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STDs are on rise, especially among black women in St. Louis
Bill Beene
October 10, 2019 at 5:58 am 0
ST. LOUIS – Sexually transmitted diseases in the U.S. have continued to rise for the fifth consecutive year.
That's according to the Sexually Transmitted Diseases Surveillance Report published Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The report sited rises in chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis.
In the report, Missouri ranked seventh in rates of gonorrhea.
The state ranked 12th in cases of chlamydia and 11th in primary and secondary syphilis.
Officials see the CDC report as alarming. However, it came has no surprise to St. Louisan James E. Green.
In fact, Williams and Associates, the free health education and screening facility where Green is director of operations, has added STD treatment to their provided services list.
Before a state grant last year that allows the center to employ nurses, patients testing positive for STDs were referred to outside sources for treatment.
Provisions of the grant mandate that the center focus on females ages 15 to 45.
That group, Green said, has the highest rates of chlamydia and gonorrhea in St. Louis.
In its most recent five-year report, 2009-2014, the City of St. Louis Department of Health reported that the rate of chlamydia was 1,250.6 per 100,000 people.
It also reported in 2014 that 80 percent of all youth with chlamydia, ages 13-24, were African-American.
That same age group of African-Americans made of 88 percent of the gonorrhea cases that year, 484.2 per 100,000.
The St. Louis Health Department stopped offering free STD treatment about 5 years ago when it moved from its longtime location in the Covenant Blu-Grand Center neighborhood.
Green said Williams and Associates, which addresses minority health disparities, was picking up some of that slack.
The public health center has three locations, but treatment of STDs will take place at the one situated at 3737 North Kingshighway near Natural Bridge Avenue. The facility will begin treatments starting Monday, Nov. 14.
Green said St. Louis had always had a high rate of prevalence of the STDs cited in the CDC report. That's just one reason the CDC's report came as no surprise.
"We see it every day here, so getting the report isn't new news to us because we have people come in and test positive and we have to deal with it quite often," Green said, adding that the report just reaffirmed what the center already knew.
"The diseases are out there, and we need to do a real good job of making sure that the word about prevention is out there, because all this stuff is preventable. And if we can influence the behavior of our citizens, things will change; but changing behavior is a very difficult thing task," he said.
Curbing STDs will improve the overall health of the nation and help prevent infertility, HIV and infant deaths, said Dr. Jonathan Mermin, director of the CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB prevention.
"STDs can come at a high cost for babies and other vulnerable populations," Mermin said.
Green said that although he didn't know why the demographic of women here represented the highest number of chlamydia and gonorrhea cases, one could extrapolate.
"Women's anatomy is different from men's, and it's harder to detect; and women have lesser symptoms than men when they're affected," he explained.
With men, he explained, gonorrhea and chlamydia manifest with discharge or pain upon urination.
"But with women, it's internal and doesn't show up as quickly as it would with a guy," he said.
Data from the report suggest that multiple factors contribute to the overall increase in STDs:
Drug use, poverty, stigma, and unstable housing, which can reduce access to STD prevention and care
Decreased condom use among vulnerable groups, including young people and gay and bisexual men
Cuts to STD programs at the state and local levels – in recent years, more than half of local programs have experienced budget cuts, resulting in clinic closures, reduced screening, staff loss, and reduced patient follow-up and linkage to care services.
Williams and Associates can be reached at 314-385-1935. The web address is www.minorityhealth.org.
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August 06, 2019 8:35am PT by Rick Porter
TV Ratings: 'Bachelor in Paradise' Continues ABC Monday Win Streak
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The show pulls in numbers on par with its Monday debut a year ago, while NBC's 'American Ninja Warrior' takes honors in total viewers.
ABC's Bachelor in Paradise put up healthy ratings for its season premiere, helping the network lead its ninth straight Monday in adults 18-49. NBC's American Ninja Warrior took top honors among total viewers.
Bachelor in Paradise scored a 1.3 rating in adults 18-49 and 4.37 million viewers, ahead of last season's premiere (1.1 and 3.82 million on a Tuesday night) and on par with its Monday debut a year ago. Grand Hotel, however, slipped a bit at 10 p.m., tying its season low in adults 18-49 at 0.5.
American Ninja Warrior's 4.6 million viewers led the broadcast networks in primetime; the NBC competition show was steady in the 18-49 demographic at 0.8. Dateline led the 10 o'clock hour across the board with 3.51 million viewers and a 0.6 in the demo.
Beat Shazam (0.6 in adults 18-49, 2.55 million viewers) and So You Think You Can Dance (0.5, 1.97 million) both improved a little for Fox. CBS' Love Island (0.4 in 18-49, 2.08 million viewers) was even with last Monday's installment as it heads toward its first-season finale Wednesday. Penn & Teller: Fool Us and Whose Line Is It Anyway both matched their week-ago 0.2s on The CW.
ABC finished first among adults 18-49 for the night with a 1.0 rating, outpacing NBC's 0.7. Fox scored a 0.5 and Telemundo a 0.4. CBS and Univision tied at 0.3, and The CW trailed at 0.2.
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Breakfast rituals from around the world
Helen RacanelliUpdated: Jul. 16, 2019
Find out what people in other nations'and Canadians'eat first thing in the morning
"In Ghana, people often eat simple fried-egg sandwiches bought from a local vendor. The sandwich is usually two eggs, a bit of tomato and onion with it. If you really have money, you buy a Nescafé or hot cocoa, too," says Conor McCreery, a Canadian who worked as a journalist at a Ghanaian newspaper. "However kenke (sometimes spelled kenkey) is also very popular and probably more common than fried-egg sandwiches. Kenke is made from fermented maize and pounded into a paste. It is often eaten with a hot-pepper sauce," he says. Since Ghana is an impoverished country, a sizeable portion of the population has breakfast infrequently, or not at all, McCreery says. Many Ghanians rely on one meal per day.
"Most people like to pick up fresh bread at their local bakery every morning. Even in the most remote areas in France, the closest bakery is never more than a 10-minute drive away," says Jean-Patrick Le Bihan, a French ex-pat living in Boston. "There are often many types of bread to pick from, including the traditional baguette and artisan-style loaves baked during the night. Although tea is gaining popularity, most French people still drink black coffee or café au lait. The French spread their bread with a little butter and dip the bread in their bowl of coffee until it is soaked," he says. Fresh croissants can be served with or instead of bread, although many families only purchase croissants during weekends. "It is also common to use the leftover bread from the week to make pain perdu," a version of French toast, says Le Bihan. "The hard bread is mixed with eggs, milk and sugar, and pan-fried. Pain perdu can be topped with sugar and fruit."
Visit just about any North American Chinatown on a Sunday at brunch and you'll see families of Chinese heritage converging on dim sum restaurants. As in China, it's a chance to socialize with family and the community, and to give Mom a break from cooking. Dim sum is a procession of small foods, such as savoury steamed or fried dumplings, pan-fried noodles, congee (rice porridge, called jook in Cantonese) and sweet pastries. On weekdays at home, Chinese people often eat homemade congee, a savoury dish, which has meat or seafood in it. Store-bought "Chinese doughnuts" can accompany the congee, much the way the French have a baguette with their café au lait.
"In the winter, I drink a glass of warm milk with cereal, sugar and Colacao (which is similar to Nesquik) in it," says Spaniard Alfredo Garcia. "Unlike North Americans, we take a glass of milk filled with a few grains [of cereal], and not the other way around. We also eat toast with olive oil and some people rub a clove of garlic on it," he adds. Like many other Europeans, Spanish breakfasts can also consist of toast with jam, or a croissant," he says. And as in Italy, those in a rush will down hot coffee or drink milk, he says. However, breakfast takes a more leisurely pace in the blistering heat of the summer. "We put ice in our coffee and tea. We'll chat with family and friends, and some people even smoke cigars," he says.
Boxed cereal is a popular breakfast choice for many Canadian households. While many eat cereal with milk or instant oatmeal on weekdays, many Canadians indulge in some combination of bacon, sausages, eggs, toast, pancakes, waffles and home fries on the weekends. However, traditions and demographics are changing, and with the influence of different cultures on Canada's culinary landscape, some Canucks are opting for breakfast choices with an international flavour, such as foods they've tasted in far-flung travels or that reflect their ethnic heritage.
In Iran a typical breakfast consists of "a flat bread such as lavash, babary, or sangak, with a type of feta cheese and butter, served with sweetened tea," says Goli Rassouli, a Canadian of Iranian descent. Some variations on this basic breakfast include adding eggs, boiled or baked fava beans, fresh cream, jam or honey. Rassoulie says another popular dish is "a mix of yogurt and milk, blended and sweetened, with the lavash bread soaked in it." For a breakfast or brunch treat, Iranians eat kaleh-pacheh, a sheep's-head-and-feet stew with a wheat-based porridge, she adds.
"The breakfasts in Cuba can be amazing-lots of fresh tropical fruit, fresh juice, an omelette, bread and cheese," says Aaron Sobeski, a Canadian who travelled extensively around the island nation as a sports journalist. "If you don't stay at a resort, like 95 percent of the Canadians who travel to Cuba, you'll find the food is a hundred times better," he notes. "A few Canadians, but many more Europeans and South Americans, stay in casa particulars-rooms in people's homes that can rented out. The host family will usually offer breakfast in the morning, and it's so big, it keeps you full you all day," Sobeski says.
Breakfast in Argentina is a European-inflected affair, "but with an extra sweet tooth," says Sobeski, who also worked in this South American country as an English teacher. "They love dulce de leche [a milk caramel], which is even sweeter than caramel," he says. A certain well-known global fast-food joint puts dulce de leche on pancakes instead of syrup, Sobeski says. "But in general, breakfast is pastries and coffee, like you'd find in France or Italy. It's not a big meal, just something to get you going," he adds.
"Bread, cereal and milk are the main components of the typical breakfast for most Australians" says a University of Wollongong study. "This American-style pattern developed in the second half of the 20th century; previous to that, the consumption of English-style cooked breakfasts was much more common," the study notes. One interesting fact from the study: "Compared to other adults, Australians over the age of 65 are more likely to eat hot cereals like porridge, eat more fruit and drink more tea and coffee than younger adults."
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issued from : O. Tanaka in Publ. Seto Mar. Biol. Lab., 1962, X (1). [p.64, Fig.140].
Female (from Izu region): a, habitus (dorsal); b, forehead (left lateral side); c, last thoracic segment and urosome (left lateral side); d, rostrum (dorsal view); e, Mx2; f, P1; g, P2; h, P3; i, P5.
- Cephalothorax about 4 times the abdomen length. 4th and 5th pedigers fused.
- Posterolateral corners of the last thoracic segment rounded but there is a sudden change in outline along the dorso-lateral corner.
- Rostrum with rami robust, terminate in fine filaments.
- Abdominal segments and caudal rami proportional lengths 39 : 21 : 19 : 7 : 14 = 100.
- Genital segment as long as wide, slightly swollen ventrally; there is a transverse row of minute spinules on the proximal part near junction with the cephalothorax.
- A1 23-segmented; extends to the distal end of the caudal rami..
- A2 exopod 1.2 times as long as endopod.
- Mx1 with 7 long and 2 short setae on the outer lobe; 9 setae on exopod; 5+3 setae on endopod; 5 setae on the 2nd basal; 4 setae on the 3rd inner lobe; 2 setae on the 2nd inner lobe; 13 setae on the 1st inner lobe (= arthrite).
- Mx2 has 5 bud-like sensory filaments of about equal in size, and 3 long worm-like ones on the distal segments.
- Mxp with a tuft of hairs at base of the bud-like sensory filament on the 1st basal segment, which arises from the middle of the external margin; 4th lobe with, beside 3 usual setae, a small rounded process near the distal border.
- P1 with the 1st exopodal segment 1 outer edge spine reaching the distal margin of 2nd segment.
- P2 with the 1st exopodal segment a long and curved outer edge spine, exceeding the middle of the outer margin of the 2nd segment. Terminal spine of exopod with 32 teeth.
- P3 with 22 teeth on terminal spine of exopod.
- P5 3-segmented. Distal segment with a strong inner marginal spine, coarsely denticulated along the anterior margin; terminal spine short, about 1/3 the length of the inner marginal spine; there is on the outer margin 1 small spine at base ot the terminal spine, and 1 small outer marginal spine opposite to the inner marginal spine. Posterior surface of segments furnished with a group of spines.
issued from : O. Tanaka in Publ. Seto Mar. Biol. Lab., 1962, X (1). [p.65, Fig.141].
Male (from Izu region): a, forehead (left lateral side); b, thoracic segments (left lateral side); c, rostrum (dorsal view); d, A2; e, Mx2; f, P1 (posterior view); g, P2; h, P3; i, P4; j, P5.
- Cephalothorax about 2 times the abdomen lenth.
- 4th and 5th pedigers incompletely fused, line of fusion clearly seen in lateral aspect.
- Rostrum as in female, but the basal rami much stronger.
- Urosome 5-segmented; segments and caudal rami in proportional lengths 9 : 32 : 27 : 25 : 2 : 5 = 100.
- 2nd and 3rd abdominal segments fringed with fine teeth on the distal border.
- Caudal rami divergent, a little wider than long.
- A1 20-segmented on left sie, 19-segmented on right side; extends to the distal end of the 2nd abdominal segment.
- A2 exopod 1.2 times as long as endopod; 1st exopodal segment furnished with short hairs along the anterior margin.
- Md and Mx1 as in female.
- Mx2 bears 5 bud-like sensory filaments and 4 worrm-like on the distal segments, one of the latter is much larger than the others.
- P1 with 1 outer edge spine on , extending to the middle of the 2nd segment.
- P2 with 1 outer edge spine on the 1st exopodal segment, curved considerably at the distal end. Terminal spine of exopod with 32 teeth.
- P3 with on the 2nd basal segment (= basis) rows of spinules along anterior distal border. Terminal spine of exopod with 20 teeth.
Issued from : G.O. Sars in Résult. Camp. Scient. Prince Albert I, 69, pls.1-127 (1924). [Pl.XLIX, figs.22-27]. As Scolecithrix propinqua.
Female: 22, habitus (dorsal); 23, idem (lateral left side); 24, rostrum; 25, endopodal segments of P2; 26, endopodal segments of P3; 27, P5.
- Posterolateral corners of the last thoracic segment slightly obtusely rounded.
- Rostrum comparatively shorter than A. gracilis, but of the same structure.
- Genital segment as long as two following segments together, slightly swollen ventrally.
- Caudal rami small and slightly divergent.
- A1 reaches end of caudal rami.
- A2, mouthparts and swimming legs similar to those A. gracilis.
- P5 resembles those A. gracilis, distinctly biarticulate; proximal segment shorter than distal and hairies outside at end; distal segment furnished with of number rigid hairies outside, segment obliquely truncate at yje extremity and with 2 spines, 1 inner very strong and 1 smaller at apex.
issued from : O. Tanaka in Publ. Seto Mar. Biol. Lab., 1962, X (1). [p.63].
-A1 23-segmented. Segments 14 and 18 with each a proximal seta.
issued from : O. Tanaka in Publ. Seto Mar. Biol. Lab., 1962, X (1). [p.66].
Male: proportional lengths of segments on the left side of A1.
- A1 20-segmented on the left side; 19-segmented on the right side. Segments 14, 18, 21, 22 and 25 have each a long seta. Proximal segments with well-developed aesthetascs.
Probable dans le Genre Amallothrix.


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Q: pthread_exit() in signal handler (This question might be somewhat related to pthread_exit in signal handler causes segmentation fault) I'm writing a leadlock prevention library, where there is always a checking thread doing graph stuff and checks if there is deadlock, if so then it signals one of the conflicting threads. When that thread catches the signal it releases all mutex(es) it owns and exits. There are multiple resource mutexes (obviously) and one critical region mutex, all calls to acquire, release resource lock and do graph calculations must obtain this lock first. Now there goes the problem. With 2 competing (not counting the checking thread) threads, sometimes the program deadlocks after one thread gets killed. In gdb it's saying the dead thread owns critical region lock but never released it. After adding break point in signal handler and stepping through, it appears that lock belongs to someone else (as expected) right before pthread_exit(), but the ownership magically goes to this thread after pthread_exit()..The only guess I can think of is the thread to be killed was blocking at pthread_mutex_lock when trying to gain the critical region lock (because it wanted another resource mutex), then the signal came, interrupting the pthread_mutex_lock. Since this call is not signal-proof, something weird happened? Like the signal handler might have returned and that thread got the lock then exited? Idk.. Any insight is appreciated!

A: pthread_exit is not async-signal-safe, and thus the only way you can call it from a signal handler is if you ensure that the signal is not interrupting any non-async-signal-safe function.
As a general principle, using signals as a method of communication with threads is usually a really bad idea. You end up mixing two issues that are already difficult enough on their own: thread-safety (proper synchronization between threads) and reentrancy within a single thread.
If your goal with signals is just to instruct a thread to terminate, a better mechanism might be pthread_cancel. To use this safely, however, the thread that will be cancelled must setup cancellation handlers at the proper points and/or disable cancellation temporarily when it's not safe (with pthread_setcancelstate). Also, be aware that pthread_mutex_lock is not a cancellation point. There's no safe way to interrupt a thread that's blocked waiting to obtain a mutex, so if you need interruptability like this, you probably need either a more elaborate synchronization setup with condition variables (condvar waits are cancellable), or you could use semaphores instead of mutexes.
Edit: If you really do need a way to terminate threads waiting for mutexes, you could replace calls to pthread_mutex_lock with calls to your own function that loops calling pthread_mutex_timedlock and checking for an exit flag on each timeout.

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POLARON EX CHARGER AND POWER SUPPLY The Graupner Polaron EX Charger and Polaron Power Supply can be purchased separately or as part of a combo that includes the following: Polaron charger and power supply, two XH balance adapters, a USB cable, a DC input cable, two temperature sensors, two charge cables, two alligator clips, a charger stand, and the manual.
The upright design of the Polaron really caught my attention. An included plastic base simply snaps on and off and its width can be adjusted to accommodate only the charger or the charger/power supply. This design has a small footprint that takes up little precious space on the bench.
Also ingenious is the power connection for the two units. Three double-sided bullet plugs allow the two units to be snapped together. This connection is then completely hidden with no unsightly wires to deal with.
The charger has two sets of outputs on the front that accept 4mm banana plugs. The balance adapter ports are located just below the outputs and below that are the temperature sensor ports. On the right side of the charger USB charger, extension module, motor sensor, and servo test port. The back of the unit has the 12- to 24-volt DC input. On top is the USB PC connection, the left side provides the connection for the Polaron power supply. The Polaron power supply provides two outputs on the front and a USB charge plug. On the rear of the unit is the on/off switch and AC power connection. The right side provides the connection to the charger. Also on the front, you will find the black and white backlit LCD display that provides constant readings for voltage, amps, and temperature. The Polaron is equipped with several features not often found in chargers. These include a USB charger, temperature sensor ports for each channel with included sensors, servo tester, motor sensor, battery and tire warmer, and ESC setup. The Polaron offers a lot of flexibility and programmability. It is a two-port balancing charger capable of up to 400 watts per channel at 24 volts, or 220 watts at 12 volts. I was impressed to see that Graupner supplied both temperature sensors and a USB cable to allow for PC connectivity to monitor charging and updates. I did, however, find the update process a little tedious. After downloading the update from Graupner's website and unzipping it, I first had an issue with the charger and computer communicating via USB. Deleting the driver and reinstalling it solved that issue. During the update process you are required to update both Master and Slave files. The Master updated easily, but the Slave file update failed three times, requiring the charger to be rebooted each time. Apparently this is not unexpected because the instructions state that if the update fails, follow the steps again until successful completion. When the charger boots up, the version numbers for both files are temporarily displayed, allowing confirmation that the updates were successful.


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Of most interest to us, of course, are the Chamber works for the Clarinet: 13 Pieces for two Clarinets and Viola (op. 47, 1804); a Clarinet Quintet (for clarinet, violin, 2 violas & cello, op. 95); and 5 Clarinet Quartets (for clarinet, violin, viola & cello: two as op. 21 in 1802, op. 69, op. 82 in 1816 and op. 83).


3 CS8 Questions for Jim Ruppert: How did Lanphier's trip to Chicago go?
The Lanphier High School boys basketball team was scheduled to play a late-night game last Saturday at the Chicago Orr Shootout. How did that game turn out?
The Lions' trip to the Windy City proved to be very interesting.
Lanphier was scheduled to play Milwaukee Washington in the 9:30 p.m. game. Washington features 6-foot-9 Michael Foster, one of the top five sophomores in the nation. Foster made an early commitment to Arizona State University, decommitted and now has coach Bobby Hurley's team on the list of five schools he is considering.
"As soon as I found out about them I started reaching out to the guys I knew on the AAU circuit," Lanphier coach Blake Turner said. "He really made a lot of noise there.
"From knowing people I was able to get some film on them and some games on them. We had a pretty good scout on them.
The Lions beat Decatur Eisenhower 83-57 last Friday in their best offensive performance of the season, and Turner had them back in the gym a little after 3 Saturday for the trip to Chicago.
"We were scheduled to play the 9:30 game so we wanted to leave at 4," Turner said. "So I got them to school about 45 minutes early and we went through the scout and our plan and approach for what we wanted to do against Milwaukee Washington, shot some free throws, got on the bus and got out of there.
Because of bad weather in the Chicago area last Saturday, Washington had petitioned to play earlier to avoid a late-night bus trip back to Milwaukee, which is roughly 90 minutes from Chicago. So the switch was made, and Lanphier's scouting report on Washington was out the window.
"The Orr coach and I have a good relationship and I like him a lot," Turner said. "When I got there and talked to him he apologized for not reaching out to me. "There was bad weather in the Chicago area. We drove through a lot of snow to get there. The Milwaukee team had asked kind of at the last minute if they could reschedule so they could get there earlier and get back to Milwaukee. He didn't want them to miss a game so he went ahead and rescheduled it.
The Orr Shootout had 11 games as part of a schedule that began at 9 a.m. Games were scheduled 75 minutes apart. High School basketball games take closer to 90 minutes to play.
The good news for the Lions was that Lanphier won 67-55, a huge win over the two-time defending Class 2A state champions. But the nightmare continued.
Lanphier has the two best statisticians in the state in Gary Moser and Larry Bailey. They've been going everywhere Lanphier goes for the better part of 25 years. The Lions also have an Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame scorekeeper in Rich Patrick. But none of them made the long trip to Chicago, so Turner and his staff decided that they would rely on the Orr scorebook for any statistics from the game. Except the Orr scorekeeper only kept half a book, the Orr side.
Turner was able to decipher 24 points for Snodgrass, including five 3-pointers, and a second straight points and rebounds double-double for Karl Wright. Turner also said Larry Hemingway shot well, and the coach commended the toughness and five steals of senior Stanley Morgan.
And then it was time to head for home.
"I told the bus driver let's get down the road a little bit before we stop," Turner said. "We decided that we'd get down to the Dwight exit. By the time we get to Dwight it's close to 2 in the morning. The kids were eating Hardee's at 2 in the morning.
"I set my alarm for 4:15 and I woke up and we were probably about five or 10 miles outside of Lincoln. At that point I told all the kids to call their parents and tell them we'd be home in 30 minutes.
But the fun wasn't quite over. The Lions were scheduled to play St. Louis Christian Brothers College on Feb. 16, which just so happens to be NBA All-Star Weekend. The son of CBC coach Justin Tatum, Boston Celtics' second-year standout Jayson Tatum, could be playing in the All-Star Game. So coach Tatum asked Turner about a different date for the game, and the two settled on Jan. 28.
The Lions usually have a short practice on Sunday evenings, but with a Monday game to get ready for, they needed to be back in the gym a little more than 12 hours after they got off the bus from Chicago.
It's the kind of grind the guys who play for pay have to go through, including a game Friday against Collinsville at the O'Fallon Shootout.
Played over a very short period of time after riding in big yellow school buses.
Was it a surprise that Southeast went to Belleville and played defending Class 4A state champion Belleville West and reigning Illinois Mr. Basketball E.J. Liddell to a one-point game?
One should never be surprised by the competitiveness of Southeast boys basketball. In December of 2010 at the SportsRadio 1450 Shootout at the venue then known as the Prairie Capital Convention Center, the Spartans beat a Chicago Whitney Young team that included current NBA player Jahlil Okafor 62-60. The year before that the Spartans dropped a close game to a Waukegan team fronted by Illinois Mr. Basketball Jereme Richmond.
Southeast has played four games this season against teams that showed up in last week's Association Press Class 4A poll: No. 1 Belleville West, No. 8 Bolingbrook, No. 10 Rockford East and honorable mention Collinsville. The Spartans lost by one to Belleville West and by two to Bolingbrook — and Southeast led both games in the fourth quarter — and beat both Rockford East and Collinsville on the way to winning the Prairie Farms Collinsville Holiday Tournament. Southeast didn't have the injured Anthony Fairlee in three of those four games against Class 4A opponents, and imagine if the injured 6-foot-4, 260-pound Herb McMath had gotten a chance to bang inside with Liddell.
With that being said, one needs to take a look at the Spartans' dominating performance so far against Central State Eight Conference competition. The Spartans are 11-0 in advance of tonight's showdown at second-place Normal U-High, and six of those games have ended with a running clock (Southeast was ahead by 30 or more in the fourth period).
Southeast's defensive numbers are extremely impressive in league games. Opponents are shooting a combined 32.6 percent from the floor, and only two teams have shot 50 percent or better. The Spartans are holding opponents to 23 percent 3-point shooting, and Southeast holds a 36.5-22.9 rebounding advantage per game. League opponents are averaging 38.9 points per game, and only three league teams have gotten 50 or more points in a game. Southeast also forces 20 turnovers a game against CS8 competition while committing 9.5 per game.
The offensive numbers are pretty good, too. Southeast is shooting 52.2 percent in league games, and the Spartans have shot in the neighborhood of 50 percent in seven of their 11 conference games. They were outrebounded one time, 38-37 by Lanphier on opening night of the City Tournament.
Southeast still has some tough CS8 tests remaining: two games with U-High, a game at Chatham Glenwood and home games with Decatur MacArthur, Springfield High and Sacred Heart-Griffin.
And if you're wondering, the last team to get through the CS8 season undefeated was Lanphier in 2011-12, when the Lions finished 16-0 in league games, 28-5 overall and fourth at the Class 3A state tournament.
With four weeks left in the regular season and the calendar getting ready to turn to February, what does the upcoming CS8 schedule look like?
Breaking news: weather could be a factor for a schedule that includes six games today, six games Friday and four Saturday.
There's just one CS8 game on the schedule for tonight, the previously mentioned Southeast at U-High game that was originally scheduled for Friday night but moved up a couple days when Southeast was invited to play Alton in Friday's 5:30 game at the Bank of O'Fallon shootout. An interesting non-conference game tonight is Decatur MacArthur at Bloomington.
Just two CS8 games on the Friday card, Rochester at Springfield High and Sacred Heart-Griffin at Decatur Eisenhower. Glenwood hosts Normal West, Williamsville goes to Jacksonville and both Lanphier (vs. Collinsville) and Southeast (vs. Alton) are at the Bank of O'Fallon Shootout.
Saturday is all non-conference, including Champaign Central at Chatham Glenwood and U-High at crosstown rival Bloomington Central Catholic. Two other CS8 teams take on Sangamon County opponents as Blake Lucas brings his New Berlin Pretzels to Springfield High and Rochester and Riverton renew a longstanding rivalry.
— Contact Jim Ruppert: jim.ruppert12@yahoo.com or on Twitter @JRupSJR.


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For Just $135, You Could Own a Real Picasso Painting
One lucky winner will score the $1 million piece of art in an online raffle
By Courtney Subramanian Oct. 09, 2013
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People stand in front of Pablo Picasso's paintings, (L-R) "Playing Cards," "Pots and Lemon," "Glass and Apple," displayed at the exhibition "Masterpieces of Twentieth-Century Art from the Albertina Collection" in the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg on October 8, 2013.
The International Association to Save Tyre is giving art enthusiasts a chance to land an original Picasso for a mere $135.
The preservation organization is raffling off "Man with Opera Hat," a 12-inch by 9 inch cubist drawing from 1914 bearing the painter's signature. Proceeds will benefit the ancient Lebanese city of Tyre, an UNESCO World Heritage Site, to help preserve its ruins and artifacts and increase employment in the former port town.
(MORE: Stolen Picasso Among Paintings 'Burned' in a Romanian Stove)
The drawing will be streaming live online in Paris at auction house Sotheby's on Dec. 18.
Act fast, only 50,000 tickets are available here.
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Seven smart hotels around the world
Check in to check out these robo butlers, doodle showers and VR rooms
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Going to a hotel used to be about getting the things you didn't get at home. Like fresh towels every day, fancy little pots of shampoo and, best of all, room service.
Now we have connected tech in our homes, we're beginning to expect the same when we travel and your average hotel seems a bit basic in comparison. That's slowly changing, though.
Here are seven hotels across the world that have started introducing the most interesting smart home tech to their rooms. And outside of them, in some cases.
We're talking robot receptionists, smart bracelets that let you serve yourself drinks in the bar and showers you can doodle on. Let us know what you'd love to see in a smart hotel room in the comments.
Yotel NY
Yotel is just three blocks away from New York's Times Square. But it takes more than a pinch of inspiration from Japan's capsule hotels. It has to, really, considering its standard rooms are only 170sq ft.
Tech inside Yotel's clean-looking rooms include a SmartBed, which switches from bed to futon with the press of a button. Its entertainment system is also hooked up with a special 30-minute movie called Yawn that's designed to help you get to sleep. Watch it on YouTube and if it doesn't get you feeling sleep, you might just be a psychopath. It had us getting our yawn on within about five seconds.
The visual highlight of Yotel's smart tech is down in the lobby, though. It uses a 20ft robot arm to store guests' bags in a big wall of compartments and has, in fact, had this arm since 2011. Yotel NY uses smart check-in systems to cut down the number of staff needed too. And you thought robots stealing our jobs was a thing of the future.
The Wynn is one of the most famous hotels on the Las Vegas strip. A giant gold monolith with over 4,700 rooms, it's a classier vision of what Las Vegas is about. And yes, Las Vegas is so gaudy that it can make a big gold tower look classy by comparison.
In 2016 the hotel announced it would put an Amazon Echo into all of its rooms, to let you control elements like the lighting and TV. We normally think of an Echo as something deeply tied to our Amazon accounts. But they can also be used in a "vanilla" state when combined with extra software.
Amazon has worked with a company called Volara to get the Echo ready for use in hotel rooms. But it's not the only option for hoteliers: Runtrizand and Voiceio are other names helping Alexa branch out into hotels - we hope they're already looking into the Echo 2, Echo Dot and beyond.
Cityhub Amsterdam
This isn't the luxury hotel you might have in mind when thinking of a tech-packed smart hotel. Amsterdam's CityHub is more practical than that.
You book one of its "hubs", which are L-shaped micro-rooms that slot into each other in almost bed bunk-like fashion. There'll barely be room to swing your mobile phone charge cable, but the prices aren't too high and the smarts are solid (CityHub says there is enough room to sit up in bed, so that's something).
When you check in you're given access to a phone app that lets you alter the colour of the smart lighting in your pod. You can even get a light-based wake-up, like a SAD unit. No need to call reception, just do it in the app.
CityHub also has a self service bar. Beer pumps in its hangouts area let you serve yourself a pint (well an Amsterdam pint) when you scan your wristband on a reader.
Aloft Cupertino
Getting room service can be awkward for a whole bunch of reasons. Should you tip even though you've just paid $24 for a cheese sandwich? Will they mind if you're just wearing a dressing gown, again?
Aloft Cupertino, sat just a 10 minute walk from Apple's Infinite Loop campus, is a hotel that uses a robot butler to take room service orders direct to your room.
It can use the elevator and will patiently hang out outside your room like an unfortunate Star Wars extra. It's called Botlr, is made by a company called Savioke, and in return for its service it just asks for a star rating on its tablet-like interface, not a fistful of dollars. You'll also find similar robots trundling around the M Social hotel in Singapore, where the not-so-little guy is called Aura.
Aloft Cupertino also uses the SPG Keyless system, which lets you open your room with an iPhone or Android app rather than a keycard.
Marriott Hotels Irvine California
Marriott is one of the biggest hotel chains in the world so you might expect it to be one of the more conservative as a result.
However, it has come up with something a bit strange in one of its hotels in Irvine California: a smart shower. Part of the shower door's glass can be used as a doodling surface.
It steams up, you start drawing away, and a press on another part of the pane sends the image you drew to a paired phone or tablet over Bluetooth. The idea is, apparently, that lots of people get their best ideas in the shower, and this will let you jot them down before they disappear like shower gel foam sucked down a plug hole. Bringing this out in drought-ridden California first seems an odd choice, mind.
The Arcade Hotel Amsterdam
Amsterdam's The Arcade Hotel offers narrow smarts, but they're the kind gamers want. It has seven rooms, designed to sleep up to four people, and each uses GeForce Now with an Nvidia Shield TV box (which can now allow handle Google Assistant commands) to let you stream high-end games through the hotel's 1GB internet connection.
Depending on the size of the room, you get one or two wall-mounted TVs, and enough Sennheiser gaming headsets for your whole party.
When we think of a weekend away in Europe, staying in the hotel and playing games all day doesn't instantly come to mind. But vegetating in front of a game after a day of hardcore Amsterdam-ing sounds about right.
If we're honest, we're more into the idea of the retro console The Arcade Hotel puts in each room, particularly after a few hours in a coffee shop. This bit is left a mystery: could be a SNES, could be a PS1 or an original Xbox.
The hotel also has a 25sqm game room with six high-end MSI PC gaming stations, all three current-gen consoles and even an HTC Vive VR area.
Henn na Hotel Tokyo
Tokyo's Henn Ha Hotel has become something of a poster child for hotel robots. They run the place. Its website says this is about "maximising efficiency", but the animatronic velociraptors and costumed female receptionists who sit behind the check-in desk say "kitsch" as much as "high tech".
There are real voice recognition and face-scanning smarts going on here, though, and you can check in and check out without taking to a real person. Or using a faceless tablet interface like the self check-in at an airport.
It's the front desk that grabs the headlines, but the smart robots Hann Ha Hotel puts in its rooms are just as interesting. You can ask a little cartoony figure to turn your lights on and off, or for a weather report.
Henn Ha also uses robots for room service, and to take luggage to the rooms. It's a bit ripe, but really does use robots throughout.
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Penny Muse Abernathy — It's Not Too Late to Save Community Journalism
By Michael O'Connell @AllJournalism
This week's edition of It's All Journalism was recorded live from the 2014 AAN Convention in Nashville.
Penny Muse Abernathy likes to think in ledes.
The lede she'd write for alternative news weeklies would have something to do with how the decline of print publication and the rise of digital journalism are changing the traditional role of the alternative press.
"What struck me is that many of you are at an inflection point," she said, during her keynote address at the 2014 Association of Alternative Newsmedia conference in Nashville. "It's driven by the fact that you have the decline of traditional media, most especially the decline of the longstanding, major newspaper in your market. And in many ways, you are becoming the community newspaper."
Abernathy is a Knight chair in digital media economics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to that, she was a business executive at The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Harvard Business Review. She's also the author of the new book Saving Community Journalism: The Path to Profitability.
The challenge she sees for alternative newspapers is how to be the source for community journalism while maintaining their "alternative" edge.
"You go from being the attacker, the entrepreneur, to being the one who is attacked," Abernathy said.
This week's podcast is a recording of Abernathy's presentation at the 2014 AAN conference. She discusses the economic shift taking place in the journalism industry and what business decisions publishers need to make in order to remain competitive.


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"T" Time:
Tee, Tina, Tierney, and Tomboulian
Reviews by Rob Lester
Theatre singer Hayden Tee, the cast recording of the stage piece looking at Tina Turner's life, and two additional female singers with albums offering other musical styles are what we have on our plate this time around.
HAYDEN TEE
Broadway Records
If you love big songs from big musicals sung by a big voice with a big orchestra, Hayden Tee's Face to Face will bring you big pleasure. On this third solo outing, each of the New Zealand-born singer-actor's bravura in-character performances cuts a fine figure and cuts no corners vocally. He's got the chops and he's got the needed attitudes down. His appropriately quite dramatic renditions of (mostly) earnest declarations make for a robust recital. A 63-piece instrumental ensemble (arranged and orchestrated by Nigel Ubrihien) recorded in Budapest swoops in to accompany vocals done in studios in the U.K. and Australia. With Hayden Tee sounding invested in each role, the flourishes and climaxes feel true to the people portrayed and their frequent anguish or thrusts of assuredness rather than showboating the singer's pipes or milking emotions. While much is fearless and grand, there are shadings and some calibrations to prevent overkill.
Having logged much time in major roles in Les Misérables in different countries, including a stint on Broadway, Mr. Tee devotes two of the nine tracks to choices from this musical and they evidence command and understanding, mindful of each mindset. His "Stars" is filled with gravitas and brooding, and his moving "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" is burnished with rue and lamenting. His various assignments with the mega-musical found him sharing the stage with John Owen-Jones, whom he has invited as duet partner for a sturdy "In Lily's Eyes" from The Secret Garden.
The basic musical landscape, shaping, and tempi generally keep things in the spirit and attitude of how we came to know (and often loved) this material. Others' goals of deeply personalized pop or jazz adaptations are foreign to the agenda which is squarely musical theatre-centric, on the conservative side (as in "honoring the intentions"). There's no surprise-generating deconstruction or reworking the architecture. Within these borders, there is much vitality and committed, communicative work. Selections sample musicals from the 1960s (a Cabaret medley) and beyond, into the new century.
Lest you think that Tee takes on only heavy duty love and longing (there's some of that to be sure) and gloom and doom (1776's "Molasses to Rum" from his resume, for one), we get one big, fat delicious slice of comic relief. And what a hoot it is! The actor proves his range and versatility with another souvenir of a role he played, the wild nemesis of the title character in Matilda, with the sadistic tour de force "The Smell of Rebellion," masterfully nailed. It's full of gleefully intoned, strutting, character-rich detail—the tics that make a villain tick.
Face to Face is what leading man repertoire done with panache is all about.
THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL
ORIGINAL [LONDON] CAST RECORDING
Stage Entertainment/ Ghostlight Records
Tina Turner turned 80 years old last week and, via the jukebox stage bio-musical about her, the lady's star burns newly bright and "keeps on burning," to quote a phrase from one of her signature songs, "Proud Mary." That ultimate blood-pumping number, heard near the end of the first act and reprised to end the night in the theatre, is done to an impressively fierce fare-thee-well. And there's plenty more in the way of intense energy in the hit parade of raucous rock and R&B (and more) that makes up the recording of Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. Officially opening on Broadway a few weeks ago, the production came to London first and this release features the cast from that city, with only one performer in both companies—but it's the dynamo in the all-important title role, Adrienne Warren, heard on all but two of the 24 tracks. An exciting-voiced powerhouse is what the doctor ordered, and that is what we've got. Big time. She is well supported by the seemingly indefatigable back-up singers and band, with impactful contributions by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith as husband/stage partner Ike Turner and Lorna Gayle as the grandmother, among others. There's nothing tepid or tired with this Tina.
No newly written pieces are employed to chronicle the "behind the music" saga of the girl who came from humble beginnings in rural Tennessee and suffered other personal and professional hard times and challenges between triumphs. However, a few of the catalogue items are repurposed as plot songs ("Let's Stay Together"). As far as included spoken material, there are occasional bits such as an announcer's voice introducing performers and there is one potent instance of lines of fraught dialogue between sections of a song ("Higher") to demonstrate relationship tensions and pressures. A rather long and detailed synopsis of the story (and, thereby, noting career milestones) is included in the booklet that comes with the physical CD. Such context makes for a fuller appreciation of the content for those eager to be more than just entertained by this dazzling channeling of the persona, sound and styles. And while there is no shortage of drama in the actual tale, with parental apathy, harrowing spousal abuse, jealousy, divorce and death, much of the recording plays sort of like a "greatest hits"/tribute album by a "fill-in" who is fabulously on fire in her own right.
Those who enjoyed Turner's renditions will find them respectfully treated, true to their assertive and passionate personalities. The material and its structures have not been genre-twisted to sound musical theatre-esque. Thus, this cast recording is not likely to convert those resistant to the originals or the tornado-esque, tough Turner stance. And there will be some true-blue Tinaphiles unwilling to part with some skepticism or dollars for downloads or discs who will be perfectly satisfied just having their icon's own versions. But this audio-only experience led by the formidable Adrienne Warren has its own pull as an intense rock-and-rollercoaster ride, despite not having the accompanying visuals of shaking and shimmying, athletic choreography, flashing lights, etc. Brace yourself.
TIERNEY SUTTON BAND
Music and movies have been good to each other for many years. Film plots inspire lyrics; melodies and instrumentation set moods; and, as years pass, the songs trigger memories of the motion pictures. The Tierney Sutton Band's tasteful ScreenPlay collection benefits from the symbiosis, but the material doesn't merely depend on nostalgic recreations. Each piece stands on its own as a vignette or commentary and some arrangements are quite different from the way they were first/famously heard. Pianist Christian Jacob, drummer Ray Brinker, bassists Kevin Axt and Trey Henry, and vocalist Tierney Sutton provide another classy and creative exploration in their body of work that has previously considered the oeuvres of Sinatra, Sting, and Joni Mitchell, among other themed and unthemed projects. A decision to move into movie songs, a vast repertoire, led them to release a series of EPs in 2019 (each with a different focus) and ScreenPlay gathers up the bulk of these tracks recalling soundtracks. Guitarist Serge Merlaud sits in on three selections, adding a welcome flavor.
The first installment had brought together five numbers with the sensitive lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman, all included here. These are decidedly gentle renditions, the piano often tip-toeing, the singing hushed and intimate to the point of feeling confessional. Mr. Bergman himself, now 93, comes quietly aboard for a poignant vocal duet on "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" from the film Best Friends, music by Michel Legrand, from 1982. On a far lighter note, the fluff that is Grease is sampled not once but twice with things added to the stage musical's score for the motion picture version. They hardly challenge the skill sets of these accomplished musicians with so much meaty movie music out there; while "Hopelessly Devoted to You" is sweetly diverting, what can you do with that other ditty whose chorus sounds even sillier when a mature vocal artist is gamely spouting its consecutive lines, "You're the one that I want/ ooh-ooh-ooh/ you're the one that I want/ ooh-ooh-ooh/ you're the one that I want/ ooh-ooh-ooh."
Eleven of ScreenPlay's selections favor the 1960s, '70s, and '80s rather than going for a concerted effort to equally represent the decades of movie history. The oldest numbers, from 1939 and 1940, are from beloved family-friendly film fare and are the most radically (and rewardingly) reimagined: The Wizard of Oz's "If I Only Had a Brain" surprisingly becomes sly and funky with these jazz musicians, and Pinocchio's "I've Got No Strings," originally the famous wooden marionette's jubilant declaration, is slowed way down to morph into a meditation of its declaration as a metaphor. The most recent cinema attraction is the 2016 Clint Eastwood project Sully, on which the band was musically involved (represented by "Arrow"). Purist's note: Not all the numbers were born of the silver screen, with two things here heard in movies adapted from Broadway musicals several years earlier: "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) and the title song from On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, both getting agreeably breezy settings. And then there's "The Sound of Silence," a stand-alone pop hit first issued in 1964 and added to the soundtrack of 1967's The Graduate. With in-the-moment phrasing and muscular percussive elements, with sudden shifts in dynamics and tempo, it's haunting in its own very different way.
If vocal and jazz interpretations of movie musical souvenirs had a ratings system to guide potential audiences the way the movies themselves do, ScreenPlay would be rated "A" for "Adventurous Audiences." And, as for upcoming releases by the eight-time-Grammy-nominated Tierney Sutton Band, I've always been curious about its coming attractions.
ELIZABETH TOMBOULIAN
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While she admirably delves into many musical styles, Elizabeth Tomboulian's way is to do so without throwing caution to the wind. There's some reserve that keeps despair and the blues at bay, keeps resentment in check, and keeps something like "If I Love Again" and "I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)" from giving into the idea that getting detached from some romantic attachments can seem impossible. Thus, the latter two are quite lovely, wistful, and sound thoughtful, but don't deliver despair like a killer punch in the gut. When she decides to sing us a song of social significance, it isn't heavy-handed and preachy, delivered from a soapbox (a medley of "For What It's Worth" and, with her additional lyrics, "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" as well as the Stevie Wonder title song on Love's in Need of Love Today). But the consciousness-raising messages get through without instilling lots of guilt or fear. In many cases, a cooler jazz sensibility tempers the proceedings, but does not become offhand and self-defeatingly casual.
The vocal sound is clear and supple, with a no-nonsense sense of confidence as she and the band journey through genres, mixing jazz piano giant Bill Evans' "Re: Person I Knew" with the slow, moody groove of Cyndi Lauper's pop hit "Time After Time," some foreign land-visiting ("Tristeza de amar"), and toying with a sassy Bessie Smith specialty that was published back in 1895 ("You've Been a Good Old Wagon, But You Done Broke Down").
The musicians get some spotlight time of their own, including the featured Ingrid Jensen on trumpet and flugelhorn. While husband Lee Tomboulian is the keyboardist on most tracks (singing along on three), the singer takes to the keyboard herself on three pieces on which her bassist Cliff Schmitt and drummer Alvester Garnett sit out. And did I mention that our versatile songstress also plays guitar on two numbers and wrote a cute original called "Cheesy"? The project is produced by singer Rosanna Vitro, who adds her vocals to the title song.
It isn't mentioned in the liner notes, but in researching online I found that Elizabeth Tomboulian works as a spiritual healer and subscribes to ideas about energy in the universe and music as a healing force, consulting with clients one on one. That's not the typical "day job" for a singer, but this lady, who's been involved as a singer and pianist for decades, is not the typical singer with the typical recording that comes our way. I'm glad it did.
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Madaraka Festival One Vibe Africa and EMP Museum present the 2nd Annual Madaraka Festival, a night of music and purpose. Madaraka Festival is a creative collaboration among Seattle artists in support of One Vibe Africa's Music and Art Program, based in Kisumu, Kenya.
Now more than ever, youth in Kenya are in need of the artistic encouragement and experiences offered by One Vibe Africa. Madaraka Festival provides the resources for these vital artistic exchanges. Hundreds of youth are now participating in One Vibe Africa's programs in Kenya as a direct result of the collaboration between Seattle artists involved in Madaraka Festival.
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The videographer will be responsible for filming a series of short stories in each of the Tamworth, Inverell and Moree Local Government Areas as part of Yesterday Today Tomorrow, a professional development program for six Aboriginal artists in the Arts North West region. It aims to give Aboriginal artists the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to create and exhibit contemporary works based on inspiration they have drawn from their local regions.
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From 4th-8th September international experts and practioners met in Sadri (Rajasthan/India) at LPPS campus to develop guidelines for BCPs by pastoralist communities. The writeshop was facilitated by Dr. Paul Mundy and attended by participants from India, Africa and Europe.
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LGBT leaders urge no hook-ups amid virus outbreak
by John Ferrannini
Wednesday Apr 1, 2020
Hookup apps like Grindr are urging people not to meet in person during the coronavirus outbreak. Photo: Courtesy Grindr
LGBT community leaders call upon people to change their sexual habits amid a deadly viral pandemic. A recalcitrant few refuse, while many more are wracked with fear. Government orders shutter queer spaces.
A news flash from the 1980s? No. This is queer life in the time of the novel coronavirus.
The analogy isn't perfect, but if history isn't repeating itself in 2020 San Francisco, it is certainly rhyming.
The physical distancing guidelines now accepted in the Bay Area and much of the country are clear, as public officials have ordered people to stay home as much as possible and, when going in public for outings such as walks, essential business or necessary errands, to stay at least six feet away from other people.
A man who asked to be identified as Frank said he is using Grindr for sexting.
"I lived through the AIDS epidemic and saw the impact of not listening to health advice," Frank wrote. "There were many in our culture who continue to have unsafe sex and were exposed to HIV and subsequently exposed others because they wanted to get off. Some even justified it by saying that it wasn't their obligation to tell other people they were HIV-positive or if someone didn't want to use a condom it was up to them and only them to ask for one."
Some cities, like New York, are actively warning about sexual health.
The public health department in New York City — which has more cases of, and deaths attributable to, COVID-19 (the disease caused by the novel coronavirus) than any other city — issued a two-page document of sexual health guidelines last week.
The document states that the virus has been found in saliva, mucus, and feces, but has not yet been found in seminal or vaginal fluids.
People are advised, in no uncertain terms, to "avoid close contact — including sex — with anyone outside your household."
"If you usually meet your sex partners online or make a living by having sex, consider taking a break from in-person dates. Video dates, sexting, or chat rooms may be options for you," the document states.
The document states that abstaining from sex is the best practice, but that only having sex with people in your household is the next best option, assuming they are not symptomatic or in a particular risk group for death due to a coronavirus infection.
"You are your safest sex partner. Masturbation will not spread COVID-19, especially if you wash your hands (and any sex toys) with soap and water for at least 20 seconds before and after sex," the guidelines state. "The next safest partner is someone you live with. Having close contact — including sex — with only a small circle of people helps prevent spreading COVID-19."
When reached by email March 31, the San Francisco Department of Public Health referred the Bay Area Reporter to its previously published guidelines, which do not explicitly address sexual health.
But in both the City That Never Sleeps and in the Bay Area, the physical distancing imposed to halt the spread of the virus has already closed many spaces where LGBT people specifically meet potential sexual partners.
California bars have been shuttered since March 15 just before several Bay Area counties issued shelter-in-place orders that went into effect March 17. California Governor Gavin Newsom followed up with his own statewide directive a few days later. Bathhouses and sex clubs, such as Steamworks in Berkeley, the Watergarden in San Jose, and Eros in San Francisco closed around that time or days earlier as non-essential gatherings were restricted in each municipality. (All bathhouses in San Francisco were permanently closed in 1984 during the AIDS epidemic, though sex clubs are allowed to operate within city limits.)
Phone apps such as Grindr and Scruff, which grew in ubiquity in the 2010s, are still up and running.
A pause on promiscuity
Christopher Vasquez, a gay man who is communications director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, posted on Facebook March 25 that he was communicating on the social media platform with people excusing "prioritizing their own sexual exploits over the public health of the entire community, and arguing that we shouldn't shame them for their actions."
"I'm going to say this flatly: if you are more worried about getting laid than the MANY more people who could die from COVID-19 because of your actions, shame on you," Vasquez wrote. "Should you die from COVID-19? No, but nor should the exponentially compounding number of people who could because of your selfish actions. This isn't sexual business as usual."
In a follow up email interview with the B.A.R., Vasquez wrote that most LGBT people are taking the physical distancing guidelines seriously but he was frustrated by the few who are not.
"It seems like many of the queer people that I know are taking the health orders seriously and have disengaged from risky sexual practices — like hooking up with individuals that they don't know. However, I know that a small number of my friends and acquaintances are continuing to have at least limited forms for sexual interactions during the shelter-in-place orders," Vasquez wrote in an email to the B.A.R. March 27. "It seems like with all the information we have gotten from both state and local public health professionals, having contact with people you aren't living with is not safe at the moment, even if both individuals aren't showing symptoms of the coronavirus."
Cleve Jones, a gay man who was one of the founders of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, also co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation in 1982. He too took to Facebook to urge people to use restraint.
"Please refrain from 'hooking up,'" Jones wrote on Facebook March 23. "Chatting on social media dating and hookup sites won't endanger anyone. Continuing to meet up for sex will only put everyone at risk. PrEP won't protect you from COVID-19. Please consider that."
In a March 31 phone call with the B.A.R., Jones recalled his similar message during the early days of AIDS.
"A group of us wrote an editorial for the B.A.R. urging people to change their behavior, and we said 'we're single men, we're part of this culture,' and I was walking down the street and an acquaintance of mine spit on me and said I was a Nazi for encouraging my brothers to protect themselves," Jones said. "Just a few days ago, I saw a friend of mine say he wanted to have a sex party at his apartment. ... I'm afraid this shit is even worse. With HIV/AIDS, it's possible to have a very fulfilling sex life without endangering anyone. We did a good job of making that happen — but even that wasn't enough to stop the spread, so let's not fool ourselves by saying we stopped AIDS by changing our behavior. It was the medications that did that."
Stephen Guy-Bray, a professor at the University of British Columbia, said he lived through the AIDS crisis and brought up some of the parallels and differences in a Twitter thread.
"It's in many ways a bad comparison. COVID-19 is much easier to catch, but the fatality rate is low. In the 1980s the fatality rate for AIDS was 100%. We had no reason to think it would change so we thought we were all going to die. That's different," he wrote. "But I do have experience of living through something like this. I think a lot of people will die from COVID-19. Many of you are saying that 'only' old people will die. In the AIDS crisis there were also many people saying that 'only' people who didn't matter would die. It was ugly then and it's ugly now. Don't be like this."
Many people have been making the comparison between the AIDS crisis and the corona virus crisis. As someone who lived through the former and intends to live through the latter, I thought I would add my thoughts on this.— notoriousSGB (@SGUYBRAY) March 13, 2020
In an email to the B.A.R. March 31, an unnamed representative from the hook-up app Grindr wrote that in-app notifications are urging people to "refrain from in-person meetings right now" — though the app has increased the amount of profiles available for users to view for free.
"The Grindr app remains active and available to all of our community members," the representative stated. "Grindr provides users with the ability to connect with others in the LGBTQ community — even if it's only online as we see many people doing through our chat or video functionality. This life-affirming connection is especially important during this time of physical and social isolation.
"In addition, Grindr for Equality is working to match our users all over the world with the most relevant local information about the virus as well as LGBTQ health in this situation," the representative added.
Browsing the Grindr app in the Bay Area within the past week brought up a notification from Grindr urging people to stay at home or have sex with those they already live with.
"Staying safe at home can still be sexy," the notification states. "You are your own best sex partner, so take some time to practice self-care.
"'Right Now' can wait — make plans to meet up in the future instead."
Of 10 people who responded to a B.A.R. request for comment through the Grindr app, seven indicated that they were not hooking up with people because of the COVID-19 epidemic. Two stated they were continuing to hook-up, and one stated he would have sex, but has not found anyone sufficiently attractive.
"I actually hooked up with a friend the night before the mandate took effect and then called it quits," a man who asked to be identified as Daniel wrote. "I'm mostly on to continue talking with people I already was talking with, some friends, and some potential hookups down the road, but not planning anything since the future is so uncertain right now."
Daniel wrote that roughly the same number of people are hitting him up as before.
"I've found some people more willing to chat than previously," Daniel wrote. "Some guys who I had tried to talk to over the years a few times are finally responding."
A man who identified himself as Jacob wrote that he thinks people on Grindr are more open to discussing things other than sex.
"It's interesting just talking to people on here without the intent of meeting up right away," Jacob wrote. "I like the change. People seem more willing to talk and open up about their lives instead of just sending dick pics. I guess the LGBT community is trying to keep some semblance of normalcy by using Grindr. ... I hope people aren't getting toooo carried away."
A man who identified himself as Danni, who said he is making future arrangements, said he is helping inform people about COVID-19.
"Some people are trying to hook up," Danni wrote. "I am telling them no! Lol. And to stay home and send them a bunch of facts."
But not everyone is planning to shelter in place.
A man who asked to be identified as Adam stated he is continuing to have sex but won't if his sex partner appears symptomatic.
"I am looking to hook up for quickies. I'm a sex addict," he wrote. "I think lust can be an overwhelming influence."
Another, who asked to be identified only as T, asked "what's the point?" of only chatting.
"Chatting won't get me off so there's that," T wrote.
Grindr removes ethnicity filter to combat racism
SF health dept. publishes new 'risk reduction' guidance for sex during COVID


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Try renaming your character settings xml file so you get a fresh one.
As for the start button - that was SOE/DBG's doing, but if you go to alt+o for options you can assign a key to the start button, it'll then pop out from the xp bar.
Were you loading an existing character's UI? You said you were returning so I thought you meant that.
If it's a totally fresh install of EQ2 then you can load one of the (Admittedly now kind of old) presets or you have to open the windows and arrange them manually. DBG by default gives you kind of a bare-bones layout to start.


Summary: Even if a person is multilingual, he/she is likely to be monolingual when it comes to mental arithmetic.
My mother, who was educated during the Japanese colonization of Korea, computes in Japanese. That is, she solves a numerical problem by murmuring Japanese multiplication tables yet producing the answer in Korean. Funnily, she uses no Japanese on any other occasion. After becoming multilingual, I've learned the same thing happens to me: I still compute in Korean. Despite being able to think and communicate in other languages, invariably whenever I manipulate numbers, I have to compute them in Korean before translating the answer into the language I am using.
Maybe this is something done only in my family. Yet a friend's daughter, after taking an immersive Spanish course, found she needed to compute numbers in Spanish before translating back to English. So I guess this runs in more than one family.
Actually, I can actually compute in more than one language. But that's because of the tens of thousands of hours I have spent tutoring students in mathematics in English, I necessarily began being able to compute in English. But the time I've spent pondering English multiplication tables is more than most people spend learning multiplication tables in their first languages. Yet when I'm not constrained to thinking in English, my computation always reverts back to Korean.
Malcolm Gladwell speculates in The Outliers that Asians compute more easily because their language expresses one number in one phoneme only. "Seven," for instance, is two syllables. Whereas in Chinese, a digit of a number can only ever be one syllable. Languages that adopted Chinese counting, such as Korean, share the same trait. Whereas Romantic languages, such as English and Portuguese, allow for multiple syllables as in se-ven (7) or no-ve (9). Incidentally, the Japanese language's adoption of Chinese counting does not always result in monosyllabic words for each number. For example 7 becomes shi-chi and 8 becomes ha-chi. And also, native Korean language's counting system is not monosyllabic either. One is ha-na, five is da-seot, 7 is il-gob, etc. Japanese native counting system also is multisyllabic. 1, 2, 3 becomes hi-to-tsu, fu-ta-tsu, mi-tsu, for example. Thus, it is only the Chinese counting system that is monosyllabic.
According to Malcolm Gladwell, a student learning Chinese multiplication tables has an advantage because he/she gets to learn them with just one-syllable numbers, whereas a Portuguese student must learn multiplication tables with much lengthier numbers. This theoretically makes the non-Asian student's learning harder. I am not sure how true that is, although the hypothesis is really fascinating.
Because of the phenomenon I mentioned above, one gets to learn multiplication tables only once. Thus this is not something that can be reversed at a later date. Is our arithmetic ability, not mathematical ability, really marked by the language with which we first learn it? It is a fascinating question indeed. At the same time, even if it were true, there is not much one can do to take advantage of it.
Please share your experiences/thoughts in multi-lingual arithmetic and in the comment box below.
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Q: Toolbar not showing with swipe to refresh I'm trying to implement collapsing tollbar with swipe to refresh and recyclerview.
When I'm trying to scroll (when recyclerview has only one item) toolbar collapse,
but when I'm trying to scroll down to show toolbar, it's impossible because swipe down causes swipe to refresh. When recyclerview has more item it works perfectly.
Link to gif with problem
<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="@+id/main_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">

<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
    android:id="@+id/appbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:elevation="1dp"
    android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">

    <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
        android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
        android:elevation="1dp"
        android:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
        app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|enterAlways" />

</android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

    <android.support.v4.widget.SwipeRefreshLayout
        android:id="@+id/activity_main_swipe_refresh_layout"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        app:layout_behavior="@string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior">

        <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
            android:id="@+id/cities_list"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent">

        </android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView>

    </android.support.v4.widget.SwipeRefreshLayout>

<android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton
    android:id="@+id/fab"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_gravity="end|bottom"
    android:layout_margin="16dp"
    android:elevation="1dp"
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A: Update: This bug has been fixed in the version 23.1.1 of support library
You can set onOffsetChanged listener for your AppBarLayout  and prevent to swipe refreshing until AppBarLayout layout offset 0.
This is good example :
https://gist.github.com/blackcj/001a90c7775765ad5212

A: I managed it by adding the following implementation of OnOffsetChangedListener in fragment:
@Override
public void onOffsetChanged(AppBarLayout appBarLayout, int verticalOffset) {
    if (collapsingToolbarLayout.getHeight() + verticalOffset < 2 * ViewCompat.getMinimumHeight(collapsingToolbarLayout)) {
        swipeRefreshLayout.setEnabled(false);
    } else {
        swipeRefreshLayout.setEnabled(true);
    }
}

@Override
public void onResume() {
    super.onResume();
    appBarLayout.addOnOffsetChangedListener(this);
}

@Override
public void onPause() {
    super.onPause();
    appBarLayout.removeOnOffsetChangedListener(this);
}


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