In days gone by you might well have heard the NSW Mid-North Coast retreat of Port Macquarie referred to as 'God's waiting room', due to the high percentage of retirees in residence.
It seems the rest of us are catching on (if not catching up). While the region still holds great appeal for the grey nomads, these days the fastest growing demographic is the 35-49ers and Port Macquarie has a definite spring in its step. With its stunning coastal scenery, a dymanic and evolving food and wine scene, a rich convict history to delve into and sensational weather most of the year, what's not to love whatever your age?
As it has been for decades, tourism is Port Macquarie's mainstay and hotels and motels can be found on just about every block of the compact and very walkable city centre. What's really interesting is what's happening at street level in between, including hole-in-the-wall cafes, lively bars and eateries with an industrial-chic vibe that wouldn't look out of place in any of our biggest cities. The focal point is the Town Green on the beautiful Hastings River — scene of the uber-popular Tastings on Hastings food festival held in October each year (which attracts some 20,000 visitors).
Do not leave town without heading around to Town Beach to wiggle your toes in the sand as you gaze out at the Pacific. In between there are stunning views on offer from Gaol Point, and a colourful outdoor gallery of painted rocks to enjoy along the break wall. The artistic fun continues on the Hello Koalas Sculpture Trail — 51 one-metre high fiberglass koalas, hand-painted by local artists and positioned around town. They're hard to miss!
Enjoy this Port Macquarie travel guide.
While Port Macquarie is a year-round destination, summer sees the biggest influx of visitors.
It's perfect weather for trying as many from the official list of 52+ things to do around the region as you can. It can get very hot and humid at times, so check that your accommodation is air-conditioned.
As the summer crowds depart, large-scale events bump in, including the IRONMAN challenge in May. On average March is the wettest month of the year.
Winters in Port Macquarie are generally mild with temperatures hovering in the mid-teens. Pack warmly, particularly for the evening. As temperatures creep back up to the low 20s in spring, the city gears up for its annual food festivals, including the much-anticipated Port Macquarie Beer & Cider Festival. Good weather is almost guaranteed, with the year's lowest average rainfall in September and October.
For top cultural things to do in Port Macquarie, the city's happy tourists and laid-back locals rub shoulders at the Glasshouse.
While its construction courted controversy, the end result is a world-class cultural facility. Architecturally stunning, the Glasshouse should be every visitor's first port of call. You'll find the Tourist Information Centre on the ground floor, along with the box office for the facility's extensive annual programme of live events and concerts. There's bound to be something interesting on during your visit.
Check out the three-level art gallery (free of charge), which hosts local and touring exhibitions. The surviving foundations of some of the convict-constructed buildings that once occupied the site have been preserved under the footings of the modern structure, and can be viewed in the basement.
The traditional owners of the region are the Birpai people and the excellent Sea Acres Rainforest Centre will connect you with their heritage.
The Sea Acres Rainforest Centre is managed by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service. Take a guided stroll along the 1.3km elevated boardwalk through the canopy of this lush pocket of Gondwana Rainforest. Spot wildlife and birds, and get a rundown on local bush foods. The Spirit of the Land multimedia presentation on Birpai culture is well worth seeing. It runs hourly from 10am to 3pm.
Charted by John Oxley in 1818, Port Macquarie's modern history began with the establishment of a penal settlement in 1821. Located far enough from Sydney to thwart escapees eager to return to the big smoke, the colony was eventually opened up to free settlers in 1830 and the remaining convicts were shipped out to other locations.
The city's early convict connection hasn't always been celebrated. Today though, you'll find interpretive boards around town, and an incredible collection of artefacts at the Port Macquarie Museum. The museum is run by the fine folk of the Port Macquarie Historical Society. It's one of the top historical things to do in Port Macquarie, so give yourself a couple of hours to really enjoy it. The museum is closed Sundays.
To get more of the early back-story, local heritage expert Mitch McKay runs regular walking tours of the key historic sites (the climb to the top of the church tower at convict-built St Thomas' Anglican Church is a highlight) and the Historical Cemetery. There's an intriguing tale of one of the cemetery's interred being the possible illegitimate son of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Foodies, you are going to have a fine time in Port Macquarie!
The region is fast developing a name for itself as a food and wine destination, and leading the charge is The Stunned Mullet. Located just off Town Beach, this is actually the only hatted restaurant between Newcastle and the Queensland Coast and it's a must try for its innovative menu and impeccable service.
Start this gastronomical journey with the sweet and subtle locally farmed Sydney rock oysters. The Glacier 51 tooth fish is also something else. The flesh is thick and moist and your knife will glide through it like butter.
In town there are plenty of options. New kid on the block Chop and Chill offers an inspiring menu of Asian tastes and smoked meats, served in casually elegant surroundings, embellished with treasures from the owner's world travels. The outside seating in the colonnade is a great spot to watch the world go by on the Town Green.
Also offering great views of the Green and Hastings River, Zebu at the Rydges Hotel provides relaxed casual dining in the bar (the lobster pizza is a top choice) or a more upscale affair in The Grill (open Tuesday to Saturday). Push the boat out on the five-course degustation menu.
In the centre of town you'll find Burger Rebellion and Bills Fishhouse + Bar, both of which are reinventing their respective culinary genres.
For those happy to venture slightly further afield, Little Fish Café & Vineyard is a ten-minute drive from the centre of town and a world away in terms of the picturesque setting. Rolling vineyards frame the rambling restaurant building. This is a superb spot for a leisurely lunch, with a French-inspired menu that will knock your socks off. The Major Innes platter is more than enough for two, and when accompanied by a bottle of the 2011 Little Fish Summer White (made from estate-grown Semillon and Chardonnay fruit) there's no finer way to while away an afternoon.
Great coffee abounds in Port Macquarie. In town, head for Drury Lane Eatery in the Garrison Building just opposite the Glasshouse. It's shabby chic done to a tee and a smashing breaky awaits. Bunker down with the sensational baked eggs.
On Town Beach you'll find Salty Crew Kiosk (from the team behind Bills). The surf-side setting is sublime and the café's crew backs it up with an innovative menu and great beans. Loved the smashed avo with fetta, tomato, sprouts, dukkha and lime, served in a recycled cardboard tray with equally eco-friendly wooden cutlery.
Social Grounds is rated Port Macquarie's top café on Beanhunter. It's in an unlikely location on the main drag into town, and if the walk looks too much, a taxi would only be a few dollars. Those who make the effort will be richly rewarded. The coffee is bang on and the guys will make you feel more than welcome in what is obviously a firm favourite with locals.
The Greater Port Macquarie region has plenty to offer wine lovers. Winemaking first got underway here back in the 1860s but by the middle of the 20th century it was all but defunct. The resurgence began in the 1980s with the establishment of Cassegrain Wines by a family with a French wine-making heritage stretching back to the 17th century.
Today there are seven or eight vineyards in and around the region, which is known for the chambourcin grape, along with chardonnay and semillon varietals. Frankie's Tours offers a range of bespoke itineraries, which can feature lunch and a wine tasting at Cassegrain and visits to gourmet food producers, including local institution Ricardoes Tomatoes & Strawberries. Enjoy a lesson in the hothouse on the art of growing the perfect tomato.
Port Central is Port Macquarie's main shopping hub.
The centre houses 51 retailers, and offers air-conditioned respite from the summer humidity.
The aforementioned Glasshouse wouldn't be a true cultural hub without a design shop to browse on the way out. Think an abridged version of the NGV design store in Melbourne or MOMA's design store in New York. Contemporary ceramics, groovy lamps and cute paper goods are all on offer.
For locally designed ladies' casual and beachwear, jewellery and coastal-inspired accessories, head for Sublime & Blossom underneath The Observatory hotel on Town Beach. Enjoy the sensory enhancement delivered by fragrant scented candles and bath soaks.
Community Projects Worldwide in Horton Street offers an exotic array of mostly handmade products. They're sourced from communities in developing countries to promote self-empowerment and local job creation.
For vintage and preloved goods, trundle up the hill from town to St Thomas' rather grandly named Whitehouse Emporium. It offers clothing, antiques, bric-a-brac and collectables. Considering Port Macquarie's historic pedigree, who knows what you might turn up. The store is open Wednesday to Friday. It closes at 3.30pm.
For relaxing things to do in Port Macquarie, spend some time doing not much at all at one of the city's eight magnificent beaches.
The easiest for visitors to access without a car is Town Beach. For those up for a stroll, the picturesque 9-kilometre Coastal Walk will take you from the break wall all the way to Lighthouse Beach, past historic landmarks, lookouts and the Sea Acres National Park.
River cruises and whale watching trips are popular pastimes that don't expend too much energy on the part of the participant. The whale watching season runs roughly from May through to December.
One furry local that transcends all others in the art of relaxation is of course the koala, which generally sleeps for between 16 and 18 hours a day. But that still leaves six to eight hours to get into strife and Australia's only dedicated Koala Hospital is located in Port Macquarie. The facility admits around 250 injured and sick koalas a year, many of which are rehabilitated then released. The hospital is world-famous and on the daily guided tour at 3pm Aussies may find themselves outnumbered by visitors of every conceivable nationality. In fact, Germans are officially the most generous financial supporters of the hospital's work!
Last but certainly not least, what could be more relaxing than kicking back with an icy cold, locally brewed beer. Luckily, Port Macquarie is home to a burgeoning boutique brewing industry. The Black Duck Brewery on the edge of town is every bloke's dream: a very large shed, with a full brewing setup and a bar where the fruits of the brewer's labour can be sampled. You can also try Black Duck's brews in several venues around town, including Zebu.
Located right opposite Town Beach and framed by iconic Norfolk pines, The Observatory by Mantra offers guests a 100% carbon neutral stay. Choose from a range of one, two or three-bedroom apartment-style accommodation options with full kitchens, and the majority with killer ocean views. Hotel-style rooms are also available. The Observatory also offers an indoor lap pool, spa and sauna, and undercover parking.
Offering clean lines and contemporary styling, the Macquarie Waters Boutique Apartment Hotel, located adjacent to the heart of town, will appeal to the most discerning visitor. Modern and sophisticated, the apartment-style accommodation options offer full kitchens, flat screen internet TVs, free Wi-Fi, and large bathrooms with private laundry facilities.
Relax by the pool or enjoy a soak in the rooftop hot-tub.
Adam travelled as a guest of Greater Port Macquarie Tourism.
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Callie Leuck is a writer, dancer, tea-drinker, amateur photographer, and Oxford comma enthusiast. She is a science-medical writing graduate of the Johns Hopkins University. Her current city of residence is Indianapolis, IN.
I started with the January 2014 Run With It prompts.
I saw a story about a search for love that kept meeting with bad, bad matches. As I personally quickly suffer First Date Exhaustion when attempting online dating, I imagine that anyone who can keep picking herself back up and going right back out there has a particularly resilient spirit, or possibly sees every new man as the potential Perfect Match — a girl with stars in her eyes, perhaps.
The idea about "Ashley-ifying" men is one that has stuck with me since I first swiped my mom's copy of Gone With The Wind and thought that Scarlett's fatal flaw was idealizing Ashley. I have used it as shorthand in my own life — "Don't Ashleyify" — to remember to try to see people as they are rather than trying to force them into being perfect idea. Thinking about a love-seeking young woman who has repeated and frequent romantic failures but just keeps getting back up and going out there again resulted in Christine.
Describe your creative process generally—is there a certain way you normally set about writing something?
One of my goals is to not write a story that fails the Bechdel test. To pass the test, two women must talk about something other than a man. This is always difficult in a short story, and it was definitely a bit difficult in a story originally conceived as about a woman searching for the perfect man. It was a good challenge though because, as I reflected on it, I realized that even when I discuss men with my girlfriends, that's rarely if ever the entirety of the conversation. Therefore Holly and Christine's conversation is about Christine's upcoming thirtieth birthday and even Holly and Brooke's coversation in their office's break room, ostensibly about Christine's love search, meanders into teasings about Brooke's recent motherhood and Holly's upcoming visit to their friend Dezi. I think that actively trying to pass the Bechdel test helped me make the story more natural and less super-focused on romance, hopefully giving it more depth and interest.
What subjects or forms come most easily to you? Is there anything that you have just never been able to write, or write about?
In the last few years, I have mainly written nonfiction (which is what I studied at Johns Hopkins and what I write professionally) so it's been quite a while since I've written fiction. And even when I do write fiction, it is typically fantasy. So this time I tried to do something new: non-fantasy fiction. Romance is also new to me, which is probably why it's only sideways a romance and not directly!
What is something you've always wanted to see written about, or have always wanted to write yourself?
I want to actually write the epic fantasy that I've been toying with for, my gosh, over ten years now. I either want to actually write the damn thing or just give it up entirely and stop being one of those people who're going to write a novel one day.


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GoldLink feat. André 3000 – "Love 3rd"
I remember reading that GoldLink and Andre 3000 were in the studio together back in 2017. Today we finally (and possibly) get a track from that session in the form of "Love 3rd". Then again, I don't know. "Love 3rd" is under two minutes in length. Is this unfinished?
And if it is finished why wasn't this on At What Cost or something? I'm not even gonna start about a possible 3 Stacks album because haven't we done that enough over the years?


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Big Finishing Move: 'Doctor Who: Philip Hinchcliffe Presents Box Set'
by John Eckes
Howdy-doo everybody, and welcome to Big Finishing Move. This is my own little slice of One of Us where they let me review the releases of big deal audio drama studio, Big Finish and let you know if they are worth your money or not. Today, we're looking at one of the biggest and most hyped releases in Big Finish's calendar, the Philip Hinchcliffe Presents Box Set.
Hinchcliffe produced the first couple seasons of the Fourth Doctor era, an era considered by many to be the best in Tom Baker's run as well all of Who in general. The Hinchcliffe era was one of gothic horror. The old castles, haunted halls, and remote outposts were littered throughout all of time and space. Perversions of science and unspeakable monsters became the norm for the show and the audience ate it up. This set sees two never before seen tales by Hinchcliffe adapted for audio by Big Finish staple and classic Who writer in his own right, Marc Platt. Is the Philip Hinchcliffe Presents Box Set a return to this grand era or does it fall as flat as a drunken vampire bat, let us take a look at these two terrifying tales and find out!
TARDIS Team: Fourth Doctor and Leela
While there does appear to be a clear chronological order to these tales they are very much stand alone affairs and as such I will be looking at each story individually and then the set as a whole.
The Ghosts of Gralstead:
The Doctor and Leela decide to drop by Victorian London again, only this time they're hitting up the upper class and are arriving a full 40 some years before the events of the classic The Talons of Weng-Chiang. Taking in the local color, they decide to attend a local freak show, but one of the acts proves to be real as a man is able to cure people. Before the Doctor can investigate further, a young black man is attacked by hunters with Leela jumping to the man's aid with the Doctor in tow. To keep their new friend from getting into trouble with his master given the hour and being slightly beat up, the Doctor and Leela choose to accompany the young man home to corroborate his story. Once arriving at Gralstead manor, the Doctor is pulled into a twisted tale of powerful creatures vying for ultimate power that stretches across time, a family, and all the way from the streets of London to the jungles of Africa.
If ever there was a story in need of a mighty editor, it is this one. This sucker is bloated out to six parts, large sections of which could hit the cutting room floor with little to no change to the overall story. Even worse is once they receive an item able to restore people back from the dead, all of a sudden it seems like every character is busy doing their best Lazarus impression. When death has no meaning, it also loses any dramatic effect. The story is full of resurrections that are meant to delight an dazzle, but instead only get in the way of moving the plot forward.
Now I'm a big fan of voice acting, it is more complex and challenging then a majority of people think it is. I also understand that no matter how talented an actor is, they only have finite number of voices they can do. I'm usually the first to forgive any doubling up that may occur, but this story would have benefited from having a few more actors on board to keep some of the smaller roles more distinct.
On the plus side, the story does hit perfectly upon the vibe of Hinchcliffe era Who. The setting, the story, and the characters all fit perfectly, so it is a shame they couldn't figure out a better way to spin this yarn. The workings of a great Who episode are woven in here, but on its own, The Ghosts of Gralstead simply isn't worth your money.
The Devil's Armada:
Traveling to Sixteenth Century England, the TARDIS lands the Doctor and Leela smack dab into a web of religious persecution of Catholics, witch hunts, other worldly devil creatures trying to conquer the world, and just for additional laughs, the Spanish navy is on its way seeking to invade. Can the Doctor juggle all this nonsense and still manage to stop the Vituperon from creating a literal hell on earth?
One thing I really like about this story is although a great deal about this story is dealing with religion, the story never makes the mistake of promoting the religion instead of the characters. Sir Robert Harney and his family may be practicing Catholics, but the story never rewards them for it. This is a story about how persecution and looking down on those different from you is wrong not about which position is correct.
The story moves along at a nice clip with only one head scratching moment. Early on the Doctor decides to stay behind in one of the villains' torture chamber because he wishes to confront this person about his abominable practices. The listener is led to believe some sort of epic confrontation is nigh. Instead, the Doctor is quickly captured and stretched upon a rack. This does lead the Doctor to finally come in contact with the true villain behind the scenes and one could believe that the Doctor's actions were intentional so that he could force the big baddie to show his face, but this point is never made clear.
While everyone does a fine job in this, I'd be lying if I said Tom Baker didn't run away with the show. The story focuses on the two things Tom does best: hamming it up and thundering away with a voice that could move mountains. You can tell that Baker is having a ball with this one, and his enjoyment as always, is infectious.
This is a fun story that knows how to get in and out perfectly. The story is engaging and has more depth then it lets on which may inspire multiple listens.
The Final Breakdown:
With a hefty price tag of $45 for the download version alone and despite a second story I really enjoy, I can't in good conscience recommend the Philip Hinchcliffe Presents Box Set by itself. However, right now the set is bundled with the upcoming season of the Fourth Doctor Adventures for $100, a deal that saves you about $20 off what it would cost to buy the box set and each of the episodes separately. I bought the bundle and suggest anyone looking to pick this up do the same as I don't feel the box set has enough value on its own to justify what Big Finish is asking for it.
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May I also note, distinguished readers, we here at One of Us have our own audio drama series which goes by the name of Infinite Variations as well as being home to Jason Neulander's new spin-off series from The Intergalactic Nemesis entitled Salt!
Big Finishing Move will be shifting down a gear for the remainder of the year. I've been giving you guys two full reviews a month since just before the end of last year and while I have enjoyed every second of it, for personal and professional reasons I need to slow down a bit. Let's be clear here though, this is just a breather. Come the new year, Big Finishing Move will be back in full swing and I will be still be writing regularly here at One Of Us, so there will be no shortage of output out of me. Hell, I might sneak an installment of Big Finishing Move into the mix during the break, but only if I have the time to do it right and I have something to say.
Next month marks the one year anniversary for both Big Finishing Move and being picked up to write for One Of Us and I just would like to take a moment to say thank you to some people. Thanks to Brian and Chris for giving me the gig, promoting me where and when they could, and just being generally cool dudes. Thanks to my editors, Chris Harrison and Dimitry Pompee, who have the unenviable task of turning my ramblings into something readable. They have both saved articles I thought had no chance of salvaging and for that, I am eternally grateful. To any and all who have read my stuff and passed it along, especially Jordan Cobb, who has been a huge supporter and friend all through this crazy ride I've been on. I owe you a beer sir. Finally, to my family for always supporting me and never once making me feel shame for the things I love. Without their love and understanding, I never would have been able to achieve any of this.
So until it is that magic time again, happy listening!
Check out my previous reviews:
The Fearmonger
The Light At The End
The Spectre of Lanyon Moor
Storm Warning
Blood of the Daleks
The Chimes of Midnight
Seasons of Fear
The King of Sontar
White Ghosts
Dark Eyes II
The Crooked Man
Project: Twilight
The Evil One
The Last Of The Colophon
The Council Of Nicaea
Destroy The Infinite
Zygon Hunt
Revenge Of The Swarm
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Foreclosure reform: Initiative 84 aims to put fix rejected by House committee in constitution
Kelsey Whipple
Kelsey Whipple | April 10, 2012 | 1:08pm
When House Bill 1156 was killed last month before even making it to the full chamber, its supporters started immediately on a stronger effort to add transparency to the state's foreclosure processes. But the tactics have changed: Instead of creating another bill, they created a constitutional amendment targeted at requiring lenders to prove ownership of property before foreclosing on it. The initiative has passed its first roadblock.
In 2006, Colorado lawmakers legalized the practice of lawyers granting their approval during a foreclosure; the process previously required additional paperwork. HB 1156, which also sought to add to the checks and balances of the foreclosure process, died in committee when legislators rejected it as yet another law aimed at foreclosure reform. Criticism even implied that its host organization, the Colorado Progressive Coalition, was partially responsible for the rejection, suggesting another supporter with a shorter history of proposals might have found greater favor.
But 1156 marked the first time the CPC ran an attempt at changing foreclosure legislation. The bill's demise disappointed COC's organizers, but so did accusations that its identity as the host played a role.
"They said they kept seeing these foreclosure bills coming in front of the legislature and they needed to see someone else running them," says Corrine Fowler, the CPC's economic justice director. "We're not just running legislature rampantly. We work on legislation that our community brings to us."
So what was the group's reaction? "Honestly, it's this initiative," Fowler says. "If our legislators aren't going to do their job, we're going to have the people vote on this."
Initiative 84 became a constitutional matter early in discussions on how to approach reform a different way, in large part because its creators see it as a natural addition to the state constitution's existing references to due process.
"What happened at that committee meeting just told me that I'm excited to take this to the people," Fowler says. "This restores due process under the law and enforces property rights while placing them in our constitution, where these issues should be. Saying that a bank or any other entity should prove they have a right to your property before they take it away is not an irrational issue."
Written by Debra Fortenberry and Stephen Brunette, both Colorado Springs attorneys, Initiative 84 would make it necessary for any lender to prove the right of foreclosure before doing so. The bill passed its first review and comment hearing on Friday, and its creators have since made changes to its original language.
Although the suggestions are not mandatory, they are provided with the intention of guaranteeing an initiative follows the correct path to becoming an amendment. From here, the bill will go in front of the title review board on April 18, when representatives will decide on final phrasing before the initiative moves forward. The next stage is costly: Supporters must collect at least 87,000 signatures in order to get it there. Efforts to do so are estimated to cost $200,000, says Fowler, and the group would have ninety days to accomplish its goal.
"The reality of collecting all of those on a volunteer basis is only is, well, not a reality," Fowler says. Instead the group will split its effort between volunteer efforts and paid efforts, which "can cost between $1.50 and $2.50" per signature.
Fortenberry began fielding hundreds of phone calls in late 2008 from residents confused and concerned about their upcoming foreclosures. People who reached out alleged misrepresentation and told her they could not understand the process. By the same time in 2009, Fortenberry and a small group of area lawyers had created an addition to the El Paso County Bar Association, a foreclosure assistance subcommittee that meets every month to discuss these issues.
Fortenberry attributes the core of the confusion to the qualified holder certification, the right of an attorney to sign in favor of foreclosure. The signature requires no proof, "and that's where this gap opens," Brunette says. "There's this disconnect between the institutions and the people and the proof." Earlier this year, Fortenberry and Brunette organized their efforts with state representative Beth McCann, who also sponsored House Bill 1156 before it was rejected.
By presenting the effort as an amendment to the Colorado constitution, supporters are avoiding the drawbacks of a legislative statute, which if passed would require the amendment of several other laws and could be changed again in following years. The hope is that if this initiative is eventually approved, it will stick. Prior to 2006, the foreclosure process required more certification than it does now, with ownership records provided by lenders prior to any final decision.
Fowler hopes that by reconstructing the idea, organizers can create a lasting standard of transparency throughout the state. "Special interests like the Colorado Bankers Association won't be able come back and change it in future years," Fowler says. "This is going to affect the bottom line of the lawyers and the bankers, and we know that and don't take this lightly. We believe that the foreclosure crisis is the biggest issue our national economy is facing."
Here's the initiative's amendments and current wording: Foreclosure Fraud Prevention Initiative SOS Filed Docs
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See your options in neighborhoods like Columbia Heights and Logan Circle
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Welcome to Curbed Comparisons, a column that explores what one can rent for a set dollar amount in various Washington, D.C. neighborhoods. Is one man's studio another man's townhouse? Let's find out! Today's price: $1,700/month.
↑ Near Logan Circle, this one-bedroom, 675-square-foot apartment is on the market for $1,650 per month. It includes a private outdoor space, a washer and dryer, and exposed brick walls. No pets are allowed. Tenant pays for electricity.
↑ For $1,695 per month, this one-bedroom apartment in Shaw is up for grabs. It spans 480 square feet, making it the smallest unit on this list. The pet-friendly apartment features free laundry facilities and a shared patio area. Heating and water are included in the rent.
↑ Next up, in Southeast's Fairfax Village neighborhood, this two-level townhome is on the market, renovated and with a washer and dryer. It is a tad under budget, asking $1,695 per month, with two bedrooms and one bathroom across 1,225 square feet of space.
↑ With one bedroom and one bathroom, this Georgetown apartment is on the market for $1,700 per month. It is the priciest unit on this list, but it offers a close location to a variety of retail and restaurants. There is no indication as to whether or not pets are allowed or if there is a washer and dryer inside.
↑ Finally, in Columbia Heights, this $1,695 per month apartment is on the market. When it comes to what to expect, this one-bedroom unit spans 600 square feet with a washer and dryer, stainless steel appliances, and an exposed brick wall. Cats and small dogs are allowed.
Which listing would you choose?
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Mexicans react to Donald Trump's election win
From fears of inflation to speculation about what it may mean for undocumented migrants, Mexicans reflect on the result.
by Jonathan Levinson
In Ciudad Juarez, Trump's election win makes front page news in local newspapers [Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters]
Mexico City, Mexico - Manuel Garcia Rodriguez is bleary eyed inside Niuyorquina restaurant in Mexico City where he works as a waiter. It's after 1am and the restaurant has just closed. He and his co-workers are watching as CNN calls Pennsylvania for Donald Trump. Amid calls of fraud and election buying from his friends, Manuel says he's worried.
"All of Latin America will have inflation," he says, "but I'm scared for the world. He is the Antichrist."
Donald Trump might not be the Antichrist but Manuel's fear of inflation is already a reality. As early returns began coming in, showing a stronger than anticipated turnout for Trump, the Mexican peso tumbled. By 9pm the currency had dropped 4.5 percent. By 10pm it was 8.5 percent, 13 percent by midnight.
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The Mexican government appeared to be in crisis mode with one government official saying there was panic at the finance ministry. In the early hours of the morning, Mexico's central banker and finance minister announced a rare joint press conference for 7am where they strived to reassure the country.
"Our framework of public finances and the strength of our public and private institutions allow us to avoid premature reactions that are ahead of facts that as of now we still don't know," said Jose Antonio Meade, Mexico's Minister of Finance.
The peso rebounded a hair after the speech but still sits 8.5 percent off where it started yesterday. Still, some analysts warn that the worst could be yet to come, saying that the peso could fall by as much as 20 percent, a powerful blow to the country's currency.
Order to the cities
Sitting in front of a coffee shop the morning after the election, Billy Jimenez, a surgeon, wasn't reassured. With 80 percent of Mexican exports going to the US, the possibility of a changed trade relationship scares him.
"It will affect free trade a lot, which is important. We're the principal trading partner with the United States," he says. "And there still isn't a lot of foreign investment in Mexico."
While acknowledging that it will probably hurt the US' economy as well, he suggests an upside.
"There are a lot of protests there. It's going to be a good change. He'll bring order to the cities," adding, "the undocumented people are a problem."
Donald Trump has pledged to round up and deport millions of undocumented people, a plan he says will be carried out by tripling Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel.
But with crime rates in Central America sky rocketing and turmoil in the Middle East and Africa contributing to a global refugee crisis, the flow of refugees and migrants through Mexico to the US seems unlikely to slow down.
In January, Mexican immigration officials detained 11,543 individuals entering Mexico illegally. By September that number had ballooned to 19,928. While the vast majority of these individuals are from Central America, September saw 4,888 people from African countries arriving in Mexico, a 92 percent increase since January.
Recent waves of Cuban and Haitian refugees have seen shelters along Mexico's northern and southern border operating well above their maximum capacity. In Tijuana, where 5,000 Haitians are currently waiting to try to enter the US, the Casa del Migrante shelter has at times taken in double it's preferred number of occupants.
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With little information as to what a Trump foreign policy would look like, it is difficult to determine whether his administration will help alleviate or exacerbate drivers of immigration.
Raha Jorjani is an immigration defence lawyer and staff attorney at the University of California, Davis.
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"Interventions," she says, "factor into people's abilities to stay in their countries."
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Although she is fearful of some of the economic impacts of inflation, Lillian Carranza, a tourism management student in Mexico City, has found one positive in it. It can help one sector, she says: tourism.
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Arthroscopy. 2014 Jan;30(1):65-71. doi: 10.1016/j.arthro.2013.09.002. Epub 2013 Nov 28.
An epidemiologic analysis of clinical practice guidelines for non-arthroplasty treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee.
Dhawan A1, Mather RC 3rd2, Karas V2, Ellman MB3, Young BB4, Bach BR Jr3, Cole BJ3.
To analyze the current practice patterns of non-arthroplasty treatment of knee osteoarthritis (OA) and to assess the impact of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons clinical practice guidelines on the management of OA of the knee, particularly as they relate to the use of arthroscopic treatment.
The United Healthcare Database (2004-2009, 11 million patients, 216 million records) was used for the study and was searched using Boolean language for International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Edition, Clinical Modification and Current Procedural Terminology, fourth revision codes. A reference group was defined as patients treated with knee arthroplasty in 2009 and diagnosed with knee OA in the same record. Clinical practice patterns in the 5 years preceding arthroplasty were analyzed in this group.
The reference group consisted of 12,806 patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty in 2009 with a documented diagnosis of OA at the time of surgery, with prior nonoperative treatment strategies analyzed during the preceding 5 years (2004-2009); 10.0% of patients were prescribed physical therapy specific to OA, 2.6% received an unloader brace, 0.52% underwent acupuncture, 43.5% were administered intra-articular corticosteroids, and 15.4% received viscosupplementation injections. During the 5 years before arthroplasty, 2,505 patients (19.6%) underwent arthroscopy and debridement/lavage, 35% of whom did not have a diagnosis code for mechanical pathology. Within 1 year of knee arthroplasty, 2,028 of the 2,505 knee arthroscopies (80.9%) were performed.
The findings show that significant gaps do exist between the evidence-based American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons recommendations and actual practice patterns in the United States between 2004 and 2009.
Copyright © 2014 Arthroscopy Association of North America. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.


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RULES – MIXED SECTION
1. EQUIPMENT:
a) Players must wear the official team sweater at all times during a game.
b) Players are not allowed to use shoes with metal sole and heel plates.
2. REGULATION GAMES:
a) All regulation & quarter final games consists of seven full innings or sixty five minutes of play, whichever comes first. As there may be ties in the standings, both halves of the inning must be played, regardless of the score. An inning may not be started after 65 minutes of play. An inning started before the 65 minutes mark has to be completed.
Note: this time limit does not apply to semi finals or finals.
b) Games must be started on time. Infield warm-ups are not permitted, and pitchers will be limited to 3 warm-up pitches between innings
c) Where there is a problem with rain, poor field conditions, lights, etcetera, the section co-ordinator or his/her assistant will decide whether the game is to be played or continued.
3. MERCY RULES:
FOR MIXED "A" DIVISION:
Once a team is leading by 20 runs after a complete inning, the game is over. If time permits, and the teams chose to continue to play past this point, only a 20 run differential will count in the standings.
FOR MIXED "B" DIVISION:
There will be a maximum of 5 runs per team per inning except for the last inning which will be open. After a team scores 5 runs, their inning at bat is over.
3. OFFICIAL TEAMS:
a) The minimum age for participation as a player in the Tournament is 18 years of age
b) Ten defensive players are allowed on the field, a minimum five of which must be female, a maximum of 5 may be male, the pitcher is supplied by the offensive team. In the batting order, teams must alternate male and female batters throughout the batting order (including bottom to top of the order). Consecutive male batters is not allowed, thus if the number of males outnumbers the females on a team, the team will have to use separate male and female batting orders and alternate. All players present, including the pitcher, must be included in the batting order.
c) In each inning, the defensive team may use a maximum of ten players in the field. The pitcher is supplied by the offensive team (pitches to his/her own team) and may pitch the entire game (does not have to sit an inning). No player is to sit out a second defensive inning until each player on the team has sat out one defensive inning.
d) A team must have a minimum of eight players to start a game, 5 of which must be female. A team must have sufficient players to start a game at the scheduled starting time, else the game is forfeit.
e) A team must have a minimum of seven players to continue a game. A team may continue a game with less than 5 female players but the maximum number of defensive male players remains at 5.
f) A player who arrives after the first pitch of the game may play, but his/her name must be added to the bottom of the batting order, last or second to last to respect rule 3C . If his/her team is in the field and is playing with less than 10 fielders, he/she may join the game immediately.
g) If a batter is unable to run for himself / herself, a pinch runner is allowed from home plate (The pinch runner shall start from a line, behind home plate, parallel to, and 3 feet to the foul side of, the third base line.).
h) A player who misses a turn at bat because of illness or injury must leave the game.
i) A fielder who leaves the game because of illness or injury may return to the game, provided he/she does not miss a turn at bat. He/she must, however, return to the field on his/her next scheduled turn or leave the game.
4. PITCHING REGULATIONS:
a) The pitcher's "rubber" is the imaginary line which runs between 1st and third bases. The pitcher must have at least one foot on the line when the ball is released.
b) The pitcher is a member of the offensive team (pitches to his / her own team). The batter has 4 pitches to "put the ball in play" or is OUT. A batter cannot be "walked".
5. BATTING REGULATIONS:
a) In the batting order, consecutive males are not allowed. (including bottom to top of the order). Male and female batters must alternate (see rule 3c).
b) Bunting is not allowed. A bunt is a batted ball that does not reach the half way points between home plate and first and third bases. A bunt is considered the loss of a pitch.
c) Strike outs: Each batter may receive a maximum of 4 pitches and is considered to have struck out if he/she has not "put the ball in play" after having received 4 pitches. To be "in play" the ball must be batted in fair territory past the imaginary line that joins the half way points between home plate and first and third bases.
If a fielder chooses to make a play on a batted ball before it reaches the imaginary line that joins the half way points between home plate and first and third bases the ball will be considered to be "In Play" as soon as the fielder touches the ball.
d) Foul balls to the catcher: A ball hit to foul territory is either a "foul ball" or a "foul tip".
i) A foul tip is a batted ball which goes directly from the bat, not higher than the batter's head, to the catcher's hands and is legally caught, and any foul tip that is caught is a strike. The ball is dead.
ii) A batter is out if a fly ball, including a foul fly ball, is legally caught by any player, including the catcher
e) Batter's box: The batter's box on either side of home plate begins six inches from the plate and is three feet wide. The batter's box extends four feet in front of a line through the centre of home plate, and three feet behind this line.
i) The batter must stand with both feet inside the batter's box when the ball is delivered by the pitcher. A batter who fails to take his/her position within 20 seconds of the umpire's "play ball" will be called out.
ii) When the ball is hit, that part of the batter's foot which is touching the ground must not be completely outside of the batter's box, nor touching any part of home plate.
Effect: The ball is dead, the batter is out, base runners may not advance.
f) Ball touching the Pitcher: A batted ball that touches the pitcher is a dead ball and the batter is out, base runners may not advance.
6. BASE RUNNING:
a) The distance between the bases shall be 60 feet.
b) Safety bag at 1st base: The "safety bag" is attached to the regular first base, but lies completely in foul territory.
i) The batter-runner must touch only the safety bag if a play is being made on him/her at first base – Otherwise the batter-runner will be called out.
ii) The fielder must touch the regular 1st base if he/she is making a play on a batter-runner. The fielder must not risk injury to himself or another player by crossing the baseline in the path of the batter-runner – Otherwise the batter-runner will called safe.
iii) The batter-runner may touch either bag at 1st base if no play is being made on him/her and his/her intention is to carry on to 2nd base.
c) Base stealing is NOT allowed.
d) Two base runners may not occupy the same base simultaneously. The runner who first occupied the base is entitled to it.
e) The batter-runner is not liable to be put out after overrunning 1st base, provided he/she returns directly to 1st base. If, after overrunning 1st base, the runner attempts to continue to 2nd base, he/she is liable to be put out.
f) The base runner must cross the safety line at home plate but must not touch home plate itself. The catcher must not tag the runner at the safety line but need only touch home plate in order to put out the base runner.
g) Sliding is permitted on each base but not at home plate.
h) Once a player has passed the "commit" line, he/she may not return to third base.
7. BALL IN PLAY:
a) Infield fly rule applies
b) The ball is not playable outside the established limits of the playing field.
i) If a batted ball is hit or rolls into any other recreational field – soccer field, football field, etc. it is ruled a 'double'. See Ground Rules (section 10)
ii) If a batted ball hits a pole, within the established limits of the playing field – the ball is in play.
c) The ball is put into play when the pitcher has the ball and is within 8 feet of the pitcher's plate, and the umpire calls "Play Ball".
d) Calling time between pitches:
The ball remains in play until the umpire calls "Time", which should be done when the ball is held by a player in the infield area and, in the opinion of the umpire, all play has ceased.
e) Bases awarded when the ball leaves the playing area:
i) When the ball is overthrown out of the playing area, each base runner is awarded 2 bases as follows:
1) If a first throw by an infielder, 2 bases from their position at the time of the pitch.
2) If a throw by an outfielder or the result of any succeeding play or attempted play, 2 bases from the last base touched when the throw left the thrower's hand.
ii) When a fielder loses possession of the ball (such as on an attempted tag play or the catcher fails to hold on to a pitched ball) and the ball then enters the dead ball area, all runners are awarded one base from the last base touched at the time the ball entered the dead ball area.
iii) When a legally hit fair ball bounces out of the playing area the ball is dead and all base runners are awarded 2 bases from the base they occupied at the time of the pitch. This includes a ball which bounds out of play after contacting a fielder attempting to make a play.
iv) When a fielder intentionally causes a legally batted ball to leave the playing area, the umpire shall award all runners a minimum of three bases.
v) When a legally played ball is carried by the fielder out of the playing area, the ball is live and play should continue.
8. PLAYER CONDUCT:
a) A maximum of one person per team, including the coach, may be designated to speak with the umpires in case of a disputed call. This person must be identified to the umpire before the start of the game.
b) The following are grounds for ejection from a game:
i) Profane or abusive language.
ii) Visible displays of temper (throwing objects).
iii) Intentional and violent collision with an opposing player.
iv) Fighting.
c) All ejections will result in the player being barred from further play in the tournament.
d) Continued harassment of umpires, opposing players or bystanders after an ejection will result in additional disciplinary action against the team.
9. STANDINGS
a) Standings will be decided based on 2 points for a win, and 1 point for a tie (teams will play extra innings only if time permits).
The number of teams qualifying for the Playoffs may change from year to year depending upon the number of teams registered and the time available to all the necessary games. The schedule will show who qualifies for the playoffs.
If there is a tie in the standings between two or more teams, the final standing will be decided on the basis of:
1) most wins
2) record in games played between the teams tied (only if all teams tied are in the same division)
3) Best run differential (runs 'for' minus runs 'against').
4) Coin toss
A full inning must therefore be played even if the home team is ahead in the final inning.
All teams playing 4 games, will by draw out of a hat, have 1 game removed from their standings. The draw will be done after they have played their 4th game.
Home field advantage for the playoffs, will be given by order of standings.
b) If a team defaults a game, their opponents will be awarded the 2 points and a default score of 10 – 0.
c) If inclement weather necessitates postponing a game, or several games, play will resume according to the games scheduled, and postponed games will be re-scheduled according to park availability.
10. Ground Rules
For Ecclestone Park: Any batted ball hit in the air or on the ground outside the established limits of the playing field is ruled to be a DOUBLE. For this park the established limit in Left field is a line of sight, at the base of trees, parallel to the First Base line. The established limit in Right field is a line of sight, from the pole closest to the right field foul line, parallel to the Third Base line. The point where these 2 lines of sight intersect establishes the limits for Centre field.
Any ball hit into or past the trees in Left field is a DOUBLE.
Any ball hit past the Poles in Right field is a DOUBLE.
Any ball hit past the limits of Centre field is a DOUBLE.
For Parc Des Benevoles:
This is a fully fenced ball park. No special Ground Rules.
For Alexander Park
Any ball hit On the Fly through the trees OR On the Fly into the bushes in Right field is a HOMERUN.
Any ball hit On the Ground through the trees OR On the Ground into the bushes in Right field is a DOUBLE.
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Q: Error trying to extend SonataMediaBundle "Impossible to invoke a method ("id") on a null variable" I'm  trying to extend the media class of SonataMediaBundle. I want to generate my own media to add more relations and properties.
But now I am stuck with this error:

Impossible to invoke a method ("id") on a null variable in
  SonataDoctrineORMAdminBundle:Form:form_admin_fields.html.twig at line
  59.

My service declaration is:
services:
    gallery.admin.image:
        class: GalleryBundle\Admin\ImageAdmin
        arguments: [~, GalleryBundle\Entity\Image, SonataMediaBundle:MediaAdmin, @sonata.media.pool, @sonata.classification.manager.category]
        tags:
            - { name: sonata.admin, manager_type: orm, group: sonata_media, label_catalogue: SonataMediaBundle, label: Gallery}
        calls:
            - [ setModelManager, [@sonata.media.admin.media.manager]]
            - [ setTranslationDomain, [SonataMediaBundle]]
            - [ setTemplates, [[inner_list_row: SonataMediaBundle:MediaAdmin:inner_row_media.html.twig, outer_list_rows_mosaic: SonataMediaBundle:MediaAdmin:list_outer_rows_mosaic.html.twig, base_list_field: SonataAdminBundle:CRUD:base_list_flat_field.html.twig, list: SonataMediaBundle:MediaAdmin:list.html.twig, edit: SonataMediaBundle:MediaAdmin:edit.html.twig]]]

My admin class is:
use Sonata\AdminBundle\Datagrid\DatagridMapper;
use Sonata\AdminBundle\Form\FormMapper;
use Sonata\ClassificationBundle\Model\CategoryManagerInterface;
use Sonata\MediaBundle\Admin\BaseMediaAdmin;
use Sonata\MediaBundle\Admin\ORM\MediaAdmin;
use Sonata\MediaBundle\Provider\Pool;

class ImageAdmin extends BaseMediaAdmin
{
    public function __construct($code, $class, $baseControllerName, Pool $pool, CategoryManagerInterface $categoryManager)
    {
        parent::__construct($code, $class, $baseControllerName, $pool, $categoryManager);
    }

    protected function configureFormFields(FormMapper $formMapper)
    {
        $formMapper
            ->with('Basic')
            ->add('tags', 'sonata_type_model', [
                'multiple' => true,
            ])
            ->end()
        ;
        parent::configureFormFields($formMapper);
    }
}

And my Entity is:
use BlogBundle\Entity\PostTag;
use Doctrine\Common\Collections\ArrayCollection;
use Doctrine\Common\Collections\Collection;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Sonata\MediaBundle\Model\Media;

/**
 * Image
 *
 * @ORM\Table(name="image")
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="GalleryBundle\Repository\ImageRepository")
 */
class Image extends Media
{
    /**
     * @var int
     *
     * @ORM\Column(name="id", type="integer")
     * @ORM\Id
     * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
     */
    private $id;

    /**
     * @ORM\ManyToMany(targetEntity="BlogBundle\Entity\PostTag", inversedBy="gallery_images")
     */
    protected $tags;

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->tags = new ArrayCollection();
    }

    /**
     * Get id
     *
     * @return int
     */
    public function getId()
    {
        return $this->id;
    }

    /**
     * Add tag.
     *
     * @param PostTag $tag
     *
     * @return Image
     */
    public function addTag(PostTag $tag)
    {
        $this->tags[] = $tag;

        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Remove tag.
     *
     * @param PostTag $tag
     */
    public function removeTag(PostTag $tag)
    {
        $this->tags->removeElement($tag);
    }

    /**
     * Get tags.
     *
     * @return Collection
     */
    public function getTags()
    {
        return $this->tags;
    }
}

I know that the problem would be fixed using the next version. But with our current server we cannot upgrade. The project is already on production, and I can't afford to remake it.
I have seen that the problem was because I would have more than one sonata_type_model, in the definition of the admin. But no matter how much I delete the relation with PostTags the error persists.
I don't know if the service definition is wrong or I have forgotten an event call or something.
I would appreciate any help.
Thanks

A: My suggestions are:
When you are creating your builder, use 'empty_on_new' => false.

empty_on_new (default is true): the related data transformer will return null instead of an empty Media instance if no binary content is provided

https://sonata-project.org/bundles/media/3-x/doc/reference/form.html
And you have a ManyToMany relation with PostTags.
Why doesn't you use 'sonata_type_collection' in your ImageAdmin instead of 'sonata_type_model' ?
https://sonata-project.org/bundles/admin/master/doc/reference/form_types.html#sonata-corebundle-form-type-collectiontype
I hope it will help you.
Good luck !

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Pet Supplies Plus Ranked No. 21 on Entrepreneur Magazine's Franchise 500
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Named Top Pet Franchise for the Seventh-Consecutive Year
January 21, 2021 // Franchising.com // LIVONIA, Mich. - Pet Supplies Plus ranked 21st on Entrepreneur Magazine's 2021 Franchise 500 list.
The pet retailer known for its neighborhood friendliness and "Minus the hassle" shopping experience, jumped 29 spots compared to last year's ranking and was named No. 1 in the "Pet Store" category for the seventh-consecutive year.
The 42nd-annual Franchise 500 ranking was calculated with a proprietary formula built to evaluate franchises using five key factors: growth and size; brand strength; costs and fees; franchise support; and financial strength and stability.
The growth of Pet Supplies Plus only supports the brand's reputation as a recession-resilient franchise opportunity. In fact, the franchise is expected to open 100 new stores this year, which includes rebranding nearly 40 previously-operated Pet Valu stores across seven states. The real estate transaction alone increased the brand's paw print by 10 percent.
In addition, the retailer with 30-plus years of industry expertise, omni-channel shopping and turnkey processes signed 87 franchise agreements in 2020. The recently-signed deals include former independent pet store owners who joined for the support and systems that come along with an established national brand. It also included existing restaurant owners who expanded their business portfolio with a compatible add-on business and notable AUV.
"The pet industry is strong, and when that is paired with a historically-successful franchise system well known for its unwavering support to its owners, it's inevitable our strength and stability would be recognized and attract entrepreneurs," said CEO Chris Rowland. "The signings were all investors eager to join or expand their existing presence with our pet-loving, passionate brand."
Pet Supplies Plus has remained one the fastest-growing pet retailers because the company's tagline, Minus the hassle, extends to the franchise owners as well. This entails taking care of all the back-office duties, including IT support, reliable data, merchandising, marketing, supply chain, promotions, pricing and managing their social media.
"We're evidence that local retail works when it is powered by a passion-driven franchisee and backed by a large organization designed to provide top-of-the-line processes and services built both for our locally-owned stores and corporate locations," said Rowland. "We want the owners bringing the in-store, delivery and curbside experience alive and running it smoothly for the neighbor's convenience and all their individual pet needs."
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Emmy Predictions 2020 - Who Will Likely Be Nominated for Guest Actress in a Drama Series?
From July 2 to July 13, 2020, voting is taking place for The 72nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. As such, it's fun to look at which actors and shows have the best chances of actually being nominated this year. So, these are my predictions for who will be nominated for Guest Actress in a Drama Series.
2019 Nominees:
Laverne Cox for Netflix's Orange Is the New Black
Cherry Jones for Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale (WINNER)
Jessica Lange for FX's American Horror Story: Apocalypse
Phylicia Rashad for NBC's This Is Us
Cicely Tyson for ABC's How to Get Away With Murder
Carice van Houten for HBO's Game of Thrones
Lately, it seems like there have been more and more actors who score numerous nominations each year because they are busy with a number of projects that also garner Emmy buzz. However, it's exceedingly rare for a performer to be nominated more than once in the same category. That feat could happen here with Cherry Jones. She's eligible for HBO's Succession and once more for Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale. Now, it's not a given that she will score two of the slots. The probability is high. That would be a stunning and well-deserved feat. The rest of the field could look similar as well. Cicely Tyson has become a perennial nominee. There is no reason to think that she will miss out for the final season of ABC's How to Get Away With Murder. It may be more difficult for Laverne Cox to return - also for the final season of Netflix's Orange Is the New Black. It's certainly possible though. Meanwhile, This Is Us could increase its presence with the return of Phylicia Rashad and new addition Pamela Adlon - who is already admired by the voters (though not enough to get a long overdue nod for directing her FX series Better Things). This category could be defined by familiarity. The voters could go for the faces they always nominate. There may only be a few surprises. Those may only come from a few select shows. And so, that makes this one of the more stable fields to predict this year.
For the 2020 awards ceremony, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences decided to tie the number of nominations to the number of submissions in each category. For Guest Actress in a Drama Series, 109 actresses were eligible on the ballot. That will translate to six nominees in this category.
Actors most likely to be nominated:
Alexis Bledel for Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale
Cherry Jones for HBO's Succession
Pamela Adlon for NBC's This Is Us
Cherry Jones for Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale
Serious threats that could break through:
Julie Dretzin and Clea Duvall for Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale
Jane Lapotaire and Emerald Fennell for Netflix's The Crown
Harriet Walter for HBO's Succession
Mindy Kaling and Brett Butler for AppleTV+'s The Morning Show
Julianna Margulies for Showtime's Billions
Gloria Reuben for USA's Mr. Robot
Elizabeth Perkins, Jennifer Morrison, Sophia Bush, Alexandra Breckenridge and Rachel Hilson for NBC's This Is Us
Rachel Dratch and Lorraine Toussaint for CBS All Access' The Good Fight
Mary Steenburgen for Showtime's On Becoming a God in Central Florida
Joan Cusack for Amazon's Homecoming
Some considerable long-shots:
Sharon Stone for HBO's The New Pope
Miley Cyrus for Netflix's Black Mirror
Jennifer Jason Leigh and Sanaa Lathan for Showtime's The Affair
Amy Hargreaves for Showtime's Homeland
Katja Herbers for HBO's Westworld
Maria Doyle Kennedy for Starz's Outlander
Kerry Bishé, Victoria Pedretti and Hailey Kilgore for AppleTV+'s Amazing Stories
Abby Ryder Fortson for Amazon's Tales From the Loop
Gabriella Pizzolo for Netflix's Stranger Things
Sierra McClain for Netflix's Mindhunter
Saffron Burrows for Netflix's You
Colorful oddities who still have an outside chance:
Renée Elise Goldsberry, Annaleigh Ashford, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Karen Pittman and Tara Summers for CBS' Evil
Daniela Vega and Jen Richards for Netflix's Armisteud Maupin's Tales of the City
Marina Sirtis for CBS All Access' Star Trek: Picard
Mina-Na Wen and Emily Swallow for Disney+'s The Mandalorian
Connie Britton for FOX's 9-1-1
Laila Robins for Amazon's The Boys
Cathy Moriarty for Showtime's City on a Hill
Trace Lysette for OWN's David Makes Man
Sosie Bacon for Netflix's Narcos: Mexico
Katherine Moennig for Showtime's Ray Donovan
What do you think? Do you agree or disagree with my choices? Let me know in the comments below!
Posted by Brett Hense at 2:00 PM
Labels: Billions , Emmys , How to Get Away With Murder , Mr Robot , On Becoming a God in Central Florida , Orange Is The New Black , Succession , The Crown , The Good Fight , The Handmaid's Tale , The Morning Show , This Is Us
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Pfizer Uses Model-Based Drug Development to Help Reduce Phase II Attrition Rates
Reduce phase II attrition in clinical drug trials
Model and simulate biological systems to guide the selection of biological pathways, targets, dosing regimens, and patient populations
Insight into the drug-body interaction deepened
Costly laboratory resource spending and clinical trials avoided
Research productivity increased
"Pfizer is integrating modeling, simulation, and statistical analysis throughout drug discovery and development. This approach helps reduce phase II attrition by guiding the selection of the best biological pathway, target, molecule, dosing regimen, and patient population."
Dr. Piet van der Graaf, Pfizer
Example pathway model (top) and drug response simulation (bottom).
By the time a new drug reaches phase II clinical trials, the pharmaceutical company has invested millions of dollars and years of research and development. If late-stage trials show that the drug is insufficiently effective or causes unacceptable side effects, much of that investment is wasted. This phase II attrition poses serious challenges for pharmaceutical companies, not only for financial reasons, but also because it drains development resources away from successful new treatments.
Pfizer researchers use computational tools such as MATLAB® and SimBiology® to support model-based drug development and help reduce phase II attrition. "A growing database of published biological studies provides snapshots of the enormously complex systems that make up the human body," says Dr. Neil Benson, associate research fellow in the department of Pharmacokinetics, Dynamics and Metabolism (PDM) at Pfizer. "SimBiology enables us to construct sophisticated models of biological systems based on available research data. By simulating these systems we can better understand their kinetics and dynamics and then use that understanding to focus our research on the most promising biological targets."
Pfizer is committed to model-based drug development. "Phase II attrition needs to be tackled at the root causes—right from the selection of the biological target in early discovery," says Dr. Piet van der Graaf, senior director, Pharmacometrics and Clinical Pharmacology at Pfizer. "We wanted to apply modeling and simulation in the earlier phases of drug research and bridge the gap between systems biology and pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) modeling approaches."
The text-based interfaces of some modeling software packages can make it difficult to construct and share increasingly sophisticated models. "We had to write all the equations by hand. As our models got bigger, there were many more equations to type in, and constructing them and ensuring consistency of the units became very laborious," says Benson. "In addition, when we needed to communicate our work with other researchers, the long list of equations was not easy for them to understand, particularly if they were not expert modelers."
Projects typically require significant preclinical laboratory investment to build confidence in an approach and subsequent clinical trials to validate hypotheses. To avoid spending millions of dollars and years of research effort on projects or approaches that cannot succeed, Pfizer wanted to be able to identify and terminate them earlier.
Pfizer has started to develop an integrated Systems Pharmacology approach in which researchers use tools such as MATLAB and SimBiology to model, simulate, and analyze biological systems in the earliest stages of discovery and throughout development.
Researchers construct Systems Pharmacology models to answer questions about a given pathway, such as which receptors are likely to be the best targets and what concentration of drug compound is needed to achieve the required inhibition.
Sometimes the group bases the initial model on a published Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) model, imported directly into SimBiology and other software tools.
They next perform sensitivity analysis to identify and rank the most important targets in the model, using simulation events to model the introduction of a particular drug into the system.
They visualize results by reviewing diagnostic plots, including time course plots with and without the drug present.
Using visual interfaces, they share the model, the plots, and other simulation results with the project team for the drug, who provide parameter estimates or other input to further refine the model.
On one project, the team explored the effectiveness of using small interfering RNA (siRNA) to inhibit the IKK enzyme in the NF-kB pathway. After constructing and simulating a model with 26 species and 64 parameters, they found that the level of inhibition siRNA provided was not sufficient to achieve the needed result. Subsequent experimental results were consistent with this conclusion.
Pfizer is currently assembling a library of Systems Pharmacology model components that can be reused for different projects to further accelerate analysis using PK and systems biology models.
Insight into the drug-body interaction deepened. "I'm not a mathematician, but with SimBiology I've constructed models with up to 400 ordinary differential equations," says Benson. "SimBiology let me create more complex models than I ever had before, and provided deeper insight into how they worked by enabling analysis of their kinetics and dynamics."
Costly laboratory resource spending and clinical trials avoided. "On multiple projects, including the one focused on siRNA and the NF-kB pathway, results from Systems Pharmacology have demonstrated that a particular drug would not work and ultimately the data generated were consistent with this," notes Benson. "In the case of the siRNA project, the modeling could have been carried out prior to engaging any laboratory resource."
Research productivity increased. "During drug discovery, lots of experiments can be performed," notes Benson. "We use Systems Pharmacology results to focus these efforts and propose optimal experiments. We can narrow the experiments we perform, focusing on the most promising biological targets."
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'American Vandal': Comedian Ryan O'Flanagan Explains The Chance Encounter That Led To His Role As Creep Teacher Mr. Kraz
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It's not easy to be a scene-stealer in an ensemble as fun as the one American Vandal created, yet somehow comedian Ryan O'Flanagan managed to make viewers perk up every time he popped on screen with another creepy comment. As young teacher Mr. Kraz, O'Flanagan sure knew how to make saying the wrong thing feel so right.
While in New York City ahead of his stand-up show at Caroline's this Thursday night, we caught up with him about the surprising way he ended up on the show, the deleted scene that could've implicated Kraz in the crime, and who his favorite character is in the show. He also gave us the details on his latest (and super hilarious) webseries with Funny or Die, and recalled what it was like to film an episode of New Girl with Zooey Deschanel (great news: she's super cool!).
Have people at your comedy shows started to talk to you about American Vandal, and what has their reaction been?
Yeah. Well, I didn't know how many people were going to watch it, but it's gotten such good reviews. Netflix puts out a lot of stuff, so I didn't know if it was going to just fall under the radar, but people are really impressed with how well it's done for a really long dick joke. So the word is getting out. I got recognized on the subway on the way here. That was a memorable role to play, so it's been cool.
When you read it, what was your reaction?
I think it's a lot funnier on the screen. Reading it, I couldn't tell how it was going to be. These two guys who thought of the idea, Tony [Yacenda] and Dan [Perrault], I actually met Tony on a train in LA.
By accident?
Well, he knew my sketch group. And that's actually how we met. He was like, "Hey, you wanna audition for this thing?" So I went and auditioned, that's actually how I got the part. Reading it, I was like, it's funny. It's a lot of dick stuff, and it's so well written. I've never read a script that was written for a fake documentary. There are so many cuts and quick shots and they wrote out all of it. I was really just impressed with it, and then seeing it on the screen, it was like, yeah, it came out great.
Did you watch the whole thing when it came out?
I did not actually. We had a viewing party which was the first two episodes, which I'm barely in. I'm really in the third one. Then I had to go on the road for like a week and a half, and everyone's like, "I love you!" and I'm like, "Was I good?" But yeah, I'm excited with how it came out.
Who do you think did it?
I think Kraz did it. I'm telling people. I didn't realize they left it open-ended. My interpretation was that Christa Carlyle did it. I think that, to this day, that's the strongest case. But also there's a case for Kraz, because he hates Rafferty. I would like to think my role had something cool about it like that. But if I had to guess, I'm going to say Christa Carlyle.
G. said that too. Have you had a chance to meet the rest of the cast?
Not really. I didn't have a lot of scenes with other people. It was mostly just interviews for my scenes. I met Christa, we had a quick little scene. She was selling shirts and I took a shirt.
The Free Dylan shirts.
Yeah. There's actually a scene that got cut out, where Sam (Griffin Gluck) and Gabi (Camille Hyde), they're timing out how fast you can draw the dicks with spray paint, and I catch them and I'm like, "Hey, what are you guys doing." And then they're like, "Oh, no, Mr. Kraz," and then I'm like, "You're doing it all wrong." And then I draw a dick really good, so that's supposed to make people be like, oh wait a sec. So I got to meet them, but I never did any scenes with Jimmy (Tatro) who played Dylan, or the guy who played Alex Trimboli (Calum Worthy), he was I think my favorite part of the whole show. But I never got to do any scenes with him or anything.
He had a huge movie at the Toronto Film Festival, too, Bodied. So he's going to be a big star and then people are going to be like, "Oh, you're in that dick show!"
Yeah, he's awesome. He's a Disney guy or something.
Yeah, a lot of these young actors have a few big credits to their name, so they didn't just come out of nowhere, but it's also like, they're 18.
It's so weird. That girl who plays Sarah Pearson (Saxon Sharbino), in real life she's 17 years old. I was like, "Oh my god, I have to talk about how hot she is?"
Were you worried about being too creepy or not creepy enough?
I was like, "If you guys let me be creepy, I'll be as creepy as you want me to be." That kind of stuff was funny because it fits the character. It's like, oh yeah, this dude. But it was weird because we had the viewing party, and episode two is the episode where I say that "I don't want to say one of my students is super hot," so that was the only line I really had in the whole episode. Then we had this afterparty, and everyone's like, "Hey, you're the pedophile!" I was like "No, I have a bigger story line, I promise."
Did you do a lot of improv with this, too?
A lot, yeah. Because the director, Tony was like, "Come over to my apartment and we can just talk out the scenes and see if you just come up with anything," and we just kind of riffed. On set we had the lines and they just let me go for just like 10, 15 minutes each take just talking. So a lot of what made it onto the show was a lot of just messing around, which was super fun.
I read that they gave each person an info sheet about their character. Did yours have anything fun on it?
Kraz was like…Kraz was fun. It was a little insulting. It was like, "A guy who looks cool but you know he's not cool. Definitely thinks he's cool." It was so fun to pay that character. Just like, an idiot, who thinks everyone likes him and no one likes him. I love when they cut to Rafferty and Rafferty's like, "I feel like I know that guy." Me and Rafferty, we go way back. But yeah, it was super fun character to play, just a bro idiot.
Have you heard anything about season 2?
I've heard whispers of a season 2. I don't know how much I can say. But it would be a different school, so it would be all different characters. But I think Peter (Tyler Alvarez) would remain the interviewer.
Yeah, Tyler told us he will be involved.
Okay. So Kraz, I mean, he got fired. He's looking for a job.
He's available.
He's available for season 2.
I want to ask you too about your episode of New Girl. I love that episode (Season 4, "Dice"). Did you enjoy it?
I loved it. To this day, that's what I get recognized for the most. It was just one episode, it's crazy.
But it was a really good one.
Thank you. People love that show. I'd never seen it, so I tried to catch up on what the vibe of the show was. It's so much funnier than I realized. I kind of thought it was just a whatever sitcom, and it's super funny. I met Zooey (Deschanel) and I met Max (Greenfield) in that scene, and they were both the coolest, I couldn't believe it. Zooey is the nicest person, which I guess you could expect. But sometimes people are famous and they're just pieces of shit. But she was super cool.
Can we talk about your Funny or Die series too? I watched a bunch of them and just laughed.
They're the dumbest thing in the whole world.
They're the best. How do those happen? Do you just say, "I just want to go here," and then you go?
Well, the first one I made was just on Hollywood Boulevard, which is right on my block. So I thought it would be funny to just be a dumb guy who's excited to be in Hollywood and who doesn't know what he's even excited about. Like, pronouncing everything wrong and doesn't know who anyone is. I thought that would be a funny character. So I started saying just a lot of "ass," and I put that on my Facebook because I'd started doing just one-off videos, but then that one got like a hundred-something thousand views, just on my Facebook. And I was working on American Vandal, and the wrap party for American Vandal was the night after I put that video out. I was talking to some Funny or Die people, because they produced American Vandal, and I was like, "Hey I did this video yesterday," and they were like, "Yeah, I saw it. We'll send it to our digital team," and now we'll film three while I'm out on the road. During the day I'll film and then at night I'll do a show. They went really well, and by the third one, they were each getting like a million views. So they recently started sending me places just to film. Which was like, three weeks ago they just started doing that. But mostly it's just places I'm just doing shows.
But it's just you.
It's just me and my phone. Me and my iPhone 5C.
Check out Ryan's website for more of his Ryan Does Places videos and comedy tour dates.
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