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Entrepreneurs of Immunotherapy: Q&A with Founders of Cell Medica and Autolus
Authors: Eleonora Lugara, Jun Hon Pang Edited by: Márcia Costa
The field of immunotherapy is booming with major pharmaceutical companies establishing their presence and capabilities, most notably Novartis, Gilead and GSK. In parallel to the UK's commitment to driving the biosciences industry forward, two prominent London-based companies in the field of immunotherapy, Autolus and Cell Medica , have gathered significant investments and reputation in T-cell therapies. Both companies were among the first partners of the £60 million cell and gene therapy manufacturing centre created by Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult. The Stevenage-based centre was officially opened on 23rd April 2018.
We spoke to the founders of Cell Medica and Autolus, Gregg Sando and Dr. Martin Pule respectively. Both of them were speakers at the SIULondon 'Advances in Immunotherapy' event on 2nd May 2018. In this interview, Gregg revealed the exciting journey that led to the creation of Cell Medica, the duties and responsibilities of managing a biotechnological company and the reasons why he chose to invest in allogenic approaches. Martin shared his point-of-view of spinning out Autolus as an academic, and the challenges and current improvements in commercializing engineered T-cell therapies, which also includes allogenic approaches.
GREGG SANDO, FOUNDER AND CEO OF CELL MEDICA
Mr. Gregg Sando is the founder and CEO of Cell Medica. He previously had a career in investment banking in New York and London. He holds a BA Biochemistry from Harvard University, MBA from University of Chicago and MSc Immunology from Imperial College London.
What motivated you to move to this field after 22 years in investment banking and why did you decide to found Cell Medica?
I started initially as a Biochemistry student at Harvard, intending to go to Medical School. After a while, my attention shifted towards the business side of science and this led me to enrol into a finance-oriented business course, at the University of Chicago. Later on, I was recruited by several large investment banks, which brought me to work in Wall Street first and in London afterwards. It was an exciting and dynamic time: my role was mainly advising on merging and acquisition of financial institutions all over Europe. Nevertheless, during these years, I always remained interested in science. Hence, in 2004, I left investment banking and enrolled in an innovative immunology course at Imperial College. During the course, I learnt about cutting-edge techniques in immunology and specifically I recognised the potential of the immune system in treating cancer, infections and autoimmune diseases. During these years, I have been very much influenced by two personalities: Professor Hans Stauss and Professor Emma Morris (both now at UCL). They explained to me the theory of T cell immunotherapy and encouraged me to launch what would have become one of the first cellular immunotherapy companies, Cell Medica. By then, the evidence from academic research and early stage clinical trials was very convincing, therefore the next step was to develop a convincing business plan to translate this academic research into a commercial product. Given the strength of the underlying science and my belief we would solve the major business challenges, I was comfortable in deciding that cell-based immunology was the area where I wanted to focus my attention, energies and my new career.
As CEO, what is your role at Cell Medica and can you give us some insight into your daily routine?
In a nutshell, my role is managing the company. This involves both managing the business by setting the goals and ensuring financing for the company. Internally, I guide the senior team who are directly responsible for covering all the areas of drug development: the chief medical officer, the chief scientific officer, the head of manufacturing, the head of clinical operations, etc. The other half of my time I spend talking with investors, explaining the vision of our company, how we create value and a successful product, giving them the confidence to invest in the company. A good internal execution plan, assuring that we are achieving objectives in a realistic timeline and assessing the product portfolio, is a pivotal role of my everyday job at Cell Medica.
Can you tell us about Cell Medica? What makes it different from other companies in the field of immunotherapy?
Cell Medica started as a company focused on infections. Despite our product being clinically effective and commercialized in several countries in Europe, the market was too small. After realising the dramatic data coming from engineered T cells, we decided then to move our attention to cancer. This is now a very active field for the treatment of cancer but given the huge potential and the relatively few companies with clinical stage products, the overlap of products and interests is not a big problem for our chosen areas of focus. Each company has a slightly different technology. Our major interests involve developing cell therapies for solid tumours as a therapeutic focus and establishing an allogenic (off-the-shelf) platform as our technology strategy. Normally speaking, cell therapies are custom made, the so-called autologous therapy. Autologous therapy begins from the patients' own cells and the advantage is in that the risk of rejection is really low.
The allogenic approach is made possible by engineering healthy donor cells with state of the art technologies (such as CRISPR and silencing RNA). This modification will allow the genetically engineered immune cells from a healthy donor to exist in the patient at least for a sufficient time to recognise and kill the cancer cells.
The potential of this field is huge and we are very close to launching our first clinical trial with the allogenic product later this year. There is so much to learn and so much to prove about which one of these technologies is the best!
In your opinion and experience, what is the main obstacle that the field of immunotherapy is facing currently? And what are the challenges in the future?
The main long-term obstacle is probably manufacturing. At the moment, we are able to show how these cells work and how they can treat different types of cancer, but we are adding more features to the cell using genetic engineering. There are not just academic researchers involved now, but also biotech engineers and people from many fields of expertise, all trying to solve key problems for large scale manufacturing. We now have a basic understanding of how to manipulate the immune system - how to switch it off (in case of autoimmune disease) or on (for cancer and infections).
The next big question in the immunotherapy field is how to commercialize a personalized cell therapy. Theoretically, we should make a cell product for each individual. This is indeed a serious commercial challenge! The solution to that, in our vision, is to make an off-the-shelf product.
DR. MARTIN PULE, FOUNDER AND CSO OF AUTOLUS, ACADEMIC AT UCL
Dr. Martin Pule is the Chief Scientific Officer of Autolus Ltd, and also a Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Department of Haematology at University College London (UCL) Cancer Institute. He founded Autolus in 2014 as an academic spin-off, focusing on commercialization of engineered T-cell immunotherapy products using chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) and T-cell receptors (TCR). He is named as BBSRC Most Promising Innovator 2016 based on his contributions to T-cell medicine.
You hold simultaneous positions in academia (UCL) and industry (spin-off Autolus). Can you tell us about your journey towards this achievement? And presently how do you manage your time and effort between both organizations?
The field of T-cell engineering has become increasingly commercial and I have always wanted to spin-off a company to allow more rapid development of CAR T-cells. The funding environment within the UK a few years ago wasn't great, and there weren't many suitable venture capitalist funds. I initially pitched to Cell Medica, which is one of the UK's oldest cell therapy companies, as well as some other potential investors, but I did not get far.
The scene changed with the founding of Syncona back in end of 2013, which is a life-science focused investment fund established initially by the Wellcome Trust. That was a really brilliant investment track to get on. As an academic, you are not really equipped to run a biotech company. Syncona has a lot of experienced people and was able to loan the company some of their staff (e.g. a CEO after series A financing) and had actively recruited senior staff for the company. They pretty much helped in every way I could think of - as well as supplying the capital of course.
In the initial stages, the spin-off company was very dependent on UCL: there was a lot of overlap and tech transfer and it made sense to keep my academic position at UCL. Despite Autolus continuing to grow and now being completely independent of UCL, I have continued my lab at UCL while being CSO at Autolus. This works well for me personally since the intellectual challenges are different and complementary. Autolus has industrial muscle and focus, while in the academic sphere it is possible to perform open-ended and more theoretical research.
Can you tell us briefly about your latest projects?
What I am most proud of recently is the results from two clinical studies. The first is a CAR study targeting GD2 which is tested in a paediatric cancer called Neuroblastoma. Early data from this study shows evidence of activity without on-target off-tumour toxicity. This was recently presented at a plenary session in AACR.
A second study tests a new type of CAR against paediatric refractory B-cell leukemia. This CAR dubbed CAT19 (or catalytic CD19 CAR) was designed to allow CAR T-cells to better engraft in patients and to be highly active but cause less toxicity. We presented clinical data from this study at ASH last year.
Both of these projects started in UCL but can be commercialized by Autolus. In UCL, my research focuses on studying the basic biology of T-cell engineering for cancer applications. I am also interested in the interface between biology and nanotechnology.
You have the subject expertise in immunotherapy and the translational experience of this area towards patients. Can you tell us the key challenges of bridging the gap between the science, translation and commercialization of such therapies?
To me, translation means taking something from research and testing it to patients. In this regard, UCL has pretty decent infrastructure for translating T-cell engineering studies. There are labs performing clinical grade manufacturing in the UCL Cancer Trial Centre, and there are internal organisation handling the regulatory side of things. UCL is well equipped to translate studies. What the university does not directly do is commercialization in the broader sense. Commercialization, however, is the only way new therapies can be brought to large numbers of patients.
A good example of challenge in CAR T which is being solved by industry and commercialization (but not suitable for academia) is the practical challenge of CAR T-cell therapies logistics. This typically includes systems to harvest T cells from patients, transporting T cells to the lab, manufacturing the cells and bringing them back to the patients. With most CAR T-cell approaches, each product is made individually for each patient. Clearly this adds more cost and complexity compared to standard antibody or small molecule drugs. This formed an initial barrier to commercialization since many investors and pharma companies could not really foresee how such cell therapies can be commercialized.
However, like everything else in our civilization: if something works really well and there is demand for it but is complicated and expensive, eventually there will be ways to make it simpler and cost effective. For example, a company called Trakcel has made progress in digitizing logistics around T-cell manufacturing and delivery. In terms of manufacturing cells, there are several companies that are making automated cell manufacturing platforms such as Miltenyi Biotec.
In short, academia has worked on the CAR T-cell approach for quite a few years and got it to the stage where there is clinical evidence of efficacy. Industry now can take over and industrialize the process of making CARs to treat different cancers and solve the problems of large-scale manufacture and delivery of these new therapies.
What is your vision for the future of immunotherapy?
I would like to see engineered T-cell therapies becoming the main modality for advanced cancers leading to lower long-term toxicity and greater long-term efficacy and replacing bone marrow transplantation and combination chemotherapy. I think the main focus of engineered T-cell therapy will be cancer but I also think that engineered T-cells will find applications in autoimmune disease and chronic viral infections.
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Question: What is the nature of the committee that the Russian ambassador spoke about today?
Hariri: The committee that Ambassador Alexander Zasypkin talked about is for follow-up and coordination with the Russian side exclusively. The security committee will be purely about security and has not yet been formed. It will consist of representatives from the army, the Internal security forces and General security.
Question: Are we back to zero on the subject of the government?
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Question: What do you say to those who are skeptical about the Tribunal ?
Hariri: There are skeptics who deserve replies, and others who do not deserve any reply. The tribunal has shown professionalism in its work and that is a reality that everyone must deal with.
Question: Former Speaker Hussein Husseini said in an interview that it is not true that there is no deadline for the Prime Minister-designate to form a government, especially that the Constitution gave the government a deadline of 30 days to present its statement. Does this mean that the Prime Minister-designate has a deadline?
Hariri: I respect Speaker Husseini, but the constitution is clear in this matter. It gives a deadline for the ministerial statement to gain the government's confidence, but its formation is something else.


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10. The Atacama Trench
The Atacama Trench, also known as the Peru–Chile Trench, lies in the eastern Pacific Ocean, about 160 km off the coast of Peru and Chile. It reaches a maximum depth of 8,065 m below sea level in Richards Deep (23°10'S, 71°18'W) and about 5,900 km long and its mean width is 64 km and it covers an expanse of some 590,000 km².
9. The South Sandwich Trench
It is a deep arcuate trench in the South Atlantic Ocean lying 100 km to the east of the South Sandwich Islands. The trench is created by the subduction of the southernmost portion of the South American Plate beneath the small South Sandwich Plate. It is the deepest trench of the Southern Atlantic Ocean. The trench is 965 km long and has a maximum depth of 8,428 m below sea level in Meteor Deep (55°40'S, 025°55'W). It is 122 km northeast of Zavodovski Island.
8. The Puerto Rico Trench
The Trench is located on the boundary between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The trench is 800 km (497 mi) long and has a maximum depth of 8,648 m (28,373 ft) at Milwaukee Deep (19°35′N 66°30′W), which is the deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean.
7. Japan Trench
The Japan Trench is a part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, in the floor of the northern Pacific Ocean off northeast Japan. It extends from the Kuril Islands to the Bonin Islands and has maximum depth of 9,504 m (31,181 ft) at Tuscarora Deep (44°55'N 152°26'E). The trench believed created when the oceanic pacific plate subducts beneath the continental Okhotsk Plate. Continuing movement on the subduction zone associated with the Japan Trench is one of the main causes of tsunamis and earthquakes in northern Japan.
6. Izu-Bonin Trench
Izu-Bonin Trench or Izu-Ogasawara Trench is an oceanic trench in the western Pacific Ocean, consisting of the Izu Trench at North and the Bonin Trench at South. It has depth of 9,780 m (32,087 ft) at 29°65'N, 142°68'E. The Izu-Ogasawara Trench is an extension of the Japan Trench. Here, the Pacific Plate is being subducted beneath the Philippine Sea Plate, creating the Izu Islands and Bonin Islands on the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc system.
5. Kermadec Trench
The Kermadec Trench is a submarine trench in the floor of the South Pacific Ocean. It is created by the subduction of the Pacific plate under the Indo-Australian Plate, with thousands of kilometer parallel with the island arc and it noted for its very abrupt slope. The Kermadec Trench reaches a maximum depth of 10,047 m(32,962 ft).
4. Kuril-Kamchatka Trench
Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, also known as Kuril Trench, a narrow, deep depression in the Pacific Ocean along the eastern underwater slopes of the Kuril Islands and the southern part of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Extending for about 1,800 miles (2,900 km) north-south, it has a maximum depth of 10,542 m(34,587 ft) at Vitiaz' Deep and covers a total area of 264,000 km².
3. Philippine Trench
The Philippine Trench is a submarine trench to the east of the Philippines. It has a length of approximately 1,320 km (820 mi) and a width of about 30 km (19 mi) from the centre of the Philippine island of Luzon trending southeast to the northern Maluku island of Halmahera in Indonesia. Its deepest point, the Galathea Depth, has a depth of 10,540 m (34,580 ft).
2. Tonga Trench
The Tonga Trench is an oceanic trench located in the South Pacific Ocean. The trench lies at the northern end of the Kermadec Tonga Subduction Zone. It is 10,882 m (35,702 ft) deep at its deepest point, known as the Horizon Deep (23°15.5′S 174°43.6′W).
1. The Mariana Trench
The Mariana Trench or Marianas Trench is the deepest part of the world's oceans. It is located in the western Pacific Ocean, to the east of the Mariana Islands. The trench is about 2,550 km (1,580 mi) long with an average width of 69 km (43 mi). It reaches a maximum-known depth of 11,034 m (36,201 ft) at the Challenger Deep (11°22.4′N 142°35.5′E).
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Ano Turtiainen: the PS doesn't love me, I love the PS – watch me now eat my words
Expelled from the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* parliamentary group for mocking George Floyd's death in a tweet, he now said that he would want to return to his former parliamentary group.
A day after he was expelled from the parliamentary group earlier this month, Turtiainen was adamant: "I am not going to request joining [the parliamentary group] again, but they can come to ask me with cap in hand," he said according to Yle.
But things are now different since Turtiainen has had a change of heart. He wants to join again the parliamentary group that ejected him.
Eating his words, Turtiainen appears like a mouse pulling petals and singing a familiar tune: The PS loves me, I don't love the PS, the PS loves me…
Read the full story (in Finnish) here.
The PS asked Turtiainen if he wanted to join the parliamentary group. If he didn't, the PS was ready to expell him from the party.
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Sock, Querrey set up all-American final
Americans continued to be prevalent at the US Men's Clay Court Championship, with Jack Sock and Sam Querrey making the final.
Jack Sock and Sam Querrey set up an all-American final at the US Men's Clay Court Championship on Saturday.
The ATP 250 event has been a favourite for the locals, with the 2015 version seeing more Americans in the decider - marking the 13th time in 15 years the host nation has been represented in the title play-off.
Sock trumped third seed Kevin Anderson 7-6 (7-3) 6-3 to reach his first ATP World Tour singles final, while eighth seed Querrey fought past sixth seed Fernando Verdasco 7-5 2-6 6-4.
It will be the first all-American decider in Houston since Andre Agassi beat Andy Roddick in 2003.
Sock had a late start to his 2015 season due to hip surgery, but has hit the ground running - making the fourth round at Indian Wells, and the third round in Miami.
The 22-year-old said he savoured the clay against a power hitter like South Africa's Anderson.
"Kevin is not easy to play on any surface," Sock said.
"I really enjoy playing on clay. I thought it gave me a little more time today against such a big server and big hitter.
"I served pretty well today, was holding pretty comfortably throughout the match. I was able to scrap out a few more points in the second set to get the break and that was enough today.
"I feel like if I'm able to play more and more throughout the tournament, my tennis gets better.
Querrey, the 2010 finalist, is into his 13th ATP World Tour singles decider, having won his past four finals he has competed in.
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stARTup Art Fair Chicago: More than Hotel Art Recapping Chicago's Alternative-to-EXPO Art Fair 2016
October 6, 2016 at 4:30 pm by Brad Fiore
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Detail of installation by LVL3 and Inside/Within at stART Up Art Fair Chicago, September 2016/Photo: Brad Fiore
Initiated last year in San Francisco, stARTup Art Fair has succeeded in profiting from the art world's unceasing fascination with and general loathing of the EXPOs and Art Basels of the world. Piggybacking on the abundance of well-moneyed foot traffic that such events bring to their respective cities, the young, itinerant fair has carved out an advantageous niche as the capital-A-Alternative source for visual art while still making a dime through plenty of ticket sales. With their inaugural fair in Chicago, they drew from a selection panel that included Michelle Grabner, Sabina Ott, Andrew Rafacz and other Chicago art-world denizens, organizing more than thirty hotel-room exhibitions that took up three of the Mile North Hotel's floors during the run of EXPO Chicago 2016.
As a whole, stARTup included its fair share of collector-fodder to sift through. By and large, most of the successful installations were those programmed by local artists and galleries who were more likely to take the opportunity as one of site exploration, rather than CV-building. The Chicago performance space Dfbrl8r curated a series of fourteen performance pieces over the three day event that activated the space in ways that were uncommon for a commercially focused art fair. The Hyde Park Art Center, LVL3 and Inside/Within and Michelle Grabner succeeded in organizing contextually aware installations that stayed true to the Midwest alternative scene's credo of privileging substance over sales.
Grabner's room featured three Milwaukee-based artists, Sara Caron, Kim Miller and Keith Nelson, who represent the city's east-side cultural core. Without any apparent rhyme or reason for pairing these artists together, the collection stayed true to the established art fair approach of non-curating. Still, the site-specific installation found more than one opportunity to riff off of the in-situ toilet, while Kim Miller's characteristically odd soliloquy on her "first and only date with an extra-terrestrial" perfectly captured the baseline sense of alienation that comes with a hotel stay.
The rest of the rooms varied widely in quality, the worst of which leaving us wondering whether they might have been better off leaving the rooms adorned with the standard hotel fare of lighthouse and sunny meadow paintings. And while placing a sculpture atop a bedspread felt like a thoughtful reimagining of the pedestal the first three times, it quickly became repetitive.
Artwork by Karolina Gnatowski at stART Up Art Fair, September 2016/Photo: Brad Fiore
On the whole, we need to applaud stARTup for taking the initiative to invent a unique platform that articulates a clear response to the soul-draining atmosphere of the typical art fair. While the signature hotel interiors were an obstacle more often than an asset to the exhibiting artists, those that did succeed in transforming their spaces will serve as a guidepost for the young fair's future.
However, two years in, stARTup still seems to be struggling with identity issues. They're eager to establish some alternative cred by championing independent artists along with a mission statement laden with phrases like "the art world is changing" and "on your own terms," but the sheer quantity of rosé wine and total absence of curatorial focus betrays their lack of understanding of the social and cultural scene they hope to embrace. Optimistically, we can assume that the fair organizers just want to be part of an art culture that they're still struggling to get a grip on. Still, I find myself wondering whether they are just as content to continue accepting application and entrance fees while riding on the free labor of eager young artists hoping to catch a whiff of EXPO sales. (Brad Fiore)
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#womenslives: female academics and the 'flexibility myth' @ rolereboot
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / April 1, 2017
There's a flexibility myth in academia. It goes like this: Academic mothers have it much better than other professional mothers because of their flexible schedule—a luxury women in business, journalism, law, and medicine don't enjoy—which allows them to set their own hours, and chart their individual paths to success.
It's tempting to buy into this myth, a kind of variation on the American Dream, because it sounds wonderful: You can care for your babies at home (avoiding costly and germy day care and the guilt of leaving your baby with strangers), write brilliant books while they nap all afternoon, teach classes at night while they're home asleep, and achieve tenure. The work is hard, for sure, but the rewards are great.
The problem is that it's not true. Flexibility is not enough to make up for the significant cultural and structural problems that mothers face in the academy, nearly 30 years after they began to enter graduate programs in numbers comparable to men. Recent research shows that mothers are faring terribly in academia. Mary Ann Mason, faculty co-director of the Earl Warren Institute for Law and Social Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, puts it bluntly: "For men, having children is a career advantage, and for women, it is a career killer."
Among tenured faculty, 70% of men have children, compared with 44% of women. Mason attributes this gender discrepancy to academia's rigid career track, which does not permit "time outs," and demands that assistant professors perform to their highest potential early on, in their 30s and early 40s, which are prime childbearing years for women. One result is that women with children fall off the tenure track to fill the swelling ranks of the underclass of contingent faculty. Women today make up as much as 61% of contingent faculty, and many, if not most of them, are mothers.
And yet, prime pushers of the "flexibility myth" are those who should know better: senior academic mothers who have managed, against the odds, to have it all. In op-eds and books with titles like "Academia and Motherhood: We Can Have Both" and "Professor Mommy: Managing Work-Life Balance in Academia," they offer well-intentioned advice, much of it autobiographical, urging women to be ambitious and optimistic, not to count themselves out, and to take advantage of the flexibility of the academic life.
Academic mothers don't need encouragement to be ambitious and optimistic. They need relief from grossly inadequate support systems that deprive them of real choices and a fair shot at successful careers, and contribute to the persistent problem of women lagging behind men in tenure and promotion rates, and disproportionately filling the ranks of disadvantaged, disrespected, and underpaid contingent faculty.
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"Who is the murderer?"
"M" (1931) is a classic German thriller directed by Fritz Lang. It was his first movie to use sound. It tells of a serial killer who preys on children. He lures them to him by acting harmless and friendly. His depredations are so vile that even other criminals are appalled -- especially since the increased police activity makes things difficult for them. Both the police and the criminals begin separate manhunts for the killer. Peter Lorre played the murderer in his first major role. As a result he was often typecast as a villain.
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"M" (1931) is a classic German thriller directed by Fritz Lang. It was his first movie to use sound. It tells of a serial killer who preys on children. He lures them to him by acting harmless and friendly. His depredations are so vile that even other criminals are appalled -- especially since the increased police activity makes things difficult for them. Both the police and the criminals begin separate manhunts for the killer.
Peter Lorre played the murderer in his first major role. As a result he was often typecast as a villain.
M is a 1931 drama with a runtime of 1 hour and 51 minutes. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 8.3.
Where to Watch M
M is available to watch free on Plex and Kanopy. It's also available to stream, download and buy on demand at HBO Max, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Amazon and Vudu. Some platforms allow you to rent M for a limited time or purchase the movie and download it to your device.
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Japan Adopts Work-Style Labor Reforms
Measures aimed at modernizing Japan's labor law — including reducing excessive working hours and increasing flexibility — will be phased in from 1 Apr 2019, and provisions concerning differences in working conditions for regular and nonregular employees will be phased in from April 2020. The measures — a comprehensive work-style reform package (Japanese) amending eight labor laws — were enacted 6 Jul 2018.
Highlights of the law include the following:
Overtime hours. Employees can't be required to perform overtime exceeding 100 hours in any one month, or 80 hours or more averaged over a reference period of two to six months, or 720 hours a year. The cap takes effect 1 Apr 2019 for larger employers, and 1 Apr 2020 for small and medium-sized companies. Criminal penalties will apply to employers who breach the rules. The prior law capped overtime at 45 hours a month or 360 hours a year, but labor-management agreements could exceed the maximum hours in extraordinary circumstances.
Extension of overtime premium rule to small and medium-sized employers. From 1 Apr 2023, all employers will have to pay a 150% premium to employees whose overtime hours exceed 60 hours a month.
Working time. Effective 1 Apr 2019, employers must record employees' working hours. A ministerial ordinance will set out further details.
Minimum daily rest period. Effective 1 Apr 2019, employers are encouraged to set a minimum daily rest period.
Exemption from overtime. From 1 Apr 2019, employers will be exempt from paying overtime premiums to certain specialists who work during their vacation or perform overtime or night work (defined as working between 10 pm and 5 am). A labor-management committee must agree on health-related measures for these employees — including rest periods, heath checks, and holiday entitlement — and a ministerial ordinance will set out further details. Certain employees — including those in the finance sector and in research and development functions — will have to consent in writing to their exemption.
Monitoring of statutory paid time off. From 1 Apr 2019, employers must monitor employees' uptake of paid annual leave and will have to designate five days of leave for employees with at least 10 days' unused annual leave. A ministerial ordinance will set out more details, and employers could face penalties of up to JPY 300,000 for breaching the rule.
Increased authority for company physicians. Effective 1 Apr 2019, company-appointed physicians will have more authority to manage employees' health.
Expanded flex-time procedures for calculating overtime. From 1 Apr 2019, the reference period for calculating employees' aggregated working and overtime hours will increase to three months, up from one month, subject to certain criteria.
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR). From 1 Apr 2020, fixed-term employees and dispatched workers at large companies will be able to use ADR to enforce equal treatment provisions — the measure extends to small and medium-sized companies from 1 Apr 2021.
Working conditions. Changes that aim to reduce the differences in working conditions between regular and nonregular workers include the following:
─ Unreasonable differences in working conditions (including base salary, bonus payments and other allowances) for permanent regular employees, fixed-term and irregular employees will be prohibited.
─ Regular and irregular employees will be able to ask an employer to explain differences in their working conditions.
─ Dispatched (or temporary) workers will be able to ask an employer to explain how the terms and conditions of their work differ from those of employees doing comparable work.
The provisions take effect on 1 Apr 2020 for large companies and extend from 1 Apr 2021 to small and medium-sized firms capitalized up to JPY 300 million, or employing 300 or more regular workers.
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Apple HealthKit: Trainer, Doctor and Nutritionist in One?
Tech	by Amanda Woerner on 9/17/2014
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Keeping track of your workouts, weight and even medical records may get a whole lot easier with the launch of Apple's new HealthKit tool this month.
If you've spent any time perusing the iTunes app store recently, you know there are a dizzying number of apps promising to track your weight, nutrition, vital stats and more. Yet, recalling which app does what (and remembering to actually use them) can be difficult, if not impossible. In a bid to make all that easier, Apple is rolling out their new Health app, powered by an innovative new tool called HealthKit.
Available to any iPhone or iPod Touch users on an iOS 8 device (translation: iPhones 4 through 6), HealthKit aggregates data from your phone's health apps and stores it in one place. The app will be a perma-fixture on your iPhone's screen, similarly to the Clock or Maps apps that come pre-loaded on your device.
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Numerous fitness and weight loss companies (including DailyBurn) have already agreed to share data with HealthKit. And for those who choose to opt in, the tool promises to become a place where you can simultaneously see information from your Jawbone, MyFitness Pal Calorie Counter app, or favorite workout program, all at the same time.
Why Some Doctors Are Getting on Board
HealthKit also has the capability to sync up to your private medical records, allowing you to track health data, and communicate with your doctors on a secure network. Users can even program the app's Medical ID feature to reveal pre-existing conditions, allergies and medications to responders in the event of an emergency.
In Stanford's pilot study, patients can share blood sugar data through HealthKit, sending it directly to their physicians.
People with chronic health conditions may benefit as well: Medical teams at Stanford University are currently in the midst of launching a pilot program that will allow pediatric patients with type 1 diabetes to more easily track their blood sugar utilizing HealthKit.
"A lot of what we do in type 1 diabetes is big data. We're always looking at blood sugar trends, the frequency of hypoglycemia, and [how] we can intervene to smooth out blood sugar," says Dr. Rajiv Kumar, the physician at Stanford Children's Health and Stanford Medicine leading the study. "The first day I saw a patient with type 1 diabetes, I knew there had to be a better way of doing what we were doing."
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Currently, patients with diabetes track their blood sugar levels on their own, print out their data, and bring it into a clinic for analysis every three months, according to Kumar. These infrequent visits make it especially difficult to monitor pediatric diabetic patients, who are constantly growing and needing adjustments to their diet.
In Stanford's pilot study, patients (or parents) can share blood sugar data through HealthKit, sending it directly to their physicians through an app called MyChart, which is run by the electronic medical records company Epic Systems. "I can set up parameters once I've requested data; what is too low [for blood sugar], what is too high, how often I get it. Then the patient can send other data or notes, and I can reply back and give my assessment right through MyChart," Kumar says.
Will Your Data Be Private?
When sharing sensitive medical information electronically, privacy becomes a big concern. According to Apple, apps that share information with HealthKit are all required to have privacy policies, and users should read them carefully before downloading anything to their phone. The company also recently updated their privacy policies for health apps, forbidding developers from selling any health information or utilizing health data for purposes other than for providing health and fitness services. Apple did not respond to further requests for comment on their privacy measures.
Kumar says he believes the Health app actually offers a more private medium for communication with teens than his usual fallback — the text message.
"They can send data through their devices at school, or the school nurse can enter that data, and we can all work together as a team."
"We figured anything is better than what we're currently doing, specifically for teens," says Kumar. "[HealthKit] makes life a lot easier for them in the sense that they can ask questions without having to go home and write an email…they can send data through their devices at school, or the school nurse can enter that data, and we can all work together as a team."
Eventually, Kumar hopes patients won't even need to enter their data — and that blood sugar monitoring devices will be able to automatically upload readings to the app without the need for intermediary steps.
Android-compatible versions of a similar data-aggregating services have already been announced, such as Google Fit. And more smartphone-based health tools will surely continue to pop up. An app will never replace the need for an actual visit to your doctor's office — and only time will tell how enthusiastic users will be about meticulously tracking mobile fitness and medical data. But if Apple's new creation makes us all a little more health conscious, it might be worth a prominent spot on your screen.
Will you give the new Health app a try? Tell us what you think in the comments section.
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Cricket: Black Caps qualify for World Test Championship final
2 Feb, 2021 04:05 PM 6 minutes to read
The Black Caps celebrate a wicket in a recent test win over Pakistan. Photosport
Kane Williamson and the Black Caps are through to another final.
New Zealand are the first team to qualify for the inaugural World Test Championship final in England later this year following the cancellation of Australia's planned test series in South Africa.
The postponement of the series between South Africa and Australia, due to the escalating nature of the Covid-19 in the republic, has cemented the spot.
Who could they play?
The Black Caps will be joined by either India, England, or Australia with the second position determined by the India -England four-match series starting Friday in Chennai.
India need to win by at least a 2-1 margin.
For England to qualify, they have to win the series against India by a 3-1, 3-0 or 4-0 margin.
Australia would make it if the series is drawn - or if England win 1-0, 2-0 or 2-1, or if India win 1-0.
New Zealand won't go into the final cold. Last week it was announced they will play two tests against England at the start of June which happen to be scheduled in the two weeks leading up to the World Test Championship final, giving them vital preparation in local conditions.
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One spot is up for grabs for all of India, England, and Australia to make it to the ICC World Test Championship final.
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— ICC (@ICC) February 2, 2021
New Zealand are currently unbeaten in an unprecedented 17 tests at home - they are also on a record streak of six consecutive test wins.
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Reaching the final continues a remarkable run for the Black Caps across cricket's three formats since breaking their semifinal duck in 2015 to reach the Cricket World Cup final.
They were defeated by co-hosts Australia at the MCG in the final.
Four years later, New Zealand reached the Cricket World Cup final for a second straight time only to be denied in a Super Over defeat to hosts England, with the final decided on boundary countback.
In the test arena the turnaround has been remarkable.
Extraordinary waking up to news the @BLACKCAPS are into the inaugural World Test Championship final scheduled, at this stage, for Lord's June 18-22. What an 8-year journey from the catalyst of getting dismissed for 45 in Cape Town and being ranked 8th in the world.
— Andrew Alderson (@aldersonnotes) February 2, 2021
In 2013, New Zealand were rolled for just 45, their third lowest total, in 19.2 overs, against South Africa in Cape Town. Only Williamson made double figures as New Zealand hit rock bottom.
At the time, the Black Caps slipped to eighth in the world test rankings - their worst ever ranking.
Following their clean sweep of West Indies and Pakistan this summer, the side reached the pinnacle of test cricket's world rankings for the first time.
New Zealand are unbeaten on home soil over the past three years; their last loss coming in March 2017 against South Africa in Wellington.
Since Williamson took over as captain from Brendon McCullum, who led the 2015 World Cup run, the Black Caps have won 21 of 35 tests, with another victory this summer under Tom Latham. Williamson's winning percentage as captain sits at 60 percent, easily the highest for a New Zealand test skipper, with the next best Geoff Howarth at 36.6 percent.
Williamson, Henry Nicholls, Tom Latham, Trent Boult, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor, Mitchell Santner, Colin de Grandhomme and Matt Henry are all a chance to appear in a World Cup final and a World Test Championship final.
"Unacceptable risk"
Interim Cricket Australia chief executive Nick Hockley issued a statement late Tuesday saying he believed there was no choice but to postpone the tour and he had informed his South African counterparts.
"Due to the public health situation in South Africa, which includes a second wave and new variant of the virus, and following extensive due diligence with medical experts, it has become clear that traveling from Australia to South Africa poses an unacceptable level of health and safety risk to our players, support staff and the community," Hockley said.
"This decision has not been made lightly and we are extremely disappointed, especially given the importance of continuing international cricket at this time, our valued relationship with CSA, and our aspirations to compete in the inaugural ICC world test championship."
Tim Paine's Australia team just finished a 2-1 home series loss to India following a first defeat at the Gabba since 1988. South Africa is 1-0 down in Pakistan with the second and final test starting on Thursday.
Hockley said the South African and Australian cricket boards weren't able to finalize a bio-security plan for the series that was scheduled for March.
It's a setback for coach Justin Langer and test captain Paine, who were appointed in the wake of the ball-tampering scandal in South Africa in 2018 that resulted in 12-month bans for then captain Steve Smith and vice-captain David Warner.
"As difficult and disappointing a decision as this is, especially for Justin, Tim and the team, we have a duty of care to our people and their health and safety can't be compromised," Hockley said. "We look forward to playing the series at a date to be confirmed."
Australia selected two squads because of a schedule clash that involved a tour to New Zealand for five Twenty20s and the test series in South Africa.
It's unlikely any of the test players will be redeployed for the T20 series, with Cricket Australia saying when the separate squads were announced that there wouldn't be changes in personnel even if the South Africa series was scrapped.
South Africa also had to deal with a cancellation in early December when England withdrew from the ODI portion of its tour after a virus outbreak at the supposedly bio-secure Cape Town hotel where both teams were staying. Both squads had members infected, along with two hotel workers.
South Africa later hosted and won a two-test series against Sri Lanka which ended on Jan. 5 in Johannesburg.
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Jeffrey Hodges B.Sc. M.Sc. (Hons), B.Ed. is a performance consultant who assists people to realise their potential through success life coaching and superior thinking skills. He has a special interest in elite sports achievement and has successfully coached athletes to medal winning performances at Olympic, World and National Championship levels – including Olympic Gold medallists Sara Carrigan and Lydia Lassila.
For the past five years he has organised and lectured on motivation, personal achievement and positive self concept at the Gifted & Talented Student conferences held in Australia, NZ and throughout the UK – including presenting to senior students in Oxford and Cambridge.
Jeffrey lives what he teaches, having written 12 books, 6 CDs, holds a black belt in Aikido and currently trains in Jodo and Yoga. He lives at Flaxton on the Sunshine Coast hinterland on an acre of fruit trees and Vege patches – shared by 10 happy chickens.
A participant from the last couorse in December said, "Jeffrey is a passionate, enthusiastic presenter. He has a head full of knowledge and is able to relate to us "normal" people instead of just elite athletes. He is constantly assisting and inspiring. He has a strong focus on the future – making changes – being positive and changing negative thoughts and words."
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Kyrie Irving (1992-), All-Star Guard Now on the Brooklyn Nets
DonRocks posted a topic in Sports
Sounds like Kyrie Irving.
NBA Champion 2016
6-Time NBA All-Star
NBA All-Star Game MVP 2014
NBA Rookie of the Year 2012
Olympic Gold Medal 2016
Montclair Kimberley Academy
St. Patrick HS
James Harden (1989-), Potent Scoring Guard, Traded from the Houston Rockets to the Brooklyn Nets
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In the midst of the NBA playoffs, the Warriors have beaten the Houston Rockets twice; once in which Stephen Curry played only 20 minutes, lit up the scoring, then got hurt and sat for the rest of the rout(game). In the 2nd match up, Curry didn't play due to injury...opening up tremendous opportunities for Houston. Didn't pan out though as the Golden State Warriors won again, even without Curry. Of course there could be a variety of reasons for the results...but one suggestion is that James Harden's defense is simply not that stellar. Below a video of some of his shining moments on defe
2-Time All-NBA First Team
NBA 6th Man of the Year 2012
Consensus First-Team All-American 2009
PAC-10 Player of the Year 2009
2-Time All-PAC-10 First Team
Number 13 Retired by Arizona State
Artesia HS
God Medalist 2012 Olympics
Okahoma City Thunder
Julius Erving (1950-) - The NBA's (and ABA's) One-and-Only "Dr. J" -11-Time NBA All-Star, and Slam Dunk God
Among the great athletes of the 20th century Julius Erving, Dr. J, deserves mention among the most famous, most relevant, best and most impactful. He played professional basketball from 1971 to 1987, 11 years in the NBA for Philadelphia, five years in the ABA for two different teams. Dr J, who has been referenced here quite a bit, albeit without a thread, introduced artistic soaring, starting from the outer edge of the court slam dunking to the NBA. He was certainly not the first, but he elevated it and turned it into a "thing", now, and for 3 decades one of the most commented and rev
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Giannis Antetokounmpo (1994-), 6'11" Playmaker and Potential Future Superstar for the Milwaukee Bucks
Selected in the 2013 NBA draft with the #15 pick in the first round by the Milwaukee Bucks, Giannis Antetokounmpo is a name you may not yet know, but may be forced to learn to spell and pronounce sometime in the near future. Born in Greece to Nigerian immigrant parents, Antetokounmpo is more commonly known by his American nickname, an embarrassing term which speaks more about Americans than him (you can find it easily on the internet; I refuse to go along with it even though it's more laziness than malice). This is a very obscure statistic, and it's surely one that was made up to demonstr
Bill Walton (1952-), An All-Time NCAA Great at UCLA, and NBA Hall of Fame Center
I think what you say is perfectly reasonable. Ironically, I remember, or at least think I remember (visually remember), Walton better from college than I do the pros - I have this film in my mind of him running in to receive an alley-oop pass, jumping up, catching it in mid-air, and laying it in off the board. (At some point, weren't alley-oop passes illegal somewhere?) Also ironically, it was Walton who first gave LeBron James so much hype - he was the on-court commentator for James' nationally televised high-school game, and I distinctly remember him saying, "[LeBron James] is the best h
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The points per game say it all: 2003-2004: 21.0 2004-2005: 20.8 2005-2006: 26.9 2006-2007: 28.5 2007-2008: 25.7 2008-2009: 22.8 2009-2010: 28.2 2010-2011: 25.6 2011-2012: 22.6 2012-2013: 28.7 2013-2014: 27.4 2014-2015: 24.2 2015-2016: 21.4
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Maravich: Incroyable.
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David Thompson (1954-), NBA, ABA, and NCAA Legend, and Basketball's First Superstar Leaper
David Thompson was at NC State right around the time when I became a sports fanatic. My uncle was a professor at the University of Maryland, and my aunt was Assistant Superintendent of schools in Howard County - bottom line: free season tickets to University of Maryland basketball games for several years, dating all the way back to the Jim O'Brien years and continuing through their "three-guard offense" years (remember that?). At my age, Thompson, by sheer reputation and from the couple of times I saw him play in college, was essentially a space alien. I didn't really follow pro basketball bac
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Kobe Bryant (1978-2020), 21-Season LA Laker, Retired as the 3rd-Highest Career Scorer in NBA History
On Kobe Bryant's final game of his career, he tosses in 60 points on a career-high 50 shots. Yes, the Lakers were feeding him the ball and telling him to shoot, no the Jazz weren't playing their best defense, but who cares. All people will remember 50 years from now is 60 points in his final game. Congratulations on a legendary career, Black Mamba!
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The New York Knicks' Mini-Dynasty of 1969-1973 - The Epitome of What a "Team" Should Be
As discussions swirl around the GS Warriors, the Cleveland Cavs and other teams, I keep going back to my favorite basketball "dynasty" (really meaning mini dynasty) of all time; the Kniicks from 69-70 to 72-73. Four years in the playoffs, three years in the NBA finals and two NBA championships. Very long ago. I realize that. I suspect that Steve R has memories of this mini dynasty. Any others? Here are some interesting elements to that team: For 3 of those 4 years they allowed the fewest points per game in the league. In the 4th year I think they allowed the third fewest point
DeMatha Catholic High School - The New York Yankees Of High School Basketball
I had no idea James Brown ever played basketball, much less played for DeMatha. 1969 was Adrian Dantley's freshman year (I don't know if freshmen played varsity back then) - Dantley is #9 on the NBA all-time scoring list. Just as DeMatha ended Power Memorial's 71-game winning streak, a Dantley-led Notre Dame ended the Bill Walton-led UCLA's 88-game winning streak.
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*Nobody* beats Clemson 60 times in a row! "Clemson Stuns Host UNC after Going 0-for-59 in Chapel Hill" on espn.com
Len Bias (1963-1986) - University of Maryland Superstar, and One of the Greatest Basketball Talents in History
In this post, I justifiably poked fun at the sports media for proclaiming every "next great thing" as "The [X] Jordan" - Harold Miner was "Baby Jordan," Tamir Goodman was "Jewish Jordan," etc. Len Bias could have been the next Michael Jordan, and was quite possibly the only player I've ever seen in my life who was *that good*. Like when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded, I remember exactly where I was, and exactly what I was doing, when I heard the news of Len Bias's tragic death - the two events happened only six-months apart. To young people today: I realize it's prematur
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Oscar Robertson (1938-), Legendary Cincinnati Royals Point Guard And One Of The Greatest NBA Players Of All-Time
You often hear - generally derisively - when someone scores a "triple-double" (10+ points, rebounds, and assists) in the NBA these days, an old-timer (like me!) say, "Big deal. Oscar Robertson averaged a triple-double for an *entire season*!" Well, that's true, he did, in the 1961-1962 season, but while looking at his statistics, I noticed something else: he averaged a triple-double for his first FIVE seasons. All it took was a little simple arithmetic - click here and you can see for yourself. And, he came a gnat's eyelash away from averaging a triple-double for his first SIX seasons (after
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Gold Medalist 1960 Olympics
Crispus Attucks HS
LeBron James (1984-), A Versatile NBA Superstar, Now Playing for the Los Angeles Lakers
The first time I saw LeBron James play was on the nationally televised high school game against Oak Hill Academy. Before the game, then-announcer Bill Walton came right out and said that James was 'the best high school player he had ever seen.' In that game, James scored 31, with 13 rebounds and 6 assists; yet, only went 12-25 from the field. There were moments of greatness, but the incredible pressure of national TV had clearly compromised his performance. No longer. "History! LeBron Nets 61, Heat Top Bobcats, 124-107" by Tim Reynolds on abcnews.com In a career-high scorin
4-Time NBA MVP
St. Vincent - St. Mary HS
The Golden State Warriors (1971-), Western Conference, Pacific Division - 2015-2016's Record the NBA's All-Time Best at 73-9
Except for one day in January.
#16 Al Attles
#17 Chris Mullin
#24 Rick Barry
#42 Nate Thurmond
The 2015-2016 NBA Finals: The Golden State Warriors vs. The Cleveland Cavaliers
"It's Showtime: Why The Cavs and Warriors in the NBA Finals is the Best Thing for Basketball" by Anthony J. Fredella on straighthoops.com
2015-2016 Finals
The Washington Wizards (1997-), Formerly The Washington Bullets (1974-1997) and The Capital Bullets (1973-1974)
Here is to the Wizards. They made the playoffs. Do you realize they have had the aggregate worst record in the NBA since 2000. They probably had one of the worst records between around 1980 and 2000. They have been a disappointing team. ....and I've followed them virtually all of that time. I started watching them way back....in Baltimore...When Wes Unseld turned them into a fearsome team and Earl Monroe was a one of a kind unstoppable offensive whirlwind. They had other great players back then including the incredibly powerful Gus Johnson. And then the team got BETTER. They won a
Capital Bullets
#11 Elvin Hayes
#41 Wes Unseld
Stephen Curry (1988-), Deadeye Point Guard for the Golden State Warriors (2009-) and 2014-2015 NBA MVP
Stephen Curry: His unique version: Float Like a Butterfly Sting Like a Bee Stephen Curry has surprisingly risen to the very upper echelon's of professional basketball. Last year he led his team, the Golden State Warriors to a tremendous regular season record and an NBA championship. He was the league MVP. His play epitomizes the changing nature of the pro game of basketball-> more outside in than inside out. His ascendancy is surprising. While he was a relatively high draft choice, he had been a very slight shooting guard from a small school. He only played point guard in his las
MVP 2014-2015
Charles Barkley (1963-) - Eleven-Time NBA All-Star (1984-2000) and "The Round Mound of Rebound"
Admittedly I'm a basketball junkie. Its nice to have an outlet like this section of DR.com. I can rip off a quick piece without the need to create my own blog, be an editor, research, write, rewrite, edit, find and place pictures, and spend an enormous amount of time on each piece. This is easier, quicker. Thanks, Don. But I found this article, "Kevin Love: Overrated, Underrated, or Properly Rated?" about the ongoing Kevin Love trade, written by Bill Simmons to include a wonderful piece that completely captures the unique basketball brilliance that made Barkley one of the signature playe
NBA MVP (1993)
Auburn University (1981-1984)
Leeds HS (Leeds Alabama)
Lonzo Ball (1997-), Los Angeles Lakers #2 Pick in the 2017 NBA Draft - Gifted Point Guard from UCLA
Lonzo Ball, I fear, is somewhat overrated, has too much baggage, and might be a disappointment in the NBA. Look at his stat line this year: 14.6 points, 6 rebounds, 7.6 assists. That's very impressive, especially for a freshman, and especially in the assists category. However, his shooting technique is extremely flawed, and he's not mature enough to tell his father to back off. Yes, he can shoot an open 3, but his free-throw percentage this year is 67.3% - think about that for a moment. He's big and quick, he can jump, and he can pass very well, but he is a big risk - my d
Chino Hills HS
Basketball Trivia
Who is the person that: * was co-NBA Rookie of the Year in 1970-1971 along with Dave Cowens? * is the only eligible NBA player ever to average over 21 points-per-game for his career, and not be in the Hall of Fame? * is generally credited as the first player, certainly the first major player, to switch from Converse to Nike shoes? Think hard before you mouse over the answer ... Geoff Petrie
Rodney Hood (1992-) - Shooting Guard and Small Forward for the Portland Trail Blazers
Sometimes, when I'm watching a basketball game, I get bored, and decide to focus on a single player - not looking at the ball; just that one, single player ... it sounds wacky, but I get quite a bit out of it, and learn a whole lot about how that player operates. In the past few minutes, it has been #5 for the Portland Trail Blazers, Rodney Hood, who has also played for the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Utah Jazz - in college, he played for Duke after transferring from Mississippi State. My initial impression of Hood is that he's very big (he's 6'8"), and also a step too slow for playi
Meridian HS
The 3-Point Shot and its Effect on Today's NBA Game
I'm running out the door, and don't have time to read your post right now (much less the article), but I'm glancing at the Bucks-76ers - I've come to the sad conclusion that I no longer particularly like watching NBA basketball - and I don't know what else it could be than the 3-point shot. Steph Curry was a pioneer in beating the system (and ruining the game). However, I don't blame him at all - he just maximized his advantage based on the current rules - Grinnell College started it all. PS - Joel Embiid just this second had one of the best individual efforts I've seen in quite awhi
3-Point Shot
The San Antonio Spurs (1967-), 2014-2015 Record 55-27, 3rd Place - Western Conference, Southwest Division
Don: I think this is the ONLY great 17 year run characterized by a single coach and a single starter. The ONLY one. Simply unprecedented. One other remarkable thing about this run of coach/player/superstar and many many changing parts: Their style of play has changed ...and changed dramatically over this run. In the early years Duncan was the hub of the offense and was a "twin tower" with David Robinson. Robinson, who had been a huge star in his own right graciously moved from being the offensive highlight of the team and put even more effort into defense...and Tim Duncan was the of
Southwest Division


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If you're flying with Qantas to the United States, there is a good chance you'll pass through American Airlines' hub of Dallas/Fort Worth Airport (DFW). But Dallas is not a major destination in its own right. In fact, 87% of passengers on QF7, Qantas' daily flight from Sydney to Dallas, are connecting onwards to another destination with American Airlines.
DFW Airport is relatively easy to transit, and many connections are well-timed. But if you do happen to have more than a few hours between flights – or perhaps you'd like to break up the trip – why not take the opportunity to see some sights during your Dallas/Fort Worth layover?
It's an easy trip to downtown Dallas by taxi or with the convenient DART rail service. In the city centre you can visit attractions such as the JFK memorial and various museums.
But there's plenty more to see outside of Dallas' city centre. One option is the Fort Worth stockyards. Nothing says "Texas" quite like a cattle drive, and these are held twice-daily at 11.30am and 4pm at the Fort Worth Stockyards.
Aviation enthusiasts may be interested in the Cavanaugh Flight Museum located north of Dallas, which houses an impressive collection of vintage aircraft. And closer to DFW Airport is the C.R. Smith Museum, which is all about the history of American Airlines.
If you'd rather just go shopping, grab some bargains at the Grapevine Mills outlet mall. This is just a short drive from DFW airport, and there is even an hourly shuttle bus to take you there. A day pass for the shuttle bus costs $5.


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Welcome to Screen Space, your podcast about creating usable, accessible, effective, and efficient web, blog, and digital media design for the everyday (and non-expert) designer. I am your host, Dr. Jennifer L. Bowie. In this episode I'll talk about what is up with Screen Space.
I recently took a position at a Senior Analyst of Usability Research at The Home Depot. I do usability research on their website and digital content, and I love it.
"Sound Usability: Usability heuristics and guidelines for user-centered podcasts" present Feb 24, 2012 at Symposium on Usability, Information Design, and Information Interaction to Communicate Complex Information. Checkout my slides and handout.
Forthcoming: "Casting the Contest and Rebellion: Podcasting as Contested Writing" in Contest(ed) Writing: Reconceptualizing Literacy Competitions. Mary R. Lamb, ed. Cambridge Scholars: Newcastle upon Tyne, 2012.
If you have anything you would like me to cover in the podcast, let me know and I'll consider it for after I have finished the Audience, Purpose, and Context series!
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Tribeca Games Presents: The Craft And Creative of League Of Legends
December 4, 2015 - December 04, 2015, Video Game Review
BY DEAN MOSES
On November 13th, video game publisher, Riot Games, and Tribeca Games teamed up to launch a new event—Tribeca Games Presents: The Craft And Creative Of League Of Legends. Held at Spring Studios from 10:30am to 6:00pm, the event showcased everything from how Riot Games creates their characters, generates effects and develops art, to live performances of the in-game music.
League Of Legends is an online, free to play real-time strategy game for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It has been reported by Riot Games that over 27 million people play on a daily basis; therefore it is no surprise that Tribeca Games decided to hold this event, allowing fans to see the creative process behind their favorite game.
The day began with a musical performance by Lisa Thorn, visual designer and vocalist for many of League Of Legends' songs. After the music had concluded and a round of applause had finished resounding around the room, Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal took to the stage's podium. "You may be wondering why Tribeca is presenting this event? At Tribeca we have always explored the creative space, and how stories were being told. We have a passion for story and the creators who tell them," said Rosenthal.
After the initial opening, attendees were led downstairs to the 5th floor where there were people dressed as League Of Legends characters, an in-house Dj, and artwork from the game furnishing the walls. One of the most gratifying aspects of the event was the relaxing feel. After each panel had ended, speakers could be found on the 5th floor where attendants could freely engage them in friendly conversation.
The second panel of the day showed audience members what goes into designing a Champion, League Of Legends' playable characters. Lead Designer, Mark Yetter, Riot Games' Senior Writer, George Krstic, Riot Games' Associate Brand Manager, Janelle Jimenez, Riot Games' Senior Designer,Curtis Churn and Riot Games' Principal Artist Moby Frank, talked about everything from how they plan the Champion for gameplay and story, to his or her appearance and the way that person has to sound to fit his or her personality.
Anyone studying art of any kind would have been enthralled in the next panel. Riot Games' Senior Character Artist, Josh Singh, Riot Games' Concept Artist, Evan Menteiro, Riot Games' VFX Artist, Shannon Berke and Riot Games' Art Education Director, Tad Leckman, talked about the art in the game. Everything from the scheme of background screen when you boot up League Of Legends, to the visual effects of spells that Champions cast. Incredibly, while onlookers listened to the panelists, an artist revealed how he creates a champion, from scratch. The video feed from the sculptor's laptop was projected on a large screen above his head as he worked. It looked exactly like carving and shaping something from clay. The soon-tobe champion originated as a sphere, but started taking shape before spectators' very eyes. We saw lines being cut and additional blobs being attached that were to be the character's arms and hands. Seeing the transformation and the artist's process was genuinely remarkable. The last panel discussed the method of writing the game's music, and also included musicians performing League of Legends musical renditions.
Tribeca Games Presents: The Craft And Creative Of League Of Legends showcased more than just players' love for a video game, it pulled back the veil on the creative process and provided an educational window in which one could peer into the artistic minds of its creators. Whether the audience consisted of gamers, artists or none of the above, Tribeca Games and Riot Games offered an informative and enjoyable event.
League Of Legends is currently free to play at: https://signup.league oflegends.com/en/signup/redownload
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NJ State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan Buys The Shyft Group Inc, Altabancorp, First Horizon National Corp, Sells Raytheon Technologies Corp, Teladoc Health Inc, The Shyft Group Inc
Trenton, NJ, based Investment company
NJ State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan (Current Portfolio) buys The Shyft Group Inc, Altabancorp, First Horizon National Corp, Elanco Animal Health Inc, Dycom Industries Inc, sells Raytheon Technologies Corp, Teladoc Health Inc, The Shyft Group Inc, Legg Mason Inc, Altria Group Inc during the 3-months ended 2020Q3, according to the most recent filings of the investment company, NJ State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan. As of 2020Q3, NJ State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan owns 492 stocks with a total value of $557 million. These are the details of the buys and sells.
New Purchases: SHYF, 56N, FHN, ELAN, DY, SF, UHS, DELL, OEG, 4LT1,
Added Positions: LILAK,
Reduced Positions: AAPL, AMZN, TDOC, MO, ORCL, FB, POWI, PBI,
Sold Out: RTX, SP8, LM, MEET, BTI, IBKC, GLT, LOGM, UMBF, BFYT, AAT, DRQ, CCOI, NOG, SQBG, AHT, DNRCQ, CIJ,
For the details of NJ State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan's stock buys and sells, go to https://www.gurufocus.com/guru/nj+state+employees+deferred+compensation+plan/current-portfolio/portfolio
These are the top 5 holdings of NJ State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan
Apple Inc (AAPL) - 318,800 shares, 6.63% of the total portfolio. Shares reduced by 8.81%
Microsoft Corp (MSFT) - 153,000 shares, 5.78% of the total portfolio.
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN) - 7,500 shares, 4.24% of the total portfolio. Shares reduced by 6.25%
Procter & Gamble Co (PG) - 70,000 shares, 1.75% of the total portfolio.
Alphabet Inc (GOOG) - 6,385 shares, 1.68% of the total portfolio.
New Purchase: The Shyft Group Inc (SHYF)
NJ State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan initiated holding in The Shyft Group Inc. The purchase prices were between $14.79 and $20.78, with an estimated average price of $18.63. The stock is now traded at around $20.26. The impact to a portfolio due to this purchase was 0.18%. The holding were 52,000 shares as of .
New Purchase: Altabancorp (56N)
NJ State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan initiated holding in Altabancorp. The purchase prices were between $15.66 and $18.3, with an estimated average price of $16.95. The stock is now traded at around $19.30. The impact to a portfolio due to this purchase was 0.07%. The holding were 20,000 shares as of .
New Purchase: First Horizon National Corp (FHN)
NJ State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan initiated holding in First Horizon National Corp. The purchase prices were between $8.36 and $10.11, with an estimated average price of $9.41. The stock is now traded at around $10.26. The impact to a portfolio due to this purchase was 0.05%. The holding were 32,088 shares as of .
New Purchase: Elanco Animal Health Inc (ELAN)
NJ State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan initiated holding in Elanco Animal Health Inc. The purchase prices were between $21.1 and $29.13, with an estimated average price of $25.32. The stock is now traded at around $31.36. The impact to a portfolio due to this purchase was 0.05%. The holding were 9,204 shares as of .
New Purchase: Universal Health Services Inc (UHS)
NJ State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan initiated holding in Universal Health Services Inc. The purchase prices were between $88.61 and $122.03, with an estimated average price of $106.86. The stock is now traded at around $113.18. The impact to a portfolio due to this purchase was 0.04%. The holding were 2,000 shares as of .
New Purchase: Dell Technologies Inc (DELL)
NJ State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan initiated holding in Dell Technologies Inc. The purchase prices were between $51.77 and $68.47, with an estimated average price of $61.47. The stock is now traded at around $64.05. The impact to a portfolio due to this purchase was 0.04%. The holding were 3,628 shares as of .
Added: Liberty Latin America Ltd (LILAK)
NJ State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan added to a holding in Liberty Latin America Ltd by 26.90%. The purchase prices were between $7.52 and $9.95, with an estimated average price of $8.88. The stock is now traded at around $10.11. The impact to a portfolio due to this purchase was 0.01%. The holding were 17,766 shares as of .
Sold Out: Raytheon Technologies Corp (RTX)
NJ State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan sold out a holding in Raytheon Technologies Corp. The sale prices were between $56.68 and $64.29, with an estimated average price of $60.9.
Sold Out: The Shyft Group Inc (SP8)
NJ State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan sold out a holding in The Shyft Group Inc. The sale prices were between $13.29 and $17.4, with an estimated average price of $15.74.
Sold Out: Legg Mason Inc (LM)
NJ State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan sold out a holding in Legg Mason Inc. The sale prices were between $49.71 and $49.99, with an estimated average price of $49.88.
Sold Out: The Meet Group Inc (MEET)
NJ State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan sold out a holding in The Meet Group Inc. The sale prices were between $6.2 and $6.3, with an estimated average price of $6.25.
Sold Out: British American Tobacco PLC (BTI)
NJ State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan sold out a holding in British American Tobacco PLC. The sale prices were between $33.22 and $39.54, with an estimated average price of $35.07.
Sold Out: IBERIABANK Corp (IBKC)
NJ State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan sold out a holding in IBERIABANK Corp. The sale prices were between $43.08 and $43.08, with an estimated average price of $43.08.
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What if protestors had to wear nametags just like the police officers?
Maybe they should put their money where their moniker is.
One of my core arguments for why everyone should wear nametags is, dishonest and uncivil behavior becomes more difficult to do.
With nametags, we give others the gift of security by letting them know who they're dealing with. There's nothing to hide behind. Our identity is always verified.
There's a social construct that forces us to sign our work and take a stand for our identity. There is no temptation to act from a position of anonymity.
And this isn't just conjecture based on my twenty years of wearing one every day.
Nametags have been clinically proven to make people more consistently accountable.
Zombardo, the renowned social psychologist, conducted the premiere study on this principle. In the seventies, he wanted to see how physical anonymity lessened inhibitions. The experiment asked the women to dress in white coats and hoods. They were then asked to give electric shocks to unknown patients.
The thing is, the shocks weren't even real. But the fake nurses didn't know that. What's amazing is, only half of the nurses were given nametags for their lab coats. And the ones who didn't wear nametags actually held the shock button twice as long as the ones who did.
Funny how human behavior changes when people are allowed to hide behind the cloak of anonymity.
Maybe nametags are more powerful than we give them credit for.
Now, this interpersonal pattern plays out in numerous fields beyond the medical world. Law enforcement is one that's been examined more recently. With countless news stories on the ongoing trend of police brutality, nametags have quite literally come under fire.
Many cops have ignored the police uniform standards requiring officers to display their nametags on their outermost garments, as anti racism protesting has increased in the past several years.
Buffalo's police commissioner, concerned with the force's safety following an uptick in online harassment of its officers, just stopped requiring his cops to display nametags on their uniforms. The policy was altered after more than a dozen police officers were doxed, which is new term for when people publicly share personal information of unsavory actors and their families online.
In response to the order, some officers started displaying their badge numbers on black tape affixed over their nametags instead.
Portland's police bureau issued a similar order. Officers that were assigned to protests started wearing helmets with three digit numbers prominently stenciled onto them. According to local news reports, the bureau will also begin sewing last names of officers into their uniforms, which will replace their small and hard to read metal nametags.
Wow, talk about a sticky subject. Who knew nametags could be so controversial?
My opinion, as someone who has almost certainly done more field research on the topic than anyone in history, has several aspects.
The first one is interpersonally.
Police reform advocates have the right to decry the new policy to disallow officers to wear nametags. In the name of transparency, I believe the more nametags we wear, the better people ultimately behave. Think of the nametag as a microstructure put into place to limit ourselves to only practicing honorable action. It's not perfect, but it's better than anonymity.
The next point is aesthetic.
This is going to sound kind of ridiculous, but it's actually meaningful.
All nametags should be visible from ten feet away. Not unlike a price tag in a retail store, identifying someone whose job is to protect and serve and care for the public should be a fast and easy process within the reasonable sphere of social distance. Look, if people are going to engage in a dark and chaotic moment like a protest, then all the more reason to wear the nametag properly. Don't make others work to see your name.
The final point is one that I haven't heard anyone address yet.
In regards to public demonstrations, the protesters seem to be angry that cops aren't identifying themselves. My recommendation is:
Why don't the protestors wear nametags? If accountability and transparency are so damn important, then why don't the people holding signs and screaming slogans take some ownership and identify themselves as well? Maybe they should put their money where their moniker is.
Remember, communication is a two way street. We can't demand that police officers wear nametags if we're not willing to put our own identities on the line too.
This isn't the internet where anybody with a wifi connection can cower behind their cloak of anonymity and spit vitriol all day long with zero consequence.
When you're out on the streets exercising your right to freedom of assembly, some sense of social reciprocity is needed.
That's one of the things that separates us from the animal kingdom. Naming is an essential act of human communication. It's a distinctly human activity.
Sure, labels can be toxic in many situations, but in the case of letting other people know who they're dealing with, they're good things.
Take it from someone who has been wearing a label every day for over half his life.
Nametags have made me more honest, better behaved and more accountable to my fellow man.
My career as a bank robber may be bankrupt, but my character isn't.
Say your own name.
When was the last time you put your identity on the line?
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