was supposedly 14. She's not saying that anything happened other than they kissed."
(Leigh Corfman actually said, among other things, that Moore stripped her down to her underwear, felt her body over her bra and underpants, and put her hand on his underwear to feel what he had underneath.)
Dale also quoted Geneva County GOP chair Riley Seibenhener as saying "Other than being with an underage person – he didn't really force himself. I know that's bad enough, but I don't know. If he withdraws, it's five weeks to the election…that would concede it to the Democrat." William Blocker, Covington County's GOP chairman, told Dale that the four women who complained about Moore to the Washington Post only did so because Democrats had persuaded them to tell lies damaging to Moore's reputation. Upon hearing that Corfman, who was 14 when Moore allegedly molested her, went on to become a Trump voter, Blocker then told Dale "That's the typical background or profile of somebody they would be using for that."
Mobile County's GOP chairman John Skipper also told Dale the stories were merely a Democratic smear campaign: "It does not really surprise me. I think it is a typical Democratic – Democrat – ploy to discredit Judge Moore, a sincere, honest, trustworthy individual." As for Bibb County Republican chariman Jerry Pow, he told Dale he would vote for Moore even if the sex crime allegations against him were true: "I would vote for Judge Moore because I wouldn't want to vote for Doug [Jones, Moore's Democratic opponent in next month's special senatorial election]."
4. Zeigler Once Compared Democratic Congresswomen to the Ku Klux Klan
Last March, Zeigler came under fire for an image he posted on Facebook: a photo showing a group of Democratic Congresswomen all dressed in white, under a photo of hooded KKK members "Now appearing without hoods." As NBC news affiliate WSFA.com noted, the Congresswomen seen in the photo included U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, Alabama's only Democratic and African-American member of Congress.
Sewell responded to Zeigler's stunt with a statement saying "I wore white to President Trump's Joint Session address in solidarity with my other female colleagues to honor those American women who sacrificed so that all women could have an equal voice in our democracy. It is highly insulting and completely disrespectful for Alabama's State Auditor Ziegler to equate the celebration of woman's rights into a vile statement of racial hatred like the KKK. He should apologize for behavior so offensive and unbecoming of any elected official. His voters should hold him accountable for such shameful disregard of women."
When reporters asked Zeigler if he felt he'd made a fair comparison between the two groups, he said "it compared visually. The two pictures looked basically alike." He also added that Sewell's decision to be photographed in white made her "fair game" for criticism, according to WSFA.
5. Zeigler Might Run for Governor of Alabama in 2018
The web address of Zeigler's Facebook page includes the username ZeiglerWasteCutter, but the page's actual name is "Jim Zeigler Exploratory Campaign for Governor."
On Nov. 6 he posted the following question to his page's followers:
One year from today – Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018 – we will elect Alabama's next governor.
Please help me with a vital decision. Should I run for governor, or run for re-election as State Auditor? It is vital that we have a state official to be a watchman against waste, mismanagement and corruption. I have worked toward the goal of being a watchman as State Auditor (despite limited authority and a budget unreasonably slashed by the Bentley administration). I could do more as governor with much higher authority to get things done.
Please advise by your comment below. Zeigler for Governor, or Zeigler for State Auditor in 2018?
Zeigler has another Facebook page called "Draft Jim Zeigler for Governor 2018," but that has not been updated since June.


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In 2004, Karen Ami began teaching classes on mosaics out of a small storefront in Lake View. At the time she opened the unassuming school, located just across the street from the artist's house, no other arts organization in town, including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, gave lessons on the medium.
"People told me, 'It's a really old art form,'" says Ami, who received her MFA in sculpture and ceramics from SAIC. "While I was at school, I wanted to study mosaics, and they told me that I had to go to Italy. Long story short, I started the school because I wanted to learn about this."
The Chicago native quickly established her initiative as a nonprofit arts center and named it the Chicago Mosaic School — the only one of its kind in the United States. It attracted so many students that Ami eventually moved to a larger space in North Center. "There was a huge response through word of mouth, and a shared enthusiasm for learning about the mosaic art form," she says.
Now, 14 years later, CMS has found yet another new and much larger home — 1127 W. Granville Ave. in Edgewater, just a stone's throw away from the Red Line. It occupies the first two floors of a recently finished building named the Cochran, which is mostly filled with rental apartments.
The move to this larger property occurred due to unfortunate circumstances. In early 2017, the school was forced out of its North Center building by the developer, Ami says. But then 48th Ward alderman Harry Osterman invited her to migrate her project to Edgewater — she accepted. It took 18 months before the Cochran was ready for its new tenant, but the school kept its presence just a few doors down, in a temporary space.
CMS has hit the ground running its new residence. Enrollment is open for its dozens of classes, which range from intro-level courses to intensive stained glass lessons to classes on ancient techniques. The school also welcomes students of all ages and hosts youth and family workshops; Ami invites visiting mosaicists from around the world to teach unique seminars throughout the year. And while its main focus is mosaics, CMS offers a broad range of creative opportunities: Teachers lead classes on sculpture, figure drawing, frame making, and more.
Passersby can peer through the Cochran's glass facade to glimpse the school's Gallery of Contemporary Mosaics, which hosts temporary exhibitions of artworks by students and faculty. Currently on view is the inaugural show, DEBUT, which opened on July 13th with mosaics by 15 contemporary artists from around the world (local makers Rebecca Baruc and Casey Van Loon are also included). The pieces showcase a variety of material, from Scottish slate to traditional Italian smalti to Byzantine glass. CMS, in fact, acquired the largest inventory of Byzantine glass in the country in 2012, leftover from the construction of the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis. The glittering fragments are displayed in the main studio, like candy in a large wooden cabinet.
In addition to its airy gallery and main studio, CMS houses 11 artist studios as well as the city's only mosaic-tools shop, Tiny Pieces. Since Ami has more space to work with, she plans to engage with local communities on larger art projects. The school has previously worked with independent artists to create public artworks as well as with Chicago Public Schools to produce sustainable mosaics. "We've been very clear about how to make work that is tolerable to our climate," she says.
The CMS expansion not only signals the arrival of more robust programming but also reflects what some mosaic artists see as changing public perceptions toward this ancient art form. According to Ami, many mosaicists aren't recognized in the United States — but she believes that people are beginning to appreciate their work. Faculty member Lydia Shepard agrees. She says that mosaic has been largely undervalued because it's carried a certain stigma that's been hard to shake.
"I feel like mosaic has been kind of been stuck for a long time, at least in the US, in the world of craft and kitsch," Shepard says. "But I see the future of mosaic as being more widely accepted as a fine art. I think a lot of the artists who come to the school have helped elevate it into a fine art."


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Male rhinoplasty, or nose shaping, accounts for almost one-third of cosmetic nose surgeries performed today in the United States.
Men have discovered the many benefits this procedure offers, and finally have overcome any remaining stigma about cosmetic facial surgery. Whether you're a man with a medical condition you would like to correct or you simply want to fix an aesthetic issue, consider the possibility of rhinoplasty.
No. 1: Rhinoplasty Boosts Men's Self-Confidence
A strong, straight nose gives a man a greater sense of masculinity, vigor and intelligence. If you have lived life with a crooked nose or one that does not fit the proportions and contours of your face, male rhinoplasty can be life-changing.
Sure, nose shaping will enhance your appearance, but you will notice the lasting effects in many other, more profound ways. The confidence you will develop after your procedure will open doors in your career field and in your personal life.
When you feel good about yourself, that self-confidence influences everything you do.
No. 2: Male Rhinoplasty Can Improve Health
Many rhinoplasties for men are performed primarily for health reasons. Whether you have breathing problems related to a valve collapse or deviated septum, or you have an old injury that was never corrected, surgical repairs can dramatically improve your health. Rhinoplasty may also be combined with sinus repair to further improve breathing.
Once you can breathe normally, you may find that your sleep becomes more restful and restorative. You may even notice an improvement in your sports and athletic performance as well as your concentration and memory as a result of your improved ability to breathe.
Your spouse or partner may enjoy improved health too, if your snoring has been keeping them awake at night.
No. 3: Combining a Nose Job with Chin Implants
Male rhinoplasty can improve the balance and symmetry of your face. But to complete their new and improved appearance, many male patients prefer to add chin implants as a part of their surgery. When you have chin implants along with your nose job, you will enjoy a stronger, more masculine jawline that enhances all your facial features.
You don't have to worry about your male rhinoplasty or chin implants being too noticeable, or your co-workers making a big deal about it. In fact, you may be surprised to find that you simply get many more general compliments about your charming smile or your stylish new haircut.
Dr. Mobley is considered one of the foremost rhinoplasty experts in the United States. In fact, he performs 12 times more nose jobs than the average plastic surgeon. His reputation for excellence brings patients from around the world looking for facial transformation. Whatever your goals, Dr. Mobley and his expert team will work with you to achieve them.
Contact our Salt Lake City treatment center today to schedule your confidential consultation for male rhinoplasty.
NOTE: The information provided here is of a general nature and is not intended to substitute for personal advice from an experienced cosmetic surgeon.


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So, Brad Stevens is going to conduct the search for his successor. That's a statement that would have been laughed at just 24 hours ago.
But now? Not so much. Stevens is the Celtics' new president of basketball operations after Danny Ainge decided to retire in a meeting Wednesday morning with team ownership. Stevens has been elevated to Ainge's job, and his first decision may be his most important.
It was evident that Stevens wanted more say in personnel decisions as this season progressed, and if Ainge had not retired Stevens would have asked for more input. Now he'll have most of the say, and choosing the right coach won't be an easy decision because of the changing NBA landscape.
Gone are the crotchety coaches who yelled and screamed and immediately commanded respect from young players. Today's NBA coaches have to be mentors, friends, life coaches, disciplinarians, father figures, and tutors. Young NBA players want to relate to their coach, and respect is not automatically granted.
Inasmuch as Stevens was a stellar X's-and-O's coach, he could never completely gain the full deference of his roster because he never played in the NBA. NBA playing experience along with a strong grip on analytics and the ability to relate and reach players is the blueprint for the modern coach.
Look for Stevens to search outside of his comfort zone for the Celtics' next coach. He's aware enough to select someone who doesn't look or act like him. Stevens is very aware that he didn't play the game; the NBA player has changed considerably in his eight years in the league, and it takes high energy and patience to succeed as coach.
"One of the things I've learned being in coaching, coaching against other great coaches, and learning things from the people that you coach against is there's a lot of different ways to coach and there's a lot of different ways to be successful as a coach," Stevens said. "Danny and I have talked many times about we had done things over the last seven or eight years that Danny wouldn't necessarily have done. When it works out, it's the right thing for that group and that team.
"I'm really looking forward to diving into this process. The good news about who we hire is they don't have to fill Doc Rivers's shoes."
But the Celtics may be seeking a coach similar to who Rivers was nearly 20 years ago when he took the Boston job. There are a handful of former players who are grinding as assistants, waiting for their opportunity for a prime NBA head job. Sam Cassell, now on Rivers's staff in Philadelphia, is a top candidate, as is another ex-Celtic, Chauncey Billups, who is on the Clippers' staff.
Ime Udoka just watched the Celtics for five games as a member of Steve Nash's staff with the Nets. The former NBA player has been seeking his first head coaching job for a few years. Jason Kidd would be interested, as would Bucks assistant Darvin Ham.
The common denominator is these are former NBA players who aren't part of the league's perceived good ol' boys network. The Celtics need a commanding voice, someone who has been where Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown are now, provides discipline and a fresh voice, as well as encouragement and consolation at times.
The Celtics' brass had become old and antiquated. This is an opportunity for Stevens to make some diverse hires, bring in new faces and authoritative figures who can add different and refreshing perspectives as the team attempts to rebound from a disappointing season.
Stevens attempted to add those types of voices to his coaching staff over the past few years with Kara Lawson — who left for Duke after one season, which was more damaging than expected — and ex-Celtic Evan Turner, who may not have had the expected impact because he was just a few years older than many of the players.
Stevens will take his time with this hire. His cellphone is certainly already blowing up from interested parties because this is a premium coaching job, perhaps the only one that will be open this offseason. There have been no coaching changes since the regular season ended, and there could be a few openings when the playoffs conclude.
For example, Atlanta's Nate McMillan has yet to sign a contract extension despite the Hawks being on the verge of the Eastern Conference semifinals. Plenty of candidates could emerge in the coming weeks, and Stevens should have his choice of qualified candidates.
Would Stevens take a chance on a college coach? The only candidate likely worthy of such consideration is Villanova's Jay Wright, who was just elected to the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame. Wright has long been considered a future NBA coach, but would Stevens take a chance on a coach with no professional experience? But Stevens was in that same position eight years ago and it worked out nicely for the Celtics.
Patience and meticulousness are Stevens's best allies right now. It's doubtful he has one preferred target for the job, so it's best to take the proper time, interview as many candidates as desired, and find the right fit.
Who is the right fit to be the Celtics next coach? Stevens will have a plethora of options. But the best candidate is someone who can reach and relate to the players, who knows the game immensely, and will implement a style that is conducive to this roster.
Stevens needs to look outside of his comfort zone, and if he does he will find his ideal successor.
Gary Washburn is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him @GwashburnGlobe.


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Demolition to make way for new Tampa development
TAMPA (FOX 13) - The first phase of the multimillion-dollar Midtown Tampa project began Sunday as crews started to demolish an old office building at the corner of Interstate 275 and North Dale Mabry Boulevard.
The project is billed as a link between downtown Tampa and the city's booming Westshore area.
Today's demolition was supposed to be a milestone for the project, instead it turned out to be a temporary road block.
The plan for the five-story office space was supposed to be take it down in 30 seconds, but hours later, it still stood.
Cables ran from the top floor of the building to each excavator, the idea being to pull the building down. That too did not work.
Juanita Craft was waiting for over an hour to see the tear-down. She used to take classes in the building.
"It used to be a Sanford Brown building, so I used to go to school here," she said. "It's weird to see them tearing down something you used to walk in."
Multiple cable breaks later, the building continued to put up a fight.
Fred Hames with Barr and Barr Construction says it seems as if the weight of the building is keeping its core intact. Crews tried using other tactics to crack it.
"The blow torch was to get another strategic cut in the column to see if we could weaken the structure in the specific areas we were looking to the other elements with the jackhammer, we were testing the column to see if it re-welded," Hames said. "And that's what happened. Those columns should have moved against each other, but they didn't, they held fast."
When completed, Midtown Tampa will boast 22 acres of residential, retail, and entertainment space.


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John Yin, PhD
Position title: Chemical & Biological Engineering
Department: Chemical & Biological Engineering; Systems Biology, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
Immunology Focus area: Infectious Disease, Innate and Adaptive Immunity, Systems Immunology
Descriptive Title of Research: Systems biology of virus-host interactions
Research Description: An aim of infection forecasting is to combine measures and models of pathogen-host interactions to predict the course of infections in the presence and absence of any number of therapeutic interventions. Measures entail multi-omic characterization of host innate and adaptive immune responses, as well as microbiome perturbations, in response to infection by pathogenic viruses or bacteria. A particular focus has been on developing single-cell multi-gene reporters of virus-host interactions, to better understand how the heterogeneity of host responses reflect underlying mechanisms. Models entail mechanistic kinetic representations of molecular and cellular processes, up to tissue and adaptive host responses to infection. Specific emphasis has been on linking models of viral gene expression to host innate immune activation and the predicting how downstream infection spread depends on early events. A long-term goal of our research is to develop optimal treatments for precision medicine in the area of infectious disease.
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Graduate Program Affiliations:
Chemical and Biological Engineering, Cellular and Molecular Biology Program, Madison Virology Program, Quantitative Biology Initiative
Lab Website: https://wid.wisc.edu/profile/john-yin/