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Our Epic Journey Through All Things Heavy, Issue # 178
New this week on OTPbooks.com: Robert Linkul continues his series on training older adults. This, Part Two, focuses on what he has learned from his lifetime clients… [CONTINUE READING]
As I type this, I am sitting in my hotel room getting ready to go to MKE and, finally, go home. I had a great weekend of coaching an HKC and RKC II, but it is time to go. I learned a lot with Nick Lynch, Senior RKC.
Nick brings a blend of expertise and "extra" knowledge to workshops. He works with all kinds of communities and does a nice job of blending body, mind, soul and spirit to his training. The participants really appreciate his layered approach to coaching.
At home, my new deck is finished. It will overlook the whole yard. I want to put a sailing ship wheel on it and pretend that I am a pirate, but Tiffini has other plans for it. I'm really looking forward to the nicer weather. Utah started the year dry but spring has been very, very wet.
Of course, it is: it is track season. We have always joked that if you need rain, have a track meet. The sky will open the moment someone starts to the throw the discus.
I did a lot of reading this week. I am rereading A. J. Jacob's Drop Dead Healthy and I am going to pull a number of other books off the shelves, too. I enjoy cracking open a book to turn my engines down. Speaking of reading, this week on the internet, there was a good article about Bill Gates's reading style.
That's what Gates likes to read. But how about how he reads? How does Gates get the most out of his time spent reading? As he explains in the Quartz video above, it boils down to this:
1. Take Notes in the Margins: That simple step helps ensure that you're really paying attention and engaging critically with the text. It lets you "take in new knowledge and attach it to knowledge you already have."
2. Don't Start What You Can't Finish: Gates doesn't explain why you should never cut your losses. Maybe it's a form of self-discipline. Maybe it's a fear of missing out on what a book promises to deliver. Or maybe it's the sunk cost fallacy. Either way, Gates does recommend picking your books carefully before you get started.
3. Paper Books, Not eBooks: Better for marginalia, for sure.
4. Block Out an Hour of Reading Time: You can't read a serious book in a short sitting. To really engage with a book, give it a good hour each day. A tall order, I know, in our age of ever-declining attention spans.
This article includes a discussion that Lou Schuler and I had on the phone. He really does good work.
1. Hit the ground
"That thing at your feet, called the ground, is the most important thing to deal with when you train a geriatric population," John says.
The reason is simple: The older you get, the bigger the risk of falling, and the more catastrophic the consequences. Being able to get up and down from the floor is an important survival skill.
"That's the beauty of the Turkish get-up, because you have to get up and down," he says, adding that you don't need to do the complete movement (which can be brutal for someone with bad knees) to get the key benefit of pushing yourself up from the floor.
He also likes push-ups and planks for that reason, along with ground-based mobility work.
But as functional as they are, there's another ground-based exercise that the coaches consider even more important.
2. Focus on hip extensors
The gluteus maximus is the body's largest muscle, and the one that makes us most distinctly human. With its key role in both posture and locomotion, preventing or reversing its atrophy is crucial for senior clients.
"Their glutes just kind of go away," Linkul says.
John is more blunt. "The butt is the best indicator of youth," he says. "A saggy ass is a sign of all kinds of issues."
That's why Linkul and John make the glute bridge a primary focus of their programs. John recommends doing the exercise two different ways: for reps and for isometric holds in the top position. For the latter, he uses a special tweak (shown here) to ensure good form:
With your arms out to your sides, turn your palms up, and drive your thumbs into the ground. John says it helps to keep the shoulders "back and packed."
3. Use loads conducive to both strength and hypertrophy
For all the talk about sarcopenia (age-related loss of muscle) and osteopenia (loss of bone), Mikolap believes dynapenia (loss of strength) gets overlooked. As this study shows, strength falls two to five times faster than muscle size in seniors.
But that's not to downplay the importance of muscle tissue. This 2018 study found that sarcopenia was independently associated with impaired mobility and the loss of what the researchers call "instrumental activities of daily living," which include shopping, light housework, and preparing meals. Dynapenia, meanwhile, wasn't associated with those impairments, once the researchers adjusted for a long list of health and demographic variables.
"After 55, you absolutely need old-school, Arnold Schwarzenegger hypertrophy work," John says. He calls it a "game-changer" for older clients, co-equal to ground-based training.
You don't have to choose to focus on one or the other, since you can increase both strength and muscle mass with multiple sets of eight to 12 reps. Linkul says his clients do 85 percent of their work in that range, with a total of 16 to 48 reps per movement.
If you're looking for the perfect exercise for seniors, Mikolap recommends the TRX row. Not only does it increase upper-body strength and muscle mass in general, it improves grip strength specifically, which is highly correlated to longevity. "I would say it even decreases fear of falling because of the body's position," he adds.
4. Go unilateral
In place of bilateral exercises, Linkul likes to use single-arm exercises for the upper body and split-stance exercises for the lower body. That includes lunges and step-ups along with sled pushes and pulls.
Sled work, he says, offers a little-known benefit for clients recovering from lower-body injuries who might shorten their stride because they fear falling. Because they're supported while pushing and pulling, "they can work on getting a longer stride, and it starts to transfer to their normal walking gait."
Power declines even faster with age than strength or muscle mass. Building strength will help restore power, since they're highly correlated, but all three coaches still incorporate some power training in their programs.
The trick is to do it without creating more problems than you solve. So instead of doing box jumps or sprints, they use safer movements that keep their clients' feet on or near the floor. "We don't have to leave the ground to get the power component," Linkul says. "If they can go outside and throw a medicine ball, they can completely unleash true power."
Can't go outside?
John recommends kettlebell swings as an alternative to jumps.
Mikolap suggests skipping instead of running.
Linkul uses stationary bike sprints and dynamic step-ups in addition to medicine ball throws.
6. Transfer loads
John is one of the first, best-known, and most forceful advocates for using loaded carries in training, and Linkul is not just on board, he takes the idea a step farther with transfers: The client picks up a weight, carries it somewhere, and then puts it down.
Within that simple formula Linkul finds countless variations. "We might carry it overhead, or below the waist, or at the shoulders," he says. They might carry it in a straight line or a serpentine pattern, and then set it down on the floor, or onto a shelf overhead, or someplace in between.
The drill begins with a hip hinge, which Linkul considers the most important movement pattern for older clients. Holding the weights develops grip strength. Carrying employs a split stance. They might also incorporate a vertical press, and all of it requires and trains core stability.
The most obvious advice for training older clients is to avoid three categories of exercises:
Things that create new injuries, aches, or pains
Things that exacerbate existing injuries, aches, or pains
Things that wouldn't normally create problems unless you do them too heavy or too fast, in which case, see #1 and #2
I enjoyed this next article. Nick Lynch reminded me of the importance of having purpose and this article gives some easy ideas about how to regain it.
How to put it into practice
You can practically work on finding 'Ikigai' by setting yourself a morning meditation ritual to fulfill each one of those pillars.
1. Start small: Take 10 minutes to read a new book today
2. Accept yourself: Tell yourself three affirmations that compliment yourself.
3. Connecting with the world around you: Put your phone in your handbag and enjoy the sights and sounds of the world.
4. Seek out small joys: Find three things to make you smile in your day and note them down.
5. Being in the here and now: Take time to enjoy your lunch/a cup of coffee without distracting yourself with other activities.
'It is crucial to realise that moods can be changed through small joys, explains Mogi.
'The fact is once the context is changed, your brain will adapt to that new context and moods can change in a short time.'
Happy searching for your purpose!
What a great track and field site! If you love athletics as much as I do, this site will connect you to articles from what I consider the Golden Age.
I always mention emergency funds at workshops. This is a good article on "how to:"
Unexpected expenses
Did you know that 10% of Americans took a "hardship withdrawal" from their 401k in 2015?
That means they had to withdraw money from their retirement fund, incur a hefty penalty for it, and slow their retirement plans because they didn't have money for emergencies.
Think about that: 10% of Americans had to put off their retirement goals because they did not have an emergency fund. Your 401k and other retirement accounts should be money saved for your financial future — not to be used for unexpected expenses like:
Financial/identity theft
Economy crashes
Let's be honest: You can't always choose whether to dip into things like credit cards or your retirement during emergencies — and that's okay! As the wise proverb goes: Shit happens.
BUT you can anticipate the unexpected by starting an emergency fund today. Doing so will soften the impact of major financial emergencies you may encounter.
Speaking of money, this article sums the basics of finance. There's a lot of truth here.
1. Salary is not the same as savings. Your net worth is more important than how much money you make. It's amazing how many people don't realize this simple truth. Having a high salary does not automatically make you rich; having a low salary does not automatically make you poor. All that matters is how much you save out of your salary.
2. Saving is more important than investing. Pay yourself first is such simple advice, but so few people do this. The best investment decision you can make is setting a high savings rate because it gives you a huge margin of safety in life.
3. Avoid credit card debt like the plague. Carrying credit card debt is a great way to negatively compound your net worth.
4.Live below your means, not within your means. The only way to get ahead financially is to stay behind your own earnings power.
I remember the days and days of workshops being told that students need to dance their math calculations. This is an interesting article about learning styles. I'm still not sure the "best" way to learn, but I know what works for me (repetition):
The results are bad news for advocates of the learning styles concept. Student grade performance was not correlated in any meaningful way with their dominant learning style or with any learning style(s) they scored highly on. Also, while most students (67 per cent) actually failed to study in a way consistent with their supposedly preferred learning style, those who did study in line with their dominant style did not achieve a better grade in their anatomy class than those who didn't.
Instead, there were specific study strategies, such as practising microscope work and using lecture notes, that were associated with better grade performance, regardless of students' learning style. Other activities, such as using flash cards, were associated with poorer performance, perhaps because they were a sign of learning by rote rather than deeper learning.
Husmann and O'Loughlin don't pull any punches in their conclusion. Their findings, they write – especially when considered in the context of past research – "provide strong evidence that instructors and students should not be promoting the concept of learning styles for studying and/or for teaching interventions. Thus, the adage of 'I can't learn subject X because I am a visual learner' should be put to rest once and for all."
This article is a personal issue for me: I hope my guests read this.
Potluck packaging
Do not bring dishes in, for instance, prized Staub cookware. Like cigarette lighters, such things are often mislaid in the boozy melee. It may be weeks before you see your beloved again.
To kids, eating merely interrupts their attempts to destroy your house. Give them (cheap, frozen) pizza and chips. Anything else is a waste. They don't like it? Their parents will have fed them that morning. No one will starve. On no account give them what the adults are eating. There is nothing more demoralising for a host than, amid a tortuous negotiation of wheedling promises and pathetic threats, watching a seven-year-old refuse to eat as its parents let their meal go cold. "But how will they learn to appreciate good food?" asks Concerned Foodie Parent. Simple: do it on your own time.
Guests expect to be fed within two hours of arrival, max. If you work inordinately slowly in the kitchen, factor that in. You have a room full of hangry people next door and they all have knives.
… but not too fast
There are people (OK, men; men of a certain age) who treat the unveiling of a buffet like the race for the last helicopter out of Saigon. Or, at the table, start lobbying for seconds while the host is eating. Cool your jets.
I'm off to Cancun this week. So, I will swap out jackets for thongs, socks for sandals, and parkas for sun block in my bag and head on out.
Until next time, keep on lifting and learning.
DanJohn.net
New on OTPbooks.com: Dan goes back to second grade to expand on the compass that has helped guide him to find balance in his life.. [CONTINUE READING]
TSITS 36
The Joust begins.
"I should not go away," said the wizard, "if I were you. Sir Grummore Grummursum is on the way to challenge you to a joust."
"No, you don't say? Sir What-you-may-call-it coming here to challenge me to a joust?"
"Assuredly."
"Good handicap man?"
"I should think it would be an even match."
"Well, I must say," exclaimed the King, "it never hails but it pours."
"Hail," said Merlyn.
"Hail," said King Pellinore.
"Hail," said the Wart.
"Now I really won't shake hands with anybody else," announced the monarch. "We must assume that we have all met before."
"Is Sir Grummore really coming," inquired the Wart, hastily changing the subject, "to challenge King Pellinore to a battle?"
"Look yonder," said Merlyn, and both of them looked in the direction of his outstretched finger.
Sir Grummore Grummursum was cantering up the clearing in full panoply of war. Instead of his ordinary helmet with a visor he was wearing the proper tilting-helm, which looked like a large coal-scuttle, and as he cantered he clanged.
He was singing his old school song:
"We'll tilt together
Steady from crupper to poll,
And nothin' in life shall sever
Our love for the dear old coll.
Follow-up, follow-up, follow-up, follow-up, follow-up
Till the shield ring again and again
With the clanks of the clanky true men."
"Goodness," exclaimed King Pellinore. "It's about two months since I had a proper tilt, and last winter they put me up to eighteen. That was when they had the new handicaps."
Sir Grummore had arrived while he was speaking, and had recognized the Wart.
"Mornin'," said Sir Grummore. "You're Sir Ector's boy, ain't you? And who's that chap in the comic hat?"
"That is my tutor," said the Wart hurriedly. "Merlyn, the magician."
Sir Grummore looked at Merlyn—magicians were considered rather middle-class by the true jousting set in those days—and said distantly, "Ah, a magician. How-de-do?"
"And this is King Pellinore," said the Wart. "Sir Grummore Grummursum—King Pellinore."
"How-de-do?" inquired Sir Grummore.
"Hail," said King Pellinore. "No, I mean it won't hail, will it?"
"Nice day," said Sir Grummore.
"Yes, it is nice, isn't it, what?"
"Been questin' today?"
"Oh, yes, thank you. Always am questing, you know. After the Questing Beast."
"Interestin' job, that, very."
"Yes, it is interesting. Would you like to see some fewmets?"
"By Jove, yes. Like to see some fewmets."
"I have some better ones at home, but these are quite good, really."
"Bless my soul. So these are her fewmets."
"Yes, these are her fewmets."
"Interestin' fewmets."
"Yes, they are interesting, aren't they? Only you get tired of them," added King Pellinore.
"Well, well. It's a fine day, isn't it?"
"Yes, it is rather fine."
"Suppose we'd better have a joust, eh, what?"
"Yes, I suppose we had better," said King Pellinore, "really."
"What shall we have it for?"
"Oh, the usual thing, I suppose. Would one of you kindly help me on with my helm?"
They all three had to help him on eventually, for, what with the unscrewing of screws and the easing of nuts and bolts which the King had clumsily set on the wrong thread when getting up in a hurry that morning, it was quite a feat of engineering to get him out of his helmet and into his helm. The helm was an enormous thing like an oil drum, padded inside with two thicknesses of leather and three inches of straw.
As soon as they were ready, the two knights stationed themselves at each end of the clearing and then advanced to meet in the middle.
"Fair knight," said King Pellinore, "I pray thee tell me thy name."
"That me regards," replied Sir Grummore, using the proper formula.
"That is uncourteously said," said King Pellinore, "what? For no knight ne dreadeth for to speak his name openly, but for some reason of shame."
"Be that as it may, I choose that thou shalt not know my name as at this time, for no askin'."
"Then you must stay and joust with me, false knight."
"Haven't you got that wrong, Pellinore?" inquired Sir Grummore. "I believe it ought to be 'thou shalt'."
"Oh, I'm sorry, Sir Grummore. Yes, so it should, of course. Then thou shalt stay and joust with me, false knight."
Without further words, the two gentlemen retreated to the opposite ends of the clearing, fewtered their spears, and prepared to hurtle together in the preliminary charge.
"I think we had better climb this tree," said Merlyn. "You never know what will happen in a joust like this."
They climbed up the big beech, which had easy branches sticking out in all directions, and the Wart stationed himself toward the end of a smooth bough about fifteen feet up, where he could get a good view. Nothing is so comfortable to sit in as a beech.
To be able to picture the terrible battle which now took place, there is one thing which ought to be known. A knight in his full armour of those days, or at any rate during the heaviest days of armour, was generally carrying as much or more than his own weight in metal. He often weighed no less than twenty-two stone, and sometimes as much as twenty-five. This meant that his horse had to be a slow and enormous weight-carrier, like the farm horse of today, and that his own movements were so hampered by his burden of iron and padding that they were toned down into slow motion, as on the cinema.
"They're off!" cried the Wart, holding his breath with excitement.
Slowly and majestically, the ponderous horses lumbered into a walk. The spears, which had been pointing in the air, bowed to a horizontal line and pointed at each other. King Pellinore and Sir Grummore could be seen to be thumping their horses' sides with their heels for all they were worth, and in a few minutes the splendid animals had shambled into an earth-shaking imitation of a trot. Clank, rumble, thump-thump went the horses, and now the two knights were flapping their elbows and legs in unison, showing a good deal of daylight at their seats. There was a change in tempo, and Sir Grummore's horse could be definitely seen to be cantering. In another minute King Pellinore's was doing so too. It was a terrible spectacle.
"Oh, dear!" exclaimed the Wart, feeling ashamed that his blood-thirstiness had been responsible for making these two knights joust before him. "Do you think they will kill each other?"
"Dangerous sport," said Merlyn, shaking his head.
"Now!" cried the Wart.
With a blood-curdling beat of iron hoofs the mighty equestrians came together. Their spears wavered for a moment within a few inches of each other's helms—each had chosen the difficult point-stroke—and then they were galloping off in opposite directions. Sir Grummore drove his spear deep into the beech tree where they were sitting, and stopped dead. King Pellinore, who had been run away with, vanished altogether behind his back.
"Is it safe to look?" inquired the Wart, who had shut his eyes at the critical moment.
"Quite safe," said Merlyn. "It will take them some time to get back in position."
This section is considered the funniest of White's writing by many and I can see the truth in that. This is a feast of British humor; Monty Python, Benny Hill and Mr. Bean would all applaud the spoofing here.
White's anti-war sentiments will certainly become more clear in The Book of Merlyn. As he writes this, Hitler is stirring up the European War and the world limps closer to World War II. The slaughter and waste of WWI still linger over England.
White's royalty reflects the incompetence of the European leadership during The War to End All Wars and he is seeing the same drumbeats as England is dipping its spear towards another war.
It's a funny section, yes, but it has never been my favorite. Let's continue to push on.
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The popularity of tattoos and piercings has boomed in the past 10 years, but even those with body art have their limits when it comes to what's appropriate in the working world.
Bias against people with tattoos and piercings in the office is often assumed, but mostly based on hearsay and anecdotal evidence.
Brian Miller, an assistant professor of management at Texas State, said he and his colleagues have done "a sound, scientifically tested study" that proves the stigma is still there despite the growing popularity of body art.
The 2008 study surveyed 18- to 24-year-olds and found that they would rather not work with someone who has visible body art in situations where face-to-face contact with customers is necessary, or sales commissions are shared.
"They don't want their pocketbook to be affected by someone else's negative appearance," Miller said.
A college professor for nine years, Miller has seen an increasing number of students with body art. The 18-to-24 age group has the largest amount of body art, with 16 percent having both tattoos and piercings.
One of the more interesting results found in the Texas State study was that even respondents with body art of their own were critical of co-workers with visible tattoos and piercings.
Kyle Weir invested nine years in the tattoos that cover his entire back, but with a suit and tie on, his clients and co-workers would never know. He has another tattoo on his upper arm and plans for half-sleeves - tattoos that span from the upper part of the shoulder down to the elbow - but this 31-year-old professional licensed engineer would never get tattoos on his ankles, neck or face because "they're not appropriate in the work setting."
Weir said he finds visible tattoos distracting.
Vanessa Leonetti, an office worker, said she would have to give someone with visible tattoos kudos because it is a lot harder to get into a professional atmosphere with anything highly visible or hard to cover.
Leonetti, 20, works as a department assistant in the corporate office of a health fitness biometric screening company. Some of her 11 tattoos are visible, but the majority are concealable. She knows her co-workers, who are typically older than her, don't understand her love of tattoos. Her company has a policy that does not allow facial tattoos or piercings at any time for employees that work face-to-face with clients.
"I can understand the policy, but I don't necessarily agree," Leonetti said.
The Texas State study proposed a ficticious work scenario that paired the respondent with a very high-achieving woman with a 3.8 GPA who has all of the characteristics of a perfect co-worker. The catch being she has a 3-inch-by-5-inch tattoo on the cheek and neck and a piercing in her eyebrow.
Leonetti said she would base her opinion about a colleague like the one in the study by how that person works.
"If anything I think their appearance would make them work harder, and I'd definitely want to work with that person," Leonetti said. "If they've gotten that far, then they've got something going for them."
But Leonetti may be idealistic.
"Facial tattoos will always get more negative reactions," Shaun Brown, 41, said. A tattoo artist since 1996, Brown said that tattoos on your face, neck or hands will hurt your career options more than any other. If someone walks into his tattoo shop and wants a tattoo on their face or neck he might say that it's "not such a great idea."
"But if you tell me that's what you want, I'll do it."
Amanda Kluszczynski, a sophomore at Loyola College, is glad the artist who did her first tattoo advised against getting a star on her hand like she had intended. Now three tattoos later with plans for more - she said, "Concealability is something that I definitely look for when I get tattoos."
In addition to her tattoos, Kluszczynski, 20, has her lip and nose pierced as well as three piercings in each ear. Eventually, she wants to become a college professor. She knows, and accepts, that she will probably have to take her facial piercings out when she becomes a professional.
"If you're teaching college-age students, I doubt they'd want you to have your lip pierced," Kluszczynski said.
And in regards to future colleagues, Kluszczynski said she would feel like a hypocrite for refusing to work with someone who has body art. But, she draws the line at surface piercings - piercings usually on flat areas of skin like the nape of the neck, the wrist or the sternum.
Although surface piercings are still considered a notch or two beyond extreme, hand, neck and facial tattoos have dropped a few closer to mainstream in recent years. Brown said neck and facial tattoos used to be something reserved for only the extreme but now people get them as their first tattoos. It's a trend that is strange to him because "it's like people trying to buy coolness or 'street cred' without having earned it."
Brown got his first tattoo in 1985 when, he said, tattooing was "more like an underground craft." As an 18-year-old punk rocker, Brown's main ambition was to do whatever he could to get as far away from society as he could. And the tattoo of a heart with banners proclaiming "Never Go Back" said it all.
"Back in the '80s people got tattoos, but it was really only reserved for more of, like, your degenerate element," Brown said. "One of those things that was viewed by society really super negatively. It's a little more accepted now."
Now, Brown said, tattooing is just a big business. He has seen a lot of people between the ages of 40 and 50 that wanted to get tattooed in their younger days but were afraid of the social stigma. Now they're trying to recapture the feeling of youth by getting a tattoo. In Brown's opinion, those people "should have just manned up and gotten it done."
Only 1 percent of Americans had a tattoo 30 years ago, but today almost one quarter of the population has had ink done. And although body art has become almost trendy, workplace prejudice against people with visible tattoos and facial piercings is still the norm.
Brown said he definitely had a hard time finding jobs in retail or offices and even mailrooms back in the late '80s. Even just walking around, people would ask him, he said, "Yo, did you just get out of the joint?"
Today, people are less likely to assume that tattoos come with a criminal record.
Although getting a job despite your body art is easier, Texas State's Miller can't help but think that his tattooed students "shot themselves in the foot."
"They didn't even get to draw their gun and they've ruined their chances for future careers," Miller said.
But younger adults, like Weir, believe the tides are turning toward more acceptance of body art in the working world as the younger generation replaces the old.
"There will always be a stigma with hand, neck and face tattoos," Weir said. "I personally think no one should ever have them. There is still a need to be professional and I don't think visible tattoos on those three areas are a professional look."


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The Seneca Niagara Events Center was the place to be Friday evening as The Symphonic Rock show came to town. It featured a full orchestra flanked by a guitarist, bassist, keyboardist and drummer. There was plenty of vocal star power on hand. The show featured the original singer of Foreigner Lou Gramm, Starship's Mickey Thomas, Terri Nunn from Berlin and Robin McAuley who sang with McAuley-Schenker and for a brief time Survivor.
Berlin's Terri Nunn was up next as she sang a trio of songs including the number one smash "Take My Breath Away". This marked the first time Nunn has sung in front of the orchestra and she was very honored and excited.
Following a brief intermission, Mickey Thomas came right out of the gate with "Find Your Way Back". Thomas is a marvel at 67 years old, his voice as solid and strong as it was back when "Jane" first came roaring from the speakers in 1979. Thomas followed with Starship's three number one hits "Sara", Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" and the much maligned "We Built This City". How "We Built This City" is considered one of the worst songs of all-time is beyond me. The accompanying video may be cheesy but not the song itself. It always receives a good ovation in concert as it did on this particular night.
Up next was Lou Gramm the original voice of Foreigner. Gramm started off with "Feels Like The First Time", a song that was no stranger to opening Foreigner shows when he was in the band. "Cold As Ice" was probably the highlight of Gramm's set because of how well he sounded on it. His set concluded with the typical "I Want To Know What Love Is" and rocker "Juke Box Hero".
Nunn, McAuley and Thomas came out together to perform Journey's "Don't Stop Believing". Lou Gramm returned immediately after and everyone ended the night by singing Foreigner's "Hot Blooded".
Anyone looking for rare songs or B-sides went home disappointed. While many fans have heard the majority of these songs a thousand times or more, having the orchestra, added a different dimension which seemed to give the songs more power and made more robust. A very enjoyable experience for many. I hope Seneca Niagara can bring a similar show in the future.


Heavy Eyes is a Brooklyn based visual display and object design studio. Founded by Matt Cavanaugh and Kathleen Scudder in 2016, Heavy Eyes specializes in the creation of bespoke windows, custom sculptures, spatial installations, toy and product design.
We offer services across a wide range of mediums: Art Direction, Concept + Design, Prototyping, Technical Drawings, Project Management, Research + Sourcing, Fabrication and Installation.
Our work emphasizes simple production methods, often using a single fabrication process. We value thoughtful designs based on ideas refined over and over again. We aim to source locally and ethically. Each piece is assembled by hand in our studio. We welcome collaborations of all kinds.
Trained as an architect, Matt graduated with a BFA in Architecture from UT Knoxville in 2006. His interest in product design drove him to get his MFA in Industrial Design at Pratt Institute in 2014. He has worked in the New York window display and fabrication industry for over 7 years.
She has worked in the design industry in New York for over 7 years. Trained as a graphic designer, Kathleen graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design from SCAD in 2010. She now applies her skills in design and illustration to the creation of beautiful concepts for visual displays and unusual product designs.


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Crimson Hill
DEVELOPER: Defence Housing Australia
CATEGORY: Masterplanned Communities
CERTIFICATION: Ecosystems, Waste, Energy, Materials, Water, Community
Crimson Hill is a new masterplanned community developed by Defence Housing Australia (DHA) situated 14 kilometres north of Sydney in the suburb of Lindfield. The 11.35 hectare site is surrounded to the east and west by the Lane Cove National Park and to the north by low density residential properties. The development will be a mix of residential homes, contemporary apartments and some open land lots, all designed with a unique focus on environmental sustainability, embracing the surrounding bushland and its benefit to the occupants.
Crimson Hill is uniquely positioned around the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) Ku-ring-gai campus, addressing the heritage significance of the campus and the way in which buildings are to be integrated with surrounding bushland. With a clear project vision of maintaining the integrity of the existing architecture, natural landform, indigenous plants and rock outcrops, the design has built upon the original design vision for the site, keeping with the principle of a compact arrangement of buildings that sits amongst the natural bushland.
Category: Defence Housing Australia
Wirraway
Defence Housing Australia
Warner Lakes – The Reserve
Defence Housing Australia/ Peet Limited
Bayriver
Bluewattle
Breezes Muirhead
Defence Housing Australia/ Investa Land

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This is the restaurant from the street. The entry to the hotel is hidden, very discreet… a real treasure in St Rémy's old town.
Bonus, you have a mirror/tv on the wall!
Floor to ceiling marble bathroom with l'Occitane products. Cute door details.
Traditional French breakfast at the hotel's restaurant.
The original building was completely renovated before the hotel. The historic bones make this place feel really special.
This mix of materials is quite impressive throughout the hotel. Old meets new.
View of St Rémy de Provence from the terrace.
Room number 6, which is a standard room, but does this look standard?
Uncompromising quality level. From service to furniture to food.
The location, Saint Rémy de Provence is one of the most beautiful village in the region.
The architectural and design level of this hotel is just incredible.
The restaurant and food. Definitely a high.
The warm welcome from the staff.
A little bit pricey, which can be a low because as soon as you step inside, you want to spend the entire month there.
The one and only hotel in the old town of St Rémy de Provence. The hotel is actually an old private mansion from the 17th Century that the owners re-designed entirely in a contemporary way.
Pool with counter-current system to replace the gym.
Incredible food. The chef (Benoit Fauci) works with local produce from the market. An elegant and sophisticated version of Mediterranean and French fare.
Aside from the restaurant's bar that has a great selection of alcohol and wines (and juices of course), they have a wine bar next to the restaurant that carries around 350 bottles including very rare ones. It's no surprise for the owner himself to be there talking about fine wines.
Nice selection, you have the best of everything.
Hit the market, have a drink on terrace in the streets of the village.
Bring a good book or just enjoy good company.
And have a glass of wine for sunset on the rooftop.
Dress up. Or dress down.


Help plan our "Big" 2009 Vacation.
Are you into hiking or driving to a scenic spot? So much to see in the pacific northwest. Is Washington State farther west than your thinking of traveling?
I live in Illinois about 40 miles north of St. Louis. If you get this way there is a Classic Car place off of Interstate 55 at the 41 mile marker that's worth seeing. There are some really nice cars there. Doesn't look like much from the outside. Not much else this way to see though. I wouldn't drive too far out of my way.
Don't like the turd brown color or that font! Might just be my eyes?
if you were gonna come west from OKC, I highly recomend taking 40 to Gallup NMexico, and head up into Utah to Moab, some really beautiful country there.
One could go north through to Cheyenne, then on north to I-90 and head back east.
If you stretch it to the PNW, ie Boise, there's some beautiful country here too, but your gonna have alot of windshield time. OKC is 24 hours windshield time from here, and thats on the route through Utah to Gallup and across 40.
make your way to Boise, see your cousin, then head north up Highway 95, and make a detour to ride the big tour boat Hells Canyon Adventures runs through the Canyon. Ride through the biggest navigable rapids in the deepest Gorge in North America.
sunsets to die for..... spectacular nite skies beautiful day time vistas friendly people lots of green chile.
Ive drove by this place a few times. Never stopped but I wanted to. If the inside is even better than the outside then they have quite a few classics. I saw a bunch outside I would like to have.
And it's not far from Boise at all! Hmmmm!
I would recommend the Wind River Range in Wyoming. It's by far my favorite place to visit in the area. You could lose yourself for a good long time there.
Oh, and the font works fine.
This is some interesting information. Thanks.
Yes, it is misspatty, and it just occurred to me that, even if we can't use all of it, why don't we all post a vacation destination (I prefer the driving kind) that we have either seen first-hand or have direct knowledge about.
Then whenever someone needs to find out about a possible place to go, someone may have already posted something here and he/she can get more info if they really plan to go.
I hit a bunch of Route 66 all over Arizona. From the exploited site seeing route 66 to the old town, ran down pot holed route 66. Route 66 is just plain cool, no matter where you see it. I can't imagine it being any different in other states. Salt Lake City is cool. The Salt Flats will amaze you to see them. Bonneville's a dive, but if you watch something like "The World's Fastest Indian" movie or some shows on the Salt Flats it makes them a lot more interesting.
Going by motorhome, trailer or car and motel?
Just you and the wife? Kids? Pets?
if he gets that far south,[west] Big Bend National Forest is a must see. don't go in the summer though. I've been twice & it's even better now with new roads open.


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Scientists describe the role of a p53 target gene in lymphoma and lung cancer development
by Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona
Credit: Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona
A new study from the UPF and WEHI (the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) in Melbourne, Australia, has described the role of p53 target gene Zmat3 in lymphoma and lung cancer development. The study, conducted in pre-clinical mice models, has been led by Ana Janic, laboratory head of the Cancer Biology group at UPF and Kate Sutherland, laboratory head in the Cancer Biology and Stem Cells Division at WEHI. The findings have been published in the journal Cell Death & Disease.
The gene p53 is known as the 'guardian of the genome' due to its role in protecting cells from cancer by repairing DNA or by killing cells if they have irreparable damage. More than half the cancers in the world involve mutations in the p53 gene, but how it performs its role remains poorly understood. Importantly, p53 works in combination with other genes, and thus the characterisation of its target genes is essential to contribute to the cancer battle.
Zmat3, one of the p53 target genes, was identified more than 10 years ago and it has been shown to be altered in human cancers. The purpose of this research was to examine whether this protein could have critical functions that p53 uses to prevent cancer. To answer this question, the researchers eliminated Zmat3 to disable the p53-Zmat3 pathway in pre-clinical mice models of lymphomas and lung cancer in which p53 is known to have critical function.
Ana Janic explains that, to their surprise, "we found that removing ZMAT3 had little impact on the tumor development or severity of malignant disease. Our findings have shifted the focus of how Zmat3 could function in tumor development." She adds that "it is likely that at least in some types of blood and lung cancers, it is not Zmat3 protein alone but several proteins that work together to prevent cancer formation." Further research to identify these proteins and how their functions are integrated will be an important step towards understanding the tumor-suppressing function of p53. "Ultimately, this knowledge will have therapeutic impact on the identification of novel strategies to restore p53 function in tumors," Janic concludes.
Animation reveals secrets of critical tumour protein
More information: Sarah A. Best et al, Consequences of Zmat3 loss in c-MYC- and mutant KRAS-driven tumorigenesis, Cell Death & Disease (2020). DOI: 10.1038/s41419-020-03066-9
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Citation: Scientists describe the role of a p53 target gene in lymphoma and lung cancer development (2020, November 30) retrieved 18 January 2021 from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-11-scientists-role-p53-gene-lymphoma.html
Key cancer-fighting gene's secret weapons revealed
New therapeutic target identified for rare virus-associated lymphomas
Two genes slow down the development of intestinal tumors
New front opened in fight against common cancer driver
Research uncovers clues in use of immunotherapy for breast cancer
Coercive collection of DNA is unethical and damaging to the future of medical research


Euro Penalty Euro Penalty is the best mobile game.Compete in the Europe Championship and get the chance to lift the trophy in this soccer game "Euro Penalty"! After you've chosen your favourite team, the game can begin! Aim at an emrty part of the net and kick with maximum power.Have much fun and good luck.


The force sensors are the sensors that are used to measure the force between the two surfaces. These sensors are majorly used for converting the applied pressure into the equivalent value of electric current. Force sensors can be easily integrated into force measurement application as it is ultra-thin sensors. Force sensors are known to be force sensing sensor, when the external pressure, force or mechanical stress is applied the resistance fluctuates. The force sensors are extensively used in many applications across various industries including Medical and Pharmaceutical, robotics, manufacturing, automotive and many others. The force sensors are used in various industrial applications particularly in the process industries and manufacturing industries. It is utilized in traffic engineering such as process monitoring, medical science, rail monitoring, process control, and biomechanics and also used for testing purposes.
Increasing adoption and application of force sensors in the construction, industrial and manufacturing are the factors boosting the growth of the force sensor market. Additionally, rising demand for force sensors in the medical and robotics sensors is the factor flourishing the market growth. Furthermore, low manufacturing cost, high reliability, and accuracy are the factors driving the market during the forecast period. Moreover, the factor curbing the market growth is due to rigid in construction. However, ongoing development and innovation in the sensor technology are the opportunity to fuel the market growth during the forecast period.
Force Sensor market is segmented into types such as tension force, compression force, and both. In this market tension force and compression force are expected to hold the largest market share during the forecast period. Transducers are present in this sensor to measure tension and compression forces. Furthermore, if the application is to measure small forces they are used in the miniature design. These are mainly three types - load cells with internal or external threads, flat-sized force transducers, and S-type force sensors. Typical applications for these sensor types are for material testing machines, rope or elastic force measurement, and others.
The market research study on "Force Sensor Market (Type: Tension Force, Compression Force, Both; End-Use Industry: Oil & Gas, Automotive, Medical, Industrial, Aerospace & Defense) - Global Industry Analysis, Market Size, Opportunities and Forecast, 2018 - 2026", offers a detailed insights on the global force sensor market entailing insights on its different market segments. Market dynamics with drivers, restraints and opportunities with their impact are provided in the report. Information about porter's five forces analysis is also covered under the report scope. The report provides insights on global force senor market, its type, application, and major geographic regions. The report covers basic development policies and layouts of technology development processes. Secondly, the report covers global force sensor market size and volume, and segment markets by type, application, and geography along with the information on companies operating in the market. The force sensor market analysis is provided for major regional markets including North America, Europe, China, Southeast Asia, Japan and India followed by major countries. For each region, the market size and volume for different segments has been covered under the scope of report. Asia Pacific is projected to dominate the global force sensor market, held largest share in the region. China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, India are the leading countries in this region this is due to rapid development in the manufacturing and industrial sector. Furthermore, the US and Canada are leading countries in North America which is expected to have an extensive growth region. However, the rapid growth in manufacturing infrastructure in the region is expected to spur the force sensor over the upcoming period. The players profiled in the report include Kistler Group, Dytran Instruments, Inc., Flintec Group AB, HITEC Sensor Developments, Inc., FUTEK Advanced Sensor Technology, Inc., Honeywell International Inc., Tekscan, Inc., Sherborne Sensors Ltd., TE Connectivity Ltd., Lorenz Messtechnik GmbH, ME-Meßsysteme GmbH, and among others.


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title: Install Protractor
tags: nodejs, protractor
category: blog
permalink: /blog/protractor/
author: sachin
comments: true
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Protractor is an unittest framework for
[AngularJS](http://angularjs.org/) applications. It is based on
[Node.js](http://nodejs.org/). To install Protractor, you need to
install Node.js

#### To install Node.js
1. Download source code of Node.js from
   [nodejs.org](http://nodejs.org/download/). Debian/Ubuntu user may
   use `apt-get` to install Node.js.
2. Untar using `tar -xvzf node-xxx.tar.gz`
3. Configure, compile, and install using

```sh
cd node
./configure
make
sudo make install
```

4. `npm` is a package-manager for Node.js. It should installed with
   Node.js

#### Now install Protractor using
1. `sudo npm install -g protractor`. `-g` will install protractor
   globally
2. This will also install `webdriver-manager`. Update
   webdriver-manager using: `webdriver-manager update`

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The Need for a Preemptive Prohibition on Fully Autonomous Weapons (Goose)
In short by Gertrud Maria Vaske
The future of warfare will be increasingly determined by ever more autonomous weapons systems. But these weapons cross a fundamental moral line. From now on, life-or-death decisions on the battlefield will be delegated to machines. According to Stephen Goose, this is tantamount to an attack on human dignity.
In his essay, the author asks whether it is actually possible to respect the principles of international humanitarian law (IHL) while using fully autonomous weapons. Fully autonomous weapons are able to select and engage targets without any further human intervention. The decision to act is taken by the fully autonomous weapons system itself, without a human operator. But can a machine make ethical decisions?
Other concerns relate to the technology and the proliferation of such weapons systems. This also poses risks for civilians and soldiers. Goose calls for a ban on these fully autonomous weapons. He sees the principle of human control over the final decision as being a central argument against their use, since otherwise there is a danger of war becoming de-moralized.
Stephen Goose supports his theory by pointing out that non-governmental organizations and even governments are now calling for national moratoria on fully autonomous weapons systems.


TiGenix [Belgium] is a biomedical company that focuses on innovative treatments for damaged and osteoarthritic joints. TiGenix is developing a portfolio of products that address specific musculoskeletal problems. The lead indication among these is cartilage damage, which is a debilitating affliction affecting the mobility and functioning of patients. The company had a successful introduction on Euronext Brussels in March 2007.
BioAlliance Pharma [France] is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and marketing of innovative therapeutics targeting drug resistance in cancer, HIV, and opportunistic infections. Bioalliance is listed on Euronext since December 2005.
Ortec International [The Netherlands] develops and commercialises advanced decision support systems based on operations research and management science technology. It has blue chip clients in the manufacturing, banking, insurance and transportation industries.
EcoPhos [Belgium], is a company focused on Phosphate technology. EcoPhos develops unique Phosphate production processes. The work of EcoPhos has essentially developed along two principal axes: the search for a cost effective and low waste process to produce Phosphoric Acid and Phosphate salts, starting from low cost Phosphate Rock and the search for a cost-effective purification of wet process Phosphoric Acid to produce Phosphoric Acid of high quality.
Amplexor [Belgium] means Pure Content Management. The sheer volume and continuing rapid growth of online and offline content within companies create tremendous challenges. Amplexor helps companies build solutions to manage this information overload and make sure the right information is delivered on the right time to the right person, be it a client, employee or supplier.
boondoggle [Belgium] (formerly i-merge) assists its corporate clients to build brand equity through the use of the entire palette of online technologies available today, including messaging, email, CRM, content management, interactive TV, etc.
Devgen [Belgium] is a biotech company with agricultural business units developing and commercializing a novel generation of products to protect a wide spectrum of crops from damage incurred from pests; biotech traits and germplasm to meet the growing needs for high yielding, high quality hybrid rice and selected small grains and agro-chemical products.


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GP South Temple Belles sing at December 10 meeting under the direction of Christopher Pratt
Men's Club Luncheon Speaker: Mark Heppner, President and CEO of Eleanor and Edsel Ford House
Ken Mokray and Mark Heppner
Our luncheon speaker on November 26th was Mark Heppner, the President an CEO of the Ford House. Mark had previously served as vice president of historic resources and most recently, interim chief of operations over both Ford House and Fair Lane. With nearly 30 years of experience in museums and historic sites, Mark had served historic properties in Ohio and Iowa before moving to Michigan. A native of Ohio, he earned a B.A. studying history at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and an M.A. in American history from Cleveland State University,


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Letcher man writes about draft, boot camp
Marine Corps Draftee is the book (above left) written by Eddie Nickels of Mayking (above right).
Although Eddie Nickels didn't see combat action while serving his country during the Vietnam War, that doesn't mean his tour of duty was without sacrifice.
Like thousands of other soldiers who were drafted into the armed forces during that era, Nickels, a Marine from Whitesburg, was able to remain stateside. But staying in the U.S. did not mean he was living the good life.
In his new book Marine Corps Draftee, Nickels writes that he had received orders to go to Vietnam in October 1966, but because his supply unit at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina where Nickels was a fiscal requisition clerk, was so short-handed his lieutenant asked this his orders be postponed or cancelled. Although he and his wife Wanda, whom he had met at Whitesburg High School, were able to live near the Atlantic Ocean with their new son Steven, they had to do so on his lance corporal's salary of $62.40 every two weeks — a paltry sum when you consider the couple's monthly rent was $80.
Mrs. Nickels took a job at a Rose's Department Store in Jacksonville, N.C., to try to make ends meet, but had to quit the job because they couldn't afford a car and the woman she had been riding to work with got a job elsewhere.
" The whole reason I wrote the book was to show how hard it was when we were drafted back then," said Nickels. "I knew I had an obligation to serve, but I didn't know how rough it would get. It got to the point we were counting nickels."
The 316-page book written by Nickels is a large-format paperback and lists for $15. It is available at John B. Adams Store at Isom and at Amazon.com. The book offers an honest look at what it was like to be a draftee from Letcher County, and retraces the steps taken by hundreds of local soldiers from the time they registered for the draft in the basement of the old Whitesburg Post Office to their first bus ride back home as a soldier.
Nickels originally signed up for and was accepted into the Air Force while a student at Whitesburg High. In the meantime, he was drafted and chose to join the Marines so he could complete his duty in two years as a draftee instead of four years as a volunteer.
Much of the book deals with the struggles Nickels and his fellow draftees encountered during 13- 1/2 weeks of boot camp at Parris Island, the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in South Carolina.
"Boot camp was tougher than I ever thought it would be," Nickels said, adding that he weighed only 135 pounds while standing six-feet and one inch at the time. "Unless you've been through it you couldn't imagine."
Before Nickels was drafted, he worked the old Hilltop Grocery near the entrance to the Whitesburg hospital, where owner J. Don Collins paid him 80 cents an hour for 74 hours a week.
"I thought I was making big money," Nickels remembers.
After he came out of the Marines at age 21, Nickels took a job as a salesman at the old Lewis Wholesale Company in Whitesburg, a position he kept until the opportunity for a much larger paycheck lured him into the coal mines, where he was a shuttle car operator.
Nickels was employed at Scotia Coal Company at Oven Fork at the time two coal dust-fueled methane explosions killed 26 miners and mine inspectors in March 1976. After leaving Scotia after 11 years of working there, he took a job as an insurance agent at Monumental Life in Whitesburg, where he remained for 17 years before retiring in 2005.
Nickels credits his Ma- rine Corps training for giving him the confidence to work in the coalmines, as a salesman and as an author.
"I'm thankful for what I learned while I was in the Marine Corps," he said. "For what success I've had, I owe it to my parents and the Marine Corps.
"It taught me integrity, honesty, confi- dence and to show up to work on days when I don't feel like it. It teaches you not to give up, and that anything worth having is worth working for."
Nickels said one of the reasons he wrote the book, which he had planning to do for some time, was to remind people about how life in the military was during the days of the draft, which ended in 1973.
Nickels said he first decided to write a book about his thoughts and experiences while still going through the rigors of boot camp 47 years ago.
"I said at that time, 'I'm going to write and tell people how I feel,'" he said. "It took five and a half months to write, but it's been in my mind for 47 years."
Nickels is happy he got the book written in the lead up to the anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin incident that occurred on August 2 and 4 in 1964 and led to the U.S. becoming fully involved in the war effort after the North Vietnamese attacked two U.S. destroyers sitting in international waters.
"Little did I know that night of August 4, 1964, while my family was watching President Johnson on TV as he made his speech [about the Gulf of Tonkin incident] that just 18 months later I would be one of those draftees that made up the Marine Corps total of 42,633 draftees of the Vietnam War Era," Nickels writes in the book.
Nickels and his wife had two more children, daughter Alisha, who was born in 1969, and son Jeffrey, who was born in 1972. The couple, who now live at Mayking, have eight grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren.
Nickels says one other result of his time in the Marine Corps is his vegetarianism, which he has also practiced for 47 years.
"I vowed that if I got out of the military I would never eat another piece of meat for as long as live," Nickels said. "You see what an influence it's had on my life."


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Q: TLE issue in java Given an array A of N positive numbers. The task is to find the position where equilibrium first occurs in the array. Equilibrium position in an array is a position such that the sum of elements below it is equal to the sum of elements after it.
Input:
The first line of input contains an integer T, denoting the number of test cases. Then T test cases follow. First line of each test case contains an integer N denoting the size of the array. Then in the next line are N space separated values of the array A.
Output:
For each test case in a new  line print the position at which the elements are at equilibrium if no equilibrium point exists print -1.
static int output[];
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
{
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
    int t = Integer.parseInt(br.readLine());
    output = new int[t];
    for(int testcase = 0 ; testcase<t ; testcase++)
    {
        //output[testcase]=new StringBuffer();
        int size = Integer.parseInt(br.readLine());
        String input = br.readLine();
        String[] arr = input.split(" ");
        int[] intArr = new int[arr.length];
        for(int i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
            intArr[i] = Integer.parseInt(arr[i]);
        }
        output[testcase] = getEquilibrium(intArr);
    }
    for(int j = 0 ; j<t ; j++)
    {
        System.out.println(output[j]);
    }
}
static int getEquilibrium(int array[] )
{
    for(int i = 0 ; i < array.length ; i++)
    {
        int a = 0,b = 0;
        for(int j = i-1 ; j >= 0 ; j--)
        {
            a +=array[j];
        }
        for(int k = i+1 ; k < array.length ; k++ )
        {
            b +=array[k];
        }
        if(a == b)
            return ++i;
    }
    return -1;
}

A: Your code has two for loops which makes the complexity as O(n^2). The constraints might be up to 10^9 (question lacks constraints) and so you are getting TLE.
Anyway, the solution was not correct as the logic used fails at many conditions.
Efficient approach - O(n)
my code link: https://paste.ee/p/2nDJ3
Please comment down if you find any issues.
Hope so this helps :)

A: Try this approach for O(n)
public static void main(String[] args) {

    Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);

    int T = input.nextInt();

    for (int t = 0; t < T; t++) {

        int N = input.nextInt();
        int[] A = new int[N];

        for (int n = 0; n < N; n++) {
            A[n] = input.nextInt();
        }

        if (N < 3) {
            System.out.println("-1");
        } else if (N == 3) {

            if (A[0] == A[2]) {
                System.out.println("1");
            } else {
                System.out.println("-1");
            }

        } else {
            System.out.println(getEquilibiriumPosition(A));
        }

    }
}

private static int getEquilibiriumPosition(int[] A) {

    int startPos = 0;
    int equilibriumPos = A.length - A.length / 2;
    int endPos = A.length - 1;

    int leftSum = A[startPos];
    int rightSum = A[endPos];

    for (int i = startPos + 1; i < equilibriumPos; i++) {
        leftSum += A[i];
    }

    for (int i = endPos - 1; i > equilibriumPos; i--) {
        rightSum += A[i];
    }

    if (leftSum > rightSum) {
        while (equilibriumPos != startPos) {
            if (leftSum == rightSum) {
                return equilibriumPos;
            }
            rightSum += A[equilibriumPos];
            equilibriumPos--;
            leftSum -= A[equilibriumPos];
        }
    } else if (leftSum < rightSum) {
        while (equilibriumPos != endPos) {
            if (leftSum == rightSum) {
                return equilibriumPos;
            }
            leftSum += A[equilibriumPos];
            equilibriumPos++;
            rightSum -= A[equilibriumPos];
        }
    } else {
        return equilibriumPos;
    }

    return -1;
}

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Monika's Pensieve
'What is it?' Harry asked shakily. 'This? It is called a Pensieve,' said Dumbledore. 'I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.' 'Er,' said Harry, who couldn't truthfully say that he had ever felt anything of the sort.
FILM SPOTTING: March 2011 in Polish cinemas
Sunday, 27 February 2011, 23:50 | Category : Hollywood & the American film industry, In Cinemas This Month, Loaves, Other European film industries, The British film industry, The French film industry
Tags : Abigail Breslin, Amy Adams, Andrew Garfield, Ashton Kutcher, Bill Nighy, Carey Mulligan, Christian Bale, David O. Russell, Emily Blunt, France, Freida Pinto, George Nolfi, Gore Verbinski, How Do You Know, Isla Fisher, Italy, Ivan Reitman, Johnny Depp, Maria Schneider, Mark Wahlberg, Marlon Brando, Matt Damon, Melissa Leo, Natalie Portman, Never Let Me Go, Paul Rudd, Periferic, Poland, Rango, Romania, Rutger Hauer, Spain, Sucker Punch, Sweden, The Adjustment Bureau, The Fighter, The Mill and the Cross, UK, USA, Woody Allen, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
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The Adjustment Bureau (USA, 2011)
Release Date (Poland): 4th March 2011
Release Date (worldwide): 4th March 2011
Director: George Nolfi
Cast: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt
Plot: (from IMDb)
The affair between a politician and a ballerina is affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart.
General Feelings
I really like the bits between Matt Damon and Emily Blunt on the trailer. [...]
Best Kiss (aka a list of my favourite kissing scenes)
Sunday, 16 January 2011, 16:30 | Category : Bollywood & the Indian film industry, Film Lists, Hollywood & the American film industry, J-drama & the Japanese film industry, Loaves, Other European film industries, The British film industry, The French film industry
Tags : Abhishek Bachchan, Alan Rickman, Amitabh Bachchan, Avatar, Belgium, Black, Blade Runner, Brendan Fraser, Bridget Jones's Diary, Closet Land, Colin Firth, Daniel Radcliffe, David Thewlis, Dil Se, Dostana, Emma Watson, France, Hana yori dango, Hana zakari no kimi tachi e, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I, Hey Ram, India, Inoue Mao, Ireland, Japan, Joe Turkel, John Abraham, Kamal Hassan, Kate Fleetwood, Kimi Wa Petto, Kirsten Dunst, Koyuki, Kristen Stewart, Leonardo DiCaprio, Madeleine Stowe, Manisha Koirala, Matsumoto Jun, Monkeybone, Oguri Shun, Rani Mukherji, Renée Zellweger, Robert Pattinson, Rupert Grint, Rutger Hauer, Sam Worthington, Shahrukh Khan, Spiderman, Taylor Lautner, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Tobey Maguire, Total Eclipse, Twilight, UK, USA, Zoe Saldana
I've been looking through lots of best kiss movie lists and once again have come to the conclusion that there is something wrong with me :] I think I'm even more out of touch with other human beings in my kissing scene preferences than in nude scene preferences…
The Criteria:
Two or more beings of some sort [...]
FILM SPOTTING: January 2011 in Polish cinemas
Wednesday, 29 December 2010, 23:02 | Category : Hollywood & the American film industry, In Cinemas This Month, Loaves, Other European film industries, Other film industries, The British film industry, The Canadian film industry, The French film industry, The German film industry
Tags : Ajami, Austria, Barbara Hershey, Bi dung so, Black Swan, Canada, Colin Firth, Darren Aronofsky, David Wants to Fly, Derek Jacobi, Des hommes et des dieux, En ganske snill mann, France, Geoffrey Rush, Germany, Guy Pearce, Helena Bonham-Carter, Incendies, Israel, J'ai tué ma m?re, Jennifer Ehle, Mexico, Michael Gambon, Mila Kunis, Natalie Portman, Norway, Solo quiero caminar, Spain, Switzerland, Tamara Drewe, The Green Hornet, The King's Speech, The Tourist, Timothy Spall, Tom Hooper, trailer, UK, USA, Vietnam, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder, Xavier Dolan
As usual, the beginning of the year (aka exam time) is full of interesting releases ;-P My main list would probably be unmanageably long if not that I'm a bit more picky these days. And my maybe list could have included even more releases if I hadn't limited myself - really ;)
J'ai tué [...]
FILM SPOTTING: December 2010 in Polish cinemas
Wednesday, 24 November 2010, 23:49 | Category : Hollywood & the American film industry, In Cinemas This Month, Other European film industries, Slices, The Canadian film industry, The French film industry, The German film industry
Tags : Belgium, Ben Barnes, Canada, France, Germany, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jared Leto, Mr. Nobody, Rhys Ifans, Sigourney Weaver, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, You Again
Basically, December sucks. There's nothing that I really want to see and even the maybe list below is very short.
And I've changed my film spotting formatting yet again, but only very slightly ;)
Other Films for Consideration
You Again (USA, 2010)
Sigourney Weaver and Jamie Lee Curtis seem like a really explosive comedic coupling (I [...]
FILM DIARY: June 2010
Saturday, 13 November 2010, 17:16 | Category : Film Diary, Other European film industries, Other film industries, Slices, The British film industry, The French film industry
Tags : Abbie Cornish, Australia, Ben Whishaw, Bright Star, France, Italy, Jacques Audiard, Jane Campion, Kerry Fox, Tahar Rahim, Thomas Sangster, UK, Un proph?te
From now on, most of my film reviews will be grouped into a monthly post. There are some films that I feel like writing more about and those I'm still going to dedicate whole posts to. But the rest is going to get shorter treatment - hopefully this will mean I won't be quite so [...]
FILM SPOTTING: November 2010 in Polish cinemas
Friday, 29 October 2010, 21:09 | Category : Hollywood & the American film industry, In Cinemas This Month, Loaves, Other film industries, The British film industry, The Canadian film industry, The French film industry
Tags : Alan Rickman, Bill Nighy, Bonnie Wright, Brazil, Brendan Gleeson, Canada, Chloe, Clémence Poésy, Daniel Radcliffe, David Thewlis, David Yates, Do Começo ao Fim, Easy A, Emma Watson, Evanna Lynch, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Fiona Shaw, France, Frances de la Tour, Gabourey Sidibe, Harry Melling, Helen McCrory, Helena Bonham-Carter, Imelda Staunton, James Phelps, Jamie Campbell Bower, Jason Isaacs, John Hurt, Julie Walters, Lee Daniels, Lenny Kravitz, Mariah Carey, Mark Williams, Matthew Lewis, Michael Gambon, Miranda Richardson, Mo?Nique, Natalia Tena, Oliver Phelps, Paula Patton, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, Ralph Fiennes, Rhys Ifans, Richard Griffiths, Robbie Coltrane, Rupert Grint, Timothy Spall, Tom Felton, UK, USA, Warwick Davis
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (USA, 2009)
Release Date (Poland): 5th November 2010
Release Date (worldwide): 16th January 2009
Director: Lee Daniels
Cast: Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Lenny Kravitz
Plot: (from TMDb)
Set in Harlem in 1987, claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would [...]
FILM SPOTTING: October 2010 in Polish cinemas
Thursday, 28 October 2010, 18:54 | Category : Hollywood & the American film industry, In Cinemas This Month, Loaves, Other European film industries, Other film industries, The British film industry, The Canadian film industry, The French film industry
Tags : Andrew Garfield, Australia, Belgium, Ben Barnes, Ben Chaplin, Billy Crudup, Boy, Canada, Colin Firth, David Fincher, Dorian Gray, Eat Pray Love, Emilia Fox, Emmanuelle Seigner, Essential Killing, Fiona Shaw, France, Furry Vengeance, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, James Franco, Javier Bardem, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jesse Eisenberg, Julia Roberts, Justin Timberlake, Le Fil, Mary and Max, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Rebecca Hall, RED, Rooney Mara, Ryan Murphy, The Social Network, trailer, Tunesia, UAE, UK, USA, Vincent Gallo, Vincere, Viola Davis
I'm ditching my film spotting rating. It adds complexity rather than clarity. What I do want to stay with though is the practice of listing films that I'm in two minds about seeing (or in other words I'd probably see the film if a friend wanted to and/or if there was nothing else interesting [...]
FILM SPOTTING: September 2010 in Polish cinemas
Sunday, 5 September 2010, 14:13 | Category : Hollywood & the American film industry, In Cinemas This Month, Loaves, Other European film industries, Other film industries, The British film industry, The French film industry, The German film industry
Tags : Alden Ehrenreich, American Zoetrope, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, BIM Distribuzione, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Croatia, First Sun, Fortissimo Films, France, Francis Ford Coppola, Germany, Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (INCAA), Italy, John Cameron Mitchell, Luca Guadagnino, Luxembourg, Maribel Verdú, Mikado Film, Pawel Sala, Poland, Process Productions, Q Television, Rozwój Film Production, Shortbus, Spain, Syrena Films, Tetro, The Last Airbender, Tilda Swinton, Tornasol Films, trailer, UK, USA, Vincent Gallo, Zoetropa
Even more format changes ;-P Am still using the rating system from last month, but have foregone 0 and -1. Feels like overkill. Am staying with the +0.5 rating though, at least for the moment.
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Tetro (USA/Italy/Spain/Argentina, [...]
Wild Target - another Rupert Grint comedy
Monday, 30 August 2010, 23:44 | Category : Film Spotting, Slices, The British film industry, The French film industry
Tags : Bill Nighy, Cinema Four, CinemaNX, Emily Blunt, Entertainment Film Distributors, film scene, France, Gregor Fisher, Isle of Man Film, Jonathan Lynn, Magic Light Pictures, Martin Freeman, Matador Pictures, Regent Capital, Rupert Everett, Rupert Grint, trailer, UK, Wild Target
Wild Target (UK/France, 2010)
Release Date (Poland): unknown
Release Date (worldwide): 18th June 2010
Runtime: 98′
Cast: Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint, Rupert Everett, Martin Freeman, Gregor Fisher
Production House: Magic Light Pictures, CinemaNX, Isle of Man Film, Entertainment Film Distributors, Matador Pictures, Cinema Four, Regent Capital
A hitman tries to retire but a beautiful [...]
FILM SPOTTING: August 2010 in Polish cinemas
Saturday, 7 August 2010, 14:35 | Category : Hollywood & the American film industry, In Cinemas This Month, Loaves, Other European film industries, Other film industries, The British film industry, The French film industry, The German film industry
Tags : Australia, Avatar, Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, Citizen Kane, Despicable Me, Die Buddenbrooks, film rating, France, Gentlemen Broncos, Germany, Grown Ups, Hierro, Io Don Giovanni, Iran, Italy, L?Arnacoeur, L?Enfer d?Henri-Georges Clouzot, Monaco, Paintball, Poland, Projekt dziecko czyli ojciec potrzebny od zaraz, Salt, Shekarchi, Spain, Step Up 3-D, Święty interes, The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans, The Descent: Part 2, The Expendables, The Switch, trailer, UK, USA, When You?re Strange
I'm not sure all my attempts at mixing things up are going that well (I think my film diary format change is actually worse than what I had before ;-P). But I'm doing some further experimentation this month anyway.
So firstly, I'm introducing a "how much I want to see the film" rating:
Very excited!
I've been obsessively [...]
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Earlier this year, McKinsey reported that 80% of luxury sales are now influenced by online.
This is a staggering figure, and clearly highlights the important role digital now plays within a luxury purchase. It might be surprising, then, to know that digital revenue at the majority of luxury brands still contributes little in comparison to other sales channels.
There is currently a stark disparity between the demand from consumers and the supply of goods from luxury brands when it comes to digital. Historically, it could be argued that this strategy makes sense within the context of luxury which thrives on exclusivity, but the growing importance of digital, combined with the need to engage younger audiences who are shying away from traditional media (see Ofcom stats), presents a uniquely modern problem for marketers.
Early stages of digital transformation have focused heavily on the functional benefits that the internet and its connected services provided. Many successful strategies focused on driving scale and delivering efficiencies in business processes and technology solutions. For brands, the internet became primarily about driving performance, while other customer-facing channels were left to manage the softer metrics around brand awareness and perception.
Understandably, this direction was a far cry from the desires of the luxury brand whose primary focus had always been nurturing relationships with consumers. Today, however, things are different. The legacy opinions that have pigeon-holed the medium need to be reconsidered. Technical capabilities and consumer usage have evolved; the internet is now a platform for experiences, not just an end point for a particular purpose.
This has led to consumers wanting to build deeper and more meaningful relationships with the brands they identify with, and this has created an ideal forum for luxury brands. The contextual nature of this change means that it is actually more a matter of pivoting the focus of the business rather than an outright paradigm shift. This is already apparent in the number of luxury brands using Instagram, but outside of this medium, little has been explored.
It is now time for luxury brands to fully embrace digital. But in order to do so, technology needs to be a central part of a brand's business, not just an afterthought.
If done properly, the unique and personal touch that has so long been at the heart of the luxury brand can be retained. Above all, everything should be refracted through the same lens as it always has, keeping the customer experience focused solely on amplifying the exclusivity, quality and authenticity of the brand. If this is then combined with the standard principles of digital transformation, a new dynamic is created in which scaling of processes, delivering business efficiencies and improved business agility are more than obtainable.
In practice there are three core areas on which brands should be focusing to leverage the benefits of digital: brand engagement, customer insights, and footprint.
Technology has opened up the doors of possibility. Brands can reach customers more frequently and effectively, while using technology to engage and grow customer interactions can not only drive front-of-mind awareness but also can nurture the emotional benefits that luxury provides. For this strategy to be effective, brands need to deconstruct their consumer touchpoints to establish each one's purpose within the customer journey. Doing this will enable them to tailor content to each of these touchpoints to facilitate the customer need state.
It will also help to identify areas that require additional work. Alongside the big campaign creatives, brands need to think about creating additional assets that are much quicker and less expensive to produce. This needn't mean a reduction in quality, but rather that more economical methods are adopted to create greater volume. One way this can be effectively realised is by working with an in-house creative team who can bring to life the everyday activities of the brand, without the need for an additional production budget.
Depending on the size of the business this may not be possible, but the ultimate goal should be to develop a clear content strategy. If implemented correctly, this will feed customer wants, desires and intentions, and strengthen both the brand and its relationship with its audience.
Luxury brands pride themselves on their understanding of their customers. Digital dramatically increases the opportunity for brands to receive feedback from customers through the tracking of online signals. Building a clear and effective data strategy that is able to collect and analyse customer information enables brands to build a detailed picture of their customers' online persona and feed business strategy.
The back-end output of this data can be used to create trend analysis, build customer clusters, understand the incremental value of marketing investment, or determine lifetime value. The front-end value of this data is that hyper-tailored experiences can be created for customers, whether in the form of specific content, product suggestions or tailored search results.
It is worth noting that due to the nature of luxury-brand audiences the utmost sensitivity to privacy is needed, so it should not be apparent that personal data is being used. Another effective way that customer data can be harnessed is connecting online with offline. Connecting purchase data, stock, saved items and preferences between online and offline can create a seamless omnichannel experience. This will help to enhance the customer's experience and provide the sense that their brand interactions are unique and valued.
Developing key partnerships with agencies, technology partners, influencers and media suppliers is another crucial strand of the digital transformation puzzle. Such relationships allow luxury brands to fully leverage the potential of digital services, as well as access skills and resources that can bring the feeling of luxury into the online arena. Investing in partners who truly understand the brand's tone of voice enables every brand interaction to support the overall brand vision while exploiting the benefits of digital. This, if implemented correctly, can significantly grow a brand without causing any damage.
Farfetch is a perfect example of how this sort of partnership can appropriately support a brand. Not only does it provide an ecommerce platform that gives brands an online presence (teaming up with Burberry and Chanel in February), but it also provides them with access to its tech stack, ensuring they are better equipped to manage the complexities of digital. Where Farfetch leads, other will surely follow, and a key challenge for luxury marketers in the coming years will be to effectively identify which partners are going to best move the brand forward in the long term.
While the opportunities for brands in digital are seemingly endless, we believe the three topics identified above are particularly important for any luxury brand looking to embrace digital, regardless of size, history or ambitions. Above all, it is imperative that technology and its impact becomes more central to luxury brands.
How can technology help find better solutions to problems, make a business more efficient, or even unearth new opportunities that empower rather than detract from unique experiences that luxury provides – these are the questions that brands must ask themselves. It is the ability to embrace these challenges that will become the defining lines of those that succeed and those that don't.
For more on digital transformation, get yourself to Econsultancy's digital transformation stage at the Festival of Marketing 2018, Oct 10-11, London.
Econsultancy also offers digital transformation training and consultancy.
Keith O'Brien is the new Digital Transformation Team Lead at Econsultancy US. I caught up with O'Brien to pick his brains about what digital transformation entails in 2018.
In the large scheme of things, turning digital is inevitable. All businesses will be turning to mobile in gaining revenue, marketing and the like. Being able to navigate online will give any business a huge advantage and the great thing about it is that a business owner won't run out of people to help them boost their brands online. As digital marketing becomes the next big thing, so does the people who thrive in it–the same people who can help these brands grow.


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Kevin De Bruyne Kick-started his career with his local club in 2003 before moving to Genk two years later. He would stay with the Belgian club for seven years until catching the eye of Chelsea scouts.
He transferred to Chelsea in 2012, but was loaned out to Werder Bremen a few months later. He enjoyed a fairly successful stint there and returned to Chelsea after his loan deal was up.
Chelsea managed to hold onto him despite interest from top Bundesliga clubs. However, he was back there again, this time with VFL Wolfsburg, where he stayed for three years.
Finally, he was snapped up by Manchester City and he has remained there ever since.
On-pitch Achievements
KDB is regarded as a highly versatile and supremely talented player. Although he primarily plays as a midfielder, he has often been deployed as a winger or second striker.
He has great technique, skill and athleticism, first class work-rate off the ball, vision and a wide range of passing shots. De Bruyne even possesses a powerful long-range shooting ability with either foot.
He has helped Manchester City to the Premier League titles in 2017-18 and 2018-19. and the Belgian national team to 3rd in the 2018 World Cup and 1st in the FIFA rankings
Kevin De Bruyne's Net Worth, Salary and Endorsement
Kevin De Bruyne's net worth is believed to be approximately £23.5 million. He has penned numerous endorsement deals, including the likes of Nike, EA Sports and Orange.
Kevin De Bruyne's salary is reported to be £280,000 a week with bonuses.
Foundations and Charity
KDB is a big supporter of the Rays of Sunshine Children's Charity. He even paid a visit to a young cancer patient to spend time with him.
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Spouse Michèle Lacroix
Residence Manchester
Nationality Belgium
Teams Belgium, Genk, Chelsea, Werder Bremen, Wolfsburg, Manchester City
Endorsements Nike, EA Sports, Orange
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Tervetuloa joulukuun Penny Black and More haasteen pariin.
Helppo haaste kiireiseen vuodenvaihteeseen: Kaikki leimattu käy! Tein samalla kolme korttia!
Hello, Happy 98th Independance Day Finland!
First Sunday of the month - it's time for new Penny Black and More December Challenge.
Easy peacy theme for Christmas time: " Anything Stamped Goes" But remember the stamped image is in the main roll.
Here's my 3 Christmas cards!
Stamp: Penny Black: "Xmas Crafts 2747K"
Die cuts: shapes Sizzix; snowflake Memorybox, wax paper cut Spellbinders.
Silver tape, lace; stamped text "Merry Christmas".
I really like your choice of soft colours Mervi together with the added die cuts which really draw the eye.
So very cute!! Think I need to add this stamp to my stamp collection. Love the colors you used here and fantastic sketch!
Adorable cards, love those big snowflakes!
Three fabulous cards Mervi, lovely image and great colours.
Cute image and beautifully sparkly snowflakes, three great designs!
aww, these are so cute! both critters getting into holiday paper crafting makes me smile.
Three beautiful cards Mervi all perfectly laid out. I love the blue and grey colour combination too.
Very beautiful card. Thank you for sharing with us.
These are gorgeous, so cute and I love the designs.
Lovely cards, that image is so cute and your soft shading makes for beautiful cards.
I love all the versions you made! The muted colors are very vintage!
Three super cards! Love the image and how your have embellished each one.


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Mueller Report Calls Sarah Sanders' Truthfulness Into Question
By Stephanie Liebergen
Sarah Sanders told the special counsel's investigators that her false statements were a "slip of the tongue" or made "in the heat of the moment."
As press secretary, Sarah Sanders is the voice of the Trump administration. But some of the information revealed in the Mueller report calls her truthfulness into question.
One instance explained in the report centers on her characterization of why President Trump fired James Comey.
"The president, over the last several months, lost confidence in Director Comey. The DOJ lost confidence in Director Comey. Bipartisan members of Congress made it clear that they had lost confidence in Director Comey. And most importantly, the rank and file of the FBI had lost confidence in their director," Sanders said.
It's that "rank and file" bit that's not accurate. The press even pushed Sanders on it in the moment, but she held on to her claim.
"So what's your response to these rank-and-file FBI agents who disagree with your contention that they lost faith in Director Comey?" a reporter asked.
"Look, we've heard from countless members of the FBI that say very different things," Sanders said.
Sanders told the special counsel's office that using the word "countless" was a "slip of the tongue". But she apparently slipped more than once. During an interview, she repeated the claim that FBI agents had lost confidence in Comey. She admitted to investigators that her comment wasn't founded on anything and she said she made it "in the heat of the moment."
During that same May 2017 press briefing, Sanders also gave reporters incorrect information about how Comey's job performance review got started.
"But he did have a conversation with the deputy attorney general on Monday, where they had come to him to express their concerns. The president asked they put those concerns and their recommendation in writing, which is the letter that you guys have received."
"So it's the White House's assertion that Rod Rosenstein decided on his own, after being confirmed, to review Comey's performance?" NBC's Hallie Jackson asked.
"Absolutely," Sanders replied.
But they didn't. After the briefing, the report says Rosenstein and then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions both spoke to White House lawyer Don McGahn and raised concerns about what Sanders was saying. According to the report, "The White House Counsel's Office agreed that it was factually wrong to say that the Department of Justice had initiated Corney's termination."
The report details misleading and inaccurate statements from other White House officials, including the president. Since its release, Sanders has defended herself and the administration, pushing back against claims that there's a "culture of lying" inside the Trump White House.
This story is reported in partnership with PolitiFact and is part of an in-depth analysis show called "What The Fact" that airs Sunday mornings on Newsy.


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