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NFL Divisional Round Playoff Picks
The staff at SB Nation Dallas-Fort Worth takes a look at the NFL's divisional round of the playoffs.
By JP Starkey Jan 14, 2011, 1:56pm CST
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Wild Card Weekend featured a pair of upsets on Saturday with the Seahawks taking the defending champion Saints down while the Jets took out the AFC's Super Bowl representative down in the nightcap, beating the Colts. Not surprisingly, the Ravens handled the Chiefs with ease on Sunday. Michael Vick ended the Eagles season with an interception - something that is probably fairly glorious to some Cowboys fans.
Regardless, we're a day away from the beginning of the Divisional round of the playoffs. It's aptly named this year since the AFC features a pair rivalry games with the Steelers/Ravens and Patriots/Jets. The NFC has a pair of rematches as well, with the Packers headed to Atlanta where the Falcons won earlier this year while the Seahawks head to Chicago - where they defeated the Bears this year.
Here's how the staff at SB Nation Dallas-Fort Worth sees this weekend playing out:
Baltimore (1-0) at Pittsburgh (0-0) - The Ravens head into Pittsburgh where they won in Week 3 this year - but, there's a caveat with that: Pittsburgh didn't have Ben Roethlisberger for that game. The Steelers returned the favor in Week 13, beating the Ravens by three in Baltimore. Both teams hate each other, so this is a good way to kick off the weekend with a rubber match between two rivals.
Robbie Griffin: Steelers - I'm really not sure who's the better team. I lean towards Baltimore, but I am sure which team is better rested and gets to play at home, and that's not Baltimore.
Charley Code: Steelers - Steelers. The Steelers are rested and ready for Baltimore. I'm excited about this game, kind of. I don't like either team, but they're both pretty darn good.
Christopher Fittz: Ravens - This should be a great game where, God willing, my pre-season Super Bowl pick beats a team I don't like at all.
Liam Ponting: Ravens - Steelers are rested and at home, but I have a feeling the Ravens will absolutely pummel Big Ben.
Maurice London: Ravens - Lots and lots of Ray Rice gets the Ravens the victory.
Brett Perryman: Steelers - Each team won on the road by three in the season series. Home field advantages and byes do matter in the divisional round.
JP Starkey: Steelers - The week off helps. Plus, I think Baltimore is overrated. Can you be overrated at this point of the year? I'm not sure. Whatever, they're not that great.
Green Bay (1-0) at Atlanta (0-0) - The Packers went into Philadelphia and knocked off Michael Vick and the Eagles, which is no small task. The Falcons, despite being the No. 1 seed, are barely even favored to win this game, sitting at three point favorites. Atlanta went 7-1 at home in the regular season, with their only loss coming in Week 16 as a three-point loss to the Saints. Atlanta ranks 22nd in pass defense in the NFL while the Packers have the fifth-best passing attack, that could possibly doom the No. 1 seed in this case.
Griffin: Falcons - Tough game. I'm almost completely positive Green Bay is the better team, it's just a matter of how much a bye and homefield matters. I'm going to say just enough, but this is pretty much flipping a coin.
Code: Packers - The Packers might be playing the best football of all 4 remaining NFC teams still in the running and the Falcons haven't played a meaningful game since December 27th. I want to give the edge to the home team, but I'm going with the Pack. The Packers should adapt to the indoors style of play pretty well. Aaron Rodgers is a sally, you know.
Fittz: Packers - Atlanta will probably win based on just having sat around for a week and getting to play at home. It doesn't mean I have to pick them.
Ponting: Falcons - I'm in the same boat as Robbie here. I'm fairly certain Green Bay's the better team, but Atlanta doesn't lose at home.
London: Packers - This is probably the best game of the week.
Perryman: Packers - They met in Atlanta on November 28, when Matt Bryant hit a 47-yard field goal with 9 seconds remaining to win it. The Packers seem to have found themselves since then.
Starkey: Falcons - Aaron Rodgers screws up once which costs Green Bay the game.
Seattle (1-0) at Chicago (0-0) - So, the Seahawks could possibly host the NFC Title game with a win over the Bears and a Packers win over Atlanta. The Seahawks went 2-6 on the road this year, but one of those wins came in Chicago against these very Bears back in Week 6. Fun matchup here as well: Seattle has the second-worst running game and the Bears have the second-best run defense. We should see a lot of Matt Hasselbeck throwing the ball on Sunday, for better or for worse.
Griffin: Bears - I was pretty adamant Seattle had a better shot against the Saints than people gave them credit for, but a lot of that was homefield and a dome team with injuries playing outside. None of that is in the Seahawks' favor this time, and this game is probably ever bit as one-sided as it's made out to be.
Code: Bears - Bears win, but do not cover. Typically, I like to give credit to the home field advantage at this point, but lets be honest with ourselves. In this case, it's the Urlacher advantage. Hi Brian.
Fittz: Bears - I'm rooting for Seattle but they aren't good so they won't win.
Ponting: Bears - I don't think Chicago's particularly great, but Seattle just isn't very good. Take them away from the friendly confines of Qwest Field in a playoff environment in Chicago and they just don't have much of a shot.
London: Seahawks - Why not? Jay Cutler will give this game away.
Perryman: Bears - It's going to be about 15 degrees with snow on the ground at kickoff. This glass slipper just don't fit.
Starkey: Bears - Seattle's only chance is if Jay Cutler turns into Jay Cutler again.
New York (1-0) at New England (0-0) - We begin the weekend with a rivalry game and end it. I'm sure everybody has heard enough of Rex Ryan and Antonio Cromartie's antics throughout this week. The Jets are just hiding Mark Sanchez' inefficiencies through all the trash talking and trying to take the pressure off of him and putting the focus on the Jets' hatred of the Pats.
Griffin: Patriots - This one is almost as easy as picking Chicago. I wish the other two games were like that. I like Brady to destroy a 3-4 in the playoffs as he has done more than a handful of times. If my picks are right, someone will be getting really close to the Cowboys Super Bowl appearance record.
Code: Patriots - Pats. Tom Brady. I hope the Jets don't score and Rex Ryan accidentally spills his skittles on the sideline as he throws a fit over another Brady completion to a tiny white slot receiver.
Fittz: Patriots - This should be a great game because the Jets will lose.
Ponting: Jets - A pick with little to no logic behind it. New England is the better team by far, at home, rested, and Brady's been merciless at times against the Jets in the past. The Jets have some sort of ineffable ability to make me ignore all reason and pick them.
London: Patriots - Sanchize fail will be in full effect this week.
Perryman: Patriots - One of these two teams was a +205 in point differential during the regular season. The other lost to four of the seven remaining playoff teams. Ok, yes, they did also beat NE and PIttsburgh, but they also lost to the Pats by 42. Bill Belichick with flash a tiny smirk in response to a a Rex Ryan question after the game, before he tries to convince the media that the Steelers are a monstrous challenge.
Starkey: Patriots - The Jets will taste defeat again.

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People With Food Allergies Say Life-Saving Drug Too Expensive
By Kenny Goldberg
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How much would you spend on a drug that could save your life? That's a question that people with food allergies are forced to grapple with as the cost of a drug that could save their lives rises higher and higher. The medication is called EpiPen. It's an auto-injector filled with epinephrine, a drug that can stop an allergic reaction.
How much would you spend on a drug that could save your life?
That's a question that people with food allergies are forced to grapple with as the cost of a drug that could save their lives rises higher and higher.
The medication is called EpiPen. It's an auto-injector filled with epinephrine, a drug that can stop an allergic reaction.
Jacob Andrews carries an EpiPen with him at all times. He's one of an estimated 15 million Americans who have a food allergy.
Andrews is allergic to cashews and Brazil nuts. If he accidentally eats something that contains one of those nuts, he feels it.
"I kind of lose some breathing abilities, my airways start to close up a little bit, my stomach hurts really bad, I throw up for maybe a day," he said.
Andrews discovered he was allergic when he was 8, when he had a terrible reaction to eating a piece of See's candy. At the hospital, doctors diagnosed his food allergy.
Photo credit: Nic McVicker
Jacob Andrews, 18, who's allergic to cashews and Brazil nuts, is shown, Jan. 13, 2016.
The 18-year-old from San Diego is now a freshman at Sonoma State University and still has to be careful about what he eats. If he ever gets exposed to cashews or Brazil nuts, he'll pull out his EpiPen.
"So, you have to take the cap off of it, and there's a needle that isn't exposed 'cause they don't want to freak you out," Andrews said. "It's like inside, and then you just have to push it hard up against your outer thigh and click the back, and the needle goes in. And you just hold it there for 10 seconds and then take it out."
The drug isn't cheap
EpiPens are sold only in pairs. That's because some people may need two injections to combat a severe allergic reaction.
A few months ago, before Andrews went off to college, his mom, Julie, went to the pharmacy to buy a pack of EpiPens.
"And it was $600," she said. "And it was like, I was completely in disbelief."
The Andrews family's insurance company doesn't cover EpiPens. And there's virtually no other product on the market that's similar.
"It's a life-saving medication," Julie Andrews said. "So what choice do you have? You have to pay for it."
EpiPen price, sales go up
The Netherlands-based pharmaceutical giant Mylan makes EpiPens. Over the past five years, according to Evercore ISI, an independent banking advisory firm, Mylan has raised the price an EpiPen an average of 27 percent a year.
Sales of EpiPens have skyrocketed, too, despite the price hikes.
San Diego allergist Michael Welch holds an EpiPen in one of his exam rooms, Jan. 13, 2016.
That's because the number of children with food allergies has gone up, said San Diego allergist Michael Welch.
"We've seen a doubling of kids in the country over the last 10 years with peanut and tree nut allergies," Welch said. "And those are the ones that are the most life-threatening when they do have allergic reactions."
EpiPen isn't the only drug that some consumers consider to be overpriced. Cancer drugs, for example, can cost a patient tens of thousands of dollars.
But patients who pay for cancer drugs take them. An estimated 95 percent of EpiPens are never used.
One reason: EpiPens have a short shelf life. They expire within 16 to 18 months, so people have to buy a new set about every year-and-a-half.
Who determines the price?
Mylan declined to be interviewed for this story. In a written statement, the company said drugs in liquid form such as epinephrine do not last as long as pills and tablets.
And regarding the price of EpiPens, Mylan said insurance companies and pharmacies make the final decision.
Photo credit: Kenny Goldberg
Wendy Patrick, attorney and lecturer in business ethics at San Diego State University, is pictured, Feb. 9, 2016.
Wendy Patrick is an attorney and lecturer in business ethics at San Diego State University. She said she believes Mylan has consumers over a barrel.
"Because if you ask parents, what's the cost of a child's life, the answer is going to be 'priceless,'" Patrick said. "That means they're going to have to pay whatever you decide to market that drug."
Most health insurers cover EpiPens. But people who have high-deductible plans are forced to pay the retail price.
Is the price a barrier?
Welch is concerned that some of his patients aren't willing or able to shell out the money.
"They're either putting off a renewal, or they're not even getting the prescription that I started them on when I decided they needed to have one," Welch said. "I'm worried that this is a barrier. It's a barrier that's putting them at risk for having a serious allergic reaction."
Jacob Andrews thinks the situation is totally unfair.
"I think for a necessity, especially for people who are born with this allergy or have developed this allergy, they should be able to get the care they need at a price they can afford," he said.
A Decade Marked By Outrage Over Drug Prices
FDA Approves New Generic Version Of The EpiPen For Allergic Reactions
Preventive Treatment For Peanut Allergies Succeeds In Study
San Diego Study Finds EpiPens Are Still Potent Long After Their Expiration Date


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Why Is the Electricity Sector Such a Failure?
 November 29, 2021
What is wrong with the electricity sector?
The electricity sector was one of the first sectors in the country to reflect the economic, financial, and currency crisis we are currently witnessing. The central bank does not have enough money in foreign currencies to procure fuel for the public utility services. Consequently, we have started a deep blackout rationing program across all regions. Electricite du Luban (EDL) has been generating barely five to six hours of power on the national level, which is translated into two or three hours depending on the region. Unfortunately, this means people are relying on expensive private generators for the rest of their energy needs. If there is no electricity, there is no real economy and no real growth.
Even before the crisis, the electricity sector could not provide sufficient electricity. Why does the electricity sector lose so much money?
We stopped meaningful investments into the electricity sector in the late 1990s. The last two power plants that the government invested in or built were in 1998. Since then, we have been using emergency and temporary solutions and no long-term efficient solutions. There is also significant mismanagement of the sector. The electricity sector has always been a source of continuous political bickering and clientelism for the political parties. So, we have a cost at the financial-economic level, but we also have a cost at the institutional and managerial level.
There have been attempts at reform, but the electricity sector has deteriorated even more rather than improved. Why does reform never work?
The main problem in the sector is political interference, which has been the root cause for all the issues that we have reached recently. If we want to have reforms, we cannot keep the electricity sector as a tool for the political elite. We can barely produce a few hours of electricity, and political decision-making has blocked or halted all the reforms needed. We cannot talk about electric generation options without considering how many plants we need based on a least-cost assementand what workable models would allow the political parties to move forward with this sector, especially at the distribution level.
What role is the IMF playing in updating the electricity sector?
When it comes to electricity, the IMF program will allow for macroeconomic stability; without this, there is no real solution. The IMF has a role in stabilizing the banking sector, which will help with the currency crisis that is hurting the ability to pay for electricity. The IMF's reforms, though, are very costly, and they are not easy to implement.
Is there any role for renewable energy in Lebanon's electric grid, and how likely is that to happen?
One of the positive things that the economic crisis has created is an awareness of the importance of renewable energy. People started this summer to see the possibility and feasibility of having renewable energy systems on their rooftops, to have some energy security in their houses, shops, industries, et cetera.
At the national level, we don't have the money to buy fuel. Lebanon should be part of this energy transition. Meaning we should move away from polluting, expensive fleets of power plants and invest heavily in renewable energies at the utility scale, specifically in solar and wind. Lebanon has pledged to reach 30% of renewable energy, a very ambitious and challenging goal.
What can be done to resolve the increasingly problematic electricity issue in Lebanon?
We have presented all possible options to the government, especially over the past weeks and months. The plan is there, the timeline is there, but there is no political will to go in that direction. We have talked about the renewable energy potential, mapped available public lands, and done a lot of studies on the feasibility of renewable energy projects.
We have presented solutions that would be workable on the financing level, but there is no real way to implement any reforms. Through our channels and advocacy, the academic community, we try to engage with policymakers who usually don't listen to knowledge producers or scientific opinions. We try to bridge this gap between the two communities and present evidence-based research, and we need to continue pushing in order to see those studies implemented.


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Reps. Maloney, Grijalva & Markey introduce the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act
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March 15, 2013 Jon Houston, Maloney, 202-225-7944
Eben Burnham-Snyder, Markey, 202-225-2836
Adam Sarvana, Grijalva, 202-225-2435
Reps. Maloney, Grijalva, & Markey introduce the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act
–HR 1187 would designate 23 million acres and waterways in
Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming as permanent wilderness–
WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), and Ed Markey (D-MA) have introduced the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA), H.R. 1187, which would protect as permanent wilderness the dwindling wildlands across five states of the Northern Rocky Mountains, one of America's greatest natural treasures.
"We must prioritize the health of our country's natural resources by protecting wilderness areas like the Northern Rockies ," said Rep. Maloney. "By connecting whole ecosystems, NREPA helps preserve native plants and animals by protecting these natural habitats and mitigating the impact of climate change for current and future generations of Americans."
"There are very few large forest landscapes like the Northern Rockies left in the United States, and at our current pace of climate change and urban sprawl, wilderness protection is the only policy that really makes sense," said Rep. Grijalva, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation. "With sequestration cutting everything in sight, it's time to start thinking about places we shouldn't be cutting. The Northern Rockies should be at the top of the list."
"Preserving the few remaining large wilderness landscapes we have is critical, not only so that future generations can enjoy them, but also because these large swaths of undeveloped, undivided habitat are vital in mitigating the impacts of climate change," said Rep. Markey, Ranking Member of the Committee on Natural Resources.
A longtime Idaho resident, singer-songwriter and activist Carole King has advocated for NREPA since the measure was first introduced in 1992. "The large scale of NREPA is essential, first, because an ecosystem doesn't recognize state lines, and second, because NREPA will protect one of the largest areas in America in which carbon is made and stored," King explained. "A large carbon sink has both monetary and environmental value in mitigating climate change."
"Historically, important legislation takes a long time to pass. We thank Representatives Maloney, Grijalva, and Markey for fighting for the protection of the native ecosystems surrounding Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks," said Mike Garrity, Executive Director of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies.
Also co-sponsoring the legislation are Reps. Lois Capps (D-CA) and Jerrold Nadler (D-NY).
BACKGROUND.
NREPA has received bipartisan co-sponsorship in Congress and broad support from environmental and business groups who recognize the value of preserving the region's natural beauty. In the 111th Congress, the Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands held a legislative hearing on NREPA (H.R. 980 in the 111th Congress). http://naturalresources.house.gov/Calendar/EventSingle.aspx?EventID=165667
More NREPA information is available at Rep. Maloney's NREPA page:
http://maloney.house.gov/issue/northern-rockies-ecosystem-protection-act


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Astronomers recently got a look at both sides of the sun during powerful flares, helping solve a riddle about our star's gamma ray activity.
NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope recorded gamma rays, the highest-energy form of light, originating from solar flares on the far side of the sun on three separate occasions.
For the first time, NASA telescopes have worked in tandem to watch blasts of high-energy radiation triggered by activity on the far side of the sun. The achievement will help scientists better understand eruptions of solar material that, when aimed at Earth, can damage satellites, disrupt the power grid, and set off beautiful aurora displays.
Launched in 2008, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope was designed to study gamma rays, the most energetic form of light. These rays are emitted by all kinds of powerful and exotic phenomena, such as feeding black holes and dying stars.
It's a hundred times bigger than Earth, reaches unfathomably hot temperatures—and makes sunscreen a really good idea. Take a breathtaking journey to Earth's closest star, the sun.
Scientists previously thought that the particles accelerated during a flare would interact locally with the sun's surface and produce gamma rays that are close to the active region. But Fermi has also seen gamma rays coming from the sun even when no flares are erupting on the side it can see.
Now, scientists think they know what's happening. Working with NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), Fermi has found that solar flares happening on the far side of the sun can trigger additional bursts of gamma rays on the side facing Earth.
The trick is that Fermi orbits Earth and shares our planet's view of the sun. By contrast, the twin STEREO satellites orbit the sun, providing clear views of the whole solar surface. Working together, the satellites watched solar activity on both sides of the sun on three separate occasions: October 11, 2013; January 6, 2014; and September 1, 2014.
"We saw high-energy radiation, or gamma rays, on the side of the sun that faces Earth, but the flare happened on the other side of the sun," says Fermi team member Nicola Omodei, a researcher at Stanford University in California. Omodei and a large team of international colleagues reported the results last month in The Astrophysical Journal.
Thanks to Fermi and STEREO, scientists have now learned that particles emitted during a flare on the sun's far side can travel along magnetic field lines and impact the solar surface on the side facing Earth, generating a spike in gamma rays.
"[The Fermi discovery] implies that high-energy particles need to travel several hundred thousand miles to reach the visible solar disc," Omodei says. You can liken the effect to fireworks bursting from behind a mountain, he adds.
That's important for understanding the effects of these active regions, which can ultimately rotate onto the side of the sun facing Earth. For instance, the flares Omodei and his team observed also produced fast coronal mass ejections, or CMEs.
Now Fermi's gamma-ray eyes can serve as an additional tool in our efforts to monitor CMEs and the resulting space weather.


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Why Multi Family Apartment Plans Are a Growing Business?
Multi families in one boundary make managing easier- if a businessman has individual units of houses spread over the city, gathering the rent every month would be hectic. But with all families staying in a single unit it is not difficult to the collect the rent. Another issue is the management team. A single manager or a couple of them can take care of the entire unit. Whereas if they are spread the cost of keeping the managerial team also goes up as many teams needs to be set to manage the tenants.
To have the maximum number of stars- the happier the renters, the more the appreciation for the property. Getting appreciated is difficult, and after this, if management companies have to incur individual costs to please renters the profit margin is going to lower down. Multi-family apartment plans keep the profit margin unaltered. You bring about a single change like renovating the children's play area there are many who get profited. Thus pleasing renters becomes easier in multi-family apartment units.
Constant cash inflow in multi-family unit- a multi-family unit has different flats. There are one BHK, two BHKS, and even studio apartments. Smaller apartments might not have space for laundry. Setting up a laundry room in the building and having a coin machine will help you yield money. While the laundry room is one single idea, there are other ideas as well which will bring in a constant flow of money.
Tax benefits from multi-family apartments- since the government thinks that multi-family apartments are noble, most investor get many tax breaks. They are freed from different taxes since they think that the investor has been helping citizens by improving the living standard.
Reselling options- if at any point of time you want to move from the multifamily apartment business, there are many investors who will be ready to purchase it without any seconds thought. Multi-family apartments are money vending machines. Therefore most people have an eye on it.
Investing in multi-unit apartments have been doing great amongst investors. Check your investor identity before you decide on it.


WASHINGTON (AP) A bit too much sunshine filled the sky at the opening faceoff of the Winter Classic, and seat cushions rained down when the winning goal was scored just before the final whistle.
''Knowing how my dad is, right now he's probably got a couple of tears,'' Brouwer said.
The seventh Winter Classic drew 42,832 to Nationals Park, an exclamation point to an event that helped validate D.C. as an established hockey town. Players stood on a sheet of blue ice meant to represent the Reflecting Pool during the national anthem, then faced off under a gorgeous blue sky - too gorgeous, if truth be told.
Ovechkin made it 2-0 with his first outdoor goal, knocking in a rebound and prompting chants of ''O-vee!'' from seats that usually echo with cheers for Nationals stars Stephen Strasburg and Bryce Harper.
After Washington's Matt Niskanen was sent off for a marginal boarding penalty with 3:11 to play, Toews was cited for an even more dicey hooking infraction with 1:13 remaining - setting the stage for Brouwer's power-play winner.
''I don't know how much that play deserved a call there, how much it had to do with maybe us getting a few more opportunities on the power play previously in the game,'' Toews said. ''It is what it is. They got their bounce they were looking for with 12 seconds or so left, and we walk away with nothing.
NOTES: The NHL is meticulous when it comes to reporting the weather for outdoor games. The league announced the opening faceoff temperature down to a tenth of a degree: 43.3 degrees. ... Billy Idol, Gavin DeGraw and Lee Greenwood were among the musical guests who performed during pregame and intermissions. ... The Capitals have won five of seven.


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Saint Cuthbert as Shepherd
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Stained glass window of Saint Cuthbert (c. 634 - 20 March 687) in St. Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh.
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Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand Visiting Japan
From 5-9 January 2019, Ambassador Bansarn Bunnag joined Mrs. Busaya Mathelin, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand, during her participation in STEP (Strategic Exchanges on Practical Level), the programme organized by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan with the aim to deepen the understanding of Japan through exchanges of views with Japanese experts from various sectors. In this connection, Permanent Secretary Mathelin also discussed future bilateral and regional cooperation between Thailand and Japan, especially during Thailand's ASEAN Chairmanship in 2019, with several stakeholders include Mr.Takeo Akiba,Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs; Mr. Takeo Mori, Senior Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs; Mr. Kazuyuki Yamazaki, Senior Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs; Mr.Tatsuya Terazawa, Vice-Minister for International Affairs of Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry; Mr. Koji Fujimoto, Deputy Director-General, Office of Healthcare Policy, Cabinet Secretariat; Mr. Motoyoshi Nakashima, President and Representative Director, Nakashima Holdings, Co., Ltd.; Mr. Masataka Fujita, President of ASEAN Japan Center; Mr. Hiroyasu Ando, President of Japan Foundation; Mr. Yasushi Tanaka, Senior Vice President, Japan International Cooperation Agency; and Mr. Nobukatsu Kanehara, Deputy Secretary General of National Security Secretariat and Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary.
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Valparaiso University recently announced that former Northern Illinois University pitcher Brian Schmack has been named the 17th head coach in Crusader baseball history and just the sixth since 1946. Schmack pitched for the Huskies from 1992-1995.
Schmack pitched in professional baseball from 1995-2004 in the Chicago White Sox, Texas Rangers, and Detroit Tigers organizations after breaking in with the Newark Bison of the Frontier League. In 2003, Schmack earned a promotion to the major leagues with the Tigers, appearing in 11 games and posting a 1-0 record with a 3.46 ERA. He earned his first major league victory against Cleveland on September 2, 2003.
Schmack hosted the 2004 NIU Leadoff Banquet, the annual baseball fundraising dinner.
Schmack has spent the last seven seasons as Valpo's pitching coach, shaping the pitching staff into one of the best in the Horizon League, molding a staff with an ERA of 5.73 in the year before his arrival into one which has led the league in ERA each of the last three seasons, posting marks below 4.00 all three years.
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Buckle Up, We're Heading Into Storm Season
As a business opportunity, VetCor's primary value proposition for consumers is the remediation services we provide due to water and mold damage. As a franchise owner, you'll serve both residential and commercial customers in your community at a time when they need immediate assistance – often following an unpredictable disaster. There are a wide variety of reasons VetCor customers need our help, including plumbing leaks, clogged gutters, blocked drains, damaged pipes, water heaters, and even malfunctioning sprinkler systems. But one of the leading causes of the type of water and mold damage that VetCor handles typically comes from above, in the form of severe weather.
And it's now May, time to buckle up, because we're heading into the heart of storm season. And the damage caused by these natural disasters is often catastrophic.
VetCor franchise owners have a history and track record of rapid deployments to handle such instances. Just last August, in the wake of the devastation in Louisiana due to Hurricane Ida, four different VetCor owners swung into action and answered the call. Combined, these owners worked with nine different insurers and three third-party administrators to handle over 700 roof-tarping claims, two dozen tree removals, and an untold amount of hours spent mitigating water damage and preventing mold. All told, these restorations added up to more than two million in revenue.
So, what does the severe weather outlook and Atlantic hurricane season look like for 2022? We looked it all up and found some interesting forecasts and predictions:
According to AccuWeather, the worst of storms predicted this season may hit areas outside of the traditional tornado alley in the Midwest. Recent trends and analysis expect activity to shift to the east into the upper Mississippi Valley and Deep South regions
Between 200-275 tornadoes are predicted in the month of April alone, well above the typical average of 155
In May, meteorologist expect to see between 140-190 tornadoes, but also bouts of straight-line winds and heavy rain associated with the shifting jet stream
Hurricane season officially begins on June 1 and ends on Oct. 31, but AccuWeather's predictions on the number of named storms have already been released. For some historical perspective, there were 30 named storms in 2020 and 21 named storms in 2021. Here's what else we can expect:
Between 16-20 named hurricanes are expected, with six to eight of them reaching full hurricane status (winds above 74 miles per hour). The average number of named storms per year is 14
Where will these hurricanes be concentrated when it comes to landfall on the U.S. mainland? According to AccuWeather, along the southeast Texas coast – eastward through Florida, particularly the panhandle area, and the coast of the Carolinas
The consensus from the information we researched indicates that 2022 will be a more active year for severe weather outbreaks. And the damage caused by each of these instances is an opportunity for our VetCor franchise owners to step up, respond, deploy, and complete the mission of cleanup, damage remediation, and mold prevention. In a way, which reminds our veteran-owners of their time spent in the military, always ready to swing into action and be the hero.


LOS ANGELES, CA – Comedy Dynamics announced today it will release Sundance alum Tanuj Chopra's award-winning comedy feature Chee and T on August 1, 2017 on major transactional services.
Called "an acidic and raucous comedy" by the Los Angeles Film Festival, the independently funded film has won a slew of accolades, including the LA Film Festival's Special Jury Prize for Comedy, and Best Narrative Feature at the San Diego Asian American Film Festival. The film was acquired during the Sundance Film Festival.
Chee and T screened successfully at film festivals across the country, including The Urbanworld Film Festival, Outfest Fusion, The Omaha Film Festival, The Cinequest Film and VR Festival, CAAMFest, The Seattle Asian American Film Festival and more.
"I am extremely excited for audiences to see this unique and hilarious film," said Brian Volk-Wesiss, CEO of The Nacelle Company.
"This film will make you laugh so hard you'll start barfing all over yourself mid-guffaw. We're lucky Comedy Dynamics is partnering with us to bring you this special experience," said Tanuj Chopra.
Chee and T is a comedy about the only two guys in Silicon Valley who have nothing to do with technology. Chee (Sunkrish Bala) and T (Dominic Rains) are a pair of underachieving debt collectors who are tasked with a seemingly small job: get their Uncle's nephew Mayunk (Asif Ali) a new suit for his engagement party. However, handling their hyperactive, drug-crazed cousin proves to be anything but simple.


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Layering statement necklaces is something that I've always loved doing. For some reason, though, it seems like a lot of people are afraid to try it.
There are different ways of doing it which provide different results, all depending on the look and style you're hoping to achieve.
1) Wear the longest ones first, and the shortest ones last.
Doing so will ensure a nice and neat result and make sure that none of the necklaces will be hidden from view.
2) Wear necklaces that vary in texture and color.
This creates a nice contrast and makes the overall result a little more interesting to look at.
3) For an ultra-glamorous vibe, wear several chunky statement pieces together.
By wearing different statement necklaces in one ensemble (always making sure to wear the longest ones first when layering), it ends up looking like you're actually just wearing one multi-layered chunky necklace. The result? A striking and head-turning accessory!
4) For a 'boho chic' appeal, wear understated and long-stranded necklaces together.
Wearing layers and layers of thin necklaces together emphasizes the look of the "bohemian" free spirit. Opt for feathery pieces and colored stones for an off-beat appeal.
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Free Zones and UAE Corporate Income Tax – a complicated harmony
In the text of the public consultation, published by the UAE Ministry of Finance, it discusses its proposed regime for Free Zone Companies.
While the Corporate Income Tax concepts are thus far fairly straightforward, they are much less so for Free Zones.
Contrary to perhaps more simple exemptions for Free Zone companies in the Philippines or India, the UAE is implementing a fairly complex regime, trying to balance a number of interests.
Free Zones have been one of the success stories of the UAE, but incorporating there comes with limitations too, as e.g. the prohibition to trade with the mainland. In mainland, foreign businesses needed a local sponsor or shareholder.
In recent times, those lines have blurred, with more legal possibilities for foreign businesses to fully own a mainland businesses. In addition, free zones businesses were sometimes awarded a "dual license", allowing them to operate in the mainland, and sometimes were even awarded importer codes.
The principle under the Corporate Income Tax Law which will be implemented with effect from June 2023, is that the UAE will honour the tax incentives currently being offered to Free Zone businesses that maintain adequate substance and comply with all regulatory requirements.
Presumably the reference to substance is a reference to the Economic Substance Regulations introduced in 2019 by way of Cabinet Decision No. 57 of 2020. It would be helpful if it is clarified whether for example a free zone business with a mainland branch can count its mainland substance towards the substance required for ESR purposes.
In addition, it is assumed that when a Free Zone business loses its tax exemption, the substance requirements are no longer applicable.
The CT exemption only continues to apply if the business solely transacts with other Free zone businesses (in the same free zone or another) or with third countries. This offers substantial possibilities, as JAFZA alone, according to its own claims, in 2019 contributed 23.8% to Dubai's GDP (1).
There are some interesting considerations as regarding what constitutes transacting with the mainland. If a Free Zone business does so, without having incorporated a branch subject to CT, then the income of the Free Zone business is fully subject to CT. In other words, there is no more blanket exemption available.
What constitutes transacting with the mainland is interesting to note, as:
Free zone businesses in a Designated Zone for VAT purposes are not considered transacting with the mainland, if the buyer is the importer of record.
Conversely, assumed, though not made explicit, services rendered to the mainland are considered, and therefore such FZ businesses involved in these services will loose their tax exemption.
As regarding goods, there are a number of situations to be considered:
Free Zone businesses do not control the status of the Free Zone as a Designated Zone. Such a status needs to be applied for by the Free Zone Authority, and is subject to approval. Moreover, Free Zones can loose or gain Designated Zone status with retroactive effect. This has an adverse impact on legal certainty in regard to the application of the tax exemption.
There is a stark contrast with traders in a free zone (e.g. commodity traders), who may buy in mainland to sell in mainland, or to bring those goods into a free zone. Those seem to be excluded from the tax exemption, whereas they are conducting the same trade, just in the opposite direction.
Retail sales in the Designated Zone look to be at an advantage. For VAT purposes, they are subject to VAT, but when conducted by a Free Zone business with mainland and free zone branches, the mainland branches' income is subject to CT, and the free zone branches in a designated zone are not.
Certain transactions are further allowed to be conducted with the mainland, such as situations where a free zone business earns passive income, i.e. interest, royalties, dividends and capital gains from mainland companies. This is good news for holding companies in free zones.
Transactions from a Free zone to a group company in mainland are also allowed without losing the benefit of the 0% CT. However, payments made to a Free zone business will not constitute a deductible expense for CT purposes.
So far, we have not identified an anti-abuse rule preventing a free zone company to make the charge to a business abroad, for that business to subsequently charge the mainland business, this nonetheless creating a deductible expense.
Group Treasury Centres or HQs often established in Free Zones may considered the non-deductibility on a group level a disadvantage. This may tempt groups to reconsider their structure, and put their regional headquarter in a different country with a low level of taxation (e.g. Bahrain or a gree zone abroad), and where payments would nonetheless be deductible. Additionally, the non deductibility looks limited to UAE Free Zones.
A business who relocates their Group Treasury Centre for example to a KSA Free zone, or a HQ, may continue to benefit from tax exempt income on the one hand, and deductibility on the other hand.
From a policy perspective, the UAE may consider an anti-abuse rule considering this situation, which may for example consist of defining a Free Zone in a broad enough manner in order for it to encompass foreign free zones as well, as no or only nominal tax jurisdictions in which activities may be relocated.
It is fair to say that due to the complexities, compliance will need to be closely monitored.
(1) https://www.dpworld.com/en/uae/parks-and-economic-zones/jebel-ali-free-zone, consulted on 4 May 2022.


Nobody meshes performance innovation with tradtional craft quite like Cole Haan, and their latest 3.ZERØGRAND collection is the perfect example of that.
Their latest collection features three new silhouettes; leather wingtips, leather chukka boots, and they also debut a fused nylon option, a first from the brand. Each shoe in the collection sit atop a redesigned GRAND.ØS sole, whichfeatures traction pods that double up as two-way flex grooves, and a carved out arch section which culminates in an anatomical shape that closely mimics the foots motion when walking. The skeletal lining on the midfoot arch also extends to the heel for added support.
As you can see from the images below, the shoe's are just super aesthetically stunning. A personal favourite would have to be the leather wingtip, the raw edge leather section that flows beautifully next to the midsole top-line is the perfect design detail that exemplifies how they've managed to balance traditional craft with contemporary construction methods and material compounds.
You can see more of Cole Haan's latest 3.ZERØGRAND collection below.


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package org.azkfw.validator;

import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.lang.reflect.ParameterizedType;
import java.lang.reflect.Type;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import org.azkfw.validator.annotation.CustomValidate;
import org.azkfw.validator.annotation.Maximum;
import org.azkfw.validator.annotation.Minimum;
import org.azkfw.validator.annotation.NameBindLabel;
import org.azkfw.validator.annotation.NameBindValue;
import org.azkfw.validator.annotation.NotEmpty;
import org.azkfw.validator.annotation.NotNull;
import org.azkfw.validator.annotation.Pattern;
import org.azkfw.validator.annotation.Range;
import org.azkfw.validator.annotation.Required;
import org.azkfw.validator.bundle.LabelBundle;
import org.azkfw.validator.bundle.MessageBundle;
import org.azkfw.validator.validation.MaximumValidation;
import org.azkfw.validator.validation.MinimumValidation;
import org.azkfw.validator.validation.NotEmptyValidation;
import org.azkfw.validator.validation.NotNullValidation;
import org.azkfw.validator.validation.PatternValidation;
import org.azkfw.validator.validation.RangeValidation;
import org.azkfw.validator.validation.RequiredValidation;
import org.azkfw.validator.validation.Validation;
import org.codehaus.jackson.annotate.JsonProperty;

import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException;

/**
 * このクラスは、バリデーションを行うクラスです。
 *
 * @since 1.0.0
 * @version 1.0.0 2015/02/13
 * @author kawakicchi
 */
public class Validator {

	private MessageBundle messages;
	private LabelBundle labels;

	public Validator() {
		labels = new LabelBundle();
		messages = new MessageBundle();
	}

	public List<ValidationResult> validate(final String data, final Class<?> clazz) {
		List<ValidationResult> result = new ArrayList<ValidationResult>();
		Gson gson = new Gson();
		try {
			Object obj = gson.fromJson(data, Object.class);
			doValidate(obj, clazz);
		} catch (JsonSyntaxException ex) {
			System.out.println("Validate error.[No json format]");
		} catch (Exception ex) {
			ex.printStackTrace();
		}
		return result;
	}

	public List<ValidationResult> validate(final Object data, final Class<?> clazz) {
		List<ValidationResult> result = new ArrayList<ValidationResult>();
		try {
			doValidate(data, clazz);
		} catch (JsonSyntaxException ex) {
			System.out.println("Validate error.[No json format]");
		} catch (Exception ex) {
			ex.printStackTrace();
		}
		return result;
	}

	/**
	 * バリデーションを行う。
	 *
	 * @param data データ
	 * @param clazz バリデーションクラス
	 */
	private void doValidate(final Object data, final Class<?> clazz) throws Exception {
		if (null == data) {

		} else if (data instanceof Map) {
			checkObject((Map<?, ?>) data, clazz, "");
		} else if (data instanceof List) {
			checkList((List<?>) data, clazz, "");
		}
	}

	private void checkList(final List<?> data, final Class<?> clazz, final String path) throws Exception {
		for (int i = 0; i < data.size(); i++) {
			Object value = data.get(i);

			if (null == value) {

			} else if (value instanceof String) {

			} else if (value instanceof Double) {

			} else if (value instanceof Map) {
				checkObject((Map<?, ?>) value, clazz, path + "[" + i + "]");
			} else if (value instanceof List) {

			}
		}
	}

	private void checkObject(final Map<?, ?> data, final Class<?> clazz, final String path) throws Exception {
		if (null != clazz.getSuperclass()) {
			checkObject(data, clazz.getSuperclass(), path);
		}

		final Field[] fields = clazz.getDeclaredFields();
		for (final Field field : fields) {

			String name = field.getName();
			final JsonProperty jp = (JsonProperty) field.getAnnotation(JsonProperty.class);
			if (null != jp) {
				name = jp.value();
			}
			final String myPath = path + "/" + name;
			final Object value = data.get(name);

			boolean validationSuccess = true;
			List<Validation> validations = getFieldValidations(field);
			if (!validations.isEmpty()) {
				Map<String, Object> keywords = new HashMap<String, Object>();
				keywords.put("name", name);
				keywords.put("value", value);
				keywords.put("path", myPath);

				for (Validation validation : validations) {
					if (validation instanceof RequiredValidation) {
						if (!data.containsKey(name)) {
							ValidationResult result = validation.validate(value, keywords);
							System.out.println(result.getMessage());
							validationSuccess = false;
							break;
						}
					} else {
						ValidationResult result = validation.validate(value, keywords);
						if (!result.isResult()) {
							System.out.println(result.getMessage());
							validationSuccess = false;
							break;
						}
					}
				}
			}

			if (validationSuccess) {
				if (value instanceof Map) {
					checkObject((Map<?, ?>) value, field.getType(), myPath);
				} else if (value instanceof List) {
					Type type = field.getGenericType();
					if (null != type) {
						if (type instanceof ParameterizedType) {
							ParameterizedType pType = (ParameterizedType) type;
							Type t = pType.getActualTypeArguments()[0];
							try {
								Class<?> cls = Class.forName(t.toString().split(" ")[1]);
								checkList((List<?>) value, cls, myPath);
							} catch (Exception ex) {
								ex.printStackTrace();
							}
						}
					}
				}
			}
		}
	}

	private String getLabel(final String id) {
		return labels.get(id);
	}

	private String getName(final Field field) {
		String name = null;

		NameBindLabel an1 = field.getAnnotation(NameBindLabel.class);
		if (null != an1) {
			name = getLabel(an1.value());
		}

		if (null == name || 0 == name.length()) {
			NameBindValue an2 = field.getAnnotation(NameBindValue.class);
			if (null != an2) {
				name = an2.value();
			}
		}

		return name;
	}

	/**
	 * フィールドの付与されたアノテーションからバリデーション一覧を取得する。
	 *
	 * @param field フィールド
	 * @return アノテーション一覧
	 */
	private List<Validation> getFieldValidations(final Field field) throws Exception {
		String name = getName(field);

		List<Validation> validations = new ArrayList<Validation>();
		{ // CustomValidate
			CustomValidate an = field.getAnnotation(CustomValidate.class);
			if (null != an) {
				Class<? extends Validation>[] classes = an.value();
				for (Class<? extends Validation> clazz : classes) {
					Validation validation = clazz.newInstance();
					validation.setMessageBundle(messages);
					validations.add(validation);
				}
			}
		}
		{ // Maximum
			Maximum an = field.getAnnotation(Maximum.class);
			if (null != an) {
				Validation validation = new MaximumValidation(name, an);
				validation.setMessageBundle(messages);
				validations.add(validation);
			}
		}
		{ // Minimum
			Minimum an = field.getAnnotation(Minimum.class);
			if (null != an) {
				Validation validation = new MinimumValidation(name, an);
				validation.setMessageBundle(messages);
				validations.add(validation);
			}
		}
		{ // NotEmpty
			NotEmpty an = field.getAnnotation(NotEmpty.class);
			if (null != an) {
				Validation validation = new NotEmptyValidation(name, an);
				validation.setMessageBundle(messages);
				validations.add(validation);
			}
		}
		{ // NotNull
			NotNull an = field.getAnnotation(NotNull.class);
			if (null != an) {
				Validation validation = new NotNullValidation(name, an);
				validation.setMessageBundle(messages);
				validations.add(validation);
			}
		}
		{ // Pattern
			Pattern an = field.getAnnotation(Pattern.class);
			if (null != an) {
				Validation validation = new PatternValidation(name, an);
				validation.setMessageBundle(messages);
				validations.add(validation);
			}
		}
		{ // Range
			Range an = field.getAnnotation(Range.class);
			if (null != an) {
				Validation validation = new RangeValidation(name, an);
				validation.setMessageBundle(messages);
				validations.add(validation);
			}
		}
		{ // Required
			Required an = field.getAnnotation(Required.class);
			if (null != an) {
				Validation validation = new RequiredValidation(name, an);
				validation.setMessageBundle(messages);
				validations.add(validation);
			}
		}

		Collections.sort(validations, new Comparator<Validation>() {
			@Override
			public int compare(final Validation o1, final Validation o2) {
				return o1.order() - o2.order();
			}
		});
		return validations;
	}

}

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Q: Is there a documentation extractor/generator a-la pydoc for Tcl? Does Tcl has a local documentation extractor/generator tool one can use to quickly get information about a Tcl command or a command out of a Tcl package/module like expect?
Something like pydoc in the Python world?
I'm starting to use expect and would like to integrate such a tool to my editor so  I could quickly look up Tcl reference information.
For example, on a given snippet of Tcl code like:

package require Expect

spawn bash

exp_send "ls -l\n"

set accum {}
expect {
    -regexp {..*} {
        set accum "${accum}$expect_out(0,string)"
        exp_continue
    }
}

I'd like to be able to request information about package or exp_continue or any Tcl keyword or library command.
So far I did not find anything describing such a tool in the Tcl wiki.

A: At a tclsh prompt, you can try:
tclsh>  man lappend

On my system, (Linux w/ tcsh shell) this opened up the man page for lappend in a pager program (less, more, most).  This is really for interactive use, I suppose, and I'm not sure how you would integrate this into another tool, like your editor.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


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Fiona Apple performing in 2012. Photo: WENN Rights Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo
Ladies, Ladies: A Fiona Apple 'Fetch the Bolt Cutters' Album Roundtable
VICE staffers and music critics discuss the singer-songwriter's first album in eight years.
by Hannah Ewens
by Emma Garland
by Lauren O'Neill
by Tara Joshi
by Sydney Gore
VICE UK staffers Hannah Ewens, Emma Garland and Lauren O'Neill discuss Fiona Apple's Fetch the Bolt Cutters, the singer-songwriter's first album in eight years, released on Friday the 17th of April, with music critics Sydney Gore and Tara Joshi.
Sydney Gore: Fiona Apple has always been ahead of her time. I was exposed to her earlier works late as a teenager, but even then I recognised her impact as an artist. To me, she had nothing to prove to anybody – her talent was extraordinary. Sometimes it hurts to listen to her sing because you can feel her pain seeping through the speakers. To this day, she remains uncompromising about the messages that she delivers from her platform; I deeply admire that strength and conviction.
Tara Joshi: So, I have to confess: until last week, I had never knowingly listened to Fiona Apple. She was never someone who had really come up on my radar – bar a couple writers I respected rating her, my vague assumption of "singer-songwriter does piano pop" never made her someone I considered especially appealing to explore. Which in itself is probably so telling of the bullshit of "the canon", the limitations of genre and my own internalised misogyny aka how easy it is to dismiss a woman based on *checks notes* zero knowledge of her art!
But then on Friday morning as I routinely tapped through my Instagram stories, I noticed Fiona's face peering back at me with a manic smile again and again, and friends were texting me asking if I'd heard it yet – I knew it was time to stop being a dick and actually listen. And I'm glad that this means, implicitly, we are all stripping away the patriarchal gaze that music has been entrenched in, that we have all learned, instead validating women creators who are more than entitled to accolades like "genius". I love how she gently picks apart the glass ceiling with a little Kate Bush nod on the title track – "I grew up in the shoes they told me I could fill, shoes that were not made for running up that hill."
Lauren O'Neill: I love that so much of this record is basically about a lot of the pre-conceptions you describe there. Fetch the Bolt Cutters is about all of the injustices Apple has experienced as a woman, and the challenges that other women she knows have faced too. It's about #MeToo,, and about the fact that music critics have never really given her what she is due, because she is woman who makes work that is not embarrassed in any way to be by a woman, and about Brett fucking Kavanaugh, and about refusing to shut up or be contained by anything that anyone else says you are.
In the last few years, a lot of art has been made about similar themes, and I've enjoyed a lot of it, but I've not felt as subsumed into someone's point of view as I do listening to Fetch the Bolt Cutters, maybe ever. You end the record feeling like you have understood everything Fiona Apple wants to tell you, even the unspoken stuff, and I think that's because it's so her: a full-throated embrace of herself – including her mistakes – told in a style completely of her own making, in her own way. I can't think of another musician working now, other than maybe Frank Ocean or Kendrick Lamar, who displays that type of complete mastery of and over their narrative.
This Is How You Can Support the Independent Music Industry During COVID-19
Emma Garland
Hannah Ewens: Fittingly, this is an album that sounds like every single outside influence has long fallen away, the result of how isolated she is as a person and musician. I feel like Apple could open her front door on the other side of quarantine, and say, "Did I miss something?" For me, this album provides a space to be fully present. Even when she reminisces about the past, she does so, among bangs and whacks of the pots and pans, with improvised lines, vibrant second-by-second updates and a unique stream-of-consciousness storytelling.
Emma Garland: The first thing that struck me about Fetch The Bolt Cutters is its physicality. Between the percussion and the vocals, there's practically no space left unoccupied by a beat or breath. Apple literally used her house in Venice Beach to make this album, banging on the walls, the floorboards and allegedly a box containing her dead dog's bones, making the whole composition feel like a brawl: Fiona Apple vs the haters. Each crash or bang lands with purpose and impact – a blow dealt and another immediately returned – which is a subtle but fitting way to articulate a narrative of violence breeding violence (turned inward against the self as much as it is inflicted on others). Basically the whole album feels like a living organism, and unlike anything I've ever heard before. The only other comparisons I can make in regards to this form of storytelling are Tom Waits and The Slits.
TJ: Playing it loud teems with the everyday. You can sense that she recorded it at home, and not just because of her dogs barking (shout out Mercy). There's a comfortable warmth to it that makes me feel safe, and it sounds like a film soundtrack that adds a richness to my weird Stay At Home mundanity without feeling completely at odds with this jarring period of time. It's a blanket that's not wholly beautiful and soft – there are moments of silky harp, but also parts that are jagged, angular and dissonant; careening noises and raw squeals and screams that feel sort of perfect for my headspace right now. Like, I don't want to focus too much on The Situation, but I also think it's a really wonderful thing to have released this album during all this rather than holding out until October like her label wanted.
LO: I'm so happy that when I think back to this weird time in my life, I will associate this record closely with it. On the day it came out, I went on a run in the evening after finishing work, and it was really something to feel like my body was powering itself along, experiencing movement and freedom after being cooped up all day, while also listening to this record. One of the major narratives of Fetch the Bolt Cutters is this concept of emancipation – from sexism, past versions of yourself, the music industry – and while going out for your state sanctioned exercise during a national lockdown is obviously very different to setting fire to the fences that have surrounded you professionally and personally for decades, as Apple does with this music, it was really pleasurable to experience the two things hand in hand at this tough time, and just let go a bit.
SG: If I see one more person throw around the phrase "strange and uncertain times" to describe the COVID-19 period I am going to explode, but Fetch the Bolt Cutters arrived when it was absolutely needed to help us persevere. While I have always found comfort in Apple's music, Fetch the Bolt Cutters showcases even more depth as she guides us through the layers of inner turmoil that have been buried in the back of her brain for all these decades. You can sense her exhaustion from carrying these burdens for so long on songs like "Heavy Balloon", but it's not like we're being dumped with an emotional overload. Apple has taken so much time to process everything that has ever happened to her and these 13 tracks are a result of that healing work. She has so much to say in the wake of #MeToo and isn't going to let anyone shut her up like when she was younger ("Under The Table"). Apple is hellbent on breaking the cycles of toxic behaviour that continue to spin ("Relay"). She has learned from the error of her previous ways, particularly with women, and earnestly wants to make amends for the wrongs ("Ladies" and "Newspaper").
La Roux: How to Be a Musician When You Hate the Music Industry
HE: Her writing at this point in her career is smarter and funnier for its specificity and how personal it is, I think. Even when she's saying "Don't you, don't you, don't you, don't you shush me," on "Under The Table," it's like a verbatim real life exchange that she's repeated to herself furiously in private. My favourite song on this album is "Relay": "Evil is a relay sport when the one who's burned turns to pass the torch" made me shout. It's such an incisive spoken word line that immediately works twice: once, to indicate the chain of abuse, and how an abuser often grows up to abuse others (that "bullies bully" sentiment), twice, to show the continuing knock-on effect that trauma has on our own lives. I imagine a girl, a young adult, a grown woman passing on their pain like a baton in their thoughts and actions.
EG: The lyrics are literal without being too on the nose or didactic, but also deal in very physical terms – "Blast the music, bang it, bite it, bruise it" / "Kick me under the table all you want, I won't shut up". The title refers to releasing yourself from the coat of armour you've assembled to survive in a world that's set up to work against you, but Apple never paints herself into a corner. The long-term emotional impact of high school bullies and throwaway comments made by fellow students are spoken about with a hurt that still feels fresh, while the songs you'd expect to feel more vulnerable – "Newspaper" and "For Her" – feel the most resilient. It's a kind of storytelling we normally don't get in such plain terms; that should be intimate and innermost, but has been reworked into something shared and celebratory. This album has occupied my brain to such an extent that I've spent all weekend throwing my clothes around and banging on the kitchen countertops (sorry to my boyfriend) along to the parts that are lodged permanently in my head, but at the same time I genuinely can't imagine what it would feel like to sing a song like "Newspaper" out loud.
SG: The title track chronicles her early experiences in the industry in such vivid detail that you can't help but cringe remembering all the ways in which she was misrepresented in the press throughout her career. She forgives, but reminds us to never forget. In a recent interview, Apple revealed that the album is about "breaking out of whatever prison you've allowed yourself to live in, whether you built that prison for yourself or whether it was built around you and you just accepted it". For her, this mostly applies to the image that was constructed of her by the outside world. But make no mistake, Apple controls her own narrative now.
LO: One of the most impressive ways she wields that control is at the level of melody, and I feel that most strongly on "For Her", which is a song she wrote for a woman she once knew who was unable to speak up about her experience of rape. Near the end of the song there's this melodic change up and a total lyrical hammer blow. It's Apple's voice layered over itself again and again, sounding like it's summoning hell, singing: "Good morning, good morning / You raped me in the same bed your daughter was born in." It makes my entire body go cold because it's so powerful and bold just as a statement in itself, but the fact that she sets this devastating revelation to the universally familiar melody of "Good Morning" from Singin' In the Rain – a tune we all know without really thinking about how we know it – forces it to smart even more resoundingly, the inevitability of the melody pushing the inevitability of cycles of misogyny and the cognitive dissonance of patriarchy up to the surface, right up in her listeners' faces. It's really an astonishing bit of songwriting, to do so much with what feels like so little.
TJ: I read that back in 2000 she gave an interview saying she didn't write songs about her experience of having been raped, and I totally get that – it's messed up how often women are expected to present our traumas as things to be consumed, as things to elevate us in our work – trauma isn't artful, it's painful. From what I've listened to this weekend, I get the impression her work has always delicately questioned patriarchy – but always in a way that feels a lot more thoughtful that pop culture's recent shift to an #Empowermentcore, "let's use mental health as a sell"-era. On this album, Apple's first post-Me Too, she seems to feel more comfortable being direct, partly following the seething about Brett Kavaunagh – the track "Relay" centres around a lyric she wrote when she was 15, a few years after her assault: "Evil is a relay sport, when the one who's burned turns to pass the torch." And when she says "You raped me in the same bed your daughter was born in" on "For Her", a track written for a woman unable to tell their story, my hairs stand on end and I get angry and sad but also vindicated that this is being written about in a way that does not cater to a capitalist or male gaze.
HE: I immediately think of another song that was written with the Brett Kavanaugh trial as political stimulus. "Broken", the final track on Sleater-Kinney's most recent album, is a deflated ballad with morose lyrics ("She, she, she, stood up for us"), but here, on Apple's "For Her", she's so specific and mocking of the rapist of her song, and by the end, the chorus of women singing "good morning" feel like they're about to destroy this man, get some kind of real retribution. Although she feels differently towards women who were her enemies or competition – VIPs, Pretty Young Things, wannabes and bullies – she's wryly realistic about the limitations of modern feminist sisterhood. When she huffs, "Yet another woman to whom I won't get through" on "Ladies", it's like: capitalism still exists, human nature still exists. These displays of Fiona Apple's special brand of honesty are so refreshing. The bolt cutters on this record aren't just to let her out, they're also to finally let us in. I'm just happy that music critics and fans seem united over this album.
Revisiting the Radical Black Fever Dream of Kanye West's 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy'
Brian Josephs
EG: I'm as guilty of throwing this term around as liberally as every other enthusiastic music writer, but Fetch The Bolt Cutters is the definitive album of the last decade. No question. It's the first album to get a 10.0 on Pitchfork since Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, and regardless of how much stock you put in a numerical rating system, that feels right. It gives rise to all the systematic ills and micro-details that make up a society and shape an individual, with no issue too big or too small, no feeling too arbitrary. With a balance of weight and wit, this is a masterpiece only Fiona Apple could construct, and I hope this changes her image as an artist in the eyes of those who previously wrote her off as a woman having an orgasm on a piano (although that in itself is extremely cool).
SG: How rewarding is it that we get to witness her moment of vindication? Yes, Apple earned this, but she also fought so hard to get here and that's a rare occurrence. We don't deserve any of her art, but she generously gives it to us for the taking anyway.
@sydegee, @tara_dwmd, @hannahrosewens, @hiyalauren & @emmaggarland
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