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'Best interest of public health': Portsmouth council ratifies indoor mask mandate, residents speak up
Jeff McMenemy
PORTSMOUTH — The City Council voted unanimously Thursday night to ratify a public health directive issued by city administrators that requires everyone older than 5 years of age to wear facial coverings in publicly accessible indoor areas because of surging COVID-19 cases.
The motion, which was proposed by City Councilor Josh Denton, also calls for holding a first reading at the council's Jan. 24 meeting to restart a previous citywide mask mandate ordinance that ended last summer.
City Manager Karen Conard issued the health directive last week at the request of health officer Kim McNamara. If the ordinance is passed, it would add strength to the city manager's directive.
The mask mandate also applies to all indoor places of employment that are shared by two or more employees who are not from the same household.
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Masks were already required in all of the city's municipal buildings.
The council's vote took place at a special meeting Thursday night, which several city councilors attended via Zoom video conference, some because they had tested positive for COVID-19.
A number of city residents spoke in person or by Zoom in support and in opposition to the public health directive requiring masks.
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At Thursday's meeting, Conard stated "this is a proud united front on an important matter, essentially dealing with the public health of the citizens of Portsmouth."
The Portsmouth weekly testing positivity rate for COVID is now over 27%, Conard told the council.
"Time is and was of the essence to institute effective mitigation measures with the least amount of disruption," she said. "Masks are the best way to do this. Simply put, it was in the best interest of public health."
Mayor, councilors support city manager's action
Mayor Deaglan McEachern said he supported the public health directive and the way it was issued.
He also credited residents who opposed the directive but showed up Thursday night and "respected the rules of this chamber" by wearing masks.
"It's a difficult situation that we find ourselves in tonight," he said.
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McEachern also cited the need to "keep our citizens safe," saying it's the "fundamental responsibility of government."
Assistant Mayor Joanna Kelley, who runs a downtown small business, talked about the importance of protecting people who can't work remotely.
"Residents I talk to on a daily basis are in support of this," she said.
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City Councilor John Tabor, who attended the meeting remotely, said he was "100% in support of this," while sharing he recently tested positive for COVID.
"We know masks will slow the spread, and it will keep a lot of people safe," he said.
City Councilor Andrew Bagley also spoke in support of the mask directive, adding he tested positive for COVID "earlier this week."
He, too, attended Thursday's meeting via Zoom.
"My hope is we only need this for a few number of weeks," Bagley said.
What Portsmouth residents say about mask mandate
Brian Wazlaw of Sagamore Avenue was one of many residents who spoke in support of the mask mandate during Thursday's special meeting.
"We are experiencing a COVID omicron surge in New Hampshire," he said, predicting "it's only going to get worse."
COVID-19 cases in New Hampshire hit a record high Thursday with 3,818 new positive test results reported by state health officials, along with 19 deaths. There were 22,750 active cases in the state as of Thursday and 432 people hospitalized.
He encouraged people both to get vaccinated and to wear face coverings in order to slow "the transmission of COVID."
Harrison Avenue resident Alan Forbes spoke against the mask mandate, citing a low death rate of the virus.
Former City Councilor Petra Huda didn't address the mandate itself, but questioned the "process that was taken" to put it in place by the city manager.
Implementing it in such a manner, she said, went against the provisions of the city charter.
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Rock Street resident Nicole LaPierre spoke in support of the directive and pointed to all the people who died from COVID nationwide since the pandemic began.
"Not having this directive is destroying our hospitals, people can't get standard care because of it," she said.
She thanked Conard and McNamara for "acting quickly" and added there was "no time to waste."
Process to bring back Portsmouth mask ordinance
Portsmouth's previous mask ordinance, which the council is now scheduled to take up Jan. 24, required that "all persons wear face coverings whenever they are in indoor or outdoor places which are accessible to the public, in which a physical distancing of 6 feet between people who are not members of the same household is not maintained."
The ordinance was enacted by the council in September 2020 and repealed in July 2021. It carried potential fines of $25.
City Attorney Robert Sullivan said the council must pass three readings to put the ordinance back in place.
During that time, the mask directive can stay in place, he said Thursday.

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The Eastern Michigan baseball team fell to Oakland, 10-9, at the Oakland Baseball Field in Rochester, MI on Wednesday, April 10. After falling down 5-0, the Eagles came back to take a lead on two separate occasions before allowing a walk-off single. Eastern Michigan is just 4-6 in their last 10 games.
The Eastern Michigan baseball team finished a three-game weekend series on the road against Ball State with a record of 1-2 after winning the final game of the series on Saturday, April 13 in Muncie, Indiana. The Eagles lost the first two games before upsetting Ball State 7-5 in Game 3.
Eastern Michigan baseball defeated Bowling Green 4-0 on Sunday, April 7 at Oestrike Stadium, its first shutout of 2019 and first series win against the Mid-American Conference this season. The Eagles beat BGSU 3-1 on Friday and lost 7-4 on Saturday.
The Eastern Michigan baseball team hosted Concordia on Wednesday, March 27, at Oestrike Stadium. It was the second home game of the season for the Eagles and they have won both. EMU defeated Concordia 11-6, a day after a win over Northwestern Ohio. Thomas House started for Eastern Michigan.
Eastern Michigan Baseball opened Mid-American Conference play with a three-game series sweep versus rival Northern Illinois on March 22-24 at Ralph McKinzie Stadium in Dekalb, Ill. This marks the fifth time that the Eagles have been swept this season, leaving them with a MAC worst record of 3-19-1. The Huskies on the other hand now have a slightly better record of 7-16.
Eastern Michigan Baseball defeated Dayton 10-2 on the road March 12 in Dayton, Ohio. The Eagles had their most explosive offensive performance of the year and were led by two hits, two runs and one RBI from Zachary Owings.
Eastern Michigan Baseball was swept in a four-game series against Marshall in Huntington, W. Va. at the Kennedy Center on March 9-10. The series consisted of two doubleheaders, something that the Eagles have struggled with all season. They have not won a double header game yet, losing all nine this year.
Eastern Michigan Baseball completed a three-game series against Texas A&M Corpus Christi in Corpus Christi, Texas from March 1-3. The Eagles were swept in the series by the Islanders.
The baseball team earned their second victory of the season on Feb. 27 on the road against Abilene Christian. The Eagles used 12 hits to help come away with a 6-5 win.
The Eastern Michigan baseball team lost three games and won one in the 2019 Alamo Irish Classic. Their victory was over Notre Dame on Feb. 22. The Eagles lost both games in their doubleheader on Feb. 21.
The Eastern Michigan baseball teams' magical run fell short in the MAC Championship game in Avon, Ohio against the Ohio Bobcats on Sunday in a 7-4 loss.
The Eastern Michigan baseball teams' bats were held silent by Notre Dame on Wednesday, April 26. The Eagles fell to the Fighting Irish by a score of 0-5 in South Bend, IN.
Senior pitcher Sam Delaplane has been named MAC West division pitcher of the week for the Eastern Michigan Eagles.
The Eastern Michigan baseball team topped Ohio University 8-2 at home on Friday, April 14 at Oestrike Stadium. For the Eagles, this becomes their seventh win in their last nine games.


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How dare you lecture on leadership? Open letter to IBB
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OPEN LETTER TO THE EIGHTH PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA
Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (GCFR),
Minna,
Niger State.
I'm Olayiwola Rasheed Jebba Hamilton, a Production Engineer, Author, Public Writer and Media consultant, and a citizen of Nigeria. My father; Olayiwola Hamzat Habeeblah, is a clergy, and was years ago the Imam of a Mosque in my community. He is presently the Chief Imam of Agege LGA, Lagos State. That is the highest he attained. My mother, was a supervisor at Emzor Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Company before she retired. She was an ecclesiastic before she died in 2015.
I chose to introduce myself to you upfront so you know I have no pedigree to match yours, and because I know your supporters and attack dogs will come after me, and ask questions about my pedigree. They will ask: "who is his father….who is he to dare write a letter to a former Head of State and President.."? Now you know. And hopefully, they know too!
The only pedigree that I stand on to write you today sir, is my citizenship of Nigeria, a privilege and right I share and enjoy with you. The Constitution of Nigeria, gave us (you and I and others) the right to free speech. You have constantly and frequently exercised that right in writing letters or communicating via interview to our fellow citizens who happened by good fortunes to be former and present leaders of the country. You granted an interview expressing your opinion in comparing your led administration to that of present Buhari led administration. I'm writing you this letter in the exercise of the same right-free speech.
In your interview with AriseTv, you make it down that you fought corruption more in your led administration more that the present administration led by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Corruption!!!
Where do I start here? Is it financial or political corruption? Do you know know who started corrupting our political system sir? It is you.
Ab-initio, amongst the members of the Supreme Military Council that happened to be the Apex ruling military body in the country as at that time, you were the youngest, which is the rare privilege then and now.
You led the coup that terminated the most promising government/ administration in years and took over power and government. You were only forty-four (44) years of age as at the time. You was forced out at fifty-two (52) years, at an age many cannot boast today of being councilors!
You took the title of President instead of Head of State, and mesmerized us with your contrived charm and democratic posture.
In eight (8) years of your ruinous government, you started a transition that you expected will end up with you as a life President. You banned, unbanned and re-banned politicians, just to pave way for yourself. You registered and unregistered Political Parties in furtherance of your aim- to continue to rule.
You ended up with a Two Party arrangement that you hoped will adopt you as their sole candidate. The Parties had other plans, and nominated the generalissimo of Yorubaland, Iba Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, as SDP Presidential Candidate, and Bashir Tofa, as the NRC Presidential Candidate. Both were perceived to be lackey of the strongman and were expected to easily surrender if they won and were denied victory.
You didn't know or realize that Iba MKO Abiola, was a man of steel determination. Who wouldn't after winning an election perceived and adjudged to be the freest, fairest, and most credible? Who will give-up power or the prospect of real power so easily? My people say that you don't do a trial run of the insignia of a King on a prince who is on the line or qualified to be a King. If it fits and he runs away with it, he is King. Iba MKO Abiola wanted to be king and he got it.
Perceiving that you won't give up the throne easily, he procured an Arthur Nzeribe of the infamous ABN-Association of Better Nigeria, to file a lawsuit against the conduct of election. You procured Justice Ikpeme to rubber stamp your desire, and the election was annulled, plunging the country into the worst political and economic crises.
Having lost grip of the situation, and seeking for self-preservation, you concocted an Interim arrangement known as Interim National Government-ING, with Chief Ernest Sonekan as leader. You left behind your former Chief Of Army Staf and CDS, who later became your nemesis, behind to watch over the contraption. It was like giving a cat custody of a rat. It was only a matter of time before the cat feasted on the rat. You struck and imposed on the country the most brutal regime in the country.
Before then, you led the country on a wild goose chase of a debate on IMF Conditionalities. At the end, you told a bemused nation" There is no alternative to the IMF conditionalities". You then proceeded to devalue the Naira claiming or agreeing with the IMF that it was overvalued and discouraging foreign investment into the country. Chief Olu Falae and Dr Idika Kalu, were the salesmen of the ruinous policy.
You embarked on Privatization Policy that was in many people's opinion, a great idea. But the implementation of the policy was dark. Our key and critical assets were undervalued and sold for peanuts to friends, fronts, and associates. The economy went into a tailspin. Corruption became a state policy. Anything became possible if you can settle. The culture of settlement became our culture. We have not recovered.
Your evil genius as you're sobriquetly called brought about a book penned by Professor Olatunji Dare which he titled "Diary of a debacle". Despite all the aforementioned atop, for you to have the chutzpah and embark on revisionism is mind boggling and audacious. But then, we can't blame you so much- because we are victims of deliberate and self-imposed amnesia.
The purpose of history is not to make us happy, it is to remind us. I have taken the time to present you this brief history in the hope that you will know the painful truth.
Has President Muhammadu Buhari met all our expectations? No. Is he the best or worst President as some are saying? No, because he is still governing, and we don't mark a script when a student is still writing exams. But from all I can see, hear, and know, he is on course. But for you, whose scripts we have marked and adjuged to be a massive failure to lecture us on Good governance is preposterous because during your watch, you smashed every value metrics and literally "legalized" rot, corruption, abuses, and plunged the country into the worst economic and political crises which pontificate on values.
Sir, no serious people will listen to the tales by moonlight of the worst detractor of their country by actions and words; not to dwell on it or attempt to make sense of it because if you had done 10% good, Nigeria will be up with the best.
So, today, you're lecturing on leadership, how dare you?
Finally, I want to thank you for taking the time to read my letter. My sincere respect and regards to you sir.
God bless Nigeria.
Olayiwola Rasheed Jebba Hamilton.
Gen Ibrahim Babaginda
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Ukrainian Yastremska after escaping in the final
A week after fleeing her hometown of Odessa, Ukrainian tennis player Dayana Yastremska has reached the final of the WTA tournament in Lyon.
The 21-year-old, who competes in the blue and yellow colors of her country, beat number two seeded Romanian Sorana Cirstea 7: 6 (7: 5), 4: 6, 6: 4. On Sunday, the world number 140 meets China's Zhang Shuai in her first final since 2020.
"I have to think about what I'm feeling at the moment. I feel like I'm on a cloud and I don't even realize that I'm in the final," said the athlete.
Upon arriving in France, Yastremska reported that she was "awakened by bombs" as the Russian attack on Ukraine began.
Her family first sought shelter in an underground car park before Yastremska and her 15-year-old sister left their home country by ship across the Danube to Romania. Her parents stayed behind in Ukraine.
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Simon Sinek Tweeted a Simple Truth About Success We All Need to Hear -- Before 2022
Gearing up for a winning new year? That's all well and good, but don't forget there's a path to follow on the way to success.
By Jeff Steen, Content marketer and author@in_the_write
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I have a great deal of respect for Simon Sinek -- and have, ever since I uncovered his TED Talk, "Start With Why" (also the title of his strikingly popular first book). His messages are, indeed, worth pause and reflection, but what beguiles me most is their cut-through-the-confusion simplicity. No obfuscation, no over-complication. This is how it is.
No surprise, then, that I was struck but a recent tweet from Sinek that reminded me of a core truth of success we so often forget. He wrote:
"While dreams of greatness are great, we must remember to appreciate the joy of the start."
There are three things I want to call out here that, in my mind, underscore this message:
First, as much attention as we give achievement, no achievement is possible without an idea that becomes a goal that leads to planning, commitment, and ultimately, action. Too often, achievements hang in thin air like some magically suspended bauble. Let's celebrate the achievement at all its points -- because every step was required to get there.
Second, while Sinek doesn't directly address this in his tweet, I'm also reminded that we're sometimes too goal-focused. In other words, we lose the joy and impact of the journey when all we care about is the destination. Tennis great Arthur Ashe has an apt quote in this vein: "The doing is often more important than the outcome." Why? Because the doing is where we experience life, where we learn, where we overcome challenges. The achievement -- the end point -- is merely a marker that signifies how much we've grown along the way.
Third, appreciation does not play second fiddle to hustle. We hear a lot about hustle in the entrepreneurial and business spaces. It's the secret sauce to true success, some would say. But if you don't appreciate the journey -- however difficult -- how long can you last? And how strong will your relationships be? What sort of impact can someone have who hates the journey and pushes forward simply to say they made it? Appreciation of opportunity, capacity, and experience are all key to making the sort of impact we dream of making.
So yes, let's "dream of greatness," but embrace the start, the journey, and the love of the game.


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Jonathan Yeo: FT Magazine cover story
The shock of the nude
Financial Times, 12 September 2008
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The fantastic thing about Gordon Brown's face is that it is just so very ... craggy. That's what Jonathan Yeo tells me during a recent visit to his studio in Cadogan Gardens, off London's Sloane Square.
Laid out on a table in front of him is his recent portrait of the prime minister in all his splendid cragginess. Despite appearances, the portrait is nowhere near finished. In fact, the bold, expressive brushstrokes, typical of Yeo's painting style, are only the underlayer of what will undoubtedly be the first image of the premier of its kind. The 37-year-old artist is known predominantly for being one of most successful portrait painters in the UK today, and in particular for the illustriousness of his sitters, among them Prince Philip, Rupert Murdoch, Dennis Hopper, Tony Blair and, currently, David Cameron. Brown, however, would not agree to sit for him. "It was probably seen as too elitist for him to be sitting around having his portrait painted," muses Yeo, who resorted to composing the portrait from an amalgam of photographs.
Brown and his advisers may regret this decision when the finished work is unveiled later this month in New York. There, as part of a group show for Steve Lazarides, Yeo's dealer and an enfant terrible of the contemporary art scene, "Gay Gordon" (the piece's working title) may look like a painting from a distance but will in fact be made of scraps cut from pornographic magazines. Viewers' eyes are bound to water as they pick out certain salacious details.
When I ask Yeo if he ever thought twice about making such a flagrant piece of art, he says, "I did meet Sarah Brown the other day, and she was so lovely, I thought, 'Oh, can I do this?'." But he overcame any wobbles by the next day. "Anyway, I hope people will find it funny. I'm in the entertainment business after all!"
Pornographic collages of politicians and other dignitaries may seem a kamikaze detour from portrait painting, especially with Cameron sitting for Yeo in good faith. But for the past year, Yeo has been straddling two very different artistic spheres. On the one hand, he continues to paint oil portraits of the great and the good for £75,000-£100,000 a pop. But he is also dipping a toe in the frenzied waters of the contemporary art world with its love of controversy and headlines. His collages shock and titillate in equal measure; they whizz around the internet at the speed of light and are sold in a flash in Lazarides' Soho gallery. Is this a risky diversion from a lucrative business of classical portrait commissions? The fact that Yeo's porn-collage portrayals of Hugh Hefner and Lucian Freud fetched £30,000-plus this summer suggests not. The risk, then, might be of a different nature: that a portrait painter's bid for contemporary art-world stardom could fall flat.
The Gordon Brown portrait is under embargo until the New York show's opening night, September 25. But an exclusive look at the work-in-progress - and at Yeo at work - reveals Brown's large, square, boulder-like head filling out the canvas. At the piece's painted stage, Brown's face is rendered in sludgy, liverish tones, which make him look jowly and give him that unhealthy tinge of a man under the cruel light of news cameras. This is the tense, scrutinised Brown we recognise from the television, being taken to task once again. It is in marked contrast to Yeo's official portrait of Tony Blair unveiled earlier this year, in which the former leader has dropped his clenched smile and relaxed the worry lines of office.
On the table, a sea of top-shelf magazines surround the prime minister, some intact, but most ripped apart, with pages and scraps lying around. While the juxtaposition is amusing, in a back-of-the-school-bus kind of way, I find the bombardment of genitalia of all shapes, sizes and tones initially stomach-churning.
"You soon get over the content, and start really only looking for very particular skintones," says Yeo. "You soon learn which magazines are good for certain areas of the face. Big Butt magazine is a good one," he says, pointing vaguely to two plastic crates full of porn, and then turning to test me with an impish smile.
By my third visit to the studio, he has begun building up the first layer of collage by finding bits of body that match skintone in the painting underneath. It takes time and, as Yeo points out, one of these collages can take a lot longer than a painted portrait.
He seizes on a scrap of darkish, toned flesh and holds it up to Brown's forehead. "Yes," he says, "that ought to do it." The match is exact. Yeo then traces around the blocky area of paint and transfers this shape to the magazine paper. He cuts it out carefully with a pair of nail scissors, uses his finger to apply a thin layer of glue from a puddle on a Blockbuster membership card, sticks the scrap to the canvas and smoothes it down. There are several bits of collage there already, and it is only under the glare of Yeo's giant spot lamp that you can see a difference in sheen. The edges of the paper, however, are now invisible. The result is like a cross between a very complex jigsaw puzzle and an equally sophisticated mosaic. The process is mesmerising to watch.
While he flicks through a pile of pages selected for tone and texture, Yeo chats animatedly, telling me how he has consulted a paper conservationist to find out how to make these collages last. "This kind of paper," he says, feeling a thin, shiny sheet between two fingers, "is not meant to last." Yeo uses acid-free glue and frames the pieces with UV-filtering glass to give them a better chance of survival than, say, a Picasso collage. But those techniques are as far as he will go: a work of art should not be frozen in aspic. "It is, after all, a living thing."
Yeo had long pondered using pornography in his work but was only galvanised into trying it in 2007, with an image of George W. Bush - after an official portrait commission of the US president fell through despite a long, frustrating vetting process from 2002-2004.
The resulting piece, a large, framed collage that hangs in Yeo's studio, is a close-up of Bush, with the top of his head cropped. "I like that CinemaScope composition, it's much more direct," says Yeo as we stand and look at the picture.
Yeo studied literature and film (at Kent University), not art, but through his painting he's spent more time in the company of Hollywood stars than the average film graduate manages. The actor Dennis Hopper, for one, is a champion of Yeo's, and his portrait hangs on the wall of Yeo's studio opposite the collage of Bush.
Yeo grew up in London, attending Westminster School, where he did an art A-level. "The art department was very much there as a comedy, hobby department," Yeo says. He was discouraged by those around him from studying art at university, and it was only after doing the degree in film that he felt the urge to return to the easel: "There was just a noise in my head that was telling me to go and paint," he explains.
He began to paint regularly again at the age of 19 in a studio in Greenwich owned by his grandmother. Three or so years later, in 1993, he found a new reason to paint: he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease, a form of lymphatic cancer, and during his treatment art became solace. "The problem when you're going through a serious illness like that, it's partly having all this time to sit around feeling shit. Having something to do is a huge advantage." He made a full recovery.
Yeo's first portrait commission was Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, the anti-apartheid activist, who sat for him in 1993. Huddleston came to Yeo through the artist's father, Tim Yeo, who is a Conservative MP. The younger Yeo spent his childhood in the company of politicians and dignitaries, a background that may have helped him feel at ease with Blair and his band when shadowing the prime minister on his election campaign in 2001. Yeo had been commissioned by the Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art to paint a triptych portrait of the three main party leaders - Blair, Charles Kennedy and William Hague. He called the work "Proportional Representation" and tailored the size of each portrait to reflect the percentage of votes each politician received in the 2001 general election. This kind of playful wit is typical of Yeo's approach. He deployed it again in his 2007 portrait of Blair, in which Yeo encouraged the former PM to keep his remembrance poppy pinned to his lapel as a delicate reference to war.
When Yeo started down the portrait route 15 years ago, he was happy for it to be a lonesome path. Hardly anyone else in the art world was painting, let alone painting portraits. "When I used to tell people I was in portraiture, they were a bit baffled. I was seen as an interesting curiosity," says Yeo. He relished being an oddity in an art world fixated on minimalism and conceptualism and dominated by the first wave of Young British Artists (YBAs), led by Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, as well as collectors such as Charles Saatchi and art dealers such as Jay Jopling. Despite Yeo's incongruity with the main thrust of the art set, he socialised with them. "I bumped into a lot of the same people and was seen as their mad old artist friend doing portraits in the attic." Gallerists would hear about Yeo and occasionally ask him to contribute a portrait as a sort of wild card.
"Doing portraits was seen as absolutely, irredeemably uncool. And I was so determined not to follow the art world crowd that I probably spent longer doing it than I would have done otherwise."
Look closer at the Bush collage and you can't help but notice the president's ear is composed of a graphic image of an act banned in certain US states. And the crease of his downturned smile is fashioned from a photo of a woman whose bland, open-mouthed expression suggests she appeared in pages more risque than Vogue's.
"I did it really to amuse myself," says Yeo. "I didn't mean it to be an insult. It was more an ironic tribute intended to unsettle ultra-conservative, right-wing Americans." At the time Yeo began the Bush portrait, he was exhibiting oil portraits of figures such as transvestite potter Grayson Perry, actor Ross Kemp and model Erin O'Connor in museums including the Scottish National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery. Rendered in delicate paintwork so that their smoothly modulated faces burst out of the rough canvas, these portraits were far from conventional. One image of O'Connor, in which the model strikes a contorted yet elegant pose, caught the eye of the judges at the BP portrait prize, and was exhibited in the 2005 award show. The appearance helped push Yeo's fees higher, and brought in more famous sitters and media attention.
As a portrait painter, Yeo says, you get to dip into other people's worlds. "You don't think you are doing the same thing over and over when one day you're with the Russian mafia, the next you're with Prince Philip and then you're on Venice Beach hanging out with Dennis Hopper."
In may 2007, Steve Lazarides attended a party at Yeo's Cadogan Gardens studio and spotted the half-finished Bush collage. Lazarides, whose stable of artists includes that will-o'-the-wisp of graffiti, Banksy, and other street and graphic artists, was quick on the uptake. "I thought it was very funny, but with dark undertones. It hit the nail on the head in terms of what a lot of people think about Bush. I said - 'I really want to do a show with it'."
Lazarides got excited about the porn collages at a time when Yeo was ready for something new anyway. Since the heyday of the YBAs, narrative art has come round again. "You no longer shock the diehard art world by saying you're a portrait painter now," says Yeo. The artist's new dealer, however, had a plan to shock the public anew.
Lazarides - in an excellent example of the way that art and artists are marketed today - posted the Bush portrait on his website, sent it to various blogs and art sites and pushed out a flurry of emails to friends, journalists and others. Within five days, Yeo's website (www.jonathanyeo.com) had received 5.5 million clicks.
"The internet is the best medium to get artists' images across the world," Lazarides says. "What kind of gallery can offer that kind of viewing potential?"
The story was then seized upon by the press, and one or two British newspapers even printed the Bush image in all its graphic and unsettling detail. "I did lose a couple of commissions," Yeo says. "Unless a few people at least say, 'Why are you doing that? You're mad!' then what's the point?"
Major art institutions, meanwhile, remain interested in Yeo, but for his classical, painted work, not his foray into YBA shock-tactic territory.
The National Portrait Gallery has been exhibiting Yeo's portrait of Andrew Lloyd Webber this summer; it was a private commission, but the NPG decided that it would be nice to show it to the public before it disappears into the Lloyd Webber estate. A small oil of Rupert Murdoch by Yeo also hangs in the gallery; the NPG acquired it about a year ago.
Sandy Nairne, the gallery's director, says that Yeo's collages are not relevant to the NPG at the moment, but he isn't horrified by them. He points out that collage with an element of visual trickery has a historical precedent in Giuseppe Arcimboldo, the 16th-century Italian painter known for his faces made of fruit. Yeo's work, however much it embodies today's need to shock, is still following some form of tradition. Little is truly new in the art world.
I asked Nairne whether Yeo's street cred will have increased since he is no longer pigeonholed as an artist working on commission. "There is a premium in the art world for art that is produced freely. The very idea of a commission tends to put it at a different or lower status for some art critics," Nairne admits. "But I think there is fantastic skill and ability in the best commissioned work, and I would argue it has a very important place in contemporary art."
Nairne is more concerned about Yeo pushing the porn collage theme too far. "The Bush collage was a riposte. And there was a certain logic in that riposte. What is more puzzling is what happens after that."
The New York group show, which opens in two weeks' time at a "space" in lower Manhattan, has a distinct whiff of Lazarides about it. To start, in typical Lazarides style, the location is the up-and-coming bowery district. The exhibition will showcase artists who are not necessarily art-school trained and who have come at the contemporary art world from different angles - street art, for example, or even taxidermy. The organisers are even erecting a museum shop - a dig at the New Museum of Contemporary Art nearby, perhaps - and aiming for a hottest-ticket-in-town opening-night party. (Keep in mind that Lazarides masterminded Banksy's 2006 secret-location Los Angeles show "Barely Legal", which attracted "Brangelina" - Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie - among others).
"We're hoping for some more hip-hop stars to drop by this time," Lazarides says. "We have a good client base in New York, but you never can tell who will show up until the day."
The pieces in "Blue Period", Yeo's ironically titled one-man show of collages at Lazarides Soho this summer, sold out the afternoon before opening night. And there is still a waiting list of people wanting to buy the next one he makes - no matter who or what it portrays. "People will now buy things off the basis of a 'jpeg' image on an e-mail," Lazarides says. "But, it is new territory in NYC, so it would be nice to give people over there a chance to try and buy something."
During several visits to Yeo's studio, I get to observe a frenzied production period as he scrambles to finish enough collages for the show and meet demands for various charity donations - he receives three to four a week. All this is in addition to a constant flow of requests for portrait commissions - there have been about 100 so far this year. He is lined up to do Nicole Kidman and Baz Luhrmann at the end of the year in Australia.
The Yeo portion of the New York show will open with several different coloured canvases decorated with collages of swirling autumn leaves. Porn lends itself surprisingly well to falling leaves, I discover, as I watch Yeo arrange the delicate cut-outs on a black, shiny, painted canvas.
The leaf display will be called "Fall in Love", and will doubtless please visitors at first glance: "It's very New York, and the timing is perfect." The pleasure will last, Yeo hopes, until they step a little closer, see what they're really looking at, step back again, maybe step forward once more - until they find a distance from the painting where they feel comfortable. "It's a little like performance art," he says, clearly looking forward to witnessing this merry dance.
New York has yet to react to Yeo's work. The cognoscenti there may well hate it. And New York is the most important art market in the world. You don't become a superstar without winning its blessing.
In fact, Yeo says, he doesn't expect the kingmakers of the NYC art scene to be the first to warm to his work. "What tends to happen with Lazarides shows is that they bypass the art world and generate a groundswell of popular, and usually also celebrity, interest so that the art world then has to take notice." Indeed, this is what happened with Banksy in LA. This show's title, "The Outsiders", may suggest naïve art or Art Brut (often known as Outsider Art) to the New York crowd. But while many of Lazarides' artists didn't go to art school, there is nothing naïve about what they are doing or how it is marketed.
Perhaps most important of all, this will be the first time that the American public will see the Bush portrait, and for many, the first they will have heard of it. Yeo seems a little nervous. "They may all hate him but he's still their president."
"The art world is so cautious," he continues, as he glues down a leaf that crowns the swirling arrangement. Maybe, but not on Yeo's and Lazarides' side of the street. Yeo points to two graphic photographs pinned to the wall: they are images of breasts before and after cosmetic surgery. "I'm doing a series of diptychs on plastic surgery next year," he says. "It's called 'You Only Live Twice'."
Rebecca Rose is the FT's deputy books editor. 'The Outsiders', Lazarides Gallery, 282 Bowery, New York (www.lazinc.com), from September 26 to October 12. Video: visit Jonathan Yeo's studio at www.ft.com/jonathanyeo


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Senate to vote on Enzi bill rescinding NLRB snap elections, ALG urges adoption
April 23, 2012, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson issued the following statement urging Senate adoption of S.J. Res. 36 proposed by Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) that would rescind a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rulemaking requiring unionization elections occur within seven to ten days of being filed:
"The Senate has an opportunity to rein in the NLRB's abusive power grab instituting snap elections on behalf of unions, which will shorten the amount of time businesses have to make their case to employees. This has been a top priority of big labor as union membership wanes nationwide to expedite the process in as little as seven to 10 days.
"The urgency for union certification elections — and the speed with which the NLRB adopted the new rule — is curious when, by the NLRB's own data, it only took about 38 days to wrap up a unionization election under the old rule. The old process has allowed employers the opportunity to present a case against unionization in a manner allowing for deliberation. While it may be more convenient — for union bosses — to dispense with this process as quickly as possible, it neither serves the interests of businesses nor employees who are given little time to weigh the pros and cons of the decision.
"While the Senate should certainly rescind this rulemaking, it should also be mindful that it underscores just how much power this agency really has to issue sweeping regulations affecting tens of thousands of places of business.
"That is why it is no longer enough to treat the symptoms of the agency's overreaching quasi-judicial powers with mere stopgap measures. In the House, Rep. Austin Scott has proposed HR 2978 that will address this rogue agency in a comprehensive manner. Scott's legislation will abolish the NLRB's powers to serve as prosecutor, judge, and jury in favor of unions. If congressional Republicans are truly committed to reining in the abuses at the NLRB, they should carefully consider the Scott bill, which will eliminate the agency's power to regulate in such a far-reaching manner."


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A Song for Ella Grey
by David Almond
Independent Booksellers Award, 2015
ON SALE: 18th August 2016
Winner of the Guardian Children's Book Prize 2015
I'm the one who's left behind. I'm the one to tell the tale. I knew them both… knew how they lived and how they died.
Claire is Ella Grey's best friend. She's there when the whirlwind arrives on the scene: catapulted into a North East landscape of gutted shipyards; of high arched bridges and ancient collapsed mines. She witnesses a love so dramatic it is as if her best friend has been captured and taken from her. But the loss of her friend to the arms of Orpheus is nothing compared to the loss she feels when Ella is taken from the world. This is her story – as she bears witness to a love so complete; so sure, that not even death can prove final.
(P) Hodder Children's Books 2016
Infused with lyricism and with the fire and oddness of adolescence. Fresh, involving and lucid, it is a song in itself, and teens will find it fills them with poignant longing and joy.
A desperately romantic and deeply lyrical re-imagining of Orpheus and Eurydice... David Almond at his best. * * * * *
Passages of magic.
Beautifully written... poetic and allusive.
Spell-binding... impossible to resist... breathless, intoxicating prose. [Almond's] books seem to exist in their own otherworldly universe, outside all the trends in modern publishing, yet resolutely of the now.
The Glasgow Herald
Lyrical and dreamlike, this beautifully written story conjures up the insane intensity of first love and the effect it has on those caught up in its slipstream. Authentic teenage characters and attitudes, and Almond's control of emotion is superb.
Almond's writing is superb.
Irish Daily Mail
A ravishing, ingenious novel told in Almond's own hypnotic northern lilt.
A retelling of the myth of Orpheus... Almond's version is a revelation: his poetic prose seeps into your blood like word-venom until you can't imagine reading anything else (Children's Book of the Week)
a strong sense of mystery...lyrical... poetic...moves in a deliberate dreamlike way. A beautiful book that works on several levels A triumph. (Marcus Sedgwick)
A plangent tale of adolescent passion which re-packages the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Almond injects it with lyrical beauty and life.
Books for Keeps
Intriguing adaptation of the tale of Orpheus, skilfully crafted and blended with modern teen life and a real flavour of Northumberland. Haunting.
Peters eGazette
Almond is an incredibly powerful storyteller. Poetic... dreamlike and lyrical. A devastatingly poignant novel.
Newcastle Chronicle
A desperately romantic and deeply lyrical re-imagining of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Full of the hums and thrums of emotions, landscape, music and poetry, it's David Almond at his best.
Bliddy marvellous, as his Geordie protagonists would say.
The Independent on Sunday
A masterly retelling of the Orpheus myth. Lyrical prose is matched with equally beautiful passages.
Beautiful writing.
Almond's lyrical prose fits the story perfectly.
The Mail on Sunday
A revelation. Poetic prose seeps into your blood like word venom until you can't imagine reading anything else.
Beautiful and bewitching.
The writing is just so magical... A stunning book which I will definitely read again.
The Best Children's Books of 2014, The Guardian
David Almond is a dazzling writer...exceptional... a breathtaking novel from a literary master.
A daring reworking of Orpheus amd Eurydice... a sense of transcendence... lush poetic prose.
Haunting poetic novel.
If somebody asked me to describe A Song for Ella Grey in word, I would have to tell them that I couldn't...it would be impossible to write it off in just a word
The Guardian Online
It's a desperately romantic and deeply lyrical reimagining of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Full of the hums and thrums of emotions, landscape, music and poetry, it's David Almond at his best
A revelation: his poetic prose seeps into your blood like word venom until you can't imagine reading anything else
Alex O'Connell, The Times
Imogen Russell Williams, The Metro
Almond's lyrical prose fits the story perfectly
Beautiful writing...this is an author always on the side of the young, and as such offers a valuable counterweight to fashionable gloom in other teenage writing
Nicholas Tucker, The Independent
I thought the author told the story extremely well and I would recommend this book to anyone in their teens.
Charlie Barraclough (aged 14), Western Gazette
Skillfully crafted and blended...accessible with engaging main characters and haunting memorable plot.
Intensely lyrical and oddly haunting...Almond's prose is a delight, each word so carefully chosen and melded to make a myth of contemporary adolescence
Capturing the intensity of first love and its power to overcome even death, Almond's prose is a delight, each word so carefully chosen and melded to make a myth of comtemporary adolescence...will surprise and enthrall teenage readers in equal measure
Scool Librarian
David Almond is a powerful storyteller and I was completely swept away by his latest poetic prose
A challenging but riveting read
Sophie Innes, Trinity Academy, Teen Titles
It is a challenging but riveting read
Almond's poetic prose is especially apt for this tale -- one that moves in a deliberate, dreamlike way
Marcus Sedgewick, The Guardian
This is the most beautifully written, haunting book for young adults that I have ever read
Bristol Magazine
This year I loved A Song for Ella Grey by David Almond ... a powerful, lyrical book that's absorbing and moving and haunting
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SOUTH Fremantle has the chance to make it six straight victories and earn a spot in the 2018 WAFL Grand Final up against Subiaco in Sunday's second semi-final at Leederville Oval.
Subiaco and South Fremantle do battle on Sunday afternoon at Leederville Oval in the second semi-final with the winner to advance to the 2018 Grand Final at Optus Stadium in two weeks' time.
There will be a second chance for the loser who will go on to host the preliminary final next Sunday too against the winner of Sunday's first semi-final between West Perth and Claremont, but neither the Lions or Bulldogs will be thinking about that heading into the second semi-final.
Subiaco comes into the game on the back of an undefeated season becoming the first club to do that in the WAFL since 1946 with the Lions earning a break last weekend when the WAFL Finals Series got underway.
South Fremantle finished the season in second position on the ladder with a four-match winning streak and the Bulldogs kept that momentum going last Saturday with a 98-point hammering of West Perth in the qualifying final at Fremantle Community Bank Oval.
The motivations remain high for both clubs heading into the contest as well which only serves to make it all the more tantalising.
Subiaco has been the dominant team in recent years having now won four successive minor premierships on the back of winning the flag in both 2014 and 2015, and then losing Grand Finals the previous two years to Peel Thunder.
Sunday now provides the Lions with the opportunity to reach a fifth straight WAFL Grand Final but also the chance at redemption for those two losses the past two years after they have been minor premiers and the standout team of the home and away season.
But for South Fremantle, 2018 is now the third year they have finished the home and away season in second position on the ladder with each of the past two seasons ending with preliminary final exits.
Sunday's game provides the Bulldogs with the chance to qualify for a first Grand Final since 2009 as they attempt to win a first flag since that same year when they did beat Subiaco in the premiership decider denying the Lions a fourth consecutive flag.
Subiaco and South Fremantle have met twice during the home and away season with the Lions winning by 58 points at Fremantle Community Bank Oval in Round 2 and then holding the Bulldogs to three goals in Round 15 at Leederville Oval to win by 10 goals.
South Fremantle did beat Subiaco back in Round 1 of last year by 39 points at Fremantle Community Bank Oval, but the Lions have since won four on the trot by an average of 47.3 points.
Considering Subiaco has played in four straight Grand Finals and won four consecutive minor premierships now, it's no surprise that the Lions have had the wood over the Bulldogs now having won 10 of the past 11 matches, and 14 of the last 17 meetings.
Even going back since South Fremantle beat Subiaco in the 2009 Grand Final, Subiaco has had it over the Bulldogs winning 19 of the 25 match ups.
They have played in three finals since that 2009 Grand Final too with Subiaco winning the 2011 first semi-final by 85 points, second semi-final in 2016 by 40 points and preliminary final in 2017 by 32 points.
South Fremantle coach Todd Curley is confident his team is ready for the challenge of Subiaco.
"You pick up little things every time you play teams and I think the biggest area of learning for our guys in the last six to eight weeks has been more about ourselves, and learning about each other and your teammates and what you have to sacrifice to be a good team and win," Curley said.
"We'll take the little things we've learned about ourselves and against them, and we'll recover well, train well and prepare well to give it our best crack."
South Fremantle is now in its best run of form of the season having won five straight matches including last week's 98-point thumping of West Perth while also the healthiest with only triple Bernie Naylor Medallist Ben Saunders unavailable with a knee injury.
The key to the Bulldogs winning these past five matches and looking so impressive has been the full contribution they have been receiving from all 22 players.
That means that breaking into the team now from last week to this week has proven an impossible task with Blair Della Franca named an emergency as cover for Brock Higgins with Adam McIntosh and Jake Florenca hoping an opportunity opens up as the other two emergencies.
Subiaco went through the season undefeated and was guaranteed of the minor premiership and a home second semi-final long ago, but the selection of a final 22 for the Lions come finals time was always going to be fascinating.
That's certainly been the case with settling on a 22 when realistically Subiaco has 30 players deserving of a spot in the side far from an easy task for Jarrad Schofield and his coaching staff.
Subiaco's colts and reserves have both finished as minor premiers too to earn home second semi-finals so depth is anything but a problem with the Lions, but selection was a challenge for the league side.
Some tough calls had to be made with the toughest for sure to leave Brad Stevenson out of the side and he will play in the reserves second semi-final also at Leederville Oval on Sunday against East Perth.
Stevenson had kicked 27 goals this season up to the end of Round 11 but has managed only three games for two goals since.
The Lions have elected for Ryan Borchet in the forward-line instead and the second semi-final will be the eighth league game of his career.
Ben Newton also returns for Subiaco at the expense of Tom Edwards-Baldwin who had been in impressive form kicking 15 goals in his seven appearances.
The other change for Subiaco was Greg Clark returning for Michael Braut but the positive is those that missed selection can still press their claims in the reserves.


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I understand that your grasp of the medical field is less than desired in this case, however your ability to 'think outside the box' as it were combined with Dr. Richards' own vaunted mind could actually be an aide to me in my endeavor.
If you would be aimiable, I should like to work with you towards the mutual goal of removing this virus as a threat.
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No. 81: Shaolin Temple, Dengfeng, Henan
The interior of the practice hall (万福殿), the rear-most hall at Shaolin Temple (少林寺), in
Dengfeng, Henan (河南, 登封市), has dents in the floor allegedly made by years of Shaolin stomping.
The day after we visited Longmen Grottoes (and the nearby Guanlin, a temple dedicated to the hero Guan Yu), we finally reached one of the most famous temples in China: Shaolin Temple on Songshan.
Many Americans and others heard of this temple years ago in a TV show called "Kung Fu." The main character supposedly started his life at Shaolin Temple and then ended up in the American west in the cowboy days. His martial arts displays were considered wonderful; now that we've seen "the real thing," he looks kind of silly!
It was late November when we visited. Although it was cold, the leaves on the trees were turning colors, adding to the natural beauty of the place.
Although the scenic area is quite large, the temple grounds themselves are not so big. There are many famous halls, including one where the monks have supposedly stomped so hard that they've dented the stone floor.
There's also a nice tea shop, a Chinese medical apothecary, and--of course--demonstrations of Shaolin gong fu.
We wandered out of the main grounds and walked to the Talin or "Pagoda Forest," a beautiful sight that holds the remains of generations of monks. We wanted to hike up to the cave where tradition says the first patriarch of Chan (Zen), Bodhidharma, meditated for nine years. But it was cold, and getting late, so we took a bus back to Luoyang.
We'll visit again. One of my friends (and former students) is a monk there, who teaches both gong fu and the Buddha's teachings. Perhaps we'll go have tea with him sometime.
(An edited version of this article was published in the Shenzhen Daily December 16, 2013.)
The changing color of the trees adds to the beauty at Shaolin Temple on Songshan
This statue displays the body's meridians in front
of the apothecary at Shaolin Temple on Songshan
The "pagoda forest" holds the remains of generations of monks at Shaolin Temple on Songshan
There are 23 pictures related to this temple (some of them identical to these, but with different captions) in a FaceBook album starting here (available to all, even without a FaceBook account).
Labels: 142, Dengfeng, Henan, Shaolin Si, Trip 13


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Mitchell Starc (Bowler)
Team: Australia
Matches: 219
POB: Baulkham Hills, Australia
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Bowling style Left-arm fast
Test Debut vs New Zealand at The Gabba, Dec 01, 2011
ODI Debut vs India at Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Oct 20, 2010
T20 Debut vs Pakistan at Dubai International Cricket Stadium , Sep 07, 2012
IPL Debut vs Delhi Capitals at Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Apr 17, 2014
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Mitchell Starc overview
Mitchell Starc was born on 30th January 1990 New South Wales, Australia. He is a left-handed fast bowler who just loves to hit the deck hard. Mitchell Starc has created an aura of his own in world Cricket. The most surprising fact about Mitchell Starc is that the bowler who has dominated almost every great batsmen of his era was once an aspiring wicket keeper before he was spotted by a club coach who told him to ditch the gloves and learn bowling. The 14-year old lanky pacer had no idea that one day he will go on to become a spearhead in the Australian cricket team.
As a teenager, he had skills that many first-class players would envy. Playing under his coach Neil D'Costa, he extensively used to bowl at 135km/hr at the age of 16. Not only was he a great athlete, he was a great learner as a teenager and always had the zeal to learn the ethics of fast bowling according to his coach. He continued to rise through the ranks after joining the New South Wales Under-17 team. Soon, people started to notice his raw pace and his accuracy on the Australian pitches.
Test 61 91 19 1596 99 22.17 2358 67.68 0 0 10 156 43
ODI 96 54 21 401 52 12.15 440 91.14 0 0 1 29 11
T20 35 10 5 24 7 4.8 26 92.31 0 0 0 0 1
IPL 27 12 5 96 29 13.71 98 97.96 0 0 0 10 0
Test 57 109 11753 6583 244 6/50 11/94 3.36 26.98 48.17 13 2
ODI 96 96 4936 4263 184 6/28 6/28 5.18 23.17 26.83 7 0
T20 35 35 786 911 47 3/11 3/11 6.95 19.38 16.72 0 0
IPL 27 26 580 693 34 4/15 4/15 7.17 20.38 17.06 0 0
After some explosive performances at the junior level, Starc was finally picked for a debut for the New South Wales at the age of 19. Starc took 2 wickets in the match. In the next season, he grabbed 21 wickets from just 8 matches including a 5-wicket haul for 74 runs against Queensland. Talks about his consistency started to spread like wildfire after he took 26 wickets in 6 matches at an average of 8.12, striking once every 12 balls. Starc was awarded the player of the tournament, This was the beginning of an exceptional bowling career.
Starc made his debut in ODI cricket against India in Visakhapatnam on 20 October 2010. Starc was the best bowler in the ICC Cricket World Cup in 2015 which was co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand. He became the top wicket-taker in the tournament with 22 wickets while Australia won the title for a record fifth time. Starc was awarded the Man of the Tournament for his exceptional performance at the world stage.
Starc made his Test debut for Australia against New Zealand on 1 December 2011, in a two- match test series at the Brisbane venue. He took two wickets in the match and took two more in the second Test in Hobart. His debut Test was not the best of debuts and he leaked runs like a loose cannon and took only 2 wickets in the match. After this, He was left out of the Australian squad named for the series against India but was recalled for the third Test replacing spinner Nathan Lyon. Starc took four wickets in that match. In the Test series against India in 2012, he fell just one run short of a maiden Test hundred.
In the 2014 Indian Premier League (IPL), he was bought by RCB - Bangalore and quickly became their key bowler in the IPL 2015 edition. Starc missed the 2016 IPL season, , Starc moved on from RCB - Bangalore in order to put more focus on international cricket, On 27 January 2018, in the 2018 IPL auction he was bought by KKR - Kolkata (KKR) for ₹9.4 crore. Starc was ruled out of the 2018 IPL season due to injury and therefore was released by KKR later that year.
Starc Made his T20 debut against Pakistan at the Dubai International Cricket stadium on 7th September 2012. He has played in 31 matches and has taken 43 wickets with a career average of 18.65. He was also named in the 2012 ICC T20 World Cup 'Team of the Tournament.
• Starc bowled the fastest delivery to Ross Taylor in a Test match at 160.4 kmph on 15 November 2015. • Starc became the fastest bowler to take 100 ODI wickets in 52 innings. • Starc became leading wicket-taker across all formats for Australia in both domestic and international cricket during the 2014/15 season after taking 60 wickets. • He was the leading wicket-taker in ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 with 22 wickets. • He was the leading wicket-taker in international cricket in calendar year 2015 with 87 wickets • Starc is the 14th Australian to pick up 100 wickets and score 1000 runs in Tests • He is the fastest to reach 150 ODI wickets in just 77 matches • He has the most number of five-wicket hauls in World Cup cricket, he did it 3 times • He was the leading wicket-taker in ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 with 27 wickets With so many records behind his name, Starc still has a long way to go. From being a lanky pacer in the nets to becoming the mainstay of the Australian team, he has seen it all. He has an exceptional career record and still has a lot of cricket left in him. He is still a nightmare for a lot of world-class batsmen and is here to stay for a while.


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UT Scientists, World Partners Begin New Research at Large Hadron Collider
View all the posts from June 3, 2015
One of the first collisions in the CMS detector during testing for the second run of the Large Hadron Collider in late May. Image: CMS/CERN
UT joined world partners today in a new era of research as scientists began recording data from the Large Hadron Collider, the world's biggest and most powerful particle accelerator.
The new proton collision data, the first recorded since 2012, will give an international collaboration of researchers its best chance yet to study the Higgs boson, search for dark matter, and develop a more complete understanding of the laws of nature. The team of researchers includes more than 1,700 US physicists.
The Large Hadron Collider reproduces conditions similar to those that existed immediately after the big bang. It is based at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, Switzerland.
UT students and faculty in physics and nuclear engineering, based on the Knoxville and the UT Space Institute campuses, are part of two teams that are contributing research in this second run of the collider. They are developing electronics and hardware for the ALICE and CMS detectors, and monitoring and examining data collected in experiments.
The research team for ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) studies matter as it existed immediately after the big bang. Soren Sorensen, professor of experimental nuclear physics and program manager for the USA ALICE collaboration, leads UT's ALICE team. The team includes Christine Nattrass, assistant professor of experimental nuclear physics at UT, and Ken Read, professor of experimental nuclear physics and UT/ORNL joint faculty member, along with graduate students Joel Mazer, Kyle Schmoll, Rebecca Scott, and Andy Castro; postdoctoral researchers Abhisek Sen and Natasha Sharma; and undergraduate student Meg Stuart.
The CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) detector is tasked with testing the Standard Model and looking for new physics. UT's CMS team, led by Professor Stefan Spanier, includes postdoctoral researcher Keith Rose and graduate students Grant Riley, Joe Heideman, Krishna Thapa, and Mark Foerster.
Learn more about the data recording from the Large Hadron Collider.
Learn more about UT's role in the research.
Lola Alapo (865-974-3993, lalapo@utk.edu)
Christine Nattrass
Eric Lukosi
Grant Riley
Soren Sorensen
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The Doorknob and the Door(s): Why Bayes Matters Now
By Paul Alper
When I was young, there was a sort of funny story about someone who invented the doorknob but died young and poor because the door had yet to be invented. And, perhaps the imagery is backwards in that the door existed but was useless until the doorknob came into being but I will stick with the doorknob coming first in time. Bear with me as I attempt to show the relevance of this to the current meteoric rise of Bayesianism, a philosophy and concept several centuries old.
In a previous posting, "Statistical Illogic: the fallacy of Jacob Bernoulli and others," I reviewed the book, Bernoulli's Fallacy by Aubrey Clayton. He shows in great detail how easy it is to confuse what we really should want
Prob(Hypothesis| Evidence) Bayesianism
Prob(Evidence | Hypothesis) Frequentism
A classic instance of Bayesian revision in higher education would be the famous example at the Berkeley campus of the University of California. In the 1970s, it was alleged that there was discrimination against females applying to graduate school. Indeed, male admission rate overall was higher than female admission rate. But, according to https://www.refsmmat.com/posts/2016-05-08-simpsons-paradox-berkeley.html, the simple explanation
"is that women tended to apply to the departments that are the hardest to get into, and men tended to apply to departments that were easier to get into. (Humanities departments tended to have less research funding to support graduate students, while science and engineer departments were awash with money.) So women were rejected more than men. Presumably, the bias wasn't at Berkeley but earlier in women's education, when other biases led them to different fields of study than men."
Clayton's examples, such as the Prosecutor's Fallacy and medical testing confusion, give no hint of how analytically difficult it was to perform the calculations of Bayes Theorem in complicated situations. Except for a paragraph or two on pages 297 and 298 he makes no reference to how and why Bayesianism calculations can now be done numerically on very complicated, important, real-life problems in physics, statistics, machine learning, and in many other fields, thus the proliferation of Bayesianism.
For the record, the one and only picture of the reverend Thomas Bayes is generally considered apocryphal; ditto regarding the one and only picture of Shakespeare. Bayes died in 1761 and his eponymous theorem was presented to The Royal Society in 1763 by Richard Price, an interesting character on his own.
What has changed since the inception of Bayes Theorem more than two centuries ago, the door knob if you will, is the advent of the door: World War II and the computer. At Los Alamos, New Mexico, the place that gave us the atom bomb, five people were confronted with a complicated problem in physics and they came up with a numerical way of solving Bayes Theorem via an approach known as MCMC, which stands for Markov Chain Monte Carlo. Their particular numerical way of doing things is referred to as the "Metropolis Algorithm" named after Nicholas Metropolis, the individual whose name was alphabetically first.
To give the flavour but not the details of the Metropolis algorithm, I will use a well-done, simple example I found on the web which does not use or need the Metropolis algorithm but can be solved simply using straightforward Bayes Theorem; then I show an inferior numerical technique before indicating how Metropolis would do it. The simple illustrative example is taken from the excellent web video, Bayes theorem, the geometry of changing beliefs (which in turn is taken from work by Nobel prize-winning psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky).
The example starts with 'Steve', a shy retiring individual. We are asked to say which is more likely – that he is a librarian, or a farmer? Many people will say 'librarian', but that is to ignore how many librarians and how many farmers there are in the general population. The example suggests there are 20 times as many farmers as librarians, so we start with 10 librarians and 200 farmers and no one else. Consequently,
Prob(Librarian) is 10/(10 +200) = 1/21.
Prob(Farmer) is 200/(10 +200) = 20/21
The video has 4 of the 10 Librarians being shy and 20 of the 200 farmers being shy; a calculation shows how the evidence revises our thinking:
Prob(Librarian| shyness) = 4/(4+20) = 4/24 = 1/6
Prob(Farmer| shyness) = 20/(4+20) = 5/6
'Steve' is NOT more likely to be a librarian. The probability that 'Steve' is a librarian is actually one in six. Bayesian revision has been calculated and note that the results are normalised. That is, the 5 to 1 ratio, 20/4, trivially leads to 5/6 and 1/6. Normalisation is important in order to calculate mean, variance, etc. In more complicated scenarios in many dimensions normalisation remains vital but difficult to obtain.
The problem of normalisation can be solved numerically but not yet in the Metropolis way. Picture a 24-sided die. At each roll of the die, record whether the side that comes up is a number 1,2,3 or 4 and call it Librarian. If any other number, 5 to 24, comes up, call it Farmer. Do this (very) many thousands of times and roughly 1/6 of those tosses will be librarian and 5/6 will be farmer. This sampling procedure is deemed independent in that a given current toss of the die does not depend on what tosses took place before. Unfortunately, this straight-forward independent sampling procedure does not work well on more involved problems in higher dimensions.
Metropolis does a specific dependent sampling procedure, in which the choice of where to go next does depend on where you are now but not how you got there, ie the previous places you visited play no role. Such a situation is called a Markov process, a concept which dates from the early 20th century. If we know how to transition from one state to another, we typically seek the long-run probability of being in that state. In the Librarian/Farmer problem, there are only two states, Librarian and Farmer. The Metropolis algorithm says begin in one of the states, Librarian or Farmer, toss a two-sided die which proposes a move. Accept this move as long as you do not go down. So, moving from Librarian to Librarian, Farmer to Farmer or Librarian to Farmer are accepted. Moving from Farmer to Librarian may be accepted or not; the choice depends on the relative heights – the bigger the drop, the less likely the move is to be accepted. Metropolis says: take the ratio, 4/20, and compare to a random number between zero and one. If the random number is less than 4/20, move from Farmer to Librarian; if not, stay at Farmer. Repeat the procedure (very) many, many times.
Typically, there is a burn-in period so the first bunch are ignored and we count from then on the fraction of the runs that we are in the Librarian state or in the Farmer state, to yield the 1/6 and 5/6.
Multiple thousands of iterations today take no time at all; back in World War II, computing was in its infancy and one wonders how many weeks it took to get a run which today, would be done in seconds. But, so to speak, a door was being constructed.
In 1970, Hastings introduced an additional term so that for complex cases, the proposals and acceptances would better capture more complex, involved "terrain" than this simple example. In keeping with the doorknob and door imagery, Metropolis Hastings is a better door, allowing us to visit more complicated, elaborate terrain more assuredly and more quickly. An even newer door, inspired by problems in physics, is known as the Hamiltonian MCMC. It is even more complicated, but it is still a door,related to previous MCMC doors. There are many web sites and videos attempting to explain the details of these algorithms but it is not easy going to follow the logic of every step. Suffice to say, however, the impact is enormous and justifies the resurgence of Bayesianism.
Paul Alper is an emeritus professor at the University of St. Thomas, having retired in 1998. For several decades, he regularly contributed Notes from North America to Higher Education Review. He is almost the exact age of Woody Allen and the Dalai Lama and thus, was fortunate to be too young for some wars and too old for other ones. In the 1990s, he was awarded a Nike sneaker endorsement which resulted in his paper, Imposing Views, Imposing Shoes: A Statistician as a Sole Model; it can be found at The American Statistician, August 1995, Vol 49, No. 3, pages 317 to 319.
Categories: Global Perspectives | Tags: Bayes, Bayes Theorum, Bayesianism, machine learning, Metropolis algorithm, Philosophy and Education, statistics | Permalink.
Statistical illogic: the fallacy of Jacob Bernoulli and others
Bernoulli's Fallacy, Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science by Aubrey Clayton.
"My goal with this book is not to broker a peace treaty; my goal is to win the war." (Preface p xv)
"We should no more be teaching p-values in statistics courses than we should be teaching phrenology in medical schools." (p239)
It is possible or even probable that many a PhD or journal article in the softer sciences has got by through misunderstanding probability and statistics. Clayton's book aims to expose the shortcomings of a fallacy first attributed to the 17th century mathematician Jacob Bernoulli, but relied on repeatedly for centuries afterwards, despite the 18th century work of statistician Thomas Bayes, and exemplified in the work of RA Fisher, the staple of so many social science primers on probability and statistics.
In the midst of the frightening Cold War, I attended a special lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on 12 February 1960 by Fisher, the most prominent statistician of the 20th century; he was touring the United States and other countries. I had never heard of him and indeed, despite being in grad school, my undergraduate experience was entirely deterministic: apply a voltage then measure a current, apply a force then measure acceleration, etc. Not a hint, not a mention of variability, noise, or random disturbance. The general public's common currency in 1960 did not then include such terms as random sample, statistical significance, and margin of error.
However, Fisher was speaking on the hot topic of that day: was smoking a cause of cancer? Younger readers may wonder how in the world was this a debatable subject when in hindsight, it is so strikingly obvious. Well, it was not obvious in 1960 and the history of inflight smoking indicates how difficult it was to turn the tide, and how many years it took. Fisher's tour of the United States was sponsored by the tobacco industry, but it would be wrong to conjecture that he was being hypocritical. And not just because he was a smoker himself.
Fisher believed that mere observations were insufficient for concluding that A causes B; it could be that B causes A or that C is responsible for both A and B. He insisted upon experimental and not mere observational evidence. According to Fisher, it could be that people who have some underlying physical problem led them to smoke rather than smoking caused the underlying problem; or that some other cause such as pollution was to blame. According to Fisher, in order to experimentally link smoking as the cause of cancer, at random some children would be required to smoke and some would be required not to smoke and then as time goes by note the incidence of cancer in each of the two groups.
However, according to Clayton, Fisher himself, just like Jacob Bernoulli, had it backwards when it came to analysing experiments. If Fisher and Bernoulli can make this mistake, it is easy for others to fall into this trap because ordinary language keeps tripping us up. Clayton expends much effort into showing examples, such as the famous Prosecutor's Fallacy. The fallacy was exemplified in the UK by the infamous Meadows case and is discussed at length by Clayton; a prosecution expert witness made unsustainable assertions about the probability of innocence being "one in 73 million".
The Bayesian way of looking at things is to consider the probability a person is guilty, given the evidence. This is not the same as the probability of the evidence, given the person is guilty, which is the 'frequentist' approach adopted by Fisher, with results which can be wildly different numerically. Another example, from the medical world: there is confusion between the probability of having a disease, given a positive test for the disease:
Prob (Disease | Test Positive) ; the Bayesian way of looking at things
Prob (Test Positive | Disease) ; the frequentist approach
The patient is interested in the former but is often quoted the latter, known as the sensitivity of the test, which might be markedly different depending on the base rate of the disease. If the base rate is, say, one in 1,000 and the test sensitivity is, say, 90%, then for every 1000 tests, 100 will be false positives. A Bayesian would therefore conclude correctly that the chances of a false positive test are 100 times greater than the chances of actually having the disease. In other words, the hypothesis that the person has the disease is not supported by the data/evidence. However a frequentist might mistakenly say that if you test positive there is a 90% chance that you have the disease.
The quotation from page xv of Clayton's preface which begins this essay, shows how much Clayton, a Bayesian, is determined to counter Bernoulli's fallacy and set things straight. Fisher's frequentist approach still finds favor among social scientists because his setup, no matter how flawed, was an easy recipe to follow. Assume a straw-man hypothesis such as 'no effect', take data to obtain a so-called p-value and, in the mechanical manner suggested by Fisher, if the p-value is low enough, reject the straw man. Therefore, the winner was the opposite of the straw man, namely the effect/hypothesis/contention/claim is real.
Fisher, a founder, and not just a follower of the eugenics movement, was as I once wrote, "a genius, and difficult to get along with." Upon reflection, I consequently changed the conjunction to an implication, "a genius, therefore difficult to get along with." His then son-in-law back on 12 February 1960 was George Box, also a famous statistician – among other things the author of the famous phrase in statistics, "all models are wrong, some are useful" – who had just been appointed to be the head of the University of Wisconsin's statistics department. Unlike Fisher, Box was a very agreeable and kindly person and, as evidence of those qualities, I note that he was on the committee that approved my PhD thesis, a writing endeavour of mine which I hope is never unearthed for future public consumption.
All of that was a long time ago, well before the Soviet Union collapsed, only to see today's military rise of Russia. Tobacco use and sales throughout the world are much reduced while cannabis acceptance is on the rise. Statisticians have since moved on to consider and solve much weightier computational problems via the rubric of so-called Data Science. I was in my mid-twenties and I doubt that there were many people younger than I was at that Fisher presentation, so I am on track to be the last one alive who heard a lecture by Fisher disputing smoking as a cause of cancer. He died in Australia in 1962, a month after my 26th birthday but his legacy, reputation and contribution live on and hence, the fallacy of Bernoulli as well.
Categories: Evaluation, Global Perspectives | Tags: Aubrey Clayton, Jacob Bernoulli, logic, Meadows, probability, Prosecutor's fallacy, RA Fisher, smoking, statistics, Thomas Bayes | Permalink.


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