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Most patients wary, unaware of benefits of using health portals
Contact: Nardy Baeza Bickel nbbickel@umich.edu
ANN ARBOR—Two-thirds of patients who visited a doctor in 2017 did not use a health portal that could help improve their health in the long run, according to a new study by the University of Michigan.
Health portals—secure online websites that give patients 24-hour access to health information—can enhance patients' engagement in their own health, said lead author Denise Anthony, professor of health management and policy at U-M's School of Public Health.
"They ask more questions of doctors, they become more engaged in knowing about and keeping themselves healthy," she said. "Given these benefits, we wanted to look at who isn't using a patient portal. To make sure these technologies benefit all people, we first have to find out who is and is not using them."
For the study, published in the December issue of Health Affairs, researchers used data from the nationally representative 2017 Health Information National Trends Survey, limiting the study to those who had insurance and who had seen a doctor in the past 12 months.
Of the roughly 2,300 respondents, 63 percent reported not using a portal the previous year. Nonusers were more likely to not have been offered access to a portal. They also tended to be male, 65 or older, on Medicaid, lack a regular provider and have less than a college education. Of those using a portal, 95 percent had been offered access to one. However, 41 percent of those offered access did not use a portal.
Of those not using portals, the study found no demographic difference in who was likely to cite a technological barrier of access to the internet as the reason for not using a portal.
Researchers found that:
Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries were significantly more likely to say they didn't want to use a portal because they prefer to speak directly to a provider.
Patients older than 40, and some racial and ethnic minority groups, were more likely than younger and white patients to report concerns about security and privacy.
Hispanics and people older than 50 were less likely to report they had no need to access a portal.
Anthony said the study suggests that disparities in portal use appears to be less about access to technology infrastructure and more about skills and comfort using technology.
"It will require education as well as technological designs that enable patients to communicate with providers in acceptable ways," she said.
Policymakers could provide incentives to health care providers to better communicate and spend more time with patients, particularly disadvantaged patients, both in person and online, Anthony said.
Another policy recommendation is to encourage providers to target disadvantaged patients, while changing technological features to improve portals' usefulness. With such changes, portals could actually diminish existing health disparities, she added.
Co-authors included Celeste Campos-Castillo and Paulina Lim of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Anthony will discuss the research at a Health Affairs briefing on telehealth at 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4, at National Press Club in Washington, D.C. To register: myumi.ch/LrEX7
Follow live tweets from the briefing @Health_Affairs, and join the conversation with #telehealth.
Abstract: myumi.ch/6jE1N (will be live when embargo lifts)
Denise Anthony


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San Bernardino man pleads not guilty to murder…
San Bernardino man pleads not guilty to murder in fatal crash
By Lori Fowler | Lori.Fowler@inlandnewspapers.com |
PUBLISHED: July 15, 2013 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 29, 2017 at 6:12 a.m.
SAN BERNARDINO — A San Bernardino man has pleaded not guilty to 10 felony counts in connection with a fatal crash that left a doctor dead and the accused, his ex-girlfriend and their infant son all hospitalized.
Brian Bohn, 33, attended the San Bernardino Superior Court arraignment Monday. He was arrested June 14.
Authorities have said the infant and his mother were recovering well and that Bohn had undergone multiple surgeries. Police did not elaborate on Bohn's injuries.
Bohn is accused of causing the June 7 crash that killed Allen Newton, a 66-year-old anesthesiologist who lived in Lake Arrowhead.
Witnesses said Bohn, driving a Chevrolet Silverado, left the 210 Freeway and was heading north on Waterman Avenue at high speed. The witnesses said they could see Bohn hitting a female passenger before the crash.
The woman, identified as Guadalupe "Lupita" Ruiz, was trying to get out of the pickup seconds before the impact, witnesses said.
Police said the pickup crossed into oncoming traffic and hit Newton's vehicle head-on.
The couple's 6-month-old son was catapulted from the vehicle across two lanes. The infant, strapped into a safety seat, landed face down on the asphalt.
Bohn is charged with murder, kidnapping, false imprisonment, willful cruelty to a child, burglary, buying or receiving stolen property, receiving stolen property over $400 and three counts of inflicting corporal injury, according to court records.
He is scheduled back in court Friday for a confirmation of counsel hearing.
Authorities allege Bohn kidnapped Ruiz along with their son before the crash.
Ruiz was granted a protective order in March prohibiting Bohn from "harassing, attacking, stalking, threatening" or coming within 100 yards of Ruiz, her oldest son and the couple's infant son.
Lori Fowler

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Mitski Drops An Artistic Video For Her Propulsive New 'Laurel Hell' Single 'Love Me More'
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At the top of February, Mitski's new album Laurel Hell will be out in the world. Before the LP's February 4 release, though, Mitski has offered another preview of it with "Love Me More." The track is dramatic and energetic and the accompanying video is a constantly engaging and artistic affair that explores a number of visual and thematic ideas in aesthetically captivating ways.
Mitski says of the song:
"As 'Love Me More' was written pre-pandemic, lyrics like 'If I keep myself at home' had different meanings than what they would now, but I kept them on the album because I found that some of the sentiments not only remained the same, but were accentuated by the lockdown.
'Love Me More' went through the most iterations out of all the songs on the album. It's been too fast, too slow, and at some point, it was even an old-style country song. Finally, I think because we had watched The Exorcist, we thought of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells and experimented with floating an ostinato over the chorus. As we steadily evolved the ostinato to fit over the chord progressions, we began to hear how the track was meant to sound."
Watch the "Love Me More" video above.
Laurel Hell is out 2/4 via Dead Oceans. Pre-order it here.
Tags: Laurel Hell, Love Me More, Mitski


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Historic Cashmere has five suburban community locales: Bowenvale, Thorrington, Lower Cashmere, Cracroft (centre) and Cashmere Hills; all postcode Christchurch 8022. This project website serves identity which unites residents of the area, to strengthen their representation, local amenity, quality of life and resilience. We also promote Cashmere through fostered links with local business, in a southern city corner that many visitors equally enjoy. Email addresses for each community locale and a Cashmere area organisation, facilities and business index can be found on our link-hub page. Haere mai. Welcome to Cashmere.
Two years ago, Cashmere had a vibrant residents' association with exemplary programs in emergency preparedness and pest control in development. This was a constant help and model to our neighbour areas. It was possible because many good helpers did their little bit, thanks, yet most in the suburb didn't have to do anything to receive the benefits, so there was general support. But a wittering few decided they wanted more of a role, being then to tear it all down. So Cashmere RA was put into recess from 21 Feb SGM, a pointless waste. Potential for recovery by November AGM.
Christchurch 22Feb remembrance: learn and be strong (have clear household emergency plans).
The Cashmere Community Response Plan, built by and around Cashmere Residents' Association network capacity, is suspended; it may prove irrecoverable. This is due to non-participation of the major plan partners, despite full promises to engage, in the CCR Plan exercise event of 18.2.18. Any message to the contrary lacks the integrity that safe volunteer emergency response depends upon. Withdrawals from CREST Plan exercise, without moral reason, are ipso facto withdrawals from CREST.
The Reverend's exhorbitant pressure for funds, extorting by withdrawal of event permit support, instigated collapse of CREST & CRA collaboration. Financial interest with bias were placed ahead of Cashmere community interest, apallingly. It must be noted that the theft, lying and duress manifest at the Residents' Association should not be leading Cashmere or any community - in such destructive course of action. Religious shame abounds here. Fair, secular, good sense has been roundly betrayed.
A main point of attempting the CREST was to add whatever higher level of certainty would be possible for our community, from small local institutions collaborating, in uncertain times (disasters). But it turns out that status-seeking, territoriality, quibbles, lethargy, cowardice and fear want to prevail instead. ... As per usual? So CREST is necessarily withdrawn from service, faced with rigorous overhaul; meanwhile catalysing a new layer of governance for Cashmere community response plans.
- Portraying an operable, planned CREST at present would be high-risk fraud. Kia tuupato. Kia kaha.
WARNING! - from 2018, the Cashmere Residents' Association is in the hands of dishonest people, operating illegally, in breach of long honorable tradition. Read on for more details.
Disputes Tribunal update, 8Oct hearing: Cashmere News Diary 22Sep2018, 12Oct2018, etc.
Adjudicator now has voice recording confirming CRA 'Secretary' (Chair, unlike the partner, not 'Acting') and NZ Labour Party campaigner Leona M (of NZ Native Plants) to be a serial liar. Partly that is unintended, born of confusion, through inability to listen. Partner Ralph R, present at hearing as 'Supporter' had no right to speak but made audible contributions twice, passing copious notes - should have been excluded at the start but adjudicator did not traverse that option. Clarifications gained are that a new hearing must follow, to deal with law of Contract (breach) and Negligence by CRA Committee. Negligence - the LM/RR theft of the Feb18 CRA Newsletters and diversion of money raised for these was just one of the costs to Cashmere community and our project to develop a resilience hub at Cashmere Presbyterian Centre, for which compensation can be pursued - things damaged or lost through lack of due care. Biggest ticket item is the generator and water tank fund, also diverted ($3k+).
Out of spite from past history (a heritage preservation fight), LM/RR have combined with a St Augustines Anglican element to bust the hitherto good relations developed through CREST at Cashmere Presbyterian, to our community's significant loss and peril. Cashmere School has been siding with the bullies, breaking its promises like local presbyterian leaders to maintain the Labour union, thus far. This is very far from the leadership that our community needs. Labour-run council has enabled the bullies, in an Association party take-over attempt; zero credit there.
Leona and Ralph have abused their authority, in ruining the Red Cross Cashmere resilience project. They have deprived their community of preparedness, and a lot more. By rejecting the Disputes Tribunal opportunity to settle the losses they have intentionally caused, personally, LM/RR have set the residents' association up as respondent for the missing funds. The potential for residents' funds to be wasted at District Court, and in making up the difference in the grant amount that LM/RR have disposed of - when the funds had been held for well-recognised community purpose that has now been robbed - is reason enough for their immediate expulsion from the Association.
The financial standing of the CRA, at the onset of the LM/RR coup and resource grab, had never been better - by far; which seems to indicate what the motive is. The dirty Labour union - amongst some CRA, presbyterian and school leaders - sits at root of the seismic harm done to Cashmere community in 2018. We have to do better than this.
Regarding Leona and Ralph, why should our community tolerate, and why are the local Labour Party aligning with, the level of loss & dishonesty emanating from their shared address? Kia kaha. Kia ora.
Updates: see Cashmere News Diary 31May2017, 13Jun2017 etc.
- Predator Free Wellington - logging system & Predator Free Karori map e.g.
(Next meeting soon in 2017) CRA has now joined the Predator-Free Port Hills program within predatorfreenz.org. To take part, meet those involved on Tues 29 Nov'16 at 7.30pm in Kowhai Lounge at Cashmere Presb. Church Centre, 2 Macmillan Ave for trap sharing. From Thursday 27 October launch, 7-9pm at Cashmere Presbyterian Church Hall, 2 Macmillan Ave - Summit Road Society "assisting individual residents and local groups to achieve a community-led, long-term project to improve the biodiversity of the Port Hills". All welcome, see flier and agenda. www.summitroadsociety.org.nz - Thanks for this! - For bait and practical help, visit Pest Control Research Rolleston shop. - If anyone around Cashmere is an approved user of Vespex for wasp control, please contact CRA - many thanks!
Summit Road Proposed prohibited times on road restrictions - CCC got "865 submissions - 221 were in support, 99 were in support but had some concerns, and 545 did not support the proposal". Please let CRA know your thoughts on what can happen next. Take care. CCC Prohibited times on roads policy 27 November 2008. Amended by Council, 22 April 2010.
If you have any requests for change in the local public passenger transport system ('PPT' buses) please let us know. Write to info@cashmere.org.nz. Thank you. Refs Why is Christchurch, the driving city, not taking the bus? 19 January 2018 + Public transport services Environment Canterbury + metroinfo.co.nz/news/Pages/Long-Term-Plan-2018-28-Draft-Consultation-Document.
A CRA 2018 project is to develop an index of all organised exercise groups available in Cashmere, starting with: ccc.govt.nz/rec-and-sport/activities-for-older-adults search base; ChillSpace Works for Women, keeping women fit in Cashmere Hills since 2005, Lisa Powers; Simply Yoga and Simply Stretching Classes, Fridays, Dakota Blue 022 0125 005; Yoga at the Park, 9:30-10:15am Saturdays in March, Yoga by Kotte, at Christchurch Adventure Park; (this Fitness notice area will gain its own new website page, once it fills out some more).
"managed by New Zealand Sikh Society, South Island (Inc.) since 2009.. started from a small gathering of about 100 people in the early days which has grown up to 350-400 with Guru's grace.. hold weekly Sri Sukhmani Sahib Path and Kirtan every Sunday at 4 Landsdowne Tce, Cashmere which starts at 11am and finished around 2pm followed by Langar" - from gurudwarachristchurch.co.nz. Haere mai. Welcome!
- CCC Health and Safety Management Plan and event permit held.
Cashmere Community Response Plan - CREST paused 27 June 2018 - in Christchurch South community network.
And see Stronger Christchurch Infrastructure Rebuild Team SCIRT local works notices.
6-7 pm A presentation by Ray Berard, winner of the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best First Crime Novel 2016.
'Inside the Black Horse' was desribed by judges as a 'lucid and potent portrait of good people and gangsters that is unmistakably Kiwi in flavour and tone...a fine crime story with considerable depth'.
For lovers of words, heritage and Detective Fiction.
Sunday 24th April from 5 pm.
6-7 pm 'Crime Fiction' a talk by Professor Ken Strongman, Emeritus professor of psychology, University of Canterbury. Well-known columnist and lecturer on crime fiction.
Tickets $25 Available from Paper Plus, Merivale. Door sales also available.
Ngaio Marsh House Lecture 2014 marking Ngaio's birthday, 23 April 1895 - Dunedin writer historian Vanda Symon on "Ngaio Marsh And The Science Of Murder", 5-6pm Sunday 13 April, Christ's College Old Boys' Theatre - tickets $25, from Philippa Bates, ph 358-8763. See iconic Ngaio Marsh House - Cashmere cultural history in essence! - Call anytime about house tours, on 337-9248.
Warm your home: Community Energy Action Charitable Trust "extra funding for insulation and heating (over and above government subsidies), free curtains (donated by the public) and free energy advice" + on facebook.
Graffiti/tagging removal: prompt service is available from council action line (03) 941 8999 or 0800 VANDAL.
* Download the Cashmere Residents Association Rules and Get Involved.
* Watch church & cafe etc. noticeboards for CRA information updates.
* Cashmere walkway map (.pdf 243KB) courtesy of Joan Blatchford.
WHAT IS THE VISION AND VALUES PROJECT?
An opportunity for those who live and work in Cashmere to say what is important to them.
The project was initiated by the Cashmere Residents' Association to help it to better understand local priorities. This will ensure that the Association can advocate on behalf of the area to ensure that what is valued is maintained and improved.
Tuesday 17 October, wine & cheese social from 7pm at Cashmere Presbyterian Church Hall, corner of Macmillan Avenue and Dyers Pass Road. 7.30pm welcome and AGM: AGM Minutes 2016, Chair & Treasurer reports; CRA committee renewal for 2017-2018, break 8pm; speaker: Alan Wills from The Malthouse Theatre. [Condolences to Gordon Ogilvie's family and many friends, for his passing this month.] We have a few copies of Gordon's new book, Place Names of Banks Peninsula and the Port Hills, available at a kind discount to Cashmere residents. 9.30pm close.
Thursday 27 April 2017, wine & cheese social from 7pm at Cashmere Presbyterian Church Hall, corner of Macmillan Avenue and Dyers Pass Road, 332-7129. 7:30pm speakers on natural hazard risks and mitigation: Peter Kingsbury and Ian Wright from Christchurch City Council, Grant Pearce from Scion Rural Fire Research Group.
Feb Emergency BarBQ sausages kindly donated by Lower Cashmere Residents' Association - thanks very much!
Tuesday 25 October, wine & cheese social from 7pm at Cashmere Presbyterian Church Hall, corner of Macmillan Avenue and Dyers Pass Road. 7.30pm welcome and AGM: AGM Minutes 2015, Chair & Treasurer reports; CRA committee renewal for 2016-2017, break 8pm; speaker Gordon Ogilvie, local historian; 9.30pm close.
on Cashmere Traffic Issues, the CCC Long-Term Plan, etc: Tuesday 26 April 2016, 7pm wine & cheese at Cashmere Presbyterian Church hall; Speaker - Bruce Alexander on his Tonga travels and recent book '100 Fathoms Square'.
Tuesday 27 October, wine & cheese social from 7pm at Cashmere Presbyterian Church Centre, corner of Macmillan Avenue and Dyers Pass Road, 332-7129. 7.30pm welcome and notices; AGM - reports: Chair, Treasurer, unconfirmed Minutes; CRA committee renewal for 2015-2016; speaker: Trevor Lord, Canterbury Vintage Home Restorers Group and Ngaio Marsh House and Heritage Trust; 9.30pm close.
on the CCC Long-Term Plan, etc: Tuesday 21 April 2015, 7pm wine & cheese at Cashmere Presbyterian Church hall; Speaker - local children's author Gavin Bishop.
Sunday 2 November, 2pm to 5pm, Sunvale Reserve. Refreshments, stalls, children's play facility onsite. Come join Bowenvale Neighbourhood Network for a snack and a chat, and enjoy meeting more neighbours. All welcome.
Sunday 2 November, 5pm to 7pm, Cashmere Presbyterian Church Centre front lawn. Refreshments, activities and information from Civil Defence and associated agencies. Children's play facility onsite. Come join us for a snack and a chat, and enjoy meeting more neighbours. All welcome - CREST day.
Ref. The Big Lunch 2009- Eden Project UK + Love and the new economy M Andre Primus, TEDxFlourCity, Sep2014.
Tuesday 21 October, wine & cheese social from 7pm at Cashmere Presbyterian Church Centre, corner of Macmillan Avenue and Dyers Pass Road, 332-7129. 7.30pm welcome and notices: Ngaio Marsh House etc heritage tour Sat 25 Oct tickets ph Leona 337-2051, Jenny Barrer on her recent Cashmere history book "After the Earthquakes"; AGM, reports: Chair; Treasurer, audited; Minutes; CRA committee renewed for 2014-2015; speakers: Brenden Winder, CERA manager of Port Hills red zone crown-owned land clearances, ph 354-2724, CERA maps; Janice Carter, Christchurch City Council planner, demonstrated online Proposed Replacement District Plan Property Search function (type your address into the search box), addressing Port Hills land damage, ph 941-8524. 9.30pm close.
Monday 13 October 2014, 7pm - Bowenvale Neighbourhood Network, CRA-backed, at Spreydon-Heathcote Community Boardroom, Beckenham Service Centre CCC, 66 Colombo St, Cashmere. All welcome.
Monday 15 September 2014, 7.30pm - Bowenvale Neighbourhood Network first meeting, CRA-backed, at Spreydon Heathcote Community Boardroom, Beckenham Service Centre CCC, 66 Colombo St - Port Hills red zone clearances, draft District Plan changes & submissions, Neighbourhood Support, meeting schedule etc. Guests by invitation only.
* Sunday 13 July 2014, 2pm to 4.30pm at Kaizuka Cafe, east end of Centaurus Road shops - Cashmere natural hazards and emergency response workshop - mass land movement, flood effects, neighbourhood support etc. Thank you Aaron and staff for operating premises as an important local community hub. All welcome.
* Sunday 21 July 2013, 2pm to 4.30pm at St Augustine Anglican Church, 5 Cracroft Terrace, 332 6627. Constitutional Review election debate: local candidates for council should tell us what is important in the review for residents of Cashmere and Spreydon-Heathcote ward, and why; afternoon tea, wine and snacks provided. CRA media release.
* Sunday 22 July 2012, 2pm to 4.30pm at St Augustine Anglican Church. Speakers: landscaper Ian McKinnon on tree transplanting, and Mike Peters from Addington Action offered some timely tips on community recovery tasks.
* Sunday 17 July 2011, 1.30pm to 4.30pm at St Augustine Anglican Church. Speaker: Amanda McIntyre pp Barbara Kimber, Community Liaison Officer for EQR.co.nz.
on the Cashmere Vision and Values project: Tuesday 8 April 2014, 7pm wine & cheese at Cashmere Presbyterian Church. 7.30pm Ngaio Marsh House speaker Margaret Sweet, 8.05pm V&V project review session - funding it forward? (and advice on submissions to the draft council plans, before they close: Environment Canterbury Draft Annual Plan 2014/15 that closes at 5pm on Monday 14 April 2014; Christchurch City Council Draft Annual Plan 2014-15 that closes at 5pm on Tuesday 22 April 2014 - on-line submission links).
Tuesday 12 November, wine & cheese social from 7pm at Cashmere Presbyterian Church Centre, corner of Macmillan Avenue and Dyers Pass Road, 332 7129. AGM 7.30pm, Reports: Chair; Treasurer; Minutes; CRA committee renewed for 2013-2014. 8pm speakers: Prof. Bryan Jenkins - Lower Avon Heritage Trail Project; Margaret Sweet - Friends of Ngaio Marsh House; an update on CREST followed by an open community forum.
Sunday 3 November, 3pm to 5pm, Cashmere Presbyterian Church Centre front lawn. Refreshments, activities and information from Civil Defence and associated agencies. Children's play facility onsite. Come join us for a snack and a chat, and enjoy meeting more neighbours. All welcome - CREST day.
on the draft Christchurch City Three Year Plan: Tuesday 16 April 2013, 7pm wine & cheese at Cashmere Presbyterian Church. 7.30pm speakers and advice on submissions to the draft Plan before they close on Friday, 19 April; a Civil Defence and Neighbourhood Support update + ECan Land Use Recovery Plan & Draft Annual Plan 2013/14 (on-line submission links) that close at 5pm on 22 and 23 April respectively. Meeting notes made to share.
started with a social from 7pm Tuesday 23 October, at Cashmere Presbyterian Church Centre, corner of Macmillan Avenue and Dyers Pass Road, 332 7129. AGM 7.30pm. CRA committee re-elected for 2012-2013. Reports: Chair; Treasurer; Minutes. Guest speaker Cr Sue Wells. Thanks everyone for your support.
Thank you to all speakers and CRA members who attended and made our 2011 and 2012 AGMs successful. Thank you especially to all those who help get our newsletter out ahead of our meetings. Three times a year, it is this effort in particular that draws our local community together, as one, like no other activity. Let us keep up this fine work of regularly building neighbourliness together, of communicating to resolve local issues. See more "AGM records" on Updates page.


Glioblastoma Working Group (GBM) The GBM Working Group had their inaugral meeting on Thursday, June 2, 2016, at Robart's Research Institute in London, Ontario. The working group will meet regularly to discuss research interests in GBM and develop collaborative networks that support and facilitate novel GBM research. If you are interested in learning more about this initiative, please contact Dr. John Ronald (jronald@robarts.ca) or Dr. Matthew Hebb (Matthew.Hebb@lhsc.on.ca).
It's Just Lunch Program The Division of Experimental Oncology within the Deptartment of Oncology has initiated the "It's Just Lunch" program to encourage informal interactions between cancer scientists and cancer clinicians to discuss common interests, including the possibility of developing new collaborative research projects. To initiate a lunch date with colleagues, please submit a request to Dr. G. DiMattia (dimattia@uwo.ca).


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BaByliss has earned its reputation with over 5 decades of industry expertise and this straightener definitely comes to the table with improved tech and design. Using the same Ionic technology equipped in the SRI Straight Pro, the number three straightener choice comes featuring a series of functionalities that put it ahead of most of its competitors. In addition to the ionic technology that eliminates frizz and static, the BaBylissPro contains Ryton Stay Cool Housing to help keep hair protected and healthy. Unfortunately, we were disappointed to see that this brand used titanium plates which is not the best composition to evenly distribute heat and avoid damage. Despite this one major flaw, the BaBylissPro is a very effective tool from a reputable brand and thus takes home the number three slot.
With over 1,000 reviews on Amazon and as the oldest manufacturer who actually invented the first hot tool, BaByliss was definitely one of the first straighteners we wanted to thoroughly investigate. It definitely proved to make many professionals and amateurs happy, but also seemed to miss the five star rating. The ionic technology effectively smoothed strands, but the titanium plates often appeared to induce damage that dried out hair and gave it a dull look after long-term use. It's also important to be cautious when ordering as this brand has a lot of counterfeit items being sold on Amazon who does not issue refunds or quality control returns.
The BaBylissPro Nano Titanium straightener does not feature the safety items we have come to expect from the top brands. One of the more "dangerous" irons, it is almost geared specifically for the pros since everyday use would cause lifeless looking hair after a while. It also is extremely lightweight for those who would be holding it for more than a few hours per day. This is a small, powerful ultra-hot tool that does require a little bit more attention when it comes to safety.
The ionic technology effectively neutralizes positively charged hair and eliminates frizz and static. The Ryton stay-cool housing also combats short-term heat damage, but seemed to wear off and failed to protect strands from the ultra-hot titanium plate distribution following extended use. This resulted in some breakage and split ends but definitely made hair shiny and silky during the first few months and thick curly hair seemed to absorb the heat well. It was only on fine thin hair where the damage was noticeable.
If you are interested in ordering the BaBylissPro Nano Titanium Plates you can order from the sellers page or Amazon. Due to the numerous counterfeit products circulating we recommend ordering it from the seller's website here.
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Portland is the first big city Jared Freadrich has called home.
The 20-year-old Winterhawks defenseman has settled in just fine.
Acquired in May in anticipation of Henri Jokiharju's ascension to the NHL, Freadrich has embraced the opportunity to quarterback one of the most productive power-play units in the Western Hockey League.
The 5-10, 185-pound Freadrich isn't as flashy as Jokiharju (who has 11 assists in 34 games as a Chicago Blackhawks rookie) or Caleb Jones, two recent Winterhawks offensive-minded defenseman. But his skills and experience in the WHL make him a good fit for a Winterhawks team with youth on the blue line.
His 15 assists on power-play goals rank him among the top defensemen in that category. And while Freadrich will give credit for that to Portland's talented front-line forwards, particularly Cody Glass and Joachim Blichfeld, his contribution should not be overlooked.
"We've been really happy with the way he's quarterbacked the power play," says Kyle Gustafson, the Hawks' associate head coach. "He sees the ice so well. He's able to open up the flanks for both 'Blich' and Cody, and when there's a time to get a shot through he's able to do that, too."
Acquired to fill a need for a puck-moving defenseman with the departures after last season of Jokiharju and Dennis Cholowski, Freadrich has been better than advertised according to Winterhawks VP/GM/coach Mike Johnston. Among Freadrich's significant contributions this season, Johnston lists his maturity and leadership on and off the ice and his ability to log big minutes five-on-five in addition to on the power play and penalty kill.
"He's been a lot better than we thought he was going to be," Johnston says.
Portland is Freadrich's fourth WHL team in as many seasons. A year ago, he had 12 goals — nine on the power play — and 20 assists for Victoria.
Entering Saturday's 5 p.m. game against Everett at Memorial Coliseum, Freadrich has six goals and 24 assists. Two points shy of his career high, he clearly enjoys setting up opportunities for prolific scorers Glass and Blichfeld.
"I don't have to do too much with those two guys on the flanks there," Freadrich says. "They do a really good job of getting me the puck when I'm in a good spot, and I think I complement their game, too, and can spread the puck around. Sometimes I catch myself just watching those two pass the puck to each other, right? You get mesmerized out there, but it's a great opportunity to play with those guys for sure."
Having talented teammates only partially explains how Freadrich, whose points per game is almost double his career average, is impacting the Winterhawks.
As the player nearest the blue line on the power play, Freadrich must balance the instinct to create scoring chances with the responsibility to avoid turnovers and use his mobility to keep the puck in the attacking zone.
It's the attacking mind-set that made coach/GM/VP Mike Johnston and his staff see Freadrich as a solution to their lack of defensemen with power-play experience.
"Being a smaller D-man all my life, I've had to learn different ways to make an impact on the game other than just being a shutdown guy," Freadrich says. "Obviously, I stressed defense first and foremost, but (the Winterhawks) like a D-man who jumps up in the rush and can make a good first pass and then get off the blue line and shoot the puck and be active in the defensive zone.
"I bring a little bit of that to the team, and I think it's fit really well with their coaching style."
The lifestyle was an adjustment.
Freadrich is from, Camrose, Alberta, a small farming community south of Edmonton. He played his first two WHL seasons in Regina and Red Deer and spent last season in Victoria. None of those places is a metropolis.
"It's been the biggest adjustment for me, I think, coming to a big city like this," Freadrich says. "I'm not really used to all of these skyscrapers. But it's been awesome. It's a cool experience."
In addition to his ability to skate and move the puck to goal-scorers, Freadrich has embraced his place as an elder statesman on a team that includes five first- or second-year defensemen.
"I remember my first year in this league I had great older guys above me just talking me through things. It's a long season, and there are a lot of ups and downs. You can't dwell on stuff or you're just going to drive yourself crazy," Freadrich says. "I just try to be open to the younger guys, and if they want to ask me anything I'm ready to answer it because I've most likely been through it."


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What's on in Paris - June 2019
21, May 2019
Amanda Mehtala
As the sun starts shining until late in the evening, Parisians flock to terrasses for an afterwork drink. June is a very lively month in Paris, filled with many musically-oriented events, including a few favourite annual concerts and festivals. Throughout the rest of the summer, many Parisians travel for vacation, making June the last month with the city full of both locals and tourists, bustling with many outdoor activities to choose from.
We Love Green Festival, June 1-2
A long-awaited annual Parisian event is this music festival committed to eco-friendly solutions, combating climate change and supporting environmental projects. Every year, the We Love Green invites wild and exciting artists drawing the music of our time; an eclectic program that crosses the bridge between indie and electro. This year's performers include Christine and the Queens, Booba, FKA Twigs, and many more! Head to the Bois de Vincennes the first weekend of June for some amazing French music, all for a good cause! Details
Last chance to catch Chicago, the musical
This year's Broadway hit at the legendary Théâtre Mogador is the celebrated Chicago. Playing with English subtitles since September 2018, thousands of international audience members have already been delighted to see the incredible show, complete with talented dancers, international musical theatre stars, and a live on-stage orchestra. The show will close its doors at the end of the month, June remains your LAST CHANCE to catch Chicago, the musical before is leave Paris forever.
Bonus: next year's musical performance at the Théâtre Mogador has just been announced, get excited for Ghost, the musical!
Get your Chicago tickets today!
Banksy expo at the Musée du graffiti
Starting June 1, the celebrated and mysterious street artist Banksy will be on display at the Musée du Graffiti. Little further information about the exclusive exposition has been released, but the event is sure to attract many fans of the artist. What we do know is that throughout the exhibit we'll be able to see not only some of the British artist's works of priceless value, but also others that have been thus far overlooked.
Museum website Facebook event details
Festival les Nuits des Arènes June 13-16
Spend a weekend in an ancient Roman arena, right in the heart of Paris! Complete with concerts and special theatrical performances by local artists, this small annual festival is a favourite among Parisians, so feel free to drop and for some music or a performance right in a historic Roman arena in the heart of the Latin Quarter. Details
Musée d'Orsay Exposition - Berthe Morisot (1841-1895), Female Impressionist
A leading Impressionist figure, Berthe Morisot remains to this day less well-known than her friends Monet, Degas and Renoir. Yet she was immediately recognised as one of the group's most innovative artists. The exhibition traces the exceptional career of a painter who, at odds with the practices on her time and her circle, became a key figure of the Parisian avant-garde movement in the late 1860s up until her untimely death in 1895. From vacation resorts to the private lives of the French elite, her work constantly blurs the lines between public and private, between fashion and daily lives, and between interior and exterior settings. From June 18 through September 22, discover the impressionist work of Berthe Morisot at Paris' legendary Musée D'Orsay. Details
Champs Elysées Film Festival June 18-25
An annual independent French-American film festival celebrating the best in indie cinema from both both sides of the Atlantic, throughout the many cinemas and theatres of Paris' Champs-Elysées neighbourhood! In addition to a rich programme of film screenings and premieres, the agenda also includes master classes with actors and actresses, meetings with directors, competitions, and more. "To give the public a chance to discover talents of French and American independent cinema: that is the motto of this seventh edition, in the name of change, sophistication, and the affirmation of the identity of the festival." - Sophie Dulac, Festival President Details & tickets
Viktoria Modesta guest performer at the Crazy Horse Cabaret June 3-16
Paris' celebrated cabaret welcomes a special guest this month only for a series of exclusive performances. Viktoria Modesta, singer, model, and international star is reshaping how we view disabilities. At the age of 20, Modesta voluntarily decided to have her leg amputated below the knee to improve her overall health and improve mobility. She now is pushing boundaries of fashion and technology to new levels. Witness the future in person in this one-of-a-kind Parisian performance!
Details & tickets
Paris Fête de la musique June 21
A truly Parisian tradition, the summer solstice means the whole city hits the streets to make some music! On this day, amateur musicians invade the capital's streets and bars to celebrate music in all forms. Whether you simply take a walk or grab a drink, you'll be sure to find talented artists in every corner of the city, cue the music!
Paris Air Show June 17-23
Whether your an aviation specialist or simply in for an interesting day of planes and physics, the Paris Air Show takes place every 4 years and is a favourite Parisian event. The International Paris Air Show is organised by the SIAE, a subsidiary of GIFAS, the French Aerospace Industries Association. The show takes place at the Le Bourget Parc des Expositions, and once again will bring together all the players in this global industry around the latest technological innovations. The first four days of the Air Show will be reserved for trade visitors, followed by three days open to the general public. Over 150 aircraft are presented to visitors, who can enjoy seeing the vessels up close and whizzing through the sky during the various flying displays. Details
Solidays AIDS benefit concert June 21-24
The annual Solidays AIDS benefit concert draws a large number of international artists each year, and along with the We Love Green Festival, is the second primary summer music festival in Paris attended by many thousands. The festival has been running for 20 years and has raised over 25 million euros and counting. This years hit artists include Die Antwood, Macklemore, Therapie Taxi, The Blaze, Hocus Pocus, and many more. Details & tickets
Circus cabaret show Speakeasy returns for the summer
This is not the circus you remember from childhood! Speakeasy is a truly original performance, featuring circus completely revisited through the prism of 1930s New York City prohibition bar. This show redefines the acrobatic arts with its astounding choreography and a surprising urban twist. Audiences are transported back to a time when gangsters and nightlife ruled the streets. Accompanied by a modern soundtrack by French DJ group Chinese Man, you're in for an amazing prohibition cocktail of music and motion!
After making waves with Parisian performances Summer 2018 and during the holiday season, Speakeasy returns June 13 for another summer season!
Paris Pride Parade June 29
On Saturday June 29 close to half a million people will gather for the annual LGBT Pride Parade, marching across Paris from Concorde to République to combat homophobia and advocate pride. Throughout the march and upon arrival at the large République Square, you can count on many different animations, performances, concerts and more, a beautiful gathering in support of all forms of love!
SOLDES June 27-Aug 7
The semi-annual sales in France begin the end of June, if you feel ready to combat the crowds to find a good deal then it's time to start shopping! During this 6 week period, shoppers can find huge savings on just about everything, with additional markdowns added every few weeks as the sales period progresses.
Macki Music Festival June 29-30
One last music festival as June draws to a close, the annual Macki Festival. For the past 6 years, 2 associations, La Mamie's and Cracki Records, have hosted this music festival just outside the city, a groovy mix of concerts and DJ sets, there's sure to be something to please everyone. Details
So there you have it, all the best special events in Paris for the musically-charged month of June. Be sure to check back next month to discover all the latest on the Parisian calendar!
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Super (2005 film)
Super (2010 American film)
Super (Neu! song)
Grain (unit)
Five Grains
Super (Telugu: సూపర్) is a 2005 Telugu heist-action-thriller film produced by Nagarjuna Akkineni on Annapurna Studios banner, written and directed by Puri Jagannadh. Starring Nagarjuna Akkineni, Ayesha Takia, Anushka Shetty, Sonu Sood in lead roles and music composed by Sandeep Chowta. The film was also dubbed into Hindi and was titled Robbery. The film recorded as Hit at box-office.
Akhil (Nagarjuna Akkineni) owns a call cab service. He falls in love with a doctor, Siri Valli (Ayesha Takia). Soon Siri Valli falls in love with Akhil as well. There is a hi-tech robber called Sonu (Sonu Sood) who steals money in a big way. Sonu used to work for Siri Valli's father and so adopts her as his sister after their family fall into bad times.
Incidentally, Akhil and Sonu are enemies. When Sonu realizes that Siri Valli is in deep love with his arch enemy Akhil, he asks her to put an end to their relationship and to never see him again. Siri Valli goes to Akhil's house to find out why Sonu and he are enemies. Akhil reveals his flashback:
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Super is a 2010 American superhero dark comedy-drama film written and directed by James Gunn, starring Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Liv Tyler, Kevin Bacon and Nathan Fillion. The film premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in theaters in the United States on April 1, 2011 and on video on demand on April 13, 2011. The film was released unrated in U.S. theaters, and later received an R rating for its DVD/Blu-ray release.
Short-order cook Frank Darbo (Rainn Wilson) says in voice-over that he has only two good memories from a disappointing life: marrying his beautiful wife, Sarah (Liv Tyler), and an incident in which he directed a police officer to catch a purse snatcher. Frank immortalizes these two events in a pair of crayon drawings that he hangs on his wall for inspiration.
Later, Sarah, a recovering addict, leaves Frank for Jacques (Kevin Bacon), a charismatic strip club owner who gets her hooked on drugs. Frank sinks into depression, where he has a vision in which he is touched by the finger of God and meets the Holy Avenger (Nathan Fillion), a superhero from a public-access television show on the All-Jesus Network, who tells Frank that God has chosen him for a very special purpose. Frank believes that God has chosen him to become a superhero and goes to a local comic book store for inspiration. His claim that he is designing a new superhero is met with enthusiastic appreciation from the foul-mouthed store clerk, Libby (Ellen Page). Frank creates a superhero costume and assumes the identity of "The Crimson Bolt."
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Super is a single by German band Neu!, released in 1972. It failed to chart and has never been re-released, but has become a collector's item due to the rarity of the original vinyl 7". After the single's recording both the A and B side tracks were added to the album Neu! 2, which was released the following year.
Recording, Release & Remixing
Both tracks were recorded quickly at Conny Plank's studio in Cologne during the summer of 1972, six months after the release of Neu!'s debut album. Brain were pessimistic about the single's chances, and had to be convinced to release it by Dinger and Rother. When it was released, it was backed by only minimal promotion, and predictably failed to make any impact on the German music charts (though some Krautrock acts - such as Can - did have successful singles in the early '70s).
When Dinger and Rother returned to the studio in early 1973 to record Neu! 2, they decided to fill the second side of the new album with tape manipulated remixes of the Super/Neuschnee single. There have been several conflicting explanations as to why this was done, the most quoted being Dinger's assertion that:
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A grain is a unit of measurement of mass equal to 7001647989100000000♠64.79891 milligrams. It is nominally based upon the mass of a single seed of a cereal. From the Bronze Age into the Renaissance the average masses of wheat and barley grains were part of the legal definition of units of mass. However, there is no evidence of any country ever having used actual seeds or cereal grains. Rather, expressions such as "thirty-two grains of wheat, taken from the middle of the ear" appear to have been ritualistic formulas, essentially the premodern equivalent of legal boilerplate.
The grain was the legal foundation of traditional English weight systems, and is the only unit that is equal throughout the troy, avoirdupois, and apothecaries' systems of mass. The unit was based on the weight of a single grain of barley, considered equivalent to 1 1⁄3 grains of wheat. The fundamental unit of the pre-1527 English weight system known as Tower weights, was a different sort of grain known as the "wheat grain". The Tower wheat grain was defined as exactly 45⁄64 of a troy grain.
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The Five Grains or Cereals (Chinese: t 五穀, s 五谷, p Wǔ Gǔ) are a grouping (or set of groupings) of 5 farmed crops that were all important in ancient China. Sometimes the crops themselves were regarded as sacred; other times, their cultivation was regarded as a sacred boon from a mythological or supernatural source. More generally, wǔgǔ can be employed in Chinese as a synecdoche referring to all grains or staple crops of which the end produce is of a granular nature. The identity of the five grains has varied over time, with different authors identifying different grains or even categories of grains.
The name is typically translated as the "Five Grains" or the "Five Cereals", and less often as the "Five Sacred Grains" or "Crops". Some context is important to understanding the concept, however.
First, this use of "five" predates modern botanical notions and is better understood as part of the symbolic use of numbers in Chinese culture. From a very early date, Han culture understood the world as composed of five elements and many corresponding pentads were ennumerated, including the Five Directions (south, north, west, east, and center), the Five Colors (red, black, white, qing, and yellow), and the Five Tones (a pentatonic scale).
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God, the covenant, and man – the law in stone was cast.
But broke, all men, the covenant before Moses breathed his last.
A new covenant began, that man might touch the stars.
But man would break the newest one and needed Jesus' scars.
Now what are we to do today? Sufficient is God's grace.
So what ingredient is missing as we sit here in disgrace?
To fulfill God's newest covenant takes more than prayer and song.
And "grace believing's" all and good - but by itself is wrong.
So we've researched 'theology' and other endless clutter.
Has every soul on Earth been saved? Was assurance known by Saul?
Did someone cure his blindness and was his name changed to Paul?
so now upon foundation's rock let's move 'belief' ahead.
God performed His gracious act. It was by Him alone.
By grace, ye are saved through faith. So may our faith be shown.
from demons, we are separate, completing His full plan.
Do not let Satan deceive you blowing feelings to and fro.
The world grabs for grace alone, but they need faith also.
Remember, Jesus healed the sick. Their faith had made them well.
They then went out and told the world. What stories they could tell!
We must throw out all other gods - on Jesus' name must lean.
25 whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith.
so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
27 Where then is boasting?
It is excluded By what kind of law? Of works?
No, but by a law of faith.


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Website tip: One last day on the water before summer's end? Howzabout this Ms. Fowler in 1878? The craft is a podoscaphe, a new word for me. For more, click here.
Website tip: In Framing "Christina's World" by Andrew Wyeth, Peter Perez of MoMA discusses how he chose wood and design to reframe a masterpiece.
Blog tip James Gurney has a new post on what you need for a portable watercolor kit. He provides a short instructional video and a detailed discussion of materials. How Jeanette would have loved one!
During my research, it was a delight to discover that there was a popular art teacher at Vassar. If I had known when I was writing that Henry van Ingen was so romantically sensitive in appearance, I suppose I might have given Jeanette a full-scale crush on him. It might have helped prepare for her interest in an older man. Then again, the student author of Letters from Old-Time Vassar, Written by a Student in 1869–70 (Poughkeepsie, 1915) wrote home that "we never think of our teachers as men or Miss Lyman wouldn't have them here" (p. 70).


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Women Voters' Evolution Becomes a Revolution
October 23, 2020 | Swanee Hunt
This piece was originally published here on The Boston Globe.
In recent days, what has long been seen as a gender gap in American politics has become a gender chasm. With every passing news cycle, President Trump and his alarming allies drive more and more women over the edge — and into the willing arms of the Democratic Party.
An analysis published in February by the Brookings Institution forecast that a seismic shift would soon rock American elections: women turning to the Democratic Party in droves. That's happening now, and the authors, Morley Winograd and Michael Hais, predict it's unstoppable.
"If women turn out, [Democratic nominee Joe] Biden wins," they state, noting that women (versus men) favor him by 1.6 to 1 and more than 2 to 1 among certain interrelated groups, including Black, Latina, college graduates, and suburban women. They characterize Biden's gains among women as a rejection of the sitting president with unprecedented size and scope. Women have had it with Trump's mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic, gender disparities, and racial justice. They don't want him to end the Affordable Care Act. Even on the economy, where Trump leads overall, Biden has an edge among women.
After Hillary Clinton's 2016 defeat, the global Women's March was the first surge leftward. Two years later, a political stampede defined the results of the congressional elections. Women voters favored Democrats by almost 20 points, and women winners flipped the House from red to blue.
Fast forward. A recent CNN poll places women's preference for Biden at an historic two-to-one. It's virtually impossible, say Winograd and Hais, that Trump (and probably many down-ballot Republicans) can win if women show up and vote.
Will they carry through? Yes. For years now, women have been organizing in unparalleled ways and at unprecedented scale. Among the many organizations, MomsRising is powering a multimillion voter mobilization. The new kid on the block is Supermajority, led by Cecile Richards, former president of Planned Parenthood, with another astounding million troops. Via a massive campaign of texts, phone calls, and letters, this grassroots community is urging a diverse two million women in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Arizona to get to the polls.
Oprah Winfrey has launched OWN Your Vote, a collaboration with the NAACP, Michelle Obama's When We All Vote, and a galaxy of other political stars. In a recent webinar joined by 20,000, Oprah noted that coordination among Black sororities — with alumnae long known for political as well as professional influence — could be the first alliance of its kind. To reach Latinas, actress Eva Longoria is adding her star power to America Ferrera's for the new platform She Se Puede. On its launch day, they attracted 57,000 followers.
The women aren't alone. Their greatest help comes from Trump. Suburban moms are rejecting his racist fear-mongering about menacing invasions of Black and brown agitators. As infector-in-chief, his campaign rallies, where most supporters don't wear masks or socially distance, have turned into petri dishes for the spread of COVID-19, a relentless reminder of the hardship blighting the lives of women and their families. They don't like his attacks on Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In the face of Trump's mendacity about how good things are, our nation's family doc is telling us how bad they are. Ironically, the trusted bearer of bad tidings is our comfort.
Beth Silvers, "Pantsuit Politics" podcaster and suburban mom, said she is "enraged" by Trump's cavalier attitude toward the pandemic. "When he said a remote debate is a waste of time," she lamented, "he told us that our Herculean effort to educate our children remotely doesn't matter. My friends and I have long thought this administration incompetent. We now realize 'incompetent' is generous."
And then there are the latest displays of his abiding misogyny…. "What was he thinking?" asked one CNN commentator after Trump called vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris a "communist" and a "monster." And what about the contrast between him and "that woman," Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer? (It was somehow her fault for being targeted in a foiled kidnapping plot.) Unlike her poise under pressure, when the crowd at a Trump campaign rally in Michigan yelled their stale "Lock her up!" he bellowed, "Lock 'em all up!"
This last stretch is tough. Really tough. But so are the women who are plowing past the traumatic 2016 election to push forward, full force, regardless of the inevitable vagaries of polling data.
We're witnessing an evolution morph into revolution. Just 11 days after we lost Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, we said farewell to another iconic voice of feminism. Next month, women will be echoing the words of Helen Reddy: "I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore."


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Jerry Lawler To Return To WWE Commentary
WWE Hall of Famer Jerry "The King" Lawler will be briefly returning to the commentary desk for Monday Night Raw.
It was announced on the April 4th edition of the Raw post-show Raw Talk that Lawler will be briefly filling in on commentary duties for regular Raw announcer Corey Graves. The reason for this is becasue Graves will be marrying Carmella later this month. The length of Lawler's commentary stint on Raw has not been confirmed specifically, but during the Raw Talk broadcast it was mentioned that it will be for more than one episode.
In the run up to WrestleMania 38, Corey Graves gave an interview to The Athletic. In the interview, Graves confirmed that the date of the wedding has been set for Thursday April 7th.
Jerry "The King" Lawler is one of the most recognised voices in wrestling commentary, having announced WWE shows full time from 1998 up until 2015. The WWE Hall of Famer has made sporadic appearances behind the commentary desk in the years since.
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A team of scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health has developed a new tool to monitor under a microscope how cells attach to an adjacent substrate. Studying adhesion events can help researchers understand how tissues grow, how diseases spread, and how stem cells differentiate into more specific cell types. The method provides high-resolution images that can track a cells' interactions over longer time periods than previously possible.
In a study by researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, published in the November 2016 issue of the journal Progress in Quantum Electronics, the researchers demonstrated the technique, called photonic crystal-enhanced microscopy (PCEM), on different types of stem cells and cancer cells, showing that each cell type had its own unique adhesion properties.
"Being able to track cells over days with such sensitivity will allow researchers to quantify exactly when these events happen and get a better understanding of the how and why," says Rosemarie Hunziker, Ph.D., director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) program in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine.
Adhesion is a crucial process throughout the cell's lifespan, from division and differentiation to migration and death. But tracking these events is difficult — whether occurring among cells in the body or the when cells adhere to the surface of a dish in the lab. Most methods rely on expressing fluorescent dyes in the cells, but the fluorescence can be hard to calibrate and exposes cells to fluorescent light for long periods that can damage the cells.
To detect adhesion events, researchers used a photonic crystal sensor, which contains a synthetic crystal capable of manipulating and distinguishing specific wavelengths of light. The sensor was coated with extracellular matrix molecules — proteins that collect near the surface of cells and help promote cell attachment. When a cell attaches to these molecules, the wavelength of light normally refracted off the sensor is shifted, and the sensor registers the shift, detecting the interaction.
The sensitivity of the system enabled researchers to count and track adhesion events over time. While fluorescent light restricts cell imaging to a few minutes at a time over a span of hours, this system uses a light-emitting diode (LED) source, not fluorescence, so the cells can be imaged over days to weeks without being damaged. The new approach will make it easier to analyze what's happening at the membrane more reliably and reproducibly, without needing to label the cells.
"We're addressing this fundamental capability of single cells or multiple single cells within a culture and watching their behavior, their attachment and release behavior over time," said co-author Brendan Harley, Sc.D., professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Future studies can add drugs and treatments to test their effects on cell binding, use different extracellular matrix molecules to probe the necessary interactions at the surface, or quantify the different cellular receptors involved to better understand how communication at the cell membrane works.


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European Royalty Articles - Elizabeth II Articles
Elizabeth II Articles Film Clips
Queen Elizabeth: HOTTIE (Pageant Magazine, 1966)
Actor Richard Burton, CBE (1925 � 1984) was no stranger to pretty feminine faces - and as a Welshman, he was no fan of British royalty; so it must have turned some heads when he listed Britain's Queen Elizabeth as one of the most beautiful women in the world for the editors of PAGEANT MAGAZINE.
Anticipating Elizabeth II (Literary Digest, 1937)
When Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated in 1937, thus interrupting the line of succession within the Windsor household, all eyes quickly settled on his younger brother George as he made ready for his coronation. It was natural that numerous articles began to also appear concerning George's eldest daughter Elizabeth, and to openly muse as to what sort of a monarch she would one day be. Yet what seemed most unnatural in journalistic circles took place five years earlier when King George V still ruled - in the VANITY FAIR issue of November, 1932, (page 42) the editors of that society rag were so smitten by the six-year-old Elizabeth that they took it upon themselves to predict that regardless of her place in the hierarchy, Elizabeth would one day be "Queen of England and Empress of India." (!)
The attached column makes no reference whatever to VANITY FAIR's foray into clairvoyance and simply served to introduce the future queen to the readers of North America.
Princess Elizabeth Comes of Age (Click Magazine, 1944)
The attached article was about the Spring of 1944 and why it was such an exciting season for Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary of England (b. 1926): the twenty-first of April marked her eighteenth birthday and her country was entering the last year of their bloodiest war, while the princess herself held two positions that she took quite seriously: Patrol Leader of the Buckingham Palace Girlguides, as well as Colonel-in-Chief of the Grenadier Guards. There were also times when she was required to join her father when he was in conference with his ministers.
Also addressed in these pages was the royal concern as to who was suitable to be her mate; a list of names was provided.
Princess Elizabeth During the Second World War (Collier's Magazine, 1947)
A printable article (excerpted from a longer one) outlining what exactly Princess Elizabeth II was up to during World War II:
...and it was decided that Elizabeth must not enlist in anything, that her training for the throne was of the first importance. But Elizabeth felt that she would be a slacker and carry about an inferiority complex for life. So for a year, relentlessly, she persisted. Just before her nineteenth birthday, her father gave in..."
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Her Favorite Movies (Photoplay Magazine, 1937)
The cinematic tastes of ER II are, like the sovereign herself, deep and complicated. A vast number of geeks employed by this website were sent forth far across the deep green sea in order to find out what her favorite movies are, and we were not at all surprised to learn that she favors the James Bond films. Contrast those movies with the earliest of her film choices and you will be able to trace her development through the years - another article on this page makes clear that she enjoyed the Shirley Temple series - but hold the phone: the attached article from THAT SAME YEAR indicates that she enjoyed A DIFFERENT MOVIE AS WELL!
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The Coronation Jewels (Gentry Magazine, 1953)
The attached photograph of Queen Elizabeth in her Coronation attire is accompanied by a few select words concerning the Koh-I-Nor diamond and a few other pretty baubles worn on the occasion of her 1953 coronation:
"Elizabeth II wearing the diamond-and-pearl circlet of Queen Victoria. The design incorporates the Tudor rose, Scotch thistle, and Irish shamrock. The diamond necklace was a wedding gift from the Nizam of Hyderabad."
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The Great Gig In The Sky is one of rock's great moments. A highlight of the one of the biggest-selling albums of all time, Dark Side Of The Moon, Richard Wright's relaxed, hazy piano refrain is complimented by an astonishing freeform vocal from session singer Clare Torry. If you've seen Pink Floyd (or David Gilmour) at any point over the last 40 years, that vocal is a live highlight, an emotional tour-de-force and a genuine challenge for anyone brave enough to tackle it.
What Wright probably didn't have in mind when he and Tolly put the song together was that someone would eventually come along and replace that epic vocal with an equally epic kazoo solo.
Let that sink in for a moment: One of the most towering individual performances in the history of music, replaced by a someone wailing on a the world's cheapest, most-mocked musical instrument.
But the weirdest part of it all this is that the end result isn't terrible. In fact, it's rather good, capturing at least some of the original's grand ambition. It's by Alex McCulloch, a songwriter from Scarborough, Ontario, who is influenced by the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, and describes herself as "interested in writing songs that can make a room sizzle - stories that get people thinking." This might not be her own song, but it does sizzle. Sort of.
Alex's debut album A Strange Sense Of Humour is out now.


British writer of some 67 detective mystery books that are universally popular. Her novels have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion translated in more than 100 languages.
AFA quotes her Autumn/l967, confirmed by Charles Harvey, "She wrote that 4:00 AM is the time with the notation "hearsay," presumably due to her legal background."
On 1/12/1976, Christie turned to the man she'd thought it so foolish to marry and said, "I'm going to meet my maker." Later that day she quietly died, Wallingford, England.


This week our neighbours have lost (suddenly) their beloved dog. He was a lovely dog, so well behaved. I thought I'd pop a card in their letterbox to let them know we are thinking of them.
We live at a beach and they used to walk the dog on the beach - my idea with this card was to make it look like Sherman was leaving his footsteps behind on the beach.
Inside I've written the verse from this card I found. I thought it was a lovely verse.
now that you've had to say goodbye.


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Q: Nest Protect battery_health property for wired device The Nest API reference specifies a battery_health property for a Nest Protect (part of the smoke_co_alarms structure) which records whether the battery is ok or needs replacing soon.
But, a Nest Protect can also be wired to a 120V supply.
In this scenario, what will be the value of the battery_health property, or will this property simply be omitted?

A: The wired Nest Protect includes batteries for backup so it can function in the event of a power outage (see the "Tech Specs" section of the information page). The battery_health property will indicate the health of the backup battery.

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Microsoft's Xbox group announced Thursday that it has acquired Seattle-based interactive game streaming service Beam, bringing the Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant into an arena dominated by Amazon's Twitch.
Microsoft said in a blog post the deal will help make Xbox more social and interactive. Beam launched in January, with a goal of giving people watching gamers the ability to participate in the experience. Viewers can affect gameplay by presenting new challenges and quests using visual controls.
Matt Salsamendi, Co-Founder & CEO of Beam, wrote in a blog post not much will change for Beam users immediately, and he will continue to lead his team under Xbox's engineering group. Salsamendi said Beam will continue to work on all games across numerous platforms, not just Xbox.
The deal will allow Beam to scale its service faster, add to its team, bolster its infrastructure and bring in more users. Salsamendi wrote that Beam has topped 100,000 users.
The gaming audience has exploded in recent years. Big eSports events take over arenas, and millions of viewers stream gaming content online. To cash in on this trend, Amazon acquired Twitch in 2014 for $970 million. It has been called the ESPN of the gaming industry, and it boasts more than 100 million unique viewers per month.
Beam was part of the most recent TechStars Seattle class. Fellow members Shyft, Reflect and Kepler have raised money since TechStars' Seattle Demo Day in May.


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How the AT&T-Time Warner Deal Could Ruin the Open Internet
Net Neutrality, Media Consolidation
Gaurav Laroia
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson Original photo by Flickr user World Economic Forum
Even in an age of increasing consolidation, the AT&T-Time Warner merger is a big one.
At over $102 billion dollars at close, including equity and debt, the deal combines one of the biggest telecommunications companies with one of the biggest corporate content-creation machines.
That means AT&T, often one of the only means of access to the internet, news and entertainment programming, will have control over a vast catalog of channels, media and movie studios, all of which it has a direct financial interest in seeing you spend your limited time consuming.
Last week the Justice Department lost its (poorly argued) case to block the merger, and the judge's approval of the deal is likely to embolden other media companies to merge. Already Disney and Comcast are in a bidding war over 21st Century Fox. These mergers will raise prices and diminish choices.
And in the absence of any Net Neutrality rules, companies like AT&T and Comcast will have the power and incentive to crush competition, limit access of new entrants to the media marketplace, stifle critical voices and promote their own content.
What happened in court?
The Justice Department is tasked with enforcing the country's antitrust laws and went to trial in late 2017 to block the merger, arguing that an AT&T-Time Warner conglomerate would lead to "higher monthly television bills" and the resulting company would engage in anti-competitive behavior.
However, the Department chose to fight with one hand tied behind its back. Due to the administration's attack on the Net Neutrality rules, it chose to focus on a narrow set of competitive harms regarding access to cable programming — instead of the universe of harms we expect to see with AT&T now able to leverage its market power to discriminate against its competitors' video content across the internet and other platforms.
Despite the court's many options for reining in the behavior of the new AT&T, like requiring divestiture of parts of Time Warner, or setting merger conditions on how AT&T must behave in the market, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon blessed the union of the two companies, potentially paving the way for other companies to attempt similar mergers.
Judge Leon urged the Justice Department not to seek a stay of his ruling, a decision that allowed the merger to be finalized last week. However, it remains to be seen if the Department will appeal the decision to a higher court while its antitrust division chief mulls over possible "next steps".
AT&T's power in a world without Net Neutrality
The Trump FCC's repeal of the 2015 Net Neutrality rules, which prevented blocking, throttling, paid prioritization and other anti-consumer practices, went into effect on June 11. That means companies like AT&T now have a whole suite of previously illegal practices they can use to maintain their market dominance and leverage that power to favor the content they own on the internet, instead of having to provide the unfettered access to the entire internet as they were previously required to.
This means AT&T has the legal right and perhaps the financial incentive to:
Block or degrade access to online video services it doesn't own. This would make it harder, or slower, to access services like Hulu, Netflix or YouTube — and easier to access HBO, which AT&T now owns.
Prioritize AT&T's vast new media library, which includes CNN, the Turner cable networks and the Warner Bros. movie studios. It can do this by either speeding up access to this content or providing financial incentives to its customers to access it.
Leveraging its market position as the world's biggest telecom company to charge new entrants to the media marketplace for access to its customers — turning the internet into something like cable TV.
Don't take our word for it. Since the deal closed, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson told CNBC that "The more distribution points and customers we enable to consume premium content, the more we want to own and invest in premium content itself."
He added that the company plans to leverage its "170 million direct-to-consumer relationships" to facilitate the delivery of content it owns, including Time Warner's vast advertising network, to further inundate its customers with online advertising.
While AT&T hasn't yet announced that it will play games with network traffic to steer its customers to media it owns, the company has deployed its significant market power to offer customers access to part of its content library for free through a new product called "AT&T Watch TV". Customers who aren't on the AT&T wireless unlimited-data plan will have to pay an extra $15 per month to access the bundle of TV channels on the service.
AT&T is already exploiting its newfound market power to put its thumb on the scales of the video and content marketplace. We won't be surprised if there's more to come.
Buying Time Warner increases AT&T's incentive to violate its customers' privacy
In late 2016, the FCC passed strong privacy rules that prevented internet service providers like AT&T from snooping on their customers' internet traffic.
However, those were among the first rules the new Republican Congress axed in early 2017. Since these rules were reversed, people must rely on the FTC (an agency with little rule-making authority) to enforce broadband providers' meager promises that they won't spy on customers and sell their personal information to data brokers and other companies — a deal the ISPs can change at any time.
Now that AT&T owns a massive media company it has a huge platform to monetize the massive amount of personal information it can collect from its customers to serve them ads and use their browsing habits to shape the media they consume and have delivered to them.
By positioning itself as the gatekeeper to so many millions of people in the United States, AT&T has the ability to set the terms by which new media makers, especially those from marginalized communities without access to vast amounts of capital, can access their customers. This is antithetical to the principles of the open internet and the idea that — on the internet at least — a good idea should be able to speak for itself and creators should not have to ask permission, or pay extra to an ISP, to get access to anyone online.
Unless the Justice Department appeals the decision or Congress finally addresses the problem of media consolidation the merger is on the books. It's bad news for competition, the open internet and privacy. Free Press will continue to oppose mergers and to fight consolidation in the media and internet marketplace.
For now, however, people will face higher prices and even fewer choices online.
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The International Sphaeralogical Society: The I.S.S. Presents "Sphaeravesti"
The Founders of the International Sphaeralogical Society are proud to offer to the public our first Official Sphaeralogical T-Shirt Line!
Celebrate your love for all things bouncy with your very own Super Ball Tee!
These limited edition Tees - designed by Brian Holderman for the I.S.S. - are currently available only through the I.S.S.
We can accept checks or PayPal transfers, but will soon have them available for on-line ordering.
Get them while they're hot ....AND AVAILABLE!!!!!
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This tiny car beat Tesla's Model 3 as the best-selling EV in the world for January and February
China-based Wuling sold over 56,000 Hong Guang Mini EVs in the first two months of 2021
By Kim Lyons@SocialKimLy Mar 20, 2021, 5:49pm EDT
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The Hong Guang Mini EV edged out Tesla's Model 3 as the top-selling electric vehicle in the world in January and February, not a small feat for the relatively new hatchback. More than 36,000 of the tiny cars sold in January, compared to about 21,500 Model 3s, and the Hong Guang sold just over 20,000 units last month, compared to just under 13,700 Tesla 3s.
The diminutive vehicle is made under a joint partnership between China's state-owned SAIC Motor, Wuling Motors, and US carmaker General Motors, and is locally referred to simply as Wuling. The Hong Guang Mini EV sells in China only for 28,800 yuan, or about $4,500. It claims to get 170 kilometers (roughly 106 miles) per charge, and can reach a top speed of 100 kilometers per hour or 62 miles per hour (so no drag racing in this thing). Its specs include a wheelbase of 76.4 inches, and it is just under 115 inches long, 59 inches wide, and stands about 64 inches tall. Its total weight is about 1,466 pounds.
In other words, it's tall but skinny. Still, the manufacturer claims it can seat four people, and the rear seats fold down if you need storage space. For something very small, presumably.
The 2021 base model of Tesla's Model 3 EV on the other hand, gets more than 250 miles per charge, and its sticker price starts at just under $40,000. It has a wheelbase of 113 inches, is 185 inches long, 73 inches wide and about 57 inches tall. The base Model 3 weighs around 3,500 pounds.
The Hong Guang Mini EV launched last summer and was a surprise success, but is still only sold in China. Some reports suggest that it may come to other markets eventually, but the US is likely low on the list.
It is cute, though.


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It's funny what memory does, isn't it? My favorite holiday tradition might not have happened more than once or twice. But because it is such a good memory, so encapsulating of everything I love about the holidays, in my mind it happened every year. Without fail.
I come to Jerusalem. There, the sky is blue and memory becomes clear.
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.