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Highlighting METRO's Office of Extraordinary Innovation
As an architect, do you have some innovative ideas for how to increase connectivity, mobility and access for all Angelos? If so, you may want to learn more about METRO's Office of Extraordinary Innovation and their Unsolicited Proposal process.
The Office of Extraordinary Innovation (OEI) was established to explore "leading-edge" ideas that will improve mobility for people in the Los Angeles region. The OEI is tasked with identifying, evaluating, developing and implementing these new ideas whether with METRO directly or with collaborative partnerships. One of the ways they attract these partnerships is through an open-call Unsolicited Proposal (UP) process.
We reached our to METRO's Chief Innovation Officer, Joshua L. Schank, to learn more about the UP process to date.
The OEI's unsolicited RFP process has been recognized as a leading example for progressive procurement/ project-delivery. Tell us more about it's objectives:
"As the Office of Extraordinary Innovation (OEI), we have an Unsolicited Proposal (UP) process that is definitely cutting edge and several other public agencies have shown an interest in emulating it. Together with our Vendor/Contract Management (V/CM) department and the rest of Metro we have fostered significant innovations in the procurement process. However, the UP process is not an RFP process. It can potentially lead to an RFP, but the UP process is a way for the private sector to submit their ideas and have them fairly considered. If Metro decides to move forward with an idea, the eventual outcome is likely to be an RFP."
What were the original steps required to implement the process?
The UP process began with a new UP Policy, which can be seen on the Metro website. We released that new policy at an Industry Forum in February 2016. Hundreds of industry leaders attended the Forum, which Metro hosted, and learned about the new policy and our interest in seeking ideas from the private sector. After the Forum we began to receive numerous UPs. Each UP requires a review team composed of people from multiple departments across Metro. A second critical step was establishing these reviews as a priority in order to ensure timely review.
How many unsolicited RFP's have you received?
How many have you selected? We do not "select" UPs but if successful they may proceed to RFP. So far 12 have made it that far. And/or presently further considering? 24 are still under some stage of review
How many projects (if any), among the selected, are in "production"?
12 are in some stage of production
With your selection criteria in mind, what are the projects that most likely to capture METRO's interest?
The most successful ideas are those that have tried to address a real need Metro currently has. We encourage people to come forward with their ideas before submitting a UP so that we can give appropriate feedback. We are also planning to issue a series of challenge statements to the private sector to help focus ideas on critical issues for Metro so stay tuned.
What's the budget threshold (or range) for the selected projects?
We have received ideas for projects with budgets between $0 and $10 billion. Almost anything we do is on the table!
Any other relevant information?
To clarify these proposals are not just about infrastructure. In fact only 11 of them have been for major capital projects – others are in technology, environmental sustainability, financing, data analytics, fare payment, and more!
Joshua L. Schank - Chief Innovation Officer, Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Joshua L. Schank is the first ever Chief Innovation Officer at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro), where he leads the Office of Extraordinary Innovation (OEI). The role of this office is to champion new ideas to improve mobility in LA County by informing the high-level vision for LA Metro, piloting and implementing new and experimental programs and policy, and serving as the primary liaison for new ideas relevant to LA Metro coming from entrepreneurs, established private sector entities, academia, or individual residents. The office is also responsible for LA Metro's Public Private Partnership (P3), and strategic planning functions.
Prior to joining LA Metro, Dr. Schank was President and CEO of the Eno Center for Transportation, a national non-profit think-tank with the mission of improving transportation policy and leadership. Before joining Eno, he directed the National Transportation Policy Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center, which proposed a new vision for the Federal role in surface transportation policy.
Dr. Schank was Transportation Policy Advisor to Senator Hillary Clinton during the development of the last surface transportation authorization bill (SAFETEA-LU). He has also worked as a Consultant with PB Consult and Senior Associate at ICF International in Washington, D.C., as well as serving in positions at the Office of the Inspector General's in the U.S. Department of Transportation, and with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City.
Dr. Schank's extensive work in transportation policy and planning is well documented in his publications, including "All Roads Lead to Congress: The $300 Billion Fight Over Highway Funding," co-authored with Costas Panagopoulos and published by CQ Press in 2007. He holds a Ph.D. in urban planning from Columbia University, a Master of City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.A. in urban studies from Columbia University.
He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Lindsey and his sons Max and Jonah.
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The Best 30 Rock Episodes: A Chronological Journey, Part Two
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Season 4, Episode 7: "Dealbreakers Talk Show #0001"
30 Rock's ensemble cast began to sprawl out as the show went on, serving some characters better than others. In the first few seasons Jenna Maroney played an integral role as Liz's best friend and working nightmare, the grotesquely narcissistic star of TGS who still made time to give her friend terrible life advice. But as Liz and Jack's corporate relationship grew more personal, Jenna was often shunted into B and C stories; as her craziness became more outsized her position as Liz's friend became more precarious. This is not to suggest Jane Krakowski doesn't give everything she gets her all. But it does seem a bit of a shame in retrospect, especially when her presence can lift an entire episode into greatness, as it does with "Dealbreakers." The early portion of season four introduced a new arc for Liz as she publishes a bestseller based on a catchphrase of one of Jenna's TGS characters, but in another example of 30 Rock mocking the expectations of serialized stories (or, less charitably, losing interest in them), Liz's shot at starring in a show based on the book is short-lived. After a disastrously hilarious shoot during which Liz turns into a bizarre marionette-approximation of a human ("Remember waving?" Pete yells helplessly) she locks herself in her dressing room and refuses to come out, just as Jenna often does, leading Jack to seek her counsel. This whole episode is about the fluidity of character traits; in Liz's absence from the writer's room, Frank, another supporting cast member I've yet to mention, steps into her role as den mother, scolding his colleagues and dressing in frumpy sweaters. It wouldn't work if we didn't know all these characters so well by now; by episode's end the reset button has been hit but it's still a jolt to a series that was starting to show its limits.
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Wish instead of screening the Carpenter parking from the road the neighbors had proposed locating all of it behind the complex. Missed opportunity to define a streetwall along 13.
There was concern that if they were closer to 13, they would get greater blowback from nearby residents. The buildings will be 4-6 floors, and the idea was that if they were pulled back from the existing neighborhood a bit, they'd seem less imposing.
That's fine, but maybe a …terrace for eating outside screened off from 13 instead? Parking just reinforces its suburbanality so much.
On that note, I'd love to see the parking in front of Gateway Commons made into a public square or something. It's not like there isn't capacity in the back lot. Could even be coupled with reconfiguring that intersection to be more pedestrian friendly.
The intersection would be tough because those are state highways – state DOT would need to sign off.
There are plans to add a third building (senior housing) and a parking garage to the Gateway complex, so maybe that would allow for the parking area to be reconfigured. Have to wait and see, I guess.


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Also published on this date: Shelf Awareness for Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Tuesday, April 9, 2013: Maximum Shelf: The World's Strongest Librarian
The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family
by Josh Hanagarne
Josh Hanagarne, blogger at The World's Strongest Librarian, "might be the only person whose first three-hundred-pound bench press was accompanied by the Recorded Books production of Don Quixote." This is just one of his remarkable singularities. A gentle giant who tears phone books for fun, at 6'7" he tends to catch the eye at the Salt Lake City Public Library, even when his Tourette Syndrome is not acting up. His memoir explores these contradictions and oddities, and his remarkable journey from idyllic childhood to painfully jerky young adulthood to a contented family and work life.
Hanagarne had a happy childhood, beloved by his mother, an incorrigible prankster and devout Mormon, and his devoted, irreverent bear of a father. He grew up in libraries, a passionate bookworm disturbed only by the tics that began in first grade but would go undiagnosed until high school (although his father suspected Tourette's from the beginning). By young adulthood, they were not only embarrassing but violent and debilitating. He would eventually suffer a hernia from the force of his involuntary shouting tics, and his larger movements resulted in injury to himself and chaos in his immediate surroundings. After high school he spent years trying numerous cures, in and out of college, working various jobs and struggling with depression. Lifting weights at the gym stilled the tics somewhat, and for a while he got regular Botox injections in his vocal cords to quiet the shouts and whoops. During that time he met and married a lovely Mormon folklorist named Janette. For the first eight months of marriage, he couldn't speak to her above a whisper.
Although deeply in love, the atmosphere of Josh and Janette's story early in their marriage remains clouded. For years they try to get pregnant. Janette suffers two miscarriages and they are harshly rejected by the Mormon Church as adoptive parents. Josh continues to tussle with Tourette's. For a short time, he finds a position as assistant special educator quite satisfying, not least because his tics become unremarkable in a room full of special needs. But he soon leaves that job, because he seeks challenge: crucially, he aspires to overcome Tourette's, to beat his tics into submission. Pondering what might present the greatest challenge to a man who can't keep quiet, Josh is drawn to the quietest place he knows, a place that has always offered succor and delight. He gets a job as a clerk in the library and begins a master's program in library science. And a key piece of marital bliss is finally achieved when Janette delivers a healthy baby boy named Max.
Josh continues to battle Tourette's in the gym, discovers kettlebell lifting along the way, and makes a new friend in Adam Glass, a former Air Force tech sergeant and strongman: he bends wrenches and horseshoes and tears decks of cards and phone books. Josh's story takes an inspiring turn as the twitchy librarian and the foul-mouthed strongman gradually develop a friendship; as Adam helps Josh build strength, together they also begin to understand and subdue the tics. He finds Adam a little strange, and the explanation for his social awkwardness is also what makes him the perfect mentor for overcoming Tourette's: Adam is autistic.
The adult Josh Hanagarne who relates his story is content and stable, happily married, thrilled to be a father to four-year-old Max, and working full-time at the Salt Lake City Public Library. As he relates his stranger-than-fiction story, he intersperses present-day anecdotes from a workplace that he wryly notes is rife with strange and occasionally smelly patrons and events. He muses eloquently and powerfully about the role of libraries in society, and their future possibilities. Throughout his life and this book, Josh struggles with his Mormon faith, as he sets off on the expected mission and faces myriad challenges in school, work, marriage and parenthood. In telling a story about family, church and Tourette Syndrome, he always circles back to libraries and to books, in many charming literary references. And always central to Josh's story is his love of family. From his loving parents and exceptionally close siblings through the clear delight Josh finds in marriage and fatherhood, he stresses the inestimable gift of a loving family.
Josh's memoir is thoughtful, heartfelt, often hilarious-- and unsparingly honest. He is not proud of every moment in his own past, but he shares nonetheless. The image of the man today who wrote this book and who works in a large branch of a public library in a large city is that of a serious yet funny, mature, loving family man, and this image is only partly at odds with the earlier, less secure young man we come to know in these pages. The younger Josh was unsure and unstable, and the author is more comfortable in his own skin. But both have tics, and stories to tell. --Julia Jenkins
Gotham Books, $26, hardcover, 9781592407873, May 2, 2013
Josh Hanagarne: The World's Strongest Librarian Writes
photo: Suzy Steed/A Moment's Reflection Photography
Josh Hanagarne is from Moab, Utah, and lives with his wife, Janette, and son, Max, in Salt Lake City, where he works at the beautiful main branch of the SLC Public Library. His memoir, The World's Strongest Librarian, touches on the bizarrely various pieces of his life: his struggles with Tourette Syndrome; his journey to becoming a husband and a father; his love affair with books and libraries that would eventually lead to a career; an obsession with the gym that became a penchant for tearing phone books and full decks of cards; and a less-than-smooth lifelong relationship with the Mormon Church, where he still finds family and friends but less faith than he once held.
Your book includes a lot of personal and painful history that belongs not only to you but to your wife and family as well. What was the process for sharing those personal details?
It was hard. During the first draft I didn't think too much about how people were going to react. When I started going through on the second draft, I started showing things to Janette or to my mom and asking, is this accurate? Is this something you're okay with having in here? Sometimes it was, sometimes it wasn't. Whenever anybody was mildly uncomfortable with something, I just took it out--nothing of real consequence. I guess when you write a memoir, you choose which periods of your life you're going to represent, and then you choose which episodes best represent those periods. If you're a normal person, sometimes that means you'll look good and sometimes it means you'll look bad. So that wasn't fun, but it was honest, I think, without being tedious and self-flagellating.
I've always used humor kind of in self-defense, because I knew if I could make people laugh I could make them focus on something other than my tics. I think this book is kind of sad, and I think a lot of humor is rooted in something sad. I believe Kurt Vonnegut and Mark Twain both talked towards the ends of their lives about having various forms of irony fatigue, because humor was mainly a self-defensive tool for them. I think in any book where you get to pick and choose what you put in, the sadder stuff's going to get sadder, and the funny stuff's probably going to get funnier.
You've included Dewey classification numbers under each chapter heading. Do you think this resonates with the general population, or mostly just librarians?
I don't know. I think most people, even if they don't get it, will probably be intrigued. Some people have pointed out that they don't all work out exactly the way capital-"L" Librarians think they should, to which I will just say, the numbers do exactly what I want them to do. I think it's eye-catching. I didn't necessarily think of it as being gimmicky, because it really does tie in thematically with each chapter. What I really like about it is that you can kind of see what's coming and yet sometimes not have any clue how one thing will lead to the next.
Tell us about the process of writing this book: When did you write? Were you still working at the library?
This is probably going to disappoint a lot of aspiring writers who put off writing until they have hours of free time every day, but I don't think I ever sat down and wrote for more than 15 minutes at a time. I just can't; the tics won't let me. I wrote whenever I could. I'd guess I rarely wrote more than half an hour total in a day. I do write really fast. I found out that, at least now, I'm the sort of writer who has to make a gigantic mess and then clean it up, because if I start trying to anticipate all the editorial questions on the fly, I just freeze up and I don't get anything done. So I wrote a lot more to get to this book than I probably could have, if I were another writer. I wrote the first draft totally on my own and then I sent it to my editor, and things had just been going so well that I kind of assumed, yeah, my first draft is surely anyone else's fourth or fifth. Then my editor sent it back and said, you've got to get rid of 120 pages. We can't even talk yet. Fix this. Which was a great lesson to learn, and not an easy one. But editing was really kind of fun, because Megan [Newman] is really the right editor for me. I think it took three total drafts between us, but about eight on my part. I learned that it takes a hideous amount of work to appear spontaneous. But it was a lot of fun. The shortest way to answer your question is: I wrote every day, I only wrote for a few minutes at a time, and I just kept going. A big part of it is being willing to show up.
Was the writing process cathartic for you?
If this book hadn't come about, I think I'd probably still be going through the motions in church, trying not to make waves. The ideas I've gotten from church have everything to do with my relationship to my body, and the explanations I thought I owed for my life. In writing the book, I realized, I'm actually going to have to deal with this. So I got into the sticky situation of writing a book about how much I love my family and yet gently distancing myself from the church, knowing that that would be painful for my family. That was the biggest catharsis: realizing that I was going to have to deal with that shift in faith. Spending so much time thinking about that, and trying to word it correctly, is what taught me what I actually do think about it all.
Would you say that you had a message or even a cause to communicate with this book, related to Tourette's, or libraries, or anything else?
I'm not much of a crusader. But when I go speak to groups of people with disabilities, or their parents, or special educators, the reaction I get is so humbling and overwhelming. If people I speak to are actually getting out of this story what they tell me they are, I knew I really needed to do this book as well as I can. So that it can go be me in all the places I can't be. There's definitely no downside to spreading the word about Tourette's. This story seems to inspire some people without me ever needing to claim I can inspire anyone. As far as libraries, obviously this whole book is my love letter to books and libraries. That's not necessarily what I intended, but for me to write about myself honestly, that's the only thing that could have happened.
What do you most want people to know about you that's not in your book?
To entertain my son occasionally in the morning when I put my pants on, I will hold them up at about waist height and I will try to jump into my pants. So I jump all the way up in the air and tuck my knees in and if I do it right, my feet come through the pants and I'm dressed. And if it goes wrong it goes really badly wrong. And about one of every 10 times I can put my pants on this way. Once in a while. You know, one out of 10 might be optimistic. --Julia Jenkins
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Vaccine Reports
Types of COVID-19 Vaccines
This primer outlines key terms and concepts related to COVID-19 vaccines and is intended for members of the general public, policy makers, educators, and key stakeholders.
Lois Privor-Dumm, Director of Adult Vaccines and Senior Advisor for Policy, Advocacy & Communications
William Moss, Executive Director, International Vaccine Access Center, JHU
International Vaccine Access Center
This primer on Covid-19 vaccines consists of a series of brief reports on vaccine development, allocation, and deployment in the United States and globally. The intended audience is the general public as well as policymakers, educators, and key stakeholders interested in a concise guide to Covid-19 vaccines. Topics to be addressed include ensuring the safety and efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines, principles for vaccine allocation, strategies for deployment and delivery of Covid-19 vaccines, vaccine confidence and demand, and the economics of Covid-19 vaccines.
Several different types of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease Covid-19, are in development. Some are based on traditional methods for producing vaccines and others use newer methods.
Vaccines stimulate the human body's own protective immune responses so that, if a person is infected with a pathogen, the immune system can quickly prevent the infection from spreading within the body and causing disease. In this way, vaccines mimic natural infection but without actually causing a person to become sick.
For SARS-CoV-2, antibodies that bind to and block the spike protein on the virus's surface are thought to be most important for protection from disease because the spike protein is what attaches to human cells, allowing the virus to enter. Blocking this entrance prevents infection and thus disease and transmission to others.
Desired vaccine characteristics
The ideal SARS-CoV-2 vaccine would:
be safe and associated with only mild, transient side effects (e.g. soreness and low-grade fever);
confer long-lasting protection (more than a season) in a high proportion of vaccine recipients (e.g. >80%), particularly in vulnerable populations such as the older adults and those with other underlying medical conditions or risk factors such as obesity;
protect not only against disease but prevent virus transmission to others;
be administered as a single dose;
be able to be produced quickly and in large quantities;
be easily stored (e.g., not at ultra-low temperatures, in packaging that does not require a lot of space);
can be easily transported (e.g., outside of the cold-chain or even through the mail); and
can be easily administered (does not require special devices, self-administered or administered by those who do not require much training).
The initial SARS-CoV-2 vaccines will not have all of these characteristics and we may never have a vaccine that does. Different types of vaccines will have different characteristics with different tradeoffs. The most important characteristics are that a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine be safe, shortly after vaccination and in the long term, and protect a substantial proportion of those vaccinated against moderate to severe disease, particularly those in the most vulnerable groups.
Inactivated virus vaccines
Several inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccines have been developed, including those by Sinovac Biotech, Sinopharm, the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products, and Bharat Biotech. Inactivation of viruses is a well-established method to produce vaccines and several inactivated virus vaccines are widely used, including vaccines against influenza, polio, hepatitis A, and rabies viruses. The virus is inactivated so that it can no longer replicate or multiply. The immune system is exposed to viral proteins but the inactivated virus cannot cause disease. The inactivated virus stimulates the body's immune system to produce antibodies so when a person is exposed to the natural virus, antibodies are called to action to fight the virus.
Production of inactivated virus vaccines requires the ability to cultivate or grow the virus in large quantities. Because viruses cannot replicate outside of host cells, vaccine viruses need to be cultured in continuous cell lines or tissues. Influenza virus, for example, is typically grown in eggs to produce the inactivated influenza vaccine. The virus is then purified and concentrated before inactivation with chemicals. Inactivated vaccines typically do not provide immune responses as strong as attenuated (i.e., modified or weakened viruses so they do not cause disease) viral vaccines and may require booster doses to achieve and sustain protection.
Inactivated virus vaccines have been produced for many decades and the manufacturing procedures are well established and relatively straightforward, although there are challenges to producing safe and effective inactivated virus vaccines. First, the inactivation process has to sufficiently inactivate all of the virus without changing viral proteins so much that they induce weak immune responses. Second, the inactivation process cannot alter the virial proteins in a way that results in an abnormal or altered immune response and enhanced disease after exposure to the natural virus. As with all vaccines, the immunogenicity of new inactivated virus vaccines must be rigorously tested to ensure safety and efficacy.
Protein-based vaccines
Many vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 in development include only viral proteins and no genetic material, including those by Novavax, Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline, SpyBiotech, and others. Some use whole viral proteins and others just pieces of viral proteins. For SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, this means either the spike protein on the surface of the virus or a portion of the spike protein called the receptor-binding domain, which binds to host cells (i.e., the cells where viruses can replicate). These protein-based, or subunit, vaccines work much like inactivated vaccines by exposing the immune system to viral proteins and inducing protective immune responses without causing disease. In the case of protein-based vaccines, this is because no genes necessary for virus replication are included in the vaccine.
Protein-based vaccines have been widely used and have a long history of safety and effectiveness. Examples include vaccines for hepatitis B virus, shingles, and the bacteria that cause whooping cough (pertussis). There are different ways of producing recombinant viral proteins, including production of the virus protein in yeast or insect cells. Protein-based vaccines also can be packaged in different ways and combined with vaccine adjuvants (additives in small quantities) that improve or enhance immune responses. The Novavax SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, for example, uses nanoparticles of cholesterol, phospholipid, and saponins from the soap bark tree to deliver viral proteins to cells of the immune system and stimulate strong immune responses.
The addition of adjuvants to vaccines is another common way of enhancing the immune responses to virus proteins. Protein-based vaccines sometimes do not induce strong CD8 T cell responses, the cells that destroy virus-infected cells, and adjuvants can help correct this. Aluminum-containing adjuvants have been used in vaccines since the 1930s in small enough quantities to not cause any harm. Other adjuvants include different lipid formulations and a synthetic form of DNA that mimics bacterial and viral genetic material. Vaccine adjuvants will likely be important to induce strong and durable protection in older adults whose immune systems are less responsive as they age. Vaccines with adjuvants can cause more local reactions, such as redness, swelling, and pain at the injection site, and more systemic reactions such as fever, chills, and body aches, than non-adjuvanted vaccines.
Viral vector vaccines
Viral vector vaccines use another non-replicating virus to deliver SARS-CoV-2 genes, in the form of DNA, into human cells where viral proteins are produced to induce protective immune responses. This viral DNA is not integrated into the host genome (i.e.., all of the body's DNA) but is transcribed or copied into messenger RNA and translated into proteins. Current SARS-CoV-2 viral vectored vaccines use non-replicating human or chimpanzee adenoviruses, including those by AstraZeneca with the University of Oxford, Johnson & Johnson, CanSino Biologics, and the Gamaleya Research Institute, part of Russia's Ministry of Health.
Adenoviruses are a group of approximately 50 common viruses that can cause cold-like symptoms, fever, sore throat, diarrhea, and pink eye. The human adenovirus vectors used for SARS-CoV-2 are weakened forms of adenovirus 5 and adenovirus 26. The weakened vectors do not replicate because important genes have been deleted. These vaccines will likely require at least two doses, although there is some hope that a single dose may induce protective immune responses.
Viral vectors have been studied for several decades for gene therapy, to treat cancer, and for research into molecular biology as well as for vaccines. Viral vectors other than adenoviruses include retroviruses and the vaccinia virus that was used to prevent smallpox. In July 2020, the European Commission approved use of an adenovirus 26 vaccine for Ebola that was manufactured by Johnson & Johnson, the first adenovirus vectored vaccine approved for use in humans, and the same vaccine platform used by Johnson & Johnson for their SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. Large-scale production of viral vector vaccines requires cultivation of the viral vector, such as adenovirus, in cell cultures and virus purification.
Most people have been exposed to multiple adenoviruses and thus have pre-existing immunity that could impair vector entry into host cells. This is a potential limitation of viral vector vaccines using human adenoviruses. The AstraZeneca and University of Oxford vaccine uses a chimpanzee adenovirus as vector, thus minimizing the risk of pre-existing immunity to the vector that might reduce vaccine efficacy.
Genetic vaccines
Instead of using a viral vector to deliver SARS-CoV-2 virus genes to human cells, the genes can be administered directly as either DNA or RNA. Several of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines furthest along in phase 3 trials are messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines that deliver the spike protein gene, including those by Moderna, BioNTec with Pfizer, CureVac, and Imperial College London. Once the genetic sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was known in January 2020, it was relatively straightforward to generate genetic vaccine candidates. mRNA vaccines are easier to develop and manufacture compared to other vaccine types as they do not require cultivating viruses in cells. This is why they were some of the first SARS-CoV-2 vaccines to enter human trials. However, no mRNA vaccine has previously been licensed and approved for humans and most experience with this technology in humans has been for the treatment of cancer.
mRNA vaccines are taken up into cells, but do not need to enter the nucleus to trick the body into producing viral proteins, which then induce immune responses. RNA is particularly potent at inducing innate immune response, the earliest type of response to a pathogen that prevents spread within the body. mRNA is used by the cell as a template to build a protein through the process of translation.
Early phase 1 and 2 studies of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines show these vaccines induce immune responses likely to be protective, including in older adults. However, until phase 3 clinical trials are completed, the safety, efficacy, and duration of protection from mRNA vaccines will not be known and at least two doses will be required.
Advantages and disadvantages of different vaccine types
Until completion of the phase 3 clinical trials, we will not know the safety and efficacy of the different types of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and their relative advantages and disadvantages. It will be important to not only monitor short-term vaccine safety, such as soreness and fever, but the risk of long-term adverse events such as enhanced disease following exposure to natural infection and autoimmune diseases. Of particular interest will be vaccine effectiveness in vulnerable populations such as older adults and those with underlying medical conditions, including diabetes, HIV infection, and chronic heart, kidney, and lung diseases. Protein-based vaccines with adjuvants may be the most likely to induce protective immune responses in elderly adults with weakened immune systems. These different vaccine types will not be interchangeable. Once a vaccine is selected, the same vaccine must be used for a second dose if required.
Many of the vaccines furthest along in development are those for which vaccine delivery platforms existed. mRNA vaccines were developed rapidly after the SARS-CoV-2 genome was sequenced and manufacturing capacity can be rapidly scaled-up. However, some mRNA vaccines have stringent cold chain requirements. The Pfizer and BioNTech mRNA will need to be stored at -70oC until about 48 hours prior to use, when it can be refrigerated, because of the instability of RNA, while the Moderna mRNA vaccine may require storage at -20oC until about one week prior to use. Freezers with the capacity to hold large volumes of vaccine at this temperature will be needed and are not currently part of the existing vaccine supply cold chain.
Lois Privor-Dumm, IMBA, is Director of Adult Vaccines and Senior Advisor for Policy, Advocacy & Communications at the International Vaccine Access Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
William Moss, MD, MPH, is Executive Director of the International Vaccine Access Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.


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		  font: { fontFamily:'Helvetica Neue', fontSize: 18, fontWeight: 'normal' },
		  message: obj.message,
		  style: Ti.Platform.name === 'iPhone OS' ? Ti.UI.iPhone.ActivityIndicatorStyle.DARK : Ti.UI.ActivityIndicatorStyle.DARK,
		  height: Ti.UI.SIZE,
		  width: Ti.UI.SIZE
		});

		//
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			self.activityIndicatorWin.add(self.activityIndicator);

		//on open wnd show indicator
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			self.activityIndicatorWin.addEventListener('open', function (e) {
			 	//show activity indicator
			 	if ( self.activityIndicator )
					self.activityIndicator.show();

			 	//hide activity bar
			 	if ( Ti.Platform.name === "android" && this && this.activity )
				  	this.activity.actionBar.hide();

			});

		//on android back cancel activity
		if ( self.activityIndicatorWin )
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				//run cancel callback
				if ( typeof obj.onBack == 'function' ) {
					var r = obj.onBack.call( self );
					if ( typeof r != 'undefined' )
						return r;
				}

				/*
				this.fireEvent('activity_canceled', {});
				if (webview.canGoBack()) {
			        webview.goBack();
			    } else {
			       a.show(); // show the leaving dialog
			    }
			    return false;
				*/
			});

		//open wnd
		if ( self.activityIndicatorWin )
			self.activityIndicatorWin.open();
	};

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			self.activityIndicatorWin.remove(self.activityIndicator);

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			delete self.activityIndicatorWin;
	};

	return self;
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		var actionBar = view.activity.actionBar;

		//get showBack value
		showBack = typeof showBack === 'undefined' ? false : showBack;

		if ( showBack ) {
			//show back button
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			//go back
			actionBar.onHomeIconItemSelected = function() {
			    Ti.Android.currentActivity.finish();
			};
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				title : "Help",
				icon : "",
				showAsAction : Ti.Android.SHOW_AS_ACTION_WITH_TEXT
			});
			menuItemHelp.addEventListener("click", function(e) {
				alert('Help');
			});

			var menuItemAbout = e.menu.add({
				title : "About",
				icon : "",
				showAsAction : Ti.Android.SHOW_AS_ACTION_WITH_TEXT
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The flagship of Samsung's Galaxy line-up, the Galaxy S III represents the pinnacle of Samsung engineering(at least until the Note 2 came out), and having sold in excess of 20 million units in less than 100 days, is obviously not a dud when it comesto sales. Yoona and Taeyeon themselves are part of that number, showing that the phone attracted the attention of Girls' Generation themselves. But just how good IS this device?I'll be brief: it's damn good. Why? I'll explain.
Picking up the phone, you'll notice one thing: it's plastic. Not cheap plastic, but plastic nonetheless. Definitely a change from the solid-body that the iPhone 5 currently sports, and different that the polycarbonate that other similarly-priced phones have. Still, the ergonomics are great, and it definitely feels like it was designed to be held for long periods of time. Flipping it over, you'll notice the beautiful 4.8 inch Super AMOLED Plus screen, one of the larger ones out there. While not as sharp as Apple's Retina display, it's still very nice, and produces richly saturated colors, though some may find it too saturated for their liking. Other than that, it's got the standard headphone jack, 3 physical buttons, and a volume rocker.
As for usability, it's an Android phone, and it does what Android does best: allows users to tinker and change almost whatever they want. With a quad-core(dual-core in the United States) processor and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, this one of the fastest ones around. Anything you do, from gaming to web browsing to Tweeting happens almost within an instant, and with a larger than normal battery, allows for great battery life for a smartphone, though if you tend to be a constant phone checker, you might notice it draining faster, but still be able to get out a good 6-7 hours before hitting about 20-30% battery life. The Android app store has grown considerably, and while not as large as Apples, definitely offers something for everyone, and many Apple users will be able to find comparable apps to make the transition easier. With an 8-megapixel camera, it delivers great shots, though you'll want to rely on an actual camera for those tricky night shots, or when you really need clarity. But as a basic snapshot camera, it excels, and also has the ability to record 1080p video, and with 16-64 GB's of storage internally, and a microSDHC expansion slot, you never need to worry about running out of room for all your media.
So what are the cons? For one thing, it's big. Not unbearable big, as the small-handed members like Taeyeon and Yoona use it, but for some, may be a bit unwieldy. Also, as I mentioned earlier, the build quality falls a little short, and feels more like a mid-range device, rather than a premium one. The display also isn't as nice as the iPhone's, and colors tend to be a have a bluish hue to them. When it comes to usability, Android's customization is second to none, but some users may not need that much freedom, and it definitely is not as pick-up-and-play as Apple's. Lastly, Samsung tends to be slow when it comes to updating, so while it's starting to roll out Android 4.1 Jellybean, the next update could take several months to get ready, and Samsung has a history of forgoing updates at all.
Overall, this is definitely one of the best Android phones around, and if you want a switch from an iPhone, and don't mind learning a new system, or you love Android and just want something bigger and better(but smaller than the Note 2), the Galaxy S III is the phone for you.
Thanks to Stefania for the Miu Miu tip!


The Senate Finance Committee today rejected two proposals to add a public option — a government-sponsored insurance policy that would compete with private plans — to the health care reform bill put forth by Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.).
Mr. Baucus voted no, as did Senators Thomas R. Carper of Delaware, Kent Conrad of North Dakota, Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, and Bill Nelson of Florida, joining all 10 Republicans in opposition.
A second amendment by Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, to create a different version of a public plan was also defeated, though by a closer margin, 13 to 10, with the added support of Mr. Carper and Mr. Nelson.
Mr. Schumer who voted in favor of both proposals, said supporters of the public option would keep on fighting.
"We are going to keep at this and at this and at this until we succeed, because we believe in it so strongly," he said.
Continue reading for more analysis.
This story in The Hill on the public option was published before today's vote, but it's worth reading for a look at the compromise Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will try to forge between what emerges from the Finance Committee and the Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee bill, which includes a strong public option. Polls show solid public support for a public option.
Plus: Have you seen this video of Robert Reich explaining the public option? He's quite clear and concise.
The rejection of the public option is very sad. There is a very large demographic of people that are being overlooked right now, and a public option would benefit them.
To regulate costs in the medical industry and update the existing Information and communication technologies would certainly cut a large portion of spending, which has featured as primary complaint in this debate all along.
I do hope that the fight for health care continues and does not find its way under the carpet as it did back in the 90's.
Word. He just gets its done.


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Q: How to remove all `input` elements which are lager then this one who calls the function? I'm trying to remove all input element until for loop is reatching the one how trigger the function.
Issues, can i use the remove to delete it from the dom?
second issue it is possible to select the ´class´ so that I can delete/remove it?
They all have the same classname.
I create new INPUT and insert the ID in an ARRAY
function child_input(element) {
  if (order_input.length-1 == 2) {
    alert("ritch lenght")
    return false;
  }
  if (order_input.length-1 >= 2) {
    alert("Fail!!")
  }
  element = document.createElement('input');
  element.type = "number";
  element.classList.add('dropNew');
  element.id = "input"+counter+"";
  element.onmouseleave = function mouseLeave() {
    if (element.value != "") {
      element.readOnly = true;
      element.classList.add('unWriteable');
      element.onmouseleave = false;
      child_input();
      element.addEventListener('dblclick', function() {
        element.classList.remove('unWriteable');
        element.readOnly = false;
        element.onmouseleave = function() {
          //hier würde ich immer den input(child) vorigen löschen...
          mouseLeave();
          removeChild_input(this.id);
        }
      });
    }
  }
  document.querySelector('.Main_Div').append(element);
  order_input.push(element);
  counter++;
}

It can be know a little bit difficult to understand!!
If I now dbclick one of these four input (example the second one) I would like the following input to be deleted. (number 4,3 have be to removed).
  //hold the oldest, and remove all child
    let delete_item = document.querySelector('#'+ id);
    let num_id = id.replace("input", " ");
    num_id = parseInt(num_id);

    for (var i = order_input.length-1; i >= num_id; i--) {
      order_input.slice(-1);
      order_input.pop();
      document.querySelector(".dropNew")[i].remove();
    }
    console.log(order_input.length-1);
}

A: I had to use document.querySelectorAll('+class+')[i].remove()
whole function..,
to delete until the input which trigger the function.
for (var i = order_input.length-1; i >= num_id; i--) {
      order_input.slice(-1);
      order_input.pop();
      document.querySelectorAll(".dropNew")[i].remove();
    }

wish u guys a good night. Thx for the help. refocus ;)

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Rishi Kapoor wants to act in JPNA-2 but can't
Did you enjoy the previous cast of Jawani Phir Nai Ani Part 1? Well the good news is that Mawra Hocane will be doubling the fun. The bubbly and stylish Mawra Hocane grabs her chance in the upcoming sequel Jawani Phir nahin Ani 2 after signing on Hum TV's upcoming Drama "Angan."
If you aren't aware of the previous story line of 2015's JPNA then it starts off with a group of three husbands (Hamza Ali Abbasi, Ahmed Ali Butt and Vasay Chaudhary) who are lead by Humayun Saeed on a secret vacation away from their wives (Sarwat Gillani, Uzma Khan and Aisha Khan).
On the other hand, Humayan finds himself in a tug of war over him between stunning actresses Mehwish Hayat and Sohai Ali Abro.
JPNA won 2 awards out of 10 nominations at the LUX Style Awards's at the 2nd ARY film awards and it won 18 awards from different categories while receiving 29 nominations.
You'll also be seeing Jeeto Pakistan's Fahad Mustafa instead of Hamza Ali Abbasi alongside Syra Shahroz joining rest of the cast.
Hamza Ali Abbasi won't be joining JPNA 2 since he is busy with 2 upcoming movies: Parwaz Hai Junoon and a Bilal Lashari's Maula Jutt remake.
Fahad Mustafa is excited about his participation in JPNA-2 as he mentions in an interview and is looking forward to visiting all the exotic locations which includes South Africa and Thailand.
A source mentioned that the co-producer Humayun Saeed will start the shooting of the movie from next month in Turkey and some parts of it will be shot in Dubai followed by other destinations.
The male leads of JPNA-2 look in good spirits about their upcoming realease.
So this is how #JPNA2 would kindda look like..welcome @mustafafahad26 Mai kehta hoon Aik baar Phir sooch lo 😉
A post shared by @vasaych on Feb 14, 2017 at 1:30pm PST
It had also been reported that Nadeem Baig approached Rishi Kapoor to star in his upcoming sequel JPNA2 ,but Rishi Kapoor immediately denied the role stating that the people in his country would be offended by his appearance in Pakistani films.
Unlike some of the celebrities, Kapoor was quite vocal about his outrageous opinion about Pakistan and the heightening tension revolving around its artists.
"I was offered a Pakistani film, but I will not do it. My country won't like me to do it. And I am a proud Indian. If Pakistan is a terrorist state, I don't want to be a part of them… they (Pakistani actors) even refused to denounce the Uri attacks, for which I am a little upset," said Kapoor.
The actor was quick to add that films that were made before Uri attacks and the ordeal that followed should not face the brunt. He was quoted as saying," They (the Pakistani actors) had official work permits granted by the government of India at that point in time… We cannot afford to escalate or do anything that is unbecoming; it could be fatal to both the countries. Henceforth, I can understand if the government tells us to follow something. But we can't ban the films that have been already made, because there is so much money involved."
"Recently, I was approached for a Pakistani film; it was the sequel to one of their biggest hits. I heard the story and found it interesting. Now, of course, it is not possible to act in it. The situation was ironic." Rishi was quoted as saying by the Hindustan Times.
On the other hand the Humayun Saeed shared that he would love to work with Kareena Kapoor Khan in the near future.
I believe that Nadeem baig and Humayun Saeed's decision will serve to have a purposeful outcome. Mawra's happy go lucky personality and adorable expressions might add some more flavor to the film. After Mawra's first cinema debut Bollywood film Sanam Teri Kasam , JPNA2 will be her first entry into the Pakistani Film Industry.
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Selection or classification of students for schools, classes, or other educational programs based on differences in ability or achievement.
The field of education is confronted with widely varying forms of demand and target groups. The massive spread of education is a reality, no less in the North than in the South, even though school enrolment rates sometimes still differ very markedly. Unification of the formal arrangements for basic education has also tended to diversify school intake and to make the task of teaching in most schools more complex. In this context, ability grouping in schools may seem an option based on a fairly rational organizational approach (Gamoran et al., 1995) and on the educational assumption that, by grouping similar students together, it will be easier to ensure that their needs are properly met (Dupriez, 2010: 24).


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Q: Is there a guaranteed execution order of rerender and oncomplete I am trying with actionFunction's rerender and oncomplete. During my testing, it seems to me that rerender happens before the execution oncomplete method. But is that a guaranteed thing? I don't see that in any existing doc though

A: The order of operations with an ajax request is:

*

*onClick/onSubmit functions are called

*ajax form POST to controller

*(wait patiently while controller does work)

*response received from Salesforce

*onBeforeDomUpdate is called

*DOM is updated (using the collection of rerender element names)

*onComplete is called

*page is ready for the user again

I can't find any Salesforce docs that describe this order, but there may be some reference material available within the JBoss RichFaces framework.
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Almost 60,000 Post-GDPR Data Breaches Reported In Europe
Research published recently suggests there have been over 59,000 data breaches reported to data protection authorities in Europe since GDPR went into effect last year.
The EU's General Data Protection Regulation hasn't even been in effect for a year yet but countries in Europe have already reported over 59,000 data breaches since the data privacy law's inception.
That's according to DLA Piper, a multinational law firm that's based in London but has nearly 40 offices in Europe.
According to a survey carried out by the law firm and released this week, there have been 59,430 breaches across Europe in the last eight months; the U.K. toppled the scales at 15,400, 12,600, and 10,600 breaches apiece.
The Netherlands also had the most breaches per capita, followed by Ireland and Denmark while countries like Greece, Italy, and Romania had the fewest per capita.
The report specifically looked at breaches reported to regulators from May 25, the day GDPR went into effect, and January 28 – International Data Protection Day – the holiday held to raise awareness around privacy and data protection best practices.
Far flung countries, like Iceland and Cyprus, along with tiny Liechtenstein, Europe's fourth smallest country (after Vatican City, Monace, and San Marino) had the fewest breaches: 25, 35, and 15 respectively.
Only a fraction of those breaches actually resulted in fines however. The report claims there have been 91 fines imposed since GDPR went into effect, the largest coming in December when Germany's State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Baden-Wuerttemberg (LfDI) levied a €20,000 fine against a social media company for failing to hash passwords. Instead the company stored them in plain text, something that ultimately triggered a fine after a hacker managed to make off with 330,000 passwords and e-mail addresses.
DLA Piper makes a point in the report to explain why its numbers don't exactly match up with those published by the European Commission last month. In a statement released by the European Commission on January 25 it said there have been 41,502 data breaches reported since May 25. The law firm contends that these results only take into account voluntary contributions of 21, not all 28, EU member states and that its report is based on 23 of 28 EU member states, plus Norway, Iceland, and Lichtenstein.
Going forward, it remains to be seen if we see fines as eye-popping as the one France's data protection regulator, CNIL, imposed on Google last month. CNIL fined the company $57M for failing to comply with GDPR, specifically for not obtaining user consent to process data for ad personalization.
"It is likely that regulators and courts will look to EU competition law and jurisprudence for inspiration when calculating GDPR fines and some regulators have already said they will do so. Competition lawyers are not known to shy away from imposing hefty fines and have imposed some eye-catching multi-billion Euro fines recently on large tech companies," DLA Piper wrote in the report.
Having a data-centric data protection strategy, can be key to demonstrating GDPR compliance and ensuring the data of EU citizens can be protected at rest, in use, and in motion.
This article was originally published by our Technology Partner, Digital Guardian, here.
Data-centric Security


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Tag Archives: Joel Piniero
Uh oh, I've seen this before.
When Jim Tracy was the manager of the Dodgers (2001-2006), I had respect for him. Sure, he had his faults, but he always played the best players on the team at their positions. He started Dave Roberts over an aging Marquis Grissom; he gave a lot of time to Adrian Beltre; he plugged in Alex Cora and Cesar Izturis in the middle even though they were well below-average offensively (it turns out it was a great decision because of both players' defense; Cora and Izturis both had three-year positive UZR/150s in their time as Dodgers).
Yes. Some complained about his over-use of match-ups and other things, but those were minor. Overall, he was a very good manager except for one big thing.
Tracy abused starting pitchers. Kind of a lot.
In 2002, Odalis Perez had a magnificent season: 222 innings pitched, 76 runs allowed (74 ER and a 3.00 ERA, in case you're wondering), 155 Ks to 38 BBs and a 3.45 xFIP. He had a 4.08 K/BB ratio and a 1.54 BB/9 ratio. All in all, it was a tremendous year.
But it was also 100 innings more than he had pitched the previous year.
Understand that I'm not in favor of throwing any pitcher to the wolves. But when you have a young, talented pitcher with great years ahead of him, you have to make sure he's going to be great later on down the road. One brilliant year is not better than ten years of dominance.
His 2002 season was slightly flukish thanks to a low BABIP, but he was never able to be better than average again. He pitched 3,000 pitches that year. The following years, this is how he did:
2003: 185 IP / 3.35 xFIP / 3.07 K/BB / ~2800 pitches
You can see from his pitch type, too, that he averaged a heater in the 90s and lost a mile per hour the next year and almost year after that until he retired at the age of 31.
Odalis wasn't the only example of Tracy's labor abuse, either. Kevin Brown, in 2003, pitched 3,200 pitches after pitching a little more than 1,000 the year before and retired in 2005 after two more lackluster years. In 2006, Tracy's first year as manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, he made young gun Zach Duke throw 214 innings after 84 in the majors (and 100 in the minors) the year prior. There were a few times when Tracy was responsible with a pitcher, but more often than not, he didn't seem to show the care that he should have.
But that's behind Tracy. Now we're in 2010. Tracy is the manager of the Colorado Rockies. And the Rockies have a young ace named Ubaldo Jimenez.
I've had a crush on Ubaldo for a while, since I first interviewed him in 2006. He's a sweet man, gargantuanly tall, with an incredible fastball and some very, very good secondary stuff. I really wish he was signed as a Dodger.
In 2009, he jumped from 3,350 pitches in 34 starts (99 pitches per game) to 3,570 pitches in 33 starts (108). A pretty big jump, but within reasonable limits.
So far in 2010, Ubaldo Jimenez has thrown 456 pitches in four starts. That's an average of 115.5 pitches per game.
This is something to worry about. Let's say Tracy keeps up this pace, puts the Uballer on the mound for 115 pitches per appearance. No pitcher has thrown that many pitches per game started since pitch counts were first recorded in 2002. Livan Hernandez was the closest at 114.5 (he broke the 4,000 pitch barrier) in 2005, his age 30 season. Likewise, Randy Johnson hit 114 per game in his age 38 season.
Hernandez was never the same and Randy barely topped 100 innings the next year.
Last year, Ubaldo averaged 108 pitches per game. Other players that pitched more than 108 pitches per game and then never returned to that year's level of production/spent the next years in the hospital: Mark Prior, Jason Schmidt, Woody Williams, Bronson Arroyo, Russ Ortiz. Joel Piniero and Javier Vazquez also broke the 108 plane. Though they both had fantastic 2009 seasons, they both accomplished the 108 marks in 2003. That's five years of their careers down the drain.
The jury is still out on Justin Verlander, Carlos Zambrano and Tim Lincecum, though I guess things are looking good for Verlander and Lincecum.
If you want to point to something that's encouraging, well, the pitchers who seem to have the best rate of recovery on that list have tremendous fastballs: Randy Johnson, Justin Verlander, Tim Lincecum. Though Verlander and Tiny Tim have only recently accomplished the feats, they've also been very good in their time. Ubaldo has the fastest fastball in the majors.
A couple of nights ago, Ubaldo pitched a heck of a game through seven innings and had reached about 110 or so pitches. And then he was brought back in. There's no sense to be made of a decision like that. The Rockies have a good shot at the division this year, but their target years are probably 2011 to 2015. The Giants probably won't contend until they get some hitting, the Dodgers' farm system is depleted and their on-field talent is worse–and will be worse–than the Rockies' for the foreseeable future, the D-backs have some talent, but not enough and the Pads are out at least until 2013. Why are you bending Ubaldo to see if he can break? Yes, you want those innings. If you can get 250 innings of 3.00 xFIP, you'd want that more than 200 innings of 3.00 xFIP and 50 innings of 5.00 xFIP. But at what point does that cost too much?
I hope Ubaldo's career isn't at risk here.
[Edit] — Fangraphs only had pitch counts going back to 2002, I figured that was when pitch counts first became a sortable stat. Turns out B-R has pitch counts going back to 2000. And, funnily enough, Livan Hernandez and Randy Johnson still top the list, although in different years. Here's the correct top of the list for most pitches per apperance:
Randy Johnson, 2001: 116.7
Livan Hernandez, 2000: 116.0
So correction: Ubaldo would be third-highest of all-time.
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Tagged as Alex Cora, Bronson Arroyo, Carlos Zambrano, Cesar Izturis, D-backs, Dave Roberts, Dodgers, Giants, Jason Schmidt, Javier Vazquez, Jim Tracy, Joel Piniero, Justin Verlander, Livan Hernandez, Mark Prior, Marquis Grissom, Odalis Perez, Padres, Randy Johnson, Rockies, Russ Ortiz, Tim Lincecum, Ubaldo Jimenez, Woody Williams
All-Modern Day Deadball All-Stars pt. II
All-Modern Day Deadball All-Stars–pitching by year
As the old saying goes, there are three ways a pitcher can help himself out: raise strike outs, lower walks and get more ground balls. Deadball pitchers must have gotten a lot of ground balls because they didn't give a s**t about strike outs or walks.
Selecting a Deadball All-Star squad from modern pitchers was slightly more complicated than the hitting team because of philosophical questions. How do you adjust for HR/9 when the post modern era averaged more than five times as much? Where do you draw the line for innings pitched?
First, I looked over the Hall of Fame list of deadball era pitchers after the amalgamation of the NL and AL, which is 1901-1919, because we want the best of the group. The majority of the HoFers had a BB/9 less than 3 and a K/9 less than 6. Getting rid of the outliers, none of those pitched fewer than 240 innings in a season.
So I began to set the parameters:
1.5 < K/BB < 2.5
6 < K/9
3 < BB/9
240 <= IP
and then organized that Deadball era HoFers group by WHIP. Turns out most of the WHIPs were somewhere between 0.9 and 1.3, so that was added.
Then I put in the function into B-R's Play Index as following:
WHIP < 1.3
(Note: doing [3 < BB/9, 1.5 < K/BB < 2.5] pulled up some results we weren't looking for–some pitchers that had 6.7 K/9. There were also some deadball HoFers–Christy Mathewson, per se–who had a higher K/BB than 2.5 even though they had a K/9 less than 6, so that was scrapped and the [6 < K/9, 3 < BB/9] worked better anyway, as you'll see in the results).
And then I organized it by HR/9–since there was no way of a pitcher matching a deadball era pitcher's HR/9 (most were sub-0.10), the best thing to do was to see who came closest.
So what turned up was interesting. 122 results kicked up, only five pitchers after 1989 came up and none after 1997 (Dave Stewart 1990, Kevin Brown 1992, Bill Wegman 1992, Jack McDowell 1992 and Pat Hentgen 1997). I originally guessed that was because of the five-man rotation, but it gets weirder, as you'll see.
Anyway, here's the team as I see it and with an explanation after the jump.
Tagged as Claude Osteen, Clay Carroll, Curt Schilling, Dale Murray, Dan Quisenberry, Dave Roberts, Dennis Martinez, Derek Lowe, Frank Linzy, Joel Piniero, Julian Tavarez, Kent Tekulve, Mudcat Grant, Randy Jones, Steve Howe, Tom Glavine, Tommy John, Vida Blue


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Q: Login error in "Invalid key hash" i have implement facbook in my application and submitted my key hashes but it display an error at release key time "Invalid key hash.The key hash XXXXXX does not match any stored key hashes. Configure you...." it's working fine when i use debug key.
please help me.
i am using this approach for release key-
keytool -exportcert -alias

  -keystore

    | openssl sha1 -binary | openssl base64
and for debug key useing this approch

try {
PackageInfo info = getPackageManager().getPackageInfo(
"com.samsung.smart_learning",
PackageManager.GET_SIGNATURES);
for (Signature signature : info.signatures) {
MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-1");
md.reset();
md.update(signature.toByteArray());
Log.d("KeyHash:++++++++++++++++++++",
Base64.encodeToString(md.digest(), Base64.DEFAULT));
System.out.println("shivansj_++"+ Base64.encodeToString(md.digest(), Base64.DEFAULT));
}
} catch (NameNotFoundException e) {

} catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {

}


Landmark University, Omu-Aran cut Off Mark for 2017/2018 academic session is now officially out. Landmark University potential students are expected to go through this piece of information carefully.
Before we get started on what this years cut off mark is, please be informed that there is a very clear disparity between Landmark University JAMB cut off mark and Landmark University post UTME cut off mark.
Landmark University post UTME cut off point may not really matter anymore since the the Government have scrapped post UTME. However, you will be on the winning side if you can prepare for post JAMB examination in case Landmark University insist on conducting any form of post UTME examination before accepting new students.
What is Landmark University Cut Off Mark JAMB cut off mark 2017?
Well, to help the candidates with such problem, we have decided to reveal the Landmark University 2017 so that anyone who does not meet up with the specified cut off point will make hay while the sun shines.
Judging from our experience last year during the 2016/2017 academic session admission, we found out that some candidates who purchased Landmark University post UTME where screened out on the exam day because their jamb results was not up-to the required mark.
The cut off point for Landmark University for 2017/2018 academic session is at least JAMB score of 120. Hence, it is important that candidates who chose Landmark University as their choice of institution but scored less than 120 should not buy the admission form but rather inquire if there is any course that is suitable for your JAMB score before making payment for the 2017 admission form.
Note: Post UTME cut off point for Landmark University varies from one course to the other. The cut of mark for the different courses will be made known by the institution in due time.
For those who scored 120 and above in their JAMB UTME result, you have to be on alert as the sale of the Landmark University's sales of admission form will commence soonest.
What is the cut of point for Landmark University?
JAMB is yet to update us with any new changes with Landmark University cut off mark for 2017/2018 academic session. Stay tuned!
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Epatlán est une municipalité dans l'État de Puebla, au sud-est du Mexique.

Notes et références

Articles connexes
 Liste des municipalités du Puebla

Municipalité du Puebla

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<?php

require_once dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/AbstractConfigTest.php';

/**
 * Test cases for CruiseControl project configuration.
 *
 * @package   Data
 * @author    Manuel Pichler <mapi@phpundercontrol.org>
 * @copyright 2007-2011 Manuel Pichler. All rights reserved.
 * @license   http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php  BSD License
 * @version   Release: @package_version@
 * @link      http://www.phpundercontrol.org/
 */
class phpucConfigProjectTest extends phpucAbstractConfigTest
{
    /**
     * The context config file instance.
     *
     * @type phpucConfigFile
     * @var phpucConfigFile $config
     */
    protected $config = null;

    /**
     * Creates a new/clean {@link phpucConfigFile} instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    protected function setUp()
    {
        parent::setUp();

        $this->createTestFile( '/config.xml', $this->testXml );

        $this->config = new phpucConfigFile( $this->testFile );
    }

    /**
     * Tests the {@link phpucConfigProject} ctor and tests the magic properties.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function testNewConfigProjectInstance()
    {
        $project = new phpucConfigProject( $this->config, 'phpUnderControl' );

        $this->assertTrue( $project->isNew() );
        $this->assertSame( $this->config, $project->configFile );
        $this->assertEquals( 'phpUnderControl', $project->projectName );
    }

    /**
     * Test that {@link phpucConfigProject#delete()} removes the context project
     * from the config.xml file.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function testDeleteConfigProjectFromConfigFile()
    {
        // Create a dummy project
        new phpucConfigProject( $this->config, 'phpUnderControl0' );
        new phpucConfigProject( $this->config, 'phpUnderControl1' );
        $this->config->store();

        $dom = new DOMDocument();
        $dom->load( $this->testFile );
        $this->assertEquals( 2, $dom->getElementsByTagName( 'project' )->length );

        // Load project again
        $config  = new phpucConfigFile( $this->testFile );
        $project = $config->getProject( 'phpUnderControl0' );

        // Remove project and save again
        $project->delete();
        $config->store();

        $dom = new DOMDocument();
        $dom->load( $this->testFile );
        $this->assertEquals( 1, $dom->getElementsByTagName( 'project' )->length );
    }

    /**
     * Tests that the magic __get() method fails with an exception for an unknown
     * property.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function testGetterUnknownPropertyFail()
    {
        $this->setExpectedException(
            'OutOfRangeException',
            'Unknown or writonly property $phpuc.'
        );

        $project = new phpucConfigProject( $this->config, 'phpUnderControl' );
        echo $project->phpuc;
    }

    /**
     * Tests that the magic setter method for the $interval property fails with
     * an exception for a non integer.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function testIntervalSetterInvalidTypeFail()
    {
        $this->setExpectedException(
            'InvalidArgumentException',
            'Property $interval must be a positive integer.'
        );

        $project = new phpucConfigProject( $this->config, 'phpUnderControl' );
        $project->interval = false;
    }

    /**
     * Tests that the magic setter method for the $interval property fails with
     * an exception for a negative integer.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function testIntervalSetterNegativeValueFail()
    {
        $this->setExpectedException(
            'InvalidArgumentException',
            'Property $interval must be a positive integer.'
        );

        $project = new phpucConfigProject( $this->config, 'phpUnderControl' );
        $project->interval = -1;
    }

    /**
     * Tests that the magic __set() method fails with an exception for an unknown
     * property.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function testSetterUnknownPropertyFail()
    {
        $this->setExpectedException(
            'OutOfRangeException',
            'Unknown or readonly property $phpuc.'
        );

        $project = new phpucConfigProject( $this->config, 'phpUnderControl' );
        $project->phpuc = true;
    }

    /**
     * Tests that the config project fails with an exception if there is more
     * than one project with the same name.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function testProjectCtorWithTwoEqualProjectsFail()
    {
        $this->createTestFile(
            '/config.xml',
            '<?xml version="1.0"?>
             <cruisecontrol>
               <project name="phpUnderControl" />
               <project name="phpUnderControl" />
             </cruisecontrol>'
        );

        $this->setExpectedException(
            'phpucErrorException',
            "There is more than one project named 'phpUnderControl'."
        );

        $config = new phpucConfigFile( $this->testFile );
        new phpucConfigProject( $config, 'phpUnderControl' );

        $this->config = new phpucConfigFile( $this->testFile );
    }

    /**
     * Test that the antscript attribute is set for custom ant launcer.
     */
    public function testSetAntscriptAttribute()
    {
        $project = new phpucConfigProject( $this->config, 'phpUnderControl' );
        $project->anthome = '/foo';
        $project->antscript = '/foo/bar/bazscript.sh';

        $project->buildXml();
        $element = $project->element;
        $schedule = $element->getElementsByTagName( 'schedule' );
        $builders = $schedule->item( 0 )->getElementsByTagName( 'ant' );
        $ant = $builders->item( 0 );

        $this->assertTrue($ant->hasAttribute('antscript'));
        $this->assertEquals('/foo/bar/bazscript.sh', $ant->getAttribute('antscript'));
        $this->assertFalse($ant->hasAttribute('anthome'));
    }

    public function testNonBundledAntReplacesAntWorkerWithExecTask()
    {
        $project = new phpucConfigProject( $this->config, 'phpUnderControl' );
        $project->anthome = '/usr';

        $project->buildXml();
        $element = $project->element;
        $schedule = $element->getElementsByTagName( 'schedule' );
        $builders = $schedule->item( 0 )->getElementsByTagName( 'exec' );
        $exec = $builders->item( 0 );

        $this->assertTrue($exec->hasAttribute('workingdir'));
        $this->assertEquals(PHPUC_TEST_DIR, $exec->getAttribute('workingdir'));

        $this->assertTrue($exec->hasAttribute('command'));
        $this->assertEquals('/usr/bin/ant', $exec->getAttribute('command'));

        $this->assertTrue($exec->hasAttribute('args'));
        $dir = PHPUC_TEST_DIR . '/';
        $argStr = '-logger org.apache.tools.ant.XmlLogger ' .
                  "-logfile {$dir}log.xml " .
                  '-buildfile projects/${project.name}/build.xml';
        $this->assertEquals($argStr, $exec->getAttribute('args'));
    }

    /**
     * Everytime {@link phpucConfigFile} created make sure it fetches
     * custom path to antscript and sets it up
     *
     * @covers phpucConfigProject::init
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function testInitAlwaysPopulatesCustomAntScriptWhenSet()
    {
        $antScript = '/foo/bar/bazscript.sh';

        $this->createTestFile(
            '/config.xml',
            "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>
             <cruisecontrol>
               <project name=\"phpUnderControl\">
                 <schedule interval=\"300\">
                   <ant buildfile=\"projects/TestProject/build.xml\" antscript=\"$antScript\"/>
                 </schedule>
               </project>
             </cruisecontrol>"
        );

        $config = new phpucConfigFile( $this->testFile );
        $project = new phpucConfigProject( $config, 'phpUnderControl' );

        $schedule = $project->element->getElementsByTagName( 'schedule' );
        $builders = $schedule->item( 0 )->getElementsByTagName( 'ant' );
        $ant = $builders->item( 0 );

        $this->assertEquals($antScript, $ant->getAttribute('antscript'));

        $project = new phpucConfigProject( $config, 'phpUnderControl' );

        $this->assertEquals($antScript, $project->antscript);
    }
}


A Friday night out in Europe.
It's Friday afternoon, and if you, gentle readers, should want to leave the gloomy reality of a world in economic crisis behind you for a night out in Europe, you may be interested in having a look at a new web service called Happenr for hopefully useful suggestions about what to do.
Well, see for yourself. I for one actually found something I might do later on.


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3 leading female thinkers define that other 'F-word': Feminism
Jay Morrison via Flickr Creative Commons
Alex Cohen and Sarah Sweeney | Take Two® | July 2, 2015
When you think of the 'F-word,' what comes to mind? No...not that 'F-word.' Another one that stirs up a tremendous amount of debate — Feminism.
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina said recently, "A feminist is anyone who chooses the life she lives." But, she also called for a new definition of the term. "I think it's time to take that word back, for all women," Fiorina told MSNBC.
How should feminism be defined today? Is it a concept that we still even need? Where are we these days in the battle for equal rights for women?
Take Two host Alex Cohen recently sat down with three leading thinkers about women's issues to explore these questions.
Madeline Di Nonno is the CEO of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media; Hanna Rosin is the author of "The End of Men" and editor of Slate's Double X section; and Ange-Marie Hancock, is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California.
Using Fiorina's comments as a jumping off point, Alex Cohen asked each guest how they define feminism.
To hear an extended version of the conversation that aired on Take Two, please click on the audio player above.
On Carly Fiorina's definition of feminism
Ange-Marie Hancock: The idea that we can have multiple types of feminism underneath this broader definition has pretty much been the history of feminism.
We always think of that Gloria Steinem tradition and women so-called 'burning their bras' in the 1960s and 70s, and Betty Fernand, and that's our history. But, in fact, over the past two centuries of our nation, there have always been multiple types of feminism.
What Carly Fiorina is expressing — 'choice feminism' — is actually something that is more contemporary, it is more 1980s and 1990s; but more, not just Conservatives, but also Libertarian and Independent women, also support this version of feminism.
The Millennials I teach everyday at USC — this is what they want. They want the choice. And, so that debate about having it all is really about, 'I want to be able to choose.'
One of the things that they often miss is this notion that not everyone has a full compliment of choices to actually make.
Watch Carly Fiorina's full interview with MSNBC:
On how feminism is portrayed in the media
Madeline Di Nonno: It's not [portrayed in the media] in many cases, and particularly in the media that we're showing our youngest children. In our research that has looked at family films, primetime television and children's shows, has shown that there are very few female characters, approximately 2 ½-3 to 1, in terms of male characters.
And when we do have a female character, more often than not, her sole purpose is to be objectified or to be used as eye candy.
Clearly when we start to think about occupations and how media can depict a window to the world in terms of employment for our girls, and also how our boys view them, we're not really showing these female characters with any type of career at all.
On the 'Women Against Feminism' movement
Hanna Rosin: I am always suspicious of movements like where young women wear a shirt called 'Menism,' or where they think feminism is anti-man. It just seems like a weird straw man. That kind of feminism hasn't existed for a really, really long time — of women, kind of, male bashing.
Feminism these days is not incompatible with, say, feeling sympathy with men who are out of work…are for men who are struggling these days.
On implicit-biases
Ange-Marie Hancock: We learn these before we can walk or talk. We learn them from places like the media. We learn them from places like what our parents say when we're listening to them in the back seat of the car while they're driving. So things that [parents] don't think we're listening to are how those implicit biases are communicated.
Implicit biases can persist across decades, and so, no matter how educated you are, you can still go back to that thing that you learned when you were 18 months or two years old, before you had a filter, about where women belong, and where women don't belong.
Notorious RBG: The Supreme Court justice turned cultural icon
Selecting boys over girls is a trend in more and more countries
Creating all-female Avengers 'A-Force' and Muslim hero Ms. Marvel
Mad Max: Perpetuating or combating how women are represented in film?
The early days of the Feminist Movement
More from this episode: Take Two® FOR July 2, 2015
State of Womanhood, Jeanie Buss, Women's World Cup Final
LA's Man Cave readies for soccer fans
The Grateful Dead is big business
Charles Phoenix teaches us how to make the perfect 4th of July dessert, the Cherbluble
Lakers President Jeanie Buss on Kobe Bryant's legacy, and how the storied franchise plans to bounce back
The Wheel Thing: 'Hey, Doc. You built a time machine? From a DeLorean?'
The life and tragic downfall of Amy Winehouse
State of Affairs: Vaccination bill passes, new laws go into effect, SCOTUS takes up CA union case
Weekend on the cheap: Grand Park, Dance Yourself Clean and Shakespeare in the Park
Reading by Moonlight: 'Valley Fever,' Lummis Day and more
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Fabulous Adventures of Listgirl: Life Is A Party!
I attended a couple of parties recently. One was at my own house. Todd and I invited Dejah and Roby over for a "Real Genius" viewing party with dinner. Dejah had seen the movie many times. When we heard that Roby had never seen this 80's classic movie, we had to remedy it. So on Monday night (3/18), Dejah and Roby came over for dinner + a movie.
Todd made homemade brownies (Chewy Brownies recipe from America's Test Kitchen).
It contains Ghirardelli chocolate chunks!
I'm pretty sure it was a highlight of the evening. A few of us might have eaten more than one piece (ahem).
Dinner was Spicy Beef & Tofu Salad. So yummy!
Roby brought a bottle of his favorite wine.
And of course, what's Real Genius without popcorn??! Todd made some for everyone to munch on during the movie. We succeed in educating Roby on the awesomeness of Real Genius the movie. It was a "moral imperative"!
My 2nd party of the week was a make-up baby-shower for Sally, one of my best friends. We've been friends since 1982. Yes, that's over 30 years. Sally was pregnant with twins early in 2012. We had planned a baby shower back in February 2012, where we had planned to decorate some quilt squares to make two quilts for baby boy and baby girl. Unfortunately, we didn't have the party because Sally had to go on bedrest. So, more than a YEAR later, we finally had our quilt-decorating party yesterday (3/24).
Kara hosted the party and provided all the craft supplies for us to make the quilt squares.
Sally, our guest of honor. Well, the babies too, but they stayed home with grandma so Sally can actually make some quilt squares and hang out with her girlfriends. These women are some of Sally's dearest and longest-term friends, so this get-together was very special.
Cupcakes for everyone! Baby Johnny and Baby Nina actually turned one on Saturday. Time flies!
Kara provided some yummy snacks for everyone to enjoy.
Kara also provided all the crafty supplies for quilt-decorating.
This is me, hard at work! I managed to make four quilt-squares. I'm usually a very slow scrapbooker, but I guess my crafting skills and practice made me more decisive about these quilt squares and I was able to quickly make four of them.
Seeing friends and craft supplies together makes me happy!
Stacy and Sally. Stacy is our friend from junior high and high school also.
Dana and Stacy. Dana and Kara's husbands were Sally's roommates in college.
Dana was quite an artist, drawing freehand even!
One of Sally's old roommates, Eva.
Here's quilt square #2 for me. I made a sailboat one but not sure I got a photo of it!
Sally hard at work on a stenciled butterfly.
Stacy making stamping on her quilt square.
Eva sketching out her design.
Here's my quilt square #3.
And my quilt square #4.
This is a quilt for one of Kara's kids. It was used as an example for the quilts we're making for Sally's babies.
Awesome to see all our quilt squares together! Oh, and there's my sailboat one in the front!
Sally made a pterodactyl one for her Johnny.
Sally and I, along with her butterfly quilt square.
The party was a lot of fun. So good to get together with some friends and finally make the quilt squares for Sally's babies!
We love introducing our boys (who are 12 & 13) to 80s movies! We recently watched "Real Genius" with them :) Our favorite is "Better Off Dead" with John Cusak!
These look like 2 very fun parties! The quilts are a wonderful idea and reason to get the friends together. What fun!
Looks like tons of fun! I love the quilt square party idea, that must make for a special quilt!!


As you may know, women seeking abortions often cite lack of financial resources to raise a child. Feminists for Life is updating "Raising Kids on a Shoestring," a print and online resource that has helped thousands with innovative and time-tested ideas for raising children on a budget. This highly popular issue of The American Feminist offers suggestions, from sources for affordable clothing and school supplies to low-cost family outings and celebrations.
If you want to make a real impact as a volunteer, FFL is seeking exceptional writers able to work on assignments in the next few weeks. Qualified candidates will have outstanding research, interview, and writing skills. Authors need to support FFL's mission to systematically eliminate the reasons that drive women to abortion–primarily a lack of resources and support–and must approach the assignment as pro-life feminists. Published authors preferred. Ability to meet deadlines an absolute must. NOTE: This is a volunteer position.
Send resume and links to writing samples to editor@feministsforlife.org. If you are chosen, FFL's editor will contact you and send a writer's agreement which gives FFL copyright in all mediums. If you have a personal story, please include it in the cover letter, as it will help with assignments. If such personal information is confidential, please make that clear.


Alliance between Qabar – Extreme Music PR & Black Lion Records keeps going on. Being the official PR Partner of the label, the Extreme Music PR Machine "Qabar" will be doing the PR/Promotional activities of the debut full length of DIVISION VANSINNE, entitled as "Dimension Darkness", which is to be released via Black Lion Records in August.
DIVISION VANSINNE was created at the year of 2008 by guitarist and current vocalist TortureXvidian with the idea to keep the old spirit of early 90's black/death metal alive.
Previously the lineup contained Hatlevnad on vocals alongside Likh on bass, Terrorblaster on drums and TortureXvidian on guitars. Terrorblaster left the band in 2009 to focus on Desultor, thus being replaced by German "Cirkle of Chaos, Helvegen" on drums. While several guitar players tried out for the band, German left and Ljusebring Terrorblaster returned. Afterwards, Likh and Hatlevnad left the band as well.


Yesterday, a sad news has found its way to the blogosphere – Paul Starr, celebrity makeup artist was found dead. RIP.
What is this has to do with both Angelina and Jennifer? Well, he used to be their makeup artist. And if you thought there may not be any similarities between the two, here's a little something to meditate about: they both wear the exact same dress, only Angie's on the purple side and Jennifer on the blue… How about those two? Which is more beautiful? (ahem.. I'm talking about the dresses!) And if curiosity bugs you, right after the jump you'll find out who got the best of the Gerard Darel dress!
Awww that's so sweet.Like mother like daughter.I think the dress looks great on all 3 girls tho I have a penchant for Angie's colour.
Zahara is certainly the winner!
Zahara is the style winner in this contest! She is so cute!
JG, AJ and Z look great. But, I would want it in purple. JG wore it best cuz Angie arms look weird, but i still love 'em both.
I don't like this dress at all not in purple nor in blue. I like it on little Zahara though as a sweet short little girlie dress. But Zahara is so cute herself….but its not a 'safe choice'.
I don't understand the fuss about this dress? What's so special about it?
About the sudden unexpected dead of Paul Starr, thats such sad news….just as our designer Percy Irausquin who was found dead last week too. May they rest in peace.
Hi Adriana!Your'e right,there's nothing really special about this dress.My mother wore similar maxi dresses in the 70s with a floppy hat and wedges.I think what's attracted attention is the fact that they wore the same dress as silly as that sounds.But kpriss came to the rescue and presented the real reason and winner of this article.Zahara's so sweet!
I didn't know who Paul Starr was but may he RIP.
There's no special fuss about the dress, I think what was certain was that maxi dresses (or tent dresses as some call them) are very fashionable this year. And especially that young mothers to be (from Hollywood) wear them insatiably. Truth being told I have three of them too and find them extremely wearable and comfy whether I'm pregnant or not. Always loved maxi dresses.
What I like about this dress is that it is very wearable. I love the femininity of it and the comfort level. Just throw it on and go!
I don't think that Shiloh is purposely left behind or out, what I think it is that Angelina and Brad don't want to appear to be favouring their biological children over their adopted ones. If you noticed the People magazine cover had Shiloh on the cover and non of the other siblings. Its like they don't get a look in because they are not blood relatives to Vivienne and Knox.Unlike Tom Cruise who seems to treasure Suri more than Conner and Isabella, and I don't think its because she is so young. No matter what anyone does you cannot please everyone.
Oh, Kpriss girl this is not personal to you! This dress was all around in the media and I can see the comfort and how nice it must be to wear in warmer climate than wear I live. That's what I meant about the 'fuss'. I didn't even know who Gerard Darel was. I know now. A 70's copy-cat. So a more affordable dress makes more sense to me than this of course overpriced one. I do own some maxi-dresses/skirts myself too. Not this 'design'. And yes, when its hot, not very common here anymore the last years, its lovely to wear such a loose dress.
I've enough of the Jolie-Pitts and their fuss. Ah, Zahara owns a Valention purse yet? Shhss…if you feel for the poor and neglected show some humility yourself if you 'preach' that.
To me the photos with their adopted children seems a bit political correct to me….sorry, there are so many people who work hard in dangerous circumstances, in troubled countries and never being hailed likes these people….I can't stand it any longer.
Sorry, this was about a dress….I know….