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A rom-com, a feminist text, two memoirs, and a reproductive dystopia!
First, though, because I guess I've just accepted that I'm going to include movie recommendations and thoughts here…Love, Simon!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, so actually this movie was based on a book that I really, really loved called Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli (her other book The Upside of Unrequited is similarly fantastic, and I'm so soooo excited for her upcoming Leah On the Offbeat). Albertalli's books make me feel surprisingly nostalgic for high school??? I guess, not for high school in general, but it makes me wish I was friends with these kiddos in high school because they're so funny and kind and smart and adorable.
So anyway, I saw the movie this weekend and adored it and my friend Jonah wrote a stellar blog piece called "Love, Simon: The Incredibly Ordinary Queer Rom-com We Need" so definitely check that out! And watch this trailer and let your heart be filled with gladness! And then go see and support the movie! And tell your friends to see it!
So I guess this is actually a week for two rom-coms, because my first book from this week is…
The Wedding Date — Jasmine Guillory
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In short: I loved it. I've been exploring the romance book genre a lil bit lately (12 year old me is shocked. 15 year old me with the lowkey smutty teen book is a little bit proud) and this book was everything I wanted and so much more. The whole internet has been freaking out about it for MONTHS (it got a rave review from Roxane FREAKING Gay, you guys) and it's been slowly working its way up to me in the library holds system and I DEVOURED IT. Best read with a chocolate bar and a glass of wine and several hours to give to it because you are NOT going to want to put this down.
We Should All Be Feminists — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
It almost feels like cheating to put this on here because it was so short, but whatever, I MAKE THE RULES HERE. Also I'm always down for a quick feminist read (or a non-quick feminist read) and I've been trying to be intentional about reading women of color lately, especially since the stuff I'm reading for GRE prep is largely male and white.
Anyway, this is a lovely, insightful, powerful book that was drawn primarily from her Ted Talk of the same title. (You might be familiar with her talk "The Danger of a Single Story," which is also excellent.)
Unqualified — Anna Faris
Okay, so just straight off the bat, I want to say that I have HIGH STANDARDS when it comes to celebrity memoirs. Amy Poehler and Mindy Kaling are the golden standard, Lauren Graham and Anna Kendrick hold up the silver category, and Judy Greer is a respectable bronze. Carrie Fisher and Alison Arngrim are in a league all their own.
About a year ago, I started listening to Anna Faris' podcast (also called Unqualified) (also, wow, this is a very link-heavy installment, apologies for the obnoxiousness of that) on which she, her co-host Sim, and a celebrity guest of the week give relationship advice. I immediately wanted her to be my fairy godmother. Along with the rest of the world, my heart was broken when she and Chris Pratt announced their separation, which definitely lent a tinge of melancholy to this book, especially all the parts that recount the magic of their relationship.
In a hectic week, this book made for nice, comforting bedtime reading. More than anything, it reminded me of a "Frequently Asked Questions" pamphlet on topics of Hollywood, relationships, and Hollywood+relationships. Solid bronze.
Mental: On Lithium, Love, and Losing My Mind — Jaime Lowe
Boy, do I love me my memoirs. This one was a significantly different flavor than Unqualified, and I'm still…not sure how I feel about it. The book opens with Lowe as a teenager, experiencing her first manic episode before being diagnosed with bipolar I. The first few chapters, which recount her her growing mania, her admittance to a mental health facility, diagnosis, and prescription, nearly had me in tears, thinking "everybody who's close to someone with a mental illness" (which pretty much includes everyone) "needs to read this."
Having finished the book, though…I'm not so sure. A significant impetus for writing the book was Lowe's discovery–after 20 years of taking lithium as a mood stabilizer–that the so-called "miracle drug" was also destroying her kidneys. Maybe it's just my inclinations as a reader, or that I came to this book specifically to learn more about bipolar disorder, but I wanted more focus on that and her experiences of the episodes themselves. Those were the parts that really hooked me. There was a good chunk of the book that just felt like filler, which was kind of a bummer.
Future Home of the Living God — Louise Erdrich
I got this one in kind of under the wire, but I really wanted to include it in this post. Future Home of the Living God is the kind of imaginative journey into a dystopia that I really dig–part thought experiment, part spiritual musing, part exploration of female survival. The premise: evolution has started to move backwards. Or sideways. No one's really sure, but living species of all kinds–plants, animals, humans–seem to be genetically regressing and no one can figure out how or why or what can be done. Pregnant women are being rounded up and held captive in an attempt to see if there's hope for humanity in the unborn.
Like I said, this type of thing is really my thing. I'm fascinated by different depictions of dystopian settings or post-catastrophic worlds. There are so many avenues to take, from stories that lean hard into explanatory world-building to stories that focus so much on the interior and mundane that the crumbling world is only the vaguest of backgrounds. I didn't totally feel that this book struck a satisfying chord in that regard, and I'm not sure why. Something in the world-building felt like either a little too much, or not quite enough. However, it's still a really beautiful book, and it all takes place in Minnesota, which was fun, because how often do you get to read a description of a "waspy Wayzata guy" and just instantly know what it means?
So that's this week! One more recommendation before I go: last night I watched the PBS miniseries To Walk Invisible about the Brontë sisters which has transformed me from mostly-Brontë-ambivalent to hardcore-Brontë-stan and I'm a little alarmed. As I mentioned last week, I loved Villette (if that's even the correct word for how I felt–in this interview, Daniel Mallory Ortberg describes the feeling of reading Villette as "like I have been laid low by a violent illness" which is REAL) but Wuthering Heights has always been super frustrating to me, Jane Eyre never hit me quite right, and I haven't read any of Anne's books.
Reader: I have been transformed.
On the whole, my friend Taylor and I agreed that there was far too much Branwell content, but the performances of the central 3 actresses were absolutely incredible and I still have chills.
P.S. since this was a very link-heavy installment, I wanted to put in another reminder that if you possibly can buy from independent booksellers, please do!


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9.E: Conservative Forces (Exercises)
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Exercise \(\PageIndex{1}\)
How long does it take a particle to fall to the ground from a height \( h\), with a uniform acceleration \( g\)? From elementary methods you know that the answer is \( \sqrt{\frac{2h}{g}}\), but we are going to use this simple example to illustrate the use of Equation 9.2.9. The use of the equation to solve such a simple problem might seem a rather tedious way of solving an elementary problem, but the method is useful in more difficult cases, and the use of the method is best introduced with a simple example.
Let us take the origin to be the ground, and we shall measure distances \( y\) upward from the ground. The speed is then given by \( v=-\frac{dy}{dt}\), so we use the negative sign in Equation 9.2.9a. The initial and final values of \( y\) are \( h\) and 0 respectively. Alternatively, you can use Equation 9.2.9b, with the positive sign, in which case the loser and upper limits of integration are 0 and \( h\) respectively.
The total energy \( E\) is the initial potential energy \( mgh\) (since the initial kinetic energy is zero), and the potential energy at height \( y\) is \( V(y) = mgy\) Equation 9.2.9 therefore takes the form
\[ t=-\sqrt{\frac{m}{2}}\int_{h}^{0}\frac{dy}{\sqrt{mgh-mgy}}.\]
This yields the expected answer \( \sqrt{\frac{2h}{g}}\).
Exercise \(\PageIndex{2}\)
How long does it take for a particle, thrown vertically upwards with initial speed \( v_{0}\), to reach a height \( h\)? Again, by elementary methods, you will easily find (do it!) that the answer is \( t=\frac{v_{0}-\sqrt{v_{0}^{2}-2gh}}{g}\), but let's see if we can do it from Equation 9.2.9.
Let us take the origin to be the ground, and we shall measure distances \( y\) upward from the ground. The speed is then given by \( v=+\frac{dy}{dt}\), so we use the positive sign in Equation 9.2.9. The initial and final values of \( y\) are 0 and \( h\) respectively.
The total energy \( E\) is the initial kinetic energy \( \frac{1}{2}mv_{0}^{2}\)(since the initial potential energy is zero), and the potential energy at height \( y\) is \( V(y)=mgy\). Equation 9.2.9 therefore takes the form
\[ t=+\sqrt{\frac{m}{2}}\int_{0}^{h}\frac{dy}{\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}mv_{0}^{2}-mgy}}.\]
This yields the expected answer
\[ t=\frac{v_{0}-\sqrt{v_{0}^{2}-2gh}}{g}.\]
Exercise \(\PageIndex{3}\)
In this example, we shall have a stone falling from a height that is not negligible compared with the radius of the Earth, so that the acceleration is not constant. We shall suppose that we drop a stone from a point at a distance \( r = b\) from the centre of the Earth, and we ask how long it will take to reach the surface of the Earth, radius \( a\).
Let us take the origin to be the centre of the Earth, and we shall measure distances \( r\) radially outward from the centre. The speed is then given by \( v=-\frac{dy}{dt}\), so we use the negative sign in Equation 9.2.9. The initial and final values of \( r\) are \( b\) and \( a\) respectively.
The total energy \( E\) is the initial potential energy \( -\frac{GMm}{b}\)(since the initial kinetic energy is zero), and the potential energy at distance \( r\) from the centre is \( V(r)=-\frac{GMm}{r}\). Equation 9.2.9 therefore takes the form
\[ t=-\sqrt{\frac{m}{2}}\int_{b}^{a}\frac{dr}{\sqrt{\frac{GMm}{r}-\frac{GMm}{b}}} \label{eq:9.3.4} \]
The gravity on the surface of Earth is \( g_{0}=\frac{GM}{a^{2}}\) so that equation \( \ref{eq:9.3.4}\) can be written
\[ t=-\frac{1}{a}\sqrt{\frac{b}{2g_{0}}}\int_{b}^{a}\frac{dr}{\sqrt{\frac{b}{r}-1}} \label{eq:9.3.5}\]
This can be integrated analytically to give
\[ t=\frac{b}{a}\sqrt{\frac{b}{2g_{0}}}\int_{b}^{a}(\alpha+\frac{1}{2}\sin2\alpha), \label{eq:9.3.6}\]
\[ \cos^{2}\alpha=\frac{a}{b}. \label{eq:9.3.7}\]
Here's a numerical example: How long would it take for a stone to fall to Earth from an initial height of 240,000 miles? In case the above method is too difficult, here's another way to do it - in your head in a few seconds!
240,000 miles is the radius of the Moon's orbit. The stone is falling in a highly elliptical orbit of major axis equal to the distance to the Moon - i.e. its semi major axis is half that of the Moon. Therefore by Kepler's third law, its period is equal to the Moon's period (which is 28 days) divided by \( 2\sqrt{2}\) which is 2.8. The orbital period of the stone is therefore 10 days. The time taken to drop to Earth is half of this, or five days. You might want to calculate it from Equations \( \ref{eq:9.3.6}\) and \( \ref{eq:9.3.7}\) and see if you get the same answer!
Exercise \(\PageIndex{4}\)
What is the period of oscillation of a pendulum of length \( l\) swinging through an angle \( \alpha\)?
The answer is that it is four times the time that it takes to rise from the vertical position to an angle \( \alpha\) from the vertical. Thus we shall work out this time from Equation 9.2.10 and multiply by four.
Let us adopt the upper end of the string as our level for zero potential energy. The potential energy \( V(\theta)\) is then \( -mgl\cos\theta\). The total energy \( E\) is equal to the potential energy when \( \theta=\alpha\); that is to say, \( E=-mgl\cos\alpha\). If we take the initial angle to be 0 and the final angle to be \( \alpha\), then the upward motion is such that \( \omega=+\frac{d\theta}{dt}\), and we choose the positive sign for Equation 9.2.10. The rotational inertia \( I\) is \( ml^{2}\). Thus Equation 9.2.10 gives
\[ P=4t=\sqrt{\frac{8l}{g}}\int_{0}^{\alpha}\frac{d\theta}{\sqrt{\cos\theta-\cos\alpha}}. \label{eq:9.3.8}\]
This can doubtless be expressed in terms of special functions that most of us are unfamiliar with, so you will probably opt to evaluate this numerically as a function of \( \alpha\). There is a small difficulty at the upper limit of the integration when the integrand becomes infinite. Indeed, in all cases in which the system is at rest at either the start or the finish, the denominator of Equation 9.2.9 or 9.2.10 will necessarily be zero and hence the integrand will be infinite. In some cases, as in examples (i) to (iii), the integral can be done analytically and there is no problem. If, however, as in the present example, the integration has to be done numerically, there is a potential problem and some ingenuity (often by making a change of variable) will have to be exercised.
Using a trigonometric identity, you can write Equation \( \ref{eq:9.3.8}\) as
\[ P=\sqrt{\frac{4l}{g}}\int_{0}^{\alpha}\frac{d\theta}{\sqrt{\sin^{2}\frac{1}{2}\alpha-\sin^{2}\frac{1}{2}\theta}}.\]
This doesn't get rid of the infinity, but now make a change of variable by letting
\[ \sin\frac{1}{2}\theta=\sin\frac{1}{2}\alpha\sin\phi\]
and the difficulty will disappear. In particular, the expression for the period becomes
\[ P=\sqrt{\frac{l}{g}}\times\frac{2}{\pi}\int_{0}^{\frac{\pi}{2}}\frac{d\phi}{\sqrt{1-\sin^{2}\frac{1}{2}\alpha.\sin^{2}\phi}}.\]
Below is a graph of the period, in units of \( 2\pi\sqrt{\frac{l}{g}}\) versus \( \alpha\).
A further question might be asked. For example: What is the amplitude of the pendulum swing such that the period is 10 percent more than the small angle limit of \( 2\pi\sqrt{\frac{l}{g}}\)? In other words, solve the equation \( \frac{\sqrt{2}}{\pi}\int_{0}^{\alpha}\frac{d\theta}{\sqrt{\cos\theta-\cos\alpha}}=1.1\) for \( \alpha\). This will be quite a challenge.
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Exercise \(\PageIndex{5}\)
A Semicircle, a Ring and a String
In this example, we have a smooth semicircular wire in a vertical plane. The radius of the semicircle is \( a\). A ring of mass \( m\) at P can slide smoothly around the ring. An elastic string of natural length \( 2a\) is attached to the ends of the wire at A and B and is threaded through the ring. The force constant of the string is \( k\). The ring is subjected to three conservative forces - gravity and the tensions in the two parts of the string. The ring is smooth, so there is no nonconservative friction.
By geometry the lengths of the following are
AP: \( 2a\cos\theta\)
BP: \( 2a\sin\theta\)
PM: \( 2a\sin\theta\cos\theta=a\sin 2\theta\)
We are going to find the equilibrium position(s) of the ring, and see how long it takes to slide from one position on the semicircle to another.
Before doing any calculations, let's think about the physics qualitatively. Suppose that it is a very heavy ring and a weak string. In that case the ring will surely slide down to the bottom of the semicircle and stay there. On the other hand suppose that the ring is not very heavy but the string is quite strong. In that case we may well imagine that the ring may rest in stable equilibrium farther up the semicircle; indeed, if the string is very strong, the stable equilibrium position of the ring might be quite near the top. Of course, by the symmetry of the situation, there will always be an equilibrium position at the bottom of the semicircle, but, if the string is very strong, this position will be unstable, and, upon the slightest displacement, the ring will snap up to a higher position. Whether the position at the bottom of the semicircle will be stable or unstable depends on the relative strengths of the weight of the ring and the tension in the string. Let us then, in anticipation, refer to the ratio \( \frac{mg}{ka}\) by the symbol \( \lambda\). In fact we shall find that if \( \lambda\) > 0.586, the position at the bottom of the semicircle will be stable, but if \( \lambda\) is less than this the positions of stable equilibrium will be higher up.
The extension of the string above its natural length is \( 2a(\cos\theta+\sin\theta-1)\) and the depth of the ring below AB is \( a\sin2\theta\).Therefore, if we take AB to be the level for zero gravitational potential energy, the potential energy (elastic plus gravitational)) is
\( V(\theta=\frac{1}{2}\lfloor2a(\cos\theta+\sin\theta-1)^{2}\rfloor-mga\sin2\theta\)
\[ =ka^{2}\lfloor2(\cos\theta+\sin\theta-1)^{2}-\lambda\sin2\theta\rfloor. \label{eq:9.3.11}\]
Figure IX.3 shows this potential energy as a function of \( \theta\) for several values of \( \lambda\), including 0.586. We can see that, for \( \lambda\) greater than this, the position at the bottom of the ring (\( \theta\) = 45o) is the only equilibrium position and it is stable. For small values of \( \lambda\), the bottom, while an equilibrium position, is unstable, and there are two stable positions higher up. To calculate these equilibrium positions exactly, we need to determine where the derivative of \( V\) is zero, and to find whether these positions are stable or unstable, we need to examine the sign of the second derivative.
I leave it to the reader to work through the first derivative and to show that one condition for the derivative to be zero is for \( \cos\theta\) to equal \( \sin\theta\); that is, \( \theta\) = 450 , which corresponds to the bottom of the semicircle. Another condition for the first derivative to be zero is slightly more challenging to find, but you should find that the derivative is zero if
\[ \sin(\theta+\frac{\pi}{4})=\frac{\sqrt{2}}{2-\lambda}.\]
This corresponds to a real value of \( \theta\) only if \( \lambda \leq 2-\sqrt{2}=0.586\). The second derivatives are necessary to determine whether the equilibria are stable (\( V\) a minimum) or unstable (\( V\) a maximum) or a glance at figure IX.3 will be easier.
Now let's express the potential energy as a function \( U\) of the angle \( \phi\), so that \( U(\phi)=V(\theta)\). From Figure IX.2, we see that \( \phi=90^{\circ}-2\theta\). After some algebra and trigonometry, I find that the potential energy as a function of \( \phi\) is given by
\[ \frac{U(\phi)}{ka^{2}}=4\cos^{2}\frac{1}{2}\phi-4\sqrt{2}\cos\frac{1}{2}\phi-\lambda\cos\phi-\lambda-4+4\sqrt{2}.\]
Now expand this carefully by Taylor's theorem as far as \( \phi^{2}\):
\[ \frac{U(\phi)}{ka^{2}}=2(\lambda+\sqrt{2}-2)\phi^{2}.\]
What we have done is to approximate the potential energy function \( U(\phi)\) by a parabola for small \( \phi\). Now a parabolic potential well is characteristic of simple harmonic motion. For example, in linear simple harmonic motion obeying the equation \( m\ddot{x}=-kx\) the potential energy per unit mass is \( \frac{1}{2}kx^{2}\) and the period is \( 2\pi\sqrt{\frac{m}{k}}\). In rotational simple harmonic motion obeying the equation \( I\ddot{\theta}=-c\theta\) the potential energy per unit rotational inertia is \( \frac{1}{2}c\theta^{2}\) and the period is \( 2\pi\sqrt{\frac{I}{c}}\). The rotational inertia here is just \( ma^{2}\), so we find that the period of small oscillations is
\[ P=\pi\sqrt{\frac{\lambda a}{(\lambda+\sqrt{2}-2)g}}, \label{eq:9.3.15}\]
provided, of course, that \( \lambda>2-\sqrt{2}\).
If you want to find how long the ring takes to slide from an initial position \( \phi=\alpha\) to the bottom you can use Equations 9.2.10 and \( \ref{eq:9.3.11}\), with \( E=U(\alpha)\). You will find the usual difficulty that the integrand is zero at the start. I haven't actually tried the problem, because it looks slightly tedious, but I am fairly certain that it can be integrated analytically. If you do it and get an answer, make sure that, in the limit of small \( \phi\), you get the same as Equation \( \ref{eq:9.3.15}\)
Exercise \(\PageIndex{6}\)
A rod of length \( 2l\) and mass \( m\) has one end freely pivoted on a horizontal floor. The rod is held at an initial angle of 45o to the vertical and then released. How long does it take for the rod to hit the floor? I'll leave you to work this one out. By the way, if I had started with the rod vertical, you would find that it takes an infinite time to fall - because the vertical position, although unstable, is an equilibrium position, and it would never get going unless given an infinitesimal displacement.


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To screen or not to screen: the most coherent answer ever
I am a mere supplicant at the feet of the true experts in the field of screening.
Linked here is the single most coherent article on the subject I've ever seen, just came out today. Basically, it says: "Screen according to guidelines." That simple sentence is the source of a great battle pitting Quizzify and the Welligentsia against the Wellness Ignorati and most of the screening industry (excluding It Starts with Me, Limeade, and US Preventive Medicine, all of which offer screening programs more or less aligned with guidelines), whose livelihood depends on employers not screening employees according to guidelines, and finding some of the wackiest tests in the world to foist onto unsuspecting employees.
Highlights of the article:
- Many people are overscreened and massive numbers of people get tests they don't need
- Many people are underscreened
- Do not purchase B-to-C screenings like Star Wellness, the subject of a recent profile here, offers.
Specifically as to the third point, they called out AngioScreen as an example of companies trying to circumvent doctors by offering inappropriate screenings. AngioScreen is unique in that right on their website they acknowledge that their entire business model is built on an a screen the US Preventive Services Task Force calls inappropriate.
They also list an outfit called Matrix Medical Network as an example of a company offering inappropriate screens. Matrix Medical Network…hmmm…where have I heard that name before…oh, that's right! I founded Matrix Medical Network. (Actually, co-founded and was an original board member and investor. And, yes, unlike wellness vendors, irony is not lost on me. See "Ironically, the wellness industry does not understand irony.")
One way or the other, this article is worth a read because it truly draws a thoughtful line between appropriate and inappropriate screenings.
Al Lewis unplugged, uncut, uncensored…and uncombed
Wellness, Quizzify, you name it. We cover it in this Youtube episode #13 of Friends of Benefits.
Thanks to Dave Contorno and Jeff Bernhard for hosting.
Star Wellness Doubles Down on Ignorance
Once in every great while, when we're least expecting it, a company comes along that makes us reconsider our viewpoint–and ponder the possibility that maybe we're wrong about wellness. Maybe, finally, we've discovered a company that will motivate employees to get well. Maybe a company that adheres to screening guidelines. Maybe even a company that will solve America's healthcare crisis.
Star Wellness is not that company.
Below, you'll find a partial list of the clinical goodies in Star Wellness's hyperdiagnostic candy jar. Most of these tests would never be ordered on an asymptomatic patient by a doctor, but not to worry. In 47 states, you can actually purchase these tests directly from the Star's lab, without some pesky doctor with some silly medical degree observing that it's a bad idea to subject healthy people to a barrage of mostly US Preventive Services Task Force C-and-D-rated tests. Instead, you can get your results reviewed by one of Star's highly qualified, thoroughly vetted, well-trained…franchisees:
Star is seeking franchisees with backgrounds in sales, finance or (and we are using a screenshot because we don't want to be accused of making this up):
Five whole days? Oh, wait — "up to" five whole days. So maybe a really smart municipality administrator could cover all the material in four days. That leaves one extra day to snooker employers and harm employees.
Here is a partial list of their tests. I say "partial" because you can click through on the "general health profile" and find even more tests. And many of these tests themselves include more tests. For instance, a complete blood count has 6 and the "comprehensive thyroid panel" has 7. In total, you can get more than 40 blood values measured. If these tests are 90% accurate and you are completely normal, 4 (10%) of those tests could return a value that is out of range, just randomly.
When I say they "doubled down on ignorance" of the fact that you simply aren't supposed to go around hunting for diseases, it's because they used to do only about half as many useless tests as they do now. So they have literally doubled down on ignorance, vs. this original list:
Where to start? First, no licensed doctor should "typically order" these tests "during a routine physical," at least if they want to keep that license. (Star can order them because wellness vendors aren't doctors. They only play doctor, so they don't need a license.)
Second, these tests are not "over $350 value," for many reasons. Besides most of them being worthless or harmful, a "routine physical" doesn't cost $350. Capitated doctors would go bankrupt ordering these tests.
Then there is "Lyme's Disease." News flash: it's called "Lyme Disease." No apostrophe. Just as they are confused about basically everything else involving wellness, they may be getting confused about the origin of the name, so I'll clue them in. It's named for the town where an epidemiologist identified it, not for a Yankee who died of it.
And if they have figured out how to accurately diagnose Lyme Disease, they deserve a Nobel Prize. Finally, no doctor would order a test for "Lyme's Disease" as part of a routine physical.
The US Preventive Services Task Force doesn't rate Lyme Disease screening because no one should be screened for Lyme Disease, and everyone other than Star Wellness knows that. (Yes, people who have been exposed to ticks or who have symptoms should be tested. But those are tests done as part of a diagnostic workup, not screens that employees are forced to undergo if they don't want to be fined. Tests are done by doctors, not municipal administrators.)
H. pylori: The worst wellness screen ever?
First, the US Preventive Services Task Force doesn't bother to grade it, largely because no self-respecting doctor would ever screen patients for this. Shame on the USPSTF for consistently failing to anticipate all the ways in which wellness vendors can misunderstand basic clinical science!
Second, most of us who harbor H. pylori have no symptoms. So why screen for something that's not causing problems? That's the very stable genius of Star Wellness. By expanding tests to include panels of no clinical value whatsoever, Star Wellness can make more money, which will please them, and hyperdiagnose more employees, which will please their clients.
The fact that a real doctor would only test someone who has an actual reason to be tested explains why H. pylori is a test, not a screen. If you have an ulcer or symptoms that suggest an ulcer, go to the doctor. Even then, the doctor probably won't even bother to test you, since most people get relief simply from well-tolerated, commonly used pills like Zantac. It is only if the first-line medications fail that most doctors will even test you.
Third, H. pylori may be beneficial. Screening us to try to get rid of something we generally want in our bodies represents a new frontier in hyperdiagnosis.
Fourth — ironically, given the wellness industry's obsession with employees' weights — it is even possible that killing off H. Pylori contributes to weight gain.
Fifth, what exactly are we supposed to do, if it turns out we harbor H. pylori? Get a course of antibiotics to clear the bacteria out of our system? That makes sense. We've always maintained that one of the problems with America's healthcare system is that patients aren't prescribed enough antibiotics. (Not.)
The good news for the pharmaceutical industry is due to the nature of H. pyroli, hiding in our stomach mucus, it takes a lot of antibiotics to ferret it out, plus a bunch of other pills. Is this a great country or what?
Finally, half the world's population has it. Given the expense and inaccuracy of the test and the prevalence of the bacterium, why not eliminate the middle step and just put all your employees on antibiotics?
And now let's play Jeopardy
Answer: Along with everything else, this is a topic Star Wellness knows nothing about.
Their random number generator is slightly off: 222,000 people under age 45 do not suffer a stroke every year. For 18-to-44-year-olds, the actual statistic is 14,835. And yet Star is convinced that the number should be 14 times higher, judging by their choice of punctuation mark! Let's test their hypothesis that you can make an utterly false statement true by adding an exclamation point to see how well that works: "Star Wellness Is Run by Geniuses!"
No such luck. We'll try a few more exclamation points below to see if we get a different result, which is very likely!
Since there are more than 50,000,000 adults under 45, you would need to screen 3000 employees to find one person who would have a stroke. If their test is 90% accurate (in their dreams), for every person they find who needs to go to the doctor to prevent this stroke, 300 (10% of 3000 — the false positive rate is the inverse of the accuracy rate) would be sent to the doctor for no reason to potentially have their arteries reamed out or some such thing. And the only way that guarantees that you'll prevent a stroke is if the treatment kills the employee first.
That is exactly why you shouldn't be going around screening people for this stuff — especially people under age 45.
Let's teach Star Wellness how to do their job
Take a looksee at this illustration of a Star Wellness health fair. I'm sure this picture will appeal to every employee!
Star Wellness, Vitamin B12 is not a vaccine.
And why any employer would want to go around poking employees with syringes full of vitamins would be a mystery to most doctors. But Star Wellness franchisees are way smarter than any doctor!
At least when it comes to knowing how to administer a municipality.
Yes, yes, of course: the Penske file
When it comes to wellness, the unwillingness of senior HR executives to search the internet continues to boggle my mind. As a result, Penske Automotive's Executive VP of Human Resources somehow missed two of the most widely circulated memos of the last five years:
- Annual checkups provide no net benefit for most working-age people and are a total waste of money;
- As of January 2019, you can't force employees to get them by tying them to large incentives or penalties.
As to the first, I will give him credit for one thing. He says: "We know that when you see a doctor, eye to eye every year, it has an impact." Darn tootin' it does — an immediate 2-3% increase in your health spending.
Later he says: "It's too soon to see results of decreased costs to the company from the initiative." Ya think? This is like the Comptroller of the state of Connecticut saying that, yes, of course costs went up when they made employees get physicals, but higher healthcare costs are "a good thing."
Having seen no savings, Penske's EVP decided to take the obvious next step, the step that every executive takes once a wellness initiative has been shown to be a complete failure just like the literature predicts: roll the program out to more people. In Penske's case, that would be spouses and domestic partners.
He added: "We are going to see over time our health care costs decrease… We may not see it this year or next year, but we'll see it over time for sure."
Start the wait…
Any sign of savings yet?
Ron Goetzel Spins Gold into Straw, Part 2 (a semi-guest post by Bob Merberg)
First, congratulations to Joe Andelin, who caught just about every fallacy, alternative fact and, if there were such a thing, alternative fallacy in yesterday's presentation. I know he did because I was on the call.
Wait, Al, didn't you say they blocked you?
Yes, but displaying the same level of competence that they routinely bring to their day jobs, they managed to block only my video, not my audio.
Here were our predictions we got on the nose. We predicted he would say:-
- The study only covered the first year — he won't mention that the authors also said the first year suggests nothing "is trending towards savings" in future years either;
- He said he study contradicts many of the other findings out there — except, of course, for all the other studies testing the par-vs-non-par study design against a benchmark, all of which showed results quite literally identical to the University of Illinois result, in that the wellness program accomplished zero;
- It wasn't a good program. To hear Ron tell it (literally hear him tell it — you can listen to the tape), anytime a program fails, it's because it wasn't done correctly. "100 employers [have] programs with really smart ingredients…but thousands of others still don't do wellness right," are his exact words in print. He is refusing to name any of them, other than the old Johnson & Johnson analysis. (J&J is a wellness vendor. Investigator bias, anyone?)
The last is his go-to excuse. He said the University of Illinois program, which consisted of screenings and incentives to use the gym, was a "throwback to the 1980s." In reality, the program was a "throwback" to every single Koop Award-winning program, all of which feature "pry, poke and prod" programs and some kind of fitness incentive. The only thing missing from this program was the broccoli.
I was wondering where to go with the rest of this posting but then into my comments box popped my old friend Bob Merberg, who is perhaps the smartest person I have ever met on the subject of wellness outcomes measurement. His comments are better than anything I could have written (assuming I had been allowed to see the slides). Here they are in their entirety:
Al, I'm not usually one to comment on other people's blog posts, and certainly not one to promote my own content, but I attended the webinar and found the conclusions drawn by the presenters to be egregious. One of the presenters correctly pointed out that subjects in the treatment group were, "More likely to report that the employer values worker health and safety."
But then — bizarrely — he went on to say, "In other words, … people felt more engaged, and had better morale, and had better feelings of satisfaction working for the employer by being in the treatment group. In my mind, the headline ought to be 'Wellness Program Increases Employee Engagement and Morale' as opposed to '37 Things We Didn't Find Any Difference In.'" Another presenter termed this the key finding.
But feeling like your health and safety are valued, while important, is by no means a the same as morale, engagement, or job satisfaction. In fact, the study did not measure morale or employee engagement. It did measure job satisfaction, self-reported "bad emotional health," and changes in happiness at work, and found that the intervention group experienced no significant improvement compared to the control group.
If we were to jump to any conclusions from this study, they might be that feeling valued are NOT linked to job satisfaction and other psychosocial metrics.
To promulgate that the "key finding" was improved morale, improved employee engagement, and improved job satisfaction, is at best a sign of failure to understand the study, and at worst a deception. Under any circumstances, it's a disservice to the study subjects who presumably consented to participate in good faith science, to the researchers — who were meticulous in their methodology and transparency — and to those of us in the wellness industry who are more interested in understanding what works rather than distorting facts to serve our own self-interest.
But wait…there's more.
More in my blog post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/employee-wellness-truth-isnt-true-bob-merberg/
Mostly for fun, a time-lapsed video of my research and writing process on this subject: https://youtu.be/hQ6HqkN-VPw
Wellness News Roundup: Are Diabetes Management Vendors Doing the Wrong Thing?
Should a typical diabetic employees be incentivized to get his or her Hba1c down to 7?
Should copays on strips be waived to encourage diabetic employees to test their blood sugar every day?
Read this issue of Wellness News Roundup for the surprising new research.
Also in this issue: this will come as a big shock but it turns out — get ready — employees are not health literate.
Ron Goetzel Spins Gold into Straw, Part 1
I would invite everyone to join tomorrow (Tuesday's) webinar by Ron Goetzel. He will be attempting to undermine the National Bureau of Economic Research's (NBER) outstanding University of Illinois study, which showed — surprise — that conventional wellness programs don't come close to changing behavior, let alone saving money. I would love to attend, but I, of course, am not invited to his events any more than he is invited to mine. Oh, wait a sec, I invite him to all my events and alert him to all my postings on linkedin so that he can correct any errors I've made. Sorry, my memory failed me there for a second.
Speaking of failed memories, he is being joined on this webinar by Jessica Grossmeier. If that name rings a bill, it's because she claimed her company, Staywell, saved $17,000 per risk factor reduced — about $3000/pound shed — for British Petroleum, having forgotten that she herself claimed it is only possible to save $105/avoided risk factor. See "British Petroleum Wellness Program is Spewing Invalidity."
Despite this being the Gold Standard of randomized control trials, he will be accusing the NBER of many errors. (A cynic might note that being accused of making errors in a wellness study by Ron Goetzel is like being accused of cheating on your taxes by Paul Manafort. ) He will argue that:
- The study only covered the first year — he won't mention that the authors also said the first year suggests nothing "is trending towards savings" in future years either;
- The study contradicts — you guessed it — Kate Baicker's infamous 3.27-to-1 ROI, without mentioning that the NBER's principal investigator, as coincidence would have it, reports to Kate Baicker, so it's pretty unlikely he would diss her unless the data left him no choice;
- The study contradicts all the other findings out there — except for all the other studies testing the par-vs-non-par study design against a benchmark, all of which showed results quite literally identical to the University of Illinois result, in that the wellness program accomplished zero;*
- The participants outperformed the non-participants;
- They haven't reported on the screening yet;
- It wasn't a good program. To hear Ron tell it (literally hear him tell it — you can listen to the tape), anytime a program fails, it's because it wasn't done correctly. "100 employers [have] programs with really smart ingredients…but thousands of others still don't do wellness right," are his exact words in print. He is refusing to name any of them, other than the old Johnson & Johnson analysis. (J&J is a wellness vendor. Investigator bias, anyone?)
What else will he argue? Tough to say. One thing for certain: he won't mention my name — any more than Bravo did when they wrongly predicted that the EEOC rules would be replaced in January while I predicted the opposite. Instead he uses a new vernacular for my postings: "Industry chatter."
He probably picked up this idea from Bravo, which uses the phrase "industry noise" to describe me.
Where's Waldo-meets-Ron Goetzel: Spot the errors and you may win a big prize
So let's make this interesting. Whoever comes up with the best smackdown of the webinar's obvious fallacies (and omissions) automatically gets entered in the contest to win the Martha's Vineyard vacation, with the house, car and private (well, semi-private) beach. It is otherwise open only to people who have won various Quizzify trivia contests, but being able to identify five or ten pieces of "chatter" or "noise" in this self-anointed "expert webinar" clearly counts as being health-literate. To compete, send me an email with an attachment. I'll pick a couple of finalists and put them on linkedin. (If you don't want your name used — and Ron does bite back, so I don't blame you — I will post on my own.)
*The result is also quite consistent with Ron's observation that there is basically no change in behavior leading to risk reduction. If we are splitting hairs here, Ron found a 1-2% reduction, not 0%. Of course, that took three years.


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The first day's panels at ICE VOX 2019 saw speakers talk up the need for cooperation between operators and regulators if the industry is to survive in the face of increasing regulatory pressure and worsening public opinion. Speakers also highlighted the importance of clarity on issues such as the Department of Justice's reinterpretation of the Wire Act and what is expected of operators when it comes to player protection.
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Wow! The final match to Revolution Pro's Spirit of the Revolution Tournament was incredible. I seriously doubt another match this year will equal it. Hopefully both Super Dragon and Rising Son have proved their critics wrong.
XPW has announced at their August 18th show they will have a tournament for the new XPW World Television Title. In my opinion XPW doesn't really need another title right now. They allready have two and they aren't doing that great a job with those. Still, hopefully this will draw some fans to the Olympic and maybe we will get to see some matches we normally wouldn't get to see.
MPW is looking to be a pretty good show. The hype for Super Dragon / Low-Ki is starting to build, but I think the sleeper hit of the night will be Cinncinati Red / Chris Chetti. Red doesn't get nearly enough credit. I think he and Chetti will suprise a lot of people.
Don't forget Revolution Pro's Fan Fest is this Saturday. The main event for the post-fan fest show looks awesome. Super Dragon / Rising Son / Disco Machine vs. B-Boy / Funky Billy Kim / Chillango with TARO.
That about wraps it up for this time. I know its kind of short but I don't have much to say. Next week I should have a Tobita update and some more stuff. Don't forget to buy a shirt and check out the Events and Results forum for all the latest cards and results.


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When teenage Yi (Chloe Bennet) encounters a young Yeti on the roof of her apartment building, she and her friends, Jin (Tenzing Norgay Trainor) and Peng (Albert Tsai), name him "Everest" and embark on an epic quest to reunite the magical creature with his family at the highest point on Earth. But the trio of friends will have to stay one step ahead of Burnish (Eddie Izzard), a wealthy man intent on capturing a Yeti, and zoologist Dr. Zara (Sarah Paulson) to help Everest get home.
Abominable is written and directed by Jill Culton and is produced by Suzanne Buirgy. Peilin Chou of Pearl Studio also produces.


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I think that this is where we all started. A friend comes over, the second remote comes out and you both start to play. This is where gaming for our generation started. Just this week three of my housemates and myself played Mario Kart and it was honestly one of the most fun experiences I have had in my entire life. I'd just gotten home from work and they had stayed up chatting. Someone suggested a game of Mario Kart, and we got playing. I felt like a child again, something that online gaming has never been able to make me feel. Four people sitting down laughing, shouting with our hearts pounding, so that got me thinking…
With the rise of online gaming, 'couch co-op' seemed to be a thing of the past. When the PS4 and Xbox One were released there was a huge emphasis on online multiplayer games. Even games which still retain offline multiplayer, such as FIFA show so little respect for these modes in favour of online modes, often it appears to be because that is where they can make more money through in-game currencies or lootboxes. I'm not entirely opposed to online multiplayer, but there seems to be a certain level of magic that has been lost in it.
Certain developers are very keen to promote couch co-op as an option; for example, Overcooked is a game almost-entirely founded on local multiplayer. Phil Duncan, the co-founder of the studio who made Overcooked was quoted saying, "There's certainly an element of nostalgia there, and it's something I really enjoyed from my youth, playing with my brothers,", and I think there are many of us who can relate to that exact situation, whether it was parents, siblings, cousins, friends or uncles. While the modes themselves seem to be disappearing, there's no doubt as to the fact that there is still a huge passion for them. Modern gamers are missing out on the reasons that many of us started playing. Online interaction is still fantastic, but there is a different kind of social interaction that came with couch co-op.
As previously said, games like FIFA and other sports titles still retain local multiplayer as modes, despite their limitation, while something akin to Mario Kart or Super Smash Bros., give us the most natural nod to our nostalgia by refusing to bow to the relentless onslaught of online multiplayer. I think that many of us have our memories of a game we played. For me, Batman Rise of Sin Tzu. Sitting down with my dad when I was no more than 5 or 6 and playing together. I sucked, and I'm pretty sure I made the game about 20 times as hard, but that wasn't the point. It was the struggle together and a feat we had worked together to achieve. Many other games have left us with lasting memories: Star Wars Battlefront (2005), Left4Dead, Gears of War… gaming has helped me build and prolong lasting relationships.
It's because if this that I cannot help but ponder; Why are certain companies not producing games with localized co-op or multiplayer anymore? Possibly the most obvious reason would be that removing local multiplayer means that they can sell more copies of a game. If I want to play with a group of three other online, we would have to own one console each as well as a copy of the game. The simple fact that they can make more money from not allowing us to play this mode would seem to be the most obvious reason. The Halo series was built on split screen co-op, founded by fun sessions among friends, but with Halo 5, one person plays and everyone else watches. Racing games? Race your friends! But nowadays, with many titles, such as Forza Horizon 3, there are no local split-screen races. Even in modern day, AAA titles such as Star Wars Battlefront can be seen to be even more cynical, including split-screen to force a few more sales, while only providing a watered-down excuse for offline gameplay.
Nintendo have always held co-operative play to be a huge part of their modern consoles. Nintendo continue to promote couch co-op with the release of the Switch a console where you don't even need to buy a second controller to play multiplayer and that is absolutely fantastic. Soon, for the first time we will see couch co-op in a Pokémon game, and Nintendo continue to put couch co-op at the forefront of both Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros, while also modernizing with online multiplayer systems.
So, the four of us played Mario Kart, for hours. It was fantastic. I really truly felt like a kid again. We played six races, where our hearts were racing. In the final race, three of us were in 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. In the final lap we were all screaming, shouting and coming into the final straight we were all on our feet. An incredible overtake knocked the person in 1st all the way down to 11th and there was genuine anger and joy as the race ended. It was the two boys against the two girls in a team race and as the final scores came up there was genuine tension in the air. The score read 380 v 380. It ended as a draw, and I'll be honest it is a very good thing that it did, or else we probably still wouldn't be speaking! Anyone up for a game of Mario Kart?


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On April 9th, 1999 Grey Callaway fell in love. It was love in Spanish, rough, cruder when he translated it, and nothing like the Neruda poems. He was fifty-two years old.
Grey lives alone in the third story apartment on the corner of Calle Real and Plaza de los Barcos. In '91 he bought it for the iron grates against the window and the tiles in the foyer. It was romantic, cream and Andalusia red. Once a week he walks out to buy café con leche from the shop below him, then two blocks to the frutería to buy breakfast for the week. The man weighing fruit tells him the same story every time. Did he hear what happened with the bull? Must have been fifty years ago. The greatest corriendo de los toros the man can remember and the meanest bull. Hijo de puta, what a beast! After two hours of chasing boys, the black bull had had flung itself off the street and into the glass, charging through Grey's apartment and goring walls as it fled. Isn't that great! Maybe it's good luck. The man winks. Grey shrugs, mumbles, and walks home with his bags clenched tightly in each hand. He doesn't buy it, but his windows are a little smoother than his neighbors'.
Nine years ago, Grey was a sailor. He had tacked from Bar Harbor to the Cape and all the way to Falkland Islands avoiding mortgages and family reunions. After ten years he'd made enough money to last him through five mid-life crises. He didn't remember what blew him to Spain. He was delivering the boat for sale, that much he knew, but the sale must have fouled or maybe that's what he told the seller. He landed in sandy San Fernando. San Fernando where all of the butchers were missing teeth, and the horses died early from the salt marsh hay. San Fernando, where the rails were laid down the middle of town two years ago, but no one had ever seen a train. San Fernando, where the adventure wilted, where the finest ships took form in mason jars on Grey's kitchen table. Spain was no great romance.
Today the streets are littered with '40s, dead flowers and piss from La Feria de Abril. On the tracks, the children play a game. One by one, they leap across the iron lines. The biggest, a dark boy with a ripped t-shirt, jumps first. Grey watches him from his street window. Deer legs unfold, running, jumping and running again as his younger brother, the smaller boy with dirty hair, times his best goes. Grey adjusts the sails on the sloop inside his jar. How many jumps can he make in two minutes? Grey knows it by heart, even if the children forget. One hundred and eleven. The big boy is fast.
There are six in all, the regulars. Grey has counted them every day for the past nine years. There is one girl, green eyes, mousy, so much smaller than the boys. Today she is wearing a red dress.
The point of the game is that you might get hit. The ghost trains run every two minutes and if you fall the littlest boy will shout "splat!" Then you've lost. It's the girl's turn. Her spindle legs leap. One. Grey rigs the sail with tweezers. Four. Black curls bouncing. Six. Big boy whistles, "whoo whoooo". The train's coming. Thirteen. Grey is painting the stern, gold letters. Twenty. San Fernando is sleeping, laying down for her siesta. Thirty. Grey moves to the window, leans against iron and glass. Fifty. The girl is slowing, feet thumping between puddles of petals and car oil. Grey can see her chest heaving, little collar bones fluttering like white wings and then she is falling, oil smearing, fingers spreading as the railing for those ghost commuters rushes towards her skull. Her dress spills over the stones of Calle Real like a blossom. The count stops.
The girl must have died thirty minutes ago. Grey never stopped counting. Two thousand and thirty eight when one of the boys ran. Ten thousand six hundred and fifty seven when the sirens drove down the tracks. Grey knows cars aren't supposed to drive down this street on account of the trains. One million and he sees the woman. Silk hair, thin hands like flamenco dancers' cup the dead girl's face, dark eyes staring, small back curving, arching towards him. He watches the woman from behind his window, wrought iron curling around his image of her knees, bent like a prayer in the red puddles between the tracks. When he opens the window he can smell her, lemon trees and dry Andalusian pines. This woman is beautiful and he can feel her breath as he climbs the iron, closes his eyes. He can taste her, salty sweat and the fish she ate for lunch. He wants her. His steps out from the ledge and his feet are free, and she is screaming, screaming for him! He knows it! He will fly with her. Sail with her! All this beauty and he's falling in love. She's pointing, black eyes staring, as he falls at her feet.


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The article at this link from the May 11, 1882 Daily Astorian has a good article about the settlement of the Volga Germans into Oregon. My favorite quote from it says: "They prefer the life of the bee, reporting daily to a populous hive, to that of a solitary hawk, which cares only for its own nest." I love what that says about the people of my heritage.
I've inherited family photo collections from my grandparents, my parents and a few cousins, for which I'm very grateful. They include photos from the late 1800s to the present. Since then I've scanned thousands of photos with my Flip Pal portable scanner. I love using it. If you want to learn more about the Flip Pal, click the photo at left.
My favorite Bible verse is from Romans 8:28: "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose."
Another favorite is Phillippians 4:13: "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me".
And my personal prayer as I start each day is "Lord, remind me that nothing is going to happen to me today that you and I together can't handle."
One of my favorite apps is Trello. You can find it by clicking on the link above, which is right below the photo of my Trello board. It's an organizational tool for me. I've created Trello boards for genealogy, to keep track of things in my life, and to organize resources on different topics. You can watch a demo of Trello here on YouTube. Please contact me if you'd like more information about my Trello boards and how I use them effectively.
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Man critically hurt in 1-10 rollover
A man was flown to an area hospital in critical condition after he was ejected from a an SUV in East Bexar County on Monday morning.
Sgt. E.M. Conger with the Bexar County Sheriff's Office said a woman driving a Chevrolet Suburban on the frontage road of Interstate 10 just west of Trainer Hale Road lost control of the vehicle after one of its tires blew out about 7:45 a.m.
The suburban rolled over, ejecting a 57-year-old male passenger.
The woman driving the Suburban was not badly hurt and she was walking around shortly after the rollover. Her two children, ages 9 and 6, were also hospitalized, though their injuries were not believed to be serious.
Conger said everyone inside the vehicle was wearing a seatbelt except for the ejected passenger. He remained in "very critical" condition about an hour after the accident, Conger said.
The group appeared to be headed to Louisiana after a short stay in the area, he said.


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Oh, no! It looks like Spidey might have met his match here, doesn't it?
No, we can all relax. Spider-Man isn't really fighting a copy of himself, as much as the Black Widow wishes otherwise.
The gist of this story is that the Widow is looking to break with her past and make a fresh start; but as much as she respects her own prowess, she wants to find out the secret of Spider-Man's abilities, so that she might have a new edge in her career.
And so, she goes after him--instead of just asking him about it. This was still the '70s, you know. Characters only rarely thought things like this through beforehand. Snare first and ask questions later.
To make matters easier for the Widow, Spider-Man in this issue is suffering a mysterious weakness, which slows him down and makes him sluggish in action. The Widow is unaware of this, and so the majority of this "battle" involves the Widow aggressively kicking Spidey's butt while he remains dazed and confused, wondering why the Widow is after him:
It's only with the issue drawing to its close that Spider-Man begins to resist and fight back. And, jeez, just watch how quickly the Black Widow--the most dangerous spy alive, mind you--throws in the towel when Spider-Man basically says "boo":
With Amazing Adventures #1 premiering the month after this issue went on sale, and the Black Widow scheduled to split that title with the Inhumans, we can assume that showcasing the Widow in the very popular title of her male counterpart--with Spider-Man conveniently looking like the Widow's prey for much of the fight--would turn out to be a sales device meant to stoke interest in her new title. There would also be a shameless plug to that effect added at the end of the story for good measure, though it referred interested readers to the first issue of Amazing Tales by mistake. It wasn't a bad debut for Madame Natasha, though her try-out in that book would last just eight issues. With Spider-Man himself still on a roll, apparently a non-powered version rolled up in a spy wasn't a hero whose time had yet arrived.


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Feature request: the ability to maintain aspect ratio when re sizing static images in a layout. Perhaps by ticking an option in the "Size and Position" section and/or with keys shift+alt, ctrl+alt when re sizing with the mouse.
Just a lock aspect ratio button for in the inspector for all would be great. Why did you redesign the interface for HTML 5 and not include an aspectration lock button? Even the most basic design tools include this. Please make it happen soon... I guarentee people will love it!


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The Giants gave the NFL a look at what they can do when they get some good offensive line play on Sunday afternoon. At least they did in the first half.
And that turned out to be enough.
Behind their new-look line -- Chad Wheeler in for benched right tackle Ereck Flowers and John Greco in for injured center Jon Halapio -- Eli Manning had time to throw, Saquon Barkley had room to run, and the Giants' maligned offense managed to score on all four of their first half possessions enroute to a 27-22 win over the Houston Texans. And the blocking absolutely made all the difference.
Manning was near-perfect, completing 25 of 29 passes for 297 yards and two touchdowns. More importantly, he had time to operate the offense more often than not. That means he didn't rush many throws, nor did he have to rely on check-downs and dump-offs. He had time to find the hole in the defense as the Giants spread their weapons out all over the field.
Again, that was mostly in the first half. For much of the second, the Texans defense managed to get pressure -- especially from defensive end J.J. Watt. But the offensive line rallied to put together one final drive near the end of the game - a nine-play, 77-yard march that ended with a 7-yard touchdown pass from Manning to Sterling Shepard that put away the game.
This game is really Exhibit A for what the new regime of GM Dave Gettleman and coach Pat Shurmur have been trying to tell everyone since they were hired. Manning, at age 37, can still play as long as he has time to throw. It's actually hard to stop an offense that has Odell Beckham (9 catches, 109 yards), Shepard (6-80-1) and Barkley (82 yards rushing, 35 yards receiving) when the quarterback has time to get the ball to the right places.
Who knows if it'll last? But that 20-point outburst in the first half? That's what the Giants offense is supposed to look like. This was just the first time Manning had time to make it work.
Here are some other notes and observations from the Giants' first win of the season …
- The benching of Flowers was long overdue and the Giants certainly had reached the point where they had to try something, anything, just to see if they could get better production from his spot. It'll be interesting to see how Wheeler holds up in the long run, but he certainly was a better option in this game. He had his hands full with Watt, and in the first half especially it very often looked like he was about to get beat by his speed or his power. But somehow, more often than not, Wheeler did just enough to keep Watt away from Manning or out of the running lane. That was in the first half, though. Watt found his groove in the second half and finished with three sacks. So Wheeler's performance was uneven, but against an all-pro opponent he showed promise in his first start of his season -- which almost certainly won't be his last.
- Manning was outstanding, completing 25 of 29 passes for 297 yards and two touchdowns. His performance proves how foolish some of the talk has been over the last couple of weeks that he was done and needed to be replaced. He is a smart quarterback with a strong and accurate arm, but like most pocket passers he needs to be protected. No, he's not mobile. That's not a flaw, it's who he is. He actually had some nice throws on rollouts in this game. But given just a little bit more time than usual, especially in the first half, it's pretty clear what he can still do.
- Barkley had his best game as a pro, considering what he did as both a runner (17-82-1) and as a receiver (5-35, including a huge catch for a first down on the Giants' only scoring drive of the second half). The beauty of Barkley, though, isn't in the big, flashy runs or the big numbers. The beauty is in how he got some of those runs and numbers. Take his 15-yard touchdown run on the opening drive. He got to the line of scrimmage and there was no hole. So he stopped and waited a fraction of a second and, lo and behold, a small one opened up. He darted through it and then beat a tackle in the secondary to score. Most running backs just hit the line and get stopped on that play. His hesitation allowed LG Patrick Omameh to move Texans LB Zack Cunningham out of the way, and Wheeler held up DE Christian Covington just enough for Barkley to squeeze through.
- There was a good case to be made that the absence of CB Eli Apple (groin) was going to be huge for the Giants in this game, considering the Texans had a dangerous duo of receivers in DeAndre Hopkins and Will Fuller. Those two put up good numbers, especially in the second half. Hopkins had six catches for 86 yards and Fuller was 5-101-1. But they were really quiet early and rarely got loose for a big play. All in all, not a bad job by Janoris Jenkins and Apple's replacement, B.W. Webb.
- After TE Evan Engram went out with a knee injury, the Giants figured to move away from the tight end in their passing game. But Rhett Ellison can catch a little too and made a nice catch on an Engram-like route up the seam for a 16-yard touchdown in the second quarter. The throw was an absolute dart by Manning. Ellison finished with three catches for 39 yards.
- Interesting decision by the Texans to try and test the Giants' defensive line by running up the middle so often. First of all, Damon Harrison is one of the best run-stoppers in the league. But with Dalvin Tomlinson and rookie B.J. Hill flanking him, the Giants' front has been pretty good this season. The Texans gained 59 yards on the ground, and 36 of those came from QB DeShaun Watson. Running to the outside would've seemed to be the smarter play.
- Giants DE Kerry Wynn, who is known for being a preseason sensation, had his finest regular season game in a while, with a forced fumble a pass deflection and plenty of pressure on Watson. The Giants pass rush was erratic, but it came up big in spots - like when Wynn flushed Watson from the pocket in the fourth quarter, forcing a bad pass that turned into an interception by linebacker Alec Ogletree in the end zone.
- The 27 points were nice, but the Giants still haven't scored 30 in a game since Jan. 3, 2016 - the final game of the 2015 season and the last game of the Tom Coughlin Era. They have only scored 27 or more five times in the 35 games since. In fact, they only did it once all of last year.


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Single-use plastic bag ban begins in Parkes
The first of the single-use plastic bag bans at Parkes' major retailers and supermarkets will come into effect from Wednesday, June 20.
Parkes shoppers will soon no longer find single-use plastic bags at the checkout, with Parkes Woolworths the first to ban the bag on June 20.
Although Cunningham's IGA owner Peter Boschman said their ban could come into effect sooner if their single-use plastic bag stocks are exhausted before the end of the month.
Target in Parkes does not have a date in place for when they will be phasing out their single-use plastic bags, but it was confirmed on Friday they will be following suit in the near future.
Instead of single-use plastic bags, stores in Parkes will now sell a range of alternative shopping bag options, which include thicker reusable versions at the checkout.
Thicker reusable plastic bags at 15 cents each will be the cheapest alternative at Woolworths, Big W and Coles, with "green bags" or more durable and chill bags also on offer, ranging from 99 cents and above.
Cunningham's IGA will be offering reusable bag options at varying prices, beginning at 20 cents.
This month Coles and Woolworths stepped up their war on plastic, introducing new targets to slash the amount of wrapping in fresh fruit and vegetables as well as tackling food waste.
Source: https://www.parkeschampionpost.com.au/story/5470832/plastic-bag-ban-begins-in-parkes-from-wednesday/


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CMA Capitol Insight is a biweekly column by veteran journalist Anthony York, reporting on the inner workings of the state Legislature.
After months of campaigning, millions of dollars spent and more than 4 million ballots cast, only 481 votes separate Democrats John Perez and Betty Yee in the race for state controller.
Yee is currently clinging to the second spot, which would allow her to advance to a November runoff with Republican Ashley Swearengin, the mayor of Fresno. But Perez has asked for a recount of ballots in 15 counties, including Los Angeles.
The idea is that if ballots are recounted in the counties where Perez fared best, he could pick up enough votes to overcome Yee in the race for second place. The Democratic winner would instantly become a front-runner in the fall campaign.
If Perez gains ground, Yee could counter by asking for a recount in other counties. But there's a catch: the loser of the race must agree to pay for any county recount if the results do not turn in their favor. That puts Yee at a distinct disadvantage as political overtime continues.
Throughout the race, Perez, the former Assembly speaker, held a dominant fundraising advantage over Yee, who currently serves as a member of the Board of Equalization. That advantage continues now. Perez has more than $800,000 in a campaign account that he can tap for the recount effort. Yee's funds are essentially tapped.
"Never in California history has the vote difference between two candidates for statewide office been so narrow," said Pérez in a written statement. "It is therefore of the utmost importance that an additional, carefully conducted review of the ballots be undertaken to ensure that every vote is counted, as intended."
While the June election moves into the next phase of overtime, the drive toward the November ballot is moving full steam ahead. Numbers have been assigned to the ballot measures on the fall ballot. California Medical Association (CMA) members will take special notice of Proposition 46, the effort by trial lawyers to raise the MICRA cap, which would drastically drive up the cost of health care.
The "No on 46" campaign is officially in full swing, with a website, Twitter feed and Facebook page aimed at helping to defeat the measure. Meanwhile, the coalition against the measure continues to grow, with labor and civil rights groups joining the efforts to beat back this costly initiative.
The State Building and Construction Trades Council of California (SBCTC) and the California NAACP have lent their voices to the No on 46 campaign, broadening the group of state leaders working to beat back Proposition 46, a measure that according to the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office would increase health care costs by "hundreds of millions of dollars annually."
"This initiative will cost state and local governments hundreds of millions dollars and raise health costs for everyone," said Robbie Hunter, SBCTC President. "That hurts job creation and will negatively impact California's future."
Alice Huffman, President of the California NAACP, said Prop 46 "is terribly flawed and will reduce access to quality health care for underserved communities. At a time when we're working hard to cover as many Californians as possible under the ACA, Proposition 46 takes us in the wrong direction. Proposition 46 will disproportionately hurt minority communities. It's bad medicine for California."
As some groups gird for battle in November, lawmakers are frantically trying to qualify a water bond proposal for the November ballot. We've mentioned before in this space that water would be the big summer fight, and it appears that the diverse political groups involved in the water fight are closing in on a solution.
Legislative leaders had originally conceived of a bond that was as large as $10 billion, but Gov. Jerry Brown, who has made his mark as a tightwad when it comes to state finances, wanted a plan that was closer to $6 billion.
Lawmakers broke for their month-long summer recess before the July 4 holiday, but before they did, the Senate put forth a proposal much closer to the governor's number. The issues remain the same: how much should be set aside for above-ground water storage? How much focus should be placed on regional solutions, water recycling and groundwater management? How much should be allocated to cleaning up drinking water supplies in poor communities, where clean water remains unreliable?
These issues are typically among the most vexing in all of California politics. But when lawmakers reconvene in August for the final month of the legislative session, they will be under a tight deadline to come up with a deal if they want to qualify a measure for the November ballot.
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From Lee of Confessions of a Struggling Dressage Rider
Peacock Safety Stirrups: Has anyone had a mishap using Peacock Stirrups?
I had been walking (mounted) without stirrups during cool down. In mid-dismount I found myself suspended halfway to the ground. The loop of my double-knotted field boot was caught on the hook of the Peacock Stirrup. (This is a school horse and their tack.)
I found myself clinging to the side of the horse like a monkey, with my knee jammed into my arm pit.
I was totally helpless until the loop in the lace gave. Unfortunately, as I slid down the side of the horse (in sloooow motion) I was jabbed in the crotch. Moments later, I was standing safely on the ground, breathing a sigh of relief.
Thankfully, the horse stood quietly the whole time. I patted him and told him how proud I was of his response. Then I loosened the girth and ran up the left stirrup. I registered the pain in my groin area as as I stepped around to the right side. Looking down I notice that I had ripped out the crotch of my favorite full-seat breeches…and I was flashing everyone!
I quickly took off my vest and tried to wrap it around me like a diaper. That's when my instructor realized that something was going on, and started to laugh at me. Our laughter caught the attenion of others and of course that's when the only male boarder happened to be there!
I think they caught it all on the security camera.
One of those moments.
I had been riding for about six months. It was a really nice warm day in February. I was on an OTTB and the neighbor was clearing brush. We started out trotting around the ring, daintily side-stepping the puddles (Why do geldings think they can't get wet?). Neighbor man rustles some brush. Small hiccup spook from TB. Ok, that wasn't bad.
Next time around, TB takes off on me. Cantering circles around the ring! CANTERING! Did I mention I don't know how to canter?! My instructor is very calm and says " Sit down into it, and half halt!"
Half Halt? What's that? I haven't learned HALF HALT.
By this time we've past my instructor. The parents are standing there with their jaws on the ground. We start another pas toward the spectators. Getting closer to them and the fence. I scream my instructor's name as we canter past, and she steps out in hopes of slowing the TB down. Not happening. He sped up! (Note to self: screaming and/or yelling doesn't help. Horse will go faster because YOU scared him.)
We round the corner again. I sat briefly into the motion and thought comfy. (What am I? Crazy?) Then I noticed the fence. We're closer than last time, and I tensed. My instructor says "Shorten your reins!" Reins? What reins? We canter past her and I lose my inside stirrup.
My mind rushes through scenarios:
- Try to stay on and crash into fence
- Stay on and jump fence
I chose #3 and sailed through the air. I landed on my back in the mud with my legs up in the air. Touch down. I was covered in much. I mean covered. Helmet, hands, back, legs. No way to hide this from my family.
My instructor approached and applauded me for my successful emergency dismount.
Emergency dismount? What's that?


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If you're considering selling property through an online estate agent, you've probably heard a few of the main names either on TV, in the media, or maybe in conversation. You might be familiar with the name HouseSimple, but what does it offer, and is it any good?
Who are Housesimple?
Housesimple was launched in 2007 by married team Alex and Sophie Gosling, who between them had 30 years of property expertise. They saw the potential for an online estate agency business, got to work, and had soon grown arguably the UK's second-largest online estate agent.
The company has won a raft of awards, including Online Agency of the Year in 2014, 2015 and 2016, and last year received a significant cash investment from Carphone Warehouse founder Sir Charles Dunstone – a respected businessman who has publicly praised HouseSimple's innovative approach to property sales.
What does 'good' mean to you?
The criteria that make an online estate agency 'good' are as subjective as the criteria that make a particular property appealing – it comes down to personal requirements. While you might want the best deal available, someone else might be after a quick sale, for example. Here are HouseSimple's credentials (all information correct at the time on writing – to confirm details visit Housesimple):
- Packages starting from £595, which puts the company in mid-position on our price table.
- Over 8,000 properties sold.
- 99% achievement on asking price.
- Average property listing age: 15 weeks.
- Successful completion on 85% of property sales agreed (compared to 70% for high street agents).
- Sales agreed in an average of 25 days.
In terms of service, HouseSimple offers property sellers:
- The option to defer payment.
- A 'no sale no fee' option.
- A free trial.
- A free home valuation visit.
- Plus all the features of its property selling package, which includes things such as professional photography and negotiation support.
What do customers say?
HouseSimple scores well on independent reviews sites Feefo and TrustPilot, with recent customer feedback including:
"I had a great experience with HouseSimple. Whenever I had questions I could phone for help. It was much simpler and more professional than I was expecting" – Angela, 17/07/17
"Excellent service, would definitely use again. Always someone at the end of a phone or email for assistance, a genuine alternative to the usual high street agent" – Gavin Leel, 16/07/17
"The whole experience was better than using a high street estate agent and the money I saved was approximately £4,300. I would recommend them to everyone" – Andrew Humphreys, 15/07/17
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Amy Jones
The Intelligent Supply Chain Lead
Unipart Logistics
With over 6 years of Supply Chain and Logistics experience Amy has worked in consultancy, operations and relationship roles. Amy's current role is to imagine the future of Supply Chains, focused on what the best digital investment decisions are in offering full end-to-end supply chain solutions. With a passion for digital technologies and innovation, Amy helps organisations to navigate the ever changing landscape of supply chain challenges and opportunities to develop services and solutions that not only deliver exceptional levels of consumer experience, but also drive down inventory and operating costs.
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