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Topic Digital transformation and app modernization
SubTopic Mobile development
Legacy app modernization
Managing microservices development and deployment
Tackling microservices issues with Red Hat exec
Key steps in .NET microservices architecture
Deciding between VMs and microservices
New DevOps stack from IBM
Istio creates open source platform
Post-deployment considerations and practices
How to fix microservices performance issues
Making SOA and microservices get along
Governing container and microservices apps
Using automated continuous integration for microservices success
Overcoming microservices security challenges
Glossary of microservices-related definitions
This content is part of the Essential Guide: An essential guide to modern microservices management
IBM, Google, Lyft launch Istio open source microservices platform
IBM, Google and Lyft joined forces on Istio, an open source microservices platform that connects and manages networks of microservices, regardless of their source or vendor.
Darryl K. Taft
IBM, Google and Lyft have teamed up to deliver Istio, an open source microservices platform for developers.
The Istio project is a collaboration among the three companies to bring forth an open technology that provides a uniform way to connect, secure, manage and monitor networks of microservices on cloud platforms, regardless of platform, source or vendor.
The open source microservices platform supports managing traffic between microservices, enforcing access policies and aggregating telemetry data -- all without requiring changes to the microservices code. The service also gives developers new levels of visibility, security and control when building apps on the cloud, as microservices and containers become the de facto way to build apps, IBM said.
Indeed, Istio is a response to the changing landscape of application development using microservices, which are all about decomposing large applications into smaller, more manageable pieces, said Scott Laningham, a strategist for IBM developerWorks, in a video about the project.
"We've had this vision of trying to create a new paradigm around cloud-native applications based on microservices, and we've been on this journey for some time," Angel Diaz, IBM's vice president of cloud architecture and technology, told TechTarget. Diaz said the journey goes back to 2014, when IBM joined forces with Docker to bring containers to open governance. And it continued with Big Blue pushing the Open Container Initiative, supporting the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and bringing the Kubernetes container orchestration technology into the fold.
However, Diaz noted that IBM's interest in decomposing large applications into smaller pieces goes back almost as far as IBM's been in the software business.
IBM is drawn into this anew, as its large enterprise clients have begun to adopt containers and microservices as integral parts of their development environments. "The microservices approach is particularly well-suited to developing large-scale, continuously available software in the cloud," said Jason McGee, vice president and CTO of IBM Cloud Platform, in a blog post on Istio. Yet, managing the scale of microservices efforts can be problematic, which is where Istio comes in.
"As microservices scale dynamically, issues like service discovery, load balancing and failure recovery need to be solved uniformly," Laningham said. "That's why the Istio collaboration is so important."
The open source microservices platform helps software teams account for service discovery, load balancing, fault tolerance, end-to-end monitoring and dynamic routing for feature experimentation, as well as compliance and security, the three companies said in a joint blog post.
Tech from three companies
The Istio project is based on technology from each of the founding companies: IBM's Amalgam8, Google's Service Control and Lyft's Envoy.
Built in IBM Research, Amalgam8 is unified service mesh that provides a traffic-routing fabric with a programmable control plane to help users with A/B testing and canary releases, and to systematically test the resilience of their services against failures, McGee said.
A service mesh is a layer of infrastructure that lies between a service and the network that gives operators the control they need, while freeing developers from having to address common distributed system issues in their code.
Google's Service Control provides a service mesh with a control plane that focuses on enforcing policies, such as access control lists, rate limits and authentication, in addition to gathering telemetry data from various services and proxies.
And Lyft created Envoy proxy to support its own microservices environment. The technology supported Lyft's production system spanning more than 10,000 virtual machines (VMs) handling more than 100 microservices.
"IBM and Google were impressed by Envoy's capabilities, performance and the willingness of Envoy's developers to work with the community," McGee said.
Combined efforts and early support
In fact, "it became clear to all of us that it would be extremely beneficial to combine our efforts by creating a first-class abstraction for routing and policy management in Envoy, and expose management-plane APIs to control Envoys in a manner that can be easily integrated with CI/CD [continuous integration/continuous delivery] pipelines," he said
So, in addition to developing the Istio control plane, IBM also contributed several features to Envoy, such as traffic splitting across service versions, distributed request tracing with Zipkin and fault injection. Google hardened Envoy on several aspects related to security, performance and scalability, McGee noted.
On the technology side ... the challenges that developer teams face in terms of effective communications and keeping the moving pieces of various microservices working smoothly together are all too real.
Charles Kingprincipal analyst at Pund-IT
Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, said he believes the Istio announcement is interesting in terms of the technology and its three vendor partners.
"On the technology side, the problem that Istio aims to fix -- the challenges that developer teams face in terms of effective communications and keeping the moving pieces of various microservices working smoothly together are all too real. Istio's conversion of microservices into an integrated service mesh subject to programmable routing and a shared management layer is an intriguing approach that looks like it will address those key pain points and also enable microservices to scale more easily and efficiently."
Istio currently runs on Kubernetes platforms, such as the IBM Bluemix Container Service. IBM and Google plan to build additional support for platforms such as Cloud Foundry and VMs in the near future.
McGee noted that Istio has generated early support from several sources, including Red Hat with Red Hat OpenShift and OpenShift Application Runtimes, Pivotal with Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Weaveworks with Weave Cloud and Weave Net 2.0, and Tigera with the Project Calico Network Policy Engine.
Istio runs on Kubernetes platforms, with Cloud Foundry and others in the future.
IBM's involvement in Istio builds on its support for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
Istio connects, manages and secures microservices.
Darryl K. Taft asks:
How does the Istio microservices platform fit in your enterprise?
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Der OFC Champions Cup 2006 war die fünfte Ausspielung eines ozeanischen Meister-Wettbewerbs für Vereinsmannschaften im Fußball und fand vom 10. bis 21. Mai 2006 mit acht Vereinen aus sieben Ländern im North Harbour Stadium in Albany (North Shore City) Neuseeland statt. Die Mannschaften kamen aus Neukaledonien, Neuseeland, Fidschi, Papua-Neuguinea, den Salomonen, Tahiti und Vanuatu. Erstmals war kein Vertreter Australiens am Start, da Australien sich dem asiatischen Fußballverband AFC angeschlossen hatte; dafür zwei Vertreter aus Neuseeland. Die Teams qualifizierten sich aufgrund ihrer Platzierungen in der nationalen Meisterschaft, wobei sieben Mannschaften für die Finalrunde gesetzt waren. Weitere vier Teams hatten vorab eine Qualifikationsrunde in Ba auf Fidschi zu bestreiten, deren Sieger sich für die Finalrunde qualifizierte. Der Wettbewerb wurde in einem Rundenturnier mit zwei Gruppen a vier Teams und anschließender K.-o.-Runde gespielt. Die jeweils zwei Gruppenbesten erreichten das Halbfinale.

Der Sieger Auckland City aus Neuseeland qualifizierte sich als Vertreter Ozeaniens für die FIFA-Klub-Weltmeisterschaft 2006 in Japan.

Qualifikation
Die Qualifikationsspiele fanden vom 6. bis 10. Februar im Govind Park in Ba auf Fidschi statt. Gespielt wurde in einer einfachen Runde jeder gegen jeden. Der Gruppensieger qualifizierte sich für die Finalrunde des Wettbewerbs.

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Beste Torschützen
Nachfolgend sind die besten Torschützen der OFC-Champions-League-Saison aufgeführt.

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks
 Details zum Wettbewerb 2006 auf rsssf.com (englisch)

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Brig Owens has reached more than 24,000 students in Washington, D.C.
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House passes voting rights bill to restore protections struck down by Supreme Court | The Washington Post
The House passed legislation Friday restoring protections of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act that were undone when the Supreme Court struck down federal oversight of elections in states with a history of discriminating against minority communities. The bill passed 228 to 187, with unanimous Democratic support and the vote of one Republican — Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.). "No longer will cynical politicians and states with dark histories of discrimination have the green light to freely continue their systemic suppression campaign," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on the floor. The bill faces long odds of becoming law, with opposition […]
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Michelle Obama Donating More Than $500K from Blockbuster Memoir to Support Girls' Education | People
"My hope is that this donation will help more bold and brilliant girls reach their fullest potential," the former first lady said
The Constitution's Role in Slavery (Article 1, Section 9: Clause 1) | The HBCU Chronicles
We are being told of the evils of "cancel culture," a new scourge that enforces purity, banishes dissent and squelches sober and reasoned debate. But cancel culture is not new. A brief accounting of the illustrious and venerable ranks of blocked and dragged Americans encompasses Sarah Good, Elijah Lovejoy, Ida B. Wells, Dalton Trumbo, Paul Robeson and the Dixie Chicks. What was the Compromise of 1877, which ended Reconstruction, but the cancellation of the black South? What were the detention camps during World War II but the racist muting of Japanese-Americans and their basic rights? Thus any sober assessment of […]
Sen. Kamala D. Harris is ending presidential bid | The Washington Post
Sen. Kamala D. Harris of California announced that she is ending her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. In a note to supporters, Harris wrote that "my campaign for president simply doesn't have the financial resources we need to continue.""It is with deep regret — but also with deep gratitude— that I am suspending my campaign today," she wrote. "But I want to be clear with you: I am still very much in this fight." Harris had qualified for the December debate but was in single digits in both national and early-state polls. Harris, 55, entered the race a rising […]
As Democrats lurch left, black Christians stand firm in their values | Washington Examiner
Something remarkable just happened in St. Louis that you probably didn't hear about. The Church of God in Christ, a seven-million-member black denomination, unanimously passed a historic resolution affirming the value and dignity of every human life and opposing the practice of elective abortion in America. A key excerpt from the Resolution on the Sanctity of Human Life reads: COGIC is one of the largest historically black Protestant denominations, which also include the National Baptist Convention, the National Baptist Convention of America, the Progressive National Convention, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and the Christian […]
The strange world of Black Voices for Trump | The Guardian
The president only won a paltry 8% of the black vote in 2016, but the organisation has powerful friends – so who are the people on its advisory board?
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Housing Discrimination Complaints Reach 24-Year High, While HUD Rolls Back Fair Housing Rules | The Washington Informer
As a candidate, President Donald Trump promised that if elected, deregulation of the federal government would be an administration priority. Soon after taking the oath of office, he issued an executive order requiring all departments and agencies to eliminate two existing regulations for every one new regulation proposed. In some cases, rules that were adopted before his term in office began but had not yet taken effect were either suspended or delayed. For example, the long-awaited payday rule at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was one important consumer protection that was delayed. Similarly, at the Department of Education, two […]
Man who threatened to shoot Ilhan Omar pleads guilty | Roll Call
Patrick Carlineo Jr., of Addison, N.Y., faces 10 years in prison and $250,000 fine
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Ayanna Pressley Introduces Sweeping Criminal Justice Reform Resolution | Essence
The United States, a nation addicted to punishment and cages, is the number one jailer in the world, something that Pressley is seeking to change.
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What does the name truvy mean?
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Meaning of Truvy: Name Truvy in the German origin, means A person who appreciates beauty. Name Truvy is of German origin and is a Girl name.
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The meaning of the name "Viren" is: "Leader of heroes". Categories: Hindi Names, Hindu Names, Indian Names, Sanskrit Names. Used in: Hindi speaking countries. Gender: Boy Names. Origins: Sanskrit.
What does the name Ryung mean?
Meaning of Ryung: Name Ryung in the Korean origin, means Brightness. Name Ryung is of Korean origin and is a Boy name. People with name Ryung are usually Christianity by religion.
What is Truvy a nickname for?
Truvy is baby girl name mainly popular in Christian religion and its main origin is . Truvy name meanings is Spear, maiden, dear, strength. Other similar sounding names can be Gertrude.
What does the name ouiser mean?
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Soren means "strict", "severe", "serious" and "stern" (from Latin "severus").
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Ouisa Origin and Meaning The name Ouisa is a girl's name meaning "renowned warrior". Wheezy short form of lovely name, featured in the movie "Steel Magnolias." Go for Lou or Lulu instead.
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universal strength
t-ru-dy. Origin:German. Popularity:10503. Meaning:universal strength.
Is Soren a biblical name?
Søren (Danish: [ˈsœːɐ̯n̩], Norwegian: [ˈsøːɳ]) or Sören (Swedish: [ˈsœ̌ːrɛn], German: [ˈzøːʁən]) is a Scandinavian given name that is sometimes Anglicized as Soren. The name is derived from that of the 4th-century Christian saint Severin of Cologne, ultimately derived from the Latin severus ("severe, strict, serious").
Is Soren a cool name?
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Q: Pass variable value between php functions I'm trying to share a value of $shippingMethod from the getMainDetails() function to the estimateDeliveryDate() function in the same class to run a conditional but the second function doesn't appear to be getting the value:
private function getMainDetails($order)
{
    //This value is correctly being set from my order details in Magento
    $shippingMethod = strtolower($order->getShippingDescription());
}

private function estimateDeliveryDate($orderCreatedDate)
{
    if ($shippingMethod == 'saturday delivery') {
        echo 'Saturday Delivery';
    } else {
        echo 'Standard Delivery';
    }
}

Wondered if someone could help?
Thank you.

A: Use properties of the class ($this->variable), instead of local variables ($variable). You also have a syntax error in your code, where you compare for the value of $shippingMethod.
The method below assumes that you call getMainDetails() before  being able to use estimateDeliveryDate(). You should however ensure that, by having $order being passed to estimateDeliveryDate(), and call getMainDetails() from there (where you return from the getter instead of set a property).
class Foo (
    private $this->shippingMethod; // Initialize

    /* Your other methods */

    private function getMainDetails($order)
    {
        //This value is correctly being set from my order details in Magento
        $this->shippingMethod = strtolower($order->getShippingDescription());
    }

    private function estimateDeliveryDate($orderCreatedDate)
    {
        if ($this->shippingMethod == 'saturday delivery') {
            echo 'Saturday Delivery';
        } else {
            echo 'Standard Delivery';
        }
    }
)

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*PHP.net on properties of classes
Alternatively, you can return from each function - which is what you should do from methods that is  a "getter", i.e. getMainDetails()

A: You need to add your variable as a property, like so:
class myClass
{
    private $shippingMethod;

    private function getMainDetails($order)
    {
        //This value is correctly being set from my order details in Magento
        $this->shippingMethod = strtolower($order->getShippingDescription());
    }

    private function estimateDeliveryDate($orderCreatedDate)
    {
        if ($this->shippingMethod == 'saturday delivery')
        {
            echo 'Saturday Delivery';
        } else {
            echo 'Standard Delivery';
        }

    }
}

EDIT
However, a more solid approach at this would be something along these lines:
class DeliveryHandler
{
    private $order;

    public function __construct(Order $order)
    {
        $this->order = $order;
    }

    private function getDeliveryDateEstimate()
    {
        if ($this->order->getShippingMethod() == 'saturday delivery') {
            return 'Saturday Delivery';
        } else {
            return 'Standard Delivery';
        }

    }
}

class Order
{
    public function getShippingMethod()
    {
        return strtolower($this->getShippingDescription());
    }
}

Few of things going on in that example.

*

*I moved shippingMethod() into the Order class as it is not the DeliveryHandlers responsibility so it should not have to care about what's going on in that method. The data belongs to and comes from Order.

*I made getDeliveryDateEstimate() return a string instead of using echo. This makes your code more reusable - eg what if one day you want to pass this to a template or another variable instead of echoing it. This way you keep your options open.

*I'm using dependency injection to pass the Order class into the DeliveryHandler, thus making the public interface of Order available to DeliveryHandler.
If you happen to have a laracast subscription you could check out these courses here, they explain all this stuff in a nice digestible format:
https://laracasts.com/series/object-oriented-bootcamp-in-php
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The Penalty of Leadership
Well, well.
We'll start off with this heated Frank Rich rant laying out the usual liberal story line, which has now become undeniable for the President, that his public relations first, actual meaningful responsibility and attendant responsible action a distant second, has finally backfired, apparently, as reflected in the President's now record (for him) dismal polling numbers.
That precise observation, the "Operation Hug a Black Person" is backfiring on all cylinders, is also reflected in this great piece by Billmon, noting that while Bush's ratings among liberals can't go much beyond where they are (perhaps a 10% approval rating?); no, no… what matters now is that for the first time, the combination of undermining both of the core values of so-called Republican values (i.e. government cheapness about spending money (1) in general and (2) toward the benefit of dark-skinned people particularly) is actually costing Bush among his hardened base. (That, and as I've pointed out before, high gasoline prices will do that.)
We, of course, shudder at just how big a jerk New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin must be to have to actually be wrong when the Bush Adminsitration is right, but such is the case as Nagin halted his ahead-of-schedule directives to businesses in New Orleans to try to get people back into the devastated city. Something about… Hurricane Rita or something. (Has anybody noticed that we're already up to "R" in hurricanes, and we're still in September? Just asking…) I hate to say it, but New Orleans could have used a guy like Rudy Giuliani (though, thankfully, they now have Vice-Admiral Thad Allen, albeit way, way too late). Of course, as they say about the Big Easy (similar to what they say about my home County of Kings): we don't tolerate corruption… we demand it.
Anyway, there you have it. The President, right now, albeit around 11 months too late, is hopelessly damaged goods. While it's a little too late to do anything about John Roberts, the President may well need another publicity stunt for O'Connor's replacement… time will tell… (My suggestion is a former Watergate prosecutorial staffer… now the junior senator from New York… wouldn't that be something?)
So much else going on in this wild and crazy world… elections in Germany and Afghanistan, the latest "deal" with North Korea… Actually, the link is pretty balanced from our friends in Beijing who brokered the deal…
The thing is, in substance, I am at a loss as to distinguish it from an apparently identical deal reached by the Clinton Administration around ten years ago, that was widely derided by Republicans as some sort of "appeasement". But, as with everything else from record deficits to treason, I suppose IIOKIYAAR…
My fellow Americans, you can vote for a Democratic House in '06… the only hope we have of neutralizing, if not impeaching, this Damaged Duck of a President… the choice is yours, America…
September 19, 2005 by sfarber Uncategorized
Reality fails our expectations… again…
CPeterka says:
THE S.O.P.
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T. Torrest Down the Shore 4/21/2015
Livia Chadwick is a photographer by day and a self-proclaimed rock slut by night. Her dating life is a lackluster parade of evasive jerks and her boss is an unrelenting nightmare of a human being. What else can a girl do but rent a beach house with her girlfriends and blow off a little steam every weekend? But hey, she's from Jersey. Barhopping down the shore all season is sort of mandatory. All is going according to plan… until she meets Jack. Jack Tanner is a contractor-turned-musician in a small-town cover band suddenly thrust into the limelight. He's already had enough of the rock-and-roll lifestyle, and groupies have never been his thing. Then again… there's a gorgeous brunette in the audience tonight, checking him out with the most incredible green eyes he's ever seen. She's looking for a fling. He's looking for forever. It's gonna be one helluva summer. Set in the summer of 1995, Down the Shore takes the reader on a tour through some of the Jersey shore's hottest hot spots over one, sleepless, flannel-clad summer. It's a look back to a time when the music was groundbreaking, the rock clubs were king, and bar bands ruled the world. Read when you're in the mood for: something light, funny, romantic, beachy, and nostalgic. For ages 18+. ***Not recommended for anyone under the age of 18, and/or any readers who are slut-shamers, guido sympathizers, beach haters or anti-music. Other people who should walk away from this book immediately: Readers who have sticks up their butts regarding offensive language, those who don't like detailed sex in their stories, idiots who think "Jersey Shore" has anything to do with actual New Jerseyans, and anyone who can't appreciate pop-culture from the mother-effing nineties.***
Excerpt: Jack's lips purse together, as if he's literally trying to bite his tongue. Instead, his eyelids lower to half-mast as he says, "You're not so tough, you know. You try to put up this big front, but your act is pretty transparent." I put a hand to my hip. "What the hell is that supposed to mean? I'm not putting on an act." "Sure you are. This whole groupie thing you've got going on. I'm not buying it." "I wasn't trying to sell it." At that, he cracks a small smile, and it makes me feel more vulnerable than had I been standing there completely naked. You know, kind of like how he almost is. The thing is, I almost don't mind being called out by him, since most guys don't bother to scratch beyond the surface. It's flattering to think that Jack is intrigued enough to try. Because honestly? I was full of it when I said I wasn't acting. I'm sort of impressed that he was able to figure me out so soon. Hell. I haven't even figured me out yet. Twenty-something is hard. Trying to discover who you are and who you're going to be. Some people figure it out early, have it all together. And some people go a little off the deep end and wind up with multiple sex partners, trying to shut out the crushing trauma of trying to find their place in the world. That's why his assessment isn't necessarily a relief. No one likes having their walls torn down, having their shitty reality thrown in their face. I'm sure the unease is playing out on my face as I bite my lip during our awkward silence. Right now, all I want is to make my escape. "I should bring these down to Monty. He's going to wonder what's taking me so long." He gives me a long, hard look at that, his lip curling into a dangerous smirk. "He can wait. I can't." Before I know it, I'm dropping the pans to the floor as he backs me against the wall, his lips crashing down on mine. I want to shove him away, but hot damn. He's fucking way too good at making me fall to pieces. I kiss him back, because really, what the hell else can I be expected to do? I smooth my hands up his torso, feeling the muscles of his chest jumping under my palms. I slip my fingers into his hair and part my lips against his, sweeping my tongue inside, his cool, minty taste invading my senses. His insistent lips slant across my own as his hands pull me closer against his length. Despite my wishes to the contrary, my heart starts beating out of my goddamned chest. It triples in pace when I realize Jack's is racing, too. He pulls back to take a much needed breath, shooting those mysterious gray eyes into mine. He runs a finger across my bottom lip, lightly brushing it back and forth. "Your mouth," his aching voice scratches out. "I could lose myself against these lips." My brain tumbles over itself as he comes back in for another kiss, wondering if this means he's changed his mind about letting me do all sorts of crazy stuff to his peen. Because I totally will. Just as soon as he lets me.
About T. Torrest: T. Torrest is a New Adult fiction writer from the U.S. She has written many books, but prays that only a handful of them will ever see the light of day. Her stories are geared toward readers of any age that know how to enjoy a good laugh and a dreamy romance. Ms. Torrest was a child of the eighties, but has since traded in her Rubik's cube for a laptop and her Catholic school uniform for a comfy pair of yoga pants. She likes pina coladas and getting caught in the rain. She's not much into health food, but she does enjoy talking about herself in the third person. A lifelong Jersey girl, she currently resides there with her husband and two sons.
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Picture gallery: Staff at Co-op store in Great Bardfield share £2.4 million Lottery win
Sam Winter, Alice Jervis, James Naunton, Sue Markowicz, Andrew Watson and Stacey Moorish, all employees at the Great Bardfield Co-operative Food shop, collectively won the £2.4 million jackpot on February 13 along with two other employees not pictured. - Credit: Archant
TEN lucky workers from a village shop have scooped £2.4 million on the lottery.
The group from the Co-op food store in Great Bardfield near Braintree picked up almost a quarter of million pounds each after all six of their numbers came up last month.
But, incredibly, despite the massive windfall, none of the staff plan to give up work or to spend their money straightaway.
Shop worker, Andrew Watson, 22, said he and his colleagues were being "worryingly sensible" in the wake of their big win.
He said: "It's all a bit mad and unreal at the moment and I'm just taking time for it to sink in.
"When I heard we'd won, I thought about buying a new car or splashing out on a holiday. Then the day after the money was in my account I went down to Lakeside to buy a load of clothes, but I just didn't want to. I wanted to keep the money."
Mr Watson, from Great Dunmow, added: "The money has opened so many doors for me. I'm just going to let it sit in my bank account for six months, earn some interest and maybe look at property."
The 10 winners are part of a team of 22 staff at the shop in the heart of the picturesque village. And according to store manager, Sam Winter, the unlucky dozen, who had chosen not to join the consortium, are "genuinely pleased" for their workmates.
"We've had a great response from everyone. The customers keep coming in and giving us a hug. It's been difficult to get on with work at times," said mother-of-two Mrs Winter, 35, who is also a winner.
She added: "I know I'm bias but it couldn't go to a nicer team. Everyone works so well together and we've won the Co Op's' regional community store prize for the last two years.
"We're located in the centre of the village and get involved in raising money for all sorts of different local causes but at the moment we're the focus of attention."


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The Hot List: Essential New Movies of 2020
Hello and welcome back to 2020's final post from the Hot List. This week we will be looking at the most exciting new movies set to hit the big screen in 2020 from March onwards, after the cutoff point for this year's awards season.
This post has taken longer than usual to produce, for reasons that I am sure will come as no surprise to anyone. With all the craziness going on in the world right now, things like films and games can inevitably seem kind of trivial in comparison. But after giving it some thought, I've come to the conclusion that there is worth in the message that things will return to normal, and that we have much to look forward to when that happens. I complete this preview as a testament that whatever else happens, human creativity and passions endure.
2019 is a year that I think is fair to say was one of the stronger in recent memories when it comes to cinema. From Joker to Jojo Rabbit, Parasite to the Irishman, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood to 1917, rarely has there been such a wildly eclectic lineup of high quality films, resulting in an awards season that remained uncommonly unpredictable right up until the end. It pleases me to look at the year ahead and see another treasure trove of bold and exciting projects, which should provide something for everyone to enjoy.
I should caveat that the release dates below are accurate as of the time of writing. In recent days we have seen a spate of delays and industry disruption that could easily see them change.
So without further delay, the key films to keep an eye on in the coming year (trailers linked in the title where available), starting with number 15:
15. Stardust
We begin with the first major motion picture concerning the life of legendary songwriter David Bowie.
Stardust will star Johnny Flynn (an impressive likeness and well regarded songwriter in his own right) as a young Bowie circa 1971, the years leading up to the creation of Ziggy Stardust, the work for which Bowie is arguably most well known. The film will be directed by relative newcomer Gabriel Range, with Marc Maron and Aaron Poole set to play supporting roles.
The film's production has not been without its share of controversies, with Bowie's sone Duncan Jones disavowing the project and claiming that the film has not been made with the cooperation of the Bowie estate (and therefore presumably without music rights). There is also the concern that this could just be another musical biopic piggybacking on the recent success of Rocketman and Bohemian Rhapsody.
So concerns abound, but the source material is there, as is a great story. Here's hoping they can craft it into a worthwhile film.
Release Date: 17 April, 2020
14. Trial of the Chicago 7
The second feature to be directed by legendary screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, Trial of the Chicago 7 is based on the story of the Chicago Seven, a group of defendants charged by the Federal Government with conspiracy to incite anti-war and counter-cultural protests in 1968.
Sorkin, also writing the screenplay, directs an all-star cast including Sacha Baron Cohen, Eddie Redmayne, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Frank Langella, Mark Rylance, Michael Keaton and many others.
Add to this a veteran cinematographer in Phedon Papamichael and an awards friendly September release, and clearly Chicago 7 is expected to be a big deal among this year's cinema.
Release Date: 25 September, 2020
13. No Time to Die
The next, and for Daniel Craig the last (this time he apparently really means it), James Bond film is coming, No Time to Die.
This time around directorial duties fall to Cary Fukunaga, best known for True Detective, Maniac, and Beasts of No Nation, while superstar of the moment Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Killing Eve, Fleabag) writes. Craig will be joined in the cast by Oscar winner Rami Malek, as well as Lea Seydoux, and cast regulars Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw, Ralph Fiennes, and the rest.
Originally schedule for an Easter release, the ongoing public health crisis has necessitated a delay until November 2020. All the signs so far suggest it will be worth the wait.
Release Date: 12 November, 2020
12. Dune
Dune, an epic sci-fi adventure franchise beloved by many, but with a trouble history of adaptations. The 1965 novel was notably made into a film in the 1980s, and a miniseries in the early 2000s, but has generally struggled with screen adaptations, owing to the complexity and ambition of the source material.
In 2020 a new adaptation is coming courtesy of Denis Villeneuve, an Oscar winning filmmaking with a burgeoning reputation following his work on Arrival, Blade Runner 2049, and Sicario. Villeneuve also co-writes the script along with Eric Roth (Munich, Forrest Gump, A Star is Born). Dune will star man of the moment Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, and Javier Bardem.
Release date is set for December, indicating high expectations not just commercially, but critically.
Release Date: 18 December, 2020
11. Nightmare Alley
Nightmare Alley is the next picture from Guillermo del Toro, his first since winning the Oscar for Shape of Water. While that film may be far and away del Toro's greatest success, he has a long history of the bizarre and macabre from Pan's Labyrinth to Crimson Peak. While my expectation is that this will be more of the same, it is interesting to note how different the source material is from his usual fare.
The original novel follows a con-man and female psychiatrist who trick people into giving them money, but includes none of the supernatural elements that we might associate with a del Toro film. One can only hope that he maintains his characteristic directorial flair, even as he moves into more traditional genres.
The cast includes a lineup of strong performers, including Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, and Willem Dafoe. Release date is TBA.
Release Date: TBA 2020
10. Next Goal Wins
Taika Waititi is having something of a moment, the New Zealand filmmaker and actor has come a long way from indie comedy hits like Flight of the Conchords and What We Do in the Shadows to running the Thor franchise for Disney and, of course, his Oscar winning success with Jojo Rabbit.
His next film, Next Goal Wins, is based on the true story of Dutch football coach Thomas Rongen and his efforts to take the American-Samoa national team, then considered the worst in the world, to the 2014 World Cup.
Michael Fassbender stars as Rongen, and he will be joined by Elisabeth Moss, Armie Hammer, and long-time Waititi collaborator Rhys Darby.
Release date is still TBA.
9. In the Heights
When it comes to films that will make a lot of money, In the Heights has got to rank up there as a sure thing. This is an adaptation of the Lin Manuel Miranda stage musical, the one he made before Hamilton.
This project has had something of a turbulent production history. Originally cancelled in the early 2010s, only be resurrected following the success of Hamilton by none other than Harvey Weinstein. Then all that happened, and this projected ended up over at Warner Bros.
In the Heights will be directed by Jon Chu, a man best known for the rather forgettable Step Up franchise of dance films, but who more recently has found his break in the world of serious filmmaking with the critically acclaimed Crazy Rich Asians. The former will stand him in good stead for directing a musical, while the latter showed him to have some genuine talent as a filmmaker. I think this is in good hands.
Release Date: 26 June, 2020
8. Irresistible
The return of Jon Stewart, legendary comedian and former host of The Daily Show who has largely remained on the sidelines (in terms of showbiz anyway, he has been very influential as an activist) following his retirement.
Irresistible is a political comedy starring fellow Daily Show alumnus Steve Carell, Rose Byrne, Topher Grace, Chris Cooper and Natasha Lyonne, which sees two prominent political strategists take national politics to small town Wisconsin, turning a local race into a battle for the soul of the country.
This marks the second feature film to be directed by Stewart following 2014's impressive Rosewater. If that hard hitting political drama seemed strangely outside the comfort zone for Stewart, Irresistible will be right up his alley.
Release date is set for May 2020, right in the thick of the Presidential election.
7. West Side Story
If you're like me, your first thought here was probably "do we really need another adaptation of West Side Story?" And you would be right, but this is Steven Spielberg, and Spielberg doesn't make a film unless he has something worthwhile to say.
Spielberg is not the only legend on this project, with the screenplay penned by the Pulitzer Prize winning Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America and co-writer on Munich.
The presence of such luminaries makes a great opportunity for star Ansel Elgort (The Fault in Our Stars, Baby Driver) who has been threatening to break into Hollywood's A-list for some time. This could be the one that puts him into the stratosphere.
West Side Story will release this December, the thick of the awards season.
Tenet sees director Christopher Nolan return to the familiar action/thriller territory of Inception following his award winning turn with Dunkirk. The plot line is simple: "a secret agent is tasked with preventing World War III through time travel". Sounds like classic Chris Nolan mind-bending shenanigans.
The cast this time around will include Blackkklansman star John Davd Washington, Robert Pattinson, Kenneth Branagh, Himesh Patel, Aaron Taylor Johnson, and of course long-time Nolan collaborator Michael Caine. Tenet will, however, mark a rare Chris Nolan film without brother and long-time collaborator/screenwriter Jonathan Nolan, with Chris taking on writing responsibilities himself as he did for Dunkirk.
Tenet is set for a July release, and is being billed as the summer blockbuster to keep an eye on for 2020.
Release Date: 17 July, 2020
5. Soul
Pixar Studios have two films set for release in 2020, but it is Soul which looks to be the more exciting prospect.
This one is directed by Pixar legend Pete Docter, director of Up and Inside Out and stars Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey. The great Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross will team up once again to deliver the score.
Soul is classic high-concept Pixar storytelling. Foxx plays a jazz musician who suffers an accident which results in his soul being separated from his body and sent to "the great before". There he must race against time to be reunited with his body before it is too late.
Soul is aiming for a summer release, and looks set to be another great entry in the Pixar canon.
4. Ghostbusters: Afterlife
It is finally happening. We are finally getting a real sequel to the classic Ghostbusters films of the 1980s. We can now officially pretend that awful Paul Feig reboot never happened, because we have a real sequel and it looks good. It's just a shame they couldn't make it happen before the death of Harold Ramis.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife will be directed by the son of original filmmaker Ivan Reitman, and acclaimed filmmaker in his own right, Jason Reitman (Juno, The Frontrunner, Up in the Air).
The film follows a new cast of characters, starring Paul Rudd, McKenna Grace, Finn Wolfhard (of Stranger Things fame), and Carrie Coon as a family who stumble across their deceased Grandfather's (presumably Ramis' Egon) old ghost catching materials, and presumably hell literally breaks loose.
Ghostbusters releases this July, and I am very, very excited about it.
3. Mank
If there is one thing Hollywood loves, it's films about films. Mank is a biopic of screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, writer of Citizen Kane. This is the latest film of David Fincher and the big tentpole of Netflix's 2020 film lineup.
Mank will star Gary Oldman as the lead, with Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, and Charles Dance in supporting roles. This also marks another collaboration between Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross on the score (they're having a busy year!).
Release date is still TBA, but one would expect a release in the latter stages of the year for awards season. A film about films, and such a beloved film as Citizen Kane at that, is almost guaranteed success.
2. News of the World
News of the World sees director Paul Greengrass team up with Tom Hanks for the first time since Captain Phillips. This is based on the novel of the same name.
This historical drama sees Hanks play a Texan traveling across the wild west shortly after the end of the American Civil War, who agrees to return a kidnapped girl, Helena Zengel, to her family on the other side of the country, facing off against the tremendous challenges of both human and natural forces.
Greengrass co-writes the screenplay along with Luke Davies, seen mostly recently with the acclaimed Lion.
Release date is set for an awards-friendly Christmas day.
1. The French Dispatch
And finally we have the new film of Wes Anderson. French Dispatch is a love letter to journalism, set in the outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional French town in the mid 20th Century.
The cast features a typically well-stocked lineup of big names, including Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet, Lea Seydoux, Christoph Waltz, Saoirse Ronan, and of course all the usual Wes Anderson collaborators such as Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, and many others.
Love him or hate him, a new film by Anderson is always worth seeing, for the style of filmmaking if nothing else. Anderson will be joined once again by long-time cinematographer and collaborator Robert Yeoman.
Release date is set for July 2020.
So there you have it folks: The 2020 Hot List. Chin up, things will get better, and the Hot List will return in 2021.
The Hot List: Essential New Music of 2020
Welcome back to The Ephemeric's 2020 Hot List. I hope you enjoyed our last entry covering the essential theatre of 2020. This week we will be having a look at the most exciting new music due for release in the coming year.
I am sure I say this every year, but this has been a particularly difficult longlist to whittle down to the final 15. A number of very prominent acts (and old favourites) ultimately did not make the cut in what was a very strong year - sorry The 1975 and Red Hot Chili Peppers, I promise I still like your music! So a very exciting year ahead, with some promising new acts, some old favourites, and on this website they've been narrowed down to just the real creme de la creme.
So without further ado, here is our list of the top albums to keep an eye on in 2020, starting with number 15:
15. Arlo Parks (New band)
First up: Arlo Parks. Hailing from south London, Parks has found herself featuring on many big in 2020 previews. A teenage prodigy and poet, Parks specialises in low-fi music that displays a control and lyrical nous that belies her tender years.
The key tracks from the scattering of EPs released to date include Cola and Paperbacks, two tracks that keenly demonstrate her characteristic tone that has been commonly described as "bedroom pop".
Parks embarks on her first headline tour this spring, with a debut album reportedly in the works for later on in 2020.
Release Date: Late 2020
14. Broken Bells
For those who are not in the know, Broken Bells is the experimental side project of underground wunderkind turned A-list producer Danger Mouse, and The Shins frontman James Mercer.
Danger Mouse, of course, legendarily bootlegged a mash up of Jay-Z and The Beatles called The Grey Album, and has since worked with artists such as Gorillaz and Adele, formed one half of Gnarls Barkley and produced a number of his own award winning solo material.
Broken Bells will release their as yet untitled third studio album this summer, and have so far released new single Shelter. While we await further details, you can remind yourself of the band's talents with previous tracks The High Road and After the Disco.
13. "Juvenoia" by Strabe (New band)
The cream of the new faces in the Irish pop scene, Strabe is a twenty-something producer based in Dublin working on a debut album Juvenoia with collaborator Angelica.
The first tracks out so far include Best Worst Year and Acid Love, two pristine examples of pop that elicit a psychedelic/disco feel. Despite the heavy retro influences, their's is a very clean and elegant sound, and one that could see them make something of a splash in the indie scene.
We don't have a release date for Juvenoia (originally slated for 2019), but it is expected to drop before the summer.
12. "Miss Anthropocene" by Grimes
Canadian songwriter Grimes is having something of a moment as a darling of art pop, her last album Art Angels earning rave reviews and numerous rankings among the top albums of 2015. Faced with a new level of stardom and expectation, Grimes is releasing Miss Anthropocene, her biggest and most ambitious album to date.
Less upbeat than Art Angels, signs are nevertheless good that album number five will produce a work of very high quality. The tracks released so far are an eclectic but undeniably intriguing bunch, including Delete Forever, Violence and 4EM.
Grimes is fast establishing herself as one of the more interesting songwriters in the business, and I expect this will be another major hit.
Release Date: Spring 2020
11. "Swimmer" by Tennis
Denver indie pop mainstays Tennis return for a fifth album, one which sees a continuation of their evolution from the low-fi radio pop beginnings to more full-blooded nostalgia throwbacks.
Swimmer looks to be another lovely selection of pop songs about love and marriage, most notably lead single Runner, which could easily pass for a forgotten Kate Bush classic. Also check out I'll Haunt You and Need Your Love.
Swimmer is definitely the highest production value from a duo that began recording tracks in their bedroom over a fuzzy mic, and makes clear the band still has much to say.
10. "Suddenly" by Caribou
What is it with 2020 and fifth albums? This time we are with Caribou, another of the Canada's indie pop darlings and his new album Suddenly.
The six years since previous album Our Love seems a long hiatus by modern standards, but if there is any rustiness they don't show it with the production of the new album's first tracks. The pick of the bunch has to be You and I, a bittersweet gem with a hint of Kraftwerk about it. It pairs oddly well with folk ballad Home, also a cracking tune with a great sample.
A new Caribou album promises rich soundscapes with eclectic influences, and we can't wait to see what else they have in store when the new album drops.
9. Beabadoobe (New band)
This London-based prospect blends a too-good-to-be-true origin story with a timely and well-shined homage to 90s alternative pop. Beabadoobee started writing songs from her bedroom as a teenager (she's still just 19) using a secondhand guitar. A friend uploaded a track of hers' to Spotify where it generated thousands of listens, and she was quickly signed up for a record deal.
The last few years have seen a string of well received EPs uploaded, but 2020 will see Beabadoobee touring the summer festivals while working on a debut album. In the meantime, you will want to check out the key songs Coffee, Space Cadet, and If You Want To. It's mostly simple, elegant fare, but enough to suggest a promising future for the young songwriter.
First album is expected some time in 2020, but no firm release date has been provided. I would expect to see it towards the tail-end of the year.
8. "Out of the Darkness" by Gizmo Varillas
Spanish-born, London-based musician Gizmo Varillas is one of the most promising young performers in the indie-folk scenes; a producer of consistently strong music and a surprisingly prolific collaborator with a number of other prominent artists.
His third studio album Out of the Darkness is due for release this summer. At the time of writing we have just a small number of potential songs from the new LP, including the titular Out of the Darkness and Cysgod dy Gariad, both of which are excellent. While we await further details, you can tide yourself over with some of the other excellent tracks he has put out in recent years, most notably Freedom For Change.
Blessed with bright textures, and warm melodies, Varillas has a great ability to meld both light and dark into his tracks in a way that I find quite effective. All indications are that this is a star in the making.
7. Everything Everything
Manchester's best musical import in decades have had a few big years, finding great critical and commercial success with their last two albums Get to Heaven and Fever Dream.
Now having had a three year break since the latter, Everything Everything are getting ready to release their fifth (again!) studio album.
No details on the new album except that it has been worked on pretty much constantly over the past three years and will release sometime in 2020. So in the meantime, here's a few tracks to remind you what all the fuss is about: Distant Past, Good Shot, Good Soldier, and Regret.
6. "The Slow Rush" by Tame Impala
For their long-awaited fourth studio album, Aussie indie rockers Tame Impala have delved more into the realms of smooth psychedelia, creating another LP of remarkable creativity and invention.
The dizzying emotional highs and lows of Tame Impala can be quite adequately represented by the new album's two lead singles, Borderline and Lost in Yesterday.
For those who like something a bit different, or who appreciate their pop music with a dose of thoughtful and decidedly introverted lyrics, this new album will likely be right up your street.
5. The xx
Now we get into the top five, where the real big-hitters await. First up we have the long overdue return of The xx, one of Britain's best new bands of the 2010s.
Over the last few years art-rockers The xx, and the side project of co-founder Jamie xx, have produced an impressive portfolio of work, with brilliant tracks such as VCR, On Hold, Loud Places and I Dare You.
So what do we know about studio album number four? Literally nothing aside from the fact that it has been announced via social media, and will release in 2020. Do we need to know anything more at this stage? Nope, the fact that a new The xx album is on the way is ample reason on its own to be excited.
4. Joy Crookes (New band)
The top rated newcomer of 2020, Joy Crookes is the south London soul songwriter that has taken the music blogosphere by storm.
The last year has seen her grace just about every list and nomination of new musicians and promising new songwriters, now a debut album is in the works, due to release by May this year.
Joy Crookes is a gifted storyteller with a timeless sound, with a deftness of songwriting that belies her tender years. Essential tracks released so far include Mother May I Sleep with Danger? and Hurts.
3. "Shore" by Fleet Foxes
By now you're probably tired of all these mysterious albums that will release in 2020 but we don't have any details yet. Well here's another one!
This is the return of Fleet Foxes, masters of contemporary folk rock and, with Helplessness Blues, the writers of what in this blog's view was the single best album of the 2010s. For an understanding of this band's awesomeness, check out White Winter Hymnal, Helplessness Blues, Third of May / Odaigahara and for good measure Someone You'd Admire. Tremendous.
So this new album will be called Shore, but otherwise we know nothing, aside from a redacted list of song titles teased by frontman Robin Pecknold on Instagram last year. No pressure, but we expect greatness.
2. The Avalanches
When The Ephemeric predicted a few years ago, in a Hot List post much like this, that The Avalanches were returning for a second album, it was kind of a big deal. The Avalanches famously struck gold with their debut album Since I Left You back in 2000, before getting mired in a legal and production nightmare that would see the follow up take an astonishing 16 years to release. It was worth the wait, and Wildflower ended up being one of the decade's best albums.
So when I hear that the band are producing another record, I am understandably excited. We don't have an album name or release date yet but the first single has dropped, We Will Always Love You, and it's another lovely track, if a bit of a departure from the band's usual fare.
My bet is the album drops around the summer. Until then, tide yourself over with a few of The Avalanches' classic tracks, Since I Left You, Colours, If I Was a Folkstar, and probably their most famous song, Frontier Psychiatrist.
1. "Imploding the Mirage" by The Killers
And we'll finish with a bona fide music blockbuster, a new album from The Killers.
These guys don't need any introduction, they're one of the world's biggest bands and have produced an array of hit songs from Mr. Brightside to All These Things I've Done, Read My Mind and Human. We know nothing about the new album aside from the fact that it will be titled Imploding the Mirage, and that it is likely to release in the summer.
For all the hits they have released over the years, they arguably haven't had a great album since 2008's Day & Age, and while the last two albums have been reasonably well received, the fan response has generally not been as strong as with the first three albums. But a new album from The Killers is always going to be a big deal, and we are hopeful that this will mark a triumphant return.
So there you have it folks: 2020 in music. Tune in next week for this year's final Hot List, where we look at the most exciting new movies in 2020!


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Capitol Update
Capitol Update: Rep. Holscher urges voters to contact legislators, ask for 'clean' Medicaid expansion bill
Staff Report - January 13, 2020 11:15 am
Rep. Cindy Holscher speaking at a panel she organized on Medicaid expansion in August 2019.
Each legislative session, we provide the Shawnee Mission area's elected officials with the chance to share their thoughts about what's happening in the state capitol. Rep. Cindy Holscher, Rep. Rui Xu and Sen. Barbara Bollier are scheduled to send updates this week. Rep. Holscher's column is below.
The work of expanding Medicaid continues in Kansas. For close to seven years a number of people – voters, healthcare advocates and legislators like myself who favor Medicaid Expansion – have worked to forward this important program. It is encouraging to see individuals who have worked to prevent expansion throughout that time now FINALLY coming to the table on this topic.
Not passing expansion in previous years has caused the state of Kansas to forfeit over $3.7 BILLION in federal tax dollars. That money should have been used to help our vulnerable population, our hospitals and our economy. Keep in mind, the population that would be affected through expansion consists largely of the working poor. This situation is compounded when you take into consideration that 85% of Kansas hospitals are operating with negative margins; expansion is needed to provide a life line to many of these facilities or access to health care will continue to be negatively impacted.
The progress on this topic has only occurred because of the unrelenting work on the part of proponents and voters/advocates who have called, emailed and showed up at the Capitol to press for expansion. Much gratitude to Gov. Kelly who has made Medicaid Expansion a priority of her office since day one. While we appear to be moving in a positive direction, there is much work left to do and this is far from "done." There's a great deal of procedural work that has to occur and it is quite likely, as in the past, that extremist factions will try to unravel work that is being carried out by attempting to add unrelated amendments and bureaucratic red tape in an effort to stop expansion. More than ever, it is vital that voters reach out to their state legislators and let them know we need to pass a clean plan. The people of Kansas have had to wait far too long for access to healthcare.
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UK faces biggest wave of redundancies in a generation, think-tank says
UK is vaccinating 140 people per minute on average, minister says
Valneva says UK rollout of Covid-19 vaccine could start in July-September
UK to suspend all travel corridors from Monday
UK Supreme Court hands businesses victory in Covdi-19 insurance ruling
Pharmacies join UK's mass Covid-19 vaccination rollout
Around 650,000 people, and potentially a lot more, were likely to be made redundant in Britain between July and December, according to the Institute for Employment Studies, an independent research organisation
FILE PHOTO: A woman wearing a face mask crosses a bridge in front of One Canada Square in Canary Wharf, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), London, Britain, May 18, 2020. REUTERS/Simon Dawson/File Photo
Britain is on course to suffer the biggest increase in redundancies in a generation in the second half of 2020, based on lay-off notifications by employers hit by the coronavirus shock to the economy, a think tank said on Monday.
Around 650,000 people, and potentially a lot more, were likely to be made redundant in Britain between July and December, according to the Institute for Employment Studies, an independent research organisation.
"Sadly, much of this restructuring appears now to be inevitable," it said.
Layoff notifications were running at more than double the levels of the 2008/9 recession and around 450,000 redundancies could occur in the July-September period - 50 percent more than the quarterly peak during the global financial crisis.
However, it was not inevitable that the high level of redundancies would lead to mass unemployment if people were able to find jobs with new employers, the IES said.
The government should cut the costs of employment to boost hiring and provide "tightly targeted" wage support in industries and areas that remain viable in the longer-term, the IES said.
Finance minister Rishi Sunak has resisted calls to extend his coronavirus job retention scheme which is due to expire at the end of October.
Employers' groups are urging him to cut social security contributions to soften the expected rise in unemployment.
The IES said its forecasts were based on data from employers planning 20 or more redundancies.
Official labour market figures due on Tuesday are expected to show Britain's jobless rate rose in the three months to July for the first time having held at 3.9 percent since the Covid-19 lockdown began in March.
More up-to-date figures from Britain's tax office are expected to reveal further job losses on top of the surge of 730,000 reported between March and July.


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Source:Pic Click– Traci Lords, in Ice
I don't think Ice is a great movie, but just because a movie isn't a great movie, doesn't mean that it's not good, or at least entertaining and very entertaining. Typical of a lot of Traci Lords movies which tend to be b-movies anyway, ( I mean, we are talking about a porn actress ) there is a lot of cheesy writing in the movie that makes it sound like some action TV show from the 1970s or 80s, that never got off the ground, because the pilot failed. ( Ha, ha, get it ) But typical of her movies there's also a lot of sexy scenes with her in it and I'm not talking about her porn films ( necessarily ) and a lot of good action scenes. Car chases and shootouts., where she's either playing a tough, badass, sexy, gorgeous cop, or in this case a bad girl who gets the bad guys at the end with her husband.
Source:Alamy– Traci Lords and Jamie Alba
Even with Traci's gorgeous, baby face, she plays a bad girl in Ice. Ellen Reed ( played by Traci Lords ) and her husband Charley Reed ( played by Phillip Troy ) are cat burglars sho steel diamonds from the mafia and the local police detectives are on to them to try to catch them. This is really not a movie about bad guys and girls versus good guys and girls, but more like a movie about dancing with the devil that you know the best with the mafia being the worst devils in this case and the cops trying to use the Reeds's to help them bring down the local mafia there. Not that different from how the FBI an U.S. Attorney's use informants and ex-mobsters to help them bring down the mafia in New York and other big cities in America.
The plot alone I believe makes Ice a very interesting movie. But it's a cheap film like most b-movies and unlike Intent To Kill that did have other stars in it including Traci Lords with Scott Patterson and Yaphet Koto, I don't believe unless you're some Hollywood movie historian and junkie, I don't believe that you would recognize anyone else in this movie other than Traci Lords. But considering that Ice is a movie with a lot of perhaps c-actors and not even b-actors and that Traci at this point at least is probably just a b-actress at this point, Ice is a very watchable and entertaining film. Especially considering what they had to to work with. Sort of like an NFL team that wins 9 or 10 games without any stars on the team, Ice is a good film especially considering what it had to work with.
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Source: Amazon– Hollywood Goddess Eileen Davidson, before she was a star starring on Broken Badges
If you believe never hearing of the CBS 1990 cop drama Broken Badges makes you special, you need to take a trip back to the drawing board especially if everything else about you is normal. You try to put a fan club together for a series that would barely qualify as a mini-series when we're only talking about 10 episodes or so and you might fill up a phone booth, but leaving room for people to breathe and move inside of it.
Source: BMPR– Eileen Davidson before she was a star, guess starring on Broken Badges. And perhaps thinking what she's doing sitting next to a guy with a toy doll, but I'm not a mindreader.
Which is fine because unless you're a big fan of Eileen Davidson ( from the great soap opera The Young and The Restless ) or big fans of Ernie Hudson or Miguel Ferer, Charlotte Lewis even, or CBS is not only your favorite network but has been your whole life and perhaps you're the President of the CBS Fan Club and can name everything that great network has ever produced from the flops like Broken Badges to great shows like M*A*S*H and not just grew up with the network and it remained your favorite network as an adult as even a middle age adult, your'e probably not familiar with this show either.
Source: CBS- Eileen Davidson and Ernie Hudson starring on Broken Badges
I only got into Broken Badges myself when I started watching The Young and The Restless and Days of Our Lives several years ago when Eileen Davidson was working on both shows. And I was thinking I think I knew who she was before I started watching these shows, because I've seen her in a few other things and started looking into what she's also done, because she's great on both soaps and great to look at as well. ( And water is still wet )
Source: Mystery File– Eileen Davidson before she was a star
And started thinking about a certain b-movie that she did like in the late 1980s which of course was Easy Wheels where she plays a biker goddess who is the leader off a female biker gang. And then thinking didn't she play a tough but sexy cop on a cop show from like the late 80s or early 90s when I was in high school. That is how I got into Broken Badges myself and watched every single episode of that short lived series last weekend in preparation for this piece. Broken Badges, obviously did flopped or it wouldn't have started in late 1990 and barley made it to 1991, but there were some good things about it and it did have a good cast.
The whole premise of Broken Badges where you have the rebellious officers and detectives who had issues with rules and following them and are always in trouble with their superiors, that are lead by a detective sergeant ( played by Miguel Ferer ) who was fired by the New Orleans PD and then broth in by the Bay City ( fictional town and PD ) because he wouldn't follow department rules, regulations, take orders, thinks he smarter than everyone else, pretty much explains why this show barley qualifies as a series. This show would've been suited if it was based on a private detective agency where the detectives are all ex-cops who are talented but fired by their department for breaking the rules, that are brought in by a guy starting his own new detective agency after he was fired from his department.
But a lot of pilots fail and perhaps most do, but that doesn't mean they're complete failures if they have good casts that were good on those pilots and become stars later on and the failed pilots that they were part of become like jumpstarts for their careers. Easy Wheels and Broken Badges, didn't make Eileen Davidson, Ernie Hudson, Miguel Ferer, or Charlotte Lewis stars. Hudson and Ferer, were already somewhat known from shows and movies from earlier in their careers. Hudson, with Ghostbusters and Ferer with Robocop. And Broken Badges allowed for Eileen Davidson to be on network TV and be seen which lead to other and much better roles for her.
Just to talk about Officer Bullet ( played by Eileen Davidson ) she plays this very tough and yet sexy, gorgeous, very cute even. What would be called a vice detective where she goes undercover a lot and works with dangerous people that would kill her if they discovered she was a cop. And she's doing this work with a look of a badass biker chick very similar to Easy Wheels which came out right before Broken Badges went on the air in 1990. She's always wearing this sexy black leather biker jacket , blue Levi's jeans, black western boots, and there are a few scenes where she's wearing black leather chaps over her blue Levi's denim jeans. And she's kicking ass in the movie a lot but always kicking bad guys ass, because of course her character is addicted to danger as the background of her character says. Eileen Davidson, is all the reason I need to watch this show and it also has a lot good humor and funny scenes in it as well.
CBS: Borken Badges- Westside Stories
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June 2, 2018 June 2, 2018 Erik SchneiderLeave a comment
Source: Google– Direstor John Huston & Marilyn Monroe
Source: The New Democrat
Just a personal note first.
Have you ever seen a gorgeous woman or any woman in general, look better in Levi's and boots, than Marilyn Monroe? If you look at The Misfits movie you have about 40-45 minutes of Marilyn in dark wash Levi's denim jeans were she's either wearing a tank top of white blouse and about 10-15 minutes or so of Marilyn with a blue Levi's denim jacket as well. And keep in mind, this movie was made in 1960 wear women weren't wearing tight jeans including Levi's on a regular basis at least on TV or in the movies. And you have this gorgeous baby-faced adorable blonde with a beautiful body in these dark wash Levi's and boots.
Source: Google– Marilyn Monroe & Clark Gable
Women were barley wearing pants at all on TV and in the movies back then and if they were wearing pants at all, generally they were business pants. Tight jeans and boots for women especially that combo, didn't become common and mainstream for American women until the late 1970s with the designer jeans revolution. Marilyn was sort of like Catherine Bach ( who played Daisy Duke on The Dukes of Hazzard ) in The Misfits as far as style and looked gorgeous and sexy during the entire movie.
As far as the movie itself it wasn't a great movie. It was entertaining and at times pretty funny. But Elie Wallach who was one of the best actors at least of his generation and in this movies is right about the word misfits. The four main characters in the movie including Marilyn, but also with Burt Lancaster, Eli Wallach, Thelma Ritter, and Montgomery Clift, were basically all drifters who went from place to place and got involved in this or that. Gary Langland, ( played by Burt Lancaster ) Guido, ( played by Eli Wallach ) and Pierce Howland, ( played by Montgomery Clift ) were all Nevada cowboys but they were part-time cowboys at this point.
Roslyn Taber ( played by Marilyn Monroe ) and Isabelle Steers ( played by Thelma Ritter ) were even bigger drifters than the cowboys. Roselyn was just recently divorced and not knowing where she was going from there and how where her life was going. Isabelle was Roselyn's friend but perhaps even more of a drifter than Roselyn and just being with her friend to help her out and try to start over. They end up in Reno, Nevada and stop at a bar which is where they meet Gary and Guido and start to get to know each other. And they tell the two woman that they're cowboys which is where Roselyn gets interested and find out that Roselyn has nowhere to stay and Gary brings her back to his cabin.
The Roselyn character is so sweet, adorable, and innocent in the movie. Idealistic and naive and overly idealistic as well. Expecting people to better than they actually are. Marilyn was literally the kid in the movie both figuratively and literally. With the other four main characters all having real world experience and knowing people for who they are. The seen when they start to go rodeoing is a perfect example of that. Roselyn thinks that the guys there are just there to catch horses and then let them go for sport. When the fact is they're doing it for money and are going to sell the horses to people that are going to kill the horses and use them for meet to sell on the market. The only person in the group who is not aware of this going in. Like a kid.
This is not Marilyn Monroe's worst movie and certainly not her best movie. I believe she physically looks her best in this movie along with The River of No Return where she plays a woman with a lot more experience and sense for the real world. In The Misfits I believe she comes off as 15-16 year old little girl and not just because she was adorable enough enough to pass for a girl that young physically. But her character's personality in this movie is very immature and inexperienced. Good movie if you love gorgeous sexy women in jeans and boots and love cowgirls. But the movie itself leaves plenty to be desired.
Source: Marilyn Monroe The Ultimate Collection: Marilyn Monroe & The Making of The Misfits– Marilyn Monroe's last movie
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May 23, 2018 Ederik SchneiderLeave a comment
Source: Clips About Nothing– Teri Hatcher & Jerry Seinfeld
If you're familiar with this Seinfeld episode, you know that Teri Hatcher's plays Jerry's new girlfriend that he met at their health club. And one of the first things that he notices about her is of course is her how should I say, nice rack. And he tells his friends about her and they can't believe that her breasts are real and feel the need to see them for themselves. And Elaine ( played by Julia Dreyfus ) agrees to be Jerry's spy and she sort of follows Jerry's girlfriend around their health club and into the sauna to see if her breasts are actually real or not.
Source: Fed-El Kryptonian– Teri Hatcher & Jerry Seinfeld
What you see in this video is that it finally occurs to Sidra ( played by Teri Hatcher ) that Jerry not only doesn't know if her breasts are real or not, but that he had a spy follow her around to see for herself if Sidra's breast were real or not and that is why she walks out on him in his apartment. This was even before Teri Hatcher got the Lois Lane character on the ABC Clark Kent show about Superman. So she wasn't a star yet in Hollywood or even a known name yet, but this is episode and break that made Teri Hatcher a star and has kept her working in Hollywood for the last 25 years.
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May 21, 2018 Rik SchneiderLeave a comment
Source: The Daily Review Plus– Goldie Hawn, chair sitting
Source: The Daily Review
I'll be one of the first to admit that Housesitter is not a great movie and perhaps not a very good movie. It was pretty funny though at least Goldie Hawn was pretty funny it, but I guess she's funny in anything because she's Goldie Hawn. One of the best comedians and comedic actress's of all-time. But Housesitter is also one of those movies that guys such as myself will watch even if it's not a very good movie, if it has a beautiful sexy woman in it. And in Goldie Hawn's case a hot sexy woman in it. This scene with Goldie going up to rural Massachusetts to check out a house that she knew of because of a guy she slept with the night before that she met for the first time (played by Steve Martin) told her about this place. Which sort of shows the quality of this movie, is a perfect example of what I'm talking about.
Source: Boots N Burbs– Goldie Hawn & Steve Martin
Checking out Goldie in those Levis and the suede boots as well with the tank and the coverage of her in that outfit, with her body, the cute butt and the beautiful legs and everything, sort of reminds me of The Dukes of Hazzard where you don't have to be a fan of that show to be a fan of Daisy Duke (played by Catherine Bach) on that show. Just seeing her in it and seeing her like that is really all the motivation to see that movie. Goldie Hawn is a true Hollywood Goddess. Very funny, a hell of an actress, gorgeous, baby-faced adorable, beautiful body, who wears Levis about as well as any women can. And if you get through lets say the first ten-minutes or so of Housesitter before Goldie appears, I believe she might keep you in the movie the rest of the way.
Source: Nick C: Housesitter 1992- With Goldie Hawn– Goldie Hawn, in Levi's
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Aged wood surfaces give a room a good deal more comfort, through artificial patination get wood furniture also a noble antique look. Aged wood has a dark, rich color, it also has signs of wear and sometimes wormholes. Imitate the aging process with stain or a gas burner - and add artificial signs of wear.
Try on a sample the color effect of your stain.
Thoroughly clean the surface of the wood to be treated, remove all paint.
Remove any hardware or tape it off.
Roughen the wood surface lightly with sandpaper and remove the dust. - If necessary, seal the end grain surfaces with shellac.
Apply the stain evenly with a sponge or brush in the direction of the grain.
Let stain stand briefly and wipe off again before drying.
Since the stain penetrates the wood and does not remain as a layer on the surface, your piece of furniture does not look "painted" after this treatment, but rather naturally aged. In addition, the grain is completely re-emphasized.
Clean the wood and remove all old paint.
Practice flaming first on a sample surface.
Let the wood cool down.
If necessary, work the surface with a fine brass wire brush.
In order to age wood effectively, it is also advisable to apply some artificial signs of wear. This should be done before treatment with stain or before flaming. Position the traces of wear in the appropriate places.
Fill a bag with heavy pieces of iron and hit it on the wooden surface. With a small hand drill, add wormholes, always in small clumps.
You can also sandpaper the "frequently touched" areas to round edges and simulate straightening due to mechanical stress. After pickling or flaming, you can still apply paint splashes or simulate old paint residues.
At the end of the treatment, coat your old new piece of furniture with an antique wax polish. This ensures care and protection, but also for a refined look that makes color differences clearer.
A leather sofa can be repaired if damage has occurred to the cover, seams or base. Here you can find out what options you have.
The hipped roof volume is not only important for the calculation of the room heating volume. What to look out for and where to find the data can be seen here.
Mold on the ceiling in the bathroom - what can you do?
What mold can be on the bathroom ceiling, when you can still eliminate it yourself, and how best to prevent, read here.
Cement screed can also be laid on underfloor heating systems - either as classic or as floor screed. He is particularly insensitive to moisture.
Would you like to build a prefabricated house, is also the choice of the prefabricated house provider. Here you can find out what advantages a prefabricated house company offers.
At what height water connections are mounted in the kitchen, whether there are standards and how to extend inappropriate connections, read here.
If you eliminate extreme surface contamination, bleaching can help to clean it. We explain why bleaching should be used only exceptionally.
Modern computer programs allow the production of prefabricated houses even before the actual planning. Here's how this technique can help.
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For a clear view of the sky, there are transparent roof panels that provide unobstructed visibility in enclosed spaces. From 15 eur you get these plates.
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Dardanup is een plaats in de regio South West in West-Australië.

Geschiedenis
De eerste Europese kolonist die zich in de streek vestigde was Thomas Little in 1852. Hij noemde zijn eigendom Dardanup Park en bouwde er een hofstede. Men gaat ervan uit de naam Dardanup een variatie is op het Aborigineswoord Dudingup waarvan de betekenis niet bekend is. Little gaf land aan de Katholieke Kerk en trok andere Ierse katholieke kolonisten aan. Een kleine gemeenschap ontwikkelde zich. De Thomas Little Memorial Hall werd in 1854 gebouwd en was het eerste katholieke kerkje buiten de Perth.

Een schooltje werd opgericht in 1854 ten huize Little. Vanaf 1871 gaf men les in de kerk waarna men verhuisde naar een klein huisje naast de kerk. In 1896 bouwde de overheid een nieuw staatsschooltje dat dienst deed tot 1971 toen men het schooltje fusioneerde met de schooltjes van Wellington, Ferguson en Waterloo in een nieuw gebouw in de Hayward Street in Dardanup.

In 1893 werd begonnen met de bouw van een gemeenschapszaal door J. & H. Gibbs die de laagste offerte hadden binnengebracht. In 1894 werd de zaal geopend door de weledele H. W. Venn. In 1895 werd een postkantoor gebouwd en in 1991 werd het gerenoveerd. In 1898 woonden er 81 mannen en 37 mensen in Dardanup.

In 1902 werd het Dardanup Hotel gebouwd maar twee jaar later brandde het af. Een nieuw hotel werd op dezelfde plaats recht getrokken en opende op 28 juni 1905. Het wordt tegenwoordig de Dardanup Tavern genoemd.

Het grondgebied Dardanup was steeds in private handen geweest. In 1920 kwam het grondgebied in handen van de overheid die het verkavelde met het oog op een dichtere bewoning. In 1923 werd Dardanup officieel een dorp.

In 1937 werd een nieuwe kerk gebouwd omdat de oude uit 1854 te klein was geworden, de Church of the Immaculate Conception.

Beschrijving
Dardanup maakt deel uit van het lokale bestuursgebied (LGA) Shire of Dardanup, waarvan Eaton de hoofdplaats is.  In 2021 telde het plaatsje 588 inwoners.

Het ligt 187 kilometer ten zuiden van de West-Australische hoofdstad Perth, 10 kilometer ten zuidoosten van Bunbury en 13 kilometer ten noorden van Boyanup.

Dardanup heeft een basisschool, een gemeenschapszaal, een gemeenschapscentrum en enkele sportfaciliteiten.

Toerisme
 In het Dardanup Heritage Park wordt een verzameling industriële en landbouwmachines tentoongesteld.
 Dardanup ligt in de Fergusonvallei.

Galerij

Externe link
Shire of Dardenup

Plaats in West-Australië


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Q: EF4: Splitting a table to two entities using POCOs - why am I getting an exception? I have one table "Courses" mapped to two entities "Course" and "CourseDetails".
Both have POCO classes with virtual navigation properties.
Both entities use same ID (Identity on Course but not on CourseDetail).
Mapping between entities is a "referential integrity constraint" not in "mappings" window.
Course is principle in constraint.
I am using LazingLoading and ProxyCreationEnabled.
After calling context.SaveChanges() the connects look fine (IDs, references and data).
When accessing course.CourseDetails from within a loop on context.Courses I get the default empty CourseDetails created by Course's constructor instead of the actual CourseDetails data!?
When I call context.LoadProperty(course, c => c.CourseDetails) I get an InvalidOperationException with the message:
"Multiplicity constraint violated. The role 'CourseDetails' of the relationship 'OrmComparisons.EFPocos1.CourseDetailsCourse' has multiplicity 1 or 0..1."
Question 1: Why is course.CourseDetails empty?
Question 2: Why am I receiving an exception?
Question 3: What should I be doing instead?
I can share the solution + sql file if anyone wants to look.

A: After comparing self written POCOs with template generated POCOs,
I noticed the Fix___ methods, which are meant to fix navigation properties.
Some how all other types of relationships (one to many, many to many, inheritance)
work with virtual properties and lazy loading.
Only the table splitting to one-to-one relationship.
Anyway - fix was using t4 generated POCOs and not self written POCOs with simple { get; set; } properties.


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Q: How to change default sort order in Catalina's Reminders? The new Reminders with Catalina allows the user to change the sort order, but does not remember the user's choice after system restart and always defaults to Apple's choice, which I believe is manual. Is there any way to change the default sort order to, say, due date, which would be my preference? I cannot find a suitable .plist file where default sort order is a parameter that can be changed. Any hints or ideas welcome.

A: I am inclined to accept the comment by @Joakim Danielson as the answer. Accordingly, instead of expecting a solution in a .plist file, I have written this Applescript to execute on startup (you also have to grant it accessibility permissions in Security & Privacy)
tell application "Reminders"
    activate
end tell
#wait for Reminders to launch since can't control startup items order
do shell script "/bin/sleep 5"
tell application "System Events"
    tell process "Reminders"
        tell menu bar 1
            tell menu bar item "View"
                tell menu "View"
                    tell menu item "Sort By"
                        tell menu "Sort By"
                            click menu item "Due Date"
                        end tell
                    end tell
                end tell
            end tell
        end tell
    end tell
end tell


Even though we spend about a third of our lives asleep, the function of sleep is still not fully understood. One of the leading hypotheses concerns the beneficial role of sleep for the consolidation of memories. Thousands of years ago, philosophers and early psychologists realized that memories are strengthened over a period of sleep. However, the mechanism by which this benefit is achieved still remains somewhat of a mystery.
In the mid-1990s, a curious scientific discovery in rodents ushered in a new age of sleep and memory research. Researchers noticed that brain cells in the hippocampus, a brain region involved in memory formation, were activated when the animals were running in a maze. Curiously, these same cells were activated in the same order when the animals were later asleep. This phenomenon, called hippocampal replay, has since been predominantly linked with memory consolidation during sleep.
But what about humans? Recording the activity of these cells in human brains requires access to deep brain structures, which is a non-trivial experimental task. However, in 2007 Björn Rasch and his colleagues developed a new scientific paradigm that provided some crucial evidence for memory "reactivation" in humans. Rasch first asked participants to learn the locations of pairs of images while smelling a rose-like odor. After learning, the participants went to sleep in the laboratory. Unbeknownst to their participants, the researchers presented the odor during a specific stage of deep sleep called slow-wave sleep. Upon waking up, the participants were tested on their memory and – despite having no memory of the odor presentation during sleep – had significantly better memory relative to a group that did not receive the odor during sleep.
The researchers hypothesized that presenting the odor reactivated the related memories during sleep and primed them for consolidation. This paradigm was later named targeted memory reactivation (TMR). Two years later, John Rudoy and his colleagues expanded on this design by replacing the odors with learning-related sounds, unobtrusively presented during sleep. Their findings revealed the memory-specific nature of TMR: cueing during sleep selectively enhanced memory for a single item, whereas a different item whose sound was not presented during sleep did not enjoy the same benefit.
Ever since these findings were first published, they have sparked the imagination of sleep and memory researchers. Follow-up studies have found that cueing during sleep can improve memory not only for spatial locations but also for motor-related and vocabulary learning. Dozens of studies have considered the application of TMR for various types of memories and explored related questions, such as the ability to learn new information during sleep. Simultaneously, we and other research groups aim to reveal the boundary conditions of TMR and trace back its connections to the better-understood phenomena of hippocampal replay.
Recently, we sought to explore whether sets of items can be simultaneously reactivated using auditory cues. Whereas Rudoy's study had a single congruent sound for each item (e.g., a cat picture was coupled with a "meow" sound), we paired up arbitrary items (for example, a telephone and a burger) and taught separate spatial locations for both, while presenting the sound of the first item (a dial tone). Later during sleep, we presented the sounds associated with half of the learned pairs. We were curious to see whether the cueing benefit would carry over to the item that was not directly related to the presented sound (the burger, in our example). Our results proved that was, in fact, the case. Both items benefited from the presentation of the sounds. Moreover, a larger change in memory in one of the items was associated with a larger change in its paired companion.
In many ways, this result is reminiscent of the original study by Rasch and colleagues, in which they used odor – not sounds – to improve memory for multiple unrelated items. Items may be reactivated together regardless of cue modality, even when only a subset of sets are cued during sleep. The notion of multiple parallel reactivations of memory may imply that the benefit of cueing is divided between the different items, whereby each receives a "slice of the cake." An alternative explanation is that all items benefit independently of one another in a parallel manner. Preliminary, unpublished results suggest the latter and raise the possibility that the forest – rather than the trees – is what is being activated. In other words, the benefit of TMR to a specific item may not depend on the number of items reactivated.
Theoretically, these findings may also suggest TMR is a wider, more generalized phenomenon than hippocampal replay, which involves a specific activation of cells associated with a specific memory. Most importantly, these new insights regarding TMR may vastly extend its possible benefit to memory in life-like scenarios. Imagine if a student could selectively manipulate sleep to enhance her memory of material covered over multiple classes throughout the day. This exciting idea remains to be empirically tested, but the prospects are mind-blowing. After thousands of years of exploring the benefit of sleep to memory, we may just be on the verge of finally harnessing it for our benefit.
These findings are described in the article entitled Targeted memory reactivation during sleep to strengthen memory for arbitrary pairings, recently published in the journal Neuropsychologia.
Eitan Schechtman is a postdoctoral fellow studying memory and sleep in Dr. Ken Paller's Cognitive Neuroscience lab at Northwestern University. He graduated from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem with a BA in Psychology and an MSc and Ph.D. in Neural Computation.


I am so honored that Quilter's World has published another purse design, of mine, for their "In The Bag" series in the April 2011 Issue. The purse is called the All 'Round Tote and features a military uniform as the bag body and a fabulous large circle as the bag base. Complete with grommets, a scarf handle and semi-circle accents! It really is a very easy bag to make, either with uniform fabrics or with traditional cottons. The bag is big enough to hold a couple towels for the pool, a few skeins of yarn for soccer practice, or a couple items to take on an over-night trip.
(above) That's a screen shot from the Take A Peek Inside feature on the e-Pattern Central website.
The bag in the magazine is made using an ARMY uniform + Kate Spain's Fandango line of quilter's cottons, by Moda. The picture below shows green BDU camouflage + Sandi Henderson's beautiful orange fabric, by Michael Miller.
Note: This picture was snapped at TWIST– the Yarn Store (that is such an understatement, they have every yarn-ish, roving-ish, knitting needle known to woman kind down there!!!)? So, the Yarn Store down in the Historic Delano District- Wichita KS.
Check out the newest issue of Quilter's World!
Do you get tired of hearing congrats all the time? Well, here goes again!!!! It looks beautiful. We have quite a neat yarn store out here too, kind of out in the middle of nowhere (Gove, Kansas).
Looks great! Congratulations on your feature!