St. Matthews Revives Potato Festival
Writer / Carrie Vittitoe
Potatoes are likely not the first thing most people think of when they reflect on St. Matthews. Maybe they think about seeing movies at the Vogue Theater, particularly its run of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” spanning more than two decades. Perhaps they remember putting on their skates at the St. Matthews Armory. Maybe they just think about what makes St. Matthews an attractive place to live – its walkable proximity to parks and restaurants, its greenness and mature treescapes, and its easy access to major highways.
However, St. Matthews has a hidden history in its soil that is being celebrated in late summer by the Chamber of St. Matthews. The St. Matthews Potato Festival makes its return after a 70-year hiatus on August 27, 2022, in an event that will bring together young and old for a spud-tacular celebration.
We all remember learning about the Nile river in school – how it would flood each year, and how the remaining silt allowed agriculture to flourish in the delta region. The three forks of Beargrass Creek in Louisville did much the same thing through thousands of years, making the soil in St. Matthews both flat and fertile. As the land was increasingly purchased and parceled through the 1800s, owners would take their acreage and farm it. Many of them found that potatoes were a perfect crop.
Elizabeth Cleary, chief operating officer of the Chamber of St. Matthews, acknowledges that most people aren’t aware of the city’s background. “[St. Matthews] has a pretty extensive potato history – so much so, that the potato is one of the images on the city’s flag,” she says.
In the early 1900s St. Matthews was actually one of the largest potato-shipping centers in the country. According to a 1921 article from the Courier-Journal archives titled “The Gospel of St. Matthews,” some 13 million pounds of potatoes were shipped from St. Matthews to every corner of the country. The St. Matthews Produce Exchange was organized in 1909 as a place where farmers could unload their potatoes and come back the next day for payment. The Produce Exchange building still exists. In fact, it is now the Colony shopping center at Westport Road and Clover Lane. In 1910 a railroad line was constructed specifically to service the Produce Exchange and St. Matthews Ice and Cold Storage. St. Matthews was no small fry when it came to potato production.
Henry A. Holzheimer Sr. owned one of the largest potato farms in the area, which ran along Chenoweth Lane and Breckenridge Lane. After its sale in 1928, St. Matthews really began to change shape and become more of what we recognize as the city we see today. A tribute to Holzheimer from The Louisville Times says, “Sale of the Holzheimer farm, in fact, marked the beginning of the end of the potato-growing area for St. Matthews because Breckinridge Villa, built on the farm, became one of the first big subdivisions and erased the rural atmosphere.” It seems that the closing of the St. Matthews Produce Exchange in 1946 was the event that marked the true end of an era.
A reverence for its proud potato history led St. Matthews leaders to create a potato festival in 1947, and boy, was it a s-mash-ing success. One of the festivities was a historical cavalcade called “Potato is King” that featured a cast of 400 individuals. At the inaugural festival, there was even a Potato Queen who was crowned (Miss Jean Smither). Of course, the event wasn’t without some minor snafus. Apparently, an overloaded circuit caused a delay for the crowning of Miss Smither by Kentucky Governor Simeon Willis, but spec-taters didn’t let that ruin their day.
The potato festival was a big event for the city in years past, lasting several days and with the goal of raising funds for recreation facilities in the community. Each year the potato festival committee tried to find new and better activities and events to include. In 1949, for example, the fundraiser grand prize was a brand-new Buick. While that might have been a draw for adults, the kids were no doubt most excited by Daredevil Don Woods, who parachuted out of a hot-air balloon from 1,000’. At the 1952 festival, more than one million dollars’ worth of Army tanks and weapons were on display for attendees to view, and local celebrities Randy Atcher and Tom “Cactus” Brooks roamed the festival grounds. That year, however, marked the end of the potato festival.
Longtime St. Matthews residents still have fond memories of the potato festivals, so Cleary and her Chamber colleagues, in coordination with the St. Matthews City Council, decided that after the effects of COVID-19, everyone could use some old-fashioned fun. The entertainment commenced immediately when the Chamber leaders realized how many a-peel-ing puns they could use in their press releases to promote the new and improved potato festival. Suffice it to say that no one was a hesi-tater when it came to planning this year’s event.
This year’s festival event runs from noon to 6 p.m., and will be held in St. Matthews Community Park. There will be vendors and children’s activities, as well as some potato-specific amusement. “One of the activities is Spud Putt, where we’ll be putting a potato,” Cleary says. “We’ll have a potato mascot and a themed photo booth.” Another highlight of the festival begins at 2 p.m. that day – a Tater Trot fun walk through the park. There will also be a cook-off featuring tasty tater treats.
One of Cleary’s goals is to also have information at the festival about the city’s potato past, for not only residents, but also visitors who are intrigued by the spud story. In planning this event she had to root around for some information to add to her knowledge base, from having lived and worked in St. Matthews at various times in her life. “Thankfully, years ago a historical group that was attached to Waggener High School did a beautiful history that includes newspaper articles over the decades,” she says. “I was able to pull a lot of that. I was able to communicate with some longtime families, and get my hands on one of the original programs and copies of the posters.”
Keep your eyes peeled for additional information about the St. Matthews Potato Festival by visiting stmatthewschamber.com/st-matthews-potato-festival.


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Zaire was choosing between Florida, Texas, Wisconsin and North Carolina. The 22-year-old completed 59.2 percent of his passes for 816 yards, six touchdowns and zero interceptions in 15 games for the Irish. He also had 324 rushing yards and two scores.
On Friday the SEC changed its graduate transfer rule. The conference's old rule banned teams from adding the new transfers if other previous grad transfers failed to meet academic requirements at their new school during the previous three years. Florida had two recent grad transfers that failed to achieve the academic benchmarks.
Zaire was given a release from his Notre Dame scholarship in November. The release was unconditional.
He is expected to compete with Luke Del Rio and Feleipe Franks for the starting quarterback job. Zaire will travel to Gainesville on Wednesday, according to Fox Sports.


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Bob Dylan is being accused of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl in 1965, according to a new lawsuit filed Friday.
The "Like a Rolling Stone" singer/songwriter, 80, whose real name is Robert Zimmerman, allegedly groomed, sexually abused and threatened physical violence against the plaintiff, identified only as "J.C." in the court documents.
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Whatever you do this weekend, I hope it's loads of fun. Stay safe and I invite you back here on Monday. As for me, I'm working on my very own froggy fairy tale to share with young Quigley on Sunday. "Once upon a time, on a lily pad far, far away...."

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Ok, so that winning streak is actually just one game long, but the Irish impressed in Week 3 by knocking off then-No. 15 Michigan State at home by a score of 31-13. Notre Dame was a 5-point favorite on the college football betting lines at the Bodog Sportsbook for that contest and put some money in their backers’ wallets.
Prior to that result the Irish were 0-2 on the season, falling to South Florida 23-20 in their opener and then to Michigan 35-31 in Week 2. Farewell longshot national title chances, hello potentially disastrous campaign.
However, Notre Dame’s win over the Spartans gives them momentum going into their game against a Pittsburgh team coming off a loss. They’ll want to get some better numbers from their QB position against the Panthers, though, as Tommy Rees threw for just 161 yards with one touchdown and one interception against Michigan State.
Cierre Wood rushed for two scores for the Irish in the win, and George Atkinson returned a kickoff for a touchdown in the contest.
Pittsburgh thought they had a win in the bag in Iowa over the weekend, until Hawkeyes QB James Vandenberg tossed three TD strikes in the fourth quarter to give his team a 31-27 victory.
Iowa managed to cover a 3-point spread on the college football lines at the Bodog Sportsbook in that game. Pittsburgh supporters looked like they’d get an easy ATS win when they led 24-10 heading into the final frame.
Panthers QB Tino Sunseri threw for 255 yards with two touchdowns and two INTs against Iowa, while Ray Graham ran for 97 yards on 22 carries as his team fell to 2-1 on the season. They’ll look for a better result against the Irish on Saturday afternoon.
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Sen. Bong Revilla surrenders to Sandiganbayan, files motion for bail
(Updated 1:22 p.m.) Sen. Ramon "Bong" Revilla Jr. surrendered to the Sandiganbayan before noon Friday, after the anti-graft court signed a warrant for his arrest in connection with the P10-billion pork barrel fund scam.
Bong Revilla surrenders to Sandiganbayan. Senator Ramon Bong Revilla Jr. surrenders to the Sandiganbayan on Friday, June 20, after a warrant of arrest was issued against him. Revilla and 32 others have been charged with plunder and graft for their alleged involvement in the P10-billion pork barrel scam. GMA News
Revilla, wearing a white polo, arrived aboard a van that passed through the court compound's back entrance, radio dzBB's Rowena Salvacion reported.
The senator lost no time in filing a motion for bail but also asked the court to send him to Camp Crame for detention in case the bail petition is denied, according to his lawyer Joel Bodegon.
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Revilla's lawyer, Joel Bodegon, insisted however that his client did not surrender, describing the senators' decision to go to the Sandiganbayan as a "voluntary submission."
Revilla was accompanied to the Sandiganbayan by his wife, Cavite Rep. Lani Mercado-Revilla; sons Jolo and Bryan; daughter Loudette and Gianna; and grandson Gab.
His sisters Andrea Yñares and Rowena Bautista, and brother Ram were also with him.
Media crews mobbed Revilla while security personnel of the Sandiganbayan tried to keep media at a distance so the senator can formally surrender to the graft court.
Supporters of the senator managed to get near the area.
Revilla was at the Sheriff's Office as of 11:19 a.m.
Earlier, Revilla said there is no need to arrest him as he will surrender to the court. Plunder is a non-bailable charge.
On the other hand, Associate Justice Efren Dela Cruz recommended a P30,000 bail bond for the graft charges.
Meanwhile, lawyer Richard Cambe, Revilla's legislative staff who is also facing plunder and graft charges, is expected to surrender to the court within the day.
A source said he is just near the Sandiganbayan premises.
Lawyer Remigio Michael Ancheta, Cambe's counsel, said they will be filing a petition for bail on Monday. — Joel Locsin and Andreo Calonzo/LBG/KG/RSJ, GMA News
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For more than four years, Americans and Europeans have largely stood by as Syria descended into a violent and bloody civil war. Only when the conflict started spilling out into Iraq did the United States step in and start to try to contain ISIS—albeit largely from the air.
Starting early this summer, Europe began to more acutely experience fallout from the war. The refugee crisis, which has been in large part driven by the steady flow of asylum-seekers from Syria, has put the Schengen joint border management regime under unprecedented stress. Its unraveling threatens free movement inside the EU—one of the key achievements of the European project. Large parts of Europe refuse to take in war refugees, and right-wing parties are on the rise across the continent. And now the latest blow: the attacks in Paris were apparently masterminded in Syria, with at least some of the perpetrators trained and indoctrinated there.
It should be obvious that it will be impossible for Europe to live in peace and tranquillity when a whole region in the immediate neighborhood goes up in flames—when a so-called government, various warlords, and terrorists fight a ruthless, bloody war of attrition, killing hundreds of thousands of people, destroying infrastructure and shredding a country’s social fabric to tatters. Europe cannot just keep on watching and hoping that the fighting ends. Or can it?
True, France wants a stronger military response, and is in the process of building a coalition to fight ISIS that would include Russia. Answering France’s invocation of a little-known mutual defense clause of the EU Treaty, a number of countries are considering giving some support the French effort, but more out of solidarity with France and than out of conviction.
In Germany, today widely seen as the leading country in Europe, there is not much debate about Syria and even less about what could be done to end the war. The debate about refugees has been instead focused on questions of identity—how much immigration can German stand? A recurring criticism of Merkel from center-right media has been that the chancellor allegedly wants “another Germany”, a more multicultural country.
And after the Paris attacks, the debate about a potential connection between the influx of refugees from the Middle East and terrorism has intensified, at least on the right of the political spectrum. But almost no political leader or commentator argues that Germany should address the root cause of the problems in the Middle East, in Syria, by fighting ISIS. The German consensus is, as foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has said, that there is no military solution to the war in Syria.
While it is true that just throwing more bombs on ISIS will not make much of a difference, it is also true that the peace process being hashed out in Vienna, which in the words of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is based mainly on “hope”, is unlikely to solve much either. The hope is that all the various players will come to an agreement that it is in everyone’s interest to end the war, stick to it, and convince their various clients on the ground to play ball. Why should they do now what they refused to do in the preceding four years?
The containment strategy, devised and implemented by the U.S., has failed to protect Europe from the fallout of the war. Getting beyond mere hope requires a concerted effort and commitment by the West to end the fighting. The U.S. and its European allies would have to exert serious pressure on all the players involved, including Russia, Iran, Turkey and Saudi-Arabia. They would have to invest massive resources into the effort, including military ones, committing themselves to a long and painful slog, in both enforcing a power-sharing agreement, and then guaranteeing its faithful implementation.
But almost none of the Western powers (with the potential exception of France) are ready to do that. They are not ready to fill the vacuum that the destruction of state and society has left in Syria, the space that is now being filled by Assad’s henchmen and an assortment of jihadists. The U.S. wants, at almost any price, to avoid anything that resembles the painful Iraq experience. A major state-building project in the Middle East is something that President Obama, who has made ending wars a cornerstone of his legacy, is very unlikely to start. And most of Europe, which is much more directly affected by the breakdown of order in Syria, is opting to shield itself from the war’s collateral damage rather than addressing it head-on.
“Hope”, then, is what everything hangs on: hope that the war will somehow magically burn itself out, hope that ISIS won’t be able to strike again in Western capitals, hope that Europe can cope with the stream of refugees without losing its precarious internal balance. If this hope-based strategy somehow works, we would be right to call it a miracle.
But a much darker scenario is possible, and if nothing is done, increasingly likely. A never-ending stream of refugees will lead to an increasingly bitter fight between EU countries over borders, immigration and asylum law. Key elements of the EU system of governance, such as the free movement of people, will break down, borders will be reinstated, and much of the trust that has been built up over the last decades between Europeans will be forgotten. Large parts of the population will increasingly vote for xenophobic, far-right parties—parties that make false promises of protecting nervous voters from the the downsides of globalization while vowing to preserve all of its advantages. Additional terrorist attacks will spread fear and sow more discord across Europe, even as draconian anti-terror laws and operations gnaw away at civil liberties.
Both the festering refugee crisis and the brutal attacks on Paris must be seen as proof of the saying “nature abhors vacuum”. The vacuum of governance in Syria and parts of Iraq has been filled by malevolent, dangerous actors. For years Europe could live in the illusions that it wouldn’t be affected by this war.
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Coming just before Haiti native Wycliff Jean’s close, Dave Mathews and Neil Young provided the artistic, emotional climax to the ‘Hope Haiti TV Special with a moving rendition of Hank Williams’ hymn to despair ‘Alone and Forsaken’. (More to Come)
‘Alone and forsaken’ was first released in the mid fifties on the ‘Moanin The Blues’ album. Mike Taylor at the Hank Williams Discography which is linked at the side, says the recording on ‘Moaning The Blues’ came from the Johnny Fair Syrup radio broadcasts in Shreveport. Apparently it was never recorded for MGM.
MTV says “Emmy Lou Harris captured the isolation in the song on the ‘Timeless’ album, as did Dave Mathews and Neil Young whose performance (Friday Night)underscored the seriousness of Hope for Haiti Now.”
The Los AnglesTimes like MTV thought the Hank Williams’ song perfectly caught the spirit of the Hope for Haiti event:
And then there was the unexpected pairing of Neil Young and Dave Matthews. Strumming guitars, the pair sang a spectral version of the Hank Williams song “Alone and Forsaken” that forced listeners to acknowledge the depth of pain in Haiti that no amount of charity can heal.
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This book is an excellent, up-to-date reference on a relatively young area of research in which virology, cellular biology and molecular pathogenesis govern the principles of coinvestigation. Thus, the book will be of great interest to virologists, molecular immunologists and biologists, and biochemists but also to clinical pharmacologists in the long-term search for new antiviral agents. Ulrich Desselberger, Gif-sur-Yvette/Cambridge.
Infection of a naïve (non-immune) host with a virus elicits an immediate response which results in a cascade of changes in the host, including an interferon response (innate immunity). The outcome of this interaction is influenced by the genes of the virus as well as the genes of the host. Interestingly, different viruses do it in different ways. Not only is there a plethora of mechanisms used by the invading organisms, but the host has also evolved a great variety of redundant and robust countermeasures. This interplay of host and virus represents one of the most significant frontiers in biology today. A clearer understanding of the mechanisms involved will arm us with better strategies to deal with viruses, including emerging pathogens and potential bioterrorism agents. This book is sure to benefit students, scientists, and physicians working in the areas of virology, immunology, microbiology, and infectious diseases. Pharmaceutical industry professionals will also find interest in this illuminating look into virus/host interactions.
1: Viruses And The Innate Immune System, Megan L. Shaw and Peter Palese.
2: How Viruses Elicit Interferon Production, David E. Levy and Isabelle J. Marié.
3: Genes Modulated By Interferons And Double-Stranded RNA, Saumendra N. Sarkar, Gregory A. Peters and Ganes C. Sen.
4: Immunoevasive Strategies: Host And Virus, Markus Wagner, Shahram Misaghi and Hidde L. Ploegh.
5: Interferon Antagonists Of Influenza Viruses, Adolfo García-Sastre.
6: The Anti-Interferon Mechanisms Of Paramyxoviruses, Nicola Stock, Stephen Goodbourn and Richard E. Randall.
7: The Strategy Of Conquest, Sunil J. Advani and Bernard Roizman.
8: Immunomodulation By Poxviruses, James B. Johnston and Grant McFadden.
9: Interferon Antagonists Encoded By Emerging RNA Viruses, Christopher F. Basler.
10: Viral Pathogenesis And Toll-Like Receptors, Susan R. Ross.
11: Digesting Oneself And Digesting Microbes, Montrell Seay, Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar and Beth Levine.
12: Genetic Variation In Host Defenses And Viral Infections, Eunhwa Choi and Stephen J. Chanock.
While the molecular mechanisms of antibody production and diversity and of cellular specific immune responses have been studied since many decades, the actions of viruses blocking and modifying the innate immune system, i.e. mainly the interferon (IFN) response and its various signaling pathways, have been recognized and studied in more detail only during the last 10-15 years. Viruses can counteract defense strategies of infected cells, and specific proteins of many viruses were found to act as IFN antagonists.
In this book a number of groups leading this area of research have presented reviews and updates of their research. In the introductory chapter M Shaw and P Palese review the IFN signaling pathways and provide a comprehensive list of virus-encoded proteins that target different components of the pathways of the IFN response. It is then reviewed how viruses elicit the IFN production (DE Levy and IJ Marié), how IFN regulatory genes are induced by viruses (group of GC Sen), how viruses have 'learned' to evade immune mechanisms, interfering with MHC mediated antigen presentation, blockage of apoptosis, mimicking of cytokines and cellular receptors, or by direct infection of immune cells (group of HL Ploegh). In additional chapters, the virus-encoded IFN antagonists of particular viruses are described, such as of influenzaviruses (A Garcia-Sastre), paramyxoviruses (group of RE Randall), herpes simplex virus (SJ Advani and B Roizman), poxviruses (JB Johnston and G McFadden), filoviruses, bunyaviruses and flaviviruses (CF Basler). For poxviruses, the mechanisms of molecular mimikry, i.e. viral proteins binding to cytokines or cytokine receptors, are of particular interest. A new area of research is the involvement of toll-like receptors in the activation of pathways of the innate immune response and of their interaction with viral proteins (SR Ross). Autophagy is a protective mechanism of mammalian cells that can be targeted by viral virulence gene products (group of B Levine). Finally, the ways in which the genetic variation of hosts influences the susceptibility to viral infections is reviewed in a short chapter with particular attention to infection with HIV (E Choi and S Chanock).
There is minimal overlap between the different chapters, and the references are very up-to-date (a considerable number of them published in 2004). In several chapters the years of publication of references are omitted for no obvious reasons. Some chapters would have benefited from the presence of illustrations and tables.
This book is an excellent, up-to-date reference on a relatively young area of research in which virology, cellular biology and molecular pathogenesis govern the principles of coinvestigation. Thus, the book will be of great interest to virologists, molecular immunologists and biologists, and biochemists but also to clinical pharmacologists in the long-term search for new antiviral agents.
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Joe Hurley and Colum McCann's songwriting collaboration has resulted in a glorious 13 minute epic, sprawling across the wastelands and heartbreaks of a prostitute's life in New York City, 1974. "The House that Horse Built (Let the Great World Spin)" was inspired by McCann's breathtaking new novel, and it shivers and slides it's way through the darkness and into the light with unbreakable spirit amidst a stunning musical and lyrical landscape of grit, defiance, love, and surrender.
McCann's novel Let The Great World Spin won the 2009 National Book Award .
Click here to check out Joe Hurley's Audio Portrait! The highly-acclaimed Audio Portraits series gives listeners unique insight into the creative process, as told by the writers themselves. This feature is the story behind Joe Hurley and Colum McCann's latest CD, The House That Horse Built (Let The Great World Spin). posted 6.9.10
1) My Name Is Till (You Can Call Me Sweetcakes)
2) Let The Great World Spin (I Am Of This Earth)
3) a) Hanging From The Pipes (Leaving The House That Horse Built)
b) Let The Great World Spin Without Me
With Joe Hurley (vocals & guitar), the CD features an all-star cast of musicians including many of The Gents: Tony Shanahan - bass (Patti Smith Band), James Mastro - guitar (Ian Hunter Band), Kenny Margolis - piano (Cracker), Dennis Diken - drums (Smithereens), Matt Sweeney - guitar (Johnny Cash, Bonnie "Prince" Billy), gospel great Tami Lynn (Rolling Stones, Dr. John), soul singer/film star Antonique Smith, Joe McGinty, Faith Hahn and 6-time Grammy winner Paddy Moloney of the legendary CHIEFTAINS. The CD was produced by Don Fleming (Sonic Youth, Pete Yorn) with Joe Hurley at Think Tank, NY.
"Joe Hurley has always been a superior songwriter. He is also a singer of distinction, a great vessal of lyric poetry, a man of attitude and once upon a time a drinker of proportions epic enough to encompass visions of human grandeur in the simplest gesture of lust, punch in the face or hairline fracture of the soul. He has drawn upon all these motley talents to conjure a vision of faith in the thralls of despair on this remarkable song cycle, "The House That Horse Built," based on Colum McCann's novel "Let the Great World Spin."
Hurley's cracked, gut-spilling vocals take us through the pride and degradation of a New York street prostitute -- "My Name Is Till (You Can Call Me Sweetcakes)" -- brought to ruin at The House That Horse Built, yet still capable of understanding spiritual transcendence in the wrenching hymn "Let The Great World Spin."
Somehow a vision of Philippe Petit's gravity-defying tightrope walk between the two World Trade Center buildings becomes a prayer, a metaphor of transcendance for Till, who hangs herself from the pipes in the Tombs as her method of escape from the House That Horse Built.
"I was of this earth, and I had worth," goes the chorus. McCann and Hurley make us contemplate 9/11 as the backdrop of this morality story. The haunting music, Hurley's voice and the ethereal choir make us all root for Till as she floats away to her fate: "Let the great world spin, let me back in, let my heart swim away from the house that horse built."
– John Swenson (Rolling Stone Editor, UPI syndicated music columnist, Co-author of Rolling Stone Record Guide, author of 14 music biographies including John Lennon, Bill Haley, and The Who)
"On the surface it’s a bleak tale, but the undercurrent of hope throughout is magnificent and reflected in the music."
– Dan Aquilante, NY Post, 3 & 1/2 stars out of 4 - CDs of the Week
"A phenomena... lyrically compelling, wondrously sung and superbly produced by Don Fleming"
– Nick West, Nick West Publisher/Music Editor of UK's Bucketfull of Brains Magazine
"Incredible! Joe Hurley is a brilliant songwriter and a truly charismatic performer."
– Paddy Moloney of Ireland's legendary The Chieftains
"Joe Hurley shakes the Irish out of the Irish - and brings us all back together again. He's an old seanchai in a rock star's shoes, a poet of microcosm with a steroscopic vision, a balladeer with a whole lot of landscape in his voice. He sings out from the anonymous corners where the best stories are told. Chalk one up for the old songs, newly told... Hurley is one of the great songwriters of our time."
– Colum McCann, 2009 National Book Award Winner for Let The Great World Spin & best-selling novelist of Everything In This Country Must (made into Oscar-nominated film), Zoli, Dancer, This Side of Brightness, and others.
"The CD is great. The first line of the hook is perfect!"
– Ian Hunter, (Rock legend).
"New York Singer-Songwriter Joe Hurley is set to be one of the highlights of this year's Feile Festival, as his Bank Square Marquee appearance will be the first time he has performed in Belfast. The legendary artist will be entertaining fans old and new with his classic hits along with songs from his latest album "The House That Horse Built" (Let The Great World Spin). This latest release is a unique collaboration with Irish novelist Colum McCann, inspired by McCann's award-winning novel 'Let The Great World Spin'. The album features a guest appearance by iconic troubadour Paddy Moloney of The Chieftains, highlighting Hurley's Celtic roots, while fans can enjoy the usual eclectic mix of piano ballads and stinging rock & roll ."
– Belfast News, (Cover Story).
"Hurley's songs are edgy, harrowing and moving, much like his muse and protagonist in this most unusual project."
– Steve Rosenfeld, (NPR, ASCAP).

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Using machine learning techniques, researchers identified diabetic individuals among populations with normal fasting glucose using common physical examination indexes in a recent study published in BMC Medicine.
Using machine learning, researchers were able to detect diabetic patients in individuals with normal fasting glucose using research funded by NicoElNino/Shutterstock.com.
What is the background?
The public health issue of diabetes mellitus (DM) is becoming more prevalent, with many undiagnosed cases going unnoticed and causing complications. The International Diabetes Federation predicted a rise from 537 million diabetic individuals in 2021 to 643 million by 2030.
The healthcare system is burdened by undiagnosed cases, leading to a preference for early diagnosis and the use of machine learning for efficient screening. However, fasting blood glucose can be too inconvenient to diagnose many cases accurately due to its accuracy in predicting risk.
The prevalence of normal fasting glucose in diabetic patients highlights the need for broader screening methods and research to improve detection across different segments.
What is the study’s subject matter?
To create a model for identifying diabetic patients with normal fasting glucose, the current study utilized physical examination data from three hospitals. These data were classified as D1, D2, and D3 and were subjected to rigorous cleaning procedures along with samples classified according to the WHO’s diabetes diagnostic criteria.
The datasets were skewered by class imbalance, prompting the use of SMOTE (Synthetic Minority Oversampling technique), which normalized Z-scores for standardization.
The computational model utilized various machine learning methods, with the deep neural network (DNN) being the most suited. Established metrics like sensitivity and accuracy were used to refine the model, considering the data’s extensive class separation.
Initially, 27 features were used for predictions, but there was a drive to optimize this by eliminating potential redundancies. This involved considering 13 crucial features, which were identified through manual curation and the max relevance and min redunancy (mRMR) analysis.
An online tool called DRING was developed for practical use. The study expanded on previous research by introducing a method that utilized the permutation feature importance algorithm, which provides individualized risk assessment for diabetes onset.
The findings of the study were published in academic journals.
The First Affiliated Hospital of Wannan Medical College analyzed 61,059 samples with normal fasting glucose (NFG) through physical examination data between 2015 and 2018.
The Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1d) level threshold was set at 6.5%, and nearly 1% (603 participants) were classified as diabetic. Additionally, the diabetical group had an average Body Mass Index (BMI) of 1.08 units higher and was 10.6 years older than the non-diabetic group.
Absolute lymphocyte count (ALC), age, FBG, BMI, and white blood cell count were the primary markers of diabetes, but an additional 11 important factors were also observed.
The model’s stability was dependent on the elimination of redundancy, which was a result of the strong correlation between hemoglobin (HGB) and hematocrit (HCT) or neutrophil (NEU) AND lymphocyte (LYM).
The use of manual curation and the mRMR method resulted in an optimal feature space. Thirteen out of the initial 27 features were chosen, with each focusing on different factors such as FBG, BMI, ALC, and age. In tests, models built with 13 features performed slightly better than those with 27, showing increased precision and sensitivity.
Additional testing was conducted on two independent test sets, D2 and D3. The AUC values of both models were above 0.95 on D2, and almost equal to 0.90 on the same scale. Additionally, the Youden’s (or J) index on this model was notably high. Manual curation-based models generally performed better than those based on mRMR.
The mRMR model had a significant flaw due to its high false positive rate on the heavily fragmented D2 dataset. However, these results indicated that the model is effective in identifying diabetics without prior diagnosis in the NFG population.
The study utilized the weights from the manual curation model with 13 features to identify the key risk factors for diabetic risk. The top five variables identified were ALC, FBG, age, sex, and BMI.
Previous research has indicated that an increase in FBG level within the NFG range increases the risk of diabetes. Notably, these studies reaffirmed age and BMI as well-established risk factors, while also highlighting the difference in diabetes risk between genders. Other important variables included the mean corpuscular volume (MCV) and absolute monocyte count (AMC).
A framework was developed to tailor assessments of diabetic risk to individual patients, based on permutation feature importance (PFI).The case was disseminated for risk factors using the case from an external validation set.
Despite her FBG being within the normal range, this individual’s age, FBP, and BMI were identified as the primary diabetic risk factors. These findings highlight the importance of tailoring interventions to individual risk profiles.
This work culminated in putting this analysis into the DRING web server, which made its practical application easier.


(Natural News) No matter what Jake Vella does, the 7-year-old boy from Malta continues to get larger as a result of a rare life-threatening condition that affects the automatic nervous and endocrine system. He suffers from rapid-onset obesity with hypothalamic dysregulation hypoventilation and autonomic dysregulation, known as ROHHAD, a condition of which less than 100 people have ever been diagnosed. None of them lived far beyond their 20s, but Jake is determined to do everything in his power to combat the deadly symptoms by competing in triathlons.
Jake was diagnosed with ROHHAD in 2015. According to the National Institutes of Health, most kids with ROHHAD start to develop symptoms within the first ten years of their life. Symptoms include dramatic weight gain, shallow breathing during sleep, slow heartbeat, and growth hormone deficiency.
After a video, which has been seen over five million times, was published on the Lovin Malta Facebook page, Jake’s story touched the hearts of many people around the world, raising awareness of this very rare disease.
Jake was a healthy and extremely active five-year-old when he suddenly started feeling ravenous all the time. In just six months he gained 20 pounds, which prompted his parents to put Jake on a strict diet of salads and an exercise regime. When he still continued to gain massive amounts of weight, his parents knew that something was not right.
After his mother Maruska fanatically searched for similar cases to find out what was wrong with her boy, she stumbled on a story of a girl who suffered from an extremely rare condition called ROHHAD. After reading up on the condition, she got the sinking feeling that Jake was showing the early symptoms of the same disease.
“After multiple checkups and visits to medical specialists, my husband and I were called in for a diagnosis update. As soon as the doctor started writing ‘R’, ‘O’, my heart skipped a beat; I knew exactly what was coming next,” his mother told Lovin Malta.
Run, swim, and cycle for life
As reported by Lovin Malta, there are only 75 known cases of ROHHAD worldwide. About 25 percent of children with this rare condition die from respiratory failure. The longest-living survivor of this incurable and life-threatening disease was 22 years old when she died. Nearly half of the individuals with ROHHAD also develop neural tumors. Jake, unfortunately, is part of the 40 percent that suffers from the more advanced level of this mysterious disease, called ROHHAD-NET.
But this isn’t stopping this very brave boy and his family from trying to combat the condition with everything they’ve got. The triathlons keep him fit and active and allow him to socially interact with other kids. What hurts the family the most are the looks they often get. Even though they are an active, healthy family, Maruska and her husband Josie are often judged as irresponsible parents with an obese child.
“If you see someone who is obese, or looks different, you have no way of knowing whether he has any sort of condition, even if it isn’t one as rare as my son’s. So please; don’t keep staring, because you’ll keep hurting us.”
According to his mom, Jake has always been a very active boy who loves to cycle, run, swim, and play the drums. Now seven years old, Jake runs triathlons to combat his life-threatening condition. While they don’t dare to plan for the future, living their lives day-by-day, Jake’s parents said that their son’s lifestyle and a healthy diet are definitely helping him fight this condition. (RELATED: Learn how to improve your health through the power of food at Ingredients.news.)
His mother explained that some kids with ROHHAD that are younger than Jake are kept on air support on a 24-hour basis. “We’re grateful we have a son who loves being so active… because it might just be saving him,” she added.
In a recent interview, Jake’s parents told Lovin Malta that one of Jake’s biggest dreams was to meet the Olympic triathlete brothers, Alistair and Jonny Brownlee from England. On March 31, his dream came true during a 30 minute Skype chat with his heroes. Just as Jake has inspired thousands of people with his courage and joyful look on life, the famous Brownlee brothers were also touched by his story and granted his wish.
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GUWAHATI, June 17 - At a time when both the Central and State governments have prioritised time-bound implementation of various flagship schemes targeting the farm sector, the State Agriculture Department�s activities are getting affected on account of �manpower crunch� as many posts are lying vacant even as a large number of serving officers have been deployed for other activities like the NRC update process.
Sources in the Agriculture Department told this newspaper that the large number of vacancies and shortage of officers at different slabs has impacted implementation of projects.
�The State government recently released the gradation-cum-seniority list of officers of the department. The list clearly shows that a lot of posts in various ranks are lying vacant. There has been no effort to fill up the vacancies by conducting fresh recruitment. The department�s work is suffering on account of this,� an official told The Assam Tribune.
As per the list which has been updated till May 31 this year, there are currently five vacancies in the rank of Additional Director of Agriculture, 11 vacant slots in the rank of Joint Director of Agriculture, 18 in the rank of Deputy Director of Agriculture/District Agricultural Officer, 13 in the rank of Assistant Director of Agriculture, 90 positions in the rank of Sub-Divisional Agricultural Officer, 13 slots in the rank of Senior Agricultural Development Officer and as many as 130 vacant posts in the rank of Agricultural Development Officer.
�In addition, a number of serving officers have been deployed in other non-departmental operations like the NRC update process. For example, in entire Majuli district, there is at present only one District Agricultural Officer engaged in departmental work, while all others are engaged in other activities. In Biswanath district, not a single officer is deployed in departmental work. As such, we are facing a big vacuum and the department�s activities have got paralysed,� said the official.
He added, �This is happening at a time when the government has focussed on implementation of flagship programmes like the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi, Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana, and the newly-announced pension scheme for farmers, besides the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana, among others.�
It is noteworthy that a State-level review meeting of the department was held here last week under the chairmanship of State Agriculture Minister Atul Bora.
�The Minister spoke about time-bound implementation of projects. But how will it be possible to do so if the department faces such big manpower crisis? Besides, there is also the issue of lack of promotion avenues. There are officers who have worked for 25-30 years without getting a single promotion,� the official added.
Meanwhile, sources added that the department is likely to take steps soon for conducting a fresh round of recruitment to fill up some of the existing vacancies in the Agriculture Department.

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Spitalfields Antiques Market 6
This elegant woman surrounded by a kaleidoscope of vivid florals is Lucy Welsh from North London. “I was working in a cafe but I gave it up because I thought I could make a living by buying and selling,” said Lucy brightly, revealing a brave spirit of enterprise. “I sell the kind of thing that I would buy for myself,” she explained, making graceful gestures with her delicate fingers to indicate the subtle blue shades of her Poole Pottery coffee set for just £25 and the pair of Sanderson chintz curtains in near mint condition for a mere £30. Keen prices at this stall from a lady of taste and discernment.
This is Sue & Roy Watts, popular stalwarts in the market, who have been been getting up at three in the morning and coming every week to Spitalfields from Norwich for seven years. Sue deals in jewellery and Roy sells furniture. “We’ve been through the good, the bad and the ugly,” confirmed Roy with a caustic grin, because, once, he and Sue endured a hurricane whilst trading outside the market during the renovations. Adding, “I used to think I was selling antiques, but now I realise I am a Dickey Dealer!” with the philosophical smile of one who has survived tempests to arrive happily in the calmer waters of this present day.
This is Molly & Ellen, who can be seen working together in the market every Monday, Thursday and Friday. Molly’s family have been swagmen in the East End for generations and Ellen played here in the fruit & vegetable market when she was child. “I was born in Whitechapel and this used to be our playground – only the porters could control us because they were the only ones we would listen to.” confided Ellen with a proud smirk. Witnessing the fluctuations of the neighbourhood, Molly & Ellen are two women of great spirit who speak for a resilient local community that has lived through all the changes, and I hope to talk further with them both in coming weeks.
This intriguing individual with the thoughtful gaze is Ali Winstanley from Stoke Newington whose father and sister are both antique dealers, which means that, even though she only been trading for six months, she has an educated eye. I particulared admired the millefiori brooches that she has and you must look out for Ali’s collections of vintage purses, silver lockets and decorated toffee tins too. “I have a passion for all things curious and kitsch!” declared Ali enigmatically, offering a tantalising invitation to view the contents of her newly-minted blog that explores her enthusiasms. www.kuriosas.blogspot.com
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i think maybe the muse & i have been casting i-ching & practicing yoga a bit too much. she’s really obsessed with metaphysics. the only one i ever knew who could pull off a 10 song set of that stuff is Jackson Browne. when i try it, the audience starts passing the collection plate & breaking up the crackers.
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v.1 there is a time to be in love, a time to gather just enough, standing as one, no matter how hard the climb. praying for a miracle on the shining shore, we swim as we are able, against the tides of time.
ch. time keeps on runnin’, runnin’ all the time, precious are the memories of the mortal man, angels in your corner pointing to the higher love, we’re stronger together and partners in the plan.
v.2 secret & invisible forces pull us on, all our dreams & promises won’t buy us any time. when this life is over & the time comes to depart, god will build stronger angels from the pieces of your heart.
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Selena Gomez keeps her head down as she leaves the Nine Zero One Salon on Friday night (July 19) in West Hollywood, Calif.
The 20-year-old actress just released her new video for “Slow Down” — be sure to watch!
In a recent Q&A with People, Selena chatted about being a new big sister.
“[My last moment of bliss was] Probably last night. I’m a relatively new big sister [Gracie Elliot was born June 13], but it’s the best thing ever,” she shared. “My bliss is coming home and seeing her after I have been working.”
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Jail locked down after new inmate tests positive for COVID-19
ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind. -- The St. Joseph County Jail was locked down early Thursday morning after a newly arrived inmate tested positive for COVID-19.
The lockdown was ordered by the sheriff and the warden to limit movement within the jail to isolate and test people potentially exposed.
All inmates are locked down within their pods, not cells, and have access to the day room and telephones, officials said.
Officials said the inmate had been treated as a possible positive since he arrived Monday from Westville Correctional, and was housed in the medical isolation unit.
Anyone potentially exposed to the inmate will be tested and isolated.
So far, over 54 inmates have been tested and all have been negative.