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Florida Gulf Coast coach Andy Enfield's wife is model Amanda Marcum (Pictures)
You may not know much about No. 15 seed Florida Gulf Coast, and that probably won't change unless they pull off an unthinkable upset by defeating No. 2 seed Georgetown in the NCAA Tournament. By the end of the week, however, you will probably have seen or heard something about the better half of Florida Gulf Coast coach Andy Enfield.
Enfield is married to Amanda Marcum, who is a former model with a resume that includes publications like Maxim, Vogue, Elle and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Marcum, who is now Amanda Enfield, is currently a stay-at-home mom to her and Andy's two daughters and son.
According to NaplesNews.com, Andy and Amanda met in 2003 at a second-round NCAA Tournament game in Boston where Oklahoma State was playing. Having grown up in a small Oklahoma town with a population of 13,000 people, Marcum became a huge Oklahoma State Cowboys fan. Enfield, who was an assistant coach with the Celtics from 1998-2000, was introduced to Marcum through a mutual friend.
"I thought he looked like a great driver that would give me a free ride," Amanda said jokingly. "And we had lots of things in common — especially sports — and we talked and talked about that. I thought he was really funny and very confident. And I'm a sucker for sports guys, obviously.
"One of the first things I noticed about him once I got to know him that I really liked is as well-accomplished as he is, and as great a career as he has made for himself, he's very modest about it. I found those things out about him from other people instead of him bragging. I thought that was very impressive and said a lot about his character."
Despite their difference in age (Enfield is 9 years older than Marcum), the couple dated for a while. Fittingly, their first date was to a St. John's NIT game together. They later got married and had a family, and Enfield can't say enough about the sacrifices Marcum has made in becoming a coach's wife.
"It was hard for her to give her career up," Andy said. "But she loves sports so much and wanted a family and thought this is something she could do. I give her a lot of credit. Very difficult decision on her part to give up something she worked so hard for and had been so good at.
"She wanted to do it. She wanted to give up her career to raise a family, and to be an assistant coach's wife at Florida State for a few years. I give her a lot of credit because it was very difficult for her to do that. She was so successful."
You make think they look like an odd couple, but by all accounts their relationship seems quite genuine. As a side note, Enfield is the NCAA's all-time free throw percentage leader at 92.5%. You'd have to be pretty naive to think that didn't score him some points with his sports junkie super model of a wife. Step aside, Andy Roddick. We have a new hottest wife in sports.
UPDATE: Amanda Marcum Enfield responded to all the attention she's received.
H/T Buzzfeed
Photo via Facebook/Amanda Marcum Enfield
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Legenda Aurea
The foundation-stone of Legenda Aurea was laid in august of 2005 when Renato Trinkler and Martin Roth united to create a new band. Even without knowing what was going to happen, the main aspects of the musical concepts were clear: A blending of Symphonic Metal with Opera chant. The searching for the needed members had its first result with Melissa Derrer, who, thanks to her professional voice, immediately was engaged. A little later Odilo von Ins joined the band. Von Ins, in spite of his young age, brought the necessary guitaristic competence.The only thing missing now was a bass, which after some weeks was found in Michael Herkenrath. Thanks to his fast musical understanding. Less than a month was needed for Legenda Aurea to be able to record the first single. This single was directly sent to Quam Libet Records to snatch a place on the famous Sampler "Heavy Metal Nation III". The band was accommodated on the CD. The reactions of the Webzines exceeded all expectations of the band, but still the hunger of success wasn't satisfied: In august 2006 Legenda Aurea entered the studio of the ambitious producer Christian Graf (who in the course of time became more and more important for the band) to record the debutalbum. During this time the music of the band changed, not least because of the unlimited radiographic technique and the equipment which was provided by Christian Graf. Thanks to this mix of musicians, who came together from very different branches of metal now melted together into one iron core, the music became more mature and elaborated. The band also moved away from the now too maintstream affected HMN III track "Sedna." At that point everything seemed to good to be true, and the cracks in the band began to show: As most of the traces were recorded, the first misunderstandings between Melissa Derrer and the rest of the band appeared. These misunderstandings became intolerable very fast, and the leaving of Melissa Derrer became indispensable. The band was abruptly brought back to reality, which had a positive effect on them.The band never considered breaking apart, and so hey were forced to begin searching for a new vocalist. Surprisingly fast a new voice was found in Claudia Hofer, who exceeded all expectations. Immediately the band resumed work on the debutalbum, to which album contributed a surprising amount, forming what Legenda Aurea is today: From calm, symphonical singing passages over brute riffs, virtuosic instrumental solos and intricate rhythms to the point of groovy, dragging basslines and fast speedmetal passages, everything is contained in the debut album "Sedna", and that is what makes Legenda Aurea unique: The enormously complexity without anything ever falling out of concept. On the album everything is contained but everything always in its place. After some solemnised concerts in German-speaking Switzerland (including gigs with Nocturnal Rites (SWE) and Thunderstone (FIN)) and two line-up changes (Phillip Eichenberger, drums / Simone Christinat, vocals), they started working on their second album "Ellipsis". The music got heavier and more unique, and the band has developed itself further. The recordings for "Ellipsis" were done in Orebro, (SWE) at the Fascination Street Studios, where also Opeth, Amon Amarth, Symphony X and Pain of Salvation hammered their records. For 2009, the band has big plans: While being successful with "Ellipsis", there shall be as many concerts as possible to promote their album and the band itself. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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It has become something of a taboo in our society to say you don't want to be a leader — especially if you are one. Richard Hytner, a former CEO at the global advertising giant Saatchi & Saatchi, experienced it firsthand and is trying to break that stigma.
- Lillian Cunningham, Editor, On Leadership, The Washington Post
Hytner notes that talent development, for example, is crucial to companies now, so the lack of a great track record for hiring, inspiring, and keeping star employees sometimes trips up aspiring CEOs.
- Anne Fisher, Fortune Magazine
He argues convincingly that a great team of a chief executive and a number two is a more successful proposition than a solitary leader. Mr Hytner describes the various types of consiglieri – lodestones, educators, anchors and deliverers, according to his segmentation.
- Luke Johnson, Financial Times
Richard Hytner, deputy chairman of London-based advertising giant Saatchi & Saatchi, thinks corporate understudies are too often overlooked. He's set out to burnish the reputation of the second-in-command…
- Adam Auriemma, the Wall Street Journal
It's a trove of advice about how to be a great deputy and principal adviser, a calling that has brought out the best in people as varied and admirable as Warren Buffett's Charlie Munger, Anna Wintour's Grace Coddington, Abraham Lincoln's William Seward, and Henry VIII's Thomas Cromwell.
- Frederick E. Allen, Forbes
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Richard Hytner in Forbes: This Will Be Ed Woodward's World Cup
When Louis van Gaal, the soon-to-be appointed new manager of Manchester United, names Ryan Giggs, player legend and caretaker manager, as his No.2, he will have avoided a repetition of the first mistake made by his predecessor, David Moyes:
"When I go to a new club', says the Dutchman, 'I always want to keep one coach from the existing staff.'
In stark contrast, Moyes and the club's hierarchy failed to coax Rene Meulensteen, Sir Alex Ferguson's successful chief coach, out of his decision to leave and fired Ferguson's assistant manager, Mike Phelan. Discontinuity with the past was further exacerbated by the owners' readiness to see manager Sir Alex Ferguson and CEO David Gill, the most successful partners in British football, leave at the same time. True to form, the Glazers' eyes were off the ball and on the balance sheet.
Whilst Giggs' appointment will be welcome and significant, it may not be the partnership that most defines van Gaal and the club's fortunes. Van Gaal inherits another No.2, Vice President Ed Woodward WWD +1.72%, whose naivety and inexperience leading the commercial activities of the club last season were forgiven. Whilst Moyes, the man in the limelight, was forced to walk the plank, Woodward, the man in the shadows, bought himself another life and a new leadership partner.
Can Woodward command the kind of respect from Van Gaal that David Gill earned from Sir Alex Ferguson? Gill ascended to the CEO suite as a known entity to Ferguson and was anointed by him. He had been the club's chief financial officer. This time around the commercial man has chosen the football man and the situational context could not be more different. Where Ferguson needed a supportive, calm hand on the commercial tiller, Woodward needs a rescue act in the dugout.
Woodward and van Gaal have a relationship to build from scratch. Woodward will know why van Gaal has opted for the top job. Beyond the rumoured, eye-watering £7million annual salary, the new manager is banking on the club's rich history, its footballing tradition and the opportunity it presents to showcase his talent to transform. Van Gaal is a performer and he craves centre stage and United's need of urgent and radical improvement makes for the perfect script. He will, of course, need a producer to deliver the necessary resources, and van Gaal will have checked before he took on the job, that a sizeable budget is available. As he assessed the job's appeal, however, did van Gaal at any stage say to himself, 'I must work for a business owned by the Glazer family' or 'I really must partner Ed Woodward before I hang up my managerial boots?'
The onus is on Woodward to prove he is up to the job of leading from the shadows, and to define the kind of relationship that will get the best out of his new manager. When I interviewed Gill on what made his partnership with Sir Alex so effective, it became clear that boundaries between the two were defined, respect for each other's contribution was mutual and that disagreements were aired constructively.
Too often, particularly when protagonists in a leadership endeavour find themselves working together because of circumstance or opportunity, responsibilities are loosely defined, if at all, assumptions are made, and the seeds of inevitable failure are sown at inception. Just as United striker Wayne Rooney has opted for extra training to leave nothing to chance in Brazil, Woodward might be wise to study what the best leaders demand of those who provide their 'assists'. This new partnership with van Gaal will be Woodward's World Cup and the last thing he needs is an early exit.
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Jetta es una marca automovilística creada en 2019 por el Grupo Volkswagen en China, independizando el nombre anteriormente utilizado para uno de sus modelos y que era su icono en el mercado chino, la marca se ha hecho realidad gracias a FAW-Volkswagen.

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El grupo Volkswagen decide crear una marca específica en china utilizando el nombre de su modelo de más éxito en el mercado chino, con su filial FAW Volkswagen, donde se ha cambiando el logotipo de Vw por una letra J, y se centra en ser una marca asequible.

Desde un comienzo la marca cuenta con 3 modelos basados en vehículos ya existentes dentro del grupo Volkswagen, con nuevo logotipo Jetta y con modificaciones para diferenciarlos, estos modelos son la berlina basada en el Volkswagen Jetta, denominado como SV3 ,el Suv medio basado en el SEAT Ateca denominándolo como VS5 y el suv grande denominado como SV7.

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Tisha Morris is a feng shui expert, intuitive business and life coach, and author of Clutter Intervention (2018), Decorating With the Five Elements of Feng Shui (2015), Mind Body Home (2013), and Feng Shui Your Life: The Quick Guide to Decluttering Your Home and Renewing Your Life (2011). Prior to entering the healing arts, Morris practiced law and obtained a fine arts degree in interior design. She is also certified in feng shui, life coaching, energy healing, and yoga. She is the founder of Earth Home School of Feng Shui, Feng Shui for the Planet - a social initiative to help promote better living spaces across the globe. Morris is based in Los Angeles and works one-on-one with clients in their homes and businesses and also facilitates workshops and certification trainings.


The "bondiola" from Poggio Renatico is a pork sausage, flavoured with various spices.
Cappelletti with broth are a traditional recipe of Ferrarese cuisine.
Crossing the territory of the province, it is immediately apparent that this is predominantly area of countryside with abundant orchards.
Frogs are really appreciated, due to their delicate meat. During the Middle Ages, in Italy and in France people used to eat frogs because they were easily captured from local fishermen.
"Acquadelle" is a small variety of seafish with silver scales.
The 'Pasticcio ferrarese di maccheroni' has noble origins dating back centuries.
The areas around Ferrara that grow peaches and nectarines are as follows: Argenta, Cento, Codigoro, Massa Fiscaglia, Poggio Renatico, Portomaggiore, S. Agostino, Tresigallo, Voghiera.


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Did the U.S. Consider Using Nuclear Weapons in Vietnam?
The short answer is yes, though with important qualifications
by Dr. Erik Villard 3/2/2022 3/9/2022
A weapons crew in 1961 positions a training version of a nuclear weapon so it can be loaded onto an F-105 Thunderchief, designed with the capabilities of a tactical nuclear bomber. (U.S. Air Force)
The short answer is yes, though with important qualifications.
Prior to 1968, the nearest the United States came to deploying nuclear weapons in Vietnam was in early 1954 when the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu was in danger of being overrun by an independence movement led by communist Viet Minh forces, the predecessor to the North Vietnamese Army. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his advisers privately discussed the use of tactical nuclear weapons to save the fort. Eisenhower chose not to deploy nuclear weapons because their use would generate an international outcry and not guarantee the French garrison's survival.
Between 1963 and 1965, the U.S. Army conducted a series of war games to examine the use of tactical nuclear weapons in land warfare. Though largely focused on a potential war against the Soviet Union in Europe, the games, code-named Oregon Trail, also looked at scenarios pitting the U.S. against communist China in Asia. The Army concluded that tactical nuclear weapons were highly effective against massed formations of enemy troops and vehicles but only marginally effective against dispersed or dug-in enemy formations, such as the United States faced in South Vietnam.
The lessons of Dien Bien Phu and Oregon Trail became relevant in early 1968 when North Vietnamese forces surrounded the Khe Sanh Marine base near the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Vietnam. Prompted by President Lyndon B. Johnson's anxiety over the fate of Khe Sanh, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, sent a message on Feb. 1 to Gen. William Westmoreland, head of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, recommending that he investigate the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons to break the siege. Westmoreland had already initiated a secret study code-named Fracture Jaw to do just that. When Johnson learned about it, he reacted with dismay and anger. The president ordered that Fracture Jaw be shut down, and all work on the study ceased on Feb. 12.
It is not entirely clear whether Westmoreland supported the idea of using nuclear weapons or was performing his due diligence as MACV commander and weighing all military options. Given that Westmoreland never doubted that the garrison could be defended with conventional means, one must conclude that Fracture Jaw represented due diligence rather than a preferred tactic.
The final episode of Vietnam's nuclear weapons story came in late 1969, when President Richard Nixon initiated a White House planning group code-named Duck Hook that examined the possible use of nuclear weapons against North Vietnam if Hanoi did not agree to U.S. terms at the Paris peace talks. Like Eisenhower and Johnson before him, Nixon decided that the use of nuclear weapons carried too great a political risk without guaranteeing the diplomatic or military outcome he desired. V
Dr. Erik Villard is a Vietnam War specialist at the U.S. Army Center of Military History at Fort McNair in Washington D.C.
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Pool Twist
This app is a twist on the normal game of pool/billiards on a standard pool table. In fact, this game is so different from say 8-ball or 9-ball pool that it is almost a game with rules unto itself . . .
First of all, this game by Tickle Bits is by no means an awesome game, or up there with the greats, but it is different and a novel twist on the game of billiards. There are no 3D graphical pool balls or pool hall details, but what this app does have is the surprise twist of having different physics objects overlaid on a typical pool table. So, chalk up and prepare for a review of this unique pool game that has a free version on the App Store and also a paid $0.99 full version.
There are some unneeded graphics that clutter this game, such as a 'The End' screen and over-cooked graphics on the main screen. This review is for the 7 free levels on the free version. For the main objective on stage 2, you have to hit the green balls into the pockets to gain 5 points. However, if you pot a red ball you forfeit 5 points. If you gain enough points you can progress onto more advanced levels. Progression to more advanced levels is based upon points, rather than clearing the previous level. You control the cue-ball by dragging for power and aiming the blue line up for your shot angle. This control can be a bit tricky to get used to at first. There is also a precision dial to more precisely line up and strike balls. You get 3 shots per round on the virtual pool table. You can also reset the power and cancel the shot as indicated in the video review which is a handy feature.
The game is a little buggy but it is still a really fun game that's different to the norm. You are awarded stars for your performance on the level. One of the levels includes bricks and a diamond drill object to blast your way through the brick wall. On another level there is a kind of laser pool ball colour changer which shows that this game incorporates many different and imaginative elements.
This simple, 2 dimensional, addictive game needs a few minutes to master, but it is really unique and is fun to play and a very fun virtual pool table with a twist. This game has game centre support.
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Dave Mar 13, 2012 at 4:55 pm
Tried this game out. Not bad and a break from normal pool games. I'd give it 7 out of 10.
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Quirky game – you get the hang of the shot line after a few levels


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"Reliable Rayon"
by Tegan Kehoe
This lovely sample of wartime-era yarn was recently donated to the Museum Textile Services study collection by Mig Ticehurst of Keswick, Cumbria, England. Ms Ticehurst emailed us about her old yarn, saying "It seems wrong to throw it away. Is it possible that it would be of interest to you?"
The company that made this yarn has gone by several names, but at the time, it was Robert Glew & Co, Ltd.
We love the slogan on the label of this yarn – "Reliable rayon for dainty garments." Mig quipped that she had this on hand and unused because she's:
"...not that keen on making 'dainty garments'. As children, knitting was taught in school and we were all obliged to knit as part of the war effort. Our family thing was scarves for merchant seamen which were garter stitch and at the time seemed absolutely huge but probably were about two feet wide and about six feet long. I learned to knit and read by the time I was eight as it was the only way to do any reading. There was also a great deal of inventive making of things."
The pink rayon yarn we were given would be perfect for this toddler dress, in a pattern sold by Robert Glew & Co.The robin on this leaflet cover is the symbol of the yarn company.
This pastel yarn is not just for baby clothes--any women who wanted to make "dainty garments" for themselves could afford rayon. The pattern below is probably from the 1940s or 50s-–note the milkshake glass in the woman's hand! The pattern specifies Robin Perle, which is what's in our little yarn stash. "Perle" describes any high-sheen, two-ply twisted yarn like this or mercerized cotton.
The hand-tinted black-and-white photo on the front of this pattern leaflet uses a common style of the time, in which only the brand information and the garment are colored.
The company logo on our donated yarn indicates that it was manufactured in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. Bradford has been a textile hub for centuries but became a boom town early on in the Industrial Revolution, achieving prominence as the "wool capital of the world" by the mid-nineteenth century. Products included mohair, alpaca, cotton, and silk textiles. By the early twentieth century, however, Bradford's hold on the industry had begun to slip, so some companies stayed current by producing the new synthetics.
Robert Glew & Co. later spawned Robin Wools Ltd. of Greengate, Bradford. This pattern features two-ply "Ny-lona," another remarkable 20th-century synthetic fiber.
Rayon is still being modified and produced today, and it shows up more places than you might think. Stay tuned for the next two weeks for more blogs about rayon and some other remarkable 20th-century fibers that MTS has been conserving.
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Familiar Finds in Needlecraft Magazine Part II
In Part I of this series, I shared examples of crewel embroidery conserved at MTS and the early-20th-century Needlecraft Magazine article teaching needleworkers how to practice this craft. In Part II, we explore two more textile genres.
The article "Gay Posies on a Quilted Coverlet" appeared in the July 1934 issue of Needlecraft: the Home Arts Magazine, p. 8.
The July, 1934, issue of Needlecraft has an article about the timeless art of quilting. It features a quilt with a similarly geometric, symmetrical floral pattern, called "posies round the square." The patchwork squares in both quilts are interspersed with sections of white quilted background.
An early 20th-century quilt before conservation, cleaning, and repair treatments.
The example above shows a quilt from this time period that was recently conserved by Museum Textile Services.The beautiful and intricate quilting pattern in the white section of this quilt is similar to some of the patterns used in the quilt shown in Needlecraft, and to patterns "J" and "G" at the bottom of the page. This quilt was wetcleaned and repaired by us in 2008 so that the owner could continue to gently use it on special occasions.
The article "Darning on a Filet Ground" appeared in the February 1935 issue of Needlecraft: The Home Arts Magazine, page 5.
An article titled "Darning on a Filet Ground" appears in the February 1935 issue of Needlecraft, displaying work using the same technique as a set of place mats that MTS conserved, also in 2008. This craft is alternately called "filet darning," "net darning" or "filet lace." The article says that because the process is simple and quick, a set of curtains or placemats would be "by no means an over-ambitious undertaking even for the woman who has only a little time to give to needlework."
After wet cleaning the placemat was blocked, held in place with pins to dry straight.
The pieces that MTS conserved were a little more complex; instead of darning onto an existing net mesh, they were executed in filet crochet, which has a similar visual effect. One of the ways to tell the difference is to look at how the edges are done. Needlecraft Magazine explains how to finish the edges of the square mesh net that forms the base of the work by turning the edges under and hemming them. However, in the piece we treated, the edges have a crochet scalloped finish. Perhaps Needlecraft magazine would not have recommended crochet filet "for the woman who has only a little time," but the effect is quite delicate.
Filet place mat after mounting and conservation framing.
These place mats were made by the owner's grandmother. They came to us quite stained, and we washed them in Sodium Borohydride, an effective and gentle method of bleaching. At the completion of the project, the owner kept four of the place mats as they are, and had two of the place mats framed to give to her children.
Looking through Needlecraft Magazine is a blast from the past, and is also a reminder of the timelessness of so many of the textile arts that we are fortunate to conserve at MTS.
Familiar Finds in Needlecraft Magazine Part I
Museum Textile Services recently acquired a number of issues of "Needlecraft: The Home Arts Magazine." The magazine was published in the first half of the 20th century and these examples are from the 1920s and 30s. Several articles feature the same needlecraft techniques as those in some of the textiles that we have conserved!
Needlecraft The Home Arts Magazine, February 1934. Originally sold for 10 cents.
One example, from the February 1934 issue of Needlecraft, shows crewel embroidery, or crewelwork. Crewel, as the article explains, is distinguished from other styles of embroidery because it is done with wool yarn rather than silk or cotton thread. The result is a bold pattern that can be made with a wide variety of stitches. Most articles in Needlecraft do not include the patterns, which were sold separately, but they do include detailed descriptions of the process. This article describes patterns for a set of bookends, a cushion, and a handbag.
The article "Needlework Done with Crewels" appeared in the February 1934 issue of Needlecraft: The Home Arts Magazine, page 6.
One crewel embroidery object that Museum Textile Services has restored is an early 20th century chair. The embroidery was done by the owner's grandmother, who was no doubt exposed to magazine articles such as ours. The family still uses the chair, so the goal of conservation was to repair and stabilize the fabric for continued use.
The crewel embroidery on this early 20th century chair was done by the owners' grandmother.
Both the chair and the patterns from the magazine are reflective of Jacobean style, which hearkens back to 17th-century England but has stayed popular for crewel embroidery over the centuries. This style was especially popular during the early 20th-century revival of interest in colonial-era crafts. Jacobean embroidery features stylized plants and forest animals, such as the flowers, birds, and butterflies shown here.
More recently, the MTS study collection received a donation of crewel-embroidered curtains made by the mother of one of our clients. The client is downsizing her home and can only fit part of her mother's impressive needlework legacy. What makes this donation all the more meaningful is the discovery that the client graduated from Oberlin College in the same class as Camille's mother!
Stay tuned for more examples of textiles conserved at MTS that we learned more about from Needlecraft Magazine.
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Canadian mompreneur turns children's artwork into lasting memories
By Mike Martin August 12, 2016
Craft projects that stand the test of time
Andrea Iervella didn't immediately set out to become a mompreneur. Like any parent, she was proud of her three young children's artistic accomplishments. She loved their creativity and wanted to preserve as many of their projects as possible. So when her eldest child brought home a tree composed entirely of Rice Krispies cereal, Andrea knew she had a challenge on her hands. How could she save such a delicate creation?
And that's when it hit her — photograph it.
Andrea always had a hard time tossing projects, regardless of their potential to stand the test of the time, so this was the perfect solution. From that point on, she started to photograph all of her children's art and compiled the pictures into hard-covered books.
It was such a hit with her friends and family that Andrea knew she had a marketable idea on her hands. And so, SchoolWorx was born.
Now, three years later, Andrea's venture is thriving. With professional scanners and photography, she can capture any child's artwork — even restoring pieces if needed. Her one-of-a-kind keepsakes took off, and she was named Canada's Mompreneur of the Year for 2015 and awarded the Mompreneur Award of Excellence.
Every mompreneur needs her tools
Andrea Iervella launched her online business, SchoolWorx to transform children's school projects into hardcover keepsakes.
From the start, Andrea's goal was to establish her business online. With an extensive background in the marketing industry, she knew the best way to grow a small business was to establish a professional-looking online presence. As a mompreneur, she was familiar with the concept of doing her homework — and she decided her ideal solution involved GoDaddy.
Domain and website
She started by registering her domain name with GoDaddy, as well as purchasing Website Builder to create her site.
"I knew how expensive professional websites could be, and so I felt my best option as a budget-conscious startup would be to find a template design that I could just drop my content into."
Andrea found Website Builder to be very intuitive, and she was able to get her website up and running in no time. Plus, there's a feature within Website Builder that allows her to monitor her visitors over the past day, month or year — as well as where on the internet they come from.
"If I run Facebook ads, Website Builder's statistics shows me the exact percentage of leads that came through those ads. That's very useful information for me so I can choose which marketing strategies work the best."
In addition to Website Builder, Andrea uses business-class email from GoDaddy in order to have an address that matches her domain name. This gives her business greater credibility than if she used a generic email account like Gmail.
And there's always SEO.
With her knowledge of the marketing industry, Andrea knew the importance of being found online. So, she took advantage of GoDaddy's Search Engine Visibility product.
"GoDaddy's SEO has a useful checklist that walks you through different steps, such as optimizing page titles, page descriptions and heading tags. It's very helpful."
Leveraging SEV has helped drive traffic to SchoolWorx and helps ensure the site appears at, or near, the top of any relevant internet searches by consumers.
Taking her business to new heights
SchoolWorx's success is directly connected to Andrea's commitment to her work and customers. She does everything in her power to make her company a one-stop shop — including free art pickup. She'll gladly ship boxes — complete with a pre-paid return labels — to her customers so they can easily send in their children's artwork.
Once the crafts are restored and/or color optimized for printing, she provides a digital version for the parents to review. Talk about customer service!
And customer service is one thing Andrea knows well. "One feature that all GoDaddy products share is fantastic, 24/7, customer support," she says. It's that type of relationship building that promotes success.
With the publicity of Andrea's 2015 Mompreneur of the Year award, SchoolWorx has quadrupled its business. With a little elbow grease and the right suite of products, SchoolWorx has given her the opportunity to become a mompreneur. Eventually, she hopes to continue her company's growth by introducing new products and launching brand expansions in the near future.
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Muslim activist suggests resisting Trump is a 'form of jihad'
By Brooke Singman , | Fox News
Activist Linda Sarsour prepares for the beginning of a demonstration and Iftar celebration during Ramadan outside of Trump Tower in New York, U.S., June 1, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson - RTX38MHA
Controversial Muslim activist Linda Sarsour gave a fiery speech last weekend where she said fellow Muslim-Americans do not have to "assimilate" and blasted Trump administration policies, even suggesting that resisting those policies could count as a "form of jihad."
Sarsour's remarks came at the annual Islamic Society of North America convention in Illinois. Sarsour, who was a lead organizer in the Women's March after President Trump's inauguration, slammed the new administration, specifically referring to the president's executive order to temporarily ban travel from six predominantly Muslim countries.
Activist Linda Sarsour addresses attendees at a vigil for Nabra Hassanen, a 17 year old teenage Muslim girl killed by a bat-wielding motorist near a Virginia mosque, Manhattan, New York, U.S., June 20, 2017. Picture taken June 20, 2017. REUTERS/Amr Alfiky - RTS188WI (REUTERS)
"Why are we so afraid of this administration and the potential chaos that they will ensue on our community -- and we already saw their potential when they come out every few weeks with Muslim ban one, Muslim ban two, Muslim ban three. They are relentless, they are persistent and consistent, and want to see how much we as a community can endure and want to see who our friends are and how hard we're going to fight back against this administration," Sarsour said, adding she is "outraged" when she "wakes up in the morning" and remembers "who is sitting in the White House."
The Supreme Court decided last week that much of the 'ban' could be enforced, while the high court prepares to take up the case in October.
Sarsour's criticism went beyond the ban, as she blasted "fascists" in the White House.
"I hope that we, when we stand up to those who oppress our communities, that Allah accepts from us that as a form of jihad," Sarsour said. "That we are struggling against tyrants and rulers not only abroad in the Middle East or the other side of the world, but here in these United States of America where you have fascists, white supremacists, and Islamaphobes reigning in the White House."
The term 'jihad' can be defined and interpreted in different ways. According to Merriam-Webster, jihad can be defined "a holy war on behalf of Islam as a religious duty," or the more innocuous "personal struggle in devotion to Islam especially involving spiritual discipline." The dictionary also defines jihad as "a crusade for a principle or belief."
DAY AFTER TRUMP SWORN IN, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS PROTEST PRESIDENCY IN CELEB-STUDDED MARCH
In an interview with The Washington Post on Friday, Sarsour said she was advocating "solely for peaceful, nonviolent dissent." As Sarsour has faced some critical coverage for the speech, her Twitter page as of Friday was filled with tweets from defenders saying she only referred to jihad as a "struggle."
Activist Linda Sarsour speaks at a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's limited travel ban, approved by the U.S. Supreme Court, in New York City, U.S., June 29, 2017. REUTERS/Joe Penney - RTS19726 (REUTERS)
Sarsour had been praised by the Obama administration for her advocacy work and had campaigned for Bernie Sanders. But she's also faced criticism from women's rights advocates for her defense of sharia law and other positions.
Further, she stirred more controversy in her speech last weekend by calling out her "favorite person in the room" -- Imam Siraj Wahhaj, whom she described as a "mentor, motivator, and encourager." Wahhaj appeared on a list of unindicted co-conspirators in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings.
In the speech, she said the "number 1, top priority" was to "protect and defend" the Muslim community and suggested assimilation should not be a goal.
"It is not to assimilate and to please any other people or authority," Sarsour said. "Our obligation is to our young people, and to our women, and to make sure our women are protected in our community and our top priority, even higher than those priorities is to please Allah, and only Allah."
Brooke Singman is a Politics Reporter for Fox News. You can reach her at Brooke.Singman@Fox.com or @BrookeSingman on Twitter.


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Columbia Sportswear, SINA, Trade Desk, Roku and Square highlighted as Zacks Bull and Bear of the Day
Chicago, IL – June 25, 2019 – Zacks Equity Research Columbia Sportswear Company COLM as the Bull of the Day, SINA Corporation SINA as the Bear of the Day. In addition, Zacks Equity Research provides analysis on The Trade Desk TTD, Roku ROKU and Square SQ.
Here is a synopsis of all four stocks:
Bull of the Day:
Columbia Sportswear Companycontinues to post record quarters as athleisure remains hot. This Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) beat again in Q1 and raised full year guidance.
Columbia Sportswear is a specialty retailer in apparel, footwear, accessories and equipment. Its brands are sold in 90 countries through its own stores and web sites.
It isn't just the Columbia brand, however, as its three other main brands also includes Mountain Hardwear, SOREL and prAna.
Another Big Beat in the First Quarter
On Apr 25, Columbia reported its first quarter results and again posted a big earnings beat. Earnings were $1.07 versus the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.84. That's a 27.4% beat.
Sales were up another 8% to a record $654.6 million.
Gross margin expanded 210 basis points, also to a record of 51.4%, compared to just 49.3% in the first quarter of 2018.
The momentum of the prior year extended in the first quarter as it finished strong in its Fall 2018 sales season and had a good early season sell-through of its Spring 2019 assortment.
SOREL continued to be a hot brand, rising 28% worldwide.
The large namesake brand, Columbia, also saw double-digit growth in the US across both direct-to-consumer and wholesale distribution channels.
Raised Full Year Guidance
The strong first quarter coupled by strong advance orders of its Fall 2019 product line, gave the company enough confidence to raise its full year guidance.
Full year sales are now expected to be between the range of $2.98 to $3.04 billion up from prior guidance of $2.97 to $3.03 billion. That's sales growth of 6.5% to 8.5%, up from the prior guidance of 6% to 8%.
Additionally, earnings per share are now expected in the range of $4.40 to $4.55, up from the prior forecast of $4.30 to $4.45.
It's no surprise, then, that the analysts raised estimates to come in line with the company's new guidance.
Over the last 60 days, 5 estimates have been raised for 2019 which has pushed the Zacks Consensus Estimate up to $4.55 from $4.38. That's at the very top of the company's range and would be earnings growth of 13.5% as the company made $4.01 last year.
It would also be a new company record as 2018 was already a record year.
Analysts are bullish on 2020 as well as 5 estimates were raised for next year in the last 2 months. The 2020 Zacks Consensus Estimate rose to $5.04 from $4.96 in that time. That's another 10.9% earnings growth.
Best Balance Sheet in Retail
Who says all retailers are debt-ridden and struggling?
Columbia has over $700 million in cash and short-term investments with no long-term debt.
It pays a dividend, currently yielding about 1%.
Bear of the Day:
SINA Corporationis facing a slowing Chinese economy. This Zacks Rank #5 (Strong Sell) is expected to grow revenue in the single digits in 2019.
SINA is a Chinese online media company. It operates a digital media network under SINA.com, SINA mobile including the app and Weibo, which is a Chinese online social media site akin to Twitter.
Second Miss in a Row in Q1
On May 23, SINA reported its first quarter results and missed on the Zacks Consensus Estimate for the second quarter in a row.
Earnings were $0.40 versus the consensus of $0.44.
Revenue rose 8% to $472.5 million from $438.1 million a year ago.
Advertising revenue rose just 6% to $388 million, driven by 13% growth in Weibo advertising and marketing revenue but which was partially offset by a decrease in portal advertising revenue.
Gross margin remained elevated at 76%, compared with 75% in the year ago quarter.
SINA still has a lot of cash on hand, with cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments totaling $2.1 billion as of the end of March 31, 2019. But that was down from $2.3 billion at the end of Dec 2018.
The decline was the result of continued investment activities.
Analysts Cut Estimates
Analysts didn't like what they saw in the report with revenue now rising only in the single-digits.
3 estimates were cut for 2019 since the results which pushed the Zacks Consensus Estimate down to $2.91 from $3.66 just 90 days ago.
That's an earnings decline of 5.2% in 2019 as the company made $3.07 in 2018.
Analysts are also bearish on 2020 as 2 estimates were cut for next year after the results.
3 Tech Stocks for Growth Investors to Buy
Growth investors are often focused on finding companies whose earnings and revenue are expected to outpace the market. This investment strategy comes with its share of risks. Yet, it also brings the exciting possibility of outsized returns.
For years, many of Wall Street's most high-performing growth stocks have emerged from the technology sector. Despite some volatility, strong earnings and impressive sales remain the story for many companies in the technology sector.
Now it's time to check out three tech stocks that came through our screen today that growth investors might want to consider at the moment…
1. The Trade Desk
The Trade Desk is a programmatic advertising firm that looks set to grow as algorithmic, real-time bidding proliferates. TTD's cloud-based platform helps create, manage, and optimize data-driven digital ad campaigns across multiple channels, apps, and websites on a range of devices such as connected TVs and mobile. The Ventura, California-headquarter company allows customers to pay a market-driven price and reach their target audience on the ideal devices. The firm's offerings have been bolstered by its AI tech, and TTD recently launched its ad buying platform in China. Shares of TTD have skyrocketed over 100% in 2019 and 160% in the past 12 months. TTD stock opened at $242 per share Monday, down 6% off its 52-week highs.
Looking ahead, our current Zacks Consensus Estimate calls for the company's adjusted Q2 earnings to pop 13.3% on 38% revenue growth. TTD's full-year revenue is projected to surge 36% to reach $649.96 million, with fiscal 2020's revenue expected to climb 28.5% higher than our current-year estimate. Plus, the firm has earned a ton of longer-term upward earnings estimate revisions and has crushed quarterly estimates by an average of 50% over the trailing four quarters.
On top of that, The Trade Desk said last quarter that its newer connected TV and audio channels "grew multiples faster" than its more mature units, which is a good sign as smart TVs and digital audio continue to expand. TTD also boasted that its customer retention rate remained over 95% during Q1, "as it has for the previous 21 quarters." The Trade Desk is currently a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy).
2. Roku
Roku is a pure-play video streaming firm that looks set to grow as part of the broader expansion of industry giants such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and soon enough Disney and others. The Los Gatos, California-based firm's streaming devices currently boast a larger market share than rivals like Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Google's Chromecast, according to eMarketer. Roku also estimated that more than one-in-three smart TVs sold in the U.S. during the first quarter of 2019 were Roku TVs. Furthermore, the Roku Channel, which allows users to watch free streaming movies and TV shows, could become more popular and highly attractive to advertisers.
Roku stock opened at $102.99 on Monday, not too far off the firm's 52-week intraday trading high of $108.32 per share. Overall, Roku stock has skyrocketed 230% in 2019. Roku's Q2 2019 revenue is projected to jump 43.3% to $224.8 million, with full-year revenue expected to climb 39.7% from $742.5 million in 2018 to $1.04 billion.
At the bottom end of the income statement, Roku is projected to post an adjusted full-year loss of -$0.60 per share, which would represent a massive downturn from 2018. But investors should note that Roku posted a much lower-than-projected loss in Q1 and has topped estimates by an average of 86% over the trailing four periods. Peeking further ahead, Roku's adjusted earnings are projected to climb by 19% over the next three to five years on an annualized basis. Roku is currently a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) that has seen its fiscal 2019 and 2020 earnings estimate revisions trend upward recently.
3. Square
Shares of Square are up 30% this year despite a somewhat prolonged downturn. With that said, SQ stock has climbed over 13% in the past month and opened at $72.98 per share on Monday, down roughly 27% from its 52-week highs. Square, which is run by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, has transformed from a credit card processor for the mobile age into a more complete financial services firm.
Today, SQ's portfolio includes business loans, peer-to-peer payment platforms, debit cards, and much more. It is also important to note that SQ has become more attractive to larger businesses and its P2P payment offering, the Cash App, stands out against rivals PayPal in a world where digital payments continue to grow.
Look ahead, Square's adjusted full-year EPS figure is expected to soar 61.7% to reach $0.76 per share on 36% revenue expansion—that would see its reach $4.48 billion. Meanwhile, Square's fiscal 2020 revenue is expected jump 28.5% above our 2019 estimate to reach $5.75 billion, with its 2020 earnings projected to jump 47% higher than our current-year estimate. And Square's longer-term earnings revisions activity helps it earn a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) at the moment.
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The transformation of a municipal landfill site to a thriving business, residential and leisure area.
This project was carried out in phases spread over a period of several years. CHC was involved in the majority of the enabling and infrastructure works including:
Airport Tip Reclamation - Reclamation of a former landfill site required the excavation of 750,000m3 of inert, intermixed and putrid waste. The materials were sorted into three groups; i) inert materials, which were crushed, chemically tested and re-used on site as a starter layer ii) Intermixed material was screened in a rotary Trommel Screen to separate putrid waste from the inert rubble, which was then incorporated within the site iii) Putrid waste, which was disposed of in a purpose built landfill cell constructed on the site using 1m mineral liner and capped using 300mm bentonite enhanced sand.
Lakeland Stage 3 - Laying of 8000m of sewer in open cut, 225mm to 975mm in diameter, up to 7.5m deep. Works also included ancillary civils work and a pumping station.
Lower Lake & Overflow Settling Pond - Construction of a storm water-balancing pond using gabion cages and a reed filtering system plus associated landscape works.
Lake Edge Detail - Construction of 1300m of insitu reinforced concrete retaining wall as lake edge detail. An exposed aggregate pre-cast concrete coping incorporating a cast iron post and chain fence provided protection to a pre-cast flag walkway. Soft and hard landscaping with lighting was also provided.
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Who Should Select Senators?
A century after the Seventeenth Amendment transferred that power to the voters, legislatures and governors are devising new ways to retain it for themselves.
Garrett Epps
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There are a lot of reasons that I love the Seventeenth Amendment, which transferred the power to elect senators from state legislatures to ordinary voters.
Its passage was one of the most sweeping progressive victories in American history—public fury so intimidated reactionary lawmakers in the Senate that, by approving the Amendment, they in effect voted their own body out of existence.
A second reason is that in the past two decades, new redistricting techniques have allowed state legislatures to create unshakably safe House districts for their members. (Because Republicans controlled a majority of legislatures after the 2010 census, most Republican seats are as safe as Brezhnev's old spot on the Politburo.) But those techniques are useless when elections must take in the entire state; as a result, a small group of Senate candidates must at least pretend to represent both red and blue voters.
But the real reason I love the Seventeenth Amendment is that it generates so many textual puzzles for Constitutional Law nerds like myself. Writing for The Atlantic, I have discovered that there are a lot of nerds out there, lawyers and lay people alike, and so I want to share with you a Seventeenth Amendment case decided just last week in the District of Hawaii.
First, though, a little background. The Amendment, adopted in 1913, begins with great clarity: "The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years..."
But its second clause is not so clear:
When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.
Back when civics class was a thing, most of us learned that the Constitution "gives" governors the power to name Senators to vacancies caused by death or resignation. But read the above carefully. In fact, the default rule is that an empty Senate seat, like an empty House seat, is to be filled by a special election. Under the "proviso," however, a state legislature can decide to allow the governor to make "temporary appointments" until "the people fill the vacancies by election."
This confusing language is there because the Amendment is what scholars call a palimpsest, a document that has been partially erased and reused, allowing traces of the old writing to bleed through. The original language of the Constitution required that senators be elected by the state legislatures; one clause actually did give the state "executive" the power to "make temporary Appointments until the next Meeting of the Legislature." The drafters of the Seventeenth Amendment included a garbled version of this option.
The text leaves a puzzle: Can the legislature "empower" the governor just to fill a vacant seat for the rest of the term? How could that be a "temporary appointment"? What happens to the idea that the Senate is to be "elected by the people"? Where else in the Constitution do we give one person the power to appoint a constitutional official? I have done a good deal of research in the history of the Amendment, and cannot find an explanation of this provision anywhere.
I did that research while consulting with a group of Illinois lawyers who, five years ago, actually won a case under the Seventeenth Amendment. After Barack Obama resigned from the Senate, then-Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich more or less openly conducted an auction to fill the rest of Obama's term, ultimately naming Roland Burris. Illinois law allowed this, but we argued that an appointment for the entire term could not be "temporary," and that the Seventeenth Amendment required a special election. Remarkably enough, the redoubtable Judge Diane Wood of the Seventh Circuit agreed with us, and the state was required to hold a special election—though the litigation took so long that it filled only the last 30 days of Obama's term. It was a classic constitutional victory—rich in symbolism, a little hazy as to practice.
The special election issue arose again in a case called Hamamoto v. Ige, which was just dismissed by Judge Derrick Watson of the District of Hawaii. The issue is another textual riddle: When the Amendment says that a legislature can "empower" a Governor to make appointments, can it also require the governor to choose from a specified list?
Here's what happened: In November 2010, Hawaii's voters elected Senator Daniel K. Inouye to a ninth term. Two years later, in December 2012, Inouye died. Under Hawaii law, Governor Neil Abercrombie was required to name a temporary replacement from a list of three provided by the state Democratic Party. That replacement, Brian Schatz, ran for election to the remaining term in a special election in November 2014, and defeated Republican Campbell Cavasso by a margin of nearly three to one.
Just before that election, a Republican named John P. Roco brought a lawsuit alleging that Schatz's appointment was unconstitutional. Roco was an odd plaintiff. He had wanted to be the Republican nominee—but he lost to Cavasso. In fact, he got only 10 percent of the primary vote. It thus seems unlikely that any sequence of events would have made him the Senator. Nonetheless, he argued that the Seventeenth Amendment allowed the legislature to "empower," not limit, the governor. Abercrombie should have been able to name anyone he chose. Because Schatz had been selected from a group of three approved by the Democratic Party, he should be removed from office.
Roco soon dropped that demand, asking only a "declaratory judgment" that the Hawaii law was invalid. Judge Watson on February 23 dismissed the case, holding that it was past its sell-by date (or as lawyers say, "moot"). Roco and Hamamoto's lawyers argued that the issue might arise again, but Watson rejected that argument, noting both that the plaintiffs waited nearly two years after Schatz's appointment to bring their suit and that the legislature might change the statute before the situation arises again.
Should it? Vikram Amar, one of America's foremost scholars of the Constitution's text, believes that the plaintiffs are correct—a legislature can "empower" but not limit. Sanford V. Levinson of the University of Texas, equally or more eminent, disagrees.
Though they may seem arcane, these Seventeenth Amendment issues matter. Its strange wording allows legislatures to game the system. When, for example, Mitt Romney became governor of Massachusetts, the Democratic legislature took away the power of temporary appointment, requiring an immediate special election. When Edward Kennedy took ill in 2008, they quickly restored the power to Democratic Governor Deval Patrick, who in 2009 appointed Paul G. Kirk to make sure the Affordable Care Act had the votes needed to pass.
That's the real dog I have in these obscure fights. The temporary appointment proviso inevitably leads to partisan tricks. In 2013, scholars Zachary Clopton and Steven E. Art estimated that legislatures and governors dodge the Amendment's requirements in more than one-sixth of cases, allowing appointees to serve a total of 200 years during which the people were excluded from any say. Legislatures could, however, decide to require immediate special elections, as they do for House seats; several, including Oregon, have done so. The rest of them should do the same.
The Amendment says "elected by the people." It's a good rule, and we ought to follow it.
Garrett Epps is a contributing editor for The Atlantic. He teaches constitutional law and creative writing for law students at the University of Baltimore. His latest book is American Justice 2014: Nine Clashing Visions on the Supreme Court.


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Clinical trial recruitment is a perennial challenge for pharma. Are they listening to patients?
If echo chambers, polarizing politics and solipsism sums up the world in 2018, the art of listening has become gold dust.
The pharma industry appears to be bucking the trend however. When it comes to the patient voice, companies are becoming all ears, with patient insights driving internal decisions across the board.
We decided to put this proposition to the test.
One of pharma's perennial thorns is clinical trial recruitment. 86% of clinical trials do not reach recruitment targets within their specified time periods. Patients clearly have their grievances but are pharma companies truly listening? More importantly, are they doing something about it?
We enlisted Dominique Hamerlijnck, EUPATI fellow and lung health advocate, to outline five reasons why pharma companies struggle to recruit patients, and then put it to Katie Mazuk, Senior Director, Global Head Investigator and Patient Engagement, Janssen.
Most patients are quite willing to engage in clinical trials, but the information given in consent forms can be very confusing, says Hamerlijnck.
One solution she proposes is to employ specialists to give the information not only in a written format but break the information down into bite sized videos, using language that is is less technical and more patient-friendly; like a news segment on the website.
This would be a simple and relatively inexpensive way to engage with patients, who could watch and rewatch the segment with their friends and family for further clarification. "It can be hard to grasp the essence of the information, this would make sure informed consent is genuinely informed," she says.
Informed consent remains a significant challenge for the pharma industry, says Mazuk. To address the issue, Janssen worked with patients to create a more patient-friendly informed consent. After going through several iterations with patient focus groups and health literacy experts, the co-created informed consent has now been rolled out across all clinical trials.
Janssen are also using multi-media channels to support the consent process (videos, e-learning, etc.) to optimize the ways people like to receive information today, says Mazuk.
Hamerlijnck stresses the importance of involving patient advisory groups from the moment you are first thinking about a drug. Reaching out when you are setting up the clinical trial is too late. Considering the patient perspective from the get-go will forge greater trust, will make the clinical trial more relevant to the patient experience and will ultimately speed up the process.
"We might not have anything relevant or world shocking to say in the beginning, but trust will emerge, and we will understand each other, and this will create the basis for in depth discussions," she says.
Janssen has made early and often engagement its ethos, says Mazuk. "We believe it spans from research and development all the way through to commercialization.
Mazuk acknowledges that historically a broad divide existed between advancing the science and working around the technical constraints and delivering on what patients want. But this way of thinking has radically changed.
Feeding back to patients, letting them know how far along they are and reconnecting with them when the trial is done would make them feel that their contribution and involvement was valued, even if the drug proved ineffective for them , says Hamerlijnck.
Explaining to a patient why you are asking them to do certain tasks (like questionnaires, diaries, physical tests, hospital visits etc.) could also motivate them to do the best job they can and would stop them feeling that they need to do a lot of things that serve no purpose.
And make sure you ask them to do only things that are relevant for the trial and that add to the data needed. Often research subjects are asked to fill out a diary. Filling out a diary is a tedious , time-consuming and invasive task, with little understanding of how it impacts the end-results of the trial and what will be done with the data, she says.
Mazuk agrees feedback is fundamental, irrespective of the outcome. When finalizing a trial design, a patient's contribution might be deemed unworkable in the eyes of regulators. In this instance, Janssen will close the loop back with the patient that has helped them in the design process and clearly say: 'We heard you and we brought it in, but here is where it landed with the regulatory authorities and why'.
For Janssen, the ongoing bid to better understand the patient journey within specific disease areas has made this a top priority.
"There are certain disease areas like early Alzheimer's or pediatric diseases where the caregiver is not only a big part of the patient's life but is critical to the success of the clinical trial and the patients experience in the clinical trial," says Mazuk.
Most people with severe diseases have a limited amount of energy. Travelling to a hospital can be exhausting for patients, let alone having to contend with physical tests and questionnaires when they get there, says Hamerlijnck.
When there is no way around it, companies should give patients ample time to recuperate after making the journey. The resting time between tests should also be carefully considered. These insights will not come from "higher science" says Hamerlijnck; reiterating the need to consult patient advisory groups as early as possible.
It should be an easy sell. Creating a clinical trial that fits a patient's life, making it easier for them to participate in and stay on for the duration, will get innovative drugs to market quicker. The benefit this would bring to healthcare systems and wider societies is writ large.
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Realistic Expectation for Geno Smith in 2014
With a first year under his belt full of ups and downs, Geno Smith ended his rookie season dead last in an ESPN poll of 26 insiders. In response to the ESPN Poll, Smith declared that he will be "in the top five" by the end of this year or next. As we all know however, what we want and what we get are two different things so the truth here lies somewhere in the middle.
Geno Smith had an interesting season in 2013 but it can be broken down three ways: The 1st and 2nd quarter of the season, where he found himself ranking 34 out of 37 QB's with a 71.6 QB rating; The 3rd quarter of the season, where a QB rating of 22 places him, well i'm not even going to say it; And the final quarter, where he rose up and landed a QB rating of 83.6 that placed him as the 22nd best quarterback int he league.
Now granted, the QB rating system has its flaws, but in this case i just can't see anything else that can accurately reflect Geno as a passer in his rookie season. Smith also accumulated 43 total sacks, tying him for 5th worst, and adding insult to injury his eight fumbles had him as the ninth worst. But, 28 of the 43 sacks as well as 6 of the 8 fumbles came in the first half of the season. Now those important numbers aren't counted in the overall QB rating system, but they also don't help Geno Smith's case either.
What does help him out however is looking at what he had to work with in the 3rd quarter of the season. In twelve out of sixteen games last season Smith completed at least 15 passes, the only exception was the 4 game stretch in the 3rd quarter of the season. In those 4 games, Smith found himself absent wide receiver Jeremy Kerley. Kerley was Smith's only reliable target in the passing game but left early in the second quarter vs the Saints with an elbow injury. Not having Kerley on the field forced Smith to look for other targets and the struggle was evident.
During that 4 game stretch, the leading receivers for the Jets were Jeff Cumberland, Kellen Wilson and David Nelson with 5 receptions, Bilal Powell with 6, and the top receiver was Greg Salas with 7. Certainly not the best group of receivers by the numbers. During that time the Jets seemed to limit Smith to 74 pass attempts where he only managed to complete a mere 29. When Kerley finally made it back to the field, in the final 4 games he brought in 15 total passes, which was more than the combined receptions of any combined Jet during his absence. In those last 4 weeks we saw a different Smith where he completed 58.6% of his passes with 4 touchdowns and only 2 interceptions. He also limited opposing defenses to just 5 sacks with zero fumbles while he scored 3 more times on the run. Now if you were to include those rushing touchdowns into the QB rating, Smith would have walked away with a nice 92.2 mark, good enough for 9th in the league.
I know what you are thinking, i played with the stats to make Smith look good, and i did, but most Jets fans will argue that Smith was excellent during the last 4 games of the season and they would be correct just the same. During the final quarter of the season it was evident that Smith's mechanics and pocket presence improved immensely while making huge strides protecting the ball. However, expecting Smith to be a top 10 quarterback this season would be insane, but there are a lot of reasons to believe that he could easily break the top 20.
Ahead of Smith are 11 other quarterbacks, and some are downright uninspiring. Carson Palmer, Ryan Tannehill, Sam Bradford, Josh McCown, Matt Schaub, Chad Henne, EJ Manuel, Matt Cassel, Brian Hoyer, Ryan Fitzpatrick and Jake Locker ranked between 21st and 31st in the ESPN Poll. Palmer and Tannehill both seem to have a chance at a good season given their surrounding receiving cast, both still have a tendency to be turnover prone. The rest of the list is really anyones guess but Schaub, Cassel, Hoyer, Fitzpatrick and Henne could very well find themselves jobless at some point during the season if not the beginning of next.
Above Carson Palmer are Alex Smith, Andy Dalton and RGIII in the 18 to 20 slots. RGIII comes in with health concerns, both Smith and Dalton seem to be solid but only Dalton found commitment from his team. I don't see Smith jumping ahead of Cam Newton or Jay Cutler, 16 and 17 respectively, but the possibility of Smith jumping into the discussion with the rest of the group is pretty high, sans a healthy Robert Griffin III. So now lets assume that Smith manages to maintain the consistency he had in the last remaining 4 games of last season and maybe even improves further in 2014.
By the numbers a jump from 22nd to 20th is clear. With the newly acquired Eric Decker, Smith now has another target that should bolster his numbers. Now even though a lot of people don't feel that Decker is a true number one receiver, i am not even going to argue that point, the fact remains that Decker is still miles ahead of anyone else on the Jets roster. Throughout training camp Smith already named Decker "Crafty" and his ability to get open at practice is already noticeable. Considering that the Jets receivers of last season couldn't find a way to get open on the outside, Decker will bring quite a bit to the new offense. Kerley managed to get open on the slot but an outside open safety blanket is invaluable. So now Smith should have two reliable players to target instead of just the one he had last season.
Other reasons for optimism are Zach Sudfield and Kenbrell Thompkins. Sudfield has been making quite the waves early in camp and Thompkins received high praise from the Patriot organization last season in camp before being released. Granted we have yet to see them both in real action but if Sudfield truly has improved, he could be a nice paring with Amaro as a red zone threat at 6'7″.
All in all, Smith does have a realistic shot of moving up into one of the top 20 passers in the NFL with better weapons on the line and a continued personal improvement. Now if Smith does regress back to the turnover machine he was when the season started last year, Michael Vick can easily step in and make plays. But, if Smith can really make the leap from year one to year two, the Jets will certainly have a legit chance at the playoffs considering how talented the rest of the team is.
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Sorry everyone, today's page is going to be up tomorrow or Tuesday because the scanner I was using at my parents' house is broken. I've been trying all morning to get it working but I'm now going to have to wait until I get home and use my own. Sorry for the delay.
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Athletes turn to plant-based and vegan diets to gain edge in a growing sports world trend
Scott Gleeson
Alex Morgan remembers athletes sporting milk mustaches in ads when she was a kid, reinforcing the idea that she needed protein from animal and dairy products to be strong.
"I never thought it was possible I could be playing at an elite level as a professional athlete with a plant-based diet," the U.S. women's soccer star told USA TODAY Sports. "Then I realized it wasn't detrimental at all. What I learned growing up wasn't all that true."
When Morgan's Orlando Pride teammates and the MLS teammates of her husband, Servando Carrasco, showed they could thrive while eating vegan, the stigma was erased and Morgan was ready to try a new diet. She became vegetarian in August 2017 and then took on a mostly vegan lifestyle at the beginning of 2018.
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"If anything, it makes me stronger and helps with fatigue and recovery," said Morgan, who had the U.S. women team's chef, Teren Green, prepare vegan meals during the World Cup, prompting several of her teammates to give it a try.
Veganism is on the rise in the United States — the plant-based market increased 17% in dollar sales this last year, according to The Good Food Institute — and more athletes are turning to the diet, particularly at the peak and latter stages of their careers.
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is the most prominent athlete to embrace veganism, crediting his mostly plant-based diet for allowing him to play at an MVP level into his 40s. He made the change starting in 2014, and detailed his approach in his 2017 book, "The TB12 Method."
Athletes have been exposed to plant-based diets for a variety of reasons. NBA guard Chris Paul said his children's nanny was vegan. Recovering from a shoulder injury, Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton said in April he's gone vegan to aid his stamina and rehabilitation. Tennis star Venus Williams adopted a vegan diet in 2011 after she was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. A gluten allergy led Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic to go plant-based, and in 2016 he opened up a Monte Carlo vegan restaurant.
While most nutrition experts are in agreement that veganism aids recovery and promotes good health, others raise questions about its effectiveness and see the no-meat philosophy as limiting.
Yet athletes are among the biggest advocates for veganism. Morgan and Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving were named "Most Beautiful Vegan Celebrities" by PETA this summer.
"The rules aren't as strict as everyone thinks," Irving told USA TODAY Sports. "I'm an example of someone who ate really unhealthy — fast food or a quick TV dinner in the microwave — without educating myself on what I was putting into my body. Now I feel like I understand the truth — how certain chemicals in meat affect your body, and that now there are alternatives bridging the gap available."
Those alternatives start with plant-based meat companies such as Beyond Meat, which has attracted Paul, Irving and Houston Texans wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins as investors.
"You've got to be open-minded," Paul said. "I was someone who was like, 'I don't want that fake chicken or fake burger.' But it tastes similar and it really makes a huge difference in how I feel."
James Loomis, who practices internal medicine at Barnard Medical Center in Washington, D.C., said he believes a vegan diet is a natural fit for athletes: It "leads to quicker recovery from workouts and better injury prevention. The food pyramid is misleading and that's stayed with us from a young age.
"The standard American diet leads to low-grade inflammation so when athletes are exercising it's like putting Diesel fuel into a regular car."
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However, veganism is not fully embraced by athletes or experts.
Cate Shanahan, a nutrition consultant for the Los Angeles Lakers, New York Yankees and Green Bay Packers, says plant-based meat is "toxic" and argues that the recovery boost athletes experience from the diets comes from removing "chips and soda, like any good diet."
Shanahan instead believes animal meat on the bone and animal bone broth can bolster digestive health and relieve joint pain. She sees the keto diet — what Tim Tebow currently follows — as a healthy option because of its emphasis on using natural fats from butter and coconut as opposed to vegetable oils. She contends that a plant-based diet or the largely meat-based paleo diet are "limited."
Several high-profile athletes tried vegan lifestyles before opting out. Portland Trailblazers guard Damian Lillard gave up his vegan diet because he lost too much weight.
"Veganism doesn't pay attention to the culinary tradition of the world's healthiest cuisines that kept our ancestors disease-free," Shanahan said. "The healthiest diet comes from four natural pillars — fresh food, fermented and sprouted food, meat cooked on the bone, and organ meats."
Loomis disagrees, and has data to prove it. He collaborated with experts for a 2019 study that outlined evidence of plant-based diets benefiting endurance athletes in heart health, overall performance and recovery.
"It's a factual myth that we have to have animal protein to perform at a high level," he said. "With plants, food becomes more like medicine."
Loomis is one of the doctors featured on "Game Changers," a documentary set to debut in September that features MMA fighter James Wilks exploring the differences between protein from plant-based and meat-based diets.
"If you go into locker rooms and look at the pre-game meal, it's usually steak or chicken or pasta, and there's lots of Whey Protein powder," said Loomis, the former team internist for the St. Louis Rams and Cardinals. "That's then amplified commercially with marketing, basically saying, 'You're not a man unless you eat meat.'"
One example: NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley ranted on a Turner Sports broadcast this spring, "They've got a name for people who don't eat meat: Damn fools."
Still, times are changing. Brady appeared in a 2002 Got Milk? ad. Nowadays he's promoting his own plant-based protein shakes.
Silver medal-winning Olympic cyclist Dotsie Bausch became vegan in her mid-30s — three years before the 2012 London Games — and appeared in an anti-milk commercial for her non-profit, Switch4Good, during the 2018 Winter Olympics.
"Most people have meat and dairy because the next person does it," Bausch said. "The truth is milk doesn't make you grow big and strong." .
The vegan stigma
Paul's personal chef, Seong Hwang, prepared a post-game meal for the Houston Rockets last season. He didn't tell players until afterwards that it was made with Beyond Meat.
"The players, the staff, they all loved it solely based on the taste," Seong said. "No one wants to give up taste. Chris is a big foodie. If what I was making him didn't taste good, he wouldn't stick with it. Whenever you hear veganism, you think you have to give up something or eat tofu to survive. That's really not the case."
The vegan perception can be damning, though. According to a 2017 report by NBC Sports Bay Area, NFL teams were dissuaded by Colin Kaepernick's then-vegan diet, calling it a red flag when considering signing the free agent quarterback.
"There's a weird connotation that comes with veganism," said Loomis, who moved his practice to Washington, D.C., from the St. Louis area because colleagues in the Midwest thought his approach was "crazy."
Morgan says the stigma can go both ways.
"It took me a while to feel comfortable with my lifestyle and not being a super-strict vegan," said Morgan, who also supports veganism because of ethical concerns around animal rights. "The vegan community can be very unforgiving at times, and I don't want to sit here and say I've never eaten dairy or worn leather. But I haven't eaten meat in two years and do the best I can.
"I just want to feel good about why I'm doing this. I don't think our country is there yet, in terms of being able to adopt a fully vegan lifestyle. We're getting there."


I ran into a design for a very simple tDCS device via the http://www.diytdcs.com blog. It's by Keith Spaulding and uses a current regulating diode rather that a current regulating IC. I've ordered some CRD's and will report on building a device in the near future. This is about as simple as a good tDCS device could get! I will add an on/off selector switch and a ramp up/down capacitor to Keith's idea. I might also use a type 25A 12v battery just to keep things as small as possible. Little need for a meter or other circuit complications! Here is his schematic and a link to his blog… Thank you Keith.
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