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The NFL season has reached Week 17 and the Jacksonville Jaguars (1-14) visit the Indianapolis Colts (10-5), who have a division title and postseason berth on the line. Sunday's kickoff is set for 4:25 p.m. ET at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Below, we preview the Jaguars-Colts betting odds and lines and make our NFL picks and predictions.
Jaguars at Colts: Betting odds, spread and lines
Odds via BetMGM; access USA TODAY Sports' betting odds for a full list. Lines last updated Saturday at 12:54 a.m. ET.
- Money line: Jaguars +750 (bet $100 to win $750) | Host -1100 (bet $1,100 to win $100)
- Against the spread/ATS: Jaguars +14 (-110) | Host -14 (-110)
- Over/Under: 49.5 (O: -110 | U: -110)
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Jaguars at Colts: Game notes
- Indianapolis must win and get some help (a loss by the Tennessee Titans, Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens or Miami Dolphins) to clinch a playoff berth. There are scenarios where Indy can win the AFC South as well.
- Jacksonville has lost 14 games in a row after a season-opening win.
- Colts QB Philip Rivers has 4,005 passing yards with 23 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, half the total he threw in 2019. He has passed for 4,000-plus yards eight seasons in a row.
- Indy's defense ranks eighth in total yards allowed per game (335.4 YPG) and 12th in points allowed per game (23.3 PPG).
- The Jaguars have secured the No. 1 pick in the 2021 NFL Draft.
Jaguars at Colts: Key injuries
- WR DJ Chark (shin) questionable
- RB James Robinson (ankle) out
- WR Michael Pittman Jr. questionable
- S Khari Willis (concussion) out
- CB Rock Ya-Sin (concussion) out
Jaguars at Colts: Odds, betting lines, predictions and picks
Colts 31, Jaguars 13
Money line (?)
The Colts (-1100) have everything on the line and the Jags are waiting the season out. Jacksonville QB Mike Glennon, who will make his second consecutive start, was unable to get the offense going in last week's 41-17 home loss to the Chicago Bears. That said, there is no point making a money line bet at -1100. You only win $0.91 for every $10 wagered. It's more or less a sure thing but not worth your time. AVOID.
Against the spread (?)
The spread is a ridiculous 14 points, but the Jaguars have lost their last three games each by at least 21 points. The Colts have failed to cover the spread in their last two games but are 8-7 ATS on the season. Take the COLTS -14 (-110).
Over/Under (?)
The total is pretty high, although Jacksonville's last two games have gone Over and five of the Colts' last seven have gone Over. Indy's defense is too good to let Glennon do much without wideout Robinson. The Colts will roll but will cruise to a win. So, they won't score enough to make up for the Jags' weak offense. Take UNDER 49.5 (-110).
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Also see:
- Jacksonville can begin interviewing GM candidates from other NFL teams Monday (Jags Wire)
- Castonzo's injury not believed to be career-ending (Colts Wire)
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On the heels of one of the deadliest summers of climate-related weather disasters affecting countries all over the world, an unprecedented gathering of global leaders launched on October 16, 2018 the new Global Commission on Adaptation to catalyze a global movement to bring scale and speed to climate adaptation solutions. The Global Commission on Adaptation is led by Ban Ki-moon, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations, Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Kristalina Georgieva, CEO, World Bank. It includes 17 convening countries and 28 commissioners, including the leaders, representing all regions of the globe and all sectors of development and industry.
As indicated in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C, damaging climate change impacts are being felt now, much sooner and more powerfully than previously projected. Adaptation is about managing the risks associated with climate change – from floods and droughts to sea level rise and storms. The work of the Commission will elevate the visibility and political importance of climate adaptation and encourage bold solutions like smarter investments, new technologies and better planning to become more resilient to climate-related threats.


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What drives you everyday?
Training for my first NPC Bikini competition had made me question everything I ever knew about fitness, and why I choose this life. So, what drives me every day?
It's not just about lifting weights, it's certainly not about being skinny, walking in clear heels and having an orange tan.
It's every day from the second I wake up to the minute I close my eyes and even during my sleep.
It's about every decision I make, every option I take.
There's no team pushing me to a PR, there's nobody yelling in my ear to do that last set, there's nobody telling me to run that extra mile.
It's all about me and how much I want this.
I have only myself to push, improve or let down.
Obstacles can easily become excuses but instead I make them challenges.
How do I get stronger if I don't have a spot? Find one – a Smith machine
How to I do a pull-up if I can't lift half my body weight ? Get assisted bands
How can I do chin ups when I weight 150lbs ? One at a time
How can I grow my legs with a back injury ? Carefully
How can I keep going when many professionals can't help the pain? Figure out my own body- Rest, Repair, and Rebuild. How do I pass up the cupcakes, pizza and ice cream? Definition, seeing my body build itself into a work of art. How can I wake up everyday at 5am to workout? Passion.
Truth is – I can't barely sleep because my dreams start when I wake up.
Do I feel antisocial, am I missing out on life? NO- my life has just begun
Do people treat me differently? Every single day but it's in awe of my accomplishments , my willpower, my dedication and my ability to push beyond the limits of average
I've never been stronger mentally or physically, I've never felt or looked better in my life and every single day I stare at myself in the mirror in awe of the accomplishments I've managed to obtain. By myself, for myself.
What drives me every day? Being the best me I can possibly be.


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Master Data - about your business process and the people using it
The above are the base set of master data. There could be more masters required for modules Merchandizing, DAR, Expense Tracking, Targets etc. You can contact your implementation partner for modules suitable for your business.
Access via Email ids for each user
Any user who needs to access the service requires a user id. At present we only support valid Email id's.
Users can register themselves using their personal email-id, however this is NOT advisable.
It is recommended that, as an Enterprise the Admin team creates these Email-ids on behalf of everyone and keep the control with themselves, so that during churn (change in employees), they can simply pass on the Email id to the new person. Else the Admin team would end up re-mapping all the masters to the email-ids of new employees; however be noted that the previous transactions would remain associated with the old employee's user id.
A device for order taking - mobile phone / tablet / pc
The service is supported on a variety of devices
Having said that, the technology behind it requires devices that have a minimum hardware profile, as the service relies on local data storage and offline processes.
- 2 MB internal memory available for Java apps
- MIDP 2.0 and CLDC 1.1 or higher
It is recommended to choose a mobile device with a battery
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Java phones
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A network connection - GPRS / EDGE / 3G / WiFi / Broadband
The service requires an internet connection between the mobile
device and the OMS server. The connection type could be any of the
following - GPRS / EDGE / 3G / WiFi / Broadband etc.
The internet connection is required only when
- The sales executive downloads the master data to their mobile device, or
- The sales executive uploads the transaction data to the server
At all other times the connectivity is not used, and the sales executives can literally continue order capture on their mobile devices without any network connection.


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Ideal for use both indoors and outdoors.
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As Indian consumers become more experimental in their tastes, a fledgling artisanal chocolate movement is blossoming across the country.
Combining organic ingredients, unconventional flavours, and made-for-Instagram packaging, a handful of small, homegrown brands are setting themselves apart from the sweet, milky, mass-market favourites, such as Cadbury Dairy Milk and Munch, which have dominated India's booming chocolate market for decades.
Indians consumed an estimated 228 thousand tonnes of chocolate confectionary in 2016, up 50% from 2011, according to market research firm Mintel. Viewed as a convenient and affordable snack, and sometimes priced as low as Rs5, mass-market bars account for 85% of the total sales in the country. Their popularity has made India one of the world's fastest-growing markets for chocolate, expected to be worth around Rs32,000 crore ($4.97 billion) by 2020, a 160% jump from 2015, Mintel says.
In the midst of this growth, expat entrepreneurs in India's southern states are targeting discerning consumers with cash to spend by kicking off India's own bean-to-bar movement. They're getting involved in every stage of the chocolate-making process, from the farming of cacao beans to the crafting of bars.
A new world for cacao
In 2011, looking for a change of lifestyle (and weather), David Belo moved from the UK to Mysuru in Karnataka after various stints as a bartender, bread baker, and pastry chef. Having worked with raw chocolate before, he was struck by the potential of India's small cacao plantations, whose beans have always been overshadowed by those from the world's largest producers, such as Ivory Coast, Ghana, Indonesia, and Ecuador.
So, in 2012, along with partner Angelika Anangnostou, Belo launched Earth Loaf, a brand of handcrafted, single-origin chocolates made using cacao beans from organic plantations in Karnataka. The goal, he says, was to put India on the map in terms of artisanal chocolate.
"The flavour profile of Asian cacao, and Indian cacao in particular, is quite different from central America and west Africa, so we have something very interesting here," Belo told Quartz. He likened India and other Asian cacao producers to the New World in wine, where non-traditional producers such as Australia and South Africa have made a name for themselves in a business once dominated by old world-players such as France and Italy.
But while cacao has been commercially produced in India since the 1960s, in the states of Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu, its output has remained fairly limited. In 2015-16, India recorded cacao production of 17,200 metric tonnes, according to the directorate of cashew and cocoa development. That's a little over 1% of what Ivory Coast produced in the same period. It's no wonder, then, that India's confectionary and chocolate industries import most of their raw material.
Nevertheless, Belo and his team of eight employees set out to create chocolate bars and bon-bons with Indian cacao, working closely with farmers who produce the beans, and then incoporating ingredients such as coconut, ginger, and gondhoraj limes; jackfruit and black pepper, or even mango, red capsicum, and chili.
Today, the self-funded company produces a maximum of about 150kg of chocolate a week, which translates to around 2,400 bars, priced at Rs335 for 72g. That's much higher than the cost of mass-market chocolates but still cheaper than Swiss brand Lindt, which is priced at over Rs500 for a 100g bar in India.
Earth Loaf's chocolates are sold at organic specialty shops and restaurants across the country. They are also available through the company's own website and other online retailers, besides a handful of stores in countries such as the UK, US, and Portugal. Belo says Earth Loaf recorded sales growth of 45% last year and is set to grow by 50-100% this year. It aims to almost triple its production by the end of the financial year and is in talks with investors for funding.
Meanwhile, in Puducherry, Mason & Co, a smaller operation, is also making vegan chocolates, the result of Australian co-founder Jane Mason's unsuccessful quest to find chocolate that she could eat after moving to India in 2011.
"I came from a background of eating dark, organic chocolate (with) no preservatives (and) little to no sugar. And when I came here, a lot of the brands that I could find were the mass-market companies, which were high in sugar and milk," she said.
What started out as a home-cooking experiment with her husband, Fabien, eventually evolved into a business in 2013, with a small, all-female workforce from the region making chocolate that is a world away from mass-produced bars.
For Mason, the goal was to avoid including refined sugar and emulsifiers, used to provide a smoother texture, and to incorporate more cacao, an ingredient used sparingly in chocolates found at supermarkets.
"In an average Dairy Milk bar, there's probably only 10% cacao, which is the most expensive ingredient. Whereas in our standard bars there would be 75% cacao, and that includes cacao butter," Mason explained.
The ingredients list of a Cadbury Dairy Milk bar begins with sugar, suggesting that it's the largest component, followed by milk solids (22%); it also features two kinds of chemical emuslifiers and artificial flavourings. In comparison, Mason & Co's bars use whole cacao beans and cane sugar, and that's pretty much it, barring other flavourings such as organic peanut butter or peppermint. This is why its chocolate is priced at Rs295 a bar, Mason says.
"A few people told us we were crazy. They said a dark, vegan chocolate's never going to work in India," she added. Nevertheless, 90% of the company's consumers are Indian, she says, and that reflects a larger shift in tastes across the country. While she declined to share sales and production figures, she said the company has hit its capacity for the third time, and is now building another factory to cater to the demand. Mason & Co's chocolates are sold both online and at gourmet grocery stores and cafes across the country.
However, despite these positive developments, do India's artisanal brands actually make good chocolate?
Taste test
In 2015, the Brooklyn-based artisanal chocolate brand Mast Brothers came under fire after reports questioned the authenticity of its bean-to-bar approach. Arguably best-known around the world for its Instagrammable packaging, Mast Brothers also received heavy criticism from industry experts, who argued that the company's chocolates were unworthy of their $10 price tag, given that they weren't actually that good to eat.
For Vikram Doctor, a food writer and the host of The Real Food podcast, some of India's artisanal chocolate brands have a similar problem, at least when it comes to texture.
"I've really tried to eat and like them," he said in an email. "They are the sort of producer I think is important—really passionate and willing to take trouble in sourcing and processing ingredients, willing to be experimental in their formulations yet also respectful of local tastes. So I've bought them, again and again, and… it's just not happening for me…"
"I find their chocolates too dry and gritty and bitter, which shouldn't be a bad thing if the bitterness gives way to a great aftertaste, but I'm not getting it with these chocolates," he added.
That could have something to do with India's cacao beans themselves. According to Kainaz Messman, founder of Mumbai's Theobroma patisserie and chocolaterie chain, the problem with Indian cacao is that it's quite acidic in nature, and can't yet compare to the beans sourced from the world's top cacao producers. And that poses a problem for companies attempting to promote a bean-to-bar movement in India.
"While they are taking the trouble to make real chocolate with strong processes, they, like all of us, are getting stuck with an inherent cocoa bean which is of inferior quality," Messman said in an email.
For this, the only solution seems to be to import chocolate from those who know it best.
Belgium to Jaipur
When Kuhu Kochar and Tejasvi Chandela decided it was time to do something new after years of working as graphic designer and a pastry chef, respectively, they hit upon the idea of combining their talents to bring something new to India's chocolate market.
"We thought that chocolate is something that everybody likes, except India does not really have its own chocolate brand that has great packaging and good-quality, good-tasting chocolate with experimental flavours," Chandela told Quartz.
So, in November 2015, the duo launched Jaipur-based All Things, handcrafting bars and truffles with chocolate sourced from suppliers in Belgium who use cacao beans from around the world. These bars are wrapped up in colourful packaging designed by Kochar.
The idea was to tell a story with each chocolate, Chandela says. So, for instance, the All Things Monday bar, designed to liven up everybody's least favourite day of the week, featured dark chocolate topped with granola, packaged in a box designed to look like a shirt, and accompanied by a to-do list for every customer. Meanwhile, All Things Childhood was envisioned as a nod to the childhood-favourite flavours of banana and toffee.
And while the pair was initially uncertain about how Indian consumers would react to white chocolate with champagne and strawberries, or Sangria-centred bars, the response was surprising, helped no doubt by the fact that young, urban Indians are travelling abroad like never before, and are being exposed to all sorts of new flavours. Today, the company also creates customised chocolate for clients who, Chandela says, are now looking out for even more unusual flavours, including Japanese ingredients like yuzu and miso.
All Things' chocolate bars are sold at high-end, gourmet grocery stores and through the company's website. Priced at between Rs350 and Rs383 a bar, they're more expensive than Earth Loaf and Mason & Co. According to Chandela, the high cost reflects the price of ingredients and packaging, but so far, she added, none of the company's customers have complained. During the festival and wedding season of late 2016, All Things made around 8,000 chocolate bars a month, with most of its orders coming from New Delhi, as well cities such as Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Kolkata.
For All Things, the big challenge is handling temperamental chocolate in India's hot and humid climate. Besides the risk of the chocolate melting on delivery, moisture can also compromise its quality, meaning that the company has to maintain just the right temperature in its kitchen. But on particularly humid days, especially during the monsoon season, production simply has to stop.
However, like Earth Loaf and Mason & Co, All Things also has to contend with the fact that most Indian consumers still have a long way to go before they can really appreciate chocolate that's not so sweet, and fork over the big bucks required to buy it.
"While they may experiment, most people cannot tell the difference (between) real and imitation chocolate. They still always come back to a sweeter, darker (in colour only), and essence-filled chocolate," Theobroma's Messman said.
Moreover, there's stiff competition from both foreign and local mass-market brands, including Cadbury and Amul, which have noticed the growing interest in premium, flavoured dark chocolates, and launched their own versions at much more affordable prices. For the average Indian customer, these are more within reach and widely available. It may take a lot more time and education to convince more than just a niche group to switch to expensive artisanal brands.
But in a country as populous as India, as Doctor says, even a relatively tiny niche could be enough to sustain a small operation for now.


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Scattered all over
Thoughts flutter and disappear:
Leaf piles in the wind
Monthly Archives: August 2016
Leaf Piles in the Wind
Scattered all over
6 Word Short Story in a Play: Bon Appetit
SHARON: Dad! Is something burning?
DAD: Dinner's ready!
6 Word Short Story: Catastrophe
"Mom, come quick! The internet's down!"
A Seat at the Bar
A moment of peace,
Sweetened by cold drinks
And decadent dishes –
A solitary bubble
In the bustling chaos
And excited crowds –
A gilded throne,
Metaphorically speaking:
The royal treatment
Without the toll.
6 Word Short Story: Poorly Thought-Out Request
"Here. Taste this."
"With this cold?!"
Goddess of Air
Like a goddess freed
The air casts off the magma
And dances higher
Exhaustion Drags Downward
Exhaustion drags downward
Like a soaked cloak –
No, a sturdy shield:
Heavy enough to dispel attacks,
Simultaneously trapping
The inexperienced.
As the River Races
Millions race as one,
Merging – separate yet not:
Living, breathing speed
Cold eyes, glassy and staring,
Slide slowly across,
Like a security camera,
Emotionless and remote.
They stop with chilling abruptness
Like a gasp, never heard,
A beam that freezes you in place.
The frayed lace stirs slowly
As the head follows.
Target acquired.
The Unwritten
Indistinct shadows,
Fading into the background:
The ashes of words


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Today is the birthday of stage and screen actress Ina Claire (nee Fagan, 1893-1988). The Washington D.C. native got her start in vaudeville as an impressionist at age 17 before breaking into Broadway in 1911 in The Quaker Girl. She was popular enough to be a featured performer in the Ziegfeld Follies in the mid-teens, and was a major star of stage comedies by the likes of S.N. Behrman, George Kelly and Somerset Maugham through the end of the 1930s (her last stage role was The Confidential Clerk in 1954). Her film career was less stellar, although she did get some prominent roles, notably in The Royal Family of Broadway (1930–she played the Ethel Barrymore character), and Ninotchka (1939). She was married three times, once to the actor John Gilbert.
To find out more about the variety arts past and present, consult No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous, available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and wherever nutty books are sold. And don't miss Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, to be released by Bear Manor Media in 2013.


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Thog hands me a can. "Try this."
I take it from huge fingers. "It's not puréed human, is it?"
"Whaddya think I am? A savage?!" he booms. "It's ogre soda."
I drink its sweet effervescence. "Mmmm!"
"Yup, nutin' beats the taste o' sprites."
My spit-take is epic.
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Bitstarz verification
At no verification casinos, you probably can withdraw your winnings easily while not having to do any in depth identity verify. You can take money out of one of these casinos with no questions asking! So simply make certain to do a little bit of research on online gaming earlier than setting your wallet again to where you need it to be, bitstarz verification.
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Separatista helicoides (Gmelin, 1791)
Description: Protoconch of 1 smooth whorl, with sudden transition to strongly sculptured teleoconch. Spire whorls rounded and axially elongated at first, becoming angled and axially compressed on latter whorls; smooth on shoulder, 2 strong cords on periphery. Axial sculpture absent. Last whorl with 3 spiral cords on periphery; base smooth, edged by broad, low cord surrounding umbilicus; last part of whorl detached. Umbilicus wide, deep. Aperture with inner and outer lips thin, crenulated by external sculpture. Colour fawn. Periostracum fawn, with axial lamellae on periphery and spines on shoulder.
Size: Up to 15 mm high.
Distribution: Indo-West Pacific. In Australia, known from all states except Tasmania. In NSW, known from only one juvenile specimen
Habitat: Lives on fan worms in intertidal, rocky habitats (Okutani, 2000, pp. xx, 196). Coleman (1981) figured a specimen with egg capsules attached to a worm tube. Rare in NSW.
Synonymy: Previously established synonyms are Turbo separatista Dillwyn, 1817; Trichotropis blainvilleanus Petit, 1851; Trichotropis tricarinata Brazier, 1877. Specimens from Victoria were named Trichotropis gabrieli Pritchard and Gatliff, 1898, but those authors subsequently recognized their name as a synonym of Trichotropis blainvilleanus Petit, 1851, which is itself now a synonym of S. helicoides. Examination of Victorian specimens in the Australian Museum collection show them to be conspecific with S. helicoides, so Trichotropis gabrieli is placed into the synonymy of this species (NEW SYNONYM).
Specimens from South Australia were recognized as Lippistes separatista Dillwyn, 1817, a synonym of S. helicoides, by Verco (1906). Examination of a South Australian specimen in the Australian Museum confirms it as that species.
Examination of the type of Separatista fraterna Iredale, 1936 (Fig. 2) shows it to be a juvenile specimen of S. helicoides (NEW SYNONYM).
Remarks: The range of this species is given in the standard works (e.g. Okutani, 2000) as Indo-West Pacific. Species of Indo-West Pacific distribution that occur in northern Australia reach down the west coast and the east coast to temperate waters, commonly with a limit of south-western WA on the west coast and Sydney on the east coast. The present species is unusual in reaching South Australia and Victoria, with only one record from NSW.
Fig. 1: 4042-1 Western Port, Victoria (C.012908)
Fig. 2: 4043-1 Holotype of Separatista fraterna. North Harbour, Sydney (C.144464)
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Sometimes it seems as though when a player is injured in the line of duty, he or she becomes a kind of criminal in Joe and Jane Fan's eyes. Far as they're concerned, such players are any one of a number of unflattering things. Especially when an injury keeps them out of action for more than, say, a week or two.
It's as if injury belongs with defeat among moral shortcomings and aren't covered by simple, irrefutable laws of sports. In a game, somebody has to lose. On the field, someone's liable to be injured. They're plain facts of life. They don't expose the defeated as degenerates or the injured as gutless.
I've been steaming over it ever since I saw one social media snit dismissing Mike Trout, who's dealt with season-disrupting/ending injuries the past couple of full seasons, as "a puss." Last year, a torn calf muscle incurred running the bases put paid to his season after 36 games.
You'd think that with everything we've long since learned we'd quit condemning the wounded as weenies because they were just so much "tougher" in the Good Old Days. News flash: The good old days weren't so good when it came to athletes' health. And the next time you look at the numbers of careers you think should have lasted longer or been better than brief flashes of brilliance, stop to think about those players' injury histories.
They used to say Roger Maris merely proved himself a lamer because he never again had a career spell such as 1960-62. They said the pressure of that 61-homer 1961 took him down. Those people forget that a series of injuries beginning in '62 began sapping Maris's formidable power and reducing him to journeyman level by 1965.
The Yankees falling into a lost decade of 1965-75 needed as much box office power as they could still wring out of ancient (and very often injured) Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, and Maris. They even forget that that generation of Yankee movers kept the true seriousness of a wrist injury from Maris unconscionably, in order to keep him on the field—at the time the Yankees collapsed due to age on the field and parching in the farm system.
Gene Mauch and Leo Durocher were known to denounce the injured as quitters. Between that and foolish trades, no wonder the post-1964 Phillies wouldn't be competitive again for almost a decade to come. No wonder the 1969 Cubs were too spent down the stretch to keep up with the surging Mets and take back the National League East that first looked like those Cubs' for the taking.
They used to call Jim Palmer anything from a prima donna to a hypochondriac when the slightest hint of an injury sent him shuddering over the prospect that his pitching career was over. It came from mishandling an injury he incurred after his rookie splash and out-lasting arthritis-addled, overmedicated Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax in Game Two of the 1966 World Series. Well, now.
Maybe Palmer was onto something after all, no matter how exasperated Earl Weaver and his teammates got with his health concerns—which was plentiful enough, no matter how much they liked him as a person. That's Palmer reposing in the Hall of Fame as one of the absolute best pitchers of his generation and with three World Series rings to show for it, too.
Forget about the idiot dismissing Trout—who'd be a Hall of Famer and the fifth-best all-around center fielder ever to play the game if his career ended this instant—as a puss. Think of all the idiots who believe to this day that Albert Pujols "stole" that $240 million he earned as an Angel . . . and forget that his lower body, particularly a plantar fasciitis-addled heel and numerous other leg injuries was the real reason he collapsed after a respectable first season in Anaheim.
Ill-fated Jacoby Ellsbury's reasons for not even thinking about re-signing with the Red Sox when he hit free agency included whispers that he took "too long" to recover from injuries his full-out playing style incurred. He signed big with the Yankees—and the injury parade continued apace, right down to his missing 2018 with a torn labrum and 2019 with foot and shoulder injuries.
It was hell if you do and hell if you don't for Ellsbury. Return too soon from any injury and you risk re-injury; return not soon enough for teammates' or managements' or fans' tastes, and you risk exactly what Ellsbury put up with, unfairly and unconsionably, a reputation as a fragile goldbrick.
The late Mark (The Bird) Fidrych tried too many premature returns from injuries and re-injuries after his sensational rookie 1976. Career in the toilet and done swiftly enough. Still think he merely "disappeared?"
Often as not the teams themselves don't help. Last year, Phillies manager Joe Girardi said it was perfectly acceptable to keep injury information out of the press. He was thinking of keeping the other manager from getting a little advantage, but he forgot that a) opposition managers tend to know when an opponent is hurting; and, b) Joe and Jane Fan are ignorant enough about injured players without being lied to even further while they're lying to themselves.
Basketball people have spent all this season listening to whispers-to-screams denunciations of Brooklyn Nets guard Ben Simmons, missing an entire season because of back trouble. Most of them didn't want to hear it. He backed out of the fourth game of the Nets' playoff round against the Boston Celtics with his back still bothering him.
The talking heads went nuclear; some of them called Simmons the same kind of thief that people called Pujols the Angel. Even ex-NBA supermen like Shaquille O'Neal called backing out of the game "a punk move." That "punk move" turned into back surgery Simmons underwent Thursday.
"The notion that Simmons was faking it, that he was just scared to play in the game because the Nets were down in the series, made no sense," wrote a furious Deadspin writer named Rob Parker. "And the back is a tricky thing to put a handle on. A back issue could be so bad that a person can't even tie their shoe, let alone play basketball on the NBA level."
Reminder: Injuries on the field aren't the same thing as chasing Jill St. John down a ski slope and turning your knee into bone meal (Jim Lonborg), doing a slam-dunk move and catching your ring in an awning mechanism to shred your hand ligaments apart (Cecil Upshaw), staying too long without the sun screen on a tanning bed (Marty Cordova), or dozing off with an ice bag on your foot to incure frostbite—in August. (Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson.)
I've said it before, but I'll say it again and again if need be. Big money contracts don't immunise you from the same injuries to which merely mortal players can be susceptible. Nine figures don't turn Clark Kent into Superman. They also don't heal a player in ten minutes or less. Anyone who doesn't get that should never be taken seriously as a fan, a coach or manager, or a professional analyst.
Unless a player was injured doing something stupid off the field, or you have heretofore undetected deep medical knowledge, you have only one recourse whenever a player—from the most modest bench player to the most obvious Hall of Famer in waiting—is injured in the actual line of duty.
That recourse is to shut the hell up and stop treating real sports injuries as evidence of fragility or cowardice. Because the only one resembling a fragile coward in my eyes when you dismiss this injured player as a puss or that injured player as a goldbrick is you.


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Now it would be remiss of me before I move on to the film that truly introduced William Powell to Hollywood as a star without first looking at The White Sister, a movie that links up two of our three amigos, Ronald Colman and Richard Barthelmess.
As outlined in my birthday message, Ronald Colman had toiled away in the British theatre since the Armistice as well as making a few pictures for the Hepworth company, but in 1920, not having found much success in London, Colman went to New York. The White Sister was his first feature film, made in Italy by Inspiration Pictures, and it was the success of this picture that introduced him to the world as a new Hollywood star.
Inspiration Pictures had been founded by Richard Barthelmess, Charles Duell and Henry King, who had made the runaway success Tol'able David in 1921. The success of that picture enabled the company's next big feature, The White Sister, to be made on location in Italy. Director Henry King utilised the most dramatic locations in Italy, including Rome, Sorrento and Mount Vesuvius itself! However, he also made full use of the expertise of his Italian crew, even down to small details such as ensuring that the original French blinds used on the sets were changed to Roman ones.
Indeed, one of the most emotional scenes in the picture, the ceremony whereby Angela Chiaromonte becomes a nun, was in fact designed and directed by a priest who was the head ceremonial director at the Vatican. Henry King, who was to later convert to Catholicism, wanted to ensure that this scene, which carried enormous spiritual significance, was accurate and credible to the Catholic Church in every detail.
The review in Photoplay Magazine describes The White Sister as 'another personal triumph' for Lillian Gish, the performance more nuanced than in her collaborations with D W Griffith. Gish brings a mixture of vulnerability and vitality to the role of Angela Chiaromonte that feels genuinely real. Her legendary ability to convey emotion through the camera is apparent here although to my modern cynical self, it seems a shame that being thrown into poverty by her jealous and vengeful sister results in Angela Chiaramonte turning into a bit of a tedious, pious bore. I did have to wonder why Giovanni Severi was still bothered for her once she'd made it plainly clear that she was going to remain wedded to the church and not leave it for him.
However, I fully recognise that this type of overwrought Victorian-style melodrama was very popular in the 1920s and that the strictures of mega-institutions like the Catholic Church were powerful enough to control the thoughts of entire populations. To transgress would be to invite shame and isolation. It certainly doesn't lessen the impact of a fantastic drama and a remarkable debut for Ronald Colman, who is sensitive and sweet and gorgeous throughout. Colman, Gish, Henry King and Inspiration Pictures were soon back in Italy in 1924 to make Romola, an adaptation of a novel by George Eliot. The plot had a nice villainous character, and this role was awarded to William Horatio Powell.
References/Recommended Reading:
Photoplay Magazine, October 1923, p.74
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Michigan retailers join in Confederate flag sales ban
National retailers -- such as Wal-Mart, Sears, Amazon, and eBay -- and flag manufactures have decided to no longer carry and make Confederate flags. Michigan retailers are joining them.
Under public pressure — and after decisions by national retailers and flag manufacturers not to sell or make Confederate flags — Michigan retailers are facing questions about what to do with their Confederate-themed inventory.
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Many of them, like Miles, will discontinue selling them.
The issue, Miles said, stems from decades-long public outrage over the flag -- and last week's shooting at a historically black Charleston church that left nine people dead.
Dylann Roof, 21, who is white and has been attributed with making white supremacist statements and posing with images of the Confederate flag, was charged in the slayings. The killings have touched off a national debate about what the flag means — and whether it should be made, displayed and sold.
National retailers — such as Wal-Mart, Sears, Amazon, and eBay -- and flag manufactures have decided to no longer sell and make them.
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Cheryl Lawrence of Flags 'n More in Lakeport, St. Clair County, said she has stopped selling the Confederate flag because her manufacturer recently informed her it would no longer be making it.
She'd already sold out of her stock.
"I've always sold the Confederate battle flag. It's a historical flag," she said. "Do I believe it has connotations of racism? Yes. I believe it's a sign of hate, like the swastika was."
Miles, who has owned a flag store for 34 years, said she took the two Confederate flags she had off her shelves and likely will destroy them after getting pressure from a customer, who complained -- and then sent an e-mail about it to the Free Press.
Mostly, she said, she sold Confederate flags to Civil War re-enactors, who now may have difficulty finding them.
But, she also expressed frustration that a historic American flag has, for all intents and purposes, become taboo.
"Where are you going to get them?" she said. "They probably will disappear and go away."
In many ways, this question cuts to the core of a longstanding question: Do stores follow demand -- or create it?
It also exemplifies just how sensitive companies have become to public criticism.
"The Internet, the 24-hour news cycle and flash-fire social media have made businesses -- and not just retailers -- more sensitive to criticism –- and potential criticism," said Tom Scott, senior vice president of communications and marketing for the Michigan Retailers Association. "Most don't want to be portrayed as uncaring or deaf to the feelings and complaints of their customers or of social norms."
A lot of Americans are upset about this, he said.
At the same time, he added, companies are becoming more socially conscious and are make choices about what to sell -- or not sell -- based on more than just customer needs and wants. They are increasingly trying to make decisions based on what they think might be good for society.


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Interview by Kari Lund-Teigen
Melanie Little is an award-winning author and editor. Her debut collection of stories, Confidence, was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award and selected as a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book. Her 2008 novel-in-verse for young adults, The Apprentice's Masterpiece, was a Canadian Library Association Honour Book, a gold medalist at the Independent Publisher Book Awards, and a White Raven selection for the International Youth Library in Munich.
She began her career as an editor by bringing Freehand Press to national prominence in its first year with the Giller-prize finalist Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott. Of Melanie Little as an editor, Endicott has said "she brings a truly ridiculous diligence to any task she undertakes." After teaching creative writing at Dalhousie, Little returned to editing as the editor-at-large for Annick Press before becoming the senior editor of Canadian fiction at House of Anansi Press.
I wrote to Melanie to request an interview, mentioning a long-ago talk we'd had while she was the writer-in-residence at the University of Calgary. In that meeting, she was exceedingly kind and encouraging. That moment of encouragement meant a lot to me, and I wondered, as I often do, not how writers begin, but how they continue.
Little recently stepped down as senior fiction editor at House of Anansi Press to devote more time to her own writing. She graciously agreed to the interview (preferring, as I think many writers do, to conduct it via email). I sent her a list of questions, telling her to ignore those that were not interesting to her or that she did not feel like answering. True to form, she answered them all, with generosity and depth. [Read more…]


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Not about life's 'big' parenting challenges, this one is about the little ones that have made me sweat. Here's a ready reckoner from a not so yummy mommy who survives and learns something new so often about bringing up a kid
Trying to be a mother, one that is superb at it, hasn't always worked. Those well versed in it tell me it hasn't worked for anyone. But still, look at Instagram and Facebook and glowing moms, and you wonder if your list of the most difficult parenting challenges will find empathy! For I am far from perfect at tackling these impossibly difficult everyday parenting challenges.
Feed Vegetables to Your Kid
When you hold one's mewling adorable little infant in your arms, you imagine he will chomp on broccoli, chew up carrots and stuff his mouth with boiled and sautéed greens like a health conscious millennial. None of that happens of course. All I have managed ninety percent of the time is a head strong, determined NO! So I trick him – by stuffing teeny-weeny bits of boiled vegetables in his rotis, mashing them to turn them invisible and then sing aloud like a deranged person while stuffing these in his mouth. And then you have paediatricians tell you sagely that you must give your child vegetable soup when he is unwell or has a cold/ fever. Would you have vegetable soup if you have a sore throat or killer cold? Practice and theory are far apart in this context.
Forget about teaching values and principles. Feeding your child vegetables is tough enough.
Listen, Learn, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat!
My child speaks reluctantly and little. Blame it on the absence of actual physical interaction with children and peers at school or other communal spaces. But he has learnt to do one thing on rote – obsess with a word, a phrase, a question or worse, a single line from a song! He will do it over and over again – till you are ready to hold your hand over your ears and yell at him. Of course, shutting children up never really helps much. They throw a tantrum and refuse to do the Next Essential Thing (eating, sleeping, peeing or pooping), making life even more difficult. Only Father Time and Mother Growth can tackle fixations and repetitions. I give up.
Gabbing with girlfriends or chatting up college buddies is fun for all of us. But have you heard a toddler or preschooler talk when they first learn to speak? Or when they understand the art of posing a question or a trick question? Initially, our boy's tendency to say little had us, and his grandparents, and extended family quite worried. But when he did start speaking, well, shutting him up was not a task anyone could really handle. Children love to enunciate and speak out some words, using them in just about any context and doing so endlessly. I recall my mother telling him on a late night, to stop talking and go to bed. As if that would ever work! In the absence of school or time spent outdoors, children don't tire easily. They have boundless pure physical energy. So when they start talking, or questioning, they simply don't stop till they drop off to sleep. So be prepared for a lot of responding and replying, and do it patiently. It genuinely hurts their feelings if you get ticked off.
Besides these common challenges, our little boy sleeps like a 60-year-old. Which means, he sleeps very little; leading to us looking haggard and exhausted, and struggling to find time to get anything done. But when it comes to children, eventually they grow up, cutesy, sage like, wearing steely determined expressions as they plan bigger, more complex tantrums.
My attempt is to simply share parenting as it is, without the gloss of profit or brand focused content alone. Surviving the pandemic with young children must have brought challenges to all of us. We would love to hear from you and publish your experiences in a collated blog, for everyone to share and understand all that we have lived through this unprecedented, unsocial and locked down phase of bringing up babies.
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Karen Melville's childhood love of horses was reignited when her granddaughter, Emily, got a rescued quarter horse named Bella. It had been 50 years since Melville owned a horse.
"It was mind-boggling how much things had changed," she says. From infectious diseases to veterinary tests and dozens of demands on a horse owner's wallet, there was a lot to deal with.
Nevertheless, Melville and her husband, Jay, decided that—now retired—they could make horse ownership a family affair. They fell in love with Gypsy Vanner horses, and bought two, Misty and Tilly. Then they sold their Apple Valley townhouse and bought a property with wide open spaces in Hampton, Minn.—in southern Dakota County—in order to move Bella, Misty and Tilly out of boarding and onto their own land.
Even when you're boarding, it's important to be informed to make sure the caregivers are doing right by your animals. But raising horses on your own property requires the mastery of many topics.
In the late 2010s, there was a 400-percent increase in the number of unwanted horses in Minnesota, burdening counties and nonprofit rescue operations.
Hay gets complicated
The Melvilles' veterinarian encouraged them to look into University of Minnesota Extension's equine education program. Their first step was going to hear a talk on horse nutrition by Krishona Martinson, Extension equine specialist and livestock program leader. "We found out that there's a lot more to it than feeding the horse some hay," says Melville. "You have to know not only about different types of hay, but how to test for nutritional content and develop a good relationship with hay suppliers. It helps to know what your hay supplier might be going through with the weather and the markets and how to find another one when necessary."
Hay is often in short supply. "Sometimes people might own five or six horses and not be prepared or able to get all of them properly fed," Melville adds. "That's one reason we end up with horses that need to be rescued."
The Melvilles also benefited from the work of three of Martinson's graduate students. They studied the Melvilles' facilities and gave them a plan that addressed everything from watering systems and how not to overuse the pastures to feeding and fencing.
"The equine pasture management program is available when enough graduate students are far enough along in their training and can use the on-farm experience to further their learning," says Martinson, who advises and oversees their work and their final reports to the horse owners.
Online learning and apps mean less hoofing it to class
In 2016, Martinson and her team developed a series of online horse courses. Taking all of the online courses with passing scores and participation leads to a certificate. New courses, such as one in biosecurity, have been added and Martinson expects that more than 500 people will have participated by the end of this year. Considering that 5.1 million people engaged with Extension's equine program on Facebook, Martinson knows she has room to grow her online course offerings. Horse owners like Melville appreciate the efficiency and cost savings of being able to take the courses from their own homes.
Martinson and her team also developed two horse apps: the Healthy Horse app, for managing a horse's weight, and the Hay Price Calculator app. Melville's family uses both. "Since Emily's horse is a rescue, we don't know old she is, and she can have trouble keeping on weight," she says. "The app also helps with Misty and Tilly, who need to be managed not to feed too heavily."
Using all that they learned from Extension, the Melvilles redesigned their Hampton property. It took a year to complete it, during which they continued to participate in Extension offerings.
With their new knowledge and science-based recommendations, they didn't spend money beyond what was truly needed to care for the family's beloved animals. "And that's important," says Melville, "because nothing is inexpensive when it comes to raising horses."


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PULLMAN — Gage Gubrud made the first start of his career against them. Now he's one of them.
After a long and at times strenuous process for the FCS All-American and two-time Walter Payton Award finalist, Gubrud finally got the clarity he was looking for Saturday. The former Eastern Washington quarterback will spend his final season of college eligbility in the Pac-12 Conference, at Washington State, after earning a medical redshirt from the NCAA.
The Cougars officially introduced Gubrud on Saturday morning from their official Twitter account: "And the final piece of the Class of 2019 is in! Welcome to the WSU Cougar Family, @Gagegubs! #GoCougs #JoinTheHunt"
"We are excited for Gage to come in and compete with the quarterbacks on our team," head coach Mike Leach said in a press release. "He is an extremely experienced and productive player who led Eastern Washington to great heights in his time there. It's not often that you can add a quarterback to your roster that has started 28 games and thrown for nearly 10,000 yards. We are looking forward to getting him on campus and finishing his collegiate career in a WSU Cougar uniform."
Though only 70 miles separate the schools, getting the dual-threat Gubrud from EWU to WSU came with some major hurdles. Five days ago, the QB confirmed to The Spokesman-Review his application for a medical redshirt had been denied by the NCAA, though Gubrud planned to appeal the decision citing "unusual circumstances."
The NCAA moved swiftly to overturn the initial decision, granting Gubrud his sixth year of eligibility less than a week later.
The QB's situation may have been unprecedented at any level of college football.
A toe injury suffered in EWU's fifth game of the season at Montana State forced Gubrud to spend the rest of his senior year in Cheney on the sidelines, while backup Eric Barriere took over and lifted the Eagles to the FCS playoffs and eventually the national championship game, which EWU lost to North Dakota State 38-24.
The NCAA states that a player is eligible for a medical redshirt if he played in one-third or fewer of his team's games. Only because the Eagles advanced to the national title game — and thus played in 15 games — did Gubrud qualify.
The Spokesman-Review learned on Jan. 10 that Gubrud had entered his name into the NCAA's transfer portal and the QB later confirmed that he'd narrowed his choices down to WSU and Utah.
In the end he chose the Cougars, who are replacing another one-year transfer behind center — Gardner Minshew. It's unclear if Gubrud will be able to join the Cougars for spring camp, but once he does arrive, he'll easily be the most experienced signal-caller on Leach's roster.
Gubrud will be back in Pullman three years after making the first start of his career in Martin Stadium, where he and wide receiver Cooper Kupp led the Eagles to a 45-42 upset win. Gubrud, a sophomore at the time, accounted for six touchdowns in the game, passing for five and rushing for another. He completed 34-of-40 attempts for 474 yards and rushed for another 77.
He quickly became one of the most lethal dual-threat quarterbacks in the country and was twice named a finalist for the Walter Payton Award (2016, 2017) — the FCS equivalent to the Heisman Trophy. Gubrud was an FCS All-American in 2016 and shared Big Sky Player of the Year honors with Kupp the same year.
Over an EWU career that spanned 32 games, Gubrud completed 753-of-1,165 passes (64 percent) for 9,984 yards, 87 touchdowns and 32 interceptions. The 6-foot-2, 205-pound native of McMinnville, Oregon, also figures to be the most mobile QB Leach has had in eight years at WSU. Gubrud's logged 259 career rushing attempts, 1,042 yards and has 13 touchdowns on the ground.
The only players on WSU's roster with game experience are redshirt seniors to-be Trey Tinsley and Anthony Gordon, both former junior college players who backed up Minshew in 2018. Together, Tinsley and Gordon completed 10-of-14 passes for 80 yards, only spelling WSU's starter in garbage time of blowout wins.
Former four-star recruit Cammon Cooper, entering his redshirt freshman season, and December signee Gunner Cruz will also be in the hunt for the starting job.
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The property price in Turkey published by the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) in June 2021 increased by 29.2% compared to the same period of 2020.
The increase in new build property prices was 33%. The highest increase was recorded in Izmir with 29.9% among 3 big cities.
Property prices increased by 29.18% year-on-year in June. The real price increase was 9.9% in June 2021.
Thus, the slowdown in property Turkey prices continued in June after May 2021. In April, the highest level in the index history was recorded on the basis of the annual increase in real estate prices.
On a monthly basis, the increase was 2.74% in June. In May, this data was 3.90%.
Considering the 3 major cities in Turkey, the highest increase in June was in the Izmir province with a 29.9% rise. Izmir was followed by Istanbul with 26.4% and Ankara with 25.7%.
The price per square meter in Turkey was 4 thousand 545 Turkish Liras. The price, which was 6 thousand 804 Turkish Liras in Istanbul, was recorded as 5 thousand 527 Turkish Liras in Izmir and 3 thousand 340 Turkish Liras in Ankara.
According to the index published by the Central Bank, the prices of new properties increased by 33%. While new-build real estate prices increased by 34.2% in Ankara, the increase was 28.7% in Izmir and 24.9% in Istanbul.
The annual increase in the resale property price index was 28%. While the price of resale houses increased by 25.9% in Istanbul, it was 24.6% in Ankara, it increased by 28.5% in Izmir.
While real estate sales in Turkey were 134 thousand 731 in June, this figure was 59 thousand 166 in May of the current year. Despite the monthly increase, property sales in June decreased by 29.1% compared to the same period of 2020.
Istanbul had the highest share in house sales with 25,833 property sales and 19.2% share. According to the number of real estate sales, Istanbul was followed by Ankara with 13 thousand 401 house sales and 9.9% share, and Izmir with 7 thousand 522 houses sales and 5.6% share.
The cities with the lowest number of property sales, were respectively, Hakkari with 12 houses, Ardahan with 32 houses and Bayburt with 64 houses.


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We're at the point that we might march off into another war, and when that happens we must be fully prepared to withstand anything those evil armies decide to throw at us. Therefore, me and Carter have decided to reset the ranks, whoever comes to this weeks events will have their ORIGINAL ranks back. For example: I was 4ic, the ranks reset, and I came to every event, and now I'm 4ic again. 98% OF DCP IS CURRENTLY PRIVATE RANK! good luck, troops! True doritos don't quit no matter WHAT HAPPENS. So, lets just see who's the true doritos. Just to sum it down for you guys; Everyone is private rank until I notice improvement, I know we are capable of 30+ without rouges, cause we did it during the war, more then once. I believe you guys are just being lazy, so lets do this guys!
Always continue marching on, never look back!
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March on!
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If you aren't looking down, things appear to be looking up in the United States. The economy has rebounded from its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. In June, unemployment fell to 5.3%, down from over 10% in 2009.
But things aren't as rosy as they appear, especially if you stop looking at the adults and start worrying about the children. According to a new report (pdf), "Kids Count," released on July 21 by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, over 16 million American children were living under the federal poverty line in the US in 2013, a increase of 3 million from 2008.
The 16 million constitute 22% of all American children—a four-percentage-point increase from 2008—and exactly half of the 44% of American children in low-income families. In 2013, the federal poverty line was an income of $23,624 for a family of four with two children; low-income is any family making less than double that, or $47,248.
How could a drop in unemployment coincide with a rise in child poverty? Florencia Gutierrez, a senior research associate at the Casey Foundation, blames an increase in low-wage jobs. "The recovery is leaving millions of our children and our families behind," she tells Quartz.
Unsurprisingly, children from ethnic minorities are faring far worse than white children. According to the report, 39% of African American and 33% of Hispanic children lived in poverty in 2013, versus just 14% of non-Hispanic white children. (Those proportions have risen since 2008 for all the ethnic groups.)
This racial divide in child poverty levels is especially concerning, says Gutierrez, because white children will soon be a minority in America. "The minority will soon be the majority, and if the outcome of our minority children continues to be poor, the economic sustainability of our country will be jeopardized," she says.
The Casey foundation also used an "Overall Child Well-Being" index, which combined economic, health, education, and family data to rank each state in the US. In another not-so-shocking conclusion, southern states dominated the bottom of the ranking—none came higher than 26 out of 50—with Mississippi winning the race to the bottom. Surprisingly, the state with the highest overall child well-being was Minnesota, stealing the title for the first time in almost a decade from a state in the country's northeast.
Not all the results were so pessimistic, however. In health and education, US children are faring better than before. In 2012, only 19% of high-school students did not graduate on time, down from 25% in 2008. And slightly fewer American fourth-graders lack proficiency in reading—66%, down from 68% in 2008, though clearly that's still not a figure to brag about. In terms of health, meanwhile, just 7% of American children are uninsured, down from 10% in 2008, and only 6% of teenagers are abusing drugs or alcohol.


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The Makeup By Mario Master Metallics Eyeshadow Palette is launching as just one product within the new Makeup By Mario collection. Mario Dedivanovic is perhaps best known for being Kim Kardashian's makeup artist, has teamed up with Sephora to create his very own beauty range.
Makeup By Mario Master Metallics Eyeshadow Palette
The Makeup By Mario Master Metallics Eyeshadow Palette is just one of three palettes within the collection, but it's the palette which looks the most interesting in my opinion.
Priced at $48, it's quite a pricey palette. All of the Makeup By Mario products feature monochrome designs, and this palette has white plastic packaging with twelve rectangular eyeshadow pans. The layout looks very, very similar to the NARS eyeshadow palettes.
Described as being a palette of go-to universal metallic shadows that creates endless eye looks in 12 creamy, luxurious shades that melt onto the lids.
This palette is inspired by Mario's love of nature. The creamy shadows deliver a range of chromatic effects from natural to intense, with high-impact shine. The luxe formula can be used dry or wet to achieve a light wash or full-coverage colour, for a foil like wet look sheen on the lids.
- Apply this shadow with your fingers to achieve a quick, allover, beautiful intensity.
- For more detailed application, use the E 4 brush (sold separately) to pat and build the shadow. Wet the brush for extra intensity.
- Use Master Eye Prep & Set™ (sold separately) as a base for superior grip and buildability.
-Lighter shades like Metallic 1, Metallic 5, Metallic 7, and Metallic 8 also work as a face and body highlighter.
- For an amplified metallic finish, you can pat Master Secret Glow™ (sold separately) below or over your shadow with your fingers.
The Makeup By Mario Master Metallics Eyeshadow Palette features beautiful, metallic high shine eyeshadows which are best applied with the fingertips, an E4 brush (Mario's brush) or applied wet for a super impactful sheen.
I think the shades are quite varied within this palette. There's no colour story or cohesion, so it's the kind of palette you'd want to use alongside other palettes in your collection to add sheen and extra wow factor to your makeup look.
I can totally see it working well with the Master Mattes Palette, Mario is launching at the same time. You can find the Makeup By Mario Master Metallics Eyeshadow Palette right here.
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During his time fronting Bloc Party, Kele Okereke has frequently dabbled with the fringes of dance music, adding pulsing rhythms to the band's driving guitar sound. When he went solo, that flirtation turned into a more direct and overt interest in hyper-sleek electro-pop. Now, the singer-songwriter continues his involvement into an electronic artist with the announcement of a full-on tech-house EP, Heartbreaker.
With his recent remix of Bloc Party's "Obscene", he's shown he knows his way around a dark club mix, and the EP's title track sees him comfortably continuing down that path. It's much more beats and bass focused than anything he's released before, with the vocal buried in the mix to readily display his ever-growing mixing skills. Listen in below.
Heartbreaker is due out on vinyl on Crosstown Rebels on November 25th, and digitally through Beatport on December 9th. Of the release, Okereke said, "I've always loved the inclusive and spiritual nature of house music, so the opportunity to make music for the most iconic and influential house music label in the UK is a dream come true for me."
Heartbreaker EP Tracklist:
01. Heartbreaker
02. God Has a Way
03. Heartbreaker (Recondite Remix)
04. Get Up


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