For anyone backing cryptocurrency, the end goal is mass payment handling. The VISA network has been processing in the region of 141 billion transactions a year, and for any cryptocurrency to fulfill its potential, the technical infrastructure needs to support these volumes.
On closer inspection, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is capable of handling the levels of transaction volumes supported by the VISA network. SegWit-Coin BTC (inaccurately referred to as Bitcoin Legacy or Core by many) in particular simply isn’t up to the job.
Breaking down the figures, the VISA network handled 4471 transactions per second in 2016. At the moment, SegWit-Coin BTC is capable of handling just 3. So it’s clear there is some way to go before the SegWit-Coin BTC blockchain could ever rise to the challenge.
This equates to $8.9 trillion in volume, and covers a bulk of consumer credit and debit card transactions from around the world, as the international benchmark for the payments sector.
Recording these transactions on the blockchain would create a staggering 78 terabytes of additional blockchain data, every year.
Even if the SegWit-Coin BTC blockchain were capable of handling a greater number of simultaneous payments, it would be limited by processing speeds, internet bandwidth, hard drive storage—multiple different factors which make it very difficult for SegWit to compete.
While there is some mileage to go before any blockchain could support the technical load of this number of transactions, there are a multiple trends moving in the right direction—and they point firmly to BCH.
Firstly, Moore’s Law suggests that in the near future, there will be sufficient processing power to handle the technical load of processing this scale of transactions, while Nielsen’s Law of internet bandwidth reflects a similar growth trend with time. Even Kryder’s Law of Hard Drive Capacity supports the idea that the technology will, ultimately, be in place to enable blockchain transaction processing at a scale to rival the VISA network.
But even with the right technology, SegWit-Coin BTC still falls down over its fatal flaw—block size. Only BCH can deliver this functionality, and only BCH has the capacity to compete at this scale in future.
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These robots are modular, shape-shifting machines that are 3D reconfigurable.
A team of researchers from the Swiss Biorobotics Laboratory (BioRob) at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have developed a new type of robot and they are quite the sight to see! Called Roombots, these new robots are modular shape-changing machines that are 3D reconfigurable. Some have even compared them to robotic LEGOs.
These bots can autonomously combine to transform themselves into all sorts of different pieces of furniture and can even move around and self-assemble on command. They are made of two dice stuck together, a battery, three motors for movement, and a wireless connection.
But that’s not all! Roombots are smart robots that are capable of using machine learning to optimize their performance. Their makers hope that they can one day use these skills to support the elderly and the disabled.
Do you want to see these Roombots in action? Want to find out more about how they operate? Curious about the science, engineering, and technology that goes into building such agile machines? Want to know more about their many applications and configurations? Then, do not miss this video where we answer all these questions and more and bring you footage of the Roombots.


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Let’s face it: the history of the mental health profession is not a good one. It’s a wonder we trust shrinks at all.
Whether it was the lobotomies and straight jackets of yesteryear or the current over-pathologizing and totally irresponsible medicating of the masses of modernity, psychology has a tough rode ahead to prove itself worthy of being our principle guides to happiness.
But, it must step up to this role. We need it desperately – people are either too jaded or too fanatical about religion and doctors mostly see us as parts and pieces, much like a mechanic looking under the hood of a car. Politicians are mostly a joke, and our current role models of actors, athletes and rich people are obviously not worthy of this type of status we give them. So, if it is true – and I believe it is – that we require some form of mentorship to lead fulfilling lives…then, I fear it is up to the women and men of psychology to fill the role.
That said, it is also up to us, the ordinary people of the world, to point out the bullshit when we smell it. It is one thing that some guy in a smock does a lab experiment on a rat and determines that it’s a bad idea for mothers to soothe their crying babies because it will reward and encourage their tears. It is an entirely different problem that thousands and thousands of people believe these insane conclusions just because they come from people with a degrees or some position of “authority.”
It is up to us to hold the wisdom of our culture to the standard of common sense.
We are designed to cringe at the sound of our crying babies and that shrill they send up our spines is meant to inspire us to pick them up. They are designed to cry when they need something. Real needs do not only amount to being hungry, thirsty, wet or tired. Emotional, psychological, and spiritual needs – though more amorphous – are every bit as real. So, just as an example, when I hear people tell me things that that fly in the face of common sense like that it is a good idea to let a child cry alone in a crib because it teaches them how to “self-soothe,” I have to wonder who the hell convinces us of foolishness like this and why in god’s name do we believe them?
Most of the infringements I see like this have to do with the fact that we, as “adults” become parents, are not really grown up. In a different era of my imagination, being an adult meant that you had matured to the degree where you realized that your personal needs were no longer necessary to fulfill. But, in the age of pop ego-psychology we have succeeded in prolonging our adolescence to the point where moms and dads, or any of us for that matter, don’t have it in them to be truly selfless. We are still working on our “wounds” and so we often justify our need to “shut the door” on the parts of our lives that we are responsible for.
What we need from mentors is a wake-up call. We need someone to snap us out of the story that has been sold to us for too many years by shrinks and self-help books: that our problems are real! I know this is a radical view for a counselor to take. And it may inspire the reader to think of what an uncompassionate professional I must be.
But, our belief in the reality of our problematic life-story, which we identify with as who we are, is the only problem. We make it real – and we often do so in very complex and complicated ways. Thus, compassion and skillful means end up being necessary to assist us in waking up to a natural reality. We all require this guidance from time to time – it seems to be part of the human predicament. But just because our problems are normal does not mean they are natural. A counselor must be aware of and working towards an ultimate standard of health or else there is no possibility for them to help us to recognize the deeper truths of our lives.
What we also need from our mentors is a lack of hypocrisy.
They must practice what they preach – really. So far, the psychology world is notorious for being full of practitioners that are every bit as nuts, and more so, than their clients. This doesn’t mean that our counselors must be perfect – no one is. But, they must be transparent. They must know themselves so well that they catch themselves at once when they are full of shit, and they must self-rectify immediately. In this ability, they must exceed in skill that of the average person. They must be held to a standard of being MORE self-aware than the rest of us, and better able to more immediately get their lives in tune with their counsel as soon as they notice that they are off-beat.
It is the responsibility of the people served by counselors and shrinks to hold them to this high standard and tar and feather them when they are out of line. Their role in our culture is too valuable to let them continue to mislead us. The masses must pool their common sense and when they read a “scientific” study published in the New York Times, which I did recently, that says, “Don’t worry ladies, increased stress does not contribute to your infertility woes,” we must cry out collectively. We must say what me must be said: ”Whoa, whoa, whoa you silly scientists are totally out to lunch. I don’t care what your study results were in your contrived laboratory of ideation but they simply cannot override a far more authentic source of knowledge: natural wisdom born from real experience.”

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Kickstarted last year, the board game is about to go to retail and is available now for pre-order.


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Al Jazeera English published this video item, entitled “US troops withdrawal: Afghan forces try to maintain calm in Achin” – below is their description.
The Trump administration plans to withdraw 2,500 US troops from Afghanistan in January, in a further push to end its longest war. Many US bases are being handed over to the Afghan army despite a surge in violence. Al Jazeera’s Filio Kontrafouri visited one of those bases in Achin, a once volatile region in the east where security forces are trying to maintain a fragile calm. –Al Jazeera English YouTube Channel
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Jesse Jackson and Condoleezza Rice get the top support among Blacks asked to name the nation's "most important Black leader," according to an AP-America Online Black Voices poll. Next come former Secretary of State Colin Powell and U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.
Many Blacks question whether any one person can wear the leadership mantle for such a large and diverse group of people. At the same time, two-thirds in the poll said leaders in their communities were effective representatives of their interests.
When Blacks were asked to come up with the person they considered "the most important Black leader," 15 percent chose Jackson, a civil rights activist who ran for president in the 1980s; while 11 percent picked Secretary of State Rice; 8 percent chose former Secretary of State Powell; and 6 percent named Obama, a freshman Democratic senator from Illinois.
About one-third declined to volunteer a name.
Two of the four mentioned most often, Rice and Powell, are from a Republican administration that is unpopular with most Blacks.
Less than one in five of those polled, 18 percent, said the current Black leadership is doing a "very effective" job of representing the Black community. Half described Black leadership as "somewhat effective."
"I'm kind of disillusioned," said retiree John Manning, who said the leadership is somewhat effective. The Democrat from Port Charlotte, Fla., added: "They seem to be going in different directions. There doesn't seem to be a cohesiveness."
The answers to the open-ended question about leadership were divided among a number of well-known Black Americans — a sharp contrast to the 1960s, when Martin Luther King Jr. was recognized as the leading voice among many prominent civil rights leaders.
Nation of Islam minister Louis Farrakhan got 4 percent; talk show host Oprah Winfrey received 3 percent; King, who was killed in 1968, got 3 percent, and former Democratic presidential candidate Al Sharpton got 2 percent. Some 14 percent picked somebody else.
One in five, 21 percent, said they were not sure whom to name among current Black leaders and 13 percent chose no one. A few in the poll, 1 percent, named themselves.
"What is 'the most important Black leader?' " asked Thomas Miller, a 59-year-old political independent who lives in Philadelphia. "You have to lead your own self, don't put that on anybody else. Putting faith in somebody else is blind."
At the height of the civil rights movement, the need to rally behind individual Black leaders was more clear-cut.
"In the days of segregation, when Blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around the Black community and identify who the leaders were," said Roger Wilkins, a history professor at George Mason University and a former Justice Department official involved in the civil rights movement.
There have been dramatic changes for Blacks, who have closed the income gap considerably with Whites over the past few decades.
"There's been an extraordinary expansion of the Black middle class and a shift in the locus of leadership," said Michael Eric Dyson, an analyst of racial politics and author of "Come HellorHigh Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Colorof Disaster.""A more diversified Black community doesn't find it necessary to have one voice."
ForKarissa Ayers, a 25-year-old Democratic-leaning mother of three from East Moline, Ill., the most meaningful comments about Katrina's disastrously slow recovery effort came from a popular hip-hop performer who blamed racial bias.
"I liked everything Kanye West had to say about the hurricane and everything he had to say about President Bush," Ayers said. However, Blacks say by a 2-1 margin that hip-hop artists are a negative influence, rather than positive. Younger people were more likely to say they are a positive influence.
Galvanized by the images from Katrina news coverage, Black activists and elected leaders around the country are considering new strategies for making gains for Blacks, both politically and economically.
The changing of the guard in leadership in Black America was highlighted by the recent deaths of civil rights pioneers Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King, widow of the slain civil rights leader.
"The old has passed away," Bernice King said in her mother's eulogy last week in a church in the Atlanta suburbs. "There is a new order that is emerging."
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The Dartmouth College women's volleyball team suffered a 3-1 defeat yesterday as they faced the University of New Hampshire for the second time this season.
The match lowers Dartmouth's record to 9-12 while the Wildcats' record improves to 18-8, as they continued a ten-match win streak.
The Big Green showed improvement from their last meeting with New Hampshire, as they took the third game 15-10. However, it was not improvement enough for a victory.
The Wildcats dominated the match, winning the first, second and fourth games all by a score of 15-7.
Hitting posed a problem for the Dartmouth squad as they managed to record only a .077 kill percentage for the match.
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Ashley Dean '02 contributed eight kills and 10 digs to the Big Green effort,with setter Jordan Schmidt '03 putting up 25 assists.
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Sam Fuller's soaring critical reputation was begun by French critics in the 1950s. They saw him as the perfect cinema auteur, a director whose work was an ongoing evolution of personal themes and a personal style. Entering the industry by demonstrating his ability to knock out story ideas and scripts extremely fast, Fuller obtained his directing break via the low-budget producer Robert Lippert. They made a pile of money with his tough-as-nails Korean War picture, The Steel Helmet. Maintaining a fierce independence, Fuller worked for a few years for Darryl Zanuck at Fox, but then had to step down to ever-smaller budgets on non- front rank pictures distributed by Fox, RKO and Columbia. 1962's Merrill's Marauders, a much bigger Warners production, failed to reboot his big-screen career.
Almost any Fuller film from the '50s is a jolting experience. A strong personality with a style developed from experience working on tabloid newspapers, Fuller has little interest in traditional Hollywood glamour and finesse. Much of I Shot Jesse James plays out in intense, claustrophobic close-ups. His movies are packed with personal views on Cold War politics and his love of American journalism. The petty crooks of Pickup on South Street refuse to play ball with the cops and the F.B.I., but they also hate Communists. The visuals in a Sam Fuller film can be seductive (Pickup's erotic opening subway scene) or politically audacious (Mt. Fuji framed between the boots of a dead American soldier in House of Bamboo) but they're always direct and unsubtle. French critics celebrated Fuller's style as pure cinema and later critics dubbed it with the term "Cinema Fist". Critic Andrew Sarris pegged him as "an authentic American primitive".
This brings us to a pair of independent Sam Fuller dramas made back-to-back in 1963. The first was filmed on a ten-day shooting schedule with scarcely more resources than an early Roger Corman production. If any film fits the criteria of auteur critics, Shock Corridor is it. Fuller directed, wrote the script and cast many of the roles with actors he'd worked with before. The picture takes place on only five or six interior sets, one of which was designed by the art director of Children of Paradise, Eugène Lourié. Shock Corridor may be Fuller's most extreme picture, a chaotically radical statement about American madness.
With the help of his editor and a friendly psychiatrist (Philip Ahn), reporter Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck of Verboten!) has himself committed to an asylum. He hopes to learn the truth about an unsolved murder in the psycho ward, and write a story that will earn him a Pulitzer Prize. Johnny's steady girl Cathy, who works as a striptease singer (Constance Towers) cooperates only because she's afraid of losing his love: she tells the police that she is Johnny's sister, and that he is incestuously obsessed with her. The scheme works, and Johnny is installed in the asylum with dozens of real mental cases. Although the doctors sincerely want to cure their charges, the ward itself is not conducive to mental health -- when Johnny becomes irritable and unmanageable, he's forced to undergo shock treatment. Three patients witnessed the murder, and Johnny slowly gets them to say the name of the guilty party. Stuart (James Best) is a victim of brainwashing in Korea, and thinks he's a Civil War general. Trent (Hari Rhodes) is a black man but preaches white supremacy. And nuclear scientist Boden (Gene Evans of The Steel Helmet and Park Row), unable to face the consequences of his discoveries, has reverted to a six year-old mentality. Cathy is horrified to discover that Johnny's personality is disintegrating but he refuses to call off the hoax ... even when he experiences strange hallucinations, and begins to lose his ability to speak!
It's no wonder that Sam Fuller became a god to the French New Wave, as the director's overall approach to filmmaking seems intent on breaking cinema down into its basic building blocks. When measured against conventional feature work Shock Corridor often appears to be borderline incompetent. The first dialogue scene establishes the overall hysterical tone. Four people in a room take turns shouting reams of exposition about Johnny's planned undercover mission. Everybody talks like Sam Fuller, loading their sentences with literary and Bible allusions, often two to a sentence. Emotional and shallow, Fuller's dramatic style seems a psychological outgrowth of his comic-book action films of the 1950s.
Most of the acting is overacting, albeit pitched at a consistent level of hysteria. Peter Breck twists himself into a pretzel to perform Johnny's constantly changing moods. Fuller frequently thrusts the anguished faces of Breck and Constance Towers into the camera. None of it is believable but it's all of a piece. The movie comes off as a series of crazy exaggerations of "normal" dramatic scenes. The three witnesses (Hari Rhodes, James Best & Gene Evans) deliver excellent work; we're only made uncomfortable by Fuller's schematic, cliché-based conception of the mentally ill. To illustrate his thesis that America is a Looney Bin, Fuller populates the asylum with a pack of overacting freaks.
Ploys to keep the audience off-balance serve only to heighten the air of artificiality. Cathy sings a sensitive torch song while performing a vulgar strip act. Her costumed figure is later superimposed in miniature over the sleeping Johnny, taunting him. Johnny is bombarded by irrational patients, outbursts of violence and the overreactions of the ward attendants. Remove any of us from our comfort zone, and we'll crack up.
Fuller uses the asylum as a microcosm of an America haunted by topical psychoses -- the imperative to succeed, forbidden sex, the threat of Communism, racial injustice and nuclear annihilation. The difference between Sam Fuller and other "message" filmmakers is that Fuller writes in bold headlines, not subtle subtext. His memorable combat films aim right for disturbing issues other filmmakers won't touch. When he leaps into the civic debate, he's like the proverbial bull in a china shop, too brash to be believed.
Some quieter moments with Hari Rhodes and Gene Evans are actually touching, and players Frank Gerstle (a desk cop) and Chuck Roberson (a ward attendant) show admirable restraint. But more typical is the wild miscalculation of the scene where Johnny mistakenly walks into a room containing a number of dazed, melancholy women that pace about singing weakly. Just when we're thinking that this must be the dreaded Tennessee Williams ward, Fuller cuts to a close-up of Johnny's horror stricken eyes: "Nymphos!" This cues Johnny being mauled and scratched within an inch of his life by a pack of raving harpies. Even if one has so far suppressed the urge to laugh at Shock Corridor, this goes over the edge.
The disc's extras tout the endless corridor set by art director Lourié as a marvelous piece of visual trickery. It might be, if Fuller didn't show it so often. After the second cut it is obvious that the far stretch of hallway is occupied only by a pair of midgets that continually pace back and forth, no matter what the scene. Worse, Fuller spoils the designer's forced-perspective illusion by shifting his camera from the center line, revealing the corridor to be exactly what it is, a foreshortened set with a flat painting at the rear to continue the perspective to the vanishing point.
Otherwise, the cinematography of Stanley Cortez (The Night of the Hunter) serves Sam Fuller well. Rooms are flat-lit but all of the character close-ups are carefully modeled, in keeping with the director's emphasis on aberrant psychology. The asylum setting almost justifies this lack of continuity -- it's not unusual for Fuller to cut directly from a flat-lit medium shot of an actor, to a close-up with heavy dramatic lighting. Fuller and his collaborators do pull off one terrific effect with the corridor set, when Johnny hallucinates that it is awash with rain from a thunderstorm. This kind of delirious expressionism, providing a visual correlative to Johnny's growing insanity, was rare in American films of the time.
Shock Corridor may be crude and rude, but it is the work of genuine artist, a rare director who was able to make films that express his personal identity. Fuller had to give up ownership of the film and never saw his money from the producers, but in the long run Shock Corridor helped make his reputation. We think he got the better of the deal.
Criterion's Blu-ray of Shock Corridor is a perfect transfer of this low-budget B&W production, with widescreen framing that focuses our attention away from ceilings and floors of Fuller's cheap sets. The added sharpness shows the film's budget (as when solid walls shake like sets from an old Monogram picture) but also lets us see the details that Fuller spent his money to achieve, such as the expert fantasy superimposures of Cathy caressing Johnny's sleeping face, like a seductive Barbie doll. The film becomes even more eccentric when Fuller pops to squeezed color for two more asylum hallucinations, featuring 16mm footage he filmed while location hunting in Japan and South America a decade before.
Disc producer Susan Arosteguy fashions an attractive package of extras. Tim Robbins, Quentin Tarantino, Jim Jarmusch and Martin Scorsese are on-screen for a 1996 documentary about Fuller's career, The Typewriter, the Rifle and the Movie Camera. Actress Constance Towers appears in a lengthy interview. She talks about her work with Fuller on Shock Corridor and The Naked Kiss, as well as her entire career story up to and through her time working for John Ford. A trailer is included as well for the film's 1965 Allied Artists' release.
The insert booklet contains an essay by Robert Polito and some anecdotal excerpts from Fuller's autobiography A Third Face. The appropriately cartoonish disc illustration artwork is by Daniel Clowes.
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Volume 43, Number 5, 200836th annual meeting of the European Radiation Research Society
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|03 September 2008
Induction and persistence of an immune intestinal imbalance by intestinal y-irradiation in the rat
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During radiotherapy for pelvic or abdominal cancer, the intestine is a critical dose-limiting organ. Despite precautions in treatment (planning and delivery), patients develop radiation-induced bowel injury during and for several months after treatment. Radiation enteropathy therefore remains an important obstacle to the radiocurability of abdominal tumors continues to impair patients' quality of life. An inflammatory process associated to immune imbalance has been hypothesized for the development of chronic radiation enteritis. The development of delayed radiation effects involves a continuous process starting immediately at the time of irradiation. The chronic inflammatory reactions are typically characterized by a large infiltrate of immune cells (macrophages, lymphocytes). The balance of cytokines production is crucial to immune response to disease prevention and CD4+ T cells play a prominent role in the disease progression. The persistence of disease susceptibility and resistance depends on the profiles of the cytokines secreted by Th1 and Th2 cells. In the early time, we showed that abdominal single irradiation (10Gy) or fractionated colorectal ?-irradiation (4Gy/fractions, 3 fractions/week and total dose 52Gy) modified the Th1 and Th2 cytokines expression characterized by Th1 cytokines (IFN-gamma/IP10) repression. The Th2 shift occurred via regulation of the level of cytokine-mediators through transcriptional modulation and STAT signaling. During the acute phase, the immune imbalance is associated to an infiltration of macrophages and neutrophiles. This Th1/Th2 imbalance may be attributed to a different radiosensitivity (Th1 more radiosensitive than Th2) and the secretion of a feed-back inhibitor of Th1 polarization potentiating the Th2 profile. In long term (6 months after radiotherapy) the intestinal response may be also driven by the Th2- type responses. The molecular mechanism of this immune imbalance persistence remained unknown. Interestingly, irradiation created an immunosuppressive effect characterized by IL10/STAT3 pathway repression, the pathway known to regulate Th1/Th2 balance. A decrease of the CD4+CD25+FOXP3+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) frequency in the mesenteric lymph nodes may be at the genesis of the IL-10 repression. These results raise the question of whether the Th2 polarization post-irradiation (acute and delayed time) in the intestine involve a highway code of the T cell trafficking induced by a homeostastatic differential chemokines and an alteration of the microvasculature. The assumed loss of tolerance induced by reduced frequency of Treg may be deleterious for Th inactivation and antibacterial responses. These findings suggest the importance to reduce irradiation effects during and after radiotherapy based on immune deviation.
Key words: Irradiation / T cell / Intestine
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When it comes to B.C., the Okanagan is usually top of mind for vacations, wine and fun in the sun.
As it turns out, the region is also proving to be the province’s current hot spot for coronavirus cases.
The latest statistics from the BC Centre of Disease Control show that 107 cases were reported in the Okanagan between July 10-23.
The only other areas that came close were in the Lower Mainland, with the Fraser South region (Ladner, Delta, White Rock, Surrey, Langley) having the most at 58 cases. Vancouver was next at 49 and Fraser East at 42.
The province reported 340 new cases of COVID-19 during that two-week period, which means the Okanagan accounted for nearly a third of them.
The outbreak is believed to stem from two house parties that took place during the Canada Day weekend in Kelowna.
On July 10, Interior Health issued a potential exposure warning for the city’s downtown core after eight people tested positive, six of whom were from outside the health authority’s region.
In the days that followed, the case count went up and some local businesses temporarily closed because of coronavirus concerns.
On Thursday, Premier John Horgan said B.C. was averaging 30 new cases of COVID-19 a day for the past week, compared to 116 per day in Alberta and 829 in Washington state.
He said recent images from Kelowna reminded him of his youth, when he’d travel to the Okanagan from Vancouver Island.
“I know what’s going on here. I’ve got young men in my life who would also like to travel and enjoy a good time,” said the premier, referring to his two sons who, according to a government official, are in their early 30s.
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Home sweets home
Summit is partnering with Whole Foods Market to tell the story of Hawaii brands that sell through the premium grocer.
Hawaiian legend has it that the great god Kū, in a time of great famine, buried his head in the earth and turned his body into the trunk and limbs of the breadfruit plant, having told his distraught wife how to roast the fruit, remove the skin and feed herself and the children. They survived, and the villagers began to grow ‘ulu, the gift of Kū.
‘Ulu was carried across the Pacific on canoes by the original settlers of these islands. Considered a secondary staple to kalo (taro), the high-protein, nutrient-rich ‘ulu nonetheless was an important starch throughout pre-contact times, and also served as an emergency food in times of famine and disaster, as it could be buried underground for months or years.
The majestic ‘ulu tree grows to be between 40 and 60 feet tall, and its ruffled leaves are a common motif in Hawaiian art. The rough-skinned, globe-shaped fruit, measuring several inches and weighing 2–3 pounds, can be boiled, steamed, baked, fire-roasted or fried. Its wood, sap and flowers were also used in traditional Hawai‘i.
Despite its versatility, the ‘ulu has fallen from its place in the pantheon of native foods in the last 100 years, as Hawai‘i’s consumption of imported foods from the American continents has risen to over 80 percent. John Cadman has set out to change that.
Summit visited Cadman in his modest, industrial kitchen in Kahului, Maui, to learn more about his Pono Pies, which use locally sourced ‘ulu as their principal ingredient. These no-bake pies are gluten-, GMO- and soy-free, have no refined sugar and feature raw nuts and honey. His most popular pie flavors include lilikoi (made from local passion fruit) and dairy-free chocolate (made from raw cacao powder).
Two years ago, after researching ‘ulu as a member of the Maui Farmers Union, he started experimenting with ways to incorporate it into healthier desserts. The latter were part of a personal journey of wellness that had begun with a raw food diet, recognizing his own addiction to refined sugar and its negative impacts on his health. “If you asked for a dessert that was gluten-free, with no eggs and dairy, they’d hand you an apple,” says Cadman of the struggle to find healthier desserts. Then he discovered ‘ulu.
“The light bulb really went on,” says Cadman of the talk he gave to the Farmers Union. “I saw that ‘ulu could hold the key to sustainability and our many food security issues. It’s an amazing and underutilized crop.”
Pono is a Hawaiian word meaning good, virtuous and morally correct—and, in using local ingredients and supporting a market for commercial ‘ulu cultivation, Cadman seeks to bring a little righteousness back to our over-processed, industrial food landscape.
Cadman’s culinary experiments were far from random puttering in a home kitchen. Originally from California and Oregon, he has made Maui his home for over three decades and currently lives with his family in Ha‘ikū. His food and hospitality background includes stints as a sous chef at high-end resorts—he opened the Grand Wailea in 1990—and then 15 years with the School Food Services Branch of the state Department of Education. After two years as manager for Kamehameha Schools' Maui campus, he recently retired—only to find himself drawn back into the food community with his new venture.
The craft of making Pono Pies, and the newest addition to the lineup, Maui ‘Ulu Hummus, is a meticulous process that Cadman honed through four years of experimentation. The ‘ulu is supplied by an unusual source 40 miles away on the famously twisting Hāna Highway. The nonprofit Kahanu Gardens there has the world’s largest collection of breadfruit trees, possessing 120 varieties from across Oceania in total.
Kahanu Garden’s trees provide Cadman with 150 pounds of ‘ulu per week. Cadman has the ‘ulu delivered in a ripened state. He immediately peels, quarters, steams and freezes the fruit to preserve it as a base for his recipes. “They’re different varieties, but they all seem to work in the pies,” he says.
A veteran surfer who sold a vintage surfboard and rare Endless Summer posters to finance the start of Pono Pies, Cadman wakes at 4 a.m. to make about 20 pies, then hits the waves while they set. The steamed ‘ulu is first blended with natural flavorings and honey, poured on a crust of dates, crushed nuts and coconut and then allowed to firm before being sliced and packaged. His son Maika‘i and employee Shawn help him with these tasks.
On our visit, he offered us a taste of Kabocha Pono Pie, made from ‘ulu and a local variety of butternut squash. The texture was surprisingly creamy and lightly whipped—similar to a mousse, it was smooth and didn’t have the fibrous starchiness recalled from previous experiences eating plain, baked ‘ulu. The crust was a light and slightly chewy textural counterpoint to the smooth filling. The overall result was delicious, with not a whiff of conscripted “healthiness” anywhere.
The ‘Ulu Hummus was also remarkably similar to its namesake; with its turmeric-based coloring, it resembled the chickpea staple and possessed a similar consistency that went well with pita chips. Cadman’s seasoning deftly blends garlic and a hint of smokiness with local macadamia nuts, doing duty in the place of sesame tahini. About 50 percent of the pies’ ingredients are local; this number goes up to 90 percent for Pono Hummus.
While expanding the use and cultivation of taro products has been the focus of much of the recent cultural and native agriculture movement in Hawai‘i, Cadman sees some key advantages to growing ‘ulu as a food crop.
“It’s a great deal easier to grow than kalo,” says Cadman. “You use less water and, once the tree is established—which takes about three years—it’s a perpetual harvest. No replanting needed.” Cadman also extols the breadfruit’s resistance to drought and pests.
Cadman is also conscious of the larger issues of food security and healthier eating. Pono Pies is part of his long-term commitment to improving health and environmental sustainability through diet, which began over 10 years ago when he and other chefs in the Department of Education experimented with meat-free school lunches. He still sees a need for vegetarian and vegan options and the ability to cut the red tape that prohibits the use of produce grown in school gardens, and has lectured on these topics to diverse audiences.
“Ulu also means to grow,” notes Cadman. “To the Hawaiians, it symbolized abundance and the continuity of generations.” He’s at the vanguard of those who are bringing back the use of ‘ulu as a staple in our daily diet. Far from looking to distant shores for imports, Cadman is taking a small, but measurable, step in drawing upon the local sustenance that is symbolized by the ‘ulu—“the breadfruit that is in front of you, that is yours.”
Pono Pies are available at Whole Foods stores statewide, Mana Foods and Down to Earth on Maui, as well as several Maui restaurants.

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If the Conservative leadership contest were a football match, last night’s TV debate was the first skirmish of the second half. With her 24 per cent lead in the latest YouGov poll of party members, Liz Truss arrived at the debate with the equivalent of w two goal lead. Not surprisingly, she played defence, doing … Continue reading Last night’s TV debate: Truss got the draw she needed
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Reproductive cycle of the tetra Astyanax bimaculatus (Characiformes: Characidae) collected in Amazonian streams
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SummaryA histological characterization of gonadal development in the tetra Astyanax bimaculatus was performed, aimed at determining its reproductive cycle in streams localized inside the Amazonian forest. Collections were carried out monthly from August 2017 to July 2018 at the Zoobotânica Foundation of Marabá, PA. Collected specimens were weighed and measured, and their gonads and liver were removed and weighed to calculate gonadosomatic and hepatosomatic indexes. Gonads were fixed and treated for routine histology for light microscopy. Materials were stained with toluidine blue and haematoxylin and eosin. The Amazonian A. bimaculatus species presented two reproductive periods in the year, one at the end of the winter season and another during the summer. Females showed an asynchronous development of their oocytes and only two reproductive phases of development were observed during the whole period 'developing' and 'spawning capable'. Males presented cystic spermatogenesis, with an anastomosing tubular testis containing spermatogonia spread along the germinal epithelium (unrestricted spermatogonial). These morphological characteristics are considered phylogenetically more primitive. Male specimens were observed to have five different phases during the period: Immature, initial maturation, mid maturation, final maturation and regression. The huge fluctuations in Amazonian streams was observed, in which water volumes varied considerably across seasons, culminating even in total drought. In spite of this, A. bimaculatus could be found during all seasons, showing its impressive reproductive adaptation to its conditions.

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"I definitely would " - Alex Carey breaks his silence following Jonny Bairstow's runout
Australian wicketkeeper Alex Carey has finally addressed the controversial stumping of Jonny Bairstow during the Ashes at Lord's. Carey acknowledged that the Australian team was well aware of Bairstow's tendency to leave his crease early and expressed surprise at the backlash their decision received.
After the incident, Australian players faced verbal abuse from spectators in the Lord's Long Room, leading to the suspension of three MCC members. Stuart Broad took the opportunity to taunt Carey, suggesting that he would only be remembered for the stumping incident. Despite this, Ben Stokes responded with an impressive innings of 155 runs in the match.
Nonetheless, Australia managed to secure a 43-run victory, extending their series lead to 2-0, which was later reduced to 2-1 following England's triumph at Headingley.
Carey addressed the criticism while speaking to The Guardian: "My first A-grade game in South Australia, I was out that way. And when I walked off, I was pretty disappointed. Captain came up to me, he said, ‘You’ll remember to keep your foot behind the line next time’.
Alex Carey had attempted similar dismissals in the past
Despite the backlash, Carey emphasized the unity within the Australian team and the support they receive. Explaining the stumping, Carey said, “If there was an opportunity to get a stumping, I definitely would."
Carey further disclosed that he had attempted similar dismissals in the past without success.
Throughout the series, Carey's exceptional wicketkeeping skills have drawn significant attention. He recorded four previous stumpings off Nathan Lyon and made crucial saves to prevent runs in matches against India in the World Test Championship final and at Edgbaston, earning praise for his contributions.
However, his batting performance suffered at Headingley, as he fell victim to Mark Wood and Chris Woakes.

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Few teams in Illinois will have as many Division I college prospects as East St. Louis next season, and the Flyers have built a schedule to showcase that talent.
Coach Darren Sunkett’s team will do something it has never done before – board a plane. And it will do so twice.
The 2019 IHSA Class 6A state champions, who went 5-1 this spring, aren’t afraid of a challenge in nonconference play. They will travel to California and Mississippi to face two of the top programs in the nation.
“Year in and year out, we just try to put together the best possible schedule we can,” Sunkett said. “It doesn’t matter who the opponents are, we just want to give our kids an opportunity to compete.”
The Flyers open the season against Christian Brothers and De Smet in Weeks 1 and 2, both are two of the top private school programs in Missouri.
In Week 3, they will travel to the Los Angeles area to face St. John Bosco, which finished the spring season 5-1 and ranked No. 2 in southern California by the Los Angeles Times.
Southwestern Conference matchups will follow with Belleville West, Alton, Edwardsville, O’Fallon and Belleville East in Weeks 4-8. Finally, in Week 9 is a playoff tuneup against arguably the top program in the country, IMG Academy (Florida).
IMG is based in Bradenton, Florida, and assembles some of the top talent from across the country. Notably, former Nazareth quarterback J.J. McCarthy transferred to IMG when the IHSA moved football to the spring. Cornerback Greg Newsome, who was selected in the first round of the NFL draft by the Cleveland Browns last month, transferred from Glenbard North to IMG for his senior season several years ago.
East St. Louis will meet IMG in Week 9 at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi. IMG finished last season 8-0 and ranked No. 1 in the nation by USA Today.
“We feel like it’s the best tuneup we can get, I can tell you that,” Sunkett said. “The good thing about that is it gives our kids a good eight weeks to mature and develop and you hope, as a program, that you get better week to week. So we feel like we should be rolling pretty good come Week 9.”
IMG currently has nine of the top 25 recruits in the state of Florida in the class of 2022, according to 247Sports. East St. Louis has five of the top 38 recruits in Illinois in the class of 2022, according to 247Sports, plus the state’s top-ranked recruit in 2023 in lineman Miles McVay.
Sunkett said he is always looking for games against the top teams across the country. He said it’s not uncommon for top programs in other states to be in contact with each other when it’s time to start scheduling.
East St. Louis is no stranger to long trips. The team traveled to Michigan and Ohio in 2018, Ohio in 2014 and Kansas City in 2012.
When East St. Louis went to Georgia in 2011, it took a bus. This fall, the Flyers will be flying, literally, to California and Mississippi. That will be a first for the program.
“It provides an experience that some of [the players] may never have that opportunity to have again,” Sunkett said. “But it’s still a business trip for us. It’s not a vacation. We’re going down there to try to win a ballgame.”


Napoleon junior Kendall Homan practices on the balance beam. Homan is a two-time defending all-around champion at the district and finished 15th at state last year.
NAPOLEON - Napoleon junior Kendall Homan possesses the perfect balance of grace, power, determination, competitiveness and courage to be a champion gymnast.
Homan's athleticism has enabled her to win two consecutive district championships. She captured the all-around title as a freshman and sophomore. Homan will be seeking a three-peat on Saturday when the Division I district is held for the first time at the SeaGate Convention Centre.
"It's all about perfecting everything you do - finishing things and making them look pretty," Homan said. "I've always had to work really hard at it. I want to keep my focus and continue to improve."
Homan took 15th in all-around at the state meet last winter after finishing 12th as a freshman in 2007. Her highest finish in an individual event was ninth in the floor exercise as a freshman. Homan has never placed lower than 23rd in any event at state.
Kendall Homan prepares for parallel bars. She is also state track qualifier and an all-league soccer player.
Napoleon coach Celeste Belding, who has been at the helm of the Wildcats program for 14 seasons, said Homan is the most competitive gymnast she has mentored.
"Kendall is one of those determined athletes," Belding said. "She has the full package as a gymnast. She has the grace, the power and she has the good tumbling and elegant dance.
"Her other coaches say, 'She is magic or tragic,'•" Belding said. "She only knows one way to go - full speed. She's learned how to control her power."
It was all magic for Homan at the district meet last year, winning three of the four individual events. She took first in the vault with a score of 9.075, the uneven parallel bars (9.150) and the floor exercise (9.35). She won the all-around with a score of 36.425.
"It's exciting knowing all that I've accomplished already," Homan said. "I just want to be the district champ again. I feel if I don't, I'm downgrading what I've done."
Perrysburg is the defending district champion. Napoleon took second last year, and 21 teams will compete this year.
"This is the first time it's at SeaGate Centre and I'm really excited," Homan said. "I always feel so good at big meets when there is more pressure. I seem to do better. I perform better in front of a lot of people."
The top two teams and top five individuals will advance to the state meet March 6-7 at Hilliard Darby in suburban Columbus.
Belding said she believes the team title will come down to Napoleon, Patrick Henry, Findlay or Perrysburg.
"This is a very good group of all-around competitors," Belding said. "It will be hard for Kendall to win three years in a row."
Homan credited longtime coach Amy Nyman, who has instructed her at New Heights Athletics in Wauseon since age 3. "She's like my second mom," Homan said.
She said Nyman has helped make the floor exercise her strongest event.
"I love making up my own routines. I love tumbling," she said.
She also enjoys the beam and vault, but has always been wary of the parallel bars.
"I've been scared to death of them since I first touched them," Homan said. "I don't like swinging on them."
Belding said Homan once broke her elbow while performing on the vault.
"Gymnastics is a very physically demanding sport," Belding said. "You have to surmount fears of getting hurt and the possibility of major pain."
Homan also landed awkwardly on her neck a few years ago while also competition in the vault.
"She missed [the springboard] with her hands and she went for it anyway and landed on her neck," Belding said. "But she went right out and did it again."
Homan's abilities extend beyond gymnastics. Last spring at the Division II state track meet, Homan finished fifth in the 100 meters and fourth in the long jump. She also was named All-Greater Buckeye Conference first team in soccer last fall.
Belding said she believes Homan would increase her chances of being among the top six at the state meet and earn All-Ohio honors if she focused solely on gymnastics.
"I asked her why she played soccer and she said, 'Soccer is a team sport in a way that gymnastics and track are not,'•" Belding said. "Her goal is the team first. She would trade any individual accolade for a team title."
Homan said she hopes to land a college scholarship, but her immediate goal is to reach state with her teammates senior Jessica DeTray, junior Taylor Dunbar and freshman Riley Dunbar. Freshman Bethany Wolf is sidelined with an injury.
Napoleon posted its highest finish in school history at state when it took seventh as a team in 2007 when Homan was a freshman.
"When I got into high school, I thought I might only have four years left, so I'll do the best I can," Homan said. "Next year I'll upgrade my tumbling and all my routines. I've already had a lot of fun."
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In the wake of surging COVID-19 cases, the Haryana government has revised guest limit for weddings in the state.
Recently, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan revised the guest limits for weddings. Both the states capped the guest limit at 100. Now, after these two states, Haryana has taken a similar decision to arrest the spread of the disease.
Here is the guest limit for weddings in different districts across Haryana:
A gathering of 50 people allowed in Gurugram, Faridabad, Rewari, Rohtak, Panipat and Hisar districts.
In other districts, a gathering of 100 people will be allowed.
100 people can gather in Gurugram, Faridabad, Rewari, Rohtak, Panipat and Hisar districts.
While 200 people will be allowed in other districts.
The guidelines will be effective from November 26 as informed by the Haryana CM.
Meanwhile, on Monday, Haryana reported another big spike of 2,663 fresh coronavirus cases taking the caseload in the state to 2,19,963 and with 28 more fatalities, the COVID-19 related death toll rose to 2,216.
According to the state health department's daily bulletin, of the fresh cases, hardest-hit Gurgaon district reported 866 cases while 577 infections were recorded in Faridabad.
Gurgaon and Faridabad are the two hardest-hit districts, both of which fall in the Delhi-National Capital Region.
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|La Posada Doña Rosita | Our Services | Rates | Location | Valle de Bravo, surroundings | Contact us
|The village of Valle de Bravo is located at 3 hours of drive from Mexico City, towards Toluca.
3 directions are available to come and visit us:
- the highway from México, via Toluca, up to the exit in Villa Victoria
- the road "del Pacífico" from Toluca via Los Zaucos
- the road to Amanalco
An easy way to come from Mexico is also to take the bus with Caminante from the bus terminal "El Observatorio".
Once in Valle de Bravo, the posada Doña Rosita is located in Bugambilias Street No 1.
We are in the corner with Carlos Gómez Almazan Street that you will locate easily by searchng for the supermarket "Super Ché".
If you prefer to save time and not to search by yourself, you may call Rosita and ask her to tell you the way or to come and pick you up.

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“At first we made the way home like the yellow brick road, and from there it just took off,” Duran said.
Pann credits Duran for coming up with the ideas for their tile projects, including their newest addition, and the Alice in Wonderland-themed wall facing the side of the house. The new wall already includes a 3D caterpillar, a rabbit hole, a queen of hearts and a white rabbit.
The duo says it’s easy to collaborate on each of their projects together. Once Duran has a new idea, he talks it over with Pann who quickly approves. Pann said: “It’s always easy for us to come to an agreement because I just think everything he does is fantastic.”
When working on a project, Pann and Duran make their own tile from raw clay as an inexpensive alternative to buying tiles. Pann paints the tiles and glazes them in preparation for Duran to place the tiles.
“Getting the tile up there doesn’t take long,” Duran said.
There’s so much to love about the Tile House, Pann herself struggles to pinpoint a favorite part. “Every time I go out to watch stuff, I fall in love with a different area,” Pann said.
The Mosaic Tile House is an outpouring of Pann and Duran’s passion for art that inspires visitors to follow their own passions. Pann said, “You can do a job to make money, but you need a passion that keeps you alive in the world.”
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I cannot seem to get the MKR GPS to work: I am using the MKR GPS attached via the supplied I2C cable to a MKR WiFi 1010, and using the example code and suggested library (Arduino_MKRGPS.h).
Am I missing something? Is there an issue with the Library? I see several other posts on this topic but no one seems to have 'solved' the issue.
Any tips welcome!
Can you make a photo of it ?
Arduino MKR GPS Shield: Arduino MKR GPS Shield — Arduino Official Store.
Arduino MKR Wifi 1010: Arduino MKR WiFi 1010 — Arduino Official Store.
Can you solder the pins to the shield and attach it to the MKR board ?
Did you run a I2C Scanner ?
Do others have problems with this as well ? Can you give links to that ?
The connector for power and I2C bus might be a design mistake. The SDA and SCL should not be next to each other. If they are in the cable next to each other, then the crosstalk between SDA and SCL will cause a lot of trouble.
Reference: UM10204, page 60: "Wiring pattern of the bus lines".
In the schematic of the GPS shield, I see no pullup resistors.
In the schematic of the MKR board, I see 4k7 pullup resistors, but no resistors in the signal path to dampen the SDA and SCL some.
The I2C bus should not go through a cable, but it would be possible when they had designed it better. It should work when the GPS Shield is used as a shield.
Quick fix: cut open the cable and put all seperate wires apart from each other, so the SDA is not near the SCL.

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Glasgow 2014 coverage on BBC Radio 5 live
Nicky Campbell, Victoria Derbyshire, Jonathan Overend, Eleanor Oldroyd, Peter Allen, Mark Chapman, Mark Pougatch and Colin Paterson will welcome listeners to 11 days of comprehensive Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games and Para-sports coverage on BBC Radio 5 live this summer (23 July-3 August).
Our exceptional team of sports journalists will deliver all the action from Glasgow 2014 in true 5 live style.
Having delivered award-winning coverage of the 2012 London Olympics, the station embraces the Games with a bespoke schedule live from the heart of Glasgow from 06:00-01:00 each day.
From Wednesday 23 July, the team will kick off over 200 hours of coverage from the Games with Mark Pougatch and John Murray launching the 5 live schedule in style from the Opening Ceremony at Celtic park from 19:00.
New to the 5 live Sport team for the Games are Olympic gold-medalists Victoria Pendleton and Sir Chris Hoy. They are joined by a stellar line-up including, Gavin Hastings, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, Barry McGuigan, Darren Campbell, Allison Curbishley and Steve Parry, who will bring news and atmosphere from every venue alongside regular 5 live commentators including Mike Costello, Alison Mitchell and Vassos Alexander.
5 live’s dedicated daily programming gets underway from 06:00 each morning with Nicky Campbell live in Glasgow for 5 live breakfast. Nicky will preview the day’s sporting action, news and current affairs from across the UK and beyond.
At 10:00 it’s then over to Victoria Derbyshire and Jonathan Overend from as the action gets underway throughout the city. The pair present the mid-morning programme covering the start of the day’s events and the latest breaking news.
Eleanor Oldroyd and Fred MacAuley take the helm from 14:00 as 5 live’s output is simulcast with BBC Scotland. They’ll bring listeners the afternoon’s sporting action and report live on the cultural activity from Glasgow as the city comes to life during 11 days of festivities.
From 16:00 Peter Allen will be joined by Mark Chapman bringing news from the day at the Games and all the latest headlines before handing over Mark Pougatch who anchors the evening’s coverage from 19:00.
From 23:00 Colin Paterson brings listeners the colour, character and music of Glasgow’s nightlife with reaction and discussion following the day’s events live from the 2014 Festival Club.
Sports fans can be transported to the Commonwealth Games wherever they are by listening live via the 5 live website, the BBC iPlayer Radio app or the BBC Sport app.
Meanwhile, the best highlights and insight will live on the ‘In Short’ section of the 5 live website and 5 live’s informed and irreverent social media accounts will offer a unique view from behind the scenes at the Games.
Jonathan Wall, Controller, BBC Radio 5 live, says: “Our exceptional team of sports journalists will deliver all the action from Glasgow 2014 in true 5 live style. I’m delighted to welcome two Team GB’s 2012 Olympic stars to the team and look forward to over 200 hours of comprehensive and distinctive Commonwealth Games coverage taking listeners to the heart of all the sporting drama from Glasgow.”
The full BBC Radio 5 live schedule will be released closer to the Games.


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WPIAL basketball: No Lion, New Brighton pulls major upset
CANONSBURG — The 3-point shot is the great equalizer in all levels of basketball.
The New Brighton girls needed every one of their shots from beyond the arc against Ciara Gregory and Jeannette.
New Brighton used a large halftime lead to hold off a second-half Jeannette rally, and the No. 14 Lions knocked off No. 3 Jeannette 58-55 in a WPIAL Class AA first-round game at Canon-McMillan.
“A little bit of a scare,” New Brighton coach Rick Sheffield said with a smile. “I think they were surprised we hit those threes in the first half. If they saw film on our last playoff game, we weren’t hitting any shots from outside.”
Alexis Aspiotes had three of New Brighton’s six 3-pointers, all of which came in the first half as the Lions built a 42-28 halftime lead.
“Usually teams play us inside and let us shoot out, but they saw that we have 3-point shooters, too,” junior Kaitlyn Hopkins said.
Jeannette relied on Gregory to climb back into the game. The 5-foot-7 junior guard scored 13 of Jeannette’s 15 third-quarter points as New Brighton’s offense went cold and the Lady Lions’ lead dipped to 47-43 with one quarter left to play.
“Just try to keep with (Gregory), get a hand in her face. That’s really all you could do,” senior guard Kiyonna McFrazier said. “She was making them even when you were pressuring on her.”
Gregory finished with 32 points, but she couldn’t get Jeannette closer than two points. New Brighton aided in the drama by missing a handful of foul shots down the stretch, but Jeannette scored just eight points in the final 4:04.
New Brighton had four players in double figures. Hopkins and Aspiotes had 14 points each. Jasmine Oravitz had 13, McFrazier had 12. Hopkins chipped in 12 rebounds.
New Brighton, the No. 14 seed, will take on No. 13 Steel Valley on Friday. New Brighton is in the quarterfinals after finishing fourth in Section 2-AA.
“That’s our motivation,” McFrazier said. “We’re the underdogs and we love it.”