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Queens leaders relieved now that MTA plans to install nets to catch debris from elevated subway line
Courtesy of Van Bramer's office
Elected officials in western Queens are pleased that the MTA plans to do something about the debris falling from elevated subway tracks.
By Bill Parry
bparry@schnepsmedia.com
Lawmakers in western Queens are applauding the MTA's plan to spend nearly $325 million to significantly expand safety netting on elevated subway lines as part of its proposed $51.5 billion capital plan.
The news was welcomed in Woodside and Sunnyside after there were a frightening number of near-misses with debris falling from the No. 7 subway line, in particular, a notorious event last February when a long wooden plank shook free and pierced the windshield of an SUV on Roosevelt Avenue, narrowly missing an unidentified driver near 65th Street.
Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer released an extraordinary photo of the damage and began a campaign calling for the MTA to take action before someone got seriously injured or killed.
"I am relieved to see the MTA allocate $325 million in its capital plan to install protective netting under all elevated subway lines across New York City," Van Bramer said. "This is a huge win after months of advocating with the community for improvements along the 7 train. The MTA's capital plan is outlined for the next five years, but we must keep up the pressure to ensure that the netting is put up as soon as possible."
And it wasn't just the wooden plank incident that scared motorists and pedestrians along Roosevelt Avenue. Chunks of metal have fallen smashing windshields and several times people walking near the 52nd Street station have nearly been struck by falling debris.
"After at least seven consecutive incidents of dangerous falling debris, this situation still must be treated with urgent care until the safety of all New Yorkers is guaranteed. We are incredibly lucky that no one has been injured or killed so far."
The MTA was unable to provide a timeline as they are awaiting of an evaluation of a pilot program in which knotless nylon netting of high tenacity nylon and polypropylene mesh is installed. The agency is also reviewing and analyzing data from the Chicago Transit Authority, and will then determine if and how it can be applied to the MTA system.
"Safety is the top priority at NYC Transit, and we continually review our system to find ways it can be enhanced and improved," an MTA spokesman said. "Increasing netting on elevated structures is just one of our efforts."
Councilman Costa Constantinides has been calling for protective netting to be installed under the entirety of the elevated N/W line in Astoria since August when a heavy metal flashlight fell from a construction project and nearly struck a pedestrian. He said he regularly hears complaints and reads tweets from Astoria residents about debris falling onto 31st Street from construction or track maintenance above.
"I'm glad to see the MTA finally recognizes that pedestrians and cyclists are at risk anytime they cross the street of ride under the elevated track," Constantinides said. "Flashlights shouldn't fall from the sky and nearly hit someone in the head — but that's exactly what happened here in Astoria this summer. I hope the MTA will be a good community partner by installing protective netting under the entirety of the N/W elevated track in Astoria."
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Embassy slams 'baseless' claims of US role in Prime Minister Abiy's selection processes
The U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa on Tuesday rejected allegations by a founding member of the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF) that the United States was involved in the appointment of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed who took the helm of the ruling party on March 2018.
At a conference organized by Mekele University over the weekend, the retired Tigrayan official, Sebhat Nega said he had "no doubt" that the US government had played an active role in pushing the appointment of Abiy Ahmed. He offered no evidence to support the allegations.
The finger-pointing comes as many TPLF officials who felt side-lined escalate rhetorical attack against the chairman of the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) and Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed.
U.S. Embassy spokesman in Addis Ababa, Nicholas Barnett said "I want to be perfectly clear that any claims of U.S. involvement in the selection process of the Prime Minister of Ethiopia are completely baseless," speaking to VOA Horn of Africa Service. He said the U.S believes both in theory and practice in respecting Ethiopia's sovereignty and the right of individuals to vote for their own leaders. "We see Prime Minister Abiy's election as chairman of EPRDF as reflection of people's interest for reform, representative political system and participative democracy. We certainly support the Prime Minister's reform agenda. But we had no role to play in his election," he said.
Sebaht Nega was commenting to a presentation by Berekt Simoen, another retired figure of the EPRDF who claimed that one of the reasons for the escalating violence in the country is the increasing foreign intervention. Berekt named the Eritrean president Isaias Afewerki as an example whom he said was meddling in the country's internal affairs, mentioning his "Game over for TPLF officials" remark.
In a reaction to Bereket, Sebhat Nega took the charge even further, implicating Donald Yamamoto, a senior African diplomat in the Trump administration and currently serving as U.S. ambassador to Somalia in directly involving in Abiy's election as chairman of the ruling party on March 2018. "Many of us have opposed that intervention, saying the US would not choose a chairman for us, including you, Bereket," he said. "Who was that American ambassador who has a Japanese face? He came in person and we knew that he was officially engaged in the election process," Sebhat said.
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import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonSerializer;
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import java.text.DateFormat;
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HomeInterviewsDan Bigham - HUUB-Wattbike Track Team 2020 Plans, and more...
Dan Bigham – HUUB-Wattbike Track Team 2020 Plans, and more…
"April is the date we're working towards and we'll all be going for records..."
Englishman Dan Bigham is the man behind the highly successful HUUB-Wattbike track team; HUUB manufacture specialist clothing for cycling and triathlons whilst Wattbike manufacture 'smart' bikes and indoor trainers.
The team have UCI team pursuit World Cup wins to their name; Bigham is a man for whom the term 'marginal gains guru' must be appropriate when it comes to cycle sport aerodynamics and power delivery – it goes without saying he's a very successful cyclist – winning a record seven British titles in track and time trial disciplines in 2017.
For the road season he rides for the Ribble Pro Cycling continental team.
We caught up with him just after the HUUB team's 2020 season launch, to which we were invited to but couldn't make.
Dan Bigham introduces the riders at the team launch. Photo©Huub-Wattbike
Your highlights of the 2019 season, Dan?
"There are so many; perhaps the one which gave me most satisfaction was our second ride in the Paris World Cup team pursuit; it all came together and we did a 3:53:8 ride.
"I enjoyed the Tour of Yorkshire, where I rode well on Stage One, and of course it's been great seeing the progress that our rider John Archibald has made and knowing that I've helped him to develop.
"Consulting with Jumbo Visma and seeing Wout Van Aert win the Belgian Elite TT Championship was very satisfying too."
Disappointments?
"How I rode in the British Elite Road Race Championships [Bigham finished in a group @ 6:55 behind Ineos winner Ben Swift, ed.], as well as the situation with the UCI deciding to end trade teams participation in World Cups – that really got under my skin and was a major distraction.
"I ended up thinking about that situation rather than the bike race I was riding!"
Photo©Huub-Wattbike
What's the latest on that World Cup exclusion situation?
"Our HUUB-Wattbike team, the Dutch BEAT team, the Russian Gazprom Rusvelo team and any teams which aren't representing a national federation are now excluded from the World Cups.
"And there will be only three World Cups instead of six.
"The UCI say it's part of the new policy to return track cycling to being a summer sport and so they can have an 'integrated' World Championship with road and track but it means that guys like Mark Cavendish and Elia Viviani will be lost to the track.
"I also believe that they're looking at changing the focus away from timed events on the track to bunched and sprint racing – they think that the timed events are becoming too much of a 'tech arms race.'
"But the fact is that they won't enter into discussion about it at all."
New sponsors on board with HUUB-Wattbike for 2020 I believe?
"Yes, it's been great, we've had a lot of new support – one of the most prominent is Vita Coco, the coconut water company, they're particularly attracted to our forthcoming world record attempts.
"Wattbike have increased their level of support and we have Rolls Royce and Meggitt on board now.
"Meggitt are an aerospace company who do data analytics – smart technology which can benefit us."
And new riders?
"We lost Harry Tanfield to Katusha but have taken on board Scotsman Kyle Gordon who has a huge engine – we want the best team pursuiters on board…
"We've also recruited Will Perrett, a trackie who's been around forever but is going to benefit from a much more structured approach to training and racing with us.
"Of course, John Archibald, Jonny Wale and Ashton Lambie are still with us, as is Jake Tipper – but his focus will be more on the bunch races this year."
Is it still Aguascalientes for your 'record orgy' or have you been seduced by those Pan Am times set at Cochabamba?
[Three world records fell on the Bolivian track at the Pan Am Championships in September: Flying men's 200 metres to Nicholas Paul of Trinidad & Tobago with 9.100 seconds; Flying ladies' 200 metres to Kelsey Mitchell of Canada with 10.154 and Men's 4,000 metres individual pursui


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Q: Save a gzipped html file on server by using PHP gzipp I use this script to automatically save a PHP-file into a HTML file on my server:
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$page=file_get_contents('http://yourdomain.com/index.php');
$fp=fopen('index.html','w+');
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How can I get the server to also save a Gzipped version of index.php on the server?
The goal is to have the following files in the folder:

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*turn-indexphp-into-indexhtml-and-indexgz.php

*index.php

*index.html

*index.gz

A: If you can only access the page by URL (ie. it is not a file on your own server), as pointed out by a few commenters - you will only be able to access the output of the PHP/ASP/Whatever file.
If it is not a Local File
<?php
$theUrl = 'http://www.server.com/filename.htm';
$theOutput = file_get_contents( $theUrl );
$outBase = preg_replace( '/[^\d\w]/' , '_' , $theUrl );
// Output standard HTML file (Filename may be clunky, but, up to you to fix that)
$outHTM = $outBase.'.htm';
file_put_contents( $outHTM , $theOutput );
// Output a GZipped version of same
$outGZ = $outBase.'.htm.gz';
$theOutput = gzencode( $theOutput , 9 );
file_put_contents( $outGZ , $theOutput );
?>

If it is a local file, then you can do the above, but also...
<?php
$theLocalFile = '/somefolder/anotherfolder/index.php';
$theLocalContent = file_get_contents( $theLocalFile );
$localBase = preg_replace( '/[^\d\w]/' , '_' , $theLocalContent );
// Save an uncompressed copy
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Q: Discontinuity in graphs but no discontinuity in data in plotting dataframes using matplotlib I'm trying to plot predictions using scikit-learn, pandas, and matplotlib.
I'm able to predict the data and able to save them in dataframes. But now when I plot them there are two cases.
1st case
I created a new column for the forecast predictions and plot them with the values i predicted from
Adj. Close is my feature and forecast are my predictions. As you can see the dates are matched perfectly so there shouldn't be any gaps.
My data:
            HL_Precentage  Adj. High  Adj. Low  Adj. Close  Adj. Volume  \
Date
2016-08-19       0.545879     801.23    796.88      799.65    1120763.0
2016-08-22       0.625685     799.30    794.33      796.95     853365.0
2016-08-23       0.629405     801.00    795.99      796.59     917513.0
2016-08-24       0.973747     798.46    790.76      793.60    1284437.0
2016-08-25            NaN        NaN       NaN         NaN          NaN
2016-08-26            NaN        NaN       NaN         NaN          NaN
2016-08-27            NaN        NaN       NaN         NaN          NaN
2016-08-28            NaN        NaN       NaN         NaN          NaN
2016-08-29            NaN        NaN       NaN         NaN          NaN
2016-08-30            NaN        NaN       NaN         NaN          NaN

             label    Forecast
Date
2016-08-19  802.79         NaN
2016-08-22  801.23         NaN
2016-08-23  803.08         NaN
2016-08-24  800.71         NaN
2016-08-25     NaN  797.835059
2016-08-26     NaN  799.896814
2016-08-27     NaN  802.552861
2016-08-28     NaN  798.483859
2016-08-29     NaN  795.999011
2016-08-30     NaN  797.866796

(red is Adj. Close and blue is forecast)
2nd case
To get rid of the gap I plugged the values of predictions in the Adj. Close column only and to my amusement the graph was a continuous one.
Data:
            HL_Precentage  Adj. High  Adj. Low  Adj. Close  Adj. Volume  \
Date
2016-08-19       0.545879     801.23    796.88  799.650000    1120763.0
2016-08-22       0.625685     799.30    794.33  796.950000     853365.0
2016-08-23       0.629405     801.00    795.99  796.590000     917513.0
2016-08-24       0.973747     798.46    790.76  793.600000    1284437.0
2016-08-25            NaN        NaN       NaN  796.877634          NaN
2016-08-26            NaN        NaN       NaN  799.448407          NaN
2016-08-27            NaN        NaN       NaN  801.340352          NaN
2016-08-28            NaN        NaN       NaN  798.130538          NaN
2016-08-29            NaN        NaN       NaN  794.900353          NaN
2016-08-30            NaN        NaN       NaN  796.483742          NaN

             label  Forecast
Date
2016-08-19  802.79       NaN
2016-08-22  801.23       NaN
2016-08-23  803.08       NaN
2016-08-24  800.71       NaN
2016-08-25     NaN       NaN
2016-08-26     NaN       NaN
2016-08-27     NaN       NaN
2016-08-28     NaN       NaN
2016-08-29     NaN       NaN
2016-08-30     NaN       NaN

My question is how to make my first graph continuous so as to make my predictions not discontinuous?

A: if you want the line to be continuous the data needs to overlap or a continuous series from 1 column. an easy way to do this would be to replace NA's in Forecast by adj close before plotting such has:
df['Adj. Close'].fillna(df.Forecast, inplace=True).plot()

A: There is a discontinuity in your data - the last Adj. close value was recorded on 08/24 and the first Forecast value is for 08/25.
In order to have no breaks in the line you would need the ends of your two series to overlap by at least one timepoint. You could, for example, compute a Forecast for 08/24 where you also have an Adj. close value.


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People International Society Honors Two Researchers For Breakthrough Work In Cancer Diagnostics; Roche Institute Recognizes Scientist for Protein Transport Studies
David M. Goldenberg, president of the Garden State Cancer Center, a cancer research institution in Newark, N.J., and Jean-Pierre Mach, a professor of biochemistry in the faculty of medicine at Lausanne University, Switzerland--were honored last month with the 1994 Abbott Award. The award was presented at the 22nd meeting of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology (ISOBM), held in Groningen, the Netherlands. ISOBM, cu
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Two pioneers in the field of cancer imaging and monoclonal antibody therapy--David M. Goldenberg, president of the Garden State Cancer Center, a cancer research institution in Newark, N.J., and Jean-Pierre Mach, a professor of biochemistry in the faculty of medicine at Lausanne University, Switzerland--were honored last month with the 1994 Abbott Award. The award was presented at the 22nd meeting of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology (ISOBM), held in Groningen, the Netherlands.
ISOBM, currently headquartered in Freiberg, Germany, is an international scholarly society for immunologists and cancer biologists who have an interest in tumor markers. It produces a monthly research journal, Tumor Biology, published by S. Kargers Publishers Inc. of Basel, Switzerland. The annual Abbott Award was established by Abbott Park, Ill.-based Abbott Laboratories five years ago to recognize ISOBM members for their research and service to the society.
Goldenberg and Mach worked independently but...


The first chance for a short play got burned but there is a second one on offer for the S&P.
The S&P tagged channel resistance and while today's reversal off resistance didn't amount to a big percentage loss it did register as a distribution day. There wasn't any significant technical change so if this short does evolve it will do so with risk measured on a move above 2,717.
The Nasdaq may match a 'bearish evening star' but if this is the case there has to be a significant move lower tomorrow, any gap higher or rally above 7,319 will negate the pattern. Stochastics have switched bullish which weakens the short picture but there was also bearish distribution to consider.
However, if there is no weak start then the Dow Jones could be the play for longs. Today's selling didn't come close to negating the breakout. There was distribution but price action is dominant.
The hardest hit index was the Semiconductor Index. While it never presented as a clear shorting opportunity it's reaching a decision point where major support will be tested, and if this fails, then a more prolonged selling period could emerge. To me, this is looking like a bellwether index for 2018. I was bullish Semiconductors when no one was interested but I think it's looking overvalued now.


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Yikes! Ransomware Attacks Up 151% So Far This Year
In the first six months of 2021, education saw a 615% spike in ransomware incidents, while healthcare experienced a 594% increase.
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August 05, 2021 Zachary Comeau	Jump to Comments
Ransomware and other cyberattacks have been front and center in news cycles of late, but is the issue just getting more attention, thus the renewed emphasis on stopping it?
Related: Pandemic Pushes Rise of School Cyber Attacks, Projected to Keep Climbing
That answer is an emphatic "no," according to SonicWall, which says in a new report that ransomware attacks skyrocketed in the first half of 2021, surpassing the entire volume for 2020 in just six months.
According to SonicWall's 2021 Cyber Threat Report, there have been a total of 304.7 million global ransomware attacks, which is already more than the 304.6 million total from last year. That's good enough for an increase of 151%.
April, May and June experienced record highs, including 789.4 million in June alone.
"The continued rise of ransomware, cryptojacking and other unique forms of malware targeted at monetization, along with their evolution of tactics, are evidence that cybercriminal activity always follows the money and rapidly adapts to new opportunities and changing environments," said SonicWall Vice President of Platform Architecture Dmitriy Ayrapetov.
The U.S. in particular saw a heavy increase in ransomware volume, a spike of 185%. The country was the most targeted, followed by the U.K., Germany, South Africa and Brazil.
Related: Improving Campus Cybersecurity with Segmentation
Florida was the most targeted state with 111.1 million ransomware attacks, more than four times as many as the next state, New York, with 26.4 million attacks. Idaho, (20.5 million), Louisiana (8.8 million) and Rhode Island (8.8 million) followed.
Several sectors also saw massive spikes in ransomware volume, with government (917%), education (615%), healthcare (594%) and retail (264%).
The report also found that new malware variants are being discovered, and IoT devices remain vulnerable to compromise.
In a statement, SonicWall President and CEO Bill Conner said cybercriminals are accelerating attacks and embracing ransomware to sow discord, profit and capitalize on the continued emphasis on remote work.
"It's crucial that organizations move toward a modern Boundless Cybersecurity approach to protect against both known and unknown threats, particularly when everyone is more remote, more mobile and less secure than ever," he said.
This article originally ran in CS sister publication MyTechDecisions.com and has been edited. Zachary Comeau is TD's web editor.
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Lawrence McGinty - Biography and Images
Lawrence McGinty is ITV News' Science and Medical Editor. He joined ITV News at Science Editor in 1987.
In 2000 Lawrence was a member of the reporting team covering the Mozambique floods. The team was subsequently awarded an Emmy, the American equivalent of an Oscar, for Best International News Coverage.
Lawrence reports on all matters to do with science and the environment for ITV news programmes. His reports have included extensive analytical coverage of the Challenger, Zeebrugge and Chernobyl disasters as well as coverage of many topical medical issues, such as AIDS and the links between CJD and BSE.
Lawrence joined ITN in 1982 as science correspondent working on Channel 4 News.
Lawrence's early career was spent in the Department of Control Engineering at Sheffield University (1970-1972), having obtained a degree in Zoology at Liverpool University. In 1973 he became Assistant Editor of 'Chemistry in Britain', the monthly magazine of the Royal Chemical Society. From 1974 to 1982 he worked at the New Scientist Magazine, where he was first Technology Editor, then Health and Safety Editor and also News Editor.
Lawrence McGinty is married and lives in Kent.
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If any of you watch Hoda and Kathie Lee you may now have the "everyone has a story" song in your head. It's a segment of the Today show where they tell a story of one of their viewers, write a song for them, and do something wonderful for them. I love this idea and truly had no idea what else to call this. While I certainly won't be writing or singing any songs (trust me...it wouldn't be pretty), I love celebrating stories.
Stories are powerful folks. Words matter. Hearing "me too" matters. Feeling loved and celebrated matters. I view my job as a job of storytelling. It is my main goal. And I love your story. I see your story. I want to know more stories and I want to celebrate and document the beauty and harshness and perfect imperfection of story. True stories. Through photography.
I need your help to do this. We all know someone who's story inspires us, saddens us, gives us hope, or simply makes us hold on to the ones we love just a little bit tighter. I want to hear those stories and have the chance to give a gift that will last generations.
*If you know someone who's story, who's family, needs celebrated or just simply needs to be heard or captured, write to me and let me know. Every so often I am going to pick from these stories and give a session to a deserving family. With this session they will also receive a CD/flash drive of all the final images with unlimited personal printing privileges.
This is not something that will be announced on my website, so please don't be discouraged if you don't hear anything about the session. I will leave it up to the families if they would like to share. Unfortunately, not all stories will be chosen. Email me at priscilla@priscillabphotography.com for more information.
Family Photography, Kiddo Photography, Mini Sessions, Uncategorized, Belly.Birth.Babe.
Soon they'll be a family of 4. I loved that momma wanted to savor and soak up and capture their last little bit of time as three. This reminded me of the moment Bret and I were walking out the door before going to the hospital to become a family of three. We stood in the door, breathed it in...and then left in a hurry with the next contraction. I absolutely love maternity sessions. I know mommas don't feel exceptionally beautiful, but they always are. Just look how stunning she is!
Let's talk about this session...that whole weekend...my job in general. As I was photographing this family (who, by the way, I've photographed and loved since they were a family of three), watching them simply be...be themselves...be calm, snuggly, funny, thoughtful, intelligent, silly...and I start getting teary. Yes...tears on a photo session...from the photographer. Don't worry...no one knew and it didn't disrupt the session...no blubbering photographer at the shoot. The thing is, something that many people simply see as taking pictures....no big deal...is so much more to me. It is truly an honor to stand in front of a family, with a camera in their face, and for them to completely trust me so much so that they just completely let down any guard they may have. I get to watch them just be. I get to watch them interact with each other. I get to watch the way they get each other to laugh and the way they snuggle in and the way their hands fit perfectly together. The way a child's head fits perfectly under their mommas chin and into her arms. The way a Daddy can simply threaten a tickle and evoke a multitude of laughs. The way siblings can "get" each other in a way no one else can...the way they can make each other giggle and the way they can make each other scream. The way families just seem to fit. Even on their worse days...even when they're stressed, running late, uncomfortable in front of the camera...they still fit. I can't help but see God here. And I...I get to witness this and, hopefully, remind each of these amazing people that even on their worse days, they have this. They fit. No. They belong. They. Belong. Is there any greater gift in the world than that? This is why I love photographing families. God chose me to do this. I...I get to be a witness to THIS. Goodness...it kinda takes my breath away.
I found myself thinking about all of this as I watched them walk over the rolling hills of Central KY, in the spot my husband and I had our wedding reception, at a time in my life that I am truly in love with my job, and tears welled up in my eyes. I stopped. Took a deep breath to soak it all in. Whispered a thanks to God. And continued photographing this family that I love. What a beautiful day/weekend it was.
How do you get in on the fun? I'm so glad you asked! There are several ways.
1. If you reserve your session between today (June 16th) and Friday (June 20th), you'll receive 1/2 off a Signature Session fee and $100 off a Mini Session fee. You can reserve your session online HERE.
Signature Sessions must take place within an hour of zip code 40444 and after July 9th.
Mini Sessions are on specific dates and locations. Please see calendar HERE.
* There will be several ways to enter, which I'll announce on Wednesday.
* You have to follow me on Instagram or have "liked" my Facebook page.
* The package will not go in the mail until late July.
3. There will be one big giveaway on Friday for Newsletter and Blog subscribers. You can subscribe to my newsletter HERE and the blog HERE.
* Nontransferable and cannot be traded for cash. If you purchase a session and would like to give it as a gift, that is perfectly fine with me, but that is the only instance it can be "transferred".
Now...I think that about covers all of you who have been supporting me from the beginning and those of you who are new around here. I love you all so dearly and feel extremely blessed that God chose photography as one of my biggest gifts. If it weren't for Him, my family and friends, and all of you, I wouldn't be able to do what I love. I also wouldn't have been able to have the flexibility to keep my son home on most days. That is the best gift that any of you could give me and as a collective, that's exactly what you've given me. I wish I could come give each of you an extremely big hug. I wish there were enough words to express exactly how grateful I truly am. I consider all of you and all of this a blessing. Thank you. Thank you. A million times over...thank you.
Since I can't finish any post without a picture...here's one of my favorites from our vacation last year. I absolutely can't wait to see my crazy little man on the beach this year. It feels like a second home to us and it melts my hear to share it with him. May there be many more days like this. Thank you to Stacey Woods Photography for the beautiful images year after year.


In the rhythm of the Samba - Learn Portuguese, discover Rio - RioLIVE!
In the rhythm of the Samba. Students posing for the photo at the end of the class.
Ayer tuvimos una clase de samba, aprendimos los pasos básicos con un profesor carioca. Bailamos y también nos divertimos mucho. Me sentí carioca por un día, una experiencia inolvidable.
Yesterday we had a special class at school, because students could feel themselves in the rhythm of the Samba! Between laughs and dance steps, the students learned how to dance one of the most incredible rhythms of Brazil. It was not only about learning the dancing style, but also the culture that comes with it. Samba is classified as an energetic, fun and fast dance style and Brazilians love to dedicate their time to listen to samba and to dance as well.
The instructor of the class – Castrinho – Made sure that everybody could stay in a happy and cozy environment, by helping each student to be comfortable in the class and to interact with each other. Castrinho teached all the movements step by step and as time went by the students could see their improvement and started to cut loose from shyness.
At the end of the class, Castrinho got all the students together to join him in a traditional Roda de Samba! In a circle and in pairs, the students could show their Samba skills and also feel the Brazilian culture running in ther veins. We are sure they loved it! Now it's your turn to join us in our RioLIVE! activities and to learn more about Brazil!


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The above examples demonstrate the variety of approaches drug makers have taken in coming up with new medicines. Their goal: design in characteristics that enable the drugs to achieve the desired effects, while at the same time designing out their ability to bind to and effect secondary molecules. These secondary interactions (and sometimes primary ones as well) often lead to side effects that can be sufficiently serious to prevent a drug from ever being used in the marketplace. This particular aspect of designing small molecules is daunting. X-ray crystallography and other techniques often enable scientists to generate 3D images of the protein that wish to target. This information is extremely valuable in tailoring the design of a drug that is meant to bind to and modulate the function of this particular protein. Ideally, the drug only attaches itself to this one (or in some cases, a few closely related) target(s). Often, the primary challenge isn't finding a chemical that can bind to the chosen protein, it's identifying one that doesn't bind well to the other 21,000 or so proteins that it might also interact with. Imagine trying to design a mask that will precisely fit your face, but won't fit well on the faces of thousands of other individuals. This inherent difficulty has fueled the rise of biologics (protein-based drugs), where such discriminatory specificity is much easier to achieve because the appropriate molecules have already been selected for by the powerful forces of evolution.
For a number of medical conditions, the exact molecular defect that is responsible for the disease is now well understood. In a best-case scenario, the genetic defect that causes chronic myelogenous leukemia was identified and led to the development of an amazingly effective drug with a very high cure rate. Knowing exactly what causes a disease is useful, but this information doesn't always translate into curative medicines. The mutated protein that causes cystic fibrosis was discovered after years of intensive research in 1989. In the two decades since this discovery was made, however, no one has developed a reliable method for replacing, correcting, or bypassing the single defective gene that encodes this key protein (although a recent trial looks somewhat promising for one specific subset of patients).
There is a story today out about Martin Mackay, the new president of R&D at Astra Zeneca. In his PR photograph, Dr. Mackay is sitting in front of a laminar flow hood, inside of a laboratory.
You'll recall the Astra Zeneca not only sacked the R&D staff in Wilmington DE, they razed 450,000 square feet of lab space.
Business as usual is taking an office based scientist and thinking that one person will bring about proper changes. This is the same cycle that has been going on for decades. Sack the staff, keep the decision makers. Photograph them inside a laboratory with a white lab coat.
Pharmaceutical companies need to spend more of the time and money on developing bioinformatics and computer modelling in drug development so as to better understand the biological pathways associated with a particular disease and hence reduce developmental costs.
However I think the main reason there is a lack of an adventurous spirit in the pharmaceutical industry is the real fear of costly litigation especially in the US when things go wrong. Perhaps the expansion in the US is largely due to the necessity to curry favour with US policy makers etc.
Also one has to take into account the competition by pharmaceutical companies (usually in countries not worried about such things as patents) that don't do the research but don't won't to pay any royalties.
For some odd technical reason, Mark Minie was unable to post a comment on this article. Since he asked nicely, I'm pasting his comment below.
People can apply/register there, and we plan on limiting it to a total number of 20 people. My plan is to have people work in teams of 2 to give online presentations using the videoconferencing tool Adobe Connect Pro (with video and audio), and these talks will be scored and such by me and the other students-this will be done along the lines of a similar presentation format I have used successfully for my Molecular and Cellular Biology classes with the UW. Students will have FULL ACCESS to ALL UW online journals, and we will be using the free online reference management/science social networking tool MENDELEY (http://www.mendeley.com/ ). I will manage the class using a wiki (all talks will be recorded and posted on the wiki, and there will be an online discussion board for conversations about the talks asynchronously), and I will be very flexible about what papers and topics people want to use in their coursework.
If this first version of the course is successful, it is possible that next year we will scale it up to include more people on multiple days and perhaps even specific focuses. One of the main purposes of this offering is to build a community of non-UW consultants, researchers and others who need access to the online holdings at the UW for their work and also want to keep up with the most up to date science through peer reviewed research journals and also want to network with others with similar interests.
The Professional and Continuing Education unit at the UW (along with the UW BioE Department), which will be sponsoring this course, also recognizes that access to such resources is a continuing education issue for the biotech/pharma community and is a way for the UW to provide more support for those industries.
Stewart correctly points out that the picture is not a simple one, but I think it's fair to say that no industry with the wealth or importance of pharma has ever had more trouble controlling its environment. Public perception, regulatory framework, and the behavior of payors are all far from what pharma would like.
I agree with Stewart that nature hasn't been very cooperative lately, but given all the other things that pharma can't seem to control, one is tempted to see the problem beginning and ending with pharma.
However, while systematic organizational weaknesses and pervasive delusional thinking are factors, the industry has also had terrible luck. Just about the time pharma worked its way through all the easy wins from the last 5,000 years of medical experimentation, the economics of drug discovery and development got much worse, compounded (pun intended) by payment systems that (particularly in the US) make drug costs much more visible to consumers than are other medical costs. Oops.
What to do? Drug companies are sales and marketing machines, and to a lesser extent manufacturing and distribution machines. Like Cisco Systems, they don't have a particular talent for innovation. Cisco's solution is to concede the obvious and buy innovation by acquiring startups. That's working great. Or it was, up until recently. Now Cisco is shedding people as fast as pharma and exiting markets it never really understood. Oops again.
The way pharma sells and markets drugs is somewhat broken, but it'll do for now. The way new drugs are approved is broken, but earlier approval for more limited labeling combined with post-market surveillance would patch over the problem for now. The most broken thing is the way pharma decides what drug targets to invest in, and the way pharma decides what candidate molecules to take into trials. Concentrate your fire on those areas, and those who make progress will be richly and deservedly rewarded.
Thanks to all of you for taking the time to comment.
R. Jones shouldn't be surprised that the President of Astra Zeneca had his photo taken in front of some scientific equipment; such pics are standard operating procedure in the industry, along with photos of pills and patients. See nearly any biotech/pharma annual report. I think your observation that the staff gets sacked while the decision makers keep their jobs applies to a large number of industries, such as automobiles; it is not unique to biopharma.
Paul Whitesman is correct that bioinformatics and computer modeling may be helpful in drug development, but the same could be said for a number of other tools used in the scientific research process. Advanced imaging techniques, for example, may also be quite useful. The primary issue is whether or not companies are willing to make a long-term investment in these techniques at the expense of their short-term profits. It's not clear to me why a fear of litigation would lead to a lack of an adventurous spirit. Even developing a drug that is closely related to another drug would not protect you from lawsuits, as the makers of Vioxx and Baycol can attest to. Intellectual property issues are always a concern, but they will carry the day in the major markets of the world (e.g. North America and Europe), so I don't see that as too big a problem.
Congratulation to Mark Minie for his success in putting together the UW Online Journal Club, which will help to solve the problem of a lack of journal access for a small number of local scientists. For those who are interested, I followed up on my previous Xconomy article that Mark referred to with an op-ed in Nature Biotechnology (http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v29/n7/full/nbt.1909.html) that put forth some possible solutions to the problem. I have been following up on both articles with a number of interested people in Seattle and beyond to try and develop a more wide spread solution to the problem. Anyone interested in helping with this effort should contact me at lymanbiopharma@comcast.net.
Erik Nilsson correctly points out that there are a number of issues that pharma is struggling to deal with at present beyond the one that I wrote about here. Unfortunately, some of these problems are of their own making, such as the low opinion that they are held in by a large percentage of the population. These used to be highly admired companies in the not-to-distant past. Post market surveillance is something the industry has promised to do numerous times in the past, but then has failed to do, so I am not a big fan that this will efficiently fix any problems. My focus here was simply to point out that drug discovery is grounded in scientific inquiry and excellence, and that new business models are no substitute for this. The science is difficult, expensive, and time consuming, but is the only way forward in developing new medicines.
Thanks to Stuart again for getting the issue of access to scientific literature on the radar screen as being a criticality one component of science driven businesses such as biotech and pharma.
I do, however, want to clear up a few potential misperceptions in his post about my upcoming online journal club course. First, this course is completely Internet based, and therefore is open to people from any location on Earth (or even the ISS if any astronauts/cosmonauts doing biomedical research up there are interested  )…and in fact some of our early applicants are from outside of the Seattle area (we have one applicant from Boston, another from San Francisco and someone from Europe at this point). The course is not in any way restricted to those local to Seattle…it is a truly online course/resource! Second, while this initial course will be limited to 20 students (primarily for technical/financial/logistical reasons…which can be overcome easily if decisions to do so are made), if it is successful it will be easy to scale it up to make it available to larger numbers of people and it may also be possible to even have multiple instructors and specialized online journal clubs…this of course is dependant upon the success of this first experiment. Finally, this course is based on the continuing education missions of the UW Professional and Continuing Education Department and the UW Bioengineering Department…keeping up with the science is clearly an important part of that mission and this course could serve as an easy to implement template elsewhere…and indeed, we are already getting inquiries form other organizations about this.
Clearly the online journal club is just one way to help address this need, and absolutely there will need to be other approaches as well…Stuart, count me in to help in any way I can with your efforts to find and build these other solutions!


How Many Gun Safety Rules Can You Violate At Once?
Neither of these geniuses were employees of the range.
How many of the "Four Rules" do you think they violated?
Police said one man was teaching another man about a 9mm handgun, when a round jammed. Police said the instructor was clearing the jam when his finger touched the trigger, causing the gun to fire. The instructor was hit in the finger, and his student was hit in the upper right thigh, authorities said.
Casselberry police said the two men were not seriously injured. They said both men are in their 30s.
The fact that sticks out the most to me is that the person attempting to clear the jam did not keep the muzzle in a safe direction. If he had, then the negligent discharge that resulted from him pulling the trigger would have just been another hole in the backstop, or maybe a round ricocheting off the wall or floor downrange into the backstop. Since he shot himself in the finger and his buddy in the leg, it seems likely that he turned away from the firing line and had the gun pointed down in an attempt to deal with the malfunction.
I'd be very interested to know how long the less-than-dynamic duo were working to clear the malfunction before they triggered (pun intended) their negligent discharge. The various line bosses, range safety officers and line safety officers I know tend to move quickly to the site of a suspected malfunction just in case the dunderhead attempting to clear the jam becomes unsafe, but I'm also aware of the fact that they are human beings, and can't be everywhere at once.


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Willsmere was a railway station on the Outer Circle railway line, located in the suburb of Kew, Melbourne, Australia. The station was named after the estate of early Kew settlers H.S. and Thomas Wills. Willsmere was opened with the line in 1891 and closed with it in 1893.

Although on a single line, the station had two side platforms, with one being on a crossing loop. The station platforms and buildings are believed to have been removed around 1930.

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External links
 Photographs of the site of Willsmere Station

Railway stations in Australia opened in 1891
Railway stations closed in 1893
Disused railway stations in Melbourne

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This post is brought to you by Earlier Today Tara, as This Evening Tara is busy with family stuff, having fun, and laughing, and explaining that she IS in costume–as a Domestic Engineer. Ha. That makes me laugh. My Mama put that as her job on forms she had to fill out back when I was little. At least I remember the conversations about it; she didn't want to put housewife because no way was she married to her house. Anyway…..Happy Today.
Really today's thoughts are from the littles.
Yesterday our Princess had been outside on the porch playing with the cats. She is especially close to Sugar, the grown cat we nursed from three weeks old. When she came back in, she flopped on the couch and sat for a minute.
"Sure, baby. Go ahead." I tried not to point out she already had.
Oh the things that little handle could solve…..if only it could.
Wow. Yes ma'am it sure would.
Turns out she'd been out there talking to Sugar about how we found him and she got upset for him all over again. She is my child. She works through a lot of stuff out there talking to that cat. Just like I used to with Midnight sitting on my lap on the back steps at Blackberry Flats. There's nothing like having an animal that will listen. And pat the tears coming down your cheeks.
And there you go. Even though Princess told him he had the answer wrong, I told him I thought that was a pretty good one. Don't you think?
That right there. That's my girl. She can climb trees, collect frogs, hit a ball with skill, and help save herself and her friends from the master of evil himself, BUT when it all comes down to it, that girl LOVES to accessorize. It tickles me that she used the costume idea to try and get another purse. Tickled me, but no, we didn't get her one. It's after Labor Day for goodness' sake.
And I'm grateful for the excitement and joy that cookie cutters and pumpkins and new pencils and dressup clothes and bouncy puppies can bring. As Mama would say, Happy Everyday, y'all.
Our new pencils. Our Princess is so excited because she is already ready to go there–Golden Heart of 2027!
We made these today for our Fall Family Hootenanny. They are too fun, aren't they?
I made this batch for me. These are tradition, and that matters to me. Mama made these every fall. I used her cookie cutters to make these today. Also going to the Fall Family Hootenanny.
Our fluffy ball of happiness, the Good Witch Sophie. Love that her tail is blurred because she was so excited the whole time!
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The Bromma Boys #30 | 2029 Season Summary | An FM18 Story
Posted on May 19, 2018 May 16, 2018 by mikaelinhofm
Hi! MikaelinhoFM here with the 30th (!) episode of my first ever FM18 blog "The Bromma Boys" about Swedish talent factory Brommapojkarna. I feel amazed that I've kept this save going longer than most of my previous saves, and I'm even more amazed that I'm still really loving both the save and this blog series. If you missed last seasons' updates, do go back and read them through the links below.
2028 Season Summary
2028 Academy Report
This episode covers the entire 2029 season. Last season we managed to take a small step in the right direction by progressing past the first knockout round of the Champions League. We also won both domestic titles, making this our best season so far. Our finances are looking great, and we managed to fill up the Academy with some serious talent, which makes this season really exciting! I hope to win the league of course and hopefully continue to build on our performances in Europe.
I will be changing the direction of the series a bit which means that the structure of the posts will change as well, which you'll become aware of as you continue to read along! Hopefully you'll like this new direction, but I'm open to all feedback – negative and positive – as usual!
Transfers out
We sold off a lot of players this year, including former wonderkid Xabier Gonzalez. Basically he had stopped improving and wasn't satisfied with his backup role. Therefore I simply moved him along before he'd start poisoning the team atmosphere with his whining.
I also sold Swedish international Markus Olsson, since the competition in midfield was just too tough for him to ever get the chance to play on a regular basis. The rest of them are basically former prospects deemed not good enough for first-team football at the club.
Four youth prospects came in, with young Belgian Bourgeois the stand-out signing coming in for a staggering fee of €25M!
Lionel Bourgeois – Belgium – 17yo – AMC
From: Belgian Premier Division team Charleroi (€25M)
Comment: A 17-year-old without any weaknesses, it's not everyday you find one of those. His strengths are his speed and his technical abilities.
BP Style Rating: 51.00 (Skill 12.00|Perception 13.00|Movement 14.67|Character 11.33)
Prediction: Ok, I might have gone a bit crazy here, paying €25M for an unproven 17 year old, but my scouts have been absolutey raving about this guy since he was 15. My head scout gave him a rating of 91, which is the highest any U17 player has ever been given, so i just had to have him. If he turns out to be the next Eden Hazard or Kevin de Bruyne, everyone will think that I was clever when I bought him!
After looking at the transfers it's time to check out if we succeeded to retain our domestic dominance and continue to climb the European ladder!
Swedish Cup – Group stage
Well, pretty much business as usual. We smashed the opposition in the group stage and went through to the knockout stage.
Swedish Cup – Knockout stage
We just kept winning. Nothing to see here. Move along, folks. In an excellent display of our dominance we crushed local rivals AIK 9-1 in the first round. We then struggled a bit against fellow Stockholm team Hammarby. We were the better team by far but couldn't score. The game went to extra-time where we kept creating great chances. When the clock struck a 100 minutes 16-year-old Marcus Boström finally scored the winner for us.
We faced 2nd tier team Helsingborg in the final and the game was exactly as uneven as one would have thought beforehand. We won 4-0 with them only having one shot on goal. We won the cup for the third year straight, but in all honesty I've gotten to the point where us winning the cup doesn't excite me nearly as much as it should.
Champions League 2028/29 – 1st Knockout round
After winning our group last year we got handed what felt like a fairly easy draw against Belgian champions Genk in the first knockout round, but I could never in a million years have dreamt what would happen next. We went into the first game full of confidence and got off to a great start with a 4th-minute goal by Murilo Baroso and another one in the 10th minute by Vitor Farah.
After this, we just kept on scoring and didn't stop until the scoreline read 12-0. 12-0 in a Champions League knockout game! Absolutely insane! Genk tightened up their defence for the second leg, but we managed to get through with an aggregate score of 14-1!
Champions League 2027/28 – Quarter final
We got handed another pretty easy draw in a Dortmund side currently parked in 6th place in the Bundesliga. An away leg that played out a bit more even than I had expected ended in a draw, but at home we were the better team by quite a margin. Aparacio was on fire and scored three of our six goals when we sent Dortmund out of the Champions League and us into the semi-final!
Champions League 2027/28 – Semi final
We got drawn against Arsenal in the semi-final, which actually felt like another decent draw! In a pretty uneventful first game we lost 0-1 even though we were the slightly better team, and I really had the feeling that we could turn it around at the Emirates.
However, we fell behind quite early and never recovered. Spanish no1 keeper Brais Parcero made some incredible saves for them and we helped him a bit as well by hitting the woodwork five (5!) times over the two games. Arsenal took advantage of most of their opportunities and won the second leg 4-2.
I'm satisfied with our result considering this is our best cup run in Europe by far, but it feels a bit bittersweet to be only one game away from playing for the Champions League trophy. Hopefully we'll learn from this and come back stronger next year!
As you can see above there isn't a team on Swedish soil that's even close to challenging us at the top! We managed an incredible second straight unbeaten season, making our current streak of unbeaten games 87 in a row!
We won Allsvenskan for the 8th consecutive season, building a Dynasty never previously seen in Swedish football!
Champions League 2029/30 – Group stage
Obviously we were not as dominant in Europe as in Sweden even though we looked great at home, but we managed to get through the group stage by quite the margin. However, disappointingly we didn't win the group which makes for a tougher draw in the first knockout round next season.
Young Argentinian winger Ibañez was voted Fans' Player of the Year for the second year in a row and also won the Allsvenskan Player of the Year Award. Edmilson became our top goalscorer and also contributed a lot of assists.
A lot of nice performances throughout the season with a lot of players with average ratings close to 8. At the bottom you can see our wonderkid signing Bourgeois impressing with 2 goals in 3 games and an amazing average rating of 7.37!
Youth intake
As a faithful reader of the series you might be a bit surprised to see this content in the season summary, but as I mentioned at the beginning of the post the series will be going through some changes. The biggest change is that there won't be a 2029 Academy report following this post. Therefore I will briefly cover this season's intake below, which was quite a disappointment, at least compared to last season's potential golden generation.
Two players stand out as the best of the bunch, and we'll take a closer look at these guys below.
Oscar Holmström – Sweden – 16yo – MR/L
From: Youth intake
Comment: A right-footed winger that could be used on both wings, since we play with an inverted winger out on the left. He's fast and hardworking, but lacking when it comes to technicals.
Prediction: Will need to seriously improve his technicals to become a first team player for us, but with a 4.5 star potential and an amazing Character there is quite the possibility that he'll get there eventually!
Jens Olsson – Sweden – 16yo – STC
Comment: A fast-paced striker with a nice Technique, amazing Movement and a decent set of mentals.
Prediction: He can sure move without the ball, but needs to improve his use of it. Hopefully he'll increase his Determination in order to reach his 5 star potential.
We will still look at the rest of the players in the next post, but in a slightly different way than what you are used to!
Summary/The next episode
Yet again we managed to improve on last season's results, making this our best season ever with a domestic double and a Champions League semi-final. I should be ecstatic, but instead I feel that I'm pretty much playing the same season over and over and over. Therefore I feel that I'm standing at a crossroad. In the next episode I will be taking the club and the series in a completely new direction, hopefully leading to us taking further steps towards European domination as well as a more exciting reading experience for you!
Once again a huge thanks for the read, I hope you still like it as much as I do!
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Text Message Hints At Quid Pro Quo Involving James Smith's University of South Carolina Gig
"Deliver the Dems and we can consider …"
One of the biggest mysteries surrounding the controversial selection of Robert Caslen as president of the University of South Carolina is the prominent, ongoing role of former S.C. House minority leader (and 2018 Democratic gubernatorial nominee) James Smith.
The only prominent Democrat to support Caslen, Smith has emerged in the aftermath of this bitterly contested vote as the retired Army general's most visible aide-de-camp at the university. Along with Caslen's armed security guard, Smith accompanies him to meetings and has moved into an office in Caslen's suite at the Osborne administration building.
(Via: @Bob_Caslen)
Smith's new position with Caslen (above) – which he has yet to fully define (or explain) – has enraged the new president's liberal antagonists. More ominously for the new president, it has angered conservative state lawmakers who originally supported Caslen's nomination by governor Henry McMaster.
McMaster is the Republican incumbent who decisively defeated Smith in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Worth recalling? Both politicians were affiliated with the political empire of veteran GOP strategist Richard Quinn – whose network of fiscally liberal Republicans (and liberal Democrats) effectively governed the state prior to being ensnared in a major corruption scandal two years ago.
We wonder … did the Quinn disciples "put the band back together" to get Caslen elected?
Molly Spearman, another member of the Quinn empire, wound up casting the deciding vote in favor of Caslen's candidacy – capping a cravenly political process which has resulted in the university starting down serious accreditation issues as well as the likelihood of a lawsuit contesting the legitimacy of the search process.
Spearman previously opposed Caslen's nomination, one of the reasons it was temporarily scuttled in the spring.
The politicization and dysfunction of the South Carolina presidential search process has been detailed via a trove of text messages and emails released in connection with an ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) campaign. This campaign is "ongoing" because the school has failed to promptly and completely turn over all of the documents sought by the media and other interested parties.
What does that have to do with Smith?
Take a look …
(Via: Provided)
This incriminating text message – which is reportedly part of the latest document dump by embattled trustees – was sent by a yet-to-be-named individual to South Carolina board member Thad Westbrook (a top Caslen supporter).
As you can see, it clearly stated "J Smith wants a big role" – and was allegedly told "deliver the Dems and we can consider."
Smith did not deliver Democrats, though. Virtually the entire state's liberal establishment was opposed to Caslen's selection – as were university faculty, staff, students and the school's biggest donor.
Despite failing to "deliver," though, Smith got his "big role" – even after pro-Caslen trustees assured Republican state lawmakers that Smith would have "no role" in the new president's office.
(Via: @JamesSmithSC)
Shortly after losing the 2018 election to McMaster, Smith took a nebulous $140,000-a-year (not including benefits) position at the university – a move we slammed as "cronyism run amok."
His job? "Military outreach."
Was it just a placeholder, though?
Right around the time Smith was getting his six-figure taxpayer-funded gig, McMaster was installing two new members on the South Carolina board – including one who contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to his reelection victory (over Smith).
The goal of these appointments? To take control of the South Carolina board, install Caslen and (ostensibly) chart a new ideological direction for the school.
"The Democrats hate us. We took their castle," McMaster's chief of staff Trey Walker wrote in a text message to Dan Adams, one of the McMaster donors appointed by the governor to the South Carolina board last December.
Indeed … but like most "red team" versus "blue team" battles, this "hostile takeover" strikes us as less about ideology and more about control of the money spigot.
Our view?
"We are just the popcorn peddlers in this particular drama … using the entire sad episode as a reminder of the need to privatize higher education in the Palmetto State sooner rather than later," we wrote recently.
While the politicians bicker and argue over Caslen and his hyper-political selection, our focus will continue to be on soaring tuition increases, skyrocketing debt and out-of-control spending on non-core functions of government (including a spectacularly failed "economic development" scheme).
Oh, and the four-alarm dumpster fire currently enveloping the school's athletics programs …
-FITSNews
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