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In 2014, the Society for Integrative Oncology first published clinical guidelines for the care of breast cancer patients. Not surprisingly, SIO advocated "integrating" dubious therapies with oncology. Last week, the most influential oncology society, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), endorsed a 2017 update to the SIO guidelines, thus endorsing the "integration" of quackery with oncology and paving the way for...
We've documented the infiltration of quackery into academic medicine through the "integration" of mystical and prescientific treatment modalities into medicine. Here, we look at a pebble in the quackademic avalanche. Is it too late for the pebbles to vote?
An article published last week in the Nation likens wireless telephone companies to tobacco and fossil fuel episodes in their tactics of spreading fear, misinformation, and doubt regarding the science of cell phone radiation and health. To produce this narrative, the investigation's authors rely on unreliable sources and cherry pick scientific studies, ignoring the scientific consensus that cell phone radiation almost certainly...
We at SBM have written about German cancer clinics that offer a combination of cancer quackery, some real medicine, plus unproven experimental therapies, all at a high cost, both financially and in false hope. Finally, an exposé of these clinics has been published. What these clinics are doing is even worse than even we had feared.
Rattlesnake pills, another entry in a long line of bogus cancer cures, have been linked (again) to a potentially deadly Salmonella infection.
The integration of mysticism and pseudoscience with oncology continues apace in NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centers
Last week, I commented on the inability of the Society for Integrative Oncology to define what integrative oncology actually is. This week, I note the proliferation of the quackery of integrative oncology in places that should be rigorously science-based, namely NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centers.
Adjuvant therapy after surgery, such as chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, and radiation therapy, has contributed to a 39% decrease in breast cancer mortality since 1989. Unfortunately, a significant number of women decline evidence-based adjuvant therapy. A recent study suggests that distrust of the medical system plays a significant role in such refusal.
Does complementary and alternative medicine offer any meaningful benefits to cancer patients?
Cancer in the 18-39 age range is uncommon, but still occurs. When they should be dealing with school, friends, new jobs, and starting families, instead they must worry about medical bills, appointments, and infertility. Added to this are the costs of "integrative" treatments often foisted upon cancer patients, or built-in to the few adolescent and young adult-focussed centers that currently exist.
Recently, the Hope4Cancer Institute, a quack clinic in Mexico, has added a treatment known as Rigvir to its coffee enemas and other offerings. But what is Rigvir? It turns out that it's an import from Latvia with a mysterious history. Proponents claim that it is an oncolytic virus that targets cancer specifically and leaves normal cells alone. Unfortunately, there is a profound...

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We promote an adventurous spirit through challenging our students to boldly explore their personal passions and expand their global connections.
Saint Paul’s middle school educators have a powerful opportunity to harness the energy and learning potential of this dynamic age group. With a unique learning environment and intentionally small class sizes, our curriculum is tailored for a focus on critical thinking, making connections, creativity and forming collaborative partnerships. The middle school, grades sixth through eighth, pushes students to develop a worldview and prepare students for the finest high school experiences in the Bay Area as confident, eager learners.
Our Signature Programs.
In addition to six required core curriculum classes, every middle school student participates in two Signature Program courses each trimester. Embracing an adventurous mindset, students are encouraged to try something new to embrace a talent or find a new passion. Students are able to participate in courses from three different programs throughout their time in middle school. Our Visual Arts program provides students the opportunity to participate in a variety of classes, such as yearbook design, mosaics, and ceramics. The Performing Art program is taught by resident artists from Ruth Eckerd Hall and provides a stage for students to participate in our spring musical, choir, and chamber orchestra. The Engineering and Design Arts program utilizes a combination of our Fab Lab, our dedicated robotics lab, and our computer lab to explore classes in computer-aided design, 3D printing, robotics, photography, coding, and website design
Middle School Contacts
Mr. Jeff Hartwick
Director of Summit Program (4th-5th) and Middle School (6th-8th)
Mrs. Tara Campuzano
Assistant to the Academic Directors
While we focus on developing an adventurous mindset in middle school to promote moving out of your comfort zone, we also offer some amazing real-world adventures that take our students out of the classroom. Students can to take advantage of international travel opportunities, an overnight immersion trip to NASA, and class trips to Washington DC and New York City. Our partnership with Outward Bound provides students a chance to hike the Blue Ridge Mountains and canoe the St. John’s River while trained instructors teach compassion, integrity, excellence, inclusion, and diversity while guiding students through these challenging and rewarding adventures. .
Our Learning Spaces.
The middle school utilizes flexible and engaging learning spaces that promote learning in developmentally appropriate ways. Students are able to transition from independent work to collaboration with ease while still providing ergonomics and movement without disruption to the class.
Fabrication Lab at Saint Paul's School
Clearwater’s Fabrication Lab is the only digital fabrication lab in the area, one of two in Tampa Bay, and one of nine in Florida. “Fab Lab” is an educational outreach component of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms and a platform for prototyping, innovation, and invention. The Fab Lab at Saint Paul’s provides the ideal landscape for middle school students to work with industry level equipment while participating in both core classes and courses within our Engineering and Design Arts program. Take a moment to visit our Fab Lab website at

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You may be more used to seeing jewellery and fashion on TV shopping channels, but now farmers have got in on the act.
On Tuesday 8 November, QVC shopping channel will be offering its viewers best Welsh lamb alongside diamonique rings and leather handbags.
The Cambrian Mountains lamb is produced by a group of 21 farmers who are part of a rural initiative to produce high quality meat.
The initative is backed by Prince of Wales and helps sustain traditional upland farms and rural communities.
Farmer and co-founder of Rachel’s Dairy Gareth Rowlands will front the hour-long programme featuring celebrity chef Rhodri Edwards cooking recipes using the lamb.
Cambrian Mountains Company business manager Deanna Leven said: “It is a great way to raise the profile of the area and the way in which the initiative has helped to add real value to local farmers.”
With 20 million viewers tuning into QVC annually, the farmers could see their produce flying off the shelves.
If you’d like to know more about the initiative and sample some of the lamb recipes visit the Cambrian Mountains website.


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Just in time for Valentine’s day, Kelle Z Riley will present an overview of the Romance writing industry along with craft tips on romance writing. She’ll cover:
- How to generate plot and character ideas for a new novel
- How to flesh out the characters and plots
- How to create a compelling storyline with a satisfying ending
- Bonus: tips for breaking in to the romance writing industry
After the presentation, she will take questions on both craft and publishing.
Author Bio: Kelle Z. Riley, writer, speaker, global traveler, Ph.D. chemist, and safety/martial arts expert has been featured in public forums that range from local Newspapers to National television.
Her other publications include a romantic suspense (Dangerous Affairs); the Undercover Cat Series books: The Cupcake Caper, Shaken, Not Purred, The Tiger’s Tale, and Studying Scarlett the Grey, which feature a cupcake baking scientist-turned-sleuth; and the Riches and Royals Series: Read My Lips, Royally Scandalized, Reluctantly Royal, and Counterfeit Commoner in which modern working women discover loving a prince is harder than it looks.
A former Golden Heart Finalist, Kelle resides in Chattanooga, TN. She is a member of the Chattanooga Writer’s Guild, Sisters in Crime, Romance Writers’ of America and various local chapters.
Join us on February 8th at 7PM via Zoom. This program is free and open to the public.

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Assisted the hotel owner and operator to define the technology program and budget for their rapidly growing 5-star hotel and renowned restaurant brand. Produced Low Voltage/Technology Construction Plans and Specifications and provided ongoing project management, distributed RFP’s for various technology solutions and assisted with vendor selection and systems integration.
Chicago’s Fulton Market District
2017 to 2019
Technology Design and Consulting


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From Planning Sustainable Cities To Designing Resilient Urban Regions
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In order to be ready for the harsh environmental challenges of the 21st century, cities need a new planning agenda. Defining this agenda is impossible without first revisiting the core concepts of our work: ‘sustainability’, ‘city’ and ‘urban planning’. A four-fold shift in emphasis is vital: from an excessive focus on the development density, to the monitoring and taming of urban metabolism; from a single focus on sustainability to one which also includes resilience; from traditional city to urban region; from policy and land-use planning to strategic urban and regional design. In most parts of the world, the battle for the compact city is lost. However, from the perspective of ecological sustainability, perhaps it was the wrong battle anyway. We should now direct our creative energies at deploying ecological design and clean technologies on a mass scale to our unstoppable, sprawling urban regions. Keywords: sustainability, resilience, urban metabolism, urban regions. 1 Introduction: a shift in emphasis Urban sprawl has been the subject of political and professional debates for more than 30 years. However, the question of what should be done about it - if anything at all - has not yet had a clear-cut answer. For most planners, designers, bureaucrats and politicians this has been the cause of considerable frustration. But they should take consolation in the fact that the messy debate has been fruitful otherwise. It has brought up to the surface two important trends. One of these is a shift in the perception of the problem: What started as concern over a nexus of primarily social or cultural issues (such as alienation and ugliness), over time became more focused towards
sustainability, resilience, urban metabolism, urban regions.

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Overall, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Medicaid beneficiaries experienced similar care access as heterosexual beneficiaries and privately insured individuals, but LGBT individuals were more likely to have unmet behavioral health needs and negative experiences with providers, according to a MACPAC issue brief.
Researchers conducted two analyses using data from the National Health Interview Survey from 2015 to 2018, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health from 2015 to 2019, and the US Transgender Survey from 2015.
The first analysis focused on lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) Medicaid beneficiaries and their experiences accessing physical and behavioral health services compared to heterosexual beneficiaries. The second analysis looked at transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) Medicaid beneficiaries and compared their care experiences to privately insured and uninsured TGD adults.
Physical healthcare utilization generally did not differ by sexual orientation, the brief found. Around 80 percent of lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults reported having a usual source of care compared to 85.5 percent of heterosexual adults.
However, the type of healthcare services varied slightly among the beneficiaries. For example, bisexual individuals were more likely to have had a healthcare professional visit than heterosexual adults (92.2 percent versus 84.5 percent).
In addition, LGB adults were more likely to have been tested for HIV (71 percent) than heterosexual adults (54.8 percent).
The likelihood of unmet care needs due to healthcare costs was similar for both LGB adults (55.2 percent) and heterosexual adults (56.3 percent). But LGB adults were more likely to report delayed care due to access barriers, according to the brief.
Thirteen percent of LGB adults reported not having transportation to a care appointment compared to 5.7 percent of heterosexual adults. LGB adults were also more likely to have issues getting an appointment soon enough to address their needs than heterosexual beneficiaries (15.4 percent versus 9.2 percent).
The brief identified significant behavioral health differences among LGB beneficiaries and heterosexual beneficiaries. LGB adults reported higher rates of mental illness, substance use disorder, and unmet mental health needs.
Nearly 20 percent of lesbian and gay adults and 27.6 percent of bisexual adults reported having a major depressive episode, while only 10.7 percent of heterosexual adults said the same. Lesbian and gay adults (39.6 percent) and bisexual adults (52.2 percent) were also more likely than heterosexual adults (27 percent) to report any mental illness.
LGB beneficiaries were more likely to receive mental health and alcohol or drug treatment, but they also had higher rates of unmet mental healthcare treatment and substance use treatment needs. This may indicate that the services these individuals accessed were insufficient to meet their needs, researchers suggested.
The second analysis found that 11 percent of transgender and gender-diverse respondents received health insurance coverage from Medicaid.
TGD Medicaid beneficiaries faced challenges that their privately insured counterparts did not, the brief discovered. For example, TGD Medicaid beneficiaries were more likely to have experienced homelessness in general and due to their gender identity.
Privately insured TGD adults (49.7 percent) were more likely to report very good or excellent health compared to Medicaid beneficiaries (34.6 percent). In addition, half of TGD Medicaid beneficiaries reported serious psychological stress, while 36.9 percent of privately insured adults did.
TGD Medicaid beneficiaries had higher rates of overall substance use, suicidal ideation, and attempted suicide than privately insured individuals.
Most TGD individuals with Medicaid coverage and private insurance saw a provider in the past 12 months, but Medicaid beneficiaries were more likely to report traveling over 25 miles to see a routine provider, the brief noted.
Compared to privately insured adults, TGD Medicaid beneficiaries were more likely to not see a provider due to cost (37 percent versus 27.1 percent) and potential mistreatment due to their gender identity (29 percent versus 23.1 percent).
TGD adults with Medicaid coverage also had a higher likelihood of experiencing negative provider interactions, including having to teach their provider about TGD people, facing refusals for gender-affirming care, being asked invasive questions, and experiencing verbal harassment.
More than half of TGD Medicaid beneficiaries (56 percent) were denied coverage for gender-affirming surgeries, 28 percent were denied coverage for hormones, and 33 percent could not find an in-network provider for surgeries.
Medicaid is a critical source of healthcare coverage for LGBTQ individuals, but the issue brief suggests that there is work to be done to ensure this community has equal access to care as their heterosexual and privately insured counterparts.Source: HealthPayer Intelligence


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Aroview: Lurid expose of the Hollywood 'studio system' from the melodramatic pen of playwright Clifford Odets.
Palance shows a rare vulnerability as a 'star' whose oppressive contract is enforced through coercion and blackmail by ruthless studio boss Steiger. Reaching a crisis with his life, marriage and career, leads to a showdown between various interests vying for his loyalties. Though perhaps overlong, this is as packed with baroque dialogue and craziness as a Tennesee Williams play or Odet's other masterpiece, SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS.
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Lincolnshire Trading Standards is urging consumers to seek redress from retailers that sell faulty electrical goods this Christmas after a survey found two-thirds of shoppers have bought problem goods in the last two years.
The Citizens Advice research reveals 1 in 4 (28%) people were initially turned away by retailers when they tried to get a repair, replacement or refund, despite the retailer having a responsibility to offer a solution.
The survey also showed persistence paid off, with 61% of those who were turned away eventually getting some form of solution from the retailer.
“We work with businesses throughout Lincolnshire to make sure they are aware of their customers’ rights, and whether they are entitled to a repair, refund or replacement,” said Emma Milligan, principal trading standards officer.
“Nobody wants to give or receive faulty goods, especially at Christmas so it is important to know how to resolve any issues, should they arise.”
Advice is available from the Citizens Advice consumer service 03454 04 05 06 or www.citizensadvice.org.uk

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Transportation Minister Mary Polak says party bus operators in B.C. have been warned they must obey laws that ban liquor consumption by their passengers or face costly licence suspensions.
But at the same time Polak says the province is reviewing the current regulations to check whether they still make sense.
A commercial vehicle like a limousine or a bus is considered a public place in B.C. so boozy revellers on board are drinking in public contrary to the Liquor Control and Licensing Act and can be subject to a $230 fine and liquor pour-outs. Any drinking in a moving vehicle is also against the Motor Vehicle Act and it’s also a violation of the operators’ licences under the Passenger Transportation Act.
“I have made it very clear to the operators I have absolutely no difficulty pulling their licences if it’s found any one of them is not in compliance,” Polak said.
That message was delivered to operators at a meeting Thursday by officials of B.C.’s Passenger Transportation Board.
It comes several weeks after 16-year-old Ernest Azoadam died in Surrey after riding on a party bus where alcohol was plentiful despite operator claims it doesn’t permit alcohol or drugs.
The stretch SUVs or buses are often outfitted with nightclub lighting and may act as rolling parties, particularly for those under age, rather than deluxe transportation to an actual event.
“It’s kind of tough to swallow that [operators] are saying ‘Look it’s not our fault’ when their advertisements in many cases imply alcohol is going to be part of the celebration these folks are going to be paying for,” Polak said. “It’s very troubling.”
She said her immediate concern is underage drinking by teens and the associated risks, particularly as grad celebration season approaches.
The party bus business isn’t a big industry, but Polak said it’s growing and it’s time for a broader review of how the laws apply and whether changes are justified.
Legalization of alcohol use on limousines or party buses – strictly for adults – is one option that might be considered, she said.
“Is there any benefit?” she asked. “I don’t know the answer but it’s a question worth asking.”
Asked whether the province’s shift to tougher roadside administrative penalties for impaired driving, rather than criminal prosecution, may have fueled the industry, Polak said she doesn’t think so.
“This industry has been growing prior to the 0.05 [blood-alcohol level] legislation and the changes that went with that,” she said. “I think it’s more a reflection of society’s ideals arround alcohol and their own decisions on what’s appropriate and what isn’t.”
A provincial review of other jurisdictions found no consistent or obvious approach to regulating party buses elsewhere.

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The 14th All Y'all Live storytelling event will be held at 7 p.m., Saturday, June 2 at Fairfield Studios in Shreveport. All Y'all Live events feature true stories told live without notes. These stories are recorded and later released as episodes of the All Y'all podcast. Unlike previous All Y’all live storytelling events, “Wildcard” will not feature a curated group of storytellers on a common theme. This time around, every audience member - every single person in attendance - should come prepared either to tell a brief story if their name is drawn or nominate a friend to tell a story instead. Stories can be on any topic and no longer than 10 minutes in length. Advance ticket purchase is recommended.
A cash bar will be provided by Southern Fork Catering and there will be live musical interludes. Admission is $15 and tickets will be available soon.
The 2018-2019 season of All Y’all live storytelling events and podcast episodes is presented by Marilynn's Place, our new title sponsor, with additional support from Williams Creative Group and Red River Brewing Company. All Y’all live storytelling events are recommended for mature audiences.


Montgomery County Police and Montgomery County Fire are investigating two deaths in an apparent murder-suicide at an assisted-living home.
Authorities received a report of a shooting about 10 a.m. Monday at the Village at Rockville at 9700 Viers Drive in Rockville. The facility was formerly known as the National Lutheran Home.
Responders discovered two unconscious adults at the scene, which they shortly after confirmed as deceased.
Montgomery County police said the two are husband and wife. According to investigators, the woman, 74-year-old Sandra Ballard, was a resident at the facility. On Monday morning, according to police, her husband, 80-year-old Albert Ballard, visited her, which is when the fatal shooting take place.
Police said that although initial reports indicated an electrocution, the two deaths occurred by firearm.
The assisted-living home said the next of kin have been contacted.
Check back for more updates as they become available.


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Tangled Thicket Farm combines the vision of two farmers, Joanna and Melissa, as well as the inspiration and help of family and community members, to create a sustainable, joyful and community-oriented farm. Our intent is to grow slowly—in keeping with the needs of the land. We use organic practices, although we are not yet certified. We are committed to using restorative agriculture and permaculture practices.
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We believe in the principles of restorative agriculture and are working to build community and contribute to a sustainable food system. We grow a variety of herbs, vegetable and tree fruits using organic methods. Our chickens are free-range/pasture-raised and we provide them with local, organic, soy-free grains.
Find us at your local Farmers Market
- Our main season CSA program provides ten boxes, available bi-weekly, between June and October. Please contact us for details!

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My garage door opener is Chamberlain PD612EV
I'll join the club too. I have two hubs and two garage door openers (separated garages). Had the MyQ installed for a week, and then I got this same error on both doors, at the same time. I unplugged the two hubs, my router and my cable modem. Plugged the modem back in, followed by the router and then the hubs. Works now but who knows for how long? Yesterday when replacing some power receptacles and light switches, I did turn off a few breakers trying to identify which circuits the recepts/switches were on. One or more of them would have powered the router, the cable modem, and the MyQ hubs so they would have turned off, and then booted back up (probably not in the correct order). Maybe the MyQ hub didn't like losing it's connection for a few minutes, and couldn't reconnect? Has anyone else with this problem turned off their power right before the problems started?
I am sorry to hear the Gateway is not operating the door consistently for you. From what you have described, I feel that further troubleshooting is needed over the phone with one of our technicians. If you could please email me your name and phone number, as well as the best day and time to contact you, I will have one of our knowledgeable technicians contact you to assist in resolving your issue. Our email address is MyQSupport@Chamberlain.com.
I, too, have a sophisticated network with connected SmartThings, a dozen Philips Hue, Ring doorbells, three computers/iPads/iPhones, and connected audio devices. This garage door opener is the *only* device I cannot trust to work when needed.
So how the hell do I get this device to get (and stay) reliably connected?
I have realized that the speed/duplex for chamberlain is 10Mbps half duplex. When I connect my Chamberlain to netgear switch it comes instantaneously but if I connect to another switch then the green light keeps blinking (but the interface information where chambelain is connected shows 10 mbps half duplex) and the gateway does not get an address.
Have anyone of you seen this?
I performed the hard reset and deleted everything from my account, then tried to add it back. No luck. Then I deleted everything again and used a different location name to re-setup everything. It seemed to work fine again..... for a day. Now it's offline again. Everything else in my house still works fine.
Is my hub just broken already? It looks like buying a replacement hub could cost me 60% of what I paid for the entire door opener kit (which included the opener, 2 remotes, keypad, battery, sensors, hub, power supply, etc.)
I used to really talk this system up. Now, I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I don't want to be buying a new hub every year, just after the warranty runs out.
1. Before I attempted to reset this last time, I turned off bluetooth and wifi(I turned off wireless router until I successfully reset) for every device that has connected or lists the gateway/hub as a connection point.
2. I followed the reset procedures with the phone support technician.
3. Hub and HomeKit issues resolved!
I hope this helps someone!


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With all of its snow and undomesticated land, you never know what could be found deep within Russia.
At its Kostenki 11 site, a strange structure made of mammoth fossils was recently found. Dated back to around 25.000 years, it’s the oldest structure of its kind discovered so far. What its significance and historical use were is yet to be discovered.
Structures Dating Back to the Ice Age
Man-made formations similar to the one discovered at the Kostenki 11 site were seen before in several spots across Eastern Europe. They’re commonly circular and made of numerous mammoth fossils. The Kostenki 11 site is located in Russia, by the Don River, near the city Voronezh. The structure found here is the largest and oldest one of its kind discovered so far. Its age was determined through radiocarbon dating and all findings regarding this site were published in Antiquity. There are usually several large pits surrounding the structures. Similar sites were found in Russia in the 1950s, the 1960s, and 2013.
What Were These Structures Made of Fossils For
Researchers have several ideas regarding what the significance of these structures was during the last Ice Age. However, no theory has been proven. Alexander Pryor, one of the leading authors of the new study, offers a few possibilities about the significance of these structures. He says they may have been dwellings, although he claims it isn’t the most likely theory. Humans of that era were nomadic and didn’t typically make long-term dwellings. Additionally, if some of the bones used in the construction still had meat and cartilage, they would have attracted predators.
Another idea is that the site was used for storing food. The flotation technique used by the researchers to sift through the remains on this site discovered some charcoal, including charred plant remains, burnt bones, and bits of stone tools. Another theory is that the site had some sort of spiritual significance for the Pleistocene humans.
This discovery shows that the hunter-gatherers of the last Ice Age had the skills to plan and build. Hopefully, further research will give more conclusive evidence as to what role these structures played.

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EUR/USD had a relatively tame week until Thursday when ECB’s Governing Council released its monetary policy decision, the announcement of which saw the markets whipsaw higher to the 1.1055 area and then sharply depreciate to the 1.0927 area. This weekly low was only one pip higher than the previous weekly low of 1.0926, leading to speculation of intervention or options protection with traders knowing that the 1.0862 is a major technical level that represents the 76.4% retracement of the 1.0339 – 1.2555 range. ECB announced it was reducing its Deposit Facility Rate by 10bps from -0.40% to -0.50% with outgoing ECB President Draghi citing “low but rising” recession risks. ECB also announced it was resuming its asset purchase programme from 1 November at a modest rate of €20 billion per month with no time limit. Also, ECB called on governments with “room for fiscal manoeuvre” to “act with efficiency and speed.” EUR/USD’s weekly high was right around the 23.6% retracement of the recent 1.1412 – 1.092 range. US data this week saw core August CPI print above expectations at +0.3% m/m and +2.4% y/y. Also, August retail sales weakened but beat forecasts with a +0.4% expansion, and September University of Michigan consumer sentiment improved to 92.0. Attention now shifts the FOMC policy decision on 18 September with lower rates expect amid the escalating tension between Trump and the Fed.
USD/JPY remained a one-way trade this week with five consecutive daily bars of higher highs and higher lows and eight consecutive days of higher lows, a very bullish development that saw stops elected above the 108.17 area, representing the 76.4% retracement of the 109.31 – 104.46 range. During a brief mid-week pullback, the pair tested bids around the 107.50 level, right around the 61.8% retracement of the aforementioned range. Last week’s Japanese numbers saw the July trade balance decline sharply to -¥74.5 billion with Q2 GDP receding to +0.3% q/q and an annualised +1.3%. Bank of Japan’s Monetary Policy Decision is expected on 19 September.
GBP/USD finished the week on a very strong note after appreciating as high as the 1.2505 level, right around a major technical level that represents the 38.2% retracement of the 1.3382 – 1.1958 range. Prior to that, bids emerged at a weekly low on Monday below the 1.2246 area, representing the 23.6% retracement of the recent depreciation from the 1.3177 area. UK data were mixed this week with July GDP improving to a flat +0.0% and July industrial production weaker at -0.9% y/y. Also, the August claimant count rose to 3.3% with jobless claims changed by 28,200. Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Decision is expected on 19 September with traders expecting the Bank Rate to remain steady at +0.75%. Traders expect sterling to remain volatile with PM Johnson’s Brexit options seemingly decreasing.
USD/CHF had a volatile week with traders lifting the pair as high as the 0.9946 level on Thursday, just below the 50% retracement of the 1.0237 – 0.9659 range, before a late-week depreciation that saw the pair trade as low as the 0.9854 area. Stops were elected below the 0.9878 area during the pair’s late-week depreciation, representing the 23.6% retracement of the recent 0.9659 – 0.9946 range. Last week’s Swiss numbers saw the August headline unemployment rate remain steady at +2.1% while August producer and import prices weakened to -0.2% m/m and -1.9% y/y. Swiss National Bank’s policy


text: [PubMed] [Google Scholar] 15. imply reversal in the framework of preexisting immune system reactions latency, at least with these LRAs, can be insufficient to very clear cells harboring latent proviruses. Supportive of the idea are data displaying that unadulterated autologous cytotoxic T lymphocytes ML348 (CTLs) from ART-treated individuals do not destroy cells reactivated with vorinostat (9). If the contaminated cells aren’t wiped out pursuing reactivation effectively, these cells might revert to a latent condition and reconstitute the latent reservoir. As such, more-potent immune system responses may need to be used to make sure effective clearance of reactivated latently contaminated cells. Cytolysis of reactivated cells harboring HIV-1 provirus could theoretically be performed via antibody-dependent mobile cytotoxicity (ADCC) (10). Anti-HIV-1 antibodies result in ADCC upon binding cell surface area viral proteins as well as the IgG continuous region receptor, CD16 or FcRIIIa, of effector cells such as for example organic killer (NK) cells and monocytes (11,C13). Proof the antiviral effectiveness of anti-HIV-1 ADCC can be offered through the association of the immune system response with slower disease development (14,C16) aswell as vaccine effectiveness (17,C19). Latest studies, however, show that HIV-1 evades ADCC by concealing essential ADCC epitopes for the envelope (Env) glycoprotein trimer and by reducing the quantity of Env on the top of contaminated cells (20, 21). Downregulation of Compact disc4 by HIV-1 Nef and Vpu decreases the probability of Env getting into a Compact disc4-destined conformation, leading to the concealment of several Compact disc4-induced (Compact disc4i) antibody epitopes (22, 23). This may be a hurdle for ADCC antibody reputation since a higher percentage of ADCC antibodies in HIV-1-contaminated sera recognize Compact disc4i epitopes (23). Additionally, inhibition of tetherin by Vpu prevents build up of nascent HIV-1 virions at the top of contaminated cell, therefore reducing the quantity of surface area Env designed for antibody binding (22, 24, 25). These evasion systems might prevent ADCC from getting rid of reactivated cells subsequent administration of LRAs. To overcome Compact disc4 downregulation on the top of contaminated cells, Compact disc4-mimetic substances (Compact disc4mc) have already been rationally made to bind to Env and induce the Compact disc4-destined conformation (26, 27). Significantly, these Compact disc4mc have the ability to improve binding of ADCC-mediating antibodies to Env and sensitize HIV-1-contaminated cells to ADCC (28). In this scholarly study, we analyzed if antibodies from HIV-1-contaminated topics could activate major ML348 ITGB3 NK cells or get rid of a reactivated latently contaminated cell line. We studied the result of ADCC on reactivation and tradition also. Although NK effector cells exhibited some antibody-dependent activation when cultured with reactivated cell lines, we discovered that the cell lines weren’t vunerable to antibody-mediated eliminating. In contrast, ideals were significantly less than 0.05. Figures given in Email address details are shown in the next format: (median [interquartile range] versus median [interquartile range], worth of statistical check). Outcomes Reactivation of infected ACH-2 cells. We initially used the latently contaminated ACH-2 T cell range as a style of HIV-1 latency. For ADCC antibodies to focus on contaminated cells easily, HIV-1 Env antigens have to be indicated for the cell surface area. To look for the known degree of Env manifestation on reactivated ACH-2 cells, we likened the comparative binding of the conformational-independent anti-Env Ab, 2G12, to reactivated ACH-2 CEM and cells.NKr-CCR5 cells coated with some dilutions of recombinant gp120 protein (22). Unactivated ACH-2 cells indicated low degrees of gp120 fairly, just like those indicated by CEM.NKr-CCR5 cells coated with 50 ng/ml of gp120. Conversely, reactivated ACH-2 cells indicated high degrees of gp120, greater than that noticed for CEM.NKr-CCR5 cells coated with ML348 3.2 g/ml of gp120 (Fig. 1A, remaining panel). Nearly all Env-expressing ACH-2 cells also indicated p24 (Fig. 1A, correct panel). Open up in another window FIG.


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Raven-Symoné: 'I Don't Want to Be Labeled Gay'
Appearing on Sunday’s episode of Oprah: Where Are They Now, the former Disney Channel actress, 28, told Oprah Winfrey: “I don’t want to be labeled gay. I want to be labeled a human who loves humans. I’m tired of being labeled.”
After years of speculation, Symoné opened up about her sexuality on Twitter after the Supreme Court overturned the Defense of Marriage Act in the summer of 2013.
“I can finally get married!” she Tweeted. “Yay government! So proud of you.”
“So was that your way of coming out?” Winfrey asked. “Saying you were gay?”
“That was my way of saying I’m proud of the country,” said the actress. “But I will say that I’m in an amazing, happy relationship with my partner, a woman. On the other side, my mother and people in my family, they’ve taught me to keep my personal life to myself as much as possible.”
“I try my best to you know, hold the fence where I can, but I am proud to be who I am and what I am.”

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Another Promised Land: Anita Brenner’s Mexico at The Skirball Cultural Center
An exhibition offers a new perspective on the art and visual culture of Mexico and its relationship to the U.S.
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The Skirball Cultural Center announces Another Promised Land: Anita Brenner’s Mexico, on view September 14, 2017 through February 25, 2018. This exhibition illuminates the life and work of one of the most fascinating cultural figures of 20th century Mexico, Anita Brenner (1905–1974). A Mexican-born journalist, art historian and anthropologist of Latvian Jewish descent who spent part of her youth in Texas, Brenner chronicled the Mexican Renaissance of the 1920s and played a vital role in introducing Mexican art and culture to American audiences. Through more than 150 objects—including artworks by close friends Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, Edward Weston, Jean Charlot and Frida Kahlo―the exhibition underscores her efforts to build cultural understanding between the United States and Mexico.
As the child of Jewish immigrants in Mexico, and herself an immigrant to the United States, Brenner often found herself in the position of the outsider. This sense of self informed much of her work. She fought against prejudice she faced as a Jewish Mexican-American, she worked tirelessly—through her books, articles, poetry and the tourism magazine she founded and edited—to create a favorable image of Mexico in the minds of Americans.
Another Promised Land: Anita Brenner’s Mexico opens a conversation about the complexities of nationality and identity on both sides of the border by weaving together Brenner’s story with the history of Mexico and its relationship with the U.S. in the 20th century.
“The Skirball Cultural Center is honored to participate in the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, which fully aligns with our mission to bridge people of diverse heritage and history,” remarked Robert Kirschner, Skirball museum director. “Another Promised Land: Anita Brenner’s Mexico invites us to learn about our neighbors while challenging us to consider how we represent cultures that are not our own.”
Organized by Skirball exhibition curator Laura Mart and guest curator Karen Cordero, an independent curator and professor of art history at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, the exhibition will be organized in five sections:
A Jewish Girl of Mexico: This traces Anita Brenner’s background and early childhood. Born in 1905 in Aguascalientes, Mexico, to Latvian Jewish immigrant parents, Brenner moved as a young girl to San Antonio to escape the violence of the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920). In both Mexico and the U.S., Brenner was ostracized for her foreignness and Jewishness. This dual discrimination found its way into Brenner’s consciousness of her identity as both a Mexican and a Jew.
Brenner returned to Mexico City in her late teens, where she assumed a prominent role in the world of post-revolutionary Mexican, American and European thinkers, artists and writers of the avant-garde. She became an observer, recorder and interlocutor of artists like Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco, Jean Charlot, Tina Modotti and Edward Weston, developing friendships and flirtations with many of them. This first section of the exhibition includes portraits of Brenner by some of these artists, as well as bilingual correspondence and family photographs, and traces Brenner’s Mexico City network through photographic portraits and other artworks.
Idols Behind Altars: In 1929, Brenner wrote the book Idols Behind Altars, a seminal work on Mexican modern art. In it she combined folklore and history to paint the story of Mexico in broad strokes, recording her firsthand impressions of the artists, their work and their dramas. Brenner commissioned Weston and Modotti to take photographs of Mexican art and cultural sites to serve as illustrations for the book. Its vision of Mexican art and culture inspired Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein to create his famous film project ¡Que Viva Mexico!, an unfinished legend of modernist cinema.
This section of the exhibition includes several of the paintings, drawings and prints that appeared in Idols Behind Altars, as well as pre-Columbian and folk art objects similar to ones that Brenner chose to illustrate the book. It will also feature more than a dozen of the original Weston and Modotti photographs commissioned by Brenner, as well as clips from Eisenstein’s ¡Que Viva Mexico!
Art and Revolution: Brenner and her cohorts established the imagery that would come to define the Mexican Revolution and capture the popular imagination through writing, art and music. In the 1920s, muralism emerged as an art form particularly well-suited to political content. Artists such as Rivera, Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Charlot painted thousands of square feet in government buildings around Mexico. The popularity of these projects helped these artists land mural commissions in the U.S., which resulted in some of the greatest and most controversial public works of art in the nation.
This section of the exhibition looks at the development of the mural movement in the 1920s through preparatory materials and photographs. It takes a close look at Rivera’s Rockefeller Center controversy—the mural he created that was chiseled off two years after he painted it—which Brenner reported on in depth for the New York Times. Also included are visual records of and reactions to the Mexican Revolution, including prints by Leopoldo Méndez, Orozco and Rivera, and materials from The Wind That Swept Mexico, Brenner’s 1943 book on the Mexican Revolution. Finally, this section considers Brenner’s engagement with left-wing activism in the 1930s, concentrating on her journalistic coverage of the Spanish Civil War and her role in securing Leon Trotsky’s asylum in Mexico.
Projections of a Changing Mexico: Starting in the 1930s, Brenner worked to promote tourism in Mexico using the country’s cultural heritage as a point of attraction. Her popular guidebook Your Mexican Holiday(1932) and tourist magazine Mexico / this month (1955–1971) encouraged Americans to travel south of the border to experience Mexico and its people firsthand. Her children’s books set in Mexico used sources from folktales to tell stories of courage, virtue and magic for English-speaking audiences.
This section traces how imagery and texts circulated by Brenner and her circle, from the 1920s through the 1970s, shaped foreigners’ understanding of Mexican culture. On view are works by Rivera, Weston, Lola Cueto and Miguel Covarrubias that reveal the influence of indigenismo on their art; Brenner’s books for children and her magazine Mexico / this month; and a selection of works by well-known Mexican photographers such as Héctor García, Nacho López and Manuel Álvarez Bravo, which appeared in Mexico / this month. The last subsection features art from the 1950s though 1970s by several of Brenner’s friends, including Mathias Goeritz, Leonora Carrington, Pedro Coronel and Myra Landau. These works, which reflect Mexican artists’ involvement in international movements like geometric abstraction and surrealism as well as the substantial emigration of Europeans to Mexico, provide a counterpoint to the indigenista aesthetics and subject matter of work more commonly associated with Mexican art of the early 20th century.
Roots in the Land: The closing section of the exhibition looks at Brenner’s final years, when she returned to her family’s ranch in Aguascalientes, Mexico. It chronicles her efforts to revitalize the ranch as a commercial agricultural operation with elements adapted from the Israeli kibbutz model, and considers the way that Brenner dealt with the legacy of the Mexican Revolution, particularly its call for land justice.
For more on the exhibit and to plan your visit to the Skirball, click here.
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Jackson County Sheriff's officials have confirmed the man who was shot was 49 year-old Mark Corsbie of Medford.
Corsbie was also sentenced to 70 months in prison for a second degree robbery conviction in January of 2004.
They also report that his second wife filed a restraining order against him in March of this year.
On Monday, Corsbie tried to make his way into several White City homes, telling homeowners he was being chased.
He eventually forced himself into a home on the 7800 block of Andrea Drive where the homeowner shot Corsbie once in the torso with a .357 caliber handgun.
The homeowner was taken to police headquarters where he was questioned and released.
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An unregistered installer has been fined and given a suspended prison sentence after illegally carrying out work on a number of boilers.
Faults were found on one such boiler following work carried out by Philip Locke in 2013, despite not being Gas Safe registered, heard High Wycombe Crown Court on 9 February.
The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) issued a letter to Mr Locke informing him of his responsibility to be registered in order to work on boilers, but he failed to comply.
Mr Philip Locke of Chalfont St Giles, High Wycombe pleaded of breaching pleaded guilty to two charges under the Gas Safety Regulations 1998 was sentenced to four months imprisonment suspended for one year, fined £6500 and ordered to pay costs of £6280.
HSE inspector Stephen Faulkner said: “Philip Locke showed disregard for the law when he continued to work on gas appliances without certification. This case highlights the importance that plumbers must be competent and Gas Safe registered to work on gas appliances.”
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Welcome to the Great Victoria Bacon-Off!
This is an ongoing post featuring a semi-competitive, semi-silly comparison of the different sources of 'house-made' bacon in the city.
The bacon-off will take place in a single-elimination or 'knockout' tournament style, with two different kinds of bacon going up against each other in each round until only one bacon is left standing, and can be endowed with the coveted bacon crown*. The bacon is placed on a baking tray lined with parchment and place in a cold oven, which is then turned on to 375º F for 20 minutes on a convection bake setting, at which point the bacon is flipped and then baked for 5 more minutes (if required).
Round 4: Glenwood Meats vs Ravenstone Meats
Both bacons were cooked from fresh in a hot oven at 375 ºC for 10 minutes, flipped and cooked for another 5. My partner-in-food-and-life did not know which bacon was which, but we came to a unanimous decision!
Ravenstone meat's bacon, found at the Victoria Downtown Public Market, was definitely the strongest contender in my mind! Called "whiskey smoked" it was cut to my taste and massive. However, it shrunk down to the same size as the other bacon during the cooking process, releasing just a little more grease than its competitor.
In the end we actually could not tell the two bacons apart. They were both very deliciously bacony... and it was almost a tie. However, I realize that with a fancy name that didn't pay off and slightly higher price point I couldn't suggest opting for the Ravenstone if you had a choice between the two. A very tough call, however... both were meaty, well smoked and quite delicious.
Round 3: Sloping Hills vs The Market House Smoked
Round 2: The Whole Beast vs Hertel's
After much anticipation, the Bacon-Off is back! I moved the weeks around a bit from their original configuration to make it a little bit easier, as I discovered that the Village Butcher also carries Hertel's as their 'house' bacon, meaning I could one-stop shop at one location for both sources of bacon. As I tweeted, my purse was full of bacon; it was glorious. Also a note for full transparency: I am on the board of Slow Food with Cory (owner of Whole Beast) and I have heard him talk passionately about curing meats so many times I have decided that if he a) had ingredients labelling, and b) was a hippie, 'love' would be pretty high on the list of ingredients. Also: I just finished a gumbo made with his delicious andouille (so there might be a bit of unintended bias on my part).
The Hertel's double-smoked bacon is the bacon many people are familiar with. Hertel's is located in Port Alberni, but resells their bacon to many shops such as Island Meat & Seafood in Cook St Village, Slater's and the Village Butcher. It was much thicker than the Whole Beast bacon, and ultimately a 'meatier' bacon. However, in comparison the vast majority of its flavour came from salt.
The Whole Beast bacon is also their house bacon, a rosemary-infused bacon, available pre-sliced by the strip. It was much thinner with much more 'marbling' than the Hertel's bacon, so cooked up faster. It wasn't smoky, but was packed with flavour, and it was pretty obvious why... the bacon was covered in little flecks of fresh spices. I'm pretty sure it was also 'maple' bacon, and I normally shy away from any kind of bacon labelled 'maple' anything, this had very little sweetness, even when compared with a very 'plain' bacon.
Winner: The Whole Beast
Round 1: Choux Choux vs. Red Barn
Winner: Choux Choux
Round 1: Choux Choux vs Whole Beast
Round 2: Sloping Hills vs Glenwood Meats
Championship Round: ? vs ?
* may or may not be actually made of bacon... but the internet tells me this is possible!

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It’s nice to get out of town. Financial restraints or a boss eagerly handing out weekend shifts can, unfortunately, get in the way. Stuck in the big city? Feeling a bit flustered? Get yourself to one of our recommended spaces, take a moment to breathe. Recharge. Birmingham: St Paul’s Square Brum’s last remaining Georgian square […]
It’s nice to get out of town. Financial restraints or a boss eagerly handing out weekend shifts can, unfortunately, get in the way. Stuck in the big city? Feeling a bit flustered? Get yourself to one of our recommended spaces, take a moment to breathe. Recharge.
Birmingham: St Paul’s Square
Brum’s last remaining Georgian square offers some much-needed refuge from the bustle of England’s second biggest city. Just a few steps from the famous Jewellery Quarter, the immaculate grounds house St Paul’s Church, which feels like a literal step-back in time from the cafes, bars and shops that surround it. Enjoy the Grade 1 building and the quiet it commands.
Dublin: Marsh’s Library
Much like Birmingham’s gentle blast from the past, Ireland’s first public library dates back to 1707 and is a wonderful way to escape the stresses of modern life (if only till 5pm). With its original oak bookcases stocking 25,000 rare and historic reads, visitors are transported away from WhatsApp updates and video streams to a different era of attentive reading and studying. Hello silence, my old friend.
(9:30am-5pm. Closed Tuesday/Sunday)
London: Dalston Eastern Curve Garden
The Market. Kingsland Road. Junction. Dalston doesn’t exactly scream tranquility. Yet behind its rammed high street sits a green sanctuary for all. The Curve Garden couldn’t be further away from the disused railway track it was built on. By combining tree lined spaces with cosy pockets of plants, its landscape architects have somehow created a peaceful oasis smack bang in the middle of one of North East London’s liveliest areas. Refreshingly cheap homemade bites contain fresh veg picked from the garden, while creative and cultural highlights can involve anything from children’s pizza making to free tai chi. It’s the volunteer spirit that really gives the place a safe, welcoming vibe. Locals and regulars contribute to maintaining the shrubbery, making for a real community feel.
(11am-7pm Mon-Wed. Open till 10pm Thursday-Sunday)
London: Kyoto Garden
‘Wake from death and return to life’ goes an old Japanese expression. If things are getting a little on top while you’re west in the capital, try Holland Park’s uniquely asian experience to help you re-centre. The garden is a traditional eastern creation, boasting koi filled ponds and tiered waterfalls, with the additional roaming peacock for good measure. Even those desperate for an instagram upload seem to go about their snapping more peacefully within these Kensington walls. Full of benches and blossom, you’ll leave much more zen than the you that arrived.
Liverpool: St Nick’s Churchyard
Calming seas can give coastal residents a slight relaxation edge. With a number of contenders facing the River Mersey, it’s The Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas – often overlooked by the city’s religious heavyweight cathedrals – that gets the nod for our list. Set just back from a busy dock road, St Nick’s is a lovely spot for quiet contemplation; its views of the Pier Head and historically weighty Three Graces putting your problems into perspective.
Manchester: Angel Meadow
Once an overcrowded Victorian slum, the small park is one of the few green areas to be found in Manchester’s famously industrial city centre. Described as ‘hell upon earth’ in the 17th century, the space has come on nicely since a 90s rejuvenation, and is due to receive a further facelift in the form of a 40-storey apartment block with additional housing. The new building’s not without dispute; locals concerned its height may throw the park’s pathways and verges into shade. Developers FEC have defended their skyscraper, promising it will enhance surroundings. They’re even throwing out monthly yoga sessions on location. Get involved, for free, on July 19th, August 16th and September 20th; all starting at 8am.–


Gov. Charlie Baker announced legislation earlier this week that would make the weekend of August 19-20 a sales tax holiday, meaning the state's 6.25 percent sales tax would be suspended on items of $2,500 or less.
So is it time to run out and buy that new refrigerator you've been eyeing? Not so fast.
Legislators on Beacon Hill are not so keen on the idea, citing concerns about flagging state tax revenue. Among those skeptical of the holiday is the House's newly appointed budget chief, State Rep. Jeffrey Sanchez.
"We are really in a difficult time right now," Sanchez told Boston Public Radio. "Although our numbers looked pretty good in terms of tax revenue —they looked okay for June, and at the same time we see that the Main Street economy is doing okay — we want to be thoughtful about what we're doing in the upcoming months."
"We're going to be looking at overrides, we're going to be looking at other things, things we've committed to," he continued.
According to the Massachusetts Department of Revenue, the state lost $25.5 million in tax revenue from the last tax-free weekend, in 2015.
Click the audio player above to hear more from State Rep. Jeffrey Sanchez.


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– WWE has published an article making the official announcement on Mick Foley being inducted into the 2013 Hall of Fame Class on their website. You can check out the article here.
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Who’d be Theresa May this morning? When the prime minister called a snap election in April, it seemed less a gamble and more a smart opportunity to snatch a landslide before Brexit negotiations began.
Now, that decision will go down in history as one of the most catastrophic decisions in political history. At university, May desperately wanted to be the first female prime minister, and was reportedly furious to be pipped at the post by Margaret Thatcher. Decades later, she’s likely to be remembered as one of the shortest tenants of Number 10 in modern history. At time of writing, she remains prime minister, but many are calling for her resignation. Her robotic mantra “strong and stable” will surely be immortalised as one of the most hilariously misjudged slogans of all time.
How did we get here? May misjudged the public, and the media misjudged Jeremy Corbyn. Trawling through the manifestos, the difference between Labour and the Conservatives became clear, and the result has been a divided electorate that has stripped the Conservatives of their slim majority. Arrogantly, May expected the public to swallow and vote for a manifesto that had more page numbers than spending figures. The United Kingdom offered in her manifesto was insular, meagre and selfish: little talk of community, and only a few scraps for individual households. In contrast, Labour’s slogan ‘For the many, not the few’, resonated with the public, promising hope. Young people rallied behind the Labour party in droves, as social media and Corbyn’s huge rallies made people feel they could be part of something bigger, a better future.
To make people enthused about politics, you have to offer hope, not just for individuals but entire generations. May offered to flog your home if you developed dementia, said she’d build a few council homes (but refused to say how many) and promised to flog them too after five years. In contrast, Labour offered to build more social housing, properly fund schools, hospitals and give young people the opportunity to study for free, viewing education as a right, not a privilege.
Young people feel the effects of austerity more keenly than most, thanks to rising housing costs, exorbitant rents, few rights as tenants and the stripping away of housing benefit for under-21s promised by the Tories. Fellow millennials were appalled when the Conservatives voted against forcing landlords to make homes fit for habitation, and the sheer volume of Tory landlords in the Commons was astounding: 39% of Tories in 2015 were landlords, compared to 2% of the general population.
Those MPs were happy to take your rent each month, but felt you had no right not to live in a slum. For many, they’ll now be full time landlords and no longer commuting to Westminster each week.
The result of such contempt? A resolute thumping at the ballot box. The current housing minister, Gavin Barwell lost in Croydon Central thanks to a huge influx of young campaigners evicting him from his seat. Kris Hopkins too, who claimed it was ‘perfectly legitimate’ to refuse to rent to tenants on benefits, found he too was turfed out of the seat he occupies.
It’s clear from the result that young people are now an electoral force to be reckoned with, after being ignored, abused and taken for granted for decades. One Tory MP told the Huffington Post “Under-30s love Corbyn but they don’t care enough to get off their lazy arses to vote for him!” The election results show that this time this contemptuous statement wasn’t true. Young people did vote, and now they must be taken seriously, or parties face ruin.
While there’s still hope in the air, the young, the vulnerable, and the taken for granted must press on, telling their elected representatives that if they don’t take housing seriously, don’t fund domestic violence and homelessness services, they’ll be chased out of office. May has learnt this the hard way. Now Labour must keep up the pressure, aiming to form the next government and deliver a fairer country for the many, not the few.


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It has been three weeks since Charley Situ, a former Financial Controller at LDK Solar (NYSE:LDK), came out with allegations that the company was exaggerating its inventory. A lot has been said since then, with the CFO categorically denying all those allegations and the company standing by its claims and ordering an independent audit by KPMG, the result of which is not yet clear.
Let's put the inventory issues aside for a minute. In the last one month, LDK Solar has signed contracts to supply wafers to Canadian Solar (NASDAQ:CSIQ), Solarfun (SOLF), Chinalight and Taiwan's Mosel. All these contracts put together are valued at 1.64 billion US dollars. Now, if the claims of fraud were true, I would doubt any company would do business with LDK and get burned in the process.
To make things worse, the stock is being manipulated like never before. What surprises me is the way the funds, analysts and even the press have been guilty of this. Every downgrade is mentioned over and over again by WSJ and Barron's, but upgrades from Reuters and Needham are nowhere to be seen on headlines.
Barron's released an article on LDK, revealing no new information, which it now posts weekly. The dirtiest action of all is that WSJ posted a column on the 13th of October about Charley Situ sending some information to the SEC. Yahoo Finance used the same article as a headline back then. The same article with the same date (October 13th) was reposted yesterday on the frontpage of both.
If this is not manipulation and headline shock, what is? It required hundreds of people to complain to WSJ and Yahoo to point out their mistake and get them to remove the post. The damage was done, though. The stock is down 10% again. Whenever the stock rises and shows signs of recovery, an analyst downgrades it, citing the inventory issues.
Do these analysts even realize that the stock is down a whopping 50% from when the inventory issues were raised? It's cut in half, and they still will not leave it alone.
LDK also is to blame in this. What is the CEO doing? Why is he not issuing any statement to calm investors' fears?
For now, I think the damage has been done, and overdone in fact. The company reports earnings on the 1st of November, and I think that's when we'll have full details of the audit. Until then, I remain long and strong and unperturbed by the manipulation. I would advise the longs to think hard before selling. Nothing has changed over the last couple of weeks; no news has come in and so there should not be any reason to sell.
Disclosure: Author has a long position in LDK


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Deficit blows out as imports rise sharply
AUSTRALIA has posted its biggest trade deficit since before the global financial crisis, as households and businesses continue to exploit the high dollar by spending on imported goods and services.
Despite a rebound in iron ore exports in November, the nation's trade ledger sank to a $2.6 billion deficit during the month, its widest reading since early 2008.
The result, which was Australia's fourth biggest trade deficit, was caused by a $478 million jump in imports, including consumer products and business goods.
Helped by the buoyant dollar, imports have now risen by 5 per cent in the last year, putting pressure on trade-exposed sectors including retail and manufacturing.
The latest jump in imports more than offset a $285 million increase in exports, while the Bureau of Statistics also revised up the deficit for October by about $350 million.
Despite the large deficit, economists said the nation's trade position was likely to improve over the long term as the resources boom entered a new phase of higher production.
The result had a muted impact on markets, with the dollar drifting slightly lower but still above US105¢ after the figures were published.
A senior economist at the Commonwealth Bank, Michael Workman, said the negative trade balance was a minor concern for many overseas investors, who were still fairly upbeat on Australia's prospects.
"From an offshore perspective, people look at us and say the deficits are relatively low and a large part of the deficit is due to mining investment ... which has a big capital component," he said.
Australia has now posted 11 trade deficits in the row, and Mr Workman said this was acting as a "slight" drag on growth.
But in the longer term, he said the spending on equipment used in mining projects would support stronger export earnings and higher incomes.
Mr Workman said he expected smaller quarterly trade deficits over this year and next as output increased from coal, iron ore and liquefied natural gas projects.
The numbers also contained some positive signs for the nation's biggest export - iron ore. Over the month the value of iron ore exports rose by more than $600 million, and economists say exports probably rose further in December.
In a positive sign for the economy and the federal budget, heavy buying in China has sent iron ore prices above $US150 per tonne this week, after slumping to a low of $US86 in September.
Exports of services such as tourism, which have been affected by the strong dollar, also rose over the month and have now increased by 4.9 per cent over the year.


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Snacking is always a difficult one for people to get right, most people tend to automatically go for the sugary/carbohydrate based snacks.
As usual your choice of snack depends on a whole host of factors including but not limited to; your location, how much time you have, your personal preferences, food allergies/intolerances, your environment and who you are with. That being said the same “guidelines” apply, we try to look at food on a continuum rather than a black and white, this food is “good” and that food is “bad” approach. More of this and less of that is the way we would try to approach nutritional choices. As much as possible we still look for minimally processed, whole foods, but remember one poor choice will make very little difference, it is what you will do on a consistent basis that will count more towards your overall goals.
I think sometimes people are surprised to hear that as a trainer I still occasionally eat takeaways, pizza, crisps, chocolate (not usually all in the same sitting). I’m not a big drinker, I don’t smoke and I have no interest in fizzy drinks/sodas. My point being, is that you can still maintain a healthy lifestyle and keep a relatively low body fat % while enjoying the occasional indulgence.
How occasional I hear you ask? Well that depends on your goals, your genetics, and what you are willing to sacrifice to get there. There is a big difference in sacrifices needed between wanting to enter a physique competition and get to 5% body fat and just leading a healthy life.
Below you will find a very useful infographic from Precision Nutrition called
“25 ways to eat well on the go”. It has a lot of useful information on how to manage different situations that life may throw at you.
The key in all of this comes down to two things, planning and preparation, trying to prepare the night before or the morning before an event or a trip is crucial. As a sporting hero of mine likes to say
“fail to prepare, prepare to fail”. Again we are not looking for perfection, there are going to be things thrown at you that you don’t expect or road bumps but the idea is to make the best decision within the particular situation. My own go-to snacks are natural/greek yogurt with cashew nuts, blueberries, raspberries, small square of dark chocolate (>80% cocoa) and some chia seeds. It can just as easily be brought with me in a container on the go or eaten at home in a bowl. A handful of nuts, almonds or cashews and some fruit would be another one. Whey based Protein shakes would be my go-to when I am pressed for time.
For savoury snacks I usually go with hummus and carrot sticks (full carrot chopped ideally).
I have no issues with eating a similar fairly limited range of snacks the whole time but as usual this depends very much on the individual.
Try to develop a little menu of snacks for yourself, ideally that can work in different situations. If you are completely caught out just try to make the best choice and remember one poorer choice isn’t going to make a big difference in the grand scheme of things, it is what you do on a regular basis that counts. Check out the article below and let me know what you think in the comments.
I’m off to make a snack!


Today, we will be revealing that J Hus is the next featured artist for TikTok’s #NewMusic, the new global discovery hub for the hottest new releases. This moment celebrates the epic return of J Hus with his explosive new track ‘It’s Crazy’.
It’s been three years since the UK Rap and Afro-fusion pioneer released ‘Big Conspiracy’ – his fourteen track second album that got him a BRIT Award for British Male. The demand for new music from Hus has been incredible, with his return a long sought after homecoming by fans around the world.
When asked about being TikTok UK’s #NewMusic featured artist, J Hus simply said: “The King is Back”.
He’s also posted his first TikTok video on his official account using the #NewMusic hashtag: https://www.tiktok.com/@jhus/video/7237074551216147738
TikTok recently launched the #NewMusic Search Hub, a dedicated space for emerging and established artists to showcase new releases, and a central place for fans to discover new sounds and their next favourite track. We’re seeing huge demand for the hub with over 20 billion views on the #NewMusic hashtag.
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The National Commission of Audit’s recommendations for health reform are based on ideology, not evidence, according to Dr Andrew Weatherall, an anaesthetist, prehospital doctor and blogger.
And he warns the Federal Government that there will be some predictable kickback if it follows the Commission’s suggestions for an ideologically-driven, short-term fix, rather than an evidence-based plan for the long-term.
Andrew Weatherall writes:
It’s said there are seven basic plot lines that any story can follow. This is probably why it can be pretty hard to genuinely surprise an audience. Sometimes such familiarity has all the warmth of your most loved slippers. Sometimes it’s just boring.
The release of the Commission of Audit recommendations should be just such a familiar show. The new government comes in freshly minted in the regalia of office and commissions a bunch of ‘distinguished people’ to review all the horribly wasteful things the last bunch were doing.
They then produce a report with a range of suggestions that would make a Dickensian orphanage master quiver in fear. The government adopts a small proportion of them to a much lesser degree.
The grateful villagers throw their hats in the air with joy having been granted a much easier tightening of the belts and merry dancing in the streets commences. And fade to a message from our sponsors.
So why all the wailing and gnashing of teeth this time, particularly on the health front?
The underlying assumption appears to be that while the suggestions won’t be followed chapter and verse, they do reflect a good deal of the philosophy of the government.
The commission has suggested a range of measures that seem designed to significantly alter the fairly universal health system that Australians and particularly those working in health cherish.
Assault on Medicare
The narrative leaked so far has built an impression that an assault on Medicare was imminent. Now more of the script has leaked, and people are ready to pounce in anticipation of the real announcements in the budget.
Perhaps underlying the angst is a broader sense that the document is one driven by ideology and not evidence, that the audit looked for plot lines they liked and made recommendations to match.
The two key components that look like an assault on Medicare are the idea of a GP co-payment of $15 and the push to have higher income earners kicked away from Medicare entirely.
Removing universal access and asking the patient to pay more of the share sounds a bit like a move to “Americanise” the system and that makes many nervous.
You could only really be keen on that if you’d been convinced by one too many episodes of Grey’s Anatomy that the US is best when it comes to fancy pants medical care.
Maybe they’re enamoured of the heroic work of Dr McDreamy. Maybe they find tales of junior doctors who accept marriage proposals from the patient whose heart assistance device they’ve just sabotaged such an exciting diversion (or discussion-worthy) that they’re looking to reproduce that magic.
Why is moving people away from universal access to health care a self-evident good? Viewing health policy only through the prism of the budget lets you skate over all these issues.
To be fair, the head of the auditors, Tony Shepherd, did mention that we don’t want an US-style system.
Of course, he also casually asserted that Australians go to the GP an average of 11 times a year, which doesn’t really seem to match the available information from the National Health Performance Authority at the My Healthy Communities site (thanks Dr Tim Senior for the link), which suggests the real number doesn’t even reach 8 visits. Wait, that looks suspiciously like actual evidence and might suggest that Australians are not sniveling hypochondriacs. Disregard.
When it comes to the co-payment, let’s put aside the confusion created by saying a price signal would make people think twice about whether they really needed to go to the doctor, while telling a Senate Committee the next day that it wouldn’t change whether or not people attended and would therefore raise money.
Let’s even try and leave for later any attempts to reconcile the merit in arguing that a co-payment is sensible price signaling to modify behaviour, while a price on carbon to address an issue listed by the World Health Organisation as our greatest public health challenge represents a cost of living apocalypse.
What evidence there is (covered well here) suggests that co-payments are most likely to deter those on lower income from seeking primary care (who just happen to be the most vulnerable members of the health community) and that patients aren’t the best judges of whether they should go to see the doctor.
Not only that, but what does it mean for remote and Indigenous health? Co-payments seem likely to have longer term cost implications as it weakens the relationship between patients and their GPs, which is why the AMA don’t seem peachy keen. That doesn’t fit the narrative though.
This is health policy created to address a budget “emergency” that is a sideshow confection, by adding a payment to everyone to prevent a problem of some patients turning up to the doctor too often that doesn’t seem to exist.
Ideology, not evidence.
There is no doubt that health costs need to be addressed and most in the area would be disappointed if health is anything other than a major topic of discussion in May.
The problem is with creating policy blueprints over a timetable of a few months to address costs rising over the course of decades without actually looking at widely available evidence.
That’s what has people so jumpy. Evidence is not just something the team from CSI look for on sweaty hotel sheets with a weird blue light. It’s accumulated by the combined efforts of lots of people doing hard work and closely examining data collected in the real world.
If the budget looks like an ideologically apt short-term fix rather than an evidence-based plan, the response is likely to be even bigger.


Posted March 16, 2018 11:57:25 California has lost more than 3,100 full-time jobs in the past five months, as the state continues to struggle with a sluggish economy.
According to a new report from the American Community Survey, the state has lost a total of 3,037 full- and part-time employment jobs since January of 2018.
In 2017, the same period, California had a total job loss of 4,637.
While the state still has a long way to go to regain full employment, the data highlights a trend that is continuing to be felt throughout the nation.
As the nation enters the second half of 2018, more and more companies are cutting jobs in order to make room for new hires, according to the report.
According the American Communities Survey, California is currently losing about a quarter of its full-timers.
According to the American FactFinder, the percentage of California residents working full- or part-timed is at its lowest point since 2008.


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Naming the johns: Public records are publicEDITORIAL
October 23. 2012 11:23PM
Soliciting a prostitute is a crime, and criminal charges are public record. So the argument that the names of the numerous alleged clients of alleged Wells, Maine, prostitute Alexis Wright should remain secret holds no water.
Wright is accused of running a prostitution ring out of her studio and office in Kennebunk, Maine. She reportedly had more than 100 clients. The Kennebunk Police have released the names of 21 of them after a judge ruled that the information was public record. The men all face misdemeanor charges.
One of the men is Donald Hill, who has resigned as Kennebunk High School's hockey coach. Hill's attorney claims that the police violated his client's privacy. The judge, though, was correct, as were the police.
The embarrassing nature of a crime is no justification for treating its alleged perpetrators with more deference than people who commit more common crimes. Alleged shoplifters, drunk drivers and vandals have their names printed in the paper every day. Alleged johns should be spared that fate because it would embarrass them? Not so.
Public records are public for good reason, and that does not change because some people find it inconvenient.


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Brian Cage versus RVD Set for Impact Hard to Kill
Impact Wrestling announced a dream match between Rob Van Dam and Brian Cage has been added to Impact Hard to Kill.
Hard to Kill is scheduled for Jan. 12 in Dallas.
BREAKING: A DREAM MATCH has been confirmed for #HardToKill on January 12th in Dallas!
— IMPACT (@IMPACTWRESTLING) December 13, 2019


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The sultans of slam and God of Thunder are conspiring to terrify you. WWE Studios and Kiss mogul Gene Simmons have paired up to launch Erebus Pictures, which will finance and produce horror films. The venture has pinned a three-picture co-production deal that will kick off with writer Matt Savelloni’s Temple. Erebus, named for the Greek god of darkness, will shop worldwide rights on all titles and will use WWE’s numerous platforms to market its titles.
“The horror genre continues to fascinate me as it proves to be endlessly thrilling and engaging for audiences,” rocker and reality star Simmons said. “I am so thrilled to be working with the masterminds from WWE Studios in launching Erebus Pictures.” Said WWE Studios President Michael Luisi: “Horror films fall into a genre that thrives on genuine passion, and I believe this partnership truly capitalizes on that sentiment and supports our vision.”
Temple follows a team of highly trained operatives who find themselves trapped inside an isolated military compound after its artificial intelligence is suddenly shut down. They begin to experience strange and horrific phenomena as they attempt to uncover who or what killed the team previously stationed at the compound. A director will be named soon, the parties said. Erebus’ second features will start production later this year.
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