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My father had plenty of time, during his two years in prison, to further his intellectual insights into contemporary philosophy. Upon his release, he returned to Austria and pondered what the future had in store.
In the meantime, he penned his thoughts into a series of three articles on the position of Judaism as the " nay-sayer" of civilization, especially in contrast to the most popular intellectual trends of his day: Economic determinism as expressed in Marxism; Genetic determinism as expressed in Nazi Racism; Cultural determinism as expressed in Fascism; and psychological determinism as expressed in the depth psychology schools of Freud and Jung. Finally, in the second and third essay, he attacks the enthronement of instinctual drives in neo-Romanticism as expressed by D.H. Lawrence and Nietsche and culminating in the nihilism inherent in National Socialism—Nazism.
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Breeding is crucial in thoroughbred racing because it is where horses get their tendencies and their capabilities from. It doesn't always work out this way, but as a general rule if the sire of a horse had the ability to run long distances then the horse should be able to handle it as well. What you want to look for, then, is horses that are descended from distance horses. Without spending a lifetime getting to know every sire out there there are a few shortcuts you can take. The sire, grandsire, and the damsire - sire of the horse's mother - for each horse are all listed in the past performances in the race program.
First, look to see if any of those three horses are past Belmont winners. If a horse in the past has won the Belmont there is a good chance the horse can handle the distance. If not, have any won a Triple Crown race? That means that they were able to beat the best three year olds of their time over long distances with high stakes on the line, so they are very classy horses. That's not as good as being a Belmont winner, but it is much better than nothing.
Next, are any of those horses a winner of a major race run at at least a mile and a quarter other than the Triple Crown? That would include races like the Breeders' Cup Classic, the Dubai World Cup, and a handful of others. Basically you are looking for proof that the horse is descended from runners that have proven to be not just good but exceptional, and that they have proven it over longer distances.
If none of those are the case then you finally want to check and see if the sires were horses that ran not on dirt but turf, but who ran major races at bigger distances on that surface. Turf horses tend to have a bit more stamina than dirt horses, so that can be an indicator of some ability to run distance. It's not ideal, but it will do.
A horse that doesn't possess any of these criteria isn't necessarily unable to handle the distance, but you need to find another way to prove he can. What you really don't want to see when you look there is a horse that is descended from very good sprinters. If one or more of the sires listed won the Breeders' Cup Sprint or other major sprints, for example, then you have a problem - or rather the horse does.
Almost no horse in the Belmont Stakes has run as far as a mile and a half before, so the best you can do is look back at the furthest they have previously run. You don't want to focus on results because that is not dependent on the distance as much as it is on the horses they were running against. Instead, what you want to focus on is how well they were running at the end of their three longest races. If they were gaining ground and running great then they probably had a lot left in the tank and could have handled more distance. If they were just holding ground or losing it, though, then they could struggle with extra distance.
What you want to look at is their position in the last two places listed in the program and at the wire. If they were gaining ground at the end - say they were 5th then 3rd then second, or they were first by one length, then three, then six at the wire - and they did that consistently over all three races then they can probably handle the distance. If they weren't able to gain any positions late, or if they just maintained their position but lost ground on the horse in front of them, then they were probably not feeling great later on, and the extra distance isn't going to help them.
If as a bettor you still don't have a sense of a thoroughbred's capabilities after the first two steps then you can resort to getting an overall sense of the horse's performance. Start by breaking the races the horse has run in the past into three basic groups - races of less than a mile, races from a mile to a mile and an eighth, and longer races.
Once you have done look at how they have performed in each group. Have they been unbeatable at shorter distances but had less success as the races stretched out, or have the y been generally consistent, or even better as things got longer? Do they gain more ground at the end of shorter races or longer ones? What you are looking for is an sign you can find that a horse prefers to run longer, or that his results have generally been stronger the longer he has run. This is more art than science at this point, but when a horse is being asked to do something he has never been asked to do before it comes down to a lot of guesswork anyway.


We all know that when we get up and go to work in the morning, there is a chance we won't have that job when we come home at the end of the day. Despite that fact there are still some reasons that would rightfully shock us if they caused us to lose our jobs. There are some reasons we would also find quite hilarious if we knew they happened to someone else. Sometimes we're actually asking for it when we show up to our jobs in certain states of mind. If all of this is posing too much of a puzzle for you, have no fear we've put them in a helpful list. Check out 10 of the most heinous and unintentionally hilarious reasons people were fired from their jobs and then let us know what you think.
We said this article was about people losing their jobs, but this story is just a little too good. Renzo was a police dog for four years before he lost his position. During a stop at a Dunkin Donuts shop, Renzo got away from his handler and shot after a worker. The worker was able to see the dog coming and mostly get into the car before the dog could reach him. The dog still managed to bite the worker four times before he got away. For this infraction, Renzo was pulled off police force.
Terry Chapman, a school janitor hatched a plan he likely thought was foolproof, where he would make counterfeit money using his school's copier. The problem was that the counterfeit cash wasn't very believable. Thanks to using the school copier he not only got arrested but lost his job as well.


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Between 6 and 11 am every Sunday, Jakarta's six lane thoroughfare, Jalan Jenderal Sudirman, is closed to all traffic except public buses and emergency vehicles. As air pollution is a problem in Jakarta, the reason for the closure is to give city dwellers and visitors alike a safe, carbon free environment to exercise and to promote cycling, running, walking, rollerblading and exercise in general.
I am in Jakarta for four weeks on a short term consulting assignment. I arrived on Sunday night and have since been wondering what to write for my blog this week. It started to rain on Tuesday, and hasn't really stopped since, but it is monsoon season. Throughout last night there was a heavy and constant thunderstorm and when I opened my curtains this morning, I thought it looked bit wet. Then a couple of hours later I realised I actually had some real news to blog about.


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Love and Christmas are all around.
"General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often, it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaking suspicion... love actually is all around."
Love Actually is a 2003 Romantic Comedy set during Christmas time.
The movie revolves around several different people and their relationships, all woven together. Among the myriad plotlines, we see the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Hugh Grant) falling hard for the girl who does the tea in Number 10 Downing Street (Martine McCutcheon), who also draws the eye of the visiting U.S President (Billy Bob Thornton); his sister (Emma Thompson) going through a rough patch in her marriage while her husband (Alan Rickman) finds himself drawn to his secretary; his work colleague (Laura Linney) finding herself torn between pursuing love with a long-time crush and her obligations to her disabled brother; a mystery writer (Colin Firth) decamping to France after his brother sleeps with his girlfriend and falling in love with the Portuguese maid, despite neither of them speaking each other's languages; an aging and burnt-out old rocker (Bill Nighy) making a last stab at music success, and his friendship with his manager / roadie; and a recently widowed father (Liam Neeson) trying to help his young stepson through his first case of heartache...
Examples of:
Adaptation Decay: In-universe, as part of a nativity play that takes...several liberties. Including three lobsters, an octopus, a whale, and Spider-Man.
All-Star Cast: Liam Neeson, Alan Rickman, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Rowan Atkinson and many more less internationally famous but who are very well known in Britain. Probably even more star studded today with the elevation of Keira Knightley, Martin Freeman and Andrew Lincoln up the star charts.
Beleaguered Assistant: Being Billy Mack's manager is one hell of a P.R. nightmare.
Bittersweet Ending: Karen and Harry decide to just brave on, even though they may not be happy; Sarah and Karl can't make it work; Mark's final scene suggests that he's still not over Juliet.
Black Best Friend: Tony and Peter.
Blonde Tory Sex Kitten: You know what I mean: Margaret Thatcher - that saucy minx!
Brain Bleach please.
Book Ends: The arrivals gate at Heathrow airport.
Brick Joke: Early in the Aurelia scenes, she refuses a biscuit, saying that the writer would understand if he saw her sister. Near the end of the movie, he meets her sister, who's noticeably fat and homely.
Another one, Daniel's first scene is his wife's funeral, and there's a joke about him having a crush on Claudia Schiffer. He spends the rest of the movie trying to help his stepson Sam win over the girl he loves, which brings them to the school play, where he meets a woman played by...Claudia Schiffer.
British Accents: Colin is convinced that having one will make him devastatingly hot in America.
He's right.
Truth in Television, trust me.
Bury Your Gays: Only in deleted scenes. The female teacher of one of Karen and Harry's kids is shown to have a female lover who dies in a later deleted scene.
California Doubling: Milwaukee, WI shows up in a brief scene, and everything from the airport sign to the bar looks like it was shot in California. The only thing that looks right is the shot of the house at the end of the scene.
Can't Believe I Said That: When meeting David the Prime Minister for the first time, Natalie worries about how she thought '(she) was going to say shit or something and ruin everything.' Then realises that she has indeed, just said shit, and quotes this line verbatim.
Natalie: Hello, David. I mean, sir. Shit, I can't believe I've just said that. And now I've gone and said shit. Twice. I'm so sorry, sir!
David: It's fine, it's fine! You could have said fuck, and then we'd both have been in real trouble.
Natalie: Thank you, sir. I did have a terrible premonition I was going to fuck up on my first day. ... Oh, piss it.
Casanova Wannabe: Colin, at least in his home country; he thinks that going overseas to America will improve his luck with the ladies. It works.
Celebrity Paradox: Claudia Schiffer plays a lookalike of... Claudia Schiffer.
Harry Potter is mentioned. No word on who plays Professors Snape and Trelawney.
Or Rufus Scrimgeour by way of Retroactive Recognition.
Chew Out Fake Out: In a scene cut the theatrical release, (but included in the DVD extras), Karen is called to her son's school because his teacher is upset by a theme paper he wrote, in which he described how the world would be different if people's farts were visible. Karen listens attentively to the teacher and principal, and then quietly takes her son into the hallway to talk to him;
Bernie: Sorry, Mum.
Karen: I'm sorry too, Bernie. Sorry and ashamed and embarrassed... that I have put you in a school with such total and utter pricks that they don't get a good gag when they see one! I mean, this is high-class comedy. This is first-rate stuff! Look, you're my son and obviously I have to love you. But right now, I really love you! (Mother and son dissolve into laughter)
Clark Kent Outfit: Where was Karl hiding those arms!? (I mean, aside from in his shirt.)
Closed Door Rapport: Liam Neeson's character often talks to his step-son through the door, as Sam hardly leaves his room after the death of his mother. Sam mainly responds by leaving notes on the door itself.
Concert Climax: Nearly all the characters end up in the audience at an elementary school Christmas pageant. It culminates in an awesome cover of "All I Want For Christmas Is You".
Convenient Slow Dance: A slow song starts just after Karl asks Sarah to dance at the office Christmas party.
The Cover Changes the Meaning: "Love Is All Around" is changed by Dreadful Musician Billy Mack to "Christmas Is All Around" in a blatant attempt to have a Christmas Breakaway Pop Hit. Later there's a Playing to The Fetishes video.
Billy himself finds the whole idea ridiculous, even while recording it, and refuses to promote it without deep sarcasm. For instance, from a radio interview:
Billy: Oh come on, Mikey, you know as well as I do the record's crap. But wouldn't it be great if Number One this Christmas wasn't some smug teenager, but an old ex-heroin addict searching for a comeback at any price? All those young popsters, come Christmas Day... they'll be stretched out naked with a cute bird balancing on their balls, and I'll be stuck in some dingy flat with me manager, Joe, ugliest man in the world, fucking miserable because our fucking gamble didn't pay off. So if you believe in Father Christmas, children, like your Uncle Billy does, buy my festering turd of a record. And particularly enjoy the incredible crassness of the moment when we try to squeeze an extra syllable into the fourth line.
Mikey: I think you're referring to 'If you really love Christmas... '
Billy: 'Come on and let it snow'? Ouch.
Covers Always Lie: Rowin Atkinson is always shown to be a main character of the film but he only actually appears twice.
Did Not Do the Research: Cutis admits in the commentary that he did no research on America, and didn't realize he was sending Colin to the "cheese state." This sets up every American viewer with undue expectations of what he'll find there.
Did Not Get The Guy: Sarah the lone Downer Ending in a movie of mostly happy ones.
Also, Mark's ending, to a lesser extent ( he doesn't expect to get Juliet from Peter, and she gives him a pity-kiss. It arguably ends well since they didn't get along before, but are now friends.)
It becomes an even lesser extent when considering that it's not that Mark didn't want to be friends with Juliet; he was so in love with her that his defense mechanism to save himself pain was to push her away. The movie makes it clear he loved his friend Peter deeply and loved Juliet madly, but couldn't reconcile his feelings towards both because they were getting married. So while he didn't blame either party, he still felt a little betrayed on the inside.
Disappeared Dad: We never do find out what happened to Sam's biological father, aside from the fact that he's not to be seen.
Eagle Land: Mixed Flavour. The US President (played by Billy Bob Thornton as George W. Bush with an added dose of Bill Clinton's infamous womanising) is textbook flavour 2; the American girls Colin meets in Wisconsin are a less extreme flavour 2 in that they are nice, but still reinforce the stereotype of American girls as "easy" and willing to sleep with anyone who has a sexy British Accent. It's the Sarah character, and her deep concern for her brother over her own happiness, which balances out the movie's portrayal of Americans.
Joanna is also an American and is portrayed positively.
Earn Your Happy Ending: While most of the stories are very idealistic, there are indications that the characters had to earn that happiness. All the characters who end up happy either made a sacrifice or took a big risk in the name of love. Even Colin, who has the most idealistic story in the film, had to sell his apartment to make his fantasy come true. And the characters who end up unhappy, like Sarah or Mark, arguably end up that way because they took no risks or were unable to move on.
Eloquent in My Native Tongue: Aurelia is fluent in Portuguese, but starts out speaking no English at all, and is poor at it even when she learns. She falls in love with a writer whose English is perfect, but his Portuguese is even worse than her English.
Everyone Looks Sexier If French
Everything Sounds Sexier in French: Colin is certain his British accent will make him irresistible to American girls he's somehow right, and it's taken to such an extreme it turns into pure parody. Also, Colin brings home a sexy girl with a thick Texas drawl (from Wisconsin) proving it works both ways.
Femme Fatale: Mia. She's pretty and alluring but she is deliberately flirting and making moves on her married boss. During the company's Christmas party, she dances with Harry in front of his wife. She's even wearing a devil costume!
Follow the Leader: Started a whole genre of romantic comedies with a big cast and overlapping stories (He's Just Not That Into You, Valentine's Day, What to Expect When You're Expecting).
Funny Background Event: When Jamie is going to Aurelia's restaurant at the end, he walks past a wall with a completely unrelated French graffiti "TV: first cop in France".
Genre Savvy: Daniel and Sam come off as this, with a full knowledge of love films.
Sam: You know the films, they never get together until right at the very end.
Gossip Evolution: When Jamie comes to propose to Aurelia at the end, the rumour soon goes via "Father is about to sell Aurelia as a slave to this Englishman." to "Apparently he is going to kill Aurelia."
Grand Romantic Gesture: So many, but Mark pulls off the best one at the end with the cue cards.
Gratuitous Foreign Language: The ending of Aurelia's story plays out in Portuguese, with subtitles revealing that it's rather amusingly broken Portuguese.
Hates the Job, Loves the Limelight: Billy, oh so much.
Heterosexual Life Partners: Billy Mack and Joe. Although they don't realize how much they mean to each other until the end.
Hide Your Gays: The film manages to depict and celebrate every form of human relationship and connection, except one. Richard Curtis has said that an early draft of the screenplay had a subplot involving two schoolgirls attracted to each other, and a subplot involving the principal of the school and her dying female partner that was filmed but not included in the final cut is mentioned above as an application of Bury Your Gays. The treatment of queer characters in the Richard Curtis ouevre makes interesting food for thought.
Homage Shot: Word of God has stated the scene where Mark reveals that he's in love with Juliet by showing her his tape of her wedding, which is entirely made up of shots of her is a homage to the ending of Cinema Paradiso.
Hollywood Pudgy: Natalie is constantly ragged on (pretty much by everyone but David) for being a fat cow. She isn't.
Possibly a parody, or at least a lampshading, as David is just as puzzled and annoyed by this as presumably everyone in the audience was.
It definitely seems like Natalie is a parody of Hollywood Homely.
Several years before the film was made, the British media was obsessed with Martine McCutcheon's weight. There was a public backlash over it due to people being utterly baffled by the media's claim that she was fat. This storyline feels like a parody of that event, with the rest of the cast reflecting the media attitude and the prime minister reflecting the public's reaction to it.
Hyperlink Story
I Didn't Mean to Turn You On: Juliet to Mark
Language of Love: Jamie and Aurelia
Like Brother and Sister: Karen and Daniel
Loads and Loads of Characters: Follows nearly twenty characters, to greater or lesser degrees. See One Degree of Separation below.
Love At First Sight: How Sarah felt about Karl. Yes, Everyone Can See It.
Male Gaze and Female Gaze
Missing Mom: Sam's dies before the start of the movie. We see her Meaningful Funeral.
My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: A mild case. Eels are explicitly mentioned in Homage.
Naked People Are Funny: Especially when they're acting as body doubles for a sex scene.
Also, the schoolgirls laughing at pictures of naked men in the gallery Mark works in:
Mark: Actually, they're not funny, they're art.
No Party Given: The Prime Minister, although Fridge Logic suggests he's a Conservative (he is clearly implied to follow Tony Blair and seems to have achieved the position by virtue of winning an election rather than succeeding within the party). He also...admires Margaret Thatcher.
One Degree of Separation: Nearly all the main characters are linked directly or indirectly; only Billy Mack and his manager have no real connection to the other characters (unless you count his performance distracting a security guard at exactly the right time).
Earlier than that, seeing the video gave Sam the idea to become a drummer to impress Joanna.
The song or music video was playing all over the place throughout the movie. In all honesty it was rather interesting how they were able to successfully work it into so many scenes so well.
Only in It For the Money: Billy openly, cynically, and hilariously states that this is his sole motivation for recording "Christmas Is All Around".
Our Presidents Are Different: The Prime Minister is textbook PM Personable, but played in a way that virtually no work has ever done.
Playing Against Type: Alan Rickman especially.
Pluralses: When the Colin Firth character asks his housekeeper to marry him (in clumsy Portuguese), she says, "Thank you, that will be nice," and then when he remarks that she learned English too, she says, "Just in cases."
Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner
Sam: "Let's go get the shit kicked out of us by love."
There's a few others. The Prime Minister right before finding Natalie:
David: Hi, Jack? I need a car... Right now. (Theme Music Power-Up)
Promotion to Parent: Sarah's problem with regards to her Ill Brother.
Also, after Sam's mother dies, his stepfather is stuck with all parental duties and has to help his son through a difficult time while dealing with his own grief. While he started out a parent, it was in a much less active role.
Race For Your Love: Sam at the airport chasing Joanna.
Risky Business Dance: Almost. The Prime Minister does keep his pants on when dancing around.
Second Act Breakup: David the Prime Minister and Natalie, sorta (well, she gets transferred anyways).
Sexy Santa Dress: In Billy's video.
Shout-Out: Billy's video is based on the video to "Addicted to Love".
The Screenplay of the Film has a picture of Billy and Joe embracing in a similar pose to the picture on the Fight Club page.
Singing Voice Dissonance: In-story, the Prime Minister has this reaction to his driver/bodyguard's (Gavin?) incredibly rich, deep and very very Welsh voice when they are entreated to sing Christmas carols by some pleading children while going door to door.
Richard Curtis was worried that Olivia Olson's singing voice would look fake coming from such a young girl, when in fact she actually was that good. The final version has her stopping for breath several times when she didn't actually need to.
Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: With two exceptions, very idealistic.
Star-Making Role:
"Who's Bill Nighy? Is he famous in England or something?" Yes, a little, but this was the film that elevated him to national treasure status.
Averted by Martine McCutcheon, a former-soap-star-turned-singer, who was given major billing and was about as well-received as the rest of the film. For some reason this didn't launch her onto any other roles.
Sweater Girl: Juliet in one scene.
Take That: When Hugh Grant's Prime Minister character moves into Number 10 Downing Street, there are a few at his predecessor as PM (who's implied to be Tony Blair).
Talking with Signs: Mark uses a set of pre-made signs to confess his feelings to Juliet and wish her a merry Christmas while covering for his presence with a taped choir singing "Silent Night".
Title Drop: The opening narration.
Wedding Day: Peter and Juliet's.
What the Hell, Hero?: Did the Prime Minister of Great Britain just end the special relationship with the United States over a crush? And why the hell does everyone in Number 10 think this is such a great thing?
The whole point was that the US president was using his political leverage to bully Great Britain. This was how the Bush/Blair relationship was popularly viewed in the UK at the time, with Blair as Bush's 'lap dog'. The incident between the President and Natalie was the metaphor that made the PM realise he should stand up to the President.
Where Are They Now? Epilogue: Takes place in the airport, a month after Christmas. A rare short duration version.
You Are a Tree Charlie Brown: A good chunk of the pageant roles.
Daisy: We've been given our parts in the nativity play, and I'm the lobster!
Karen: The lobster?
Daisy: Yeah!
Karen: In the nativity play?
Daisy: Yeah, first lobster.
Karen: There was more than one lobster present at the birth of Jesus?
Daisy: Duh.
There's also an octopus, penguins, a vomiting whale, a starfish, and a Spiderman King.
Your Cheating Heart: Mia comes on to Harry constantly, and he seems to be slipping into having an affair before Karen catches him. Technically he's Mistaken for Cheating, but only because he hasn't actually tapped that yet.
He DID get her a very expensive necklace (or some form of jewelry) while he bought his wife a CD. I mean...come on!
The ironic thing is, in getting his wife a CD of one of her favorite artists instead of one of his usual generic gifts, he showed that he did love his wife very much.
We never see the scene of him giving her the necklace, so it's left open-ended if they had sex when he did so or not. Karen even points this out near the end of the film, how she's unsure if he just gave her a necklace or sex and a necklace.
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We expect men who have rejected the truth of God to pursue such silly goals. But when evangelical leaders and pastors abandon Scripture to promote political liberalism, it is a sign of just how far America and the Church have fallen.
Another controversial conference is happening in Chicago next week drawing impressionable Christian youth further down the road to socialism. Jan Markell of Olive Tree Views joins us this morning to sound the alarm about the Justice Conference and the theological compromise of the National Association of Evangelicals.
The JUSTICE CONFERENCE will address major issues in the public square of 2016 America – including Race, Poverty, Violence, Refugees, Systemic Injustice, and Shalom.
Progressives such as Jim Wallis and Tony Campolo are also on the schedule. Promotion material for the conference quotes Nelson Mandela, a hardened Marxist, and some of the featured speakers are light years away from anything evangelical. This year, the radical leftist priest, Father Pfleger makes an appearance. (He was a part of Jeremiah Wright's Marxist outreach in Chicago.) Other speakers have suggested that the "raw power of government" be unleashed. This is nothing but far Left politics being rammed down the throats of impressionable young people.
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A Look at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut
The Florence Griswold Museum sits on the site of a historic art colony in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Still, you don't have to be an artist or collector to appreciate the facility because there's truly something for everyone.
For starters, the venue acts as a piece of living history on the Connecticut Shoreline. Many buildings on this 13-acre property sitting on the Lieutenant River's shores are fully restored to their original state and contain period decor.
The museum also hosts family-friendly events throughout the year that will allow you to get out and enjoy the unique charm that Old Lyme provides its residents.
If you're looking at homes to buy in Old Lyme, getting to know the Griswold Museum can help make your decision all the more easier.
The Florence Griswold House
The main attraction at the Florence Griswold Museum is the Florence Griswold House, a late Georgian-style home built in 1817 for affluent Old Lyme resident William Noyes. The house was designed by Samuel Belcher, who is also responsible for the town's First Congregational Church, and is reflective of the type of home the area's wealthiest inhabitants lived in during this period.
The early 1900s were when the Florence Griswold House became famous, as it acted as a boardinghouse for renowned American artists like Willard Metcalf and Childe Hassam. Future president Woodrow Wilson spent time there with his family, as well, and in total, over 135 artists lived at the property between 1899 and 1935.
The home's dining room features panels created by some of these artists, making it a focal point for many campus tours. Artists had to receive an invite to hang a painting in the dining room, and it's full of works by some of the most influential creators of that time.
Another reason for the Florence Griswold House's notoriety is its position at the center of the American Impressionist movement. Exhibits throughout the campus teach about and reflect on American Impressionism and provide excellent insight into the genre's beginnings.
In 2006, a restoration was completed, leaving the Florence Griswold House in a similar state to what it was in 1910. This work has created a time capsule for visitors to experience.
Today, you can head into the dining room to see the panels and witness where daily discussions influenced the direction of American art.
You can also wander into the house's various rooms to experience how these painters spent their summers learning, interacting, and creating art in Old Lyme.
Other On-Campus Buildings
The Florence Griswold House isn't the only building on the museum campus, as there's a lot more to explore on the 13-acre site.
For starters, there's the Robert and Nancy Krieble Gallery, a 10,000-square-foot facility featuring a massive collection of American Impressionist paintings from the colony. The gallery also has other works with ties to Connecticut and the rest of New England.
In 2001, the museum obtained a 190-piece collection from The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company, which now resides in the Krieble Gallery.
Other on-site buildings include the Hartman Education Center, which teachers use for art classes, the Rafal Landscape Center, where visitors can learn about the importance of landscapes in paintings, and American Impressionist William Chadwick's former art studio. Chadwick's studio is where he created his most memorable works.
Cafe Flo
For a bite to eat as you explore the museum campus, you can check out Cafe Flo. This small restaurant has outdoor seating overlooking the Lieutenant River, and it's easy to imagine the artists enjoying a similar view while painting.
Cafe Flo's menu features salads, sandwiches, steak, fish, chicken, and dessert. You can even have a glass of wine or a beer while appreciating the serenity of this waterfront location.
It certainly isn't fancy, but Cafe Flo has excellent food, and its atmosphere alone makes it worth a stop while you are exploring the Florence Griswold Museum.
There's always something going on at the Florence Griswold Museum, including camps and other events for children during the summer. For adults, lectures and meet-and-greets with contemporary artists are common, and temporary exhibits come to the gallery throughout the year.
As for annual events, the Midsummer Festival brings music, food trucks, book signings, and art exhibitions to the campus every July. The festival also celebrates Old Lyme's considerable artistic heritage.
Every October, the Wee Faerie Village comes to the Griswold Museum. This event attracts about 12,000 visitors annually and lasts for the entire month, giving you plenty of time to experience it. The exhibit features a mini village with faerie architecture, making it a fun event for the whole family.
The Magic of Christmas festival lasts all December long with different events daily. There's plenty of Christmas decor throughout the facility, and you can buy gifts for friends and family at the shops, too. You can even have tea and a sandwich overlooking the river, with a reservation.
A Vital Piece of Old Lyme's History
Upon buying a home in Old Lyme, you'll quickly discover just how much American history this town with about 7,500 permanent residents possesses.
The Old Lyme art colony that Florence Griswold hosted is a significant piece of this history. You can explore many of the sites that made the town what it is today, helping you develop a deeper connection with the community.
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Intention-to-treat principle
Victor M. Montori and Gordon H. Guyatt
CMAJ November 13, 2001 165 (10) 1339-1341;
Victor M. Montori
Dr. Montori is with the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Nutrition, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, Minn. Dr. Guyatt is with the Departments of Medicine and of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.
Gordon H. Guyatt
In deciding if a treatment is likely to work in an individual patient, clinicians need to know the effect of the intervention in patients who take the treatment as prescribed. However, participants in clinical trials may not adhere to the protocol, or clinicians may recommend withdrawal of the study medication because of apparent adverse effects. Should investigators exclude from the analysis any participants who violate the research protocol? In this article, we review how randomization reduces bias in clinical trials and then discuss the importance of including all eligible patients in the analysis, to ensure the validity of the results.
Preventing bias in randomized controlled trials
The randomized controlled clinical trial is the best way to minimize bias in ascertaining treatment effects. The intent of randomization is to establish groups of patients with similar distributions of the characteristics that could determine whether they will suffer the adverse outcome of interest. If prognostic factors are balanced in the 2 (or more) groups and if the treatment has no effect, the proportion of participants experiencing the target outcome will be similar in the arms of the study. Conversely, if differences in outcome are observed, clinicians can confidently attribute those differences to the experimental intervention.
Applying the intention-to-treat principle
How should investigators analyze study data if one or more patients have not adhered to the allocated management strategy, for whatever reason? Some investigators deal with these protocol violations by excluding the participants from the analysis. This form of analysis, known as a per protocol, efficacy, explanatory analysis, or analysis by treatment administered, describes the outcomes of the participants who adhered to the research protocol. Although investigators can use information from such an analysis to estimate the intervention's efficacy in those who actually received it in the intended intensity or dose for the intended interval, this estimate is likely to be seriously flawed.
The problem arises because the reasons for nonadherence to the protocol may be related to prognosis. Empirical evidence suggests that participants who adhere tend to do better than those who do not adhere, even after adjustment for all known prognostic factors and irrespective of assignment to active treatment or placebo.1,2 Excluding nonadherent participants from the analysis leaves those who may be destined to have a better outcome and destroys the unbiased comparison afforded by randomization.3
A hypothetical example will illustrate how excluding patients who do not receive the treatment to which they are assigned can introduce bias. Imagine a randomized trial of 200 patients with cerebrovascular disease, of whom 100 are assigned to receive acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) and a surgical intervention for which there is a 1-month waiting period and the other 100 are assigned to receive ASA alone (Fig. 1). Let us assume that the surgery is ineffective in preventing stroke — that is, on average, the same proportion of patients in each of the 2 arms (surgery + ASA and ASA only) will suffer a stroke.
Fig. 1: Per protocol analysis introduces bias into the estimate of intervention efficacy. For our analysis of this hypothetical randomized controlled trial of patients with cerebrovascular disease, it is assumed that the surgery is ineffective in preventing the adverse outcome of interest (stroke). Per protocol analysis of the treatment group (surgery + acetylsalicylic acid [ASA]) includes only those patients who adhered to the protocol (in this case, those who received surgery); "nonadherent" patients (those who died before having the opportunity to undergo surgery) are excluded. With this analysis, the event rate is 0.11 in the surgery + ASA arm and 0.20 in the control arm, which represents a relative risk reduction (RRR) of 0.45. The intention-to-treat analysis, which counts all events in all randomized patients, shows equal event rates (0.20) in both arms and no risk reduction. This analysis suggests the underlying truth, a treatment effect of zero. R = randomization.
In the surgery + ASA arm, 10 of the 100 patients have a stroke, the primary outcome of the trial, in the 1-month waiting period between randomization and surgery. Of the 90 patients who go on to have the surgery, 10 have a stroke in the subsequent year. Because in the absence of an effective intervention the patients in the ASA-only arm share the same destiny as those in the surgery + ASA arm, and because we have assumed that surgery is ineffective, we know that 10 patients in the ASA-only arm will have a stroke in the month after randomization and another 10 will do so in the subsequent year.
If we restrict the analysis in the surgery + ASA arm to the patients who underwent surgery (a per protocol analysis), the event rate would be 11% (10/90); however, the rate in the ASA-only arm would be 20% (20/100). These values represent a spurious (since we have assumed that surgery in fact has no effect on subsequent occurrence of stroke) reduction in stroke risk of close to 50%. Alternatively, if we count all events in all randomized patients, according to the intention-to-treat principle, we find that there were 20 events in each group and no evidence of a positive treatment effect. This analysis eliminates the misleading estimate of surgery's impact that is obtained with the per protocol analysis.
As illustrated by this example, applying the intention-to-treat principle provides an unbiased assessment of the efficacy of the intervention at the level of adherence observed in the trial. This level of adherence could be similar to that observed in the community, and the results could inform community-based decisions about the effectiveness of the experimental intervention.
However, clinicians make decisions at the level of the individual patient. Patients considering a treatment regimen and committed to complying with treatment wish to know how well the treatment will work when they use it at the intended dose for the intended duration. We have seen how per protocol analysis fails to answer this question and introduces bias. Unfortunately, applying the intention-to-treat principle doesn't solve the problem. When treatment is effective but nonadherence is substantial, the analysis following the intention-to-treat principle underestimates the magnitude of the treatment effect that will occur in adherent patients.
The solution involves conducting an intention-to-treat analysis, but only after using a protocol that ensures maximal adherence. For instance, studies may include run-in periods that identify nonadherent participants or participants intolerant to the experimental treatment, so they can be excluded before randomization.4
Dealing with loss to follow-up
Intention-to-treat analysis cannot minimize bias introduced by loss to follow-up, that is, patients whose outcome status is unknown. If investigators stop following patients who do not adhere to the study protocol, they will be unaware if those patients suffered the target outcome. If they conduct an intention-to-treat analysis and count events in all participants of whose outcomes they are aware (that is, those who followed the protocol), they will, de facto, be conducting a per protocol analysis.
Investigators often include patients lost to follow-up in the denominators in tables describing study results and in calculating estimates of effect. This approach assumes that none of those lost to follow-up suffered the target outcome. Making this unlikely assumption opens the door to a misleading presentation of study results. Alternative strategies are available that impute outcomes to those lost to follow-up. Some of these strategies include using multivariate analysis of prognostic factors to predict the most likely outcome in those lost to follow-up, imputation of outcomes by carrying the last known outcome status forward and analysis of best-case and worst-case scenarios. Nonetheless, these strategies in general make unverifiable assumptions that may introduce bias in the estimates of treatment effect.5 Thus, inferences from studies with appreciable loss to follow-up are usually weaker.
Determining if intention-to-treat analysis was used
Clinicians evaluating a randomized trial need to know if the researchers applied the intention-to-treat principle. A quick approach is to scan the Methods section of the published report looking for the phrase "intention-to-treat analysis." Two surveys of randomized controlled trials published in major medical journals during 1993–19956 and 19975 found that half of the reports used the term "intention-to-treat analysis." Unfortunately, the term was not always used appropriately. Thus, readers must look carefully at what was actually done, rather than looking only for the term.
In particular, significant loss to follow-up may introduce exactly the same bias as a per protocol analysis. For instance, Silverstein and associates7 reported the results of a trial in which 8843 patients taking nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents for rheumatoid arthritis were randomly assigned to receive misoprostol (4404 patients) or placebo (4439 patients) to prevent gastroduodenal complications, as judged by outcome assessors blinded to treatment assignment. The authors described their analysis as an intention-to-treat analysis. However, patients lost to follow-up were included in the denominator of event rates. Inclusion of these patients in the denominator without accounting for their outcomes in the numerator assumes that no patient lost to follow-up had gastroduodenal complications. The size of the groups lost to follow-up (1851 patients in the misoprostol group and 1617 in the placebo group) eclipsed the number of patients who experienced the primary end point in each group (25 in the misoprostol group and 42 in the placebo group), a situation that leaves the reader uncertain about the true magnitude of the treatment effect.
In another example, Harris and associates8 reported the results of study in which 1628 postmenopausal women with a previous vertebral fracture were randomly assigned to receive risedronate (813 patients) or placebo (815 patients) to prevent another vertebral fracture, as judged by a radiologist blinded to treatment assignment. These authors also described their analysis as an intention-to-treat analysis. After 3 years, 324 patients in the risedronate arm and 365 patients in the placebo arm had been lost to follow-up. The authors reported outcomes up to the point of last follow-up (using survival analysis), including 61 in the risedronate group and 93 patients in the placebo group with new vertebral fractures; the relative risk reduction was 41% in favour of risedronate. Those lost to follow-up from the placebo group were at higher risk (had more vertebral fractures) at baseline than either those in the placebo group who completed the study or those lost from the risedronate arm. This indicates that the placebo patients remaining in the study were a good-prognosis group and had, on average, a better prognosis than the remaining patients in the risedronate group. Because the risedronate group experienced fewer vertebral fractures than the placebo group, the substantial loss to follow-up in this case does not weaken the inference that risedronate results in a relative risk reduction of about 41%.
If randomized controlled trials are to provide unbiased assessments of treatment efficacy, investigators must apply the intention-to-treat principle. To improve the applicability of study results to individual patients, investigators should improve study design to ensure protocol adherence with minimal loss to follow-up. Finally, loss to follow-up can result in exactly the same sort of bias as a per protocol analysis. Therefore, if there is significant loss to follow-up, statements that investigators conducted an "intention-to-treat analysis" generally provide little reassurance.
This work was supported in part by the American Medical Association.
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Silverstein FE, Graham DY, Senior JR, Davies HW, Struthers BJ, Bittman RM, et al. Misoprostol reduces serious gastrointestinal complications in patients with rheumatoid arthritis receiving nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs: a randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled trial. Ann Intern Med 1995;123:241-9.
Harris ST, Watts NB, Genant HK, McKeever CD, Hangartner T, Keller M, et al, for the Vertebral Efficacy with Risedronate Therapy (VERT) Study Group. Effects of risedronate treatment on vertebral and nonvertebral fractures in women with postmenopausal osteoporosis: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA 1999;282:1344-52.
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Side view of a live 4-day-old Tg(shh;gfp) transgenic zebrafish larva. GFP fluorescence (green) is seen in cells that express the Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) signaling molecule. In the trunk, floor plate cells of the spinal cord express Shh that helps pattern the CNS and muscles. In the head, Shh is expressed in a complex pattern and helps pattern the D/V and A/P axes of the brain, as well as the pituitary gland.
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She had some early publishing success with four romance novels and several short stories, but then had a break from writing while she brought up a young family and also pursued her career as a history teacher for twenty-five years. She has recently returned to writing fiction, after retiring from teaching, and is thrilled to have found publishing success again with her contemporary romances. Apart from writing, she enjoys visiting new places. She has travelled extensively in Britain and Ireland, mainland Europe, the Middle East, America and Canada. Her other interests include musical theatre and tracing her family history.
Paula, as an Irishwoman, I'm excited that your latest release is set in Ireland. I know you're an English author. Do you have any Irish connection yourself?
None that I definitely know of, Maria. I have done some family history, and it's possible that one of my great-grandfather's parents came from Ireland, as I cannot trace them in Liverpool (which is where my great-grandfather was born) – and of course, Liverpool had (and still has) a big Irish population. One of my great-great-grandmothers had the surname O'Neal which of course is Irish, but I've not been able to trace her family past the beginning of the 19th century.
The main reason that I set the story in Ireland is because I love the Emerald Isle. Apart from a couple of one-day visits to Dublin and Belfast many years ago, I hadn't really visited Ireland until I went to Galway in 2007. I fell in love with the country – its fascinating history, its beautiful scenery, and its wonderfully friendly people - and have been back there about ten times since then. I've seen a lot of the county, but still have the a lot more places to visit.
What gave you the inspiration to write this story?
A couple of years ago I read an article about a Paris apartment that had been abandoned since 1939. The owner had fled to the south of France at the outbreak of was and never returned to Paris. When she died, the flat was opened up and revealed a treasure trove of personal objects, and also a portrait of the owner's grandmother who had lived at the end of the 19th century.
This was the seed that eventually germinated into 'Irish Inheritance'. The Paris apartment became a house in Ireland, and the two people who inherit it are curious about the person who has bequeathed it to them. This leads them on a journey of discovery about the original owners of the house, as well as to some difficult decisions about the future of the house.
What moves you to write stories in general? How many books have you published?
I've written stories ever since I learned to write! As a child I wrote school stories, and progressed to romances(very cheesy ones!) in my teens. When I was in my twenties, I developed one of my teenage stories into a full-length romance novel, and to my amazement, it was accepted by the first publisher I sent it to, with a contract for two more. I had four romance novels published when I was in my 20s and 30s, but then had a long break from writing novels because of career and family commitments. I came back to writing romances about six years ago, and 'Irish Inheritance' is my 6th novel published since 2011.
Have you started working on your next book yet? Can you give us any idea what's next for you?
I've been working on another book for some time now, but wasn't 100% happy with it, and kept rewriting to try to get it right. Then, when my editor sent me the final edits of 'Irish Inheritance', she suggested there was an opportunity for a spin-off story about the heroine's best friend. After thinking about this, I realised I could use the 'best friend' as the heroine of my part-written story, and move the whole setting of the story from England to Ireland. I've started to do this, and it is working well – so far!
Will their Irish inheritance eventually drive them apart – or bring them together?
Many thanks for having me as your guest today, Maria - and Happy St Patrick's Day to you!
By the way, 'Irish Inheritance' is on special offer at Amazon today - only 99c (77p) - my way of celebrating the day!
Lots of Irish here in NJ. Our local parade had 70,000 people! Happy St. Patrick's Day and good luck with the book.
There was parade here yesterday, Jen, but the one I'd really love to see is the one in Dublin.
Happy St. Patrick's Day, Paula! The perfect day to talk about your book. I wore green to school today, but that's about all I did to celebrate!
Interesting blog, Paula. And it's great that you are able to continue the story with Charley. You had me fooled, too. I thought she was a boy for pages. Reading Irish Inheritance now and enjoying it very much.


Joel Farabee '18, a previous Selects Academy at South Kent School left wing, is getting noticed by the National Hockey League (NHL) for his hard work. NHL correspondent Joe Yerdon wrote an article on Farabee, noting that despite his "small stature" compared to some others in the league, "he has earned an A rating on NHL Central Scouting's preliminary players to watch list as a potential first-round pick" for the 2018 draft.
Farabee is currently part of USA Hockey's National Team Development Program (NTDP) of Buffalo, NY, and helped the U.S. team bring home the gold at the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Under-18 World Championship earlier this year with six points (three goals, three assists).
"Joel is a very good puck mover with outstanding vision," says NHL Central Scouting's Greg Rajanen. "He shows creative puck plays consistently. He has a quick release and can snap the puck with pace. He's hard on pucks in all areas of the rink. He has a high hockey IQ with good offensive instincts. Joel is a leader on his team setting an example with hard work and team play in the games that I have seen."
NTDP coach Seth Appert adds, "The best thing about Joel is that he competes so hard, and he goes to the areas most people don't want to go to, and he scores tons of goals at the front of the net."
Read the full article on NHL.com here.


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Charli D'Amelio is TikTok's biggest star. She has no idea why.
TikTok star Charli D'Amelio is photographed in the backyard of her home in Norwalk, Conn., on May 7. (Jesse Dittmar for The Washington Post)
By Travis M. Andrews
The young people of Ohio weren't physically distancing, and Gov. Mike DeWine needed to do something.
"Young people think they're pretty invincible. That just goes with the age," DeWine said. They are "the hardest demographic to reach … You've got to have the right messenger."
But who? The Republican governor is 73 years old. As the pandemic swept the country in late March, he needed Charli D'Amelio — even if he didn't yet know who she was.
Charli is simultaneously a completely ordinary teenager and a complete anomaly. This spring, she had two events to celebrate. She turned 16 with a quarantine-style party where family and friends drove by her home in Norwalk, Conn. Oh, and she became the most popular creator on TikTok.
For her May 1 birthday, she created a short video of herself dancing to "Sixteen" by Ayesha Erotica while wearing a hoodie printed with the words "Charli's 16 Squad." The hoodie was only for her inner crew, but it looked like a piece of merchandise that her more than 58 million TikTok followers buy in droves.
@charlidamelio
dc @zach..vance
♬ after party girl - koofwip
"Literally everybody on the Internet sees Charli as just like a normal girl. They look at her, and they're like 'Oh, my gosh, I could do that, too.'"
— Madi Monroe
Thanks to her online stardom, she's danced onstage with Bebe Rexha at a Jonas Brothers concert, appeared on "The Tonight Show," and will voice a character in the upcoming animated flick "StarDog and TurboCat." Her family — which includes older sister and fellow TikTok influencer Dixie, stay-at-home mom Heidi, and father Marc, a clothing entrepreneur who came up short in two local political races — recently inked a production deal with Industrial Media to create a reality show. She's finishing her sophomore year of high school while being attacked online by Perez Hilton.
She's been on TikTok for a little more than a year.
The app where users create, view and share short-form videos has reportedly been downloaded more than 2 billion times. It's one of the most popular social media platforms in the world, and Charli D'Amelio is its undisputed ruler.
As with most TikTok stars, Charli creates all kinds of videos, but dancing is her specialty. Goofy dances. Choreographed dances. Solo dances. Group dances. Trending dances. Original dances.
She mostly films them in ordinary spaces like her bedroom. Her dad makes sure she makes the bed first. This is in part why people like her videos so much: They feel like she's a peer. And TikTok rewards authenticity above all.
For outsiders, her popularity might feel as elusive as TikTok's appeal in general. For insiders, there's no explanation necessary. It just makes sense. She's Charli. Just say her first name and everyone knows who you're talking about. Try to figure out exactly what sets her apart from the other teens dancing in their bedrooms on TikTok, and you won't get too far.
Pose the question to Charli, and she'll shrug and tell you she has no idea. Her TikTok bio reads, "don't worry i don't get the hype either."
(Jesse Dittmar for The Washington Post)
Ask any number of her friends, fans and collaborators, and they all tend to repeat the same things: She's a genuinely real but genuinely talented 16-year-old girl just having fun online.
Ask fellow influencer Avani Gregg, and she'll tell you it's that Charli is "the most caring person," and that when hackers took over Gregg's TikTok and Twitter accounts earlier this year and posted graphic videos of people being executed, Charli was the first to call and check on her.
Or ask TikTok star Madi Monroe, who will tell you "literally everybody on the Internet sees Charli as just like a normal girl. They look at her, and they're like 'Oh, my gosh, I could do that, too.'"
Pop star Bebe Rexha will say she's " truly passionate" and that she and her sister Dixie are "loving, humble and very hard-working."
Dixie, meanwhile, will say, "She's very natural and happy and shows her personality, but also has a real talent for dance."
And while that all might sound somewhat benign, it comes with real power. The best way to explain involves a Midwestern governor, a manufacturer of cleaning products and an unprecedented global pandemic.
DeWine teamed up with Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble and the ad agency Grey Group to craft a campaign to reach Gen Z. And they called Charli. But she had a demand: The campaign must have a charitable component.
Once they agreed, she came up with the choreography — after finishing her math homework. The dance, which she posted on March 24, is at once simple and complicated. After some hip flares and hand motions, a full body roll mimics the instructive lyrics of "Big Up's" by Jordyn & Nic Da Kid feat. Yung Nnelg.
Breathe slow
Stay home & do the ##distancedance. Tag me & the hashtag in your video. P&G will donate to Feeding America & Matthew 25 for first 3M videos ##PGPartner
♬ Big Up's (feat. Yung Nnelg) - Jordyn, Nic Da Kid
"It just took off. It's absolutely crazy, the number of people who have seen it."
— Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine
Charli encouraged fans to post TikToks of themselves replicating the dance, with the hashtag #distancedance. It spread quickly, earning a short segment on "The View." After nine weeks, Charli's video has been watched more than 192 million times and has spawned nearly 3.5 million other videos with more than 16 billion combined views. P&G donated a product for each video to Feeding America and Matthew 25: Ministries.
"It just took off. It's absolutely crazy, the number of people who have seen it," DeWine said.
"I've never met a young influencer with such poise," Kenny Gold, Grey's director of social in North America, said. "She could so easily just cash in, do stuff ad hoc and charge per post. But she wants to influence societal change."
As an added bonus, she has gained approximately 20 million followers.
Charli's story is both highly unusual and increasingly common. She began dancing at age 3 and cycled through ballet, tap and hip-hop. She heard about TikTok at school but didn't give it too much thought.
"My life before TikTok was very normal," she said. "I would go to school, go to dance, do my homework and go to bed. It was pretty much like every other teenager's" life. She kept a vision board, topped with a photo of Jennifer Lopez, whom she had wanted to dance with since she was 12 years old. Eventually she downloaded the app, immediately taking to it as "a place for me to be creative and express myself."
Her first video, posted on March 30, 2019, doesn't exactly foreshadow her future success. For one, it's a simple lip-syncing gag with a friend that's filmed horizontally, while TikTok videos typically appear vertically.
"I never really expected anyone to see my videos other than my friends," she said. Then, in July, on her way to dance class, she posted a side-by-side video of her following the dance moves of a user named "Move With Joy." Her phone started pinging constantly. She didn't know what was happening. "I had like seven followers," she said. But when she picked her phone back up after class, suddenly she had 2,000.
"It was crazy. No one knows how to react to that," she said. "There's no guidebook of what to do when you go viral on an app."
##duet with @move_with_joy this is so cute i love this
♬ step step flip flip shoulder shoulder hip hip - move_with_joy
"There's no guidebook of what to do when you go viral on an app."
— Charli D'Amelio
She still doesn't know why it blew up the way it did. But it did. And things began changing, quickly. Her mom, Heidi, remembers weeks of Charli waking up to hundreds of thousands of new followers a day. Suddenly she needed representation — she now has an agency, publicist and manager.
Charli's schedule filled with meetings. In between them, she'd make around seven videos a day. She became deeply acquainted with the city of Los Angeles, where she joined the Hype House, a collective of online creators who often collaborated with one another — and later left when it became a business.
Fans want to be her best friend while aspiring to be her. They beg for tutorials to her dances in the comments section. Some dedicated "stans" love to comment before a new video gets a million likes. One wrote, "Everybody just be honest … everytime you are early to one of her videos, you just get a good feeling inside."
However that fame came about, it translates into big business. Earlier this year, Charli appeared in a Super Bowl commercial for Sabra hummus alongside rapper T-Pain and "RuPaul's Drag Race" contestants Kim Chi and Miz Cracker. Soon, she'll announce several brand licensing deals in fashion and makeup. Though her spokesman didn't offer specific numbers, he said Charli "has the potential to make millions this year."
That this whole TikTok thing was becoming a thing, that Charli wasn't just popular but actually famous became clear when Dixie began noticing people recognizing her sister at restaurants. When Marc took Charli to a Jonas Brothers concert, he saw fans gathered around her, hoping to catch a glimpse.
For Charli, the landmark moment came when she finally met and danced with J-Lo in a TikTok during the Super Bowl.
Before meeting her, "I told myself, 'Don't cry. You're going to ruin every picture you take,'" Charli said. But after chatting with her idol for a bit, "I just started crying. I could not hold back. She just embraced me with the biggest hug ever."
@jlo
Soooo much fun doing the ##JLoSuperBowlChallenge with @charlidamelio!!!!! See you all tomorrow at ##SuperBowlLIV 💜❤
♬ original sound - jlo
"I just started crying. I could not hold back. She just embraced me with the biggest hug ever."
Charli also discovered the pitfalls of the world knowing your name: The media obsessing over her dating life. The online bullying. The body shaming.
In February, she found herself at the center of a minor controversy after helping popularize a dance called the Renegade without initially crediting its 14-year-old creator Jalaiah Harmon. The episode caused several critics to consider the ethics of performing someone else's trending choreography on TikTok — a common practice that can help you garner likes and followers. There doesn't appear to be bad blood between the two, who eventually performed the dance together. Harmon — who described Charli to The Post as "very friendly" and said that meeting her was "really cool" — even posted a Distance Dance of her own.
During quarantine, Charli suddenly has more time on her hands. Her friend Monroe bought her an Xbox for her birthday, so they could play Fortnite for hours and chat over headsets from opposite sides of the country.
But "being stuck in your home can be mentally difficult," Charli said. Especially since she finds herself spending more time scrolling through the comments, focusing on the negative ones. The dark side of TikTok. Of any social media platform. Jealousy abounds, sure. But sometimes the attacks come from established adults.
Perez Hilton, for example, has posted speculation about Charli's love life on his celebrity gossip website and commented on her videos, "Anyone else think it's inappropriate for a 15-year-old to dance to this?" Her fans and fellow creators rushed to her side, creating a Change.org petition, signed by more than 188,000 people, urging TikTok to ban him.
But then there were the moms. And you can't kick off all the moms.
Teens often create videos in which they ask their somewhat clueless parents basic questions about TikTok, the joke being that the "olds" don't understand the platform. But earlier this year, some creators had their moms rate the appearance of female teenage influencers, sometimes on a numerical scale. Charli became a prime target.
She tweeted, "why am i being rated by moms? yeah i'll pass on that whole trend."
She tries tuning out the trolls, but she's beginning to feel the damage they can do. "I do have a lot of people looking my way to be a role model and to lift everyone up. And I try to do that so much that sometimes I don't focus on myself, or how I'm feeling, or how things are really hurting me when I see people say nasty things about me. It's really hurtful."
She tries to remind herself that "the people who are able to do this without feeling bad must really have something hurting inside of them that they have to take out on other people."
When one fan on Twitter asked how she deals with so much hate, she responded, "honestly it hurts really bad. i lost all of my confidence in myself i didn't want to look in the mirror and i would cry when i started dancing because everyone was telling me how horrible i was but i realized dance is my safe place no one can take that from me."
She told The Post, "I just hope that people actually listen to me when I say those things because I really do mean it."
Though her sudden fame can be overwhelming, Charli is trying to "enjoy this moment for as long as I can." She hopes to one day meet Lady Gaga. She doesn't know why she became famous, so she doesn't know how to remain famous. She'll just keep making TikToks, while aiming to remain true to herself.
"We always talk about making sure we're as happy today as we were before this started," Marc said. "If we're ever not, then we'll need to scale it back."
Until then, she'll be dancing.
Photo editing by Moira Haney. Design by Audrey Valbuena.
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New Delhi , Sep 15: Fuel prices have yet again witnessed a hike on Saturday, with petrol and diesel breaching earlier figures to touch new record highs.
In New Delhi, petrol is being sold 35 paise higher at Rs 81.63 per litre, while the price of diesel has been hiked by 24 paise to Rs 73.54 per litre.
Mumbai continues to be the worst affected by rising fuel prices, with petrol retailing at a staggering Rs 89.01 per litre and diesel at Rs 78.07 per litre.
The union government has been facing flak in the past few weeks for not implementing stringent measures to curb prices.
Earlier this week, the Congress Party and 21 other regional and national parties observed a 'Bharat Bandh' on account of the consistent rise in fuel prices and urged the government to take necessary steps to reduce citizens' woes.
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Romantic Outlaws
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English feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and author Mary Shelley were mother and daughter, yet these two extraordinary women never knew one another. Nevertheless, their passionate and pioneering lives remained closely intertwined, their choices, dreams and tragedies eerily similar.
Both women became famous writers and wrote books that changed literary history, had passionate relationships with several men, were single mothers out of wedlock; both lived in exile, fought for their position in society, and interrogated ideas of how we should live.
Romantic Outlaws takes the reader on a vivid journey across revolutionary France and Victorian England to explore in this ground-breaking dual biography of the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the author who wrote Frankenstein - mother and daughter - a pair of visionary women, who should have shared a life, but who instead share a powerful literary and feminist legacy.
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The weather is just so piping hot here in the UK and we are at that time of the year when all I want to do is to be out and about visiting friends and families. Thank goodness to the beautiful sunny summer weather. Although I enjoy the sunny weather, yet I hate it when the temperature is overly hot - i.e boiling hot. For the past two weeks, the weather here has been hitting above 30°C thereby making it so uncomfortable to relax indoors if you don't have an air condition or a proper fan.
Before you carry on with the gist, here is a short clip of Paella rice recipe!!!
Well, part of my family's schedule yesterday was to visit our Spanish friends. It is always a good thing meeting-up together with people from various parts of the world. I believe in multiculturalism and I see it as an ideal way of life. One should be able to easily relate and adapt to other people's way of life such as food, behaviour, culture etc.
While meeting up with our friends, I was glad to hear that paella rice was the main dish on the menu. Yes, I was glad because I saw that as an opportunity to learn a new recipe, eat other people's food and relate with other people.
So, here is a no-brainer paella rice recipe for you to try out at any time of convenience. Packed with the right ingredients to yield an awesome output. Simply delicious!
Need I emphasize more on this recipe? Well, give the recipe a try and you will be glad you did.
N:B This was cooked for a get-together-gathering so there isn't any actual measurement of the ingredients to give you right now. However, you can add the ingredients in proportionate to the quantity of rice you intend to cook.
Wash and add chicken chops, salt, stock cube and stir.
Cut the beans, wash and add them in the pan then continue stirring.
Pour water to cover the pot contents level.
Add the tomatoes, saffron and chicken stock then allow to boil.
Wash and add in the rice then allow to cook until the rice is tender.
Bring down the paella rice from heat, sprinkle the squeezed lemon juice over the paella then serve warm.