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At What Point Will America Have Had Enough Of Obama's Constant Lying?
At what point is this country going to have had enough of this shameless, inveterate liar? He had to lie continually in 2008 in order to get elected, and he's been a non stop geyser gushing lies, ever since.
Geoffrey L. Hunter of the American Thinker, wrote, "Lying has many shades; Obama has perfected the bald-faced type, the most jarring, with a repetition that files down the senses, grinds away at outrage."
Obama is an incontinent bladder of lies, deceptions, and red herrings gushing virtually non-stop whether in press conferences, campaign speeches, the State of the Union addresses, or remarks to foreign dignitaries.
Obama's catalog of lies is truly astonishing:
Obama's lying about the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United , about Al Qaeda "on the run," about "deficits shrinking," about Republicans initiating sequestration, about the Benghazi attacks incited by a video, about "you can keep your health plan and your doctor," about private sales of hand guns, and the latest about "we believe in the free market; we believe in a light touch when it comes to regulations," is more than political rhetoric or partisan posturing. Lying is a way of life; truth seems untouchable, toxic, red hot radioactive to Obama and his minions.
Obama's lies from the past year have been particularly galling.
He's maintained from Sept 12 to the present: 'We Will Hunt Down' People Who Attacked Benghazi Consulate. On October 26, for instance, he told Kyle Clark of KUSA in Denver:
…the minute I found out what was going on I gave three very clear directives. Number one, make sure we are securing our personnel and that we are doing whatever we need to. Number two, we are going to investigate exactly what happened and make sure it doesn't happen again. Number three, find out who did this so we can bring them to justice.
TRUTH: Yeah, no. Personnel weren't secured when they could have been, their investigation was a joke – the sham "Accountability Review Board" didn't even interview Hillary Clinton, and Whistleblowers are afraid to come forward lest they face retribution of the sort Greg Hicks had to endure. Back in May, Obama blasted the congressional probe as a "political circus," a "side show" and said there's "no there, there." That's how much he wants to "investigate exactly what happened." Needless to say, no one from the Regime has hunted down anyone in Benghazi, and the killers remain free. But the creator of the YouTube video, remains in jail.
May 13, 2013: Obama Condemns IRS Targeting Conservative Groups: 'This Is Outrageous' And 'I Will Not Tolerate It':
During a press conference in the White House on Monday, President Barack Obama was asked about reports that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups for added scrutiny over the course of the last two years. The president condemned the actions of members of the IRS who enforced federal tax laws in a partisan fashion. "I've got no patience with it," Obama said. "I will not tolerate it." "I first learned about this from the same news reports that I think most people learned about this," Obama began. "This is pretty straightforward. If, in fact, IRS personnel engaged in the kind of practices that have been reported on and were intentionally targeting conservative groups, then that's outrageous." "And they have to be held fully accountable, because the IRS as an independent agency requires absolute integrity and people have to have confidence that they're applying it in a nonpartisan way – applying the laws in a nonpartisan way," Obama continued.
Journalists reported that with a straight face. I kid you not.
TRUTH: The White House has been desperately trying to spin this into a bipartisan problem in which progressives were targeted, too. Meanwhile, IRS officials who were in charge while the abuses were happening, have been given bonuses and/or promotions. The one guy Obama supposedly "fired" was scheduled to leave in June, anyway. And he replaced him with another Regime stooge.
June 7, 2013: Obama: Obamacare has already resulted in 'Lower Rates' in California.
Speaking in San Jose on Friday, the president heralded California's implementation of his signature legislative accomplishment, which has resulted in an insurance marketplace that's offering rates lower than anyone expected.
TRUTH: Obamacare will raise the cost of health insurance policies in California by a "staggering 64% to 146%."
June 26, 2013: Obama: I won't make churches conduct gay marriages:
President Obama, in his statement hailing the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act, promised that he wouldn't try to force religious institutions to conduct gay marriages. "On an issue as sensitive as this, knowing that Americans hold a wide range of views based on deeply held beliefs, maintaining our nation's commitment to religious freedom is also vital," Obama said. "How religious institutions define and consecrate marriage has always been up to those institutions. Nothing about this decision — which applies only to civil marriages — changes that."
TRUTH: He knows the attacks on the Church will happen via the courts. And he will fan the flames, himself.
June 27, 2013, Obama Says He Won't 'Wheel and Deal' for Snowden – WSJ.com
Mr. Obama said he hasn't called Russian President Vladimir Putin or Chinese President Xi Jinping concerning Mr. Snowden, who has been charged by U.S. authorities with stealing and passing on government secrets. "I shouldn't have to," Mr. Obama said. "This is something that is routine." He said he was reluctant to have the case elevated "to the point where I've got to start doing wheeling and dealing and trading on a whole host of other issues."
But he might ask his Vice President to do some "wheeling and dealing": Biden Asks Ecuador to Turn Down Asylum for Edward Snowden …
The Friday phone call between Correa and Biden – it's the highest-level conversation between the U.S. and Ecuador to be disclosed since Snowden began seeking asylum – added to the confusion about Snowden's status. Facing espionage charges in the U.S., Snowden is believed to be holed up in a Moscow airport's transit zone and seeking safe passage to Ecuador, the country seen as likeliest to shelter America's most wanted fugitive.
June 29, 2013: Obama: I'm Not Spying On You.
"The American people don't have a Big Brother who is snooping into their business," he said, amplifying his answer to a question about the hunt for a national security leaker. "I'm confident of that. But I want to make sure everybody is confident of that."
TRUTH: Yeah, guess what.. I don't believe him.
What kind of chump believes a single thing this guy says at this point? Obama had exposed himself as a ridiculous, pathological liar by the beginning of the 2008 election season to anyone who was paying close attention. I finally had to give up my own effort to tabulate the daily lies coming from Obama and his campaign because it became too much of a drag on my time. Keeping up with Zero's lies is a full time job. Not that there aren't some industrious souls out there doing the hard work the media refuses to do.
Now, even Obama's most faithful drones can't help but notice the guy tells about 5 whoppers a day, but they'll defend him to the bitter end. All politicians lie, right? They're happy to embrace Obama's culture of deceit as long as it leads us ever closer to the final transformation they dream about – the Utopia that is in reality a dystopia, but the drones will be the last ones to figure it out. The rest of us, are being dragged kicking and screaming into the dark, Islam-friendly, virulently anti-Christian, collectivist, totalitarian hell-state Obama seems to want to take us.
Allen West said on his Facebook page, Sunday:
Obama said he would fundamentally transform America. The time draws near to teach this usurper and charlatan the lesson our forefathers taught King George III. We will not be ruled by arrogance and edict.
Meanwhile in Egypt: Video Of Uniformed Egyptian Police, Joining Protests Against Morsi, Calling For A Military Coup.
Posted in Enough!, Make it stop, ObamaFAIL, SCOAMF, Stuff, Tyranny.
Look What Egyptians Are Saying About Obama's Awesome Ambassador To Egypt (Part II)
Via The Vancouver Sun. Photograph by: Amr Nabil, AP
Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians are demonstrating today in opposition to Obama's close buddy, President Mohamed Morsi. They are "launching an all-out push to force Mohammed Morsi from office on the one-year anniversary of his inauguration." It only took one year for Obama's Muslim Brotherhood's pal's corrupt and thuggish Islamic government to drive hundreds of thousands of citizens to the streets in protest. (Of course, it only took Obama one month.)
Fears of violence were high, with Morsi's Islamist supporters vowing to defend him.
Waving Egyptian flags and posters of Morsi crossed out in red, crowds packed central Cairo's Tahrir square, the birthplace of the 2011 uprising against autocrat Hosni Mubarak, thunderous chants of "erhal!", or "leave!" rang out.
On Saturday the group announced it had more than 22 million signatures – proof, it claims, that a broad sector of the public no longer wants Morsi in office.
It was not possible to verify the claim. If true, it would be nearly twice the around 13 million people who voted for Morsi in last year's presidential run-off election, which he won with around 52 percent of the vote. Tamarod organizers said they discarded about 100,000 signed forms because they were duplicates.
Morsi's supporters have questioned the authenticity and validity of the signatures, but have produced no evidence of fraud.
Obama's Ambassador to Egypt remains intensely unpopular…pix via Gateway Pundit:
Last week, some Egyptians reportedly called Patterson a "Muslim Brotherhood stooge" for trying to pressure Coptic Christians to not to join the protests, while others actually suggested that she's a member of a terrorist sleeper cell.
Huge Protests In Cairo Against Morsi:
Main Muslim Brotherhood Headquarters In Cairo Set On Fire:
Doug Ross: You know that totally insane Benghazi conspiracy theory? It keeps getting less totally insane by the day…
This week Raymond Ibrahim reported on a troubling Libyan intelligence document. It asserts that the Muslim Brotherhood, including Egyptian President Morsi, were involved in the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
On Wednesday, June 26, several Arabic websites … quoted the intelligence report, which apparently was first leaked to the Kuwaiti paper, Al Ra'i… It discusses the preliminary findings of the investigation, specifically concerning an "Egyptian cell" which was involved in the consulate attack. "Based on confessions derived from some of those arrested at the scene" six people, "all of them Egyptians" from the jihad group Ansar al-Sharia ("Supporters of Islamic Law), were arrested.
According to the report, during interrogations, these Egyptian jihadi cell members "confessed to very serious and important information concerning the financial sources of the group and the planners of the event and the storming and burning of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi…. And among the more prominent figures whose names were mentioned by cell members during confessions were:Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi; preacher Safwat Hegazi; Saudi businessman Mansour Kadasa, owner of the satellite station, Al-Nas; Egyptian Sheikh Muhammad Hassan; former presidential candidate, Hazim Salih Abu Isma'il…"
Walid Shoebat: Hostage Crisis: The Blind Sheikh, Benghazi and Smoking Guns:
Ever since assuming the office of President on June 30, 2012, Mursi has been extremely clearabout his strong desire to have the "Blind Sheikh" released. The Washington Post reported that Mursi "assumed office with a pledge to press the United States for Abdel Rahman's release" and that al-Qaeda's number one – Ayman al-Zawahiri – echoed the sentiment (EXHIBIT K).
Fox News reported on July 3, 2012, that Mursi "proclaimed to hundreds of thousands of supporters in Tahir Square… that he will gain the release of Rahman" (EXHIBIT L).
In an interview between CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Mursi from January 7th of this year, Mursi doubled down on his support for the release of Rahman (the "Blind Sheikh") while making an appeal for sympathy for the mass murderer (EXHIBIT M):
While admitting his desire for the release of the "Blind Sheikh", Mursi said that if release is not possible, increased visitation and freedom should be granted to Rahman. A letter attributed to Rahman appeared in an al-Qaeda's Inspire magazine (EXHIBIT N). In an article published by The Hill, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) pointed to this letter in which the convicted terrorist is credited with ordering a bombing in western Egypt in 1997 that killed dozens of people. This demonstrated that the "Blind Sheikh" still has deadly tentacles.
Four-star Admiral James Lyons (Ret.) who on November 14, 2012, appeared on Fox Business Network with Lou Dobbs (EXHIBIT O). During that interview, Lyons said he believed the only reason that made any sense relative to Ambassador Stevens being in Benghazi on 9/11 was a kidnapping operation in which Stevens could be traded for the "Blind Sheikh":
Consider the itinerary for Ambassador Stevens, who arrived in Benghazi on 9/10/12 and was scheduled to depart on 9/14/12 (EXHIBIT P). That the State Department's top official in Libya would be sent to Benghazi one day before the anniversary of 9/11 is indeed vexing but that he would be sent to a location that was woefully unprotected and had been attacked with an I.E.D. that blew a large hole in the perimeter wall is beyond troubling. There had been several terrorist attacks on western installations as well prior to September 11th as chronicled in a letter (EXHIBIT Q) from House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa to President Barack Obama.
I bet most if not all of Congress already knows the truth about this.
Via Bizpac review, this video provides "a comprehensive look at all of the new developments in the story, including the fact that just last week, four more subpoenas were issued for officials at the State Department," according to Fox News. This report aired on Fox News Friday night.
Posted in GWOT, Islam, Regime.
Your Sunday Hymn: We Have Been Told
This beloved David Haas hymn is a favorite in Catholic churches across the country.
We have been told; we've seen his face,
And heard his voice alive in our hearts:
"Live in my love with all your heart,
As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you."
It starts off in unison, here, and the rich harmonies are added after the first verse.
Posted in Sunday Hymn.
Video: Jeanine Pirro Torches The IRS: 'You're A Bunch Of Bullies!'
Judge Jeanine Pirro began her show, Saturday night by weighing in on the second IRS official to plead the 5th before the House Oversight Committee hearing. Pirro noted how convenient for members of this left wing administration, which has shown itself to have little respect for the Constitution, to suddenly become super- patriotic Constitutionalists – wrapping themselves in the American flag -when they need to invoke their 5th amendment right to remain silent.
She called it part of the Obama administration's playbook: "First deny, then lie, then commit perjury, and if you can't beat the clock, and if they're still coming after you, plead the Fifth."
So true. And, sadly, they keep getting away with it. As Pirro noted, "Their abuses keep plaguing the American people."
She went on to blast the outrageous bonuses the IRS gave out to their biggest miscreants, and even mentioned $46 million they sent to one address in Atlanta, (another outrage that is simmering beneath the surface.) "Forget Star Trek", the Judge quipped, "their parody should have been Dumb and Dumber." Addressing the president, she asked, "were you so shocked that these bunch of idiots you have working for you didn't burn the building down, that now you think you should give out bonuses?"
She then moved on to the credit card scandal, and exclaimed, "why do these people even have credit cards!" I know, right?
She said, until the IRS comes clean – (people are held accountable, and people start losing their jobs) our tax dollars should go into an escrow account. They shouldn't be able to see it, or spend another penny of our money on themselves – let alone get millions in bonuses, and target the rest of us. "You're a bunch of bullies!" Pirro declared. "They say in our society we have zero tolerance for bullies. I'm not so sure that's the case, here."
Via RightSightings
Posted in Jeanine Pirro.
Saturday Movie Matinee: Oversight and Reform Panel Votes IRS' Lerner Waived Fifth Amendment Right
I saw Trey Gowdy give a lengthy and impassioned speech on the House floor, Friday, explaining how and why Lois Lerner waived her 5th Amendment rights. Not having watched the entire hearing live, I was wondering why he felt that was necessary – this is a no-brainer, right?
As Krauthammer noted the day Lois Lerner appeared before Congress, it was "clear" that she had given up her 5th Amendment rights.
Well, as Democrats circle the wagons around the corrupt and embattled Regime, they are struggling mightily to pretend they are victims of Issa's Oversight tyranny (or something) and carrying on like pathetic crybabies – frustrated that their stalling tactics aren't working..
House Oversight Democrats On the Attack Against Darrell Issa:
"No to McCarthy" ?!
Here what I thought was unnecessary because it was so obvious – Rep. Trey Gowdy spells out why another hearing is not necessary to determine whether or not Lerner waived her 5th Amendment rights –Trey Gowdy shreds Lois Lerner's testimony: She made 9 statements & lost her 5th Amendment rights:
Legal Insurrection: House Panel Vote: IRS' Lerner Waived Fifth Amendment Right:
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform approved a resolution Friday determining that IRS official Lois Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination when she made opening statements in a May hearing before refusing to answer further questions.
She will likely invoke her Fifth Amendment privilege again, at which point a vote could be held to hold her in contempt of Congress.From Reuters:
A contempt of Congress vote could lead to her being prosecuted in a court and subject her to a maximum $1,000 fine and potential 12-month prison sentence. Lerner is now on administrative leave and has been replaced in her post.
Townhall: Lerner, the Fifth and the Committee's Strategy:
As this document from CRS points out, there are three different ways non-compliance with subpoenas can be enforced. First, there's the argument that Congress itself has "inherent power" to detain and/or imprison someone in contempt. Clearly, that's not going to happen — and given that Lerner is a member of the executive branch, it would probably provoke a constitutional (separation of powers) crisis if it did.
Second, Congress can certify a contempt citation to the DOJ for criminal prosecution of the person in contempt. Does anyone think that's going anywhere in Eric Holder's department? Yup — didn't think so.
Third, Congress may seek redress from a federal court, asking for a declaratory judgment that the person is legally obligated to testify. There are two problems, however, with this approach. First, it would take a long time (a fact that plays right into Democrat hands). Second, it's far from clear that the court would agree with congressional assertions that Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment rights.
Krauthammer on Special Report, Friday: " Obama's at Such Olympian Stature" that it's beneath him to make calls to secure release of Snowden. "The mere radiance of Obama should be enough."
Fox Nation: Rush: Wait Until The GOP Finds Out Illegals Don't Want Amnesty:
CALLER: They're afraid that the immigration that's going to occur is going to cause them to lose their jobs, that they're going to have to compete against cheaper labor.RUSH: You've got to be kidding me. This is getting –
CALLER: It's unbelievable, Rush.
RUSH: This is the theater of the absurd. So we have illegals worried that more of them will cause wages to fall and maybe jobs to be lost?
CALLER: Correct. Now these guys are very, very concerned about this.
RUSH: You know, wait until the Republican Party hears about this. They're doing all of this to be loved by the Hispanics. Wait until the Republican Party finds out that a lot of the illegals currently here don't want any more! (laughing) You know, I'd like to be in the room with Steve Schmidt or some Republican walks in to Rubio and says, "Hey, you know what? We may have a problem here."
RoskamIL06: RS Hiding Evidence from Congress Under False Claims of Confidentiality:
The new IRS Commissioner is a complete beta male (as someone said on Twitter) and a weasel.
CBN: Covert Agenda: US Didn't Become Pro-Gay Overnight:
NRO Videos: McCarthy on VRA Ruling: Only 'People Who Hate It Are Movement Progressives & Race Hucksters':
BillWhittleChannel: GAY MARRIAGE (Virtual Press Conference):
Lee Doren: Student Arrested for Wearing NRA T shirt:
Big Government: CHARGES DISMISSED AGAINST 8TH-GRADER WHO WORE NRA T-SHIRT:
The dismissal comes 70 days after Marcum wore an NRA T-Shirt to his Logan County, WV school and was told to take the shirt off. Marcum refused to do so, citing his First Amendment right to celebrate his Second Amendment rights. He was consequently charged with obstruction of justice.
Speaking about the dismissal, Marcum's attorney Ben White said, "I think, with the gun issue, with what's going on, this is a victory for common sense."
Posted in Saturday Movie Matinee.
Federal Appeals Court Rules In Favor Of Hobby Lobby
Via The Conversation:
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Hobby Lobby, and its sister company, Mardel bookstores should be allowed to seek exception from the part of the ObamaCare mandate that violates their religious beliefs.
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver said the companies can proceed with their lawsuit and can probably win, great news for Hobby Lobby, Mardel,and for the dozens of lesser known businesses with similar lawsuits in various states.
Hobby Lobby was facing fines of up to $475 million for failing to comply with the law, or pay $26 million to the government if it dropped its health care plan altogether.
The judges indicated that the Oklahoma court should have granted the companies an injunction with such serious financial penalties on the line.
The judges unanimously sent the case back to a lower court in Oklahoma, which had rejected the companies' request for an injunction to prevent full enforcement of the new law.
"Hobby Lobby and Mardel have drawn a line at providing coverage for drugs or devices they consider to induce abortions, and it is not for us to question whether the line is reasonable," the judges wrote. "The question here is not whether the reasonable observer would consider the plaintiffs complicit in an immoral act, but rather how the plaintiffs themselves measure their degree of complicity."
Hobby Lobby Stores Inc., Mardel Inc. and their owners, the Green family, argue for-profit businesses — not just religious groups — should be allowed to seek an exception if the law violates their religious beliefs. The owners approve of most forms of artificial birth control, but not those that prevent implantation of a fertilized egg — such as an IUD or the morning-after pill.
The appeals court slapped down the DOJ's obnoxious argument that allowing for-profit corporations the option to exempt themselves from regulations that violate their religious beliefs, was somehow allowing the businesses to force their religious beliefs on their employees.
The 10th Circuit cited a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that for-profit corporations have rights to political expression.
The judges said, "we see no reason the Supreme Court would recognize constitutional protection for a corporation's political expression but not its religious expression."
Judge Harris Hartz wrote, "no one suggests that organizations, in contrast to their members, have souls. But it does not follow that people must sacrifice their souls to engage in group activities through an organization."
Emily Hardman, spokeswoman for the Washington-based Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which represents Hobby Lobby, called the ruling a "resounding victory for religious freedom."
But Americans United for Separation of Church and State said the judges were wrong.
"This isn't religious freedom; it's the worst kind of religious oppression," executive director Barry Lynn said in a statement.
On Friday – one day after the court ruled that their regulation was probably a violation of religious liberties, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced a finalized version of the contraception mandate in Obamacare that provides an "accommodation" for non-profit organizations that have a religious objection to the mandate…
The Washington Examiner reported:
HHS said that the final rule includes an "accommodation" for non-profit religious institutions that oppose the use of contraception. "Under the accommodation these organizations will not have to contract, arrange, pay for or refer contraceptive coverage to which they object on religious grounds, but such coverage is separately provided to women enrolled in their health plans at no cost," HHS said.
How convenient.
Somebody remind me what that whole "Republican War on Women" thing was about, last year, 'cause if I remember right, it had something to do with Republicans objecting to the grotesque, unconstitutional overreach of the federal government that just got unanimously slapped down by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Conversation: HHS Accommodation Is No Accommodation At All:
the final rule only includes an accommodation for non-profit institutions that oppose the use of contraception. "Under the accommodation these organizations will not have to contract, arrange, pay for or refer contraceptive coverage to which they object on religious grounds, but such coverage is separately provided to women enrolled in their health plans at no cost," HHS said.
A more careful reading on my part would have seen that the final regulation issued yesterday provides no accommodations at all for individual Christians or private for-profit employers who morally object to the mandate.
CNS reported:
Catholic and other Christian individuals in the United States will now be forced by the Obama administration to buy insurance coverage that pays for sterilizations, contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs–whether they want that coverage or not and even though it forces them to act against their faith.
What these final adjustments to the regulation do is provide what the administration calls "accommodations" to religious non-profit organizations only–or what the regulation calls "eligible organizations."
The Regime's War on God continues apace – but the 10th Circuit ruling, Thursday indicates this is one battle they will almost certainly lose.
(Unless, of course Obama's NSA has dirt on any of the OK judges…)
Posted in I will not submit, Obamacare, ObamaFAIL, Religion.


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Friendsical
August 16, 2019 ReviewsAlly Retberg, Anthony Lamble, Assembly Rooms, Barrie Bignold, Birdbrooke Entertainment, Charlotte Elisabeth York, Dale Wightman, Darren Carnall, Dom Jeffery, Duncan Burt, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019, Friendsical, Jamie Lee-Morgan, Jordan Fox, Julian Butler, Liz Davis, Michael Vinsen, Miranda Larson, Rebecca Withers, Sarah Goggin, Thomas Mitchellsthespyinthestalls
Assembly Rooms – Music Hall
"it becomes an over the top, pantomime of character traits and gestures"
"How YOU doin'?" Not great! After seeing my favourite 90s American sitcom Friends has been turned into a confusing musical parody.
Friendsical disappointingly misses the mark in many ways. Branding itself as a parody but it is clearly a failed attempt to recreate a condensed version of David Crane and Marta Kauffman's original hit show with a few beige musical numbers thrown in for good measure. Iconic colourful umbrellas in hand – the cast of Friendsical take to the stage, singing a second rate adaptation of the "I'll Be There For You" theme song. Although their umbrella-ography by Darren Carnall is slick, and energetic that is about the only thing worth note in this ninety minute "romp".
The premise for the show as Ross Geller (Jamie Lee Morgan) explains to the audience is that he has decided to make a "musical spectacular" to celebrate their ten years of friendship together but particularly commemorating his relationship with Rachel (Charlotte Elisabeth Yorke) and so he has cast his friends to play themselves and re-enact their own memories through song in this live performance. Get it? No? Me neither.
Miranda Larson's writing makes excuses from the beginning when Ross explains that the 'timelines' might get mixed up but the audience just have to allow it in the name of "theatrical license". This prerequisite allows Larson to cram the rest of the show with word for word re-creations of moments such as: ugly naked guy, the wedding dress scene, Janice and Chandler's break up and out of context catchphrases in the hopes that we won't notice the lack of any real substance.
These are the characters we know and love – as if they are on acid. The actors do a great imitation of each of their parallels with clear in depth research in physicality and voice. In particular, Sarah Goggin's up-tight, control freak Monica and Thomas Mitchell's snarky and awkward Chandler couldn't BE anymore spot on. However, once the novelty of seeing these imitations wears off it becomes an over the top, pantomime of character traits and gestures.
Anthony Lamble's set design is one of the things this production got right. With the iconic purple door, the huge bay window and the neon Central Perk coffee sign. Lamble has recreated in great detail the famous locations of Manhattan life, generating an overwhelming sense of nostalgia which this show is definitely lacking.
In truth Friendsical doesn't feel like a lovingly made homage to the sitcom with 236 episodes which we have all rewatched at least ten times. It feels like a 'play by numbers' venture, riding off a multi-billion dollar brand to get hyped fans bums on seats. This ambitious remake is a steep price to pay for fans with not much given in return.
Reviewed by Liz Davis
Photography by Dale Wightman
Assembly Rooms – Music Hall until 25th August as part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019
In the Shadow of the Black Dog
August 16, 2019 ReviewsAll The Pigs, Assembly Rooms, Conor Neaves, Daniel Hallissey, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019, Elizabeth McCafferty, Emily Morris, In the Shadow of the Black Dog, James Nicholson, Laura Singleton, Pete Butlerthespyinthestalls
"the authenticity of the content shines through in the script"
Masculinity has been under the lens more than ever in the past few years. What it is to be a man, the dangers of toxic masculinity and the male stigma of expressing emotions are all topics that are explored in Daniel Hallissey's new show. 'In the Shadow of the Black Dog' is based on Hallissey's real experiences, and the authenticity of the content shines through in the script.
The story centres around Alquist, who loses his best friend and has several near death experiences himself. After this turn of events, he is left questioning how to deal with grief and essentially what the value of his life is. The script contains several gut-punching lines such as: 'Where do men go to grieve?' Alquist is lost and we follow him on a journey of misjudged impulsive decisions. He speaks of his emotional illiteracy, as we see first hand his inability to deal and cope with his feelings. Whilst this all sounds fairly heavy, there are moments of dark humour that lift the piece. At moments, you felt like laughing and crying at the same time. Hallissey's writing and performance do not shy away from the character's faults, making audiences relate to this flawed Everyman. By far the strongest element of the piece was Hallissey's ability to flit between past and present, as he re-enacted scenes with intensity. A particularly strong example of this was the recreation of him getting chased by a bunch of motorcyclists who were trying to kill him. Despite there only being one actor on stage, it truly felt like another might pop out and attack at any moment.
The honesty of the storytelling was helped by simplistic set and lighting design (Pete Butler). Soft lighting changes and the utilisation of the whole playing space moved along the action. The sound design (James Nicholson) was effective in displaying the play's themes as it used text message sound effects between scenes to show Alquist's continuing search for communication.
In the Shadow of the Black Dog had an important message and delivered it clearly. Hallissey practised what he preached: through his vulnerability we saw his strength. The directorial decision (Conor Neaves) to get the actor to talk to audience members in the pre show was strong, as it invited us to share experiences too. Ultimately, the whole show felt like an intimate chat with your best mate. It shone a light on the difficulties of navigating complex feelings when this has been conditioned out of you from a young age. There was room for development of this work as the pace dropped at times, but overall it was a thought provoking and exciting piece of theatre.
Reviewed by Emily Morris
Photography by Elizabeth McCafferty
Assembly Rooms until 23rd August as part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019

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History of Moroccan Jews: The settlements of Jews have been to North Africa after the destruction of the first temple in Jerusalem in the year 587 BC and then the third century in general. Later, there was the direct influence in all between the Jewish groups and Amazigh Tribes (Berbers). And when Jews and Muslims of Spain and Portugal were expelled, about 25 to 30 thousand Jews came into Morocco with some family names that still carry the Spanish cities.
The Moroccan Jews are divided into two sections: the Maghurashim (meaning in Hebrew the persecuted ones) who are the Jews of Iberian peninsula and Tashabim who lived in Morocco before and after the Arab-Islamic conquest.
Jews Cemetery in Tangier, Morocco
Many of the Tashabim ones traces their origins to Amazigh people (Berbers) who converted to Judaism and sticked to it more than Berber Christians. And over their stand in North Africa, it appeared that there were numbers of small Jewish kingdoms as in Algeria and Morocco, at the time of the first Arab and Islamic conquest especially in the beginning of the eighth century, meaning the one founded in Sijilmasa and another that took place in the Aures region in Algeria under the leadership of the shrewd priestess, Tihya, who resisted the Islamic conquest for four years until she was Killed in the battle.
As for the Maghrasim, they are, as we said, the Jews who fled from Spain and Portugal after they were expelled by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492 (although some of them came earlier). They noticeably settled in major cities and towns in which they have (their seperate temples and) neighborhoods or quarters that were later called Mallah.
Here are some historical and commercial cities and towns with private Jewish quarters. They are Marrakesh, Essaouira, Tanger, Casablanca (known in the center of the old Medina with up to 30 houses), Fes, Meknes, Rabat, Tinghir, Sefro, damnat, Chafchaouen, Tetouan, etc. Uncommonly, Ouajda has no special Mellah because Jews, there, mixed with Muslims in neighborhoods unlike Essaouira where Jews were, not a long ago, more than the half of the city's population as a unique precedent.
Also, Moroccan Jews have shrines, sacred cemeteries and temples in many small villages like Tinfou (East of Zagora), Ourika, and Ouajan (in the region of Agadir). This means they used to live even in the countrysides and mountainous regions. So if most of them lived a modest life and mastered various traditional crafts, then their elite was associated with commerce, money and business. Indeed, a study by Nicole El-Serfati confirms that the Wattasid, Saadian and Alawite sultans who ruled Morocco over the past five centuries relied on their financial, commercial and advisory matters experiences like Andre Azoulay (the economic advisor of the king Hassan II and the current king Mohamed VI even though the Jews were a minority in the Muslim countries.
Finally, After the establishment of the Israeli state and the end of the French and Spanish protectorate in Morocco in 1956, many Moroccan Jews immigrated to Israel while some of them preferred to settle in France, one group immigrated to Canada, and another to Spain. This made the number decreased to about 20 thousand people in the early eighties of the last century. Today they are less than six thousand people nevertheless the Jews of Morocco are still the largest Jewish community in the "Arab countries".
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Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival
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School of Media, Culture and Society
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Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival is an international festival of experimental film and artists' moving image. Alchemy Film & Arts was founded in 2010 and has produced seven editions of the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival. The festival is produced in partnership with Heart of Hawick in the Scottish Borders. The 2017 festival screened 139 films from 21 countries over five days, with 46 world premieres, 14 European premieres, 39 Scottish premieres and over eighty filmmakers in attendance. Alchemy Film & Arts also engages in developmental projects for experimental film and artists' moving image production in Scotland, including artists' filmmaking residencies, a year-round exhibitions programme, filmmaking symposia, touring programmes and community filmmaking initiatives.
http://alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk/2017/about-the-festival/
Stay the Same: Film as philosophical enquiry
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Emotions (Philosophy) -- Early works to 1800.
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[Music Technology] Adjunct Faculty
Description NYU Steinhardt Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions (MPAP) Music Technology Program seeks qualified candidates to teach in the following fields: Advanced Computer Music (Graduate Level) Focuses on artistic creation with digital audio, honing both technical and aesthetic skills. Students work through exercises using a variety of platforms, learn to critique and help improve each other's work, and explore unfamiliar techniques and styles to extend and enrich the idioms of their prior practice. Students analyze landmark compositions from the history of computer music as well as contemporary electronic genres. Course culminates with a public performance of student work. Mixing in the Digital Audio Workstation (Graduate & Undergraduate Combined) This course explores the art and craft of mixing records, with special attention to "mixing in the box" (via a digital audio workstation). Focus on...
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Description Columbia University Sheng Yen Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chinese Buddhism With the generous support of the Sheng Yen Education Foundation, the Center for Buddhism and East Asian Religions (C-BEAR) in the Department of Religion at Columbia University is pleased to invite applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship, with the possibility of renewal for another year based on satisfactory performance. The appointment will be at the rank of Postdoctoral Research Scholar, with the initial term of appointment July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024. The fellowship is intended to foster the academic careers of recent PhDs whose area of research is Chinese Buddhism. In addition to pursuing their own research, the fellow is expected to teach one course per year, give a public lecture, and take part in the regular events of the C-BEAR. It is envisioned that after the fellowship period, the fellow will continue their academic career in teaching and research on Chinese...
Assistant Professor in Race and Cities in the Americas
New York University: NYU - NY: Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS): Social and Cultural Analysis Location New York, NY Open Date Sep 07, 2022 Description The Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University invites applications for a tenure track, assistant professor position in Race and Cities in the Americas. This search is part of a cluster hire that includes the Departments History, Sociology, and the Gallatin School of Individualized Study. More information about this cluster, and NYU's broader Faculty Cluster Hiring Initiative, can be found here, and here. Compensation: In compliance with NYC's Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary range for this position is $70,000 - $120,000. New York University considers factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and organizational...
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Description NYU Sydney is seeking a lecturer to teach the course 'The Australian Experience' to undergraduate students during the NYU semester of February-June 2023. Responsibilities of the instructor include preparing and leading the weekly class sessions, course coordination, writing assignments, and grading. Lecturers are paid at competitive casual academic rates aligned with local enterprise agreements. In addition to their teaching duties, they will be paid to attend periodic meetings and training, including an induction meeting during the orientation week prior to the start of the semester. Classes take place at the University of Sydney's Camperdown/Darlington Campus. Course Description Australian society offers unique perspectives on transnational issues such as identity formation, social justice movements and the experience of migration and multiculturalism. Given Australia's history of Indigenous and non-Indigenous relations,...
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Description New York University Abu Dhabi invites applications for a full-time tenured professor position of Premodern Arabic literature with an anticipated start date of September 1, 2023. We seek a scholar with a broad and deep knowledge of Arabic literary and intellectual traditions of the pre-modern period including, but not limited to, Quran and tafsīr, Arabic poetry and its criticism, travel narratives, adab compilations, legal texts, Sufism, and philosophical works. The successful candidate will demonstrate the capacity to author original research in these areas and have an established track record of publication of scholarly works, translations, and critical editions. The holder of this position will bolster NYUAD's commitment to research and publication on the Arabo-Islamic literary heritage, through contributions to such projects as The Library of Arabic Literature (a series of facing-page English-Arabic translations published by...
Description New York University's Department of Russian and Slavic Studies seeks to hire a Ukraine specialist for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professorship starting in fall 2023, pending budgetary and administrative approval. Discipline is open: the appointment will be half in Russian and Slavic Studies and half in another department appropriate to the candidate's field. Possibilities include but are not limited to history, literature, film, anthropology, political science, visual culture, media, sociology, and gender studies. Pay is competitive. Teaching load 2 courses per semester. In compliance with NYC's Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary for this position is $60,000. New York University considers factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the candidate's work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and organizational...
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Bioinformatics and Systems Medicine Laboratory
Lab News (Zhongming Zhao Biography, Keyword Cloud)
*** Multiple positions for postdoctoral fellows and students (GRAs) are available. Please contact to zhongming.zhao@uth.tmc.edu.
An interesting AI hackathon on cancer data. It is free plus prize and cash! Try to join (the registration link and flyer).
Our latest publication, entitled "Integration of millions of transcriptomes using batch-aware triplet neural networks," is published in Nature Machine Intelligence! Nature Machine Intelligence is a new high-impact journal in machine learning and artificial intelligence. We developed INSCT, a novel deep learning algorithm to integrate millions of single-cell transcriptomes in a batch-aware manner. (06-21-2021)
Our latest COVID-19 research work, entitled " Association of CXCR6 with COVID-19 severity: Delineating the host genetic factors in transcriptomic regulation," has been published in Human Genetics! In this work, for the first time, we pinpointed the host genetic factor on C-X-C Motif Chemokine Receptor 6 (CXCR6) expression in immune cells is associated with the severity of COVID-19 symptoms. This finding was also reported by a medical media and mentioned by a few other studies, including - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03767-x, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.25.428125v1.full.pdf (06-20-2021)
Dr. Zhao was a speaker in FaceBase Scientific Meeting 2021 (virtual). His talk title: "A developmental stage-specific network approach for studying dynamic co-regulation of transcription factors and microRNAs during craniofacial development". (06-15-2021)
Dr. Zhao has been awarded nearly $4 million from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to provide research training in cancer. The grant title: Biomedical Informatics, Genomics, and Translational Cancer Research Training Program (BIG-TCR) [News] (05-19-2021)
Dr. Zhao has received a new R01 grant from NIH/NICDR entitled "Deep learning for decoding genetic regulation and cellular maps in craniofacial development." (04-01-2021)
PhD candidate Astrid Manuel was awarded her NIH/NLM fellowship again! Great job and well done! Congrats Astrid! (04-06-2021)
Welcome Dr. Huihui Fan to join Dr. Zhao's lab and CPH as a Research Assistant Professor! (03-22-2021)
PhD candidate Fangfang Yan received the Doris Ross Scholarship at SBMI. Congrats, Fangfang! (01-26-2021)
Drs. Zhao and Pei's abstract, "Gene expression imputation in human brain with spatiotemporal precision and cell-type specificity and its implications for 13 brain-associated disorders or traits," was selected as the oral presentation in 2020 World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics (WCPG 2020) (10-20-2020)
Welcome Dr. Hyun-Hwan Jeong to join Dr. Zhao's lab and CPH as a Research Assistant Professor! (09-01-2020)
Dr. Zhao is a speaker in Biological Psychiatry and Single Cell Omics Networking Symposium, Gulf Coast Consortia for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX, 08/27/2020
Dr. Zhao has received an R01 grant from NIH/NICDR entitled "Role of cellular metabolism in palate morphogenesis." (multiple PIs Dr. Junich Iwata and Dr. Zhao) (07-01-2020)
Congratulations, Astrid! Astrid has been selected by the UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics Scholarship Committee to receive a prestigious SBMI Dean's Excellence Scholarship award. The UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics (SBMI) Dean's Excellence Fund is awarded to current SBMI students who have strong informatics skills and are considered potential leaders in the informatics field.(05-14-2020)
Congratulations, Astrid! As a PhD student at SBMI, Astrid was recently named a fellow in the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Training Program in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science. The timeline for her fellowship is July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021 and her project title is "Innovating Drug Repositioning Strategies for Drug Targets Linked Between Multiple Sclerosis and Blood Cancers." Professor Zhongming Zhao, PhD and Assistant Professor Assaf Gottlieb, PhD serve as her fellowship mentors. (04-17-2020)
Congratulations, Astrid ! As a graduate student in the first year, Astrid has already had one first author manuscript accepted, and presented in the Schull Institute Symposium as an oral presentation last month. And now, she received the Schull Institute Summer Program scholarship. (04-03-2019).
Welcome Dr. Lukas Simon to join Dr. Zhao's lab and CPH as a Research Assistant Professor. Lukas received his PhD in Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics from Baylor College of Medicine in 2016 and then joined the Institute of Computational Biology, Germany as a postdoc. Lukas is an expert in single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq). He has published three Nature Communications papers in the last four months, including one for scRNA-seq method and other for an atlas of the aging lung. (04-01-2019)
Our article "VirusFinder: Software for Efficient and Accurate Detection of Viruses and Their Integration Sites in Host Genomes through Next Generation Sequencing Data" is among the top 10% most cited PLOS ONE articles with 12,682 viewed and 40 citations. (06-30-2017)
The supplement of "Selected articles from the International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM) 2015: systems biology" has been published in BMC Genomics and BMC Systems Biology. The full content of the supplement can be found at (https://bmcsystbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/supplements/volume-10-supplement-3). (08-26-2016)
Our SZGR has been moved to the following address: https://bioinfo.uth.edu/SZGR since our lab moved to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. The database has been updated. Users please contact us if you have any questions. (03.15.2016)
Dr. Feixiong Cheng was honored as one of the finalists for the 2014/2015 Vanderbilt Postdoc of the Year Award. Congratulations! (04-23-2015)
Our paper entitled "Functional consequences of somatic mutations in cancer using protein pocket-based prioritization approach" appeared in Genome Medicine was Editors' pick(10-17-2014).
Media report: "Bradfords' strong support bolsters melanoma research" appeared in the VUMC reporter (09-25-2014)
Media report: "VU study reveals shared pathways in psychiatric disorders" appeared in the VUMC reporter (09-18-2014)
Our paper entitled "VarWalker: personalized mutation network analysis of putative cancer genes from next-generation sequencing data" was recommended by Faculty 1000 (09-12-2014)
Welcome three rotation students: Michaela Fooksa, Hunter Gibbons, and Gregory Salimando! (09-10-2014)
Media report: "Drug discovery clues in network map" appeared in the VUMC reporter (08-01-2014)
Dr. Sabrina Fritah, a visiting postdoc supported by INTER/MOBILITY Progamme, Luxembourg, arrived our lab. Welcome!(07-28-2014).
Santu's paper entitled "Reproducible combinatorial regulatory networks elucidate novel oncogenic microRNAs in non-small cell lung cancer" was accepted by RNA. Congratulations, Santu!(05-01-2014).
We welcome two new persons: Dr. Francisco Azuaje as a visiting scientist from Luxembourg, and Christen Parzych as our new Program Coordinator. Welcome!(05-01-2014).
Our paper entitled "Network-assisted prediction of potential drugs for addiction" was among the ~30 papers selected in AMIA TBI Translational Bioinformatics Year-in-Review (04-09-2014).
Media report: "Web tool speeds pulmonary hypertension discovery" by VUMC Reporter (03-05-2014)
Artwork from "An evidence-based knowledgebase of pulmonary arterial hypertension to identify genes and pathways relevant to pathogenesis" in Molecular BioSystems was selected for the cover of Issue 4 (2014) of Molecular BioSystems. (02-19-2014)
Our recent paper entitled "An evidence-based knowledgebase of pulmonary arterial hypertension to identify genes and pathways relevant to pathogenesis" in Molecular BioSystems was recommended by Faculty 1000. Congratulations, Min! (01-29-2014)
Vanderbilt School of Medicine moves into top 10 in NIH funding (01-23-2014)
Dr. Wei Jiang joined our lab as a postdoc fellow. Welcome! (01-16-2014)
Dr. Zhao delivered an invited talk in IEEE BIBM 2013 conference. The talk title: "A personalized mutation network approach for detecting putative cancer genes from next-generation sequencing data" (12-20-2013)
Dr. Jia's manuscript, entitled "VarWalker: Personalized Mutation Network Analysis of Putative Cancer Genes from Next-generation Sequencing Data," was accepted by PLoS Computational Biology. Congratulations! (12-17-2013)
"Molecular circuits in ovarian cancer" - our ovarian cancer regulatory network paper was highlighted by VUMC Reporter. (11-13-2013)
Our comparison of cancer somatic mutation callers has "Editor's Pick" by Genome Medicine and is one of the highly accessed papers since it was published online on October 11th. (10-15-2013)
Our work of pathway-based analysis of dental caries GWAS was highlighted by VUMC Reporter. (09-30-2013)
Dr. Zhao had a seminar talk entitled "Personal Genomics and Personalized Medicine: Current Approaches and Challenges" in Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia (08-23-2013)
Our work published in Genome Research was highlighted as the cover story of the September issue and in VUMC Reporter. (09-13-2013)
Dr. Zhao received the Award for Outstanding Research, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University (08-15-2013)
International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM 2013), was successfully held on August 11-13, 2013, Nashville, TN, USA. Thanks for all the participants and volunteers. (08-13-13)
Dr. Zhao will present in upcoming Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conference on Frontiers in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The Second International Conference on Translational Biomedical Informatics (ICTBI 2013), etc. (08-09-2013)
The image/artwork was selected for the cover page of the September issue of Genome Research, in which our paper will be published (08-01-2013)
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker in NGS Translate Boston, NGS Data Congress London, and Warwick University, UK. His talk topic: Application of NGS to Identify Actionable Mutations (06-21-2013)
Dr. Zhao was an invited lecturer in Network Medicine Nanocourse, The Harvard Clinical & Translational Science Center, Harvard University (06-04-2013)
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker in The Society of Biological Psychiatry's 68th Annual Meeting in San Francisco (05-16-2013)
Mr. Tim O'Brien was awarded NIH Predoc Fellowship from the HGEN Training Program. Congratulations! (05-12-2013)
Two PhD students, Tim O'Brien and Morgan Harrell, joined our lab. Welcome! (05-02-2013)
Dr. Junfeng Xia started his faculty position after 2.5 years of postdoc work in our lab. Congratulations! (04-15-2013)
DBMI Bioinformatics Research Progress Seminar was inaugurated this Tuesday! Thanks for the support from DBMI (04-09-2013)
Dr. Feixing Cheng joined our lab as a postdoc. Welcome! (04-01-2013)
Dr. Carlos Lopez, an assistant professor of systems biology, visited our lab and delivered his talk in cancer systems biology. (03-26-2013)
Drs. Zhongming Zhao, Peilin Jia, Huy Vuoung and Qingguo Wang presented in the workshop "Tools and Applications for Next Gen Sequencing", 2013 UT-ORNL-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit. Download the workshop program and see conference website here. Also, we had three other poster presentations. (03-25-2013)
Dr. Tony Capra, an assistant professor in CHGR, visited our lab and delivered his talk "Integrating Genome-scale Data to Predict the Effect of Human-specific Noncoding Mutations" (03-20-2013)
"Tools and Applications for Next-Generation Sequencing" workshop by Drs. Zhongming Zhao, Peilin Jia, Huy Vuong, and Qingguo Wang was held in Vanderbilt Medical Center (03-20-2013)
Dr. Jiang Qian, an associate professor of bioinformatics at Johns Hopkins University, visited us and delivered his talk "Global analysis of gene regulation and signaling networks" (03-13-2013)
Dr. Jay Shendure, an associate professor of genome sciences at University of Washington School of Medicine, delivered his talk "Next Generation Human Genetics" at Vanderbilt (03-12-2013)
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker in the NSF EPSCoR Bioinformatics Workshop (03-05-2013)
Dr. Xingyi Guo joined our lab as a research assistant professor. Welcome! (03-01-2013)
Ms. Krystal Tsosie joined our lab for her rotation project. Welcome! (02-28-2013)
International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM 2013), will be held on August 11-13, 2013, Nashville, TN, USA. Click here for Call for Papers(01-03-13)
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker in The 23rd International Conference on Genome Informatics (12-14-12)
Dr. Zhao was a plenary speaker in The 1st International Conference on Translational Biomedical Informatics (ICTBI 2012) (12-10-12)
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker in Department of Biostatistics Seminar Series, Virginia Commonwealth University (11-30-12)
Dr. Zhao was a platform speaker in The 62th Annual Meeting of The American Society of Human Genetics (11-08-12)
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker in Bradley Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech (10-26-12)
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker in Center for Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, New York University Langone Medical Center (10-25-12)
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker in School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington (10-16-12)
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker in Center for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine (10-15-12)
Dr. Zhao was a keynote speaker in Workshop on Data-Mining of Next Generation Sequencing, IEEE BIBM'12 (10-04-12)
Mr. Timothy O'Brien joined our lab as a NIH Predoctoral Fellow for his rotation project. Welcome! (10-2012)
Mr. Junfeng Jiang from Soochow University joined our lab as a visiting PhD student. Welcome! (09-01-2012)
Dr. Huy Vuong from University of Michigan joined our lab as a NLH/NLM Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome! (09-01-2012)
Mr. Darwin Fu joined our lab as a NIH Predoctoral Fellow for his rotation project. Welcome! (09-2012)
Dr. Ramkrishna Mitra from Stanford University joined our lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome! (08-16-2012)
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker in Lieber Institute for Brain Development, John Hopkins University (08-14-12)
"Network approach yields glioblastoma clues" -Our work recently published in PLoS Computational Biology was included in VUMC Reporter (08-09-2012).
Dr. Hui Yu from Key Laboratory of Systems Biology, Chinese Academy of Schience joined our lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome! (08-01-2012)
Dr. Quan Wang from Beijing University joined our lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome! (08-01-2012)
Ms. Morgan Harrell joined our lab as a NIH/NLM Predoctoral Fellow for her rotation project. Welcome! (07-16-2012)
Our recent paper, entitled "BRAF L597 mutations in melanoma are associated with sensitivity to MEK inhibitors", was chosen for cover page in the September issue in Cancer Discovery. (7-15-12), It was also cited, as "Uncommon BRAF Mutation In Melanoma Sensitive To MEK Inhibitor Drug Therapy" by MNT (Medical News Today) , MedicalXpress, EurekAlert AAAS Cancer Research News, VUMC Reporter, F1000 recommendation, among others.
Our recent whole genome sequencing based paper, entitled "BRAF L597 mutations in melanoma are associated with sensitivity to MEK inhibitors", was published in Cancer Discovery. Journal cover page, PubMed (7-13-12)
Dr. Zhao and three postdocs attended The 1000 Genomes Project conference. (7-13-12)
Dr. Zhao was recently interviewed by GenomeWeb and was featured in Genome Technology magazine's cover story on Genomics In the Clinic. (7-2-12)
Our manuscript entitled "Application of next generation sequencing to human gene fusion detection: computational tools, features and perspectives" was accepted by Briefings in Bioinformatics. Congrats, Qingguo. (6-29-12)
The Topical Issue on Systems Biology that Dr. Zhao and colleagues edited was published in Chem & Biodiversity. Click here for details. (6-14-2012)
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker in the Society of Biological Psychiatry Symposium "Integration of Genomics, Epigenomics and Genetics for a Biological Understanding of Psychiatric Diseases", 67th Annual Scientific Convention & Program, Philadelphia, PA, USA (5-5-2012)
Dr. Bing Wang accepted a full professor faculty position in China. Congrats! (04-30-12)
The International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (2012) was successfully held on April 22-24, 2012 at Vanderbilt. Here is the link.
Our NGS Catalog database article was accepted by Human Mutation. Congratulations Junfeng for leading this effort! (03-09-2012)
Our recent work published in J Med Genetics (PubMed link here) was quickly featured on popular MedLinx site (12-27-2011)
Our rotation student Mr. Daniel Putman won the Second Prize in the Best Student Paper Award Competition, based on his rotation work in our lab, in the AMIA 2011 Annual Symposium, October 22-26, 2011. Congratulations! (10-23-2011)
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker in University of Tennessee Health Science Center (11-03-2011)
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker in University of Nebraska Medical Center (10-19-2011)
Dr. Zhao was a Plenary Speaker in The Informatics Day 2011, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, October 17, 2011
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker in the XIXth World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics (WCPG). (9-12-2011).
The paper based on the work by our former rotation student Mr. Dan Putman was selected as one of the finalists in the Student Best Paper competition in AMIA. Dr. Cindy Gadd, the director of DBMI training program, added "Your first research rotation project becomes an AMIA student paper finalist -- that's QUITE a first! Congratulations!"(9-8-2011).
Ms. Alex Fish joined our lab as an Vanderbilt IGP rotation student. Welcome! (9-7-2011)
Considering that our major research shifts to systems and translational medicine, we renamed our laboratory to Bioinformatics and Systems Medicine Laboratory (BSML). (9-2-2011).
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Ohio State University. (8-30-2011).
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker in the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. (8-26-2011).
Dr. Bing Wang from University of Louisville joined our lab as a Postdoc Fellow. Welcome! (8-1-2011)
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker in the International Workshop on Cancer Systems Biology (ICSB 2011). (7-3-2011).
The manuscript prepared by our rotation student Mr. Dan Putman was accepted by AMIA. Congratulations! (6-20-2011).
Dr. Zhao was a speaker in the Fourth Summit on Systems Biology, Richmond, VA (6-17-2011).
Mr. Paul Hart joined our lab as an NIH/NLM Summer Intern Fellow. Welcome! (6-15-2011)
Dr. Jingchun Sun was promoted to be a Research Instructor in DBMI. Congratulations! A celebration party will be held on June 23rd (5-16-2011)
Dr. Qingguo Wang from University of Missouri joined our lab as a Postdoc Fellow. Welcome! (5-16-2011)
Dr. Peilin Jia is one of the finalists for the 2010/2011 Vanderbilt Postdoc of the Year Award. Congratulations! (4-26-2011)
Dr. Siyuan Zheng had his oral presentation of his network analysis of HCC data in the 10th Annual UT-ORNL-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit (4/2/2011)
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker in the Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute, The University of Texas at San Antonio (3-7-2011).
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker in the Biostatistics Branch at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (2-15-2011).
Our 2010 summer intern Mr. Jian Tian was a co-author of a recent paper appeared in IJCBDD. Congratulations! (1-20-2011).
Dr. Peilin Jia, postdoctoral fellow, in our lab was the recipient of the 2011 NARSAD Young Investigator Award Congratulations! (12-30-2010).
Dr. Jingchun Sun, postdoctoral fellow, in our lab was the recipient of the 2011 NARSAD Young Investigator Award Congratulations! (12-30-2010).
"Many needles in genetic haystack" -Our work recently published in Bioinformatics was included in VUMC Reporter (12-16-2010).
Our collaborative work recently published in Cancer Cell was documented in VUMC Reporter (12-10-2010).
Dr. Zhao joined Editorial Board of journal PLoS ONE (12-03-2010)
Our recent paper appeared in Bioinformatics was selected and evaluated by the Faculty of 1000 (F1000) who placed our work in their library of the top 2% of published articles in biology and medicine. See link here. (11-26-2010)
Congratulations to Ketaki, Bioinformatics intern at BRC for getting a job in Bioinformatics core at University of Illinois, Chicago. Her farewell was held on Wednesday (11-16-2010).
Professor John Quackenbush from Harvard University visited VICC and presented his work entitled "Network and state space models: Science and science fiction approaches to cell fate predictions" (11-12-2010).
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker by the Wilmer Eye Institute and the Visual Neuroscience Training Program (VNTP) at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (11-02-2010).
Dr. Zhao was chosen to receive the Nick Norgan Award 2010, as lead author of the best paper published in Annals of Human Biology during 2009 (10-14-2010).
Dr. Zhao was an invited speaker at the Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University (10-22-2010).
Cancer 2.0 - Harnessing computing power for cancer research and care (06-17-2010)
Schizophrenia data: one-stop-shopping (06-25-2010)
• Positions available now:
Bioinformatics Engineer I in BSBL (closed)
Postdoctoral Fellows in Bioinformatics in BSBL
• We welcome graduate and undergraduate students to join our lab.
Our new BRC (Bioinformatics Resource Center) office suite was renovated and is fully functional now. (7/19/2010)
We welcome four new members (Chunling Wan - Postdoc Fellow; Jian Tian - NIH/NLM Summer Intern Fellow; Satishkumar Ganakammal - Bioinformatics Engineer I; and Ketaki Bhide - Bioinformatics Engineer Intern). A welcome lunch meeting will be held on June 11, 2010 in the BRC room (6/8/2010)
Dr. Jingchun Sun was nominated the Vanderbilt Postdoc of the Year. Congratulations! (4/20/2010)
Two members (Peilin Jia and Zhongming Zhao) presented their work in the UT-ORNL-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit (3/20/2010)
Our collaborator's Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) grant was funded to support the next generation of cancer researchers VUMC Reporter (12/18/2009)
"Getting gene priorities in order". Our work appeared in Bioinformatics (Sun et al. 2009) was highlighted in the VUMC Reporter -Aliquots (11/20/09)
"If mice could speak". Our collaborator's work was highlighted by Nature reporter Erika Check Hayden on October 22, 2009, appeared in Nature Blog
Ms. Dedeepya Vaka joined the Bioinformatics Group in VMSR. Welcome! (11/1/09)
Dr. Anyuan Guo accepted a Full Professor position in Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Congratulations! (10/1/09)
Dr. Siyuan Zheng from Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Science joined our lab as a postdoc fellow. Welcome! (9/25/09)
Dr. Hung-Chung (Joe) Huang from Department of Systems Biology and Translational Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center joined the Bioinformatics Group in VMSR as a senior bioinformatician. Welcome! (10/1/09)
• The following databases are available now:
- Ethanol Related Gene Resource: ERGR
- Schizophrenia Gene Resource: SZGR
- Recent publications:
Sun J, Wan C, Jia P, Fanous AH, Kendler KS, Riley BP, Zhao Z (2010) Application of systems biology approach identifies and validates GRB2 as a risk gene for schizophrenia in the Irish Case Control Study of Schizophrenia (ICCSS) sample PubMedSun J, Jia P, Fanous AH, Webb BT, van den Oord EJCG, Chen X, Bukszar J, Kendler KS, Zhao Z (2009) A multi-dimensional evidence-based candidate gene prioritization approach for complex diseases – Schizophrenia as a case. Bioinformatics 25:2595-2602 PubMed


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Q: cant change my javascript to make it fit! - css and javascript The following code changes the color of a circle, based on a number I get from a certain
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let boxes = document.getElementsByClassName("centerbox");
for (let i = 0; i < boxes.length; i++) {
    let box = boxes.item(i);
    let content = box.getElementsByTagName("p")[0].innerHTML;
    let number = Number(content);

    if(number <= 0) {
        box.style.backgroundColor = "red";
    } else if(number >= 1 && number < 5) {
        box.style.backgroundColor = "yellow";
    } else if(number >= 5) {
        box.style.backgroundColor = "green";
    }
}
.centerbox {
    align-content: middle;
    width:10px;
    height:10px;
    border-radius:50%;
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.pstyle {
    margin-top:10px;
    margin-left:25px;
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.widthcontainer {
    width: 100%;
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I cannot figure out how to style the width of the circle itself (.centerbox) since the css defines the width of the circle, which have the
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I want to hear if there is a way to style the circle by itself, and then have the text from the  &
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It's supposed to be used to tell if a certain product is in stock.
Thanks in advance!
Andreas

A: You can use pseudo-elements in your CSS to solve the problem. Here's how the CSS code looks like.
.centerbox::before {
  content: "";
  display: inline-block;
  width:10px;
  height:10px;
  border-radius:50%;
 }

 .green::before {
   background-color: green;
 }

 .red::before {
   background-color: red;
 }

 .yellow::before {
   background-color: yellow;
 }

.pstyle {
  margin-top:10px;
  margin-left:25px;
}

.widthcontainer{
  width: 100%;
  height:auto;
}

You then add the classes to your elements, Here's how the JS code looks like :
let boxes = document.getElementsByClassName("centerbox")
for(let i = 0;i<boxes.length;i++){
  let box = boxes.item(i)
  let content = box.getElementsByTagName("p")[0].innerHTML
  let number = Number(content)
  if(number <= 0) {
    box.classList.add("red");
  }
  else
  if(number >= 1 && number <5){
   box.classList.add("yellow");
  }

  else
  if(number >=5){
   box.classList.add("green");
  }

}

The HTML stays the same :

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Does anyone have a pattern for reversible fleece mittens to sew?
I don't have pattern! but why not draw around your hand,cut out both fabrics if you use diff colours,put the cuffs end to end and sew together.Put one glove inside the other there u have it reversalbe mittens Viola !
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Waking Up Dry « Howard J. Bennett - Pediatrician and Author in Washington, D.C.
Written in a child-friendly tone that mirrors a one-on-one conversation with Dr. Bennett, this self-help guide is designed to help children (ages six to thirteen) conquer bedwetting. The book demystifies the problem and shows children that they are not the only ones who are affected. Cartoon characters Bladder Man (a superhero) and Nephron (his 9-year-old friend) put a humorous spin on the subject to help children identify with the subject. Each chapter includes a Q&A section to provide more detailed information for parents.


So what's the big stuff? "Look at when your workouts fit in your schedule," says Hillis. "Anyone with a job, a family, and any kind of social life has to manage his or her schedule carefully to work out consistently." So pick the time of day that appeals to you and works with your schedule. To get the most bang for your buck whenever you work out, consider (1) exercise selection — pick compound, multijoint exercises; (2) workout intensity — strike a balance between higher and lower; and (3) system adaptations — once your body adjusts to a certain type of workout, mix it up.
I had my VO2 max tested twice, six months apart. It increased about 10 percent, but I'd like to see more improvement. How can I do that?
First, good for you! Second, just to bring everyone up to speed, VO2 max (or maximal oxygen consumption) is a metric commonly used by physiologists and coaches to measure the body's maximum ability to consume oxygen and perform exercise. The higher your VO2 max is, relative to your body weight, the more aerobic power you have for endurance sports performance. Elite male endurance athletes typically reach 70 milliliters per kilogram per minute (ml/kg/min.), with elite female athletes around 65 ml/kg/min. The average untrained male, on the other hand, will score roughly 35 to 40 ml/kg/min., and untrained females will score around 30 to 35 ml/kg/min., according to Troy Jacobson, head endurance sports coach at Life Time Fitness in Chanhassen, Minn.
You can continue to improve your VO2 max by following a properly designed aerobic-endurance regimen that includes a variety of training intensities, from low-intensity aerobic base efforts to hard anaerobic intervals. "As you continue to challenge them, your oxygen-delivery mechanisms and cardiovascular functions will improve," says Jacobson. "Over just a few weeks, untrained people who begin a structured exercise program can see improvements in VO2 max of 5 to 15 percent," he notes. "Eventually, gains in VO2 max slow, both according to genetic limitations and, if the athlete is competing, according to the time of his or her training cycle." Weight is also a factor, he adds: VO2 max is calculated using body weight, so the lower your weight, the higher your VO2 max will likely be.
Q3: Astaxanthin for Weight Loss?
Can Asthaxanthin help with weight loss?
Derived from marine algae, astaxanthin (pronounced asta-ZAN-thin) is the powerful antioxidant that makes flamingos pink and salmon orange. It's a member of the carotenoid family, and even more potent than its famous cousin beta-carotene. Recently, elite athletes have begun using it to improve their athletic performance.
"We're just beginning to understand the many health benefits astaxanthin can have for humans and animals," says Joseph Mercola, DO, founder of the popular alternative health site www.mercola.com.
If you're striving to lose weight, eating a healthy, balanced array of whole foods is still your most promising strategy.
Whatever your goals, note them at the beginning of each week, and then, at the end of the week, tally up your numbers. If you notice you're consistently falling short of your goals, go back to your data and look for clues as to why. It could be your bench press isn't improving because you keep doing the same exercises over and over. Or maybe you're not increasing the weight you use.
1) Am I progressing? Do your workouts change from week to week? Are you changing the number of reps and sets, and the exercises you do? You can use your past workouts to plan future ones. Take your information to a personal trainer to get ideas about how to adjust your program.
2) Am I feeling it? Note on a scale of 1 to 10 how you feel at the beginning and the end of each workout. If you're feeling drained beforehand, consider lightening your load somewhat that day.
Re: Q1: There is also some very go science that suggests early morning cardio is the best way to get your brain fired up for the day. If you know you're going to have a tough day or important early meeting, doing 30-45 minutes of intense cardio will make a big difference. Read Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain for info and a great list of references.
This is so informative and helpful! Awesome article!
Sometimes the best way to track your progress toward your fitness goals is to pick a test and make it a regular part of your regimen. Which benchmark assessment you choose depends on what you want to measure.
Our fitness experts tackle your questions on Tabata training, footstrike, and getting in shape for basketball. Plus, a fitness fix for muscle cramps.


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Sundance set to Score for a Third Time in London
The US film festival is to hit the capital for the third time in April
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A memorable hat-trick will be scored next month – and we're not talking about this season's Premier League title race either! April will see the Sundance Film Festival hit London for the third year running, with confirmation of the line-up for 2014 hot off the press.
Yes, Robert Redford's annual jamboree is now proving that it's not only One Direction that are a hit on both sides of the Atlantic. The festival is now also celebrating its 30th anniversary, with the youthful but fast-growing UK branch promising to deliver its best show yet.
In true Sundance fashion, there is going to be something cutting-edge and completely different from the norm served up at the O2 from April 25-27. These days Hollywood leans all too heavily on special effects and superheroes, which the festival will be far removed from. It's going to be very much a case of 'move over L.A.', as places such as Kentucky, Nevada and New Mexico will provide the settings for most of the films. It will almost be a hark back to the Tinseltown of old, something of which the Sundance Kid himself would surely approve.
There will be plenty of musical diversions for the fans, but it's all about the movies. A grand total of 39 flicks make up the schedule, long and short, with no less than 23 of them premiering in some form. One feature that is hotly-anticipated is the winner of the Grand Jury: Dramatic and Audience Award, Fruitvale Station, whilst the pick of the shorts include The Cut and Of Gods and Dogs.
Stepping out for Team GB are Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon in the European Premiere of Michael Winterbottom's The Trip to Italy, the follow-up to the trio's 2010 hit The Trip. Also in the UK Spotlight section is Frank, a comedy about a rookie musician who joins a band led by the titular character, played by Michael Fassbender, complete with his rather large, papier-mache head.
Whisper it, but we're pretty sure that Mr Redford has no plans on a One Direction screening anytime soon.
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AEL participated in the Institute of Quarrying (IOQ) South Africa's annual conference and exhibition held at The Elangeni Hotel in Durban from 19-20 April this year.
The Institute of Quarrying is the international professional body for quarrying, surface mining and the related extractive, processing and construction industries with over 6000 members in 50 countries worldwide. The annual IOQ Conference, recognised as South Africa's premiere quarrying conference, is designed for the professional development of information exchange between industry peers and attracts in excess of 250 visitors from Southern Africa and abroad annually.
In attendance at this year's conference were AEL customers, suppliers and competitors such as Lafarge, Afrisam, BME and Yeabo Mining among others.
Furthering our thought leadership position, AEL's Blast Consult team of specialists presented technical papers and case studies at the plenary sessions while our product management team showcased our suite of products and services which form part of our value proposition, intelliBlastTM.
Chairman of the Institute of Quarrying Southern Africa, AEL's Simon Tose presented a paper entitled Annoying your neighbours (an update on the international trends for managing airblast and blasting vibrations).
This year's conference programme included other key areas of focus for the industry such as legislation, environment, health, safety and wellness.


@edreihutson: What is a successful moment in your career so far? Being accepted into the PGA! When I was starting off in this industry, I worked as a PA for free on a few shoots before I started to get paid low wages. Looking back on those days, I feel proudest that I was able to climb the ladder and now earn money doing what I love.


Fukushima plant's operator says level "fatal to humans" detected near ventilation stack standing between two reactors.
Record levels of radiation have been recorded at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant reactor, just months after the nuclear accident resulting from the earthquake and tsunami in March.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) reported that Geiger counters - a hand-held device used to measure radiation - registered their highest possible reading at the site on Monday.
TEPCO said that radiation exceeding 10 sieverts [10,000 millisieverts] per hour was found at the bottom of a ventilation stack standing between two reactors.
Al Jazeera's Aela Callan, reporting from Japan's Ibaraki prefecture, said the level recorded was "fatal to humans" but that it was contained just to the plant's site. However, scientists are planning to carry out more tests on Tuesday.
"Authorities are working on the theory though that it has come from those initial hydrogen explosions that we've seen at the plant in the days after the earthquake and tsunami," she said.
"It is now looking more likely that this area has been this radioactive since the earthquake and tsunami but no one realised until now."
On Tuesday, TEPCO said it found another spot on the ventilation stack itself where radiation exceeded 10 sieverts per hour, a level that could lead to incapacitation or death after just several seconds of exposure.
The company used equipment to measure radiation from a distance and was unable to ascertain the exact level because the device's maximum reading is 10 sieverts.
While TEPCO said the readings would not hinder its goal of stabilising the Fukushima reactors by January, experts said that worker safety could be at risk if the operator prioritised hitting the deadline over radiation risks.
"Radiation leakage at the plant may have been contained or slowed but it has not been sealed off completely," Kenji Sumita, a professor at Osaka University who specialises in nuclear engineering, said.
"The utility is likely to continue finding these spots of high radiation.
"Considering this, recovery work at the plant should not be rushed to meet schedules and goals as that could put workers in harm's way.
"We are past the immediate crisis phase and some delays should be permissible."
Workers at Daiichi are only allowed to be exposed to 250 millisieverts of radiation per year.
TEPCO, which provides power to Tokyo and neighbouring areas, said it had not detected a sharp increase in overall radiation levels at the compound.
"The high dose was discovered in an area that doesn't hamper recovery efforts at the plant," Junichi Matsumoto, a TEPCO spokesman, said on Tuesday.
Although it is still investigating the matter, TEPCO said the spots of high radiation could stem from debris left behind by emergency venting conducted days after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that crippled the plant.


President Jokowi's budget for 2019 with GDP growth of 5.3% and a fiscal deficit at -1.84% of GDP looks attainable to us. The 2019 GDP target is in line with the current consensus forecast and lower than the initial proposal of 5.4% to 5.8%.
The projected moderate pace of economic activity takes into account the difficult external operating environment and includes more realistic expectations.
The 2019 budget also assumes a more realistic oil price assumption of $70/bl. This is in contrast to the quite optimistic initial 2018 oil price assumption of around $40-$50/bl. The current average oil price is around $65-70/bl. With a more realistic oil assumption, the fiscal challenge of 2018 of increasing the energy subsidy could be minimised in 2019.
There is reason to think that the performance of the government in 2019 will not deviate much from the proposed 2019 fiscal deficit of -1.84% of GDP.
The 2019 budget proposal estimates that revenues will increase by 12.6%, which would support 10% expenditure growth. Recent government performance supports this target.
The government's seven-month 2018 fiscal performance of -1.02% deficit to GDP is below the operating 2018 fiscal deficit target of 2.12%. Government revenues for the seven month period increased due to a 23% rise in non-tax revenue collection and a 16% increase in the collection of customs and excise tax.
A cause for concern is the possible IDR assumption of IDR14400, which is around 1.6% stronger than current levels. This could be difficult unless the government and central bank are successful in reducing the current account deficit from -3% of GDP in 2Q to closer to -2.5% of GDP. The consensus forecast is -2.3% of GDP in 2019. A deteriorating current account deficit would keep the IDR on the defensive in 2019 and thus could frustrate economic planners.


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Assault trial scheduled for BIA officer in ND
Category: Social Issues & Criminal Justice
Grand Forks, North Dakota (AP) February 2011
A Bureau of Indian Affairs police officer accused of cutting his wife with a knife during a domestic dispute in Devils Lake is to stand trial next month.
The Grand Forks Herald reports that a Feb. 24 trial date has been set for 41-year-old Duane Gunville. He pleaded not guilty earlier to an aggravated assault charge that carries a maximum punishment of five years in prison upon conviction.
Authorities say Gunville's wife needed several stitches for a knife cut on her chest after the alleged incident last August. Gunville was arrested in the Belcourt area after a standoff.
He's been placed on unpaid administrative leave from his job as a BIA officer on the Spirit Lake Reservation.


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Psaki redefines Biden goal of reopening schools to mean 'some teaching' at least 'one day a week'
Psaki redefines Biden goal of reopening schools to mean 'some teaching' at least 'one day a week'
February 10, 2021 | Terresa Monroe-Hamilton | Print Article
On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki attempted to clarify President Biden's goal to reopen schools in the first 100 days of his presidency. This came as the Teacher's Union in Chicago voted to return to in-person learning as early as Thursday.
Psaki made the clarification in response to a reporter's question on the issue where he asked her to "help us understand" exactly what Biden meant by an "open school."
"Does it mean teachers in classroom teaching students in classrooms or does it just mean kids in classrooms with a remote screen? Help us understand," the reporter asked.
Psaki's answer referred to a goal that involved what she termed as a "majority of schools" which indicates over 50% of them would reopen. She was not more specific than that. Biden touted getting the majority of K-8 schools reopened in the first 100 days of his presidency. That would mean classes would be up and running by April 30.
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"That means some teaching in classrooms. So at least one day a week, hopefully, it's more. And obviously, it is as much as is safe in each school and local district," Psaki stated.
More clarification was desired by the reporter. He wanted to know what she actually meant when she said "some teaching." Psaki answered: "Teaching at least one day a week in the majority of schools by day 100." The stunning answer seems to redefine Biden's original claims for reopening classrooms to students.
Last December, Biden was part of a call with 30 governors on the subject. He made the reopening of schools a focal point of his new administration along with the handling of the coronavirus.
"I'm going to ask that we're going to be able to open schools at the end of one hundred days," Biden proclaimed. "That's going to take a lot of money, but we know how to do it. If we have the money and the funding everything from ventilation to more teachers to smaller class sizes – a whole range of things."
Prior to the Super Bowl on Sunday, Biden once again renewed his call for classrooms to reopen. He claimed that the CDC would be issuing new "science-based" guidelines that pertain to the reopening of schools.
The CDC's Director Rochelle Walensky stated last week that "there is increasing data to suggest that schools can safely reopen and that safe reopening does not suggest that teachers need to be vaccinated in order to reopen safely," Psaki strangely claimed that the comment did not equate "official guidance" from the CDC.
Dr. Marc Siegel told Fox News in an interview that "there's too much intermixing between what the White House says and what the CDC says."
"Having in-classroom instruction one day a week … might be enough to introduce you to your teacher, but it's not enough to overcome the drastic socialization damage we are seeing from school closure."
Teacher's Unions in a number of large cities have resisted sending teachers back into classrooms due to the pandemic. They have pushed for remote learning instead. But that appears to be changing. According to NBC5Chicago, the Chicago Teacher's Union voted on Wednesday to return to in-person learning in all Chicago Public Schools classrooms as early as Thursday morning.
President Biden has not urged governors or Teacher's Unions to reopen classrooms. The reopening of classrooms in Chicago appears to be driven by pressure from the mayor and parents in that city.
The New York Post notes that "Psaki was asked if Biden would choose the nation's children or teachers unions, Psaki insisted the question was 'a little bit unfair.'"
"I think it's time for schools to reopen safely – safely," Biden said in an interview with CBS. "You have to have fewer people in the classroom, you have to have ventilation systems that have been reworked."
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