In Concept to Reality, we take a look at the latest electric vehicles from the ABB FIA Formula E Championship's stable of leading manufacturers. Nissan has just launched its all-new Ariya, so now's the perfect time to dive into the story behind the design process of this cutting-edge electric crossover.
Nissan has just changed the electric car game again, with the unveiling of the Ariya - its all-new 100 percent electric crossover.
The Ariya is Nissan's next-generation electric car, following in the footsteps of the now-iconic, and groundbreaking, LEAF - the best-selling EV in automotive history.
The production Ariya faithfully follows the design and features of the concept that made waves at the 46th Tokyo Motor Show in 2019.
We're going to take a look at how the concept came to be, and what influenced program design director Giovanny Arroba - the project's mastermind.
Nissan's Ariya embodies the company's Intelligent Mobility vision of personal transportation – one where electrification and vehicle intelligence will offer seamless and adaptive travel experiences free of accidents or harmful emissions.
With twin electric motors, powerful acceleration and award-winning driver assistance technology the Ariya is also a complete reinvention of Nissan's design.
"It started with our vision of how to shape the future," said Arroba, a 20-year Nissan veteran, and graduate from the ArtCenter College of Design, California.
"I wanted to merge form with the unique experience of an EV, and the autonomous and connected technology that Nissan Intelligent Mobility represents. The relatable attraction of the automobile as a dynamic object to be driven was essential for the concept.
"It was a multi-department effort including Design, Engineering, Product Planning and Marketing, all working closely together with a shared vision of our brand's future. Not to mention the countless artisans who built and programmed the concept from an idea into a physical reality.
"I don't think people realise just how many designers it takes or how diverse the expertise that’s required to design a car.
"There are many complexities as it is not a static product, but an integral part of an owner's life. We must ensure we give it personality that reflects its function and provides an overall lasting experience."
Arroba sees himself as "a part of Nissan", and just a small component in the huge team effort required to develop a vehicle fit to embody the company's philosophies.
That said, his "daydreaming" and design ideologies embody his work, and have shaped the Ariya from the ground-up, with striking looks that represent Nissan’s new design language, Timeless Japanese Futurism - characterized by a distinctive Japanese approach, conveyed in a simple, powerfully modern way.
"It's essential to keep an open mind, to keep daydreaming, to keep discovering," he adds. "I like balance. This is critical when composing model identities tailored to the customer.
"The balance of a sharp gesture with the flow of a surface that effortlessly surrounds the exterior, and in the interior around the driver and passenger.
"I take inspiration from fashion, architecture, toys, as well as music and film – both for the content as well as the way they are composed and directed. Designing a car is like creating a visual symphony as well as setting the scene for the customer’s journey.
"This is my pursuit and something that I hope can be seen whether it’s the Infiniti Essence Concept, IMs concept, the production Maxima or, of course, the Ariya.
"The design team, coming together from all around the world, is like an orchestra, and sometimes a session jazz band. We all play different instruments and bring to the “music” our own depths of artistic passion and inspirations.
"Together, we develop and combine our numerous layers of notes to compose our symphony. The Ariya is a global effort in that same way. Having a global team enriches our concept with a shared brand vision that’s music to the ears."
Published on 15th July 2020
Nissan CEO Makoto Uchida, and Chief Operating Officer Ashwani Gupta, unveiled the Ariya to a global audience today (July 15) during a livestreamed event at the new Nissan Pavilion in Yokohama.
“The Nissan Ariya is a truly beautiful and remarkable car,” Gupta said. “It enables you to go further, easier and in comfort. The Ariya is designed to impress, and to express what Nissan strives for – making our customers’ lives better."
Building on Nissan’s strength as an EV pioneer, the Ariya takes the powerful performance and capabilities of zero-emission vehicles to a new level.
The car’s all-electric drivetrain combines excellent power delivery, charging capabilities and a range of up to 610 kilometers. Customers can choose from multiple configurations to meet their individual needs. These include two-wheel-drive and e-4ORCE all-wheel-drive versions, as well as two different battery sizes.
The e-4ORCE all-wheel control system balances the powerful performance with all-weather capability. The system’s twin electric motors provide a balanced, predictable ride, with sports car-level power delivered in the blink of an eye.
Drivers will feel more confident and less stressed thanks to the ProPILOT 2.0 advanced driver assistance system and the ProPILOT Remote Park and e-Pedal features.
Also standard across the Ariya lineup is Nissan’s Safety Shield system. This includes Intelligent Around View Monitor, Intelligent Forward Collision Warning, Intelligent Emergency Braking and Rear Automatic Emergency Braking technology.
An all-new human-machine interface lets customers use natural speech to adjust car settings. Over-the-air firmware updates keep the Ariya feeling fresh and exciting. The Ariya also includes Amazon’s Alexa to help customers simplify and organize their lives.
Nissan’s design team took advantage of the car’s new EV platform, which allows for a flat floor, and its compact climate control components to give the Ariya the most spacious cabin in its class.
The lounge-like interior, featuring Zero Gravity seats, provides a welcoming and comfortable environment for driver and passengers alike.
“The Ariya enhances driving excitement, ensures high levels of comfort and confidence and heightens the joy of connecting,” Gupta said. “It’s more than just a great EV crossover, it’s a great vehicle. It’s a true force of wonder.”
Having seen "his" vehicle unveiled in the flesh, Giovanny Arroba has earmarked "home" as the first place he'd visit for a test drive. As a Southern Californian, there are plenty of jaw-dropping routes to sample.
"I grew up in Southern California, so I would love to drive it up the PCH (Pacific Coast Highway) from Santa Barbara through Big Sur, Carmel and Monterey. Carving along the West Coast with the Pacific Ocean by my side would feel surreal," he said.
"On an extended vacation, touring around Spain and Portugal or Scotland's west coast and the Isle of Skye are high up on my list."
The all-new Nissan Ariya is scheduled to go on sale in Japan in mid-2021 and in Europe, North America and China by the end of 2021.


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The Grammys had its fair shares of wins and losses. Here’s a recap of the Grammys surprising wins and snubs.
Billie Eilish, 18, racked up some notable wins.
Eilish won Album of the Year for When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Eilish also won other awards for Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year for (both) “Bad Guy,” and Best Pop Vocal Album.
Lil Nas X Snubbed by Billie Eilish for Album of the Year.
Most pundits believed Lil Nas X would take home the win for Album of the Year, but that did not happen; however, Lil Nas X did win his first two Grammys for Best Pop/Group Performance and Best Music Video. Lil Nas X’s historic achievement of having the longest No. 1 single for “Old Town Road” for a prodigious 17 weeks on top, had some questioning the current Album of the Year winning.
Tyler, the Creator won a Grammy and received support from Jaden Smith, “Boyfriend”.
The rapper won Rap Album of the Year for Igor. The rapper additionally gained support from Jaden Smith, who openly said: “My Boyfriend Just Won A Grammy.” Back in 2018, Jaden addressed the crowd at Camp Flog Gnaw, truthing “Tyler doesn’t wanna say, but Tyler is my motherf***ing boyfriend, and he’s been, my motherf****ing boyfriend my whole motherf****ing life. It’s true! Tyler is my boyfriend.”
Michelle Obama won her first Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Becoming.
The former First Lady’s winning was announced early. Obama beat out nominees; the Beastie Boys for their “Beastie Boys Book,” Eric Alexandrakis for “I.V. Catania: 20 Years As A Two-Time Cancer Survivor;” John Waters for “Mr. Know-It-All,” and Sekou Andrews for “Sekou Andrews & The String Theory.” Becoming followed the life of the former first lady and her experiences growing up on the South Side of Chicago up until her role as the first lady of the United States.
Lauren London and Nipsey Hussle’s Grandmother gave a heartfelt Grammy Acceptance Speech.
Nipsey Hussle’s family stood on stage as they accepted the gone-but-missed rapper’s very first Grammy Award on his behalf. Hussle won Best Rap Performance for his song “Racks In The Middle” featuring Roddy Ricch & Hit-Boy during the non-televised Grammy Awards pre-show. London said, “Nip did it not just for the awards but, for the people”. She added, “And God allowed him to speak his truth, give us wisdom and something that we will forever be able to live with.” The late rap icon’s grandmother also thanked everyone for their love and support, in addition to his other relatives.
Lizzo won three Grammy Awards.
Lizzo had the most nominations of the night having deserved eight nominations, but the singer did not win any primary categories; luckily, she did rack up at least three wins. Lizzo won a Grammy for Pop Solo Performance, Urban Contemporary Album, and Traditional R&B Performance.
H.E.R. had five 2020 Grammy nominations and did not win any.
The singer did not win any Awards despite having five Grammy nominations; she lost Album of the Year for I Used to Know Her, Record of the Year for “Hard Place,” and Best R&B Song and Best R&B Performance for “Could’ve Been” featuring Bryson Tiller.
Ariana Grande did not win a 2020 Grammy Award.
The singer gained “aww” on social media for her red carpet look, wearing a grey Giambattista Valli ballgown. Grande earned five Grammys nominations and did not win any of them.
The Grammys had its shocking moments but we’re all looking forward to next year.

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CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, I'm Carol Lin at the CNN Center in Atlanta. Here are the headlines.
France has sent its foreign minister to the Middle East in an effort to gain the release of two French journalists. Pictures of the two men missing in Iraq for over a week surfaced on al Jazeera television. The network says the kidnappers are the same group that claimed to have kidnapped and killed an Italian journalist.
And two Turkish hostages were freed today by Iraqi militants. The men were kidnapped from a construction site in Baghdad. They were released after their company said they would halt all business in Iraq.
And the fireworks have finished. The medals have all been awarded. And athletes from 202 countries are packing up to go home. The 2004 Olympic Summer Games are over. The final tally? Here it is. The United States took home 103 medals, the most overall. Russia had 92. And China had 63. But perhaps the most important number is 0. No terrorist attacks.
And Tropical Storm Gaston has weakened into a tropical depression. But this morning, it swept ashore in South Carolina with near hurricane force winds. It knocked out power for thousands of customers and caused a lot of flooding. Nearly 10 inches of rain fell in some inland areas. And flash flood warnings are in effect, but obviously the water rising in some places. So far, there has only been a few injuries reported.
Those are the headlines this hour. Keeping you informed, CNN, the most trusted name in news.
ANNOUNCER: America Votes 2004. This is CNN's live coverage of the Republican National Convention.
WOLF BLITZER, HOST: Good evening from New York City, the Big Apple and Madison Square Garden. For the next four days, this is the center of the universe, at least for the Republican Party. Tomorrow, this red, white and blue arena will be bursting with thousands of delegates. They've been arriving here all day long, checking into hotels, taking their first quick look at this very famous skyline, getting ready for non-stop politics. That's exactly why we're here as well.
Hello, I'm Wolf Blitzer, reporting from ringside here together with colleagues, Judy Woodruff and Jeff Greenfield.
Judy, you've been getting a sense where these Republicans are coming from, at least in their attitude arriving here in New York.
JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: Wolf, this has been a nail biter of a campaign year for these Republicans, mainly because of the Iraq War. They've had a lot to worry about, to worry about whether this president is going to be re-elected.
Just lately, though, they've gotten some good news from the polls. They feel the wind is at their back a little bit. They want this convention to go perfectly. They want it to go smoothly because they want to go into the fall, the next 65, 66 days without a hitch. And they're hoping this convention is going to give them that kind of a life.
BLITZER: And historically speaking, will they - are they likely to get it?
JEFF GREENFIELD, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, history says that you come out of the convention, you know, in good shape, unless like 1968 in Chicago or 1972 in Miami for the Democrats. But you know, they're in an arena where the last two Democratic presidents were nominated by the Democratic party in a town that's never seen a Republican convention.
If they want to take some historical encouragement, they're about six blocks from the birthplace of the first great New York Republican, Teddy Roosevelt. Was born literally about a five minute walk from here. They have come to one of the Democratic cities in America, partly because of what happened here September 11th three years ago, and partly to take what happened here and turn that into one single argument that there is no more important issue this year than who can conduct the war on terror. And they think when they come out of this convention, doubting Thomases among the voters are going to say, oh yes, I guess the president's the right guy to keep in charge.
BLITZER: OK, we'll be hearing a lot about that war on terrorism over the next four days. Tomorrow night, this arena will be full of convention delegates. Tonight, the workers still applying somewhat of a final touch throughout the building.
We're going to begin our coverage by checking in with our senior White House correspondent John King. He'll be stationed all week long over at the center of the action. That would be the convention podium - John?
JOHN KING, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And Wolf, it is from this podium that the president, the vice president, and all of their surrogates will make the case for four more years for the Republican ticket. Mr. Bush will speak on Thursday night here in accepting nomination for a second term. Today, he was campaigning in West Virginia, one of a handful of the November showdown states where the president is testing themes as he makes his way here to his New York convention. The president campaigning in the state that was critical to him in the last campaign, a traditionally Democratic state he very much wants to hold.
Again this time, already here in New York is the vice president of the United States, Dick Cheney. He will speak on Wednesday. And he came into the Garden Hall today to test out the microphone, to get comfortable with the podium, reading from the teleprompter a bit of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
Now that is not the speech, of course, he will deliver Wednesday night. What you will hear from both the vice president and the president is a strong defense of their leadership in the war on terrorism. They will say perhaps you don't agree with every decision, but that they believe they have provided decisive leadership. And that Senator Kerry, his Democratic opponent, would provide anything but that. They also will try to flush out a domestic agenda for a second term. Look for the president to promise to keep taxes low and make them more simple and suggest his opponent would raise them.
Also, to try to address Democratic criticism by saying he has a better plan to make health care more accessible and more affordable. And from here, the president will go immediately back out on the road. Wolf, 60 days to Election Day when he leaves here, this of course, the big defining event still to come. And the next big event in this campaign after this convention will be the presidential debates - Wolf?
BLITZER: All right, it'll be a sprint until November. John, thanks very much.
Not far from where John King is right now up in the podium, take a look at this. There he is, Rudy Giuliani. He's testing the microphones. He's checking out the location. Wants to make sure that when he delivers his primetime speech tomorrow night, everything is very, very comfortable for him. This is his hometown, New York City. This is, of course, almost three years since 9/11 when he gained national and indeed international prominence.
Rudy Giuliani, like so many of the other speakers, checking out Madison Square Garden for this Republican convention.
We have new poll numbers to report tonight from three of the so- called battleground states, where George W. Bush and John Kerry are focusing much of their time, energy, and campaign cash.
According to the latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, Kerry leads Bush among likely voters in Iowa by 51 percent to 45 percent. Ralph Nader has 2 percent. His name will appear on the Iowa ballot.
In Wisconsin, Bush leads Kerry 48 percent to 45 percent. It's not clear yet if Nader will be on the ballot there.
And in Pennsylvania, look at this, it's a dead heat. 47 percent each. Nader right now gets 2 percent. He has turned in enough signatures to be on the Pennsylvania ballot. But those petitions are still being processed.
And remember, all three of these states narrowly went to Al Gore in 2000.
The delegates from Iowa, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania can expect to get a lot of attention during this convention. Our floor reporters are keeping watch on all three state delegations. Dana Bash has the latest on the battle for Pennsylvania. Candy Crowley is keeping an eye on Wisconsin. Dan Lothian standing by with the latest on Iowa.
Dana, let's begin with you. Tell us a little bit about this battle for Pennsylvania.
DANA BASH: Well, Wolf, just the fact that there's a dead heat in the polls is very significant because John Kerry's campaign felt that they were doing better in Pennsylvania after his convention. Their internal polls, aides to Senator Kerry said that they showed them up a little bit in this state.
Now if you want to know just how important the 21 electoral votes from this state are to President Bush, just look at his travels. He's been to Pennsylvania 32 times since he's been in office more than any other state besides his home state of Texas. And he's going twice this week. He's actually sleeping in the state of Pennsylvania the very night he gives his speech here in Madison Square Garden.
Now a problem for the president in 2000, he lost, of course, Pennsylvania by about four percentage points to Al Gore. A problem with it, he didn't win a lot of his own Republicans - moderate Republicans in the Philadelphia suburbs. They desperately know that they have to win them back. A problem for the president perhaps is the war in Iraq and concerns among moderate Republicans in that area. So they are trying to get some of the conservatives out, a lot of grassroots activists who are delegates here, much more than in years past, Wolf.
BLITZER: Dana Bash in Pennsylvania.
Candy Crowley, following Wisconsin, at least right now. This is a very important state for these politicians, Candy.
CANDY CROWLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely. In 2000, Wolf, no one really knew that Wisconsin was a battleground state until the last week, when both campaigns, Gore and Bush, began to look at those polls. And pretty soon, Wisconsin became this major thoroughfare. Al Gore won by 6,000 points - I'm sorry by 6,000 votes.
Now comes 2004. From the get-go, they've known this is a battleground state. So both sides say that they have unprecedented get out the vote efforts. A Republican in the state told me that last week alone, they made 80,000 voter contacts, more than they ever did in 2000.
So this is a very, very tightly contested race. They also say that Nader could be a very big factor here. He only needs 2000 signatures to get on the ballot. Democrats will be scrutinizing those Nader signatures very, very closely.
As for the Republicans, they say this is not only about the swing voters. It is also about those voters who didn't vote last time, among them, about 200,000 Christian evangelicals - Wolf?
BLITZER: From Wisconsin, Candy, thanks very much.
Let's go to Iowa. Dan Lothian monitoring the situation there - Dan?
DAN LOTHIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Wolf. And based on those numbers, the president does have some ground to make up in Iowa, if you do believe those numbers. The president lost to Al Gore in Iowa by just the slim margin, less than one percent of the vote there. The president will be campaigning in Iowa this week on Tuesday, along with Senator John McCain, as he tries to reach out to those moderate voters, those undecided voters in Iowa.
He will also be returning, we understand, to the state later in the week. Some 32 delegates, 7 electoral votes here in Iowa. And Iowa voters here no doubt will be focusing on what the president has to say about the economy, but also what he has to say about winning the war on terrorism and you know, fixing the situation in Iraq - Wolf?
BLITZER: All right, Dan Lothian in Iowa for us. Thanks to all of our floor reporters.
So what are these poll numbers really mean for President Bush on the eve of this Republican convention? Our senior political analyst Bill Schneider is here to break down the numbers for us - Bill?
BILL SCHNEIDER: Well, Wolf, this is certainly not good news for Democrats. All of these states were carried by Gore. Kerry has to keep them in the Democratic column if he's going to win next year. But he's not safely headed in any of them, including Iowa, where his six point lead is within the margin of error.
Why isn't Kerry doing better? Well, it's not the economy, stupid. About every - about 60 percent of the voters in every one of these states say their state's economy is not in good shape. But in each state, at least half the voters say the U.S. did the right thing in sending troops to Iraq.
Now here's the big test. If you think the economy is bad, but Iraq was the right thing to do, how do you vote? And the answer is Bush by about 60 percent in every one of these three states. International affairs trumps the economy. And it's paying off for President Bush.
BLITZER: Bill Schneider with the latest insight into these important poll numbers in these three battleground states. Our GOP convention preview just getting started. Much more coming up. We'll take a quick break. We'll be right back.
BLITZER: Welcome back to Madison Square Garden. The Republican selection of New York is strategic, as well as symbolic. It's been almost three years since this city was struck by terrorists.
CNN'S Aaron Brown takes a look now at how New York has changed, and what that could mean for this convention.
AARON BROWN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The Republicans will find a ground zero far different from the one the president saw just days after the attack. Then, it was a horrible graveyard, a smoldering mass of mangled steel and concrete.
Today, it looks like what it has become, a huge construction site changing, growing by the day. But if the site has changed, and it has, memories have not.
EVELYN ROBB, OWNER EVELYN'S CHOCOLATES: It was horrible. People were just rushing in because they wanted to get off the street.
BROWN: Evelyn Robb has owned this chocolate shop one block from where the towers fell for nearly 40 years. Her shop reopened two months after the attack. Her business has yet to recover.
ROBB: The people are not here. You know, and even the different companies that we used to deal with, they've relocated.
BROWN: Three thousand lives gone. Tens of thousands of jobs lost. A city under perpetual orange alert. It's something New Yorkers think about practically every day in ways large and small.
Companies in Manhattan have spent tens of millions of dollars upgrading security. Lobbies are now filled with security guards. Employees carry electronic ID cards. Hidden cameras keep an eye on all the doors.
GREGG POPKIN, VP CB RICHARD ELLIS: I think it's really prudent to be well protected, to be thinking about this. You can't protect a building against an airplane flying into it. But what you can do is train people to react properly afterwards, and mitigate the losses.
BROWN: Greg Popkin's firm manages more than 100 office buildings in the metropolitan area. And like so many New Yorkers, he knew people who died on 9/11.
What seemed a crazy worry three years ago doesn't seem so crazy today. Some of his tenants have emergency masks at their desks.
POPKIN: Basically, I just don't want it on my head that, God forbid, something happens in one of my buildings and my people are not prepared.
BROWN: National Guard troops patrol Penn Station right below Madison Square Garden. Police occupy key intersections, a show of force meant to be a deterrent.
And there is counterterrorism activity that is not visible, but is there every hour, every day.
RAYMOND KELLY, NYPD COMMISSIONER: Obviously, we're doing some increased security, taking increased security measures surrounding the convention. But certainly after the convention, we will remain at a heightened state of readiness.
BROWN: The firehouses which suffered more casualties on 9/11 than any other first responders honor their dead on their front doors. Planes that used to fly over Manhattan don't fly over Manhattan any more. Homeland Security helicopters do.
It is for New Yorkers the new normal. Most Republican delegates shuttling from their hotels to Madison Square Garden and to Manhattan sites and night life, likely won't see the crowded lively sections of Brooklyn's and Queens that are homes to tens of thousands of immigrants from the Middle East and Asia, immigrants who still feel unease and who all seem to have a story about a friend or a relative caught up in the fear after 9/11.
WALLAA MAHREN, VIDEO STORE CLERK: You couldn't even go out of home, you know, especially people who like wearing - yes, like me, we couldn't go out for a while, women, because people was bothering them so bad.
ABDUL KUMANDAN, RESTAURANT MANAGER: ...repeat over and over, day after day, the word terrorist and fear mongering. It doesn't help us.
BROWN: To the outsider, perhaps New York is the same old place. The bright lights of Broadway shine. New buildings reach to the sky. The bustle of what New Yorkers think of as the world's capitol city.
But New York is not the same, not at ground zero, as cleaned up as it is, not at the firehouses even with the flowers long gone, not in the office buildings fearing the next attack. We were all changed by 9/11, but none as painfully and maybe even as permanently as the city of New York.
Aaron Brown, CNN, New York.
BLITZER: And that increased security that Aaron just noted in that piece will not only be intense, it also will be state of the art. As CNN's Jeanne Meserve reports, the best minds and the best technology available are focused on keeping New York safe.
JEANNE MESERVE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Some officers on the streets of New York this week will have extra eyes built into their helmets.
ERIC JOHNSON, FEDERAL PROTECTION SERVICE: You have the camera in the front. There's a transmitter in the back. And it's all battery - it runs off battery.
MESERVE: And all transmitted wirelessly back to the Federal Protective Service command center.
RON LIBBY, FEDERAL PROTECTIVE SERVICE: So if someone says this demonstration's getting out of hand and I hear those reports, I can switch to a helmet cam and see if projectiles are being thrown or if people are chanting. I can see if objects are being shoved or pushed around, or if it's just jostling by the crowd.
MESERVE: Helmet cams are among hundreds of cameras providing real time information to the 24/7 multi agency command center at police headquarters.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In here, we have over 66 different agencies represented.
MESERVE: The big dog in this federal, state, local security effort is the New York City Police Department. Though the Secret Service is in charge, it has just over 3,000 agents nationwide, compared to the NYPD's 37,000 officers. The department is almost as big as the entire U.S. Coast Guard.
The Coast Guard is here in force, patrolling the waterways around Manhattan. Every train coming into New York is being searched. And special teams are deployed to detect and respond to weapons of mass destruction.
With so much security concentrated in New York, the Department of Homeland Security in Washington is trying to monitor the big national picture.
BOB STEPHAN, HOMELAND SECURITY DEPARTMENT: We don't' know when and where exactly these guys might strike, if they do in fact plan to strike against us.
MESERVE: Well, with the president and so many other governmental officials coming here, the convention is a prime target. It's estimated the city alone is spending $60 to $70 million in extra security - Wolf?
BLITZER: Jeanne Meserve on the streets of New York City. Jeanne, thanks very much.
We're going to continue our preview of the Republican National Convention. Much more coming up. Stay with us.
WOODRUFF: Back here in an empty Madison Square Garden, just for tonight, many of this week's primetime convention speakers are among the most recognizable names in American politics. But their views on a number of issues notably out of line with both the president and the recently adopted Republican party platform.
WOODRUFF (voice-over): Schwarzenegger, Giuliani, McCain, the faces of this week's gathering at the Garden, beloved among the most coveted voters, Independents and Moderates, but largely at odds with the conservative core of the Republican party. And on some of the most contentious social issues, largely at odds with George W. Bush.
The GOP is showcasing the moderate trinity this week, but Bush needs to do more than bring in wavering Independents. He must also nurture and expand his base of social conservatives. And on some of the most polarizing social issues, these hard-liners are worlds apart from other voters.
Take abortion, for instance. 53 percent of voters who describe themselves very conservative say abortion should be illegal in all circumstances. But just 17 percent of the rest of the electorate agrees, demonstrating the ideological chasm Bush is struggling to straddle.
Houston, 1992, Republicans made a hard charge to the right.
MARILYN QUAYLE, FMR. VICE PRESIDENT'S WIFE: Most women do not wish to be liberated from their essential natures as women.
WOODRUFF: Alienating huge swathes of moderates in the process. Pat Buchanan thundered against radical feminists and denounced gay marriage as amoral.
PAT BUCHANAN (R),FMR. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: There is a religious war going on in this country.
WOODRUFF: George W. Bush won't allow us versus them language on social issues at his convention. But he's found other ways to telegraph to his core supporters that he's one of them, referring to Christianity as his life's guiding principle.
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Democratic society should welcome, not fear, the participation of the faithful.
WOODRUFF: Infusing the Republican platform with language defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman, supporting a constitutional amendment to do the same.
BUSH: The union of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution.
WOODRUFF: But in that speech, Bush never disparaged homosexuality. In fact, he never even used the words "gay" or "lesbian" or morality.
And as the president stakes out a clear position on same sex marriage.
DICK CHENEY, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Lynn and I have a gay daughter.
WOODRUFF: The vice president signals the Republican party is big enough to accommodate other views.
CHENEY: Freedom means freedom for everyone. WOODRUFF: And so, the ticket straddles the gap between this week's trio of primetime speakers and the social conservatives already in the fold.
WOODRUFF: In fairness, there is a debate about how John McCain fits into this portrait of the moderates. The Arizona senator does agree with most conservatives on abortion and gun rights, but he disagrees on a gay marriage amendment. What everybody can call him is a maverick.
Well, with me now, political strategist Ralph Reed, a regional chairman for the Bush campaign. And Donna Brazile, a Democratic strategist and CNN contributor.
Ralph Reed, a man active with the log cabin Republicans, a gay rights group this week, said during the platform deliberations you can't put lipstick on a pig. Is that what the Republican party's trying to do with this?
RALPH REED, BUSH CAMPAIGN REGIONAL CHMN.: No, I think what you're seeing here, Judy, is a party that is a majority party in the country. We've got a majority of the House, majority of the Senate, president of the United States, majority governors, majority state legislators. And you would expect that party, when it gathers every four years, to reflect the full diversity and the breadth and depth not only of our party, but of the country.
And I will just tell you, I'm proud of that. And not only am I proud of it, I think it's a sign of the strength of our party. You know, the media seems to be almost criticizing the fact that we have diversity, not only from the podium, but on the floor of the convention. If you take the 44 percent of the delegates that are women, you take the 17 percent that are African-American, Asian, or Hispanic, and you take the 18 percent that are veterans, this is the most diverse convention we've ever had. So I think it's a strength, not a weakness.
WOODRUFF: Not criticizing diversity, noting some of the contradictions. Donna, is that how you see it, that this - Republicans are simply the big tent and there is going to be some diversity here?
DONNA BRAZILE, FORMER GORE CAMPAIGN MANAGER: It's a big tent with a narrow door, Judy. Many people feel - many Americans feel unwelcome in the Republican party. I mean, Ralph described what appears to be a Democratic party convention. And I'm looking forward to seeing what diversity, if at all, exists in the Republican party.
The Republican party that represents the majority in this country is an extreme right wing party. Most Americans out of sync with this party on many social value issues. And I think what you'll see this week is the Republican party trying to reposition itself, redefine a reincarnation of what it's been over the last four years in Washington, D.C. and all over the country. WOODRUFF: Jeff Greenfield has a question.
GREENFIELD: Steady leadership at a time of change, that's one of the big themes here.
GREENFIELD: And it occurred to me former Marine Corps General Zinny wants Rumsfeld fired for his screwing up Iraq. Lee Iacocca endorsed your guy four years ago. He's gut mad for John Kerry.
First Secretary of the Treasury said he was clueless of the economy. And the former Air Force chief of staff who endorsed Bush is endorsing Kerry.
The question is that's defections from your team. Is that not a target of opportunity for the Democrats to say, look, he tried, but his own team says leadership wasn't there?
REED: No, I don't think so, Jeff, not when you have somewhere between the high 50s to low 60 percent of the American people saying that they believe the president has the right leadership in the war on terrorism, not when you see "The L.A. Times" poll showing the president with a net gain on the ballot of five points since the Democratic convention. You've now got the president's job approval in both the Gallup poll and "The L.A. Times" poll over 50. No president in modern times has lost a reelection when his job approval is over 50.
So you know, look, the American people are behind this president. And I would just point out, by the way, that Tommy Franks, who led the effort in Iraq, even though he has not taken a formal political position, has made it very clear that the president's policy was sound, it was solid, it was commonsense, and it's winning the war on terror.
WOODRUFF: Donna, a word in edgewise here?
BRAZILE: Well, you know, again, this is going to be a week of reincarnation and redefinition of what moderate - this is a party that is governing in the extreme. And Ralph understands that the president has used most of his political capital rallying his right wing base.
And this week, what you'll see is Republican trying to, you know, reach out to the congregation, those persuadable voters that are out there, that are looking for leadership and feel that the president has let them down on the economy, on health care, and on many other important domestic issues.
WOODRUFF: We're going to have to leave it there. Donna Brazile, visiting the Republican convention.
BRAZILE: First Republican...
WOODRUFF: Ralph Reed at home at a Republican convention.
WOODRUFF: Thank you both. We'll see you both during the week.
REED: Thanks, Judy.
WOODRUFF: And Wolf is down on the floor. Wolf, what have you got for us next?
BLITZER: When we come back, Judy, I'm going to take all of our viewers on a special tour of this convention floor at Madison Square Garden. We'll be right back.
BLITZER: The Republican delegates certainly aren't the only people visiting New York City. There were literally tens of thousands of demonstrators who showed up from all parts of the country to make their voices heard today.
CNN's Deborah Feyerick, she's out on the streets. She's been reporting all day on what happened.
Deborah, fill in our viewers.
DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The crowds kept coming and coming and coming.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Show me what democracy looks like.
CROWD: This is what democracy looks like.
FEYERICK: A march so large, so dense, so unified, it covered two city miles. And those at the end didn't even cross the starting line until three hours after the march began.
CROWD: Bush and Cheney talk the talk.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But we know they're chicken hawks.
FEYERICK: The chats were strong. The slogans even stronger. And the mood...
JODIE EVANS, CODE PINK: It's so celebratory. It's people exercising their patriotic duty, which is to protest when America's being violated.
FEYERICK: There were suburban moms and military veterans. Some like Marine Sergeant William Hunt recently back from Iraq.
SGT. WILLIAM HUNT, MARINE: My friends lost their lives - I had 18 friends that lost their lives because of his mistakes, because he rushed into a war.
FEYERICK: There were children and churchgoers. There were those like Molly Altman, who have seen other wars.
MOLLY ALTMAN, PROTESTER: I'm a grandmother. I have grandchildren of draft age. I don't want them fighting this nonsensical war. Let him send his children.
FEYERICK: And those like Jennifer Baker for whom the Iraq War is the first.
JENNIFER BAKER, RECENT NEW YORK UNIV. GRADUATE: And for people who are saying that, you know, they're chastising America's youth for being uninvolved and uninterested, we're an example that we are interested, and that we're not interested in Bush.
FEYERICK: They came to New York from around the country to send a message to the president.
LESLIE CAGAN, UNITED FOR PEACE & JUSTICE: We will say no to the Bush agenda. We call for the immediate end of the U.S. occupation in Iraq.
FEYERICK: Even a smattering of registered Republicans join the march.
MICHAEL WILLIAMS, REGISTERED REPUBLICAN: We're tied up in Iraq. It was a mistake. And they lied. So I think if you believe in national security, you have to vote for Kerry.
FEYERICK: A small handful of Bush supporters did try getting out their own message.
CROWD: Four more years! Four more years!
FEYERICK: And towards the end of the peaceful march, there were a few small pockets of violence from agitators.
FEYERICK: Now protest organizers say the crowd reached 400,000, but police can't confirm because they say they don't give numbers. And some of the crowd says it doesn't really matter anyway because they always feel that the numbers are too low. But whatever the figures, those who did march strongly believe that they will make a difference on Election Day - Wolf?
BLITZER: And by and large, Deborah, it was very, very peaceful. Only a few arrests, is that right?
FEYERICK: It was extremely peaceful, especially given the sheer volume of folks who were marching today.
BLITZER: Deborah Feyerick. She's out of the streets for us as she has been all day. Deborah, thanks very much.
Still ahead, "THE CAPITAL GANG", all of them, they're here on the convention floor. They'll be showing up. Also, my tour. I'm going to take you around, show you what we can expect this week at Madison Square Garden. We'll be right back.
BLITZER: Welcome back to the convention, the Republican convention here at Madison Square Garden. Let me take you around the floor, give you a sense what exactly is going to go on.
By the way, this is - this pit that you see in here, this is really a stage that will come up. The band will be here. They'll be performing all sorts of numbers. A lot of Broadway show tunes. You'll be seeing, of course, expect to come to New York.
You got to go see Broadway. This is the main podium over here, where most of the speakers will be speaking Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. But get this. Coming Thursday, this podium, this main stage is going to be brought all the way out. It's coming out center stage here when President Bush delivers his acceptance speech. Thursday night, this podium will have been moved all the way out. He'll be in the center of this vast Madison Square Garden. And he'll be addressing the people in a Oprah like fashion a little bit to make it look a little more friendly, a little warmer.
It's a new look for the Republican convention. They've been testing it. And it looks like it's going to be pretty, pretty cool.
By the way, I want to show our viewers one more thing. If you take a look up there, some of those sky boxes where the major television news organizations have their booths, look up there. You see al Jazeera. You see the sign that says al Jazeera. That was something that didn't exist at the Fleet Center in Boston. Al Jazeera was there, but for some reason, the Democrats didn't let them have their sign. The Republicans have their sign, all of which indicates that maybe the Republicans feel a little bit more confident to let al Jazeera showcase their banner, more confident than the Democrats did then.
One thing that we are going to do here, again, as we did at the Democratic convention in Boston, we've given four delegates, Republican delegates, those mini cams to go out and shoot, give us a little experience what it's like to be a delegate behind the scenes. Right now, here is the first of our delegate diaries.
CATHERINE CAVALERES, DELEGATE: Hi, I'm Catherine Cavaleres and I'm a delegate from the great state of California.
JACK CAPRA, DELEGATE: I'm Jack Capra. I'm a delegate from Jacksonville, Florida.
ANDRES NAVARES, DELEGATE: I am Andres Navares. And I am a delegate from Puerto Rico.
GEORGETTE MOSBACHER, DELEGATE: I'm Georgette Mosbacher, the New York Republican National Committee woman and a delegate here in New York City. I've always been a Republican. And I've always believed in what the Republican party stands for.
That's the Ellis Island medal of honor. This is presented by the president of the United States. This is me dancing at the White House with President Bush 41. That's just a little sampling of memorabilia.
I live here in New York. This is my home. It's been my home for the last 12 years. And I was born and raised in Indiana, but I am a New Yorker now.
CAPRA: I've never been to New York before. Wow, that's a big city. What bridge is that?
I'm going to try to meet as many people as I can and learn as much as I can, try and have a good time. I'm a lawyer, I'm a JAG in my reserve life. And I got mobilized and was sent to Iraq and spent the last seven months over there.
My wife and I have a daughter. She was three months old when I left. So (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
My job was to help facilitate and get the new Iraqi judicial system up and running. I was injured in an IAD, which is basically a roadside bomb and then was awarded a purple heart. I'm very happy and very proud of the fact that I was able to help out, contribute.
NAVARES: I was a delegate at the Philadelphia Convention. And it was a great learning experience. Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens. And Puerto Ricans cannot vote for their president. I can be a delegate because the party established their own rules. I have a responsibility to my children and grandchildren to do something for Puerto Rico. And I'm motivated mostly by that. I'm motivated by the fact that this gives me an opportunity to do something at the national level.
CAVALERES: I think it's a dream come true for any political junkie to be a delegate. I have not been a delegate before. I have attended the last two conventions in '96 and in 2000. I met Reagan in 1994 and I wanted to basically thank President Reagan for my life. He inspired me to become involved in politics.
I'm the executive director of the Republican Party of Orange County. It's also known as America's most Republican county. I had the privilege and the honor of attending the Olympic Games. I just had a wonderful time getting in touch with my heritage. And my family, before I headed back to the United States, my adoptive land, even though I was in the height of the Olympics, I couldn't wait to come here to New York and to get involved at the convention and electing the president.
BLITZER: And that was the first of our delegates' diaries. We promise every night primetime, you'll be seeing more from these delegates. In a moment, we're going to turn it over to "THE CAPITAL GANG." All of them, all of five of them. They're right here.
MARK SHIELDS, CO-HOST: Right here.
BLITZER: They're standing by. We'll hear from them about the convention when we come back.
BLITZER: CNN's "THE CAPITAL GANG" standing by to give us an insight into this convention. Mark Shields, Bob Novak, Kate O'Beirne, Al Hunt, and Margaret Carlson.
Mark Shields, take it away.
SHIELDS: Hey, thank you very much, Wolf. Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Republican mayor of New York said extremely peaceful today, these demonstrations. Bob, big demonstrations, but peaceful. Disappointment?
BOB NOVAK, CO-HOST: No, I'm glad they were peaceful, but they were a bunch of nuts out there. They looked silly. They - what I didn't see, I didn't see a single Kerry sign out there. I saw a lot hate Bush, Republicans go home, rudeness. I would say that it was a downer for the Democratic party, but those aren't really Democrats out there. There are a lot of nuts. And they don't have John Kerry's cause.
SHIELDS: Al, did it really hurt the Democrats, do you think?
AL HUNT, CO-HOST: You can sense the palpable disappointment from Robert D. Novak. It was peaceful. Nobody got hurt. No one was arrested.
Now let me get this straight.
NOVAK: One hundred were arrested.
HUNT: They weren't John Kerry supporters. There were no Kerry buttons, but it hurts Kerry. Sure, Mark.
SHIELDS: Now Kate O'Beirne, the people who run the Republican party of George W. Bush are not being highlighted at this convention. The people are being highlighted at this convention do not run the Republican party of George W. Bush. How do you explain that? Are we in the cross dressing politically I mean with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rudy Giuliani?
KATE O'BEIRNE, CO-HOST: We're going to hear some really conservative speeches this week.
O'BEIRNE: We're going to hear a really conservative speech from Vice President Dick Cheney. We're going to hear a very conservative speech from a conservative President George Bush. Because Zell Miller is going to deliver a terrific conservative speech. And as a former Democrat, he knows how to do politics.
NOVAK: He is still a Democrat.
O'BEIRNE: Arnold Schwarzenegger's a Hollywood star. And I think the audience has got to enjoy him. And John McCain, I expect, is going to give a very compelling defense of the war in Iraq and remind an audience of why it was terribly important to go to Iraq.
SHIELDS: But Margaret, where's Tom Delay? Where are the real stalwarts of this administration?
CARLSON: They're in the attic. Remember Ross Perot's aunt, crazy aunt in the attic? Listen Bob, I know you were disappointed by these demonstrators not being identified with Democrats. But listen, it was a very peaceful demonstration. Mayor Bloomberg should be very happy. And yes, they look like demonstrators, but they don't look like the anarchists in Seattle, which is all to the good. And you will blame everything on Democrats when it does go wrong. I'm surprised you didn't say the liberal media wasn't covering it enough. The liberal media was dying for some news today. If there had been any, it would have been covered.
NOVAK: ...by Democrats to me. But anyway, let me...
CARLSON: Because they don't have on three piece suits?
NOVAK: They also look like anarchists.
CARLSON: They don't have on three piece suits.
NOVAK: Let me answer your question.
SHIELDS: I want to hear you, Bob.
NOVAK: That is a phony thing I've been hearing around about the cross dressing.
NOVAK: The reason they're putting Schwarzenegger and Giuliani on, this is the two...
SHIELDS: And McCain.
NOVAK: And McCain.
NOVAK: They're all very popular. But let me try to explain this to you.
NOVAK: And I'd - listen, this party stands for a couple of things. And that is opposed to abortion and it is for tax cuts. Now John McCain is against tax cuts. He has no future as a - in the Republican party as long as he's against tax cuts. And Rudy Giuliani has got to get straight on the abortion issue, or he's not going to have a (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
Those are the facts of life. They can put these people out as candidates. That's OK, but the Republican party has not changed its position on those two...
HUNT: How about gay rights, Bob? Don't you think some of them may have some problems with gay rights? But you know something? Bob knows cross dressing, so I'm not going to try to quibble with him on this, but I got to tell you something. We talked about his palpable disappointment about the demonstrations not going badly. I'm really crushed that we're not going to hear Rick Santorum in primetime. I think that really would have been great for America.
O'BEIRNE: Well actually it's 8:30. He does have a speech of course at 8:30, which is a desirable time.
HUNT: But that's before the television networks get on there, of course.
O'BEIRNE: Lieutenant governor of Maryland Michael Steele, I think, is going to be a popular personality that's going to be introduced. Very conservative black...
SHIELDS: Is the Barack Obama of this camp?
NOVAK: No, he's the Michael Steele of this...
SHIELDS: He is.
NOVAK: ...of this convention. You know...
SHIELDS: Is he playing the role...
NOVAK: I know...
SHIELDS: ...of Alan Keyes?
NOVAK: I know people like you hate to see a black person who is a conservative and a Republican, but there are some.
NOVAK: I wish there were more.
SHIELDS: Bob, I want you to just calm down, all right. Take your medication and answer this question for me. Bob, you've got speaking at this convention, you have Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is for gay marriage and for gay rights; John McCain, who is against the president's constitutional amendment; Rudy Giuliani who's for gun control, gay rights, and gay marriage - what the hell pro-choice?
NOVAK: Oh, you asked me the question. First place, Rudy Giuliani is for tax cuts. And - no wait a minute, wait a minute. And they have their own opinion. They're not Stepford wives like they were at the convention in Boston.
You have - and you have John McCain, who is for - he is pro-life, although he is against tax cuts. These are just...
CARLSON: If I could just go here for a second.
NOVAK: These are just different kinds of people. I know it's hard for you to imagine they have differences of opinion.
SHIELDS: We have to go now. And we've learned tonight that this convention is not Stepford wives and not cross dressing. This Mark Shields saying good night for "THE CAPITAL GANG." Back to you, Wolf.
BLITZER: We always learn something from "THE CAPITAL GANG." Thanks very much, Mark and the entire capital gang.
Coming up in our special convention preview, it's known primarily as a sports arena, but Madison Square Garden also has been a place where political history has been made. We'll take a closer look at the celebrated New York City landmark just ahead.
BLITZER: You're looking at a place where Republican delegates and dignitaries will be gathering this week. Just a block from Madison Square Garden is the Tick Toc Diner, where we've wired it with televisions. We parked the CNN election express outside. Some of your favorite CNN shows like "CROSSFIRE" will be live all week from the Tick Toc Diner. I'll be there as well.
It will be here though in Madison Square Garden where President Bush will formally accept the Republican nomination Thursday night. History has been made many times over in this arena.
CNN's Bruce Morton takes a closer look on a trip down memory lane.
BRUCE MORTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The Garden short story writer O'Henry noted is the center of the universe. Well, New Yorkers exaggerate, of course. This was the first built in 1879 near Madison Avenue and Madison Square Park, both named for President Madison. So the Garden bears his name, too.
This was the second same location, probably the most elegant of them all.
JOE GOLDSTEIN, MADISON SQ. GARDEN HISTORIAN: The second Garden looked like al Hambre and Saville. And magnificent building by Stanford...
MORTON: And the scene of the most amazing convention ever. In 1924, before air condition, the Democrats took 17 days and 103 ballots to nominate a candidate for president.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was sweltering all 17 days were over 90.
MORTON: William Gibbs McAdoo, a Ku Klux Klan sympathizer, led on the first 85 ballots. Can you imagine? Al Smith, who would have been the first Roman Catholic ever nominated, and was four years later, took the lead on the 86 ballot. McAdoo came back on the 94th, Smith on the 100th. But the winner was John W. Davis, whose acceptance speech lasted less than eight minutes. No wonder.
Other events? Well, the first national horse show was at the Garden in 1883. Had to move eventually. Scheduling conflicts. Westminster Kennel Club had its show at the first Garden and has been a regular ever since. Sports, Rocky Marciano knocked out an aging Joe Lewis at the Garden in 1951. Joe Frasier won a decision over Muhammad Ali in 1971.
The Knicks won their only championships here in the fourth Garden. Senator and presidential candidate Bill Bradley was on that team.
Music, Barbra Streisand among many others. Marilyn Monroe sang happy birthday to a president here.
And roller derby's been. The circus is a regular. The Democrats came in right after it one year. And you could still smell the elephants. Republicans might have liked that better, of course. It's their party animal.
So welcome this time GOP, and remember the song.
It's up to you, "New York, New York."
Bruce Morton, CNN, New York.
BLITZER: Jeff Greenfield is a New Yorker himself. I suppose you spent a few quality hours in this Madison Square Garden?
GREENFIELD: The first Ali/Frasier fight, 1971, the single most exciting sporting event anyone who was there will ever remember. Some of the great music from Elvis was here. Dillon was here. The Grateful Dead here, played a few times. It was a great scene at the end of "On the Waterfront," when Rod Steiger, the wearisome guy who sold out his brother, gets into a taxicab and with his last energy says take me to the Garden. And that's an iconic moment for New Yorkers.
This is ground zero for many of us. Some of our most memorable moments were spent here. And we'll see whether or not Bush and Cheney and company provide us with another one.
BLITZER: What's your bottom-line assessment? Things are shaping up pretty well for the Republicans so far. WOODRUFF: It is. And Wolf, I'm looking to see whether the Garden can make history now of a different kind. The country is so divided right now over this election virtually right down the middle. Are we going to see anything out of this convention this week that begins to bring the country back together? I'm going to be looking for that this week.
BLITZER: All right, well I'll be watching very, very closely. Judy Woodruff, Jeff Greenfield, thanks very much.
And we'll have extensive live coverage of this Republican convention throughout the week. Stay with CNN for the best coverage any place. I'm Wolf Blitzer in New York.
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Gently punch down the dough and roll it into a 8 x 12 rectangle. Use a little flour to help roll the dough.
Thinly slice the chilled butter into several pieces. Make sure that the slices are thin and not chunky. Also having the butter really cold helps in slicing them neatly.
Place the sliced butter over ⅔rd of the rolled dough. Bring the remaining ⅓ rd of the dough over the butter and then fold the dough over itself one more time, making a tri-fold.
Pinch the edges to seal well, so that the butter does not ooze out when we roll again.
Dust the surface with more flour and roll the dough gently again to form a 8 x 12 rectangle. Try to keep the edges straight.
Now tri-fold the dough again and wrap it plastic and place in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes to chill.
When the dough is chilling, prepare the cinnamon sugar by mixing the cinnamon and sugar in a small bowl.
Also preheat the oven to 400 F. Line a tray with parchment and keep it ready.
When the dough has chilled, remove it from the refrigerator and roll it into a 10 X 15 rectangle.
Brush the surface of the dough with little water and sprinkle the cinnamon sugar evenly.
Start rolling the dough tightly, like a jelly roll and form a tight log. Pinch the edges to seal and with the sealed side facing down, slice the log into 1 inch pieces. I got about 9 pieces from my dough.
Using a rounded wooden stick or the handle of a wooden ladle/spoon, press on the center of each piece strongly and all the way down. You will see the dough flare out and spread on each side like a wing of the bird. This is a step that I really enjoyed as it was very pleasurable to watch the dough spread out.

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- Borrow X-ray photographs. Study the tooth structure. Look for decay. Then do the following:
Do the following:
- Use the X-ray as a guide to draw the lower molar. Label its parts and surfaces. Show surrounding structures such as bone and gum tissues.
- Show on your drawing where the nerves and blood vessels enter the tooth.
- Show on your drawing where bacterial plaque is most likely to be found.
Arrange for a visit with a dentist. Before going, ask if you can be given a dental examination and a plaque- control demonstration. Afterward, ask questions about things you want to know. Then write a report on what the dentist does in a checkup examination. Do TWO of the following:
- Tell or write about what causes dental decay and gum disease. Tell what each of the following does: bacterial plaque, sugars, and acid.
- Show that you can teach others the proper use of a toothbrush, dental floss, and disclosing wafers to clean bacterial plaque from your teeth.
Talk about all of the following. Then select one and prepare a written report:
- Name at least five instruments a dentist uses. On separate sheets of paper, draw them, label them, and explain how they are used.
- With the help of a dentist, prepare a dental plaster cast using a vibrator, mixing bowl, water measure, plaster measure, model plaster, spatula, and rubber mold.
- Keep a record of everything you eat for 3 days. Circle those that may provide sugars needed for the bacterial plaque to make acid. List snacks that you should avoid to maintain the best oral health.
Do TWO of the following:
- How fluorides help prevent tooth decay. The ways fluorides can be provided to the teeth.
- First aid for saving a tooth that has been knocked out.
- How the mouth is related to the rest of the body. Topics might include chewing, saliva, enzymes, nutrition, and speech.
Do either (a) or (b):
- Make a model tooth of soap, clay, papier-mache, or wax. Using a string and a large hand brush, show proper toothbrushing and flossing to your troop or a school class.
- Make a poster on prevention of dental disease. Show the need for good oral health.
- Collect at least five advertisements for different toothpastes. List the claims that are made for each. Tell about the accuracy of the advertisements.
- Write a feature story for your school newspaper on proper care of teeth and gums. Show it to your counselor for approval.
- Make drawings and write about the progress of dental decay. Describe the types of dental fillings and treatments a dentist can use to repair dental decay problems.
- Report on careers in dentistry. Report what you have learned.
- Prepare a four-part outline on jobs in dentistry. Under the headings "Dentist," "Dental Hygienist," "Dental Assistant," and "Dental Laboratory Technician" list the kinds of duties, education, costs of education, length of training, and other information to describe these jobs.

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For example, the TM1950 has quick access to Netflix Prime Video and HULU in the US, and Netflix, Amazon, and Rakuten TV in UK.
TM1950 remote control – here’s what you need to know
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BN59-01312A is the part number of the remote control, which is how it is sold.
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Samsung Smart Remote (UHD TV) TM1950A
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Samsung Smart Remote (THE FRAME) TM1950a
Remote control for The Frame series TVs is the same as for UHD series TVs (white)
Samsung Smart remote Infrared
You may see a remote control on sale that looks like a Smart, but the description says Infrared. These universal remotes only use infrared signals to control the TV; they look like Samart remotes but are not. Some remotes have support for voice control, these remotes have a Bluetooth connection, but only the audio stream is transmitted; no other control signals are transmitted via Bluetooth. Such a remote is not the original and does not perform the functions that the original remote was designed to perform. Such remotes are sold a lot; they are cheap to produce; if a universal remote control can be bought for $7-8, then for such a remote control, ask from $10 to $20, profit more.


Everyone knows the general rule that an appeal lies only from a final judgment. But there are rare exceptions. State of Alaska v. EEOC, case no. 07-70174 (9th Cir. Nov. 8, 2007) illustrates one of them.
Plaintiffs were political appointees in the Alaska Governor’s Office who, after their discharge, filed claims with the EEOC against the Governor’s Office alleging various forms of harassment and/or discrimination. The Governor’s Office moved for summary judgment on Eleventh Amendment immunity. The Administrative Law Judge felt he lacked jurisdiction to decide the Eleventh Amendment issue and certified the question to the EEOC. The EEOC, holding that “an agency will not rule on the constitutionality of the statute that it is assigned to administer,” remanded back to the ALJ.
The Governor’s Office appealed from the remand order. The Ninth holds that it has jurisdiction to consider the appeal, even though the remand order is not a final judgment, because an “order denying a state’s claim to Eleventh Amendment immunity is an appealable collateral order.”
By the way, plaintiffs lose despite a federal statute purporting to abrogate state immunity from claims by persons holding government positions similar to those held by plaintiffs. The Ninth finds that the legislation does not meet the requirements for validity set by the Supreme Court because there are no findings of discrimination in such positions that required a remedy.
The merits earn three opinions from a three-judge panel, one in dissent.
UPDATE (11/9/07): Professor Martin gives a nice run-down of the merits and predicts the case is headed not only for en banc review but likely to the Supreme Court. Read why at California Appelate Report.


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When Tim and Mary befriend a small dog at the playground, they are delighted as he surprises them with a very friendly smile.
The children become the victims of two mean bullies, but a mysterious voice saves them.
Where did it come from?Later, when flying their kites, the siblings are once again interrupted by the bullies.
Tim lets go of his kite and it begins to fly away, until the small dog catches it and then astonishes the youngsters by speaking.
The children promise to keep his secret so that their new canine companion is not taken away. After another incident with the bullies, the children find the little dog wounded and take him to the vet.
The vet examines him, including his unique vocal cords, and bandages him up.
Recovering and taken home by the children, the dog relates his extraordinary story and tells the children that his name is Tadcaster. Will Tadcaster be able to stop the bullies once and for all?

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Infertility in Women
Dr. Danielle Langston is a naturopathic physician at the Sklar Center. She uses a Functional Medicine approach to infertility in women.
Many women today experience infertility problems. The conventional medicine approach includes fertility enhancing medications, artificial insemination (IUI), and assisted reproductive technology such as in vitro fertilization (IVF). For many women these technologies are arduous and very expensive.
The Functional Medicine approach to infertility in women is to first identify the potential underlying causes of infertility. Our fertility approach at the Sklar Center consists of a complete medical, social, nutritional, and environmental history along with a comprehensive physical examination and advanced testing, We seek the root causes of fertility problems.
Based on this information, decisions are made to address underlying problems of women’s infertility such as hormone imbalances, inflammatory disorders, environmental exposures, low nutritional status, any history of trauma as well as stress and lifestyle factors.
Enhancing and boosting fertility may be as easy as adjusting hormones, correcting vitamin deficiencies, lowering stress and changing lifestyle and dietary patterns. Then we provide general fertility support and together establish a healthy foundation for improving your fertility and having a healthy baby.
A Success Story
Dr. Langston specializes in infertility in women. Here is the story of one of her patients:
“Julie was 34 years old at the time I began treating her. Feeling like her biological clock was ticking, she tried to conceive but experienced two miscarriages in the previous year. She was considering artificial insemination or in vitro fertilization.
In addition to the typical screening blood work, I tested her hormone levels and looked for inflammatory diseases. From these panels, it was apparent the patient had an inflammatory disorder, low thyroid hormone levels, as well as less than ideal iron levels.
I knew that her inflammatory disorder could be treated with diet and lifestyle. I prescribed thyroid and iron supplements. I also started her on botanicals and nutrients for preconception support, and she started fertility tracking. Additionally, stress management and acupuncture were incorporated into her treatment.
After 3 months, she returned and reported improvements in energy and overall health. By the time of her next follow up visit, she called the office to let us know she had a positive pregnancy test. I made changes to her treatment plan to include nutrients and botanicals that were safe for the growing baby and the mother. I cared for her every 2-3 months until her beautiful baby boy was born.”
Dr. Danielle Langston, ND
Dr. Danielle Langston is a licensed Naturopathic Doctor who earned her degree with honors from Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in Tempe, Arizona. She then completed her general medicine residency in Santa Barbara, California. Her clinical focus is on general medicine, dermatology, fertility, and hormone balance.


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When the World Gets Louder, Humility Can Quietly Help
Back when I began the work on this project a couple years ago, I can honestly say that I knew next to nothing about humility. Beyond a general understanding of what the word meant, and that it was probably a good thing to have, I wouldn’t have had much to say about why it would matter. In the intervening months of inquiry, I’ve learned a lot. I can see now, very clearly, how humility can help us in so many ways—at work, in society, at home—to make our lives more rewarding and our work more effective. I realize, too, how a lack of humility is behind so many of the problems with which we struggle. Humility, I’ve come to see, is a critical characteristic for any of us who want to lead a healthy organization, or live a grounded, meaningful life. As businessman and writer Dov Seidman said: “What people actually want in a leader, even a charismatic one, is humility.”
Humility, I’ve learned, works quietly backstage. But please, don’t confuse humility’s calm discretion with passive ineffectiveness. Humility, I now strongly believe, has power; the power to heal, the power to help. The power to restore health. The thing is that to access what humility has to offer we need lower our voices and calm the cacophony. While the news seems to get louder and ever more frenetic, humility is waiting for us to let it contribute to the conversation. When we’re ready to listen, I’m confident it has a lot to offer to all of us.
Here’s what I wrote in the opening piece of the pamphlet:
Humility, by definition, won’t win big headlines.
It waits quietly in the wings.
If we listen closely, humility has a lot to teach us.
Mozart once said, “The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” Humility fits that frame. It’s the space between the sounds. The whisper between the words. The energy between the egos. Humility is both ethereal and essential. Like great music, it’s hard to measure—and often goes past unnoticed by casual listeners. But if we pay close attention, we can begin to benefit from the beauty and grace that humility brings to the world.
The subtle silence of humility is blended into everything we say—and how we say it. Marcel Marceau, who silently mimed his way through an amazing and creative career, said, “Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.” My hope is that the humble, anarchistic inquiry into humility that follows will offer you insights on how to bring the “music” and the “silence” of life together, in the interest of helping us all be ever more effective leaders and live more meaningful, rewarding lives.
If humility was a guest professor, the assignment it might give us would be to turn off the news, take a couple of deep breaths, cock our ears, look inward, and pay close attention to what comes up in the quiet. What at first, to the casual observer, could sound like nothing at all, just might turn out to be a wonderful whispering source of strength and wisdom. In the inflammatory state of current national discourse, humility is a soft but still effective voice leading us away from ego, and in the direction of much needed doses of dignity, compassion, kindness, inclusion, reflection, and respect. (To paraphrase anarchist folk singer and spoken word performer, Utah Phillips, we might want to consider adding “rant control” to our list of programs going forward.) Humility is equally important in our homes and at work. When it’s absent, ego dominates the conversation; antagonism rises, voices get louder—in essence, we might say, it’s all over because of the shouting. No exaggeration—our future, on many levels, may depend on having humility. As Wendell Berry writes: “It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.”
Does the subtle, gentle presence of humility have much value when the country is in crisis? On its own, we know, humility won’t cure Coronavirus. But having learned what I’ve learned over the last few years, I’ll answer with an adamant yes. Why? Because rather than shutting out what others (with whom we may not agree) have to say, humility leads us to be more open to the input and help of those who know more than we do. It makes it easier to meaningfully say, “I don’t know.” It increases the likelihood that we will own our responsibility for our errors. It improves the odds we will take the advice of experts seriously, even while still making our own decisions (and sometimes, respectfully going against what experts advise). Humility makes it more difficult to be curt and dismissive. More difficult to be curtly dismissed. And harder to say, “I don’t care.”
Humility, I’ll suggest, would also help us improve the effectiveness of our organizations. It’s a prerequisite, I’ve learned, for the kind of collaborative and caring communities, organizations, and personal relationships we’re working so hard to create. Patrick Lencioni, in The Ideal Team Player, posits that humility is one of a trio of critical characteristics, along with “hungry” and “wise”—as in socially sensitive and emotionally intelligent. When I used Lencioni’s lens to look at our own work, his theory proved out. Nearly everyone I’ve loved working with over the years has exhibited all three of those characteristics. And while I’d long been actively working on hiring and training for the other two, I’d never previously listened and looked for humility in a conversation or a job interview. As you can imagine, that’s all changed. I now have humility front of mind.
Will humility have an impact on our other recovery? The rebuilding of social trust and mutual respect? I will answer, adamantly, in the affirmative. Humility, I believe, is incompatible with racism, hierarchy, and hatred. Twentieth-century theologian Reinhold Niebuhr wrote, “To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.” Humility, by definition, could help us steer clear of that tragic fate. If we have humility we accept that we are all imperfect, all fallible, all interdependent. If this year of 2020 is, as I wrote in the summer issue of Zingerman’s News, a “marathon through a minefield,” then I’m realizing humility is one of the keys to successfully getting through. When you don’t need to be “the best,” “the biggest,” or “first to the finish line,” the odds of successfully getting to the other side of the minefield—without losing our minds, our lives, or our livelihoods—increase significantly.
I would suggest that when we approach the world from a place of humility, it makes it much more likely that we will:
- Own our own part in creating the problem with which we’re confronted
- Acknowledge our shortfalls and ask for help
- Understand that none of us have all the answers
- Treat everyone with whom we interact with dignity
- Be much more open to outside perspectives and creative insights
The cover of the new “Humility” pamphlet features a scratchboard illustration of a violet—the historical flower that represents humility—by artist Ian Nagy. In honor of the violet, the pamphlet cover is printed on recycled purple cardstock. Artist and designer Takara Gudell says, “Purple is perfect for this pamphlet. It’s the color of inspiration, of self-awareness, creativity, and empathy.” (Come by the Roadhouse to buy a couple of those beautiful, colorful VOTE pins Takara crafts.) Violet, color psychologist Judy Scott-Kemmis says, stands for, “inspiration, imagination, individuality, and spirituality.” It “assists those who seek the meaning of life and spiritual fulfillment—it expands our awareness, connecting us to a higher consciousness.” Maybe I’m making too much of it, but Scott-Kemmis’ prompt helps me understand why holding the violet pamphlet leaves me feeling good and grounded. Maybe I’m just in a mental place where I’m desperately seeking solace, serenity, and soulfulness. But there’s no cost to you to drop by and hold a copy in your hand for a bit, take a few deep breaths, and see if it helps.
Can we come back from the brink of the world situation? Can calm overcome chaos? When we’re in the midst of the madness, it sure doesn’t feel that way. But this piece from Saturday’s New York Times gave me some solace. The headline is “30 Years After Reunification, Old German-German Border Is a Green Oasis.” The article, by Christopher Schuetze, tells the tale of the once closely guarded space between East and West Germany: “Crossing the militarized border that split Germany into east and west once meant risking death,” the subhead says. “Now? It’s a literal walk in the park.” Schuetze’s piece helped me remember that humility can come back from even some of the worst the world has to offer. During the Cold War, the space was known as the “death zone.” Seventy-five years after the end of World War II, and thirty years after the end of the division of Germany into two political entities, what was once one of the scariest spots in Europe is now a peaceful, natural refuge.
Natural Law #10 says that strengths lead to weaknesses; and weaknesses lead back to strengths. War, it turns out, if we wait a bit and work through the conflict, can ultimately beget beauty. For over half a century, no one entered the zone other than the occasional bold soul trying to escape, or the occasional soldier checking security. “Farmers and foresters on both sides had been forced to leave the strip alone, allowing animals and plant life to flourish,” Schuetze writes. “Today, more than 5,200 different species live there, 1,200 of them so rare that they are on a list for extinction.” A West German gentleman, about my age, who used to go to the border space to do birdwatching, shares at the end of the article: “It is hard to believe that this peaceful place was once the frontline between N.A.T.O. and the Warsaw Pact.” It was heartening for me to see that the space between the warring, nationalist “notes” could be successfully be converted into a healthy, vibrant green strip where tension and the constant threat of war have been replaced by natural beauty.
I can guarantee that the Cold War was not caused by an overabundance of humility. In fact, it’s the opposite. I think it’s safe to say that, like nearly all wars, it came out of ego and the desire for domination. But when the warring stops, the cacophony is quieted, and the soldiers put away their weapons, the sound of humility can still come gently to the fore. Now the space sounds like the calls of rare birds, the wind whistling through wildflowers, and the gentle bubbling of the brook that runs through the strip. Maybe those are the natural sounds of humility. I believe we can bring them back. And as Simon and Garfunkel once sang,
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Within the sound of silence
Whether it’s at work, at home, in our communities, or around the country, I hope we can, quietly and humbly, follow the German lead and let the beauty, the grace, and the natural goodness return.
You can find “Humility: A Humble, Anarchistic Inquiry” waiting for you, quietly, here.
*** This post is an excerpt from Ari’s Top 5, a weekly newsletter from Ari himself. Sign up to receive Ari’s Top 5 here!

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The Sunday Post (Newcastle)
Following the inky shadows, her mind wanders to the past
Rathlin senses the forest beyond the window calling her and using her arms as a crane she’s raising her neck, watching trees swallowing the hill that’s pressing into the horizon. Its shadows are stealing her but she’s a willing traveller all the same, following their inky path, letting her mind wander to the past.
She’s walking through heather. She can feel its foliage tickle her ankles. She’s wearing sandals, the T-bar pinching her foot. She’s stopping to touch it, moving her thumb under the leather. She’s looking at the imprint of the strap on her skin. It’s summer. Her feet are brown, even under her shoes, so she knows she
must have been walking barefoot, sucking in the sun’s rays like a sponge.
She’s wondering why she isn’t as free now so she moves to untie the buckle, stopping when she sees her bike lying on its side, the back wheel spinning. It’s new. The white tyres are as pure as the limestone chalk on a cliff, the metal spokes glimmering in the sunlight. She’s standing up, dusting bracken from her bare leg, turning to listen to laughter in the woods, its cry strong and deliberate.
She’s running quickly towards it, her binoculars bouncing on her chest. She’s grasping the lanyard, holding them in her outstretched hand so they don’t ram the flesh that’s beginning to fill the space in her bra.
The laughing’s harder now and she’s recognising the sounds of her mother. She’s imagining her throwing her red hair back into the sunlight, the overhanging pine leaves catching her chuckle, muting its soft sound, releasing it so it can stretch freely into the bluest sky. She’s skipping beyond the wild flowers, heading for the silver lights, gentle rays of sunshine meandering in and out of tree roots, their long fingers passing her into the forest. Then she’s stopping. Hard. She’s curling her toes and pressing on to her heels, pulling from a forest floor edged with sharp claws that will tear her to shreds.
Rathlin never gets beyond this point. She knows it’s when she falls.


Jay-Z Could Have Lost Beyoncé, If Not For This Person
Jay-Z and Beyonce nearly ended their hip-hop love story due to the rapper’s infidelity. While the couple has admitted that both their albums Lemonade and 4:44served as therapy to addressing and overcoming their marital hardships, there was one specific factor that ultimately saved them. According to a new report published by The Jasmine Brand, their daughter Blue Ivy ultimately kept them together.
An insider told People on Tuesday. ….
“It was very rough for them to stay married,” “It took Beyoncé a long time to trust again. She was struggling to move on and forgive. But keeping her family together was very important.”
“If it’s wasn’t for Blue Ivy, they might not be together,” adds the insider of the couple, who worked through their issues in therapy. “It took them years to get to the point where they are now.”
Today, Beyoncé, 36, and JAY-Z, 48, “are very proud that they overcame huge marital issues and happy they were able to move on as a family,” says the insider of the pair, who have been married for nine years.


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Gold, silver and yen recorded wide losses on Monday as risk sentiment grew back following the stellar U.S. payrolls report for July, and after a stream of stimulus measures from global central banks to boost the global economy.
Gold futures lost over seven dollars, or 0.55% to trade at $1,336 an ounce, while silver prices slid 14 cents, or 0.72% to hover around $19.67 an ounce.
Japan's yen shed nearly half a percentage point against the dollar to trade at 102.31, touching almost a week low as the Japanese government embarks on a strong stimulus program to prop up the morbid local economy and its exports.
Oil prices jumped today on new appeals for restraining global output, with Brent crude futures up 1.22% to trade at $44.81 a barrel, while U.S. crude futures gained 1.34% to move around $42.37 a barrel.
Investors await some data later today, with Canada's building permits expected to rise 2.7% m/m in June, compared to May's 1.9% tumble, which would buoy the Canadian dollar.


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Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 097801
Confined but not forever
Molecules move faster as they get closer to adhesive surfaces, but this effect is not permanent. Since more than 20 years, several researchers have been studying the behavior of certain polymers, biomolecules, and liquid crystals at the nanoscale near an absorbing medium. In this case we would expect slower movement rates, but the experiments showed the opposite: molecules move faster as they get closer to an adhesive surface. We explain this odd movement via a
‘nanoconfinement effect’: the molecules that are in direct contact with the adhesive surface do move slower, or even not at all, but this in turn increases the movement rate of the next molecules, as they have more free space around them.
In this paper, we show that this effect is only temporary: movement ra
te gradually slows down as new molecules adhere to the surface and fill in the spaces left. After a while, molecules move as if they were far from the adhesive surface. Importantly, the time necessary to return to normal molecular movement rate is longer than what would be predicted by any current theory of polymer physics. As a result, we propose that the amount of available space at the interface between polymer and sticky wall is an important parameter to control the performance of nanomaterials.
Characterization of Adsorbed Polymer Layers: Preparation, Determination of the Adsorbed Amount and Investigation of the Kinetics of Irreversible Adsorption
David Nieto Simavilla et al
Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, in press
Understanding adsorbed layers
The increasing number of devices containing soft materials components of nanometric size –as for example for applications in flexible electronics, biomedical and tissue engineering – has focused the interest of researches towards thin polymer films and their interaction with solid substrates.
A remarkable finding is that, the properties of polymer/substrate interfaces differ greatly from those predicted from the bulk properties of each material. Here, we deal with those deviations from bulk behavior induced by the formation of layer of polymer molecules, as thin as a few nanometers, which irreversibly stick on a solid substrate. Understanding the physics behind the formation of these “irreversibly adsorbed layers” is necessary to control a large number of material properties: from the friction among molecules (viscosity) to the way such thin coatings expand with temperature, and also to the amount of water these membranes can uptake, or the way molecules can selforganize and form crystals. This Trend paper provides an introduction to: 1) The preparation of systems where irreversible adsorption can take place; 2) The modeling describing the kinetics of formation of the sticky layer; 3) The most common methods to determine their thickness and 4) A brief perspective on future applications and research outlooks derived from the extraordinary properties of these promising nanomaterials.

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In the not too distant past, it would have been hard to believe that we would trust a machine to manage our life savings. But in today’s digital world, millions of investors now do exactly that. Robo-advisors are digital platforms that provide automated, algorithm-driven services with little to no human supervision. Robo-advisors make a lot of sense for investors with passively managed accounts who can be segmented into broad groups based on: age, projected retirement date and risk tolerance. For these clients, wealth management firms can leverage robo-advisors to efficiently balance and rebalance portfolios for thousands of passively managed accounts. They can then pass on the resulting efficiencies to their clients in the form of lower fees.
However, the broad-brush algorithms that drive robo-advisors are not a strong fit for actively managed accounts. Nor are they effective for investors with sophisticated strategies and highly individualized goals, tax considerations, weighting parameters and instrument preferences or restrictions. For these clients, wealth managers adjust portfolio positions on a one-by-one basis. If the wealth management firm has hundreds or even thousands of these clients, the process is resource intensive and may hinder the ability to optimize client portfolios when the firm buys or sells large positions on an opportunistic basis.SS&C’s Global Wealth Platform (GWP)offers a solution to this challenge.
Introducing Tailored Investment Automation (TIA)
GWP addresses the needs of both passively and actively managed accounts. It's highly sophisticated rules-driven engine is called Tailored Investment Automation (TIA). TIA allows wealth management firms to make macro changes in investment strategies that automatically trickle down to individual client portfolios. When the firm trades securities, GWP executes them across all appropriate portfolios in strict compliance with the investment strategy, risk profile and restrictions of each individual portfolio model. The platform also manages custom-designed solutions for those clients with unique investing needs. While we are not suggesting that TIA replace a top-notch portfolio manager, it does bring the exceptional efficiency of robo-advisor to firms with significant numbers of actively managed accounts.

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Since the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors and scientists have been mystified by the occurrence of what’s come to be known as long-haul COVID or simply long COVID, in which individuals experience symptoms that last for weeks or months after the initial coronavirus infection has passed. COVID affects people of all ages, races, and ethnicities. The National Institutes of Health hopes to shed light on the factors that put a person at higher risk of developing the illness.
They’re using machine learning to sift through millions of electronic health records. The study looked at nearly 5 million people who have tested positive for COVID with or without hospitalization.
The model is based on data from the NIH’s Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) initiative. Indeed, in its analysis, the AI pinpointed several factors that seem to carry the most weight in determining whether a COVID-positive person will go on to develop long COVID.
Source: Fierce Biotech
Name of Author: Andrea Park


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Start your search for New Jersey apartments near you
Apartment Living in New Jersey
With the bustling cities of New York and Philadelphia nearby, New Jersey is often called a commuter or bedroom community. Nearly nine million residents enjoy this state's beautiful beaches, stately manors, flourishing farms, picturesque communities, historic homes and stylish apartments.
The "Garden State" is the second wealthiest state in the country with nine of New Jersey's counties in the most prosperous 100 in America, which include Monmouth, Bergen, and Morris. You'll find a nice selection of apartments in the state's affluent suburbs. The majority of "New Jerseyans" or "New Jerseyites" as they are sometimes called, live in homes and apartments in the urban areas of the northwest.
Even though farms cover nearly a million acres, New Jersey's economy thrives on industry, namely chemicals and tourism. Atlantic City and Jersey Shore bring in thousands of tourists every year to their casinos and riverboats. Retail, real estate, and education contribute to the state's strong economy as well. Rutgers University, the largest and eighth oldest institution in the U.S., Princeton University and The State University of New Jersey bring in thousands of students and consequently, a large demand for apartments.
As one of the most expensive states in the country, the cost of living is an intimidating 32 percent above the national average, and houses and apartments are nearly 75 percent above average. While New York City's glitz and glamour influences New Jersey's apartment prices, the average price throughout the state is still under $900 and the price will vary according to the city in which your apartment resides.
The largest and oldest city in the state and third oldest city in the nation is Newark. Called "The Gateway to New Jersey", Newark is a hub for finance, transportation, and commercial business. Newark International Airport is the seventh busiest airport in the nation. If the crowded inner city is not to your liking, you won't have to travel far to find several charming and historic communities offering an assorted selection of homes and apartments to rent. Watch out though, apartments in Newark are pretty pricey. One-bedroom apartments are currently costing nearly $1,100 a month.
Jersey City Apartments
If you think a thousand dollars a month for rent is beyond your reach, don't look for an apartment in Jersey City. Jersey City is a diverse city with hundreds of eclectic restaurants, shops, hotels, cultural attractions and apartments to choose from. Home to the state's largest oasis of green space, Liberty State Park, Jersey City offers apartment renters over 1,112 acres to run to after a busy day of work. Whether you want an apartment overlooking the park or taking in the city's magnificent skylines, Jersey City will have what you are looking for but at a hefty price. Apartments are rather expensive with a one-bedroom apartment costing you nearly $2,000 a unit, per month.
To find a more reasonable apartment you might want to explore the state's capital, Trenton. Apartments in this city of nearly 100,000 start in the $950 range. Trenton is located between New York City and Philadelphia, making it ideal for commuters; however, the city doesn't have the best reputation for being safe. Trenton has been ranked as having some of the worst crime in the state so be sure to really scout the neighborhoods before settling on an apartment.

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