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Understanding the Mind of An Athlete, with Dr. James Glynn
What You Will Learn:
- What is sports psychology
- The truth about anxiety
- How to cultivate peak performance
- How control can work for us or hurt us
- Methods to develop mental toughness and confidence
About James Glynn
Dr. Glynn specializes in sport and exercise psychology, substance abuse treatment and weight loss issues.
Dr. Glynn consults with athletes, teams, and coaches regarding performance issues, end of career transitions, and injury rehabilitation. His experience as a former player and coach gives him a unique insight into what is needed to be successful.
Dr. Glynn has served as an adjunct professor at Ramapo College of New Jersey, teaching classes in abnormal psychology and addiction. Dr. Glynn is an ex-pat from England, having moved to the US 16 years ago. He is married and has an eight year old daughter. He is an avid sport enthusiast and having grown up in England particularly loves soccer, rugby, and cricket. Prior to becoming a psychologist Dr. Glynn was a professional soccer player in England.
- Website: https://drjamesglynn.com/index.html
[00:00:00] Welcome to the podcast that’s focused on everything you need to know to drive your athletic career. Welcome to Eye on the Prize with Dr. Todd Schragen.
[00:00:09] Dr Schragen: I’m so excited to have Dr. James Glynn on this morning. He is a sports psychologist who’s worked with individual athletes from the high school level, college and professional level. He has a specialization in sports and exercise psychology, and not only that, Dr. Glynn is a former professional athlete and coach, which he really understands how to keep your eye on the prize. Dr. Glynn, good morning.
[00:00:33] Dr. Glynn: Thank you. Good morning. Thanks for having me.
[00:00:35] Dr Schragen: I’m psyched. So, what does a sports psychologist do?
[00:00:40] Dr. Glynn: A lot of people don’t really understand or know much about it because it’s, even though it’s been around probably 35–40 years as a specialization, and really only in the last, I would say five to 10 years, it’s started to become a little bit more widespread and known. Sports psychologically really addresses anything sport related that is impacted by your mind. When I give talks to people and stuff like that, I start by asking people: “If you think about your best ever sports performance, your best ever performance ever, how much of that is down to your ability and how much is that down to your mental focus during the thing?” Most people will say, listen, what I’ve played my best performance ever, I’m focused; I’m a hundred percent dialed in. So I would be like it’s 90/10, you know, and then I ask people: “So, when you’re practicing, how much of your time do you spend on the techniques and the physical side, but on the mental side?” And most people are faced the other way around. It’s 90/10. So my sort of selling point for sports psychology is the idea that if you’re saying something, when you plan at your absolute best, I’ve dialed in. It’s 90% mental and only 10% of what you can actually do. Why are you when you’re practicing, flipping it the other way round we’re spending only 10% of your time on this thing that really gives you the most edge when you’re playing And so ideally that’s what we do. We just work with helping people understand how the brain impacts performance.
[00:02:13] Dr Schragen: Interesting. So, in the topic of performance anxiety, can you explain what performance anxiety is, like, physiologically?
[00:02:23] Dr. Glynn: Yeah, so normally when I talk about anxiety, the first thing I always try to stress to people is anxiety gets a really bad rap, right? Everyone assumes if you get anxiety, it must mean it’s a bad thing. Anxiety is actually a very necessary thing for us all to experience. We need anxiety. In real world application terms, anxiety is what gets you to study for your test. Anxiety is what gets you to go to practice every day, so it does have a very positive impact from it. But, when it becomes problematic and it becomes in this idea of impacting your performance, it’s typically because it’s gone from what is a positive thing like what gets you up in the morning, gets you going to practice, gets turning up the games on time, gets you doing your warm up routine and all that.
[00:03:10] And it turns into more of a hindrance, right. And there’s that very fine line that I talk about. I don’t know if anybody’s ever heard of this, but the inverted U hypothesis, right. So the inverted U hypothesis is basically that he drew a graph and he got the U going upside down, so it’s an inverted U. And the idea behind it is too little anxiety impacts you in a negative way, too much anxiety impacts you in a negative way.
[00:03:44] So the idea is you have to operate in that little sweet spot, okay. So what we try to do is try to understand what that sweet spot is. Now, as another example I give to people is when it comes to performance anxiety if you talk about any sport you play, and I normally use basketball as an example, right. So free throws, okay, is the best example. Now free throws is probably one of the most anxiety-producing thing a basketball player can have, because it’s just you, it’s just a basket, and everybody’s watching your every move, even everyone’s just stood around watching. So it’s if there’s in that particular sport, if there’s an anxiety producing moment, that’s it.
[00:04:25] Dr Schragen: It’s giving me anxiety just thinking about it.
[00:04:27] Dr. Glynn: Right? It’s the sort of thing that if basketball players have nightmares, that’s the thing they have nightmares about: starting on the free throw line. Everyone watching you and missing the free throw, right?
[00:04:37] Dr Schragen: Wait a minute on that. Let me interrupt. So, there’s people who do have nightmares, but then there’s also someone like a Michael Jordan who thrives in that moment. How do you, is there, if I may go down the road and answer that, but—
[00:04:51] Dr. Glynn: Yeah, no, absolutely. And that kind of ties in. Essentially, the reason Michael Jordan thrived in that moment was because he had the attitude of this idea that if you don’t buy tickets for the lottery, you can’t win the lottery.
[00:05:10] So if I don’t take the shot on, I can’t score, but to take the shot on, I have to acknowledge that I might miss. So what, when it becomes problematic is basically in terms of when you end up focusing solely on the outcome. Performance anxiety becomes problematic when you’re focusing on the outcome, because when you’re focusing on the outcome, you’ll focus in too far ahead of where you actually are.
[00:05:34] So in terms of performance anxiety, and what Michael Jordan would do and what anybody who thrives in that position, they don’t focus on the outcome. They understand that the outcome is the outcome, the outcomes, whatever it’s going to be. So if I don’t take the shot, I don’t even participate in the game.
[00:05:51] So what I do is I take the shot. And if it goes in, great. If it doesn’t, it doesn’t. And what people don’t realize is for Michael Jordan, if you watch Michael Jordan for every, like, last minute game-winning three pointer he scored, even if it’s 30 or 40 of them, but people don’t remember those. I remember the ones he scored. But he didn’t let that bother him either. Every time he missed, it didn’t matter ’cause the next one could go in. And so what you have to do is you have to focus on not the outcome of it; you focus on the technique of it. So in terms of like basketball, free throws, whenever I’m working on people and trying to get their performance, sort of, anxiety under control, what you say to people is: “listen, you can’t control whether that ball is gonna go in once it leaves your hand, but what you can do is you can control everything before it leaves your head, right? So what you do is you focus on the technique part of it because I know if your technique is right, the outcome takes care of itself. But if you were focused on the outcome, I guarantee you’re going to miss something in your technique as you’re doing it, which is going to impact the outcome negatively.”
[00:06:59] Dr Schragen: You can’t control the outcome except the technique.
[00:07:01] Dr. Glynn: And so that’s what anxiety is. So anxiety is essentially when we start to spend more of our time focusing on the stuff we can’t control versus the stuff that we can control. And whether it’s in sport, whether it’s even real life, if you think about any time in which you felt anxious, it’s because you are worried about stuff you can’t control.
[00:07:20] When you can control it, it’s not anxiety ’cause you just do it. You just deal with it. So that’s what anxiety is and that’s what performance anxiety is; it’s spending too much time, or the majority of your time, focusing on things that are out of your control rather than focusing on things that are in your control.
[00:07:37] Dr Schragen: So then you can, I was going to ask then, what are the techniques to overcome it?
[00:07:43] Dr. Glynn: So the techniques to overcome it is exactly that. There’s two things. There’s two, two types of goals that we set, two types of approaches that you do. There’s long-term outcome performance and there’s process performance.
[00:07:56] Now what you do is you focus on the process. So if I use my example with basketball, right. You take it, you throw it right back to the technique. What are the elements of a good free throw? So it’s making sure you’re figuring the right position, it’s making sure you balance your knees, bend your wrist in the right position. You make the right follow-through.
[00:08:14] Now, if you do all of those things, Your chances of that ball going in the basket are really high, right? But if you are focused on the fact that, whether the ball is going to go in the basket, and you’re not focused on those things, then you’re more likely to maybe have your wrist in the wrong position, not be relaxed, not have your knees bent, not have your feet.
[00:08:35] And if those things are going to impact the outcome, but those things are things that are under your control. Like I said, once the ball leaves your hand, what happens to it next? Like a bird could fly and whack into it? Like those are all things that are out of your control. If you’re talking about American football, you’re talking about field goal kicker, right?
[00:08:54] The wind, the conditions, are not in your control whatsoever. But what is in your control is the actual technique. And that’s why when people are really good, they just practice the technique over and over. When they’re going, they’re focused. They don’t focus on the crowd—crowd is just white noise—they focus on the technique a hundred percent because I understand if I get the technique right, the outcome takes care of itself. It’s the same deal as like, in real world, if you’re taking a math test, you can’t control what questions are on the math test. The only person who controls that is the professor.
[00:09:28] But what you can control is studying the material. So you know, if I study the material well, then it doesn’t matter what goes on this out of my control. I know that my chances of passing that test are really, really high because I’ve taken care of the thing that I can control, which is studying the material.
[00:09:44] I can’t take it. I’ve got no control of what is on that sheet of paper in front of me. And that’s what you do. But if you spend your whole evening worrying about what questions might be on the test, you’re probably going to be wrong, but you spend all that time worrying about something that you can’t control, instead of spending the time worried about something you can control.
[00:10:02] Dr Schragen: This is preparation and practice or focus.
[00:10:06] Dr. Glynn: Preparation, practice, and focus, and focusing on the right things. The other thing about performance anxiety and anxiety is you try, also try to do is you try to get people to be consistent, right? Our brain is all south about triggers. When you get a trigger, your brain automatically does something. So if you think about—I don’t know if a lot of this is aimed towards younger kids—if you think of an example of driving a car, as an example, and if anyone’s going to parents. You’ll drive in a car, you go to a stoplight. Now you don’t actively think, ’cause you could be engaged in a conversation or anything. You don’t actively think that you have to acknowledge the stoplight, take your foot off the gas, put your foot on the brake and gently apply. You’re not don’t even aware that you’re doing half of that stuff.
[00:10:51] But what’s happened over years and years and years of practicing and driving a car and seeing a stoplight, your brain has been triggered. So as soon as it sees the stoplight, it just automatically does those things, which is why you don’t have to pay attention to it. You can continue a conversation, you continue singing to the songs on the radio, do whatever, because your brain is automatically going to be triggered.
[00:11:09] That stimulus equals that reaction. And it’s exactly the same thing as sport, if you’re consistent in, and we talk about consistency of preparation, so if your routine pre-performance is consistent, what you’re doing is you will signal in and trigger in your brain what happens next and it does the thing.
[00:11:29] And then the other idea is you talk about keywords, and I’m a big one on keywords, so when everyone’s going to do anything, especially something like, as an example, we go back to the free throw of basketball. Whenever you go on a free throw line, I work on people with keywords.
[00:11:43] What are those keywords that you can say to yourself that now trigger your brain to focus on what you’re supposed to be doing and not getting pulled off on what’s going on around you. So one thing might be just something as simple as take a breath. And as soon as I say, take a breath, that means all of these various things, get your feet planted, relax your body, get your wrists in the right position. It might be anything, it could be sandwiches. It doesn’t really matter what it is, but whatever it is that word then triggers and signals your brain to say, “all right. I know it’s supposed to happen next.” And that’s how you do that consistency. And the more repetition you do it, your brain actually changes, your brain actually starts to create mental shortcuts.
[00:12:22] That automatically A happens and then B happens and it happens all throughout our day. If you’re talking about an athlete, let’s say someone, chucks an athlete, a tennis ball, and a tennis ball comes and that athlete’s just going to catch it. That’s just, that’s not active thought process ’cause that ball’s moving too quickly for you to actively go, “oh shit, a ball’s coming towards me. I need to go and catch it.” That’s just like I catch it. And because what’s happened is your brain has been trained anytime, an object flies at you, you catch it. I do exactly the same as a former soccer player. And it gets me into all kinds of trouble. Anytime, any object falls towards the ground, I stick my foot out to catch it.
[00:12:59] It doesn’t matter whether it’s a sharp object, a soft object, or whatever. And I have broken my foot plenty of times because I’m in the kitchen, I’ve dropped something and I’ll stick my foot out. And it went from the top of your foot, because it’s just ingrained. It’s the training, as soon as your brain gets that trigger, your body reacts, and it’s exactly the same and everything. The more consistent you can be, the more your brain starts to change in how it interprets things. And it gets those signals to do that, to do whatever it is. So it’s just, it’s consistency. It’s repetition. It’s like doing the same thing over and over again.
[00:13:32] Dr Schragen: Is that the concept of neuroplasticity or–?
[00:13:35] Dr. Glynn: Yes, which is really good when we are younger, which is really, which is why it’s really good. So in young, into teenage years, you start to develop this stuff ’cause your neuroplasticity is much greater. As we get older, it’s just like everything on our body, it’s got to crap out on us. So as we get older, we get less and less flexible in our thinking. So anytime you’re trying to introduce something new, it’s harder and harder for your brain to accept it.
[00:13:59] It does eventually, but it just takes longer. But when you’re younger, a teenager, these sorts of things are easier, much easier for you to get on board with them, your brain to accept. So it’s, especially as a young adult or teenager, those are the best times to start to work on this stuff because your brain is much more willing to accept the information and change.
[00:14:20] Dr Schragen: That’s so interesting. So when people do, when athletes are talking about being in the zone, what is happening physiologically and are there ways to train your brain to get in the zone?
[00:14:34] Dr. Glynn: Yeah, so physiologically, that’s a really good question. So physiologically basically what happens in your body when you’re in that zone, it’s your body is on, essentially is on autopilot and that’s what people often talk about. So when people, you talk to people about when they’re in the zone, they just they’re like, it just, it’s just natural. It’s just happening. It just, everything just flows beautifully. And it’s because, mostly it’s because you’re relaxed. And the reason you’re relaxed is because your brain is not focusing on all this external stuff that you can’t do anything about. So it all comes back to your brain. If your brain is tuned in, then your body follows, right. The body doesn’t lead the brain and the brain leads the body.
[00:15:21] So if the body, if the brain is tuned in and the brain is again talking about all the stuff that you’re supposed to be focusing on, you’re focusing on all of the, sort of the processes. That’s when you start to get in the zone because you’re no longer you’re, everything is peripheral. Everything outside of you doesn’t exist.
[00:15:38] Dr Schragen: So it’s all tied together. It’s the same thing as the performance anxiety. It’s all—
[00:15:45] Dr. Glynn: Yeah. It’s all about, anytime you talk about performance in any performance, essentially, and you’re talking about anxiety or whatever, essentially you’re talking about, am I focusing on the things that I can control versus the things that I can’t control. And just in general, as a life lesson, if you think about any time in which things aren’t going your way, it’s normally because you’re not focusing on the stuff that you can control, because if you can control it, you can impact the outcome of it. So it would go your way.
[00:16:15] The only reason it’s not going your way is, you might be having, as an adult, you might be having an issue at work where someone’s not pulling their weight on a project, an example, and then you’ll get really frustrated and you’re getting annoyed about the fact that they’re not pulling their weight. And then that annoyance is causing you to then start to make mistakes on what you’re doing all because you’re focused; you can’t control what your coworker’s doing. Your coworker’s your coworker. If there was a way to control the external stuff around us, and I figured it out, I’d be a billionaire because it would fix most of the problems.
[00:16:47] But there isn’t that; you can’t control what’s outside of you. All you control is you, yourself, and I, and that’s all you can do. So when you focus on what’s under your control, that is when, in anything, your peak performance is going to happen because you are just focusing on what you can do.
[00:17:04] And then once it leaves you, you have to relax a little bit and chill out and just say, listen, whatever is going to be is going to be, because I can only do up until a certain point. If I’m playing soccer and I pass the ball to someone, once that believes my foot is now up to the other person. I’ve got nothing to do with that, but all I can do is make sure when I pass the ball, my technique’s good so the ball makes it where it’s supposed to go. Same thing, tennis shot; if I’m playing tennis and I hit a shot, I can’t control how my put my opponent is going to return that shot. All I can do is make sure that my shot is the best shot I can make.
[00:17:35] And then I deal with what comes back and then I deal with that. And then, and it’s the same thing. So you’re just constantly focused on yourself and what you can control. Once you start to get outside of yourself, then you start to have problems.
[00:17:45] Dr Schragen: When you would explain it, it almost feels like I can relax. It simplifies it, when you just…
[00:17:54] Dr. Glynn: Sports is a really simple thing. Any, most of the things we do, they’re very conceptually they’re very simple. Like sport is a very simple concept. Football, basketball, tennis. It’s a very simple concept, right? You actually talk about tennis: it’s a racket and a ball. You’re going to hit the ball over the net. Make sure it lands in, in, in bounds, right? That’s the concept of sport. It’s a very simple thing. What starts to happen is when we start to overcomplicate it, because we start to worry about all these things that are outside of us, we start to worry about what the umpire is going to do or when we’re planning, we start to worry about what the referees are going to do. These are things you can’t control, but sport is a very basic level. It’s a very simplified thing. It’s a very few set of rules that you apply, you work by, very few concepts that you have to stay inside.
[00:18:40] Everything outside of that is out of your control, but we overcomplicate it because we start to control the uncontrollable. That’s when it starts to become a problem.
[00:18:52] Dr Schragen: It’s literally like, so I’m having this conversation. I’m literally asking you questions that I want to hear answers to as well.
[00:18:59] So it’s just so interesting that it, how simplified it really is and all these different concepts, meaning the anxiety, getting in the zone. And now I’m going to ask you about mental toughness and confidence. And I would imagine it has a similar answer, but I don’t want to fill it in for you. So with mental toughness and confidence, is there ways to develop mental toughness and confidence?
[00:19:22] Dr. Glynn: Yes. So again, so if you talk about mental toughness, right? So it’s again, mental toughness is basically dealing with how do you deal with adversity, right? And that’s what mental toughness is. The people who are the most mentally tough, they deal with adversity the best.
[00:19:42] I sound like a broken record. The reason they deal with diversity the best is because they work out what they can do something about and what they can’t and what they can’t do something about, they just let go, because that’s what you do. And confidence is exactly the same thing. Our confidence is directly impacted by our performance.
[00:20:03] Now, again, if you focus on the stuff that you know to be true, normally our confidence, so when does that confidence start to hit? Our confidence starts to hit if you’re talking about a baseball player, right? If we’re talking about a baseball player, if we’re talking about a pitcher whose confidence is shot because they’re throwing pitches all over the place.
[00:20:23] And nothing’s landed in the zone and nothing’s there. Why does that confidence go down and what do they do as a result of that? Normally, typically, what everyone does is when their performance starts to go down, they try harder. That’s just what you, a natural thing. So if I’m a pitcher or if I’m a batter and I’m like, I just keep missing the pitch. What do I do? I swing harder. I just keep swinging harder and harder and harder. So say, we talk about a golfer. If a golfer keeps shanking the ball into the woods, what do they do? They just start hitting the ball harder. And what does that do? That tenses you up. So what’s that more likely to do? Cause you to keep shanking it.
[00:21:07] So the idea again is it’s just, the idea is you always want to get back to the basics. What are the basics of any sport I’m playing? And the basics of any sport I’m playing is if my technique is good, then the outcome takes care of itself. So if you can consistently, and again your technique could be perfect, if you’re playing an opponent and they’re just better than you or they just have a better day than you, then you, your technique could still be perfect. You could still lose, but at least you walk out of there not focusing on the outcome of it. You say to yourself, listen, I did the best I possibly could on that particular day. On another day, it might go different as long as I focus on my technique.
[00:21:44] So it’s all about, it’s all about just focusing on what are the basics of whatever sport I’m playing and people like to overcomplicate their role. And you ask them to start with what’s the role of a sports psychologist, a role of a sports psychologist or any mental health professional is to simplify the complicated.
[00:22:01] That’s what we do. We simplify the complicated because the complicated is what gets you walking through the door and simplifying it gets you walking out the door doing okay. And that’s what it is. We just, we overcomplicate it as a reaction to what happens to us. Instead of saying, hang on a second.
[00:22:21] So what can I control about what’s just happened to me? I can control my techniques. So if I’m a batter. So what can I control about whether I’m hitting the pitch or not? I know that, as a batter, if my technique is good, if I swing correctly, if I see it is in the right position, if I’m relaxed as I’m doing it, if I focus on the ball in the right way, as I’m supposed to then my technique is good. Which would mean I have a higher than average chance of hitting the ball. But if I start to just say to myself, “alright this is crazy. I’m just gonna, I need to hit the ball harder. I need to hit the ball harder. I need to get harder,” Your technique is going to suffer, which gives you a lower than average chance of being successful.
[00:23:00] So again, it’s like sport and life and everything is when you think about it, it’s very simple. Human beings just over complicate it and it’s our nature. We overcomplicate it. But when we do start to overcomplicate it, that’s when we start to run into trouble.
[00:23:14] Dr Schragen: Sure. Oh, I love it, Dr. Glynn, this has been fantastic. What’s so nice is it really is simple and I’d love to have you back on follow up with this stuff as well.
[00:23:28] Dr. Glynn: Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. And the other part is that just always remembering that sometimes the simplest thing is the hardest thing to do.
[00:23:36] Dr Schragen: Now, excuse me, let me ask you, are there any resources for the people listening that they could go to, like a book or anything that you would say is a good resource, a website, anything?
[00:23:48] Dr. Glynn: There’s a book that was written by, he’s a sports psychiatrist in England, and if you read it, you’re gonna think I’m nuts, but it is essentially, it’s called The Chimp Paradox. And it’s short, it’s a very short paperback book. He breaks it down into his idea that essentially, right, your brain is comprised of two things. It’s comprised of a very rational section of your brain and then the other part of your brain is just like a wild monkey. Essentially, and the idea that when the monkey gets out of control, you get out of control, right? Because the monkey is only focused on self gratification, getting stuff done quickly, all of that kind of stuff. And you learn how, you learn how to tame your monkey, essentially.
[00:24:47] Dr Schragen: It’s great. I love it. It’s a great analogy.
[00:24:50] Dr. Glynn: Oh yeah. It is. It’s a great way to read about it in a way that is not, it’s not technical at all. And he breaks it down into all kinds of things, moons, and planets, and all kinds of stuff. But when you read it, it’s actually the science and the logic behind it, the science behind it, and it actually follows exactly what I talk about, but it’s just, it’s a way of putting it that it’s easy to read, easy to read. The Chimp paradox, you can get it on Amazon. I’ve got my copy off Amazon. He’s a nice guy. I met him. I met him a couple of times. But yeah, it’s a good book. I would recommend that one ’cause it’s just a very light way of talking about it. It’s not technical at all.
[00:25:32] Dr Schragen: Perfect. Again, thank you so much.
[00:25:34] Dr. Glynn: You’re welcome. All right.
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Credit Suisse Securities (USA), LLC served as placement agent for Fund IV and Latham & Watkins LLP served as legal counsel.
Carousel Capital is a private investment firm that invests in companies located in the Southeastern United States. Carousel’s investor base includes institutional investors and an elite group of more than 100 current and former CEOs with significant operating experience. Since its inception, Carousel has invested in 30 companies primarily in three targeted growth sectors: business services; consumer products and services; and healthcare services.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr: 'I have a lot of conversations with dead people'
Conspiracy theorist and 2024 Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., recently said he has "conversations with dead people," The Guardian reports.
Son of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY), and nephew of former President John F. Kennedy — who were both assassinated in the 1960s — the proud anti-vaxxer spoke with the Free Press about "how he thought his father and uncle would tackle challenges facing America today."
Kennedy said, "I do meditations every day," adding, "That's kind of the nature of my meditations. I have a lot of conversations with dead people."
Per The Guardian, the 2024 hopeful followed up with the Free Press via text, saying, "They are one-way prayers for strength and wisdom. I get no strategic advice from the dead."
Regarding his decision to run against President Joe Biden, Kennedy insisted the Democratic Party has become "a war party … the party of the neocons," adding, "It's become the party of Wall Street and the party of censorship, which, I think [is] antithetical to liberal values."
Furthermore, the longtime lawyer said he "always liked" the Biden, but insisted the president is "a function of a system that a growing majority of Americans don't trust."
He emphasized, "There are people who are angry, and they deserve to be angry, and either Trump is going to sign them up, Donald Trump, for a ride into the darkness, or we can try to capture that energy and turn it into something positive for our country, something that is reflective of the highest ideals of the American experience."
The Guardian's full report is available at this link.
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- 'Roiling with conspiracy theories': RFK Jr.’s 'madness' abounds in New Yorker interview - Alternet.org ›


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Since Tesla doesn’t advertise in the traditional sense, it can use the money to focus on improving its vehicles and planning ahead.
According to a new report by StockApps.com, which was discovered and shared by Electrek, Tesla is one of the only global automakers that says it doesn’t advertise. Some would argue Tesla advertises every day in some way or another, though it doesn’t have a marketing budget, it doesn’t make commercials, and it certainly doesn’t need to advertise.
Demand for Tesla’s vehicles has been growing so quickly, advertising would potentially work to make delivery delays even longer. Sure, CEO Elon Musk takes to Twitter every day and gets people’s attention, which puts Tesla in the media spotlight on a constant basis. Whether the news is seen as negative or positive, it still draws attention to the brand. Meanwhile, Tesla fans, owners, and investors are constantly “advertising” for the company on social media and in online forums.
Based on the Stock Apps report, Tesla has never spent a penny on actual advertising. Instead, the US EV company steers the extra money toward Research and Development (R&D). Tesla’s vehicles are constantly evolving, and they don’t rely on traditional model years, refreshes, or redesigns. Rather, Tesla updates its cars’ hardware, software, battery tech, features, and more, whenever it sees fit. It also has the unique ability to instantly change pricing to take inflation or supply chain issues into account, or because it added, updated, or removed various features.
Take the dollar amount with a grain of salt here since we have no way of knowing for sure, but the publication claims that Tesla spends $2,984 per car on R&D (and we’ve seen this figure shared around by various publications many times in the past). As you can see, that’s three times the industry average. It’s also higher than Chrysler, Ford, and GM’s R&D budgets combined. However, going forward, as these companies push to become EV leaders, their future R&D budgets are likely to grow.


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The Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly referred to as “Obamacare,” is less than three months away from entering its next phase. On October 1, 2013, certain consumers, including those who don’t receive insurance from their employers, can seek coverage through healthcare insurance exchanges in the Health Insurance Marketplace. Coverage could begin as early as January 1, 2014.
ACA advocates maintain that the legislation, upheld in 2012 by the Supreme Court, will improve the lives of the middle class and the working poor by expanding access to affordable insurance options. New York State made national news last week when Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office announced a revised rate structure from participating providers that could lower insurance rates by 50 percent for some plans.
Reaction to ACA, nationally, however, remains mixed. A CNN poll out this week shows that 39 percent of Americans—the highest percentage ever—want the act repealed.
We wanted to take the pulse of researchers and clinicians in the Einstein community to get their take on the recent New York State rate-structure announcement and the potential implications of the ACA rollout overall. What do you think about the Affordable Care Act? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
Lots of promising news this week for Obamacare, from reduced insurance premiums to initial success for accountable care (with our clinical partner, Montefiore Medical Center, playing a leading role in the latter). leading role in the latter). What’s amazing to me is how the shrill and unsubstantiated jeers from the Republicans—“It’s a disaster!” “It must be repealed!”—continue unabated. I wish I could say I knew for certain that the Obamacare reforms will be successful; while I can’t, here’s something I do know: that the “system” (such as it is) that we have is dysfunctional and unsustainable. “Repealing Obamacare” means endorsing our current failing system, which is simply not a good option. We need to see what reforms will work, and revise the program to maximize the advantages. Thankfully, we have some encouraging early signs
Paul Marantz, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Dean for Clinical Research Education and Director of the Center for Public Health Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Politics, ethics and human decency have converged on this major flowering of the Affordable Care Act that has been both derisively and respectfully called “Obamacare.” The middle class, which will benefit most from the reduction in insurance premiums engendered by market forces responding to a government program, deserves the highest level of medical care that can be provided, as do all Americans. The middle class’s specific contribution to the economy and the tax base is so critical that it is a particular joy that it will finally reap a major plum from the president’s and Congress’ initiative.
Edward R. Burns, M.D.
Executive Dean, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
In the next six months, New York State will take a big step forward in healthcare reform via voluntary participation in accordance with recent legislation to extend health insurance coverage to the uninsured and to permit those with limited coverage to get more for their money. According to the Urban Institute’s Health Policy Center’s estimate, projected in a March 2012 research report, “the number of New Yorkers with insurance coverage increases by roughly 1 million people, with the share of the population uninsured falling from 16 percent to 10 percent.” The Empire State’s exchange, following the Massachusetts model, will be moving us in the right direction. As was true with the advent of prescription coverage via Part D, states with large populations, such as New York, could have considerable choice among commercially initiated plans. The extensive list of choices has helped reduce the premiums for individuals purchasing coverage through the purchasing exchanges.
Unfortunately, the ACA never permitted the establishment of nonprofit health plans, known as “the public option,” which could have served as benchmarks in each state against which profit-making companies could be measured when it came to looking at performance and consumer satisfaction. States that have agreed to establish an exchange will receive substantial federal assistance to create a method for identifying eligible consumers and to develop an education program, staffed by a small army of facilitators known as “navigators,” for those individuals considered to be in the small-group or uncovered individual market. The Empire State will be able not only to find people eligible to purchase coverage on the exchange, but also to determine whether it allows them to receive a subsidy; navigators also will discuss with consumers what plans are available from which insurance companies and how much it would cost to receive the high, medium, or low levels of coverage. The most expensive (platinum) plans will command the lowest levels of deductibles, a situation similar to what is available to those in the workforce who already have the opportunity to pick a plan. Finally, affordability will mean more demand for services; multispecialty practices, in particular, will have to find ways to deliver primary care via the use of either physicians or nurse practitioners.
Arnold Birenbaum, Ph.D.
Professor of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
What a relief! For those of us on the front lines providing care for the people of the Bronx, the ACA represents a breath of fresh air. Historically, at Einstein’s Children’s Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center, about 10 percent of our clients come to us with no means of paying for the services they receive. These are the working poor, members of our community who earn too much money to qualify for Medicaid but whose jobs don’t offer health insurance and who don’t have the resources to buy insurance on their own. Caring for this segment of the population has always been a challenge. The availability of health insurance for all will meet that challenge and ease their burden.
Robert Marion, M.D.
Chief, Genetics and Developmental Medicine; Department of Pediatrics,
Albert Einstein College of Medicine and The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center


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Light and electron microscopy of the cardiac gland region of the stomach of the babirusa (Babyrousa babyrussa – Suidae, Mammalia).
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Previous studies have indicated that the gross anatomical structure of the stomach of the babirusa (Babyrousa babyrussa) differs markedly from that of all other pigs. This light and scanning electron microscopic study revealed a previously unknown, microscopic structure characterised by a 'honeycomb' pattern at the luminal surface of the tunica mucosa. The walls of the 'honeycomb' were about 0.20-0.25 mm high and appeared almost entirely composed of various types of bacteria. underneath the bacteria the walls were formed by thin tubes composed of non-glandular squamous epithelial-like cells, extending from the tops of the ridges between each glandular pit. There is as yet no evidence of a comparable structure in the stomach of any other pig, or to our knowledge any other forestomach-fermenting mammal.

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Spending an evening with Khrystyna Kozyuk was inspiring. She delightfully demonstrated her current tecnique of layering paint and moving it around with ordinary home improvement tools. She had the perfect hand that blended the three primary colors of our limited palette, but not too much where they became muddy. She continued to work on her demonstration painting throughout the evening as we attempted to play with paint as she did. We watched as our paintings as well as hers continued to change and change and change as the evening progressed. We could clearly see her mastery of color, as well as her background of the art fundamentals, which gave her a launching pad for abandoning the rules and being free in her design. It was apparent that in order to be an abstract painter, you helps to have a background in the conventional color rules and design principals on which you can then fly free. We had a wonderful evening of playing and experimenting on our own, not caring about the mess we might make. I heard several comments of participants who are inspired to "try this at home."
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WETHERSFIELD -- — Eva Carignan, a junior at Wethersfield High School, chuckled to herself Tuesday when she heard that male students scored higher on the math portion of the Scholastic Assessment Tests, and female students scored better on the verbal portion.
The information came as no surprise to Carignan, an honors biology student, who said she believes women are better communicators than men.
Joyce C. Jolly, director of pupil services and special education, presented the report during the board of education's regular meeting.
The SAT scores for the Class of 1995 were released in late summer and showed that Wethersfield students scored slightly below the state and national averages in the verbal portion and slightly above the average in math. Eighty-three percent of the senior class took the exam.
Jolly said the range of test scores over the past 10 years has been fairly stable for Wethersfield students. Board members, however, expressed their concern that students were scoring below the state and national averages in the verbal section.
"We've been losing ground over the years," Chairwoman Helena Tench said. She asked administrators to tell the board about school programs that are designed to help students improve their reading and writing skills.
"We do have concerns about the verbal scores," said Michael Cicchetti, director of elementary and secondary education.
Cicchetti said students are learning grammar by reading literature in an effort to boost their comprehension skills.
"Students have to read more," Cicchetti said. He said students also need to improve their writing skills.
In other business, School Superintendent Lynne Pierson said Spanish teacher Emily Peel, recently named Wethersfield Teacher of the Year, is one of three finalists for Connecticut Teacher of the Year.
Pierson said Peel should know if she is chosen as teacher of the year by early next week.
The board also approved the completion of two school projects, the replacement of the Hanmer School roof and the construction of permanent classroom walls at the Charles Wright School.


text: Delivered in Jackson, OH, on Sept 26, 1889, Frank Crumit created his skills being a comedic professional, vocalist, and ukulele participant while enrolled on the College or university of Ohio. In 1912, he narrowly prevented another in executive by learning to be a vocalist with Paul Biese’s Orchestra, 1st in Chicago and in NY. Quickly Crumit was touring in vaudeville, carrying out his own initial tunes and routines beneath the going of “the One-Man Glee Golf club.” His 1st appearance on Broadway is at the Greenwich Town Follies of 1919. Following stage successes included Betty Become Great (1920), Tangerine (1921), the Ziegfeld Follies of 1923, the Gershwin brothers’ Oh, Kay, Lewis Gensler’s Queen Large, and, in 1924, Con Conrad’s Moonlight. In 1927, Crumit was wedded to Julia Sanderson, an celebrity and ex-chorus lady with whom he previously worked in a variety of shows you start with Tangerine. The set began carrying out over the air in 1929 as “the Performing Sweethearts” and continuing their broadcast collaborations until 1942. Crumit’s profession like a phonographic documenting artist started in 1919 and finished in 1941, departing in its wake around 250 performances. In the beginning authorized by Columbia, he turned to Victor in 1924, getting very popular over another couple of years for his smart novelty songs shipped inside a succinct and relatively glib way while strumming on his small ukulele. In 1931, the Performing Sweethearts documented a duet edition of Harry Warren’s “Do you want to Go for a walk?” for Victor. In 1932 and 1933, Crumit waxed several sides which were released specifically in England, after that switched to Decca in 1934. Immediately after documenting “THERE IS NO One with Stamina Just like the Man Who Offers Insurance,” Crumit eased himself from the entertainment racquet, maintaining only moderate participation in radio and peripheral connection with the theatrical community in NY. Crumit passed on in Longmeadow, MA, on Sept 7, 1943, simply 16 days in short supply of his 55th birthday.


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Boasting 3700 ANSI lumens and a 2,000,000:1 contrast ratio, this projector adopts LG’s three-channel laser technology, which employs a separate light source for each primary (RGB) color.
The HU915QE plays movies and streaming content in 4K HDR, using HDR Dynamic Tone Mapping to analyze and adjust image brightness every single frame. LG’s Brightness Optimizer II further elevates the new CineBeam projector’s performance, automatically adjusting brightness levels according to ambient light conditions. Additionally, Adaptive Contrast adjusts the projector’s light sources to provide a superb contrast for each individual scene.
With LG’s webOS smart platform onboard, the HU915QE lets users watch all their favorite shows from streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, YouTube, and Apple TV without an additional device. They can also wirelessly stream content via Screen Mirroring, Apple AirPlay2, and Bluetooth. On top of that, its built-in 2.2 Channel, 40-watt speaker system enhances the viewing experience with strong, rich audio. Users can also connect up to two LG Bluetooth speakers at once.
The new CineBeam projector also makes a stylish addition to any room with its eco-friendly ‘Re-wool’ designed by renowned Danish textile company, Kvadrat. Made from 45 percent recycled wool, this material has become a favorite of design- and sustainability-conscious companies worldwide, used in products as diverse as furniture and premium audio solutions. Thanks to its muted, natural color and clean design, the HU915QE blends in well with luxurious home interiors.
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Landscaping rock designs – If you want to improve the design of your garden landscape, a quick and simple way to add decorative rock for it. There are several design techniques that rocks in your landscape. You can create a beautiful rock garden, a rock edge or use stone individually around the farm. Design landscape on paper before you begin to avoid moving stone unnecessarily and to ensure rocks do not look out of place.
When doing landscaping rock designs, you do not have to look for a place with full sun. Also partial shade or a windbreak. Ground does not need to be pH balanced and there is no need for water. You will, however stones to look natural. When using stones as a boundary for a flower garden or shrubs, never use a straight line. Place the bottom of the rocks in the earth, not just on it. Dig a shallow trench, rocks and then fill with soil. Use different size stones next to each other.
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Alternating with a few stones and then put a stone on top of another with dirt behind it built. Use natural stone to create benches and tables to complete the landscaping rock designs. When you have a beautiful landscape, is the last thing you want to do put plastic furniture in it. To make natural rock furniture, you will need a few friends to help you move the heavy stone. Place a stone bench overlooking your rock garden and plant some cactus or pampas grass in or near rocks.


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The Australian Open tennis tournament was the scene of the Changing of the Guard today. The huge, familiar champion, Roger Federer, lost. He was by far the best tennis player of his era for years. He won the four big national tournaments - the Australian, the French, Wimbledon, and the US Open, 13 times, the second most anyone has won ever. Mind you, each tournament starts with 128 contenders, of whom only one gets his name on the trophy. He was the one of the 128 who did that -- 13 times. All 128 are so good at tennis that they get paid to do it. He was consistently better than any of them.
Except occasionally. When he played the Spanish teenager Rafael Nadal, for instance. Nadal, the Majorcan Strongboy, consistently beat Federer on slow clay courts, common in Spain and France, but in not too many other places. But that was a sort of anomaly. Nadal was a clay court specialist. And besides, Federer could beat everyone except Nadal even on clay.
Last year Nadal beat Federer in the Wimbledon final, on a fast grass court. But Federer had mononucleosis so that couldn't be taken seriously. Even so, he beat everybody else but Nadal at Wimbledon, so it would be the Age of Federer again as soon as he got well.
Today at Melbourne, the court was hard court and Federer did not have mononucleosis. But Nadal won anyway. Given that Federer served abominably it was remarkable that he could stay with Nadal until the end of the fifth set. Even so, I served abominably when I played, and that didn't mean I was a better player on account of it.
So, at least for now, the Age of Federer is over, and the Age of Nadal has begun.
Why is sports news worth noting in a blog entry?
Because Federer is done -- at 27. Nadal is 22. Part of the reason Nadal has surpassed Federer is that he is still getting better. Federer is at his peak and will never get any better than he is now.
The stadium in which all this took place was the Rod Laver Arena. Rod Laver was the greatest tennis player of his era, arguably of all time. I remember seeing him play on black-and-white television in the great era of Australian dominance in tennis. He had a devastating forehand, which earned him the nickname 'Rocket Rod'. He was in the stands for the Federer-Nadal match, a man in his 70's.
Laver's era has been over for 40 years. Federer's has been over for a day. For the rest of us there are no obvious markers like losing a tennis tournament to tell that our day is done and the rest is just a long goodbye.
But what does it mean to be over with? Laver and Federer were each the greatest tennis players of their eras. That feature of their lives is what defined them to other people, and doubtless to themselves. Australia named a tennis stadium after Laver, not an art gallery or a courthouse, because that is how it defined him.
Most of us are not defined by our public lives like famous athletes because we don't have public lives. But even for the many who have only private lives we are still defined by externalities to others and generally to ourselves. Strangers we meet always inquire after our occupations. Strangers look for wedding rings or the lack of them to size us up. Many men are prouder of being daddies than of anything else in their lives. But it is a doomed relationship. Success means that the twerps will ripen into independent adults. Then one is only sentimentally a daddy.
Even good values lead us into self-definitions that melt in our hands. Shallower values melt even faster.
Everything that we are changes, decays, and ends. So, in the self-help phrase, we have to continually re-invent ourselves, to find new ways to define who we are. Like Roger Federer will have to, like you and I will have to.
Maybe that is what is meant in the blather phrase that one has to keep growing to stay alive. Maybe the phrase is merely inarticulate. Maybe what is meant that one has to be constantly defining oneself anew just to stay afloat.

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Propagation: Seed in AO 25/40 10/10 or AO 36/40 10/10 or MM 40/40 6/15
Temperature: 70 - 80°F. Humidity: Not critical.
Germination time: 7 days.
Root /grow: Approximately 4 to 5 weeks.
Transplanting: To slab or NFT when seedlings are 1-2 inches.
Plant spacing: 1-3” between each plant stem.
Preferred temperature: Day:75-85°F, Night: 65°F (can be cooler)
Special nutrient requirements: Mg should be 80 ppm
Growing time to harvest: (after transplanting)
Summer: 3-4 weeks Winter: 5-6 weeks
Number of harvests: 1-6
Yield: Summer: 5 lbs per 10 ft. NFT trough. Winter: 2 lbs per 10 ft. NFT trough
Light: Requires full sun. Basil will grow poorly when day length drops below 11 hours.
Basil is very susceptible to disease on short days.
Supplemental light: 700 foot candles at bench level will give excellent results.
Sensitive to: Very sensitive to most diseases especially Pythium. Insects: Aphids.
Notes: Basil may be harvested once or up to 6 times. If you are planning on harvesting several times plant at 3 inch centers; never cut more than 1/2 of the shoot during any one harvest. During short days it may not be possible to harvest basil more than once because of its sensitivity to disease. The cultural practices for opal basil are the same as basil except growth is slow and yields will only be 10-30% of the yields for green basil. Opal basil; purple leaves need more intense light.

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A few snippets from the street before ABC's "debate" excluding NYC Mayoral Independence Party candidate Adolfo Carrion.
The government is shut down, 40% of Americans are independent, and the "fourth estate" has become inert -- and anti-democratic. Well, how about that!?
Stay tuned! More to come!

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(AZ-Central).- I visited Phoenix at the end of Hispanic Heritage Month. It was a symbolic moment to acknowledge the strong relationship Mexico has built with Arizona as well as the important and beneficial impact the Mexican community has had on the state.
The Oct. 13-14 visit was fruitful and engrossing. I had distinct meetings with members of the Mexican community in Arizona and the chance to hear about their needs, interests, and success stories while promoting health, education, and assistance services that positively impact their empowerment and protection.
I also met with authorities from major academic institutions such as Arizona State University (ASU) and its Thunderbird School of Global Management to foster the development of educational programs as well as the connections between Mexico and Arizona through academic, technical, scientific and cultural exchanges.
Meetings with political actors such as Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego and the leadership of the Arizona state Legislature were also part of my agenda. It was especially important to acknowledge their support for migrant causes and Senate Bill 1420, which accepts the Mexican Consular ID as a valid form of identification in the state of Arizona.

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Are all LS intakes interchangeable?
Unfortunately, the LS6-to-LS1 conversion is about the only easy or practical LS-intake swap we could identify. In other words, not all intakes will swap with each other. There are a number of hurdles to clear when looking over the list, simply due to the wide range of engines developed from the LS architecture.
How much HP can a 5.3 LS make?
The cam is rated at an rpm range of 1,600-6,600 so off-throttle response is good and it makes great power at higher rpm. The stock 5.3L is factory rated around 320 hp with 340 lb-ft of torque.
What LS intake are Cathedral Port?
The LS Classic Series 14” Classic Intake Kit is designed to pay respect to the classic muscle cars and trucks of the 60’s and 70’s while using modern technology for ultimate performance.
How much HP does a carburetor add to an LS engine?
With this carb & intake the 5.3L woke up and made 350HP @ 5600RPM and 370 ft/lbs @ 4100RPM. That is a 7% gain before any fine tuning. With today’s advancements in carburetor and intake casting technology putting a carb on your LS engine is an affordable way to get the most out of LS engines.
Who makes the best LSX carb intake manifold?
There is a huge selection of LSX Carb Intakes on the market today. While Chevrolet Performance makes a popular 4 barrel intake (part #25534394), it is our friends at Edelbrock who offer the widest and most popular selections of carb-ready LS intake manifolds on the market today for LSX engines.
Why put a CARB on an LSX?
The reasons why a carb on an LS makes sense are pretty simple. In LS swaps or street/strip/race cars a carbureted LS is simple, cheaper, and often can make more top-end power than EFI. In this tech article, we are going to show you how to install an LSX ignition specifically for carbureted engines with help from our friends at MSD Ignition.
Will an ignition box and intake manifold fit on an LS6?
If you have ever installed an ignition box and intake manifold on an old small block Chevy – the process here is literally no different. The provided intake manifold will fit any Gen III cathedral port headed engines. For example, this would bolt right onto any LS1, LS6 or the 4.8/5.3/6.0L truck motors.


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Welcome to the Census Project website. The Census Project is an informal network of scores of census stakeholder organizations that are working to ensure inclusive, comprehensive and forward-thinking early planning for Census 2020. We also will encourage Congress and the Administration to provide adequate resources to meet the task. Further, we support the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS), which replaced the census long form as an ongoing source of key social, economic and demographic data. This vital survey also needs adequate resources over the coming decade to maintain its accuracy and usefulness to decision makers.
In FY 2013, because of economic, fiscal and political challenges, the ongoing budgets to adequately fund planning for Census 2020 and the ACS' ongoing work were under a microscope in Congress. And, the House of Representatives voted to eliminate the FY 2013 funding for the ACS. Fortunately, the U.S. Senate blocked this move in the final budget for that fiscal year.
In its FY 2015 budget, the House once again voted to make participation in the ACS voluntary. In response the Census Project helped coordinate a letter to Congress signed by the seven living former Census Bureau directors. The letter urged the Senate not to follow the House action. Again, the Senate budget contained no language to dilute the ACS. The final FY 2015 Census Bureau budget preserved the ACS but did cut Census 2020's ramped- up planning budget by approximately 50 percent, to $123 million. With a change in political leadership in the Senate, Congress may be much more critical of Census Bureau planning budgets and the ACS for the next fiscal year.
Therefore the Census Project is also engaging in a public education campaign to alert the public, policymakers and the media to the stakes involved in these early decisions by Congress and the Census Bureau.


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Thomas Egger's grain elevator located on the M0-PAC line (10th street). He also had a house less than 100 yards west of the elevator. Thomas Egger also had a bank in Lamar in the early 1900's. It was located on the south side of the Square where Pahlows is now. It went bankrupt around the time of the stock market crash in the 1920's.
You can also see the depot to the south of the elevator. It was located in between 10th and 11th street.

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An assortment of possible Republican presidential candidates were in Iowa Saturday, trying to appeal to conservative activists at a Des Moines forum sponsored by U.S. Rep. Steve King.
Jan Mickelson, a conservative talk radio host, succintly summed up what was in store for several hundred conservative activists gathered Saturday for a forum that saw a baker's dozen of Republican presidential contenders line up to seek favor. "Let the pandering begin," Mickelson said.
Pander they did. Over nearly nine hours, high-profile Republicans that included Sen. Ted Cruz, governors like Scott Walker of Wisconsin, Chris Christie of New Jersey and Rick Perry of Texas, and media-driven stars like Sarah Palin and Donald Trump took turns ridiculing President Obama, sounding alarms about the country's future and promising a sharply conservative change in direction.
The Iowa Freedom Summit served as unofficial kick-off to the year's worth of politicking that will lead up to the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses in January or early February of 2016. That contest has been both launching bad and burial ground for presidential contenders: in 2008, then Sen. Barack Obama pulled an upset win over Hillary Clinton and put himself on a trajectory to the White House.
"Do you believe the next president of the United States is going to be speaking to you from this stage today?" asked U.S. Congressman Steve King, who co-sponsored the event. As the crowd applauded in agreement, King said, "As do I."
King, who represents northwestern Iowa including about half the counties along the Minnesota border, is a high-profile conservative with a penchant for generating controversy. His harsh critiques of illegal immigrants, in particular, have drawn derision from critics; the forum was interrupted several times by protests from supporters of the so-called DREAM Act, which grants citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants if they make certain educational achievements.
Walker, recently re-elected despite a tumultous first term where he survived a recall attempt, was something of a breakout star at the forum. He came onstage without a jacket, his sleeves rolled up, and delivered an energetic speech that leaned heavily on his successful effort to strip collective bargaining rights from Wisconsin public workers.
"We weren't afraid to go big and go bold," Walker said. "Maybe that's why I won the race for governor three times in four years, in a state that voted for Democrats for president every four years ever since I was in high school."
Cruz, who got a rock star-like welcome, delivering a rousing, deeply religious speech. Christie, seen as perhaps too moderate for Iowa's conservative Republican base, nonetheless seemed to win over many with a thoughtful speech and a touching story about his late mother.
But the event was nearly as notable for those Republican contenders who didn't show up, namely former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the party's nominee in 2012. For their absence and their perceived roles as establishment candidates, both men earned some scorn from the stage.
"We lose when we nominate RINOs," said New Hampshire state Rep. William O'Brien, another hero to conservatives (RINO is a conservative slur, directed at moderate Republicans, that stands for "Republicans In Name Only").
While the Republican field is wide and active, the Democratic contest is shaping up more slowly. Prominent Iowa Democrats said numerous potential candidates are in a holding pattern until Clinton decides whether to make another go of it, as most expect she will. Her decision is expected by April.
A poll of registered Iowa Republicans released Tuesday shows that Mitt Romney, the party's 2012 presidential candidate now mulling another run in 2016, is currently leading a large field of prospective challengers. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker came in third, behind former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
The nation-leading Iowa caucus is still about a year off, but prospective candidates have already started to openly discuss the race. The Washington Post reported on Monday that Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts, is "almost certain" to run again, and has been discussing it with a number of close allies including former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty.
The poll by Gravis Marketing, a Florida-based pollster, found Romney leading a field of eight other potential candidates with the support of 21 percent of respondents. "Romney's name recognition and the loyalty Republicans have for their last nominee give him an opportunity that no one else has," said Doug Kaplan, the manager partner of Gravis Marketing.
Bush, the brother and son of the two former President Bushes, was next with 14 percent. Walker, recently re-elected to a second term as Wisconsin's governor despite a divisive first term that saw a failed recount attempt, was in third place with 10 percent. A number of additional potential candidates scored support below 10 percent. In order, they were: Mike Huckabee, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Paul Ryan, Chris Christie and Marco Rubio. Another 18 percent of poll respondents were undecided.
Ryan, a Wisconsin congressman, said Monday he would not run in 2016. The poll of 404 registered Iowa Republicans was taken Jan. 5-7.
The Iowa caucuses are tentatively scheduled for Jan. 18, 2016, though that date is not final. In 2012, Romney finished a close second in Iowa to former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum.
On the Democratic side, former Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Clinton is seen as the prohibitive frontrunner. She has not made her candidacy official but is widely expected to announce this spring that she's running.
Clinton lost the 2008 Iowa caucus to then-Sen. Barack Obama, delivering an ultimately fatal blow to her candidacy.
WASHINGTON -- Minnesota's senior Sen. Amy Klobuchar will chair the Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach committee -- a role that gives her additional power in dealmaking with Republicans and special interests on Capitol Hill next year.
The steering commitee's primary purpose is outreach to special interest and outside groups when hammering together compromises.
"This is something I've been doing for years and I think it's a very necessary role right now," she said to a group of reporters at the Capitol Thursday following the announcement. "I take the Republicans at their word. They say they want to move on things."
Though Klobuchar and Sen. Al Franken will be in the minority party starting in January, Klobuchar's appointment Thursday by Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid means she will still be in the mix trying to strike bargains with Republicans, she said.
Among problems she hopes to tackle in the next year: tax reform, immigration reform and negotiating a federal standard minimum wage.
"I think there is some opportunity here," she said. "We will know within probably three months if it's real, but I think there is some opportunity now."
Klobuchar is serving her second term and isn't up for re-election until 2018.
Candidates for governor, Senate and Congress have spent millions to get dozens of messages on television.
But, with Election Day nearly here, these are the words they really want you to remember.
Here are their final, closing argument television ads.
Republican Jeff Johnson
Johnson, a Hennepin County commissioner raised in Detroit Lakes, tailored his final ads to three different parts of the state. In all three ads, Johnson is standing in a sun-dappled, tree stand.
"He's just not up to the job any more," Johnson says of DFL Gov. Mark Dayton. "It's time for new leadership in Minnesota."
In two other ads, he claims that he, unlike Dayton, will focus on Greater Minnesota.
DFL Gov. Mark Dayton
Dayton's final ad is called "Rising" and highlights the way his campaign believes the state is better since Dayton took office and will be even better if he wins again.
"Mark Dayton knows we have much more to do, to help struggling families, make college more affordable, and help small businesses grow," the narrator says. "Moving forward together."
Republican Mike McFadden
McFadden's final ad shows a contrast -- the country as it is, with the country as it could be.
"Everything is at stake," a narrator reads, as various scenes of Minnesota life flit by. "Our hopes, our dreams, our future....We can make America great again."
Democratic U.S. Al Franken
Franken's final ad, called "Delivered," uses quotations from newspaper editorial endorsements to promote the candidate.
"Newspapers across Minnesota back Al Franken," the ad's narrator says. Video of Franken meeting with various people shows as different voices read selections from the pro-Franken endorsements.
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Democratic U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan
Nolan, fighting to keep his northern Minnesota district, closed his campaign with an ad that shows him speaking to a crowd and going hunting. Against that backdrop, Nolan gives his enthusiastic stump speech.
"It's time to do what's right for the middle class," Nolan says in the ad.
Republican Stewart Mills
In Mills final ad, he speaks directly to the camera and makes the ask for viewers' votes.
"Minnesota is my home," he says in the ad, which includes childhood photos of Mills. "I'm Stewart Mills. I approved this message and I'd appreciate your vote."
GOP Senate challenger Mike McFadden's campaign said Sunday they were planning to file a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission Monday alleging Democratic Sen. Al Franken's campaign is illegally coordinating with a Super PAC.
At issue are two ads released roughly the same time that are similar in composition and message. One was launched and paid for by Franken's campaign, the other launched and paid for by Independence USA PAC, an outside group bankrolled by former New York City Mayor and billlionaire Michael Bloomberg.
Bloomberg, according to FEC reports, has invested $500,000 in television ads to support Franken.
It is against federal law for campaigns to coordinate with outside political groups.
"The similarities in these two ads go beyond coincidence," said McFadden's spokesman Tom Erickson. "On Monday we’ll be filing a complaint with FEC alleging coordination between the Franken campaign and this super PAC."
Franken's campaign called the alleged complaint "desperate."
"This is a silly complaint by a desperate campaign trying to change the dynamic of a race," said Marc Elias, the campaign's lawyer.
McFadden's campaign is among two dozen campaigns already being investigated for illegal coordination after a complaint was filed in October by the American Democracy Legal Fund. The complaint alleges McFadden's camp, along with dozens of others, were illegally working with Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity, Crossroads GPS and a number of other Republican outside groups.
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The Influence of the Self-focusing Effect on the Optical Force Acting on Dielectric Particle Embedded in Kerr Medium
- Optical tweezer,
- Optical force,
- Kerr effect,
- Nonlinear medium,
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The influence of the self-focusing effect arised from Kerr effect on the optical force acting on the dielecric particle embedded in the Kerr medium, which is irradiated by the Gaussian beam, is proposed to concern. The expressions of the optical forces with the nonlinear refractive index and nonlinear focal length are derived. Using them, the distribution of the optical forces in the trapping region of the optical tweezer is simulated and discussed for same distinguished case of the Kerr medium with different nonlinear coefficients. The results show that the stabe region of the optical tweezer depends on the nonlinear coefficient of refractive index. Moreover, the stable region could be brokendown with a critical value of the nonlinear coefficient of refractive index of the surrounding medium irradiated by Gaussian laser pulse described by given parameters as intensity, duration and radius of beam waist.
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Melbourne-based band Rudely Interrupted has been invited to play for the United Nations next month, on the International Day for People with Disabilities.
It's the most recent achievement for the band, which includes five members with intellectual and physical disabilities.
Time Out magazine says 'they stand apart from their peers—not because of the intellectual disabilities from which they all suffer, but because their music is some of the most energetic and genuine to emerge from the Australian rock'n'roll underground in recent times.'
- Rohan Brooks
- Founder and member, Rudely Interrupted
- Rory Burnside
- Lead singer, Rudely Interrupted
- Richard Aedy
- Jackie May
- Ann Arnold


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Dezeen promotion: Young Architects Competitions is inviting architects and designers to rethink the service area of Centergross in Bologna, Italy, which is one of Europe's largest fashion centres.
The Italian Fashion Hub contest is organised by Young Architects Competitions (YAC) in collaboration with Centergross – the ready-to-wear wholesale fashion district just outside the northern Italian city.
The "fast-fashion capital" is home to over 240 fashion brands, as well as hundreds more textile companies, trading companies and service providers. The complex covers an area of over one million square metres, which includes office space, showrooms and warehouses.
The competition is calling for architects and designer to revamp its one-kilometre service area, which the company claims is "bearing the marks of the ravages of time". The area is home to restaurants, wellness centres, shops and offices, which serve the entire Centergross complex.
Jurors are looking for a design that offers the fashion destination a new international identity and acts as a monument to Italian fashion.
"As the most important design brands, they will have the chance to leave a mark in the history of contemporary architecture, offering their creativity to one of the most demanding and refined pillars of the global economy: fashion," said the competition organisers.
Entries will be judged by an international panel, including Patrick Schumacher of Zaha Hadid Architects, Benjamin Gilmartin of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Marie Hesseldahl of 3XN and Aurélien Coulanges of Ateliers Jean Nouvel.
A total of €20,000 (approximately £18,000) in prize money will be awarded. The winner will receive €10,000 (approximately £9,000), the runner-up gets €4,000 (approximately £3,500) and the third prize is €2,000 (approximately £1,800). Four gold honourable mentions will also receive €1,000 (approximately £900) each.
Ten other finalists will receive an honourable mention and a further 30 finalists will receive recognition from the jury for their contribution.
All material and guidelines for the competition can be downloaded from the YAC website. Entrants must then register and upload their project. Registration is open and submissions are being accepted until 31 January 2018. Winners will be announced on 5 March 2018.
First prize: €10,000
Second price: €4,000
Third prize: €2,000
Four gold honourable mentions: €1,000
10 honourable mentions
30 additional finalists
Early bird registration: 23 October to 26 November 2017
Standard registration: 27 November to 21 December 2017
Late registration: 22 December to 28 January 2018
Material submission deadline: 31 January 2018
Jury summoning: 5 February 2018
Results announcement: 5 March 2018


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