A great bowl of grits is a true thing of beauty: warm and comforting in all the right ways. But cooking grits perfectly requires a few small bits of knowledge. Regardless of whether you're using the regular or quick-cook variety, follow these tips to learn how to make perfect grits every time.
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Next, whisk your grits. Whisking grits when adding them to the cooking liquid is imperative because, if you fail to do so, you will be left with a lumpy mess. In addition, whisking grits throughout the cooking process leads to a creamier bowl of goodness in the end.
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Sean Jameson isn't like other werewolves. An attack left his parents dead, and him turned prematurely. Now he lives on his own, abandoned by his family. Until one day, he risks his life to save an innocent man from death. He starts a war with his family, drawing in the other packs. With a few of his friends, he takes on his uncle only to discover the twisted truth involving his parents murder.
After the war with his family, Sean wanted nothing more than to go back to a peaceful life with his new pack. Yet, that peace doesn't last long. As the Church of Light begins to abuse its power, a new mysterious pack emerges, picking off members of his pack one by one. The other packs target him in an attempt to gain political power, causing him to flee for safety.
When Sean Jameson and his pack fight a war with his uncle, the alpha of the Jameson pack, Cassy Fairchild is used as a pawn. This short story, told in Cassy's POV, details the missing scene of her kidnapping in the novel Perfect Moon. See her relationship with Sean from her perspective and how dangerous it is for humans to live amongst werewolves.


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Mug Shot of James Igo, Stack's Bowers Galleries, Sale # March 6, 2019, Lot 14330-Ex-Michael J. Sullivan Collection.
Ebenezer Locke Mason, Jr., gave counterfeiter and thief Johns Igo headlines in his Mason's Coin Collector's Herald. John Igo is the brother of James Igo.
James Igo (1847-1900), was born in Ireland.
On May 29, 1873, he married Mary Manier.
In 1881, John Igo was a coin dealer at 803 Buttonwood Street, Philadelphia.
John Igo was shot and killed on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 1900, near Carrington's Rock, Bath County, Kentucky. He came to Bath County some time last year in 1899 from Saline County, Missouri. He had left his wife and two children. His wife is a daughter of the late J. Newton Traylor, who went west from Bath County to Missouri several years ago and died there in recent years. Mr. Igo married his wife in Missouri. James Warner, Robert Hovermale, Austen Ingram and Garnet Armitage were tried for the murder. Warner and Hovermale were acquitted. Ingram and Armitage were held over for Circuit Court trial.
Bath County Democrat, 15 February, 1900
Owingsville Outlook, Thursday, 22 Feb 1900).
Mason's Coin Collector's Herald, Vol. III, No. 2, September (1881) : 42a; (Constable Sale) III, No. 3, December (1881) : 53a; IV, No. 1, June (1882) : 15; I, No. 2, July (1884) : 24; XIII, No. 1, June (1890) : 7
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Ethan Fein plays guitar, five-string banjo, and tenor banjo, and is also a composer, musical arranger, and band leader.
Ethan is working in all these capacities with Ellen Kaye on many projects.
Ethan co-produced, arranged, led the band and played for Ellen Kaye's recording, Ice Wine – songs for Christmas and Dark Winter Nights. He was also the musical director, arranger, band leader and musician for multiple productions in partnership with Ellen Kaye including at the Lower East Side boite, Moscow 57, the radio show "Straight From Delancey," podcasts, and pop-ups in New York, New Orleans, and elsewhere.
Ethan has performed as an accompanist with Oliver (hit records: "Good Morning Starshine" and "Jean"); Ellen Kaye, Elly Stone, Marvin Hamlisch, Eartha Kitt, Bernadette Peters, Joel Grey, Carole King, Kristin Chenoweth, Gregory Hines, Maurice Hines, Wayne Brady, Ben Vereen, Ann Hampton Callaway, Regina Carter, Regis Philbin, Nell Carter, Maureen McGovern, Eleanor Reissa, Sally Mayes, Cy Coleman, Ann Reinking, Tony Randall, Tad Truesdale and his Afro-Caribbeans, the Queens Symphony Orchestra, and the house band for the benefit concerts for Paul Newman's Hole In The Wall Gang Camp.
Ethan was the guitarist in the original Broadway production of Cats for 18 years, and the orchestra house contractor for the last 10 years of the run; and a substitute guitarist on Broadway in West Side Story (1980), 42nd Street (both productions 1980 and 2001), The Full Monty, and Bring Back Birdie.
In other theatrical productions, he played guitar and banjo at the Papermill Playhouse in Anything Goes; Victor, Victoria; Funny Girl; A Chorus Line; Annie; and Hello Dolly. In various other theaters he played in The Threepenny Opera, Always Patsy Cline with Sally Strothers, A Chorus Line, Roadside, Footloose, and Godspell.
He performed on many recordings, including the original Broadway cast album of Cats, jingles and industrial shows.
Ethan composed music for The Black Russian, musical theater piece in collaboration with Vladimir and Sybil Alexandrov (lyrics and book); and composed many songs for many different projects, rock bands and theater pieces.
He co-produced, with Jackie Presti, the cd You Oughta Be on Broadway: A Richard Rodgers Collection for Ladies of All Ages, featuring performances by Penny Fuller, Liz Callaway, Brigid Brady, Nadine Isenegger, Sally Mayes, Anne Runolfsson, and others, along with the same recorded tracks without vocals so to allow women and girls to sing along.
He played on television shows including The Letterman Show, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Variety Club Fund Raiser, the Today Show, and Sesame Street.
He played in the dance bands of Lester Lanin, Peter Duchin, Steven Scott, and many others.
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Politics OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Barrett punts on climate, oil industry recusals in written responses | Ex-EPA official who spoke about Pruitt scandals claims retaliation in new lawsuit | Democrats seek to block appeal of court ruling ousting Pendley, BLM land plans
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02:26 22 october 2020 Source: thehill.com
Amy Barrett's law review articles show how Supreme Court rulings like Roe v. Wade could be challenged
Amy Coney Barrett's potential to overturn Roe v. Wade is expected to be a flashpoint in her Senate confirmation hearings, set to start Monday.However, Barrett has written law review articles that outline arguments attorneys theoretically could use in trying to strike down that ruling and other precedents, though the writings are analyses that don't urge specific action or say how she would decide specific cases. Among them: She cited legal experts who do not count Roe v. Wade among so-called "super precedents" — Supreme Court decisions that are so ingrained in American life that they can't be overturned.
HAPPY WEDNESDAY! Welcome to Overnight Energy, The Hill's roundup of the latest energy and environment news. Please send tips and comments to Rebecca Beitsch at rbeitsch@thehill.com. Follow her on Twitter: @rebeccabeitsch. Reach Rachel Frazin at rfrazin@thehill.com or follow her on Twitter: @RachelFrazin.
© Greg Nash OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Barrett punts on climate, oil industry recusals in written responses | Ex-EPA official who spoke about Pruitt scandals claims retaliation in new lawsuit | Democrats seek to block appeal of court ruling ousting Pendley, BLM land plans
Barrett back on Capitol Hill for senators' final questions
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett returns to Capitol Hill for a third day of confirmation hearings as senators dig deeper into the conservative judge's outlook on abortion, health care and a potentially disputed presidential election — the Democrats running out of time to stop Republicans pushing her quick confirmation. require(["medianetNativeAdOnArticle"], function (medianetNativeAdOnArticle) { medianetNativeAdOnArticle.getMedianetNativeAds(true); }); Wednesday's session is set to be Barrett's last before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
NO SPOILERS! Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett declined to weigh in on climate change or say whether she'd recuse herself from cases involving the oil industry in written responses to questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee ahead of its Thursday vote on her confirmation.
In response to several questions on climate, Barrett gave responses including "The Supreme Court has described 'climate change' as a 'controversial subject' and 'sensitive political topic.' ''
"As a sitting judge, it would be inappropriate for me to weigh in further on the matter," she added.
The response echoed statements that Barrett made during her confirmation hearing last week, when she said that she did not hold "firm views" on climate change. She added that her opinion on climate is not "relevant" and called the subject a "contentious matter of public debate."
Fact check: Image showing fly on Amy Coney Barrett's shoulder during hearing posted as a joke
A viral image of a fly on Amy Coney Barrett's shoulder during her Senate hearing is satirical. The poster and video footage confirm there was no fly.A viral image appears to show a fly on Barrett's shoulder as she sat during the first day of her Senate hearings. A timestamp in the top left corner of the images reveals that it was taken at 2:08 p.m. ET on Capitol Hill.
The vast majority of scientists believe that climate change is happening and human-caused.
Barrett also punted on questions about whether she'd recuse herself from oil companies other than Shell and why the American Petroleum Institute, which her father was involved with, was not on her recusal list. She said that four Shell entities were on her recusal list "in an abundance of caution" because her father worked for Shell Oil Company.
She did not directly say why she didn't similarly recuse herself from any other oil or energy companies or the American Petroleum Institute, saying that "the question of recusal is a threshold question of law that must be addressed in the context of the facts of each case."
"As Justice [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg described the process that Supreme Court justices go through in deciding whether to recuse, it involves reading the statute, reviewing precedents, and consulting with colleagues. As a sitting judge and as a judicial nominee, it would not be appropriate for me to offer an opinion on abstract legal issues or hypotheticals. Such questions can only be answered through the judicial process," she added.
Amy Coney Barrett hearings conclude: Here's what happens next in Supreme Court confirmation
Here's what to expect and when she could officially be sworn in as the ninth justice on the Supreme Court. More: Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court hearings conclude, paving way for confirmation days before election More: How we got here: The battle over Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court, recapped Committee vote Oct. 22 The Senate Judiciary Committee – the same 22-senator panel that spent the week questioning Barrett – will vote on Oct. 22 at 1 p.m. EDT on Barrett's nomination.
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ALLEGING RETALIATION: A former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official who spoke out about scandals involving administrator Scott Pruitt sued the Trump administration this week, claiming that he was retaliated against.
Kevin Chmielewski, who served as the deputy chief of staff in 2017 and 2018, sued both the EPA over his removal and the Energy Department for not hiring him.
Chmielewski's lawsuit alleges that he was "removed for retaliatory reasons and without due process of law because he engaged in a series of allegations to appropriate officials, human resources staff, agency counsel, and Congressional committees that the Administrator was engaged in a pattern and practice of incurring travel expenses, office improvements, and use of staff for personal tasks in violation of federal statutes, regulations and EPA policies."
While at the EPA, Chmielewski leaked documents and provided information that prompted investigations into scandals like the retroactive altering of Pruitt's public calendar and a request that staff help him find a condo in Washington.
Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court hearings lacked the drama that Brett Kavanaugh's proceedings had. Here's why.
Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court confirmation hearings lacked the drama of Brett Kavanaugh's proceedings. Here's why.Democrats warned of the precedent set if Republicans rushed through a nominee in the middle of a pandemic and presidential election, arguing no nominee should be considered until after voters cast ballots. They rattled off threats to slow the process, teasing a host of tools that could bog down the hearings, with some lawmakers even publicly suggesting launching impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.
Pruitt left the agency in 2018 amid a number of ethics controversies and Chmielewski told The Hill at the time that he'd take credit for Pruitt's departure. .
In the suit, the former official also claimed that his actions at EPA caused him not to be hired by the Energy Department.
He said that he was "unable to find work" after his removal from the EPA until the Energy Department in March of this year "informed him that he would be hired."
His lawsuit claimed, however, that White House officials told him in April that "every time they tried to pass his paperwork through, it was stopped by numerous people because of what happened at the EPA with Scott Pruitt due to Plaintiff's disclosures."
Read more about the lawsuit here.
DOES IT FIT THE BILL? A new bill from Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and other lawmakers would bar the Trump administration from seeking to overturn the ruling ousting William Perry Pendley from his role as the de facto director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
The legislation comes as the Department of the Interior has expressed interest in appealing the decision from U.S. District Court Judge Brian Morris that determined Pendley had "served unlawfully ... for 424 days" and tossed major land management plans he oversaw in Montana.
If the ruling stands, it could have major environmental consequences, giving groups a precedent for fighting other plans that open large swaths of public lands to fossil fuel development.
Democrats seek to block appeal of court ruling ousting Pendley, BLM land plans
A new bill from Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and other lawmakers would bar the Trump administration from seeking to overturn the ruling ousting William Perry Pendley from his role as the de facto director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).The legislation comes as the Department of the Interior has expressed interest in appealing the decision from U.S. District Court Judge Brian Morris that determined Pendley had "served unlawfully forThe legislation comes as the Department of the Interior has expressed interest in appealing the decision from U.S. District Court Judge Brian Morris that determined Pendley had "served unlawfully ... for 424 days" and tossed major land management plans he oversaw in Montana.
"William Perry Pendley is not an appropriate choice to lead, work in, or advise any public land management agency due to his record prior to his employment at the Bureau of Land Management, and his continuing work there," the bill states.
Pendley, a controversial figure due in part to his history of opposing federal ownership of the lands he now manages, served at the department through a series of temporary orders, remaining in the job even after his nomination was withdrawn.
He now serves in a deputy director role, but in recent interviews he has given conflicting responses to the court decision, saying both that he would respect the ruling and that it had "no impact, no impact whatsoever" on his role within the department.
BLM has not had a Senate-approved director for the entirety of the Trump administration.
The legislation would bar the Department of Justice from appealing the case, which was brought by Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D).
Though an unusual strategy, it has been used in the past. Democrats offered similar legislation earlier this month that would have barred the Justice Department from seeking to invalidate the Affordable Care Act. Six Republicans, most in vulnerable reelection races, crossed party lines to vote to advance the bill, though it failed to get the 60 votes necessary.
Tester's team said it would push to bring the bill to the floor during the lame-duck session after the election.
Interior said the bill would not withstand legal scrutiny.
"Instead of pushing this patently unconstitutional bill, the Senator's time would be better spent working with President Trump on a COVID relief package for the betterment of Montanans and the rest of the country," the department said in a statement to The Hill.
Senate committee OKs Amy Coney Barrett. Here's what happens next in her Supreme Court confirmation
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court. Here's what happens next.The Senate Judiciary Committee's 12 Republican members approved her nomination in a 12-0 vote, setting up a final vote Monday before the full Senate.
Read more about the legislation here.
LET'S GET ETHICAL: A former top Interior Department political appointee violated his ethics pledge by taking a meeting with an organization he previously volunteered for, according to a new report from the department's watchdog.
The report does not identify the official by name, but sources told The Hill the employee in question is Todd Wynn, the former head of Interior's Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs.
The report from Interior's Office of Inspector General (OIG) found Wynn violated the Trump ethics pledge, which requires political appointees to recuse themselves from matters involving their former employers or clients for their first two years on the job.
Wynn, now a lobbyist for a major Arizona utility, took a meeting with Rich Lindsey, an energy committee policy consultant from the Council of State Governments.
Wynn previously was on the board of trustees for the Council of State Governments 21st Century Foundation, according to a 2019 request for investigation filed by the Campaign Legal Center. OIG determined the position qualified as a former client under the ethics pledge.
"We identified a number of interactions between the senior political employee and representatives of the former employer-namely, three phone calls and multiple email exchanges [and] one in-person meeting," OIG wrote, and though "relatively minor in nature, we found that the senior political employee nonetheless did not comply with the ethics pledge."
The report details that Wynn was not aware his association with the foundation would qualify as employment and bar him from meeting with Lindsey.
"The senior political employee said he understood from that training that he could not communicate with the employer he worked for prior to his volunteer work for the organization. He said, however, that he never considered the organization to be a former employer because he was a volunteer and his position was unpaid," the report states.
Senate to vote on Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation to Supreme Court following all-night Senate session
Judge Amy Coney Barrett is poised become the ninth justice on the Supreme Court on Monday, solidifying a 6-3 conservative majority on the high court.The Republican-led Senate is expected to confirm her to the Supreme Court in a vote Monday evening, capping off a sprint to place Barrett on the high court before Election Day over Democratic objections.
The report also describes an account from Wynn where he sought advice from then director of the ethics office Scott de la Vega while passing in the hallway who told him, "You don't have a problem."
In Interior's response to the report, the department wrote that "upon receiving accurate and comprehensive ethics guidance, there were no violations" beyond those identified in the report.
Read more about the report here.
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Controversial mining to proceed near Georgia swamp without federal permit, we report
As wildfires explode in the West, Forest Service can't afford prevention efforts, The Los Angeles Times reports
Less carbon, more electric vehicles: automakers prepare for potential Biden win, Reuters reports
Polluted air killing half a million babies a year across globe, The Guardian
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Shazam! Breathes New Life into the DCEU
Written by Ian Thomas Malone, Posted in Blog, Movie Reviews, Pop Culture
For all the talk about the disastrous state the DCEU was in, the solutions always seemed pretty simple. Earlier entries piled on dour imagery and quite simply weren't much fun to sit through. Thankfully, Shazam! got that message loud and clear.
It's hard to believe that the first live-action adaptation of Shazam! premiered all the way back in 1941, back when the character was called Captain Marvel. Perhaps it's fitting that a follow-up would debut the same year that Carol Danvers' Captain Marvel finally made her first big screen appearance, with both superheroes expected to play major roles in their respective franchise's futures. Despite the name change and all the copyright battles, Billy Batson is still the boy behind the red suit, able to wield the power of six different gods by speaking a single word.
Shazam! is the rare superhero film that feels more like a comedy than an action flick. Many of the scenes are laugh out loud hilarious, the kind of humor that presents itself naturally and not just as comic relief. Zachary Levi does a spectacular job inhabiting the mind of a fourteen-year-old child, exhibiting all the wonder and awe that many of us would feel if we suddenly possessed superpowers. Jack Dylan Glazer also provides much of the laughs as Billy's foster brother Freddy, displaying an extraordinary amount of confidence and comfort in a lead role for an actor his age.
One of the downsides of these extended universes is that their narratives often feel overstuffed as they juggle their own story as well as obligations to the broader continuity. Shazam! thoroughly exists within the established DCEU, but the references all feel deliberate, in service to the film at hand. Shazam! possesses the best script and narrative pacing of any DCEU film released. It manages to be hilarious while also displaying a tremendous amount of heart. Billy's adopted family all get their moments to shine, an impressive feat for an action film dealing with a big cast.
A comedy like Shazam! probably didn't need to hit a home run with its villain, but the film thoroughly fleshes out Dr. Thaddeus Sivana, providing enough backstory to understand the motivations behind the menace. He's not particularly likable, unlike Black Panther's Killmonger, but Mark Strong plays him in a way that makes the audience at least understand where the character is coming from. The film provides some thought-provoking commentary on the notion of "chosen ones," and what happens to the people who didn't necessarily get the chance they thought they deserved.
My only point of criticism is that the third act at times feels a bit overly drawn out. Part of this undoubtedly stems from the film's reluctance to overstuff its plot, understandable for a film dealing with a child superhero first learning to control his powers. The ending leaves you with a rare feeling for a superhero film these days, hungry for a direct sequel and not just a large team-up with other members of the universe. A most impressive feat for a franchise that's been too often defined by its misfires.
Shazam! is the best film of the DCEU thus far, an action-packed adventure full of humor and heart. Billy Batson has been through quite a lot over the past eighty years, changing names and publishers, but this film is proof that the character still has a lot to offer. While the DCEU once looked like a complete mess, things appear to be shaping up for the franchise. Shazam! is the perfect reminder of the power of not taking one's self too seriously.
A Look at the State of the DCEU
Written by Ian Thomas Malone, Posted in Blog, Pop Culture
The DC Extended Universe is a mess. Four of the five films released have been critical bombs, and the relatively disappointing box office gross for the Justice League suggests that fans are beginning to sour on the idea of paying exorbitant ticket prices for a subpar product. While the dark and gloomy tones of the Snyder directed efforts seem to match the general mood toward this disaster of a franchise, there is plenty of reason for optimism. Believe it or not, things are not as dour as the tone of these movies might suggest.
This franchise can be fixed with two simple changes. Warner Bros. needs to send Ben Affleck away and cease all future collaborations with Zack Snyder. This should have been done last year after the utter disaster that was Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, yet for some reason, both appear to still be involved with the franchise. Affleck is set to reprise his role as the Caped Crusader in the upcoming Flash movie, possibly for the final time, even though he's given up directing the solo Batman film and likely won't even appear in it.
Ben Affleck has the rare superhuman ability to communicate his unhappiness for playing Batman wherever he goes. Rumors surrounding his departure from the role have generated substantially more publicity for the franchise than any positive feedback for his performance, though to be fair, there's been very little praise for the somber crusader. Sadness is not a trait we tend to expect from actors playing superheroes. Playing Batman makes him sad. It appears to make the audience sad too. Life is too short to be sad during a Batman movie.
Recasting Batman mid-franchise is not as daunting as it seems. It has been done before. Batman Forever and Batman & Robin may have been terrible, but as good as Michael Keaton was in the Tim Burton films, Val Kilmer & George Clooney are hardly to blame for the failure of their movies. Mark Ruffalo replaced Edward Norton in the MCU without ruining The Avengers. Prior to Pierce Brosnan's casting as James Bond, each changing of the guard occurred two years after the previous movie's release. The notion of recasting roles like Wolverine and Iron Man is complicated by the fact that both characters rose in popularity in tandem with the actors who played them.
The solution is simple. Insert a new Batman before the new Flash movie, preferably without a mustache that needs to be removed via CGI, and carry on with the movie. It isn't inconsistent to have a new Batman. It would be better because presumably, this Batman would enjoy playing Batman. The DCEU would be wise to rip the gross moldy band-aid that is Ben Affleck off its franchise as soon as possible. No one will miss him.
Zack Snyder constructed the DCEU as a solemn place without joy. Superhero movies don't need to all be as funny as Guardians of the Galaxy or Thor: Ragnarok, but Man of Steel and Batman v. Superman were dark for the sake of being dark, unlike the Burton incarnations which offered a picturesque world where the aesthetics fit in line with the template offered by Batman writers such as Alan Moore and Frank Miller. I say that as someone who loved Snyder's take on Moore's Watchmen, though more for the stellar casting that the adaptations' faithfulness to its source material, which was likely too tall an order for a single movie. I don't wish to rag on Snyder, whose family has endured an unimaginable tragedy, but his style of filmmaking was not particularly conducive to world building for a major franchise.
We live in a world where superhero movies no longer solely serve their own interests. There's always the next movie to start building toward, leaving the conclusion incomplete often at the expense of the narrative that the audience paid to watch. Wonder Woman's largely self-contained story demonstrated the power that these films can have if they focus their attention on being movies. Being entertaining is often the best way to build excitement for future incarnations. Batman v. Superman and Suicide Squad spent far too much time spinning their wheels in the introductory phase that they forgot to deliver actual entertainment.
Despite its incoherence, Justice League had a few things going for it. Gal Gadot continued being the best thing that ever happened to the DCEU and Ezra Miller, Jason Mamoa, and Ray Fisher were all delightful to watch, even if the latter's backstory was rather half-baked. The idea that Batman and Superman are the two weakest links on the team is actually good news. They can be fixed without missing a beat, as the audience is already familiar with them. Fortunately, the man of steel's problems are much more narrowly confined to matters of digitally removed facial hair. Henry Cavill is actually a pretty decent Superman. If he's a little stiff, well, that's kind of the problem with a character that powerful.
The DCEU is off to a rough start, but the franchise has enough things going for it to right the ship. It does have more than a few compelling characters. A massive connected universe can be a fun asset, but the MCU never succeeds based on the ability of one of its films to relate to another. People don't sit and watch Captain America: Winter Soldier wondering how the film set up Marvel's Runaways. The Arrowverse has managed to navigate this web quite well, offering team-ups and crossovers that don't require a person to sit and watch all four series each week. For some reason, the DCEU looked at that template, and decided to plot an alternative course.
One of the best things that the Arrowverse has going for it is that its cast genuinely seems to like being there. Talent like Stephen Amell, Grant Gustin, and Melissa Benoist speak with enthusiasm about their work in a way that never forces one to question how much they enjoy this line of work. Sad Ben Affleck could use some pointers on that front, though after failing to play compelling superheroes twice now, maybe he should just hang up the tights. No part of this massively connected franchise will miss him.


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Q: How to detect the rotation angle of coordinates in an image I am trying to evaluate a simple experiment with a spinning wheel. I have some videos of a spinning wheel (about 60 - too many to process them manually). I want to detect the rotation angle of the wheel in each frame. So my idea was this: After splitting them up into single frames, I ran a feature detection on the image to get the movement of the image features:

Now there are three groups of coordinates:

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*Those in circular motion (that means: part of the wheel)

*Those in the background (barely moving - but can be used to correct the coordinates of the other ones)

*And those incorrectly detected (e.g. The coordinate on top of the arrow, sliding downwards) - those need to be sorted out.

I want to separate the three groups and detect the angle of rotation of the wheel between the frames, but I don't have an idea how to do this. Are there specific algorithms for detecting rotation around a fixed point?

A: Use RANSAC. Let your model be a combination of Rotation and horizontal/vertical shift.
The affine transformation would work (it has slightly more degrees of freedom but is well described).
Let A_i = [x1 y1 0 0 1 0; 0 0 x1 y1 0 1] for each point i. let b_i = [x2; y2]. That gives you A and b of dimension 2n by 6, and 2n by 1, where n is the number of points.
Then solve Ax=b for x, using Least-squares.
Your affine transformation T is then
[x1 x2 x5
 x3 x4 x6
 0  0  1].

x5, x6 is the shift which you don't care about. The other x1 to x4 describe the rotation matrix (caveat, if you have a bit of zoom or so, it's not purely rotation, for that normalise to make the rows orthoNormal!).
Anyway, all of this is well described. Implementation should exist in both OpenCV and Matlab.
Update
I just implemented my approach. It doesn't work. This approach sees so many Non-rotating keypoints, that the proposed affine transformation with RANSAC only finds a tiny shift. Basically, I find the Identity Matrix.
Here is an image showing the inliers identified by RANSAC.
Conclusion 1

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*Method 1: Identify the arrow using matching, and determine that transformation (affine would do).

*Method 2: Disregard slight camera movement (or remove first) and use a purely rotational model.

Method 1
Crop the indicated arrow from the center of rotation all the way to the outside rim. Include the center of rotation, so that the location is known later, and the rotation around that point can be calculated.
Update on Method 1
I tried this. I tried to match the crop of the arrow from the first image to the arrows in the other images. It works often but not on all frames in the sequence. A higher resolution video without that awful GIF compression would be nice. I personally think now, that this method is the one that will give better results.
Method 2
Let the purely rotational model be that x' = R x, where x and x' are 2D vectors and R a 2x2 rotation matrix.
We could solve this using LS just as mentioned above in the affine case. (Namely  A = [x y 0 0; 0 0 x y]) However, if x and y are in image coordinates (pixels) then the model is plain wrong as it gives rotation around the origin. Automatically determining the origin is impossible from inside the model (could be possible by doing the affine transformation first and knowing the center for the first frame and thus extrapolating for every frame).
Assuming for simplicity that the center of rotation is the same in every image. Let it be described by the vector t. Then we just have to subtract t from x and x' before estimating the rotational model.
The implementation is actually a bit more difficult because the above wouldn't enforce I = R' R on the rotation matrix. Read https://math.stackexchange.com/a/77466 Kabsch algorithm for more.
Update on Method 2
The problem remains that virtually non-moving points have to be classified as outliers (the three groups of points you mention in your question). I tried removing the points from the translation first, and then estimating the rotation on the rest. This did not work well.
Update 2
I pushed the code to a Github repository MatlabRotationEstimation. For further progress I think higher resolution input files are needed. It would also be interesting to know, whether you need a frame by frame rotational speed or whether some agglomerative information is sufficient.

A: Cross-correlation method to find the rotation of wheel (between two different images extracted from the video)
1) Find the center of the wheel. Threshold and detect center (like pupil detection). You can add an artificial markers on the hub/axle.
2) Using the center crop ROI at the center (spoke only)
3) Use log-polar transform (from the center of the hub/axle). You can get a band of pixels (doughnut) or a line of pixels (ring).
4) Repeat (1)-(3) for the second image
5) Cross-correlate two band from two images (as described above)
6) The location of the maximum in the correlation will let you know how much rotation the wheel has experienced. The midpoint of the length of correlation array is where you have 0 rotation.

A: I would take a slightly different approach to this problem. Instead of identifying points in the image and then trying to find a circular regression or fit to them, I would use pure math.
First, take the time derivative of the images. In the discrete case, this means you subtract neighboring frames from each other (frame at n+1 minus frame at n).
Any area of the image that has not changed will be zero because the two frames will cancel themselves out. parts that have moved slightly will have a slight difference, and parts that have moved a lot will have a large one.
We can use the gradients at those points to figure out what direction the wheel is moving, and their magnitude to figure out how fast the points are moving.
If we take the pixel as a function of time, x, and y (I(x,y,t)) then taking the time derivative is the same as:
dI(x,y,t)/dt = dI/dx * dx/dt + dI/dy * dy/dt

We can calculate dI(x,y,t)/dt as described above by taking the difference of two frames in time for every point in the image. Similarly we can calculate dI/dx and dI/dy by taking numeric differences between pixels at (x, y) and (x+1, y) for the dI/dx case and (x, y) and (x, y+1) for the dI/dy case.
Once we have dI/dx and dI/dy, the gradient is just <dI/dx, dI/dy>. You could use a least squares solver to determine the central point and then the motion direction. Remember: most of the gradients will be small or zero since most of the pixels in the image will cancel out, so you'll have to use the ones greater than a certain threshold.
Note if you want to display these dI's, you'll have to normalize them as you'll have negative pixels.

A: Solution with FFT.
Image processing for reference frame and each consecutive (captured) frame:
1) FFT 2D.
2) log->polar transform of FFT 2D.
3) Crop resulting image from step 2 to 0:90 dg in Y axis. In X axis you can perform bandpass filtering by cropping result according to your requirements.
4) Cross-correlate reference image after image processing with each consecutive frame after image processing. The Y offset denotes rotation while X denotes scale.

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This news release summarizes a recent paper published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings that evaluated the effect two types of omega-3 fatty acids — eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) — had on reducing risk of coronary heart disease. The report was a meta-analysis, meaning researchers evaluated the findings of multiple published studies. Specifically, the meta-analysis looked at 18 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and 16 prospective cohort studies. RCTs are designed to measure the effect of a specific intervention under clearly-defined, experimental conditions. This means that researchers aim to determine, with some degree of certainty, whether a specific intervention is causing a specific outcome. Prospective cohort studies follow large groups of people over extended periods of time, allowing researchers to determine what characteristics or behaviors may be associated with specific outcomes. Because of the nature of these cohort studies, they can only tell researchers if a behavior or practice is correlated with an outcome — but not whether the behavior is causing the outcome.
These sorts of meta-analyses can be extremely valuable tools for assessing a broad body of work on a given subject. However, this news release is problematic. It is written in a way that is confusing, if not misleading, and fails to make clear that the scientific-sounding organization that funded the study (and wrote the release) is an industry group that was created to promote the global use of omega-3 supplements or foods that are high in omega-3s.
According to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, approximately 370,000 people die of coronary heart disease each year in the United States. Many adults make decisions about their diet, activities and lifestyle based on how those decisions may affect their heart health. Research on subjects such as how omega-3 fatty acids affect heart disease risk play an important role here. According to a 2015 Washington Post article, people in the U.S. spend $1.2 billion each year on fish oil supplements, largely because they contain omega-3s that consumers think will reduce their risk of heart disease. But increasingly consistent evidence shows that fish oil does not, in fact, protect against heart disease. If people are going to make informed decisions about their personal health — and how they spend their money — they need to have good information that they can actually understand. News releases like this one make it hard for most consumers to understand exactly what the research says.
Does the news release adequately discuss the costs of the intervention?
Cost is only addressed in a quote from the executive director of an omega-3 industry organization, who refers to increasing one's omega-3 intake as an "inexpensive" lifestyle change. What does "inexpensive" mean? What may be cheap for one consumer could be cost-prohibitive for another. What's more, it's difficult for any reader to work out what the cost may be, because the release doesn't make it easy to determine how much of EPA or DHA one needs to take in order to see any potential benefit. It is only in the tenth paragraph, which quotes an editorial suggesting that taking "at least 1 gram of EPA+DHA per day…continues to be a reasonable strategy." That's still not necessarily clear for many consumers, since it's not directly linked to the benefits discussed elsewhere in the release, but it's the only reference to how much an individual might need to consume — and it's buried near the bottom of the release.
Does the news release adequately quantify the benefits of the treatment/test/product/procedure?
The release tells readers that, among the RCTs, "there was a statistically significant reduction in [coronary heart disease] risk in higher risk populations, including…16 percent in those with high triglycerides and 14 percent in those with high LDL [low-density lipoprotein] cholesterol." So the release is claiming that seafood, supplements and pharmaceuticals offer a 16 percent reduction in risk of coronary heart disease for people with high triglycerides. That sounds good, right? But over what time span? A year? A lifetime? And how high does a person's trigylceride count need to be in order for that person to have "high triglycerides?" The release doesn't tell us. And then things get really confusing. Consider this statement: "A non-statistically significant 6 percent risk reduction among all populations in RCTs, a finding supported by a statistically significant 18 percent reduced risk of [coronary heart disease] among prospective cohort studies." Does the statistically significant finding somehow make the non-statistically significant finding more, well, significant? No. Does bundling those two things together into one sentence muddy the waters for readers? You bet. Does the release still fail to explain the time-frame it is using when discussing risk reduction? Yes.
Providing readers with figures describing the absolute risk reduction would have been very helpful here.
Does the news release adequately explain/quantify the harms of the intervention?
The release does not mention any potential problems associated with omega-3s. And there are potential harms. For example, the University of Maryland Medical Center notes that patients should consult with their doctors about potential interactions with prescription drugs before taking omega-3 supplements, and adds that "High doses of omega-3 fatty acids may increase the risk of bleeding, even in people without a history of bleeding disorders, and even in those who are not taking other medications." There are concerns about other potential harms as well, such as whether fish oil supplements may increase risk for prostate cancer. We don't expect a news release to include an exhaustive summary of all the possible harms associated with a particular intervention. But we do expect a news release to at least acknowledge that the potential for harms exists, when appropriate.
Does the news release seem to grasp the quality of the evidence?
The release does tell readers the total number of RCTs and cohort studies that the meta-analysis looked at, as well as the overall number of study participants involved. That's good. The release also articulates the difference between the two types of studies — which is also a good thing. However, things get dicey when the release starts discussing benefits. For example, the release tells readers that "The study reviewed 18 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and 16 prospective cohort studies, with 93,000 and 732,000 subjects, respectively." As noted above, the release also states that the study found a "16 percent [risk reduction] in those with high triglycerides and 14 percent in those with high LDL cholesterol." It would be natural for readers to assume that those risk reduction numbers are based on the 18 RCT studies, which evaluated 93,000 study participants. But that would be wrong. According to the journal article, only six of the RCT studies looked at patients with "high triglycerides," and only five of the RCT studies looked at patients with high LDL cholesterol. So, while the release is not technically incorrect, it's misleading — and that's not okay.
Does the news release commit disease-mongering?
No disease mongering here. But there's also no context about the prevalence of coronary heart disease.
Does the news release identify funding sources & disclose conflicts of interest?
This is a really close call. The story makes clear that the research was funded by the Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3s (GOED) — which also issued this news release, through AAAS's EurekAlert! news service. The release also quotes two GOED employees, and clearly identifies them as such. However, the release doesn't include any language explaining what GOED is, what it does, or who its members are. And that's important, because GOED is not an independent research organization, it's an industry group that exists to promote consumer use of products that contain omega-3 fatty acids.
Does the news release compare the new approach with existing alternatives?
There are many actions that invididuals can take to reduce their risk of coronary heart disease, including losing weight, exercising regularly, and managing stress. The release doesn't mention any of them. This is particularly problematic given that these are actions which are not mutually exclusive: one could lose weight, exercise regularly, manage stress and eat more fish (for example).
Does the news release establish the availability of the treatment/test/product/procedure?
The release refers to consuming EPA and DHA in the form of either seafood or supplements, so we'll give this a pass. However, that single reference to sources of EPA and DHA is only found in a quote in the tenth paragraph.
Does the news release establish the true novelty of the approach?
There are a ton (to use a technical term) of studies on omega-3 fatty acids and heart disease, including lots (and lots) of meta-analyses (like this one or this one, for example). What sets this meta-analysis apart? The release doesn't tell us.
As noted above under the Why This Matters section, there's considerable evidence and recent consensus that fish oil doesn't have much if any effect on cardiovascular disease.
A few points here. First, the release states that increasing their consumption of omega-3s is a "change that most consumers need to make." That's over-reach, and that alone would give the release an unsatisfactory rating here.
But there's one other note that we'll make here, since it doesn't really fit anywhere else: at no point does the news release tell readers what EPA and DHA stand for. Nor does it explain what they are, or even what omega-3 fatty acids are, much less how they may be beneficial for heart health. If you're going to use terms that are not common knowledge — such as "DHA omega-3s" — please give your readers some idea of what you're talking about.
My name is Adam Ismail and I am the Executive Director of GOED. Thank you for reviewing our press release. I am a big fan of HealthNewsReview (HNR) and in fact, our team tried to use the HNR criteria as a guide when drafting this press release. Obviously we did not meet your expectations and will strive to do better in the future.
It was certainly not our intent to mislead anyone, so I want to take this opportunity to provide the information you felt was missing for anyone who visits this page.
As you point out, our only mention of cost was when I stated that increasing EPA and DHA intakes is an inexpensive lifestyle change. In many prior reviews of omega-3 stories on HNR, this criterion was not assessed because the cost of fish was "not in question" in those stories. I assumed the same would hold true for this study since it was a meta-analysis that was designed to confirm an effect of the nutrient from studies that used varying dosages and products, rather than a specific intervention. Addressing this point more precisely is difficult. With seafood, the net cost of increasing your intakes of EPA and DHA depends on what you are replacing in the diet and to our knowledge, there are no studies on what foods consumers displace when they eat more seafood (that would be an interesting study, by the way). We can make some non-systematic, anecdotal illustrations though, which appears to be a consistent approach with other reviews on HNR. The study authors found no dose-response effect and no statistically significant difference between EPA+DHA dosages above and below 1g/day, but the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and World Health Organization both recommend eating two servings of fatty fish per week to reach intakes of 250mg of EPA+DHA per day for cardioprotection. If a chicken breast ($0.85 per serving according to the BLS) is being displaced by a salmon fillet ($2.34 per serving according to Consumerist), then the monthly additional spending would be $11.92. If, however, the consumer chose a can of tuna ($0.74 per can for the top selling product at Wal-Mart), then a consumer could save $0.88 per month.
With supplements, we would not assume a consumer is displacing foods with an omega-3 pill, so all spending is additional. One of the most popular omega-3 supplements in the US is the Kirkland fish oil from Costco. One softgel supplies 250mg of EPA+DHA, or the daily target. A 400-count bottle retails for $9.49, so the monthly cost would be $0.71. At the premium end of the price spectrum, Nordic Naturals Ultimate Omega is one of the most popular selling products. A single softgel contains 550mg of EPA+DHA per day, so one would only have to take a single softgel approximately every other day to reach the 250mg target. A 360-ct bottle of this product retails for $102.95 on Amazon, or the monthly equivalent of $4.29. So to summarize, there are significant differences in price depending on which product one chooses to purchase. To reach 250mg per day of intake from fatty fish it could cost -$0.88 to +$11.92 per month, or by supplements +$0.71 to +$4.29 per month. Our organization and some expert scientific groups believe that 500mg should be recommended per day for basic nutritional needs, so you would need to double those costs to achieve these levels. The American Heart Association recommends 1g per day for people with pre-existing coronary heart disease, and this study found a stronger effect in the high TG population at intakes greater than 1g/day, so the costs would have to be quadrupled. Again, this is not a systematic, scientific approach to assessing the cost of increasing omega-3 intakes, but given that the range of costs goes from a net savings to an additional $45 per month if one had CHD, I would argue that no matter what type of consumer you are there is an inexpensive option for you to increase EPA and DHA in the diet.
Your review questioned many aspects of how the study findings were characterized in our release, so I will try to tackle them one at a time. For the relative risk reductions in higher risk populations, the study authors used triglyceride levels of 150mg/dL and LDL cholesterol levels of 130mg/dL as the cutoff in their analyses for elevated levels of these biomarkers. According to the CDC and American Heart Association, about a quarter of the US population is above one of these levels.
Addressing your question about the length of time needed to achieve the levels of risk reduction observed in this study is more difficult. This paper was a meta-analysis that pooled studies of varying designs. In the high risk groups to which you refer, these studies lasted 1-5 years in the elevated triglyceride groups and 3-5 years in the elevated LDL cholesterol groups. Regardless, EPA and DHA are nutrients that experts/scientists believe should be consumed regularly in the diet over one's lifetime, so focusing on a timeframe may not be the relevant point. Like other diet and lifestyle factors, one should not assume that making a positive change for a short period of time confers a lifetime benefit.
Your review also noted it was difficult to interpret this statement summarizing one of the study's findings: "A non-statistically significant 6 percent risk reduction among all populations in RCTs, a finding supported by a statistically significant 18 percent reduced risk of [coronary heart disease] among prospective cohort studies." This is a quote from the study's lead author, an epidemiologist that specializes in meta-analyses, so we chose not to simplify it. However, you make a very good point that it is confusing and if one was not reading the sentence literally he/she could take away that the prospective cohort study findings strengthened the significance of the RCT finding, when they are actually separate analyses.
As you note in the Our Review Summary, prospective cohorts are observational studies that provide evidence of correlation and not causation. However, I do think it is worth noting that prospective cohorts often provide evidence over much longer periods of time than most RCTs. In this study, the RCTs ranged from 1-7 years in duration while the prospective cohorts ranged from 6-40 years. Since the focus of this paper is a set of nutrients that should be part of the diet throughout life, the findings from these longer term studies are also interesting when taken with the findings of other types of studies, all of which have their limitations. Findings from RCTs are only valid in the context of their specific design and should be replicated before being relied upon, meta-analyses may not show an actual effect that gets buried in the noise from pooling studies with varying designs, animal studies do not necessarily translate to human studies, etc. This is why looking at the totality of evidence is important and also why our release included recommendations for future studies that could address some of the questions raised by this paper.
Also, we could not provide the absolute risk reductions because the underlying paper did not provide this data, but agree that this information would be interesting, particularly from the prospective cohort studies that tend to have more generally representative populations than the RCTs.
It is true that EPA and DHA pharmaceuticals and supplements can lead to some adverse impacts, usually fishy burps and some gastrointestinal distress, and that seafood can lead to allergic reactions in sensitive individuals. We could have mentioned that in the release. However, your review notes two specific adverse events, an increased risk of bleeding and prostate cancer. I have commented previously on the bleeding aspect in another review on HNR, but this is not an evidence-based adverse event, instead it is limited to a handful of case reports which resulted in early omega-3 researchers believing (incorrectly) that the cardiovascular benefits observed in early studies may be due to anti-coagulant effects. You cited a statement by the University of Maryland Medical Center, which in turn does not cite the specific papers where this evidence exists, and in fact their reference list includes no clinical data to suggest that EPA and DHA increase bleeding risk. In fact, in this meta-analysis, none of the RCTs found an increased risk of bleeding in their monitoring of adverse events and none of the prospective cohorts did either (although intakes in the prospective cohorts are lower than the RCTs). The most comprehensive review of the evidence on bleeding was published in 2014 by Wachira et al in the British Journal of Nutrition (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24472372) and found that omega-3s, alone or in combination with anti-coagulants, did not increase the risk of bleeding.
The FDA has approved four pharmaceuticals for the treatment of hypertriglyceridemia based on EPA and/or DHA and does require a statement on their labels about interactions with anticoagulants, but it notes that none of the studies observed prolonged bleeding time beyond normal bleeding. Also, it is worth noting that the pharmaceutical dosage of EPA and/or DHA is equivalent to about two servings of salmon and that the maximum allowable dose in supplements is about the same as a serving of salmon, so any risk from normal dosages and servings seems inconsequential and not backed by data. I should note that some observational studies have found native Inuit populations with slightly higher rates of nosebleeds and hemorrhagic stroke risk, but keep in mind that the average intake of EPA and DHA in these populations exceeds 16,000mg per day. That would be the Western equivalent of eating eight servings of salmon per day or taking 64 of the Costco fish oil pills mentioned previously per day.
As for prostate cancer risk, the study you cite did not provide EPA and DHA to the subjects. It was an observational study that correlated omega-3 blood status with prostate cancer risk, but the omega-3 levels were so low in the group with the highest omega-3 levels that it does not seem possible that they were consuming EPA and DHA with any regularity, and in fact had levels lower than the national average. Part of the reason for this may be that fish oil supplements routinely include vitamin E as an antioxidant and the study you cite was originally designed as a study on vitamin E and selenium in prostate cancer, so subjects were counselled to avoid dietary supplements that contained vitamin E that would interfere with the results of the study. An editorial on HNR also pointed out other issues with this study: https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2013/10/omega-3-fatty-acids-prostate-cancer-study-and-stories-off-base/. So, it is inaccurate to suggest that "fish oil supplements may increase risk of prostate cancer" on the basis of a study that did not provide fish oil supplements to the subjects…and actually our release was on a study that did not focus on fish oil supplements anyway, it was on EPA and DHA from any source.
Lastly, I think it is worth noting that evaluation of this criterion on HNR has also been inconsistent. Some of the reviews on stories about omega-3 studies rate this question N/A and state that the harms of eating fish are not in question. In one case, the reviewers even noted that the study found no adverse effects, but gave the story an X because they felt the reporters should have mentioned that there were no adverse effects observed.
You are correct that we described the studies included in the meta-analysis for the total populations, but not the high risk populations. Our intent was not to mislead, and we never attempted to directly connect the high risk populations with the statistics on the overall study. We apologize if that was the appearance. For clarity, the meta-analyses comparing subjects with high and low triglycerides included 48,775 subjects from RCTs, while the analyses comparing high and low LDL cholesterol included 48,235 subjects. The prospective cohorts did not stratify subjects by triglyceride or LDL cholesterol levels, so similar analyses were not conducted on those studies. Regardless, these analyses still seem to be substantially large.
Thank you for recognizing that we did not attempt to disease monger. I should note that we did include some context on coronary heart disease, including a quote from the lead author that stated CHD account for half of all CVD deaths in the US. We did not state the overall scope of CVD or CHD in the US, but I would argue that most people know that CVD is a leading cause of death in the US.
I would also like to ask HNR to correct one aspect of your review. The headline and your tweets about the review both state that we are a fish oil trade group. This is not accurate, but is understandable since we did not include a description of our organization. Our trade group is focused on the nutrients EPA and DHA from any source and in any application. This means our scope of work and membership includes activities from the following sectors: seafood, supplements, pharmaceuticals, infant formulas, clinical nutrition and medical devices (yes, there are medical devices that contain EPA and DHA). Also, the EPA and DHA from our members are sourced from fish, other marine species, algae, yeast, and even oilseeds. I believe a more accurate statement would be to call us an EPA and DHA omega-3 trade group than a "fish oil trade group." One reason I think this correction is important is because after you tweeted the review's headline out, it was retweeted by Tim Caulfield of the University of Alberta with his addition "fish oil hype?". I believe he probably assumed the study was conducted on fish oils because of the headline in the HNR review, and that simply is not the case as mentioned previously. In the interest of accuracy in discussions on science in the media, I believe this aspect should be corrected.
Your review states that there are many things consumers can do to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease and we do not mention any of them. Actually there is a quote from me in the ninth paragraph where I specifically mention that increasing EPA and DHA intakes is similar to increasing fiber and reducing sodium intakes, which are dietary alternatives to contribute to heart health. You are right that I could have mentioned others like exercising, maintaining a healthy weight, and managing stress, but it is not accurate to claim that we mentioned no other heart-healthy lifestyle interventions. We agree completely that none of these lifestyle changes are mutually exclusive and would never suggest otherwise.
Thank you for giving us a pass on this one, although the review does imply we were hiding this a little by not noting the sources of EPA and DHA until the tenth paragraph. This is probably splitting hairs, but all prior paragraphs were focused on the study results, and then we moved into the practical implications of the study where the sources were mentioned, and lastly on to the limitations and how future studies could be improved. The study was not on a particular source, so it would seem strange to focus on the sources before discussing the study results.
Your review claims we did not state what was novel about the study in the results. I agree that we could have been clearer about this, but the second paragraph starts with this quote from the lead author: "What makes this paper unique is that it looked at the effects of EPA and DHA on coronary heart disease specifically, which is an important nuance considering coronary heart disease accounts for half of all cardiovascular deaths in the U.S." This is the most important aspect of this study and is the reason we decided to fund it in the first place, so it bothers me that we were not crystal clear about this. The two other meta-analyses you linked to in the review and nearly all others have looked at the outcome of cardiovascular disease, but cardiovascular disease is a composite of coronary heart disease, vascular disease and other heart diseases.
One thing the literature has uncovered recently is that omega-3s may have effects in coronary diseases but not necessarily in vascular diseases, so this meta-analysis focused specifically on CHD outcomes while the previous studies have focused on the composite CVD outcomes. This is an important distinction about this study because mixing an outcome where there may be an effect with an outcome where there might not only muddies the waters and makes it more difficult to detect an actual effect. The distinction between CVD and CHD is subtle, but many people erroneously believe that if a chemical entity is good for heart health, it must be good for all aspects of heart health. Thus, it is important to look at CHD specifically.
I stated in the release that increasing EPA and DHA omega-3 consumption is a change that most consumers need to make. Your review considered that sensational language. I should have cited the evidence to make that claim; however, I believe it is an accurate statement. Papanikolaou et al mined NHANES dietary intake data to estimate intakes of EPA and DHA in the US from foods and supplements and found that the mean intake from all sources in the US was 155mg/day, but more importantly only the 90th percentile of Americans reached the goals of 250mg/day and two servings of fatty fish in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (http://nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1475-2891-13-31). In addition, another paper by Murphy et al looked at omega-3 status from NHANES blood samples and found that 80.6% of Americans have omega-3 levels lower than those associated with cardioprotection (http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/7/12/5534). These are not cherry picked papers, they are the most recent and comprehensive studies in this area and are in agreement with the other papers that have estimated intakes from foods alone and usually find that mean intakes are between 80mg and 100mg per day. The Murphy paper is the only paper to calculate omega-3 status in the general US population.
Your review also makes a good point that we do not explain what EPA and DHA are in the release, other than that they are omega-3 fatty acids. We will include an "About EPA and DHA" paragraph in future releases.
Thank you for your comments. We're always happy to give those we've reviewed space to respond and clarify. We're glad you saw some valuable elements in the review and we appreciate your noting where you might have done better. You made a few calls for changes and we'll address those here.
Our response: Our review should have listed the combined EPA and DHA interventions as "seafood, supplements and pharmaceuticals" as you point out. We will revise the review accordingly. However, that still would not change the substantive criticism under the Benefits criterion.
2). You took exception to the way reviewers addressed potential harms, but the news release didn't address potential harms at all. If this is an issue that GOED thinks needs to be addressed in a certain way then the release should have addressed it.
3.) You alluded to "inconsistency" in our reviews. It's true that different reviewers have taken different positions on different subjects in the 10+ years we've been reviewing health news. While our reviews are systematic and based on 10 distinct criteria, as long as humans are the ones doing the reviewing, there's going to be some variation. The comments, rather than the ratings, are what we hope readers will pay most attention to.
4). Under disease-mongering you state that you did provide some context on coronary heart disease. When we looked again at the release we agree that this statement does allude to prevalence but we wonder if it provides sufficient context to fill readers in on the scope of coronary heart disease. What does "half of all cardiovascular deaths" mean?
6). In regard to your concerns about the Alternatives criterion, it seems you are re-writing the news release quote to add context that was NOT in the original. Here's what the release says: "Remember that increasing omega-3 intakes is basically just improving the quality of one's diet slightly, like reducing the amount of sodium or increasing your dietary fiber. It is a simple, inexpensive, and achievable change that most consumers need to make to optimize their health." There is nothing in that quote that makes clear the source is talking specifically about cardiac health in general or coronary heart disease risk in particular. And, frankly, most non-experts would not see a link between dietary fiber and coronary heart disease risk.
7). Finally, under the Unjustifiable Language section, we stand by our judgment that increasing their consumption of omega-3s is a "change that most consumers need to make" is unjustifiable. Why? Because extraordinary claims need extraordinary support, and that support is nowhere to be found in this news release.
The vast majority of the criticism fails to appreciate that we are judging the news release. If information exists, but the news release doesn't mention it, that doesn't count in the news release's favor.
Again, thank you for your feedback. We always invite those we've reviewed to respond either in the comments or through email.


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The LEAD Group is concerned that non-English speaking people may not be aware of the problem of hazardous dust from roof cavities, that is currently being spread around many homes in the hail-damaged area, as ceilings are being knocked down for replacement.
With the toxic cocktail of fine particulates, lead, cadmium, arsenic, asbestos and more, Elizabeth O'Brien of The LEAD Group, says "I challenge anyone to substantiate the claim that there is no health risk from exposure to the dust. Residents have reported that this is what their insurance company is saying to them in order to justify not paying for the cost of ceiling dust removal. Some insurance companies are even claiming that there is no lead in the dust yet every reported result of lead testing in over 200 Sydney homes has found lead in the dust. All competent lead assessors in Sydney recommend removal of the ceiling dust prior to taking down the ceilings. Testing the lead content is regarded as a waste of time and money – the ceiling dust is guaranteed to contain lead and a host of other heavy metals and allergens such as fine dust, animal dander, fungal spores and pollens. Yet the unprecedented exposure of residents of the 20,000 homes and the workers repairing the damage is raising the question – what is the full range of health effects from the dust? – there's more to it than just the lead."
The LEAD Group is calling on the government to set a policy of removing the ceiling dust from the ceiling cavity prior to demolition of the damaged ceilings, so that the bulk of the ceiling dust can be disposed of or recycled for its lead content at the Australian Refined Alloys plant in Alexandria.
"Having spoken to hundreds of people struggling to contend with this issue, I know that non-English speaking people are not phoning the Translator Interpreter Service (131450) to get help with the problem, and this worries me. There are thousands of people, most of whom are unaware of the hazards, who are just about to have their homes contaminated by ceiling dust" said O'Brien.


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Home > News > Latest news > Lowestoft man sentenced to six years after breaching Sexual Harm Prevention Order
A 66-year-old man from Lowestoft has been sentenced to six years in prison after breaching the terms of a sexual harm prevention order (SHPO)
Peter Ashford, of Wellington Esplanade in Lowestoft admitted five offences of breaching a SHPO and being in breach of a suspended sentence order. He was sentenced to a total of six years in jail and was also made the subject of an indefinite sexual harm prevention order when he appeared before Ipswich Magistrates Court today, 14 May 2019.
Officers began investigated potential breaches of a SHPO to which the defendant was subject, part of which prohibited Ashford from "loitering within 20 metres of playgrounds, parks or designated play areas where children under the age of 16 may be present."
On 30 January 2019 a public protection officer observed Ashford 10 metres away the boundary fence of Gunton Primary School and he was subsequently arrested. Ashford was found to have breached the SHPO on a total of five occasions between September 2018 and January 2019.
Detective Constable Matthew Fox from Lowestoft CID said "This is a very positive sentence which will come as welcome news to local residents and the wider community . The public protection unit, proactive team and CID have worked expediently identifying the risk Ashford posed to the public. A clear and blatant disregard has been demonstrated by Ashford with regards to his indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order. This same order was put in place by the judicial system to protect the public from predators like Ashford. We are very satisfied with this sentence which I hope goes some way to reassure the public of the police stance when it comes to subjects of such orders".


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House hears bill that could arm higher education employees
JEFFERSON CITY - State lawmakers heard a bill Monday night that would allow college and university employee's to carry weapons on campus.
House Bill 575 would allow qualified employees to become campus protection officers and carry either a weapon or a non-lethal self defense spray.
The bill is sponsored by Rep. Dean Dohrman (R-51). He said the bill could help save valuable time in tragic situations where every second counts.
"The idea is to get more people on site that could help with safety, getting people into area's where they would not be hit by fire and so forth," Dohrman said. "The idea is not to rush out and try to be a hero, the idea is to keep the public safe."
Dohrman said he wrote the bill with large campuses like MU in mind.
"It's hard to have complete coverage, even with the amount of campus police that they have," he said. "This would put a person potentially in every building that you could rely on to help in a bad situation."
Lobbyists from the Missouri Community College Association and Council on Public Higher Education testified in support. No one testified in oppostion.
Rep. Greg Razer (D-25) was the only committee member to offer opposition, questioning the need for such a bill he called the "designated shooters" bill.
"Where have we gone wrong in society that we feel like we need to have designated shooters in our religious studies class in MU?" he said.
Noting the lack of mass shooting in countries other than the U.S., Razer called for a different approach to what he called a societal problem.
"It's a uniquely American problem and we need to find a uniquely American solution to it," he said.
The hearing wasn't the first time committee members heard the bill. Dohrman pitched a similar bill last year.
It died in committee meeting vote, one that Razer said he remembers because it was the same day as the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
JEFFERSON CITY - State lawmakers heard a bill Monday night that would allow college and university employee's to carry weapons... More >>
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To those who think I'm jaded so much after reading my last post, I want to let you know that I am still cheesy. I had a long conversation about this with one of my bestest girlfriends all the way from Stuttgart, and I'm glad the conversation ended with none of us choking up this time because we're too far away from each other.
Photo credit goes to Thinker Girl.
hi, pam! thanks for dropping by and leaving a comment.
that's a great photo. i don't know if i have the same priorities though, but it says a lot all the same!
hahaha! ang jaded mo kasi. pwede ring ako yan. during certain moments.


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I'm married with 3 kids and we also share our house with my husbands work supervisor and he's currently sleeping with my sister in law who has moved in with him. But there are times when I feel that she is really pushy the relationship and I don't mean just with the guy but my husband and I as well.
We introduced her and the supervisor and they hit it off pretty quick and when he wanted to move we offered downstairs to him. We didn't invite her and she didn't ask, when I vaguely asked the guy how things were going he said they she's moved all her stuff from her old place to here without really asking.
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She drinks quite a lot and when she does she's a real drama queen. I can understand she's been through a lot in the last year but the dramatics are really ticking me off. She can be quite unreasonable to the guy and I feel a bit responsible because we introduced them.
She doesn't pay any rent to either the guy or us and sometimes I feel like just telling her to pack up and leave! But she is my sister in law and my husbands favourite sister at that. She's a real mummys girl and I don't want to create any problems with that front either.
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Amanda Ribas (26 de agosto de 1993, Minas Gerais, Brasil) es una artista marcial mixta (MMA) brasileña que compite en la división de peso paja de la UFC. Desde el 25 de octubre de 2021, es la número 10 en la clasificación femenina de peso paja de la UFC.

Antecedentes
La oriunda de Minas Gerais es hija de Marcelo Ribas, maestro de jiu-jitsu y muay thai y de judo. Se entrenó con su padre hasta formar parte de una de las selecciones juveniles de Brasil. Dejó de entrenar y competir durante algunos años tras sufrir lesiones de rodilla. Empezó a entrenar y a competir de nuevo después de ver a algunos de sus colegas entrenando para un torneo de MMA.

Carrera en las artes marciales mixtas

Carrera temprana
Después de ganar el Campeonato Mundial de IMMAF 2014 en la división de peso mosca femenino, comenzó su carrera profesional de MMA en 2014 y luchó principalmente en Brasil. Acumuló un récord de 6-1 antes de ser firmada por UFC.

Ultimate Fighting Championship
Tenía previsto enfrentarse a Juliana Lima The Ultimate Fighter 25 Finale el 7 de julio de 2017. Sin embargo, fue marcada por la USADA por una posible violación de antidopaje y retirada del combate. La posible violación se deriva de una muestra recogida el 7 de junio. Fue sustituida por Tecia Torres. Inicialmente recibió una sanción de dos años por parte de la USADA después de dar positivo por Ostarina, pero la suspensión fue terminada el 3 de mayo de 2019 ya que la USADA determinó que la prueba positiva fue el resultado de un suplemento dietético contaminado con ostarina.

En su debut en la UFC, se enfrentó a Emily Whitmire el 29 de junio de 2019 en UFC on ESPN: Ngannou vs. dos Santos. Ganó el combate por sumisión en el segundo asalto.

Se enfrentó a Mackenzie Dern el 15 de octubre de 2019 en UFC Fight Night: Joanna vs. Waterson. Ganó el combate por decisión unánime.

Tenía previsto enfrentarse a Paige VanZant el 14 de marzo de 2020 en UFC Fight Night: Lee vs. Oliveira. Sin embargo, VanZant se vio obligada a abandonar el combate debido a la fractura de su brazo derecho, y fue sustituida por Randa Markos. Ganó el combate por decisión unánime.

El combate con VanZant fue reprogramado y finalmente tuvo lugar en UFC 251 el 12 de julio de 2020. Ganó el combate por sumisión en el primer asalto.

Se esperaba que se enfrentara a Carla Esparza el 12 de diciembre de 2020 en UFC 256. Sin embargo, el 9 de octubre se anunció la retirada de Esparza por razones no reveladas. En su lugar, estaba programada para enfrentarse a Michelle Waterson el 24 de enero de 2021 en el UFC 257. Sin embargo, el 8 de diciembre de 2020 se informó de que Waterson se vio obligada a abandonar el evento, y fue sustituida por Marina Rodriguez. Perdió el combate por nocaut técnico en el segundo asalto.

Tenía previsto enfrentarse a Angela Hill el 8 de mayo de 2021 en UFC on ESPN: Rodriguez vs. Waterson. Sin embargo, el día del evento fue retiradq del combate debido a los protocolos de COVID-19 y el combate fue cancelado. El combate fue reprogramado para UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. Sakai el 5 de junio de 2021. Dos semanas más tarde, el emparejamiento fue desechado de nuevo, ya que seguía sufriendo los síntomas persistentes de COVID-19.

Se enfrentó a Virna Jandiroba el 30 de octubre de 2021 en el UFC 267. Ganó el combate por decisión unánime.

Se enfrentó a Katlyn Chookagian el 14 de mayo de 2022 en UFC on ESPN: Błachowicz vs. Rakić. Perdió el combate por decisión dividida. Este combate le valió el premio a la Pelea de la Noche.

Campeonatos y logros

Artes marciales mixtas
 Jungle Fight
 Campeonato de Peso Paja de Jungle Fight (una vez)
Max Fight
 Campeonato de Peso Paja de Max Fight (una vez)

Récord en artes marciales mixtas

Véase también
 Anexo:Actuales peleadores de UFC

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Practicantes de artes marciales mixtas de Brasil
Nacidos en Minas Gerais


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Dinning has helped run D.E. Shaw, one of the most successful quantitative hedge fund firms on Wall Street, for nearly two decades. She joined billionaire David Shaw's firm in 1990, after receiving her Ph.D. in computer science. She quickly rose through the ranks, overseeing much of the firm's hedge fund activities by 1995, before briefly retiring in 1999.
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Lima sold her problem-solving make-up line of 300 products to L'Oreal for $1.2 billion. She pocketed roughly $410 million and is staying as CEO of IT Cosmetics, making her the first female CEO in L'Oreal's 108-year-history. The former morning news anchor started testing makeup to help cover up her rosacea, a hereditary skin condition that causes blotchy, red skin.
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Хворостівська сільська рада — сільська рада в Любомльському районі Волинської області (Україна) з адміністративним центром у селі Хворостів.

Загальні відомості
Водоймища на території, підпорядкованій даній раді: річка Вижівка.

Населені пункти
Сільській раді підпорядковані населені пункти:
 с. Хворостів
 с. Руда

Склад ради
Рада складається з 16 депутатів та голови.

Керівний склад ради

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Населення
Згідно з переписом УРСР 1989 року чисельність наявного населення сільської ради становила 1190 осіб, з яких 534 чоловіки та 656 жінок.

За переписом населення України 2001 року в сільській раді мешкало 1180 осіб.

Мова
Розподіл населення за рідною мовою за даними перепису 2001 року:

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