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US long-term mortgage rates little changed; 30-year at 3.82%
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16 of June 2019
AP Photo,FILE - In this April 12, 2019, file photo, a sold sign is shown in front of a home in Surfside, Fla. On Thursday, June 13, Freddie Mac reports on this week's average U.S. mortgage rates. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. long-term mortgage rates were little changed this week, after six straight weeks of declines putting them at historically low levels.
Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday the average rate on the 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage held steady from last week at 3.82 percent, its lowest point since September 2017. By contrast, a year ago the benchmark rate stood at 4.62 percent.
The average rate for 15-year, fixed-rate home loans slipped this week to 3.26% from 3.28%.
The declining rates have been a boon to potential purchasers in the spring home buying season, and the number of prospective buyers seeking mortgages jumped last month.
Mortgage applications for new home purchases increased 20.1% in May from a year earlier, according to new data from the Mortgage Bankers Association.
A reprieve for nervous stock-market investors came this week in the U.S. trade dispute with Mexico, as the two sides reached a truce Friday after Mexico agreed to do more to stop the flow of Central American migrants into the U.S. But by Monday, President Donald Trump was again threatening to slap crippling tariffs on Mexican exports if Mexico didn't abide by an unspecified commitment, "to be revealed in the not-too-distant future."
The U.S. trade battle with China continues to fester. The trade fights threaten to stifle economic growth in the U.S. and around the world. Investors have been mostly fleeing to safer investments, like bonds and gold, because of the uncertainty around trade negotiations.
The rush into the bond market has pushed up bond prices and depressed their yields. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which influences mortgage rates, was 2.12% late Wednesday, unchanged from a week earlier. It fell to 2.10% around midday Thursday.
Freddie Mac surveys lenders across the country between Monday and Wednesday each week to compile its mortgage rate figures.
The average doesn't include extra fees, known as points, which most borrowers must pay to get the lowest rates.
The average fee on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages rose to 0.6 point this week from 0.5 point.
The average fee for the 15-year mortgage was unchanged at 0.5 point.
The average rate for five-year adjustable-rate mortgages declined to 3.51% from 3.52% last week. The fee remained at 0.4 point.
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2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 11 Option 2: I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
Posted on October 11, 2019 by bandsaboutmovies
DAY 11. THE OLD WAY. Watch a classic from 1959 or before.
Herman Cohen started his climb up the show business ladder from the lowest rung, working as a gofer and usher at Detroit's Dexter Theater at the tender age of 12. By 18, he'd be the manager. His career would take him from being the sales manager for Columbia's Detroit region to their Hollywood publicity department and finally making his own films.
His greatest success came in the 1950's with this film — which he wrote and produced for American International — which earned $2 million dollars on a $100,000 budget (approximately $18 million on a $900,000 budget when adjusted for today's inflation). He was also behind the films Craze, Trog and Berserk!
Back in 1957, when this film was made, the idea of a teenager becoming a monster was shocking to audiences. Producer Samuel Z. Arkoff claimed that he received plenty of guff for exploiting this idea. In fact, this is the first of many I Was a Teenage movies, but it certainly wouldn't be the last.
It's also the first role for Michael Landon, who would go on to enjoy a long and fruitful Hollywood career with three landmark series on his resume: Bonanza, Little House on the Prarie and Highway to Heaven. When I was a kid, I was often afraid of the photo of the werewolf in this movie and my mother would say, "It's just Michael Landon. You shouldn't be afraid." Also, as a youngster, if I ever went to another kid's home and they were fans of Little House on the Prarie's adventures of the Ingalls family, I'd instantly judge them as boring and want to go home.
Here he plays Tony Rivers, a troubled teenager to say the least. Unlike most 1950's fare that portrays its protagonist as noble, we're shown that Tony is a rough character right from the beginning. He doesn't just rail against authority, he hates everyone. And he's not all that forthright about it. In a fistfight with another classmate, he goes so far as to throw dirt in the man's face and try to kill him with a shovel instead of just using his fists. His love of violence and hatred for his fellow man stands in dramatic contrast to his pretty boy looks.
Barney Phillips, who was also Sergeant Ed Jacobs on Dragnet, plays Detective Donovan, a cop who feels bad for Tony and tries to intervene on his behalf several times. After all, Tony grew up without a mom and his dad's probably a drunk.
Yvonne Lime, who would move on from acting to becoming a noted philanthropist with her husband, plays his girlfriend Arlene. While her parents don't seem to enjoy the cut of Tony'd jib, she's in pure love with him, believing in him no matter what.
That said, the real horror starts at a haunted house party. After an extended dance sequence where Vic and his girl sing along to a record — amazingly, this is announced as a big deal and I can't imagine attending a party where the highlight is some guy playing bongos and lipsynching to a 45 — Tony flips out and nearly kills the man for surprising him from behind. I mean, everyone was pranking one another to an inordinate degree and only Tony tried to outright murder Vic. Look — I hated Vic after a minute, so I get it, Tony. I can't even imagine what it would be like to have to spend time with him on an extended basis.
Don't believe me? Just watch these antics and tell me you don't wish you could go full lycanthrope and strike them all down.
However, Tony's rage ends up knocking down his girlfriend, so he volunteers to meet with hypnotist Dr. Alfred Brandon. He's played by Whit Bissell, who would play a psychologist in not only this film, but in its follow-up, I Was a Teenage Frankenstein. He also had the same occupation in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
This being the 50's, the doctor has to be a quack. He's really only interested in experimenting on Tony, regressing him to his most primal state.
After another party at the haunted house — this is made a major point yet we never see a single ghost — Tony drives Arlene home and Frank, one of their friends, is mauled and killed. As the cops debate the autopsy, Pepi the janitor (Vladimir Sokoloff, a Russian actor playing a Carpathian, so this isn't whitewashing as much as its Hollywood not really even knowing at this point what ethnicity is. In fact, Sokoloff would play 35 different nationalities in his career, including people from Greece, China, Spain, Mexico and so many more) tells them all the truth: these are the marks of a werewolf!
Tony feels like there's something wrong with himself, but the principal is so happy with his progress that she's recommending him to State College. One would assume that the marks on his permanent record have been removed.
As he leaves her office, he notices Theresa practicing her gymnastics. This drives his teenage hormones into overdrive and he responds by going full werewolf and killing her, which is about the best translation for toxic masculinity that 1957 can muster. Just seeing the comely form of Dawn Richard (Playboy Playmate of the Month for May 1957) as she stretches out is all it takes. That said — her sexuality had to be somewhat shocking for the puritanical Baby Boom era. Therefore, she had to be destroyed.
Tony's recognized by his jacket and goes on the run. He calls Arlene for help and she can only listen, unable to reply. And a visit to Dr. Brandon only leads to the man using our protagonist and filming his transformation, at which point Tony kills everyone. The cops are forced to gun him down — silver bullets are unnecessary when you have good old fashioned American steel — and that's all she wrote.
One of those cops — they opine that man shouldn't mess in the affairs of God — is Guy Williams, who would soon be swashbuckling in Zorro and sailing through the galaxy in Lost In Space.
Less than four months after the release of this film, AIP would release two movies that are pretty much the same story: I Was a Teenage Frankenstein and Blood of Dracula, which is even more of a remake, just with a female lead and doctor. It's such a paint by numbers recreation that there's even another dance number thrown in, references to Carpathia, dialogue lifted nearly line by line and an observer who knows that it's a vampire when no one else will believe them.
I watched this movie on the very same day I rewatched An American Werewolf In London and it's stunning to see the different ways that they interpret not only being a werewolf, but the transformation itself. Instead of the pain that 1981's Rick Baker effects depict, all we see here is a slow dissolve of Tony getting a furry face. But it works — for so often, this was how American audiences saw werewolves.
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Background: The clozapine-derivative quetiapine has been shown in some cases to cause leukopenia and neutropenia.
Case Presentation: We reported on a case of a young female diagnosed with treatment-resistant schizophrenia. After failed trials of three antipsychotic medications and despite a history of quetiapineinduced leukopenia, clozapine treatment was introduced due to the severity of the patient's symptoms, the limited effective treatment options, and a lack of guidelines on this issue.
Result: Over a ten-week period of clozapine treatment at 700 mg per day, the patient developed agranulocytosis. Her white blood cell count sharply dropped to 1.6 × 109 L, and her neutrophils decreased to 0.1 × 109 L. There had been no similar reaction to her previous medications (carbamazepine, risperidone, and haloperidol).
Conclusion: The safety of clozapine in a patient who has previously experienced leukopenia and neutropenia with quetiapine requires further investigation. Increased attention should be paid to such cases. Careful monitoring and slow titration are advisable.
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Our next stop was the KOA at Bay Center / Walapa Bay, about four hours north. I considered crossing the Columbia River into Washington to be a milestone and boy was it a doozy.
We had crossed a few bridges in Oregon that shared the same traits: constructed of steel, green and very narrow. So it was no surprise to see the same architecture on our approach to the Columbia River bridge. But this one was big. Very Big.
As I approached the incline, I started to feel a little, well, anxiety. The lanes were narrow with virtually no shoulder and we were way above the water. Next thing I know I've got sweaty palms and my heart is beating just a bit faster. I'm thinking "Carol, grab the wheel" but didn't say anything since she was actually in the back seat with TiVo. I just held on until we were safely down the back side. Whew!
Here's the bad boy on the approach.
After setting up camp, I walked down to the beach to find some of the locals clamming as the tide was rolling in. It's a rich field and and most came away with some nice sized buckets. This beach was special, calm winds, calm water and lots of clams.


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New role for Peter Curran
Peter Curran, Director of Finance
Peter Curran, Director of Finance at Aberystwyth University has been appointed as the new Finance Director for Sport Wales.
Based in Cardiff, Sport Wales is the national organisation responsible for developing and promoting sport and physical activity in Wales. Sport Wales is the main adviser on sporting matters to the Welsh Government and is responsible for distributing National Lottery funds to both elite and grassroots sport in Wales.
Peter, an alumnus of the University, returned to Aberystwyth University in February 2013 to take up the role of Director of Finance, having previously held the post of Vice-Principal at the Royal Welsh college of Music and Drama.
Speaking of his appointment, Professor April McMahon, Vice-Chancellor of Aberystwyth University said: "We congratulate Peter on his new appointment to this exciting role, and thank him for his considerable contribution at Aberystwyth.
"Peter has, during the past two years, introduced a number of strategic policies and systems to the Finance Department, which ensure that the University is now better able to meet the challenges it faces within a competitive Higher Education sector. The Executive wishes Peter, as a colleague and an alumnus of the University, every success as he returns to Cardiff."
Peter Curran said: "I am delighted to be taking up this new role with Sport Wales, which combines my professional aspirations with my keen interest in sport; and I look forward to contributing positively to developing the sports agenda in Wales.
"I would like to thank my colleagues at the University for the warm welcome as a returning alumnus, and for giving me the opportunity to develop the Finance function within the Institution. Aberystwyth University has always meant a great deal to me, and I look forward to returning to witness its exciting developments. I wish the University and its staff every success in the future."
Peter will be starting in his new role at Sport Wales in early 2015. The University has initiated a recruitment process to appoint a successor to Peter.


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HomeTrading NewsEnergy markets are facing 'one or two years of extreme volatility,' Enel CEO says
Energy markets are facing 'one or two years of extreme volatility,' Enel CEO says
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This image, from March 2022, shows wind turbines and gas storage facilities in Germany. Europe's energy markets have experienced turbulence in recent months.
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The CEO of Italian power firm Enel
told CNBC Tuesday that turbulence in energy markets was likely to persist for some time.
"Things are extremely turbulent, as they have been the whole year, I would say," Francesco Starace said.
"The turbulence we're going to have will remain — it might change a little bit, the pattern, but we're looking at one or two years of extreme volatility in the energy markets," he added.
Starace's comments, made on the sidelines of Goldman Sachs' Carbonomics conference in London, come at a time of uncertainty for the energy sector following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in Feb. 2022.
Russia was the biggest supplier of both natural gas and petroleum oils to the EU in 2021, but gas exports from Russia to the European Union have slid this year.
"Despite available production and transport capacity, Russia has reduced its gas supplies to the European Union by close to 50% y-o-y since the start of 2022," the International Energy Agency said in its Gas Market Report last month.
"In the current context, the complete shutdown of Russian pipeline gas supplies to the European Union cannot be excluded ahead of the 2022/23 heating season — when the European gas market is at its most vulnerable."
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Given this fall in Russian imports, major European economies have been attempting to shore up supplies for the colder months ahead. According to data from industry group Gas Infrastructure Europe, the EU's gas storage is estimated to be 93.9% full.
During his interview with CNBC, Enel's Starace painted a mixed picture when it came to gas storage.
"I think we will get through the winter because of all the storage we were able to fill in, and then we'll find out that we'll have to refill the storage for next winter … without Russian gas," he told Steve Sedgwick.
"Let's not forget we had it in '22 — less and less — but we had it," Starace said, adding that a huge amount of work was needed in the coming months. "Too many things need to happen so that next winter is safe."
He said Europe needed to save gas "every time we can, consume less of it, get rid of those uses of gas that make no sense and leave it for the industry that needs it."
This was the "big fight that we have to really focus on during '23," he added.
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CEO Ignacio Galan said he broadly agreed with Starace, adding that he expects the volatility in oil and gas markets to continue over the next few months.
"But I think what we need … is to accelerate, as much as we can, the construction of infrastructures in electricity," Galan told CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe," referencing both renewables and interconnections. "I think we are far from what is needed."
He went on to stress the importance of reducing reliance on third countries and third parties in favor of boosting self-sufficiency within Europe.
"The only way for that … is to accelerate our investment in more renewables, in more interconnections, in more digital grids," Galan added.
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China is all in for shutting down the US economy over COVID
By William R. Hawkins
Xinhua News Agency, a state-run outlet of the People's Republic of China, reported on July 25 that "Over 150 U.S. experts urge decision makers to shut down country before starting over." Beijing would love to see its strategic rival the United States shut down again and is happy to promote those who share its goal.
For its part, China claims to be the first major economy to return to growth since the pandemic started. Despite being the origin of the coronavirus, it has simply declared victory and gotten back to work.
These larger issues that have been left out of the equation when so-called experts have focused narrowly on COVID-19 and taken no responsibility for the wider, more costly consequences of their mandates. That is why health officials should be in only an advisory role, among those from the many other fields that reflect human activity. The power to make decisions that affect the entire county, state, or nation must be in the hands of those who understand that their duty is to look at the bigger picture and assay the total costs of their actions.
Consider the sensationalism when the number of official coronavirus cases topped 4 million.
First, put that number into perspective. There are over 200 million adult Americans, so the official infection rate of this allegedly highly contagious disease over six months is only 2 percent of the adult population. And for this, we threw more than 10 percent of the workforce into unemployment at the peak of shutdowns in late April. The negative multiplier effects have plunged the country into a recession, when, before the virus scare, we were setting new records in an economic boom.
Our response has been disproportionate in the extreme. Despite some recovery, there are still some 14 million people claiming unemployment benefits based on the pandemic. And the huge debts, business failures, pent up violence, and lost output will long haunt us. Those are just the economic costs; the social costs are even higher.
I know only one person who has gotten the Wuhan flu. It was not pleasant, and she missed over a week of work but quickly recovered. Her real concern is that she might be laid off. She says unemployment would do her much more harm than the flu, an assessment most people would make. We should be trying to minimize collateral damage from the pandemic, not harming as many people as possible.
About 150,000 people have died from causes associated with the virus. While double the normal toll from the other strains of flu we suffer every year, the low mortality rate is about the same for those infected. COVID-19 is not the plague. We are so used to flu season that even though flu shots are readily available (and often free), less than half of adults bother to get them.
The Wuhan flu is worse because it is new, but not so much worse as to warrant the panic that has gripped us with such widespread disruption. It is not the Spanish Flu, which killed 650,000 Americans a century ago, when our population was less than half what it is today. Yet we have no collective memory of that epidemic because we did not allow it to shut down society. We took it in stride, and history marched on. Every death is a personal tragedy whatever the cause, but policymakers must consider the country as a going concern upon which we all depend. The aim must be to overcome adversity, not give in to it.
We must accept that the flu will run its course. The measures imposed have had little effect even on slowing it down, though its natural pace has not been that swift despite media alarms about "surges" and "hot spots." Those who are particularly vulnerable should take precautions, but the rest of us need to get back to normal. Acting as if we were all ill when in fact hardly any of us is is not prudent; it is debilitating. The paranoia of masks and social distancing makes everyone we encounter seem like a threat. The cancelation of sporting events, concerts, movies, weddings, conventions, funerals, and celebrations have broken our collective bonds and weakened our cohesion as a people. Again, the costs are way out of proportion to the alleged benefits, which have proven illusionary at best. Those mostly Democratic governors and mayors who are keeping their productive citizens in bondage while allowing destructive mobs to run wild are presenting a dystopian future that is truly appalling. Cue Mad Max.
The Chinese regime (and other foes) are no doubt encouraged by seeing the most sophisticated people in the world so easily stampeded by irrational fear that they rip their society apart. This is the fever we need to bring down. It is time to recover our spirit, to get back to work, back to school, and back to life. These are the keys to recovering from the pandemic and healing the disaffection of our people.
William R. Hawkins is a widely published author and activist with a long career in academics, think-tanks, and national government.
Image credit: Pixabay public domain.


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Using Blender as a 3d map editor, rather than programming your own from scratch
From Blender to the game: a significant step
One issue that needs to be solved during game development is how to get the art from the modeling tool into the game.
The answer might seem to be trivial: "Just export the model in a file format that can be read by the graphics engine!" Unfortunately this is not as simple, even when both the modeling software and your graphics engine support the same file format.
Content, content, metadata
Many non-graphical pieces of information (metadata) need to be provided. In our racing game SuperTuxKart (STK) for example, map models need further detail:
Kart starting positions.
Mesh of the driveway.
Position of items boxes (powerups) and bananas (traps).
Type of track (arena or racing).
Name of the map designer.
Can the map be driven in reverse?
What music should be played?
How to handle animated objects?
What graphical effects (particles, animated textures, snow) and what sounds should be used and where?
Optimizations like backface culling.
Re-inventing the wheel... not!
Usualy, the answer to these questions is to create a separate editor which allows 3D modeling and exports the additional data necessary to actually use a level or object (or kart) in the game.
Creating and maintaining such a piece of content pipleline requires resources and can slow down or even halt other development, depending on the team size. With the three free-time programmers on our team, we couldn't afford this investment.
A track editor has been developed by a community member years ago, but it was never even close to being able to design track of sufficient quality and eventually was abandoned. Instead of restarting such an effort, we chose a slightly different approach.
Extending the modelling tool
We extended the existing modeling tool commonly used for creating tracks: Blender (a tool used for example by the renowned indie game creators Wolfire), so that the necessary options can be set in Blender's GUI. Our scripts for exporting tracks and karts make these options available in game.
This method reduces development time and allowed a tool, that is already known to many artists out there and has tons of documentation available, to create content that is perfectly fit four our game. We only need to document our specific extensions.
SuperTuxKart map and extended panels in Blender
The magic behind the scene that makes it possible to take a map in Blender and run it in SuperTuxKart is made up by several Python plugins. The first plugin, which can be seen in the screenshot, is the "Panel" plugin. Once this plugin is added to Blender, a few game-specific panels appear in the properties view (one for object properties, one for scene properties, one for material properties).
With a few clicks in the properties panel, you can change the sky, make it snow or rain, add fog, make a water surface animated or specify that particles or sound effects are emitted from a point!
There is first the track export script, which reads these properties and exports them to XML files for the game core to read (which includes support for moving/animated objects). The "B3D" script also exports the mesh to the B3D file format (which also supports skeletal animation, as well as vertex colors and multiple UV maps for lightmaps and normal maps).
None of this would have been possible had Blender not been so scriptable. Our panel script can serve as example documentation for anyone who wants to make a custom Blender panel. The scripts actually load the description of the contents of the panel from declarative XML files, making it easy to change the contents of the panel. Interested? All of our scripts are open-source and available for both private and commercial use under the GNU GPL license.
The materials panel automatically lists all textures in the blend file, and allows specifying several properties, for example:
Surface properties, when player is in contact with it:
Is a particle or sound effect emitted?
Does it slow down or speed up the player or have a non-standard tire grip?
Do players pass right through it?
Viewable texture properties
Transparency/opaque value
Transparency effect (Alpha Testing, Alpha To Coverage or Alpha Blending)
Shaders (for example normal maps, splatting, water reflections, lightmaps, sphere mapping)
Powerups and traps (goodies and baddies)
It's nice to have the static model, but after all this is a game so we need to give the player some goodies and baddies! Fortunately there is an easy way to add them : our plugins extend the global "Add" menu of blender with new object types specific to SuperTuxKart, like gift boxes, nitro or bananas.
Drivelines and checklines
Finally, how does the AI know where to drive, and how do we check that human players do not cheat? We chose to use a set of simple meshes, called drivelines, to indicate where players may drive.
Driveline mesh in Blender
These simple meshes are then processed by the exporter into something that is easy to import in the game and to follow by AIs. Checklines are added in addition to that to prevent cheating.
As a bonus, drivelines do not need to be linear, but may be exported as a graph, allowing for quite complex structures to be constructed directly inside Blender.
While the Python API documentation is not always optimal, and while a few API changes broke everything and made us swear loudly in the past, Blender's Python API is very flexible and powerful and a vital part of our game development workflow, which will hopefully inspire others to design their tools with it.
Always on the lookout for content creators
We are always looking for modellers to help us improve our older, less impressive worlds. :) If you have experience in modelling and you feel like helping, you will be warmly welcomed on our forum, mailing list and IRC channel!
Further details of our map-making process can be found in the Track Maker's Guide.
This post was written as a collaborative effort by Arthur, Auria, hiker and qubodup.
Posted by Arthur at 3:32 AM
[April's Fools Joke] New version numbering scheme
The SuperTuxKart development team has decided to change version numbering to keep up with the times and make it easier for people to know if they are using the latest version or not. So the upcoming 0.8 release will not be named 0.8. Inspired by Mozilla, we'll simply call it 8. But inspiration comes seldom alone, so since Ubuntu's version scheme makes it easy to know when the latest release got out, we'll adopt it as well and call it 8 followed by year and month. So for example 8.12.08. Then it dawned upon us: why not include revision number? Then there will be no doubt as to what version you're using, especially if we release a newer version in the same month. So the upcoming version will be named something like 8.12.08.13337. You get to choose what number you want to refer; either you say you're using version 8, 12.08 or 13337, or you might choose any combination of two or more of those.
We also like the idea of giving names to releases. So next version will be nicknamed SuperTuxKart Gutsy Gnu, or maybe Nasty Nolok or Silly Suzanne, we're not sure yet
We look forward to the release of version 8.12.something.something, and hope you'll find it easier to get the right version number when reporting bugs or otherwise talking about the game.
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CTO Dakota Decker and CEO Michael Burtov (L-R) with their GeoOrbital bike wheel, an electric-assist motorized wheel.
The new bicycle wheel made its debut in 2009 at a United Nations climate change conference.
Encircling the hub of the wheel was a saucer-like red disk packed with sensors, a battery, and a motor — along with a Bluetooth connection allowing it to be controlled by an iPhone mounted on the handlebars.
Incubated in an MIT lab, the prototype was dubbed the Copenhagen Wheel because the city of Copenhagen sponsored its development. The promise was that a wheel with a built-in electric assist could be installed on the millions of bikes already on the road, making it far more appealing for people in cities to commute by bike, easing traffic and helping the environment. Hills would feel like flat ground, toting a toddler in back would be effortless, and your trip to the office would be not just quicker, but you'd arrive smelling better.
But more than six years after the debut of the Copenhagen Wheel, several companies are still huffing and puffing toward that utopian vision, including Cambridge-based Superpedestrian, which spun out of the MIT lab that initially designed the wheel.
The story of these new wheels is one more example of how tough it is to turn a potentially game-changing concept into widely-used product. Nearly $30 million has been invested in companies trying to bring electric wheels to market — though it's still difficult to find one in your local bike shop. Prices in the neighborhood of $1,000 may also be a reason for consumers to think hard about a purchase.
The players in this new corner of the bicycle biz are also getting tangled up in litigation: MIT and Superpedestrian filed a patent infringement lawsuit in January against FlyKly of New York and ZeHus of Milan for selling variations on the Copenhagen wheel without licensing the patents.
FlyKly didn't respond to requests for comment; ZeHus founder Giovanni Alli declined to comment.
Getting onto a bike outfitted with the Copenhagen Wheel is an amazing experience. It's a bit like going to the gym on the moon and doing your usual workout. The effort involved in getting up to a cruising speed of 18 or 20 miles an hour feels like almost nothing — and you could maintain that speed all day.
In my test rides, I couldn't feel a single sweat gland threatening to shift into production mode. You can use the smartphone on the handlebars to shift between higher and lower levels of assistance (and battery consumption), but it never feels like you're just switching on a motor and laying off the pedals. The bike works in partnership with the rider.
It's easy to see how this kind of product might turn weekend cyclists into daily — or at least occasional — commuters. "For someone who has a specific barrier to overcome, like there's a big hill between them and the office, or they don't want to arrive sweaty, or they have some mobility issues, this can make biking more accessible," says Galen Mook, a marketing and advocacy executive at Landry's Bicycles, a Natick chain.
Mook adds that bicycle commuting has environmental and economic benefits: "It's incredibly cheap, compared to transit passes or the cost of owning a car," he says.
A Boston startup called Evelo has sold an electric wheel since last year, priced at $1,199 and up, depending on the range the battery can deliver. The lowest priced Evelo Omni Wheel has a range that tops out at 25 miles per hour, according to founder Boris Mordkovich. Evelo also sells complete electric-powered bikes — rather than just a wheel that can be installed on your existing bike — which account for about 80 percent of the company's sales, says Mordkovich.
The company raised $750,000 from individual investors earlier this year, Mordkovich says, and will bring in "about $4 million in revenue" this year, he adds.
Michael Burtov, co-founder of another Cambridge startup, GeoOrbital, says his electric wheel is "production-ready," and the company will begin selling it in small quantities next month.
Superpedestrian remains the biggest and best-funded player, with 35 employees in Cambridge. Last summer, it raised $21 million from the local venture capital firms General Catalyst and Spark Capital, bringing its total raised to about $27 million.
While it delivered a small number of wheels late last year to customers who placed pre-orders, chief executive Assaf Biderman says the company is still working to iron out technical issues and make sure the electronics packed into its wheel will be reliable. The price of the product has also climbed to $1,200 from $699 when Superpedestrian initially began talking specifics in 2013.
The venture capitalists who have pumped millions into Superpedestrian are convinced its sleek design and simplicity will win over consumers — once the product is readily available. David Fialkow of General Catalyst predicts that the company's best market will be "young commuters within 30 to 60 minutes of home to office." At Spark, Santo Politi says that "the business becomes even more interesting as the product gets cheaper," and more people get a chance to test-ride a bike outfitted with the Copenhagen Wheel.
Even for the whizziest new technologies, the road to widespread adoption can be long — and dotted with potholes.


Immigration in the United States has been a fundamental element in the United States's principles, economy, and perception within the global community, therefore it is no surprise that so much emphasis has been focused, by the country's lawmakers, on the content and application of the country's immigration laws since its establishment. What is new, however, is the use of social media to instantly and broadly share politician's opinions, perceptions and random thoughts regarding all matters, including immigration law. However, absent actual legislation, there is no substance to these tweets and posts that support any action by foreign nationals in the United States, or the employers of foreign nationals in the United States, except to share their thoughts and concerns with their local and state's representatives. In fact, so much discussion via media has proven to be misleading, or the speaker to be misinformed or lacking a fundamental understanding of the topics on which they speak, that a response would simply add to the length of a non-substantive conversation and is simply not merited.
Therefore it is Maggio Kattar's position to only to provide information and guidance to clients with regard to legislative policy and practice that is actionable, rather than to opine on non-substantive statements made via television, social media, or otherwise. As your partner in meeting your immigration goals, we are committed to keeping our clients educated on changes to immigration laws, regulations and practices that impact their immigration needs.


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Mareike Morr (* 1977  in Rotenburg an der Fulda) ist eine deutsche Mezzosopranistin.

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Mareike Morr nahm als Schülerin regelmäßig an den Wettbewerben Jugend musiziert teil und wurde mehrmals Bundespreisträgerin in den Fächern Klavier solo und Klavierkammermusik. Nach dem Abitur begann sie 1996 das Klavierstudium im Fach Instrumentalpädagogik bei Karl-Heinz Kämmerling an der Musikhochschule Hannover. Im Jahr 2000 machte sie ihr Diplom und legte 2001 im Rahmen der Ausbildungsklasse ihre Kammermusikprüfung im Bereich Liedbegleitung ab.

2000 begann sie ihr Gesangsstudium bei Carol Richardson-Smith ebenfalls in Hannover. Von 2003 bis 2006 studierte sie in der Klasse von Christiane Iven und arbeitete anschließend mit Sylvia Bleimund. Während des Studiums besuchte sie die Liedklassen von Jan Philip Schulze, Graìnne Dunne und Justus Zeyen. 2007 schloss sie ihr Studium mit zwei Diplomen in Operngesang und als Gesanglehrer ab. Seitdem arbeitet sie mit Charlotte Lehmann zusammen. Zahlreiche Meisterkurse, unter anderem bei Judith und Irving Beckmann, Ingeborg Danz, Rudolf Piernay, Eugen Rabine, Aribert Reimann, Jacques Schwarz, Norman Shetler, Kurt Widmer und bei der Internationalen Bachakademie in Stuttgart, runden ihre Ausbildung ab.

Als Solistin im Bereich Lied und Oratorium trat sie bei verschiedenen Festivals auf, unter anderem bei "Movimentos", "schubertiade.de",  "AlpenKlassik" und  "Semanas musicales" in Chile. 2006/07 und 2009 machte sie Rundfunkaufnahmen mit Liedern von György Ligeti, Aribert Reimann und Wolfgang Rihm. Sie arbeitet regelmäßig mit den Pianisten Thomas Seyboldt und Volker Link zusammen. 2002 sang sie die Alt-Partie in der "Johannes-Passion" von J. S. Bach unter anderem in der Kölner Philharmonie und im Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. 2005 sang sie von Gustav Mahler Lieder aus "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" mit dem Orchester der Medizinischen Hochschule Hannover und übernahm beim 31. Evangelischen Kirchentag die Alt-Partie im "Elias" von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Weitere Konzertreisen führten sie bisher nach Weißrussland, Spanien und in die USA.

Bei der Musikakademie für Senioren (MAS) in Hamburg gab sie von 2002 bis 2006 Kurse für Liedgestaltung. Mareike Morr war Stipendiatin der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, des Richard-Wagner-Verbandes und der Organisation Yehudi-Menuhin "LiveMusicNow e.V." Seit 2006 ist sie Stipendiatin der Yehudi-Menuhin-Stiftung "Live Music Now". 2007 erhielt sie den SOPHIA-Preis für ihr hervorragendes Operngesangsdiplom.

An der Staatsoper Hannover war sie in den Spielzeiten 2006/07 und 2007/08 als Gast verpflichtet und gehört seit der Spielzeit 2008/09 zum festen Ensemble.

Dort übernahm sie unter anderem die Partien Orlofsky in "Die Fledermaus", Cherubino in "Le nozze di Figaro", Dorabella in "Cosi fan tutte", Sesto in "La clemenza di Tito", Hänsel in "Hänsel und Gretel", Flosshilde in "Das Rheingold", Magdalene in "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" und Mary in "Der fliegende Holländer". Von 2016 bis 2019 war sie bei den Bayreuther Festspielen zu Gast. Sie arbeitete unter anderem mit den Dirigenten Semjon Bytschkow, Hartmut Haenchen, Joseph Olefierowicz, Benjamin Reiners und Ivan Repušić zusammen.

Seit 2019 ist sie Professorin für Gesang an der Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. Dort ist sie seit 2022 auch im Hochschulrat tätig.

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 Mareike Morr auf der Website der Staatsoper Hannover
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12 Bookish Gifts Perfect for the Murderino On Your List
By: Sarah Weck
Get a job. Buy your own sh*t. Stay out of the forest. Sweet and tender advice from Georgia Hardstark and Karen Kilgariff of the "My Favorite Murder" podcast.
It's advice that the murderinos here at Soho keep close to our hearts… right next to our pepper spray, canned wine, and stack of crime fiction and true crime favorites.
So—because if you're anything like us and haven't exactly started holiday shopping yet—here is our selection of eleven books that anyone with love for Georgia, Karen, Steven, and pets/animals/furry friends will devour:
No Saints in Kansas by Amy Brashear – THE HOMETOWN
For the murderino who secretly loves stories of small-town serial family murders, Amy Brashear wrote this re-telling of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood just for you. New Yorker Carly Fleming finds herself in the middle of a quadruple murder investigation in Holcomb, Kansas in 1959. She believes that the prime suspect is innocent—but the crime is further twisted when her father is appointed to defend the real, accused killer.
The Secret Place by Tana French – THE COLD CASE
Did you binge Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects? We know you did. Fill the void with The Secret Place, Tana French's novel about the reopening of a one-year-old murder case—a teenage boy found dead at a girl's boarding school in Ireland. When Detective Stephen Moran receives a disturbing photo from sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey regarding the dead boy, he dives back into the case. What seems like child's play turns into a complex web of betrayal among the students that threatens the safety of everyone involved in the investigation.
Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey – THE HISTORICAL
We love a strong female lead, and Perveen Mistry, one of the first female lawyers in 1920s Bombay, India, fits the bill. When she joins her father's law firm, one of her first cases is the execution of Mr. Omar Farid's will. The rich mill owner has left behind three widows. The women, who live in full purdah, have no contact with the world outside their quarters… meaning Perveen is the only one at the firm who has a chance of investigating once the case escalates to—you guessed it—murder.
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn – THE SATANIC PANIC
Seven-year-old Libby Day's mother and two sisters are murdered in a Satanic cult-sacrifice—and Libby's older brother, Ben, is convicted for the gruesome killings. Twenty-five years later, the "Kill Club" (probably made up of more than a few murderinos) approaches Libby, hoping to find evidence to free her incarcerated brother, whom they believe is innocent. They're even willing to pay Libby to find it. In her desperation for quick cash, Libby will delve into her darkest memories in search of the truth.
Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott – THE WAIT, IT GETS WORSE
Crime writer and all-around badass Megan Abbott claims that stories about murdered girls are a "place women can go to read about the dark, messy stuff of their lives that they're not supposed to talk about," and her novel Give Me Your Hand is no exception. The story depicts toxic female friendships, dark secrets, dangerous rivalries, and of course: murder. Two former childhood best friends turn into competitors when they are both chosen for a prestigious study of premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PPMD) in women under the mysterious and brilliant Dr. Severin. Added bonus: it seems inspired by the murder of Steven Robards, which Georgia covered in episode 147.
I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara – THE ONE WITH PAUL HOLES
Duh. This one is for anyone obsessed with the history of the Golden State Killer (let's be honest: all of us since we heard about it in episode 1). In one of the most disturbing true crime stories of all time, the brilliant Michelle McNamara details the full history of the EAR/ONS spree in the 1970s and 80s in meticulous detail. But the best part of this incredible book might be McNamara's personal accounts of her adolescence, her relationship with her mother, and the story behind her relentless efforts to track down a killer.
My Friend Dahmer by John Backderf – THE ONE WITH JEFFREY DAHMER
If you aren't yet familiar with serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and also if you are, this graphic novel/memoir by John Backderf (also known as Derf) will captivate you. Derf was real-life friends with the infamous Dahmer when they were teens, giving him a singular perspective on the making of a murderer.
The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule – THE CLASSIC
If you like the personal account of My Friend Dahmer but graphic novels aren't your thing, look no further than The Stranger Beside Me, where the legendary true crime writer Ann Rule details her personal relationship with serial killer Ted Bundy. Whereas Dahmer seemed odd and dangerous, Ann recalls Bundy's seemingly kind nature during their time working together at a crisis call center. The Stranger Beside me is one for the history books.
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann – THE IT GOES ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP
This book's reviewers lament that the Osage Reservation murders should be as well-known as the "Lindbergh kidnapping or Bonnie and Clyde." We couldn't agree more. In this chilling true-life tragedy, David Grann details the murders of more than twenty-four members of the Osage Nation in 1920's Oklahoma and the team of FBI agents—including one of the few Native American bureau members—that formed to expose the horrific crimes and topple a massive cover-up.
The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman – SOMETHING BONKERS FOR EVERYBODY
We know murderinos love a good controversy. In The Real Lolita, Sarah Weinman investigates the 1948 murder of eleven-year-old Sally Horner, drawing a connection to the inspiration for Vladimir Nabokov's infamous novel Lolita—with plenty of fascinating evidence to back it up. Literature buffs and true crime fans alike (even better if you identify with both titles) won't be able to put this one down.
Text Me When You Get Home by Kayleen Schaefer – BECAUSE COMMUNITY IS EVERYTHING
Okay, so there's no murder in this one (or is there?), but we're choosing it because everyone knows that murderinos are just as interested in nurturing beautiful female friendships as they are in nurturing their serial killer obsessions.
Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark – YOU GUYS KAREN AND GEORGIA WROTE A BOOK
If you know one of the 7% of murderinos who hasn't pre-ordered this already, GET ON IT! (Okay, we completely made up that statistic, but you get the point.)
Stay sexy and buy books!


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Kathy Hilton's public persona precedes her. She is undeniably a woman of many trades, sitting atop a mountain of successes and decades of gracefully bearing a very famous last name—yet she is humble, realistic and oozing with passion as she speaks about her newest endeavor, the Kathy Hilton Collection.
Hilton created the ready-to-wear special occasion dress collection for women who want to look beautiful and en vogue on every occasion of their lives, from cocktail parties to black-tie galas. Hilton has overseen the entire process, resulting in a line of stunning dresses fit for any occasion.
Launching in Spring 2012, each dress in the Kathy Hilton Collection reflects said balance, the pieces showcasing unexpected juxtapositions of leather and lace, full-bodied tulle with form fitting tops.
"I went to the [New York] Coterie—where you go and meet with specialty stores from all over the world—and I was so excited when I heard that Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom bought the line," said Hilton.
The Kathy Hilton Collection is designed and marketed as a collaboration with Mon Cheri and legendary Mon Cheri CEO Stephen Lang. The design effort at Kathy Hilton Collection is rounded out with a team of veteran designers and marketing professionals.
As Hilton speaks about the dresses and creating her line, she comes to life. It becomes clear that this entire process was very much a labor of love.
While Hilton is a member of a family that is one of the most famous hotelier brands in the world, she keeps her famous family grounded and down to earth.
And when it comes to hard work, it seems her kids have taken this advice to heart. They can count philanthropy, modeling, reality TV, acting, singing and fashion design among their many accomplishments. And Hilton wouldn't have it any other way.
"Everybody has to get out there; not everything is on a silver plate," she said.
Hilton has taken her own advice, now sitting at the helm of her new fashion empire. Her inspiration for creating the line is two-fold: she recognized a hole in the dress market and she saw the chance to materialize her longtime passion for making clothes. Having owned a boutique in Beverly Hills, Hilton has a long history in the apparel industry. She began her career as a designer well before that—in fact, it started out as a childhood hobby.
The Kathy Hilton Collection was born out of Hilton's own observations. As she was shopping for dresses to bring on a family vacation, Hilton felt that the non-couture market was lacking beautiful but reasonably priced pieces. "When you go into a department store, not into the couture department, there's just nothing," she said. "I thought, 'There is definitely a market for this.'" Turns out, she was right.
Perhaps what is most refreshing about the collection is that Hilton–a connoisseur of couture herself–chose to make an attainable and affordable line.
"I've been blessed and able to travel the world, to see and wear many different designer dresses," Hilton said. "But then I started to think that especially with the economy, people are just not in the mood and you don't have to go out and spend thousands of dollars [to] look nice. I really felt that there was a real niche for beautiful cocktail dresses that wouldn't break the bank." The collection's cocktail dresses retail from $350-$495.
As far as how she would describe her collection, the styles are classic and timeless – much like Hilton herself.


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East Africa Muslim Cultural Group would like to present to you its very first Drama Performance which its aim is to paint a picture in the experiences of culture clash, disenfranchisement and identity crisis by young migrants or children of migrants. Problems of which are generated in young people by their experiences of conflicting interactions between contesting choices of values, aspirations and lifestyles in an ever-changing and evolving society, and the relative status that each choice enjoys within London's subcultures.
East Africans from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda are, relatively speaking, recent arrivals into the UK as compared to many other migrant groups. Although many East African young people in East London were born in this country, a significant number arrived during the last ten-twenty years. This means that within the target group there are both foreign and UK born, have early childhood experiences in two different countries and a common experience of growing up in diverse London.
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This project will be sponsored by National Lottery Community Fund as well as be collaborated with Weren't Born Rich. It will engage a group of six young people for each of the mediums, half from the East African community and half from the rest of East London's diverse communities. About three older people will also be involved, one per medium, as they are both parts of the problems and their solutions.
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Caroline Wozniacki bemoans grunting opponents who 'do it on purpose'
• World No1 set to face Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka
• Petra Kvitova sees off Vera Zvonareva in Istanbul finale
Caroline Wozniacki is unhappy that some players grunt in matches when they do not do so in practice sessions. Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images
Simon Cambers in Istanbul
Tue 25 Oct 2011 17.41 EDT
The world No1 Caroline Wozniacki has risked the wrath of her fellow players by effectively accusing some of them of cheating by grunting too loudly. The Dane claimed that "some players do it on purpose" and said the worst offenders have an unfair advantage on those who do not scream when they hit the ball.
The shrieks and wails of some of the sport's top female players have long been a bone of contention among fans and television companies, and Wozniacki feels that some players go too far. "I think there are some players who do it on purpose," she said. "They don't do it in practice and then they come into the match and they grunt. I think they [officials] could definitely cut it."
Though Wozniacki did not use the word "cheat", she made it perfectly clear that the serial offenders had an unfair advantage over the rest. "If you grunt really loudly your opponent cannot hear how you hit the ball," she said. "Because the grunt is so loud, you think the ball is coming fast and suddenly the ball just goes slowly. In tight moments, maybe the grunt helps them with getting less nervous."
Wozniacki's words are unlikely to sit well with Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka, two of her title rivals here at the WTA Championships this week. The shrieks of the 2004 Wimbledon champion have been compared to a pneumatic drill and have been measured at more than 100 decibels. Azarenka's grunts are longer and higher-pitched, and were described by one Wimbledon watcher this year as "like Mickey Mouse in distress".
Stacey Allaster, the chairman and chief executive of the WTA, admitted that it is time something was done. "The guys are grunting as well, it's not unique to women's tennis," she said. "But our female DNA transmits it in a different way. I'm very focused on the fans and I have seen a slight increase in the fan comments that we're receiving. So I do think on that basis that we should look at it. And if we're going to make any changes, it needs to [start] with the junior players."
Allaster said the WTA will start by visiting the academy of the US-based coach Nick Bollettieri in the off-season. "Our team will meet with coaches and young players, those who are on the eve of becoming WTA rookies," she said. "It just comes down to education. They have to determine how they want their brand to be."
Wozniacki took the first step to ending the year as world No1 with victory in her opening match at the Championships. Three players had an outside chance of deposing the Dane in Istanbul, but simply by playing Agnieszka Radwanska she was able to eliminate Azarenka from contention. By beating Radwanska 5-7, 6-2, 6-4, Wozniacki only needs to play one more round-robin match to do the same to Petra Kvitova.
The only rival Wozniacki cannot eliminate from the race so easily is Sharapova, although if she finishes 3-0 in the round-robin stage and Sharapova does not, Wozniacki will be confirmed as the year-end No1. And that is also a step closer to happening after Sharapova lost 6-1, 7-5 to the US Open champion Sam Stosur in the day's final game.
Earlier in the day Kvitova had beaten Vera Zvonareva 6-2, 6-4 in the red group. The Czech left-hander, making her debut at the season-ender after a memorable year which has seen her rise to No3 in the world this week, was running away with it until a second-set lapse slowed her progress. From 1-4 in the second set Zvonareva rallied to break the Kvitova serve twice and level at 4-4 only to surrender her own serve immediately. Kvitova, 21, made no mistake as she served for the match, angling away a volley on her first match point to open her account in the round-robin format.
Istanbul is hosting the event, worth a staggering $4.9m (£3.06m) in prize money, for the first time, after taking over from Doha for three years.
The fourth-highest ranked American male singles player, Alex Bogomolov Jr, said on Tuesday he wants to play for Russia, meanwhile, describing it as a dream to play for the country of his birth. The 28-year-old was born in Moscow but moved to Mexico with his family when he was nine and then to the United States in 1992.
He has represented the US since turning professional in 2002 but has never played in the Davis Cup. His father, Alex Bogomolov, was a renowned tennis coach in the former Soviet Union, looking after Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Andrei Medvedev among others.


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