When I want chicken and pasta I definitely crave something in a white sauce as a opposed to a red and something that is truly chicken parmelicious as opposed to the kind doused in red sauce and mozzarella carrying the name "chicken parm" - still good, but not as good. This recipe tastes a lot richer than it actually is (especially if you use lower fat milk - see below) because it relies on parmesan cheese and garlic to give a lot of the flavor and neither is terrible for you (the garlic is actually really good for you).
Clean 6 boneless/skinless chicken breasts or thighs (i.e. rinse in cold water and pat dry with a paper towel and then using a knife, remove any undesirables, i.e. missed bones, fat, anything you wouldn't want to eat that the butcher might have missed). Beat one egg and stir in one tablespoon of water (the water makes the goo more workable). In a different vessel, using a fork, incorporate 1 cup of parmesan cheese with the salt and pepper. Dip each chicken thigh into the egg and then coat with the parmesan mixture. The easiest way to do this is to set up a dipping station with the egg in a shallow vessel next to a vessel that has the parm mix.
Place each chicken thigh fully spread out into a casserole dish whose bottom has been drizzled with olive oil. Once you have all of your chicken nice and comfy in the casserole dish, loosely cover with foil and place in your oven, preheated to 400 degrees. Allow to bake for approximately 45 to 50 minutes. Carefully remove the foil from the dish and allow to cook for about 10 more minutes or until the chicken lightly browns. Remove casserole dish from oven and place chicken in a serving dish and cover. Keep the drippings in the casserole dish - you will use this!
Cook spaghetti until it is al dente (about 1-2 minutes less than what the package tells you to do) and drain water. In a large skillet, add the drippings from the casserole dish and the minced garlic.
Turn the burner to medium high heat and stir. Allow the drippings and garlic to cook together until it begins bubbling, continuing to stir.
Lower to medium heat and slowly add milk. Stir and allow to simmer.
Once it begins bubbling, lower heat to low and slowly begin adding the spaghetti. Incorporate the spaghetti and the sauce using tongs to turn the spaghetti.
Turn heat to low and add remaining parmasen cheese. Continue carefully incorporating everything with the tongs.
Serve the spaghetti with the chicken and enjoy!
Truth is, I am eating this right now as I type and I normally hold off on putting up a recipe until the next day but this one is SOOOO GOOOOOD that I had to share right away. I hope that you enjoy it as much as I am. Remember to follow me on Instagram and Pinterest and that you can read me in the Apple News format. Until the next time!
Apr 13 I call this "Um Yes - Taco Salad Thingie"


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(GWT) James 1 : 2 My brothers and sisters, be very happy when you are tested in different ways.
(NLT) James 1 : 2 Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy.
(WNT) James 1 : 2 Reckon it nothing but joy, my brethren, whenever you find yourselves hedged in by various trials.


Research published today by the Institute of Race Relations shows that recently arrived migrant workers are vulnerable to exploitation and xenophobic attacks.
The new geographies of racism: Peterborough, focuses on a city which has experienced significant population change over the last decade, largely as a result of the expansion of the European Union and the migrant workers who have found employment in the city's factories and agri-business industries. These same workers have been vilified as overrunning the city in a succession of national media investigations, yet today's report finds that in fact there has been a range of violent attacks, largely unrecognised, against migrant workers and other BME communities.
Exploited migrant workers, forced in the most extreme cases into destitution, have been bullied, harassed and attacked. Yet police and UK Border Agency (UKBA) operations aimed at removing them from the country have led to an unwillingness to report this violence to the authorities.
Asylum seekers dispersed into the city have been targeted and in the most serious examples forced from their homes.
Some politicians are accused of exploiting concerns over immigration for political gain.
Attempts by far-right groups to exploit the murder of a white teenager by Asian men were repelled by local community activists.
Notes to editors 1) Dr Jon Burnett is a researcher at the Institute of Race Relations. 2) This is the third of three reports investigating changing patterns of racial violence in the UK. The first of these reports, on the city of Plymouth, can be downloaded here: The new geographies of racism: Plymouth. The second, on the city of Stoke-on-Trent, can be downloaded here: The new geographies of racism: Stoke-on-Trent. 3) The IRR's Racial violence: the buried issue, published in 2010, can be downloaded here. 4) Read the IRR's research, The new geographies of racism: Peterborough here (pdf file, 384kb). 5) For further information call the IRR on 020 7837 0041 or 07753 741 129 or email: jon@irr.org.uk.
Having completed part of my training as a junior doctor in Peterborough (F1 & F2 years), I must comment that the huge influx of migrants into the city, many with very limited English language skills, has placed enormous strain on public services. Many Poles (a Free Polish paratrooper regiment was based nearby) and Italians immigrated to Peterborough post-war and integrated very well. However, such are the numbers that the city has received recently that the local population feels overwhelmed and previously safe areas (such as the Lincoln Road) have become no-go areas, especially for lone women. It is true that a proportion of these immigrants have fallen victim to slum landlords and unscrupulous employers and I do not endorse or seek to excuse victimisation of the migrants, however the impact of unfettered migration to the city has been a significant dis-benefit to the existing population. My views and frustrations are commonly held amongst my NHS peers in the Peterborough area.
I am a doctor working with migrants in London. In my experience, migration and diversity is a problem only when the healthcare services refuse to acknowledge and provide for the needs of the community they serve. In the various London boroughs there are examples of good provision (e.g. in Newham and Tower Hamlets) where (to take one example) interpreters and advocates are provided so that doctors and patients can communicate. In other boroughs, this is not the case and medical staff become frustrated.
Perhaps the role of NHS staff should be not to grumble about migration, but to pester their managers for adequate provision of interpreters, language classes etc?
Diversity does not necessarily have to be a problem in medicine. Working with migrants has enhanced my communication skills, helped me realise what goes on elsewhere on this planet, and has added to the richness of experience I gain from my work. If the anonymous doctor is able to spend more time talking with his/her migrant patients, s/he may find the same thing.
Finally, migrants are often resourceful and active people who survive adversity and go on to set up their own businesses, support others in their community, volunteer, etc. They also often help to solve or relieve the problems in their countries of origin, e.g. by working and sending money home to relatives, thus assisting the local economy, educating their families,etc. The negative view of migrants as purely negative consumers of public services needs to be challenged.
I am also a junior doctor. I trained in London with attachments in many places that also have attracted migrants over recent years – Enfield, Tottenham, Luton, etc.
I have to say that I don't recognise the account that my anonymous colleague presents above. It is also at odds with what limited research there has been on this topic – e.g. http://www.lho.org.uk/download.aspx?urlid=11948&urlt=1 and http://www.nat.org.uk/Media%20library/Files/PDF%20documents/Myth-of-HIV-Health-Tourism-Oct-2008.pdf. I believe most of my peers enjoy living and working in vibrant multicultural communities.
Most recent migrants to the UK are a consequence of the expansion of the EU. These are mostly young healthy people who are working and paying taxes. That we are unable to provide healthcare to new members of our communities – in particular interpreters – is an indictment of NHS management and inflexible Department of Health budgeting rather than immigration policies.
The account above also neglects to mention the enormous contributions to the NHS made by migrant workers – doctors, nurses, auxillaries, porters, etc – over the years.
Thank you Naomi and Tom (above) for speaking of the positive narrative of migrants contributing to our society. Such interactions occur regularly but often go unaccounted for in public discourses. Thanks for daring to speak out on behalf of the sometimes voiceless migrants!
I am a GP in London, working in an inner city community which is diverse and in a constant state of flux.
There will, at times, be frustrations as services try to adapt to demands with limited resources but this will occur in many situations (not just migration) with our changing political and economic climate. As a doctor, I feel I have a duty of care to all my patients, no matter where they originate from.
For the record, both EU citizens and asylum seekers are entitled to healthcare and it is worrying if they are too scared to seek help. Even if you ignore the moral and ethical reasons for providing adequate services, it is more economical to prevent or treat illness earlier.
I think any frustrations that the anonymous (or any other) doctor has would be better directed towards (mis-)management and the politicians for using migration as a point-scoring area for their own political gain. In some cases, migrants were directed by government agencies to fill jobs in the Peterborough area which the locals were unable/unwilling to do (eg agricultural labour). Unfortunately, it seems that the planning didn't extend to adequate funding of the services in order to support the population.
To lay the blame at the feet of migrants is unfair and adds fuel to the fire of the prejudice that already exists and can have damaging consequences as documented in this report.
Just to add to earlier comments , we must not forget that Europe progressed as a result of migration , I think it is also important to understand what forces people to migrate in order to build empathy towards them.
Basically the burden of ill-designed migration policies should not be thrust on existing migrant populations.This takes us back to the adage " Necessity is the mother of invention" ,the pressures created by an aging society and the shortage for care workers in UK may very soon lead governing bodies to revise existing policies in favour of selective immigration perhaps.
I applaud the fact that many White Middle class people will stand up for the rights of the often dispossessed immigrants coming into Britain, but when will those same concerned Middle class people be concerned about the dispossessed Working classes already living here? The reality of immigration for the Middle class is largely academic, something they can champion from their ivory tower as long as the reality doesn't get too close to them. Immigration into Britain really boils down to one thing; people doing very low-paid dead-end jobs that the indigenous population don't want to do. It's also a way of keeping wages low. Of course if you're Middle class, this doesn't really affect you one way or the other, with high paying careers. Let's have a little bit of much needed truth on this issue, instead of the usual PC Middle class pronouncements please!
Nadia, you wrote: 'To lay the blame at the feet of migrants is unfair and adds fuel to the fire of the prejudice that already exists and can have damaging consequences as documented in this report.' I agree with you totally. But White working class people have to deal with low-wage jobs as a reality, and the nature of the class system in Britain allows some people to prosper if they are from the 'right' background, have the 'right' accent, have the 'right' connections, live in the 'right' areas and so on. Why when White Working class people are prejudiced about immigrants there is outrage, but when White Middle class people are just as prejudiced in their own little way is there a resounding silence? Let's tackle ALL prejudice, or in the end you tackle none of it.
Tim Childs has fallen into the trap of believing that no native Briton has a low paid, unrewarding, 'menial' job, I can assure him that Millions of British people are slogging their guts out for a pittance, I no longer have to (fortunately) but during my student days I worked a night shift in a factory and ironically enough many British people are working in the exact same factory and no doubt many still will be in another 30 years time.
I have recently moved from London Peterborough. I can see a vibrant presence of East European people mainly around the Peterborough City centre.
I am British but of South Asian origin. I have been living here since April but yet to see any hostility from the local white population. Perhaps I need to wait.


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Michigan target Donovan Edwards enjoys 'unbelievable' Ohio State visit
Donovan Edwards doesn't remember anything about his mother, Donna.
She died of cancer in August 2005, when Donovan was 2.
"I relied on my dad to tell me about her," said the West Bloomfield sophomore running back.
Kevin Edwards Sr. told his son she wanted both he and his brother, Kevin Jr., to be good people, treat everyone right and be respectful.
"She wanted us to do the right things," Edwards said Sunday after he returned from Ohio State on an unofficial recruiting visit and a scholarship offer. "I think about her all the time. I do things because I want her to be proud of me. It's tough not having her around."
Michigan offered Edwards on April 17, and the Wolverines are high on the 15-year-old, said Brandon Brown, of TheWolverine.com.
More on West Bloomfield:
MSU commit Tre Mosley shows why he may be best WR in state
OSU and U-M are joined by Kentucky, Missouri, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Purdue and Indiana, among others, trying to recruit Edwards.
"The (Ohio State) visit was unbelievable," he said after watching the Buckeyes beat Tulane, 49-6. "It was my first college game. The atmosphere was something that's hard to describe being around 100,000 fans. I had a good time."
He's also having a good time on the field.
He scored his ninth and 10th touchdowns of the season in Friday's 42-21 victory over Lake Orion.
At 5-foot-10½ and 195 pounds, the interest in Edwards is growing. 247Sports Composite didn't have Edwards ranked in the class of 2021, but its Crystal Ball had Michigan as the leader. The website does consider him the fourth-best running back in his class and the fourth-best recruit in Michigan for 2021.
"I've known him since elementary and I knew he was going to be special," said West Bloomfield coach Ron Bellamy. "He's a great kid. A tough kid and I'm not just talking about football. Mentally, some of the stuff he has had to endure. Losing his mother. He plays for her every day, every game. He's a great teammate, great person to be around.
"He's a little bit of everything. He's an in-between-the-tackle back and he's also a kid who can run on the outside, catch the ball on the outside. He's a special talent. I coached him in middle school basketball, so I knew. He was always the kid running around, the best kid in gym classes. All the teachers had nothing but great things to say about him."
Edwards got into the running back rotation as a freshman because of an ACL injury to an upperclassman. Bellamy moved him up from junior varsity.
"Last year, you forgot that he was a freshman and this year you totally forget he's a sophomore," Bellamy said.
Edwards said last year's experience and getting to play along with potential Division 1 college talents Tre Moseley (Michigan State commit), Lance Dixon (Penn State), 2020 linebacker Cornell Wheeler and 2020 defensive back Makari Paige have helped.
"My teammates have always encouraged me to do what I do best on the field," Edwards said. "It helped me being in the rotation. I think juking guys is a strength. I don't go down on first contact. That's probably my strength."
Since his freshman year, Edwards said his vision is better.
"Last year, I wasn't as fast as I am now and didn't have the strength," Edwards said. "I couldn't run track because I got injured before the season started. I'm considering running track this year.''
Buckeyes butt-in
On Saturday, Ohio State had Edwards, Paige, Bay City Central wide receiver Devell Washington and East Kenwood offensive guard Dallas Fincher on campus.
All have offers from OSU.
More:Ohio State football offering top talent in Michigan for class of 2020
"It was my fourth visit," said Fincher, who posted a picture of himself and Ohio State coach Urban Meyer on Twitter.
Washington made his second visit.
It was Meyer's first game back on the sideline since his suspension by the university.
Contact Perry A. Farrell: pafarrell@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @farrellperry.

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US & Canada selected
San Escobar: Polish foreign minister's slip invents a country
Image copyright AP
Image caption Witold Waszczykowski (left) met UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. There are no known pictures of his meeting with officials from San Escobar.
Do you know the way to San Escobar?
Probably not, it doesn't exist, but that didn't stop Poland's foreign minister claiming to have had a productive meeting with its officials this week.
Witold Waszczykowski told reporters he met with various nations for Poland's bid to join the UN security council, "such as Belize or San Escobar".
Mr Waszczykowski has been roundly mocked on Twitter, the one place San Escobar does now exist, flag and all.
He said that he had had meetings with officials from nearly 20 countries, including some Caribbean nations "for the first time in the history of our diplomacy. For example with countries such as Belize or San Escobar".
He put the slip down to tiredness. "Unfortunately after 22 hours in planes and several connecting flights you can make a slip of the tongue," he said.
He said he had in mind Saint Kitts and Nevis, a two-island Caribbean country known in Spanish as San Cristobal y Nieves.
Twitter users responded in customary style, creating an official account and a flag for the island nation.
One tweet said that San Escobar "fully supports Poland's candidacy to the Security Council".
Another designed some currency, but added: "It's funny until you realise your only allies left are Belarus, Hungary and an imaginary nation state."


(Heerbrugg, Switzerland, 26 April 2018) – Leica Geosystems, industry leader in measurement technology, announced today the new Leica iCON gps 70 T smart antenna as part of its Leica iCON gps 70 series for reliable and easy stake-out jobs on any construction site.
Measurement results become quicker and more accurate with the gps 70 T's permanent tilt compensation, resistance to magnetic interferences and calibration-free usage.
"The construction industry is one of the most hazardous workplaces and safety is the highest priority to make sure everyone goes home each day. The new Leica iCON gps 70 T now allows the user to focus on his immediate environment without having to stare at the pole bubble to keep his receiver in a vertical position. The user can look around for other people, machines, excavations, motor vehicles and structures. The Leica iCON gps 70 T will make a significant improvement to the user daily experience of their work site," says Dave Klease, national machine control manager, C.R. Kennedy.
With the iCON gps 70 T, construction professionals can measure and stakeout points quicker than ever before without the need to keep the pole vertical to level the bubble. The combination of the latest GNSS technology and inertial measurement unit (IMU) equips the gps 70 T with true tilt compensation. The tilt compensation extends the measurement possibilities, improves quality and accuracy of the collected data, and reduces errors.
The iCON gps 70 Series is seamlessly integrated into the version 4.0 of the iCON field software. By keeping the core central interface, users will benefit from the simple-to-use workflows that require less training and avoid costly downtime.


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Q: Confusion around case CTLCOLOR_STATIC: I am working on updating some older code for our system and I am not understanding why a check for an edit control is working in a static case.
Here is the code:
switch(nCtlColor)
{
case CTLCOLOR_STATIC:
    {
        if( ((pWnd->GetDlgCtrlID() == IDC_EDIT_SP_FROM) || (pWnd->GetDlgCtrlID() == IDC_EDIT_SP_TO)) &&
            (m_RadioDateSelection == 0) )
        {
            pDC->SetBkColor(g_crSectionLTBlue);
            hbr = g_cbSectionLTBlue;
            break;
        }

        pDC->SetTextColor(g_crBlack);
        hbr = g_cbSectionLTBlue;
        pDC->SetBkColor(g_crSectionLTBlue);
    }
    break;

case CTLCOLOR_LISTBOX:
    pDC->SetTextColor(g_crBlack);
    pDC->SetBkColor(g_crWhite);
    hbr = (HBRUSH)GetStockObject(WHITE_BRUSH);
    break;

case CTLCOLOR_EDIT: case CTLCOLOR_MSGBOX:
    pDC->SetTextColor(g_crBlack);
    pDC->SetBkColor(g_crWhite);
    hbr = (HBRUSH)GetStockObject(WHITE_BRUSH);
    break;
}

Notice in the CTLCOLOR_STATIC there is a check for the IDC_EDIT controls.
My issue is if it is an edit control it shouldn't even be in the case to check and it should never pass the check and therefore the background of the edit control should never become blue. Also, the color is not set to white in any case inside the static case. However, the current checks work and when the radio is set to 0 both boxes are blue and if not they go white. In my static case the bkcolor is never set to white so why would it toggle correctly rather than always be blue or if it sees it as an edit and sets it to white, why isn't the bkcolor always white?
Is an edit control supposed to be able to be checked in a static case?

A: According to MSDN:

A static control, or an edit control that is read-only or disabled, sends the WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC message to its parent window when the control is about to be drawn.

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Q: Brushed motor VS BLDC Our brushed DC motor is rated for 3-4 amps and can be overloaded for 8+ amps. We are currently changing the brushed motor for a brushless (BLDC) motor, rated at 3.5 amps. How much can I overload the BLDC motor? I think much less, than the brushed motor. Am I correct?

A: tl;dr A BLDC motor may have a lower overload current than a brushed motor
When you overload something like a motor, there are several different mechanisms by which Something Bad could happen.
In a brushed motor, the brushes themselves will have a limit, which does not of course apply to a BLDC motor.
You are unlikely to be able to push enough current through the motor to break it mechanically, through too much torque. However, watch out for excess torque on things you add externally.
You could overheat the windings. With a steady current, this depends on the cooling of the motor. With a single pulse of current, it depends on the \$I^2t\$ of the pulse. If you keep the pulse duration short enough, then the amount of heat it dumps in the windings will be small.
The last, and often under-appreciated, limit on the motor current is demagnetisation of any permanent magnets in the motor. In a conventional brushed DC motor (small ones at least, less than a few kW), they are usually engineered so that the current surge taken at switch-on does not damage the motor. As that tends to be an order of magnitude more than the running current, almost everybody ignores it as being too big to be relevant, too big ever to be reached when powering it from the rated voltage.
BLDC motors on the other hand cannot be started or run by simply connecting them to a large battery. The controller always applies some form of current limiting. This may mean that BLDC motors do not have the same wide margin between running current and demagnetisation damage current. If the motor has a maximum current specified, then I would advise sticking to it. If you want to go above it, then get more data from the manufacturer, or buy a motor and test it to destruction.


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Pop Culture / Investigation
Stay Home, Save Lives: The Design Secrets of Covid-19 Health Campaigns
Graphic design is vital in shaping public behaviour, as the visual language of coronavirus campaigns around the world reveals. Words by Anoushka Khandwala
Poster from the UK's Covid-19 response campaign, 2020
It's difficult to pinpoint an exact start date for the pandemic. My memory becomes hazy when thinking about the week, early March in the UK, when many workplaces were scrambling to shut down and enable remote working. It wasn't until a week later that a cohesive strategy seemed to emerge from the UK government. Baked into my memory are the subsequent daily press briefings, where officials stood behind podiums proclaiming "Stay Home. Protect the NHS. Save Lives" and asked us to trust them.
I reached out to designer Lucienne Roberts to gain insight into the British government's public awareness campaign around coronavirus and how its impact compares to campaigns of the past. Roberts runs advocacy initiative GraphicDesign& with design educator Rebecca Wright. The pair curated the exhibition Can Graphic Design Save Your Life? at the Wellcome Collection in London in 2018, which examined how graphic design intersects with healthcare.
Wellcome Collection, 2017–18 origination and co-curation GraphicDesign& art direction and 2d design LucienneRoberts+ 3d design Universal Design Studio
Roberts recalls the criticisms levelled at the government's campaign following its launch last year, with commentary focused primarily on its failings. She describes the "warning chevrons in yellow and STOP red" of the earliest messaging, and compares them to the later updated message of 'Stay alert. Control the virus. Save lives' rendered "in green, the colour most synonymous with GO." She argues that graphic designers have a strong understanding of how both consistency and repetition work. When it comes to public messaging, she says, ambiguity can be fatal.
Ten months later, she admits that actually the campaign design has matured well. "It's grown to accommodate different types of photography and simple instructional line drawings—a big tick as these allow for varied learning styles," Roberts says. She details how the core elements, such as the areas of yellow with an angled chevron for a border, have been retained. Overall, she concludes, the materials now look more "graphically confident".
"When it comes to public messaging, ambiguity can be fatal"
Asked about campaigns that have been particularly inspirational or effective, Roberts cites New Zealand's Unite Against Covid-19 film as an example of clear and assured messaging. It not only espoused the best course of action, she explains, but importantly assumed the best of people: "It showed restaurants, shops, sports arenas, places of worship, and described their emptiness as a mark of togetherness, of shared responsibility in the interests of the common good. I found that very effective, and moving."
Creative director Brigid Alkema of Clemenger BBDO Wellington, the agency commissioned by the New Zealand government, reveals that the campaign was an extremely fast turnaround. They worked from a Friday morning to create a pitch before fine-tuning the strategy so that it could be approved by government. By Saturday evening they were presenting to the office of the New Zealand Prime Minister. The resulting set of films, infographics and illustrations have been described by design critic Alice Rawsthorn as "the most intelligently and sensitively designed information programme in this pandemic."
"A human tone of voice is incredibly important for helping to dissipate fear and make dense information accessible and approachable," Alkema explains. "Our typeface and colour palette were chosen to feel informative yet non-threatening—the distinctive yellow and white chevrons immediately stood out as authoritative yet approachable, and signalled a consistent source of truth."
New Zealand's Unite Against Covid-19 film (still), 2020. Courtesy Clemenger BBDO Wellington
They employed a psychologist to "help anticipate the emotional journey New Zealanders would likely go on throughout the course of the pandemic", anticipating that emotion would be a key driver of human behaviour. Alkema notes that earlier films appealed to a sense of collective patriotism, while others used humour to beat boredom and frustration, describing these as different 'levers" that kept the information fresh and momentum going. As the pandemic stretched on, the campaign evolved into a responsive system that worked in tandem with the nation's emotions, as well as the progress of the virus.
"A human tone of voice is incredibly important for helping to dissipate fear and make dense information accessible"
The phrase 'Unite Against Covid-19' was key. "We explored many articulations in the beginning, but kept circling back to the need to galvanise our people and country behind a common cause," Alkema says, adding that this centred people and gave clarity and focus at a time of confusion and misinformation. "With so many different asks—stay home, sneeze into your elbow—our simple rally to unite gave even the smallest actions bigger purpose." This translated into the visual language through iconography: instead of the virus itself, the campaign favoured more human icons, such as representations of people at home.
Finally, Alkema praises the "strong, decisive and effective" leadership of the New Zealand Government and their "Go hard and go early" ethos. "This single-mindedness enabled us to create an overarching strategy, with the communications able to be simple and straightforward," she says. "The government's surety inspired trust and willingness to comply from the population." This multifaceted approach proves that for graphic design to be effective, it has to be paired with stringent government policy.
Courtesy Vietnam Stamp Company and Pham Trung Ha
Another approach to humanising pandemic messaging came from the Vietnamese government, who called on the nation's artists to galvanise the population. They commissioned the artist Pham Trung Ha to create a set of stamps that sent "clear messages of solidarity in the fight against Covid-19." Two images were created: one depicted healthcare workers getting tested against the backdrop of a raised fist, a dramatic composition echoed by many of the posters created by artists across the country including Le Duc Hiep and Luu Yen The.
While this artistic response is a far cry from the sleek vector illustrations of the New Zealand campaign, both wield visuals that are familiar to their country in order to instil a sense of safety and unity in the population. Context is everything: what works in one country may not in another, and understanding a nation's culture is key to creating a persuasive and informative campaign. In the cases of both Vietnam and New Zealand, their governments demonstrably understood the vital role that visual culture can play in shaping public behaviour.
It is important to remember that graphic design does not exist in a vacuum. Rather than evaluate the success of an individual campaign, we must assess its effect in relation to purpose, audience and its commissioners. The New Zealand response was paired with effective government leadership, and the country has suffered fewer than 30 deaths due to the virus. It's a similar story in Vietnam. The UK, however, recently surpassed 126,000 deaths related to complications from Covid-19. It is a statistic that must call the strategy behind the campaign into question.
"It is important to remember that graphic design does not exist in a vacuum"
While the phrase "Stay Home. Save Lives" appears to have penetrated the collective consciousness of the British public, the term subtly heaps responsibility onto the individual. This is the difficulty with all public health campaigns: they can be used to build trust and solidarity within a population, but they can equally act as a smokescreen for ineffective action by a government. Many commentators have highlighted the failings of the British government's response, from not providing adequate PPE for hospital staff to introducing widespread testing too late. Their public health campaign could be seen as being less about protecting the nation, and more about shifting responsibility away from government and onto the public's shoulders.
Public information warnings are important, but their effect dissipates if not backed up by concrete political policy and action. Beyond the graphics and the visuals, an holistic evaluation is needed: of government leadership, of strategy, and of humanity.


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Q: How to trust host using pip 1.4.1 I am stuck using pip 1.4.1 and have run up against a problem when upgrading package.
Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/pymongo/: There was a problem confirming
the ssl certificate: <urlopen error [Errno 1] _ssl.c:509: error:1407742E:SSL
routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert protocol version>

I have seen that later versions of pip you can do --trusted-host to ignore the certs warning. But on 1.4.1 it appears that this option is not available. How to fix?

A: The worst problem in your case is not untrusted host, the worst problem is too old versions of Python and OpenSSL. Your pip tried to use protocol version TLS v1 which PyPI stopped supporting long ago.
To install packages over the Net you need to upgrade OpenSSL, Python and pip. If you cannot upgrade you cannot install from PyPI directly. Then you can try to download packages from PyPI using a browser and install them from the local filesystem.
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Career Arc: Russell Westbrook
Best dressed in high school, NBA draft project, All-Star, irritant, folk hero.
by Brian Phillips on May 21, 2014
Let's start with the growth spurt. The transformation of Russell Westbrook Jr. from an uncelebrated 16-year-old shooting guard to a potential NBA draft pick happened during the summer after his junior year in high school, when he shot up five inches practically overnight. He already had speed and phenomenal athleticism, but that summer was the genetic Powerball, the first of his mind-boggling leaps. The previous year, at 5-foot-10, he'd managed to grit his way into the starting five at Leuzinger High in Los Angeles County; post-spurt, he turned his senior season into a vengeance romp through SoCal prep ball. He averaged 25 and 8.7, dropped 51 in one game, and got himself recruited by Ben Howland at UCLA.
He'd already spent a whole childhood devoted to basketball. He'd been trained up by his dad, Russell Sr., a pickup-ball obsessive at Ross Snyder Park at 41st and Compton. As a 7-year-old, Russ Jr. used to tail his pop to games and echo his moves on the sideline. Russ Sr. noticed his interest and refashioned himself into a kind of off-grid Svengali, running the younger Russ through years of daily drills that he'd invent himself, teaching him basketball strategy from a stock of mental notes on Magic Johnson. Still, though. If not for the growth spurt, that all leads nowhere. Five inches is the difference between Russell Westbrook, NBA All-Star, and Russell Westbrook, comet of wounded pride at your local rec center.
He dunked a basketball for the first time during his last start as a senior in high school. That was how strange it was, being in the new body — he could go for 51 when the mood struck him, but he wasn't sure he could do that yet. Among many other fairly astounding conclusions, his late intro to life above the rim means that less than two years separated his first dunk from the moment he did this:
So from right there, from the very beginning, you see the Russ Paradox already in place. He's going to play with an intensity that makes him erratic, that makes him hard to predict. He's going to go so hard he becomes a danger to everyone on the court, including his own team's game plan. Watch the video of that dunk against Cal: coast to coast, through three defenders, a nuclear bowling ball. Say your lifelong dream had moved within reach so late, after you'd gotten used to seeing friends picked over you, after you'd started to think maybe your chance wasn't coming — don't you think you, too, might have a tough time letting go of the ball? Might plant yourself on the axial line between not taking this for granted and going fucking crazy? He showed up at his senior prom in an all-white tux with a turquoise vest and white-and-turquoise Stacy Adams shoes; he won best dressed. He plays like a new superhero who's not fully in control of his powers, because that, in effect, is what he is.
College Daze: 2006-08
He put in the time, though. At UCLA, he showed up raw, a scorer who couldn't shoot; his freshman year he got nine minutes a game and missed nearly half his free throws. Remember, this was a kid who'd learned from his dad and a couple of public-school coaches — no Jesuit hoops powerhouse behind him, part of an unheralded AAU program. As a sophomore, he molded himself into a weird hybrid of lockdown defense and highlight-reel dunking. This was the Bruins' third consecutive Final Four team, the one that matched Kevin Love, in his breakout freshman season, with a Westbrook–Darren Collison backcourt and Luc Richard Mbah a Moute. Russ, mostly playing as a 2-guard, put up 12.7 and more than four assists per game; he also got featured in a New York Times piece on the rising popularity of players wearing the number zero, probably his first national-media exposure as a fashion presence. "You go with the zero when you've been through something and you are looking to get a new beginning," he said. "It helps you get the swag back."
UCLA entered the NCAA tournament as the top seed in the West and a championship favorite. In the second round, during a two-point game against Texas A&M, Westbrook broke away on the last possession and threw down an end-of-days dunk at the buzzer. It was waved off — he'd hung in the air so long that time ran out.
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The Bruins would end up losing in a 78-63 blowout in the national semis against Derrick Rose's Memphis team. Westbrook had 22, the most of any UCLA player, but the loss crystallized something. Heading into the draft, a player like Rose could be fetishized for his natural feel for the point position, just as, say, Chris Paul had been before him. Westbrook was by contrast too odd, too unbalanced. He was a project, a mess. People who got paid to use the word "upside" all agreed that he had tons of it. No one knew how or where he'd fit.
It's bracing, today, to go back and read his scouting reports. You want to believe in the perfectibility of human knowledge? Here's something an expert wrote about Russell Westbrook in 2008: "knows his limitations and has no problem fitting in and being just another cog." The DraftExpress report listed his "best case" as "Leandro Barbosa." He was written about as a potential defensive stopper, as a guy who could give you a spark off the bench, as a lottery pick, as a bust, as a risk. Late in the season, people were still arguing that he should stay in school. He wound up catching one of those tailwinds you sometimes get heading into draft day and going fourth to the zombie-in-waiting Seattle SuperSonics, still a few months away from relocating to Oklahoma City. Sonics GM Sam Presti had reportedly tried to trade down the pick, but couldn't work out a deal. The future Thunder needed a guard to take pressure off Kevin Durant in the backcourt. So — why not — Presti rolled the dice.
Giant Steps: 2008-11
The Thunder started 3-29 in 2008. Remember that? Their first win came three games into the season — it was against the Timberwolves; Westbrook hit the go-ahead shot — and then: smoke belch, engine failure. Durant, then in his second season and already pretty much unguardable, averaged 25, and Russ scored more as a rookie than he had the previous season with UCLA. But they made no sense together. Not that Westbrook was even seen as a star that year; if you read analysis of the Thunder from his first couple of seasons, you get a lot of "a solid core of young players, including emerging star Jeff Green and point guard Russell Westbrook," tucked in after three breathless grafs on Durant. Maybe he'd get called "promising." He was trying to learn how to play the point, live with an 82-game schedule, and adjust to life away from L.A., all while starting for a franchise so new in its city that it had to borrow a practice facility from Southern Nazarene University. He was 20 years old.
The next season, the Thunder finished 50-32 and took two games off the defending champion Lakers in the playoffs. It's hard to recollect how shocking that seemed at the time, that Oklahoma City could hurt Kobe. This was the world's introduction to the Fun Young Thunder team of Durant, Westbrook, James Harden's Assyrian lamassu beard, and Serge Ibaka. This was also around the time when, if you hadn't followed him before, you'd start noticing Westbrook in games, looking up when he bolted at the basket — holy shit, what did this kid playing point just do? He and Durant combined for 22 of the Thunder's last 23 points in their first playoff win. Westbrook also took, and missed, the desperation shot at the buzzer that would have forced a Game 7 against L.A.
He'd never be a true point guard. That was clear early. Not because he couldn't distribute the ball; his feel for the game got better year over year, as did his numbers. (5.3 assists his first season, then 8.0, then 8.2.) But a point guard lives in the calm at the center of the game, in the silent geometry of it. Westbrook lived in the roar. Build him a basketball game and he'd try to knock it over, like a toddler with a block tower. Build him another one and he'd knock it over again. The Russ Paradox: He was a creator whose medium was rubble. He lived here:
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He'd win a gold medal at the FIBA World Championship in the summer of 2010, playing for Mike Krzyzewski, and this was maybe the turning point. People talked afterward about how he realized he could hang with guys he'd grown up watching on TV, how this just vaporized whatever fear was still present in his bloodstream. "He's always had confidence," was how Durant put this, "but I think playing in USA games really pushed it over the top." In the media the next season you'd start to see him listed with Paul and Deron Williams among the league's elite point guards. "Ascending" replaced "promising." He was starting to mean something.
He was good enough now that the inevitable chatter started about whether he could coexist with Durant. The quest to uncover some submerged tension between them became both a minor pastime in the media and a stick that bounce-pass curmudgeons could use to beat Russ with. The Zapruder footage in this crusade for answers was shot during one of the most fascinating games of 2011, the Thunder's triple-overtime win against the Grizzlies in Game 4 of their playoff series in May. At one point in the second half, with the Thunder's offense looking totally out of joint, the camera caught Durant talking to OKC assistant Maurice Cheeks. "Why the fuck didn't he get me the ball?" Durant asks. "He" didn't necessarily even mean Westbrook. Thabo Sefolosha had been inbounding. But the damage was done. Westbrook went for 40 points, five assists, five rebounds, three steals, and two blocks, and hit 10 of 11 free throws in a game his team won; didn't matter. White knights on the Internet lined up 50-deep to eviscerate him for not deferring to KD.
Pillar of Fire: 2012-14
Rumors of a Durant-Westbrook Cold War may have been exaggerated. But even as Russ made his second and third All-Star teams in 2012 and 2013, even as he and Durant reached the Finals together and won Olympic gold medals together and showed up in press conferences together dressed in haute-poindexter lensless glasses and suspenders over short-sleeved printed work-smocks from Maui Jim's Paris runway collection — even as the Thunder pretty much rolled on as the most reliably fun team in the NBA — the narrative of Westbrook as a berserker whose aggression stifled KD didn't quite die. It would rear its head seasonally, like pollen allergies or Kendrick Perkins's smile. It became a kind of shadow conventional wisdom, one that could be drawn from whenever Westbrook took a few bad shots, whenever Durant was caught looking glum after a loss. Fair or not, it's contributed to both mainstream and basketball-nerd interpretations of Westbrook in midcareer.
The version of the Russ Paradox that you'll run into now, if you listen to Charles Barkley or hang out on basketball Twitter, is basically that Westbrook is so talented that his talent hurts him. He flies too close to the sun, then winds up bobbing in the Aegean surrounded by feathers. It's not just that he's selfish or that his shot selection is borderline psychotic or that his fight-or-flight instinct keeps screaming "four-point play!" It's that he can do anything, so he tries to do everything. The whole idea of #LetWestbrookBeWestbrook is that watching a spectacularly gifted, idiosyncratic player operate without constraints is more fun than watching a clockwork offense — even his misfires are going to be tremendous. But everybody, including his defenders, acknowledges that the misfires are going to come.
And here we are. In 2014, Westbrook embodies a 50-foot inferno of basketball contradictions, some of them innate and some of them imposed from the outside. How you think about system vs. improvisation, how you think about team-building, how you think about position vs. flexibility, how you think about superstardom, how you think about winning vs. entertainment vs. beauty, how you think about green plaid Capri pants — your read on Westbrook is an index to your opinion on all of this, in a way that, say, your read on LeBron doesn't have to be. No one in the NBA runs (screaming, with his arm upraised for the tomahawk jam) so directly to the heart of so many big open questions about the sport.
Last year, in the playoffs against Houston, Westbrook was sideswiped by Patrick Beverley and came up holding his knee. In a way, sitting out the Thunder's second-round loss to the Grizzlies, the first games he'd ever missed with injury, was a better answer to his critics than any on-court heroics could have been — it proved Durant couldn't do it without him. But Westbrook even did injury in the most Westbrookian way possible: from indestructibility to three knee surgeries in less than a year, followed by a comeback in which he somehow still gives every indication of being made of adamantium and rubber.
When he's hurt, OKC feels not just worse but smaller. Durant is a glorious basketball player in just about every way. He's glorious partly because he's capable of playing the game in exactly the way he imagines it. But no one is capable of playing the game in exactly the way Westbrook imagines it. He raises the stakes just by walking into the arena. Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see; Westbrook sees a target no one else would even recognize as a target. And once you've looked at the moon, how are you supposed to aim at anything else? He'd be the only player in the NBA to vote for an 11-foot rim.
The Thunder will win a championship with Westbrook and Durant or they won't. Westbrook and Durant will stay together or they'll move apart. (Can you imagine either one without the other, though, at this point?) Either way, Westbrook is going to fuck up a lot. He's also going to do things that make you fall out of your chair with pure happiness. Dynasty or no, pairing KD's unstoppable force with Russ's profoundly movable object will go down as one of the coolest looks in the basketball cosmos — memorable in ways I suspect won't become clear until later, when the league has had time to figure out what Westbrook meant. With Ibaka out because of a calf injury, OKC is pretty clearly going to lose this year's Western Conference finals to the Spurs. Russ had 25 and 7 in Game 1. But watch how this plays out. He's the most quantum player in basketball. Whatever happens, it won't be his fault, and whatever happens, it will.
Filed Under: NBA, NBA Playoffs, Russell Westbrook, Brian Phillips, Oklahoma City Thunder, Kevin Durant, UCLA, Kevin Love, career arc
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Stanley Jaki on the Copenhagen Theory
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'Whatever the distance of human passions from atomic physics, the real question was whether one's epistemological attitude was truly general, that is, consistent or not. The impression Bohr gave was that one was to have two kinds of epistemology, one for atomic phenomena, another for everything else, but it was still to be explained whether the understanding, or episteme, could be split in two. On this decisive point Bohr gave at best an impression which was vague and superficial. Staying with superficial impressions means staying on the surface, and this in turn implies the avoidance of deep questions. Typically enough, Bohr completed the final review of his epistemological conflict with Einstein with the remark that "through a singularly fruitful cooperation of a whole generation of physicists we are nearing the goal wheere logical order to a large extent allows us to avoid deep truth." The most obvious of such deep truths should have been for Bohr the truth of the complementarity of matter and light, waves and particles, atomic stability and indeterminacy. The truth that they were complementary to one another was not a matter of observation, but an inference, and a genuinely metaphysical one, which had no justification in the Copenhagen theory. The truth in question was about the truth of a reality which had complementary aspects. These aspects could really complement one another only if they inhered in a deeper reality, about which Bohr could only be agnostic. A harmony of relations or aspects, complementing one another, such was Bohr's epistemological message, a message void of reference to the ontological reality of anything harmonious. About the entity which embodied the harmony of relations he was not permitted by his own premises to make any claim and he carefully avoided doing so. In a truly pragmatist way, which he learned from Hoffding, a forerunner of William James, Bohr could speak of fruits, though not of their harmny (which is never a matter of direct observation) and certainly not of the tree which produced the fruits, to say nothing of the soil which supported and nourished the tree. For Bohr the deepest aspect of existence was pragmatic fruitfulness, the rather shallow perspective in which he saw physics itself: "Perhaps the most distinguishing characteristic of the present position of physics is that almost all the ideas which have ever proved to be fruitful in the investigating of nature have found their right place in a common harmony without thereby having diminished their fruitfulness."
As will be seen shortly, this was not even true of quantum mechanics, a fact which should surprise no one. The really creative elements of quantum mechanics are not the data observed by physicists bu the marvelous ideas formed in their heads. Of those heads few were as impressive as that of Bohr, who for many was a twentieth-century Moses with two flaming horns on his forehead. The horns were the horns of complementarity, but as interpreted by Bohr they could not secure reality to the atomic realm, to say nothing of Moses or Bohr himself. Bohr's pairs of complementarity resembled pairs of horns from which one could not even infer unambiguously that they were rooted in the same head and thereby truly complementary or that the head itself was real, and even more fundamentally real than the horns themselves.' (Stanley Jaki, 'The Road of Science and he Ways to God', p. 205-206)
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Stanley Jaki on Kant and the Ontological Argument
November 8, 2014 JoshuaLeave a comment
'Kant's criticism of it [the ontological argument] shows him both a poorly informed and a poorly reasoning philosopher. If not from Scotus ( a paradigm of obscurantism in Kant's time), at least from Leibniz he might easily have learned that the weakness of the ontological argument , in which he saw the basis of the cosmological, is not in its major premise – if God (perfect being) is possible, he exists – but in its minor – but God is possible. The latter can be securely asserted only if the existence of God has already been established a posteriori. Kant's two objections to the ontological argument show him a poor reasoner. They are based on his failure to perceive the conceptual difference between infinite and finite being. Concerning the latter, be it Kant's hundred thalers or the perfect island of Gaunilo (Anslem's first critic), the existence of a thing is wholly extrinsic to the concept of it, but not in the case of an infinite, that is, infinitely perfect being.
The poor reasoner in Kant is once more revealed by his objection to the cosmological argument on the ground that it rests on the ontological. He overlooked the fact that the existence of a necessary being has been proved from the existence of things not necessary by the time the argument turns to the infinite perfection of that necessary being.' (Stanley Jaki, 'The Road of Science and the Ways to God', p. 121)
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Stanley Jaki on the Starting Point of Science
June 7, 2014 JoshuaLeave a comment
'Since science is divested of its nature when it ceases to be about nature, it is but logical to start with the facts of nature in staking out the epistemological phases of the road to discovery. The most immediate feature of those facts is their complexity, a complexity, however, that is far from chaotic. Regularities in those facts are obvious even to a cursory look, but so are departures from them. It is these departures or anomalies that spark curiosity in the mind, a feature which is mysterious only to those who are busy with the task of clearing up the process of understanding without admitting their curiosity about the task itself. Curiosity is not an automatic reaction, and much less automatic is the urge to look for ever more meaningful curiosa presented by nature. Such a look involves a patient sorting-out process, which in turn implies the isolation of special factors operative in nature, giving rise to more specialized or abstractive notions of it. The interrelation of those factors into sets and the integration of the sets themselves are further steps along the road to discovery of so-called laws, which are obtained when a complete generalization is achieved in the act of induction.' (Stanley Jaki, 'The Road of Science and the Ways to God', p. 252-253)
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Jaki on Science
May 18, 2014 JoshuaLeave a comment
'It is a fundamental shortcoming of science that on its exact and formal level it gives the appearance of being severed from that reality which is a vast network of events standing in causal relation. Yet, while science may and should appear in that sense severed from reality, science becomes an illusion if that appearance is declared to be real.' (Stanley Jaki, 'The Road of Science and the Ways to God', p. 275)
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Stanley Jaki on Hume
March 16, 2014 April 29, 2014 JoshuaLeave a comment
'Starting with a dark mystery, Hume went on stumbling from mystery to mystery, because he had radically separated at the very outset sense from mind and mind from sense. The rise of sensory impressions become one unfathomable mystery, the assocation of impressions another. By ascribing it to some "gentle force" to an instinctive inclination, Hume only made the mystery more mysterious. More mystery arose when Hume tried to reduce that instinct to the "original qualities" of mind. The mystery was now so dense that Hume did not even pretend to "explain that origin". But Hume could have even that thick mystery only at the price of evoking a vision of mind as a substance capable of having qualities. A little honest reflection on Hume's part might have shown him that man's experience of having a mind consists precisely in experiencing a peculiar unity which gives them intelligibility and order. Instead, Hume ended up advocating a notion of mind which in his description could easily evoke the image of a heap of bricks. To assume that the heap formed through some all-pervading mortar a genuine unity was an illusion: "What we call a mind, is nothing byt a heap of collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations and supposed, though falsely, to be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity." (Stanley Jaki, 'The Road of Science and the Ways to God', p. 104)
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Science and Theology
June 2, 2012 June 2, 2012 JoshuaLeave a comment
The relationship between science and theology is an interesting one. For starters, I fully reject any notion of incompatibility between the two – the mythical 'faith versus reason' conflict is simply a bankrupt idea. Indeed, if historians of science such as Stanley Jaki are to be believed, science could have only come about in a Christian climate. This is a thesis he develops with incredible rigor in his book 'The Roads of Science and the Ways to God'.
Contrary to the wishful thinking of those who desire to posit a bloody conflict between science and faith, I think the two share some similarities. Theology and science both seek to come to conclusions based on data – science about the physical world, theology about God (theology literally means the study of God). Now, I'm obviously not putting God on the same level as any other physical object – God is most definitely not merely one subject to be studied among many others. Indeed I would say that God is what makes the study of anything possible. But we are given data (in a sense) about God in the sense that the Holy Scriptures tell us things about God. We can come to conclusions based on the data we have received as well as our experience.
When we ask questions such as 'what is the nature of the atonement' or 'what is the nature of the Trinity' or any theological questions like that, we are to an extent engaging in a scientific theology. We are trying to come to conclusions based on the data we have that we have studied.
There are differences, of course, between the empirical sciences and theology. Theology is by nature a personal enterprise – it's very subject matter is personal, and as such the discipline of theology must be pursued in a personal way. One cannot engage in theology otherwise.
'A theologian is one who prays, and one who prays is a theologian.'
– Evagrius of Pontus
Blaise Pascal wisely pointed out that if any kind of theological or spiritual study is undertaken, it must be done first and foremost in a personal way – one must seek with the whole of the heart, soul and mind. Theology cannot be a detatched discipline – apart from union with Christ theology cannot happen. Apart from the guidance of the Holy Spirit, theology cannot happen. Though theology can be an methodical academic endeavor, it remains at its heart a personal, worshipful science.
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Kendall Jenner & Cara Delevingne Trademark 'CaKe' — Here's What The Models Plan To Do That Isn't Actually Food Related!
What an interesting turn of events!
Cara Delevingne and Kendall Jenner have nicknamed themselves CaKe ever since they met and became fast friends, and now reports are noting that the two have trademarked the word with plans on launching their own clothing line.
You may recall that they've already had "CaKe Tour" shirts made in the past, which they wore to a Taylor Swift concert several months ago.
"They both see it as a bit of fun but are secretly confident it will do well. They're two of the most photographed women in the world so the brand is going to be picked up by millions of fans. The ultimate aim is for CaKe to have its own stores in the UK and US."
Well, sure, why wouldn't it do well? Kenny already has clothing lines withPacSun and Topshop along with sister Kylie Jenner. More recently the two did a collection with Australian brand Forever New.
A Kendall and Cara clothing line doesn't seem like such a crazy idea at all. Though we're not sure an entire store would be necessary for their wares.
Would YOU buy whatever these two decide to sell???


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2018 Annual Toy Drive Is Here!
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There are 48 dog racing greyhound race tracks in 15 states (plus one in Mexico). Greyhound racing is enjoyed in many other countries, including Great Britain, Ireland and Australia.
More than 15 million people visit the 48 dog racing greyhound race tracks resulting in more than $100 million in revenue for state and county governments. More than $2 billion will be wagered each year.
Greyhound racing contributes, from the mutuel handle only, over $100 million to state and county governments.
Florida is the leading state for Greyhound racing. Its dog racing greyhound race tracks generate millions in revenue.
A track capable of sustaining a pari-mutuel handle of more than $500,000 will employ a minimum of 600 people. This figure does not include "area" economic impact for restaurants, motels, gasoline sales, etc.
On the average 80 percent of the money wagered (the handle) on a given night is returned to the holders of the winning tickets (percentage varies from state to state).
Dog racing greyhound race tracks contribute to charities in excess of $2 million annually.
The largest purse of $152,800, Bomb Threat, May 27, 1996, The Woodlands, Bernie Collette owner, Clinton Blair Kennel; May 27, 1996 in the Great Greyhound Futurity at The Woodlands in Kansas City, KS.
Most Greyhound programs consist of 13 races, each with eight Greyhounds. However it is not uncommon to see a 14- or 15-race card.
5/16, 3/8, 7/16 and 9/16-mile, are the most frequently run distances in Greyhound racing.
Greyhounds will cover the 5/16-mile course in approximately 31 seconds reaching speeds up to 45 m.p.h.
Greyhounds are bred to run and love to do it. They are muzzled to prevent any chance of over-zealous play in the turnout pens and to assist in determining photo-finishes (a camera technique developed for dog dog racing greyhound race tracks).


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Out of the sandbox
The Boys at Zuma Beach, 1967. Left to right, Carl Wilson, Alan Jardine, Brian Wilson, Mike Love and Dennis Wilson.
At the beginning of 1967, Brian Wilson was on top of the pyramid.
In the previous year, he'd made Pet Sounds, one of the most influential albums in recorded history, then produced a stunning, shimmering song called "Good Vibrations." With Brian Wilson as producer-arranger-composer, the Beach Boys had become America's pre-eminent rock band.
The word was that Brian Wilson was a genius and that he was to American music what Magellan was to world travel.
Most of this 'genius' speculation was based on Brian's work-in-progress, an album to be called Smile that would serve as his "teen-age symphony to God." Brian's idiosyncratic music, paired with the intense and playful lyrics of Van Dyke Parks, were the stuff of rock-critic legend. Reporters chronicling the making of Smile gorged on Brian's eccentricities, including his filling his dining room with sand, so he could move his piano into the room and wiggle his toes as he composed.
As I say: at the beginning of 1967, he was on the top of the pyramid. By the end of the year, he'd tumbled from those staggering heights.
Lots of reasons, but the one that seems to have earned the most favor over the years: The Beatles surpassed him. The British group produced Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and left the Beach Boys in their stellar wake. Since Sgt. Pepper strove for — and achieved — grandiosity, Brian probably thought Smile — with its celebration of small moments of joy — might not stand up.
Whatever the case, he cancelled the album after Pepper's release and withdrew the band from the Monterrey International Pop Festival. Those two events are seen as crippling the Beach Boys as a significant rock'n'roll band.
(Though tragically unhip in America, they remained revered in Great Britain, where they were arguably more popular than the Beatles.)
To recover, other members of the band coaxed Brian back to life on the ground. They built a studio in Brian's house and cocooned him, which kept him away from the great studios — Western Recorders or Gold Star — and the session players history has dubbed the Wrecking Crew.
'Smiley Smile,' released September 1967
'Wild Honey,' released December 1967
Instead, Carl Wilson helped his big brother to make "music to cool out by." The other members pitched in. If their musicianship was not at the level of the session pros in the Wrecking Crew, then so be it. They worked toward a simpler sound. For some reason, Brian had his piano detuned, so it sounded like the kind of thing you'd heard when friends got together in the basement after a few beers.
In place of Smile, the Beach Boys produced Smiley Smile in September 1967 and Wild Honey in December 1967. And 'produced' is a key word there. The earlier Beach Boys albums bore the 'Produced by BRIAN WILSON' credit. Now the jacket said, 'Produced by THE BEACH BOYS.'
This music was the antithesis of Sgt. Pepper or The Notorious Byrd Brothers or anything by Jimi Hendrix (who sealed the doom of the band's hipness with his "may you never hear surf music again" hidden lyric on "Third Stone from the Sun"). As Roger McGuinn of the Byrds said of 1967, all the artists were trying to out-weird each other.
The Beach Boys had done weird, with Smile, and found it not to be suitable.
Click on the image for the remastered "Darlin' " from "Sunshine Tomorrow."
They never tried to be something they were not. And what they were was three brothers and a cousin from the suburbs. So the heavy intellectual stuff and pomposity didn't fit well. Years ago, a writer put it nicely. Wish I could remember his name or the correct phrasing, but it was something like "We are a confounding country. We can put a man on the moon but we can't stop people from wearing spandex pants to the mall. The Beach Boys will drive you crazy that way too."
In short, you've got to be willing to take the goofy with the great.
When Smiley Smile came out, it was largely panned, though it's an excellent album. But since it was the 'Instead of Smile' album, it was held to an impossible standard. As Carl Wilson said, "It was a bunt instead of a grand slam."
A mock cover of the never-released pseudo-live album, "Lei'd in Hawaii."
The recorded-in-the-living-room vibe gave Smiley Smile a wholly original sound. After a live album in Hawaii was discovered to have been poorly recorded, the Beach Boys took this new homegrown work ethic into a studio where they tried to fix the live album with some live-in-studio recordings. They abandoned that project and instead went back to the living room and made Wild Honey, the closest thing the group ever recorded to a rhythm and blues album.
This has always marked the beginning of my favorite period in Beach Boys music. When the mass audience and the new ruling class of rock intelligentsia looked elsewhere, the Beach Boys made music for themselves. This wonderful era is now chronicled in the two-disc history 1967: Sunshine Tomorrow (come on boys, pick a title).
What we have in Sunshine Tomorrow isn't a collection of snippets and scraps. Producer Mark Linnett has taken these old pieces and put together a new piece of work — not just a document of a creative period in the band's life, but something that stands up today. This is a glorious album.
'Sunshine Tomorrow' features 65 tracks over two discs.
Linnett sets the stage by starting with Wild Honey in a new stereo mix. He then works through some session outtakes and live performances. As brilliant as that is — and Wild Honey has some of the best Beach Boys songs ever — it's the Smiley Smile sessions that provide some of the great delights.
Wisely, Linnett leaves off "Good Vibrations" (Brian didn't want it on the original album anyway) and he uses the backing tracks of "Heroes and Villains," instead of the vocal, which would have contained those wonderful but overwhelming lyrics. Linnett eases into the Smiley Smile material with revelatory backing tracks, gradually building to the wonderfully weird and stoned-out "Wind Chimes," "Cool, Cool Water," "Vegetables" and "Little Pad."
From there, Linnett goes into the faux-concert album as the scaled-back homegrown Beach Boys recreate their Hawaii setlist from the poorly-taped concerts on Oahu. (Brian had come out of performing retirement to join the band on stage.) These quiet versions of "California Girls," "Help Me Rhonda" and "Surfer Girl" are wonderful reinterpretations.
The five performing Beach Boys in 1967. Left to right, Carl Wilson, Alan Jardine, Dennis Wilson, Bruce Johnston (Brian's stage replacement) and Mike Love.
If I never hear "Surfer Girl" again, I'd be okay. But here, it's done in a laid-back style that renders it a whole new song. Mike Love loses his usual braggadocio and "California Girls" becomes a gentle lament. (Love's singing throughout is reserved. He pulls back on the usual swaggering bullshit and sings with tenderness.) Alan Jardine changes the perspective of "Help Me, Rhonda," turning the story around, so it's more of a "Help You, Rhonda" now. They sound remarkably like the Ramones doing "Beat on the Brat."
The real surprise is the concert-in-the-studio version of "You're So Good to Me," from the 1965 album Summer Days. Brian Wilson's new arrangement is much richer than the shrill chant from two years (and a lifetime) before. If only the music business still revolved around singles, this would be a good one.
The group also does some then-current songs by other groups: "With A Little Help From My Friends," "The Letter" and "Game of Love." The combined Carl-Brian-Mike shared lead vocal on "The Letter" is particularly fun. (By the way, the set ends with a thrilling a cappella "Surfer Girl.")
This was a great period for the group and to hear them and marks Carl Wilson's emergence. Though in retrospect we can see he had the best solo voice, he was not eager to sing lead vocals. He carried "Pom Pom Play Girl," but it was "Girl, Don't Tell Me" from 1965 that he considered his first lead. Then big brother entrusted him with "God Only Knows" and "Good Vibrations." If that doesn't demonstrate trust and respect, I'll eat my Volkswagen.
Baby brother Carl Wilson not only moved into the front-man role for the Beach Boys in 1967, he began his long career of trying to hold the group together.
Carl is all over Wild Honey and his love of rhythm and blues comes out in his unrestrained, fluid vocals. He does a tremendous cover of Stevie Wonder's "I Was Made to Love Her" (listen for the you-son-of-a-bitch hidden lyric) and "Darlin'" is irresistible.
As McGuinn said, everyone was trying to out-weird each other, but the Beach Boys were hanging out in Brian's living room, singing rhythm and blues around that deliberately detuned piano. The slightly off sound of the music — and the overall dominance of the piano — gives the music of this era a resonance.
Who knew that the Beach Boys would be the harbingers of what would start happening that very month Wild Honey was released.
Tired of the grandiose bullshit (he thought Sgt. Pepper was a piece of crap), Bob Dylan came out of his 18-month seclusion and produced the quiet masterpiece, John Wesley Harding. It was Dylan's way of grabbing rock'n'roll by the lapels and saying, "Pull yourself together!"
Soon, the Beatles were cutting out all of the studio gimmickry and promising to 'get back.' Meanwhile, the Byrds and the Band were discovering what today we call roots music and Americana.
In a way, the Beach Boys were there first.


This week I'm making a return to the Lovecraftian with a review of Locke and Key, the horror series written by Joe Hill and illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez. This is the first of Joe Hill's works that I've ever read and I have to say that I'm seriously impressed. Locke and Key is an intriguing mix of family drama, mystery and horror that had me hooked from the first page to the last.
This is the story of the Locke family and in particular the trouble encountered by the siblings Tyler, Kinsey and Bode. When tragedy sends the family from California back to the Locke ancestral home in Lovecraft, Massachusetts, the children discover that their new home, Keyhouse, is hiding a very special set of keys. Unfortunately for them, Keyhouse is also hiding a dark secret that will do anything to get its hands on the keys that will set it free. It will take an epic battle involving the children, their guardians and their friends to prevent all hell from breaking loose.
Part of what makes Locke and Key so compelling is the relationships built between the characters and particularly the relationships between the Locke siblings and their mother, Nina. I loved how Hill has each member of the family dealing with the tragedy, and the challenges posed by Keyhouse, in their own way and rarely in any way that could be considered healthy. The growth of the characters from the brutal beginning to the final battle with the evil in the well makes you care what happens to each member of the family. They're beautifully flawed people who feel so real that your heart will race as you turn page after page, desperately hoping they all make it to the end.
And on a purely aesthetic level, Locke and Key is brilliantly designed. The slow revelation of each of the keys hidden in the house gives the series a dark, magical feel. I don't want to ruin the beauty of these keys by spoiling what they do so I'll leave it to the readers to find out for themselves. As I was reading, I found myself seriously wishing some of the keys were real and then oh so happy that others were not. As befits a horror series, there is some pretty serious brutality here. Gabriel Rodriguez is absolutely brilliant at illustrating both the bloody and the magical in a way that underscores the creepiness of Hill's writing.
So far in the series that I've read for Graphic Reviews, I've majorly lucked out. I think I've heartily recommended all but one of these series so far. Locke and Key however is something very special. It not only brings the dark horror of Lovecraft to life, it makes you care more than you would have thought possible about the Locke family. It grabs you by the heart strings, pumps you full of adrenaline and never lets go. I will warn that if you don't like wordy panels, this might not be up your alley, but it's well worth it. If you can handle a longer story and the twisted things that go bump in the night, it's an absolute must-read series!