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A Machine Tool
The modern upheaval prospered to a great extent in the sixteenth century. The multiplication of the machine instrument as an irreplaceable device started from this time. A machine apparatus is a gadget that sudden spikes in demand for power and is utilized to devise metal pieces of machines. The device makes individual machine parts by eliminating metal on a particular premise. A machine instrument ordinarily invokes in the brain, an image of a device that works with the assistance of outer power and no device that is worked by people. In any case, a machine instrument can, in specific cases, be controlled by individuals as well.
How a Machine Tool Has Been Working
A machine apparatus might be controlled in numerous ways. An unrefined instrument is for the most part precisely controlled by people or creatures. Since 工具買取 大阪 the late nineteenth and the mid 20th century, a huge segment of machine parts and devices have been running on power. The main machine parts and devices utilized flywheels to run appropriately and were likewise upheld by an entire cluster of cog wheels and switches. Post-World War II saw an unexpected spate of mathematical control (NC) machines in assembling enterprises. The 1960s saw the attack of PC innovation into the machine device producing industry and the advancement of the principal automated mathematical control (CNC) machines. CNC and NC machines had the ability to create top of the line instruments and pieces, something that even master apparatus producers couldn't do.
Designing a Machine Tool Using Computer Technology
Continuously, with the consistent headway of PC and electronic innovation, machines that could consequently modify hacking and forming instruments, appeared. Modern machine apparatuses were fostered that aided in the innovation of machines that accelerated mechanical production system and assembling processes by a significant degree. A machine apparatus is a device that can make duplicates of itself and develop machine parts. As the apparatus making expertise started to be increasingly more incorporated with mechanical ability, incalculable machine parts and instruments were created that could be worked with the guide of PCs. By the eighties, PC innovation turned into a predominant and the main part of the instrument making business and definitely transformed the manner in which a machine device was constructed.
Current Machine Tools: Software Tools
Today, in the period of PCs and gadgets, most confounded machine parts and instruments are designed utilizing state of the art PC and electronic innovation. Such innovation works with the assembling of machine instruments for an enormous scope assisting makers with taking advantage of the benefits of the economies of scale. PC innovation is extremely savvy that it helps in the making of redid devices precisely as indicated by details. Likewise, PC innovation has additionally caused a significant change in the nature and properties of the machine apparatus that it assists with creating. While the conventional apparatus was something substantial, that could be felt, that had explicit aspects, the advanced machine part or device is as of now not an unmistakable item however an elusive programming, otherwise called a product device. It is to this class of instruments that the web-based journal organizer has a place.


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Humility by ApoorvaHobbes
Movies » Thor Rated: K, English, Hurt/Comfort & Friendship, Thor, Words: 1k+, Favs: 1, Follows: 1, Published: 12/8/2017
I am a big fan of Avengers and especially Thor.
He as a character has great potential as was shown in Thor Ragnarok. I wanted Thor to learn humility in another way. This takes place at Thor 2011 movie time.
Please read and Review. I am not a native English speaker so pardon some mistakes. !
Thor had never felt afraid, until that moment when he looked at All-Father's eyes. Sheer anger and power sizzled within them and also disappointment at his son.
When he woke, it was night..There was damp moist soil beneath him. As his eyes slowly adjusted, he found out he was lying in a forest. The air seemed humid and cold but bearable. He did not know how long he lay there in his misery, his cloak made a make shift blanket, when from a distance he heard the sound of some twigs snapping and he became alert.
Somewhere in the distance, a group of deer wound their way through the forest. It was a family of deer. A deer with the big antlers lead the way, while the strongest, the mother deer was at the very back. The fawns were in the middle flanked with other bigger deer on either side. Thor followed them through the trees as they finally stopped at a water stream. He sat down near a distant tree quite hidden and watched them. Their family reminded Thor of his. The fawns reminded him of his friends and Loki. The two strong deer reminded him of his parents. His anger at his father was still strong but being cast out had knocked some sense into Thor. He watched amused as the deer started polishing and sharping its antlers to a tree.
Having nothing to do , Thor followed this group around the forest for days. He ate the fruits of the wild trees and drank the water from the stream. At some point, the deer did became aware of Thor, but largely ignored him as he did not pose any threat. One day, he slowly crept near the nearest fawn and lightly brushed its head. He tensed as the bigger deer stared at him but was relieved when they did not do anything.
It was a bright sunny day, and Thor had just woken up from a wonderful dream. Suddenly he heard a loud bang and birds suddenly took off. Heart thudding, Thor rushed towards the source and found the deer with the antlers bleeding. Its family were panicked and were running blindly. Thor discovered the bleeding gun shot wound near its chest and quickly tore a piece of cloth from his cape,and tied it tightly to stem the blood flow. He was enraged and his hands shook. Who would be so cruel to kill such innocent beings. Then he heard the loud voices of some men nearby. They were laughing. The other deer had not left them and were surrounding the wounded one. And through the clearing, with their gun aimed, some men and women stepped out. Seeing Thor, they gave a cry of surprise.
Thor had never felt such anger as he looked at them. He slowly stood up towering over them and walked towards them and without warning punched the nearest guy. The others sprung into action and tried to pin him down. It was of no use. Although they were 4 people, Thor's anger and strength was enough to subdue them. One guy stupidly waved at him a piece of paper showing him his hunting license before Thor tore it and kicked him. When all of them, including the woman lay on the ground groaning and in pain, Thor, spoke with quiet voice. That voice was enough to send down shivers up their spine. "You will leave your weapons here and run back to your homes. You have 2 minutes. And if you even think of killing any other innocent, you will incur Thor's wrath."
The people quickly scrambled to their feet and ran. Thor turned towards the deer who lay bleeding. Thor watched sadly as it lay groaning piteously feeling helpless. It did not have much time, the other deer were quiet as though they knew. Thor prayed with tears in his eyes and stroked the deer softly. What use was he when he could not even protect them. The mighty God Thor. He scoffed. He was useless. When the deer finally died, Thor carried it under an ancient tree and buried him in leaves and mud.
Thor had killed many beings, but it was always in a war and beings who could protect themselves. Killing innocents was considered the highest form of sin in Asgard. Thor thought which cruel realm was he in.
He vowed to protect the remaining animals in the group now, they seemed to accept him and walked with him, sometimes the deer leading the way and sometimes Thor. After few hours, he noticed the trees thinning. As they came near the edge, Thor noticed in the distance some small houses and buildings.
The biggest deer, then gave Thor a look which filled Thor with Sadness and he felt deeply humbled and joyous. It was not Thor who was protecting them , they were protecting him and had also shown him the way. He did not want to leave. But the mother deer gently nudged him, which reminded Thor of his own mother's touch. His eyes burned with tears and he slowly walked away from the forest edge. The deer were still there as though making sure and then with a last look they disappeared into the forest.
He then saw them. Dozens of vehicles around a huge white building setup. Men in black suits were running frantically. He heard them shouting about an object causing disturbance and electrical impulses. An unmovable object. Thor smiled and triumphantly raised his hand and waited. He felt it before he saw Mjolnir zooming towards him and he caught his beloved hammer in his hand. The men then rushed towards him, with their guns and Thor just laughed. He threw his hammer and knocked their guns down. By Odin's beard,how he hated guns. A man then approached him with raised arms and said quite bravely, "I am Phil Coulson. Can we talk please".
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Final Fantasy VIII Will Also Be Getting Its Own Remake
Just yesterday, Square Enix finally confirmed that its long-awaited remake of Final Fantasy VII will be released in 2020. However, if Final Fantasy VII is not your jam, then you might be interested to learn that in addition to remaking Final Fantasy VII, Square Enix has also announced that they'll be remaking Final Fantasy VIII.
Now, the entire Final Fantasy franchise has its huge following of fans, although admittedly the seventh installment is probably it's most popular and most recognizable, even amongst those who might not have played the game before. However, this does not mean that we should be sleeping on the remake of Final Fantasy VIII either.
Granted, the trailer and fanfare surrounding the game isn't quite as hyped up as Final Fantasy VII, but if you did enjoy that particular installment, the remake should allow you to enjoy it with more modern graphics. It is also expected to launch later this year where it will be playable on the PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and the PC.
This is not Square Enix's first time remaking one of their Final Fantasy games. The company has remade and remastered several titles in the past, so this shouldn't really come as a surprise.
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VIDEO: Disneyland Paris Reveals New Entry Structure for Esplanade
Matthew Soberman· December 22, 2021 ·2 min read
Guests visiting Disneyland Paris will soon enter the theme parks through a new structure being constructed on the esplanade.
From Disneyland Paris:
In order to deliver a better guest experience as soon as they arrive, work is currently being performed on the Francois Truffaut esplanade at the crossroad between Disneyland Park, Walt Disney Studios Park, and the North and South sides of the Marne-La-Vallée Chessy station.
In addition to enhancing our security check capabilities at the park entrance and reducing guests' wait time, these projects will make it possible to offer improved workstation environments for the Cast Members and employees who work in these areas. They will be rebuilt to visually become a part of a harmonious environment that showcases elaborate architecture.
To this end, Walt Disney Imagineering Paris – Design & Show Quality imagined a brand-new open metal structure of nearly 1,000 square meters – which combines a Belle Époque and industrial style – for the esplanade, the first building of which has recently been opened to the public. "We have been working on this project for two years, in collaboration with the Security division," said Natalie Piette-Caron, the Art Director in charge of Walt Disney Studios Park and Disney Village.
"We drew our inspiration from covered market buildings, such as the Baltard one, while making sure to bring a Disney touch to every single detail so that guests can be immersed as soon as they arrive."
The construction will involve a wide variety of raw materials (cast iron, steel, zinc, wood, natural stone) and the use of metal and glass to lighten and refine the structure shapes. This is real craftsman work, which will be completed by about fifteen suppliers and local manufacturing plants. Leveling will also be adjusted, and the flooring will be renovated in a 12,000 square-meter surface area. It is a particularly complex project for the teams since 2 RATP (Paris Public Transport Operator) and SNCF (French National Railway Company) tunnels cross the esplanade underground.
The remaining work will be carried out in phases over two years, to avoid disrupting access to the parks as much as possible while maintaining security check efficiency.
The resort is undergoing a serious refreshing ahead of its 30th anniversary, including the first refurbishment for Sleeping Beauty Castle since 1992, which was recently completed.
You can check out the new structure and the details that went into it in the video below! (English captioning is available.)
As always, keep following WDWNT for all of your Disney Parks news, and for the absolute latest, follow WDW News Today on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Matthew Soberman
Matthew has been a writer for WDWNT since June 2018. He probably should have realized he was a Disney Parks fan when he tried to make a model of the Horizons building in middle school shop class. (It didn't go well.) He is also a huge Muppet fan, and can also be found on ToughPigs.com. You can email Matthew at [email protected]
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Earlier this year, Thundercat gifted fans with his excellent album, Drunk. On Tuesday, the jazz fusion mastermind continued to promote the LP with an appearance on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
With the enthusiastic assistance of house band Jon Batiste and Stay Human, he unfurled the deliciously funky single "Them Changes". In the spirit of Halloween, Thundercat was colorfully dressed as a Dragon Ball-Z character (Gohan? Chiaotzu?). Replay it all up above.
A few weeks ago, Thundercat shared the music video for "Show You the Way" featuring Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald.


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Alice Rosenstein (* 9. Juni 1898 in Breslau, Provinz Schlesien; † 4. Mai 1991 in Albany (New York)) war eine deutsch-US-amerikanische Neurologin, Psychiaterin und Neurochirurgin.

Leben und Wirken
Alice Rosensteins Vater war der Geheime Sanitätsrat Moritz Rosenstein, der am Jüdischen Krankenhaus in Breslau die Abteilung für Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe leitete. Von ihm hatte sie die Neigung zur Medizin und die zeichnerische Begabung geerbt. Die Mutter Ellen geb. Ebstein war Amerikanerin und stammte aus Poughkeepsie im Bundesstaat New York. Als in der Weimarer Republik zahlreiche Zugangshürden für Frauen gefallen waren, konnte Alice an der Schlesischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Breslau und der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin Medizin studieren. Im Juni 1923 als Ärztin approbiert, wurde sie im selben Jahr magna cum laude zur Dr. med. promoviert. Zu dem Thema der Doktorarbeit hatte sie Otfrid Foerster angeregt.

Breslau
Am Ende der Deutschen Inflation 1914 bis 1923 ging sie als Volontärärztin an die Augenklinik des Rudolf-Virchow-Krankenhauses. 1924 wechselte sie zu Alfred Bielschowsky in der Breslauer Augenklinik. Die in jenen Jahren drückenden ökonomischen Verhältnisse zwangen zu Sparmaßnahmen und Stellenstreichungen. Entlassungen trafen zuerst die Jüngsten und die Frauen, so auch Alice; im Februar 1924 kam sie aber bei Otfrid Foerster auf eine Volontärstelle in der Neurologie des nach Wenzel Hancke benannten Krankenhauses in Breslau. Einige Monate später wurde daraus eine feste Anstellung. Einer ihrer Mitassistenten war Ludwig Guttmann. Ihre erste Publikation aus der klinischen Tätigkeit befasste sich mit der Pneumoenzephalografie der Hirnventrikel (Foramen Monroi). Vorträge hielt sie vor allem zu bildgebenden Verfahren und – als Reminiszenz an Bielschowsky – neuroophthalmologischen Kasuistiken. Als "fluent speaker" rezensierte sie über acht Jahre (bis zur Emigration) englischsprachige Fachbücher und Publikationen für das Zentralblatt für die gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie. Otfrid Foerster bescheinigte ihr 1929 operatives Geschick und eine große zeichnerische und malerische Begabung; in der Anfertigung von Operationsskizzen und bioptischen Bildern habe sie unersetzliche Dienste geleistet.

Frankfurt am Main
Nachdem sie an Foersters Klinik fast ein Jahr lang die Oberarztstelle vertreten hatte, wechselte sie zu Karl Kleist, Neurologe und Psychiater in Frankfurt am Main. Im Oktober 1930 konnte er mit seinen Mitarbeitern die neue Nervenklinik in Frankfurt-Niederrad beziehen. Sie hatte 200 Betten und galt als eine der modernsten Nervenkliniken Europas. Ihren Operationssaal durften nur Chirurgen, nicht Kleist und seine Mitarbeiter für Patienten der Nervenklinik nutzen; denn gegen eine Neurochirurgie an der Nervenklinik wehrte sich Victor Schmieden, Ordinarius für Chirurgie. Wie Ferdinand Sauerbruch stand er gegen die Verselbständigung der Neurochirurgie. Alice Rosenstein leitete die Röntgenabteilung. Überwiegend zu diagnostischen Zwecken führte sie in dem Operationssaal "71 neurochirurgische Eingriffe ... bei strengster Indikationsstellung" durch. Mit ihren jüdischen Kollegen im April 1933 entlassen, reiste sie im November 1933 nach New York City.

New York
Ihr dort lebender Onkel Fritz Rosenstein bürgte für sie, so dass sie das Bleiberecht und im Mai 1934 die amerikanische Approbation erhielt. Wieder am unteren Ende der Karriereleiter, begann sie als Volontärärztin am Mount Sinai Hospital (New York) zu arbeiten. Im selben Jahr erhielt sie eine ähnliche Position für Neurologie und Psychiatrie, aber auch für Neurochirurgie am Montefiore Hospital in der Bronx. Als erste Frau der Abteilung wurde sie dort Chirurgin; sie machte aber keine neurochirurgische Karriere, sondern war primär als Neurologin und Psychiaterin tätig. Im Oktober 1934 eröffnete sie in Manhattan (85. Straße) die erste eigene Arztpraxis für Neurologie, Neurochirurgie und Psychiatrie. In Deutschland erschien 1935 der erste Band eines Neurologie-Handbuchs, zu dessen Herausgebern Otfried Foerster gehörte. Alice Rosenstein hatte ein 40-seitiges Kapitel über die peripheren Nerven beigesteuert. Ihren früheren Chef sah sie 1935 auf der letzten Reise nach Deutschland wieder. Mit Antisemitismus auch in den Vereinigten Staaten konfrontiert, änderte sie 1938 ihren Namen in Alice E. Rost. 1939 verlegte sie ihre Praxis nach Kingston (City, New York). Zwei Jahre später übernahm sie zusätzlich eine Position als Dozentin am Albany Medical College und als Psychiaterin an einer Klinik in Albany (New York).

Im Dezember 1943 trat sie als beratende Psychologin und Neurologin in das Medical Corps (United States Army) ein. Sie bildete (wohl als Hauptmann) die erste weibliche Einheit aus und engagierte sich für lesbische Soldatinnen. Sie heiratete nicht und lebte über 40 Jahre mit ihrer "Haushälterin" zusammen. Ihre Großnichte nimmt an, dass die beiden ein Paar waren. Nach dem Krieg betreute sie seelisch traumatisierte Soldaten in einer vom Kriegsveteranenministerium der Vereinigten Staaten geführten Klinik. Sie engagierte sich in mehreren Fachgesellschaften und war auf Kongressen eine rege Diskussionsteilnehmerin. Noch mit mehr als 80 Jahren betreute sie in ihrer Praxis Patienten. Nach Deutschland kam sie nie wieder. Beerdigt wurde sie auf dem Rural Cemetery der Kleinstadt New Paltz, New York, keine 20 km entfernt vom Geburtsort der Mutter. Dort fand auch ihr Bruder Dr. Walter F. Rost seine letzte Ruhestätte.

Literatur
 Ulrike Eisenberg: Alice Rosenstein (Rost), 1898–1991, in: Dies., Hartmut Collmann, Daniel Dubinski: Verraten – vertrieben – vergessen. Werk und Schicksal nach 1933 verfolgter Hirnchirurgen. Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3955651428, S. 227–251. Engl. Ausgabe 2019.

Einzelnachweise

Neurologe
Psychiater
Neurochirurg
Mediziner (20. Jahrhundert)
Person (Breslau)
Deutscher Emigrant in den Vereinigten Staaten
Person (New York)
Militärperson (Vereinigte Staaten)
LGBT-Aktivist
NS-Opfer
Emigrant aus dem Deutschen Reich zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus
Deutscher
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1898
Gestorben 1991
Frau

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JORDAN Henderson has welcomed Declan Rice into the England fold with open arms - despite knowing he could steal his place.
Rice has spent this week training with the Three Lions for the first time following his controversial decision to snub the Republic of Ireland in favour of Gareth Southgate's men.
The West Ham midfielder has dual nationality through his grandparents and came through the youth system in Ireland before winning three senior caps.
But after much soul searching Rice opted to answer Southgate's call and he has been tipped to go on and have a huge future with England.
Henderson, who has played against Rice for Liverpool and has now seen him up close and personal at St George's Park, has been impressed with his rapid rise.
He knows Rice will be a direct rival for a defensive midfield role in Southgate's side.
And he is fully aware he will have to raise his game but has welcomed the competition from a player who can expect a lot of pressure and attention in the coming weeks and months.
Henderson said: "I have never thought that I'm an automatic choice. I have always wanted to fight no matter what position I am in and whether that is Liverpool or England.
"I need to do more and I need to do better because you have younger players, or players get signed for the club, who push you and want to take your place and you have to be better them.
"We want the best players in the squad and we want to compete with each other to improve.
"Declan has done really well, he's an English lad, born in England and he wants to play for England.
"He has settled in. He looks good, he has done well for West Ham. It is good to have competition and he is a very talented young player. I am sure he will do very well for England.
Henderson admits he doesn't know what all the fuss and criticism has been about regarding Rice opting for England instead of Ireland.
He said: "For me it's not a big deal. It might be a bit different for him, but it's not a big issue for me.
"He is English. He was born in England and wants to play for us. He played younger age groups for Ireland, but he has made his decision - and that's good for us.
"I've seen him a few times obviously for West Ham. He's a fantastic player, I know he is very well thought of and he's settled in very well over the last few days in training.
"He seems like a really nice lad as well, he seems like a great addition to the squad.
Henderson has been instrumental in helping England reach two semi-finals in the last 10 months.
One ended in defeat at the World Cup last summer, while one more is still to come against Holland in the UEFA Nations League in June.
The meteoric rise of the Three Lions under Southgate will have done nothing to dampen opposition desire to take England's scalp.
Henderson knows that will be the case when they face Euro 2020 qualifier opponents Czech Republic at Wembley tomorrow before facing Montenegro on Monday.
He added: "I've always felt that teams want to come and beat England. We are a big nation and have always had quality players.
"So I've always felt that no matter who you play they have always been right on it against England.
"Expectation will change and things like that, but that is good for us, as long as we know what we want to do and achieve as a group that will be really important.


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865 Kevin Ellison
Flying winger "Super" Kevin Ellison signed for City in January 2005 for a £100,000 fee and slotted into Peter Taylor's League One promotion chasing side. During the following season in the Championship Ellison struggled to make an impact on the first XI and moved on that Summer.
Born in Liverpool, Ellison played non-League football until he was 22, when after a goals-filled season at Altrincham he switched to Peter Taylor's Leicester City side. He soon moved on (as did Taylor) and spent three years at Stockport, then had a successful season at Chester City.
Ellison moved to Tranmere in Summer 2006, a season later he returned to Chester then two years on he joined Rotherham United. In 2011 he signed for Morecambe, for whom he played into his 40s and achieve cult status. During recent years his pace faded and his reputation was founded on a no-nonsense chippy approach to the game. In September 2020 at the age of 41 and following his release by Morecambe, Kevin signed a one year deal with Newport County after an impressive trial, combining playing duties with coaching the Welsh club's strikers.
Date/Place of Birth: 23 February 1979, Liverpool
Hull City First Game: 5 January 2005, Peterborough United H (League One), 25 years, 327 days old
Hull City Final Game: 30 April 2006, Watford A (Championship), 27 years, 66 days old
Southport (1996), Chorley (1997), Conwy United (1997-1999), Altrincham (1999-2001), Leicester City (2001), Stockport County (2001-2004), Lincoln City (2004, loan), Chester City (2004-2005), Hull City (2005-2006), Tranmere Rovers (2006-2007), Chester City (2007-2009), Rotherham United (2009-2011), Bradford City (2011, loan), Morecambe (2011-2020), Newport County (2020-present)
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Panel announced for "Make interesting companies" event
We're now less than a week away from "Make interesting companies, not interesting advertising", so we just wanted to send you a quick update on the great panel of business founders we have lined up to speak.
Dan Kieran – Unbound
Dan, described as "a true disruptor" by Richard Branson, is CEO of Unbound, a crowdfunding publishers that gives people the tools, support, and creative freedom to bring their ideas to life. He is also an author of 12 books including The Idle Traveller and a travel writer for The Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph and Die Zeit in Germany. He presented a BBC Radio 4 programme about the month he spent driving across England in a 1957 vintage milk float and gives talks on entrepreneurship, creative writing and how to have ideas.
Joan Murphy – Frame
Joan co-founded Frame, a London-based fitness brand which pioneered the boutique pay-as-you-go studio movement in 2009. The brand has expanded to 5 locations across the city. Together with Pip Black she set out to build a brand which would encourage fit, healthy living through high energy and fun-filled classes. Over their 8 years they have proven a new fitness model that is both profitable and can diversify into other areas such as apparel, equipment and education. Joan is currently launching a new business, Mumhood, to promote fit and healthy pregnancies and help rebuild bodies after birth.
Charlie Hoare – Tapped
With an extremely tender bottom, Charlie Hoare got off his bike after a year having cycled 10,000 miles from Malaysia to London raising money for the mental health charity SANE. Switching the saddle for sap (but still wanting to satisfy his need for healthy living) Charlie then moved onto his next challenge – co-founding TAPPED birch water.
Charlie met his co-founder, Paul Lederer whilst working at Innocent Drinks and together they took TAPPED from nothing to a business with RSV of £250,000 in its first year. They are building the tree water category, educating consumers about alternative sources of healthy hydration, whilst creating value for retailers. Charlie still cycles to work.
Each of these businesses have something teach us about how to win fans through execution, product, originality, and industry disruption – so it will be fascinating to hear what they have to say.
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More and more parents are expressing their concerns about how to support their teenagers who are complaining about the stress in their lives.
What parents may not realize, is that what they do every day by providing healthy food, support, and a comforting home, provides the very stress-antidotes their teens need. Deborah Weinstock-Savoy, Ph.D.,a psychologist who specializes in working with families says "The basic nurturing that parents offer in providing a loving and comfortable home is the first line of defense."
Weinstock-Savoy points out that home should be a place where kids can re-charge their batteries, feel safe and supported. When teenagers have the support they need, when they eat right and get enough sleep, they usually have much of what it takes to manage the stress they will confront.
Parents can help teens in some specific ways, too. Primarily this has to do with teaching, or coaching their teenagers toward problem solving. Parents need to "engage the teen's owns sense of what s/he needs," says Weinstock-Savoy. She says parents and their teenagers can explore this together, with the teen being asked to offer insight and suggestions, as usually kids have ideas about this. This is the direction parents need to take because it helps the teen develop necessary coping and problem-solving skills.
Assisting kids in becoming more self-aware is an extension of this thought. It may not be immediately obvious to kids, so parents should help guide them to a growing awareness of themselves, which will help them learn to identify situations, and solutions. Through this they begin to develop strategies that will be tools they will use for the rest of their lives.
While this family specialist makes these recommendations, she is quick to admit that sometimes parents are faced with "kids who won't allow them to share their wisdom with them." This makes it important for parents to help ensure their teenager has other adults in whom s/he can confide and go to for advice. "Parents need to identify for themselves who else is out there, who else will help provide advice, help their teens safe, and offer support." She calls this "extending the mantle of support," and points out that this is as important for parents as it is for kids. Parents should know the adults in their teens life to some extent; knowing that they share your families values and will be providing sound advice is another way of providing support for your child, only this time it's from behind the scenes.
What are the biggest sources of stress for teenagers? "Peer relationships and managing school," according to Weinstock-Savoy. She points out that kids need to have a sense of belonging with their peers. This provides an important buffer and helps them deal with the stress they confront. Missing this, the resulting sense of loneliness serves to increases their stress. School, and all that entails, is often a source of stress for teenagers. And thirdly, the important developmental steps they are taking during adolescence in developing their identity also create stress. Although this is a more abstract concept, it is an important part of the life of teenagers.
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The Boeing Company has selected Elbit Systems to provide a low-profile head-up display (LPHUD) that will be part of the Advanced Cockpit System for Boeing fighter jets. The LPHUD decision presents additional opportunities for Elbit Systems to develop advanced cockpit avionics capabilities at its Brazilian subsidiary AEL Sistemas.
Boeing is offering its F/A-18E/F Super Hornet for the F-X2 fighter competition.
The LPHUD selection follows an agreement announced in March for Elbit to provide the Large Area Display (LAD) system that will be part of the Advanced Cockpit System to be offered on Boeing Super Hornets and the F-15 family of aircraft, including the Silent Eagle.
Beyond LAD software and hardware opportunities, AEL now will participate in the design, development, production and support of LPHUD components. Boeing, Elbit and AEL also are collaborating on a joint distributed simulation project. The knowledge and capabilities gained from these activities support Elbit and AEL's efforts to establish an Advanced Cockpit Technology Center of Excellence in Brazil, which will position AEL to expand its advanced cockpit avionics market reach to other fixed-wing platforms as well as to rotorcraft.
Elbit's LAD is the centerpiece of Boeing's Advanced Cockpit System, an upgrade common to the F/A-18 and F-15 platforms. The LPHUD will feature a more streamlined size and shape, requiring less space than typical HUD designs and allowing more room for the 11-inch by 19-inch (27.9 x 48.2 cm) LAD.
The Advanced Cockpit System will improve the way the pilot interacts with the aircraft and will enable growth to next-generation visual cueing, improving situational awareness and increasing aircraft effectiveness.
Elbit Systems is a global electronics company engaged in a wide range of programs for innovative defense and commercial applications. AEL Sistemas S.A., a majority-owned Elbit Systems subsidiary located in Porto Alegre, Brazil, serves as a center for engineering, production and logistics support for advanced defense electronics programs in Brazil and globally.


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Left to right: Sophie Richardson, Rebecca Blumenstein, Bill Holstein and Dexter "Tiff" Roberts. Photo: Chad Bouchard
Huawei, Huawei, Huawei. In the final panel of the day, the topic was how both nascent and long-established technologies have become tools of control. Though panelists and audience alike were interested in emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and smart cities, the conversation seemed to veer back to telecom giant Huawei and its major developments towards establishing 5G mobile networks both within and beyond China's borders.
Bill Holstein noted that those developments reflect not only differences in technological capabilities, but also larger philosophical differences in the ways that the two countries develop and roll out technology.
"China takes a long-term, 5-to10 year development cycle for transformational technologies. We don't," explained Bill Holstein, former OPC president. The result: Though both countries are working to advance areas like AI and quantum computing, he said, the 5G rollout has been the first instance, he says, in which the US doesn't have a response.
Moderated by Rebecca Blumenstein, Pulitzer prize winner and deputy managing editor of The New York Times, the panel began with a look at the recent past. Every panelist agreed that in the last decade, the U.S. tended to underestimate China's ability to develop the technologies that are used today, while Dexter "Tiff" Roberts, a Mansfield Fellow at the University of Montana, suggested that the U.S. may now be overestimating China's ability to advance other areas, like robotics.
Each of the panelists pointed to surveillance as a potential problem area. Tiff Roberts looked at domestic affairs, citing surveillance in Xinjiang, the autonomous province in Northwest China that houses many ethnic minority populations, including the oft-persecuted Uyghurs. Bill Holstein looked at China's actions abroad, citing recent security breaches at large, multi-national corporations like Equifax and the Marriott as evidence of the country's ability to acquire Big Data. "The question among the American data people is: What are they doing with all of these data?" he asked.
Sophie Richardson, Human Rights Watch's director of China, took a broader view, pointing to a tendency in the media to make spurious or unfounded claims that the Chinese don't value privacy. "Why would you logically expect people to value a right that they've never had?"
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Professor Jonathan Morris is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and completed his Obstetric and Maternal Fetal Medicine sub specialty training in Sydney. He completed his PhD in Oxford and returned to Sydney in 1998 at the Royal North Shore Hospital. Since then he has built a perinatal research group that extends from basic science to population health.
Jonathan is currently Director of the Kolling Institute for Medical Research. His major research interests are the prediction, prevention and management of pregnancy complications. Jonathan has been a director of Stillbirth Foundation Australia since 2008.
Jennifer Ball, Director
Jennifer is a graduate of Macquarie University and completed her combined Science and Law degrees in 1989 specialising in genetics and biochemistry.
Jennifer is a senior partner in the Restructuring & Insolvency (R&I) practice group at Clayton Utz Lawyers and is a recognised leader and expert in restructuring and insolvency, debt recovery and general commercial dispute resolution with nearly 30 years' experience.
Jennifer regularly advises boards in relation to the financial restructuring or turnaround of distressed companies, and also acts for lenders and creditors to assist them in managing their credit risks. As a recognised expert on directors' duties and shadow directorship, she frequently presents to universities, professional bodies, large corporations and members of the legal profession.
Jennifer is also a mother to Elliot, who was stillborn in 2003, Felix and Chloe. Jennifer is passionate about advocating and raising awareness of stillbirth, so that research might assist in providing the answer as to why stillbirth continues to occur at the significant rate that it does.
Sarah Goss, Director
Sarah has over 20 years consulting experience across the US, Europe and Australia. During the last 15 years she has supported organisations in the Corporate, University and Not for Profit sectors to articulate their strategy and build the organizational capability and resources to deliver.
Highlights have included working with Noel Pearson to build financial inclusion in the Cape York Welfare Reform Communities, envisioning the Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity and supporting the development of the Mitchell Institute for Health and Education Policy.
Sarah is mum to four beautiful boys, the first of whom was stillborn in 1999.
Qualifications and memberships: MBA London Business School, DipEd, BSc(Hons) The University of Melbourne
Aaron David, Director
For 80 years, the David family was Australia's largest wholesaler of groceries and liquor to independent grocers and retail stores. Aaron David, fulfilled every conceivable role in the family business which gave great insight into the management of relationships of both small and large clients which he brings to Live Bookkeeping. Aaron is also a Director on the board of the Stillbirth Foundation and passionately raises funds for research and awareness into the incidence of stillbirth in Australia.


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NEILLSVILLE - Four children were removed from a home Friday after police said they found a hand grenade and illegal drugs.
The Marathon County Bomb Squad was called when police found the grenade while searching a home in the 100 block of East First Street, according to a Clark County Sheriff's Department news release.
The four children, ages 2, 9, 10 and 13, were removed from the home by Clark County Social Services, according to the news release. Two dogs that were in the home were taken to the Clark County Humane Society.
Police arrested Robert L. Bounds, 45, and his wife, Savanna F. Bounds, 32, on suspicion of marijuana possession with intent to deliver, methamphetamine paraphernalia possession in the presence of a child, drug paraphernalia possession and child neglect, according to the news release.


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First Cryptocurrency ATM Reportedly Installed in Uruguay
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The ostensible first cryptocurrency ATM machine has been installed in Uruguay, developed as a joint initiative between Urubit and Inbierto, two national crypto companies. This represents a milestone for the country, which according to estimates has between 40K and 50K cryptocurrency users, whose primary avenue for purchasing crypto relies on peer-to-peer markets.
Uruguay Enters the Crypto ATM Era
Uruguay has received its reported first cryptocurrency ATM in its territory, which is already installed in Punta del Este, a city located in the southeast of the country. The cryptocurrency machine was developed by two national crypto companies: Urubit and Inbierto. The former focused on the software part of the system, and the latter provided the hardware for the ATM.
Adolfo Varela, Inbierto's CEO, states that one of the aims of this machine is to create trust in the cryptocurrency market in the country, where most crypto commerce happens in peer-to-peer markets that cannot go through banking due to lack of regulations. With a cryptocurrency ATM, the possibility of being victim to a scam is said to be eliminated. Varela believes they will keep growing and extending their crypto ATM network across the country. He stated:
We intend to continue growing in Maldonado, then Colonia, Montevideo and by the end of the year we want to have coverage throughout the national territory. With this it has happened to us that other countries have consulted us to be able to install it.
The installed crypto ATM supports only five cryptocurrencies (which include two national tokens): ferret token, urubit, bitcoin, binance coin (BNB), and binance USD (BUSD). The companies have not introduced Ethereum support to the machines because they rely on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) to process transactions. Varela explained that Ethereum's fees would deter users from using the machine, and that's why BSC integration was opted for instead.
Regulation a Gray Area in the Country
Cryptocurrency regulation remains as a gray area in the country, but the central bank issued a statement in October last year, declaring these assets were not legal or illegal, and that citizens could use them while being aware of the risks they carry.
In a document issued in December, the Central Bank of Uruguay establishes a roadmap for regulating crypto assets, proposing to review current laws and make changes to include them in various existing regulations, instead of creating a virtual asset law to encompass the universe of these assets in just one project.
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Ghana: President Nana Akufo-Addo wins re-election
The incumbent Ghanaian president Akufo-Addo has held on to power following the release of official results. Tensions are rising in the normally peaceful country as his opponent calls foul play.
The Ghanaian electoral commission on Wednesday declared incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo the winner of the country's presidential election.
The 76-year-old Akufo-Addo from the center-right New Patriotic Party (NPP) beat his opponent and predecessor John Dramani Mahama of the center-left National Democratic Congress (NDC) with 51.59% of the vote. It is expected that this will be his second and final term in accordance with the Ghanaian constitution.
More than 13 million ballots were cast out of a total electorate of 17 million and across 38,000 polling stations throughout the country. Voters also chose 275 lawmakers for the national parliament.
Five people were killed in election violence. Otherwise, Ghana's poll on Monday was carried out largely peacefully — a regular achievement for the West African country unlike for some of its neighbors that have seen violence following recent elections — although the process was mired by accusations of fraud before the official results were released.
Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana Jean Adukwei Mensa praised election workers for operating the polls smoothly, and openly, despite the coronavirus pandemic.
The results of one constituency remained disputed, however Mensa said that even if all remaining votes went for Mahama, it still would not change the overall outcome.
Long-awaited results, but carefully counted
The electoral commission took several days to tally up the votes and had urged for patience while they were "working around the clock."
Around 12,000 observers were present for polling day and reported only a handful of incidences of intimidation. "While there were some challenges, these challenges were isolated and did not undermine the process's overall credibility," a coalition of observers said on Tuesday.
Ghana has successfully carried out democratic transfers of power for almost two decades and stands in contrast to neighboring Guinea and Sierra Leone where violence disrupted recent electoral processes.
The two leading candidates signed a symbolic agreement on Friday to resolve any disputes in the courts and to avoid possible violence amid the tensions of the close contest and the country's first economic contraction in decades.
Over 60,000 security personnel had been stationed at polling stations to maintain order.
Accusations of fraud
Tensions rose on Tuesday evening as the contesting Mahama warned his opponent not to "steal" the election, accusing the sitting president of using the military to intimidate voters.
"You cannot use the military to try and overturn some of the results in constituencies that we have won. We will resist any attempts to subvert the sovereign will of the Ghanaian people," Mahama said at a press conference in the capital Accra.
Akufo-Addo's information minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, was quick to condemn the accusations as false and "irresponsible."
The candidate's comments mirrored those of US President Donald Trump who lost the presidential election in November but accused his rival of stealing the election.
Failure to accept the electoral commission's results could cast a shadow over the country's democratic credentials.
Both sides claim success
Before the electoral commission came out with its tallied results, the NDC communications director, Sammy Gyamfi, told newsmen that the commission wasn't doing its job correctly, "but they would fail because they cannot change the will of the people. We don't want to push anyone into any early celebration. We are on course, we have 140 parliamentary seats, safe and secured."
John Boadu, general secretary of the NPP in his reaction to the accusations coming from the NDC said: "Creating insinuations creates a lack of credibility on our whole election process … We are happy to announce that for the next parliament it is obvious from the results declared across the constituencies that the NPP will still maintain a majority in parliament."
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Why Your Team Sucks 2018: New York Giants
Some people are fans of the New York Giants. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the New York Giants. This 2018 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here.
Your team: New York Giants.
Your 2017 record: 3-13. Another team went 0-16 in the NFL last season, and yet these Giants somehow had the more disastrous season. It was astonishing. Thrilling, really. Here we have the most overly mannered of NFL franchises. A team that's run like a Park Avenue co-op board. A team would play in formal morning suits if the uniform code allowed for it. The Giants are so thirsty to appear dignified that it is truly, deeply awesome to watch them spend an entire season stepping on rakes. They got shut out by a team starting Drew Stanton. They let the Rams hang 51 on them at home. You see this play?
This play resulted in a Rams touchdown.
Their offense became a sinkhole. Their star wideout got hurt and the team made virtually no effort to shield him from his critics. Their best defensive player openly called Eli Apple a cancer. They lost to Detroit after getting flagged for a delay of game on 4th and goal from the 2 line. The coach threw Eli Manning under the bus after that loss and then benched him later in the season without warning (more on that in a moment), and for Geno Smith of all people. They suspended Apple for the final game, causing him to react thusly:
I like reading that quote in Phil Leotardo's voice. Really Jersey-fies the whole situation by a good 80 percent. The only fun thing that happened for this team last year was when Odell peed in the end zone.
I'm gonna confess here that I'll miss the Ben McAdoo Giants. I'll miss the way McAdoo found a way to say the exact wrong thing at virtually every press conference. I'll miss him looking, at all times, like an auto mechanic you cannot trust. I'll miss him using one formation for an entire season. I'll miss him reliably calling a fade route to the ninth-string tight end three times in a row from the opponent's one-yard line. I'll miss his hair!
Look at that goddamn hair. God, it was majestic. I'm already bereft that this man and his Seventh Grade Date Night hair won't be prowling the sidelines in 2018. For an all-too-brief moment, the Giants were every bit as fucking terrible and fraudulent as their fans routinely accuse of them of being, and the world was a purer place for it.
But he's gone now, along with GM Jerry Reese. As a corrective to their cinematic nimcompoopery, the Giants did the most Giants thing possible and brought in former Panthers GM Dave Gettleman, whose favorite thing to do on Earth is cut players who are making too much money. Gettleman had to take a leave from the team this spring to get treatment for lymphoma, but not before pledging to reestablish New York's claim to being the singularly dullest, most outdated team in football. He also thinks math is nerd shit.
"I think it's someone who had decided to get into the analytics of it and went through whatever . . . At the end of the day, a great player is a great player."
Shit yeah. Those are the New York Giants I know and hate. I'd rather shop for paint than watch this fucking team.
Your coach: Pat Shurmur. Hello! Vikings fan here. Let me tell you about Pat Shurmur. First off, he's relaxed. Very relaxed. Some people think he might be dead! Now, it's very fine and good to be such a relaxed coach when you're working UNDER a fiery, red ass of a head coach like, say, Mike Zimmer. But when you decide to put such a saturnine coach actively in charge of things, it's probably unwise. Do you know how hard it is to be the most forgettable head coach in Cleveland Browns history? I know the record says Shurmur went 9-23 with the Browns but I assure you that those two years never happened. Those two years are a void upon the historic record, lost inside a parallel dimension of spacetime that will never reopen. To have Pat Shurmur as your head coach is to ask for an induced football coma.
Also, the new offensive coordinator is Mike Shula. Tell me you aren't ROCK HARD. Finally, the Giants will have the 19th century's most sophisticated offense. The rest of league is gonna absolutely shudder at New York's dazzling array of dives, and isos, and iso dives! WHOA HEY SLOW THIS HORSE CARRIAGE DOWN, MISTER SHULA! You go any faster and we might go time traveling right into the Age of Talkies!
Your quarterback: He lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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You know, you could easily argue that the one thing Ben McAdoo did right in his tenure with the Giants was to bench Eli Manning and attempt, with remarkable futility, to end his reign of terror. The move backfired both because of the timing and because Geno Smith is ass, but the idea itself wasn't a bad one. In fact, it was downright necessary.
Obviously, you know what happened next: the football public cried out in anger, demanded justice for poor idiot Eli, and McAdoo saw his career come to abrupt end. And not only was Eli reinstated as the starter, but the Giants have now gone ahead and, in a wild overcorrection, frantically rebuilt the roster AROUND HIM, as if last season never happened. When Old Yeller is dying, you take him out behind the shed, man! You don't prop his lifeless corpse up on the couch and tell the kids it's fine!
And yet, that's precisely what the Giants are doing. Do you know how fucking bad Eli was last season? Jay Cutler had a better passer rating. DeShone Kizer, Tom Savage, and David Fales all had more yards per attempt. He's finished. If his name was Eli Fartsock, his career would have been over five years ago. Instead, he's more entrenched than he's ever been. His backup is Davis Webb. The only QB the Giants drafted to challenge Eli was fourth rounder Kyle Lauletta, who cannot possibly be a real person. All it took was one unceremonious benching for Eli to somehow consolidate power all across this dopey organization. The fact that Tom Coughlin dragged Blake Bortles to the AFC title game will only make the Mara family's prolonged boner for continuity worse. Eli is never leaving. He is hayseed Rasputin.
Also, he's a fucking criminal! Eli may have quietly settled the lawsuit accusing him of defrauding memorabilia dealers (I know there's no better group of people on Earth to defraud, but still), but the ugly details are still out there in plain sight.
The emails depict Manning as sending a message to Giants equipment manager Joe Skiba, asking him to hand over "two helmets that can pass as game-used."
Was Manning suspended for this? Of course he wasn't. Roger Goodell would probably feign deafness if you ever asked him about it. The Giants, who were co-defendants in that case, never came close to issuing any sort of public criticism of their QB over it. Meanwhile, Odell takes a shit and Mister Mara sends out a 90-page memo about it.
What's new that sucks: Say, do you like watching the Carolina Panthers when Cam Newton is hurt? Boy, do I have the team for you! Not only do you get an aging quarterback running Mike Shula's patented run-and-scoot offense, you also get aging running back Jonathan Stewart AND random corner Teddy Williams. EXCITING!
I'm being a touch unfair here. Obviously, the team also drafted Saquon Barkley at No. 2. Despite the fact that Barkley plays running back, this still represents the first time the Giants have not reached on a first round pick in roughly 27 years. They also handed $34.8 million in guarantees to Nate Solder, because former Patriots always flourish when they leave! Whenever the Giants find themselves cornered, they immediately attempt to reanimate the Ottis Anderson Giants in order to appease both themselves and Richie from Paramus. All the Giants have to do is invoke the phrase "smashmouth football" and immediately a roving pack of drunk, be-gunted WFAN callers will appear in front of MetLife Stadium, furiously nodding in approval.
JPP was traded. Ereck Flowers is still here. Someone found a dead body at Janoris Jenkins's house.
What has always sucked: I know you're tired of Odell takes but my man just got caught ordering cocaine pizza AND he's going into a contract year. You will not escape the Odell takes. You will be able to power a fucking fleet of Toyotas with them. I know you think the boat trip was the apex of the Odell Take-Industrial Complex, but you will soon be proven wrong.
At some point at the coming season, Odell will shake his dick in the end zone and the resulting media coverage will blot out the sun. Phil Mushnick will personally ring your doorbell and scream THIS BLACK GUY IS A BUM at your dog. Trump will tweet about it. Mister Mara will go bug-eyed, causing his monocle to drop directly into a bowl of chilled vichyssoise. The Giants will issue a public statement saying they are "aware" of the dick. Everyone will lose their fucking minds all while the Giants waste the final year of his contract by running the ball behind the weak side of the line 800 times a game. This team is run by wealthy stumpheads and it deserves to toil in obscurity for the next decade.
Fuck John Mara with his own top hat.
What might not suck: Oh, it's more than possible that this team could rebound and blindly stumble into in the playoffs after cratering in 2017. That'll buy you another five years of Eli, at the very least. Lucky you.
Let's remember a guy who sucked: I have to put Dave Brown here because every Giants fan my age hated Dave Brown from Day One and will never stop hating him. He was like watching a hangover. He is the horcrux into which Ray Handley's soul lives on. I personally hate Dave Brown and couldn't even tell you why. Fuck Dave Brown. I hope he's stuck in a dead end real estate job right now.
HEAR IT FROM GIANTS FANS!
We fired Sling Blade as our coach and somehow ended up with a worse coach.
Ian:
I watched 14 of their games last year and wanted to die.
Martin:
All our fans are named Kevin.
Christopher:
I swear we drafted Saquon Barkley instead of a QB in this year's draft solely as an apology to Eli.
Sara:
I'm so fucking tired of being asked to not scream profanities in front of children.
Erik:
In my dreams I ride a never ending water slide of McAdoo's slicked back hair in my descent into madness.
Charlie:
I got shitcanned recently and included in the email my humorless prick of a boss wrote about why I should be fired was an anecdote about how I basically shouted "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!" in the middle of our large, crowded floor when I heard Eli was getting benched for Geno Smith. I stand by that reaction.
William:
We draft a generational talent at RB yet are reportedly going to use him to return kicks so he can blow out his ACL or get concussed and ruin his career before it's begun.
Zachary:
We drafted probably the best player available in the draft, and it won't amount to anything because our O-line is a bunch of cardboard cutouts of Ereck Flowers looking angry.
Also, the tickets are too expensive. I've got to about a dozen Jets games because I don't want to shell out infinity dollars to see Eli Manning throw a pick at the one-yard line five times a day.
Ryan:
Due to our horrendous offensive time-of-possession, our stellar defense aged three years in two seasons.
Every time I see them run some bullshit dive up the middle for no gain on a 3rd and 9, I want to slam my dick in a car door.
Peter:
My dad cried right after the last two NY Giant Super Bowl wins and said the words "I don't care about anything else in life, as long as the Giants win the Super Bowl." He had already seen two Super Bowl wins in his lifetime. Judging by his stellar life decisions these last 10+ years he's clearly telling the truth. He also wants to be buried in a team jersey. My dad sucks.
FireStorm:
For years, the only Giants jersey I ever had was a Tiki Barber that was a hand down from my older brother. When my mother asked shortly after Thanksgiving what I wanted for Christmas, I made it clear; I'd forgo everything else if I got my own Giants jersey. She asked if I had a particular player in mind, and I said no.
This would turn out to be a mistake.
Christmas morning rolls around, and for once I'm thrilled at the prospect of getting clothes. I see what I'm sure is my new jersey and save it for last, while trying to shake off the looming sense of dread that always seems to hang over every Giants game and is flaring up again on this Christmas morning. Finally, I'm down to the final present. As I'm working off the wrapping paper, my mother says something no one wants to hear, especially on Christmas morning.
"Now, let me explain..."
It was the Christmas of 2008, and here I was with a Plaxico Burress jersey. Mom informed me she was going for Eli and found out they were out of stock, so she ordered one for Plaxico. It arrived the day before he'd shot himself in the leg.
Gerry:
Sometime in November someone who barely watches football asked me who the Giants coach was . . .and I just forgot. There was just nothing, I couldn't even come up with a hazy vision of a skin tag with an 8th grade haircut- for all intents and purposes, I had just wiped clean my memory of Ben McAdoo. Embarrassed, I started babbling to the stranger about random Giants marginalia, I brought up Zak DeOssie, Bear Pascoe, and even Ramses fucking Barden, all in the name of proving I wasn't lying about being a Giants fan. And then I realized, who the fuck would lie about that?
Oh yeah and fuck Kevin Gilbride.
Mike:
No other team fears the Giants despite their four Super Bowl wins, largely because the team is never built for sustained success.
Pablo:
My name is Pablo
I'm from Colombia and we love soccer more than anything in this world.
With some of my mindless friends, we started following some american sports, because ¿why not?
Somehow, Eli "stoner face" Manning and his unbelievable two Super Bowl wins made me think that supporting this team and this sport was worth it.
December of 2017 came: My soccer team lost the championship final to our biggest rival with a last minute goal. Giants became the worst team in the NFL (even my colombian mind knows that the Browns doesn't qualify as a professional american football team). And I had the worst team in my fantasy league.
¡Yay, sports!
Our former head coach became a real life 80's movie after being the new kid in school the year before who got really popular, then slicks back his hair gets cocky, alienates his "real" friends for the popular kids before losing it all as everything goes horribly horribly wrong.
The stadium looks like a fucking shipping container in a swamp and has more stairs than a MC Escher painting.
Ed:
Regardless of who is running the team this year, we'll be sure to see some of the hallmarks of every Giants team since the late 90s:
· Immediately committing an offensive penalty once inside the red zone. 1st and 20 from the 25 is one of the top plays in the playbook.
· Allowing the opposing team's defenders to murder the quarterback .3 seconds after the snap.
· Third down defense that makes every opposing quarterback look like Tom Brady.
· A great pass rush that is immediately offset by practice squad-caliber linebackers.
With our history of using a top draft pick on a RB, Saquon Barkley will turn out to be Ron Dayne version 2.0.
Mets- Nobody has worse luck with injuries than us.
Giants- Hold my beer (takes CB Sam Beal in supplemental draft, who injures himself two weeks later and is now out for the season.)
My friends bitched and complained about Eli Manning for YEARS (they refer to him as "Gump"), including during the era that he won two Super Bowl MVPs. Then they reacted to his one-game benching and the possibility of drafting Dam Darnold as if Eli was their virgin teenage sister and Ronnie from the Jersey Shore just showed up to take her out.
Listen to the litany of Jersey Shore cosplayers named Tony or Vinnie or Sal calling into WFAN and you'll hear the complete library of racist code phrases to describe OBJ: "thug," "lazy," "wasn't raised right," all in an accent that only isn't the laughing stock of the country thanks to Boston.
The Giants fan-base is a wannabe Steelers fan-base, without the charm. I watched the draft and when I saw the last pick was traded, I fantasized that the Giants had made the trade and were taking Lamar Jackson, which would have initiated a series of pitchforks and torches down the Garden State Parkway from Woodbridge to Seaside.
Pharmaceutical companies should test all products on Ben McAdoo instead of mice.
Bon Jovi is the fucking WORST.
Jack:
We have a starting receiver lineup of Sterling Shepard, Odell Beckham and Evan Engram and instead of drafting an actual, honest-to-God QB with the 2nd pick in the draft, we draft a fucking running back.
Matthew:
The QB can't throw and the line can't block. The new GM decided to rectify this problem by getting a new RB who will average 2.5 YPC when teams stack eight in the box.
Ben:
The NY/NJ region is the most populous Jewish area outside of Israel, yet the owners tried to sell the naming rights to the insurance company that insured concentration camps. The NY fucking Post somehow had moral high ground and helped prevent this from happening.
Look at this picture. Look at it! Davis Webb is guaranteed to be the Giants quarterback for the next 15 years because apparently there just always needs to be a doofy ass, slack jawed, clueless looking white guy with an expression that launches 1000 memes in that role. They even have the same fucking helmet hair, even when they're not wearing helmets! I get to spend the next decade and a half of my life watching Eli Manning part two, but this time he's shorter.
Fuck Jerry Reese with rusty sporks.
I hope all the giddy Saquon Barkley fanboys enjoy his next 2-3 seasons, because by the time this team's mess of a QB situation is solved, he'll have the knees of Professor X.
Gabe:
If I were forced to invite either Tiki Barber or Dave Meggett to my daughter's birthday party, Tiki would barely - BARELY - make the cut.
Keith:
Our dipshit owner has the same amount of spine as Paul Ryan.
Eric:
Because we just had one of our worst years in team history and the payoff was supposed to be drafting our next franchise quarterback in a stacked draft. I mean why else would you bench your current 2x Super Bowl winning franchise quarterback in the middle of the season? Why else embarrass your current franchise quarterback but to kickstart a rebuild? Surely this was all lining up to punt the rest of the season to ensure a top QB draft pick, while getting Eli's farewell tour over as quickly as possible.
Nah. Let's just use the second pick in the draft on a RB at a time where a running back's prime is over before they even leave the draft day podium. Nah, let's pass over the top projected QB in the draft to let our next-door neighbor fuck up his development under our shared roof instead. Nah the better plan is to give Eli all of the best offensive weapons we can without addressing the o-line. Because Eli's mobility will surely allow him enough time to use those weapons before face-planting himself into the turf.
Will:
Our star receiver had the AUDACITY to do a dog-peeing celebration and get caught on camera with WOMEN USING DRUGS and that led to more hand-wringing from our dipshit owners than 2 years ago when a shitty kicker was revealed to be a wife-beating lunatic.
I own this shirt and it is hands down the dumbest purchase of my life and I regret not spending the money I spent on it on literally anything else in the world:
This is the shit that makes me the most furious about Gettleman: accounting for position value in the draft IS NOT ANALYTICS! Sometimes a fact is just a fact, and a number is just a number. If I see three people jump off a cliff and fall to their deaths and decide, "I'm not jumping - it killed three out of three of the last guys." — I'm not a fucking data scientist. I'm not building a statistical model. I'm looking at a single metric and making a responsible decision.
Oh, and now that he's hired we'll never fire him, because that's not what franchises of our "integrity" do. Not unless he starts Geno Smith.
Rob:
Ben McAdoo should never again be allowed within 500 yards of an NFL facility, unless it's to coach the Cowboys or Eagles.
Ross:
The Maras defended an obvious wife-terrorizing kicker, who was eminently replaceable, rather than make the easiest call in the world to fire him.
The Giants' failure is the only remaining thing that gives Tom Coughlin a wrinkly boner.
Think Andrew Luck was a tragic waste of generational talent? Just wait and see what happens to Saquon.
I still can't believe that McAdoo benched Eli for Geno fucking Smith. I'd rather have Air Bud than Geno Smith.
I hope someone shoots Ben McAdoo in his goatee. I hope he goes to a five star restaurant and is served an exquisite cut of filet mignon and then he fucking chokes on it. Fuck him.
The NFL season looms on the horizon like an acid hailstorm and my sort of new and not really improved Giants have replaced Mr. Weatherbee and Dilton Doiley from RIVERDALE with a GM that couldn't go into his last team's locker room for fear he'd get shivved and flushed down a toilet by two-thirds of the offense and a bloated lifer who was too incompetent to continue coaching the Cleveland Browns. But hey, at least they drafted an impact player at a non-fungible position and signed their most exciting player since the Reagan Administration to extension, right? Oh, wait, they drafted a running back and let OBJ twist in the wind.
Russell:
Most frequent plays for the New York Giants since I started watching them in 1979.
1. False start
3. Delay of game
4. Run into center of line for negative yards. ALWAYS used on first and goal.
5. Quarterback fumble under minimal pressure
6. Allowing game winning punt return touchdown
Eli:
I was a chubby American exchange student in Finland (it's pretty cold, to say the least). I stayed up till 4 or 5 in the fucking morning to watch my Giants EVERY SUNDAY and usually got drunk on Finnish vodka. During one of the last games of the season, I screamed "SHIT" as Eli threw his third interception. My roommates woke up and asked me what was wrong. Then, the camera cut to the classic Eli Manning-derp-I-threw-another-INT-face.
I said, in broken Finnish, "THIS is why I'm mad!" and paused the livestream. My roommate Antti, the quietest person I have ever known, suddenly said, "This idiot's face looks like a necrophile's reaction when he sees that his favorite cemetery hired a security detail after another incident."
This has been the memory from my experience in Finland. Not getting shitfaced at three in the morning and screaming for the next three hours; not 3-13; not Odell's leg being tossed into a fucking grinder; not GENO SMITH; not McAdoodoo; not whatever Mike Francesa had to say, but the guy who never said a word making the most accurate comment I have ever heard. Please fuck me with the leftovers from Odell's fake hookers-and-blow party.
Our offensive line is the tanning oil of football in the sense that it ain't blocking SHIT and is probably getting some pasty-ass white boy burned.
Dan:
The thing that sucks the most about the Giants is the gameday experience. You have to wake up at the crack of dawn, deal with whatever horrors the MTA has in store for weekend travelers, and find your way to Penn Station, where you are immediately greeted by hundreds of bros and broettes holding 24-packs of Bud Light while wearing knockoff jerseys they purchased for $40 from an ad on Facebook.
Once you cram yourself onto an NJ Transit train, you are taken to Hell on Earth, aka the Secaucus Rail Station. Is your journey finished there? It is not! Because then you have to go through a maze to get to your connecting train going to the Meadowlands, which does not adhere to a specific schedule and just sort of randomly, eventually arrives.
You'd think once you arrive at MetLife Stadium that you were stepping into a palace of sporting entertainment, but you would be wrong. For $1.6 billion dollars, the Giants and Jets somehow managed to construct the most hollow, sterile stadium known to man. It looks like a futuristic Amazon warehouse, only without the charm.
Entering the stadium means sitting in an upper level in which you can feel the breeze of jets en route to Newark Airport passing five feet above your head. But maybe the atmosphere is good, you ask??? Once again, you would be incorrect. The fanbase at Giants games consists of old men who have owned season tickets since Yankee Stadium that leave in the third quarter, thousands of fans of other teams who scoop up the tickets sold by said old men on the secondary market, and the worst Blue Lives Matter-ass faces North Jersey has to offer, whining about how Odell Beckham needs to be traded because he doesn't have the kind of "character" as Lawrence Taylor.
And yet sadly, despite all of this, we cannot even claim the title of worst fans in our own building.
Once the game is over and the Giants have found a way to blow a 10-point lead with under two minutes remaining in regulation, you are transported to a literal cow pen where if you are lucky, you will arrive back across the river at Penn Station in only two hours.
Fuck Matt Dodge with a cell phone tower.
Fuck Jerry Reese with all of his 3rd-7th round busts combined.
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Home | News | An interview with Mike Shepherdson Chairman of the NIHR Leeds In Vitro Diagnostic Co-operative PPI Group
An interview with Mike Shepherdson Chairman of the NIHR Leeds In Vitro Diagnostic Co-operative PPI Group
Why Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) is so important
Patients and the public bring a wealth of 'lived experience' and provide valuable perspectives on the way in vitro diagnostic (IVD) tests should be developed. Our dedicated Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Group helps to identify unmet needs and gain feedback on early-stage innovations. The group meets regularly and delivers research feedback that adds tangible benefit and value to the NHS.
Here, Chairman of our PPI Group, Mike Shepherdson reflects on his involvement with NIHR Leeds MIC and why he is keen to encourage participation.
How and why did you become involved with the NIHR Leeds In Vitro-Diagnostic Co-operative also known as the NIHR Leeds MIC?
My relationship with the Leeds Teaching Hospital's Trust began in the early seventies when I experienced kidney failure and was treated at St James' Hospital with kidney dialysis and then subsequently a kidney transplant in 1974.
I became aware of the work of NIHR Leeds MIC via one of its scientists, who understood the experiences I had been through as a renal patient and felt that I could be a valuable resource as a patient ambassador. I also had a link to the organisation via Associate Clinical Director and Renal Theme Lead Andy Lewington, who I knew from my time as a renal patient. At this point in my life I had recently left the corporate world and was looking for a new challenge, where I could use my life experiences to give back.
Why do you think being a member of the PPI group is suited to you?
I am a naturally inquisitive and questioning person and I think these characteristics are useful for anyone joining in PPI activities. I give my perspective as both a previous patient and also as a 'layperson', with no scientific or medical experience. I do have a natural interest in renal medicine as a transplant recipient but I'm not just asked about kidney related projects, the role is quite broad and covers lots of different areas of medicine, including oncology, musculoskeletal and infection diagnostics.
What do you find most interesting about being part of the group?
When I first joined the PPI group the relationship between the University, the Trust and industry was explained to me. NIHR Leeds MIC is a collaborative of these organisations/sectors and I find this structure fascinating. I think most people believe medical research falls within the remit of either a hospital trust or a university or both but I think there's a lack of knowledge and understanding around the input from and value added through the involvement of industry. In Leeds this collaborative approach involves both SME and larger industry partners and I have really enjoyed finding out more about how this collaboration works and how all of the pieces fit together.
What sort of things do you get involved in?
We get involved in a number of interesting and exciting ways. Sometimes this involves sense checking communications from a patient perspective, whether its content that invites patients to be involved in a trial, informs them about a new IVD test and how it might benefit them or asks them to be part of a research programme. Our role is to ensure that things make sense, are explained using simple and non-technical language and also that there are no red flags when it comes to what a patient might be being asked to do. We input into documents to make them more readable and understandable for the average person in the street. What does it look and feel like are there any ethical issues and how does it make the reader feel?
Sometimes IVD companies will come and present how a new device works so that we can provide our thoughts and feedback from a patient perspective.
We also have discussions around what might be inhibitors to people using or engaging with certain things. A good example of this was the Bowel Cancer self-testing diagnostic that was only receiving around a 40% response rate. Our feedback contributed towards the test changing to encourage a higher response rate.
Health Economists can also be involved in our meetings which gives a very interesting perspective on the cost implications of certain initiatives to the NHS. Its particularly educational to be a part of these conversations and to understand the wider implications of new tests being adopted.
How has your role evolved?
In the early days, input from the group was more of a compliance driven exercise to support with funding applications whereas now it's a much more integrated and value-added part of the whole process.
What are the benefits of being involved in the PPI Group?
Everyone involved in the group brings different life experiences and medical condition experiences and this helps when inputting into a research study. By nature you do learn a lot along the way and I personally find this very rewarding.
How much time do you have to commit to the group?
We meet as a group quarterly and during that session, there will often be a presentation, from the researchers at NIHR Leeds MIC. They might ask us for some input either there and then or for us to think about it and email back to them. In between the meetings we may also be asked for quick feedback on things over email. Involvement in the group is entirely voluntary and everyone has the option of whether to feedback on something or not but it is never overly onerous nor does it take up a lot of time.
What have been key stand out projects for you?
I was involved in the very early stages of a huge campaign, into Lung Cancer screening which involved mobile scanners going into areas where there was a high incidence of lung cancer, providing a holistic approach of both diagnosis and preventative advice. This was a very interesting and innovative project that I played a small part in.
The 'gene first' study is also one I was involved in which looked at the link between gene sequencing and personalised medicine for Bowel Cancer.
I've also worked closely on a project to define more effective ways to test urine of catheterised renal patients as well as a number of studies relating to Acute Kidney Injury. Renal projects are of particular interest to me as a result of my experience as a kidney patient, my involvement with the NIHR Leeds MIC has led to me working with other related organisations on a whole range of renal research programmes and studies, including a very significant programme with Kidney Research UK.
What is the TRIADD trial and how are you involved?
TRIADD is an upcoming feasibility study into kidney health, post-transplant, with funding awarded from Leeds Hospitals Charity. The study is essentially about finding a better way of monitoring the health of a transplanted kidney and ultimately better predicting donor kidney rejection, facilitating earlier clinical intervention. Mark Lobb, the Clinical Scientist involved in the project explains it very well HERE.
The PPI group will be involved right from the beginning of the study, providing feedback on patient communications throughout its roll-out.
Why do you encourage others to get involved in Patient and Public Involvement?
Whilst I joined the NIHR Leeds MIC PPI Group at a time of change in my life and when I did have the available time, I like to think that I would have still joined had I also still been working fulltime as it was something I was very keen to do and something I saw as being important.
The process can feel daunting and a bit intimidating to those who have never been involved. You are involved in conversations with highly skilled and experienced scientists and clinicians but our job is to bring our experiences as people without that technical knowledge to ultimately help with how things are explained to patients. We absolutely don't need to be scientific or medical experts that's not the point of our involvement. I have found during my time in the group that there really is no such thing as a silly or wrong question, because all questioning leads to a better outcome and that's what we are there to do.
It would be great to attract younger people into the PPI group, as well as members from a more diverse range of communities. The NIHR Leeds MIC does a lot to promote the benefits of being involved in research to under-represented communities that traditionally haven't been involved and it would be great to see this shift happen. Greater diversity within the PPI group would undoubtedly make for more reliable, balanced, relevant and representative outcomes.
I would say to anyone interested to get involved, you have more than enough experience; patient input is really valued and together we can make a difference.
How would you sum up your involvement with the PPI Group?
For me it brings the opportunity to learn and gain knowledge into a whole range of different things. Knowing about new innovations that are potentially coming further down the line is encouraging and enlightening and allows you to feel optimistic and positive about the future.
Being part of the wider team at NIHR Leeds MIC also introduces you to a whole team of experts, whether that's clinicians or academics or industry representatives and it feels rewarding to be part of a collective that is working towards making changes for good and improve outcomes for patients.
There is a great sense of satisfaction that comes from all of this for what I don't believe is a huge commitment of either time or effort. The team is very supportive and there is so much great research going on in Leeds, I've learned so much and feel that I've contributed to some research programmes that really can and do improve patients' lives.
If you are interested in joining our Patient and Public Involvement Group find out more HERE or contact us at nihrleedsmic@leeds.ac.uk
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Here's Why Iyanla Vanzant Wouldn't Have R. Kelly on Fix My Life
Singer reached out to the Oprah Winfrey Network show before Surviving R. Kelly was made
By Mike Vulpo Jan 11, 2019 11:34 PMTags
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It's time for Iyanla Vanzant to speak her truth.
For six seasons, the life coach, teacher and best-selling author has helped transform the lives of many individuals with her Oprah Winfrey Network series Fix My Life.
And while many participants are ordinary people in need of healing, many celebrities and reality stars have also appeared on her program.
Before season six kicks off this weekend, Iyanla revealed that R. Kelly reached out to appear on the show long before the Lifetime docu-series Surviving R. Kelly was ever complete. But according to Iyanla, he wouldn't be ready for the experience.
"He didn't meet one of the criteria that we had for guests," she explained to ABC News' Candice Williams. "Are they willing? Are they ready? Do they have the capacity to do the work? He didn't have it, the emotional capacity, he just didn't have it."
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Iyanla continued, "And I knew, based on what I was looking at—the paces that I would have to take him through—it would have been brutal. He didn't have the capacity."
In the documentary Surviving R. Kelly, accusers came forward with allegations of sexual, mental and physical abuse against the singer.
R. Kelly and his team have consistently denied any allegations of abuse or misconduct. The singer has also not been convicted of any crimes connected with the allegations.
For Iyanla, she's also been asked why R. Kelly's accusers haven't been on her show. She argues some may not be ready to go through the process.
"Stop texting me telling me to work with the survivors. What's the fix?" she explained. "There's no fix other than them doing their healing where they get to the place where they can recapture their worth, their innocence, their dignity to the point where they can forgive. They ain't there yet."
As for why so many Americans are intrigued by the case and developing such strong opinions, Iyanla has her own theory.
"We're all reacting to it from our own personal experience including people who have been sexually violated and never told anybody and never abused anybody," she shared. "We're all responding to it from our own broken, wounded place and most of us are angry about it."
Since Surviving R. Kelly premiered, many celebrities have spoken out against the singer including John Legend, Lady Gaga and Keke Palmer. A petition has also been launched to #MuteRKelly. Companies including Pizza Slime have also created merchandise to benefit the movement.
Iyanla Fix My Life returns this Saturday night at 9 p.m. only on the Oprah Winfrey Network.