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A motorcyclist is left vulnerable because they are exposed to potential dangers on the road without protecting a vehicle surrounding them. Therefore, regardless of who is responsible or is at fault, it is always best to seek legal counsel immediately when involved in a motorcycle accident. A motorcycle attorney can help deal with insurance companies, help get medical treatment scheduled, and get the compensation needed to recover from the accident.
Statute of Limitations
One of the most significant reasons to hire a motorcycle attorney sooner than later is to ensure the case is filed before the statute of limitations passes. Every state has a different time frame for statute of limitations on motorcycle accidents, and it is best to consult with an attorney soon after the accident. Waiting too long to file the claim could result in being too late and missing out on necessary compensation.
Additionally, there are different statutes of limitations for differing motorcycle cases. Differences in timeframes may include if there was a death or if it involved significant injuries. Once the statute of limitations has passed, a person is not allowed to file a claim or case regarding the accident.
Evidence Collection
Waiting too long to hire a motorcycle accident attorney makes collecting evidence challenging. Additionally, it is difficult to determine details related to the accident by looking at a motorcycle unless a person is knowledgeable in motorcycle mechanics. An attorney specializing in motorcycle cases understands what to look for and can help collect evidence to present the strongest case possible.
Additionally, the sooner an attorney is hired, the less likely any potential evidence, such as video, photos, and physical evidence at the scene of the accident, goes missing or becomes damaged.
Cause of the Accident
When there is doubt about who or what was responsible for the motorcycle accident, it is time to hire an attorney. The attorney has the experience and a knowledgeable team to investigate the accident to help determine the root cause of the accident. Common causes of motorcycle accidents include blind spots, drunk driving, distracted driving, aggressive driving, tailgating, poor road conditions, weather conditions, and mechanical defects.
For those who are unsure of the cause of their accident, it is best to seek counsel from an attorney experienced in handling motorcycle accident cases.
When There are Injuries
Though it is always best to seek legal guidance when involved in a motorcycle crash, it is even more important to see an attorney when suffering from accident-related injuries. The lawyer can speak with insurance companies and medical professionals to provide the necessary medical treatment while recovering from the accident.
Common motorcycle accident injuries may include:
- Fractures
- Sprains
- Dislocations
- Eye injuries
- Internal damage
- Soft tissue damage
- Traumatic brain injuries
When there are damages
Many people who have been involved in a motorcycle accident also experience financial struggles, which can be compensated by speaking with an attorney and filing a personal injury case. Common expenses for those interested in a motorcycle accident may include:
- Medical bills
- Lost wages
- Property damage
In addition to economic damages, several motorcycle accident victims also suffer non-economic damages. Common non-economic damages may include:
- Pain and suffering
- Wrongful death
- Emotional trauma
Steps to Take After a Motorcycle Crash
In addition to seeking legal representation, there are several things someone who has been involved in a motorcycle accident should do. The steps to take after an accident include the following:
- Ensure the accident scene is in a safe location or if possible, move everyone off to the side of the road.
- Check everyone for injuries and, if needed, call for an ambulance.
- Call 911 for police assistance.
- Seek medical attention, even if there are no signs of physical injury at the time of the crash.
- Collect information about the accident, each driver involved in the accident, and eyewitnesses, including name, contact information, and insurance details.
- If capable, collect evidence from the accident scene, including photos of the damage, road conditions, injuries, and more.
- Avoid giving statements to other drivers, police officers, or insurance companies.
- Do not apologize for the accident.
- Keep a written journal about what happened during and after the accident, including the healing and recovery process.
- Call to speak with a motorcycle attorney to help advocate for the best compensation possible based on the accident and injuries sustained.
Working with a motorcycle attorney can help ensure someone is fighting for the maximum compensation on behalf of the client. Seek a motorcycle lawyer with great success handling these types of injury cases and who has an in-depth knowledge of traffic law. Victims of a motorcycle accident should ask their attorney any questions and keep open lines of communication, ensuring they have everything needed to win the case.


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Int. No. 1999
By Council Member Gjonaj
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to filling personal food or beverage take-out containers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Chapter 15 of title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 17-508 to read as follows:
§ 17-508 Personal food and beverage take-out containers. a. Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
COVID-19 state disaster emergency. The term "COVID-19 state disaster emergency" means the state disaster emergency declared by the governor of New York in executive order number 202 issued on March 7, 2020 or any executive order renewing or extending such emergency.
Food service establishment. The term "food service establishment" has the meaning ascribed to such term by section 81.03 of the New York city health code or any successor provision.
b. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law or rule, during the pendency of the COVID-19 state disaster emergency:
1. No food service establishment shall fill a customer's personal food or beverage take-out container with a food or beverage prepared, sold or offered for sale by such food service establishment.
2. No food service establishment shall allow a customer to fill a personal food or beverage take-out container while on the premises of such food service establishment.
c. The provisions of subdivision b of this section do not apply to a bag for the purpose of carrying goods as described in subdivision 2 of section 27-2803 of the environmental conservation law.
d. A food service establishment that violates any provision of subdivision b of this section is subject to a civil penalty of $250 per violation.
§ 2. The commissioner of health and mental hygiene shall publicize the requirements of this local law to food service establishments.
§ 3. This local law takes effect immediately.

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Friendships have a way of revealing us to ourselves. You know? Pam Lau tackles one "dark side" of friendship, when we are disappointed in friends, and brings us face to face with just what God might want to do in us in such moments.
The Hard Work of Friendship
By Pam Lau
Several months ago, a close friend hurt me with a short but mindless text and it sent me into a dark mood for some reason. The honest truth is that she made a choice that put me at the end of her list. Her choice to reprioritize me to the bottom created a whole host of inner torment for me. I began to ask questions that were never there before not only in that friendship but other ones, too: "Is so-and-so more important than me now?" "Is our friendship not worth the sacrifice?" "Am I that easy to take for granted?" "What does that say about me?"
After several hours of misery in every area of my life, I opened my journal and began to consider my feelings. I realized I needed to repent. Envy. Self-pity. Competition.
Yet when I was brutally honest, what bothered me more than what my friend did, was how dark and competitive I felt! Frustrated with myself, this friendship and my inability to pray with a pure heart, I blurted out to God, "How on earth can I make my way in friendship when this is how I respond?"
My eyes fell to a passage in Colossians, " . . .We have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord. . ." (Colossians 1:9-10)
Quietly listening and searching, I heard God say, "Pam, each and every time you start being defensive, feeling unloved, wanting attention, questioning another friend's motives, each and every time you start comparing, measuring yourself as the better friend like flour for your best breads, begin to pray for that woman. Pray she would be filled with the knowledge of my will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding."
So I prayed for my friend. Prayer is really the only way to keep my heart pure and for any friendship to thrive.
Here's what happened when I prayed:
Prayer creates a space. On the day I received the hurtful text, my heart felt small until I poured it all out into my journal. Through prayer, God enlarged my heart and created more space so I could pray for my friend without becoming offended.
Prayer creates intimacy. With the extra space in my heart, I was able to visualize an intimate friendship with several of my women friends who are near and far. Surprisingly, the friend who hurt me was in that picture—just a more realistic picture. God showed me how true intimacy is always built on what's real.
God's Spirit prays in us. It's true! When God's Spirit fills me in such a disappointing time, I can sense Jesus praying with me. Nothing is too painful, no one feels too distant, or too difficult, or too separated to be reached by Jesus' healing touch.
Friendships are renewed. A few weeks later, my friend and I did finally connect. Although I didn't deny she hurt me, I didn't feel the need to punish her or make her pay for her wrongful actions. Because prayer cleaned out my heart, God gave me wisdom in that friendship.
When I brought my whole heart to God no matter its bruised and beaten state, he found a way to meet every need so I could stay close to a woman friend in my life.
Pam Lau is the author of Soul Strength and numerous articles for FullFill magazine and Christianity Today's Her.meneutics. She teaches communications at George Fox University. Her forthcoming book, A Friend in Me: Building Trust with the Next Generation of Women is due June 1. Pam lives near Portland, Oregon with her husband and three daughters. For a list of her speaking topics visit www.pamelalau.com.
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The Art of the #SailoSelfie
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So what's all the hype about "selfies"? The "selfie" has become a preferred style of taking a photograph of oneself by oneself. Let's be honest, it's more like a barrage of photos at a time to … Read More


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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will be raising their new baby as "gender fluid" and won't impose any stereotypes on it, reported The Sun.
Meghan Markle, 37, is 7 months pregnant and recently told guests at her baby shower that she will be raising her child to be gender fluid.
People speculate that she will avoid dressing "Baby Sussex" in pink or blue clothing like others raising "theybies" — children who are not referred to as 'he' or 'she.'
Friends who posted pictures from Markle's baby shower to social media used the hashtag #Girl suggesting she will be giving birth to a girl this Spring.
Parents raising "gender fluid" babies are all a part of a Marxist movement to turn societal norms upside down.
A record number of children are identifying as transgender in the UK according to a study published this year by the UK Deed Poll Service.
According to the study, one child under the age of 16 "transitions" every day, often with a new name.
The Royals are highly influential not only in the UK but around the Western world — expect more parents to follow suit and raise "gender fluid" babies.


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Design Shanghai
One of Asia's leading international design trade shows, Design Shanghai provides an extensive platform that brings together top architects, interior designers, property developers, and buyers. Design Shanghai creates a unique, holistic design experience, right from meeting noteworthy brands to listening to the most prestigious design icons. In response to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, the 2020 edition of Design Shanghai has been postponed to 26 – 29 November 2020, allowing greater flexibility and opportunity for both exhibitors and visitors all over the world who are planning to visit the show.
Design Shanghai aims to explore how Eastern and Western design philosophies can work together synergistically across the halls: Contemporary, Classic & Luxury, Collectibles, Kitchen & Bathroom, Workplace and New Materials & Applications. The fair also features an inspirational design forum which will host icons such as Marcel Wanders and Kelly Hoppen. Additionally, turning the event into a Shanghai-wide celebration of design and creativity, Design Shanghai will take over the city through several offsite events, offering both the local community and international visitors an opportunity to experience the city in a new light.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WIAT) — While it's still months away, state lawmakers are preparing for next legislative session with bills they hope will improve Alabama.
That includes one to remove municipalities' occupational taxes over time.
Right now, if your employer is based in one of about 25 cities in the state, you're paying an occupational tax to that city, even if you don't live there.
With the rise of remote work and other concerns, Sen. Andrew Jones (R, Centre) wants to eliminate those taxes.
"We're trying to get people to work. We don't want to tax them for being employed," Jones said.
Jones says it's not just an issue with remote work but for emergency workers who are called in to help.
"It's just baffling that anybody would be opposed to folks coming in in a time of emergency not having to pay occupational taxes in that municipality," Jones said.
Jones plans to reintroduce a bill next session phasing out occupational taxes by one tenth of a percent every year until they're gone. For a city like Birmingham with a 1% rate, that reduction would happen over ten years.
But not everyone is on board.
Alabama League of Municipalities President Greg Cochran says for places that collect that tax, the money makes up 15% to 30% of their revenue in some cases. That revenue goes toward essential services.
"Law enforcement, firefighting, the delivery of clean drinking water, removal of wastewater, making sure that our streets are paid, looking at broadband infrastructure," Cochran said.
Cochran says should the issue come up next session, he plans to voice the concerns of the communities with that tax, and hopes lawmakers listen.
"It's been an important revenue stream for them to provide those services, and we would prefer the legislators working together with those local officials instead of hindering them," Cochran said.
The next legislative session starts in March, and Jones says he's optimistic his bill gets through this time. Last session it didn't make it out of the Senate.


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Out and about early - well, quite early - before nine o'clock anyway - I noticed that the village centre is decked all about with Union Jack bunting. There are signs that the local pubs, as expected, are getting prepared for a little bit of a pub party, if not a full blown street party. In the co-op store a surprising number of people are buying fizzy wine of one kind or another. A surprising number, that is, for before nine o'clock on a Saturday morning! Maybe they just like fizzy wine. I can think of no reason why one should not drink sparkling wine on a fine summer's late afternoon into evening. But that doesn't quite explain why so many are buying it before nine o'clock in the morning. I don't suppose it has anything to do with that national distraction-from-serious-stuff that is going on in Windsor.
Over breakfast Phil speculated as to why we have not been invited to the royal wedding. This was something of a surprise as he isn't a great fan of weddings at the best of times. I think his remark was prompted by the fact that the royal wedding was all over the internet, like a bad case of acne or a measles rash. And then there was the fact that David and Victoria Beckham seem to have been invited and Phil was finding it hard to make a connection between the Beckhams and the Windsors. I suggested that if Harry were a chessplayer then maybe Phil would have been invited. But would he have gone? I seriously doubt it!
The media have been going mad about these nuptials for weeks. One paper last weekend fan a headline along the lines of "Megan is just like Diana". Really! Diana was a naive 20 year old who had done nothing when she married Charles. Megan Markle is in the mid thirties, wealthy in her own right, an established actor and with a record of speaking out on a range of topics behind her. On a television news programme the other evening they were debating whether this mixed-race, feminist, independent young woman, confident in her own opinions could change the royal family and, more significantly, this country. There was a lot of huffing and puffing but in the end she probably won't change things greatly. She may be a mixed race commoner but she hasn't had the same life-experiences as the majority of mixed race commoners in this country, or in the USA for that matter.
In the end, it's just another celebrity wedding. Lots of commentators say the happy couple are obviously "so much in love". Well, I hope they are. And I hope they continue to be so. I hope they have a lovely day, although I suspect that a wedding that attracts such media-hype cannot be anything like as much fun as a perfectly ordinary wedding party.
But they have a lovely day for it. The sun seems to be shining all over the country.
And in the meantime, my wild garden is coming on nicely.
My favourite tree is blooming nicely, although the lambs that I normally see 'neath the spreading chestnut tree seem to have been moved to another field.
And the bluebells are putting on a splendid display along the bridle paths.
A day to go out and enjoy the sunshine - without a royal wedding anywhere in sight around here.
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Understanding the American Presidential Election 2020
Although the pandemic has stolen the limelight from the 2020 US Presidential Election, the 3rd of November is fast approaching and, with less than a month left, opinions are divided about who will enter the White House this autumn. The first presidential debate between Donald Trump, as the Republican candidate, and Joe Biden, as the representative of the Democratic Party, has made headlines around the world; not necessarily because of their policies but because of the continuous interruptions, invectives, and finger-pointing that have presided over the debate.
Whilst the vice-presidential debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris was more tempered, the same attitudes prevailed; with each side accusing the other of incompetence and untruthfulness. The second presidential debate was due to take place on the 15th of October, it was cancelled because Donald Trump contracted COVID-19 and needed hospitalisation, but also because he refused to take part in a debate remotely. This unexpected turn of events coupled with his public show of disregard towards the risks posed by the virus attracted a lot of critics, but his quick recovery might have prevented him from losing much support. The third and last presidential debate on the 23rd of October will be the last chance for the candidates to convince the public that they deserve their vote.
First presidential debate 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3KxBME7DpM
Vice Presidential debate 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_G0ia3JOVs&t=2888s
Comparison of Policies
Below you can find a brief overview of the main policies that comprise the platforms on which both candidates are running. Whilst Donald Trump plans on continuing with some of the policies he proposed four years ago, Joe Biden intends on reversing them, but healthcare and the recovery of the economy are the ones receiving most scrutiny.
Donald Trump
– Economic recovery after COVID-19
– Impose tariffs on foreign products, especially those coming from China
– Less involvement in international organisations (WHO, NATO)
– Reduce immigration
– End the Affordable Care Act and decrease the cost of drugs
– Concentrate on US energy
– Trace police misbehaviour
– Defend the Second Amendment (and the right to bear arms)
Joe Biden
– Test and Trace program to combat COVID-19
– Increase minimum wage and help the recovery of the economy after the pandemic
– Re-enter international coalitions and restore relationship with China
– Undo Trump's immigration policies
– Expand Obamacare
– Re-join the Paris Climate Accord and invest in green energy
– Criminal justice reform and support for minority groups
– Invest in free education
The US Voting System Explained
In America, the voting system consists of two important parts: the popular vote and the electoral college. Whilst the popular vote represents the overall number of people that have supported a particular candidate, the electoral college shows how much support a candidate has received in a particular state. One can win the popular vote but lose the election because they have failed to secure the electoral vote.
The Electoral College In total, there are 538 electors, representing the total voting membership of the US Congress: 435 representatives, 100 senators and 3 electors from the District of Columbia.
Each state receives a number of electors based on population, which is why states such as Texas have 38 electors, whilst Alaska has only 3. Therefore, it is more important to win certain states than others, as it can massively tip the balance in one candidate's favour.
A candidate has to secure 270 electoral votes in order to win the presidential election, regardless of whether they win the popular vote. In the 2016 US Presidential Election, Hillary Clinton secured 48% of the popular vote, 2% more than Donal Trump, but only 227 electoral votes, 77 less than Trump.
Voting Trends and Statistics 2020
At the time of publication most polls show Joe Biden in the lead, with 54% in the popular vote, in comparison to Trump, who remains at 42%. The same statistics seem to be present in the case of the electoral college. However, it is important to bear in mind that these statistics do not predict the future, but rather attempt to make assumptions based on current trends and opinions. Moreover, the surveys that are conducted to gather data about political choices are not always representative, often showing a systemic bias towards the Democratic Party. This year, the pandemic has brought added uncertainty; as many supporters of the Democratic Party have opted to vote by post, whilst most Republicans have refused to do so for fear of electoral fraud. Therefore, it is likely that they will be voting in person on the 3rd of November, shifting the results in Trump's favour. Also, there are some key states, Texas and Florida especially, in which the amount of support for both candidates is too close to make a prediction, but which could potentially decide who wins the election. The next presidential debate has the potential of shifting these statistics, but we will have to wait and see.
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When the Jets were heading to Indianapolis last year for the AFC Championship Game, I had no idea how they planned to cover the Colts' corps of wide receivers. These were quick and speedy guys, the kind that gave a team of Jets corners who aside from Darrelle Revis had good ball skills but not much speed, fits. We all know how that game turned out. I feel much better about Gang Green's chances against Indy's wide receivers this year.
More after the jump.
One thing should not change. Darrelle Revis should shadow Reggie Wayne for pretty much the entire game. Wayne had 3 catches for 55 yards in that AFC Championship Game. Chargers defensive coordinator Ron Rivera said after his team did an excellent job shutting down Indy's offense that letting Reggie Wayne get deep means "sure death" against Peyton Manning. This was hardly an original thought, but it is absolutely true. For most teams, that means shading a safety to Wayne at all times. The Jets should feel confident in leaving Revis alone, which again would be another example of Revis being so good that he in fact creates an extra defender to get into throwing lanes, double another receiver, or blitz.
The Jets have mixed up their coverage more this year than they did last year. Revis has not followed around the top receiver on the other team with a few notable exceptions like Calvin Johnson and Andre Johnson. Trusting Antonio Cromartie on Wayne for an extended time doesn't seem like the best idea, though. Cro is athletic enough that he could (emphasis on could) keep Wayne from doing damage deep. The problem is that Wayne is a wealthy man's Santonio Holmes. He can get deep, but he can also destroy a team underneath with his precise routes. Cromartie is at his best in pure athletic competitions with receivers. He doesn't do as well with guys who cut as sharply as Wayne on shorter and intermediate routes.
Cromartie seems better served on Pierre Garcon, who torched New York in that title bout with 11 catches for 151 yards and a touchdown. Dwight Lowery and Drew Coleman did not stand a chance. Revis was blanketing Wayne to the point where Manning wasn't even looking in his direction. Peyton didn't need to with Garcon running free. Garcon is a bit physical, but I have not been too impressed with what I have seen of his route running. He's a guy who utilizes his speed more than anything. I would be very concerned if he could use his physical style more to create separation with sharp routes, but Cromartie can hang with a receiver who finds most of his success with his pure physical ability. Antonio is not an easy guy to "outathlete."
Part of what helps the Jets is that Austin Collie is out. You saw me question Collie a lot in this space a year ago as to whether he was a product of playing with Manning. I thoughts so at the time. Watching him more, my views have evolved a bit. He doesn't have great physical tools, but he is smart and a very good route runner. This helped him develop good chemistry with his quarterback. Collie is on IR because of concussions. His replacement in the slot, Blair White, has shown flashes, but has not put up a really big game like Collie has the past two years. Collie went for 7 catches, 123 yards, and 1 touchdown in the championship game against Coleman and Lowery.
I also think the Jets are better equipped at corner to defend the secondary targets than they were a year ago. We already talked about Cromartie. The Jets didn't have anybody athletic enough to defend Garcon last year. It goes deeper, though. Cromartie, Marquice Cole, Kyle Wilson, and the Drew Coleman of 2010 are far superior to Lito Sheppard, Dwight Lowery, Donald Strickland, and the Drew Coleman of 2009. Coleman has actually developed some cover skills this year. The others from 2009 were again slower guys with great ball skills. Cole is faster and more athletic. Wilson has shown flashes of being the same.
Please do not take this to mean the Jets are a sure thing to shut down the Indy passing attack. Their receivers might give the Jets problems. Garcon in particular is difficult to bring down after the catch. While I think Cromartie has a good shot of preventing catches, the possibility of seeing damage after the catch is concerning since Cro is not a great tackler. Manning only needs small holes to hit receivers. The Colts also love to run receiver screens, which is somewhat worrisome since New York attacks and does not give corners much help.
It's like I said last night, though. The Jets need to generate pressure and limit big plays. Some teams try to limit big plays by using a consistent cover 2 against the Colts and playing conservatively. The Jets usually trust their coverage. That coverage is in much better shape than a year ago. Just as the pass rush can help the corners, if the corners can do their job, the men up front will have more time to get to Peyton Manning.


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Chen Lab
Rank: Professor
Department: Population Health Sciences
Division: Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, Director
Office: 4.100.06
Tel: 1.210.562.9163
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Initiative
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBBI) focuses on developing computational solutions and statistical modeling to bridge between quantitative science and the basic biology and translational research within Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute and around UT Health San Antonio. Our research contributions are in:
- Support Genome Sequencing Facility (GSF) bioinformatics operation
- Develop Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) data analysis methods
- Cancer genome profiling, gene expression analysis, gene regulation networks, and
- Provide computational biology and biostatistics collaboration for pediatric cancer research
Lab Research
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
My specialization is in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, and biostatistics in the area of next-generation sequencing data analysis. I have extensive experience in genomic data analysis and visualization, gene regulation network analysis, Machine Learning/Deep Learning methodology development for pediatric cancer research, drug response prediction, and precision medicine.
Research Illustration
Gene expression profiles of a set of hepatoblastoma tumors show distinct expression patterns of genes regulation. Working with Dr. Tomlinson, we profiled ~60 tumors using Affymetrix GeneChip and Agilent microRNA microarray for gene expression and miRNA profiles. Genes were selected if they showed a negative correlation with miRNA expression.
Competing endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs) are RNAs, including mRNA, pseudogenes, and lncRNAs that can regulate each other through competing for common microRNA binding sites. A ceRNA interaction network was generated from TCGA breast cancer data by examining their standard miRNA programs. We also performed a stability test for intervention target identification.
A set of pediatric cancer cell-lines profiled by using RNA_seq,exome-capture-seq, overlapping with the collection of Ewing sarcomaDNA copy number profiles (inner rings), and gene expression of drug-resistant and sensitive EWS tumors (outer rings). Working with Dr. A. Bishop's Lab, we will further characterize EWS genomes for their unique features related to EWS-FLI1 fusions.
Cancer methylome system (CMS) is a web-based database application designed for the visualization, comparison, and statistical analysis of human cancer-specific DNA methylation. Working with Dr. Tim Huang's Lab, methylation intensities were obtained from MBDCap-sequencing, pre-processed, and stored in the database. A total of 191 patient samples and 41 breast cancer cell-lines are in the database.
RNA methylation, a new epigenetic regulation mechanism, has been examined for their interplay with DAN methylation, microRNA interplay, and gene expression correlation. We are collaborating with Dr. Rao and Dr. Y. Huang/UTSA, we have refined the lab protocol and a series of computational software for analyzing methyltranscriptome and its impact on cancer progression.
Meeting the Challenges
Working with Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute's Genome Sequencing Facility (Dr. Zhao Lai), we processed:
- processed > 6000 samples
- 50/year research support letters
- tools for DNA/RNA/metagenomics
- developing new protocols
Research Achievements
- Epigenetics and Systems biology Cancer methylomes of breast, prostate, liver, and others using MBDCap-seq
(funded by NCI/NIH)
- Methyltranscriptome of breast cancers using MeRIP-seq
(funded by NIGMS, NCI/NIH)
- Integrated genomic data analysis of Hepatoblastoma, soft-tissue sarcoma, and other pediatric cancers
(funded by CPRIT)
- Gene regulatory networks, regulation modulation, and competitive endogenous RNA network
(funded by NSF)
NGS data analysis algorithm development such as algorithms for single-cell gene expression profiles
(funded by CTSA, NCI-CC)
Lab Staff
Yu-Chiao (Chris) Chiu, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00)
Johathan Gelfond, PhD, PHS
Associate Professor
Aparna Gorthi, PhD
Faculty Instructor
Yufei Huang, PhD
Adjunct Professor
Dias Kurmashev, PhD
Tabrez Mohammad, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Michael H. Nipper
Graduate Research Assistant
Li-Ju (Kathy) Wang
Visiting Scientist
Teng Zhang
Visiting Scientist
Yi Zou
2021 Donald G McEwen, Memorial Summer Undergraduate Research Program Student
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Communications Biology: LIFR inhibition enhances the therapeutic efficacy of HDAC inhibitors in triple negative breast cancer (Chen)
Molecular Cancer Research: GLI3 Is Stabilized by SPOP Mutations and Promotes Castration Resistance via Functional Cooperation with Androgen Receptor in Prostate Cancer (Chen)
Cancer Letters: Androgen deprivation-induced elevated nuclear SIRT1 promotes prostate tumor cell survival by reactivation of AR signaling (Chen)
- Embro Reports: Loss of BRD4 induces cell senescence in HSC/HPCs by deregulating histone H3 clipping (Chen) September 5, 2023
- Science Reports: Sex-dependent differences in the genomic profile of lingual sensory neurons in naïve and tongue-tumor bearing mice (Chen, Lai) August 14, 2023
- Bioinformatics Advances: DepLink: an R Shiny app to systematically link genetic and pharmacologic dependencies of cancer (Zheng, Houghton, & Chen Labs) June 27, 2023


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The 9 x 9 x 25 Challenge: An Ontario Extend Side Project
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Ontario Extend is a set of instructional modules that help faculty learn more about using technology to enable learning experiences. It comes with a pretty cool additional resource: a full-fledged professional learning network.
This fall, that same community (and you?) are taking on the 9 x 9 x 25 Challenge. It's reflective writing about your teaching and/or learning nine times, over nine weeks, with each piece being at least 25 sentences. There are currently over 50 participants committed to the challenge, in individual or group efforts, from universities and colleges across Ontario. There are even a few out of province challengers!
If you're wondering if you are invited, the answer is absolutely yes. Join us! The goal is simply to get as much writing about teaching and learning out there for everyone to see. Maybe it will inspire some new practices and make some new connections across institutions. The challenge begins now!


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23 May 5 Types of West African Rice for Africa Day
A West African party without rice screams sacrilege. West Africans' love for Rice dates back over 1,500 years, when wild African rice grew in what is now the Western Sahara. As history has it, the Sahara was once much wetter than the dry expanse it is now, which created the perfect conditions for native African rice to thrive. Over the years, as the Sahara became drier, cultivation of the native African rice crop retreated to the Upper Niger River, now known as Mali, and subsequently spread to the rest of West Africa. The Dyula trades people of Mali introduced small-scale rice cultivation to parts of West Africa (Ghana, Senegal and Nigeria) along their routes.
Although Jollof rice is a popular West African dish, there are other traditional rice dishes that are just as important to the culture, economy and, of course, the parties. In most West African countries, a rich tomato stew, groundnut/peanut butter stew or a peppery soup is enjoyed with rice, and best believe in each country no stews are the same.
RELATED: How the Diaspora is Reconnecting to Africa Through Food
In honor of Black Restaurant Week's celebration of Africa Day, check out this list highlighting a few beloved rice-based dishes from various West African cuisines.
During the French colonization of Senegal, native rice fields were destroyed to make way for peanut oil production, which was a lucrative venture for the West at the time. As a result, broken rice from Asia was imported into Senegal. To this day, broken rice is the preferred rice used in making the famous Thieboudienne, the national dish of Senegal and the 'Godfather' of Jollof. The dish is bursting with flavor, as a savory, smoked fish is marinated with herbs and deep fried, then cooked in a tomato based sauce with vegetables like carrots, green/red pepper, cassava, potatoes and eggplant. BJ Dennis, a Gullah Geechee culinary historian, says signature dishes like Red Rice may have descended from Thieboudienne.
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Angwa Mo
Quick and easy to make, Angwa Mo is an oiled fried rice. Some say it's so simple, a kid could make it as an after school snack, as could a bachelor or bachelorette with little kitchen know-how. According to the African Food Network, you start by frying onion in oil, letting it brown, then adding water and letting the rice cook in the water-oil mixture. "It is mostly served with earthenware-ground pepper," they write, "with either tinned sardines or fried eggs complementing it.
Kwen Kwen / Shinkafa / Omu Tuo
This dish changes names from region to region. In Nigeria it's called Shinkafa, though it's sometimes spelled Chinkafa. In Ghana it's Kwen Kwen or Omu Tuo. Made from native African brown rice then pounded or rolled into sticky balls, some describe it as a rice fufu. The use of brown rice makes it gluten free. It can be cooked in a smoked fish or tomato broth, similar to Jollof rice, or eaten with groundnut soup or palm nut soup. According to 196flavors, people in the Hausa-Fulani territories often eat it with baobab leaf and a dried okra soup called miyan kuka.
Liberian Rice Bread
Those who love banana nut bread will be obsessed with Liberian rice bread. It's primary ingredients are mashed banana (or plantain) and either cream of rice or rice flour. Combined with the baking basics – butter, eggs, baking soda, etc. – and a little grated ginger, the batter produces an incredibly moist bread that can maintain its moisture for a full week. It's often served with tea or coffee.
Riz Gras
Riz Gras is a "stick to your ribs" kind of dish. The French translation is "fat rice," as it's plumped up by heavy amounts of peanut oil that will keep diners full for hours. Though it's considered part of the Burkinabé cuisine of Burkina Faso, it's popular in other countries across the continent as well, like Senegal and Guinea. It can be dressed up with various types of meat and vegetables, like eggplant, cabbage and carrots.


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Loren Eiseley (1907-1977) was a writer and anthropologist who spent his formative years in Nebraska. Much of the writing he did for the rest of his life was based on his childhood experiences in Lincoln and on the time during his college years when he worked on archeological digs in western Nebraska. Focused on these two areas, this project digitally represents Eiseley's personal experience of the space and place of Nebraska. Using Eiseley's work as the entry point, we have produced a deep map of Nebraska as Eiseley experienced and recreated it.
As a man fascinated with the natural world and with humanity's place within it, Eiseley provides a nuanced lens through which readers might access the space of Nebraska. Loren Eiseley's Nebraska is a digital, interactive map of various sites throughout Lincoln and the state of Nebraska that have significance to Eiseley and that are featured in his writing. This project is a "deep map" of Nebraska, a digital methodology and tool which David J. Bodenhamer, John Corrigan, and Trevor M. Harris describe in Deep Maps and Spatial Narratives as "simultaneously a platform, a process, and a product" (3). By selecting passages of relevance to each location, we have curated Eiseley's work alongside a multi-layered representation of Nebraska. Our ongoing project fosters ecotourism in these locations, promoting an environmentally and socially responsible method for interacting with and learning about the spaces we map. With this project, we provide users with a venue through which to explore Nebraska as seen through the eyes of Loren Eiseley, and/or an artifact to use as a guide through which they can physically engage with that space.
NOTE: many of the locations on this map, both the homes in Lincoln and the ranches in western Nebraska, are private property. Please do not bother the occupants or trespass on the property.
Loren Eiseley Society
Humanities Nebraska
Nicole and Jacob Dean, Crown J. Cattle Company
Garry Akire
Vickie and Kevin Hall
Belle the border collie
Jon Garbisch, Cedar Point Biological Station
Cameron Steele and Kiernan Lofland
Special thanks to Humanities Nebraska the Loren Eiseley Society for funding of this project.
This project is funded by Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment
Support provided by Center for Digital Research in the Humanities and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Thomas P. Lynch and Emily J. Rau
Ariana Brocious, audio editor
Karin Dalziel, designer
Music "Ashfall" used with permission of Rusty Banks (composer) and Rebecca Van de Bogart of the Nebraska Chamber Players. The entire piece is available for sale here: Ashfall: Chamber Music of Rusty Banks and from the iTunes store.
For a scenic driving tour of the fossil-laden badlands of western Nebraska and South Dakota, where Eiseley did much of his work, check out the Fossil Freeway


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You know you have it in you
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This year… you say to yourself, I am going to do it differently
This year… will be my year
You see yourself, how you would like to be seen
You know you can look like that
It is all so close
Yet, so far away at times
You see yourself, with all your talents
All that you can do and all that you do
You tell yourself.. this is all I need to do
Yet, you wonder at times is it enough?
There might be a bit more
You might not completely reveal yourself
You might have more in you
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I know you are more capable than you are showing now
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Hollywood A-listers unite for NWSL team in LA
- Graham Hays covers college sports for espnW, including softball and soccer. Hays began with ESPN in 1999.
Hollywood stars and more than a dozen former members of the U.S. women's national team have formed an ownership group to bring women's professional soccer to Los Angeles in 2022.
The new team, which has yet to be named, was announced on Tuesday.
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Led by venture capitalists Alexis Ohanian and Kara Nortman and entrepreneur Julie Uhrman, the ownership group also includes actresses Uzo Aduba, Jessica Chastain, America Ferrera, Jennifer Garner, Eva Longoria and Natalie Portman, as well as talk show host Lilly Singh.
Serena Williams, who is married to Ohanian, is also part of the ownership group.
Among the 14 former USWNT players who are part of the group are Julie Foudy, Mia Hamm, Lauren Holiday and Abby Wambach.
"I am proud to be a part of this wonderful group working to bring a women's professional football club to Los Angeles," Ohanian said.
"Chiefly, because I'm a fan of the game, but also because I believe there is massive potential for the sport and it's been absurdly undervalued by too many people for far too long. As someone who spends hours kicking around a football with my 2-year-old daughter, I want her to have a front-row seat to this revolution."
Most of the former U.S. players are either Southern California natives or have ties to the area, as is the case for Hamm, who is also part of the Major League Soccer (MLS) LAFC ownership group.
The Angel City group did not indicate an immediate affiliation with an existing MLS team or other entity and said a venue partner, as well as the club's official name, would be announced at a later date.
Six of the nine current NWSL teams are affiliated with men's professional teams, four with MLS teams, one with a United Soccer League (USL) team and one with Olympique Lyonnais of France.
The NWSL's newest team Racing Louisville FC, which was announced in October and will play in the 2021 league, is affiliated with the USL's Louisville City FC.
Los Angeles had long been seen as a landing spot for the NWSL, which is now in its eighth year of competition and does not have a team based in California.
Both the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) and Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) leagues, previous iterations of the women's professional soccer league, had teams in Southern California — the WUSA's San Diego Spirit and WPS' Los Angeles Sol.
"We've long sought the right partner in LA considering the NWSL fanbase that already exists in the region and the massive interest in women's soccer in general," NWSL commissioner Lisa Baird said in a statement.
"Those factors, along with an incredible ownership group make this an ideal situation and we couldn't be more thrilled to move forward."
Spanish superpower Barcelona publicly indicated its interest in fielding an NWSL team in the Los Angeles market in 2017, but no deal was ever reached.
Either as part of a venture with Barcelona or independently, LAFC has also been frequently linked to NWSL interest. Aduba, Ferrera, Garner, Longoria and Portman attended when the USWNT beat Belgium at LAFC's Banc of California Stadium in 2019.
The other former national team players in the ownership group are Shannon Boxx, Rachel Buehler, Amanda Cromwell, Joy Fawcett, Tisha Venturini Hoch, Angela Hucles, Shannon MacMillan, Saskia Webber and sisters Lorrie Fair Allen and Ronnie Fair Sullins.
The Los Angeles team will be the NWSL's 11th team, following Racing Louisville's debut in 2021.
Neither the WUSA nor WPS ever fielded as many as 11 teams. The NWSL began play in 2013 with eight teams and reached its previous high-water mark of 10 teams in the 2016-17 seasons, before the Boston Breakers folded prior to the 2018-19 season.
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Plugin Boutique has launched some new videos in which Jerry Mateo takes a look some recently released plugins.
First up is an overview of the interface and presets of Audiority's Echoes T7E analog modeled Italian magnetic echo plugin.
Echoes T7E is a faithful recreation of a vintage tube magnetic echo made in Italy in the early '60s. This echo effect unit is based on a magnetic spinning drum with both record and playback heads arranged around a recording wire wound around the drum circumference. This solution provides better stability over the usual tape transport with reduced wow and flutter.
Since the main "core" of this effect is based on the above mechanism, we modelled both the mechanics and the electronics. Echoes T7E also provides 3 different playback modes allowing you to set different spinning speed or ever synchronize it to your host tempo extending the original delay length from -310ms up to -1100ms.
The Aparillo textural synthesizer instrument from Sugar Bytes get a quick start guide and features reveal.
Aparillo is based on two interdependent FM Synthesizer's, capable of forming the most complex timbres.
The signal generator has been enriched with fine DSP spices like Jitter, Brightness and Formant/Waveshaping, followed by a free-signal flow Filter/Spacial Comb device, flowing into a polyphonic Auto Pan, the obligatory Delay and our finest Reverb algorithm yet.
Jerry also checks out the HalfTime plugin by Cableguys in a rock music tutorial.
HalfTime transforms any audio into a dark, downtempo version of itself, giving your tracks huge mood and atmosphere. Lead synths mutate into heavyweight EDM bass monsters. Plinky piano lines become haunting trap melodies. Percussion thickens, expanding to reveal new rhythmic possibilities.
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Writing While Overwhelmed
How about this title? This is how I feel right now. I am slightly (okay, maybe very) overwhelmed with life at the moment. I like writing. I love writing, but with the start of the semester I have been falling of the writing train as of late. I keep getting textbooks in the mail, keep having meeting to go to because I am a teaching assistant this fall, and have been completely slammed at work (the weeks leading up to the start of the fall term are always absolutely insane in the financial aid office).
I know I've written almost this same thing in the past, but it is something I struggle with. Finding time to write is hard, and trying to not beat myself about it is harder. I know that I am busy – I work, go to school, am a teaching assistant, and am the president of a club at my university – but I'm not the only busy person in the world. In fact, busy people are able to churn out books at an alarming rate sometimes. Heck, even published and successful authors are insanely busy and still manage to write.
I think, though, that I am starting to learn to not listen to and compare myself to others. I know I've written about this before, too, but it's important. Right now, getting my degree and being a successful and involved student on campus is of the utmost importance to me. I hate to say this, but I will have time to write my book later. I will also have time to resume writing my book once the semester has started. I can write for small little chunks of time whenever I can. I will still write, it may not be as much as I would like but I will write.
I will get there. It's alright if it just takes me a bit longer than I anticipated.
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Tactical Voting Could Alter the Outcome of British General Election
Almost a third of British voters are planning to cast their ballot tactically, a move likely to alter the outcome of the elections. Tactical voting simply means people are casting their votes for candidates they wouldn't normally support, in an attempt to stop other candidates from winning.
Experts are warning that the election scheduled for Dec 12 could see the most intense tactical voting in British history, "potentially deciding the outcome and determining whether UK will finally leave the EU."
Brexit is the key issue influencing the electorate from both sides to vote tactically to achieve their preferred outcome. Remain campaigners are urging their supporters to vote tactically to prevent a Conservative government from forcing Brexit in January 2020, while Leavers are doing so to prevent Labour and other parties opposed to Brexit from coming to power.
According to latest BMG polls on Brexit, 54% now want Britain to remain in the EU while 46% want Britain to come out of the European Union. This shows that many Britons have changed their minds and are now willing to stay in the EU. The figures further show that 31% of Remainers, and 30% of Leavers have expressed intentions of voting tactically during the elections because of Brexit.
But does tactical voting work? Yes, it does. According to a study conducted in 2014, tactical voting led to the election of nine Labour MPs and 21 Liberal Democrat MPs during the 1997 elections.
It is for this reason that the Remainers had hoped to defeat Conservatives in several constituencies in the upcoming election. But things changed earlier this month when Nigel Farage announced that the Brexit Party wouldn't be fielding candidates against Conservatives in 317 constituencies. He went on to withdraw 39 more Brexit Party candidates from seats occupied by Labour and SNP to give the Conservatives an upper hand.
Mrs Gina Miller who is one of those pushing for tactical voting among Remainers, believes that Nigel Farage's move reduced the number of seats where tactical voting stood a good chance of making a difference from 68 to 51. As a result, Remainers now have to work extra hard to achieve any significant result from tactical voting.
This is further compounded by the fact that unlike Leavers who only have to choose a candidate from the Conservative or Brexit Party, Remainers have almost seven parties to choose from. Finding the right candidate from such a crowded field to face off with a candidate fronted by Conservatives or the Brexit Party is a complex task. Any poor judgement would lead to Remain votes being scattered across different anti-Brexit parties thus giving Conservatives an easy victory.
"The remain side is in a bit of panic because of the split in the Remain vote, which is much greater than it is on the Leave side," said Sir John Curtice, who is a leading pollster and a Professor at the University of Strathclyde.
To assist voters in casting their ballots tactically and preventing a split of votes among Remain parties, many tactical voting websites have been set up to rally electors in every constituency behind a candidate who is likely to meet their Brexit desire. For instance, if one constituency has many Remainers who are allied to different political parties, they would be urged to come together and vote for one pro-remain candidate who would enable them to block a Conservative candidate from winning.
When advising voters on who to vote for, the websites are relying on previous data such as the voting pattern amongst demographics in previous elections.
One of the tools dedicated to offering guidance in tactical voting is RemainUnited.org founded by Gina Miller, a staunch Remainer who took the government to court over Brexit and won. On the website, voters are asked to enter their postcode and are advised on which candidate they should cast their ballot for in their "only chance to stop Boris".
Miller told the Observer if "If we don't tactically vote, what we will end up with is a Tory majority that is going to pursue a Brexit plan that is no longer theoretical." Remain United strongly believe that proper tactical voting would lead to a hung parliament, with Conservatives returning 309 MPS, Labour 233, SNP 53, the Liberal Democrats 33, the DUP 10, Plaid Cymru three and the Greens left with one. A coalition comprising of Labour, Liberal Democrats, and SNP would then give Remainers a slim majority to form a government.
Getvoting.org is another website for tactical voting under the belief that if 40% of Remainers voted tactically then a coalition of Labour, Plaid Cymru, SNP and Green, would have a majority of four seats to form a government and prevent Brexit. They are mainly focusing on 100 seats which they feel can be influenced through tactical voting.
The Telegraph has also offered some tactical voting guidance to both sides by advising Remainers to vote Labour if the party currently holding the seat has a majority of only 10 per cent. Those in Scotland are advised to vote for Labour if it is the party holding the seat, and if the SNP are in second place but the Conservatives are within 10 points of the winner. They also urged Remainers to consider voting for Labour in areas where Remain parties have a low chance of winning.
The paper advised Pro-Leave to vote tactically by voting Brexit Party if the Conservatives haven't won the seat since at least 1992 or since the constituency was created, or if the Conservatives have less than 30% in 2017 elections. In general, they advised Leavers to consider voting for the Conservatives in areas where the Brexit Party does not have a realistic chance of winning.
Both Remainers and Leavers remain optimistic that tactical voting would influence the outcome of upcoming and give them the desired outcome.
On whether Remainers have a chance of winning through tactical voting Prof, Curtice said "What will be crucial will be how much anti-Tory tactical voting there is. A relatively smaller number of voters doing it in the right places can make a difference. My judgement at the moment is that with Tories in a 10-point lead, it won't be enough. But if the lead comes down a bit, maybe it will."


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Supernatural beings are willing to fight for their legal rights!
Since the Summer of Love, the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco has been known for attracting weird and unconventional souls, but things got even stranger when the monsters moved in.
Magic has returned to the world and with it a host of supernatural creatures—not just vampires and ghosts, but sentient gargoyles, ghouls, sprites, faeries, and more. The frightened citizenry, holier-than-thou bigots, headline-seeking reporters, and harried police refer to them as OTs (Other-Than-Humans), but Thomas Brock and Evelyn Love believe even supernatural creatures have legal rights.
Delve into their case files for a genre-bending mix of mystery, horror, suspense, thrills, courtroom drama, and romance. The city's OT element is sometimes malevolent, sometimes misunderstood, and often discriminated against. Brock and Love represent them all, dead, undead, or alive—whatever the case, whatever the species.
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Thomas Brock and Evelyn Love are attorneys who crusade for the rights of OTs—Other-Than-Humans. Their clients include ghosts, gargoyles, vampires, and things that have not yet been given names. The city's OT element is sometimes malevolent, sometimes misunderstood, and often discriminated against. Brock and Love represent them, whatever the case, whatever the species. Magic hangs heavy in San Francisco, and danger and intrigue is as thick as the fog around the Golden Gate Bridge.
Love-Haight is a comedy, locked within a mystery, hidden in a horror story... Wonderfully clever, stylish, and ghoulish. Delightfully twisted fun! —William C. Dietz, New York Times bestselling creator of The Legion of the Damned
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Genre: Paranormal Mystery Thriller
Language: English
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USA Today best-seller, Jean Rabe's impressive writing career spans decades, starting as a newspaper reporter and bureau chief.
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Donald J. Bingle is the author of eight books and more than sixty shorter works in the horror, thriller, science fiction, mystery, fantasy, steampunk, romance, comedy, and memoir genres, including the Dick Thornby Thriller series (Net Impact; Wet Work; Flash Drive), Frame Shop, a murder mystery set in a suburban writers' group, Forced Conversion, a near future scifi thriller, GREENSWORD, a darkly comedic eco-thriller and (with Jean Rabe) The Love-Haight Case Files, Books 1 & 2, a paranormal urban fantasy series about two lawyers who represent the legal rights of supernatural creatures in a magic-filled San Francisco. He also edited Familiar Spirits, an anthology of ghost stories. More on Don and his writing can be found at www.donaldjbingle.com.
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Editor's note: This town hall has been postponed due to inclement weather and driving conditions. We'll update this story with a new date and links as soon as they are available.
Women United and United Way of the Mid-South will convene key health administrators and experts for a virtual town hall next week about the COVID-19 vaccine and the coronavirus in the Mid-South.
Sherica Hymes, a member of Women United's leadership committee, said the goal of "Candid Conversations: COVID-19 Vaccinations" is to discuss the vaccine in terms that everyone can understand.
"It is truly meant to be educational and it is not a conversation where we are trying to persuade people in either way," Hymes said. "We're not saying take the vaccine or don't take the vaccine. We just want people to make informed decisions, not based off information that they are getting from unreliable sources."
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The free town hall, set for 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m Feb 11, promises honesty and candor about vaccinations with a presentation from Barney Graham, deputy director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' Vaccine Research Center. A panel will follow Graham's presentation featuring leaders of the Memphis and Shelby County COVID-19 Joint Task Force, including Shelby County Health Department Director Alisa Haushalter.
United Way of the Mid-South is a nonprofit focused on addressing poverty in the Mid-South. Women United, an engagement group of the organization, focuses on breaking generational cycles of poverty for women and children.
The panel will be moderated by Wendi C. Thomas, founder of MLK50: Justice Through Journalism. Thomas, a veteran investigative reporter and editor, is storied for work that includes exposing economic and racial disparity and exploitation in healthcare. Her recent reporting has focused on inequality in access to the vaccine.
Dr. Keith Norman, vice president of government affairs for Baptist Memorial Healthcare, will lend his expertise to the panel as a member of the city and county's COVID Task Force. He is also the pastor of First Baptist Church-Broad, so when a nurse arrived at his hospital with the first case of COVID-19 in Shelby County, he said he broke the news to the patient and prayed with her.
"The first thing she asked me was, 'Am I going to die?' And I told her, 'Certainly not, and we're going to pray together and we're going to win,'" Norman said.
The nurse beat COVID-19, went on to care for other patients with the disease and took the first vaccine administered at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis, said Norman.
Opportunity for understanding
Norman hopes to break down myths discouraging some people from taking the vaccine. More importantly, he said, people need to understand the vaccine before they decide whether to take it.
"I'm encouraging the vaccine, but as I do in my practice of faith, I don't encourage anybody to try Jesus without first learning about him," Norman said.
Another panelist is Dr. LaTonya B. Washington, who is president of the Bluff City Medical Society, a physician advisor at Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis and a clinical assistant professor for the Department of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Washington hopes to emphasize that COVID-19 is still a significant threat, especially to Black communities.
"It is important that Black people see medical professionals that look like them who are encouraging safe behaviors, modeling those behaviors, taking the vaccine, and being willing to answer questions that they may have," Washington said. "It's not just about me as a physician lecturing to others, it's a dialogue."
Joining the panel also is Dr. Lisa Piercey, commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Health, and Nathaniel Boutte, a pharmacist at Walgreens.
Shelby County has seen more than 83,000 cases of COVID-19 and more than 1,300 deaths related to the virus. As of Wednesday, more than 48,000 people had received their first dose of the vaccine in Shelby County while more than 15,000 had received their second.
Medical racism is pervasive in American history and has led some Black Memphians to be skeptical of the new vaccines. Meanwhile, health experts worry undervaccination could allow the virus to spread in Black neighborhoods, which have been hit hardest by the pandemic.
TaJuan Scott Stout Mitchell, chairperson of Women United, said the skepticism is legitimate but hopes to ease it by providing good information.
"I believe our fears can be conquered when we are equipped with information and educated with facts," Mitchell said in a statement.
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Here is a copy of an email I wrote to Nick Gromiko recently, regarding my communications with Roy Cooke.
Hey Nick:
I just wanted to let you know that of all the many people I have reached out to in the Home Inspection industry, Roy Cooke is the only one that offered to help me with my questions and needs directly. Everybody else says "sorry I can't help you, or try going down that other rabbit hole over there." (Edit: I do have a friend that is an inspector back east that has always been willing to help.)
He gave me about a dozen common sense tips for what to do and not to do in the field.
He gave me some marketing tips and advised on a few tools to make sure to have in the field.
He also pointed out a couple of things that almost always have problems, like decks.
I originally reached out to the community forum on Nachi's member site looking for people to do parallel inspections with, so he gave me some tips on how to find and approach an inspector that might be willing to do that. He also gave me tips on how to behave during a parallel inspection.
All of that occurred over 2 phone calls.
Roy is a great asset to the community. My brief interactions with him really helped me see how to take the next steps in my home inspection career more clearly.
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Wild Will, the mad ranchero, or, The terrible Texans : a romance of Kit Carson, Jr., and Big Foot Wallace's long trail
Hall, Samuel Stone, 1838-1886
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Those looking to history to shape our future innovations should be wary of the conclusions they draw.
Remember the Roaring Twenties? Maybe not in life, but in film, literature, and all of the nostalgic art that has glorified that period of history – that era immediately after the First World War and the Spanish Flu Pandemic characterized by so much growth, positivity, and innovation? It's apparently coming back if history has anything to say about it.
The problem is that history has only a little to say about it and only if we listen to what it tells us rather than what we want to hear. It's a parable for how we think about innovation and is one that we have the chance to write if we pay attention.
Let's first look at the big 'history repeats' arguments of the present and then to what it means for innovation predictions.
History's Repeats: The Post COVID-19 Case
Yale University Professor Nicholas Christakis has a new book on what he thinks will come from the post-COVID years ahead. Never mind the fact that the book was written at the start of the pandemic in the first half of 2020 (in order to be published for late 2020) and thus misses what's happened with the second (and in some cases third) waves. Christakis is relying on history to make an argument for what the post-COVID years will look like (and I should say that I have not read the book, only interviews with him about the book and quotes from the book itself, which is what I am basing this article on). Christakis writes:
"If the Roaring Twenties following the 1918 pandemic are a guide, the increased religiosity and abstemiousness of the immediate and intermediate periods could give way to increased expressions of risk-taking, intemperance and joie de vivre in the post-pandemic period,"
Note the 'could' and 'if' parts of that quote.
Cathal Kelly, writing in the Globe and Mail, points to this idea of the Roaring Twenties as "QAnon for the middle-class – a collective delusion about what's headed our way based more on wish fulfilment than reality."
As others have pointed out, the distribution of effects of COVID-19 have reshaped our social and health landscape to the point where it is unlikely to bounce back with any uniform manner.
What all of these arguments do is try and use the past to predict the present. It's also about — as Cathal Kelly writes — selective memory about the effects of what history actually brought forward in the 1920's. Within this are lessons about innovation we can take forward as we start to consider what comes next.
Pattern Recognition
Animals — like us — are pattern-seeking. We look for trends, repeated behaviours, and cause-and-effect relationships where we can so we can hedge our bets in guiding our next action. It's an efficient use of energy. It's also why we end up with prejudices and biases that don't serve us.
Human systems are largely complex and interconnected. They are tied to social movement, time, and what we pay attention to and value. These three things all change over time and have been doing so at an increasingly rapid pace over the past century on account of technology, greater mobility within and between regions, and the fact that our population has quintupled since 1900.
We are far more interconnected in ways that bend time and space (think: telecommunications), physical ability to move (think: air travel), and knowledge of past and present (think: science + Internet). These have real effects. They have shown to have enormous influences on how we innovate and how much we innovate.
They also have enormous effects on the ways in which markets — for products, services, and ideas — operate. Concentration of wealth and the leverage of those with it to use it to manipulate these markets (think: Facebook, Amazon, Google) is unprecedented in how these oligopolies operate at a global scale.
Policies (think: COVID-19 pandemic restrictions) are being influenced in real time by what people are seeing online from neighbouring jurisdictions and — humans being biased toward their own local needs and wants — leads to lobbying efforts for those policies that are least restrictive in most cases. We see others enjoying things, we want that too because we see ourselves in others.
These are all examples of what shapes our perceptions of innovation and the real present and future value of the products and services we design.
But we also miss a lot.
Pattern Misses
In the Roaring Twenties we noticed fashion changes and music and social-political ideas changing. We miss a lot, too as Kelly points out, in our efforts to celebrate the success of the 20's:
"The U.S. was smack in the middle of a fitful 50-year project converting itself from an agrarian society into an urban one. All that change did not exactly endear people to one another. Around the same time that Duke Ellington was rewiring the way music is written, thousands of members of the Ku Klux Klan were doing an annual picnic in the streets of Washington.
That part of it – political gridlock, grinding poverty, division and strife, nativism, the fall into a devastating global depression – doesn't get mentioned as much as the pretty dresses. Nor the fact that the eventual way out of it was a much worse war."
We miss the innovation efforts that didn't work, the technologies that were not adopted or the policies that were never approved. We also miss the social context of what we generated. We are selective in what we choose as victories and the context of those victories. To many Blacks in the US old enough to remember, the Black Lives Matter of 2020 isn't much different than what what Martin Luther King Jr and his colleagues were fighting for. To many women, the second-wave feminism of the 1970's echoes the 'No Means No' of the early 1990's and today's Me Too Movement in fighting for the same thing.
These might be changes, even social innovations, but it's critical to understand time, movement, and position and recognize our history and what repeats, what doesn't and why.
History doesn't repeat, but it might rhyme.
Confusing the two means we might lose the opportunity to do something truly special today to allow us to change the beat of that rhyme for more of us than just a few.
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Taras Shevchenko. Kyiv landscape. Pencil. [Kyiv]. [V-IX 1843]. Institute of Literature National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, inv. number 106 (album 1839 – 1843).
Left bottom is marked: 13. Button located on the back 7th sheet of album 1839 – 1843.
View of the Volodymyr Hill, approximately from the place where now the Kiev State Philharmonic.
Dated by time of the first trip Shevchenko in Ukraine.
Z.V. Lashkul
After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete works in 10 volumes. – Kyiv: ed. Academy of sciences of UkrSSR, 1961, Vol. 7, part 2, № 169 (image), p. 5 (note).


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His academic research is concentrated in the intersection of the digital economy, labor markets, and human flourishing with a special focus on understanding how individuals accumulate skills over their careers and the effects of policies on the incentives to learn.
In addition to his academic research, Christos publishes frequently in the media, including Fox News, Real Clear Policy, The Hill, and Quillette. He also writes a column for Forbes.
Christos has served on the White House Council of Economic Advisers and currently serves as a senior research adviser for the National Artificial Intelligence Institute in the Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also a research professor at Arizona State University, a senior adviser at Gallup, a digital fellow in the Initiative on the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, a non-resident fellow at the Institute for Religious Studies at Baylor University, and a visiting fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.


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Martin Garrix reveals release date and artwork for Khalid collaboration
It drops this Friday...
Martin Garrix has announced the release date for his forthcoming collab with Khalid.
Having been teased by Khalid back in April, and being officially announced by Garrix in May, the collaborative track between the 22-year-old EDM star and the U.S. R&B singer is set to be released this Friday 15th June.
Titled 'Oceans', the track announcement was made via Garrix's Instagram along with the revelation of its artwork, which you can see below.
Garrix is having a busy year. Last week he announced that he would be playing two massive hometown shows in Amsterdam during ADE. He will also be playing alongside Steve Angello at Belfast's Vital music festival.
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