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The sunshine has brought a new selection of glittering and exciting books to keep youngsters out of mischief this summer.
The sunshine has brought a new selection of glittering and exciting books to keep youngsters out of mischief this summer.
Go behind the scenes of the epic Star Wars films, enjoy outdoor fun and games with Winnie-the-Pooh, enter a world where the lines of reality are blurred by magic, and share some detective work with an enchanting Mistress of Disguise.
Age 8 plus:
The Moviemaking Magic of Star Wars: Creatures & Aliens by Mark Salisbury
When the original Star Wars first appeared on the silver screen in 1977 it was unlike anything filmgoers had seen before…
With a truly epic story, unforgettable and dramatic music, and special effects that were out-of-this world, it was a groundbreaking and thrilling experience for stunned audiences across the world.
Now the secrets of the magic that brought the Star Wars saga to life is revealed in this equally epic and interactive book which goes behind the scenes of the biggest movie franchise of all time to see how favourite characters like Chewbacca, Yoda and Jabba and more were created from concept to screen.
The Moviemaking Magic of Star Wars: Creatures & Aliens is an exciting, interactive reading adventure that tells the fascinating inside story of all ten Star Wars films, including the most recent, Solo: A Star Wars Story.
The super collectible book features 20 special interactive elements, including six-page mini booklets, accordion folds and intriguing flaps, all revealing the amazing production techniques behind the films. Marvel at concept sketches, moulds, digital imagery and discover the human forms lurking behind the costumes.
See the creatures and aliens from all ten Star Wars films, from A New Hope to Solo: A Star Wars Story, and watch how detailed sketches became lifelike creatures that breathe, ooze and roar.
Through diagrams and photographs, fans learn about the different kinds of effects, including puppetry and motion capture, which made alien beings seems as real as anything on Earth. And through the words of the creative, hardworking and inspirational production teams, learn how they made the impossible seem possible time and time again.
With interviews, an explanatory text, captions and amazing Force Facts, there could be no better gift book for young and old fans of Jedis, padawans, Ewok hunters, legendary Wookiees, secretive Shistavanens and aliens of any other Star Wars galaxy!
(Abrams Books for Young Readers, hardback, £21.99)
Age 13 plus:
My Box-Shaped Heart by Rachael Lucas
Two young people wading through tough domestic issues find first love in the most unexpected of places in a beautiful and tender novel from Southport author Rachael Lucas.
Lucas, who wrote the highly successful YA novel The State of Grace, has taken up her pen again for this moving and powerfully perceptive exploration of what it means to be a teenager living in a troubled home.
She tackles tough and difficult subjects like domestic abuse and mental health issues with the lightest of touches as we dive in at the deep end with Holly and Ed whose lives collide in a way they least expect when they both seek refuge from home at the local swimming baths.
Holly and Ed are the polar opposite of each other but what they don’t yet realise is that their lives have more in common than they had ever imagined.
Holly’s mum is a hoarder, and Holly is fed up with being picked on at school for being weird, having the wrong clothes and generally sticking out. All she wants is to be invisible. That’s why Holly loves swimming, because in the water everyone is the same.
Ed goes to the swimming pool because everything else in his life has changed. In his old life he had money, he was on the swim team, he knew who he was and he knew what he wanted. But in his old life, his dad hit his mum and now they live in a safe house for women who are victims of domestic violence.
Holly is swimming in one direction and Ed is swimming in the other. As their worlds collide, a tender love blossoms and they find a window into each other’s lives. And, just as importantly, they learn how to meet in the middle.
Romantic, emotional and with an exquisite young love at its centre, My Box-Shaped Heart is a tale of our times told with understanding, warmth and a life-affirming optimism that makes it a joy to read.
(Macmillan, paperback, £6.99)
Age 14 plus:
The Family Tree by Mal Peet and Emma Shoard
When much-loved, award-winning writer Mal Peet died in 2015, he left behind a string of young adult fiction books, including Keeper, Tamar, and Exposure.
His novels were nominated for and won several awards including the Carnegie Medal, the Branford Boase Award and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. In 2017, his final novel Beck was nominated for the Carnegie Medal.
The Family Tree, his stunning, powerful and unforgettable novella exploring families, fathers and the fall-out from a marriage break-up, has been republished in a beautiful new edition illustrated in rising star Emma Shoard’s stunning painterly style.
When a man returns to his childhood home and visits the derelict tree house in which his father once chose to live, he recalls the past unravelling of his family, the unspoken strangeness of their lives, and the impact on his own adult life.
Published by Barrington Stoke in a format ideal for struggling, reluctant or dyslexic readers, this haunting, moving tale is written in incisive but elegant prose and highlights Peet’s gift for acutely observant storytelling.
(Barrington Stoke, paperback, £7.99)
Age 9 plus:
The Hippo at the End of the Hall by Helen Cooper
Get ready for witches, magical transformations, dreams, stuffed animals, fantasy and adventure in this stunning story from Cumbria born and raised Helen Cooper.
Filled with her own exquisite pencil drawings, The Hippo at the End of the Hall is Cooper’s debut novel. She is already the twice award-winning CLIP Kate Greenaway author and illustrator for two beautiful picture books, The Baby Who Wouldn’t Go To Bed and Pumpkin Soup.
The invitation was delivered by bees. It wasn’t addressed to anyone at all, but 11-year-old Ben knew it was for him. It would lead him to an old, shambolic museum, full of strange and bewitching creatures, a peculiar world of hidden mysteries and curious family secrets… and some really dangerous magic.
But most importantly, Ben discovers a connection to his lost explorer father and the family he never knew he had. And now he has something to fight for… the survival of the Gee museum, and the promise of finding out who he really is.
This is a true classic in the making, a gorgeously illustrated invitation into a charming – and exhilarating – world where the lines of reality are blurred by magic.
An enchanting and thrilling fantasy for all young adventure lovers!
(David Fickling Books, paperback, £6.99)
Age 9 plus:
Dork Diaries: Crush Catastrophe by Rachel Renée Russell
Nikki Maxwell, Queen of the Dorks, is back in the twelfth instalment of the blockbuster bestselling Dork Diaries series.
Nikki and her BFFs Zoey and Chloe are the giggling, gossiping stars of Rachel Renée Russell’s much-loved Dork Diaries series which chronicles the daily dramas of the 14-year-old’s life in (and outside!) school.
Russell, a US lawyer who prefers writing children’s books to legal briefs, also illustrates the fabulous Dork Diaries, filling Nikki’s entertaining meanderings with drawings, doodles and comic strips.
This perfectly pitched series was inspired by Russell’s own middle school experiences as well as those of her two daughters, Erin and Nikki. Elder daughter Erin helps with writing and Nikki helps with the illustrations.
In Nikki Maxwell’s newest diary, it’s the countdown to the end of the school year and Nikki is juggling some big questions about how she will spend her summer. She is also facing an unexpected crush catastrophe… there’s a new kid interested in Nikki but the last thing she wants to do is accidentally hurt Brandon. It all comes down to the very big decision Nikki has to make, and drama like she has never faced before!
Friendship, fun and boyfriend gossip… what more could a teenage girl want?
(Simon & Schuster, paperback, £6.99)
Age 8 plus:
Just Jack by Kate Scott
Fitting in at a new school isn’t easy… but when you have moved house five times in a few years, it’s even harder.
Since her popular and fun-filled Spies in Disguise children’s series, author and poet Kate Scott has set about writing winsome novels starring children facing problems ‘fitting in.’ And after the success of Giant, a refreshingly funny and honest story about a small boy in a family of very tall people, we meet Jack who tries hard to be what he isn’t.
‘Moving is what Mum and I do.’ Jack knows lots about starting a new school. Since Dad left, he and his mum have moved house five times. He also knows all about fitting in. The trick is to act exactly like everyone else and make sure no one ever notices him.
Jack is two people… the boy you see when he is outside his house, and the person he is when he is inside the house with his mum.
But it’s hard work constantly trying to be something he isn’t and Jack doesn’t have any good friends. That is, until Tyler comes along. Tyler is funny and different. He loves inventions and he might be the key to getting Jack to realise that although he is brilliant at pretending to be other people, the very best thing he can be is… just Jack.
There is such a genuine empathy and warmth in Scott’s writing that it is difficult not to fall for the wonderfully likeable and identifiable Jack whose defensive mechanisms hide a young boy hopelessly adrift after his parents split up.
Scott tackles difficult but important themes like divorce, self-identity, loneliness and struggling to fit in with gentleness, understanding and her trademark wry humour which transforms a sensitive story into a fun and entertaining tale of family and friendship.
With illustrations by Alex Gunn to bring Jack and Tyler’s adventures to life, this is a clever and tenderly told tale of growing up… and wising up.
(Piccadilly Press, paperback, £5.99)
Age 8 plus:
Ade’s Amazing Ade-ventures: Battle of the Cyborg Cat by Ade Adepitan
Wheelchair basketball star, Paralympian and popular broadcaster Ade Adepitan turns author for this sparkling new adventure series which speaks volumes to a new generation of children.
Adepitan contracted polio as a child and lost the use of his left leg. After arriving in London from Nigeria in the Eighties when he was a young boy, he initially he found his new environment daunting and encountered some hurtful and cruel prejudice.
But despite being handicapped by an iron leg caliper, he quickly adapted and made friends, and together they formed the Parsons Road Gang. With friendship firmly at the heart of this all-action series, Ade learns that you can overcome all the obstacles thrown at you when you have good friends.
In this charming new series, he introduces us to the early years of his life in England and the warmth and solace he found in sharing, caring and playing with his gang of loyal friends.
Ade is the new kid on Parsons Road. He knows he should make an effort and make some friends but it’s not easy when you look different to everyone else and wear a leg caliper. It’s only when Ade sees off some bullies that Dexter, Brian and Shed realise who Ade really is… their new friend, part cyborg (‘a human with mechanical enhancements that give them super strength’), part footballing genius and all hero. Over the summer, the boys’ days are filled with adventure and laughter but the first day of school is not far away and things are about to change forever.
Filled with the lively black and white illustrations of David M.Buisán and with a quirky Eighties retro backdrop, this moving new series has heartwarming messages about the importance of friendship, acceptance and inclusion, and will delight all adventure-loving youngsters.
(Studio Press, paperback, £5.99)
Age 7 plus:
Bella’s Den by Berlie Doherty
Escape into an adventure set in the great outdoors in this beautiful, dyslexia-friendly book from award-winning author Berlie Doherty.
Bella has a secret, one that she is very good at keeping. That secret is a den hidden on a little muddy hill, a wild place amid the trees and nestled beside some foxes with a den of their own. But when the secret is betrayed, the foxes’ lives are put in danger… and so is a special friendship.
Beautifully illustrated by Ellie Snowdon and written by Doherty, an English novelist, poet, playwright and screenwriter, Bella’s Den is another super readable book from Barrington Stoke and ideal for struggling, reluctant or dyslexic readers.
Printed on heavy paper in two colours – black for the text and yellow Pantone® for the page background – this combination reduces the contrast between text and paper, and hides the ‘ghost’ of the words printed on the other side of the page. The book also uses a unique typeface that is more legible to dyslexics.
A touching and inspirational story of trust, loss and friendship, Bella’s Den is perfect for young explorers and any child who longs to find adventure in the great outdoors.
(Barrington Stoke, paperback, £5.99)
Age 6 plus:
Ottoline and the Purple Fox by Chris Riddell
The ever-inventive author and illustrator Chris Riddell makes a welcome return with his quirky, inquisitive heroine Miss Ottoline Brown.
Ottoline, a Mistress of Disguise with a fine line in detective work, fun and dark humour, is making a comeback and her adventures just get better and better.
Ottoline lives in a stylish apartment in Big City with her partner in crime, Mr Munroe, a small, hairy creature that came from a bog in Norway. Together they look after the Brown family’s eclectic collection of oddments, and dabble in a spot of detective work. In fact, no puzzle or mystery is ever too tricky for the two of them to solve.
In Ottoline and the Purple Fox, the fourth book in this magical series, the intrepid sleuths meet an enigmatic and dashing purple fox who offers to take them on a night-time urban safari across Big City. The fox shows them all the hidden animals of the city and Ottoline is soon busy making notes on them in her field notebook. Mr Munroe, meanwhile, is making notes too… on the anonymous love poems he finds stuck to lamp-posts on their journey. Who is the secretive, melancholy poet, and how can Mr Munroe and Ottoline help mend his broken heart?
Full of Riddell’s richly detailed and intricate black and white illustrations, this heartwarming, comical story is a seductive blend of friendship, fun and imagination, and includes instructions on how to make a fancy-dress fortune teller out of paper.
A brilliantly imaginative and exciting book from start to finish!
(Macmillan, paperback, £6.99)
Age 3 plus:
Winnie-the-Pooh’s 50 things to do before you’re 5¾ by A.A. Milne and E.H. Shepard
Have you ever made mud pies, built a secret den, or built a nest for a bird family?
If you haven’t, you’re missing out on lots of fun! So why not join Winnie-the-Pooh, Tigger, Rabbit, Piglet, Eeyore and their friends as they come up with 50 inspirational outdoor activities which they think everyone should enjoy before their sixth birthday.
Based on the books by A.A. Milne and E.H. Shepard, this exciting activity book is ideal for holiday time and the perfect way to encourage children to get into the great outdoors and start exploring.
The easy-to-use guide is packed with ideas, including arts and crafts, intriguing games and the possibility of creating your own adventures. Build your own den, make a worm farm, create a forest in a bottle and woodland crafts, host your own teddy bears’ picnic, and who could resist playing the classic game of Poohsticks?
There are helpful hints and spaces for your records and photographs, and activities range from the quick and simple to slightly more challenging adventures to share with adults and make the most of time spent together.
Brimming with Milne’s wit and warmth, and illustrated throughout with Shepard’s timeless drawings, Winnie-the-Pooh’s 50 things to do before you’re 5¾ offers the key messages from the original stories but with the added bonus of creativity, learning and friendship.
Whether you want to spot animal babies, make your own tree monster or simply gaze up at the stars, this inventive activity book is a breath of fresh air for all little outdoor adventurers.
(Egmont Publishing, paperback, £7.99)
Age 3 plus:
Creature Features by Natasha Durley
Animals come in all shapes and sizes… big and small, fast and slow, scaly and furry, stripy and spotty.
And here’s a bright and beautiful interactive board book to teach little ones the wonder of diversity in the animal world. Creature Features is packed with a menagerie of weird and wonderful creatures, all grouped by their unusual features, from bright beaks to long tongues and fantastic fur.
Animals are mostly grouped into big families, like birds which have feathers, and fish which swim in the water. But there are other ways of grouping them too… like big noses and giant antlers! Turn the pages of this gorgeously illustrated book to discover some of the surprising features linking animals from all round the world.
Vibrantly illustrated with both colour and texture by new talent Natasha Durley, this really is an animal book with a difference. From enormous ears to humongous horns, and from elephants to earwigs, this eclectic collection of animals celebrates the diversity of the animal kingdom. And with something to look for on every page, it’s guaranteed to inspire and fascinate young animal lovers.
Discover how having big eyes is helpful for seeing in the dark, how long noses and snouts are great for sniffing out smells, how big ears give animals sharp hearing, how tails help animals to balance, and long bendy necks are ideal for reaching food in high trees or on low ground.
Creature Features is a glorious riot of colour, creatures and amazing facts, all presented in a lively and eye-catching format that will have youngsters turning the pages in wonder and delight.
(Big Picture Press, board book, £10.99)
Age 2 plus:
Gary’s Banana Drama by Jane Massey
Meet a big, hungry gorilla going completely bananas… for some bananas!
Author and illustrator Jane Massey moves into her best madcap mode for this comical and colourful picture book starring Gary the gorilla who sees bananas but finds he can’t eat any of them!
Gary is desperate for a banana and it’s driving him to a delightfully dizzy distraction. Could that be one singing in the tree? No, it’s just a bird’s beak. Is that a banana whizzing through the air? Ouch, no, it’s a boomerang from Billy’s show! Where are the real bananas? Alone and hungry, Gary is about to give up until… wait! Could it be… the biggest banana in the world?
Featuring banana dogs, banana moustaches, banana space rockets and an adorable, banana-mad gorilla, Massey’s vibrant, quirky and whimsical picture book will make children hoot with laughter and fall in love with the gormless Gary.
Massey uses an eye-catching palette of bright colours and a gallery of warm and witty illustrations as Gary and his mind-bending bananas steal the show. And there’s a fruity twist in the tail that will have little ones chuckling and chomping on their own bananas!
(Simon & Schuster, paperback, £6.99)

He’s calling it “the best film of 2017 thus far,” so if The Film Yap’s Christopher Lloyd is giving Blade Runner 2049 such high praise, you know it’s gotta be good! Here are his movie reviews for this week:
Blade Runner 2049
The uninvited sequel, now indispensable. Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford play two generations of replicant hunters in this extension of one of the most influential science fiction films of all time. Sad, wise, beautiful and filled with tempered joy; the best film of 2017 thus far.”
The Mountain Between Us
Idris Elba and Kate Winslet play two strangers sharing a charter plane ride that crashes in the remote frozen mountain, forcing them to forge a connection that allows them to survive.”
My Little Pony: The Movie
Those neon-colored equines finally get their big-screen adventure as dark forces threaten Ponyville, setting off a quest to find the magic of friendship.”
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
There’s no reason for a fifth “PotC” movie to exist, but it’s reasonably entertaining as long as you’re willing to pull up oars on your brain and coast. Stream It.”
For more movie news and reviews, visit www.thefilmyap.com.


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Question: Aphria looks to cut down U.S. exposure amid TSX delisting review

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TORONTO — Licensed marijuana producer Aphria Inc. (TSX:APH) said it is moving to "purify" its balance sheet by reducing its exposure to medical cannabis in the U.S., where pot remains illegal under federal law, as it undergoes a delisting review by the group which operates the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Aphria's chief executive Vic Neufeld said Monday that it continues to be in discussions with TMX Group, Canada's biggest exchange operator, which recently warned that companies that operate in states where pot is legal are not in compliance with TSX listing requirements.
Neufeld said Aphria plans to submit a brief, including documentation and legal opinions, to the TMX group on its stance before the holiday season as the review wraps by the end of the year. However, he said the Leamington, Ont.-based producer is also moving to reduce its U.S. exposure.
"We are trying to endeavour as best as possible, as expeditiously as possible, to divest from Aphria any direct involvement in any medical cannabis that we have in the U.S.," Neufeld said in an interview.
In October, the TMX Group issued a notice cracking down on cross-border marijuana companies with business activities in the U.S. While some states have legalized pot to varying degrees and conditions, under U.S. federal law it remains illegal to cultivate, distribute or possess marijuana.
In turn, Canadian marijuana companies had largely focused on markets outside of the U.S. or listed on the smaller Canadian Securities Exchange, which is less risk-averse.
However, Aphria in April announced the launch of its U.S. expansion strategy through a strategic investment in an entity that was renamed Liberty Health Sciences Inc. Aphria's first foray into the U.S. market was in 2016 with an investment in a medical marijuana producer in Arizona called Copperstate Farms, LLC.
Neufeld said Monday Aphria is looking to shift its direct stake in Copperstate Farms into Liberty Health Sciences, thereby making it an indirect investment and "purify some of the balance sheet."
Aphria began exploring this option three months ago, and made its request and presentation to Copperstate's board last month, Neufeld said.
However, the company's request remains subject to a six-month hold agreement that the Arizona-based producer has with its shareholders regarding requests involving any capital transaction, added Neufeld. Aphria has also moved to reduce of its shares in Delaware-based cannabis technology platform MassRoots in recent months.
"We're going to try to purify as much as possible," said Neufeld. "As long as the Aphria shareholders are not damaged in any which way."

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Canadian cannabis stocks jumped more than four per cent in early trading Wednesday before pulling back after the Senate passed the Cannabis Act on Tuesday evening.
The approval, pending royal assent, officially lifts the prohibition on cannabis and paves the way for a recreational industry in Canada.
To some extent, gains had already been baked into the market, with cannabis stocks flying all week in anticipation of the news. The four largest publicly traded cannabis companies up between five and nine per cent since Friday.
Senate approval had come under doubt as a number of conservative lawmakers from Quebec and Manitoba argued that home cultivation provisions — allowing consumers to grow four plants at home — were too lenient.
Ultimately, the senate bowed to government pressure, approving the bill 52-29 with home cultivation provisions intact.
Aurora Cannabis Inc. led the charge on Wednesday with a 4.6 per cent rise, before pulling back to around one per cent. The stock is up around seven per cent for the week, and a spin-off is in the works with the recent announcement that the company plans to launch an IPO for its U.S.-focused Australis Capital subsidiary.
Canopy Growth Corp., Canada’s largest producer by market capitalization, has seen its stock rise four per cent for the week. Shares surged another four per cent in early trading, but had fallen back into negative territory for the day by late morning.
Canopy, which has outperformed peers over the year, also announced on Tuesday a multi-year agreement with Quebec-based Neptune Wellness Solutions that will provide Canopy with more cannabis extraction and refinement capacity.
Shares of MedReleaf Corp. and Aphria Inc. were also up on the news, 1.4 and two per cent respectively.
On a market-weighted basis, the four largest TSX-traded cannabis companies are up around three per cent for the year, with only Aphria down (by 33 per cent) after a TMX policy earlier this year forced the company to retreat from its U.S. expansion plan.


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Question: Australian Woman Dead After Too Many Protein Shakes

Meegan Hefford was just 25-years-old when she was found unconscious in her apartment in Mandurah, Western Australia.
On June 19, Meegan was rushed to Fiona Stanley Hospital in Perth where doctors frantically tried to determine why such a young and fit woman was rapidly losing brain activity. It took two days for the medical team to discover that Meegan had a urea cycle disorder.
On June 22, Meegan was pronounced brain dead. Meegan’s death certificate lists one of the causes of death as “intake of bodybuilding supplements,” in addition to her undiagnosed urea cycle disorder.
Perth Now reported that Meegan’s use of protein supplements was a major cause of her sudden death. Unfortunately, the mother of a seven-year-old daughter and five-year-old son was unaware that she had a rare genetic disorder that stopped her body from properly breaking down protein.
Urea cycle disorder affects approximately one in 8,000 people, and in Meegan it caused a buildup of ammonia in her blood and accumulation of fluid in her brain.
Megan’s distraught family is calling for tighter restrictions on the dietary supplements industry, and for public warnings about high protein diets.
People suffering from urea cycle disorder have an enzyme deficiency which prevents protein from breaking down properly. This in turn leads to a buildup of ammonia in the bloodstream which poisons the brain, eventually leading to brain damage, coma, and finally death.
Michelle White, Meegan’s mother, said her daughter had gone on a strict diet earlier this year and ramped up her gym sessions in the lead up to a bodybuilding competition in September. She was eating a high protein-rich diet, which included taking supplements. Whilst studying paramedicine at Edith Cowan University and working part-time at Princess Margaret Hospital in telecommunications, Meegan also attended the gym twice a day.
Then, in early June, Meegan started complaining about feeling “weird” and lethargic.
Her mother said to her: “I think you’re doing too much at the gym, calm down, slow it down.”
Meegan was found unconscious by a real estate agent who was conducting a property rental inspection.
Protein shakes blamed for mum Meegan Hefford's death at age 25 – New Zealand Herald https://t.co/xQpFRUl0Qj #News pic.twitter.com/Vw02RTtkF1 — News JS Namibia (@newsjsNA) August 14, 2017
Michelle said: “I couldn’t believe what the doctors were telling me, she was dying. I said, ‘You have to give her more time,’ because she didn’t look sick, she looked beautiful.”
After the family said their goodbyes to Meegan, her organs were taken for donation.
“Meegan has saved four people’s lives because of her heart, her lungs, and kidneys. They couldn’t take her liver because it was shot. Losing Meegan, it’s so awful and I still can’t believe she’s gone but I have to focus on the positives that at least I had 25 years with her and she jammed so much into her life, it’s almost like she knew her time would be short.”
4 people's lives saved thanks to organs donated from tragic death of 25 year old Meegan Hefford #SurvivorAU #australianstory #OrganDonation pic.twitter.com/lU6OwoGZOb — Chang4Change (@TshungChang) August 14, 2017
Michelle said that she was unaware her daughter was taking protein supplements until she found half a dozen containers in her kitchen. She believes the supplements were purchased both online and in shops. She also found a detailed diet plan.
It’s Michelle’s hope that Meegan’s death will be a wake-up call for the supplement industry, and that tighter regulations will be imposed to prevent any further tragedies.
“I know there are people other than Meegan who have ended up in hospital because they’ve overloaded on supplements. The sale of these products needs to be more regulated.”
Dr. Omar Khorshid is President of the West Australian Medical Association. In his opinion, people should stick to eating a balanced diet rather than trying to “trick their body” into building muscle mass.
“I think the problem with the supplement industry is that it’s really designed to make money for the companies which sell the products and not to provide any significant health benefit for the vast majority of people taking them. This case is obviously tragic and illustrates that you may not know you have a health issue that alters the way you metabolize.”
Simone Austin is an accredited practicing dietitian and President of Sports Dietitian Australia. She said too many people have the misconception that high-protein diets are necessary. As a consultant for AFL club Hawthorn, Miss Austin said more protein did not equal more muscle.
“Excess supplements can be more dangerous if someone already has health conditions, like renal impairment, but people won’t necessarily know they have that, so that’s why people need to be cautious and stick to what the guidelines say.”
Ms. Austin went on to explain that, despite the hype about protein, most people only require one gram of protein per kilogram of body weight, even for people who are reasonably active. Even very active people who aim to put on muscle mass might only need one and a half grams of protein per kilogram of body weight.
“It’s pretty easy to get that from food. We tend to let all sorts of people give nutrition advice. We should only let people qualified in the nutrition area give us specific advice.”
According to Nutrition Australia’s website, some athletes such as strength trained or endurance athletes, may require more protein, “with requirements of 1.2 grams to 1.6 grams per kilogram of body mass per day.”
Most people don’t need protein supplements: Dietitians speak out after Meegan Hefford’s death https://t.co/OMJkPs6KHp #PerthNews pic.twitter.com/uUtouekt3d — Breaking News Perth (@perthbrk) August 14, 2017
The website also states that such intakes can generally be achieved by the overall increased food intake required to fuel training. It goes on to say that protein supplements and shakes can be very expensive and are not usually necessary.
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They say opposites attract. But these days, maybe not so much.
A growing number of singles are adding a clause to their online dating profiles telling either Trump haters or Trump supporters — depending on their political preference — that they need not apply.
"This was like a deal breaker for me," says 50-year-old Elizabeth Jagosz from the Detroit area. "If you are Trump supporter, I'm not even going to consider meeting you for coffee."
It's not just an issue of party politics, Jagosz says. It's about core values. Love, she says, cannot conquer all.
"If you don't care about a person who says you can grab women by the pussy and that's OK — I don't wanna date you if you think that behavior's OK," Jagosz says. "If that's not a deal breaker for you, then you and I have nothing to talk about."
As another single put it in her profile, "Red hats need not apply."
But the people wearing those red hats — the ones stamped with "Make America Great Again" — have been feeling the same way.
This lack of desire from liberals and conservatives to date each other is what David Goss says prompted him to launch TrumpSingles.com.
"Yeah, it's both ways," Goss says. "You know, like a liberal doesn't want to date a Nazi. And a republican doesn't want to date, well, a whiny snowflake, and that's what they're viewing each other as."
TrumpSingles.com is a kind of safe space for Trump supporters who say they're sick of the "lefties" refusing to even give them a chance.
"[The liberals] are just repeating this left echo chamber of 'Oh, you must be a racist; oh, you must be a homophobe; oh, you must be a misogynist,' " Goss says. "They're judging the people based on who they voted for without actually getting to know them."
Helen Fisher, the chief scientific adviser to the Internet dating website Match.com, says new research from the website shows both liberals and conservatives are moving away from the center of the political spectrum.
"There's a real distinct difference that we're seeing today, and all singles are becoming more rigid in their views," she says.
The data also shows that singles are more likely now to shun those who are at the other end of the political spectrum. And liberals are more likely to spurn conservatives than the other way around.
"I think it's very natural to the human animal to bring it into the idea of 'OK, you like this person, well, you must be like that person then,' " Fisher says. "America is taking this very, very personally. No question about it."
Looking back now, it seems almost unfathomable that even two opposing campaign advisers could cross the aisle and then actually walk down the aisle as James Carville and Mary Matalin did in 1993.
As Carville famously put it once, "You can love the sinner and hate the sin."
The couple says their secret to survival and harmony at home is simply agreeing to disagree.
But today, singles seem to be saying they just can't do that.
"I mean, I wish I could just go out and tell everyone to knock it off and be cool with each other, but it's just not going to work that way," Goss says.
His Trump Singles dating site is up to 35,000 members. LiberalHearts.com, founded by Salvatore Prano, is up to nearly 50,000.
"There's more activity now than ever," Prano says. "I knew liberals would only find comfort in each other's arms."
But there is one other option for lonely liberals. Single Joe Goldman founded MapleMatch.com, a dating site that helps Americans find Canadians "to save them from the unfathomable horror of a Trump presidency." Goldman became his own first client.
"I can't tell you the sinking feeling I felt [after the election]," he says. "That's not the country I want to live in. So why not consider places that might be more in line with my values, like Canada."
It may be better than the alternative. According to the new Match.com survey, a growing number of liberals today are simply choosing to not date at all.


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Question: US, South Korea, Japan discuss denuclearization, summits

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National security adviser H.R. McMaster waves as he walks into the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 16, 2018.
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Analysts at UOB Group explained that US President Trump and China President Xi Jinping held phone call on North Korea on Saturday.
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"Xi said that ‘relevant side’ must exercise restraint and avoid words and actions that may exacerbate tensions, and resolving North Korean nuclear issue ultimately needs to be done through talks. Xi says China is willing to maintain communication with US for appropriate resolution of North Korea nuclear issue.
The Pentagon’s top military officer said on Sunday the focus remains on finding a diplomatic solution to the North Korea missile crisis, even as the military works up viable options in case they become necessary.
Meanwhile, US CIA said that there is no imminent threat of a nuclear war with North Korea despite rising tensions.
US President Trump plans to sign an executive memorandum directing investigation into allegations that China violated US intellectual property rights and forced technology transfers."


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Question: First lady Melania Trump greets the Macrons with a hat

First lady Melania Trump waits with President Donald Trump to greet French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron during a State Arrival Ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
First lady Melania Trump waits with President Donald Trump to greet French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron during a State Arrival Ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
NEW YORK (AP) - Melania, or more specifically Melania's hat, what were you saying?
The media and the Twitterverse had a big time Tuesday with the first lady's I-spy chapeau, a wide-brim number designed by Herve Pierre that would have been perfect had the sun been out in Washington.
It was a grand topper for Mrs. Trump's bright white Michael Kors suit and some said it stole the show during the South Lawn military pageantry welcoming French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, during their first official state visit.
Others on the social media sidelines were merely perplexed.
Was the hat more Joan Collins' Alexis Carrington Colby on "Dynasty" or Kerry Washington's Olivia Pope on "Scandal?" Was the grim-faced first lady in theoretical need of help as some asked on Inauguration Day?
Mrs. Trump kept her hat in place as the group moved indoors and also at the National Gallery of Art for a Cezanne break with Mrs. Macron, who wore a creamier shade of white, but no hat.
"Melania's hat for president," one tweeter declared. Others shared the sentiment.
Another chimed in: "Getting some serious Beyonce Formation vibes from Melania's hat this morning." Bey wore a version in black in the video for that hit.
Others on social media stuck to matters of etiquette, like the Twitter account of I'm Every Woman: "Melania's hat might be OK for the races, a runway or even Church, not to wear when greeting visitors when you want to express a warm welcome. You want people to see your eyes and face and not impose an obstacle to the two cheek kiss, a French greeting."
One thing was certain. Mrs. Trump was seriously committed to her hat.

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If it wasn't for the recent thawing of relations between Melania Trump and her White House predecessors at Barbara Bush's funeral, you might not have believed this. Melania's plans for the state dinner will recognize former first ladies by including both Michelle Obama's vegetables and Hillary Clinton's china — and some of Laura Bush's china will make an appearance, too.
The statement from the White House makes very clear that these choices are Melania's. "The Office of the First Lady has prepared the following details, all carefully selected by First Lady Melania Trump, to complement and pay homage to the long-standing friendship between the United States and France," it reads, meaning that the first lady herself has taken a bipartisan approach to hosting — even if that's not represented in the guest list. No congressional Democrats were included.
But when it comes to the food, Obama's greens are welcome. The menu features the "best of America’s cuisines and traditions, with nuances of French influences." The greens show up in the first course which includes "Young Variegated Lettuces... from the White House kitchen garden." White House-sourced ingredients also show up in the main course's "Carolina Gold Rice Jambalaya" which is "spiced with herbs from the South Lawn."
And the china is a mash-up of Clinton's china with some of Bush's mixed in. "The color scheme is cream and gold and the china settings consist of the Clinton china for the baseplate, along with both Bush (43) and Clinton china for the dinner service," the White House statement reads. Clinton's china has a yellow outer circle and gold edging. The Bush china is very conservative presidential with golden eagles, gold edging, and patterns in green.
"The First Lady chose the Bush china with the green color palette to complement the spring green and white flowers that will be featured in the State Dining Room," the White House statement read. No explicit reasoning for the Clinton china choice was given — even though arguably the bulk of the china used will be hers, given the choice of the baseplate.
As for the flower arrangements, the Cross Hall is already full of branches of cherry blossom, "all grown in the United States." Melania uploaded photos to Twitter showing her walking through the area with her team. What's not made a social media appearance yet are the "2,500 stems of white sweet peas and nearly 1,000 stems of white lilac" that will be featured in the dining room. Perhaps that's because not all are grown in the USA. It's a California and Dutch mix.
The guests of honor have already arrived. French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte arrived Monday and began their active itinerary. The couple, together with the Trumps, planted a tree in the White House lawn. It's a European sessile oak that comes from Belleau Woods, northeast of Paris, where Americans fought and died during World War I.
Later on the two couples boarded Marine One and took in the sights of Washington, D.C., en route to Mount Vernon, George Washington's historic home on the Potomac River. They had dinner there, which Trump called "really fantastic" before returning to the White House.
Macron expressed his thoughts on the visit upon landing yesterday at the military air field upon landing near D.C. “This is a great honor and I think a very important state visit given the moment of our current environment,” Macron said.
Other famous French guests include Christine Lagarde, who heads the International Monetary Fund and was a top French government official under a previous center-right government.
All will enjoy Melania's preparations, the great locally sourced food, and the Bush and Clinton china.


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LONDON — After a rare English Premier League swap deal, Alexis Sanchez and Henrikh Mkhitaryan made an immediate impact at their new homes on Saturday.
Sanchez injected a fresh dose of dynamism to Manchester United and scored — immediately after missing a penalty — on debut to beat Huddersfield 2-0.
Mkhitaryan, who struggled to convince Jose Mourinho of his qualities at United, marked his first Arsenal start by providing three assists — including one for fellow new recruit Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang — in a 5-1 rout of Everton.
When so much focus was on Mkhitaryan and $80 million record signing Aubameyang, Aaron Ramsey chose the wrong day to score his first-ever hat trick.
For Arsenal and United, the January signings were made with an eye on next season in the Premier League. Any title aspirations faded long ago.
Even though Manchester City dropped points for only the fourth time this season in a 1-1 draw at Burnley, the leaders still only had their advantage cut to 13 points by United with 12 games remaining.
The tussle to stay in the Premier League is far tighter.
Southampton escaped the relegation zone after winning at West Bromwich Albion 3-2 to end a 13-match winless run in the league.
Swansea is out of the danger zone only on goal difference after drawing with Leicester 1-1.
But Stoke sunk back into the bottom three after Bournemouth followed up recent fine wins against Arsenal and Chelsea by beating the less illustrious opposition 2-1. Bournemouth climbed to ninth ahead of Everton, which was at Arsenal in the late game.

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Arsenal will join Manchester City in the race to sign Riyad Mahrez this summer after the Leicester star's move to the Etihad broke down on deadline day.
The Algerian winger submitted a transfer request and has since gone AWOL, missing training with the Foxes.
Claude Puel left his star man out of the 1-1 draw vs Swansea and now the Gunners are looking to take advantage of the situation.
Leicester will likely sell their star man this summer to extract maximum value - with only two years remaining on his contract - and the Star report the Blues now have a fight on their hands to sign him in the next window.
A dream to work with Pep Guardiola may be spurned by Mahrez is Arsene Wenger offers him a starring role at the Emirates.
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In episode 34 of the Newsroom Insider, host Jim Poling talks to Susan Clairmont and David Crosbie about their work on the recently launched, serialized podcast, Covering Diane.
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Top to bottom — Kentizan for Personal Work, Jordan Coourt, Joey Bada$$ for Rolling Stone, USA Investors for Institutional Investor, Why Humans Build Upwards for TIME, 3 Seasons style guide & EMI Top 40 Hip Hop chart cover.


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Question: Menorah lightings planned around the world for Hanukkah

Public menorah lightings for the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah are planned around the world in locations ranging from ski towns and Caribbean islands to famous landmarks and sports arenas.
Hanukkah begins Tuesday night and lasts for eight days. If you're traveling or vacationing during the holiday, there may be a menorah lighting near you. The Jewish outreach organization Chabad-Lubavitch plans Hanukkah events in hundreds of cities, from the 50 U.S. states to 100 countries.
Celebrations in Vail, Colorado, will include menorahs made from skis. In New Mexico, organizers hope to create a one-of-a-kind menorah made from hot-air balloons. Vacationers in Cancun, Mexico, and Aruba will also have menorah lightings to attend.
Many ceremonies will take place in front of landmarks, including the White House, Eiffel Tower and the Kremlin.

After hate crimes at high school, community to light Hanukkah Menorah of faith and love
Chabad of Port Washington will light a public Hanukkah menorah at the Port Washington LIRR Station, followed by a community-wide celebration highlighting unity and peace on Tuesday evening, Dec. 12, the first night of the eight-day holiday.
The ceremony, organized by Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel, will honor Port Washington School Superintendent Dr. Kathleen Mooney with the lighting of the first flame of the menorah and will feature a musical performance by the Paul D. Schreiber High School Tri M Musicians.
Port Washington’s Schreiber High School recently witnessed a hate crime with another swastika discovered on a school wall. This comes nearly one year after a nearly identical incident took place at the school. Looking to dispel the darkness by shining the light of goodness and kindness, this menorah will bring a positive message to the Port Washington community.
Following the menorah-lighting ceremony, which will also include the live sculpting of a 5-foot ice menorah, hundreds will dance, sing and eat the night away enjoying traditional Hanukkah foods such as latkes, jelly donuts and chocolate gelt, in addition to being treated to hot coffee—compliments of Starbucks of Port Washington.
"I want my children to grow up with pride in their Jewish heritage, and a feeling of equality and self-confidence as Americans,” said Blaine Klusky, who is looking forward to attending the public menorah lighting. “Chabad-Lubavitch’s Hanukkah menorahs are among the most important developments ever to help my children’s education and awareness. I wish they had one where I grew up.”
This year brings added significance as the world marks 50 years since the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—initiated the Mitzvah Campaigns, a historic undertaking that brought Jewish observance and celebration to the streets, laying the groundwork for public menorahs and the worldwide Hanukkah campaign that he set into motion in 1973.
“The message of Hanukkah is the message of light,” adds Rabbi Sholom Paltiel. “The nature of light is that it is always victorious over darkness. A small amount of light dispels a lot of darkness. Another act of goodness and kindness, another act of light, can make all the difference.”
Today, the unprecedented public display of Hanukkah has become a staple of Jewish cultural and religious life, forever altering the American practice and awareness of the festival. Port Washington’s menorah is one of more than 15,000 large public menorahs sponsored by Chabad in more than 100 countries and territories around the world, including in front of landmarks such as the White House, the Eiffel Tower, Trafalgar Square, the Brandenburg Gate and the Kremlin, helping children and adults of all backgrounds discover and enjoy the holiday message.
Throughout the State of New York, Chabad will be presenting scores of Hanukkah events and celebrations, including public menorah lightings, giant menorahs made out of ice and Legos, menorah parades, latke parties, giant dreidel houses,“Chanukah Wonderlands” and more. To find a local event in New York, or practically anywhere throughout the world, visit the international Hanukkah event directory at www.ChabadPW.org/Hanukkah.
For more information about Hanukkah and a local schedule of events visit www.ChabadPW.org/Hanukkah.
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Almost 48 hours after racist violence engulfed Charlottesville, Va., President Trump called out white nationalist groups by name. Trump's remarks on Monday following criticism that his initial statement about the clash of protesters did not condemn racist groups specifically.
"Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans," the president said from the White House.
Trump began his remarks talking about his economic accomplishments and plans for trade negotiations before turning his attention to the events over the weekend in Virginia and expressing sympathy for the three people who were killed. Heather Heyer, 32, died after a car rammed into a group of counter protesters. Two Virginia State Troopers, Pilot Lt. H. Jay Cullen and Trooper-Pilot Berke M.M. Bates, died when their helicopter that was patrolling the event crashed.
Trump said that the Department of Justice had opened a civil rights investigation into the car attack.
"To anyone who acted criminally at this weekend's racist violence, you will be held fully accountable. Justice will be delivered," the president said.
But for many, the president's condemnations may be too little too late. His initial statement on Saturday, claiming that the clashes were a result of "hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides" was quickly criticized by many top Republicans for not calling out the white supremacists, alt-right, Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups who began the protests against the removal of a statute of the Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
The White House put out an unsigned statement on Sunday morning, saying that, "The President said very strongly in his statement yesterday that he condemns all forms of violence, bigotry and hatred and of course that includes white Supremacists, KKK, neo-nazi and all extremist groups. He called for national unity and bringing all Americans together."
Vice President Pence went further than the president, telling reporters Sunday night while traveling in Colombia, "We have no tolerance for hate and violence from white supremacists, neo-Nazis or the KKK. These dangerous fringe groups have no place in American public life and in the American debate, and we condemn them in the strongest possible terms."

Good morning, here are our early stories:
-- International Campaign To Abolish Nuclear Weapons Wins 2017 Peace Prize.
-- Las Vegas Shooter's Life Comes Into Focus, But Not His Motive.
-- Speaking Freely, Retiring Sen. Corker Warns GOP He Could Oppose Tax Plan.
And here are more early headlines:
Trump's Cryptic Reference To "Calm Before The Storm". (NBC)
Nate Predicted To Hit U.S. Gulf Coast As A Hurricane. (NHC)
U.K. Leader Says She Has Support After Speech With Mishaps. (BBC)
Questions About Catalonia's Independence Effort. (New York Times)


Question: Rettsyndrome.org funds additional $775K of new research projects in Q1 2017

The International Rett Syndrome Foundation, now doing business as Rettsyndrome.org , announces the addition of six research projects to its Research Portfolio in the first quarter of 2017. A commitment of $775,000, through research grants, brings the largest non-governmental private funder of Rett research above the recently attained milestone of $40M research dollars to $41M.
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PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 23, 2018--Prince William County today congratulated three science start-ups – ISOThrive, LLC, Virongy, LLC and Ceres Nanosciences, Inc., – on recent business successes leading from the Prince William Science Accelerator.
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All three start-up enterprises have gained significant momentum, leading to expansion into new commercial lab space, increased R&D and the potential for new employment opportunities. ISOThrive recently expanded into new lab space within the Accelerator, Virongy has extended its lease for another year, while Ceres Nanosciences became the first start-up to successfully graduate into commercial space within Innovation Park, a premier corporate research park anchored by George Mason University’s SciTech Campus.
“We are very proud of the significant strides being made by our tenant companies at the Prince William Science Accelerator and congratulate all three companies on their commendable progress,” said Jeff Kaczmarek, Executive Director, Prince William County Department of Economic Development.
“What we are seeing is the gradual realization of the vision, formulated by the Prince William Board of County Supervisors, for Prince William County to be a catalyst for the growth and development of the life sciences ecosystem that our businesses are benefitting from today,” he added.
ISOThrive recently expanded its footprint at the facility, now occupying two lab spaces. Through this expansion, the company will accelerate its work in leveraging the gut microbiome to prevent and treat cancer, with an initial focus on colon cancer. The company intends to recruit three new staff to support this new R&D effort that is expected to result in new U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved cancer treatment modalities. In addition to its new lease, ISOThrive has also opted to extend its existing lease for another three years to support the growth of its initial core business that produces OTC and Medical Food microFood products targeted at a variety of chronic health issues.
“Locating in the Prince William Science Accelerator has been instrumental to our company’s success. Having easy access to cost competitive, state-of-the-art wet lab facilities, expert technical support, all within a research university setting has allowed us to conduct research, fine tune our business model and achieve a level of commercialization within a relatively short space of time,” said Jack Oswald, Chief Executive Officer, ISOThrive.
Virongy has recently renewed its lease for another year. The company’s groundbreaking work has received the endorsement of the National Institute of Health through the award of a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant for $220,000. The award supports additional R&D, in addition to funding commercialization efforts. “Locating in the Prince William Science Accelerator has allowed us to cultivate and leverage strategic partnerships with George Mason University. Proximity to the university has also allowed us to recruit from its pool of graduates skilled in life sciences,” said Dr. Yuntao Wu, Founder, Virongy.
Most recently, Ceres Nanosciences expanded into commercial space within Innovation Park. The company is known for its work in the development of diagnostic products using its unique and proprietary Nanotrap® particles.
First established in 2014, the Prince William Science Accelerator is designed to provide an innovative environment for entrepreneurial research and product development, nestled strategically in Innovation Park near George Mason University, SciTech Campus. Today, the County is home to approximately 9,000 businesses, an increase of 40% over the past ten years.
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Brielle Biermann is embracing life as a 21-year-old single gal.
Newly broken up from her boyfriend of two years, baseball player Michael Kopech, the reality star's split came as a surprise for some fans since the news broke late last week.
"It is true," the young star tweeted to a fan, offering a very brief explanation. "We have a lot going on right now we decided it would be for the best. What's meant to be will always be."
While a source told Us Weekly distance was a factor in the breakup, Brielle's famous mama appeared on Watch What Happens Live!, where she elaborated a touch more on the root cause.
"So, Brielle just turned 21," Kim pointed out. "That's exactly what happened, I think." While Kopech has been busy with baseball training, Brielle has been living a full life back home.

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April 30 (Gracenote) - Scoreboard at stumps on the first day in the second Test between West Indies and Pakistan on Sunday in Bridgetown, Barbados West Indies 1st innings K. Brathwaite c S. Ahmed b Amir 9 K. Powell lbw b Amir 38 S. Hetmyer c Az. Ali b Abbas 1 S. Hope c S. Ahmed b Shah 5 R. Chase not out 131 V. Singh c Y. Khan b Abbas 3 S. Dowrich c Y. Khan b S. Khan 29 J. Holder not out 58 Extras (b-4 lb-6 w-2) 12 Total (for 6 wickets, 89 overs) 286 Fall of wickets: 1-12 K. Brathwaite,2-13 S. Hetmyer,3-37 S. Hope,4-102 K. Powell,5-107 V. Singh,6-154 S. Dowrich To bat: D. Bishoo, A. Joseph, S. Gabriel Bowling Mohammad Amir 22 - 4 - 52 - 2 Mohammad Abbas 18 - 4 - 47 - 2(w-2) Yasir Shah 25 - 2 - 83 - 1 Shadab Khan 23 - 3 - 90 - 1 Azhar Ali 1 - 0 - 4 - 0 Referees Umpire: Richard Kettleborough Umpire: Bruce Oxenford TV umpire: Richard Illingworth Match referee: Chris Broad

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The state’s largest grower of peaches and other fruit bargained in bad faith with the United Farm Workers of America and wrongly tried to exclude as many as 1,500 employees from a collective bargaining agreement, a judge has ruled.
The decision gives a strong boost to the UFW’s claim to represent as many as 6,500 workers at Gerawan Farming Inc., a 12,000-acre farm and packing operation in the San Joaquin Valley that has been the focal point of one of the longest-running and most acrimonious labor dispute in decades.
The decision also reaffirms that employees of labor contractors, who now provide about half the workers who pick the state’s crops, are covered by union contracts signed with the grower.
The Gerawan-UFW fight, which began in the early 1990s, has sparked the single largest effort to decertify a union, along with a flurry of labor board and court decisions, including one that has stalled the state’s ability to impose a contract on warring parties.
And these parties have been at war, Administrative Law Judge William L. Schmidt acknowledged in a decision issued Friday.
Co-owner Dan Gerawan’s undisguised anger with the union, Schmidt wrote, “appears deep and unusually long-lasting,” and “perhaps explains the motive underlying the current expenditure of what must have been enormous sums by the Gerawan enterprises opposing the UFW and seeking to rid itself of any legal obligation to deal with that organization.”
Gerawan showed “at most, a lackadaisical attitude … and at worst, complete hostility” and “almost certainly guaranteed” a mediator would have to step in and impose a contract in 2013, Schmidt wrote.
Armando Elenes, a spokesman for the UFW, said the decision “confirms what we’ve been saying all along — Gerawan has been undermining the law. They’re trying to undermine the state of California.”
Gerawan’s lead attorney, David Schwarz, blasted the decision and promised an appeal — none of the previous decisions in the case has gone without appeals from the growers and the Agricultural Labor Relations Board.
“Gerawan is confident that these undemocratic decisions will not stand, and will challenge this latest erroneous ruling,” Schwarz said Monday. He accused the judge of blaming the grower for the union’s “unexplained, 17-year absence” from Gerawan’s fields.
Schmidt’s ruling appears to undermine Gerawan’s assertion that the union abandoned his workers in the mid-1990s before returning in 2012 to demand the right to negotiate a new contract. Gerawan has argued that UFW was solely looking to pad its membership and coffers — it collects dues of 3% of each member’s gross pay — by deliberately running out the clock on negotiations so it could obtain a contract imposed by a mediator.
Workers faced with those dues petitioned to hold an election to decertify the UFW — a stinging irony for the union founded by Cesar Chavez to obtain humane treatment of farmworkers. Union membership, once as high as 70,000, has fallen to just over 7,000.
Ballots from the 2013 decertification election never were counted, and last year the Agricultural Labor Relations Board — itself an outgrowth of Chavez’s labor movement — nullified the vote, saying Gerawan undermined the union by directly supporting an employee leading the ouster effort.
Schmidt ordered Gerawan to find and compensate employees for the eight-month period of bargaining impasse in 2013, and to allow officials from the Agricultural Labor Relations Board to enter his property to explain the decision and discuss rights with his current workforce — sessions that are to be paid for by Gerawan. The grower also will have to mail the decision to workers and post it at work sites for 60 days, Schmidt ruled.
The ALRB will issue a decision based on the judge’s opinion. That decision can be appealed.
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A must-have toy this Christmas is flying off the shelves faster than they can make it, after thousands of children asked Santa - for UNICORN POO.
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The next day, on January 1, Josh wrote on Twitter: “Deleted my tweets about a certain performance because it was made in humor but taken way more meanly than intended. Not out to diss artists.”
Mariah stunned the world when she botched her New Year’s Eve performance during Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve on December 31. The performance was full of flubs, including lip-synching, poorly executed dance moves and then, completely giving up at the end.
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Held over two days in southern Italy, Camp Hobbit I in 1977 attracted far-right youth from across the country. All Photos: Courtesy of Marina Simeone/Campo Hobbit
Bilbo Baggins is hardly the stuff of Aryan racial fantasy. It’s hard to imagine Tolkien’s furry, gluttonous protagonist goose-stepping the halls of Bag End or organizing mass rallies in the idyllic Shire countryside.
But for thousands of Italian fantasy fans, hobbits are the symbol of a radical movement to reimagine fascism and restore far-right movements to glory.
Tolkien’s misanthropic halflings make for unlikely fascist heroes, and their rise to iconic status among Italy’s far right is a story almost circuitous enough to be worthy of the author himself.
Not long before Tolkien first published The Hobbit in 1937, Italy was a great laboratory of experimental thought. Futurists composed music made entirely of motor noises, Marxists preached against “cultural hegemony” from jail cells, and Theosophists hunted for evidence of the primordial “root race”.
From this heady mix emerged Julius Evola, one of history’s most influential philosophers of fascism. Borrowing from Eastern philosophy and Western lore, Evola’s magnum opus, Revolt Against the Modern World, describes the history of European civilization as one of inexorable decline. The stated cause of this decline, paradoxically, was progress—progress away from mythical traditions and perennial wisdom, toward industrialization and cultural miscegenation.
Camp Hobbit imitated left-wing youth movements, bringing together musicians, journalists, artists, and militants in a festival atmosphere. Among some attendees, fascist haircuts were traded for long hair and beards.
As a solution, Evola proposed a radical program to resurrect the myths of “traditional” societies through art, religion, and, initially, politics. At first, Evola saw fascist leader Benito Mussolini as his great hope for the rebirth of “traditional” society, even authoring for the dictator a doctrine of “spiritual racism” that would rank the world’s races according to their closeness to the “perennial” tradition.
But as the Second World War unfolded, Mussolini failed Evola’s ideological purity test. Italy embraced “scientific” racism and the rhetoric of “progress,” and modern fascism revealed itself to be a kind of Evolian antichrist—a once-heralded usher of a Golden Age turned catalyst of an even more rapid decline.
Edged out of the mainstream, Evola faded from fashion. But elements of his philosophy, known as “Traditionalism,” lingered sacrilegiously on the edges of mainstream thought. Like Tolkien’s ring of power, they lay dormant, waiting for their moment to rise again.
A poster for Campo Hobbit I. Camp Hobbit was advertised as a place where political activists, musicians, and graphic artists could build a new “alternative” cultural movement.
While Evola was theorizing a radical break with modernity, J.R.R. Tolkien was living it. After decades cloistered in the English department of a medieval university, rearranging the elements of Anglo-Saxon lore, Tolkien published The Hobbit, in 1937, followed, almost 20 years later, by The Lord of the Rings.
Since their publication, many critics have labored to decode hidden allegories of real-world events in the adventures of the Fellowship. Because of its racial essentialism and black-and-white morality, Tolkien has often been accused of crypto-fascism.
“Good and evil are separated like oil and water,” wrote Robert Westall in a 1981 review. “The orcs are simple hero-bait, to be slaughtered ad infinitum, piled in heaps and burnt. They are given a lower status than rats.”
Critics have read Bilbo’s furious love of rural Shire life as a sign of bourgeois elitism. Some have even suggested that Mordor’s hordes, with their innumerable number and cockney accents, are a parallel for the working poor of Tolkien’s day and the threat of proletarian revolt.
Others point to his protagonists’ casual attitude to the mass murder of orcs as an indication of their suppressed genocidal nature.
The tent city at Camp Hobbit. The celtic cross, used here on a banner based on the Nazi flag, became a symbol of the movement emerging from Camp Hobbit.
“[Hobbits] are not merely good natured, comfort-loving, seedcake-eating hedonists,” wrote literary critic Peter Firchow. “Under the influence of a powerful wizard and a group of assorted warlike companions, [they can become] very different sorts of beings whose actions are at times reminiscent of some of the worst phenomena of recent European history.”
Tolkien never answered these criticisms by admitting any parallels with real politics. Yet his project of resurrecting and reinterpreting the ancient lore of England had much in common with Julius Evola.
Tolkien and Evola’s paths never actually crossed. Even in the post-war years, when they shared a mutual dislike of American cultural imperialism, Tolkien’s work was never associated with Traditionalism in the English-speaking world.
But when The Lord of the Rings was first published in Italian, in 1971, the latent politics of his stout-hearted heroes bubbled to the surface. Appearing when it did, The Lord of the Rings had an outsized influence on the Italian cultural scene. In the early 1970s, Italy was in the midst of a cultural upheaval as great as that Evola felt in the aftermath of the First World War.
A sign at Camp Hobbit reads, “European youth fight against / communist subversion / capitalist slavery.” Camp Hobbit attendees saw themselves as staking out a “third position” in Italian politics beyond right and left.
Across Europe, the cultural dominance of the Left, cemented by the defeat of fascism, was beginning to be challenged by a new movement called the nouvelle droite or “New Right.” The central claim of the New Right was that they were not your father’s fascists, and not to blame for the horrors of Nazism. They were your grandfather’s fascists, better, your great-great grandfather’s, fascists who still worshipped the pagan gods and yearned for simpler times of cultural homogeneity and ethnocentrism.
The movement found great success in Italy, where Evola had already laid much of the philosophical groundwork. For Italy’s disillusioned youth, Tolkien’s books seemed to affirm the noble struggle of traditional societies against the encroaching menace of industrialization, progressive politics, and groupthink.
Tolkien quickly became required reading for the serious among Italy’s “neo-fascist” youth groups. But even with the adventures of Sam and Frodo to bond over, many in this crowd felt isolated and overwhelmed in the face of a culturally dominant Left.
In 1977, leaders from Italy’s far right party and youth movement planned to change that. They proposed a fascist Woodstock, a two-day “back to nature” retreat organized around the celebration of Tolkien’s work. They called it “Camp Hobbit.”
Generoso Simeone, head of Italy’s far right Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI), speaks at Camp Hobbit. The MSI was one of the organizers of Camp Hobbit, but quickly fell to infighting following a widely successful Camp Hobbit III in 1981.
Held in the oppressive heat of July, among the rolling hills of southern Italy, Camp Hobbit was equal parts music festival, Tolkien seminar, and anarchist commune. “A stage covered with musical instruments and amplifiers, a colorful tent city, stalls selling posters, trinkets, books and t-shirts,” recorded one diarist.
It was Occupy Wall Street meets the Glastonbury music festival, but the specter of fascism was not far away. “About a dozen muscular guys maintaining order, distinguished by an armband with a Celtic cross,” the diarist wrote, adding, somewhat optimistically, “The crowd was quite diverse, dominated, naturally, by [fascist haircuts], military clothing, [and] black handkerchiefs, but also some long hair and beards.”
By bringing together youth from the radical right and left in an orgy of creative activity, organizers had hoped to spawn new Traditionalist literature, cinema, music, and art, and indeed, a few bands formed among the tents of Camp Hobbit.
Camp Hobbit included teach-ins, lectures, and live concerts, with the aim of initiating a new cultural movement for the far right.
“[It was] freedom, liberation from old patterns and mental habits,” says Mario Bartoluzzi, the frontman for Compagnia dell’Anello (“The Fellowship of the Ring”), a Traditionalist band founded at Camp Hobbit. “There was in all of us the desire to get out of the ghetto of exclusion.”
Many attendees saw themselves as transcending the binary of Italian politics by fusing Leftist social critiques with the militancy of fascism. Beneath its festive spirit, Camp Hobbit had hoped to “recode” the language of the hippie left with the Traditionalist philosophy of Evola, according to historian of fascism Roger Griffin.
Camp Hobbit spawned two successful sequels, drawing several thousand attendees. But the coalition emerging from Camp Hobbit quickly fell to infighting. By the mid-’80s, the New Right was again on the margins, primarily associated with anti-communist terrorism. Though it experienced moments of political power, it never succeeded in achieving cultural dominance over its enemies on the progressive Left.
Compagnia dell’Anello (“Fellowship of the Ring”), a “Traditionalist” band formed at Camp Hobbit, plays their first show for campers.
In recent years, however, the movement has seen somewhat of a resurgence. In July, members of Italy’s new New Right organized “Campo Hobbit 40,” an attempt to resurrect the spirit of the original camp on its fortieth anniversary. Evola, too, is enjoying renewed popularity, beloved by adherents of the American Alt-Right.
As for Tolkien, the political meaning of his work is as murky as it ever was. Despite a cast of hundreds, Middle Earth remains an empty stage onto which ideologues of all stripes can project their politics. Even six feature films and countless imitators have failed to bring Traditionalist critiques into the mainstream.
Perhaps his revolutionary fans should have considered the view of his harshest critic, Michael Moorcock: “In Tolkien, everyone’s in their place and happy to be there. We go there and back, to where we started. There’s no escape, nothing will ever change and nobody will ever break out of this well-ordered world.” So much for revolution.

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