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Hong Kong Disneyland to Close for a Minimum of Two Weeks
Gray Houser January 5, 2022
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Hong Kong Disneyland has just announced that as part of China's "Zero Covid" management policy, Hong Kong Disneyland Park will be closing for a minimum of two weeks.
As required by the government and health authorities and in line with prevention efforts taking place across Hong Kong, Hong Kong Disneyland Park will temporarily close from Jan 7 to 20, 2022.
The resort hotels will remain open with adjusted level of services. Service at restaurants and recreation facilities in hotels will be adjusted according to the latest regulations.
During the closure, the resort hotels will remain open with adjusted levels of service.
Gray Houser Founder
Gray is a lifelong Disney fan! From Disney+ to the parks, he loves it all. His favorite Disney movie is Beauty and the Beast, and his favorite attraction is The Haunted Mansion.
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Website redesign for local artist gallery and studio seeking to consolidate multiple artist portfolios with gallery information and details about the portrait commission process and other services. The client had a variety of differently designed and branded pages in place and sought to update and collect them in a content management system for easier maintenance. The new site would feature an extensive digital portfolio as well as a section for blogging. Prepping images for optimal display in the new portfolio was a large part of the project. UX and UI design was thoroughly analyzed and revamped for a more visitor-friendly experience, and the end product was delivered in a responsive mobile framework.
Home page of redesigned website.
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Convergence of Norms Across the Spectrum of Armed Conflicts – International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law
DETENTION OF NON-STATE ACTORS ENGAGED IN HOSTILITIES: THE FUTURE LAW, G. Rose, ed., Forthcoming
Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 12/17
See all articles by Emily Crawford
Emily Crawford
University of Sydney - Faculty of Law
International armed conflicts are by far the most highly regulated types of conflict, with a raft of treaties and comprehensive customary international law regulating permissible state conduct. By comparison, non-international armed conflicts have comparatively few laws regulating their conduct. However, despite the apparent lack of comprehensive treaty rules regulating non-international armed conflict, and the seemingly entrenched legal division between the types of armed conflicts, an examination of the history of IHL actually demonstrates a growing willingness among states to accept the introduction of more rules – and more detailed rules at that – on permissible conduct in non-international armed conflicts. The progressive development of the law of armed conflict over the past century has evidenced a growing acceptance of the need for comprehensive guidelines on the conduct of hostilities, whether they are international or non-international. This confluence of norms has been influenced significantly by the emergence in the post-World War II era of international human rights law. The wealth of treaties, declarations and customary law protecting human rights has seen states began to accept limits on their sovereign power in the name of protecting the rights of their citizens. In turn, the belief that states' rights could only extend so far in their conduct towards their citizens necessarily influenced the conduct of states in non-international armed conflicts. With this background in mind, this chapter will examine how, over the past 60 years, we have seen a convergence in the laws relating to armed conflict, to the point that it is possible to speak of a large body of law applicable in all armed conflicts.
Keywords: international humanitarian law, international human rights law, convergence, international armed conflict, non-international armed conflict
JEL Classification: K10, K30, K33
Crawford, Emily, Convergence of Norms Across the Spectrum of Armed Conflicts – International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law. DETENTION OF NON-STATE ACTORS ENGAGED IN HOSTILITIES: THE FUTURE LAW, G. Rose, ed., Forthcoming; Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 12/17. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2028791
Emily Crawford (Contact Author)
University of Sydney - Faculty of Law ( email )
Sydney, NC NSW 2006

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With the alien Navigators in retreat, Jack and Gwen are menaced by a ticking genetic time bomb they have left behind, in the body of... their daughter?! Discover the past — and future — of the woman known as Sladen, as this explosive Torchwood trilogy reaches its epic conclusion!
Includes an exclusive foreword by writers John and Carole Barrowman!
Collects Torchwood: The Culling issues #1 to #4.


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As I've said in a previous article these last few days, I'm relatively new to the Borderlands franchise. I am not however new to the work of Telltale Games. I may be lagging behind on finishing The Wolf Among Us and The Walking Dead: Season 2, but I really support the work they do. It therefore comes as no surprise that I was impressed with their work with Tales From The Borderlands.
With this entry, Telltale is yet again trying something new by having players assume the role of multiple protagonists.
First there is Rhys, a business type that seemed to be on the less honest side of things. I could absolutely see this guy stabbing a friend in the back (but he'd at least doing it begrudgingly.) The other leading character is Fiona, who seems to be more along the lines of a lone drifter, though it's hard to say since the demo focused heavily on Rhys.
The demo was more "action oriented" than what I'm used to with Telltale titles but it worked for me, and that wasn't the only part that impressed me.In a word, the game looks to be funny. Something far few titles do well. I'm pretty certain "i'll name my first born, Load-bot…." is one of my favorite lines from a game in the last 10 years. I understand this may be a staple of the Borderlands franchise that I'm simply unfamiliar with, but even from the eyes of an outsider, the humor in Tales From The Borderlands gets the job done.
If you're interested in the specifics of the story, it seems to revolve around Rhys and Fiona (and possibly others) vying for the key to open a vault. Some locked area that promises riches and power of immense stature. It's pretty standard fair for a game like Borderlands but the real interesting bit is that since Rhys and Fiona are pit against one another, we're not quite sure who to root for. In one final twist at the end of the demo, it's revealed the Rhy's whole segment was being recounted in retrospect, after which Fiona claims that portions of it were made up. If the whole game proceeds that way, it should be fun figuring out who's lying, and who's telling the truth.
(Prediction: They're both lying. You heard it here first).
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Patricia Helen Heaton was born in Bay Village, Ohio, on March 4, 1958. Her father was the well-known sportswriter Chuck Heaton. Patricia, who was raised in a Catholic household with four siblings, witnessed the death of her mother from an aneurysm at the age of 12.
After completing high school, Heaton enrolled at Ohio Wesleyan University. Throughout her college years, she was a member of the Delta Gamma Sorority. She ultimately earned a bachelor of arts in drama from Ohio Wesleyan University. Patricia moved to New York City in 1980 to study with renowned acting instructor Bill Esper.
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November 6, 2018 | Jordan Wilkie and Timothy Pratt
Brian Kemp and His Staff Caught in a String of Falsehoods
Election System Security Worse Than Previously Understood
Photo credit: Georgia Secretary of State.
Since WhoWhatWhy exclusively revealed major security gaps in Georgia's voter registration and voter information websites — vulnerabilities severe enough to potentially compromise the election — the secretary of state's office has made a series of statements that are unfounded and, frequently, outright false.
Brian Kemp is the Republican candidate for governor in Tuesday's election against Democrat Stacey Abrams. But he is also Georgia's secretary of state, putting him in charge of the state's elections mechanism while also competing in the marquee contest.
The first statement from the secretary of state's office in response to the vulnerabilities identified in WhoWhatWhy's reporting, alleged, without evidence, that the Democratic Party of Georgia had attempted to hack the state's voter registration system.
By that time, WhoWhatWhy had already reported the actual story: the system's vulnerabilities were brought to the attention of Georgia's Democrats, who then asked computer experts to verify the security gaps. Once the problems were confirmed, Kemp's lawyers and national security officials were notified on the same day.
Kemp's office mentioned none of these facts in its initial statement.
Computer security experts were concerned that the web vulnerabilities could have implications for elections across the country.
Instead, it quoted press secretary Candice Broce, who said that "[the secretary of state] can also confirm that no personal data was breached and our system remains secure."
However, this assurance came without evidence and contradicted expert opinions. According to the computer security experts WhoWhatWhy consulted in its reporting, the voter websites did not seem to have any mechanism to track a data breach. The secretary of state's office has not clarified how they were able to confirm that no personal data was breached.
In addition, we have now learned much more about the risks involved, and share those with our readers below.
When the State Found Out
In accusing the Democratic Party of Georgia of wrongdoing, Kemp's office failed to mention that it had already been notified of the very same vulnerabilities 24 hours earlier.
A lawyer suing Kemp over the state's insecure election system, David Cross, notified the Secretary of State's office of the vulnerabilities on Saturday morning, he told WhoWhatWhy. He also notified the FBI. Hours later, Richard Wright, the Georgia citizen who first noticed the security problems on his own My Voter Page, shared the information with the Democratic Party through an intermediary, according to email exchanges between Cross and the Georgia voter. (WhoWhatWhy did not identify Wright in its original reporting because he had asked Cross not to share his name. Other national news outlets identified Wright following WhoWhatWhy's breaking story.)
In a statement to ProPublica regarding the investigation into the Democrats, Broce said, "All you need, to open an investigation, is information suggesting plans and an attempt to put together some kind of program or utilize specialize tools to find a vulnerability."
The secretary of state's office had the information showing the vulnerabilities before the Democrats did. This provides the public with a clear example of how Kemp uses his discretion as secretary of state to support his own gubernatorial campaign, in what would appear to be a glaring conflict of interest.
The office also knew that the information came from a private citizen, not from the Democratic Party of Georgia.
When the Democrats received the information, it was passed to Sara Ghazal, who leads their voter protection efforts. Ghazal reached out to computer security experts who confirmed the vulnerabilities, then contacted federal officials.
Despite Broce's claim that no vulnerability existed and no action was needed, changes were made to improve the security of the state's My Voter Page and voter registration page throughout the day.
Since Georgia's voter registration is run by the private contractor PCC Technologies Inc., which also contracts with 14 other states for the same service, the computer security experts were concerned that the web vulnerabilities could have implications for elections across the country.
And since anyone in the world connected to the internet could access the site, the experts contacted federal officials dealing with the national security implications of cyber attacks (WhoWhatWhy's source would not confirm which agency the experts contacted, only that they were not law enforcement).
By Saturday afternoon, Matt Bernhard, a computer security expert and Ph.D. student in computer science at the University of Michigan, confirmed that North Carolina, another client of PCC, had the same vulnerability in its voter registration system.
On Saturday evening, Bruce Brown, another lawyer in a lawsuit against Kemp over mail-ballot rejections, also notified the secretary of state's office of the vulnerabilities.
By the time the secretary of state's office announced its investigation into the Democratic Party of Georgia, it had been notified twice of the vulnerabilities, national security officials had been notified, and the FBI had been notified, all by lawyers already suing Kemp or by computer security experts contacted by the Democrats.
Yet none of this has ever been mentioned by Kemp or anybody else in the secretary of state's office.
As of 12:00 AM on Monday, the vulnerabilities had not been addressed, according to one computer security expert.
How The State Responded
WhoWhatWhy asked the secretary of state's office if it planned to conduct an audit to ascertain that unauthorized changes had not been made to voter registrations.
Broce responded, "There is no such vulnerability in the system as alleged by your article. We immediately reviewed those claims and could not substantiate any of it. To be clear, those webpages are not linked to a location containing files with confidential or sensitive information."
The five computer security experts WhoWhatWhy contacted disagree. Each expert — Matt Bernhard, Duncan Buell, Kris Constable, Harri Hursti, and one source who asked to remain unnamed — is a national or international leader in cyber or elections security.
"This is '101 Broken. This is the most trivial thing you can do wrong. If you have any sense of security, this is not what you do. This is a high school project."
And despite Broce's claim that no vulnerability existed and no action was needed, changes were made to improve the security of the state's My Voter Page and voter registration page throughout the day.
WhoWhatWhy was on the phone with an additional expert — who asked to remain unnamed due to concerns about the secretary of state's investigation tactics — as he watched the My Voter Page get updated while logged into his own voter account.
"They're updating the page on the night before the election," he said. "This is wild."
WhoWhatWhy asked Broce why the page was being updated if it was secure, as she had previously claimed.
"It is standard practice to prepare the My Voter Page for high volume on Election Day," Broce wrote in an email. "This configuration accounts for anticipated traffic with hundreds of thousands of individuals using the system."
She provided a slightly different answer to ProPublica, saying, "we always move our My Voter Page to a static page before Election Day." ProPublica noted that did not seem to be accurate.
In addition to the vulnerabilities WhoWhatWhy's reporting revealed on Sunday, two more were found. Both seem to have been fixed during Monday's updates.
The first was on the homepage of the state's My Voter Page. The "cross-site scripting vulnerability" could have enabled bad actors to control the web browser of anyone trying to access the page. That would allow them to steal passwords, direct the target's browser to a malicious website, and download computer viruses. If that happens, a bad actor could gain complete control of that computer.
The second vulnerability was in the connection between the My Voter Page server and the ElectioNet server, a service run by PCC for managing the state's voter registrations. A single web script was running across both servers, leaving them open to what's called a "man-in-the-middle" attack.
"This is '101 Broken," cybersecurity expert Harri Hursti said. "This is the most trivial thing you can do wrong. If you have any sense of security, this is not what you do. This is a high school project." Hurst has studied cybersecurity and elections systems in five countries, including the US.
However, Broce claims that the secretary of state's office contracts with "top-notch cybersecurity vendors for firewall protection, around-the-clock monitoring of network traffic, and related security protections to watch for this information."
Broce declined to name those vendors, citing an exemption in Georgia's open-record laws. When WhoWhatWhy asked Broce to point to the specific part of the law that allowed her to claim exemption, she declined to respond.
On October 1, WhoWhatWhy had asked Broce if the secretary of state or any Georgia office outsourced management of the voters' database to a contractor in another state.
On October 4, Broce replied, "The answer is no."
Yet WhoWhatWhy's reporting revealed that the secretary of state has been using PCC's ElectioNet Election Management software since 2012, according to a press release on PCC's website. PCC is based in Connecticut.
The secretary of state contracts with PCC. The company provides the state with trademarked "Election Management" software and is based in Connecticut. When asked why Broce previously told WhoWhatWhy that management of the voter's database was not outsourced to an out-of-state vendor, Broce wrote in an email that there are "in-house staff who manage this system."
This indicates that the secretary of state only purchases the software from PCC and has its own staff who are in charge of the day-to-day operations.
Broce declined to identify the staff in reference and directed WhoWhatWhy to file an Open Records Request, which we have done. It is not clear who is responsible for fixing flaws in system security — or for designing such a poorly protected system in the first place.
Kemp's Office Has Been Here Before
The sequence of events from the last 72 hours — data from the state's election system is exposed online, national and international cybersecurity experts confirm the seriousness of the matter, and the state attempts to deflect those concerns — have been seen before.
In a September 17 ruling in which she declined to order that Georgia use more secure paper ballots in the midterm elections, accepting the state's argument that this was impossible due to time constraints, Judge Amy Totenberg nonetheless addressed this pattern head on: "Advanced persistent threats in this data-driven world and ordinary hacking are unfortunately here to stay. [The State] will fail to address that reality if they demean as paranoia the research-based findings of national cybersecurity engineers and experts in the field of elections."
"The Court is gravely concerned about the State's Case pace in responding to the serious vulnerabilities of its voting system," Totenberg continued. "[F]urther delay is not tolerable in their confronting and tackling the challenges before the State's election balloting system."
Nonetheless, in the September 12 hearing on the same case, it also became clear that Kemp's office has not moved to hire staff with sufficient cybersecurity expertise. Answering questions under oath, Michael Barnes, director of the state's Center for Elections Systems, admitted, "I'm not a computer scientist. And I don't claim to be. And I have never written malicious code … I don't write code."
In the same hearing, Barnes was asked, "Has the Secretary employed a cyber security expert…?" Barnes replied, "I know that the CIO for the Secretary of State's office has been highly engaged in analyzing how our systems are set up now within the Secretary of State's office."
Barnes's answer refers to a CIO, or Chief Information Officer. He names as the CIO Merritt Beaver, whose LinkedIn page identifies 22 skills, none of which are cybersecurity. According to that page, Beaver is "an innovative technology executive … [and] a driven leader who is able to develop business strategy, implement change, [and] formulate and execute business plans to maximize corporate resources."
To date, the secretary of state's office — led by Kemp — has not identified a single computer expert or cybersecurity expert on staff, nor has it identified contractors who could provide those services.
That may explain why the online security lapses that WhoWhatWhy's reporting detailed were so basic.
"The underlying thing here is that there are so many things wrong, that the whole system is vulnerable from just a URL manipulation," Hursti said. "The whole thing is broken by design."
As of this morning, on Election Day, at least that URL vulnerability has been fixed. But the data in the poll books? Voters have no guarantee that it's accurate.
Here's the timeline of events to date:
Thursday, October 25:
The Georgia citizen and registered voter, Richard Wright, who discovered the vulnerability, reaches out via Twitter to a plaintiff in a lawsuit against Kemp seeking improvement in election security.
Friday, November 2:
3:00 PM — Wright speaks with lawyer for three of the plaintiffs in the election security case, Curling v. Kemp. That lawyer is David Cross, from the Washington, DC, offices of the Morrison Foerster law firm.
Early morning — Cross calls John Salter, a lawyer who represents Kemp and the secretary of state's office, to notify him of the vulnerabilities, according to Cross.
Early morning — Cross calls the Federal Bureau of Investigation to notify them of the vulnerabilities, according to Cross.
Late morning — Wright notifies the Democratic Party of Georgia of the vulnerabilities, going through an intermediary, according to email records between Cross and Wright.
11:54 AM — The Democratic Party of Georgia reaches out to computer security experts to confirm the vulnerabilities.
12:57 PM — Computer experts confirm the vulnerabilities.
One expert then notifies a non-law enforcement, federal office responsible for the national security implications of cyber attacks. Since Georgia contracts with the private company PCC Technologies Inc. to manage voter registration, and PCC contracts with 14 other states providing the same service, the vulnerabilities have national importance.
1:44 PM — Matt Bernhard, a computer security expert and Ph.D. student in computer science at the University of Michigan, confirms that North Carolina, another client of PCC, has the same vulnerability in its voter registration system.
7:04 PM — Bruce Brown, a lawyer for the Coalition for Good Governance, an election security advocacy group that has sued Georgia multiple times over the vulnerability of its systems, emails John Salter and Roy Barnes, former governor of Georgia, in their capacities as counsel to Secretary of State Kemp.
4:47 AM — WhoWhatWhy notifies Candice Broce, press secretary for the secretary of state's office, that a story on the vulnerabilities will be published shortly. WhoWhatWhy requests comment on guarantees for securing the election.
6:00 AM — WhoWhatWhy posts its story on the vulnerabilities.
7:00 AM — The Secretary of State's office posts a statement on its website alleging, without evidence, that the Democratic Party of Georgia attempted and failed to hack the state's voter registration system, and that the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigations had been notified.
9:00 AM — WhoWhatWhy begins posting updates on the story, including evidence to show that the secretary of state's allegations omit essential details of what has occurred.
12:00 AM — Computer security expert confirms that all of the vulnerabilities are still active.
3:57 PM — ProPublica confirms that security updates are being made to the My Voter Page site
9:15 PM — WhoWhatWhy calls a computer security expert, who logs into his own account and watches live updates being made to the My Voter Page.
Election Day. Polls open.
Correction notice, 11/6/2018, 10:36 AM: An earlier version of this story incorrectly attributed the initial sharing of information regarding the vulnerabilities of the state's election website to the Democratic Party as David Cross. The person was Richard Wright. Also in the timeline we clarified that Richard Wright reached out via Twitter to the plaintiff on October 25. We regret the error.
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Daniel Udoh: arrested for stabbing one Emaka Umonko, the husband of a woman whom he was having secret love affair with to death in Ogun
Published By: Ayorinde Oluokun
Daniel Udoh, a 38-year-old commercial driver has been arrested in Ogun for allegedly stabbing one Emaka Umonko, the husband of a woman with whom he was having secret love affair to death
Udoh stabbed Umonko when he confronted him about the illicit affair he was having with his wife at Onipanu area of the state, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, Ogun police command spokesperson said in a statement on Sunday.
According to the statement, Udoh was arrested on Jan. 7 following a distress call received by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Onipanu Divisional Headquarters, CSP Bamidele Job.
Explaining the incident that led to the death of Umonko, Oyeyemi said in the statement that the deceased, who had been suspecting Udoh, confronted him for having an illicit affair with his wife.
This, he said, led to serious fight between the two men.
"While the fight was going on, Udoh, a commercial driver, brought out a knife and used it to stab the deceased severally at his back and chest, which made him (the deceased) to collapse.
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"Upon the distress call, the DPO Onipanu Division, CSP Bamidele Job, immediately detailed his men to the scene, where Udoh was promptly arrested and the knife recovered as an exhibit.
"The victim, a welder, was rushed to the State Hospital Ota, but was unfortunately pronounced dead by the doctor on duty.
"The remains of the victim were subsequently deposited at the Ifo General Hospital mortuary for post mortem examination," he said.
Oyeyemi quoted the Commissioner of Police in the state, Lanre Bankole, as directing that Udoh be transferred to the homicide section of the state criminal investigation and intelligence department, for further investigation.
He said that the suspect would be charged to court as soon as investigations were concluded. (NAN)
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The more expensive a film is, the harder it is now to make it that violent. With Recall in particular, we made a conscious choice to keep it tonally closer to something like Minority Report. It gives the studio, and us as producers, the opportunity to reintroduce it in a new way.
Working in a visual effects renaissance as we are, we have the ability to do so much more now. We can do the Jump Suits [armoured exoskeletons from Heinlein's novel], for example, which I don't think they could have done before.
From an immediate financial standpoint, making a film less violent for a PG-13 rating makes sense. Less restrictions means a bigger potential in-theater audience. But producers have to look at the big picture. If Verhoeven's Starship Troopers didn't have its violence and non-traditional subtext, it probably wouldn't stand the test of time in the way it does. The film surely sustained its popularity precisely because it was an unflinching, R-rated film.
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Investors searching for a new way to make big money in medicine have hit upon an age-old problem: infertility.
The money isn't just in treating older women who have spent years trying to conceive. It's in persuading younger women, still in their 20s, to start worrying about their future fertility now — and to pay for pricey tests and services, such as egg freezing, as a hedge against problems down the road.
Some doctors worry that the new ethos of treating fertility medicine as a cash cow may lead to clinics pushing patients toward unnecessary tests and services.
Sensing a lucrative market, private equity firms are pouring money into building national chains of fertility clinics. Some are spending on splashy advertising and a deliberate strategy of reaching out to young women who are not yet trying to conceive. Venture capitalists are getting into the business, too; this year alone, PitchBook has tallied more than $178 million flowing into startups developing fertility products, such as a test that promises a credit-score-style rating of a woman's fertility.
The new investors say they leave decisions about clinical practice to physicians. But they're nonetheless transforming an industry that has long been dominated by standalone clinics.
Fertility experts see real benefits for patients: Clinics united into national chains have been sharing best practices, introducing newer technologies, and offering more flexible payment plans for customers.
But some doctors see potential drawbacks, too. They worry that the new ethos of treating fertility medicine as a cash cow may lead to clinics pushing patients toward unnecessary tests and services.
And some are concerned about the ethics of aggressively promoting fertility care such as egg freezing — which can cost between $14,000 and $18,000 per cycle in some cities — to healthy young women who may never need it. The procedure carries some risks to the woman and is no guarantee of a future pregnancy; IVF using frozen eggs has just a middling success rate.
There's a fine line that must be walked to steer clear of "preying on someone's emotions," said Dr. Ravi Gada, who co-owns Dallas Fort Worth Fertility Associates, which has turned away multiple overtures from private equity firms.
The U.S. has nearly 500 fertility clinics. Among the recent shifts in ownership and approach:
Lee Equity Partners, a New York private equity firm, last year bought into a large Atlanta fertility clinic and a frozen egg bank to launch a $200 million network called Prelude Fertility. This fall, Prelude bought a majority share of a large San Francisco clinic and then went even bigger by acquiring 22 new locations stretching from Connecticut to Texas to Las Vegas. Prelude promotes itself both to patients "ready to build a family now" and those who "want to keep [their] options open for the future."
TA Associates, a private equity firm with five offices around the globe, in 2015 bought into the Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine, which had already begun to expand around the U.S. The investment has allowed to CCRM to "grow a bit faster," by speeding hiring and infrastructure investments, according to Jon Pardew, CCRM's CEO. New CCRM clinics opened in Boston and San Francisco in June, with another new U.S. location under construction.
MTS Health Investors, a New York private equity firm, in 2015 created the Ovation Fertility chain by scooping up four clinics spanning the Sun Belt from Southern California to Nashville. This fall, Ovation bought two more clinics in Louisiana. The chain touts its scale as an advantage for patients seeking help, saying on its website that "many heads are better than one."
New services crop up to monitor fertility
Meanwhile, entrepreneurs are promoting an array of new products aimed at assessing fertility.
A $950 genetic test launched this year, called Fertilome, reports on the likelihoodthat women have certain conditions linked to fertility problems, in an effort to help guide their next steps. The company behind it has marketed it with evening seminars aimed at working women, promising to outline "proactive steps you can take today to reach your future family building goals."
Another startup called Modern Fertility has begun rolling out its test, which measures various hormone levels including several correlated with how many eggs a women has in her ovaries. (Such "ovarian reserve" testing is an increasingly popular metric, though it has some limitations.) The Modern Fertility test, which reports a number akin to a credit score meant to be monitored over time, is now available for $149 at Quest Diagnostics laboratories and will soon be available for use at home.
Then there's egg freezing, a procedure pioneered for women trying to preserve their fertility before undergoing cancer treatments. In the last few years, it's been rebranded as option for women who intend to put off pregnancy, perhaps because they want to pursue their careers or haven't yet found a partner during their prime reproductive years.
Top Silicon Valley companies like Google, Apple, and Facebook now offer egg freezing as a benefit to employees, while some clinics are hosting "egg socials" with wine and hors d'oeuvres to pitch women on its benefits. More than 6,200 women froze their eggs at fertility clinics in the U.S. in 2015, up from 475 in 2009, according to the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology.
Investors clearly see the opportunity: Extend Fertility, which says it's the first practice in the U.S. dedicated solely to freezing eggs, opened in Manhattan a year and a half ago. It's backed by the New York private equity firm North Peak Capital.
Sensing a market ready to take off
The business minds at Lee Equity were first drawn to the fertility field by data showing the climbing age of first-time mothers in the U.S. They were intrigued, too, by the legalization of same-sex marriage, which could expand the pool of couples eager to seek out services such as in vitro fertilization, which costs an average of $12,000 for a cycle but can double in price with extra services.
But as they began investigating the field, they found the potential market was greater still.
"Probably the biggest surprise to us as we started to work on our investment thesis in this industry was just how low awareness is of fertility services — not only IVF, but also egg freezing, as well as donor eggs," said Collins Ward, a partner at Lee Equity who's leading the investment in Prelude, the chain of fertility clinics.
So Ward and his team built Prelude in part to help its newly acquired clinics revamp their marketing strategy. (Dr. Mehmet Oz, who's perhaps medicine's most influential marketer as host of "The Dr. Oz Show," sits on Prelude's board of directors.)
For the clinics joining the Prelude network, that's meant ad campaigns at the local level, both on social media and online as well on traditional channels like radio and print. Prelude is also pushing a national ad campaign on social media and digital channels.
Prelude's goal: to pitch the chain as an one-stop-shop for fertility care, starting long before a woman is ready to conceive. We're "making [the ads] more modern and speak to younger patients and younger Americans who live in social and digital media," Ward said.
All that marketing, plus the aggressive expansion push, has "added significant costs," Ward said — and the firm has been willing to invest in them, because of the promise of a sizable upside in years to come.
"You hear about private equity coming in, firing people, slashing jobs, cutting things down to the bone, and then trying to find an exit. That really hasn't been the case in the IVF industry. The quality of care has remained very high … or gone up," said Dr. David Sable, who previously spent years as an IVF doctor and now invests in biotech for a fund on Wall Street.
When investors come calling, some doctors resist
Fertility clinics are just the latest in a long list of medical practices that have caught the eye of private equity firms. They've already been buying up primary care practices, ophthalmology practices, and dermatology clinics. In some cases, doctors nearing retirement jump at the chance to sell stakes in their clinics, with an eye toward bolstering their own financial security and tapping into the business expertise of the new investors.
But other doctors have resisted the movement.
Shady Grove Fertility, a fast-growing network of clinics in the mid-Atlantic region, has considered private equity investment "from time to time," but hasn't bitten yet, said CEO Mark Segal. Instead, it remains co-owned by 28 of its physicians.
One reason: concern that outside investors could push the clinic toward "more of a focus on just continuing to add more patients," Segal said, "without necessarily focusing on how that would impact patient care."
"Being able to maintain that control of operations and decisions is important to us," said Gada, one of the four doctors who co-owns Dallas Fort Worth Fertility Associates and has brushed off interest from private equity firms. He worries that the impromptu flexibility possible in a clinic like his — such as offering a discount to a woman coming back for a second or third IVF cycle — wouldn't be possible in a chain backed by private equity money.
There's no evidence so far that the consolidation of clinics is driving up costs for fertility treatment. But there's no evidence it's driving them down, either.
Sable said despite their benefits, the growing chains aren't providing what the industry truly needs: more affordable options that would open up fertility treatments to less wealthy Americans. As he put it: "We need the IVF version of the Holiday Inn."
This story was originally published by STAT, an online publication of Boston Globe Media that covers health, medicine, and scientific discovery.


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If your baby or toddler is always dropping their dummy, these cute bandana bibs are ideal for ensuring the dummy is not lost. The dummy can be held in the Velcro-style fastening at the bottom of the bib. These bibs are also handing for catching your baby's dribble to help keep their outfit dry.
The bibs are cotton on the front and have a fleece backing and a Velcro-style fastening at the back. They are available in spotty pink or blue. Please note, the dummy is not included.


This week let's talk about the critical rendering path and how to avoid render-blocking CSS. That is, CSS which can prevent the browser rendering any processed content until the CSSOM has been fully constructed.
There are many articles and presentations about inlining critical CSS, so I won't walk through the process step-by-step. Filament Group has provided a clear, comprehensive how-to on making RWD fast, which includes an excellent explanation of critical CSS. Once you're comfortable creating your own inline CSS to appease the PageSpeed gods, I want to bring up an important issue to watch out for: inline CSS that blocks rendering.
This might not be a problem if you're manually authoring critical CSS. But not everyone uses that approach, which can be somewhat time-consuming. That's why folks are often using tools like critical or grunt-critical to automatically generate the CSS. Not only can they test multiple viewport sizes to calculate the styles, but they can even inline it for you! I prefer these tools because they're pretty darn convenient, but they also have the potential to cause trouble.
The advantage we get by automating tasks is enormous. For some tasks, like concatenation, you could say it's downright foolish to do by hand what a computer can do a million times as fast. We can safely hand the task off to the computer and actually expect it to be done better and faster than a human can.
Producing CSS for the critical rendering path, on the other hand, is a matter of balancing several important factors. A computer can't always make the best decision. Do you optimize for a mobile viewport, a desktop-sized viewport, or try to find a "sweet spot" that works for both? How "complete" do you want the first render to look? All of these questions have to be answered within a budget of just a few KB of CSS.
For example, if you are applying a web font to your page titles, and it is above the fold. The tool will probably identify the @font-face rule and include it in your critical CSS. But that creates an external request! Same for background images and icon fonts, all commonly used near the top of a web page to enhance logos, titles, menus and so forth.
The makers of these tools are aware of the risks. In fact, Critical has an open GitHub issue requesting excludes by file/selector. But for now it's up to your team to be vigilant and ensure that the CSS is actually non-blocking.
Update 2015-06-12: the issue noted above has now been resolved! In the latest version of critical you are able to filter out blocks and properties of your choosing. Thanks to Ben Zörb for his work on this issue.
Alright so here we are. We have great tools that automate a tricky task, and for the most part they get it right. But when they get it wrong, it's high impact. We know exactly what will cause problems, which sounds like a perfect situation to implement a test!
To avoid shipping inline styles with external requests, use a test to check CSS for known properties that block rendering.
# inline, it should avoid making external requests.
# of network delay that external CSS would cause.
echo "Critical: ✔ Yay! The generated CSS makes zero external requests."
echo "Critical: ✘ Rats! The generated CSS makes $TOTAL external requests."
When the test fails, you can go in and manually tweak your styles, removing the bits that cause delays. This script is just to demonstrate the concept, and is extremely simple. It only tests for two strings, font-face and url. Depending on your CSS, the test might have to be more complex. For instance, a url() containing a data URI is not a problem, and should pass. Or you might want to check for @import. If you have other good testing suggestions, leave them in the comments!
Finally, for team-wide coverage add this test as a pre-commit hook in your VCS so people who work with CSS will have to verify the changes before merging or shipping.
Check out our open source repository of frontend performance training materials, which includes this test amongst many others!
Credit and thanks go to Addy Osmani for fact-checking this post.


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Starter Pack: Japanese labels you don't already know
There's more to Japanese fashion than Comme, Issey, Yohji, and BAPE
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From Rei Kawakubo, Issey Miyake, to Yohji Yamamoto, and Nigo—it's no question that Japan is the most fashion forward country in the world.
Whether it's the ability to hone in on niche audience obsessions or the rich cultural clash of traditional, iconic history with a futuristic, tech heavy lifestyle, Japan is the most boundary-pushing nation creatively. Beyond their unrivalled love for street wear, one of Japan's biggest strengths in the fashion world is the big names' willingness to search for, and collaborate with smaller local designers.
If you're not based in Tokyo though, it can be tricky to really uncover what's happening in this constantly evolving city, so here are five fashion collectives, and labels we think you should be watching this year.
By: Lucy Dayman
01. Son of the Cheese
Based in Shibuya Tokyo, Son of the Cheese is a clothing store, sandwich shop, indoor skate bowl, community space, and of course fashion label. Founded in 2011 by Kaito Yamato the store itself is a melting pot of Tokyo creatives. Architects, skaters, writers, local fashion icons and artists frequent the Namikibashi hideout.
It feels like the whole Son of the Cheese is all about diversity within unity. That versatility definitely comes though in their tastefully understated, street ready collections.
From tailored bomber jackets, t-shirts, hoodies to women's swimwear, the label has done it all. Drawing inspiration from their clientele, the label's strength is its minimalist staples crafted in collaboration with local artists.
sonofthecheese.com
02. Cav Empt
Street wear fans are probably already very familiar with the name Sk8thing, the Japanese icon is man behind some of contemporary fashion's biggest breakthroughs the fashion world. He's worked as a designer for BAPE, Pharrell's Billionaire Boys Club, Neighborhood, and Undercover just to name a few.
Sk8thing is somewhat mysterious, given his propensity to work with labels who already have a 'face', see: Nigo and BAPE, Pharrell and his Billionaire Boys Club. Cav Empt, however is helmed by the enigmatic designer alongside British collaborator (and ex- XL Records A&R) Toby Feltwell.
Featuring Sk8thing's iconic bold graphic motifs printed on cleanly designed, easy to wear apparel, the design aesthetic is both timeless and futuristic. Cav Empt's ingrained history with hip hop and grime culture, means that subsequently has been embraced by those in the scene and has quickly become one of the most sought after names of the Tokyo fashion world.
cavempt.com
03. Beaugan
As covered by Acclaim recently in the feature with Japanese dyehouse, and label BUAISOU garment dying is a serious business in Japan. Like BUAISOU, fashion house Beaugan's fashion focus is on preserving the carefully cultivated art of artisanal dying.
Spearheaded by Australian born law student turned designer Christopher Hancy, the dying technique employed by the team behind Beaugan is a 13-century-old Japanese technique. The creation of the label's dye is a completely natural process that utilises mud native to the island of Amami (located near Okinawa) to produce colours of otherwise unattainable depth.
Based in Japan, Beaugan is the antithesis of today's throwaway fast fashion culture and the chemical wastefulness of its production. Earthy and authentic he name 'Beaugan' is actually a play on 'beautiful' and 'bogan'.
beaugan.com
04. Have a Good Time
Created by a crew of graffiti artists, Have a Good Time is a store located in the effortlessly cool, and always fashionably progressive are of Nakameguro. Selling books, toys, music, art, street wear out of their small back alley store, the team also have an in-house line of clothing.
Gaining cult status in Tokyo and wider Japan, the label has collaborated with bigger Japanese fashion names including chain BEAMS and department store Isetan. Notoriously elusive, the Have a Good Time team produce classic street wear staples. Their hoodies, pullovers, beanies, tote bags and of course t-shirts emblazoned with the bold 'Have a Good Time' graphic.
Rather than produce trend driven garments, this crew is all about the timeless and minimalist, which is what is making them so iconic on the street wear scene.
have-a-goodtime.com
05. Chaos Fishing Club
First and foremost Chaos Fishing Club is a skate crew. The mysterious collective gained a lot of attention earlier this year when Usher was spotted wearing a CFC tee at Dover Street Market in London.
Working with Dover Street Market founder and creator of label Comme des Garçons Rei Kawakubo, the team recently produced a line of clothing for the Dover Street chain. However apart from their Rei Kawakubo collaborations there is little to divulge about the group.
The laid back attitude of the graffiti skate crew comes through in their apparel releases. Focussing on logo heavy tees and easy to wear hoodies, their main drive is Tokyo's vibrant and creative street culture which makes the CFC name a must have for serious local skate fans.
chaosfishingclub.com
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