Over the last 33 years of working with elite racers, I have noticed there are six specific habits that run consistently through all of these riders. Not only do these habits create both speed and endurance on the track, they are easy for any rider or racer to implement on a regular basis.
You can't manage time, only yourself. Time keeps ticking no matter what you choose to do with the 24 hours that are in a day. To get the most out of a day, avoid being rushed. If you are short on time getting to the track, unloading, getting geared up and then trying to ride, you will inevitably skip your warm up because you are short on time. If you cut your warm up short, the quality of your riding session will be negatively affected (notice how you feel better at the end of a moto than in the beginning? This is because you are finally warmed up). If you are tight on time, you will skip (or at least delay) eating after your session which results in a delay in your recovery process (leaving you sore and tired). You can see how this daily problem becomes a bigger ripple as the week transpires resulting in less than optimum results.
Sleep allows the body the opportunity to "absorb" the workloads completed on a daily basis. If you don't fully recover from each workout, you drive yourself into a mode of overtraining with negative performance results. Strive to get 8 – 9 hours of sleep a day. If you are getting less than this, look at your overall weekly schedule and make it a priority to sleep – you will be amazed at what happens to your performance results.
Many riders believe that the professionals train all day every day when in fact the opposite is true; ironically, many amateur racers ride and cross train more hours per week than the professionals! It has been my experience that the most successful riders train for 60-90 minutes in the morning (2 hours after breakfast) and then again in the afternoon for 45-60 minutes after a 2-3 hour nap and high quality snack or smoothie. The reason for this pattern is to allow the body to absorb and recover from each workout. Keep in mind that a rider doesn't become faster by riding and cross training, but rather from eating and sleeping (see above).
To help keep our rider's body fat levels low and their strength to weight ratios high, I have my riders eat one piece of fruit, a sliced vegetable (the darker green the better) and a lean source of protein (2-4 ounces) every two hours. By eating every two hours, the rider's blood sugar levels remain constant which helps manage hunger levels. Low hunger levels result in less food being consumed before the feeling of being full is achieved. Two additional benefits to eating every two hours with fresh fruits and vegetables are that the rider becomes pre-hydrated with water and they receive a healthy dose of vitamins and minerals that are necessary for the production of energy.
Simply put, as muscles are used for physical movement, they become progressively tighter. As the muscles tighten, they shorten which puts strain on the attachments at each end of the muscle (origin and insertion). If the muscles become too tight, they develop a condition referred to as a trigger point. To illustrate what a trigger point is, put your finger tips into the muscles in your shoulders (between the base of your neck and the end of your shoulder). Push each finger tip down into the muscles and act as if you are playing the piano. You will inevitably find a couple of "hot spots", this is a trigger point. To help get the trigger point to release and decrease the tension on the muscle's attachment, keep direct pressure on the center of the trigger point and breathe deep; within 5-10 seconds you will notice the level of tension becoming less. By receiving a massage on a regular basis (as often as once a week) keeps the muscles from becoming overly tight. As the tension in the muscle is reduced, the range of motion of the muscles (primary and secondary) improves which results in higher levels of strength and endurance. In addition to massage, top riders know how to properly isolate and stretch muscles. For optimum stretching results, stretch muscles ONLY after they have been warmed up with low intensity movement (ideally sport specific) for 10-15 minutes. The low intensity movement allows the blood to be diverted from the spine, organs and glands and into the various muscles in the arms and legs. Once the temperature within the muscle reaches an optimum level (as evident by sweat on your arms and face), stop and stretch (refrain from bouncing) the isolated target muscle; hold the stretch for 4-6 seconds while focusing on your breathing. For some riding specific stretches to reduce improve your range of motion and reduce your risk of injury, please visit my Youtube Channel.


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'The Goldbergs': Inside the Home (and Office) of TV's Most Detailed Comedy
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Adam F. Goldberg and the 'Short Circuit' model in the set's toy closet
Showrunner Adam F. Goldberg takes THR on a guided tour of the 1980-something set, which is filled with pieces of his heart — and childhood toys and art.
Adam F. Goldberg is like a kid in a candy store — only instead of candy, this store is ABC's The Goldbergs and the sugary treats are toys that the showrunner collected, some of which now decorate the set of the third-year 1980-something comedy based on his life.
Welcome to the set of The Goldbergs, the family comedy that is inspired by Goldberg's awkward adolescence and his Jewish family (and smother-mother). The series, produced by Sony Pictures Television, boasts one of television's most detail-oriented sets that Goldberg — and prop master Jem Elsner — go to great lengths to ensure are every bit as real as its stories.
"I hand-picked everything on the whole set. It took a lot of time and it drives everyone nuts," says Goldberg to The Hollywood Reporter during a guided tour of the set (and his office) on the Sony lot in Culver City. "Some of this stuff no one will notice but I feel like it adds to the legitimacy of the show."
Among the examples are the VCR featured in the show's opening credits, which matches the one Goldberg's family had in their living room during his childhood. Goldberg also selected where each toy —many of which are vintage and cost a small fortune on eBay — is placed on the set. (One upcoming prized find is a Dinosaucer toy set to be featured on an upcoming episode that cost the show $1,200 on eBay.)
Like he does for a lot of the 1980s music featured on the show, Goldberg painstakingly writes letters to toy makers — and food companies! — to have their products featured on-screen, even if it's in the background of a shot that many viewers may overlook.
"You may never see it, but with every single detail, getting an approval for everything takes forever," says Goldberg with a laugh. "I wrote one for [board game] Fireball Island because it was a really special game to me — and the letters make all the difference."
The showrunner estimates he's written between 25-50 letters for posters, toys, songs and more to largely positive results. "Everyone says yes," he says, noting Def Leppard reached out and a poster was subsequently added to Erica's room. "A lot of these '80s properties fall into this weird crack where no one knows who owns them — and no one wants to get sued — so there's many properties where the chain of title of who owns it is so complicated — or doesn't even exist — that they can't physically approve it."
One example of an iconic '80s property that won't appear on The Goldbergs is The Dukes of Hazzard — and not because of the confederate flag controversy but because of a copyright infringement lawsuit over the movie.
Also stuck in a legal roadblock is Goldberg's "Thriller" episode, which he feels is one of the show's best scripts ever. "There were so many letters written for 'Thriller' and I never got it. I think me talking about it at TCA ruined my chances," says Goldberg with a laugh. "Rod Temperton, the writer of 'Thriller,' was going to say yes and then I half complained about it so now he's saying no. It's a bummer; it was a gamble and it backfired. I was hoping that my passion would show, but you know billionaires! He just isn't interested in having the song be on television." And while the Halloween-themed episode dedicated to the Michael Jackson hit may not ever air, Goldberg says he's still trying to figure out a way to do a "Thriller" episode without the track.
While heart is at the center of The Goldbergs, that same love can be found on set with many of Goldberg's personal toys and artwork scattered about. (Images of Goldberg as a child are also on display in framed family photos all over the set that also feature stars Wendi McLendon-Covey, Sean Giambrone, Troy Gentile, Hayley Orrantia, George Segal and Jeff Garlin as kids, too.)
In young Adam's (Giambrone) room, for example, some of the walls are lined with sketches of robots at various stages — all hand-drawn by diehard robot aficionado Goldberg during his childhood that his mother, Beverly, passed along.
While toy companies have been supportive of the series, Goldberg says the next frontier is getting them to reach out to him to be featured on the series.
"On Entourage, they got free booze and VIP passes to clubs — and all I want is toys," he laughs. "That's what happens when they give guys like me a television show: you try and get toys and Garbage Pail Kids!"
Speaking of Garbage Pail Kids, Topps — the company behind the iconic trading cards — issued a special The Goldbergs card in its 30th anniversary set featuring the famous family.
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For Goldberg, meanwhile, his love of pop culture can be traced back to his childhood. While he has two older brothers — the character of Erica (Orrantia) is based on his brother — they both were in high school who wanted nothing to do with him as a kid. "The reason I have so many videos and I love these movies and toys so much is because that's what I had," says Goldberg. "The only interaction I had with my brothers is like negative attention where I'd basically egg them on into beating me up — which was delightful! Otherwise, it was me with a video camera jumping on a bed pretending to be the Ultimate Warrior or setting up my robots making a Transformers movie because I was a lonely kid."
As each episode of the ABC comedy ends with Goldberg's actual footage — many of which capture the experiences at the heart of various episodes — the showrunner also finds inspiration in his geek-tastic office, which is lined with Transformers, GoBots, action figures — many custom designs — and lunch boxes that are all part of his massive collection. (Check out the wall of action figures in front of Goldberg's desk, below.)
"I like being surrounded by all the stuff that makes me feel creative and inspires me," he says as he shows off a massive Garbage Pail Kids collection and other priceless collectibles. (Many of the toys on the set are locked up at the end of each day — and during the off-season in a special game room of sorts where Elsner and company have been known to play classic Nintendo games during downtime.)
"There are times when we need a joke and we're like, 'Oh, we've already done a Magnum, P.I. joke,' and we'll just walk around my office and be like, 'Fall Guy! We haven't done that!" Goldberg explains. "So it does help in that way, but generally when there's an episode that's largely influenced by a movie, it comes organically from the writers' room."
One such story is an upcoming Caddyshack nod in which young Adam "Caddyshacks at the pool at school because he hates swimming." Goldberg says the episode takes its roots from his middle school disdain for taking his shirt off — a feeling that was shared among the men and women in the show's writers' room. "The guys and girls in the writers' room all had memories that were terrible — the women would hold up kickboards so guys wouldn't look at their bodies — really raw memories," he notes. "We wanted to do a swimming episode and thought going through puberty, it's the worst time ever to be in front of each other in bathing suits so we thought, 'How does Adam shut down the pool?' and we came up with the idea of the Baby Ruth and all the sudden, we're in a Caddyshack area."
"That's how it happens — we'll start with a story and my mind is so obsessive over these things that I grew up with, I'll somehow relate it back to a movie or something," says Goldberg. "If there's an episode about Barry (Gentile) fighting, I'll be like, 'It could be like the Highlanders!' They feed off each other in that way.
Click here to for more true stories from the 1980-something set of The Goldbergs and to see the showrunner's office collection.
The Goldbergs returns Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. on ABC.
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2017 CPT Coding Update
By Kim Huey, MJ, CCS-P, CHC, CPC, PCS, CPCO
The 2017 update to the CPT code set brings fewer new codes than in previous years but more guideline changes and clarifications, as well as revisions in code description. One Appendix is deleted and a new one is created. There are a total of 149 new CPT codes, 498 revised codes, and 81 deleted codes.
There are no new Evaluation and Management codes for 2017, and only one Evaluation and Management code is deleted. Medicare coverage for chronic care management and prolonged services has increased. Medicare has covered only code 99490 for 20 minutes of clinical staff time spent managing the patient's chronic conditions. For 2017, two CPT codes existing since 2013 will be covered by Medicare. Code 99487 is for 60 minutes of clinical staff time, and 99489 is for each additional 30 minutes of time. Both of these codes require documentation of a substantial revision in the patient's plan of care. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has also created a new G-code, G0506, as an add-on when the patient is enrolled in chronic care management at a face-to-face encounter. Other G-codes have been added for Behavioral Health Integration, G0507, and Psychiatric Collaborative Care, G0502, G0503, G0504. A new code was also created for Care Planning for Patient with Cognitive Impairment, G0505. This code is expected to be a CPT code in 2018. Medicare will also now pay for existing codes 99358 and +99359 for prolonged services before and/or after direct patient care.
The CPT Surgery section sees 51 new codes, 360 revised codes, and 29 deleted codes with the update. Recognizing that existing code +22851 did not adequately describe the levels of complexity in insertion of biomechanical devices with spine surgery, three new codes were created:
+22853 when inserted to intervertebral disc space in conjunction with interbody arthodesis
+22854 when attached to vertebral corpectomy(ies), in conjunction with interbody arthodesis
+22859 when performed without interbody arthodesis
There are also new codes in the Spine Surgery section for insertion of stabilization devices when there is no fixation. Codes 22867 and +22868 are used when there is open decompression, while codes 22869 and +22870 are used when there is no decompression.
New codes for treatment of pelvic ring fracture account for differences in complexity based on whether the fracture is anterior or posterior and whether manipulation is required. Code 27197 is for closed treatment of a posterior pelvic ring fracture without manipulation, code 27198 is used if manipulation is required under greater than local anesthesia. For closed treatment of anterior fracture, the new guidance is to use the appropriate Evaluation and Management service.
Bunionectomy codes have been updated to remove legacy names from code descriptions and to delete codes that describe outdated methods. Two new codes have been created:
28291 for hallux valgus correction with cheilectomy with implant; 28289 is specified to be without implant
#28295 is for hallux valgus correction with sesamoidectomy
Laryngoscopy code changes include several new codes as well as guidelines for laryngoscopy with sinus endoscopy and clarification of unilateral versus bilateral codes. New code 31572 is for laryngoscopy with ablation of destruction of lesion(s); code 31573 is for laryngoscopy with therapeutic injections; code 31574 is for laryngoscopy with injection(s) for augmentation. New laryngoplasty codes to treat laryngeal stenosis, 31551-31554, are differentiated by the age of the patient and whether a graft or stent is placed. CPT code 31591 will be for unilateral medialization laryngoplasty, and code 31592 is to be used for cricotracheal resection.
Cardiovascular Surgery coding changes include a new code 33340 for percutaneous transcatheter closure of the left atrial appendage. As with most procedures performed under fluoroscopic guidance, this code includes radiological supervision and interpretation as well as transseptal puncture, catheter placement(s), left atrial angiography, and left atrial appendage angiography. Aortic valve repair codes will now distinguish between open and closed, simple and complex. New codes 33390 and 33391 are for open procedures. Existing codes 33405, 33406, and 33410 are likewise now specified to be for open procedures.
Two new codes have been established for Mechanochemical Ablation (MOCA). MOCA involves two ablation modalities for incompetent veins—mechanically damaging the intima of the vein followed by injecting sclerosant. Code 36473 will be used for the first vein treated in an extremity, code +36474 for subsequent vein(s) in the same extremity, through separate access sites. These codes include all imaging guidance and monitoring.
New coding concepts are established for hemodialysis access treatments, now labeled as Dialysis Circuit Maintenance. New definitions for coding purposes describe a peripheral segment and a central segment. Codes are hierarchical in nature and begin with 36901 for diagnostic angiography of the circuit. Additional codes are for treatment of a stenosis by angioplasty and/or stent and for mechanical thrombectomy, differentiated by location in the peripheral segment or the central segment.
Epidural/Subarachnoid Injections codes 62320-62327 are established to distinguish not only the level of the spine injected but also whether the procedure was performed under guidance. Ultrasound guidance is not applicable for these procedures, and procedures performed under ultrasound guidance would be coded as without guidance. Additional coding clarifications are that the code is based on the level at which the catheter enters the body and that infusions of less than 24 hours are to be coded as injections. CPT code 62380 is also established for endoscopic decompression of the spinal cord and nerve root(s).
Radiology Section changes include establishment of code 76706 for Abdominal Aorta Ultrasound Screening, replacing HCPCS code G0389, and new mammography codes. The new mammography codes, 77065-77067, bundle computer-aided detection into the mammography but otherwise mirror previous code structure and definition. Medicare will not cover new codes for 2017 and has issued corresponding G-codes G0202, G0204, and G0206. Medicare is expected to cover the CPT codes in 2018.
New laboratory codes have been established for presumptive drug testing, mirroring existing HCPCS codes. New guidelines and new codes have been established for Molecular Pathology. A new section of CPT for Proprietary Laboratory Analyses is established. This section contains alpha-numeric codes for sole-source tests or sole-source kits. These codes will also be published quarterly on the American Medical Association's website.
Vaccine codes have been revised to remove age indications and replace them with dosage amounts. One new vaccine code is established for quadrivalent influenza vaccine. CPT codes 92235 and 92240 are specified to be unilateral or bilateral, and new code 92242 is established for use when both fluorescein angiography (92235) and indocyanine-green angiography (92240) are performed on the same day. New codes 93590, 93591, and 93592 are for percutaneous transcatheter closure of paravalvular leak. Health and Behavior Assessment code 99420 is replaced by 96160 for patient-focused health risk assessment instrument and 96161 for caregiver-focused health risk assessment instrument. New oncology code 96377 will be used for preparation and application of on-body injector for subcutaneous injection for patients to receive injection at home 24 hours after chemotherapy administration.
New codes have been established for Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Athletic Training evaluations to differentiate in levels of work based on the patient's medical history and clinical presentation, severity of the patient's condition, and complexity of the provider's medical decision making.
Moderate sedation will no longer be bundled with any surgery code, resulting in the bull's-eye symbol being removed from 180 codes. Appendix G has also been removed. New codes for moderate sedation are differentiated by whether the service is performed by the same physician or another physician and whether the patient is older or younger than five years. Codes 99155-99157 for services by another physician cannot be billed in the non-facility setting. CMS has established G0500 for moderate sedation by same practitioner for GI services.
Category III codes represent new technology. These services may not necessarily be approved by the Food and Drug Administration and may not be reimbursed by many payers. Codes in this section are either moved to Category I or are removed after five years. In 2017, codes for esophageal sphincter augmentation and for laparoscopic ablation of uterine fibroids are converted from Category III codes to Category I codes. New Category III codes include codes for cardiac contractility modulation system, destruction of neurofibromas, transurethral waterjet ablation of the prostate, tactile breast imaging, phrenic nerve stimulation system, and permanent aortic counterpulsation ventricular assistance device.
As coverage of telehealth services continues to increase, CPT establishes a new modifier, 95, to be appended to existing CPT codes. Appendix P has also been established and includes codes that show evidence of being covered by any payer. A new place of service code has also been established for Telehealth, 02.
This article is an overview. Before billing these new codes, providers should review the specific coding, documentation, and reimbursement requirements for each.
Kim Huey (kggarner@bellsouth.net) is president at KGG Coding and Reimbursement Consulting, LLC.
Article citation:
Huey, Kim. "2017 CPT Coding Update" Journal of AHIMA 88, no.3 (March 2017): 46-47.
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The random number generator has finally chosen a Pokémon game for me to write about. Let's talk about Pokémon Pearl Version.
Pokémon Pearl Version was the first game that I got in the Fourth Generation of Pokémon. Like I do for all Pokémon games, I bought it the first day it came out on April 22, 2007.
It takes place in the Sinnoh Region, which is based on the Hokkaido Region of Japan. This was the first new Pokémon game I played after realizing that the Pokémon World is based on the real world. I knew what Japan looked like, so I immediately recognized Sinnoh's placement on the real globe.
Diamond and Pearl were the first titles of the Pokémon series to include internet features. Because of this, I was encouraged to start a YouTube channel called PKMNBlogger. I made a lot of crazy Pokémon Videos there, but in September 2010, the channel was taken down supposedly for copyright infringement. I replaced that channel with PKMNBlogger2, which has the most important videos from the original PKMNBlogger channel as well as every video I made after the original PKMNBlogger takedown.
As far as Pokémon games go, Pearl doesn't stand out. You're better off playing Pokémon Platinum Version which is essentially the same but better. That said, I have to give credit to Pokémon Pearl for inspiring me to become The Pokémon Blogger.


This is the third installment in an ongoing series about pieces of Central Florida's theme park history that live on inside fans' homes or private collections. Have your own to show off? E-mail us at johngregoryFL@gmail.com!
The long history of Disney parks contains as many myths as the very fairy tales that inspired Walt Disney.
In this case, the very real legend concerns a never-built land of beasts and creatures from the realm of storybooks and fantasy and a statue of a unicorn that some claim was never seen by guests. In fact, it was briefly part of Disney's Animal Kingdom around the time of its 1998 opening — but now it's the majestic centerpiece in Graydon Van Ert and his husband's backyard.
A piece of one of Disney World's most ambitious unbuilt projects: Beastly Kingdom.
Planned to be one of the major draws for Disney World's fourth theme park, the Beastly Kingdom section was to focus on animals that never really existed.
"Like our legends and fairy tales about imaginary animals, this land is divided into realms of good and realms of evil," read early marketing material for the park.
The dark side of the land would have been dominated by Dragon's Tower, a charred, ruined castle housing Disney's first suspended roller coaster with inversions. The light side would have featured two attractions: Fantasia Gardens, a gentle boat ride based on the 1940 animated film, and Quest of the Unicorn, a European-style hedge maze that ended with an encounter with an animatronic unicorn.
Beastly Kingdom was cut from the Animal Kingdom's opening day slate due to costs in 1994, according to MousePlanet.com articles written by former Disney Imagineers Maggie Parr and Paul Torrigino. The "temporary" Camp Minnie Mickey area took its place, but the hope was the project would be revived as part of a second-phase expansion of Animal Kingdom.
To promote these future attractions, Beastly Kingdom concepts would be previewed on the park's Discovery River Boats — essentially a boat ride around the park. In the area between Discovery Island and Africa where Beastly Kingdom was supposed to be built, boats would pass an eerie dragon's cave (complete with melted knight armor impaled on a pike) and a statue of a unicorn.
At this time, Van Ert was a veteran Disney cast member. Having worked at Disneyland during its 30th anniversary in 1985, he got his start in Disney World attractions in 1990, with his resume including stints at Living with the Land, Horizons, World of Motion, The Great Movie Ride, and being an opening trainer at the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.
Being a Disney World cast member comes with some special perks, including getting an early glimpse at Animal Kingdom.
Between cast member previews and the park's real opening day, the Beastly Kingdom elements on Discovery River Boats were changed at the behest of Disney's then-CEO and chairman Michael Eisner, according to Van Ert. Gone were the melted knights, deemed too gruesome for children, and the unicorn's bright white appearance was replaced by an aged look more appropriate to a statue.
Contrary to some YouTube videos on the subject, Van Ert said the unicorn statue was indeed present for a short time after the park's official opening, before being permanently removed. This short existence means few pictures exist of the unicorn statue inside Animal Kingdom. Discovery River Boats would be shuttered altogether in August 1999, partially because of guests complaining that there was so little to see on the ride.
Fast forward to 2014, and the land once marked for Beastly Kingdom was being cleared for Pandora: The World of Avatar. Van Ert said the unicorn statue must have been lying around in a backstage area being listed for sale on a cast member-only auction portal.
"All it said was 'This unicorn will surely brighten your day and put a smile on your face,'" he said.
His winning bid was only $215, a bargain that Van Ert attributed to the auction site getting the statue's size wrong. It was listed as only 5 feet tall, when in reality, it stands at over 12 feet tall and 5 feet long from hoof to tail.
Unlike some theme park fans that have bought props from Universal Orlando and told their tales to Orlando Rising, no one tried to talk Van Ert or his husband out of this purchase. Being a big fan of fantasy (Van Ert named "The Lord of the Rings" as his favorite book) and having already amassed other Disney memorabilia like a hallway light from Wilderness Lodge and a Tower of Terror lobby elevator call button, he was sold on it from the start.
Putting him on display in their backyard wasn't easy. Beastly sat in the garage for months and needed patching to cover scrapes from when he was removed from the park, along with buckets placed into the ground and then filled with concrete to support the statue.
For now, Beastly is quite the conversation starter for guests to their home. Van Ert and his husband often decorate the statue for holidays, prominently displayed on Facebook and Instagram pages for Beastly. People have even asked if they can pay to have their picture taken with the statue.
"The response has been hysterically funny," he said.
While Van Ert isn't keen on inviting strangers over to his house, you can see Beastly's former home at Animal Kingdom, along the old Discovery River Boats route. As you're walking over the bridge heading into Pandora, you can spot the statue's vacant pedestal on your left.
Have your own piece of theme park history you want to show off? E-mail johngregoryFL@gmail.com.
It's probably not true, but I read a rumor Disney is making their 5th park right next to Animal Kingdom. It will be called Disney's Beastly Kingdom (possibly Dominion). The lands would consist of a central Dragon section (Discovery Island), an Egypt section (Africa), Australia (Asia), a Stars Wars snow planet (Dinoland) and Fantasia (Pandora).


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Prince's Sister Denies Reports Of Family Feud Over Estate
Tyka Nelson on Friday said there is no family dispute over the music legend's estate, and promised to hold a public memorial in August.
By Claudia Rosenbaum
Claudia Rosenbaum BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on May 13, 2016, at 8:36 p.m. ET
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Tyka Nelson, center, the sister of Prince.
Prince's sister, Tyka Nelson, took to Facebook on Friday to refute reports that the family was feuding over the late music legend's estate.
No one in my family has has fought about anything, and least of all me...but I must admit I think it's funny that I'm the one they say "Stormed out..."or that "We are at war" Me? Us? Really? Where was I when that happened?
Nelson appeared to be referring to a TMZ story about a money fight looming for Prince's family, a report that was then picked up by multiple outlets.
Nelson said it was unfortunate that she even had to address this issue, but wanted to clear the air.
Prince was pronounced dead April 21 at the age of 57 after he was found unresponsive in an elevator and first responders couldn't revive him.
Matt Sayles / AP
It was later revealed that Prince's team had reached out to a California doctor who specializes in prescription medication addiction for emergency treatment.
The medical examiner is awaiting the results of toxicology tests before releasing the official cause of death. And an investigation remains ongoing.
Nelson also said that the family has yet to hold a funeral or memorial for Prince, but that a public event is being planned for August. Prince's former publicist had announced that the singer was celebrated by a small group of his most beloved family and friends "in a private, beautiful ceremony," but Nelson clarified that it was "not a funeral."
"We look forward to sharing with the world this celebration of, and farewell to, our Prince," Nelson said. "Details coming soon."
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Claudia Rosenbaum is an entertainment reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in Los Angeles.
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An excerpt from Please Don't Die.
While I was still writing this book, a local doctor killed himself. This was a younger psychiatrist with a successful practice, leaving three children after shooting himself in the head. What do you imagine his patients are thinking right now, especially if they are struggling with depression or suicidal thoughts? I didn't know him but thinking about this makes me want to cry.
Did you know that doctors actually have higher rates of suicide than Veterans? Their suicide rate is twice as high as the general population. The number of doctor suicides is estimated to occur at 40 per 100,000. This is more than double what is seen among the American general public, which is thought to be around 13 per 100,000. That works out at between 300 and 400 medical practitioners taking their own lives every single year. In the U.S., health professionals are well compensated and well educated. It is a career choice many wish for but few achieve.
How can you explain suicides among this group? They are smart, educated, and by most standards, successful. They have access to resources. What possible reason could they have for ending their lives? We tend to think of this group as success stories. But there are significant stressors in the training and in these careers.
Doctors endure extended training which is extremely competitive. The training itself is taxing intellectually, emotionally and financially. They usually enter the medical field because they want to help others. While training involves intensive and prolonged exposure to almost intolerable stress, being responsible for another's life is overwhelming.
Because the exposure to stress is so prolonged, talented and compassionate people reach their breaking point. They give up. Doctors tend to feel they should be stronger, and think they're alone in their despair. They don't turn to each other, and they don't talk about how they feel, or how afraid they are of failure. They often internalize their despair and end their lives. As humans, doctors are exposed to the same kind of life stressors as others, and deal with it the same way others do, with drugs and alcohol. Their suicide means is usually drug overdose. They have access to drugs and know how much to take.
The loss of physicians yearly to suicide is a tragic loss of resources because we need compassionate people to provide our health care. The process of medical training has been inhumane for some time, based on an archaic notion that the quality of the ability to provide treatment is based on one's ability to tolerate extreme stress over long periods of time.
Doctors and nurses are made to suffer, and are stressed to their emotional and physical tolerance as part of training in the belief that this trait is necessary to be successful in the field. That exposure to prolonged sleep deprivation and emotional and physical stress becomes more than some can bear. Students graduate with high student loan amounts.
Adjusting to the work environment coupled with insurance restrictions further frustrates those whose goal it is to help others as it impairs their ability to help those they seek to help. Normal life stressors add to the mix. Relationships suffer from the amount of time lost to studying and working, more so than with a number of other types of employment. Varying work shifts and the need to be "on call" may cause interference with emotional intimacy. The scales can tip to overwhelming. Approximately one million people lose their health provider each year to suicide.
Rhonda Fried is a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist. She is the author of Please Don't Die.


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Q: Logging confusion matrix pytorch lightning I am doing a classification task using pytorch lightning. I am using the weights and bias logger to plot several performance metrics for my runs. I would also like to plot the confusion matrix with the number of errors made across classes, but I don't know how to.
I tried logging it as an image, but I get the pixels without the numbers of errors and without the class labels, which is not very helpful.
Do you know how to accomplish this?

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Novatek elects board of directors
Christian Fernsby ▼ | April 24, 2019
Moscow, Russia - Novatek, a gas producer, announced that on the annual general meeting shareholders approved the election of members to the board of directors.
The following members were elected to the Board of Directors:
- Andrei I. Akimov: Chairman of the Management Board of Gazprombank (Joint Stock Company);
- Arnaud Le Foll: General Director of Total E&P Russie;
- Burckhard Bergmann: Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Accumulatoren-werke Hoppecke;
- Michael Borrell: Senior Vice-President of Total North Sea and Russia;
- Robert Castaigne: Member of the Board of Directors of VINCI;
- Leonid V. Mikhelson: Chairman of Novatek's Management Board;
- Alexander Y. Natalenko: Honored Geologist of the Russian Federation and State Prize Laureate;
- Viktor P. Orlov: President of the Russian Geological Society (RosGeo), Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology; and
- Gennady N. Timchenko: Member of the Board of Directors of PAO SIBUR Holding, Chairman of the French and Russian Companies Economic Board of the Franco-Russian Chamber of Commerce, and Russian Co-Chair of the Russian-Chinese Business Council. ■
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Restoring physiological insulin
Continuing the EASD e-Learning Insulin@100 series, Professor Eelco de Koning turns to the subject of physiological insulin replacement by transplantation.
One of the surprising facts revealed in Professor Eelco de Koning's presentation is that the first attempt at pancreatic cell transplantation predated even the discovery of insulin. In 1893, a 15-year-old English boy was admitted to the Bristol Royal Infirmary, severely ill as a result of his diabetes. Attempts to treat him by various means – including a "liquid extract of pancreas", taken orally – were unsuccessful, forcing his physicians to a more radical solution.
Writing in the British Medical Journal, Dr Watson Williams reported that his surgical colleague "placed the patient under chloroform while I extracted the pancreas with strict aseptic precautions from a freshly slaughtered sheep. Three pieces, each the size of a Brazil nut, were grafted into the subcutaneous tissues of the breast and abdomen." Sadly, the patient died three days later.
That story would have gone very differently had the boy only lived a few decades later, and been able to benefit from the discovery of insulin.
Transplantation has made remarkable progress in the century and more since then; so, of course, has insulin. Although, as Professor de Koning points out, despite the myriad advances in insulin design and monitoring technology to support its optimal use, "conceptually, the pharmacological treatment of those patients has not really changed in the last 100 years. It was insulin then, it is insulin now."
This means that in essence people with type 1 diabetes and many of those with type 2 must use exogenous insulin to mimic the body's extraordinarily sensitive, finely tuned systems for regulating blood glucose. However sophisticated the technology, de Koning says, these natural systems can never be perfectly mimicked; hypoglycaemia will always be a risk. Indeed, he asserts, "the only real solution for completely normal glucose regulation without a risk of hypoglycaemia is replacement with insulin-producing cells."
What follows is a brief but fascinating history of the development of insulin-producing cell transplants, encompassing whole-pancreas and islet transplantation, up-to-date figures on the success rates of transplantation – there's even a virtual tour of an islet-isolating lab. De Koning is at pains to make clear the limits on transplantation's suitability for patients - not least, the requirement for a lifetime of immunosuppressive drugs with all their own associated complications. The other big limitation is availability of donated pancreata for transplantation and he concludes with a survey of attempts to find new sources of transplantable material. "This field is in its infancy. Undoubtedly, it will mature in a major way in the upcoming decades and we will see what will happen in the next 100 years."
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BlockFi to Offer $160M in Loans Secured by Bitcoin Mining Equipment
Judith Faith 6 days ago 2 mins read
Bankrupt crypto lending firm BlockFi is reportedly planning to sell off $160 million in loans backed by around 68,000 Bitcoin mining machines as part of its bankruptcy proceedings.
According to a Bloomberg report, two people familiar with the matter claim that BlockFi started the process of selling off the loans last year.
The crypto lender filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 2022, citing its significant exposure to the now-defunct crypto exchange FTX as the cause of its downfall.
However, some of these loans have already defaulted and could be undercollateralized given the decline in the price of Bitcoin mining equipment, according to the sources. The last day for bidders to submit offers for the loans is January 24.
Crypto lawyer Harrison Dell, director at Australian law firm Cadena Legal, explained that if the Bitcoin mining equipment used as collateral is worth less than the value of the loans, the loans are "not worth their paper value anymore to BlockFi."
He added that the people bidding for the debts are most likely to be debt collection businesses buying for "cents on the dollar."
Dell also suggested that this is just the beginning of what's to come for the crypto industry. He noted, "This is just the start of the asset sales from BlockFi and other crypto firms in Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US."
BlockFi's attempt to liquidate its loans is likely part of efforts to pay off its creditors, of which, according to its bankruptcy filing in November 2022, the company has over 100,000.
At the time of its bankruptcy, it was reported that BlockFi sold $239 million of its own cryptocurrency assets to cover the bankruptcy expenses and warned approximately 70% of its staff that they would lose their jobs.
In a separate move, earlier this week, BlockFi petitioned the court in a January 23 declaration to release funds to allow bonuses for key employees in a bid to retain them amid the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.
BlockFi's chief people officer Megan Crowell told the court that without financial incentives, it's unlikely the company will be able to retain its employees.
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Q: Terminal: termcapinfo command not found I added the following line to my .screenrc script such that I can use my mouse to scroll up and down in the terminal when the output is too large and long. However, when I try to
source .screenrc script. It complains that termcapinfo command not found.
termcapinfo xterm ti@:te@
I have no idea what went wrong ? Why is this happening ?

A: You should not source it. The file .screenrc is read and interpreted by screen at start up.
Moreover please note that termcapinfo xterm ti@:te@ will work only if your terminal set $TERM variable to xterm. In other case
termcapinfo xterm*|rxvt*|kterm*|Eterm* ti@:te@

is probably more universal solution.
There is also possibility to scroll by keyboard shortcut Ctrl-a ESC and then use up-down arrows.


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Fill Your Cart With Colour
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eBay wanted to bring colourful shopping inspiration to the streets of the UK with a dynamic digital OOH campaign, that used real-time data to bring their campaign to life in time for spring.
The campaign tapped into activities ritually undertaken at the start of the spring season, eBay encouraged passers-by to "shop like nobody else" and to "make springtime spectacular."
Using colourful product offerings, the creative was matched to real-time Met Office data to promote eBay's online retailer's product ranges, with appropriate offers based on the current weather conditions. The digital OOH creative supported a multi-channel campaign which encouraged shoppers to break away from "beige".
The digital OOH campaign ran on screens across the UK from 26 March to 8 April 2018.
The campaign was managed and delivered through OpenLoop and distributed to multiple screen formats and networks across the UK.


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Museo diocesano di Sulmona (Italian for Diocesan Museum of Sulmona)  is a  museum of religious art in Sulmona, Province of L'Aquila (Abruzzo).

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El període de Jaume I o Època jacobea és un període de la història anglesa i escocesa marcada pel regnat de Jaume I, al mateix temps rei d'Anglaterra i d'Escòcia. Aquest període engloba els primers anys de l'època estuardiana, des del 1603 al 1625. Per tant, va ser precedit per l'època elisabetiana i seria succeït pel Període de Carles I.

Els esdeveniments polítics i els desenvolupaments de l'època jacobea no es poden entendre separadament de la situació econòmica i financera. Jaume estava profundament endeutat a Escòcia, i després de 1603 va heretar d'Elisabet I d'Anglaterra un deute anglès de 350.000 lliures. El 1608 el deute anglès havia augmentat a 1.400.000 lliures i augmentava en 140.000 lliures anuals. Mitjançant un programa accidentat de venda de propietats reials, el lord tresorer Robert Cecil va reduir el deute a 300.000 lliures i el dèficit anual a 46.000 lliures el 1610, però no va poder seguir el mateix mètode d'alleujament molt més lluny. El resultat va ser una sèrie de negociacions tenses i sovint fallides amb el Parlament per obtenir suports financers, una situació que es va deteriorar durant els regnats de Jaume i el seu fill i hereu Carles I d'Anglaterra fins a la crisi de la Guerra Civil anglesa.

L'era jacobea va acabar amb una greu depressió econòmica el 1620-1626, complicada per un greu brot de pesta bubònica a Londres el 1625.

En el camp de les arts i les ciències, aquest va ser un període fructífer conduint a un estil propi d'arquitectura així com en les arts decoratives i la literatura. En concret, destaca com a principal exponent de la literatura anglesa d'aquest període Shakespeare que va redactar algunes de les seves obres més conegudes com El rei Lear durant aquests anys.

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4. The ICBEM 2017 was successfully held in Athens, Greece.
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O Ye, of Little Faith: Chiafalo v. Washington
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Faithless no more! said the Supreme Court in Chiafalo v. Washington on Monday. The Court unanimously held that the Constitution allows a state to force its members of the Electoral College to vote according to that state's popular vote. The case arose during the 2016 presidential election when three of Washington's electors voted "faithlessly." Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton won Washington's 12 electoral votes, and each of Washington's 12 electors had pledged to cast their votes for Clinton. But when the time came, three of the twelve violated their pledges, casting their votes for Colin Powell. Washington promptly removed the three electors from their posts and find each $1,000. The electors challenged their fines, claiming that the Constitution allows them to vote however they please. The Court rejected that claim, giving us all a bit more faith in our constitutional republic.


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On Bend's Westside sits Broken Top Bottle Shop; it's not a brew pub, it's a brew hub. With the myriad of restaurants and breweries in Bend, only Broken Top Bottle Shop offers a truly unique combination of tasty food, draft, craft, and specialty beer and cider, as well as a huge selection of bottled and canned beer, cider, mead, sake, wine, and nonalcoholic beverages. The vibe here is casual, even for Bend, but the owners take their menu seriously. Open daily, the restaurant has won numerous local and regional awards for their innovative spin on pub favorites. Try the fennel-dusted pretzel with pesto cheese dip, pork belly bahn mi, or cauliflower shwarma. The chef focuses on using organic produce and naturally-raised proteins, and offers a robust selection of vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free choices. At the bar you'll find a number of mixed drinks and a dozen taps that are updated daily. If you can't find what you want there, head to the cooler, which runs the entire length of the restaurant, and serve yourself. Don't miss out on Broken Top Bottle Shop's weekly events, including Wino Wednesday, Taco Thursday and the Sunday Wing Special, with wings in all flavors just sixty cents each. A kid-friendly atmosphere makes this a neighborhood favorite, and dogs are welcome on the patio.


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}

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Meet Aggie Burnett, publicist, marketing strategist, writer, editor and speaker. She is a graduate of NYU's prestigious Journalism Program and started her career in editorial at Glamour Magazine before launching her fragrance brand, Nomaterra, from the ground up. Aggie's work has been featured in publications such as Entrepreneur, Glamour, CondeNast Traveler, InStyle, Elle, Vogue, Thrive Global, Rachael Ray, ABC, CBS, Refinery 29, Byrdie, PopSugar and more. Check out her episode to learn how she went from a beauty assistant at Glamour, to running her own brand, Nomaterra Fragrances, and serving as a PR consultant for beauty and lifestyle companies. She wants to show how you don't need to spend a fortune to effectively grow your brand. It's time for your brand to STOP EXISTING AND START GETTING NOTICED.
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Get to know the radiant Candis Hickman! She helps personal brands become KNOWN. Growing up the daughter of a pastor in a small conservative church in Australia, she knows what it's like to water down your gifts in the name of "humility". To fear the spotlight for fear of judgment. From her early days running the wards as an Occupational Therapist, to the late nights spent interviewing rappers in the back of dingy nightclubs, to her current reality working as a personal branding coach & podcast host, she can truly say that the most fun (and success) she ever had is in front of the spotlight!
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Meet Kristie Jorfald! Kristie Jorfald grew up in a multicultural family with three very unique priorities—language, culture and diversity were continuously the focus of her upbringing. Kristie's professional career started while she was attending the University of Colorado at Boulder. In pursuit of a Bachelor's Degree in English Literature and Creative Writing, she was hired as an intern by the reputable Hearst Corporation to write editorials for their well-known fashion magazines in New York City (CosmoGIRL! Magazine) and Los Angeles(TEEN Magazine) during her summer breaks in college.
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Sharokina Pazand is not only our guest for the Creative Women's Co. Podcast, she is our new host! We are so excited that Sharokina (Shar as we all affectionately know her) is the new voice and host for our podcast's third season, and we cannot wait to share with you all our new guests.
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Val Vigoda is a transformational musician that had a very traditional and classical training until she joined the army. Her natural curiosity and love of learning, combined with a rebellious spirit, led to a highly unusual educational path: skipping three years ahead in school, she headed to Princeton at age 15, and joined Army ROTC to pay for college. The discipline she learned in the military served her very well and switched from classical to electric violin. She became world renowned violinist and performer, and now she is expanding her reach in the realms of performing, writing and speaking: writing with new collaborators, spreading her wings as a solo performer and in-demand musical keynote artist, as well as Off-Broadway actor-musician. Listen to learn more about how she broke away from her regimented rule a-biding life to gain her own fulfilling career as a transformational musician, and how she is now sharing her life's story to inspire others.
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Alicia Driskill, Founder of evolveHer, was ready for a change. Prior to launching evolveHer, Alicia worked as Vice President of Global Partnerships at WME | IMG, one of the world's most innovative companies. She also served as a Senior Executive at Live Nation and People.com. She wanted to step away from the corporate world, but she didn't know what that meant. It felt like the only options available to her were remain in corporate or be a full-time mom.
Episode #18: Entrepreneurship is Combining All of Your Life Experiences with Sarah-Eva Marchese
Sarah-Eva Marchese of Floracracy, never thought she'd be innovating the flower industry. She went to the University of St. Andrews in Scotland to study terrorism and conflict prevention. It wasn't until planning her wedding did she realize there was need for resources that enabled the florally illiterate, like her, to design flowers in their style.
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Emily Merrel, Chief Networker and Founder of Six Degrees Society, possess a positive, can-do spirit that is infectious. She has always loved having a side-hustle, and always feels like she needs to be constantly creating and doing more! Since she was a kid she had a creative, mini-entrepreneur spirit. One summer she sold jewelry to earn money to donate to the Humane Society-event at a young age she was showing the philanthropic business woman she would become
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Rebecca Solis, creator of Little Brownn Suitcase, talks about going from newlywed to co-business owners with her husband, Jawnos, in this latest podcast episode. The key to making it work? Separating and setting boundaries for work and personal life. And of course, communication is key! Little Brownn Suitcase specializes in everything bridal and gives all their products sass and flare.
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Francesca Ragucci has always been very entrepreneurial minded-even at a young age! Starting a babysitting business in middle school, Francesca would go to her mother's pilates classes and found her clients easily from all the other moms attending these classes. She recognized these women as her target market and created a booming babysitting business that she expanded once she went to high school.
Episode #14: Don't Let Your Passion Blind You from the Details with Carina Lawson
Carina Lawson, founder of Ponderlily, is a Brazilian-born, Arabian-Gulf raised, Brit-wed, mom of twin girls. She has "full days and a full heart" working her 9-5 job while taking care of her daughters, running to meetings, and making dinner for the family. At night (like any true passionate entrepreneur), she lets her ideas fly while she works on Ponderlily: her line of beautiful, environmentally-conscious products that help you organize your life while nurturing those in-between moments in which you truly feel like yourself again. Ponderlily pushes it's customers to create To-Be lists rather than To-Do lists and to live intentionally however they choose to plan out their day, their week, or the entire year! Learn how Carina came up with the idea for Ponderlily, the lessons she has learned along the way (don't skip over the details and always trust your gut), and what a day in her life is like balancing a full work schedule, her wonderful twin girls, and her passion for Ponderlily.
Episode #13: Education, Action, and Reflection: 3 Steps to Start Your Business with Miranda Nahmias
Miranda Nahmias is the founder of Mirandia Nahmias & Co and a super passionate self-professed "marketing nerd" who loves helping businesses transform into a systemized, well-oiled machine by taking care of all their marketing needs-and then some! She works with small businesses and clients as their own "personal cheerleader" giving advice, raising questions, and making them realize their potential. We all need a Miranda Nahmias on our side! Listen to this week's episode to learn more about Miranda's journey into digital marketing, her 3 Main Steps Method, and how she keeps on top of it all!
Episode #12: Balancing Your Business, Family, and Passions with Lidia Varesco Racoma
Lidia Varesco Racoma is a creative entrepreneur who owns two businesses, Lidia Varesco Design and typebaby., and runs online community, Biz Mama, all while also being a mom of two; she knows how to juggle a busy schedule! As an art director and designer with over 20 years of experience and a passion for marketing, Lidia ...
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Heather Vickery knows about pushing and setting boundaries. She is a Success Coach and Event Planner with over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur and successful business owner, and she is using her knowledge to help clients realize their potential and work through personal and professional limits. Heather's journey to entrepreneur and Success Coach did not come easy. She realized she was making decisions in her life based on fear and decided she could no longer live this way. It was time to leap and live limitlessly. Her decision led to a total life transformation that included a painful divorce, navigating a co-parenting relationship, and starting a new business, Vickery & Co. Learn more about Heather's incredible story of self-discovery, and how she learned that everything you want is just on the other side of uncomfortable. That's where the magic happens.
Episode #10: Approaching Other Business For Collaboration
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Entrepreneurship is not what Christine had initially imagined. She is a self-taught graphic and web designer. When having her first business which was an online jewelry store, she had to create the site herself and through that, she got introduced to web design. She started designing websites in 2011 for her friends and family. Then decided to try business coaching and found out that she hated it! From her first online store to now running a successful branding and design company, Christine is loving her journey of entrepreneurship. Listen to our talk with her about her journey in changing her path.
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Growing up, L'Oreal suffered from low self-esteem as a result of not seeing herself, a young Black woman, represented in the teen magazines she subscribed to. She shared with us how she vividly remembers praying to God to make her White so she'd be "beautiful." Since then, She has dedicated her life to empowering young women of color. Listen to our conversations with her about her mission to empower women and girls, one story at a time.
Episode #07: Connecting & Building Relationships with Gwen Washington
At this episode, we got some insights from our guest Gwen Washington on all things connecting with others and relationship building. We also talked about how to be a good leader of your company. Especially when it comes to managing others when it's leading/supervising/managing them. Oh, we touched on her challenges about building the relationship in a business setting as well. Come tune in more on this episode.
Episode #06: Defying Social Expectations with Sharokina Pazand
Agnieszka and I are excited to share this podcast episode with one of our creative women friend Sharokina Pazand. She shared with us about the experience that she faced around defying social expectations while running your business. Whether it was a social expectation from family, friends, or even from clients or colleagues in the industry.
Episode #05: Dealing With Changes in Our Businesses
Today's episode is all about change. We all make small changes in our businesses all the time, but today we really want to talk about changing directions and changing the location of our business and the suggests that we encounter while doing so.
Episode #04: Ways to Stay Inspired
We all know what it's like to stare at your computer screen or a blank piece of paper for hours when your creativity is nowhere to be found. In this episode, Agnieszka and I want to share the insights and some tips on how we stay inspired when our creativity is lacking for a project or during our day to day schedule.
Episode #03: Braving to Your Life's Purpose with Lauren Ramsey
Much like most of us, Lauren Ramsey took her leap to started her own business. Leaving behind the corporate job from companies like Radio Disney, GE, and Citigroup, she shared with us her journey on how she found her path and how she braved through the unknown future for herself and her company. Listen in on her insights and the amazing journey that she has experienced.
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Loosely knit group of activists gain entry to Swedish base with American fighters present. The targets of their military party-crashing action were American fighter attack bombers which were concurrently staging exercises with their Swedish counterparts for two weeks in late July.
Literally translated, the loosely-knit political action network's name of "Ofog" means "Mischief," and they lived up to their name this summer when some 30 demonstrators gathered outside a Swedish F21 Air Force base near Luleå while a handful of their placard-bearing pack sneaked uninvited into the facility.
The targets of their military party-crashing action were American fighter attack bombers which were concurrently staging exercises with their Swedish counterparts for two weeks in late July. Spokespersons for the activists group said they intended to break in to the base and cause whatever interruptions they could, but their plans were too short lived to actually carry out any damaging mischief.
Five of the F21 facility intruders for Ofog - clad in costumes to look like nurses, carpenters and farmers - were arrested by police and later released, although it was not announced by prosecutors whether charges would be filed for disturbing the peace or entering restricted property. According to Ofog statements, it also appeared that at least two of the fence-jumpers managed to escape arrest.
"We wanted to interfere with war exercises at F21," said group member Kimo Kjernmoen.
"Investing public money into waging war in Afghanistan and organizing advanced military exercises with the U.S. does nothing to either create public ease or a peaceful world. The resources spent on military and defense could create lots of public jobs instead," proposed another Ofog member, Kristina Jackson.
Ofog members outside the F21 air base carried signs, drew images and protests on the surface of the nearby highway, danced and shouted at passing motorists to end war and promote peace. The action culminated a week in Luleå during which the group held public lectures and workshops.
Ofog's mischief makers protest along highway outside northern Swedish air force base.
Five group members split from main protesters, entered base, captured then released.


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1. The AM classes are normal, 5am, 6:30am, 8:30am and noon, but only athletes registered for the Open will do 16.1.
2. The Gym will be open from 3pm-8:30pm for Open Judging. We will have a suggested warm-up posted and we'll run heats throughout the evening. Come in, warm up on your own and rock 16.1!
3. In the evening, If you're not doing the Open, you'll also have the suggested warmup and a workout to complete between 3:00pm and 8:30pm.
4. We will also have time for athletes to do the workout after the 9:30am class on Saturday.
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