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According to GOP insider and former POTUS candidate Newt Gingrich, President Biden is doing better than many on the right would like to admit.
For one thing, Biden conducted the conflict in Ukraine with extreme caution and care while no American forces were present.
In his first off-year election, President Biden also ran one of the most successful campaigns in American history.
This Newt Gingrich is the same individual who led the Republican revolution in 1994 and was subsequently elected speaker of the House of Representatives as a result of that revolution.
What Else Did Newt Say?
This week, Gingrich argued in a piece that people should stop putting too little stock in President Joe Biden.
He stated that the opposition that conservatives have shown toward the administration of President Joe Biden has a tendency to blind us to just how successful Biden has been under his terms.
The reason why this matters is that Gingrich is correct. If you take a look at the things that Biden has managed to get passed into law, you will see that he has exceeded everyone's expectations while working in a Congress where the Democrats have only slim majorities and in a deeply divided country.
Newt Gingrich on Joe Biden.
"Republicans must learn to quit underestimating @POTUS."
"Conservatives' hostility to Biden administration on our terms tends to blind us to just how effective Biden has been."
"Biden team had 1 of the best first term off-year elections in history."
— John Della Volpe (@dellavolpe) December 1, 2022
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Gingrich, who is 79 years old, stated that football was on his mind, namely the distinction between winning and losing. He went on to say that as he was thinking about it, he realized that when evaluated by goals, Biden has been far more accomplished than the Republicans have been prepared to recognize.
Biden agrees.
According to his advisors, he has not formally decided whether or not he will run for office again; the choice will be made during the holiday season and will eventually be made by him and the first lady.
However, according to his pals, there are only two things that may stop him: either his health or Jill.
Since the Republicans will be in charge of the House during Biden's second term, it seems unlikely that he will be able to get any legislation passed. But the overarching theme of his travels around the country during Years 3 and 4 will be.
Newt Gingrich said "Republicans must learn to quit underestimating Joe Biden." Though Newt was wrong to make his cancer-stricken wife sign his divorce papers while she laid in her hospital bed recovering from a tumor — Newt is right about this. Biden is not to be underestimated:
— Dash Dobrofsky (@DashDobrofsky) December 2, 2022
He would say that he was instrumental in producing record-low unemployment, jobs in manufacturing and computer processors that put America first, and the biggest infrastructural and green energy bills in the country's history.
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The following is how the White House intends to market the record as the biggest "stimulus program" since FDR, stopping gun violence, bringing back manufacturing, fighting climate change and helping America in every way.
Gingrich is warning the GOP not to underestimate Americans who may believe this.
Gingrich delivered this frank remark for the sake of his own party. He stated that, at present, there is not even enough comprehension or admission among top Republicans that their method and strategy were unsuccessful.
He stated that they'd need to redefine from the bottom up how they will take down Big Government Socialism, which includes the very specific nomination of Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination for a second time.
He came to the conclusion that this was a far more difficult test than he would have anticipated before the election.
The fact of the matter is that it would have been quite challenging to envision a leader of the Republican Party's New Right movement from the 1990s saying that Joe Biden is not only a victor but also a model one month ago.
This article appeared in The Political Globe and has been published here with permission.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Senior officials at scandal-plagued state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) withheld information from its board and took some decisions without the board's approval, according to a Malaysian government audit of the fund that was declassified on Tuesday.
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Senator Jimmy Hickey, Jr., of Texarkana represents District 11 of southwest Arkansas. District 11 includes Lafayette, Little River and Miller Counties and parts of Hempstead and Sevier Counties. He was elected in 2012 and took the oath of office on the first day of the 2013 legislative session.
His colleagues elected Senator Hickey as President Pro Tempore of the Senate for the 93rd General Assembly. He also is as a member of Senate Committee on Revenue and Taxation, the Senate Insurance and Commerce Committee, the Joint Performance Review Committee and the Joint Retirement and Social Security Committee. Senator Hickey is also a member of the Joint Budget Committee, the Legislative Council and the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee.
During the 2019 session he took the lead in the Senate of analyzing the impact of the longest bill ever filed in Arkansas history (Act 910 of 2019), a far-reaching transformation of state government's structure that was more than 2,000 pages long. Senator Hickey read it line-by-line and his ideas for improving the bill resulted in amendments that were adopted.
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This K23 application is designed to develop my career in patient-oriented research through a structured mentored program enabling a transition from my purely clinical role to one as a fully independent research investigator working in the pharmacogenomics of antithrombotic regimens. Platelets play a key role in the natural history of clinical atherothrombotic events and anti-platelet agents are highly effective in the prevention of coronary and stroke events. Aspirin (ASA) is still a mainstay of primary prevention in high risk persons. Failure of ASA to protect all individuals at risk has been attributed in part to suboptimal platelet suppression. The addition of another drug that inhibits platelets through a different pathway might benefit persons selected on the basis of a high risk phenotype. In European Americans, we have recently discovered a common A/G variant at rs12041331 locus in the intron1 of the PEAR1 gene that is associated with native and post-ASA platelet aggregation and increased PEAR1 protein levels in platelets. This finding has been replicated in an independent sample of African Americans and in the Framingham Heart Study. I have also completed a first-pass genome-wide association study (GWAS) for collagen-related platelet phenotypes pre and post-ASA, with a significant signal (p<10-11) on Chr 19, a region with genes possibly involved in platelet function. The studies I propose extend the science of these findings and will examine the role of PEAR1 variant on platelet responsiveness. My proposed studies include continued efforts to discover novel genes, using GWAS, in specific platelet activation pathways before and after low dose ASA. Discovery of novel genes may promote platelet pharmacogenomics research focusing on specific platelet pathways in at-risk primary prevention populations. Further in my proposed studies, I will create a new framework for translating findings into risk-stratification for primary prevention. Specifically, the proposed project aims to determine the extent to which a variant identified in the PEAR1 gene modifies the responsiveness of platelets to inhibition by clopidogrel alone and in combination with ASA in a high risk subset of GeneSTAR subjects (N=200) having both significant occult CAD identified by coronary CT angiography, and small vessel cerebrovascular disease identified by cranial MRI. This study has important public health implications given the notable potential impact of effective anti-platelet therapy on coronary disease and stroke outcomes in high risk persons. Identifying a high-risk population on the basis of phenotype and genotype may demonstrate persons in whom chemoprophylaxis can be tailored.
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How many screens have you glanced at today? Probably too many to count. They're in our walls, in our pockets, on our desks, in our living rooms and cars, at the gym and in full view of the checkout line at the grocery store. They're everywhere, and they're delivering messages through streaming newsfeeds, real-time alerts and even life-sized advertising experiences.
So how do we separate signal from noise?
Here's the secret: We do it with people. As the quantity of messages we receive goes up, we're turning to voices we trust to find the stories and things we care about. These people can be our friends, of course, but we're also turning to authentic, knowledgeable people online who create engaging content, drive conversation and shape opinion.
Nowhere is that more true than in the publications we consume to define our personal style. With this fall/winter issue of Say Quarterly, we explore how trendsetting media creators have been setting the agenda for what we crave and consume in the fashion and style world. In the cover story, The New Front Row, Lauren Streib of The Daily Beast explores how today's new tastemakers have built sizable media properties in record time simply by having a unique point of view, which is an evergreen form of currency in art and publishing.
A similar story is unfolding in the beauty media category with a twist, which Streib also chronicles in The New Face of Beauty. Meanwhile, men's media is having its moment and Ben Bowers, co-founder of Gear Patrol, explores how men's media differs substantively from what women consume — and charts the fast-changing landscape for us in The Evolution of Men's Media.
Also in this issue, we profile the people who are in the business (as we are) of inventing the future of media in 11 Fascinating Digital Media Pioneers. It's written by another media pioneer, Stuart Miles, founder of the U.K.'s largest independent gadget and technology publication, Pocket-lint. And you'll find great examples of media creators and advertisers working together in our brand case studies featuring content marketing campaigns from Ghirardelli, Canon, Glidden and HTC Canada, and our first Adaptive Ad campaign that launched this June.
Finally, because the holidays are coming and everyone loves a well-curated gift guide, we asked the editors of several of our Say Media portfolio sites to recommend the things they love including Heidi Swanson of 101 Cookbooks, the teenage editors at Rookie, Emily Schuman of Cupcakes and Cashmere, Erin Boyle of Gardenista, Sarah Lonsdale of Remodelista and many, many more.
We hope you find this issue of Say Quarterly enlightening and entertaining — and we look forward to having a conversation with you about all of it.
Matt Sanchez is the CEO of Say Media. Follow him on Twitter @msanchez.


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Mourners gather for funeral of 16-year-old Jaelynn Willey who was killed in Maryland school shooting
HOLLYWOOD, Md. - Friends, family and state officials gathered Friday for the funeral of Jaelynn Willey, the 16-year-old girl who died after being shot at Great Mills High School in Saint Mary's County.
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan and Representative Steny Hoyer arrived with other mourners to pay their respects at the volunteer fire department in Hollywood, Maryland not far from the school where the shooting took place.
Police said Jaelynn Willey was shot in the head by 17-year-old Austin Rollins in a hallway at the school on March 20. Jaelynn and Rollins were in a relationship that had recently ended, investigators say.
The teen was hospitalized in critical condition but was later removed from life support after doctors determined she was brain dead. After shooting Willey, police said Rollins shot 14-year-old Desmond Barnes in the leg before being engaged by School Resource Officer Deputy 1st Class Blaine Gaskill.
Rollins then shot himself in the head, was rushed to the hospital, and was later pronounced dead, according to officials.
Four days following the shooting, an estimated 250 students from Great Mills marched together in the March For Our Lives in Washington to honor Jaelynn and demand action from Congress on gun violence.


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The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in Atlanta, Georgia. In doing our research, we considered several factors including but not limited to:
1. Sharecare
2020 Best Tech Startups in Georgia
"Sharecare is the digital health company that helps people manage all their health in one place. The Sharecare platform provides each person – no matter where they are in their health journey – with a comprehensive and personalized health profile, where they can dynamically and easily connect to the information, evidence-based programs and health professionals they need to live their healthiest, happiest and most productive life. With award-winning and innovative frictionless technologies, scientifically validated clinical protocols and best-in-class coaching tools, Sharecare helps providers, employers and health plans effectively scale outcomes-based health and wellness solutions across their entire populations."
2. OneTrust
"OneTrust is the #1 fastest growing and most widely used technology platform to help organizations be more trusted, and operationalize privacy, security, data governance, and compliance programs. More than 6,000 customers use OneTrust to build integrated programs that comply with the CCPA, GDPR, LGPD, PDPA, ISO27001, and hundreds of the world's privacy and security laws.
The OneTrust platform is backed by 100 patents and powered by the OneTrust Athena™ AI and robotic automation engine. Our offerings include:
The OneTrust platform is backed by 100 patents and powered by the OneTrust Athena™ AI and robotic automation engine."
3. Pindrop
"Pindrop® solutions are leading the way to the future of voice by establishing the standard for security, identity, and trust for every voice interaction. Pindrop solutions protect some of the biggest banks, insurers, and retailers in the world using patented technology that extracts an unrivaled amount of intelligence from every call encountered. Pindrop solutions help detect fraudsters and authenticate callers, reducing fraud and operational costs, while improving customer experience and protecting brand reputation. Pindrop solutions have been implemented in 8 of the top 10 US banks and 5 of the top 7 US life insurers. Additionally, 70% of Pindrop US customers are Fortune 500."
4. Ionic Security
"Ionic enables global businesses and government agencies to accelerate innovation by driving data protection across their organization, regardless of where they are in their journey to the cloud. Ionic Machina is the only enterprise-class data protection engine that delivers real-time data policy enforcement against a rich set of identity and data attributes backed by machine-scale key management, creating a system of record for unified and consistent execution. With over 2M licensed users in Fortune 100 companies and government agencies, the unique ecosystem relationships of Ionic dramatically accelerate cloud migration and multi-cloud deployments, creating value for enterprises in driving their overall security strategy."
5. SalesLoft
"SalesLoft, the leading sales engagement platform, transforms the way sellers engage with their customers by delivering a better selling experience.
Our sales engagement platform helps teams set and execute on a cadence of phone, email, and social communications to convert more target accounts into customer accounts. The platform equips sales leaders with new capabilities to test, learn and adapt to ensure their sales reps execute on the most effective selling process for their account-based approach. SalesLoft delivers access to an extensive ecosystem of 3rd party integrations allowing teams to perform all their sales engagement from a single platform."
6. CallRail
"Trusted by more than 75,000 companies and marketing agencies globally, CallRail provides call analytics to data driven marketers so they can improve customer acquisition. Delivering intuitive self-service software to businesses that care about phone calls, CallRail enables smart marketers to know what makes their phone ring. CallRail tracks phone calls from online and offline marketing campaigns (including PPC keywords), provides insight into which campaigns are working best, and records calls for lead qualification and coaching to increase call conversion rates."
7. Greenlight Financial Technology
"Greenlight makes a debit card for kids and a mobile app that empowers parents with convenient controls to safely manage family finances and create teachable moments around earning, spending, saving and giving. Greenlight is easier and more flexible than cash, with parental controls that allow families to manage exactly where, and how much their kids can spend.
The Greenlight team is 170 people strong and proudly based in Atlanta, GA. We're sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, PTA presidents, fantasy football commissioners and volunteer dance teachers. We come from Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Hulu, Yahoo!, Cardlytics and Square, and we're backed by Drive Capital, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, TTV Capital, Relay Ventures, NEA, Amazon, Ally Financial, SunTrust Bank and Synchrony Financial. We were picked for CB Insights' Fintech 250. And we're not stopping there."
8. Vanco Payment Solutions
"Vanco Payment Solutions offers specialized payment solutions across multiple industries, including faith-based organizations, nonprofits, and professional services companies. The company processes more than $13.1 billion in electronic payments annually for clients, providing administrative and user-friendly online, mobile, and batch payment methods, in addition to back office credit card, debit card, and ACH processing. Vanco Payment Solutions is headquartered in Atlanta, with an office location in Minneapolis."
9. FullStory
"FullStory offers digital experience analytics, on-the-fly conversion funnels, advanced search capabilities, video-like replay of real user sessions, and robust debugging and developer tools—all while integrating with leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) products.
Founded in Atlanta by a team of former Googlers devoted to making products more user-friendly, FullStory officially launched in 2014."
10. MacStadium
"MacStadium is the Mac hosting authority with a reputation built on reliability and service. Thousands of companies choose MacStadium to deliver enterprise-class hosting infrastructure around the world. We understand that your business objectives are unique, and your hosting solution should be as well. At MacStadium we provide dedicated Apple-centric infrastructure as a service (IaaS) computing platforms and expertise, so you can focus on your business and leave the rest of the technology to us."
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Bike donations are integral for our Everybody Bikes program, Kids Bike Bonanzas, and other programs. Nicer bike donations are sold in our shop to help generate revenue that supports our social and educational programs.
All donations (bikes and money) are tax-exempt. If you would like a donation receipt, please ask for one when donating.
We can always use bikes that are in rideable or very nearly rideable condition and/or good quality bikes and parts. Donations are accepted based on staff discretion. A suggested $10 donation to help us provide bicycles and repair services to all Vermonters through our Everybody Bikes program.
Because we're a nonprofit and we take in so many donations, we don't often buy bikes. If you're looking to make some money off of your old bike, craigslist is probably the best option. However, if your bike is very special (read: vintage and fancy), we might consider buying it.


Houston - Office Depot will formally unveil its newest store format here this week.
The new design, which has been deployed here in 13 recently remodeled locations, features a number of changes and enhancements designed to improve the customer shopping experience, the No. 2 office-supply chain said.
Updates include clear, colorful signage and a simple-to-navigate floor plan that places technology products and the copy and print department on the left side of the store, office supplies on the right, and the cashiers in the front.
The new format is based on customer feedback and shopping patterns, the company said.
To herald the remodels, the chain is holding a grand re-opening celebration this Wednesday at its Highway 45 North store that will feature a special ribbon-cutting appearance by three-time and reigning NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Tony Stewart.
Stewart, who drives the No. 14 Office Depot/Mobil 1 Chevrolet Impala in the Sprint Cup Series, will assist the Office Depot Foundation with check presentations and donations of new children's sackpacks to three local non-profit organizations and will hold an autograph session for 300 fans. A replica of Stewart's No. 14 Office Depot/Mobil 1 show car will be on display in the store's parking lot along with racing simulators, and the retailer will provide customers with free No. 14-licensed merchandise with purchases of $15, $25, $50 or $125 on the day of the event.
"It's really great to be a part of this ribbon-cutting celebration for 13 newly remodeled Office Depot stores in the Houston area," said Stewart. "Office Depot is all about taking care of its customers every day, and the updated features and more convenient setup in the store will help them save time. I'm also very proud to be supporting the contributions being made by the Office Depot Foundation to local non-profit organizations. It's going to be an exciting day for everyone involved."


As the UK strides – or rather hobbles – out of the EU (see infographic at the end of this post), it is worth taking a keen look at what Britishness might stand for. Ask anyone in the world, and at the top of their ranking, somewhere between Scary Spice and hangover-proof food that I, as a Frenchman, am barred from tasting, they might place William Shakespeare.
Granted, the British national treasure never set foot in Europe. But his worldview and writings were infused with continentalism.
The bard scattered memorable protagonists in Bohemia, Venice, Verona and France. Much like the British, much like today, his Europeans were passionate and – more often than not - deranged.
If you Brexit them, do they not get Brexited? Oh but they do.
More than four centuries ago, the playwright espoused freedom of movement and labor. In Sir Thomas More a London mob is censured for attacking foreign workers. A French doctor cares for the local community in the Merry Wives of Windsor.
Shakespeare incorporated words from French, Greek and Latin, including one that could be useful to guide the UK's current dealings with Europe: compromise.
Which is where, much like as in All's Well That Ends Well, exit negotiations should lead. The not-so-happy but not-too-disastrous mix of infighting, seduction, betrayal, and outmaneuvering needs to end up with some sort of reasonable co-habitation.
Thus, looking at the current state of Brexit affairs through a tragic-comedy lens makes a whole lot of sense. Consider this: Act 1 ended with fewer calamities than expected. The United Kingdom proved to be resilient. In a new study, Euler Hermes expects this to persist until mid-2017 when consumer spending would take a hit from higher inflation and slowdown in wages. Uncertainty will weigh on investment, but not stifle it. The UK's GDP, which climbed by a modest +1.8% in 2016, could stoop to +1.4% in 2017, and reach a mere +1.0% in 2018.
Time for Act 2. Enter the merchant of Westminster, Theresa May. As negotiations kick-off - or rather begin at a crawling speed – the British government pins its hopes on concluding more than an amiable divorce within two years. The UK vies for a comprehensive trade deal.
It seeks to guarantee unencumbered access for specific sectors in return for contributions to the EU budget. In addition, the aim is to obtain a phased implementation of the next trade agreement. But the timeframe is not realistic to agree both a trade and an exit deal.
The solution? Yes. Compromise. One could expect a transitional deal covering EU-UK relations to be reached in 2019. It should bridge the gap between the end of Brexit negotiations and a final Free Trade Agreement (FTA). In return, the UK would have to abide by the EU rules. Call it Measure for Measure if you will. The EH study assigns an 80% probability to this economic scenario.
But wait. The plot thickens. Because once a transition deal is reached, there is always a probability – the authors put it at 55% - that only a limited FTA will be negotiated.
And if the poisoned cup is gulped in full, there's the low yet menacing risk (20%) of no transitional deal and no free trade agreements.
I did mention I do not expect a Hamlet-magnitude catastrophe.
In the base economic scenario British household spending will see a sharp decline over the course of 2017-21: down from +3.0% in 2016 to +0.8% in 2021.
As for UK companies, over the negotiation period, companies in the UK, businesses – and notably SMEs - will face two challenges. First, lower profitability due to rising input cost inflation driven by the pound depreciation and higher commodity prices. Given the high share of imported intermediate goods, high input costs will at least partially need to feed into higher selling prices in order to ensure profitability Secondly, there is the issue of lower domestic demand, with uncertainty holding back investment and consumer spending. There's also higher non-payment risk. We expect business insolvencies in the UK to increase going forward, by +5% and +6% in 2017 and 2018 respectively.
As for UK exporters, after the EU exit (2019), the impact will be very different under the three scenarios outlined above. But the key point is the very limited competitiveness gains from the sterling depreciation.
What about markets? These seem to have already priced in a "Sensible divorce". Yet fidgety investors can punish the pound or treasury GILTS, especially if a deal is not outlined quickly. British equities could end up in a tight spot as more than 70% of the FTSE 100 constituents' revenues are generated outside the UK.
Ahead of the EU exit agreement in 2019, companies doing business in the UK or exporting there will be negatively affected through the currency depreciation (-5% on average), the slowing domestic demand and rising insolvencies (+5% in 2017 and +6% in 2018). As for monetary policy, the BoE is likely to be tolerant of inflation above 2% for the next few years as the economic outlook deteriorates. Interest rates are thus set to remain unchanged until the final deal is effective. When it comes to fiscal policy, the government remains committed to a stimulus.
As for neighboring countries, looking at trade and investment relationships, the EU members which could be most impacted are the Netherlands (-1.8pp of GDP growth cumulative 2017-21 in the baseline scenario), Ireland (-1.2pp) and Belgium (-1.0pp). Overall, we expect a moderate impact on the Eurozone GDP (-0.4pp). In the adverse scenario (WTO option in 2019) the impact would exceed -0.5pp as exports from EU countries to the UK will be subject to 3% tariffs and that the sterling would fall as much as 20%.
What would Shakespeare, a true son of the renaissance, say about where Britannia might be heading? Hard to say. But perhaps a fifth final act of a Brexit play would offer no catharsis, but rather a lingering pain.
A limited FTA between the EU and the UK will fall well short of the degree of integration that has been achieved within the European single market. After Brexit key pillars of Britain's economic success – such as the financial services industry – will be less strong. Brexit does not have to be an economic disaster in the long term, but in the long run the UK will clearly be worse off, if access to an EU market with more than 450 million people is at least partially restricted.
If EU-UK negotiations do not produce an agreement, the British government has might opt to lower the corporate tax rate, relax regulations. There is talk of turning the country into a kind of "Singapore of the West".
How fitting and tragicomic that we should all be asked at the end to forget Shakespeare's beloved Verona, Sicily and Troy.


Imagine standing at the foot of a desolate mountain in a barren wilderness, surrounded by close to three million men, women and children. Picture the scene as a dark cloud descends upon the mountain, along with brilliant flashes of lightning, explosions of thunder and an ear-piercing blast from an unseen shofar. If you've got this picture in your head, you've gotten a tiny glimpse of how awesome it must have been to stand at Sinai.
But wait. If you want a true depiction of that momentous occasion you need to remember that all that noise and commotion was really nothing more than a cosmic warm up act before the main event. When it actually came time for God to utter the Ten Commandments, the entire universe was filled with a wondrous silence.
It's not surprising that the dramatic events of Sinai would captivate the world and inspire a unique moment of universal silence. Perhaps they can teach us something about the value of silence in our personal lives as well.
There are essentially two kinds of silence. There is an external silence characterized by an absence of noise, which has many obvious benefits. But there is also an internal silence – a silence of the mind – which while less obvious to the ear, brings with it far greater benefits than the mere absence of noise: It signifies the presence of wisdom.
Judaism teaches that a powerful spark of godly presence lies at the core of every human being. This spark – commonly referred to as the soul – is not only the source of the body's life force; it's a potent source of wisdom and creativity; our own personal voice of God. It speaks to us all the time. It desperately wants us to pay attention so that it can guide us and provide us with the answers that we seek. But like all voices of wisdom, it speaks calmly and quietly. It has no interest in competing. So while its insight is simple, obvious and compelling, sadly, most of us are way too preoccupied with the noise in our heads (read: our brilliant thinking) to hear it most of the time.
We don't need to send our mind on vacation in order to access our inner wisdom, but it would sure help if we could stop making it work overtime. Unfortunately, most of us don't even realize that we over-think our lives. In fact, we tend to believe that all of the analyzing, mulling, calculating, considering and obsessing that we do is a great idea, precisely because we don't call it those things. In our minds, we call it being responsible, realistic, and proactive, which is why we not only think too much, but usually consider it to be a tremendous mitzvah as well. The problem, however, is that we'll never quiet down enough to hear our inner wisdom until we realize that a large percentage of our thinking is not only futile, but harmful.
I often ask the over-thinkers that I coach two questions. The first is: Did you find what you're looking for? The answer, of course, is almost always no, since over-thinking is by definition an exercise in futility. Going round and round in circles in our head – what I often refer to as the washing machine – never takes us beyond what we already know. In fact, it's the very definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over while hoping for different results. The insight that we seek is fresh and new. We will never find it in our stale, old thinking.
The second question I ask is: Does all that thinking leave you feeling good? Once again, the answer is almost always no, because excess mental activity tends to make us feel frustrated and tired. It also tends to make us lose the very perspective that we seek as we sink deeper and deeper into our problems. It's kind of like trying to free your car from a muddy ditch by pressing harder on the gas pedal. It may feel like a good idea, but all you end up with is a deeper rut and a bigger mess.
A simple cost-benefit analysis of our cerebral activity will demonstrate that the old adage – less is more –still applies. Nevertheless, we will never shift our mind out of overdrive until we realize that there's a viable and dependable alternative to all that thinking. We will never let go of our mental steering wheel unless we can recall the moments when we were guided to our destination, not by our active intellect, but by the quiet voice of our own inner wisdom.
Our mystical tradition teaches us that every soul in every generation heard God speak at Sinai. I believe that we have all heard the small voice of God that speaks from within us as well. We have all experienced quiet moments of insight. Deep down, we know that we possess an innate intelligence that can provide us with the answers that we seek. Only one question really remains: Are we willing to quiet down and listen?
Wishing you a joyous and meaningful Shavuot.


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Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks–Netflix film tracks the pop culture reach of Hong Kong kung fu movies
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Review by C.J. Bunce
From Hong Kong to the U.S. and Australia to Uganda, Australian director Serge Ou and writer Grady Hendrix track the scope of the Hong Kong kung fu movie industry and its pop culture influence on the world in the documentary Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks, now streaming this month on Netflix. Splicing interviews with kung fu legends of the past with new discussions with martial artists and actors influenced by them, Ou offers up a surprisingly rich look at how and why kung fu movies gained an international following that continues to this day via Jackie Chan comedies, the Matrix movies (with a sequel due in theaters next year), and new television series like Wu Assassins and Iron Fist.
Beneath what is in essence an overview of the genre is a smart mixture of social and cultural commentary on a global phenomenon centered on an artform mixing athleticism, dance, and grace. Kung fu made its way to American audiences with Tom Laughlin in Billy Jack, and into millions of homes via the Kung Fu series. This was paralleled by Bruce Lee movies and lesser films (they call them Bruce-sploitation) from China and U.S. studios, direct-to-video crotch-kicking and "squirrel-grabbing" action on VHS tapes in video stores, heroines leading the way as a sub-genre, eventually moving to black and inner city audiences embracing the culture, starting with martial artist and actor Jim Kelly (who co-starred with Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon), re-emerging later as an influence on hip hop music. The genre got even bigger boosts with Jackie Chan heavy-stunt comedies, followed by The Matrix and the Academy Awards arrival of the genre with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Chinese co-productions with other nations, and actors of Chinese background in the mainstream outside of Asia would eventually come along.
Viewers meet (or revisit) early kung fu icons Cheng Pei-Pei and Sammo Hung in new interviews, along with Billy Banks, who would turn the genre into his own fortune via the creation of the Tae Bo workout, early American female kung fu star Cynthia Rothrock, martial artist Richard Norton, plus from the 21st century shows, Iron Fist actor Jessica Henwick, Wu Assassins actor JuJu Chan, Doctor Strange actor Scott Adkins, and Marvel stuntwoman and choreographer Amy Johnston, among others. It's all interspersed with great action sequences and other clips from more than 100 films. A theme underscoring much of kung fu movie history is a distinct lack of safety standards, with more than one participant in the documentary stressing that Hong Kong kung fu movies couldn't be made anywhere else for that reason.
A key focus is not surprisingly Bruce Lee, taking America by storm as Kato in the Green Hornet series, his rejection by Shaw Brothers back in China, and then getting skipped over for David Carradine in his series Kung Fu, before gaining legend status only posthumously. While Chinese culture and movies in particular are still only beginning to make their way to Western audiences, kung fu films from Hong Kong began in the 1960s with a man named Runje Shaw whose studio turned from essentially soap opera productions into a lucrative action movie powerhouse, making Shaw one of the wealthiest men in China. Viewers will find the spread of kung fu had an impact on surprising areas of culture.
The film highlights benchmarks in the genre: Come Drink With Me (1966), One-Armed Swordsman (1967), The Big Boss (1971), Five Fingers of Death (1972), Fist of Fury (1972), Enter the Dragon (1973), Police Story (1985), China O'Brien (1990), Rumble in the Bronx (1996), The Matrix (1999), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior (2003), and The Raid (2011). You'll see early film footage with Michelle Yeoh, but oddly enough megastar Jet Li and his films from the 1980s through the 2000s get overlooked. The major downside of the documentary is in its third act, stretching kung fu movies to include poorly filmed YouTube videos. It also doesn't enter into any discussion of wuxia and film in China outside of Hong Kong, it has few native Chinese interviewees, and provides only a brief flash of an image of director Quentin Tarentino, who is so widely noted as being heavily influenced by the genre. Also, there's no mention of the culture impact to American kids of the "kung fu grip."
The film comes from Veronica Fury, the producer of the documentary about Cannon Films, Electric Boogaloo (previously reviewed here). It has slick, in-your-face design imagery consistent with the genre and is overall informative and entertaining, bound to teach anyone something they didn't know about Hong Kong and its pop culture creation. It includes the obligatory talking heads, but they don't get in the way of what is best about the film. No doubt it has opinions that will create conversations among diehard kung fu movie enthusiasts, but for everyone else it's an easy and fun two hours.
The documentary Iron Fists and Kung Fu Fists is streaming now on Netflix.
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SYP Lumber Prices Stall, then Spike in Late April
By John Greene
After three weeks of flat performance throughout most of April, southern yellow pine (SYP) lumber prices surged late in the month. As winter finally gives way to some warmer temperatures and the building season kicks off in earnest, lumber prices have displayed less volatility when compared to 2018.
New Study Quantifies the Economic Impact of Private, Working Forests in the US
By Forest2Market
Forest2Market has completed a new study commissioned by the National Alliance of Forest Owners (NAFO) that analyzes the economic impact of private, working forests on the US economy. The study and resulting published report, titled The Economic Impact of Privately-Owned Forests in the 32 Major Forested States, quantifies the contribution that forestry-related industries make to state, regional and national economies, and analyzes the most forested regions of the country based on the most recent year of data available, which is 2016.
Monitoring Timber Prices and Inventories in the Lake States
By Pete Coutu
Wood fiber prices have been extremely flat in the Lake States region over the last two years despite an economy that has been growing at a strong pace. The same dynamic can be seen in the US South, though the price drivers and the supply/demand dynamics are different. What's keeping prices in the Lake States so consistent?
Supply Chain Price Differences Affecting the North America Pulp and Paper Industry
Over the last two decades, several trends have driven customer preferences and changes in demand for forest and paper products. As a result of these changes, demand for one of the forest industry's seminal products—printing and writing papers—continues to decline rapidly; over the last decade, production of printing and writing papers has declined by 6% annually.
Regional Differences Pose Profitability Challenges for North American Sawmills
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Beginning in 4Q2017, prices for domestic and export Douglas fir logs in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) rose steadily before they spiked in 2Q2018 to record levels. The phenomenon occurred when North American lumber prices also surged to record highs. While regional lumber producers in the PNW couldn't fully capitalize on high lumber prices due to their equally high log costs at the time, producers in the US South were perfectly positioned to take advantage of the market and maximize profits.
Identifying Opportunities for Improving Lumber Recovery
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When it comes to lumber recovery and comparing performance between individual sawmills, the most important factor is log size. As the chart below illustrates, log size (average bucked log, small-end diameter) and lumber recovery (tons of logs used to produce a thousand board feet of lumber) are strongly correlated, with yield generally improving as log diameter increases.
Carolinas Stumpage Market: Identifying Imbalances After Hurricane Florence
By Mike Powell
On September 14, 2018, Hurricane Florence made landfall on the North Carolina coast before idling in place for days. As it moved westward across the state at only 2-3 MPH, the sluggish storm saturated the Carolinas with an average 17.5" of rainfall—and close to 36" in some areas. Even in the aftermath of Florence, steady and heavy rainfall continued to batter the region through the fall and into the winter of 2019.
Biomass101 Refutes Anti-Forestry Extremists with Facts, Science
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Forest Service Publishes Update Detailing the State of America's Forests
Stakeholders in the US forest supply chain must maintain a solid understanding of the general health, conditions and trends affecting America's vast forest resources. Gathering this data is a tremendous undertaking on the part of the USDA's US Forest Service (USFS), who works to compile the official statistics for all public and private forestlands throughout the country. The USFS then shares this knowledge by publishing the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Program, which is an invaluable tool used to inform policy, management and operational decisions throughout the US forest value chain.
US Forest Industry Performance: March 2019
Total industrial production (IP) edged up by 0.1 percent in February (+3.5 percent YoY) after decreasing 0.4 percent in January (originally -0.6 percent). Manufacturing production fell 0.4 percent in February for its second consecutive monthly decline; data for January was revised to -0.5 percent, from the original -0.9 percent. The index for utilities rose 3.7 percent in February, while mining moved up 0.3 percent.
US Housing Starts Disappoint in March
US housing starts fell unexpectedly in March, coming off a poor performance in February when single-family builds dropped to an 18-month low. Despite lower mortgage rates, higher wage growth and other economic indicators holding steady, there hasn't been enough buyer activity to ignite a new wave of housing starts activity in recent months.
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Hackensack, a city in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, and serves as its county seat. It was officially named New Barbadoes Township until 1921, though it was informally known as Hackensack. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population was 43,010, reflecting an increase of 333 (+0.8%) from the 42,677 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 5,628 (+15.2%) from the 37,049 counted in the 1990 Census. source
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J.B. Steenkamp: Global marketing guru
Long before Dutch-born Jan-Benedict E.M. Steenkamp came to America as a marketing professor, America came to him – or rather, to his parents.
His mother ate tulip bulbs to survive the "Hunger Winter" of 1944-45 in Amsterdam before American and Allied forces liberated the country from its Nazi occupiers. His father, a leading Dutch politician from the 1960s through the 1990s, founded the Christian Democratic Party which ruled the country for most of the last half century – and that landed him on the Soviet Red Army's hit list at the height of the Cold War.
"My parents raised me as a child with deep appreciation and gratitude toward the United States," Steenkamp says. "Neither my father nor my mother were under any illusions about what stood between their freedom and the Russians: the American soldiers in West Germany. During the Tet Offensive in 1968, we prayed for the American soldiers in Vietnam."
Steenkamp's life and career have been shaped by both his family and the history and economics of the time in which he was born.
Choosing a path
Steenkamp, the Knox Massey Distinguished Professor of Marketing at UNC Kenan-Flagler since 2006, is now one of the world's most-cited marketing scholars and an authority on how brands can compete successfully in the global economy.
"That I went to marketing rather than finance," he says, "was actually a throw of the dice."
After finishing his research master of science degree at the Netherlands' Wageningen University in 1983, he had two options: Pursue a PhD in finance or marketing. He was interested in and had studied both, but Wageningen – the world's No. 1 agricultural university – focused heavily on math and science. To get into the school, he had focused heavily on math and statistics. Not surprisingly, for his PhD, he had applied for funding for a dissertation in finance.
But in 1983 the Netherlands, like much of the world, was in a deep recession. Unemployment in the Netherlands was at 14 percent, and Steenkamp was worried. A position came open at Wageningen to teach marketing and, with the finance dissertation funding uncertain, he applied for it.
Thus was born a marketing professor. It was perhaps another roll of the dice that helped Steenkamp be so successful. Marketing scholarship has become increasingly quantitative, with statistical analysis of large datasets becoming more important. Steenkamp's finance and quantitative background equipped him well for that.
"While the discipline of finance might have lost a superb scholar, the marketing area won the lottery," says Jennifer Conrad, Dalton McMichael Distinguished Professor of Finance and former senior associate dean for academic affairs. "UNC Kenan-Flagler is incredibly fortunate to have attracted and retained J.B. Steenkamp. His scholarship is among the best in his field; his teaching is superb. And he continues to help us build an excellent marketing area."
Steenkamp has written four books on international marketing. "Brand Breakout: How Emerging Market Brands Will Go Global" was named a best business book in 2013 by PwC's Strategy + Business magazine and praised by The Economist and Financial Times. "Private Label Strategy: How to Meet the Store Brand Challenge" has become the standard work in the field and was translated into Chinese, Portuguese, Polish, Spanish and Russian. "Global Brand Strategy: World-Wise Marketing in the Age of Branding" is designed to help managers of global brands — or those who want to manage them — understand how to create value in many markets around the world. "Retail Disruptors: The Spectacular Rise and Impact of the Hard Discounters" examines the biggest disruption in grocery retailing in half a century.
His books focus on real-world business issues rather than purely abstract academic matters, and they represent how Steenkamp has approached research throughout his career.
"I was interested in writing articles which were inspired by managerial problems, but then try to look at the underlying currents, look at some of the more major developments, so as to help businesses reach better decisions," he says. "You don't want to pursue the latest fad, but you try to create insights that help business. Practical problems do really excite me a lot."
In his fifth book, Steenkamp examines how 16 leaders confronted life-changing dilemmas and made decisions that changed the course of history. "Time to Lead: Lessons for Today's Leaders from Bold Decisions that Changed History" provides lessons from leaders who span 2,500 years and come from China, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Israel, South Africa, Spain and the U.S. History has been his passion "as long as I have been able to read," and his greatest mentor on leadership was his late father.
Steenkamp is the founder and executive director of AiMark, a nonprofit center that connects academics and companies to advance global marketing knowledge. He also is a fellow at Fudan University's Institute for Sustainable Innovation and Growth in Shanghai and an honorary professor at the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management.
Though a prolific and accomplished researcher – his work has been cited over 50,000 times in other academic studies and he was ranked No. 1 in the world in scholarly influence on marketing – Steenkamp has stayed close to his roots as a university teacher. He has taught at 10 universities in nine countries and been recognized numerous times for his teaching and mentorship.
Teaching is an opportunity to deepen his own understanding and share his research with students who will often be moving into decision-making roles once they graduate, he says.
"As faculty, we have a responsibility to do research and to disseminate it, the latest insights, to the students," he says. "I find teaching fulfilling. It forces you to think more deeply about the material – you cannot teach something you do not deeply understand."
That's especially true when students bring their own experience into the classroom.
"I particularly enjoy teaching Executive MBA students at UNC Kenan-Flagler since they have extensive work experience and, as such, can ask the most challenging questions," he says.
Steenkamp has received numerous teaching and research awards at UNC Kenan-Flagler, including the Weatherspoon Award for Excellence in Research and the Research Mentoring Award. In addition to the individual awards and recognition he's received, perhaps his proudest honor was winning the Dr. Hendrik Muller Prize in 2005.The award is given every two years by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences for exceptional achievements in the area of behavioral and social sciences. Steenkamp was the first researcher in the field of business to receive the prestigious award, which recognizes the entire body of his work.
Steenkamp has done all of this while also serving as marketing area chair at UNC Kenan-Flagler since 2006, working to strengthen the work of the marketing faculty.
"I strongly believe in continuity in leadership and the consistency in performance criteria it provides," he says. "I am passionate about improving the quality of the marketing group."
Ask him what else he's proud of and he mentions his children – his daughter is a PhD student in marketing at London Business School, one of his sons is an investment manager in London and the other studies mechanical engineering at the Technical University Delft in the Netherlands. He also mentions his American wife, who he calls "America's greatest treasure."
In addition to his contributions at UNC Kenan-Flagler, America got something else from this Netherlander who has admired the U.S. since he was a child. In May 2016, 71 years after the Allies liberated the Netherlands, Steenkamp interviewed to become a U.S. citizen. He passed the test.
A decade after coming to UNC, Steenkamp became a U.S. citizen.


We are reading 'The BFG'. The BFG mixes dreams in jars. We wrote labels on our own BFG dream jar. Here are some dreams from third class.
I am running through the battlefield and a grenade bursts into flames in front of me,blowing me into a wall and knocking me out. About 30 minutes later I'm in an English army base strapped to a chair. I can faintly see someone through a very blurred window.
We go into an ice-cream shop to get some ice-cream and there was a fairy. She said that I could have one wish. I wished that me, Kitty and Lucky could have free ice-cream whenever we wanted, when we wanted, whatever amount we wanted and any flavour we wanted. So we kept getting ice-cream and my brother and sister were getting extremely jealous .Suddenly my brother runs in and wakes me up. ''The tooth fairy came'' he says. I realise it is a dream.
One day I am walking along the footpath when NASA come declaring that our world needs a hero.
They tell me that there are walls coming through space that are about to destroy earth.
and shoot a rocket at it, destroying it. I'm a hero and when I die no one forgets me.


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Namgyal Monastery in Dharamshala
The Namgyal Monastery was established way back in the 16th century. The spiritual leader of Tibet, Dalai Lama has his residence at the Namgyal Monastery in Mcleodganj. And that's why the Namgyal Monastery is often called as the temple of "Dalai Lama" as the monastery is used personally by the Dalai Lama 14. It is the biggest Tibetan temple in the region. The tranquility and atmosphere that this place offers attract the tourists who have an affinity for this religion. The monastery is also recognized as a respected center of learning, meditation, and contemplation on the massive and profound Buddhist treatises.
It was the Dalai Lama second who laid the foundation of the Namgyal Monastery in the 16th century. The main purpose to set up the Namgyal Monastery is for the monks who helped Dalai Lama in various religious affairs. The monks who lived here in the monastery carried out practices for the well-being of Tibet and worked in the center of learning and meditation on the philosophy of the Buddhist exposition. The monastery is also called as the Namgyal Tantric College and is the house for almost 200 monks. These monks work to protect the traditions, practices, and skills of the monastery. The monks here study languages that include English and Tibetan, along with texts of Tantra and Sutra, sand mandalas, ritual chanting, Buddhist philosophy, and Buddhist dance forms are also included in the study of Buddhism.
Although the exterior part of the Namgyal Monastery is not very royal in its architecture, as you go inside the temple, there is a sense of divine feeling. When you are in the monastery you will feel enriched and also discover the true essence of life. The inside walls of the Namgyal Monastery are adorned with sculptures, paintings, and pictures of Lord Buddha and other Buddhist idols.
The Namgyal Monastery was completed in the year 1564 by Gyalwa Sonam Gyatso who was the 3rd Dalai Lama. In the year 1571, the monastery was named as Namgyal, this name was given to honor the female deity, Namgyalma. After the Tibetan revolt in 1959, the Namgyal monastery was then shifted to Mcleod Ganj where it is there even in today's times. As per the advice of the present Dalai Lama advice to set up a branch of the Namgyal Monastery in New York and it was in the year 1992 the Namgyal Monastery Institute was established. The students in the Namgyal Monastery undergo a 13-year program after which they will get a degree of Master of Sutra and Tantra.
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Q&A: David Rapp on Tinker to Evers to Chance
Poetry immortalized the Cubs' legendary infielders, who brought the team a World Series victory when a rough-and-tumble sport was emerging as the national pastime.
By Jared Wyllys
Joe Tinker, John J. Evers, and Frank LeRoy Chance Photos: Courtesy of Jay Sanford; New York Public Library; Courtesy of Mark Braun, Old Timers' Baseball Association of Chicago
David Rapp, who grew up listening to the Cubs in Madison, Wisconsin on his dad's car radio, retired in November 2014 from a lengthy career covering politics, and he went to work almost immediately afterward on a book he had wanted to write for several years.
Tinker to Evers to Chance: The Chicago Cubs and the Dawn of Modern America was released on April 2. Rapp carefully details the lives of the three Cubs infielders who were immortalized in Franklin Pierce Adams' 1910 poem "Baseball's Sad Lexicon" and known to Cubs fans for steering the 1907 and 1908 championship teams. Rapp said the idea for the book first came to him years before the Ricketts family bought the team, when he began to try to understand his own dedication to a franchise that had not rewarded its fanbase with a title for a century. His book vividly details the lives of all three players, weaving together how they converged in Chicago at the beginning of the 20th century. Along the way, Rapp tells the story of a changing America that became suddenly and almost inexplicably gripped with baseball fever.
Below, a Q & A with the author about the process of researching and writing his book:
Your writing career for many years was solely in politics. What was your sportswriting background?
I started out as a sportswriter in high school. I got my first job with my local city newspaper, the Evansville Press in Indiana, and that's what I thought I was going to do. I got a scholarship from Vanderbilt called the Grantland Rice Scholarship for Young Sportswriters, and then I got waylaid after that; I got into politics. My first job at a newspaper after college was in Memphis on the city desk. I thought if I took a job there I might be able to get back on the sports desk, but I just never did. So I stayed covering politics, first in newspapers in Memphis, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh, and then I went to Washington, and I went to work for Congressional Quarterly, where I was for about 25 years working as a reporter and an editor. So I'm finally back to sports after I retired from that. This was my long, long desired to return to sportswriting.
Was the idea to write about these three players (Tinker, Evers, Chance) born out of your own fandom?
I became a Cubs fan when I was 10 years old rooting for Ernie Banks back in the 1960s, and it was about six or seven years ago, when the Cubs were in one of their troughs, that I just asked myself, "What is the grip this team still has on me? I've been rooting for them all these years, and nothing."
So I started looking into the history of the team, and I found my way back to this period when the Cubs were an actual dynasty. I tried to get as much information as I could, reading everything I could get my hands on, and there just wasn't very much, not enough to quench my curiosity. So I decided I'd better write the book myself.
The 1908 team carried an almost mythological status for such a long time. What gave you the idea to take such a unique angle on this team?
Obviously, Tinker, Evers, and Chance are famous because of this poem that Pierce wrote. Well, their names are famous, the poem doesn't tell you anything about them. So I started looking at the three of them and what would be an interesting literary conceit because they each came from different parts of the country: Evers from Troy, New York, Tinker from Kansas City, and Chance from Fresno, California.
That gave me three different regional cultures of the late 19th century, and then they all came together in Chicago in 1903, and Chicago had its own transformation taking place. It gave me a device to describe all these different things that were going on around the country at the turn of the century using those three guys, and also Frank Selee, who was the manager.
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For this time period, to do the research for something that was over 100 years ago—what is that like?
It's very hard to get personal papers or those kinds of primary sources that a lot of these stories rely on, but I had a couple of advantages. I live six blocks from the Library of Congress, so I had all kinds of resources available to me there that I could ride my bike over and get any day of the week.
And what's happened recently is that old newspapers have been digitized and put online, so I could dive into these newspapers and do keyword searches on them. I was able to find things that you would never be able to find if you were scrolling through microfilm day after day. And right around the turn of the century, there was a big interest in the United States to write local histories, so there were a lot of books in the first decade of the 20th century that were about the 19th century, so you could glean a lot of descriptions of the period.
Naturally, research like this is going to involve some rabbit holes. What was the biggest one?
I got fascinated by the Irish national game of hurling, and I was trying to find a connection between hurling and baseball. I went down that rabbit hole for a long time, and I was able to find a connection to Troy, New York and this group of Irish athletes who came. I had seen advertisements about them coming, but there was no article that described them actually getting there until I finally found it in the Troy Public Library. I had gone through all the microfilm they had except for one paper. According to my Library of Congress guide I had, the library had this bound volume of the Troy Telegram from 1888, and I found inside this thing a newspaper article about the Irish athletes who had just come to Troy the day before, and I'm in this little room in the library dancing a jig over this discovery.
In a similar way, what did you come across in your research that most surprised you?
I've been covering Congress for all my career, and legislative history is a big issue, and covering that is all about precedence. And what I didn't realize is the 1908 Merkle's Boner play where Fred Merkle didn't touch second base, and Johnny Evers was able to nullify a winning run in a crucial game.
I discovered there was actually a game a few weeks before where Evers did the same thing and was unable to convince the umpire to cancel the run, but he made such a fuss about it that he was able to force the umpire and the president of the league to say that if it happened again Evers would be right. And of course it happened again, which made the difference in that game.
Along with that, I found a quote from the umpire a few years later saying that it wasn't about Evers getting him out at second, it was that the New York coach ran out onto the field to get the ball and try to throw it away, so he called the play dead because of that interference. It helped answer the debate that's been going on about this play for 110 years.
What's the takeaway you hope people get from this book?
Like I said, I wanted to understand the grip this team had over me and has over so many other people like me. I wanted to understand what it is about sports in America that makes us attach ourselves to a team. It's a phenomenon that was new to the 20th century. People in the 19th century used to get this excited about politics, they'd go out to political rallies and things like that, but they didn't go to sports events, not in the mass numbers that they started doing in the early 20th century and like they do today. That's what I'm hoping to show, that something happened in this period, that these guys wanted to play baseball at a time when it wasn't a respected profession, and it made people like us want to go watch them do it.
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There is an urgent need for many to come forward in strong and assertive manner to help stop the environmental exploitation.
Perhaps, the plants out number all other species by providing numerous, diverse families and species in the world that manifests in many forms from algae to gigantic trees. But it may not remain like this for long time. With fast deforestation and diminishing green cover, we are losing our green resources.
You can help the planet with a change in your life style and becoming aware of the depleting greenery. Green cover is fast depleting, a single small step towards helping the planet earth by planting as many trees in the compound of your house will go long way in sustaining green living.
There are plenty of varieties that you can grow in your eco friendly house. Have plants on the terrace garden that are drought resistant. Use indoor gardening to combat unhealthy environment inside your house instead of using fresheners.
Perhaps you know that the earth population has increased many folds and the demand for water during this period is becoming worse. Most Americans use an average of 100 gallons of water every day, which is equivalent to filling 1,600 drinking glasses. The fact is that only 4 of those 100 gallons are actually necessary for a person.
With increased demand of fresh portable water, come exorbitant prices, not to mention the threat to our depleting water reserves and environment.
Small steps can take big leaps in making changes for an environment that is free from pollution. For example, switching to an eco-friendly shopping bag can make a huge difference to the huge problems of plastic grocery bags at the landfills!
By making small changes, using less resources through your daily routines you can cause the climate change effect for better though slowly and steadily. Next time you want to buy a car, consider buying an eco-friendly car. If your grocery shop is nearby consider taking the bicycle or going on foot. When you are planning to buy an Air-Conditioned, think of other alternatives – how about planting more trees and improving air circulation. Using solar power for heating and doing many household chores is other alternative.
Going Green facts is all about trivial steps towards our precious surroundings and resources.
There are several organizations working for enhancing green cover. Of them, the Rainforest Alliance is a Non-governmental organization (NGO) with the published aims of working to conserve biodiversity and stopping rainforest deforestation. It is headquartered in New York City, and has offices throughout the world. The Rainforest Alliance was founded in 1987 by Daniel Katz, who is still involved in the organization.
A growing number of companies, cooperatives and landowners that participate in Rainforest programs meet strict standards that conserve biodiversity. At the Rainforest Alliance, the belief is in ensuring long and healthy lives for people, for wildlife and for the planet by establishing sustainable ways of working the land. They are doing a lot of hard work in promoting green living across more than 60 countries around the world. This requires collaboration with farmers, workers, business leaders, NGO's, governments, scientists and social communities to develop and persuade green living standards that are economic.
Have you tried living with modest means?
Decluttering my surroundings is an ongoing task. As my life changes, so do my requirements.
Do you think living minimalist is not for everybody?
Some people can do it, some can't. I'm determined to make it so, as I really do not need all the 'stuff' I have in this house. And my mother-in-law is even more of a hoarder than I have been. I realised when I left my last retail job that I hadn't written a letter to any of my penpals in over two years, and I wondered why I bothered keeping all the things I used to send them. That's where the decluttering bug really hit. My mother-in-law is also generously donating items for me to sell on eBay too, thus varying the range of items I can sell quite widely.
Our mind and life is clogged by multitude of things, complications, stress and worries. We do not realize that decluttering takes some initiative and simple steps to kick-start.


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Q: How can I discard any injected scripts from the absolute path of a page? I'm trying to get the absolute path of a uri in a MVC ASP.NET webpage.
I'm using the
Request.Url.AbsolutePath

But this can be hacked using some clever XSS technique by giving a url like
http://example.com/about/%27%3bfunc(document.cookie)%3b%27gfg

This would give me the "absolute url"
/about/';func(document.cookie);'

by using the Request object above. So how can this be avoided?
Cheers
Jens

A: Thank you for the comments. I've decided to go with a dead simple string.Replace and take out %() from the url. This would avoid any xss attempts.

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