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William M. Kelley
Striatal Associative Learning Signals Are Tuned to In-groups
Katherine E. Powers, Leah H. Somerville, William M. Kelley, Todd F. Heatherton
An important feature of adaptive social behavior is the ability to flexibly modify future actions based on the successes or failures of past experiences. The ventral striatum (VS) occupies a central role in shaping behavior by using feedback to evaluate actions and guide learning. The current studies tested whether feedback indicating the need to update social knowledge would engage the VS, thereby facilitating subsequent learning. We also examined the sensitivity of these striatal signals to the value associated with social group membership. Across two fMRI studies, participants answered questions testing their knowledge about the preferences of personally relevant social groups who were high (in-group) or low (out-group) in social value. Participants received feedback indicating whether their responses were correct or incorrect on a trial-by-trial basis. After scanning, participants were given a surprise memory test examining memory for the different types of feedback. VS activity in response to social feedback correlated with subsequent memory, specifying a role for the VS in encoding and updating social knowledge. This effect was more robust in response to in-group than out-group feedback, indicating that the VS tracks variations in social value. These results provide novel evidence of a neurobiological mechanism adaptively tuned to the motivational relevance of the surrounding social environment that focuses learning efforts on the most valuable social outcomes and triggers adjustments in behavior when necessary.
Rejection Sensitivity Polarizes Striatal–Medial Prefrontal Activity When Anticipating Social Feedback
As a social species, humans are acutely aware of cues that signal inclusionary status. This study characterizes behavioral and neural responses when individuals anticipate social feedback. Across two fMRI studies, participants ( n = 42) made social judgments about supposed peers and then received feedback from those individuals. Of particular interest was the neural activity occurring when participants were awaiting social feedback. During this anticipatory period, increased neural activity was observed in the ventral striatum, a central component of the brain's reward circuitry, and dorsomedial pFC, a brain region implicated in mentalizing about others. Individuals high in rejection sensitivity exhibited greater responses in both the ventral striatum and dorsomedial pFC when anticipating positive feedback. These findings provide initial insight into the neural mechanisms involved in anticipating social evaluations as well as the cognitive processes that underlie rejection sensitivity.
Neural Responses to Ambiguity Involve Domain-general and Domain-specific Emotion Processing Systems
Maital Neta, William M. Kelley, Paul J. Whalen
Extant research has examined the process of decision making under uncertainty, specifically in situations of ambiguity. However, much of this work has been conducted in the context of semantic and low-level visual processing. An open question is whether ambiguity in social signals (e.g., emotional facial expressions) is processed similarly or whether a unique set of processors come on-line to resolve ambiguity in a social context. Our work has examined ambiguity using surprised facial expressions, as they have predicted both positive and negative outcomes in the past. Specifically, whereas some people tended to interpret surprise as negatively valenced, others tended toward a more positive interpretation. Here, we examined neural responses to social ambiguity using faces (surprise) and nonface emotional scenes (International Affective Picture System). Moreover, we examined whether these effects are specific to ambiguity resolution (i.e., judgments about the ambiguity) or whether similar effects would be demonstrated for incidental judgments (e.g., nonvalence judgments about ambiguously valenced stimuli). We found that a distinct task control (i.e., cingulo-opercular) network was more active when resolving ambiguity. We also found that activity in the ventral amygdala was greater to faces and scenes that were rated explicitly along the dimension of valence, consistent with findings that the ventral amygdala tracks valence. Taken together, there is a complex neural architecture that supports decision making in the presence of ambiguity: (a) a core set of cortical structures engaged for explicit ambiguity processing across stimulus boundaries and (b) other dedicated circuits for biologically relevant learning situations involving faces.
Inducing Negative Affect Increases the Reward Value of Appetizing Foods in Dieters
Dylan D. Wagner, Rebecca G. Boswell, William M. Kelley, Todd F. Heatherton
Experiencing negative affect frequently precedes lapses in self-control for dieters, smokers, and drug addicts. Laboratory research has similarly shown that inducing negative emotional distress increases the consumption of food or drugs. One hypothesis for this finding is that emotional distress sensitizes the brain's reward system to appetitive stimuli. Using functional neuroimaging, we demonstrate that inducing negative affect in chronic dieters increases activity in brain regions representing the reward value of appetitive stimuli when viewing appetizing food cues. Thirty female chronic dieters were randomly assigned to receive either a negative ( n = 15) or neutral mood induction ( n = 15) immediately followed by exposure to images of appetizing foods and natural scenes during fMRI. Compared with chronic dieters in a neutral mood, those receiving a negative mood induction showed increased activity in the OFC to appetizing food images. In addition, activity to food images in the OFC and ventral striatum was correlated with individual differences in the degree to which the negative mood induction decreased participants' self-esteem. These findings suggest that distress sensitizes the brain's reward system to appetitive cues, thereby offering a mechanism for the oft-observed relationship between negative affect and disinhibited eating.
Dietary Restraint Violations Influence Reward Responses in Nucleus Accumbens and Amygdala
Kathryn E. Demos, William M. Kelley, Todd F. Heatherton
Numerous studies have demonstrated that consuming high-calorie food leads to subsequent overeating by chronic dieters. The present study investigates the neural correlates of such self-regulatory failures using fMRI. Chronic dieters ( n = 50) and non-dieters ( n = 50) consumed either a 15-oz glass of cold water or a 15-oz milkshake and were subsequently imaged while viewing pictures of animals, environmental scenes, people, and appetizing food items. Results revealed a functional dissociation in nucleus accumbens and amygdala activity that paralleled well-established behavioral patterns of eating observed in dieters and non-dieters. Whereas non-dieters showed the greatest nucleus accumbens activity in response to food items after water consumption, dieters showed the greatest activity after consuming the milkshake. Activity in the left amygdala demonstrated the reverse interaction. Considered together with previously reported behavioral findings, the present results offer a suggested neural substrate for diet failure.
Are Attractive People Rewarding? Sex Differences in the Neural Substrates of Facial Attractiveness
Jasmin Cloutier, Todd F. Heatherton, Paul J. Whalen, William M. Kelley
The current study examined the neural substrates of facial attractiveness judgments. Based on the extant behavioral literature, it was hypothesized that brain regions involved in identifying the potential reward value of a stimulus would be more active when men viewed attractive women than when women viewed attractive men. To test this hypothesis, we conducted an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging experiment during which participants provided explicit attractiveness judgments for faces of the opposite sex. These individual ratings were subsequently used to perform analyses aimed at identifying the brain regions preferentially responsive to attractive faces for both sex groups. The results revealed that brain regions comprising the putative reward circuitry (e.g., nucleus accumbens [NAcc], orbito-frontal cortex [OFC]) showed a linear increase in activation with increased judgments of attractiveness. However, further analysis also revealed sex differences in the recruitment of OFC, which distinguished attractive and unattractive faces only for male participants.
Dissociable Medial Temporal Lobe Contributions to Social Memory
Leah H. Somerville, Gagan S. Wig, Paul J. Whalen, William M. Kelley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2006.18.8.1253
Medial temporal lobe structures such as the hippocampus have been shown to play a critical role in mnemonic processes, with additional recruitment of the amygdala when memories contain emotional content. Thus far, studies that have examined the relationship between amygdala activity and memory have typically relied on emotional content of the kind that is rarely encountered in day-to-day interactions. The present event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study investigates whether amygdala activity supports emotional memory during the more subtle social interactions that punctuate everyday life. Across four training sessions, subjects learned common first names for unfamiliar faces in the presence or absence of additional contextual information that was positive, negative, and neutral in valence (e.g., "Emily helps the homeless," "Bob is a deadbeat dad," "Eric likes carrots"). During scanning, subjects performed a yes/no recognition memory test on studied and novel faces. Results revealed a functional dissociation within the medial temporal lobe. Whereas a region within the right hippocampus responded strongly to all faces that had been paired with a description, regardless of its valence, activity in the right amygdala was uniquely sensitive to faces that had been previously associated with emotional descriptions (negative and positive > neutral). This pattern of activity in the amygdala was preserved even when the emotional contexts associated with faces could not be explicitly retrieved, suggesting a role for the amygdala in providing a nonspecific arousal indicator in response to viewing individuals with emotionally colored pasts.
Separable Routes to Human Memory Formation: Dissociating Task and Material Contributions in the Prefrontal Cortex
Gagan S. Wig, Michael B. Miller, Alan Kingstone, William M. Kelley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/089892904322755629
The present study used fMRI to investigate functional dissociations across frontal regions during incidental memory formation. Subjects were imaged while encoding materials with differential access to phonological codes (nonfamous faces and nameable famous faces) under task conditions that encouraged elaborate (deep) or superficial (shallow) encoding strategies. Results revealed a functional dissociation between dorsal posterior regions of the prefrontal cortex (BA 6/44) that were sensitive to material type (famous vs. nonfamous), irrespective of the encoding task, and ventral anterior regions of the prefrontal cortex (BA 45/47) that were uniquely sensitive to task demands (deep vs. shallow), regardless of material type. Further, subjects realized a memorial advantage to the extent that they recruited these dissociable frontal regions. These results demonstrate a posterior/anterior dichotomy in the frontal cortex that underlies separable code-based routes to human memory formation.
Set-and Code-Specific Activation in the Frontal Cortex: An fMRI Study of Encoding and Retrieval of Faces and Words
Kathleen B. McDermott, Randy L. Buckner, Steven E. Petersen, William M. Kelley, Amy L. Sanders
The frontal cortex has been described as playing both "setspecific" and "code-specific" roles in human memory processing. Set specificity refers to the finding of goal-oriented differences in activation patterns (e.g., encoding relative to retrieval). Code specificity refers to the finding of different patterns of activation for different types of stimuli (e.g., verbal/nonverbal). Using a two (code: verbal, nonverbal) by two (set: encoding, retrieval) within-subjects design and fMRI, we explored the influence of type of code and mental set in two regions in the frontal cortex that have been previously shown to be involved in memory. A region in the dorsal extent of the inferior frontal gyrus (BA 6/44) demonstrated code-specific effects. Specifically, an interaction of material type with hemisphere was obtained, such that words produced predominantly left-lateralized activation, whereas unfamiliar faces elicited predominantly right-lateralized activation. A region of the right frontal polar cortex (in or near BA 10), which has been activated in many memory retrieval studies, showed set-specific activation in that it was more active during retrieval than encoding. These data demonstrate that distinct regions in the frontal cortex contribute in systematic yet different ways to human memory processing.


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At least 20 killed floodwaters in Kenya
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At least 20 people drowned on Saturday when a bus carrying a group of the religious faithful was swept away by floodwaters as the driver tried to cross a river in the eastern Kenyan county of Kitui, the county governor said.
Axar.az reports that many parts of the East African nation have been experiencing unusually heavy rainfall in the past week. At least 17 people were rescued after the bus was swept into the River Enziu, the governor, Charity Ngilu, said.
"This afternoon tragedy has struck Kitui county," she wrote on Twitter, adding that rescue operations were being carried out by personnel from the Kenya Red Cross and security agencies.
Footage aired on the local Citizen Television showed a yellow bus, with branding on the side showing it belongs to a local seminary, driving into the swollen river as a crowd of locals looked on.
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This week on the show, a whole lot of Ghostbusters II and Ghostbusters The Video Game discussion! First up - news! Troy and Chris chat about Ghostbusters: The Video Game on the 9th anniversary of the game's release, curious photos on producer Brian Volk-Weiss' Instagram of iconic 80's filming locations including Hook and Ladder No. 8, Jeff Shreck's lucky find of a rare Ghostbusters II charcoal (yes, charcoal) uniform, and discussion about Run DMC's Ghostbusters theme song - why was the band so embarrassed by the song? All that, plus a small tribute to Matt "Guitar" Murphy on this week's Crossrip podcast!
This week on the show, Troy and Chris discuss the early release - then delay of the IDW Ghostbusters Annual, discuss the screen-accurateness of the Anovos No-Ghost logo patch, praise Chris Hardwick for his knowledge of Bobby Brown lyrics, and have some late-breaking news from the People's Choice Awards. All that and more on another fun episode of the Crossrip, join us!
This week on the Crossrip - a ll'l bit of This Ghostbusting Life. On our inaugural episode, we spend some time with animation veteran and prop building pioneer Sean Bishop in his workshop. What got him started, how build days have brought him some of his closest friends, and a few stories from the first time he built a proton pack. All that and more in this special Independence Day weekend edition of the show.


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Thinking about settling down with a big bowl of chili makes my mouth water in the truest sense of the word and spreads a warmth over my body. Also called 'chili con carne', Spanish for 'chili with meat', the rustic combination of chili peppers, meat, tomatoes, and beans seems innate, a recipe that barely even needs a recipe. But it's a hotly debated one, lines drawn over what's authentic and what's blaspheme. To this day the states Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona fervently debate where the first chili con carne was invented.
Today we will go in search of the original recipe of the stew, tell you step-by-step how to cook chili, and which mistakes you just don't need to make.
We'll start our journey in 19th century Texas. Cowboys warming around a fire are said to have warmed themselves through, from the inside out, with big bowls of chili. Dried beef, chilis, and certain spices were cheap, non-perishable ingredients that always fit in a saddlebag. A long storage life was most arguably the reason why chili con carne became an inherent part of the cowboy diet and later even army troops are known to have cooked up big pots of chili. The Texan original recipe is just a simple stew made of beef, dried chilis, broth, and lots of time. There are only a few ingredients, but they are carefully selected and prepared. Let's have a closer look at the single components for your perfect chili.
The best chilis make the most of the four distinct chili flavor profiles. Firstly the sweet, fresh chilis like the Anaheim from New Mexico, the hot tear-bringing Pequin or Arbol, smoked Chipotles, and those ones with special fruity aromas like Ancho which is a bit reminiscent of plums and tobacco.
Depending on preference, every chili-lover can find their personal balance. In most places you can find speciality stores with a variety of dried chilis or simply buy them online. Using a vegetable chopper or mortar and pestle, the chilis can be pummeled well, but it's not necessary to have a super fine powder because the tough fibers will dissolve during cooking. In fact, Texan recipes usually call to boil the whole dried chili together with the meat and hearty broth.
The meat is the second most important element of chili. True to the original, beef is the most commonly used meat. Tough, fatty cuts from the neck, shoulder, or shank are well suited for the slowly simmering dish. Sliced in big cubes and seared before being mixed with the remaining ingredients, the meat will be tender in a few hours and have the full flavor from the chili. Outside cities like Dallas, Phoenix, and Albuquerque many chefs have changed the original recipes, added something special, or swapped the meat for pork, turkey, venison, boar, or rabbit. Ground meat can also be used, but choosing a ground meat with a high meat to fat ratio is best.
Apart from meat and chili, there's a lot of freedom to explore. One of the best parts about cooking chili is that every recipe can be different: hot, mild, with or without beans, added vegetables, and new spices to taste. For me beans are an absolute must just as onions and garlic as special aroma, but there's room for creativity: try adding corn, grated carrot, chocolate, or even dried tomatoes. Different spices from dried oregano, rosemary, or thyme to bay leaves, and even cumin can make your chili taste much more interesting.
Of course, ready-made spice mixtures are tempting, but it's easy enough to make the mix at home. Grab some various flavored dried chilis, good paprika powder (smoked, if you want to), and a teaspoon of cumin seeds and roast them all together in a warm frying pan in order to develop their aroma. Afterwards, grind in a mortar and pestle or spice grinder.
People do not only argue about the best recipe but also about secret ingredients. Some chefs prefer red wine or sherry that tenderizes the meat. Coffee and chocolate have also proved to be popular. Frying chopped bacon together with meat adds a nice flavor as well.
A true chili-fan does not need more than a spoon for his steaming bowl, but feel free top with a tiny bit of sour cream or yogurt, freshly chopped coriander, grated cheese, sliced scallions, avocado, tortilla chips, or rice.
1) Peel and finely chop onions and garlic. Put some oil and meat of choice into the pot over high heat. It is important to sear the meat until well browned. When you have a large amount of meat, sear it in batches.
2) Once meat is well browned, add onions and garlic. Then add your grated chili and spice mixture and stir into the meat.
3) Add beans, followed by other vegetables of choice. Fill up with crushed tomatoes and a strong meat stock in a ratio of 2:1. Make sure that the beans and meat are fully covered. Finally, season with salt, place lid over at a bit of an angle to let some steam out, and reduce heat so the mixture is simmering. Simmer for approx. 1 hr, stirring occasionally.
4) The chili is ready when the liquid has boiled down and thickened. Some burst beans are always a good sign. Remove the pot from heat and let rest for 20 min. before serving with toppings of your choice.
Have a secret chili con carne recipe? Tell us in the comments or send your favorite recipe to community@kitchenstories.com.


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A dive into health data reveals why some are more at risk to get sick or die from the coronavirus
January 1st, 2021 | by Elizabeth Fite
Sherry Zink of BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee / Contributed photo
Health data from BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is providing insight into what makes some people more vulnerable to COVID-19 and less likely to accept vaccines.
As with many diseases and health conditions, a person's access to health care, income, education and physical environment — such as a neighborhood or workplace — heavily influence whether that individual gets sick or dies due to the coronavirus. These "social determinants of health" help explain why COVID-19 has hit minority populations in Tennessee and the United States harder.
"We're seeing a lot of those health disparities across those populations that are testing positive for COVID-19 as well as those who may have some more severe cases of COVID-19," said Sherri Zink, vice president and chief data engagement officer at BlueCross. For example, not only are COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations more prevalent in minority communities, hospitalizations among Black and Hispanic people are occurring in much younger age groups, according to BlueCross's data analysis.
BlueCross found similar results among its Medicaid members. About 9% of BlueCross's Medicaid members have tested positive for COVID-19, but Black people account for 50% of those testing positive and 72% of the high-severity cases.
In response, BlueCross used its data to develop a "Social Vulnerabilities Index" for members — an aggregate score that ranges from 0 to 19 based on the number of social determinants that could put that member at risk.
"For those people who are at high risk factor of COVID-19, we layer on that social vulnerability index to give us an idea of what are those other factors that may drive their risk even higher for either contracting COVID-19 or having a severe reaction to the disease," Zink said.
In partnership with Nashville's Meharry Medical College, the largest private historically Black college in the United States, BlueCross is using this information now to better address these disparities and apply what it is learning to improve vaccine acceptance rates among underserved groups.
"We know from other data that there's more hesitancy in Black and Latino populations," said Dr. Bryan Heckman, director of the Center for the Study of Social Determinants of Health at Meharry. "A lot of that has to do with trust — there's a fair amount of mistrust in minority populations based off some real things that have happened in the past."
In addition to identifying barriers, such as transportation issues, Heckman said that overcoming distrust and combating widespread misinformation will be key in order to improve COVID-19 disparities and increase vaccine acceptance in underserved communities. One way to do that is working alongside trusted messengers, such as churches and other faith-based organizations.
Using BlueCross's data, the group created maps to identify regions that may be more hesitant in order to develop programs and decide where to allocate resources as the program evolves.
"We might be able to use our mobile units to actually go out and engage with those communities throughout the state, or create public health messaging that could be focused on certain areas, depending on the issues at hand," Heckman said. "If we understand what was creating the vulnerability, then we can help overcome it."
Contact Elizabeth Fite at efite@timesfreepress.com or follow her on Twitter @ecfite.
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Accident claims 2 lives Bauchi, FRSC confirms
Nov 29, 2021 Federal Road Safety Corps, Sector Commander, Yusuf Abdullahi
Mr Yusuf Abdullahi, Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Bauchi, says no fewer than two persons lost their lives in a lone motor accident that occurred in Bauchi on Sunday.
Abdullahi, who confirmed the incident in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Sunday in Bauchi, disclosed that six others sustained various degrees of injuries.
He said that the accident which involved one Alhambra commercial bus with number plate GSH 42 AA, occurred one kilometer after Durum Market along Bauchi-Kano road at 9:53 a.m.
The Sector Commander, who said that it took personnel of the Corps about 12 minutes to arrive at the scene to clear the site, attributed the accident to speed violation and tire burst.
"Eight people are involved in the crash comprising five males, two females and one male child.
"Two men died on the spot and six others sustained injuries. They include three males, two females and one male child," he said.
Abdullahi said the driver of the bus had been identified simply as Ibrahim, adding that the injured persons had been referred to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUH), Bauchi for treatment.
He disclosed that the remains of the deceased were also deposited in the morgue of the same hospital for identification.
The Sector Commander advised motorists to always be conscious of traffic rules and regulations while plying the roads. (NAN)
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Ultimate Success Today
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For his band's fifth LP, Protomartyr guitarist Greg Ahee took inspiration from working with DJ/producer (and fellow Michigan native) Matthew Dear. "He comes from a completely different world and has a completely different way of making songs," Ahee tells Apple Music of Dear, with whom he collaborated on the latter's 2018 album Bunny. "I thought that it'd be cool to bring other people into Protomartyr to try to get some new perspectives. I wanted to approach things like a jazz record, but one where there's no real lead instrument. Everything blends together and flows in a way I haven't heard very much in rock music—nothing stands above anything else." Featuring contributions from Nandi Plunkett (vocals), Jemeel Moondoc (alto saxophone), Izaak Mills (bass clarinet, saxophone, flute), and Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello), Ultimate Success Today finds the Detroit post-punk outfit adding new textures and tones to some of Ahee and frontman Joe Casey's most urgent and upsetting work to date. "I was sick, and I don't know if that's just because I'm getting old and you get sick when you get old, but you start feeling every ache and pain that you've been putting off," Casey says. "And if there was anything that I was putting off writing, anything that I was like, 'Oh, someday I would like to do that,' I was definitely going to try to push it and make sure it was on this record." Here, Ahee and Casey take us inside every song.
Day Without End Greg Ahee: "We wanted to try something a little bit different and open with this thing that's just a repetitive build. We've always, in my mind, been pretty good at building tension and building it to where it almost releases, but you never really get that satisfaction. The whole idea of this song is building tension and then just stopping it—I feel like that sums up what we like to do as a band." Joe Casey: "Lyrically, it was just an easy way for me set the tone for the album. When people are describing us, 'dark and gloomy' is kind of a go-to, which I think is wrong. And the idea of having a summer album—or an album about light that still had some dark themes to it—was kind of my goal. This song is about a day when the sun never goes down—quite disturbing. I've suffered from not being able to go to sleep, and there's nothing more sickening than lying in a bed, being there all night trying to fall asleep, and the sun starts coming up and you hear birds chirping. The world has reset and you have not."
Processed by the Boys JC: "People have—for good reason—been focusing on that line 'A foreign disease washed up on the beach.' And I feel kind of bad to then go, 'Yeah, but the song says all these things that you think are going to be the end of the world—a foreign disease or someone stabbing you—are not really what brings down society.' What brings down society is corrupt governments or a police force having too much power—the boys running amok. You don't want the annoying guy that you knew in high school to be in charge, but as you get older, you realize that the idiots that you knew in high school are the people that are now in charge, and it becomes a very frightening, frightening thing. 'Processed' is also one of those words that institutions use that can mean so many different things. Processed meat. When you get any sort of paperwork, when you're trying to apply for unemployment or you're trying to apply for health insurance, you have to wait till your documents get processed. I don't like how dehumanizing that is."
I Am You Now JC: "The main thing about 'I Am You Now' is just how corporations will—or anybody—will take people that are marginalized or suffering, and then draw them into this world and make them feel like they're important by selling things to them. And how the person that is suffering will immediately be turned into a symbol for the status quo: 'Oh, as long as somebody's selling something to me, I must be included.' It's probably one of the more raucous songs on the album. I like songs I have to fight against. Like, 'Okay, Greg's guitar is fighting for space—I need to fight for my space.' We're kind of doing a back-and-forth like that. Those are all some of my favorite songs." GA: "When I write a riff, I'm always conscious that it's going to either be a thing where Joe needs to find a way to sing over it or we're going to have that back-and-forth. And pretty early on with this one, it was clear that it was going to be a back-and-forth. We were playing around with this idea of all of us fighting against each other, but also trying to make a really tight piece of music."
The Aphorist JC: "I don't think the band, on our first record [2012's No Passion All Technique], would have thought to even consider doing something like this. Now, I feel confident enough, after five albums, that, like, 'Okay, I'm going to try as best I can to sing it.' And I'm glad for the opportunity, especially after something like 'I Am You Now.' This is definitely one of those songs about writing songs. To me, shouting slogans is stupid. The first verse is a poem my brother wrote that I adjusted a little bit. I always liked my brother Jim; I always like to go to him for writing advice or if I'm stuck on something. That was a song that we were working on for a while where the slight tempo changes would completely alter it, so it was hard to find the tone that would work for it. I was trying lots of different things and Jim was like, 'Oh, I got this poem,' and it fit the vibe of the record and what I was going for—the impermanence of things. That helped lock it in." GA: "That was a really hard one for us to get tight with as a band, because of the time signature, and if we would have played that song even a couple BPMs too fast, I couldn't play that riff. It took a while to just play that song over and over again before we really got it."
June 21 JC: "June 21 is the beginning of summer. It was actually kind of written around that time, too. You know it's summer [in Detroit] when you just hear the cars starting to drive fucking insane on the expressways. Everybody usually thinks that summer is a great time of year, but if you're physically and mentally diminished, summer is rough as any other season."
Michigan Hammers JC: "The song's about workers, and the line about Veracruz is about mules. Because in the Mexican-American War, the army used lots of them. And off the coast of Veracruz, they couldn't get close enough to shore, so they just threw all the mules off the side of the boat. The ones that could swim to the shore, they used—but over half of them drowned. America won that war, and afterward, Ulysses S. Grant was celebrating the victory, so he went on a camping trip outside of Mexico City and he had a bunch of mules carrying stuff, one of which fell down the side of the mountain. They were like, 'Well, that mule's dead,' and they continued to the top of the mountain. Then, two days later, the mule just showed up. It had climbed back up to the top of the mountain. It shows the reliance of these animals. Musically, it was another kind of rocking song and I wanted to write a rallying song about something fictional so it wouldn't be weighed down with any sort of meaning. I wanted it to be free of specificity." GA: "A lot of times, Joe will take lyrics and just talk about it and joke about it with us. In the studio's kitchen, they had magnet fridge poetry, and somebody put together, like, 'champagne bath, half empty.' Joe was like, 'Oh, that's like the saddest four-word short story that I've ever read.' And then a variation of that ended up in the song."
Tranquilizer GA: "We knew we wanted some fucking freaky jazz saxophone on that one, and we wanted to get someone that really comes from that world, and Jemeel does. That song has almost no guitar. It was kind of supposed to be based around 'If There's a Hell Below We're All Going to Go,' by Curtis Mayfield, where it's just like a distorted, driving bassline that never changes and then all these things kind of float on top of it and then it kicks off in this kind of dramatic way. It was originally combined with 'Modern Business Hymns' and we ended up splitting those into separate songs—partially because we thought they were both solid enough on their own, and partially because the moods of them are very different. But I wanted to still have a connection between them, so the bassline that plays throughout 'Tranquilizer' is the same as the outro of 'Modern Business Hymns.' But in 'Modern Business Hymns,' you almost can't tell because it's kind of pretty. 'Tranquilizer' is menacing." JC: "That was definitely one where I had to kind of go back to the idea of not overthinking lyrics. Because I really wanted to try to capture the feeling of when you're in pain. Writing about pain is impossible to do, because it is such an unthinking feeling. You're not thinking about it. You're not having heady thoughts when you're in pain. You're immediately kind of reduced to very animalistic thoughts and fears, and I wanted to keep it that way. It's less about the words and more about the feeling of saying them almost. Once Greg explained the connection between this and the next song, it was easy to take the idea that you're dealing with pain until you take something to dull it or kill it. Because then on the next song, the first line is 'Once the tranqs had hit.' So it's like once you have gotten rid of the pain, then your mind can kind of formulate more thoughts about it."
Modern Business Hymns JC: "I always wanted to write a science fiction song, or a song about the future, but it's easier said than done. You don't want to make it too cheesy. So I wanted to kind of tie it into dreams, where when you're thinking about your future, if things are going well, you can imagine it as very bright. But when things are going very bad, the future can be just as dire as what you're going through. In the past, I've sometimes maybe wanted to double my vocals during the chorus, and this was definitely one that I'm like, this song will work if there's a female vocalist in the song, and I wanted it to be more of a duet. It ended up being maybe less of that, but I'm glad. I think Nandi makes the song. Her voice has a purity to it that I don't think people would expect to be in a Protomartyr song. For some reason, I feel like it elevates it in a way that I would have never imagined before I heard it."
Bridge & Crown JC: "I have a friend who is studying to be a dentist, and she is always trying to throw in different dental ideas. And the thing that she gave me for this song that really sealed it for me was the four different kinds of patients. That's something that you'll learn, I guess, if you study to be a doctor or a dentist or anything, is the different attitudes patients will have. It was a perfect way to get into talking about dealing with mortality, specifically your own mortality. The thing that will survive long after you're gone is your dental work. Out of all the songs, that was the one where the lyrics came the easiest for me." GA: "I had written it start to finish, just on my phone. I think I was on an airplane and just messing around with how to structure it and trying different things. And it sounded insane. I made some really crazy drumbeats on it where I had just layered three different drum machines on top of each other. I brought it to the band and [drummer] Alex [Leonard] somehow learned how to play it, which he's actually really good at—when we just drum something that seems impossible, he can oftentimes figure out a way to make it work. It ended up being one of the craziest songs, because it wasn't really meant to be played."
Worm in Heaven GA: "When I was writing those chords, I was kind of just trying to write a country song. But it's also one of those things where immediately in writing it, I was like, 'This is the last song on the album.' But unlike that first song, you actually get the tension released by the end. It still cuts off as drastically as the first song does, but not before actually reaching a point where you feel like this tension that's been building the entire album finally has some sort of resolution and the song is able to actually explode." JC: "It has a certain stillness to it, a confidence to it. The guitar takes a while to really announce itself, which isn't something we would have necessarily felt comfortable doing before. I didn't have the lyrics until right before we recorded it. I really wanted to have the last thing be very of-the-moment, and I think, with that one, I wrote half of it up in my room at the studio ten minutes before it was time to record the vocals, and finished the second half of the lyrics in the booth as we were recording it. It's happened a couple times on different albums where I just feel like the music is so beautiful that the lyrics have to kind of rise to the occasion for it. I don't want to get too corny about it, but it was like, 'All right, no matter what happens to this record, this is kind of the point that we've been building, this moment.' And it worked for me."
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Isla Taborcillo (sometimes described as John Wayne Island) is a small private island  off the coast of Panama, which was once owned by American film actor John Wayne. Currently owned by Austrian businessman Ralph Hübner, founder of publishing company Who is Who, the island contains a resort hotel and theme park, and is a vacation destination for tourists. A part of the island has been designated as a protected bird sanctuary; egrets, brown pelicans and hummingbirds nest here.

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Honoring the heroic 'Montford Pointers,' the African American Marines the corps didn't want
By James LaPorta
August 1, 2016 at 4:13 a.m. EDT
Montford Pointers with a rare 90mm M1A1 anti-aircraft gun in background. (James LaPorta/ For The Washington Post)
CAMP JOHNSON, N.C — "If it were a question on having a Marine Corps of 5,000 Whites or 250,000 Negroes, I would rather have the Whites."
So said the U.S. Marine Corps' 17th commandant, Gen. Thomas Holcomb, in May 1941 and then again in January 1942, one month after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
There would be "a definite loss of efficiency in the Marine Corps if we have to take Negroes."
At the time, Holcomb and many senior officers at Headquarters Marine Corps stood in strong opposition to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1941 executive order that established the Fair Employment Practices Commission, which opened the door to "full participation in the defense program by all persons regardless of color, race, creed or national origin." Additionally, the order directed, "all departments of the government, including the Armed Forces," to "lead the way in erasing discrimination over color or race."
The Marine Corps would eventually succumb to political pressure from the White House and finally adhere to Roosevelt's demands to start enlisting African Americans in June 1942.
For the first time since the Revolutionary War, the Marine Corps would put out a call to enlist 900 African American recruits between the ages of 19 and 29. Upon entering the military, "Colored" would be stamped upon their service record book and their enlistment contract, according to the History and Museums Division of the Marine Corps.
The Marine Corps would keep them segregated and establish a training base at Montford Point in North Carolina, today named Camp Johnson, after Marine Sgt. Maj. Gilbert "Hashmark" Johnson, so named for having more service stripes than rank stripes.
They would come to be known as the Montford Point Marines. Camp Johnson remains the only military base named after an African American.
Former Sgt. Leroy Pittman, 85, still remembers when he arrived at Montford Point in 1948 after dropping out of high school in Hartford, Conn. "It was tough. We had to build our own huts to live in. We spent weeks chopping down trees and dodging rattlesnakes. It wasn't a joke." Pittman said they were not allowed to ride in cars or go into town to eat. Harassment or arrest without cause was frequent from the Jacksonville Police Department, with locals threatening the black Marines to "not cross the railroad tracks in Jacksonville."
Some 45 of the original "Montford Pointers" came together Friday for the unveiling of the first phase of the National Montford Point Marine Memorial in a ceremony at Lejeune Memorial Gardens, located just outside Marine Corps base Camp Lejeune.
The men sat in silence on the hot concrete, beneath barbershop-striped tents to shield them from the blistering Carolina sun, among the Chinese Pistache trees and 20,000 gold stars — each symbolizing a brother-in-arms.
The plastic water bottles went quickly as sweat seeped through the wool, cotton and polyester suits, dresses and military uniforms.
The men had traveled from all across the country, undeterred by age, faltering health and, for some, the inability to move under their own strength. But still, they came — just as they did seven decades ago.
At a time when the United States seems to be divided along racial, political and religious lines, these men of valor, once looked upon with disdain and hatred — found themselves being honored by four-star generals, officials from all levels of government and ordinary citizens gathered together to remember the sacrifices of the first African Americans admitted to a still-segregated Marine Corps during World War II.
There, the Marines, some donning their Congressional Gold Medals — the highest civilian award bestowed by Congress, awarded to them in 2012 — were hailed as heroes and recognized for their service on the battlefields of World War II, Korea and Vietnam, as well as their courage in fighting bigotry and exclusion.
John White, 92, a former Marine corporal and the last of nine original black police officers hired by the Savannah Police Department in 1947, who would later guard a young Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement, remembers Holcomb's Marine Corps.
"General Thomas Holcomb, the 17th commandant of the Marine Corps, didn't want us in the Marine Corps," White told The Washington Post. "I still remember what he stated about us, that when he returned to this country and found 'you people' wearing our cherished globe and anchor [the Marine Corps emblem], I knew there was a war going on."
For these men, the greatest challenge to overcome may not have been a Japanese bunker in the Pacific or, for others, a near-ambush from the People's Army of Vietnam, but a Marine Corps that did not want them to serve at all.
Johnson would become one of the first African Americans to enlist in the Marine Corps and one of the first black drill instructors. He would retire in 1959 after 32 years of service in the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, according to the Montford Point Marine Museum.
Gen. James F. Amos, a former Marine Corps commandant who retired from active duty in 2014 after 44 years of service, said in an interview after the dedication ceremony: "This is a prime example of the goodness of the United States of America. … There's a part of our history, for our country and for the Marine Corps, that's not so glorious. But you think about the 20,000 men who became Marines at Montford Point, of their willingness to sacrifice for our country — a country that's still struggling with race today — these 20,000 men came forward despite the Marine Corps and a commandant not wanting them to come in."
Amos said that despite the struggles of the Montford Point Marines, he has never met any of them who are resentful. "I look at [their struggles] and I have not met a single bitter one, not one. It's just the opposite."
"The lesson here, if we turn the clock forward to 2016, is that they're a shining example for our nation on how things ought to be done and how people ought to be treated, from everything to equality of jobs to equality of treatment. … Just listen to the rhetoric from both political parties. [They] can learn a very powerful lesson from the Montford Point Marines."
The "lesson" comes from men like retired first sergeant Barnett Person, a 1946 graduate of Montford Point. "We wanted to be the best. … We didn't see color. … We just wanted to be Marines, to serve our country and our fellow brothers during a time of war, [regardless] if those Marines were white or black."
Person would serve through Korea and in Vietnam, where he would save the life of retired first sergeant Jack McDowell, a 1946 Montford Point graduate who received the Purple Heart after being wounded by a 50-caliber round, resulting in the loss of his left leg.
"We lost seven Marines that day. We had many wounded," McDowell said. As the senior enlisted Marine for Company G, Second Battalion, Ninth Marine Regiment out of Camp Lejeune, N.C., it was his job to account for the Marines killed or wounded in action. Between July 18 and 19 of 1967, his company came under heavy small arms fire and mortar and artillery bombardment.
Just as his unit was about to be overrun by forces from a North Vietnamese army regiment, Person, a tank commander, would come to McDowell's rescue, according to documents released by the Marine Corps History Division. He would later receive the Silver Star and two Purple Hearts for actions in combat.
"I wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for Person," McDowell said.
The 900 pound bronze statue that honors them stands 15 feet tall. Behind it sits a rare 90 mm M1A1 anti-aircraft gun, the primary weapon used by the 51st and 52nd Defense Battalions to which most Montford Point Marines were assigned after boot camp, according to retired Master Gunnery Sgt. James H. Carr, who serves as the national fundraising director for the Montford Point Marine Association.
"I'm grateful for the country and all the people for remembering us," 1943 Montford Point graduate and former corporal Richard C. Davis said, "For honoring our sacrifices. It's one of the proudest moments of my life,"
Now, for them, Montford Point is just a place — where training was tough and standards were high. And they're not much for labels like the first black this or the first African American that.
For these war veterans — the old breed — if asked, they have but one preferred label: the title of Marine.
James LaPorta is a freelance journalist in North Carolina and a former U.S. Marine infantryman and intelligence cell chief. Follow him on Twitter @JimLaPorta


Exciting news! If you live in the DC/Baltimore area, be sure to tune in to your local PBS station this Saturday, September 11 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. for an exclusive one-day-only sneak preview of my NEW PBS special The Road to Perfect Health.
A lot of folks don't realize that a healthy body begins with a healthy gut. That's because your digestive tract is where more than 70 percent of your body's natural defenses are found, and it's where trillions of bacteria live in a delicate balance to help you absorb nutrients, defend against toxins, and fight off illness and disease—not to mention help with bowel regularity!
But what may surprise you is that even things you wouldn't normally associate with digestive health—everything from anxiety, joint aches and food sensitivities to fibromyalgia and even high cholesterol—they can all start in the gut. That's how important it is to keep your digestive system running smoothly.
Join me this weekend to learn the secret to balancing your gut and healing your body, beginning with the power of probiotics. Those are the beneficial bacteria in your intestines that help with healthy digestion and immune function, and they are the key to a strong GPS, or what I like to call your Gut Protection System. From there, I'll give you the keys to rebuilding your health from the inside out and finally living the life you've always wanted. See you there!
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Please know that the initial reason for my USANA involvement was because of my own personal Digestive Health Issues that I'e had for the last 24+yrs & the additional several other Health Issues that I've had for the last 4+yrs. I would truly appreciate any information that you can give me at this point & time.


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Vestar Portfolio Company Del Monte to Sell Canned Food Business for $1.7 Billion
(Reuters) – Singapore-listed Del Monte Pacific Ltd (DMPL.SI) will buy the canned food business of private equity-backed Del Monte Foods Consumer Products Inc for $1.7 billion, gaining a direct presence in the key U.S. market and reuniting a substantial portion of the Del Monte brand family.
Shares in Del Monte Pacific surged 10 percent on the deal.
It said the acquisition will give it the No. 1 branded position in major canned fruit and vegetable categories in the United States as well as the opportunity to offer some of its own products to the large and fast-growing Asian and Hispanic populations there.
The deal will also allow San Francisco-based Del Monte Foods to concentrate on its pet foods unit, including the recent acquisition of Natural Balance. Del Monte Foods was acquired in 2011 by KKR & Co LP (KKR.N), Vestar Capital Partners and Centerview Capital in a deal valued at $5.3 billion.
With the sale of its canned food business, the company plans to change its name.
Del Monte Pacific, a company that is strong in canned pineapple and tomato sauce, has been enjoying strong growth with net profit nearly trebling over the past three years to $32.1 million in 2012.
The transaction will give it an additional net sales of more than $1.8 billion.
"This landmark transaction offers DMPL greater access to a well-established, attractive and profitable branded consumer food business in the world's biggest market," Del Monte Pacific's Chairman Rolando Gapud said in a statement. Del Monte Pacific, which counts the Philippines as its largest market, is 67 percent-owned by NutriAsia Pacific Ltd (NPL). NPL is owned by the NutriAsia group, which is majority-owned by the Campos family of the Philippines.
With Thursday's share surge, the company's stock is up 76 percent so far this year, valuing the firm at S$1.17 billion ($936 million).
Del Monte Pacific said the deal will be largely funded through a combination of $745 million of equity in a new subsidiary created for the acquisition, as well as long-term debt financing of about $930 million that have been committed by a syndicate of bank lenders. It also plans to issue common and preferred shares in the market.
Perella Weinberg Partners LLC is the lead financial advisor and Citibank is a financial advisor to the company on this transaction.
Pinnacle Foods Inc (PF.N) and Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc (FDP.N) were among the companies that had considered offers for Del Monte Foods' canned foods business, sources have said.
Del Monte Pacific and its subsidiaries are not affiliated with other Del Monte companies in the world, including Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc, Del Monte Canada and Del Monte Asia Pte Ltd.
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Stephanie Goldman is a contemporary fine artist and portrait painter, exhibiting nationally, internationally. Stephanie has been collaborating with artist Ken Goldman for over two decades on public and private art projects for institutions, corporations and residences. Stephanie is a past president of the San Diego Museum of Art's Artists Guild and has served as Trustee of the San Diego Museum of Art. The Riverside Art Museum exhibited her portrait series of children entitled I Am a Child, which is now in the permanent collection of the Osteopathic Center for Children and Families in San Diego, CA. Stephanie co-authored a reference book for artists wanting to learn how to draw the figure titled The Complete Book of Poses, published by Walter Foster is available though Amazon. Her work has been reproduced by Frontline Publishing Co, Ramprod.com, Eastmeetswestco.com and goldmanfineart.com. Currently, Stephanie is serving on the Board of Directors of the National Watercolor Society.
Stan Goudey, AWS, SDWS, WFWS, started painting in grade and high school. He received formal training at Grossmont College and studied figure drawing and illustration at the Art Center of Design, Los Angeles. He was commissioned for illustrations for books and magazines, including Psychology Today and Oceans. His constant goal is to try to paint to the standards of the masters—the old ones as well as the new. Personal favorites include Edward Hopper, Winslow Homer, Wayne Thiebaud, Richard Diebenkorn, Arnie Westerman, John Salminen and Ted Rose. Among his favorable critiques are those in the San Diego Union, Julian News, North County Times, and Daily Californian. His art is in collections—and has exhibited in—Italy, England, Mexico, the United States and Canada.
Irina Gronborg is known for her botanical drawings in color pencil inspired by the exotic plants in the garden that she created with her husband Erik at their home in Solana Beach. She has exhibited and taught drawing at colleges, community colleges and the Athenaeum since graduating many years ago from Stanford University in studio art (BA, MA). Several of her books of drawings are available on Amazon.com.
France-Marie Haeger, Swiss born, Fine-Arts instructor, artist and Registered Board Certified art therapist, graduated at the School of Fine-Arts in Lausanne, Switzerland. France-Marie is instructor and program adviser for the "Art and Creative Process" Certificate Program she helped design for UCSD Extension. She has 40 years of experience teaching Fine-Arts and Art Appreciation in various venues in San Diego County. She helped design two Expressive Arts Therapy programs in San Diego and for 4 years acted as a coordinator and core faculty at San Diego University for Integrative Studies, the ISIS/Expressive Arts Institute, and in the UCSD Extension Certificate Program. She taught for 28 years in graduate programs in art and in art therapy in Switzerland where she created, directed, and coordinated the first Art Therapy Program in French-speaking Switzerland that now recognizes art therapy as a profession. She has exhibited her work in Switzerland and the U.S.
Chelsea Herman holds an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from San Diego State University teaches visual art in both university and community contexts. Her work has been exhibited at the Oceanside Museum of Art, The International Printmaking Biennial of Douro in Portugal, CODEX Book Fair and Symposium, and the Janet Turner Print Museum at California State University, Chico, among others. Her work is held in several collections, including the International Collection of Contemporary Creative Books, Atelier Vis-a-Vis, Marseille, France, the Love Library at San Diego State University, and the Cloquet Forestry Center at the University of Minnesota. Herman is the proprietor of FlightPath Press in San Diego, California. Website: chelseahermanart.com


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Everyone at Sayes wishes the team the very best of luck and are all looking forward to seeing them in action. The new kit looks fantastic and we hope it inspires the team to reach their targets for this season and beyond.


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Das American Manufacturing Council war ein Gremium, das den US-Präsidenten Donald Trump in Industriefragen beriet.

Trump machte Arbeitsplatzverluste in Industriegebieten zu einem Schwerpunkt seiner Kampagne und versprach an das Ausland verlorene Arbeitsplätze zurückzuholen.
Das Gremium sollte Trump bei der Steigerung des Wirtschaftswachstums fachlich beraten. Das erste gemeinsame Treffen fand am 30. Januar 2017 statt. Die Mitglieder waren hochkarätige Manager, meist CEO (Vorstandsvorsitzenden) großer Unternehmen. Unter den zu Anfang 28 Mitgliedern befanden sich drei Frauen und ein Afroamerikaner.

Nach mehreren Rücktritten im Zusammenhang mit Trumps Reaktion auf die gewalttätigen Ausschreitungen in Charlottesville sagte Trump am 15. August: "Für jeden CEO, der aus dem Manufacturing Council austritt, habe ich viele, die ihren Platz einnehmen. Angeber hätten nicht mitmachen sollen."
Einen Tag später gab Trump die Auflösung des American Manufacturing Council bekannt: "Anstatt Druck auf die Wirtschaftsleute im Manufacturing Council und im Strategy & Policy Forum auszuüben, beendige ich beide. Ich danke Ihnen allen!"

Mitglieder bis zum 16. August 2017
William M. Brown, CEO, Harris Corporation
Michael Dell, CEO, Dell Technologies Inc
John J. Ferriola, CEO, Nucor
Jeff Fettig, CEO, Whirlpool Corporation
Alex Gorsky, CEO, Johnson & Johnson
Greg Hayes, CEO, United Technologies
Marillyn Hewson, CEO, Lockheed Martin
James Kamsickas, CEO, Dana Inc.
Richard G. Kyle, CEO, Timken Company
Andrew Liveris, CEO, Dow Chemical Company
Dennis Muilenburg, CEO, Boeing
Doug Oberhelman, Direktor, Caterpillar Inc.
Michael B. Polk, CEO, Newell Brands
Mark Sutton, CEO, International Paper
Wendell Weeks, CEO, Corning Inc.

Mitglieder, die vorzeitig ihre Arbeit im American Manufacturing Council beendeten
Nachdem Ausscheiden aus ihrem jeweiligen Unternehmen verließen folgende Mitglieder das American Manufacturing Council (eine Neubesetzung fand nicht statt):
Mark Fields, ehem. CEO, Ford Motor Company
Klaus Kleinfeld, ehem. CEO, Arconic
Thea Lee, ehem. stell. Vorsitzende, AFL–CIO
Mario Longhi, ehem. CEO, U.S. Steel
Das Gremium verließ als Reaktion auf die Ankündigung Donald Trumps, die Vereinigten Staaten würden von dem Pariser Klimaabkommen zurücktreten:
Elon Musk, CEO, Tesla, Inc.
Als Reaktion auf die Stellungnahmen von Donald Trump zu den rechtsextremen Demonstrationen in Charlottesville im August 2017 verließen mehrere Mitglieder das Gremium:

Kenneth Frazier, CEO, Merck & Co.
Jeff Immelt, CEO, General Electric Company
Brian Krzanich, CEO, Intel
Denise Morrison, CEO, Campbell Soup Company
Scott Paul, Präsident, Alliance for American Manufacturing
Kevin Plank, CEO, Under Armour
Inge Thulin, CEO, 3M
Richard Trumka, Präsident, AFL–CIO

Weblinks
nytimes.com: The Business Leaders on (and Off) Trump Councils
marketplace.org: This is what CEOs from Trump's manufacturing council are saying (updated)
abcnews.go.com: Trump announces end to manufacturing council amid resignations

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Gegründet 2017
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Man arrested in girlfriend's shooting death in Memphis
MEMPHIS — Memphis police say a man who initially reported that his girlfriend shot herself has been arrested in her death.
Media outlets report 35-year-old Donald Dodd was charged with reckless homicide in the Jan. 21 shooting of his girlfriend, Rachel Pool.
According to a police affidavit, Dodd told police that the gun went off in their apartment as he was trying to take it from her.
Dodd is being held in jail on a $200,000 bond. It wasn't immediately known whether he has an attorney.


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El municipio de Ernest (en inglés: Ernest Township) es un municipio ubicado en el condado de Dade en el estado estadounidense de Misuri. En el año 2010 tenía una población de 131 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 2,02 personas por km².

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El municipio de Ernest se encuentra ubicado en las coordenadas . Según la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos, el municipio tiene una superficie total de 64.95 km², de la cual 64,82 km² corresponden a tierra firme y (0,2 %) 0,13 km² es agua.

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Según el censo de 2010, había 131 personas residiendo en el municipio de Ernest. La densidad de población era de 2,02 hab./km². De los 131 habitantes, el municipio de Ernest estaba compuesto por el 96,95 % blancos, el 0,76 % eran afroamericanos, el 1,53 % eran amerindios y el 0,76 % eran de una mezcla de razas. Del total de la población el 0,76 % eran hispanos o latinos de cualquier raza.

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Another AFCON blunder as wrong Mauritania national anthem played THREE TIMES and players asked to sing with no music
MAURITANIA players stood in disbelief as they didn't get to hear their national anthem following THREE failed attempts.
The Lions of Chinguetti are facing Gambia in their first group game of the Africa Cup of Nations and witnessed a disastrous start at the Limbe Stadium.
Didier Gomes Da Rosa's players lined up before kick-off to hear the national anthems but stadium officials played the wrong one three times.
That left the Mauritania players with no other choice but to sing without music, whereas there was no problem with Gambia's anthem.
This is the second major blunder of the competition and it happens on the exact same day.
This comes after some shocking refereeing during Mali's controversial 1-0 victory over Tunisia.
Referee Janny Sikazwe gave two controversial penalties, a questionable red card and TWICE ended the game early.


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Mona Lisa speaks out
The Mona Lisa's smile may be famously enigmatic, but at least we now know what her voice was like, thanks to a Japanese acoustic researcher.
Matsumi Suzuki, the president of the Japan Acoustic Laboratory in Tokyo, said he had achieved 90% accuracy in creating Mona Lisa's voice. He has previously identified Osama Bin Laden's voice and solved murders using voiceprinting technology.
"We can create a voice very similar to that of the person concerned," Suzuki said.
"We have recreated the voices of a lot of famous people that were very close to the real thing and have been used in film dubbing."
By measuring her hands and face he estimated her height to be 168cm and created a model of her skull.
He said the Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo di Vinci in the 16th century, would have had a relatively low voice since the lower part of her face is quite wide, while her pointed chin would add mid-pitch tones.
He brought in an Italian woman to add intonation to the voice.
Suzuki's team then pondered what the Mona Lisa would say. "We tried having her speak Japanese, but it didn't suit her image," Suzuki said.
The final decision was: "I am the Mona Lisa. My true identity is shrouded in mystery."
Suzuki's team has also tried to recreate the artist's voice, but Suzuki was less confident about its accuracy because he had to work from self-portraits where the shape of the face was hidden by a beard.
The clip can be found at http://promotion.msn.co.jp/davinci/voice.htm


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Tomb aligned with winter solstice sunrise excavated in Egypt
December 1, 2022 Cherry Timbol Africa, Archaeology, Egypt 0
The tomb's chapel, part of which is seen here. A statue of a governor was supposed to be placed in here, and the chapel is aligned in such a way that the statue would be bathed with sunlight during the winter solstice. (Image credit: University of Jaén and Málaga)
An ancient tomb whose chapel was oriented toward the sunrise on the winter solstice may be the oldest of its kind in Egypt.
Archaeologists have unearthed an unfinished, 3,800-year-old ancient Egyptian tomb with a chapel perfectly aligned with the sunrise on the winter solstice. Archaeologists say that this might be the oldest known tomb in Egypt that is aligned with the winter solstice.
The tomb, near modern-day Aswan, was built during Egypt's 12th dynasty, part of a time period sometimes called the "Middle Kingdom" in which Egypt thrived.
Located in the Qubbet el-Hawa necropolis, the tomb held the burials of two governors, researchers wrote in a study published in July in the journal Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry(opens in new tab). In ancient times, graverobbers plundered many of the artifacts placed in the tomb, including the governors' mummies.
The name of the governor who originally built the tomb is unknown, while the other governor buried there was named Heqaib III according to an inscription found in the tomb and in historical records. Both governors were in charge of the nearby town of Elephantine, albeit at different times, the team noted in a statement(opens in new tab).
The tomb's chapel contains a niche that was originally intended to hold a statue of the governor who built the tomb, the team wrote in the study. The tomb and the statue were never completed, study co-author Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano(opens in new tab), an Egyptologist and archaeologist at the University of Jaén in Spain, told Live Science in an email. Just outside the tomb, the team "found an unfinished statue" that was supposed to be completed and put in the niche, said Jiménez-Serrano, who directs the team's excavations at the site, noting that it's not clear why the tomb was left unfinished.
The entranceway to the chapel was built in such a way that the rays of the sun could enter and light the chapel during the winter solstice, which occurs annually on Dec. 21 or Dec. 22. In effect, had it been completed, the governor's statue and chapel would have been bathed in light during the sunrise of every winter solstice, the day with the fewest hours of daylight. It may be the oldest known tomb in Egypt that is aligned with the winter solstice, the researchers noted.
A plan of the tomb. It was designed so that sunlight would enter the chapel during the winter solstice and bathe the spot where the governor's statue was supposed to stand. (Image credit: University of Málaga)
Why did ancient Egyptians value the solstice?
The winter solstice had an important meaning for the ancient Egyptians, the researchers told Live Science.
"The winter solstice marked the beginning of the daily victory of light against darkness, culminating in the summer solstice, the longest day on the earthly plane," study lead author María Dolores Joyanes Díaz(opens in new tab), a researcher at the University of Málaga in Spain, told Live Science in an email.
RELATED: Here's the science of the winter solstice
For many of us on Earth this year, celebrating the first day of winter, astronomically speaking, is more than a yearning for snow-covered landscapes and sips of hot chocolate — It also means we're closer than ever to the end of the year … and the beginning of a new one!
But the winter solstice is an astronomical marvel in its own right. Today, the Northern Hemisphere experiences the fewest hours of daylight for the year all because of our blue marble's tilt as it treks around the sun.
Although the solstice gets an entire day of recognition, it happens in an instant: At 10:59 a.m. EST (1559 GMT) on Tuesday (Dec. 21), when the North Pole is at its farthest tilt of 23.5 degrees away from the sun. This position leaves the North Pole beyond the sun's reach, and plunges it into total darkness, according to EarthSky.org(opens in new tab).
https://www.livescience.com/57280-winter-solstice-science-explained.html
RELATED: 6 Ancient Tributes to the Winter Solstice
This weekend marks the beginning of the end. Of winter's darkness, that is.
Today (Dec. 21), those living in the Northern Hemisphere celebrate the mark of increasingly longer days, those in the Southern Hemisphere will transition to shorter days, and those at the equator won't notice much of a difference at all.
The global discrepancy in seasonal sunlight results from Earth's 23.5-degree tilt on its axis: During the Northern Hemisphere winter, the Earth is tilted directly away from the sun, and during the summer, it is tilted directly toward the sun. The equator does not experience much of a change during the year since it sits in the middle of the axis.
For many ancient civilizations that struggled to subsist through harsh winter months, the winter solstice marked a time of spiritual rejoice and celebration. Modern heating technology and the globalization of food markets make the seasonal transition remarkably easier for modern humans to survive, but people still do celebrate the day with festivities and rituals, including a tradition of reading poetry and eating pomegranates in Iran, and the Guatemalan ritual known as polo voladore — or "flying pole dance" — in which three men climb to the top of a 50-foot-tall (15 meters) pole and perform a risky dance to flutes and drums. [Winter Solstice: Sunrise & Sunset Times in US Cities]
https://www.livescience.com/42152-ancient-tributes-to-witner-solstice.html
https://www.livescience.com/ancient-egyptian-tomb-winter-solstice
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