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This Day in History: Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel
On this day in 1806, future President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel.
Jackson participated in many duels during his day, although the exact number is disputed. Perhaps it is amazing that he killed only one man—or that he was not killed himself?
Jackson was married to a divorced woman, which was somewhat controversial back then. Rachel Donelson Robards was in an unhappy (possibly abusive) marriage when Jackson met her. Possibly thinking she was divorced, Rachel married Jackson. Unfortunately, her divorce had not been finalized. You won't be surprised to hear that there is some dispute about what Jackson and Rachel knew about her marital status—and when they knew it.
Either way, Rachel's actions enabled her husband to claim that Rachel had committed adultery and bigamy. He got his (real) divorce. Rachel married Jackson for a second time.
Jackson's enemies had a field day with such a story! Maybe you can see why Jackson was involved in so many duels: He was defending Rachel's honor. Dickinson would have known this history and Jackson's feelings about it. Indeed, he'd come close to provoking a duel before when he cast insults at Rachel.
Matters between the two men came to a head when a horse bet went awry. Making matters worse, Dickinson published an article in which he called Jackson a "worthless scoundrel" and a "coward." Jackson challenged Dickinson to a duel. The meeting between the two men was set for the morning of May 30.
Jackson was at a disadvantage. Dickinson was well-known for his good marksmanship. Would Jackson be able to get off a good shot as quickly? After discussing it with his second, Jackson decided to let Dickinson take the first shot. If Jackson survived it, then he would then be able to make his own shot more carefully.
And Jackson was determined to make this happen! "I should have hit him, if he had shot me through the brain," Jackson later said.
Can you imagine how hard it must have been to stand still, allowing that first shot to go off? As Dickinson took his shot, witnesses saw dust flying from Jackson's coat. Jackson's hand went to his chest for a second. Yet he still stood there, acting untouched. Reportedly, Dickinson fell back, gasping: "Great God! Have I missed him?" Jackson's second called Dickinson back to his mark. Dueling practices required that Dickinson now accept a shot from Jackson.
What happened next was controversial. Apparently, the gun's trigger got caught during Jackson's first attempt to fire: The gun had been only half-cocked. Jackson recocked the gun and tried again. The second attempt was successful, delivering a mortal blow to Dickinson.
In the aftermath of the duel, some objected that Jackson did not have the right to recock his pistol. Misfires in duels typically counted as shots, and it would have been considered dishonorable to take a second shot. Was the miscock a misfire, or something else? The matter was contentious, but the seconds to the duel submitted statements certifying their belief that the duel had been conducted fairly. Nevertheless, Jackson's reputation suffered—as did his health.
Jackson had been more seriously injured than anyone realized. Dickinson's bullet had landed close to his heart, breaking a few ribs. Jackson's recovery was slow. Even then, the bullet remained in his chest and caused him much pain and discomfort in later years.
Jackson's story doesn't end on that dueling field with Dickinson, of course. His reputation would be rehabilitated during the War of 1812. Naturally, that is a story for another day.
Primary Sources:
H.W. Brands, Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (2005)
James Parton, Life of Andrew Jackson: In Three Volumes (1860) (Vol. 1)
Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (2008)
Robert V. Remini, Andrew Jackson: The Course of American Empire, 1767-1821 (1998)


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Data analysis and statistical models support many aspects of the modern world, from science and technology to finance and business. They allow us to overcome scientific, industrial and social problems and a Masters-level understanding of them is beneficial in many careers.
Our Royal Statistical Society (RSS) accredited Masters programme combines a blend of theoretical study with real-world application. Over the year, you will develop advanced statistical skills and knowledge, while having the opportunity to put what you learn into practice and gain valuable, real-world experience. In addition to acquiring advanced technical knowledge, you will also develop project management and communication skills. Upon graduating, you will be ideally placed to pursue a career as a statistician, confident that you can apply your analytical and programming skills in a diverse range of applications.
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Alongside the technical modules, you will undertake a module to advance key transferable skills in programming and communications. Programming, and the confident use of statistical software, enables the analysis of large and complex data sets, whilst communication is an essential skill for all statisticians, who must be able to engage in dialogue with members of the project team, stakeholders and end-users. You will be based within the Department of Mathematics and Statistics where you will have access to specialist software and equipment. You will have the opportunity to engage with academic staff members, all of whom are active statistical researchers, and to participate in departmental research colloquia and seminars should you choose to do so.
Finally, over the course of three months, you will complete a Masters-level dissertation. A statistical researcher, who will guide and support you throughout the period, will supervise this independent project. They will advise on the direction of the project, as well as contributing guidance on technical aspects of modelling, interpretation of analysis and presentation of the final report. Undertaking this dissertation will allow you to bring together and put into practice the discipline specific skills, knowledge and experience you have gained throughout the year. This will take your understanding of advanced statistics beyond classroom learning allow you to develop a working understanding of statistical methodology and build your confidence in working independently and leading the statistical direction of a project. This experience will be invaluable as you progress into a career.
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The three month dissertation period (mid-June to mid-September) will involve the application of statistical methodology to a substantive problem. This dissertation is written by the student under the direction of a supervisor. Many projects are collaborative: recent collaborations include GlaxoSmithKline; AstraZeneca; Wrightington Hospital; Royal Lancaster Infirmary; Leahurst Veterinary Centre; and the Department of the Environment.
Students will gain a thorough understanding of advanced statistical methods which go beyond the scope of MSc taught components, and will learn about the development of original statistical methodology which will contribute to a fuller understanding of existing methodology. Students are required to make innovative use of the statistical method, leading to substantive findings which would not readily be obtainable by routine application of standard techniques.
Statistical Fundamentals I
This module provides an introduction, at graduate level, to two core areas which are essential building blocks to further advanced study of statistical modelling, methodology and theory. The areas that will be covered are statistical inference using maximum likelihood and generalised linear models (GLMs). Building on an undergraduate level understanding of mathematics, statistics (hypothesis testing and linear regression) and probability (univariate discrete and continuous distributions; expectations, variances and covariances; the multivariate normal distribution), this module will motivate the need for a generic method for model fitting and then demonstrate how maximum likelihood provides a solution to this. Following on from this, GLMs, a widely and routinely used family of statistical models, will be introduced as an extension of the linear regression model.
Statistical Fundamentals II
This module will develop the core topic of maximum likelihood inference previously introduced in MATH501 Statistical Fundamentals I by expanding on numerical and theoretical aspects. Numerical aspects will include obtaining the maximum likelihood estimate using numerical optimisation functions in R, and using the profile likelihood function to obtain both the maximum likelihood estimate and confidence intervals. Theoretical elements covered will include derivation of asymptotic distributions for the maximum likelihood estimator, deviance and profile deviance.
The second half of the module will introduce Bayesian inference as an alternative to maximum likelihood inference. Building on existing knowledge of the likelihood function, the prior and posterior distributions will be introduced. For simple models, analytical forms for the posterior distribution will be introduced and point estimates for the parameter obtained. For more complex models, numerical methods of sampling from the posterior distribution will be demonstrated.
Statistical Learning
This module provides an introduction to statistical learning. General topics covered include big data, missing data, biased samples and recency. Likelihood and cross-validation will be introduced as generic methods to fit and select statistical learning models. Cross-validation will require an understanding of sample splitting into calibration, training and validation samples. The focus will then move to handling regression problems for large data sets via variable reduction methods such as the Lasso and Elastic Net. A variety of classification methods will be covered including logistic and multinomial logistic models, regression trees, random forests and bagging and boosting. Examination of classification methods will culminate in neural networks which will be presented as generalised linear modelling extensions. Unsupervised learning for big data is then covered including K-means, PAM and CLARA, followed by mixture models and latent class analysis.
Statistics in Practice
The aim of this module is to provide students with a range of skills that are necessary for applied statistical work including team-working, oral presentation, statistical computing, and the preparation of written reports including statistical analyses. All students will gain an understanding of R, (including R objects and functions, graphs, basic simulations and programming), and then elect to study either SAS or Python.
Students will also learn how to utilise LaTex for writing a complex and structured scientific report that may include mathematical formulae, tables and figures, as well as learn the intricacies of effective scientific writing style such as grammar, referencing, and the presentation of results in appropriate tables and graphs. They will enhance their oral presentation technique using LaTex Beamer to create slides that include complex mathematical formulae, as well as embark on an in-depth team project using Git, R Markdown or iPython notebooks.
The aim of this module is to provide students with a range of skills which are necessary for applied statistical work including: team-working, oral presentation, statistical computing, and the preparation of written reports including statistical analyses. All students will gain an understanding of R, (including R objects and functions, graphs, basic simulations and programming), and then elect to study either SAS or Python.
Clinical trials are planned experiments on human beings designed to assess the relative benefits of one or more forms of treatment. For instance, we might be interested in studying whether aspirin reduces the incidence of pregnancy-induced hypertension, or we may wish to assess whether a new immunosuppressive drug improves the survival rate of transplant recipients.
This module combines the study of technical methodology with discussion of more general research issues, beginning with a discussion of the relative advantages and disadvantages of different types of medical studies. The module will provide a definition and estimation of treatment effects. Furthermore, cross-over trials, issues of sample size determination, and equivalence trials are covered. There is an introduction to flexible trial designs that allow a sample size re-estimation during the ongoing trial. Finally, other relevant topics such as meta-analysis and accommodating confounding at the design stage are briefly discussed.
Students will gain knowledge of the basic elements of clinical trials. They will develop the ability to recognise and use principles of good study design, and will also be able to analyse and interpret study results to make correct scientific inferences.
Computationally Intensive Methods
This module introduces the expectation-maximisation algorithm, an iterative algorithm for obtaining the maximum likelihood estimate of parameters in problems with intractable likelihoods. Students will explore the use of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, and will discover the features of the Metro-Hastings algorithm, with emphasis on the Gibbs sampler, independence sampler and random walk Metropolis. Whilst relating to this, students will consider how such methods are closely integrated with Bayesian modelling techniques such as hierarchal modelling, random effects and mixture modelling.
Data augmentation will receive recurring coverage over the course of the module. Students will also gain transferrable knowledge of the usefulness of computers in assisting statistical analysis of complex methods, in addition to experience with the computer statistical package R.
Extreme Value Theory
Extreme Value Theory is an area of probability theory which describes the stochastic behaviour of events occurring in the tail of a distribution (eg. block maxima). This course will cover both an overview of key theoretical results and the statistical modelling approaches which are motivated by these results. Theoretical results covered will include limiting distributions for block maxima and Peaks Over Threshold events in the case of both independent and time-series data. Modelling will involve the development of extreme value statistical models and their application to data sets taken from financial and environmental applications. The concepts of risk will be explored, leading to an understanding of return levels and Value At Risk measures. The concept of extremal dependence will be introduced.
Methods for Missing Data
Almost every set of data, whether it consists of field observations, data from laboratory experiments, clinical trial outcomes, or information from population surveys or longitudinal studies, has an element of missing data. For example, participants in a survey or clinical trial may drop-out of the study, measurement instruments may fail, or human error invalidate instrumental readings. Missingness may or may not be related to the information being collected; for instance, drop out may occur because a patient dislikes the side-effects of an experimental treatment or because they move out of the area or because they find that they no longer have the time to attend follow up appointments. In this module you will learn about the different ways in which missing data can arise, and how these can be handled to mitigate the impact of the missingness on the data analysis. Topics covered include single imputation methods, Bayesian imputation, multiple imputation (Rubin's rules, chained equations and multivariate methods, as well as suitable diagnostics) and modelling dropout in longitudinal modelling.
Modelling Multilevel and Longitudinal Data
Hierarchical data arise in a multitude of settings, specifically whenever a sample is grouped (or clustered) according to one or more factors with each factor having many levels. For instance, school pupils may be grouped by teacher, school and local education authority. There is a hierarchical structure to this grouping since schools are grouped within local education authority and teachers are grouped within schools. If multiple measurements of a response variable, say test score, are made for each pupil across multiple measurement times, the data are also longitudinal. This module motivates the need for statistical methodology to account for these kinds of hierarchical structure. The differences between marginal and conditional models, and the advantages and disadvantages of each, will be discussed. Linear mixed effects models (LMMs) for general multi-level data will be introduced as an extension to the linear regression model. Longitudinal data will be introduced as a special case of hierarchical data motivating the need for temporal dependence structures to be incorporated within LMMs. Finally, the drawbacks of LMMs will be used to motivate generalised linear mixed effects models (GLMMs), with the former a special case of the latter. GLMMs broaden the scope of data sets which can be analysed using mixed-effects models to incorporate all common types of response variable. All modelling will be carried out using the statistical software package R.
Principles of Epidemiology
Introducing epidemiology, the study of the distribution and determents of disease in human population, this module presents its main principles and statistical methods. The module addresses the fundamental measures of disease, such as incidence, prevalence, risk and rates, including indices of morbidity and mortality.
Students will also develop awareness in epidemiologic study design, such as ecological studies, surveys, and cohort and case-control studies, in addition to diagnostic test studies. Epidemiological concepts will be addressed, such as bias and confounding, matching and stratification, and the module will also address calculation of rates, standardisation and adjustment, as well as issues in screening.
This module provides students with a historical and general overview of epidemiology and related strategies for study design, and should enable students to conduct appropriate methods of analysis for rates and risk of disease. Students will develop skills in critical appraisal of the literature and, in completing this module, will have developed an appreciation for epidemiology and an ability to describe the key statistical issues in the design of ecological studies, surveys, case-control studies, cohort studies and RCT, whilst recognising their advantages and disadvantages.
Survival and Event History Analysis
This module addresses a range of topics relating to survival data; censoring, hazard functions, Kaplan-Meier plots, parametric models and likelihood construction will be discussed in detail. Students will engage with the Cox proportional hazard model, partial likelihood, Nelson-Aalen estimation and survival time prediction and will also focus on counting processes, diagnostic methods, and frailty models and effects.
The module provides an understanding of the unique features and statistical challenges surrounding the analysis of survival avant history data, in addition to an understanding of how non-parametric methods can aid in the identification of modelling strategies for time-to-event data, and recognition of the range and scope of survival techniques that can be implemented within standard statistical software.
General skills will be developed, including the ability to express scientific problems in a mathematical language, improvement of scientific writing skills, and an enhanced range of computing skills related to the manipulation on analysis of data.
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to apply a range of appropriate statistical techniques to survival and event history data using statistical software, to accurately interpret the output of statistical analyses using survival models, fitted using standard software, and the ability to construct and manipulate likelihood functions from parametric models for censored data. Students will also gain observation skills, such as the ability to identify when particular models are appropriate, through the application of diagnostic checks and model building strategies.
The course is designed to provide foundational knowledge in linear and non-linear time-series analysis through building awareness of various well used time-series models. While the module focuses on univariate analysis, students will have time to read around lecture notes and materials to extend their understanding of these methods. By the end of the course, the student should understand both the theoretical and practical foundations of time-series analysis, how to fit, and choose from a range of models. They will understand different methods of evaluating time-series model performance and how these models can be used to provide forecasts.
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Often, people ask me about my morning planning time.
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At this seminar, I learned about time management and morning planning. Since that day, I have spent 15 minutes planning every morning. Morning planning made me a new man. Since that day in 1980, I have been organized, I have kept my promises, I do what I say I am going to do, and people know I am reliable.
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Distress is when things feel out of control. When you spend your days dealing with whatever is thrown at you, it feels out of control.
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A: Use the margin settings in the cfdocument tag to control how much space is reserved for headers or footers.
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case class InterpolationError(error: Text, offset: Maybe[Int] = Unset, length: Maybe[Int] = Unset)
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  protected def initial: State
  protected def parse(state: State, next: Text): State
  protected def skip(state: State): State
  protected def substitute(state: State, value: Text): State = parse(state, value)
  protected def insert(state: State, value: Input): State
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    def shift(pos: Position, offset: Int, length: Int): Position =
      Position(pos.sourceFile, pos.start + offset, pos.start + offset + length)

    def rethrow[T](blk: => T, pos: Position): T =
      import unsafeExceptions.canThrowAny
      try blk catch case err: InterpolationError =>
        err match
          case InterpolationError(msg, offset, length) =>
            throw PositionalError(msg, shift(pos, offset.otherwise(0),
                length.otherwise(pos.end - pos.start - offset.otherwise(0))))

    case class PositionalError(error: Text, position: Position)
    extends Error(err"error $error at position $position")

    def recur(seq: Seq[Expr[Any]], parts: Seq[String], positions: Seq[Position], state: State,
                  expr: Expr[State]): Expr[Result] =
      seq match
        case '{ $head: h } +: tail =>
          def notFound: Nothing =
            val typeName: String = TypeRepr.of[h].widen.show

            report.errorAndAbort(
              s"contextual: can't substitute $typeName into this interpolated string",
              head.asTerm.pos
            )

          val (newState, typeclass) = Expr.summon[Insertion[Input, h]].fold(notFound):
            case '{ $typeclass: Substitution[Input, `h`, sub] } =>
              val substitution: String = TypeRepr.of[sub] match
                case ConstantType(StringConstant(string)) =>
                  string

                case other =>
                  throw Mistake(s"found $other instead of ConstantType")

              (rethrow(parse(rethrow(substitute(state, Text(substitution)), expr.asTerm.pos),
                  Text(parts.head)), positions.head), typeclass)

            case '{ $typeclass: eType } =>
              (rethrow(parse(rethrow(skip(state), expr.asTerm.pos), Text(parts.head)),
                  positions.head), typeclass)

            case _ =>
              throw Mistake("this case should never match")

          val next = '{$target.parse($target.insert($expr, $typeclass.embed($head)),
              Text(${Expr(parts.head)}))}

          recur(tail, parts.tail, positions.tail, newState, next)

        case _ =>
          rethrow(complete(state), Position.ofMacroExpansion)

          '{$target.complete($expr)}

    seq match
      case Varargs(exprs) =>
        val parts = ctx.value.getOrElse:
          report.errorAndAbort(s"contextual: the StringContext extension method parameter does "+
                                     "not appear to be inline")
        .parts

        val positions: Seq[Position] = ctx match
          case '{ (${sc}: StringContext.type).apply(($parts: Seq[String])*) } =>
            parts match
              case Varargs(stringExprs) => stringExprs.to(List).map(_.asTerm.pos)
              case _                    => throw Mistake("expected Varargs")

          case _ =>
            throw Mistake("expected expression of the form `StringContext.apply(args)`")

        try recur(exprs, parts.tail, positions.tail, rethrow(parse(initial, Text(parts.head)),
            positions.head), '{$target.parse($target.initial, Text(${Expr(parts.head)}))})
        catch
          case err: PositionalError => err match
            case PositionalError(error, pos) =>
              report.errorAndAbort(s"contextual: $error", pos)

          case err: InterpolationError => err match
            case InterpolationError(error, _, _) =>
              report.errorAndAbort(s"contextual: $error", Position.ofMacroExpansion)

      case _ =>
        report.errorAndAbort("contextual: expected varargs")

trait Insertion[Input, -T]:
  def embed(value: T): Input

trait Substitution[Input, -T, S <: String & Singleton] extends Insertion[Input, T]

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This is so delicious and SO easy.. your guest or family will think you are super fancy.. but let's keep it our secret that this Grilled Fruit was so simple!
Serve on it's own, or even better over vanilla ice cream!
Heat the grill low temperature.
Lay 2 larges pieces of foil on a flat surface.
Place half of the plums, nectarines, raspberries, blueberries and blackberries onto the middle of one sheet of foil.
Place the rest of the fruit on the second foil sheet.
Divide the butter between the two pieces of foil and place on top of the fruit.
Seal the foil around the fruit tightly so that no steam can escape.
Grill the packets, turn once, for 18 minutes or until the fruit has softened.
Carefully open the packets and place the fruit in a serving bowl.
Sprinkle the fruit with the sugar and stir to coat it.


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Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge
Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge lies along the west-central boundary of the Prairie Pothole Region. Here, the Missouri Coteau meets the Coteau Slope, and an abundance of migratory birds and other wildlife flourish.
The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service carefully manages trapping activities on national wildlife refuges to ensure that safe, effective practices are used, to ensure the sustainability of wildlife populations, and to protect refuge infrastructure. Trapping may be used as a wildlife management tool...
The echo of the sandhill cranes through the rolling prairie hills of Long Lake invites today's visitors to follow in the footsteps of the Plains Indians. Refuge stewards work collaboratively to understand, restore, and protect biological communities. Through wildlife dependent recreation and environmental education opportunities, the Refuge staff hopes to foster a greater understanding and appreciation of the mixed-grass prairie ecosystem and the mission of the National Wildlife Refuge System.
The area that is now Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge was once home to Plains Indians and early European settlers who camped and hunted waterfowl and other game around Long Lake. The Refuge was established on February 25, 1932 by President Herbert Hoover to provide sanctuary and habitat for migratory birds that use the Central Flyway migration corridor. The Refuge has 22,300 acres and the dominant habitat feature is a 16,000-acre natural, alkaline lake created within the prairie landscape during the most recent ice age. The lake is two miles wide, eighteen miles long and has been separated into three units using dikes and spillways in an attempt to manage water levels and control avian botulism disease outbreaks that have historically occurred.
At Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge, staff work to provide the life requirements for waterfowl, other migratory birds, and resident wildlife. Habitat management activities include livestock grazing, prescribed burning, haying, weed control, water level management, and rest. Visitors can enjoy many wildlife-dependent recreational opportunities here.
Grazing Opportunities for Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge Complex
Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge Complex near Moffit, North Dakota, is accepting applications for 20 annual agricultural grazing permits on units ranging in size from approximately 90 to 515 acres.
Farmer/Rancher


Coffee. Curated. Roaster Roundups: Small Batch Roasting Co. | Australia - Food. Curated.
While exploring the current crop of coffees on offer at Small Batch from Australia, a thought kept asserting itself, in the back of my mind: roasting a coffee is a lot like writing a song.
I had originally planned to cover Devoción Coffee this week for Coffee. Curated. Roaster Roundups, to complete the triptych of my favorite New York City roasters –we started with Caffe Vita and SEY— but I ran into two issues that made that impossible for me: 1. I saw the Columbian Geishas that Devoción was about to unveil and decided I wanted a chance to try them before finishing their profile, and 2. I toured Australia with my band Thursday (and our friends in Quicksand), and got a chance to explore Australian coffee culture. So, while the Geishas from Devocion degas in my cabinet, I'm going to write about my favorite Australian coffee roaster, Small Batch Roasting Co.
Small Batch is located in Melbourne and is still quite a small operation. I had a chance to speak with their first head roaster, Andy, as he was the barista at the best coffee shop I visited while in the country (Rudimentary), and he told me about the company, making a note that Small Batch "consistently punch above their weight class", a trait that I admire in any pursuit but especially in coffee.
The thing that I find most interesting about Small Batch is that their Espresso program is as thought out and well-developed as their single-origin, light-roast coffees, something that is exceedingly rare in 3rd Wave coffee. They have several Espresso blends, at all times, as well as a rotating cast of highly refined and rarified single-origin Espressos.
While exploring the current crop of coffees on offer at Small Batch from Australia, a thought kept asserting itself, in the back of my mind: roasting a coffee is a lot like writing a song. Each lot has certain characteristics that are inherent in the un-roasted green coffee cherry. These qualities are inherent in the climate, soil and growing process–call it the terroir– and are further cultivated by the drying of the fruit. These inherent qualities are analogous to the key of the song, it's tempo and length, characteristics that songwriters discuss as the DNA of a song. Whether a coffee is washed, honey processed or natural, makes a difference to how those natural characteristics present. In music, we might call this tone or tenor. For instance, Pachelbel's "Canon" and Spiritualized's Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating Through Space have very similar DNA but each of them are processed in different directions, one as a triumphal, Baroque instrumental, the other as a heartbroken, sedate love song.
Finally, the Roaster gets ahold of the green coffee and turns the raw character and suggestive tone into something unique, as evocative and ephemeral as a song. The roaster decides on darkness and body, finish and flavor. The same crop, in different hands can be as disparate as the same three chords in the hands of The Clash and Nirvana: same heart, different soul. So, too, in this roundup, we get to revisit the Duromina coffee that has become a favorite of anyone that's ever had it roasted by SEY.
The beauty of Small Batch lies not only in their technical skill at roasting but also in their imagination for interconnected flavor combinations and uncanny ability to name notes in ways that engage the coffee drinker's mind, memory and palette at the same time, taking us on not just a journey to the coffee's country of origin but through the trade routes and histories of the farmers and traders that have kept coffee such a vibrant pursuit.
If this coffee were a song, it would be a mid-period Fucked Up jam, something off Chemistry of Common Life. It's strong, full-bodied and bold but more subtle and complex than you realize upon first sip. The tasting notes on the bag are listed as butterscotch, passionfruit and milk chocolate, and while all of those flavors are present, it would be a bit like listing the ingredients of a Fucked Up song as guitar, bass and drums: true but completely beside the point.
Brewed as a pour over at 15g coffee to 250g water, flavors of Garam Masala, saffron and chai spice develop in a deep earthy cup, similar to the way the chorus of "Year of the Rat" develops into climactic explosion before dipping into a noise symphony, equal parts Quadrophenia and Godspeed You! Black Emperors.
Brewed as an Aeropress, passionfruit comes to the front, like a spiced candy treat or the brittle crust of a pavlova.
If this coffee were a song it would be "It Ain't Me" by Kygo and Selena Gomez. From the first sip, it's obvious that you've got a smash hit on your hands and this Colombian is a real crowd pleaser, a well-balanced cup that sparkles with soft citrus flavors like an Ethiopian. But this is no one-dimensional, quickie summer jam. The longer you sit with it, the more you realize you may actually be in the presence of greatness.
What, at first blush, appears to be simple lemon, comes into focus as a perfectly distilled lemongrass, supported elegantly by complicated layers of Ceylon tea that transform drastically with every notch you click on your burr grinder.
By the end, the cut up snippets of Selena's voice carry echoes of love, loss, summer, youth, each one too thin to grab hold of. You can hear the sun sliding over the horizon in the song's final bars.
The genius of this coffee is the most inobvious flavor: melted butter, barely present, more of a texture than a flavor, barely big enough to name as such, and yet it carries that same quality that "It Ain't Me" captures so well: memory.
Much as I like the song, I've always preferred Ryan Adam's deep, desolate cover version to the original. In that way, I prefer the over-the-top nuance of SEY's Duromina, what I would argue to be their signature roast and one of the sweetest coffees ever made in NYC.
Edgardo Reyes is the Radiohead of coffees: lonely nerds from the suburbs will love it. I'm kidding! I'm kidding! I love Radiohead(although, I suppose that doesn't really contradict my first point). What I really mean, though, is that you get out of this coffee what you put into it.
If you want to make this coffee casually, then the less aggressive tasting notes will be fine for anyone that drinks a bit of coffee: the cola, the white sugar, the simple approachable baking spices. This coffee has a sweet aroma and the whole experience is rather comforting, if a bit underwhelming. On the whole, it's kind of "Pablo Honey", a quick sugar-hit and then a whole lot of yawning.
But if you have the patience to really dial in the grind size and bring out the flavor of the hops, this coffee is challenging and rewarding like In Rainbows or that one awesome song off King of Limbs. Perfect for your friend who won't shut up about his favorite local IPA(or someone who writes about coffee for a blog, if ya know what I'm saying).
Kenyan coffees are a bit like Parquet Courts for most people: the blogs tell you they're the best that the world has to offer but they seem sharp and flavorless, to the uninitiated, plus they're so acidic that they make curdles out of cream.
Like Parquet Courts, once you devote serious time and energy to understanding them, Kenyans are the best thing going, about half of the time. They can be quite difficult and part of the reason that they're so hard to get into is that few people get them right. I had dozens of cups of sour, brutal filter preparations before I tasted the beautiful delicate delight of a Kenyan done right. When I finally did, I wondered how such light Carribean flavors made their way into an African coffee, how coconut and mango flavors can rest upon a bed of raspberries and black currants like fallen cherry blossoms.
James Karaoke, as roasted by Small Batch is one of the most challenging Kenyans I've ever made at home. I was able to find the perfect, perfumed cup only once in the eight cups I made from the bag I brought home(100g total). Up until that magical cup #7, I believed that James Karaoke was a bit of a dud: simply a good coffee with vibrant, yet generic acidity. Unfortunately, I rolled the dice on cup number 8 and came up with a sharp, sour Aeropress and my memories of the distant shores of cup #7. I'm struggling to see how this relates to Parquet Courts, but suffice it to say, their latest record is great.
Small Batch's signature CANDYMAN Espresso blend is a little bit sweet, a little bit sophisticated. Everyone loves it, although some people will be ashamed to admit it's their favorite, kind of like Drake. If you drink it straight, as a perfect 35g shot, it's like "Underground Kings": aggressive, foreboding but with more sugar and fruit flavor than you first expect. It lists Blackforest Cake as a tasting note and it's a strangely perfect description: dark raspberry, dark chocolate, perfect texture.
In a latte or flat white, the flavors smooth out into the steamed milk sugars of malted milk and Cadbury's Creme Eggs(shout out my fav Easter treat, delivered by the evil Australian Easter Bilby). Here, in milk, Candyman reminds me of the Drake classic, "Hold On, We're Going Home", where Drake steals your girl and reminds you that he can still sing better than all y'all.
I remember watching Converge once, from the side of the stage, while some nerd from a pop-punk band stood next to me, trying to tell me that Converge aren't one of the greatest live bands in the world. He kept comparing them unfavorably to his own band(surprise, surprise) and ended the lecture by saying, "I mean, we aren't trying to be the hardest band in the world, you know?" It was like he realized that there was no beating Converge so he had to qualify his whole boring diatribe, with that weak statement.
Recently, another roaster in Australia told me he wasn't trying to roast a Guatemalan with a perfect strawberry flavor, that he was looking for other things in it. And I agreed, coffee isn't about one flavor. Creative people seek different results. But after having this Porfiria Martinez Guatemalan Espresso, with no milk and no sugar and tasting this perfect Strawberry Milkshake, topped with dehydrated strawberries and toasted almonds, I had to wonder if he wasn't suffering anxiety over having to compete with this brilliant coffee.
This espresso may be the very best coffee I had from Small Batch and I'd compare it to The Cure. It has a deep gothic cherry flavor, as sweet as it is dark. The package lists butterscotch, although I'd argue that's more of a mouthfeel. In all of The Cure's beautiful catalog, this coffee would have to be "Lullaby": both shadowed and psychedelic, intense in theme and execution. I'm not a wine lover(it makes sobriety a tiny bit easier) but this espresso is the closest I've come to understanding how someone might enjoy pulling deep, sweetly acidic flavors from between the tannins of a pinot noir.
Also, they list buttercake as a tasting note. God bless their souls.
The two weeks I spent in Australia were some of the best coffee experiences I've ever had. In particular, the El Cerro Peruvian pour over, at Single O(as well as their excellent Ethiopian pour over that I lost the name of 😢). John Mills Himself had an excellent Peruvian from Parallel on offer, as well as some refreshing bottled cold brew, care of Bunker.
But the Small Batch crew kills it on another level: creative, sweet, complex, nuanced, all over the map. All the elements I look for in coffee and music, alike.
-via Geoffrey Rickly, Musician/Writer/Coffee Enthusiast, Coffee. Curated.


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Sanders Supporters Gain Some Ground Against Hostile Democratic Party
It's up to grassroots progressives to take their party back from the wealthy donor-obsessed establishment that has been rotting it from within
By Michael Sainato • 12/27/16 2:00pm
Sen. Bernie Sanders greets supporters during a rally near the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium June 9, 2016 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong/Getty Images
The Democratic establishment has responded to Hillary Clinton's election loss, and the party disappearing from elected offices across the country, by largely ignoring any calls for reforms. There has been more focus on excuses for why Clinton lost than constructive discussion over how the Democratic Party should reconnect with working and middle class voters. Though Clinton's defeat should serve as a lesson for Democratic leadership to embrace Bernie Sanders' progressive populism and his ability to make meaningful connections with issues that affect a wide range of disenfranchised voters, business as usual appears to be prevailing.
But some parts of the country offer hope to Sanders supporters that their people-focused brand of politics can become better reflected within a party leadership that has disproportionately supported Clinton and her partnership with wealthy donors and corporations. Shortly after the presidential election, Sanders activist Stacy Patel was elected Democratic Party chair in Brevard County of Florida. Several other Sanders supporters won Democratic Party committee positions. They capitalized on the area having a relatively weak Democratic Party establishment presence to assume power locally, and begin to influence the Florida Democratic Party.
Stephen Bittel, the billionaire Democratic donor and close ally to former Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, is in the process of completing a Machiavellian ascension to assume position as new chair of the Florida Democratic Party. The only person in Bittel's way now is Alan Clendenin, who narrowly lost a 2013 race for Florida Democratic Party chair, which he attributed to Wasserman Schultz's interference in the election. "I was the first one to experience what Bernie felt," Clendenin told Florida Politics in November.
In Florida, the establishment continues to push back against influence from Sanders progressives. However, in Washington, the Vermont senator's supporters are having better luck in taking over the state's Democratic Party. Sanders comfortably won the state during the Democratic primaries, receiving over 70 percent of the vote. But elected Democratic Party officials, mainly Washington's superdelegates, overwhelmingly supported Clinton.
In January, Sanders supporters are organizing to elect one of their own, Tina Podlodowski, to unseat current Washington Democratic Party chair Jaxon Ravens. Sanders supporters have gradually taken over local Democratic committee positions to provide a better reflection of the progressive values within the party, and rally enough votes to overthrow the establishment leadership in the state party.
"This last election cycle in Washington State was not kind to Democrats," Podlodowski wrote in a recent Facebook post, outlining the need for change in Washington—a state dominated by Democrats, yet plagued by their own shortcomings on connecting with voters. "Yes, we held the Governor's office and re-elected our Federal incumbents. But, we lost both the 3rd and 5th CDs. We have not recovered control of the State Senate since the defections of both Rodney Tom and Tim Sheldon in 2012. Our majority in the House has dwindled from a comfortable double-digit lead to one that is razor-thin and easily lost. And we did not secure that margin at all in this past election – in fact, there were seven legislative races where we allowed Republicans to simply run unopposed."
In Nebraska, Sanders supporter Jane Kleeb won election to serve as the State's Democratic Party chair in June, assuming the role officially this month. Sanders won the state comfortably in the Democratic primaries, and the state party's appointments have reflected his popularity, with 70 percent identifying as Sanders supporters.
Hawaii experienced a similar coup, with pro-Sanders Tim Vanderveer winning the position as the state's party chair shortly after Sanders trounced Clinton in the March primary caucuses.
Sanders' presidential campaign may have ended during the Democratic National Convention, but his political revolution was predicated on inspiring millions of people to become politically engaged. The Democratic Party establishment has made it abundantly clear they have no intention of relinquishing any of their political power and privilege to Sanders supporters. Therefore, it's up to grassroots progressives to take their party back from the wealthy donor–obsessed establishment that has been rotting it from within.
Filed Under: Politics, Hillary Clinton, Hilary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Bernie Sanders, Democratic Party, Election 2016
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Meet The Breeds is October 20th & 21st at the Jacob Javits Center in New York. Over 200 breeds of cats and dogs all in one place! Get your tickets now! Pet Tree Houses will be there also displaying our Trees!


Kinect Rush ($49.99 on Amazon) is the next big game for the Xbox 360's Kinect controller. We had some hands-on time with the game and spoke to Jay Ward from Pixar about the development. As well as finding out about the new Kinect Rush game we also put some questions to him about Pixar's perspective on gender, guns and the more convoluted storyline of Cars 2.
Kinect Rush is more than Disneyland Adventures for Pixar films. It brings both ambition and common sense to steer the Cars, Toy Story and Incredibles themed exploration and adventuring in an engaging direction.
All but the most dedicated families will be struggling to keep up with Microsoft's Kinect games (from $19.99 on Amazon). After the initial blush of titles like Kinect Adventures, Dance Central, and Kinect Sports came a range of third-party offerings that worked because they created genuinely new ways to play: Kinectimals, Fruit Ninja, Leedmees, and GunStringer to name a few.
Then came a second wave of Kinect games that stretched the technology further. Whether it was Disneyland Adventure's open world exploration, Once Upon A Monster's interactions for pre-schoolers or Just Dance 3's four player support, these games changed the definition of what a Kinect game could be.
These are not without their shortcomings or challenges. Each step forward into increased interactivity comes with more demands on the sometimes fussy Kinect controller. In the home it can take a while to get it setup perfectly, although the reward in terms of game-play is usually worth it.
Now we have what might be called a third wave of games that build on earlier successes and broaden the range of franchises as well as the demographic. Their challenge is to bed down the more ambitious gestures that Kinect now identifies and find a happy balance between ambition and reliability.
While I'm really looking forward to Kinect Star Wars and its awesome limited edition Xbox 360, I was still excited to spend time with Kinect Rush, the first new Kinect game from Microsoft this year.
Rush's marketing copy makes it sound like a Pixar-ification of Disneyland Adventures, but while the main structure and approach is heavily informed from previous successes, it actually walks its own path and introduces both innovation and refinement.
Partnering with Pixar, Microsoft brings the polish and flare of Disneyland Adventures to a Pixar virtual world. Five of the Pixar films take the stage: The Incredibles, Up, Cars, Ratatouille and Toy Story. Each offers a unique adventure tied to the related film as well as a set of un-lockable upgrades that players can win and apply to their characters - from rockets to jetpacks.
Beyond all these technical concerns the most engaging aspect of Kinect Rush is the prospect of spending more time in these Pixar worlds. Although most have had games before, but there is something about playing hands free in Ratatouille's Paris or Toy Story's wild west or The Incredibles' remote island that my kids find really exciting.
They roundly enjoyed Disneyland Adventures and dipping into different parts of the Disney stories, but Kinect Rush's ability to bring them into the world as well as the story is an intelligent next step for these kinds of experiences.
With Kinect Rush being released in the UK on 23rd March for RRP 39.99, it won't be long before you can try it out for yourself. This is another game that I'll be trying out on our Family Gamer TV families and will report back in the next show with first hand footage of how they get on.
Read my full Kinect Rush preview.


Lancer perennial pea has broadly winged stems and petioles, leathery and veiny leaves and stipules, and odorless, white to deep purple flowers. The pods are 6-9 cm long with smooth dorsal suture and the large seeds are tuberculate. Lancer has tendrils, can climb, is compatible with other legumes and fixes nitrogen, increasing ground cover density in erosion control plants.


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Roberts Center for Pediatric Research
The Roberts Center for Pediatric Research opened in 2017 to expand available space for CHOP Research Institute investigators and administrative employees and accommodate future growth. Built to blend into the cityscape, the glass structure nearly becomes part of the sky in the right light, and it provides work space for human resources, sponsored projects, research business management, Children's Oncology Group, and Core facilities. The skyscraper also serves as the hub for the Center for Autism Research, Center for Data Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, and the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, among others. The Roberts Center offers fantastic urban and river views, community spaces, and a café open to the public. It physically connects the neighborhood to the Schuylkill River Trail.
Emily S. Kuschner, PhD
kuschnere [at] email.chop.edu
Julia Parish-Morris, PhD
Dr. Parish-Morris investigates social communication, specifically how vocal communication develops in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. She uses computational approaches and machine learning to identify objective and reliable behavioral markers for use in screening, treatment and intervention response tracking, and to advance biological research.
parishmorrisj [at] email.chop.edu
Whitney Guthrie, PhD
Whitney Guthrie, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and scientist at the Center for Autism Research. Dr. Guthrie's research focuses on the early developmental trajectories that characterize autism spectrum disorder with the ultimate goal of improving early detection and intervention.
guthriew [at] email.chop.edu
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Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics (4)
Health and Behavior Research Affinity Group (2)
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (2)
ASD VR Pilot Feasibility Study (1)
Brain and Behavior Learning Health System Biorepository (1)
Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness (1)
Center for Violence Prevention (1)
Floreo Focus Groups (1)
Motor Synchrony Study (1)
Qualitative Methods Research Affinity Group (1)
SPARK: Simons Foundation Powering Autism Research for Knowledge (1)
Vocal Biomarkers of Autism Spectrum Disorder (1)
VR Intervention to Improve Police Safety (1)
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Arcus (1)
Cell and Gene Therapy Collaborative (1)
Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine (1)
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Data Science and Biostatistics Unit (1)
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Epilepsy NeuroGenetics Initiative (ENGIN) (1)
Helbig Laboratory (1)
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Masino Laboratory (1)
What Do You Eat? An Online Study for Youth with ASD (1)
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Events for those interested in developing their photographic skills.
Contrary to popular belief, there's unfortunately no shortcut to success, no magic word that can be whispered in a beginner's ear to hasten progress and/or development, or if there is one, it's simply this: "practice", and to this end events are regularly hosted here in Berlin to help facilitate this process of improvement.
But don't expect someone to do all the work for you, pointing out the best compositions, telling you when to press the shutter etc, these are self-help events, trial by error, the more effort you make yourself, the more you'll take home from them, because actually you can't teach anyone anything, you can only help them learn.


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The Whole Life Democrat
Towards a Country That Is Free, Equitable, and Humane
A New American Compact: Caring about Women, Caring for the Unborn
Pro-Life Feminism
What Is a Whole Life Democrat?
Bishops join others in lauding new EPA toxins rule
December 28, 2011 / DFLA
Catholic News Service: "The head of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development joined with others in praising a new federal rule to cut down on the amount of toxins emitted from coal- and oil-fired plants.
"It just makes good sense to want to have clean air for our children and families to breathe and for future generations," said a statement by Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, Calif., issued Dec. 21, the date the new EPA rules on toxins were unveiled.
"Children, inside and outside the womb, are uniquely vulnerable to environmental hazards and exposure to toxic pollutants in the environment," he said. "Their bodies, behaviors and size leave them more exposed than adults to such health hazards."
The EPA rule, which has been in the works since 1990, is intended to cut mercury, arsenic and other toxins by up to 90 percent by 2016, the year the rule would be fully implemented."
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Chronic sleep deprivation in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease makes Alzheimer's brain plaques appear earlier and more often, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report online this week in Science Express.
They also found that orexin, a protein that helps regulate the sleep cycle, appears to be directly involved in the increase.
Neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease often disrupt sleep. The new findings are some of the first indications that sleep loss could play a role in the genesis of such disorders.
Holtzman's laboratory uses a technique called in vivo microdialysis to monitor levels of amyloid beta in the brains of mice genetically engineered as a model of Alzheimer's disease. Amyloid beta is a protein fragment that is the principal component of Alzheimer's plaques.
Jae-Eun Kang, Ph.D., a post-doctoral fellow in Holtzman's lab, noticed that brain amyloid beta levels in mice rose and fell in association with sleep and wakefulness, increasing in the night, when mice are mostly awake, and decreasing during the day, when they are mostly asleep.
A separate study of amyloid beta levels in human cerebrospinal fluid led by Randall Bateman, M.D., assistant professor of neurology and a neurologist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, also showed that amyloid beta levels were generally higher when subjects were awake and lower when they slept.
To confirm the link, Kang learned to use electroencephalography (EEG) on the mice at the Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology Laboratory at Stanford University with researchers Seiji Nishino, M.D., Ph.D., and Nobuhiro Fujiki, M.D., Ph.D. The EEG readings let researchers more definitively determine when mice were asleep or awake and validated the connection: Mice that stayed awake longer had higher amyloid beta levels.
Depriving the mice of sleep caused a 25 percent increase in amyloid beta levels. Levels were lower when mice were allowed to sleep. Blocking a hormone previously linked to stress and amyloid beta production had no effect on these changes, suggesting that they weren't caused by the stress of sleep deprivation, according to Holtzman.
Researchers elsewhere had linked mutations in orexin to narcolepsy, a disorder that is characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness. The brain has two kinds of receptors for orexin, which is also associated with regulation of feeding behavior.
When Holtzman's group injected orexin into the brains of the mice, mice stayed awake longer, and amyloid beta levels increased. When researchers used a drug called almorexant to block both orexin receptors, amyloid beta levels were significantly lower and animals were awake less.
Miranda M. Lim, M.D., Ph.D., a neurology resident and post-doctoral researcher in Holtzman's lab, performed long-term behavioral experiments with the mice. She found that three weeks of chronic sleep deprivation accelerated amyloid plaque deposition in the brain. In contrast, when mice were given almorexant for two months, plaque deposition significantly decreased, dropping by more than 80 percent in some brain regions.
"This suggests the possibility that a treatment like this could be tested to see if it could delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease," says Holtzman.
Holtzman notes that not only does the risk of Alzheimer's increase with age, the sleep/wake cycle also starts to break down, with older adults progressively getting less and less sleep. Investigators are considering epidemiological studies of whether chronic sleep loss in young and middle-aged adults increases risk of Alzheimer's disease later in life.
Holtzman also plans to learn more of the molecular details of how orexin affects amyloid beta.
"We would like to know if there are ways to alter orexin signaling and its effects on amyloid beta without necessarily modifying sleep," he says.
Additional studies will address the questions of whether increased amyloid beta during wakefulness is connected to increased synaptic activity and whether some aspect of sleep lowers amyloid beta levels independent of synaptic activity.
Kang J-E, Lim MM, Bateman RJ, Lee JJ, Smyth LP, Cirrito JR, Fujiki N, Nishino S, Holtzman DM. Amyloid beta dynamics are regulated by orexin and the sleep-wake cycle. Science Express, Sept. 24, 2009.
Funding from the National Institutes of Health, the NIH Neuroscience Blueprint Center Core Grant, the Cure Alzheimer's Fund, the Alzheimer's Association Zenith Award and Eli Lilly supported this research.


A repeat from Inc. I have never got changed in the car, but the concept of Return on Time Invested is useful.
The "what would happen if you were hit by a bus?" is always a useful test. It applies to equally well to running a business or project, or to a family. We will all be replaced sometime, whether in a planned way or unexpectedly. Having contingency plans in place makes it easier for you or other people to cope.
A well known example of what can happen is Michael Schumacher. After a hugely successful career in Formula 1, he was left severely disabled after a skiing accident. There must have been a sense that the risk of injury was past.
Less well known is Casper Gray, who set up a business helping SMEs to raise funds, but then developed multiple sclerosis. His condition has deteriorated, and he finds himself in the position of disabled entrepreneur. But determined businessman he remains.
The plans should deal with succession, and with passing on knowledge, contacts and processes. Making the time to do so is often a problem.
Keyman insurance should cover the business as well as the business owner, so that the business has cash to hire a replacement.
The other important issue is making a will, with any necessary tax planning. Ensure that your dependents are looked after.
I hope it never happens to you, but what are your plans for an unfortunate encounter with a bus, whether it looks like a bus or not?


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Bright Stars: The Trailblazer
Australia	| August 2012	| Written by Jo McKay
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Australians fell in love with Collette when she starred in P.J. Hogan's Muriel's Wedding, a role she still counts among her favourites. Just over 15 years on, Collette's resume is as diverse and engaging as the woman herself—she has successfully blended international hits, like The Sixth Sense, About a Boy and Little Miss Sunshine, with compelling home-grown films, such as The Black Balloon and Japanese Story. And she still can't hide her passion. "I love the all-or-nothing attitude [of the film industry], the sense of unity and commitment—and the moments when the story takes on its own energy and flies beyond individual hands." Along with her Emmy Award-winning role in United States of Tara (on ABC-TV) Collette has three new films in the pipeline, including her current project, a remake of Fright Night in 3D. Next year she's also tipped to reunite with Hogan in the hotly anticipated Australian comedy, Mental.
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MCSL condemns IS following Lankan's death
The Sri Lankan national, who was reportedly killed in battle in Syria while fighting for the Islamic State, was the former principal of an international school in the Galewela area, according to the school's owner. MORE..
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Despite its military defeat at the hands of the Sri Lankan government in 2009, the LTTE's international network of sympathizers and financial support persists, the United States says. MORE..
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Sri Lanka vows to remedy root causes of terrorism
The Sri Lankan Government today vowed to remedy the root causes of injustice, discrimination and prejudice that have spawned hate and violence for many decades in the country. MORE..
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1905: Birth of a Legendary Automobile Designer
Automobile designer Dante Giacosa was born in Rome, Italy. His work covered a wide range of automobiles, from minicars to sports cars. Giacosa was especially instrumental in spearheading the design of small automobiles during his many years at the Fiat company.
Giacosa studied engineering at the Polytechnic University of Turin. He joined Fiat sometime around 1926 and made his way steadily up the learning curve at that company's factory in Turin as he further refined his automotive design skills. With considerable technical expertise and strong interpersonal skills, Giacosa had no problem firmly establishing himself as one of Fiat's most highly valued designers. He later noted, "[The] draughtsmen, who were older than I was and the mainstay of the section, began to respect my abilities without feeling put out by the fact that I had an engineering degree." Giacosa was promoted to engineering manager at Fiat by 1937 and became director of the company's engineering division by 1950.
One of the more innovative and influential automobiles that Giacosa helped develop was the Fiat 500. At the time of its debut in 1936, this compact and rounded automobile was the world's smallest mass-produced motor vehicle. Notwithstanding its diminutive size, the Fiat 500 was designed as a full-scale car that could more than hold its own with larger models. The Fiat 500, with a total length of only about 10 feet (3.3 meters), could accommodate a four-cylinder engine and up to four people. This automobile also had an independent front suspension that allowed it to easily outhandle many larger vehicles.
To create even more overall space within the compact Fiat 500, the automobile's radiator was shoehorned behind the engine. The result of this tight configuration was the automobile's sloping, aerodynamic nose. This key feature of the front section of the Fiat 500 helped make the entire automobile closely resemble a clockwork mouse. Consequently, the Fiat 500 became widely and affectionately known as "Topolino" (the Italian name for Disney cartoon character Mickey Mouse). With only a few minor mechanical and cosmetic changes over the years, the Fiat 500 remained in production until 1955.
Giacosa retired from full-time employment with Fiat in 1970, but still maintained a professional foothold with the company as a consultant. His formal title during this later stage of his career was "Consulting Engineer to Fiat's Presidency and General Management and a Company's Ambassador with National and International Organizations." Along with his pioneering work at Fiat, Giacosa made other significant contributions when it came to the nuts-and-bolts of automobile design. His book Motori Endothermici, which discusses internal combustion machines, has been used as a reference work for mechanical engineering courses at universities throughout the world.
Giacosa died in Turin in 1996 at the age of 91. Giacosa's obituary in the London-based Independent stated, "His remarkable qualities earned him the deepest respect at Fiat and in Turin and throughout the car industry."
For more information on Dante Giacosa, please check out his 2 April 1996 obituary in The Independent at https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/dante-giacosa-obituary-1302870.html
Additional information on Giacosa's contributions during his many years with Fiat is available at http://www.fiat500usa.com/2009/02/dante-giacosa.html
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Taylor Gang's Ty Dolla $ign looks more than focused. The hip-hop crooner has teased fans about being completely in his work zone.
Ty jumped on Instagram last night (October 19) with a shot of himself donning a 2Pac shirt and hinted at his new music soon coming.
Earlier this month, Ty and fellow crooner Jeremih released their chill "Goin Thru Some Thangz" anthem.


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A haunting investigation into the murder of a young black man in 1992, Yance Ford's Strong Island is achingly personal—the victim, 24-year-old William Ford Jr., was the filmmaker's brother. Ford powerfully renders the specter of his brother's death and its devastating effect on his family, and uses the tools of cinema to carefully examine the injustice perpetrated when Ford's killer, a 19-year-old white man, was not indicted by an all-white jury. As a work of memoir and true crime, Strong Island tells one of the most remarkable stories in recent documentary; as a political artwork, its resonance is profound.


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Winter Garden shopping center losing Barnes & Noble
by: Amy Quesinberry Community Editor
WINTER GARDEN — Despite an online petition that has garnered more than 4,000 signatures in just one day, bookseller Barnes & Noble is leaving the Winter Garden Village.
"The lease at our Winter Garden location will expire at the end of July 2015 as a result of negotiations with the property owner," said David Deason, vice president of development for Barnes & Noble. "We will work diligently to find another location in the Winter Garden area as soon as possible. We look forward to the opportunity to continue to serve our valued customers at the nearby Plaza Venezia, Florida Mall and Colonial locations, and online at BN.com."
Matt Schuler, senior director of communications with DDR Corp., which owns the Winter Garden Village, said the agreements for the bookstore to vacate and the new tenant to occupy this space have been fully executed. Barnes & Noble was not kicked out of its space.
"We regularly meet with our retail partners to review existing store locations across our portfolio, and the decision to vacate was mutually agreed upon between Barnes & Noble and DDR," Schuler said.
After hearing from Barnes & Noble employees that the bookstore is leaving the Winter Garden Village at Fowler Groves, Windermere resident Cindy Zhao and her friend, Winter Garden resident Sandy McFarland, started the online petition on the website change.org to protest the change. The electronic petition went online Monday, and by noon Tuesday, there were nearly to 4,000 signatures from residents pleading for the bookstore to stay.
On the website, a letter was posted to shopping center management that read, in part: "This is the only bookstore to tens of thousands of households in the surrounding area. The management of the mall is going to terminate the lease with Barnes & Noble on June 3, 2015, in favor of another clothing store, which will pay three times the rent. While I understand the short-term business motivation for this, it fails to look at the bigger picture. Barnes and Noble is a main attraction to the Winter Garden Village mall. … This bookstore is a cornerstone of our local community. … We need it much more than we need another clothing store! We have supported the mall. It's time for the mall management to support its customers."
It has been speculated that the clothing store Forever 21 would occupy the space, but Schuler would not verify that claim. He also would not make any comment regarding specific rent amounts.
"These new retailers are unique and exciting concepts that will further enhance the merchandise offering at Winter Garden Village," he said.
Winter Garden resident Pamm Stewart argued that the community needs Barnes & Noble.
"A bookstore serving a municipal population of 47,000 residents in Winter Garden alone — not to mention all of West Orange County — is a cultural necessity for a well-rounded shopping venue," she wrote in the petition comments. "The city of Winter Garden took great pains in negotiations with Sembler Corporation to ensure that the center would have an upper-class mix of offerings within the center to serve the community and assure continuing quality. Losing a bookstore — a completely unique retailer with no equitable replacement — really does violate the careful intent of the city to have a first-class shopping venue."
With this departure, the closest chain bookstore is the Barnes & Noble on West Sand Lake Road, more than 12 miles from the Winter Garden Village, or at the Florida Mall and Colonial Plaza Market, 18 miles away.
Contact Amy Quesinberry Rhode at [email protected]
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February 2011 home sales in Colorado Springs were down 21.7% from 2010. That is a big number. With only 448 closings, it is a scary number. But on the flip side, average prices were up 13.6%, and the median was up 4.67%, indicating some strength. The ratio of selling price to listing price was 97.1%, and inventory of unsold homes remained flat at 4314 homes, down 1.1% from last year.
So what is going on? There are over 1300 homes that are under contract to one degree or another, which could indicate some stronger closing months to come. Interest rates, while higher than Q4 of 2010, are still really good, and have even backed down a bit this week in the upper 4's, making the already affordable homes here even more affordable. New listings appear to be absorbed at about the same pace they are coming onto the market, at least for the moment. Of course it is also possible that the new listings are replacing homes that are being taken off the market for other reasons (failed listings).
For more details, please visit Colorado Springs Real Estate Market Conditions.
So what does all this have to do with the weather? March has arrived like a lamb, with temps in the 60's along the front range, while the mountains have been getting some nice 'dumping' of snow. Winter is not over, but the spring like temperatures sure are pleasant. What a great time to pick out a new home!


Although best known as the presenter of Mailbag, a 30-minute Saturday-night RTE television programme that dealt with readers' letters, concerns and complaints, Arthur Murphy's big ambition as a young man was to become a popular entertainer, a dream that was never fully realised.
Arthur – who died last Thursday, at the age of 90, after a short illness, – was given a recording contract by George Martin, head of Parlophone Records for Britain and Ireland in 1957, five years before the producer would go on to work with The Beatles and become part of recording history. But tours in the UK and the US and numerous television and radio appearances failed to ignite Murphy's singing career.
He married Patricia Pacey and returned to Dublin to audition for the newly opened Telefis Eireann. He was hired, and became presenter of its first chat show, Visitor's Book. But in the days when presenters were expected to be all-rounders, he also worked directing and producing news programmes and a light entertainment show, Just for You.
By 1962 he was restless to resume his singing career and signed with Oriole Records, changing his name to Mark Dwayne. He released two country-style ballads, Remember Me Huh and Little Bitty Heart in July of that year. They "got a lot of airplays on Radio Eireann, without anybody knowing who he really was", said one report.
Neither propelled him into the charts, but he did get to work with Irish comedian Dave Allen in the Royal Albert Hall and do a show with Shirley Bassey. He also guested on Simon Dee's Dee Time, then a major TV show; and Thank Your Lucky Stars, ITV's answer to Top of the Pops.
He recorded an album of Irish rebel songs, A Nation Stirs, in 1971 – unfortunate timing, given the unfolding events in the North. But it did lead to an invitation from President Eamon de Valera to visit Aras an Uachtarain, where he was thanked for being such a good unofficial ambassador for his country.
Realising that he wasn't destined for stardom, he joined Westward Television in the UK where he worked with Desmond Wilcox on a number of documentaries. He later became the BBC's nightly local news anchor in Manchester. In 1974, he joined Radio City in Liverpool as their first breakfast-show presenter and in a three-year stint with the radio station presented Midday with Murphy and Down Town.
He and his wife Patricia had two sons, Shane and Mark, and decided to return to Ireland where he was engaged to present sponsored programmes on radio for customers like Coca-Cola and Johnson Wax.
Mailbag began as a 10-minute TV "filler" during which listeners and viewers aired their complaints – sometimes trivial, sometimes raising national issues, like the continuing use of the Angelus by the station, or complaining about the growing promiscuity in the media. It was a TV version of a popular radio programme presented by John O'Donovan called Dear Sir or Madam.
First aired in 1982, it developed into a 30-minute Saturday night prime-time slot, and Murphy because a household name reading letters in a cut-glass accent while showing flashes of humour, even as he handled complaints about himself and his own programme.
"The letters came in, not just about RTE, but about everything under the sun," he said in one interview. "There is usually a bunch of letters slagging me personally." He enjoyed reading the "verbal brickbats" and once read out a letter inquiring what his relationship was to another high-profile RTE presenter, Mike Murphy.
For a programme that was, at heart, mildly serious and gentle, it held on to its valued slot for 14 years until it was finally eased out in 1994.
Arthur Murphy ended his career working on the RTE Guide doing the "billings" – the short synopsis of programmes on the schedule.
Murphy later teamed up with presenter Ray D'Arcy on Today FM to do Emailbag on D'Arcy's morning show and moved back with him to RTE when the presenter jumped ship.
Arthur Murphy was born in south Dublin in 1929. He learned the piano and played church organ in his early years. He attended Trinity College Dublin, where he graduated with a BA and did the Hdip, getting his first job as a school teacher. He and his wife, Patricia – who passed away in April 2016 – lived for much of their lives in Loughlinstown and were parishioners at Rathmichael Parish Church, where they were very active members. He is survived by two sons, Shane and Mark.


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