“I don’t know what’s going on inside there, but somebody made a mistake,” Montana told USA Today Sports in a telephone interview.
Montana, 63, finished his career with the Kansas City Chiefs after 14 seasons and four Super Bowl victories with the San Francisco 49ers. Unlike for Brady, it wasn’t Montana’s choice, as the 49ers traded him away to make Steve Young the starting quarterback.
“I had a different story, where they had made a decision. He, obviously, they never would have gotten rid of. I still don’t understand how New England let him get away. I don’t understand that,” he told the newspaper.
During his introductory conference call with the media on Tuesday, Brady, 42, talked about being in San Francisco for Montana’s final home game. He talked about the moment as he joins the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after 20 seasons and six Super Bowl wins with New England.
“I’ll never forget that,” Brady said of Montana’s final game. “I just think life continues to change for all of us. Having the opportunity for me to continue to play football and lead a team is something that I love doing. I’ve loved playing the sport since I was a kid, since I was throwing footballs in the parking lot at Candlestick. And I still love doing that today.”
Montana told USA Today he thinks Brady left New England not because he wasn’t being appreciated but because Brady just wanted more control.
“He wants control. I mean, he wants a lot of control. I don’t know what Tampa Bay gave him, but at some point in time, you’re just a player. You can try to get what you can and do what you want, but in the end, you’re still not in the hierarchy when it comes to hiring people, firing people and all that,” he said.
Montana, who was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2000, played the final two seasons of his career with the Chiefs before retiring after the 1994 season.


Meghan Rae Scanlon, of Marblehead, was arrested on multiple OUI-related charges after crashing a United States Postal Service truck on Thursday, June 8, according to the Lynn Police Department.
Police responded to reports of a car crash at the Lynn Common, opposite Hanover Street, at approximately 6:20 p.m.
They found that a USPS vehicle had received significant damage when its driver, later identified as Scanlon, crashed it into the Common.
Lynn Police say Scanlon is a USPS employee.
She is facing the following charges:
- OUI liquor
- OUI drugs
- Negligent operation of a motor vehicle


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More signs of distress in China’s economy and rising U.S. bond yields are weighing on U.S. stocks in early trading.
The Dow Jones industrial average was down 231 points, or 1.6 percent, to 14,566 in the first half-hour of trading Monday.
The Standard & Poor’s index fell 26 points, or 1.7 percent, to 1,565. The Nasdaq composite fell 55 points, or 1.7 percent, to 3,302.
An increase in China’s commercial lending rates brought new worries about China’s finances. China’s Shanghai Composite Index plunged 5 percent, its biggest loss in four years.
The selling spread to Europe. France’s index fell 1.8 percent, Germany’s 1.1 percent.
In the U.S., the yield on the 10-year Treasury note jumped to 2.61 percent from 2.54 Friday, its highest level in almost two years.
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While the House plans to vote on a short term extension to carry over till a permanent bill can be reached next session, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says that's not an option.
Bimbo Bakeries announced that it will close its bakery located at 2530 Southeast Drive in Wichita. The company employees 118 people.
Secretary Sebelius orders investigation into botched rollout.
The thefts occurred between 7000 North 143rd Street East and 3000 North 143rd Street East late Saturday and early Sunday.
The Kansas Supreme Court will hear arguments next week in the appeals of two brothers sentenced to death for murders committed in December 2000.
Massachusetts woman dies after being dragged for nearly half a mile by a bus.
KU coach, Bill Self, spoofs "Anchorman" in video

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Undoubtedly one of the most talented singers of this generation, Sam Smith is back with another tour in 2018! In support of his album, "The Thrill of It All" tour will hit every major city in North America. Find your Sam Smith tickets above.
When Sam Smith had his breakthrough after being featured in the 2012 Disclosure song "Latch," it had come after years of exposure to singing by Lady Gaga, Beyonce, and Whitney Houston. In 2013, he released his debut single, "Lay Me Down," and an EP Nirvana. Smith continued building his audience with two more singles, "Money on My Mind," and "Stay with Me," both released in 2014.
Smith's multi-award winning debut album, In the Lonely Hour, was released in May 2014. By November, the album was the second best-selling of the year behind Taylor Swift's 1989. In 2015, Smith embarked on his debut tour, which will include stops in cities acorss the United States over the summer. Find tickets on ticketnetwork.com and go see the "Stay With Me" singer perform live in concert!

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no code implementations • 6 Jul 2021 • Samuel Budd, Matthew Sinclair, Thomas Day, Athanasios Vlontzos, Jeremy Tan, Tianrui Liu, Jaqueline Matthew, Emily Skelton, John Simpson, Reza Razavi, Ben Glocker, Daniel Rueckert, Emma C. Robinson, Bernhard Kainz
Fetal ultrasound screening during pregnancy plays a vital role in the early detection of fetal malformations which have potential long-term health impacts.
Intelligent video summarization algorithms allow to quickly convey the most relevant information in videos through the identification of the most essential and explanatory content while removing redundant video frames.
Despite the growing body of work on this paradigm, a noticeable omission is that the locations of the non-zero entries of previous algorithms were fixed, and only their values were learned.
We show that our method is superior to alternative video summarization methods and that it preserves essential information required by clinical diagnostic standards.
Ablation studies have validated the effectiveness of both the proposed gated multi-layer feature extraction sub-network and the deformable occlusion handling sub-network.
In this paper, we propose a gated multi-layer convolutional feature extraction method which can adaptively generate discriminative features for candidate pedestrian regions.
Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have enabled significant improvements in pedestrian detection owing to the strong representation ability of the CNN features.

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Sawaki Takeyasu’s El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron, initially released over 12 years ago, is set for an HD remaster release for Nintendo Switch on April 28, 2024. The rights to the game were purchased by Takeyasu’s company Crim after launch and the port’s release date was announced in tandem with publisher Rainy Frog. The game will be available both physically and digitally in Japan, with a physical deluxe edition priced at ¥8,250 (about US$57) that includes the game and a drama CD with a script.
Upon its original debut in 2011, El Shaddai received mixed reactions. While not universally appealing, the distinctly styled action game has been a lasting touchstone for those who enjoyed its unique concept. In its initial release, it had a significant promotional campaign, including a crossover with Japanese clothing brand Edwin that featured specially designed jeans in the styles of characters Enoch and Lucifel. Unfortunately, no themed clothing accompanies the upcoming Switch releases.
Apart from perks included in the Japanese physical editions, there seems to be no new content added to the game. The remastered version of El Shaddai will retain its original appeal with its rock, paper, scissors combat and mix of 3D and 2D sections. Those keen to revisit or experience the game for the first time can look forward to its release in April 2024.

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In this case report, we present an 18-year-old morbidly obese male with complicating hypertensive cardiomyopathy who underwent laparoscopic adjustable gastric band surgery. The patient had multiple comorbidities associated with his obesity, including obstructive sleep apnea, systemic hypertension, asthma, and depression. Given the severity of his underlying cardiac pathology and multiple previously unsuccessful attempts at weight loss with conventional medical and behavioral therapy, the patient opted to proceed with surgical intervention. We present this laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding surgical case to demonstrate the impact of surgical weight reduction on cardiac risk factors in a morbidly obese adolescent, highlighting the viability of this surgery for patients with existing cardiac dysfunction.
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how many times do you think you say this phrase throughout a day? i say phrase rather than question because i'm really not sure we're ever actually genuinely asking, how are you? it's more of a nicety, a social norm. you don't just say "hey" or "hello" (or in my case, "howdy") but it's always followed by a "how's it going" "how are you today". on the surface, this is a nice thing to do, right? but is it possible this unconscious conditioning is actually harmful to our wellbeing?
i was prompted to think about this upon meeting two Germans at the cafe i work at. in attempt to display my limited knowledge of German i said, "Guten tag, wie geht's dir?" (which translates to "hello, how are you?"). these ladies were very quick to tell me not to use that phrase in Germany. curious, i asked them why. "because we don't ask that question unless we genuinely want to know how someone is. here, in Australia, we get asked it all the time. but no one actually cares for the answer."
i've often thought this too. how many times have you been asked, how are you? and felt that the asker is genuinely interested in your answer? not to mention, how do you answer that question? am i the only one who ever feels overwhelmed by what seems like a simple question? how am i - in this moment? how am i - today? how am i - mentally? physically? emotionally? how am i - doing in life in general? because the truth is, how we are changes moment to moment. and the answer can rarely be succinctly wrapped up in a quick reply.
i think what i'm trying to get at with this post is that we've lost the ability to check in with others. we've become so addicted to superficiality, to convenience, that we have forgotten to stop and check in with those around us. and admittedly, i've fallen victim to this too. i can't remember the last time i caught up with a friend and i asked them how they're doing, in general. our phones have made us more accessible, but less connected. we feel content going months without seeing friends and only communicating through a screen. but a screen is so impersonal. and i don't know about others, but i'm horrible at replying. i don't want to talk about my life through digital characters. i want to articulate my thoughts, in person, where i know i have the other person's full attention.
maybe all of this comes down to the lost art of friendship. numerous studies have shown that the number of people we feel we can depend on in a crisis has steadily declined over the past 10-20 years. it used to be 5, now most people feel like they don't even have one person they could call upon - why is that? when was the last time you felt truly seen or heard by a friend? now let's flip that, when was the last time you truly heard and saw a friend? texting doesn't suffice. and it's killing our connections with others.
i've found that being in a relationship is both the best and worst thing to happen to people and friendships. best thing, because invariably individuals become a better version of themselves - they feel more secure, settled, fulfilled. worse though, because often people become less intentional. their needs are being met by their partner, so why venture out and communicate with friends? when someone is single, their friendships are their livelihood - they're a necessity. but when people get into relationships, friendships almost feel like an inconvenience. they take effort. and in a world that is becoming increasingly more dependent on convenience and instant gratification, it's no wonder that our friendships are being neglected. but at what cost?
i for one know that i'm lonely. i'm in a very loving and supporting relationship, which fulfills almost all of my needs, but i still find myself missing my friends. i miss our thought-provoking chats. i miss the learning of others' lives. i miss the connections. i think as we get older, it becomes too easy to forget about our friends and too hard to make effort. but we need to. humans need friends. we're social creatures and we can't rely upon one person to fulfill all of our needs. i've had many friendships over the years dissipate into nothingness and i'm still, to this date, at a loss for how it happened. i've found losing a friend hurts more than losing a partner. often with a partner we can rationalise that we weren't compatible, but for a friend? it's a lot harder to understand. especially because there's often no closure - people terminate friendships not intentionally, but by conveniently ignoring communications i.e. ghosting them.
the more that technology continues to dominate society, the more that we need to be intentional with those in our lives. sending a message 'checking in' doesn't suffice. people need people. the only way to feel truly connected to others is by spending time with them and asking the hard questions. but more importantly, listening to their answers. connections are born in vulnerability. but the only way for others to be vulnerable is to be intentional about creating an environment where others share their humanness. we need to get back to the basics. we need to learn how to be better friends again.

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Washington County Affordable Housing Opens Amid GOLD Housing Crisis
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A year-long affordable housing project is finally complete, adding dozens of new homes across Washington County. However, as state leaders point out, this is just one solution to a growing need for housing in Oregon, as rents are skyrocketing faster than incomes for many.
“In Oregon, we are facing a housing crisis,” Oregon Governor Kate Brown said at a groundbreaking ceremony for one of the state’s completed housing projects.
It’s a crisis, according to Governor Brown, who has only been exasperated by the pandemic, as state leaders say it’s time to look at how the lack of affordable housing may go along with homelessness.
“House prices and rents have certainly skyrocketed, directly contributing to Oregon having one of the highest rates of homelessness in the entire country,” Brown said.
The state’s solution: create at least 25,000 affordable housing units in five years. Midway through, this project already has over 18,000 projects funded or completed. But parts of Washington County say there’s still a lot of work to do.
“In Tigard alone, more than 4,600 housing units are needed to be affordable for low-income households,” said Jason Snider, Mayor of Tigard. “These numbers are daunting, but they can be overcome.”
One of the county projects to come to fruition is Viewfinder, an affordable apartment building in the Tigard triangle, with 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments, laundry facilities and access to public transport.
“Of the 81 units, 100% of them are rented and moved in. We had our last move in a week ago,” said Eric Paine, CEO of Community Development Partners, overseeing Viewfinder.
The houses are limited to households and families earning 30-60% of the region’s median income, while also including eight apartments for veterans.
“There are veterans who were previously homeless and the good pays their rent and comes with other services like wraparound case management services for each of those units,” Paine said.
The building is just one of many funded by the $652 million Metro Regional Affordable Housing Bond and the first Washington County-led bond project to open. Of the state’s five-year housing project, Metro says they’re ahead of schedule, at about half the original cost, though it’s unclear if additional projects will be added to the budget.
Metro says Greater Portland needs at least 48,000 affordable housing units to meet current demand. Other ongoing housing projects include a hotel renovation in Aloha and a new construction in Montavilla, aimed at BIPOC, the elderly and victims of domestic violence.


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Green Street St. Louis, a full service real estate provider focused on sustainable building practices, together with St. Louis based craft brewer Urban Chestnut Brewing Company (UCBC), recently converted the former Renard Paper Co. warehouse and distribution building at 4465 Manchester Avenue in the city’s Forest Park Southeast (the “Grove”) into a new, LEED Silver brewery and bierhall for UCBC. The location’s LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Silver designation was awarded by the U.S. Green Building Council for embracing the principles of environmental stewardship and social responsibility.
The new location is one of only a few LEED certified breweries nationwide, and gives UCBC the largest footprint of any craft brewer in the St. Louis area with approximately 70,000 square feet. With the addition of its new Grove location, UCBC has more than doubled it’s annual barrel production, and also has the potential to produce up to 15 times its original capacity.
Founded in early 2011 by Florian Kuplent and David Wolfe, Urban Chestnut Brewing Company outgrew capacity at its initial location within two years of launching the business. Shortly thereafter, Green Street St. Louis approached the team about expanding the business, and the decision was made to restore a city-long block into a sustainable, vibrant business within the redeveloping Grove area.
Some of the energy efficient highlights of the new UCBC include:
The Urban Chestnut Brewing Company Brewery and Bierhall has created 20 new full-time jobs and 30 part-time jobs.
The Metropolitan Community/Redevelopment Project of the Year award recognizes the best example of a community/redevelopment project that demonstrated a significant impact on a metropolitan neighborhood or community. Applicants may include community development organizations, local governments, developers, individuals, not-for-profits, community development corporations or others.


You purchased your LX570 because its sporty handling and Japanese engineering struck a chord inside you; so why would you be okay with second best when it comes to great quality auto parts? While it may not be difficult to find replacement parts for Lexus vehicles, these days the necessity for nothing but the highest quality are required to fix your car or truck. When your Lexus LX570 left the factory, it was destined for a driver who wants Japanese engineering in their automobile. Anyone who drives a Lexus knows that when it comes to fixing their vehicle only the most superior replacement parts will do.
Reducing harmful emissions that come from your car or truck depends on your use of properly functioning air and fuel delivery parts. The fuel-injection system on your Lexus LX570 is runs on signals sent by your ECU which relies on input from the oxygen sensors. Your Lexus LX570 oxygen sensors sit in the exhaust manifold, exhaust pipes, and catalytic converter and analyze the quality of the exhaust gases to determine how well your fuel delivery and emissions reduction parts are working. When oxygen sensors fail your car will not get the best fuel economy or produce enough horsepower, and it will likely be emitting an excess of hazardous exhaust.
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More than a few eyebrows were raised when Netflix revealed during the week, that competitors could be responsible for the relatively flat curve in profit in its Q2 results.
In its letter to shareholders, Netflix admitted that competitors such as Apple, Amazon, Disney, NBCUniversal and WarnerMedia were not giving them easy access to the market share, but assured that the streaming service had its strategy, and could improve its content faster than its peers.
It also admitted that social media could pose a different kind of threat, particularly TikTok, which is growing at an unprecedented rate and showing how flexible internet entertainment could become.
Netflix’s paid membership numbers grew from 182.856 million at the end of March 2020, to 193 million at the end of June 2020 – a growth of about 10.1 million, much more than the 7.5 million that the company predicted in April.
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This however did not reflect in the profit accordingly, as the company recorded $720 million profit on revenue of $6.1 billion in Q2 as against $709 million profit on $5.8 billion revenue in Q1, 2020.
There were assumptions that people would continue to turn to Netflix for entertainment as they remained locked down at home, but these brands are now proving to Netflix that they are also in the race for the numbers all the way.
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Amazon’s Prime Video
Prime Video, is an American Internet video on demand service that is developed, owned, and operated by Amazon.
Similar to Netflix’s mode of operations, Prime Video secures rights to original content. Forbes reports that even though Netflix has more subscribers than Amazon’s Prime Video, Prime has three times as many movies in its archives.
Netflix has about 3,781 total movies while Amazon Prime has about 12,828 movies. The billions of dollars that Netflix has invested in purchasing original content appear to have been dwarfed by its rival.
Weighing the options
Reviewers adjudged both brands as going toe to toe on various fronts, releasing new exclusive videos every week.
However, Netflix offers its services at the most expensive rate. Amazon Prime Video offers its monthly premium subscription at $8.99, while Netflix offers its premium subscription at $12.99. Other brands in the space offer at even lower rates. For instance, Apple offers its subscription for $4.99, and Disney’s monthly subscription sells for $6.99.
Though Apple and Disney are not considered major threats to Netflix, it is clear that if the battle for market share comes down to prices, Netflix could lose out, especially in the African region where poverty is higher, and income per capita is lower.
Growth seems promising for the region, especially since Netflix now streams its local content. Netflix has so far streamed several Nigerian movies, unlike any of the other two.
However, apart from price, Netflix has set the pace for the others. According to a Forbes review, a close look at Prime Video’s thousands of movies would reveal a lot of “extremely low-budget shows, including some that look to be home-made” although there are also thousands of quality originals on the platform, much more than the entire videos on Netflix.
Their survey also shows that in giving value for every dollar paid, Prime Video is still ahead due to cheaper costs and more movies in its archives.
Every dollar of subscription gives you access to 247 shows and 1,427 movies on Prime Video, 149 shows and 291 movies on Netflix, 34 shows and 88 movies on Disney, 146 shows and 116 movies on the recently launched HBO Max, and 4 shows and 1 video on Apple TV.
For video quality, however, it’s a tussle between Netflix and Prime Video. Also, Netflix is the only one of the lot to have made an official entry into Nigeria and other African countries; experts predict that Europe, Middle East and Africa region will soon account for more than a third of Netflix’s total subscriber base.
However, the Q2 results have shown that growth in subscriber numbers may not necessarily translate into growth in profits. Due to the fact that Netflix hardly ever discusses subscriber figures in a specific country (aside from the US and Canada), there are a whole host of estimates available as regards the exact subscriber figures from country to country.
However, Europe, Middle East and Africa have seen a significant increase; from making up 25% of the 118.9 million subscribers in Q1 2018, the region now accounts for almost a third of the 193 million paid subscriptions.
What is with TikTok?
TikTok is a Chinese video-sharing social networking service owned by ByteDance. Though launched in the Chinese market since 2016, the network gained unrivaled popularity in 2020 as it soon became a quick remedy to boredom. It is used to create short dance, lip-sync, comedy and talent videos, making its audience into “prosumers”, that is producers and consumers of its content.
Unlike Netflix and Amazon Prime, TikTok does not spend millions of dollars in purchasing originals and exclusives, but allows users to become creators. Experts argue that it is this added level of engagement – where the user becomes producer and director – that has given TikTok an edge in the race for internet entertainment.
A cut in the Nigerian market
From over 200 million Nigerians, none of these streaming platforms have staked a clear 10 percent, and over 90% of the Nigerian populace is still unclaimed.
Beyond marketing strategies and promotions, the battle will come down to content as it is said that “content is king.” That platform that succeeds in giving Nigerians what they want might just have the day.
In quantity, TikTok is bound to be ahead since it is a community publishing platform where the users can create multiple content daily.
When it comes to the kind of local quality that will win the heart of Nigerians, I daresay that Netflix is ahead of the game.
Lasisi Elenu’s “Mama and Papa Godspower” comedy will soon be launched as a Netflix series, and if Lasisi’s views on Youtube and Instagram will be a determining factor, hundreds of thousands of loyal fans might just join the Netflix family.
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There is also the recently signed deal with Mo Abudu’s EbonyLife to bring a series-adaptation of Lola Shoneyin’s “The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives” and a film-adaptation of Prof. Wole Soyinka’s “Death And The King’s Horseman” to screen.
Both shows, exclusive to Netflix, can well be described as the ‘mother of all local content’, not only set in Nigeria, but portraying depths of the Nigerian culture and history that the other platforms lack.
Eventually, it may or may not be a game of numbers, but this league promises to be an interesting one to watch.


It's for the birds.
Huntington Town officials are considering allowing more space for chicken coops on private property to give the fowl more room to roam.
The law currently allows a maximum floor space of 5 square feet per chicken on properties where chickens are kept. But experienced coop designers have told town officials that may not be the best practice, officials said.
"It’s recommended by chicken coop designers — we’ll seek to remove the maximum square footage requirement per chicken to allow chickens adequate space to move around,” Town Supervisor Chad Lupinacci said.
The town voted 5-0 Wednesday to set a public hearing on the issue.
Town residents who raise chickens and have chicken coops on their property made inquiries to the town asking why there was a maximum space for the birds, Lupinacci said. Town officials, not wanting to ruffle any feathers, looked at the code and decided to consider an amendment.
“You still will have to conform to certain guidelines,” Lupinacci said. Coops will still have to provide no less than 2 square feet of floor space per chicken or duck in any pen, coop or house. The maximum of eight chickens per household would still stand.
“But this will allow the chickens more freedom to move around,” he said.
The town board voted to allow a limited number of chickens on residential properties in the town in 2009. In addition to limiting the number of chickens, the law stipulated the birds be kept in an area that is not visible from surrounding residences and streets.
The law also requires the pen or coop be cleaned daily and kept sanitary, and the sole purpose of the chickens must be to supply organic eggs without using pesticides or fertilizers. The eggs are to be for personal use only. Roosters were prohibited.
Officials are hopeful any changes would stop residents who enjoy raising chickens on their property from running afoul of the law.
The hearing on the proposed changes is set for 7 p.m. Sept. 20 at Town Hall, 100 Main St.


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UpSkill: How To Remain Confident In A Cut Throat World
By Tithi Soni
The feeling or belief that one can rely on someone or something; firm trust.
TRUST. BELIEF. RELY.
These are the power words that ultimately make confidence what it is. We’ve misunderstood confidence; as a jewel of the rich or as the pride of the beautiful. Confidence does not care about how you look, how heavy your bank accounts are or how big a house you own. It cares about these 3 words.
TRUST. BELIEF. RELY.
Today, increasingly our lives seem to be dominated by an unending race for coming first, for being the best, for standing out. People who know next to nothing speak louder than the wise, while others remain silent in disbelief. The irony is, those loud voices are heard by people who elevate them as an epitome of confidence, as standards against which to measure their own confidence. But we shouldn’t fall into that trap.
We need to focus, instead, on these three things: TRUST. BELIEF. RELY.
Let me tell you a story —
A tired bird landed on a branch. The bird rested, enjoying the view and the protection it offered from dangerous animals. Just as the bird became used to the branch and the support and safety it offered, a strong wind started blowing. The tree swayed with such intensity that it seemed the branch would snap in half.
But the bird was not worried, it knew two important truths:
The first truth – even without the branch it was able to fly, and thus remain safe through the power of its own two wings.
The second truth – it also knew that there were many other branches upon which it could temporarily rest.
Let’s take a few minutes to reflect on this story. This bird teaches us 3 things:
Trust your instincts
Sometimes a breakthrough disguises itself like a storm. Every time I talk about this, the image of a man purposefully digging into the ground for treasure comes to mind. He digs and digs until with just one more dig he would find his bounty, but just at that moment he gives up in frustration – tired, he gives in to his apparent result-less fate. But this bird stood firm against the wind as it was confident of the protection the branch offered. The bird’s confidence came through trusting its instincts rather than questioning its circumstance.
Believe in yourself and others
Another important thing the bird teaches us about confidence is being willing to ask for help. From time to time we need to count on those around us, the way the bird counted on the branch. However, the most important resting ground is within you – in your belief in yourself. Listen to the positive inner voices that tell you: ‘You will do it’, ‘You can face it’, ‘You are enough.’ Ultimately, it is the belief that will support you if that branch doesn’t.
Rely on your abilities
Lastly, the bird knew, if the branch failed, its wings were capable enough to fly to find another branch. The bird didn’t need to worry. That’s what we need. We need to rely on our ability to stand after we fall, to accept failure as a chance for learning and improvement, and rejection as an opening to another opportunity.
These are the 3 things that will help you to resist looking outside in search of confidence. Let the world dance to the tune of power.


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A new condominium development from Toll Brothers City Living has topped out at 77 Charlton Streett in West SoHo, Manhattan. While full-completion is still a year off, Toll Brothers has established a Midtown sales gallery for the property and has released a collection of new renderings.
After breaking ground back in July of 2018 and rising 30 floors in only six months, Greenwich West has officially topped-out over Hudson Square, in Lower Manhattan. Located at 110 Charlton Street, the new residential tower will have 170 residences, which already launched sales this past fall. The project is one of the tallest buildings in the area, and will have views of the Hudson River, Lower Manhattan, and the Midtown skyline. Strategic Capital, Cape Advisors, and Forum Absolute Capital Partners are the developers, while Loci Anima and Adamson Associates are the designers.
In a surprise announcement, Google has confirmed an initiative to expand its existing footprint in New York City. That expansion translates to a $1 Billion investment in Manhattan’s Hudson Square neighborhood. Officially known as Google Hudson Square, the 1.7 million square foot campus will occupy both 345 and 315 Hudson Street, as well as St. John’s Terminal located at 550 Washington Street.
570 Broome Street is one of several new projects rising within the Hudson Square district west of Soho. The 25-story building is designed by Builtd while Skidmore Owings & Merrill designed the lobby and interiors. Murat Agirnasli and Partners are the developers. It is set to yield 54 condominiums that look towards the Lower Manhattan skyline and the Hudson River. Work on the outside is nearing completion while interior progress is also making headway.
YIMBY has the exclusive on a new rendering showing the current design for 77 Charlton Street, aka 82 King Street, set to rise in the Hudson Square neighborhood. Comprised of two buildings, the project is being designed by S9 Architecture & Engineering, the architect of record. Toll Brothers City Living is the developer for the new residential complex. 77 Charlton will stand 15 stories, rising 183 feet, and will contain 161 units. In total, the project will encompass just over 200,000 square feet of space.

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The rise of the Mideast as the world’s export hub for petrochemicals will transform the industry landscape over the next few years. Regional producers are capitalizing on low-cost feedstock positions to establish the dominant global export position in petrochemicals....
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Can anything save Annie’s BFF, Jason, from having to move away?
The 10-year-old friends play at being spies in their PB&J Society, even using their Spy Bud 2000 (a baby monitor) to listen in on their parents. They are horrified to learn that Jason’s out-of-work father is about to lose the house and plans to move the family from their Utah suburb to California. The duo come up with plans to get Jason’s parents enough money to stay: getting dad a job, winning the lottery, having a bake sale, and even talking to the bank themselves. Enter Mrs. Schuster, a formerly crabby neighbor, and her stories of pirate Black Marge and her treasure—which could be hidden locally! Is Mrs. Schuster joking? Why is she suddenly so nice? Will Annie’s good-intentioned bumbling just doom the friends to a life apart? Johnson’s well-meaning but meandering morass of coincidence and cliché is never as amusing or endearing as it tries to be. While Mrs. Schuster’s secret is interesting, the PB&J Society, with its rules for burying damaged sandwiches, is neither believable nor amusing. The tale’s theme of neighbor helping neighbor is positive, but there is little else to like here.
Unfortunately, digging up something better won’t be hard. (Fiction. 7-11)

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The cast of King Charles III
Wisely, they left the bit about it all being done in Shakespeareanstyle blank verse until the bottom of the page.
Various people, including that BBC website, have described Bartlett’s play as “bold”.
I’d say it was anything but. If any audience is likely not to mind a story being told to them in verse then it’s people who go to the theatre.
Adapted for TV, the speaking in verse bits didn’t seem or sound “bold” so much as misguided, weird, different for the sheer sake of being different, showing off and above all else, distancing the audience from what was in effect a regally good story.
Set roughly speaking now, the late and much-lamented Tim Pigott-Smith put in an ermine-clad performance as Charles, the reluctant, self-doubting new monarch, determined to make his mark on history.
A clash with Parliament over a new press freedom bill ensued during which Charles acted like a medieval tyrant of old, marching to Westminster, banging on the door of the House of Commons and telling the MPs to go home.
Riots followed, tanks outside the Palace and a constitutional crisis.
I wouldn’t say it was up there in terms of pace, tension, drama or believability with any other political thriller I’d ever seen but it was outstandingly good as a study of characters.
'Tim Pigott-Smith put in an ermine-clad performance as Charles'
Instead of doing a parody of the characters we believe our real Royal Family to consist of, Bartlett’s story showed us as they could have been or might even be already.
Party Prince Harry (Richard Goulding) was unhappy, brooding, looking for a way out of life as the drunken uncle and in the arms of young black activist Jess (Tamara Lawrence), he thought he’d found it.
Nice guy William (Oliver Chris) was by turns weak and tyrannical, pushed by his wife, Macbeth-style, into stitching up his dad and forcing his abdication.
As for the “timely” part, well, it was fitting this came a few days after HRH Prince Philip, one of the last of the interesting royals, decided to retire.
On the screen, King Charles delivered a bitter lament on much the same subject, foreseeing his successors as a “pretty plastic picture with no meaning.”
Why did a monarch have power, the story asked us continually throughout, if they weren’t allowed to use it? Terrifying quantities of power seem to be invested in the hands of airport staff these days, who, under the umbrella of general post-9/11 nervousness, can order people to take off t-shirts with “dangerous” pictures on them.
It was gratifying to see Sue, customer experience manager in Heathrow: Britain’s Busiest Airport (ITV) taking the opposite approach to a rather trying flyer.
A human side to customer experience managers could be seen in Heathrow: Britain’s Busiest Airport
Having failed to explain to an angry and bewildered transit passenger that he’d landed at the wrong airport for his connecting flight, she stumped up a tenner out of her own pocket for a new ticket.
Before I saw Sue, I was tempted to wonder if there was a single aspect of civil aviation, from the maintenance of the runways to the plumbing of the loos, that any viewer needed one more minute of television to reveal to them.
But Sue revealed a lesser seen and most important side – the human one.


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Religious prophesies, Y2K, or the Mayan Calendar, there's always a prediction of apocalypse right around the corner, but why?
It comes up again and again. As soon as one date passes another one is set. When is the world going to end? Humanity sometimes seems absolutely preoccupied with this question and predictions about the world's end. It matters not that no prediction of armageddon has ever come true, new ones are always forecast and rabidly proclaimed by numerous doomsday believers. It seems that many are simply enamored with the prospect of apocalypse and the end of the world. Especially now the so-called Mayan end of the world. In this article we'll first consider a few of the broad categories for end of the world prophecies, then we'll contemplate the psychology involved, not just in making and believing such prognostications, but also in relishing the thought of them and truly hoping that they come true.
The Bible and Religious Prophesy
By far the most common end of the world predictions come in the form of religious prophesies. Preachers, prophets and pastors have all had their hand in setting dates for the return of the Lord and the destruction of the earth. Most these days don't claim to prophesy the end themselves but rather to have cracked some secret code for understanding the Bible’s own hidden doomsday revelation. The most recent was Harold Camping who used his radio station, Family Radio, to preach his message far and wide that the world would come to an end on May 21, 2011. Mr. Camping promoted himself to be an enlightened numerologist whom God had guided to undestand the Bible's secrets regarding the apocalypse, once and for all. An aggressive campaign ensued by believers around the world to get the message out that the end was near. No amount of certainty on Mr. Camping's part however, nor advertising by his devoted adherents (some of whom spent every dime they had to conduct their own preaching crusades) could make it happen. May 21st came and went, not even as an ordinary day, but actually as a less than ordinary day. It was a remarkably slow news day without even any interesting weather to talk about.
There are other end of the world predictions which are not based on the bible or religion. Some are based on the idea of mankind undoing itself, especially through technology. Such was the case with Y2K. The year 2000 was surely not one to be missed when it came to end of the world predictions. Perhaps a bit too on the nose for most religious prophets but not for those who saw technology as mankind's downfall. When the clock struck midnight surely all of the computer chips would fall into utter confusion, thinking it was really 1900; then every last electronic device, right down to the household toaster, would attack us and bring society to its knees. To be fair this wasn't a full blown prediction of the world ending but rather only a similar sort of prediction of the end of society as we know it. Consequently many built shelters, hoarded food and supplies, and even barricaded themselves before the clock chimed in the new millennium. It's hard to deny that the hype was kind of fun and certainly sold a lot of books but once again, nothing happened.
The Mayan Calendar and Ancient Wisdom
Next on the horizon is December 21, 2012, the date set by the Mayan calendar (or so it seems) for the end of the world. This sort of apocalypse prediction falls into the category of heralded ancient wisdom, along the lines of old time prognosticators such as Nostradamus. December 21, 2012 (the 21st of the month seems to be a popular date for Armageddon) is interpreted by some to be a prediction, or in fact a calculation, conceived by the all-knowing Mayans when they made their expansive calendar. However, nothing was actually indicated by the Mayans about the date itself. 12-21-12 is simply the limit of how far into the future the Mayans set their intricate calendar. If it is actually an end of the world prediction then one might first take into consideration that they didn't get their calendar date right for the beginning of the world (August 11, 3114 BC). December 21, 2012 however, might simply be an arbitrary spot which the Mayans chose to close off their calendar projection of the future; after all they had to end it somewhere. Nonetheless numerous people believe, and many more will be converted to believe before the date arrives, that the ancient Mayan civilization, with its mixture of both scientific knowledge and superstitious beliefs, was able to do what no one else has ever done, predict the final day of the earth.
Why So Many Want It To Be So
What undergirds, not simply the existence of such prophesies and predictions of apocalypse, but people’s fascination and even pleasure in them? What drives people to want to project such dates, proclaim them and even cross their fingers in hopes that all the doom will come to pass? What's going on beneath the belief here?
1. An escape from the ordinary.
Many are just bored with the day to day drudgery of their lives. The alarm clock, the work routine, bills, taxes, worries over health, etc. It's all so mundane. Putting a final date on it all, even if the end turns out to be rather nasty, is somehow more desirable. Perhaps some, even knowing deep down that the prediction will not come true, simply find getting caught up in the hype a welcomed and enjoyable distraction. In other words, many just want some drama, even if it's brought on by a crisis, and what better drama could there be than counting down the days to the ultimate crisis.
I was right, you were wrong. My beliefs, my religion, my superstition, my numerology will be vindicated on the great and final day while you and your disbelieving, doubting cohorts will finally know the truth and get scorched to boot. Certainly there’s some appeal to be found in this angle, especially if you’re accustomed to playing the underdog.
3. Survival planning.
Planning a survival strategy is a very addictive pastime. Many thrive on Boy Scout-like preparedness and just need events to prepare for. The predicted apocalyptic event doesn't even need a strong basis, it just needs to exist and have some traction and then many will devote months of their lives to stocking up, sealing up, and arming up. Within all of this also exists a sort of survivalist's competitiveness with society, the inclination to survive and outlive what most others will not.
The wickedness of the earth simply demands justice and the end of the world will not fail to deliver that justice. The corrupt wealthy will be burned out of their mansions and the godless will be devoured by giant cracks in the earth's surface. All sinners will be made to pay for their sins, whether they be sins against God, sins against mother nature, or sins against those who preached the great and final day.
Reactions to Failed Predictions
This is always the most fascinating part of an end of the world prediction; how believers respond after it fails to happen. Some become disillusioned and shrink back into the shadows of society. Others, especially of the religious sort who have a belief system to maintain, go on unfazed and eagerly accept a new prediction. In Harold Camping's case he explained that all along his prediction was that May 21, 2011 was only to be the beginning of God's judgment on the earth. The real date of his revelation was actually supposed to be 6 months later, on October 21, 2011. After another bust Mr. Camping issued the following statement on his website:
"The question constantly arises, where do we go from here? Many of us expected the Lord’s return a few months ago, and obviously we are still here. Family Radio is still operating. What should be our thinking now? What is God teaching us? In our Bible study over the past few years, we came to the conclusion that May 21 and October 21 were very important dates in the Biblical calendar. We now believe God led us to those dates, but did not give us complete understanding. In fact, we did not understand at all the correct significance of those two dates. We are waiting upon the Lord, and in His mercy He may give us understanding in the future regarding the significance of those two dates."
For those who refuse to give up their beliefs in the basis for their predictions, they still find a way to justify it all. In other words, there's always an out. God was testing us, or maybe God changed his mind out of mercy, or maybe we just have to study harder. If they did study the Bible harder they would find this critical passage:
Deuteronomy 18:22 when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.
The Clock is Ticking
As 2012 moves along we will increasingly be made aware of the clock ticking down to December 21st and certain apocalypse. Many of us will believe, many of us will not, and some will sit on the fence. Even for those who most strongly reject the prediction it's hard not to become intrigued with the hysteria. It's also hard not to at least wonder deep down if it might actually end up being true. After all, no one wants to be caught off guard when the big day actually does come and end up playing the ultimate fool, laughing dismissively at others who are safe in their shelters just as the giant asteroid comes crashing into the atmosphere. And it is this, the tiniest thread of uncertainty and wariness, that will prompt even some of the biggest skeptics among us to a least make sure we have an extra loaf of bread in the house on the eve of December 21st.
For more on the 2012 prediction based on the Mayan Calendar read What You Need to Know About 2012 and the End of the World.


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The fate of the Affordable Care Act was thrown back into limbo after a federal appeals court found a key piece of the original law unconstitutional, then kicked the case back to the judge who struck it down a year ago.
Final resolution on whether former President
U.S. District Judge
By leaving the law in limbo, the appeals court’s decision will stoke further political debate. On one side is a Texas-led coalition of mostly Republican states and the Trump administration fighting to kill Obamacare. On the other is a band of mostly Democrat-led states and the
President Donald Trump said it’s a “win for all Americans” that the court struck down the Obamacare requirement that people buy insurance even if they don’t want it. Trump also took the opportunity to play to his conservative base and blast the “radical left” health-care policies of Democratic presidential contenders, saying their proposals “would strip Americans of their current coverage.”
Health scholars who support Obamacare say the writing is on the wall for the next ruling from O’Connor, a former prosecutor and aide to Republican senators who was appointed to the bench by former President
“He’s going to say very substantial parts of the Affordable Care Act are invalid,” said
In its ruling, the panel instructed O’Connor to review the law with a “finer-tooth comb” and address the Trump administration’s suggestion that only some Obamacare elements that actually harmed the states should be thrown out, or that the ACA should be blocked only in the states that challenged the law.
Critics of Trump’s piecemeal proposal point out it would lead to a hodgepodge of different health-care plans and inconsistent coverage state by state, effectively throwing the multibillion-dollar U.S. health care industry into chaos.
Wednesday’s majority opinion was written by U.S. Circuit Judge
In a dissenting opinion, U.S. Circuit Judge
She said the court “merely identifies serious flaws in the district court’s analysis” and sends the case back for a “do-over, which will unnecessarily prolong this litigation and the concomitant uncertainty over the future of the healthcare sector.”
The case is Texas v. U.S., 19-10011, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (New Orleans).
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TORONTO – About 600 Ontario doctors are now aboard the OntarioMD
physician IT program, which provides funding and support
services for the acquisition and operation of clinical information
systems in physician practices. The program, which was originally funded with
$130 million, has now committed $19 million to the participants. The
funds will be paid out over a three-year period.
Brian Forster, chief operating officer for OntarioMD, said 3,200
physicians are expected to participate in the physician IT program in
the current three-year period (which has been active for about one
As well, the OntarioMD web portal has gone live, with approximately
2,000 physicians having signed on for the service. It provided access to
peer-reviewed journals and also offers secure e-mail through Smart
Systems for Health Agency (SSHA).
The resources available on the web portal include:
• MD Consult
• Ovid MEDLINE
• SKOLAR MD
• Epocrates MedTools
OntarioMD, which has occupied offices on King Street W. in Toronto, will
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A new board of directors for OntarioMD was appointed earlier this year.


This PLECS demo model examines a current-controlled permanent magnet machine under several drive fault mitigation strategies. The system includes an inverter with field-oriented control (FOC) that supplies the machine operating at a constant speed. Fault conditions such as loss of auxiliary power supply or microprocessor trip can result in loss of power to the inverter. Usually under such faults, the power stage is disabled. However, when operating in flux-weakening mode, a fault mitigation strategy may be required as the rectified back-emf may be larger than the DC-link voltage. In this simulation, failure mitigation strategies by closing all the lower inverter switches or opening the battery pack contactor are investigated.
The circuit includes a simplified battery modeled as an ideal DC voltage source that feeds a 3-phase inverter and permanent magnet-assisted synchronous reluctance machine, i.e., a PM machine with high saliency. The machine model is configured to use the voltage behind reactance (VBR) implementation, as this will allow for the simulation of fault conditions, during which the phase voltages are no longer defined by the inverter. A contactor between the battery and DC bus is also included and is represented by an ideal switch.
Direct and quadrature current setpoints are provided to a current regulator. This regulator is decoupled based on motor speed and also includes state-limiting and anti-windup mechanisms. The three stator phase currents are measured for closed-loop control and are transformed to DQ values inside the regulator and compared to their setpoints. Space vector pulse-width modulation (SVPWM) is used to generate the output voltage of the inverter and a configurable dead time is also included to prevent shorting of the DC bus.
The direct current setpoint (Id*) is held constant at -200 A to operate the machine in flux weakening mode. The torque-producing quadrature current setpoint (Iq*) steps up in value from 0 A to 100 A.
Under fault conditions where the rectified back-emf is smaller than the DC-link voltage, disabling the power stage may be sufficient. However, when operating in flux-weakening mode the rectified back-emf is larger than the DC-link voltage. Simply disabling the power stage would result in an uncontrolled current flow from the machine into the battery, resulting in an uncontrolled braking torque on the load. A fault mitigation strategy for this situation will be required to prevent this unregulated power flow to the battery.
The power-stage control subsystem can be configured to mitigate this fault condition with two different strategies:
One fault mitigation strategy is to open the battery contactor when a power failure is detected. Opening the battery contactor would prevent the current generated by the back-emf to flow back into the battery pack. This strategy would result in charging up the DC-link capacitor until the bus voltage is equal to the rectified back-emf of the PM machine. This would damage the semiconductor devices, the bus capacitors, and all other systems connected to the bus unless these components are oversized.
Another fault mitigation strategy is to short the machine phases by closing all the lower switches of the inverter. The back-emf of the PM would result in large motor currents that would produce a decaying oscillatory torque. One concern for such a strategy is that shorting the motor phases may lead to large currents thus requiring oversizing of the semiconductor devices. In this strategy keeping the battery contactor open or close has no effect as the machine currents are not flowing back into the DC-link.
This model can be first explored to see what happens when a fault is introduced into the system under flux weakening operation. When the fault is detected the power stage is simply turned off by opening all the inverter switches, resulting in a current flow from the machine into the battery and a braking torque on the load.
Configuring the Powerstage Control subsystem to open the battery contactor when a fault is detected will show that the DC-link voltage suddenly increases as the motor currents flow into the DC-link capacitor. This occurs until the DC-link voltage is equal to the rectified back-emf of the machine.
As a second fault mitigation strategy, configuring the Powerstage Control subsystem to close all the lower switches of the inverter shorts the motor phases together. This results in large motor currents that produce a decaying oscillatory torque.
This model is available in the PLECS Demo Model library provided in both versions of PLECS.


One of the most powerful Canadian documentaries of recent years is The Patron Saints (2011), an exploration of an American nursing home that eschews a traditional structure in favour of a more observational approach. Its shots of aged and physically infirm residents either wandering the property or sitting in often involuntary repose are often held for a long duration via static camera set-ups, which helps to put across the theme of stasis. The film suggests a series of still-life portraits of people whose lives are slipping away. At a time when more and more commercially oriented documentaries seem to be privileging movement —of ideas, of camerawork or onscreen graphics— The Patron Saints feels like an intervention on behalf of a more contemplative mode of documentary cinema.
The directors of The Patron Saints, Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky, have since gone on to international acclaim with their debut dramatic feature Francine, a low-budget character study starring Melissa Leo, which showed in 2012 at the Berlin International Film Festival. Shatzky is from Montreal, and the pair has retained a strong connection to the city’s filmmaking culture, which is why this fall, RIDM (Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal) has invited them to curate a selection of films based around photographic images called A Photographer’s Eye.
It’s a choice that at once connects logically to the more portraitlike aspects of The Patron Saints and opens up pathways to some unique examples of non-fiction filmmaking. “We began by looking at films by photographers we admire and then expanded outward into larger ideas about what constitutes films made by those with a photographer’s eye,” said the directors in an email to POV. “We also felt it was important to include films that address what it means to capture a likeness.”
Cassidy and Shatzky began their careers as photographers, which further explains their attraction to work in this vein. They add that they were interested in seeing how “artists accustomed to working with stillness use time to create images,” and indeed, the difference between still and moving images has long been a favourite topic of scholars and artists. Cinema was born out of photography, and yet the two mediums come with their own set of formal and ideological concerns and contradictions, which have in turn been mutually affected by the advent of digital technology. The idea that film is “dead” animates a lot of discourse in the field of visual studies, but Cassidy and Shatzky are hardly traditionalists. “Because of digital media, there are infinitely more images being created than ever before,” they say. “This makes it difficult to sift through and find work that is worthwhile. But it’s certainly out there and living within new platforms—like, for example, Instagram, of which we are both fans.”
Perhaps no film illustrates the simultaneous intimacy and distance of the two disciplines like Chris Marker’s seminal science fiction “cine-roman” La jetée (1962), which uses still images to tell the story of a time traveller flung from a post-apocalyptic future into our present. Marker employs hundreds of precisely sequenced photographs to stand in for the frozen, fragmentary nature of remembering. The effect is not unlike a slideshow presentation, until, in the most famous moment, the director inserts 24 frames’ worth of celluloid into the assembly to suggest that his hero is no longer living in the past. The shot passes literally in the blink of an eye—it’s a close-up of a beautiful woman staring into the camera with sleepily lowered lids—and its effect is nearly subliminal, but once you’ve seen it, it stays in your mind forever. Marker used the still photography format again in his fleet, thoughtful 1966 travelogue Si j’avais quatre dromedaires (If I Had Four Dromedaries), which has been included in the programme. His spirit hovers over some of the more recent works, especially Jem Cohen’s Counting, which features an entire segment dedicated to the late New Wave figurehead. A self-styled essay film shot in a number of cities around the world over a period of a few years and featuring a soundtrack supervised by Patti Smith, Counting doesn’t feature much in the way of still photography—its aesthetics are strictly handheld and digital—but it is nevertheless attuned to stillness. Cassidy and Shatzky say that they were looking for works “that possess a photographer’s sensitivity to how images convey meaning,” and Counting is exemplary in this regard. Cohen can shoot a lone busker in such a way that he becomes an avatar of displaced artistry, or a tourist attraction in Russia so that it seems to comment on the ideological drift of an entire country. In that way, it reprises Marker’s classic doc feature Sans soleil, except that Cohen doesn’t use voice-over to express ideas about history, architecture and culture. Instead, he simply exercises a healthy curiosity about the world he moves through, and while it’s possible to mistake his impressionistic style for shapelessness, Counting finally demonstrates an impressive overall unity.
Considering its numerous urban interludes, an alternate title for Counting could be In the Street, and it’s likely that Cohen has seen the 1948 documentary of the same name by Janice Loeb, Helen Levitt and James Agee (the latter better known as the author of the Depression-era masterpiece Let Us Now Praise Famous Men with photographs by Walker Evans, and the screenwriter of Huston’s The African Queen). Shot in the mid-’40s in Spanish Harlem via concealed 16mm cameras, In the Street is hardly the first work of metropolitan ethnography, nor the first city symphony, a tradition that dates back to the silent era. But it’s still a seminal work, not least of all because it represented Levitt’s transition from still photography to cinema. During the Great Depression, “documentary photography” emerged as a potent form of journalism and social protest; the images produced by government-subsidized photographers like Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange of Americans living in squalor remain definitive in a way that even newsreels of the period could scarcely capture. By focusing primarily on younger subjects, Levitt and her collaborators were able to ameliorate some of the heaviness associated with studies of poverty, although if anything the excitement and innocence of the children being filmed puts the economic realities of their lives beyond the frame in even sharper relief. The locations are dilapidated, but the film is unmistakably and unapologetically beautiful; one can see the influence of its ragged, agile aesthetic on subsequent American independent landmarks from Kent MacKenzie’s The Exiles (1961) to Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep (1978), both of which at least partially bridge the gap between art cinema and vérité.
In the Street also connects closely to Khalik Allah’s Field Niggas, which showed earlier this year at the True/False Film Festival. In fact, it’s possible to see Allah’s hour-length film as an update of Levitt’s classic. Field Niggas takes in the faces of people who its director encounters on the street: residents and hangers-on, passers-by and police officers. It’s a wide gallery of types, and Allah has a great eye for the expansive landscapes that can exist between a pair of eyes or inside a gaping mouth. The twist is that every “interview” has been manipulated so that the soundtrack is out of sync with the image, which is sometimes slowed down. In lieu of talking heads, Allah provides us with a polyphonic, stream-of-consciousness narration that seems to belong to the entire community.
The tension here is between Allah’s indulgence of these marginalized subjects, whose stories are allowed to unfold at length, and his stealthy aestheticization of their lives into something that’s closer to installation art than vérité. Where Levitt sought to open a window on a closed-off community, Allah means to immerse and disorient the viewer, although the late interpolation of footage of the death of Eric Garner—the only scene to feature sync-sound—serves effectively to startle us back to full awareness. (The use of the Garner death as a structuring element links Field Niggas to Counting, which features footage of recent street protests in New York City.) Where Field Niggas, In the Street and Counting emanate from variably detached and borderline journalistic perspectives, Karsten Krause and Philip Widmann’s The Photographer’s Wife fairly tingles with intimacy. The photographer is Eugene Gerbert, a German railway clerk who left behind a massive collection of images of his wife, Gerti, ranging from the candid to the overtly erotic. Most of the 29-minute film is devoted to Gerbert’s snapshots, which surely speak to the man’s love and devotion but also something deeper. It’s hard to tell whether he was more compelled by his feelings for his wife or his need to obsessively document every inch of her body—and with it, a good percentage of their waking lives. At times, Krause and Widmann scroll through the photographs so that the screen becomes a kaleidoscopic collage, but mostly they let the shots linger, in between reflections from Gerti about her role as a life partner and muse. As a meditation on its subject’s chosen medium, The Photographer’s Wife is fascinating, but what’s really powerful is seeing how the human body can shape-shift so radically over a period of four decades without ever really changing. The imagery isn’t so much repetitive as revelatory. The protagonist of the long-suppressed French-Canadian short La femme image (1959) by Guy Borremans is also smitten with photographs of a woman; in this rarely seen Surrealist work, he ends up cavorting with her in the forest. A playful experimental work made in thrall of the young Look photographer and director Stanley Kubrick—certain shots closely recall Fear and Desire (1953) — La Femme Image is by no means a documentary, but it fits nicely within a group of films that meditate on the potential of still images. In Borremans’ lyrical vision, a slick magazine layout is the catalyst for an elaborate, immersive fantasy.
There are other striking films here, from Czech director Miroslav Janek’s The Unseen (1997), about the photographs produced by the young students of a school for the blind—a contradiction worthy of Werner Herzog—to Ulrich Seidl’s Animal Love (1996), an early work by the only Austrian filmmaker to rival Michael Haneke for critical acclaim and international distribution in the 21st century. Seidl’s dramatic features, like Dog Days (1994) and the Paradise trilogy, are distinguished by their formal rigour and deadpan misanthropy, although fans believe that his harshness is actually a form of humanism. The same goes for his documentaries, of which Animal Love is probably the best known; four years before Best in Show gently kidded the grotesquerie of pet owners, Seidl trained his camera on Viennese citizens clinging desperately to inter-species friendships. While some scenes could almost be outtakes from Christopher Guest’s comedy, the tone is generally dour, with the unhappiness of the humans juxtaposed against the seemingly related sadness of their animals (an aggressive couple is shown walking their dog and watching as its pent-up tension explodes in an attack on another, smaller dog). Animal Love isn’t a photo-documentary, but its relationship to portraiture is obvious. Whether Seidl is shooting his subjects with interest or exploitation in mind is a question worth asking. Cassidy and Shatzky are passionate about the films that they’ve selected, but for all the power these works derive from their engagement with the aesthetics and philosophy of photography, the programmers admit that they aren’t sure that any of them have a special or heightened veracity compared to traditional documentary filmmaking. “We are skeptical about claims that the photographic image represents factual truth, analogue or digital,” they say. “Photography is, by nature, a subjective process where one makes choices about what to include within the frame and what to leave out of it. These basic considerations imply that there is more to the surrounding circumstances than we could ever be privy to. As Garry Winogrand famously said: ‘Nothing is as mysterious as a fact clearly described.’


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Background: Population-based studies demonstrate that Black men in the United States have an increased risk of death from prostate cancer. Determinants of racial disparities are multifactorial, including socioeconomic and biologic factors.
Methods: The authors conducted a pooled analysis of patients derived from 152 centers within the Veterans Health Administration. The cohort included men who had nonmetastatic prostate diagnosed between 2001 and 2015 and received definitive radiation therapy. The primary endpoint was prostate cancer-specific mortality (PCSM). Secondary endpoints included all-cause mortality (ACM) and the time from a prostate-specific antigen level ≥4 ng/mL to biopsy and radiation therapy. A Cox regression model was performed to adjust for differences between clinical parameters.
Results: Among the 31,131 patients included in the cohort, 9584 (30.8%) were Black. The 10-year cumulative incidence of death from prostate cancer was lower in Black men compared with White men (4.0% vs 4.8%; P = .004). In a competing risk model, Black race was associated with a decreased risk of PCSM (subdistribution hazard ratio, 0.79; 95% CI, 0.69-0.92; P = .002). Similarly, the 10-year cumulative incidence of death from any cause was lower in Black men (27.6% vs 31.8%; P < .001). In multivariable analysis, Black men had a 10% decreased risk of ACM (hazard ratio, 0.90; 95% CI, 0.85-0.95; P < .001).
Conclusions: The current results indicate relatively lower PCSM and ACM among Black men who were included in a large Veterans Health Administration cohort and received radiation therapy as primary treatment for nonmetastatic prostate cancer. There is an ongoing need to continue to understand and mitigate the factors associated with disparities in health care outcomes.
Keywords: African American; Veterans Health Administration; equal access; mortality; prostate cancer; race; radiation; survival.
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The winners of the renowned 2018 International Wigmore Hall String Competition and the 2018 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition have been selected by the European Concert Hall Organisation as Rising Stars of the 2019/20 season. Since 2019, they have been performing Antonio Stradivari’s Paganini Quartet, provided by the Nippon Music Foundation. In addition, the quartet was awarded the Jürgen Ponto Foundation Music Prize in March 2020 and the Freiherr von Waltershausen Prize in December 2020. In 2016, the quartet was already a winner of the Bavarian Arts Promotion Prize and the Karl Klinger Prize of the ARD Competition.
In 2020, Berlin Classics released Travel Diaries, the Goldmund Quartet’s third album with works by Wolfgang Rihm, Ana Sokolovic, Fazil Say and Dobrinka Tabakova, which Harald Eggebrecht described as “one of the liveliest and most stimulating string quartet CDs of recent times”. (Süddeutsche Zeitung). Their Travel Diaries are the musical diary from their last decade together and a sound document that is both reflective and forward-looking.
Chamber music partners include artists such as Jörg Widmann, Ksenija Sidorova, Alexander Krichel, Alexey Stadler and Wies de Boevé, Nino Gvetadze, Noa Wildschut, Elisabeth Brauss, Maximilian Hornung, Frank Dupree, Simon Höfele.
In addition to studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich and with members of the Alban Berg Quartet, including Günter Pichler at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia and the Artemis Quartet in Berlin, master classes and studies with members of the Hagen, Borodin, Belcea, Ysaye and Cherubini Quartets, Ferenc Rados, Eberhard Feltz and Alfred Brendel gave the quartet important musical impulses.
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After eighteen long months, HMRC is still to pay Kingsley Park Working Men’s Club the money it is owed in VAT refunds, with Barry Slasberg, former secretary of the club, calling out the tax man once again for conduct that is leaving businesses across the country out of pocket.
According to the club’s former secretary Barry Slasberg, on 11 September, 2020, a representative from HMRC contacted the club stating that “a caseworker will be in touch if there are any queries” and that the tax authority would aim to get the club’s claim settled as soon as it could.
“Eighteen months on and not a word,” Slasberg told Coinslot. “The club secretary informed me that, as far as he is aware no other clubs in the area have been repaid. From this I assume this is the same picture nationwide.”
Standing up for his small but valued club against the tax man, Slasberg battled HMRC for almost 7 years on the club’s behalf, accusing it of fraud, lying, bullying and cowardice until finally a court decided in favour of those owed a refund. However, while some of the bigger players have reportedly been paid their due, HMRC has been accused of stalling on payments to smaller entities such as Slasberg’s club.
“HMRC are obviously working on the premise that possession is 9/10ths of the law,” he continued. “They have admitted they hold the money fraudulently but are happy keep hold as the small fry do not have the power to take them to court.”
Slasberg joked that he feels “like Frank Sinatra coming out of retirement yet again” to call out the HMRC’s continued failings, but it’s no surprise that the tax man has got under the skin of those it owes thousands of pounds to. All of the claimants, including Kingsley Park Working Men’s Club, are retail enterprises that need as much help as they can get after two years under pandemic conditions and the threat of ever increasing costs still looming large, and after eighteen months, HMRC has had more than enough time to pay up and assist in their recovery – if it really wanted to.

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text: Status of the Flag Alaska flag to be flown at From: Sunrise Thursday, February 14, 2019 Until: date of interment United States to be flown at From: Sunrise Thursday, February 14, 2019 Until: date of interment Governor and First Lady Mourn the Passing of Jack CoghillWednesday, February 13, 2019 (Juneau) – Governor Michael J. Dunleavy and First Lady Rose Dunleavy wish to express their sincerest condolences to the family of former Lieutenant Governor Jack Coghill who passed away this morning at the age of 93 from natural causes in North Pole. “Jack Coghill embodied the independent spirit of the generation that turned Alaska from a territory into the 49th state,” said Governor Dunleavy. “His selfless commitment to public service and the people of Alaska is an example all our state’s public officials, and Alaskans can learn from. The Coghill family’s loss is Alaska’s loss.” Coghill was a giant in Alaska politics who served Alaska and its people for nearly a half century. His legendary public service career began in 1948 as a member of the Nenana School Board, he was also elected to the first territorial House of Representatives, served as a delegate to the Alaska Constitutional Convention, mayor of Nenana, state representative, state senator and finally as lieutenant governor for four years from 1990 to 1994. Governor Dunleavy ordered United States and Alaska state flags to fly at half-staff until sunrise the day following former Lt. Governor Coghill’s memorial service. Sign up to receive flag status changes If you would like to join or leave the Governor’s Office Flag Status notifications list list please enter your email address, select the desired action, and click the Submit button. You will receive an email message confirming the request. If you are joining a list you will also need to REPLY to the confirmation message in order to complete the action. Subscribe RequestEmail Address: Your Name (optional): Unsubscribe To unsubscribe from gov-flagstatus, enter your subscription email address: If you leave the field blank, you will be prompted for your email address.


Korn has paid off his teasing word of the weekend, releasing a remake of Charlie Daniels Band’s “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” with Yelawolf joining in on the fun.
“I’ve always said that, but country music is one of the darkest,” says singer Jonathan Davis. “Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, and of course Charlie Daniels turned grief into really powerful music that sounded alive. ‘The Devil Went Down To Georgia’ is a classic story, and we wanted to release it now to help others in need.”
The group’s cover is certainly high-energy, with Davis welcoming Yelawolf to exchange a few voices. You can check the ampoule cover below.
The band has linked the song’s release to the Awakening Youth Foundation, the organization they featured in Brian “Head” Welch’s documentary. Strong crazy love. The organization fulfills a mission to raise young men and women at risk from the loss of a father by offering one-on-one support.
“We are very excited to present our version of the famous Charlie Daniels song,” The Devil Came to Georgia, “said Korn.” Charlie left a musical legacy that goes beyond a single genre, and we want to honor his talent and influence with our own version of their song. It is available exclusively through Bandcamp, where 100 percent of all proceeds are donated to the profit organization, Awakening Youth. A special thanks to our boy Yelawolf for jumping on the track with us. “
Learn more about Awakening Youth here and purchase the Korn X Awakening Youth Woven Patches at the band’s web store. The group will also launch live on their Instagram with Live Nation at 6PM ET / 3PM PT later today (July 28) to talk more about their love for Charlie Daniels, Awakening Youth and answer a few questions from fans.
If you like Korn’s version of “The Devil Came to Georgia,” pick it up now at Bandcamp.
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After a decade of one, two, or none, the Nationals have four (4) players in the MLB Pipeline Top 100.
Joining the usual suspect—Cade Cavalli, natch—are last summer’s crown jewels of the Juan Soto trade, James Wood and Robert Hassell, and the 2022 1st Rd. pick (5th overall), Elijah Green.
Cavalli, who was ranked #39 last year, dropped to #58 which is arguably more because of his age (24) along with a significant influx of new players (42). He’s expected to crack the big Nats starting rotation in 2023, presuming his shoulder woes are behind him.
Wood is the highest-ranked of the foursome, coming in at #17. The 20-y.o. Maryland native was originally drafted by the Padres in the 2nd Rd. of the 2021 Draft. He’ll most likely start 2023 in High-A Wilmington.
Despite his hamate-bone surgery, Hassell actually improved two spots from #37 to #35. Also presuming health, he’ll probably pick up where he left off
in 2022 at AA Harrisburg and will try to ignore the drumbeat for his promotions with each Washington loss.
Elijah Green, who finished as the #2 prospect for the MLB Pipeline in 2022 (not sure if that’s post-offseason or pre-preseason) and was ranked #3 by Baseball America for 2023, is ranked #46 to start 2023. The 19-y.o. seems likely to make the jump to full-season ball at Low-A Fredericksburg in April.
On Wednesday, in its
quest for pageviews; pay no attention to me doing the same the runup to the Top 100, Wood (#5) and Hassell (#9) both made MLBP Pipline’s list for the Top 10 Outfielders.
It’s been 10 years since the Nationals had four players in this Top 100, back when it was more closely aligned with Jonathan Mayo.
It should be noted that only two of those four players (Anthony Rendon, A.J. Cole) spent significant time with the big club, while the others (Lucas Giolito, Brian Goodwin) were traded. Cole was actually traded twice – once to… wait for it… Oakland (2011), then again from Seattle (2013).


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Robb Walsh’s latest cookbook, “Texas Eats: The New Lone Star Heritage Cookbook” (Ten Speed Press, $25) is a delicious collection of recipes from across the state and includes many of the ethnic heritages that have added their unique spice to our cuisine.
Germans, Czechs, Cajuns, the Vietnamese and even Indian cowboys are included along with the vintage Tex-Mex, oysters, shrimp, chicken-fried steak and burgers. There’s even a chapter on the treats from the Menger, including recipes for its turtle soup and a version of its mango ice cream.
As is the case with many of Walsh’s best books, including “The Tex-Mex Cookbook,” the stories behind the collected culinary creations are as savory as the recipes themselves.
The recipe below comes from Walsh’s chapter on barbecue. It’s a great way to smoke chicken, bringing together the tang of Italian salad dressing, a slight burn from hot sauce, and the bittersweet punch of that Texas favorite, Shiner Bock. Plus, the rub called for is one you can change to suit your tastes or heritage.
This past week, “Texas Eats” was nominated for best American cookbook from the International Association of Culinary Professionals.
Bock-Brined BBQ Chicken
To keep barbecued chicken moist, you need to brine it or marinate it before you put it in the smoker. Here’s an easy marinade that starts with a bottle of Shiner Bock
8 cups hots water
1 (12-ounce) bottle Shiner Bock or beer of your choice
1/2 cup sea salt
2 tablespoons hot-pepper sauce
1 tablespoon freshly ground pepper
1 teaspoon ground dried thyme
1 (3- to 4-pound) whole chicken
1/2 cup Basic BBQ Rub (recipe below)
1 (16-ounce) bottle Italian salad dressing
Barbecue sauce of your choice
Select a container that will fit in your refrigerator and is large enough to hold the chicken and the brine. Pour the hot water and beer into the container, add the salt, hot-pepper sauce, pepper and thyme, and stir until all of the salt has dissolved. Refrigerate the brine to cool completely.
If the giblets have been included with the chicken, remove them and reserve them for another use. Place the chicken on a cutting board, back side up. Using a sharp knife or poultry shears, and starting at the cavity end, cut along backbone. Pull the chicken open and cut along the other side of the backbone and remove the back. Put the chicken in the cooled brine, and place a weight on top of the chicken to keep it submerged. Cover and refrigerate for 24 hours.
Prepare a fire for indirect-heat cooking (the coals on one side only) in your smoker with a water pan. Use wood chips, chunks or logs and keep up a good level of smoke. The smoker is ready when the temperature is between 225 degrees and 275 degrees.
Remove the chicken from the brine and pat dry, then rub the chicken all over with the rub. Put the butterflied chicken, bone side down in the smoker on the cool side of the grate and cook for 3 hours, mopping it with the Italian salad dressing every 30 minutes. Add wood as needed to keep the fire burning evenly. To test for doneness, insert an instant-read thermometer into the thickest part of a thigh away from the bone; it should register 155 degrees. Alternatively, insert a knife tip into the thickest part of the thigh; the chicken is ready if the juices run clear.
To serve, cut the chicken into 6 to 8 pieces (for 6 pieces you’ll want 2 drumsticks, 2 thighs and 2 breasts with wings, or for 8 pieces, cut the breasts in half) and serve hot with your favorite barbecue sauce on the side.
Makes 4 servings.
Basic BBQ Rub
The German Texan barbecue rub is the most basic: just salt and pepper with a pinch of cayenne. Czech Texans like a lot of garlic, Polish Texans add garlic and marjoram, Alsatian Texans love coriander, Lebanese Texans put cinnamon in their rubs, and the Tejanos have to have both chile powder and cumin. Have fun!
3 tablespoons sea salt
2 tablespoons granulated garlic
2 tablespoons coarsely ground black pepper
Pinch of cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon ground dried herb of your choice (optional)
In a small bowl, stir together all of the ingredients, mixing well. Be sure to break up any lumps. Store the rub in a tightly capped jar. It will keep in a cool cupboard for a couple of months. Shake or stir well again before use.
Makes about 1/2 cup.
From “Texas Eats” by Robb Walsh

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