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– Homecoming 2020
– Homecoming Queen & King
CHAPEL NOTES
PATRIOT SPOTLIGHT
– New Creative Design Class
– Thank you Dairy Queen
– Thank you Heather Skinner and Brett Longley
ALL SCHOOL NEWS
– Grandparents and Special Friends Day – Virtual Event
– NEW This Year: Patriot Puckerup Fundraiser
– Virtual Legacy Event – Save the Date
– Eat at Panda Express – October 13
PARENT GROUP ANNOUNCEMENTS
PLC & LOWER SCHOOL NEWS
– PLC's "Veterinary Clinic"
– LS Renovations / Update
– Coaches Corner
– Division Head Updates
– TAPPS One Act Play District Contest
– HS Coaches Corner
Wow. What a great week of fun, laughter and competition! Homecoming 2020 was another BIG hit at All Saints.
There are many people who had a part to play in this event, but at the top of the list are our Spirit Squad, Blue Crew, Parents and Faculty! A special thank you goes out to our Spirit Squad Coaches: Katelyn Graham, Angie Lane, Dee Paone, and Kinsey Tolley. These ladies are parents, friends and coaches who work so hard to bring fun and tradition to All Saints. Thank you, your hard work and dedication are recognized and appreciated. With the guidance of Robert Brashear and Tammy Edmonson, they planned and orchestrated a great celebration. Way to go, Patriots!
Congratulations to sophomores Joseph Paone and Rowe Osborne, the winners of Best Float at this year's parade. At the Pep Rally, we had a Hula Hoop Contest with sophomore Maddie Matthews took home the 1st place finish and a Limbo contest with sophomore Brandon Shaw out "limboing" the rest! Each winner received a gift card compliments of Pie Bar. Our sophomore students really had their "game faces" on. Congratulations!
A big shout out to Dairy Queen and All Saints parent Ken Geihsler for donating a yummy ice cream dessert at lunchtime for all students and faculty members. Everyone loved it! Thank you.
Lunchroom Coordinator Heather Skinner and Facilities Manager Brett Longley deserve a high five, too! They teamed up and provided a wonderful lunch to all faculty & staff members on Homecoming day… just because! Thank you to Heather and Brett, it wasn't just any ole' lunch, it was a five star BBQ meal!
If you'd like to see some fun photos from Homecoming, scroll through the below album.
2020 Homecoming Queen & King
Senior Paige Schlehuber was crowned Homecoming Queen and senior Ash Bumstead was crowned Homecoming King Friday during the Homecoming Pep Rally.
The Court was nominated and elected by the high school students. The King candidates were Jackson Bass, Ash Bumstead, Vincent Paone, Ross Rogers, and Graham St. Clair. Queen candidates were Jacklyn DeClerk, Kate Henderson, Sydney Locke, Presley Mills, and Paige Schlehuber. The King and Queen were crowned by Lulu Lane, whose family participated in the Legacy auction to receive this special homecoming opportunity.
As a four-year member of the Varsity Volleyball team, Varsity Basketball team, and Varsity Tennis team, Schlehuber has earned district and state awards each year as well as being named to the Academic All State Teams and each sports' All State teams last year. She also competed her freshman year on the Varsity Cross Country team and competed in the TAPPS 2A State Championship. When not on the court, she is a member of Young Life and National Honor Society and served as Class Representative each year on Student Council. She has been named to the Headmaster's Honor Roll each year and participated in the College Board AP Seminar course. Schlehuber volunteers for the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra by serving as a Symphony Debutante and also volunteers at the South Plains Food Bank and Salvation Army. Paige plans to major in Sports Management and Marketing in college, but she is still exploring where she wants to attend college. Schlehuber loves Dallas Stars Hockey, wakeboarding, and traveling. She is the daughter of Carrie and Robert Schlehuber. Her sister, Abby, graduated from All Saints in 2020 and is a freshman at Texas Tech.
Bumstead was recently named by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation as a National Merit Scholar based upon his 2019 PSAT scores. He is a member of the Varsity Basketball, Cross Country, and Track teams and has earned state honors in each sport. He is president of the Chemistry Club and founding member of the school's Honor Council. In addition, he is a member of the National Honor Society, Student Council, High School Band, Mock Trial Team, and TAPPS Academic Team, in which he is a two-time TAPPS 2A State Champion in Mathematics. He has received the prestigious Proven Patriot Award each year of high school along with being named to the Headmaster Honor Roll each year. Bumstead is active in his church youth group at Lakeridge United Methodist Church and traveled with them on a Tanzania Mission Trip in 2014 to work with schools in remote villages. He serves All Saints as a Student Ambassador, which includes live TV interviews and promotional videos for student recruitment as well as personally visiting with prospective students and families. His hobbies include playing the piano and guitar along with hunting and fishing, he also enjoys spikeball, basketball, and board games. Bumstead plans to attend either Baylor University or SMU next fall and major in Mechanical Engineering. His parents are Krista and Matt Bumstead. His brother, Nate, is in seventh grade at All Saints while his sister, Susannah, is a 2019 All Saints graduate and a sophomore at Baylor.
8:45 a.m: Third grade Yearbook Pictures
6:00 p.m: MS Cheer Practice, Patriot Gym
5:00 p.m./6: 7G/8G Volleyball @ Christ the King, Lubbock
Last Day to Vote Chloe Conover for Lonestar Varsity Athlete of the Week! You may vote once/hour. Click Here to Vote Now.
First Day of Fall Break – School Not in Session
5:00 p.m./6: JV/V Volleyball vs. Kingdom Preparatory Academy, Patriot Gym
7:00 p.m.: HS Football @ Wichita Notre Dame, Notre Dame Catholic School in Wichita Falls
8:00 a.m: HS Tennis vs. Midland Christian
FALL BREAK – SCHOOL NOT IN SESSION
1:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m: One-Act Play District Contest (Each cast member is allotted two admission tickets, not open to the general public.)
10:30 a.m. – 10 p.m: Parent Group Fundraiser at Panda Express, 11411 Quaker Avenue
5 / 6 p.m: High School Volleyball @ Southcrest Christian, Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 7702 Indiana Avenue; 5 p.m. Junior Varsity / 6 p.m. Varsity
8 a.m: Parent Group Zoom Meeting
TBA a.m: WTCAA Middle School Cross Country Championship @ Ascension Academy, 9301 Ascension Parkway, Amarillo
8 a.m – NOON: PSAT – Eighth Grade through Eleventh Grade
6 – 8 p.m: Middle School Cheer, Patriot Gym
9:30 – 11:30 a.m: Fifth Grade Playa Lakes Festival
5 / 6 p.m: Middle School Volleyball @ Lubbock Christian, 2604 Dover Avenue, Lubbock; 5 p.m. 7th Grade / 6 p.m. 8th Grade
TBA: Virtual Grandparents Day (Information will be sent through a school email next week)
NOON: SCHOOL DISMISSED AT NOON
Afternoon Fun / Daycare NOT Available
5 / 6 p.m: High School Volleyball @ Christ the King, 4011 54th Street Lubbock; 5 p.m. JV / 6 p.m. Varsity
TBA a.m: High School Cross Country @ Romp through the Park, Lamesa
TBA: Middle School WTCAA Championship Volleyball Tournament @ Amarillo
3 – 5 p.m: High School Football @ Abilene Christian, 2550 North Judge Ely Blvd, Abilene
October 19-20: HS TAPPS State Fall Tennis Championships in Waco
October 19-29: Patriot Pucker-Up Contest
October 19-30: Virtual Book Fair
October 21: Board of Trustees Meeting
October 22: National Honor Society Induction
October 23: End of the Grading Period; HS Athletic Fall Sports Senior Night
October 29: Report Cards
October 30: Patriot Puckerup Fundraiser, Trunk or Treat; School Dismissed at Noon; NO Afternoon Fun / Daycare;
November 2: HS TAPPS State Cross Country Meet; All Saints Day All School Chapel
November 7: HS Volleyball Bi-District Playoffs
November 10: HS Volleyball Area Playoffs
November 14: HS Volleyball Regional Playoffs
November 18-19: HS Volleyball State Championships
November 23-27 NO SCHOOL – Thanksgiving Holidays
*Please refer to the school calendar for the most up to date schedule changes and modifications.
PLC Chapel
Preschool Teacher Angela Robertson has added a new title to her name this year. In addition to teaching a preschool class, she is now teaming up with Chaplain Paige to assist with PLC Chapels. This change allows our PLC students to have an in-person chapel service at a time that works well with their schedule. While Chaplain Paige misses seeing the children every day, she continues to lead PLC chapel on Fridays.
Mrs. Robertson has an exciting and energetic teaching style. The pictures above illustrate the creative ways that she teaches her young students about Joseph and the deep well with her use of puppets and other visual props. Even the adults in the room had "all eyes" on their teacher!
Oops… Learning to Paint
Figuring it Out
Now They've Got It!
New This Year… Creative Design Class
Our middle school students are enjoying a new opportunity in the classroom this year. The Creative Design course is taught by All Saints Parent and teacher, Tasha Killeen.
"I love what I am doing," Mrs. Killeen said. "It is so exciting to see how the students are growing and responding to the opportunities in front of them. They are really working hard and have taken the initiative to come up with some really great campus projects that the class is currently working on. I have a great group of kids, and it is fun to see what they are accomplishing together!"
The Seventh and Eighth Grade Creative Design class implemented new ways to utilize the outdoor basketball court located by the lower school playground. They have researched the correct measurements for lines to be added to the basketball court and painted those lines themselves. In addition to the basketball lines, there are several other fun activities and games that have been added and are available for all grade levels. The P.E. class was recently found playing a game of Foursquare compliments of our Seventh and Eighth Grade Creative Design Class!
"I love this class because we can take what we already have and make it better," said Seventh Grade student Deklan White.
The Fifth and Sixth Grade class is also very busy. They are gaining hands-on experience by building benches utilizing leftover bricks from the construction of the Suzan Collins Headrick Center. In addition to the benches, the students have taken an interest in cleaning up and refurbishing the Matthew Johnson Memorial Fountain located outside the hallway that connects the lower school to the middle school. Our Facilities Manager Brett Longley has ordered the parts to fix the irrigation system and the fountain. This is a memorial that was designed to be an area of beauty and healing but has suffered from vandalism. Now that the area has been secured by a new fence, our students are eager to restore the memorial to its original purpose.
"It's been so touching to see how interested the students are in this project," Mrs. Killeen said. "They're researching everything… from the right flowers to plant, to the best mulch to use and they are doing it all! This is their project. They are having so much fun that sometimes they don't even know they are learning."
Middle School students are not the only ones enjoying this class. The course is now offered to our Fourth Grade students. In Fourth Grade, Mrs. Killeen is reminding kids to work with their hands and create. Many parents remember building fun projects out of boxes around the house. In the Fourth Grade class, you'll find the kids creating using everyday items such as boxes and paper towel rolls.
"This is really a time for kids to use their imagination. We recently made chairs out of paper. It was funny to see the kids try to sit in their chairs." It was a memorable introduction to building rigid structures.
The kids are using skills that they can translate into real-life situations while learning to be resourceful. The best part about it is they are learning and having fun doing it!
Virtual Grandparents and Special Friends Day
Grandparents and Special Friends Day, a day we all know and love will look different this year. We are so excited to be able to offer a virtual experience to safely celebrate the special people in our student's lives.
On Friday, October 16, parents will receive an email from the school with an invitation to attend our virtual event. You may forward this email to your special friends and grandparents. The day will include a welcome from our Head of School, Bruce Latta, a homily from Chaplain Paige Mckay, special musical gifts from our students and so much more! It might look different, but students and teachers are working hard to continue to make this day meaningful for our All Saints community. We look forward to sharing this special day with each of you.
PATRIOT PUCKERUP FUNDRAISER
From October 19th – October 29th, Students will be able to place their change in buckets during morning drop off to vote for the faculty member they most want to Kiss a Goat. All drop off locations will have buckets for each faculty member who is participating! Lucy the Goat will be waiting for the Lucky Winner at center field on October 30th, immediately following the PLC Costume Parade. The brave faculty members who get a chance to kiss Lucy with be revealed closer to October 19th!
All proceeds benefit Parent Group to support All Saints. Venmo is available for online learners or anyone wishing to contribute electronically. Please contact Kacee Harvey at (806) 928-4252 for information. The event will be Live Streamed for those wishing to watch from home!
Virtual Legacy Event
Get warm and cozy at home and enjoy attending this year's VIRTUAL LEGACY EVENT! We'll party together via Zoom while enjoying an online auction, raffle, entertainment and more. Stay tuned for details coming soon!
Sponsorships Available Now! Contact Dawndi Higgins for more information: dhiggins@allsaintsschool.org or call 745-7701
YEARBOOK PICTURES NEEDED
Please send your pictures for the school yearbook to yearbookases@gmail.com. Make sure to put the grade in the email subject line. We also want to see pictures of our virtual students at work so please send those in as well. Thank you to Amanda Riggs and Diana Jimenez for leading this project!
BOX TOPS INFORMATION
All Saints collects Box Tops! Simply download the app and find All Saints Episcopal School. There is a link in the app to scan your receipts. Any products that qualify will automatically be sent to our school's total count. There are still some products that do have the box top to cut off. We will take those as well!! To see a list of Box Tops products, click here.
FRIDAY TEACHER SNACKS
We are excited for another wonderful year at All Saints! We'd like to provide pre-packaged snacks on Fridays to show our appreciation and gratitude to the teachers, security officers, and support staff for making ASES such an amazing place for our children. To help with Friday snacks, please sign up utilizing the Sign-Up Genius link below:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D4CAEAE2BABF8C43-friday
If you would like to donate funds for snacks, you can venmo @Dayna-McCutchin and we can take care of the rest. Please note 'ASES Friday Snack' in the comments.
Any and all help is appreciated in showing thanks to our amazing staff!
OTHER WAYS TO SUPPORT ALL SAINTS
Don't forget that you can ALWAYS support All Saints with AmazonSmile and Mabel's Labels:
AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support your favorite charitable organization every time you shop, at no cost to you. Simply go to amazon.com, and on your first visit you will be directed to choose an organization. Please search for "All Saints Episcopal School of Lubbock Parents Group."
Mabel's Labels sells high quality peel and stick name labels, washable clothing labels, luggage and bag tags, and safety tags that will help you keep tabs on your child's items! Simply visit http://www.campaigns.mabelslabels.com/, click on "Select Your School," and choose "All Saints Episcopal School Parent Group (Lubbock)" from the drop down menu. Mabel's Labels will donate 20% of all of our purchases back to Parent Group.
Patriot Learning Center & Lower School News
Playing with Purpose
Last week the PLC pretend area became a veterinary clinic! The children are enjoying their new surroundings and lots of furry friends are visiting the clinic. Pretend play is fun and imaginative for students and a great way to learn problem solving skills, social skills and many other practical life skills. All Saints is a school that values pretend play for our youngest Patriots.
Final Touches to the Third and Fourth Grade Arcade
The last couple of weeks have seen the final touches being made to the third and fourth grade arcade and classrooms. The final coats of paint have been added as well as fresh new carpet in the classrooms and hallway.
The students (and teachers) are also excited to have lockers available to use for the first time this year!
These are fun new changes for our students and teachers. A special thank you to the donor who made this renovation possible.
Middle School Coaches Corner
Middle School Volleyball continues to have a strong season. Last week the seventh grade team notched wins over Southcrest. The eighth grade team is having a fantastic season with a 7-0 start. Victories last week at home over KPA and Southcrest were complemented by a strong road win at Lubbock Trinity. The seventh grade team will wrap up their season with a road match against Lubbock Christian on Thursday, October 15th. The eighth grade team will compete in the WTCAA Championship held in Amarillo on Saturday, October 24th.
Both the girls and boys middle school cross country teams ran in the Big Spring Middle School Invitational last week. The middle school girls' team took second place and were paced by Reya Felton in 6th overall and Abigail Anderson placed 8th overall. Both the girls and boys teams will finish their season on Wednesday, October 14th in Amarillo at the WTCAA Championship. The championship race will be at Ascension Academy.
College Planning and Admissions for Juniors and Seniors
Recently all junior and senior parents were sent an email with a link to a video with Mrs. Belk and Ms. Edmonson presenting college admission and financial aid information. This information is important for our juniors and seniors to know and take care of over the course of this school year. If you are a junior or senior parent and need the link sent to you again, please let Ms. Edmonson know.
PSAT – October 14
On October 14, Eighth and Ninth grade students will be taking the PSAT 8/9 and sophomores and juniors will be administered the PSAT. This test allows students to see their strengths and weaknesses in relation to college and career readiness. It also helps students to practice and see how the test is organized, along with preparing for the SAT that many students will take their junior and senior year. A high score on this test as a junior can result in scholarship opportunities. This year at All Saints, seniors Ash Bumstead and Sebastian Whitaker have been named National Merit Commended Scholars based on their outstanding scores from the PSAT taken their junior year.
Once the scores are made available in December, students are able to view them on their College Board account. Students will also receive a paper score report to take home.
Test Date and Times: Wednesday, October 14, 8:00-11:45 a.m.
Test Location: Students will be divided into rooms in the middle school and high school area
What to Bring: Students need to bring two number 2 pencils. The school will provide calculators.
What not to Bring: No mechanical pencils will be allowed, no electronic devices of any kind, no food, and no drinks.
Please be aware the time and limitations on what to bring to the test site are set by the College Board. Students who arrive late will not be able to take the test.
Please feel free to contact Ms. Edmonson or Mrs. Belk with any questions you may have.
TAPPS One Act Play District Contest
1:00 p.m. – 5:30p.m.
This is a ticketed event; each student is allotted two tickets for the performances in order to allow for social distancing in the audience. All Saints will be performing I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Celeste Raspanti at 3:30 p.m. We hope to do a public performance for the ASES community in the future. The cast and crew include Jackson Bass, Chloe Conover, Haley Dickerson, Jeye Johnson, Alex Mercer, Olivia Needham, and Mason Woods. The director is Mr. Shane Strawbridge.
Tennis Coaches Manning the Gate
BB Players Loading the Old Fence
The First Inflation of Patriot Pat
High School Coaches Corner
A special thank you to the coaching staff for stepping up and covering the gate at the athletic events this year. We've got an outstanding group of coaches, student athletes, and parents who are helping to pull all these events together and make it look seamless. Thank you.
High School Volleyball continues to impress with a strong start to TAPPS 1-2A district play. The Patriots are off to a 5-0 start at the midway point of the district season. Wins over Kingdom Prep, Christ the King, Ascension, Southcrest and Abilene Christian put the Patriots firmly in control of the district and a shot at their seventh consecutive district title. The junior varsity is on a similar roll through district posting a 4-1 record in district play. Both teams will be in action Friday night in Patriot Gym as they host Kingdom Prep at 5:00 p.m. (JV) and 6:30 p.m. (varsity).
Vote Chloe Conover, Lonestar Athlete of the Week!
Patriots, it is time to Get Out The Vote! Our own Chloe Conover is up for Lonestar Varsity / Lubbock Avalanche-Journal Athlete of the Week! She had 11 kills, nine digs, five blocks and three aces in the win over Southcrest on Friday. Way to go, Chloe! Click on the link below and vote!! You may vote once per hour.
https://lubbockonline.gannettcontests.com/Athlete-of-the-Week-2020—2021/
Both the girls and boys high school cross country teams had strong performances at the Ascension Relays on Saturday, October 3rd. Both the girls and boys top relay teams won their divisions. It was the first championship sweep at a meet for both girls and boys since the Patriots swept the TAPPS state titles in 2014 & 2015.
High School Tennis continues a hot streak picking up another win this past weekend over Midland Greenwood. They will play a dual match with Midland Christian this Saturday, October 10th at 9:00 a.m. in Levelland. All Saints is scheduled to compete in the TAPPS Fall Team Championships on October 19-21st in Round Rock, TX.
All Saints is off to a 1-1 start to the early season. The Patriots opened the season with a 59-14 win at Wellman. At Homecoming, All Saints dropped a close one to Wichita Christian 54-44 in a back and forth battle to the last possession. All Saints will play again this Friday, October 9th at Wichita Falls Notre Dame at 7:00 p.m.
Volunteer Opportunity with Athletic Booster Club
The Booster Club plays an important role in our young Patriots' experiences by organizing, staffing, and providing financial support for many events and activities. Volunteers and fundraising are the keys to our success. From collecting admissions at the gates, helping with the concessions, or volunteering at the golf tournament or other events, there is a place for everyone to contribute.
With COVID-19, students MUST be supervised by an adult if they work in the concession stand. Masks will be required.
Yes, I'd like to volunteer to help in the concession stand!


St Paul's College Chapel Choir was founded in 2009, and consists of students aged between twelve and eighteen years. The choir's mission is to serve the school and local churches in religious services. Its repertoire covers a broad range of music, from 15th-century anthems to modern church music, from a-cappella to orchestral-accompanied singing. The choir lays emphasis on nurturing its members, who receive intensive training at rehearsals. Through their participation in religious services and in regular rehearsals, members increase their understanding of choral singing and the interpretation of music. In addition, through participating in international events such as the World Choir Games or music exchange overseas, members broaden their exposure to sacred and cultural music.
Sandy Ng is the current Head of Music at St Paul's College. She has served as music teacher at the college for nearly nineteen years, and as Head of Music for the past three years. Sandy has devoted herself to teaching and conducting after she returned to Hong Kong in 1997. Before her return to Hong Kong, she was a pianist and had taught piano for many years. Like many musicians, Sandy showed her passion for music when she was a high school student. She obtained several diplomas in piano performance (ATCL, LTCL, LRSM, LMusA, FMusA) which encouraged her to study piano at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Sandy also had great interest in musicology that led her to do a double-major master degree course, majoring in performance and musicology, at the University of Sheffield. Her interest in musicological research grew immensely when she migrated to Australia. She received her second master's degree from the University of New South Wales, specializing in critical methods and musicological research. In 1993, Sandy started to teach piano and musicianship at the university. Five years later, she returned to Hong Kong and began her teaching career at St Paul's College.
Award-winning conductor and organist Felix Yeung currently combines his office as Director of Music at St John's Cathedral and Provincial Music Director of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui (Anglican). He is also Music Director of Die Konzertisten, one of Hong Kong's foremost chamber choirs. Felix was given the Award for Young Artist (Music) in 2015 by Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Notable performances with Die Konzertisten include Bach's St Matthew Passion and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. Felix made his Taipei debut with the Soochow University Alumni Chorus in November 2016. Felix is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, where he obtained an MMus with distinction under the tutelage of conductors Patrick Russill and Paul Brough. He was awarded the Academy's coveted DipRAM for outstanding performance in his final recital, and has obtained the LRAM diploma in choral conducting pedagogy. Upon finishing his graduate studies, Felix became the first Pettman Organ Scholar at the London Oratory, and worked closely with the Oratory Junior Choir for all of their rehearsals and services as well as assisting in the Oratory's major Latin liturgies. He studied the organ with Peter Yue, Wong Kin-yu and David Titterington.


AbbVie (ABBV) has reportedly made three offers to acquire Shire (SHPG) in a bid to lock up Shire's ADHD and rare drug franchise and capitalize on Shire's tax-friendly Irish address.
Shire's (NASDAQ:SHPG) c-suite thinks the company's future is pretty bright. The company's board dismissed a $46 billion offer to be acquired by drug giant AbbVie (NYSE:ABBV) in May, even though that offer represented a 23% premium to its pre-offer price.
According to AbbVie, the company made three attempts to win over Shire's board, but AbbVie came up short each time. Given that Shire's management says the AbbVie offer "fundamentally undervalued the company and its prospects," let's take a closer look at what Shire has to offer.
Shire's built a $5 billion-a-year business around treating ADHD and rare diseases including hereditary angioedema, or HAE, a condition characterized by spontaneous and recurring swelling that affects just 18,000 in Europe and the United States.
Although Shire has made moves to diversify its business away from ADHD therapies, the majority of the company's revenue still comes from the sale of ADHD drugs Vyvanse, Aderral XR, and Intuniv.
However, that business has come under pressure in the past year as Adderal XR lost patent protection in 2012, forcing its Adderall sales down 12% to $375 million in 2013. Shire's ADHD franchise will suffer another blow in December when Intuniv loses exclusivity, putting another $335 million in annual sales in jeopardy.
To offset some of its patent risk, Shire acquired ViroPharma for $4.2 billion in January. The ViroPharma deal gives Shire ViroPharma's HAE drug Cinryze, an ultra-high-priced drug that costs about $2,300 per vial, or $4,600 per two-vial dose. Since patients receive that dose every few days, Cinryze generates hundreds of millions in sales annually.
Cinryze is the second of Shire's two HAE drugs. The first is Firazyr, a drug developed by Shire that was approved for use in HAE patients in 2011. Sales of Firazyr doubled to nearly $235 million last year, and Firazyr's first-quarter sales jumped 80% to $75 million. That means that Shire's two HAE drugs are on pace to produce more than $700 million in sales this year.
While that's impressive, Shire's HAE success is dwarfed by its mega-blockbuster ADHD drug, Vyvanse. That drug is one of the most widely used ADHD medications in patients under 18 years old, and Vyvanse has captured 15% market share in adults too. Last year, Shire sold $1.2 billion worth of Vyvanse, up 19% from 2012.
In addition to HAE and ADHD drugs, Shire also markets other successful drugs for rare diseases, including Elaprase for Hunter syndrome, Lialda for ulcerative colitis, and Replagel for Fabry disease. Those three drugs generated a combined $1.5 billion in sales last year.
In addition to the stable of high-market-share ADHD drugs and high priced drugs for orphan disease, suitors like AbbVie are also likely interested in Shire's pipeline.
In Shire's Q1 investor presentation, the company said it thinks its neuroscience sales could double by 2020. That's a bold goal, given the Adderal and Intuniv patent headwinds.
SHP 465 is one reason behind Shire's optimism. SHP 465 is a long-lasting ADHD drug that Shire thinks has a shot at becoming a market share leader in adults. The adult segment is the fastest-growing segment within the ADHD market and Shire projects that growing awareness of adult ADHD will help total ADHD prescriptions climb to 70 million per year by 2020, up from 60 million today. If Shire is right, SHP 465 has a very good chance of capturing a significant piece of that market, especially since Adderal and Vyvanse already claim 73% market share.
Shire hopes to launch SHP 465 in 2015, but that isn't the only promising program in Shire's pipeline. The company also plans to file for a Vyvanse label expansion to include use as a treatment for binge eating, and it's working on other treatments for rare diseases.
AbbVie would benefit from adding the ADHD and orphan drugs to its product lineup, given that the company is facing its own patent hurdle in a few years for its mega-blockbuster autoimmune drug Humira. But the real reason behind AbbVie's interest in Shire is Shire's tax-friendly Irish address.
If Shire were to accept an offer from AbbVie, AbbVie would do the deal as an inversion that could significantly lower AbbVie's tax rate. Given that AbbVie's trailing-12-month tax rate is 23% and Shire's is just 14.55%, that could mean hundreds of millions in shareholder-friendly tax savings per year.


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Mohammed Abbasi
March 12, 2014 Mohammed Abbasi
Stop stereotyping Pakistani Pakhtuns
Allamas, professors and Pakhtuns
Farooq Sulehria
It is significant and praise-worthy that Allama Ghamidi took notice of the criticism levelled against his portrayal of Pakhtun culture during a recent TV talk show. However, instead of acknowledging the points raised in the criticism against him, he used a familiar excuse – he was misunderstood by his critics.
"I was referring to tribal culture, in general, and did not pinpoint Pakhtun culture", he said. Since TV show recordings are available online, curious readers can watch the show in question and judge for themselves.
To distance himself from the extreme position he had previously taken whereby he attributed barbaric Taliban action, such as the beheadings of 23 FC personnel, to tribal culture, he swung to the other extreme. In the follow-up programme, Dr Ghamidi said, "Pakhtuns are indeed brave people".
His definition of bravery? "Wo marnay maarnay kay leay tayyar rehtay hain" (they are ready to kill or be killed), he commented. In other words, whether brave or barbaric, Pakhtun tribals' only pastime is murder.
However, it was hard to judge if our Allama differentiates between the Pakhtun tribal culture of Fata and Pakhtun culture in the so-called settled areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Most importantly, one wonders if the Dari-speaking Pakhtun elite that has ruled Afghanistan, and once dominated Kabul's city life, is excluded here or constitutes part of the 'tribal Pakhtun culture'. Likewise, the Pakhtun diaspora was excluded.
Meanwhile, commenting on the debate triggered by this controversy, Professor Tahir Kamran, in an essay in The News on Sunday (March 2), 'Pakhtun ethos for Ghamidi', has engaged in the same exercise – Pakhtunising terrorism; the Pakhtun culture he delineates is monolith and static. "The irony is that Pakhtunwali did not undergo any process of evolution over time. Or if it has imbibed any changes, those have not been mapped conceptually", he asserts.
Couched in postmodernist phraseology, his essay duly invokes Michel Foucault, pretty unnecessarily though. To spice up the Foucauldian curry, the essay is also salted with Fanon and peppered with Arjun Appadurai. That Fanon would have felt irritatingly awkward in the company of Foucault and Appadurai does not bother our professor.
Our professor wraps up his essay thus: "Taliban…fit in well with Frantz Fanon's ideas in which he considers violence as a necessary and inevitable tool for decolonisation, which in itself is a process not a moment. Taliban, too, ostensibly are fighting for decolonisation not only from America but more so from Pakistani state, which they deem un-Islamic, therefore condemnable".
I was not astonished by this conclusion without any sympathy for the victims (anti-polio campaigners, women, children, ANP activists, FC personnel) of the Taliban's 'anti-colonialism'. Even more outrageous characterisations of Taliban butchery have emerged.
No, I am not hinting at apologia a la Imran Khan/General Hamid Gul & Co. I am speaking about left-wing revolutionaries who have been busy lending the aura of class struggle to puritan barbarism. But then Karl Marx has been subjected to many ignominies by his worthy disciples all over the world. Why should our Pakistani comrades be singled out?
While Marxists at least introduced a new flavour to intellectual nonsense, our professor blames modernisation, which has led to the 'deterritorialisation of violence'. It does not matter what 'deterritorialisation of violence' means in the Taliban's case; he does explain. In any case, the important thing is to blame modernity. Ironically, Allama Ghamidi attributes the violence in tribal culture to a lack of modernity.
At the same time, our professor emphasises, violence is embedded in Pakhtun culture. Proof? Well, we should not disregard that Ahmed Shah Durrani and Nadir Shah have been doing it all, though during war-times. Whether Professor Sahib considers Nadir Shah an Afghan or an Iranian is left ambiguous. Ambiguity is, after all, the soul of the Foucauldian cult.
Likewise, as Erinn Banting states, we should always remember "that in Pakhtun lore even a mere taunt (or paighor) is regarded as an insult which at times can be redressed by shedding the taunter's blood". Also, Pakhtunwali's code of badal (justice/revenge) "may lead to a blood feud that can last generations … with the loss of scores of lives".
In short, when Professor Kamran is in the mood to grant concessions to Pakhtun culture, he glorifies the Taliban as anti-colonialists. Otherwise, they are eternal savages. In other words, neither our Allama nor our professor can see the Pakhtun beyond a stereotypical, monolith Pakhtun culture. It is always a warrior who articulates Pukhtun aspirations. If you cannot be rudimentary Ghamidi-style, you can be evasive and mystifying like our professor.
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HOT SWAP: All Hands on Deck!
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Interactive video games take many forms, but for the most part, each player has a separate controller that manipulates an onscreen character, vehicle, or other singular element. What if, as in real life, multiple players have to work together with physical objects to control a sailing ship?
That's the idea behind HOT SWAP: All Hands On Deck by Peter Gyory and Celment Zheng. In it, two players guide various parts of a ship using five different control elements. What makes this really interesting is that each player's input device has room for two of these control elements, which must be swapped for actions such as steering and to load cannons. Input information is passed to the game via an Arduino Micro.
It's like if we took a regular game controller, popped off all of the inputs, and made it so you could only use a couple of them at a time. There are two controllers, with each consisting of two input slots. Each controller controls one side of the ship, port or starboard. There are five actions total in the game, each executed with a dedicated physical input: a crank to raise and lower the sails, a wheel for turning the rudder, a hatch for loading the cannons, a wick for firing the cannons, and a flame button for dousing the fire.
There is only one of each input, which makes them a shared resource that players must trade back and forth as they play. There is this old Milton Bradley kids board game from the '90s called Perfection where players must fit shapes into holes before a timer is up and the board shakes to make everything pop out. HOT SWAP is like if Perfection had a screen attached and had a goal outside of putting shapes into slots.
All of the code is done with JavaScript and the library Three.js, which we bundle into a desktop application using Github's Electron. The brain of the controller is an Arduino Micro, which mostly just passes data along.
The inputs are created with the Mechamagnets technique that Clement has been developing through his research; all 3D-printed in PLA with neodymium magnets embedded in them. The actual "hot swapping" is facilitated by pogo pins that line up with our custom PCBs for each input. Also, lots of chocolate croissants.
More details on the build are available via this interview as well as in the video below.
Hunt the Wumpus comes to Arduino!
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Hunt the Wumpus is a text-based survival/horror game developed in 1973. As such, it's perhaps due for an update, and Benjamin C. Faure was able to do so using an Arduino Mega to run a graphical version on an 8×8 MAX7219 LED display.
The game consists of moving your character through the 64-LED randomly generated world, avoiding pits and bats, attempting to face the Wumpus to fire your one arrow. Navigation is aided by "wind" and "stench" lights, indicating either a pit or the foul Wumpus is nearby. The game is also enhanced with a few LED animations and a small piezo speaker.
On startup, the game will generate an 8×8 map for the player that contains bats, pits, and a Wumpus. The player must pay attention to their senses to ensure they don't fall into a pit or run into a Wumpus. Running into a bat might not be instant death, but they can carry you over a pit or even straight to the Wumpus.
If the player wishes to win, they must pinpoint the location of the Wumpus. Then, they must take one step towards the Wumpus (so that they are facing the proper direction) and fire their only arrow. If they hit the Wumpus, they win! If they miscalculated, however, they will meet a grisly fate.
A demo can be seen below, while code for the project is available on GitHub.
Cooperative couch game uses aggressive sitting for input
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At some point in your life, you may have wrestled over the preferred sofa cushion on which to sit, but what if these informal games of couch dominance were codified into an actual contest? That's the idea behind the co-op game by Carol Mertz and Francesca Carletto-Leon, aptly named "HELLCOUCH."
Unlike most "video" games, this system—which runs on an Arduino along with the Unity game engine—has no screen. Instead, it relies on lighting and audio cues to guide the players on where to sit, or as its disembodied voice puts it, "Perform the sacred butt ritual!"
The game takes around 90 seconds to play, during which time participants' normal attitudes about giving each other space—and not bouncing around on the couch like crazy people—are thoroughly questioned.
It's a challenge. At first glance, HELLCOUCH is designed to look like just a regular couch, so players don't necessarily enter into it with the expectation of being silly and letting their guard down. We didn't design an attract mode, and were careful to keep any indication of it being a "possessed" couch hidden until someone sits down. As soon as a butt hits a cushion, though, players are met with a loud thunderclap, demonic cackling, and a fiery array of lights. And when the game starts, solo sitters have to face the fact that they're not going to be able to play alone, so they need to figure out how to get another butt or two in the game.
This theme and sound design are meant to set the stage for humor and joyful play. The first guidance players get is a disembodied demonic voice declaring that they need to "perform the sacred butt ritual," which often makes players giggle or raise an eyebrow. The game only takes about 90 seconds to play, but often by the end folks get very comfortable embracing their role as a goofy demon liberator.
Feed Barbie with the J'ai faim! mechatronic game
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According to this project's write-up, while some struggle to get enough nourishment, those in more developed countries often aspire to consume too little food. As an apparent commentary on this situation, Niklas Roy and Kati Hyyppä have created a mechatronic game called J'ai faim!, French for "I'm hungry!"
In this Arduino-controlled game, participants rotate a Barbie head to point her comically over-sized tongue over a piece of sushi lit up by an LED. When in position, the player fires her solenoid-actuated tongue using the joystick, and if the correct sushi is eaten the score progresses from "starving" to "well fed."
You can see the game—reminiscent of a very strange version of whack-a-mole—in the video below.
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Starting October 1 and running through February 19 of next year, The Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis will be hosting an exhibit devoted to gold and ceramic relics dating from the Neolithic age to the Byzantine era, and unearthed in present-day Ukraine.
Over the ages, the territory of Ukraine has been a major trade route where objects from many eras and civilizations have been found.
The exhibition's storyline follows a chronological sequence, starting with the Trypilian culture dating back to 5,400 BC. Pottery decorated with red and black paints, sacred symbols, as well as temple models and animal sculptures, will be on display. The lost world of this sophisticated matriarchal society comes to life in the fascinating figurines of the Great Goddess and in the highly stylized patterns decorating Trypillian earthenware.
Gradually displacing the agricultural Trypillians were the nomadic Scythians of the Ukrainian steppe, known for their beautiful animal-shaped ornaments. The fertile soil of the region attracted Greek settlers as early as the 7th century BC. Greek presence lasted well into the Hellenistic period (around the 2nd century BC), represented here by a dazzling array of bronze sculpture, exquisite gold jewelry, extraordinary rhytons (drinking cups in the partial shape of a ram), black-slip pottery, and amphorae.
Rome's influence reached the Black Sea—and the shores of Ukraine—as early as the 1st century BC. Roman presence is reflected in art forms that blend traditions from both Greek and Roman worlds. Among the items on display are bright red and orange pottery, transparent glass, bronze and silver vessels, and jewelry incorporating precious stones, filigree, granulation and inlays.
The exhibition ends with treasures from the Byzantine Empire, the ancient Slavic state of Kievan Rus', and various steppe nomads, spanning the 5th through the 13th centuries AD. Utensils, relics, chalices, kolts, pendants, rings, bracelets and necklaces provide an idea of the array of objects used by the inhabitants of medieval Ukraine.
"TMORA has previously featured art from various regions of the former Soviet Union including Estonia and Central Asia, and now we're pleased to offer visitors insights into Ukraine," said museum Director Brad Shinkle.
This exhibit is presented by the Foundation for International Arts & Education of Bethesda, Maryland in cooperation with the The Museum of National Cultural Heritage PlaTar in Kiev, Ukraine, the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council and with the support of the Embassy of Ukraine in the United States and the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine.


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PM Confirms Return Of Labour Donations
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has confirmed that money donated to the Labour anonymously by property developer David Abrahams would be returned.
Speaking at his monthly press conference, Mr Brown said that £600,000 worth of donations from Mr Abrahams would be returned because they were not "lawfully declared".
The Prime Minister said that the donations "could not be justified" and were "completely unacceptable". He also said that Peter Watt's resignation as Labour General Secretary on Monday had been a "necessary first step" but said that more needed to be done.
Mr Brown said that it first become aware of Mr Abrahams' donations on Saturday evening.
It had emerged that Mr Abrahams had donated money to the party over four years, under the names of three associates.
Harriet Harman revealed that she had accepted a donation of £5,000 "in good faith" from Janet Kidd - one of the people whom Mr Abrahams made the donation through - for her deputy leadership campaign.
Hilary Benn, now the Environment Secretary, said that he had been offered £5,000 by Ms Kidd for his deputy leadership campaign, but had turned it down. He later accepted a donation by Mr Abrahams under his own name.
Mr Brown said that retired judge Lord McCluskey and the former Bishop of Oxford Lord Harries had been appointed to advise on changes needed in relation to donations.
However, commenting on the affair, Conservative leader David Cameron said: "There is a time in the life of every government when it slips over from complacency into arrogance, and from arrogance into even indifference for the law."
Vince Cable, acting Liberal Democrat Leader, said: "This sleazy affair is far more serious than initially thought and could be a matter for a criminal investigation."
Labour Donations Row Moves To Commons As Harman Grilled
The row over donations to the Labour party continues today with the party's Deputy Leader, Harriet Harman being put on the spot over alleged unlawful donations when she faces MPs.
More Questions Than Answers On Labour Party Donations
The Government is to have no respite from the growing chorus of questions on party funding activities. Opposition parties have continued to maintain pressure on the Labour party funding issue, demanding to be told who knew about donations to the party.
Police To Investigate Labour Donations
The Metropolitan Police is to investigate donations made to the Labour Party, it has been announced. The investigation was launched after it emerged that property developer David Abrahams had given more than £650,000 to Labour via middlemen.
Manchester Dogs' Home Issues Warning Over Donations Fraud
Manchester Dogs' Home, which was badly damaged in a fire on 11 September, have issued a warning that anyone going door-to-door in the Manchester area collecting money on their behalf, is a fraudster.
Strategy To Increase Organ Donations Launched
Families may be prevented from stopping the donation of organs by people who have signed the register. NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) have said that they want to ensure a person's wish to donate is honoured when they die. A new strategy has been developed to try and build on the 50% increase in deceased donations since 2008.


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Twitter and the Anti-Playstation Effect on War Coverage
As I follow the remarkable political transformations ongoing in the Middle East and North Africa through social media, I'm struck by the depth of the difference between news curation and anchoring on Twitter versus Television. In this post, I'd like to argue that Television functions as a distancing technology while social media works in the opposite direction: through transparency of the process of narrative construction, through immediacy of the intermediaries, through removal of censorship over images and stories (television never shows the truly horrific pictures of war), and through person-to-person interactivity, social media news curation creates a sense of visceral and intimate connectivity, in direct contrast to television, which is explicitly constructed to separate the viewer from the events.
Although it is the first factor most people think of, I believe that the distancing effect of TV isn't just because TV is broadcast and social media is interactive. In fact, while the potential for interactivity is a significant factor, most people interact with only a few people on social media and people who act like news hubs do mostly broadcast—their messages reach many. (Check out this brand new study). I think the substantive differences also lie elsewhere and in this post, I want to examine two key mechanisms which alter this sense of distance: the construction of the role of the anchor or the curator, and the role of content filtering.
On television, the traditional broadcast news anchor is explicitly distant and unmoved by the events he or she is covering. This distancing is structured through the visual framing (sitting upright, staring ahead, crisp but predictable intonation, professional and muted dress), the effortless but abrupt transition from story to story. ("Now I am going to tell you about starving children. Next up, a new treatment that can ease your wrinkles. Later: will it rain tomorrow?), the semi-frozen, plastic demeanor of the anchor no matter the story and the clear lack of personal involvement or concern, and the constant interruption by ads—a very surreal and disorienting experience unless one has been thoroughly conditioned into accepting them as normal. All this positions the anchor between us and the event and signals to the viewer that the event is merely something to be watched, and then you move on.
Compare that to the closest example of an anchor which has emerged during this period. I'm going to use Andy Carvin, who has been curating and anchoring about the uprisings since they began in Tunisia, sending hundreds of tweets and retweets per day usually from early morning into the night, as an example.
Carvin himself compares his role to that of an anchor, except with his Twitter followers as his producers and his news sources rather than traditional professionals. However, there are significant differences. First, Carvin is immersed in the story. He does not move from unrelated topic to unrelated topic the way a traditional news anchor does. Second, his tweets are his own words so we have a distinct sense of a person between us and the events rather than a figurehead reading words from a teleprompter he or she did not write or think. Third, he does not construct his position as one of distance and uncaring. He is not hiding his opinions or sympathies. Fourth, his news gathering and curation process is transparent–and that evokes a different level of engagement with the story even if you are only a viewer of the tweet stream and never respond or interact. I believe the fourth point is often underappreciated.
With Carvin's constant and transparent efforts at verification and confirmation, the followers get a visceral sense of how news is "cooked." Rather than the "final" package we encounter on television, delivered to us as a relatively infallible, ready-to-consume, product for us to uncritically accept, on Twitter curation feeds, we are often in a position to observe the process by which a narrative emerges, trickle by trickle. "Polished" and "final" presentation of news invites passivity and consumption whereas visibility of the news gathering process changes our interaction with it into a "lean-forward" experience. Carvin's reporting is not infallible–although most of the stories from citizen-media sources often turn out to be fairly accurate, belying the idea that Twitter is a medium in which crazy rumors run amok—but it wears that fallibility on its sleeve and is openly submerged in a self-corrective process in which reports and points-of-view from multiple sources, including citizen and traditional media, are intertwined in an evolving narrative.
Thus, the process engages the "audience" not necessarily because most of Carvin's tens of thousands of followers actually will contribute to the story or interact directly with him or his sources but because, unlike the opacity of modern production systems in which everything is delivered to the consumer shrink-wrapped, "cleansed" of hints of its origin and the process by which it was produced, news curation on Twitter is somewhat holistic, messy, and very much connected with its origins .Consequently, the foibles and pitfalls –the unverified stories, the difficulty of getting reliable news from closed regimes and war-zones, translation issues, misunderstandings—are viewable by the audience in real time.
This visibility of the process is a step in the opposite direction from French philosopher Jean Baudrillard's famous assertion that we are increasingly moving towards a "procession of simulacra" in which the simulation ("the news") increasingly overtakes any notion of the real and breaks the link between representation and the object –often in the form of spectacle–, ultimately erasing the real. Baudrillard famously wrote a series of essays titled "The Gulf War Did Not Happen" – he was not claiming that bombs were not dropped and people killed. Rather, he had argued that, for the Western audiences, the First Gulf war was experienced merely as green flickers on TV screens narrated by familiar anchors and without much connection with actual reality – reality as inhabited by human beings at a human scale.
Censorship and Graphic Content : Shrink-Wrapped Humanity
One important way in which the curator/anchor role differs on Twitter compared to television relates to the second mechanism, the availability of unfiltered, graphic content. There has been a steady stream of photographs and videos depicting the reality of war and violence: images of the dead, dying and wounded of all ages, from small babies to elderly men and women have been circulating on social media sites. Understandably, victims of such violence did not feel a need to censor their very real suffering and keep it from us, the way television steps between us and the victims and isolates us, the audience, from reality.
After months of such coverage, I have found it harder and harder to look at more photographs and I do understand the need to provide mechanisms by which people can choose not to look at a particular photograph at a particular moment. Such images have been haunting my dreams and I've chosen, for the moment, to stop looking at any more. So, this is not a blind endorsement of flooding everyone with images of death and gore; I understand that there are awful things happening somewhere, every minute, and we cannot always be immersed in such misery and sorrow.
However, I am firmly of the opinion that the massive censorship of reality and images of this reality by mainstream news organizations from their inception has been incredibly damaging. It has severed this link of common humanity between people "audiences" in one part of the world and victims in another. This censorship has effectively relegated the status of other humans to that of livestock, whose deaths we also do not encounter except in an unrecognizable format in the supermarket. (And if anyone wants to argue that this is all done to protect children from inadvertent exposure, I'd reply that there are many mechanisms by which this could be done besides constant censorship for everyone.) While I cannot discuss the reasons behind this censorship in one blog post, suffice it to say it ranges from political control to keeping audiences receptive to advertisements.
Such images take a visceral and deep toll, and the fact that anchors do not pretend to be unaffected increases their immediacy. After a particularly harrowing video showing newborn babies in a damaged hospital, Andy Carvin started tweeting about how shaken he was:
Soon, a pediatrician and a neonatal unit nurse stepped up to assure Carvin—and the rest of us—that the babies seemed okay and rather than being injured, one appeared to be born with a cleft palate. In most other cases, however, the news was not so good and pictures of dead or wounded children floated around Carvin's stream.
I am not arguing that we would look at hurt children and be unmoved were it not for Carvin's open display of emotion. I am arguing that traditional news anchors effectively invite us to do just that: to distance ourselves.Humans naturally react to suffering and it takes a very contrived environment to dampen that response. Other examples I mentioned as emerging anchor-hubs also display this tendency: they react to horrific news with appropriate horror.
By not playing the traditional game of journalistic disconnectedness, the emerging Twitter anchors are inviting us to remain human, to react, to cry, to be outraged, to feel helpless, to be moved while the television anchor appears only to care that we do not change the channel during commercial break. Thus, watching Andy Carvin deal with his own vulnerability to imagining children hurt –children just like his– dramatically creates a mechanism in the opposite direction of that created by traditional news.
And our distance to events around the world is of crucial importance. In a fascinating book about the science of killing, ("On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society"), Dave Grossman traces the role distance plays in the psychological cost of harming another human being. Contrary to assumptions, virtually everyone who does not fall into the rare breed of aggressive psychopaths who kill with ease has to be trained to kill. To the chagrin of military trainers and leaders throughout history, humans have an innate aversion to taking of human life. Untrained soldiers are historically averse to killing the "enemy" even when their life is in direct danger. Most will hide, duck, fire in the air, load and unload their weapons repeatedly, fire over the heads of the "enemy" and take other evasive actions, anything, to avoid killing. For example, in World War II, only about 20 percent of the riflemen were found to actually fire their weapons directly at enemy soldiers.
As Grossman explains it, every new military technology that increases the distance between the soldier and the person who is being attacked increases the rate and ease with which soldiers will obey orders to kill. Thus, bayonets are psychologically hardest to use and much more difficult than rifles even though rifles kill more people more easily. Artillery is easier, especially manned by multi-person crews which create an environment of "mutual surveillance", making it harder to take evasive action by the soldiers. Planes are the easiest of all. In fact, the rates of PTSD among soldiers follow this pattern quite directly; pilots, who often end up killing the most number of people, are less likely to suffer from PTSD compared to combat troops who deal with the "enemy" at a very close and personal level.
So, I propose that Twitter and social media curated-news distribution is quite different compared with traditional news dissemination through television. Twitter-curated news often puts us at bayonet distance to others –human, immediate and visceral– while television puts us on a jet flying 20,000 feet above the debris –impersonal, distant and unmoved.
There have long been concerns that "drone-wars" would create a playstation mentality among the soldiers, controlling robotic aircraft from thousands of miles away, isolated from the effects from their actions, going home at night, they would kill more easily and readily. (Ironically, it turns out drone operators do suffer from increased rates of PTSD because unlike pilots of jets or even artillery operators, they spend a lot of time viewing high-resolution pictures of their targets before and after bombing).
Most of mainstream news however, functions exactly in the manner feared, creating a playstation mentality to war and suffering. In that sense, Twitter news curation is the anti-playstation for wars. Or, as one of Carvin's followers put it:
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on March 28, 2011 by zeynep.


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The Sweet Mystery of Irrelevance
By Edmund Janko
I don't know when relevance in education was invented, but it sure wasn't around when I was in elementary school 50 or so years ago. And I say, "Thank goodness!"
When I walked to school in Maspeth, N.Y., every morning on the other side of the railroad tracks, I saw strings of grimy boxcars leaking dirty straw and a line of soot-blackened factories with a lot of punched-out windows. It was a time when a lot of people on my block, including my parents, talked about hoping to get a few hours of work here and there or maybe catching on with the WPA. So, the last thing I wanted when I got to school was a lesson on the crisis of world capitalism or the constitutionality of the National Recovery Act—even if I could have imagined these were what school was supposed to be about.
Public School 74 back then was a two-story wooden building next to a bakery whose chimneys steeped our classrooms in the comforting, nurturing smell of baking bread. I remember dreaming over my reader in the afternoon free-reading period, yielding to the lazy, soothing warmth of those lovely smells. It was just the right atmosphere for irrelevance.
While the dispossessed farmers were making their painful way across the pages of The Grapes of Wrath, my mind was on the road to Mandalay, particularly on the "Burma Girl," and I wondered whether she could have looked as good as Henrietta Majeski, who sat across the row two seats away.
And who was this man that she was thinking of? Someone like me, I supposed—a devil-may-care soldier of fortune. And I had no trouble putting my formidable military skills at the service of the British Empire, particularly when it meant serving with Horatio Hornblower beating to quarters somewhere off Cape Trafalgar. I never really understood why he had it in for the French but knew I wanted to be on his side.
My teachers never worked at trying to develop my social conscience. They just gave me books. The things I read in public school broke down the Depression walls of my neighborhood and gave me a sense of a larger world. I can't help but admire the daring of my teachers, who thought that they could draw a scruffy crew like us into the upper-crust circle of James Matthew Barrie's ironic comedies. Maybe it was the only hook they had, a leftover from the 1920s, but I can still remember the poignant sense of the unfairness I felt when Admirable Crichton had to return downstairs to the butler's pantry after all he did on the deserted island for Lord Loam and his family. And how could the paltry burden of my poverty compare with his noble sacrifice of giving up Lady Mary? I never gave a thought to the class system or whatever. It was just the way life was, not getting what you wanted or deserved, even in fairy tales.
All of us kids sensed that the school was trying to refine us, though we never felt patronized. No one was offended when our teachers looked at our nails or our ears to see if they were clean. We were anxious to measure up, to be uplifted.
Every Friday, we had music appreciation. I never knew what was pomp and what was circumstance or why someone who must have been very religious to be called Saint-Sans wrote music for skeletons to dance to. But I never doubted that it all had to do with what being a grownup was all about—some mysterious puzzle that I might unravel some day.
It all was a little taste of some larger feast, and it helped ease the fear that must have nagged at all of us: that our lives would never get beyond those dreary boxcars and punched-out factory windows. Elementary school told us that there was something else, after all.
Edmund Janko was a high school English teacher in New York City for many years. He writes frequently on education.


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111th Annual Conference on Taxation, 2018
November 15-17, 2018 | Sheraton New Orleans Hotel | New Orleans, Louisiana
Rosanne Altshuler, President, National Tax Association
Michael Lovenheim, Cornell University
Kevin Markle, The University of Iowa
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The 111th Annual Conference on Taxation will cover a broad range of topics including, but not limited to, taxation and tax policies; expenditure policies; government budgeting; intergovernmental fiscal relations; and subnational, national, and international public finance. The conference will focus, as always, on policy-relevant research bearing on taxation and government spending.
We are pleased to announce the NTA keynote speakers: Hilary Hoynes and Michael Devereux. Hilary Hoynes is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of California Berkeley and holds the Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities. Michael Devereux is the Director of the Oxford University Center for Business Taxation and a Professor of Business Taxation at the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford.
Also on the agenda: a plenary session panel discussion on fiscal policy after the midterm elections moderated by William Gale (Brookings Institution) with distinguished panelists including Michael Graetz (former Assistant to the Secretary, Special Counsel, and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy at the U.S. Department of Treasury and Columbia Alumni Professor of Tax Law, Columbia Law School), James R. Hines Jr. (L. Hart Wright Collegiate Professor of Law and Richard A. Musgrave Collegiate Professor of Economics, University of Michigan), Mark Prater (former Chief Tax Counsel and Deputy Staff Director, Senate Finance Committee and Managing Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers), Kim Rueben (Senior Fellow and Project Director, State and Local Finance Initiative, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center), and Betsey Stevenson (former Member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers and Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Labor, and Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan).
The conference also includes a continuing education session on New Research on Business Taxation presented by Eric Zwick (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) on Saturday afternoon. Click on the links below to peruse the schedule.
Please direct any questions to the program chairs at nta.nola18@gmail.com. See you in NOLA!
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Q: Updating Android Widget with user input I am currently trying to implement a configuration activity which allows for manipulating the widget.
I have looked at the official document, as well as many other blogs,
but do not understand how to change the content of the widget through the configuration activity.
I want to set the String targetName to a TextView in R.layout.widget_layout.
It says I need to update the widget through the configuration activity,
but what happens to the onUpdate code in WidgetProvider.java if I update it in the configuration activity? This is the part that is confusing me the most.
Here is part of my code:
Configure.java extending ActionBarActivity
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_configure);
    setResult(RESULT_CANCELED);

    context = this;

    final Bundle extras = getIntent().getExtras();
    if (extras != null) {
        appWidgetId = extras.getInt(AppWidgetManager.EXTRA_APPWIDGET_ID, AppWidgetManager.INVALID_APPWIDGET_ID);
    }

    final AppWidgetManager widgetManager = AppWidgetManager.getInstance(context);
    final RemoteViews views = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(), R.layout.widget_layout);
    final TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.batteryText);
    final int targetId;

    db = new DatabaseHandler(this);
    loadListView(); // not present here
    registerForContextMenu(listView);

    listView.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {

            targetName = serverArrayList.get(position).getName();

            widgetManager.updateAppWidget(appWidgetId, views);

            Intent resultValue = new Intent();
            resultValue.putExtra(AppWidgetManager.EXTRA_APPWIDGET_ID, appWidgetId);
            setResult(RESULT_OK, resultValue);
            finish();
        }
    });
}

WidgetProvider.java extending AppWidgetProvider
@Override
public void onUpdate(Context context, AppWidgetManager appWidgetManager, int[] appWidgetIds) {
    super.onUpdate(context, appWidgetManager, appWidgetIds);

    for (int i = 0; i < appWidgetIds.length; i++) {
        int appWidgetId = appWidgetIds[i];

        Intent intent = new Intent();
        PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(context, 0, intent, 0);

        RemoteViews views = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(), R.layout.widget_layout);
        appWidgetManager.updateAppWidget(appWidgetId, views);
    }
}

Thanks in advance.

A: Doing a bit more research,
I found this question.
Despite the title being a bit misleading,
I think I've solved it, so I'll be closing this question.
Android - Custom Widget doesnt update

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First published: in Russian in Letoppisi marksizma, 1928.
Party considerations, into which I cannot enter here, obliged me to pay a visit to London. I took advantage of this visit both to put the Brussels Democratic Association in touch with the English Chartists and to harangue the latter at a public meeting. You perhaps saw some reports about it in the English and French press.
But when I set out on this trip — and I am compelled to stay here a few days longer — I left my family behind in the most difficult and direst of circumstances. It is not simply that my wife is ill and the children likewise. My economic situation just now is so critical that my wife is being veritably harassed by creditors and is in the most wretched financial straits.
How this crisis came about is easily explained. The German manuscripts are not being published as a whole. Those parts that are being published, I am supplying gratis, simply in order to launch them on the world. My anti-Proudhon pamphlet [The Poverty of Philosophy] has sold very well. However I shall not receive a share of the proceeds until Easter.
By itself, my wife's income is insufficient and I have been negotiating with my own mother for quite some time to extract at least part of my fortune. There would now seem to be an immediate prospect of this. But that is of no help at the present moment.
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Another time, I trust, I shall be able to send you more cheerful news.


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Omicron: This toilet habit could be a sign of infection
By Ashley Jones on January 13, 2022 at 7:28 AM
Symptoms of the Omicron variant are not as clear-cut or universal as previous ones with people reporting myriad signs.
As Covid-19 cases continue to spike across the UK, experts are warning about a specific toilet routine that could be an indication of the presence of the virus in one's body.
'A Wide Range Of Symptoms'
Unlike previous variants of the coronavirus, the symptoms of Omicron are more difficult to pin down; they have blended in with symptoms of seasonal illnesses such as the flu. Studies being conducted by scientists in this field point to a range of symptoms of the Omicron variant which have not been recorded in earlier ones.
The US-based Center for Disease Control, or CDC, has come out to say that people with Covid can have 'a wide range of symptoms'. These range from cases of mild nasal congestion to difficulties in breathing which require urgent medical attention.
But an emerging symptom that's on the radar of researchers has to do with your toilet habits.
Diarrhoea & Covid?
Diarrhoea could be a sign that you've caught the virus, Omicron to be precise, according to the CDC. It is also thought that people with compromised immune systems are most likely to experience diarrhoea and other gastrointestinal complications.
However, the experts clarified that since diarrhoea is a symptom of numerous medical conditions, it should be considered alongside other traditional Covid-19 symptoms. Fatigue, breathing trouble, muscle and body aches, a headache or sore throat are all common symptoms that one should look out for.
The NHS currently advises that anyone with even mild symptoms of Omicron should:
Get a PCR test (test that is sent to a lab) to check if you have Covid-19 as soon as possible. Stay at home and do not have visitors (self-isolate) until you get your test result – only leave your home to have a test. Check if people you live with need to self-isolate.
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I hope everyone had a very merry Christmas! We did our usual tour of metro-Atlanta, visiting both of our families and attending multiple holiday parties. It was so much fun and so special to see our loved ones, but we are still exhausted! Not to mention Caroline was stricken with a double ear infection that caused conjunctivitis 2 days before Christmas. A small added stressor, but she is a trooper, and we were shocked to hear that she had ear infections because she was acting totally normal. We also enjoyed a white Christmas in Atlanta this year - so much fun! Anyway, Santa was good to all of us this year, and I received several fun cooking-related gifts. I can't wait to play in the kitchen!
In the meantime, I thought I would share this glazed salmon recipe. I don't know about you, but I certainly did my share of overindulging over the weekend, and all I could think about afterward was how much I wanted vegetables. I've been trying to be conscious of preparing healthy meals when we're not at parties, and this salmon was one of the dinners we had last week. It was quick and is relatively healthy. I served it with risotto with brussels sprouts and mushrooms (light on the butter and cheese), but I think in the future I'll just stick with roasted veggies - keeps it lighter and easier.
I still really love my apple horseradish-glazed salmon, but this is a great recipe as well. This was a hit with both Joey and Caroline, and it's a nice salmon recipe to have in my rotation.
Whisk together all the ingredients in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat and cook for about 1-2 minutes, until thickened and syrupy. Remove from heat and cover to keep warm.
Combine the brown sugar, salt, and cornstarch in a small bowl. Pat the salmon dry with paper towels, and season with pepper. Sprinkle the brown sugar mixture evenly over the salmon, rubbing to distribute evenly.
Heat the oil in an oven-safe nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until just smoking. Place salmon, skin-side-down, in the skillet, and cook until well-browned, about 1 minute. Use a spatula to carefully flip each fillet, and cook on the skin-side for 1 minute.
Remove the skillet from heat and brush the fillets with glaze. Transfer the skillet to the oven and cook until the thickest part of the fillet registers 125 degrees, and is just translucent with cut with a paring knife, 7-10 minutes. Transfer salmon to a platter or plates and serve.
this is going on my menu asap! do share what you served it with, the rice in the background looks equally delicious!
I've had this one flagged in the recent issue of CI too! Yours turned out beautifully - glad it was a hit with your family.
Jes, yes I served it with risotto with Brussels sprouts and mushrooms. It was very good as well, but like I said in the post, I'll probably just do rice and roasted veggies in the future. It was a little stressful working on the risotto and the salmon at the same time.
This looks great. We have leftover pomegranate from Christmas, so this would be a great use for it!
I'm making a variation on this recipe. You inspired me to make Pomegranate Balsamic Glazed Tofu. It's marinating now, but I'm excited to try it. The Dijon is a great touch!


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Кайдар Айтжанович Абдрахманов (; 10 мая 1936 — 6 февраля 2012) — советский и казахстанский геолог, доктор геолого-минералогических наук (1983), профессор (1985), член-корреспондент Национальной академии наук Казахстана (1995), академик Национальной академии наук Казахстана (2004).

Биография
Родился 10 мая 1936 года в Атбасарском районе Акмолинской области.

В 1958 году окончил МГУ.

С 1958 по 1995 год работал в Институте геологических наук Казахской ССР (ныне Институт геологических наук им. К. И. Сатпаева). Одновременно с этим преподавал в КазНТУ.

С 1996 по 2001 год был директором департамента НПО «Казнедра». С 2001 года заведующий лабораторией петрометаллогении Института геологических наук им. К. И. Сатпаева.

Абдрахманов создал формационно-петрохимическую теорию полицикличных гранитоидов, классифицировал граниты 12 петрохимических видов. Открыл горизонтальные и вертикальные геохимические пояса. Фундаментальные теоретические исследования в области геологии и металлогении посвящены прогнозу и освоению месторождений на Северном Балхаше, в Кендыктас — Шу-Илейском районе.

Сочинения
 Петрология и металлогения щелочных пород Таласского Алатау, А.-А., 1965;
 Граинтоидные формации Казахстана и типы фанерозонского гранитообразования, А.-А., 1986;
 Гранитоидные и рудные формации Калба-Нарымского пояса, А. 1994 (соавт.).

Литература

Ссылки

Геологи Казахстана
Геологи СССР
Выпускники МГУ
Преподаватели Казахского национального технического университета имени К. И. Сатпаева

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Rusalka is an opera about singing. Or rather, what happens when you cannot sing. Echoing the story of The Little Mermaid, Rusalka gives up her voice to be united with a Prince. But he is distinctly put out when his bride-to-be cannot say a word. Instead he accepts the hand of a Foreign Princess and Rusalka, obeying the witch Ježibaba's curse, is doomed to live in the depths of the lake forever. The aria 'Song to the Moon' comes right at the beginning of the story as Rusalka, still a nymph, sings with full-throated ease to the moon. There are nocturnal serenades throughout the repertoire, but rather than a trite tune under someone's balcony, Rusalka's aria is a luscious vocal display.
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Wine Chevron Right
Champagne & Sparkling Wine Chevron Right
How the Owner of San Francisco's Coolest Champagne Bar Hosts a Party
When Jen Pelka invites friends over, she pops open some magnums and breaks out the waffle iron.
By Megan Krigbaum
Credit: © Eva Kolenko
If weddings and New Year celebrations are the only moments in your life that call for Champagne, Jen Pelka might want a word with you. "For me, Champagne turns any moment into a celebration," she says. "It can be a picnic or picking up a friend at the bus station. It's just a really good way to turn up the volume on a good time." To ensure that those good times keep rolling, Pelka took a radical step: Earlier this year, she opened The Riddler, a new Champagne bar in San Francisco's Hayes Valley.
Pelka designed The Riddler to reflect her philosophy: It's a high-low haven, with brass-trimmed tables and a glam marble bar, where vintage bubbly is as likely to be paired with pigs in a blanket as it is with caviar. "Our goal is to take Champagne off its pedestal," she says. She packed the diminutive, century-old space with nods to the wines that inspired it. There are nearly 50 silver-plated and pewter Champagne buckets collected from flea markets and online auctions, and Pelka takes special care to choose a chiller that matches the personality of each guest. "I feel pretty strongly that we don't just grab one off the shelf," she says. "If there's a woman who is very stylish, we'll give her a beautiful hand-carved bucket with all these gorgeous inlaid flowers. But then, for a dude, I might choose something more restrained." Even the name of the place is borrowed from one of the most important players in Champagne making. Since the 19th century, riddlers have been employed by Champagne houses to hand-rotate bottles each day, loosening sediment and capturing it in the neck so that the finished wine is crystal clear.
This process was pioneered in the early 19th century by Barbe-Nicole Clicquot—better known as the widow, or veuve, Clicquot—who revived her late husband's flailing wine business and revolutionized the Champagne industry along the way. Pelka shares Clicquot's entrepreneurial spirit; in addition to The Riddler, she runs Magnum PR. And, almost magically, her project caught the eye of more than 30 other talented industry women, ranging in age from 20s to 70s, who wanted to support her and invest in the wine bar. It's entirely woman-funded. Pelka tapped sommelier Marissa Payne to assemble the wine list, which spotlights over 100 true Champagnes, an impressive selection of global sparklers, and a small number of still wines from California and France. (The latter focus on Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays, to stay true to the grapes of Champagne.)
To keep all that fizz in check, there's the food. "I do love caviar with Champagne, but my absolute favorite thing to pair with it is popcorn. It's like a pop and a pop…pops all around," says Pelka, who installed a free, self-serve popcorn station near the bar, with 12 shakers of toppings that range from "Everything" (sesame and caraway seeds with garlic salt) to "Mexican Corn" (chipotle chile powder, lime and white cheese powder). "Another of the quintessential pairings with Champagne is French fries, but we can't have a fryer in the restaurant. We can, however, have a waffle iron," she adds. And thus,The Riddler's signature Tater Tot waffle was born. The minuscule kitchen, led by Shannon Waters, serves them in cast-iron skillets, topped with things like smoked salmon with dill, crème fraîche and caviar, and soft poached egg with shaved truffles. As for those pigs in a blanket, they're wrapped in buttery puff pastry and slicked with a honey-mustard–brown-butter glaze.
If this all sounds like the makings for a killer party, then you've got the right idea. To celebrate the opening of The Riddler, Pelka recently gathered some close friends for Champagne at her home, a few blocks from the bar. For the neighborhood fête, she and her fiancé, Charles Bililies—owner of Souvla, a Greek restaurant with three outposts in San Francisco—lugged home some of Pelka's favorite ice buckets and a cache of etched crystal coupes, set up a DIY popcorn bar and got to work griddling Tater Tot waffles in their dining room. The bubbly flowed as freely as the conversation all evening. Dorothy Parker once wrote that sufficient Champagne was one of the least attainable things in life. Pelka is happily proving her wrong.
JEN PELKA'S RECIPES:
Tater Tot Waffles
Prosciutto and Mustard Tater Tot Waffles
Smoked Salmon and Caviar Tater Tot Waffles
Truffled Egg Tater Tot Waffles
Mexican Corn Popcorn
Everything-Bagel Popcorn
Pigs in a Blanket with Black Pepper Pastry


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