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Report: Chelsea in pursuit of Bayern Munich's David Alaba
By Joel SoriaJan 4, 2020, 11:16 PM EST
A new, natural left-back may be on his way to Stamford Bridge this winter.
Chelsea are weighing in on placing a $78-million (£60 million) bid for Bayern Munich's David Alaba, according to a report.
Longtime left-back favorite, Marcos Alonso, has fallen in Frank Lampard's pecking order, making just eight Premier League appearances this season. As a result, the 41-year-old has recently instead shifted captain Cesar Azpilicueta from his natural right-back position to the left side.
20-year-old Reece James now features as the Blues' right-back, a glaring indicator that Lampard isn't sold on either Alonso or 25-year-old Emerson Palmieri.
Alaba, 27, has a contract with the German giants until the summer of 2021, meaning that the transfer price is not coming at a reduced price.
Debuting for Bayern's first team in 2010, Alaba has since made 250 Bundesliga appearances, scoring 22 goals and jotting 25 assists. This season, he's featured 17 times for the champions throughout all competitions.
At the age of 17, Alaba earned his first cap with Austria; since then, he's registered a total of 72 caps.
The Blues are free to engage in the transfer market after their appeal on a two-window transfer ban was ratified by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in early December.
Tags: Austria, Bayern Munich, Cesar Azpilicueta, Chelsea, David Alaba, Emerson Palmieri, Frank Lampard, Marcos Alonso, Reece James, Ba, Cesar, Cesar Azpilicueta, David Alaba, Emerson, Emerson Palmieri, Frank Lampard, Marcos Alonso, Reece James, Stam
Lampard praises Chelsea's 'spirit and desire'
By Joe Prince-WrightDec 29, 2019, 11:59 AM EST
Frank Lampard led the celebrations in north London for the second weekend in a row.
His Chelsea side have now beaten London rivals Tottenham and Arsenal in their last two away games to boost their hopes of finishing in the top four, as they won 2-1 at Arsenal on Sunday and secured their first comeback win of the season in spirited fashion.
Lampard was delighted at the full time whistle but his side were 1-0 down early and he hooked off Emerson Palmeri after 30 minutes and brought on Jorginho as he changed their shape from a 3-4-3 to a 4-2-3-1.
"We were so awful for 30 minutes we were slow, nervous, lethargic. The opposite of against Tottenham. We gave them everything they wanted," Lampard explained. "We made the change early, felt it had to be done. After 10 minutes or so it was clear Arsenal had seen us play against Tottenham, they made us into a back five instead of a back three, pushed their wingers up, and they were on top and there was a lack of balance in our team. The sub gave us another man in midfield and gave us more urgency."
Chelsea totally dominated the second half of the game after Arsenal came flying out of the traps with new manager Mikel Arteta taking charge of his first home game as Gunners boss.
Lampard admitted that was a factor in Chelsea's early struggles but also revealed he launched into a lively half time team talk to get his boys going.
"From my point of view you can accept a miss-pass but you can't accept lethargy in a London derby. The players were told that and they delivered," Lampard said. "The second half was nothing to do with tactics it was all to do with spirit and desire. I still haven't bounced back from Boxing Day mentally (loss to Southampton). Our next home games we'll do everything we can to turn the corner. We're still in fourth and want more and the home games have been different so we have to focus on them when they come around."
This young side Chelsea are very Jekyll and Hyde right now as they've won away at Spurs and Arsenal but lost at home to Bournemouth and Southampton in their last four Premier League games.
As they head into 2020 and they're now able to buy players in the January transfer window, Lampard's priority will now be to pick up a new left back and to find more consistency from this young team.
At the start of the season if you had said Chelsea would be in the top four at the halfway point and in the UCL last 16, they would have snapped your hand off for that.
There have been speed bumps in the road so far but Chelsea continue to surprise us and trailing 1-0 at a fired up Arsenal, Lampard's brave tactical and personnel switch paid off as his team dug deep and showed their character.
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Tags: Arsenal, Chelsea, Frank Lampard, Premier League, Arteta, Ba, Emerson, Frank Lampard, Jorginho
Chelsea stun Arsenal with late comeback
Chelsea beat Arsenal 2-1 at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday as the Blues fought back from an early deficit and scored twice late on to seal a dramatic victory against their London rivals.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang put Arsenal ahead early on but the Gunners couldn't build on that goal as Frank Lampard changed Chelsea's formation and subbed on Jorginho after 30 minutes. That worked a treat as Jorginho equalized and then Tammy Abraham popped up with the winner late on.
With their first comeback victory of the season Chelsea remain in fourth place on 35 points, while Arsenal stay in 12th on 24 points after suffering their fourth home defeat in a row, which is the first time that has happened since 1959.
1. Lampard's brave switch pays off: Lampard knew the 3-4-3 wasn't working and he was brave enough to admit it. He hooked off Emerson and brought on Jorginho with only 30 minutes gone and Chelsea wrestled back control of the game. Lampard may not persist with 3-4-3 for much longer unless he can buy a quality left wing-back in January. This was a big call from the young manager and it swung the game in Chelsea's favor.
2. Arsenal fade badly after strong start: The Gunners were dominant early on and should have been at least 2-0 up, but they couldn't build on it. Mikel Arteta was unlucky with injuries as Chambers was forced off in the first half and Mustafi came on and struggled. Arsenal's players were applauded off for their effort but that will be of little solace as their hopes of a top four finish look all but over after Bernd Leno's mistake and Mustafi's poor positioning cost them dear.
3. Jorginho has huge, controversial impact: He came on in the first half and helped the Blues wrestle back control of the game but he could have been sent off in the second half. Jorginho picked up a yellow for a foul on Lacazette and should have had another. He then won a free kick cleverly and from that Leno's mistake allowed him to equalize. Given the form of Kovacic and Kante, Jorginho has been the odd man out after a fine start to the season. Chelsea need the Italian midfielder back pulling the strings.
Man of the Match: N'Golo Kante – Helped Chelsea wrestle back control of the game and, as always, was everywhere. The Blues surged back and won the midfield battle and Kante had to be at his best to drive them on.
Arsenal came flying out of the traps and got their reward as they took the lead within the first 15 minutes.
A corner from the left was flicked on by Calum Chambers and Aubameyang reacted first to send home a diving header and make it 1-0.
It was all Arsenal early on as Ainsley Maitland-Niles played in Reiss Nelson who crossed into the box and Aubameyang set up Alexandre Lacazette but he couldn't control the ball as N'Golo Kante arrived to clear.
Chambers was forced off with a knee injury as Skhodran Mustafi replaced him, as Chelsea improved the longer the first half went on and Lampard made an early tactical change as they switched from 3-4-3 to 4-3-3 with Emerson hooked off as Jorginho replaced him.
Matteo Guendouzi then appeared to pull Tammy Abraham down in the box but nothing was given and VAR wasn't used to check the incident. Arsenal had a half chance just before the break but Aubameyang fired it into the side-netting as the Gunners were in control against their London rivals.
Kante had a low shot which flew wide at the start of the second half as Chelsea took the game to Arsenal in the second half.
A lengthy delay ensued after Antonio Rudiger and Mustafi clashed heads in the penalty box and the final stage of the games saw the Blues pin the Gunners back in pursuit of an equalizer.
David Luiz then blocked superbly as Abraham closed in on goal as Arsenal struggled to get out of their own half.
Abraham then sent a header straight at Bernd Leno as Chelsea wasted a good chance to equalize. Substitute Joe Willock then fired just wide as a glorious chance for Arsenal to wrap up the win came and went.
Chelsea then launched an incredible comeback as a free kick was missed by Leno and Jorginho tapped home to make it 1-1, and moments later it was 2-1 to the Blues.
Willian raced clear on the break and fed Abraham who turned and finished through Leno's legs to make it 2-1 to the Blues as the away fans and Lampard went wild.
Lucas Torreira volleyed wide late on as Arsenal had a half chance to equalize but Chelsea held on to secure a big away win.
Tags: 2019-20 Premier League game recaps, Arsenal, Chelsea, Premier League, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Alexandre Lacazette, Arteta, Ba, Bernd Leno, Calum Chambers, David Luiz, Emerson, Frank Lampard, Joe Willock, Jorginho, Lucas Torreira, Matteo Guendouzi, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Reiss Nelson, Tammy Abraham, Willian
PL Preview: Arsenal v. Chelsea
By Nicholas MendolaDec 27, 2019, 9:13 AM EST
Two longtime Premier League midfield generals meet for the first time as managers when Arsenal and Chelsea tangle in a Sunday morning London Derby (Watch Live at 9 a.m. ET on NBCSN and online via NBCSports.com).
Frank Lampard's Chelsea and Mikel Arteta's Arsenal need wins in a bad way ahead of a meeting at the Emirates Stadium.
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Arsenal has one win and eight draws in its last 16 matches, the most recent result a 1-1 draw in Arteta's first match in charge of the Gunners.
That draw came while Chelsea was losing 2-0 to Southampton at Stamford Bridge, giving the Blues two wins from their last seven league outings.
An Arsenal win would open the door for either Sheffield United or Tottenham Hotspur to move into the Top Four. The Gunners open the day in 11th place on 24 points.
Injuries/suspensions
Arsenal: OUT — Kieran Tierney, Sead Kolasinac. QUESTIONABLE — Dani Ceballos, Hector Bellerin, Rob Holding, Gabriel Martinelli.
Chelsea: OUT — Ruben Loftus-Cheek . QUESTIONABLE — Ross Barkley, Olivier Giroud.
Probable lineups
Arsenal: Leno, Saka, Mustafi, Luiz, Bellerin, Guendouzi, Xhaka, Pepe, Ozil, Aubameyang, Lacazette.
Chelsea: Arrizabalaga, Christensen, Tomori, Zouma, Emerson, Jorginho, Kante, James, Pulisic, Pedro, Abraham.
Arteta on starting Mesut Ozil versus Bournemouth: "To be fair, his attitude in training since the day that I walked in the building has been incredible. I've seen this and I said I would give a clean slate to everybody and that was for him too. When we were preparing and watching where we could hurt the opponent, we believed he could be a key point. Like this, he responded, did what he had to do and we could have put two or three goals in the net because of him."
Lampard on Chelsea's poor run: "Teams are making it difficult here. We are not making enough chances, we were at the beginning of the season. We are being asked a different question at home. At the moment we are not answering them. We do not manage to pick up that final pass," Lampard said. "Against Tottenham we had space to make runs and today we had none. It changes things. We did not do it right today. I think If at the start of the season we would have been happy where we are. We are good away but we have to make it difficult to come here."
It's the same old story for Arsenal: Goals will come, but will the defending? Injuries seem to tilt the scales for Chelsea, but the home stadium will be buzzing for Arteta and we think the new bounce might be enough for a 2-2 thriller.
Tags: Arsenal, Chelsea, Frank Lampard, Mesut Özil, Mikel Arteta, Premier League, Premier League previews 2019-20, Arteta, Ba, Dani Ceballos, Emerson, Frank Lampard, Gabriel Martinelli, Jorginho, Kieran Tierney, Loftus-Cheek, Martin, Mesut Ozil, Olivier Giroud, Pedro, Rob Holding, Ross Barkley, Sead Kolasinac, Stam
Bournemouth beats punchless Chelsea to end losing streak
By Nicholas MendolaDec 14, 2019, 12:03 PM EST
Bournemouth snapped a five-match losing streak in a place that feels like home, toppling Chelsea 1-0 at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.
Chelsea's attack was woeful and Bournemouth needed VAR help to get Dan Gosling's winner on the board.
The Blues fall for the fourth time in five league matches, and have seen their Top Four cushion slip to a maximum on five points.
Bournemouth gets some relief, rising 14th with 19 points.
1. Bournemouth still loves the Bridge: Chelsea has now lost to Bournemouth at Stamford Bridge three times since 2015. The Cherries have back-to-back victories over the Blues for the first time ever. These are good things for Eddie Howe, and it was a much better show than the loss to Liverpool.
2. VAR helps Cherries to win: Gosling's winner was a clever bit of football, the back-to-the-goal midfielder looping over Arrizabalaga. The linesman's flag was up but Gosling had beaten the fray of people and an offside-appearing teammate had nothing to do with the play. A quality finish deserving of a winner.
3. Poor attack weakens Top Four cushion: Very poor from Chelsea's attackers as a whole, with Willian the only players truly in-form on the day. Tammy Abraham was the best of an otherwise poor bunch, with Christian Pulisic and Mason Mount poor as starters and Callum Hudson-Odoi and Michy Batshuayi nearly irrelevant off the bench.
Frank Lampard hinted earlier this week that the club still needs to replace Eden Hazard. Transfer ban lifted, his men did little to convince him otherwise on Saturday.
Man of the Match: With respect to Simon Francis and Jefferson Lerma, the honor goes to Gosling for his creativity at outsmarting the Blues back line and beating Arrizabalaga.
Mason Mount's sloppy touch betrayed a 26th minute Chelsea attack set up by Willian.
Christian Pulisic nearly nodded home at the back from a very tight angle in the 39th minute, one of few moments of danger for either side.
Bournemouth regrouped at the break and Chelsea's defenders had several strong moments in keeping shot attempts from reaching Kepa Arrizabalaga.
Pulisic led a charge into the right that led to a corner kick, and the Blues won another off a Willian shot.
Aaron Ramsdale made an incredible stop on Emerson's solid point-blank header of a Cesar Azpilicueta flick.
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Gosling thought he'd scored in the 84th minute with a clever shot, but the offside flag was raised.
VAR fixed that, and the losing streak ended in London.
Tags: Aaron Ramsdale, Bournemouth, Chelsea, Christian Pulisic, Dan Gosling, Emerson Palmieri, Kepa Arrizabalaga, Premier League, Premier League 2019-20 game recaps, Aaron Ramsdale, Ba, Callum Hudson-Odoi, Cesar, Christian Pulisic, Dan Gosling, Eddie Howe, Eden Hazard, Emerson, Frank Lampard, Jefferson Lerma, Kepa, Martin, Mason Mount, Michy Batshuayi, Simon Francis, Stam, Tammy Abraham, Willian
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Vol 26 No 1-2 (2020) /
Growth of Employability through Reinforcing Apprentice Career Paths in Craftsmanship
Czesław Noworol Jagiellonian University in Krakow https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4957-3865
Keywords: job carving and job crafting, career paths in craftsmanship
The chapter deals with the nowadays questions of employers about whether it makes sense to invest in employees, and how to retain people who are important to the company in prospect of craft SMEs and employability, and how to increase the employment rate in Poland and other EU countries. It describes the concept of job carving and job crafting and shows how to join this ideas with apprentice learning in crafts. The chapter devotes also a place to describe the reigniting the culture of entrepreneurship in Europe as an important response to the COVID crisis with recovery strategies to build resilience within European supply chains and ecosystems, restore consumer and business confidence, stimulate investment and help the unemployed back into work.
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Anime All Nighter In London
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Lucky otaku who can get to London in the first weekend of February are in for a real treat. The Sci-Fi-London event will be running an anime all nighter with support from Redbull and Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream (make mine Chocolate Fudge Brownie) and with free Tea and Coffee everyone's sure to stay awake from the midnight starting time until 9:30 am the next day!
They'll be screening:
- Lady Death
- Parasite Dolls
- Sky Blue (a Korean animation also known as Wonderful Days)
- RahXephon The Movie.
We suggest that hardcore otaku go to the London Anime Club afterwards for a total weekend of anime!
Moving from the Other Cinema to the Curzon SOHO, the infamous ANIMÉ:ALLNIGHT event has a great line-up of amazing animation from around the world.
The line-up is as follows:
PARASITE DOLLS (Japan 2004)
Parasite Dolls is a collection of three stories that take place in a futuristic Bubblegum Crisis universe. The stories revolve around Buzz Nikvest, an officer of Branch, the secret division of the A.D. Police. These stories have a very mature theme to them and deal heavily with the concepts of the purpose of machines in human life. This anime has violence, nudity, sex, prostitution, gore and all those other things that would give it an R-rating. There is nothing cutesy about this animé.
SKY BLUE (a.k.a WONDERFUL DAYS) (Korea 2003)
Touted by many as the "best Korean animé ever" this is an extremely ambitious movie. Civilisation has been obliterated by war and pollution, only the shielded city 'Ecoban' survives. Its people, under military rule, have never seen a blue sky. Jay, a security unit leader, was told when she was a child by her first love, Shua, that one day they would see a clear blue sky. Now, years after his supposed death, he returns to Ecoban as part of a terrorist organisation known as the Hot Dogs, determined to fulfil his promise.
LADY DEATH (USA 2004, Dir: Andrew Orjula)
Based on the comic book by Brian Pulido
Set in 15th Century Sweden, Hope, the beautiful daughter of Matthias (who is believed to be a skilled mercenary, but is in fact Lucifer, the Lord of Lies), is accused of being the devil's consort following a hellish incident witnessed by local villagers.
Hope is an innocent young woman who has no idea her father is actually Lucifer. When the town priest discovers his secret, Lucifer escapes to Hell, leaving his daughter behind to pay for his evil.
Hope is sentenced to be burned at the stake. Writhing in pain and unable to think clearly, she accepts Lucifer's offer of life in Hell over a hideously painful death.
Lucifer has a grand plan to corrupt a soul of pure innocence, giving him supreme power; however, Hope rejects Lucifer's scheme and is betrayed, beaten, and left for dead. Hope's soul undergoes a transformation. She becomes vengeance incarnate, a being with awesome powers - she is now "Lady Death" and woe to any demon that stands in her way.
A powerful story of innocence lost, savage betrayal and glorious rebirth
RAHXEPHON THE MOVIE (Japan 2003)
The world of RahXephon, where humans and 'Mu' fight for dominance over a shattered Earth, and giant statues are the ultimate weapons. Where music forms the fabric of the universe and the link between two hearts is the thread upon which the fate of humanity hangs. It is still a love story, but it is not the same story. Prepare for new visions and new revelations, as the other side of RahXephon is finally revealed.
This movie is a complete story and you do not need to know the series it originally came from.
This all-nighter starts at Midnight on Saturday 5th Feb and ends around 9.30am on Sunday 6th. We are happy to have been supported REDBULL and BEN & JERRY'S ice-cream and will be handing it out to everyone who attends. To help keep you awake the Curzon SOHO will provide free Tea and Coffee for the night.
These films are all being screened from Digi-beta tape, not DVD
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Updated 11/13/2012 03:20 PM EST
The leader of the secession movement in Texas says that President Barack Obama's reelection was a "catalyzing moment" for his organization's efforts to quit the United States.
"I am completely aware that Election Day was a catalyzing moment, but I do not believe that the underpinnings of this are solely about Barack Obama," Texas Nationalist Movement President Daniel Miller told POLITICO. "This cake has been baking for a long time — it's the Obama administration that put the candles on the cake and lit it for us."
( Also on POLITICO: Rick Perry says no to Texas secession)
He added: "This is not a reaction to a person but to policy and what we see as a federal government that is so disconnected from its constituents and absolute no regard for what its purpose was."
A petition for Texas secession has garnered more than 72,500 signatures as of Tuesday afternoon — the most of any of the slew of other states petitioning the White House for secession. (Only 25,000 are needed to garner a White House response.)
( Also on POLITICO: Secession petitions flood White House website)
GOP Texas Gov. Rick Perry's spokeswoman Catherine Frazier commented on the movement to The Dallas Morning News Monday: "Gov. Perry believes in the greatness of our Union and nothing should be done to change it. But he also shares the frustrations many Americans have with our federal government."
But Miller said he thought the governor's statement was "ambiguous."
"His statement is about as ambiguous as it can get. Obviously, he's going to err on the side of caution for him. But my challenge to him is this: Don't wind up on the wrong side of history on this issue," Miller said.
Miller said that the national deficit and the economy were some of the major factors that have helped the movement grow.
"The federal government is broken beyond all belief. We're sitting on $16 trillion worth of debt and that's only one example," Miller said. "There's a political, cultural and economic gap, and the longer that we refuse to recognize that gap — the more states will put out to secede the union."
He said he thinks the issue has gone mainstream: "For the longest time, this issue was what people would classify as a fringe issue. It was relegated to the back rooms in the cafés. But in 2008, 2009, what you began to see — the tail end of the [George W.] Bush administration and start of Obama's — what you saw was kind of interesting. This issue went to being part of the political discourse."
Miller continued: "As the economy worsened, people began to ask, 'What if? Why do we need the middle man? Do we believe that we should have more layers of government than we absolutely need? Could Texas govern itself?' I think really that self-determination is kind of the underpinning to all of this — the ability to provide Texas solutions to Texas problems."
Miller noted that TNM rejects any use of force to acquire its goal.
"We walk in the same vein as Gandhi and those guys," said Miller, who has been involved with the organization for 16 years.
TNM is planning a march in Austin for January 2013.


Up until recently when I was going about a work, I would find a location or some place that intrigued me or that spoke to me in one way or other, I would go and do some drawings of that spot, and then I would take a whole roll of film just to give me all the close-up references for when I got back to my studio. I then go back to my studio, I come up with a large-scale, full-scale sketch of it…I like to work…four, six, eight feet, is my preferred size range. Then I would…once I had my drawing, I then actually start with unbleached cotton, so I mottle and create all the different textures and variations of colours for all the different parts of whatever my image is, and then I start cutting those apart and assembling them, either like a collage or like a jigsaw puzzle, layering them all down. And then I use free-motion stitching to embellish and integrate all of that. I often sometimes use some coloured pencils all over the work, again to help integrate the different fabrics and make it all feel like one large image. Once that's all done, I then think about adding borders, and often I do, again because that references my quilting tradition and the fabric tradition that I'm working within. And then I set that up, add battings behind that, and another backing, and I quilt the whole surface. And that now is being done on a very large industrial machine called the long-arm quilter. Now, for the last couple of years, I have now started using digital imagery so that…again, I'm using that imagery in a different way in that I've gotten very interested in textures. I'm wanting to show the complexity of the world in which we live. So I'm doing quite a lot of close-ups and quite detailed, large-scale digital images which I'm now having printed commercially to again the same four, six, eight-foot range. And with those, once I've got that…I do do some of those by cutting them apart and rearranging them, other times I'm always using the fabric paint to intensify and enrich areas of them, and then I stitch, and then I quilt.


Ever since I started my online activities, I received a constant flow of requests for my photos to be used in various other projects. Obviously, most of these requests were coming from online projects, but from time to time, I have been asked to have my photos featured in print publications.
Obviously, I often agreed, and just very rarely I had to refuse.


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Emory Franklin Kisamore, 58, of Parsons died in King's Clinic in Petersburg, Tuesday, April 17 at 10:30 a.m. following an extended illness.
He had been a patient in the clinic since last Thursday and priort to that was a patient in the Davis Memorial Hospital in Elkins.
Mr. Kisamore was born in Riverton, W. Va., Jan. 26, 1898, a son of Philip H. and Cordelia F. Nelson Kisamore. He is survived by his parents, four sons, Edwin and Ival of Charleston, Herman and Freddy of Cherry Grove; two daughters, Mrs. June Lambert of Keyser and Mrs. Frances Wimer of Cherry Grove; four brothers, Clen A. Kisamore of Petersburg, Nelson Mae Kisamore of Suffield, O., Mason P. Kisamore of Mouth of Seneca, and Henry Kisamore of Cuyahoga Falls, O., one sister, Mrs. Mabel McDonald of Riverton and four grandchildren.
The Runner Funeral Home in Elkins is in charge of funeral arrangements which were incomplete at press time Wednesday.
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Who's Leading the Way?
Antonia Rudenstine
A Promising Competency-based Model for Historically Marginalized Students
Competency-based education models are complicated organisms, and staging their development and growth is generally a multi-year task, whether one is a launching a new school or re-envisioning an existing program. As the world of CBE picks up momentum our team at reDesign is continually asking ourselves, "Who's Leading the Way in Serving Historically Marginalized Young People?" In preparation for #iNACOL16 we documented some of our learning in a Prezi (pictured above, and linked in our slide deck). We will continue to add to it over the course of this year, so please let us know about the models you think of when you ask yourself the same question.
What makes a model a "CBE Leader"?
At reDesign, when we look at CBE models, we look through the lens of our Mastery Learning Roadmap (inset, 2015), which identifies over 60 CBE elements that are present in fully-implemented models. While our Roadmap provides a loose sequence for these elements, we've seen schools move through the work from a number of different starting points.
Knowing that there is much we haven't seen, and that programs are continually iterating on their models, we remain incredibly inspired by the creative and successful efforts of Bronx Arena High School in New York City, where ALL of the elements of CBE are currently present. At Arena, 65% of the graduating class enrolls in college, and 82% of enrollees persist beyond the freshman year. In NYC, these numbers are outstanding. But, Arena is all the more impressive because it exclusively serves over-age students who have faced repeated school failure and are now extremely close to aging-out of the system without coming close to meeting graduation requirements.
Hear from the Students>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1laaHPjEl4U
This year, we did a deep dive into the Bronx Arena Model to try to understand and codify the secrets of their success (To learn more about their model Check out >> Learning in the Arena). Not surprisingly, at the heart of their model are two core commitments: a powerful strengths-based approach to youth development coupled with a deeply personalized approach to learning.
(Learn more at >> Learning in the Arena 2016: p. 15)
Over the next couple of years we hope to be able to share the stories of 4-5 additional mature CBE models who have found powerful ways to serve historically marginalized young people. If you know of such models whose story haven't yet been told, please let us know: antonia@reDesignu.org.
"Creativity follows mastery." These are the words of Benjamin Bloom, who believed that learners are capable of incredible things if they have access to powerful learning environments. This is why we've chosen the name "Bloom" for our knowledge-sharing initiative. Bloom is all about our stake in helping to build the capacity of practitioners and leaders who work with our most marginalized youth to reimagine, recreate, redesign our models for learning--within schools and beyond. For us, this is fundamentally a matter of social justice. Reach out if you'd like to submit a guest post, or sign up for our monthly newsletter: Bloom@reDesignu.org.
Antonia is the Director of reDesgin, LLC, an educational design shop committed to developing skills, understanding, projects, and products that increase the chances that historically marginalized students can thrive as learners, creators, contributors, and doers. Antonia currently thinks and writes about the design of strong competency-based learning systems, the need for white allies to support the radical diversification of the education sector, new models for curriculum development, and the opportunities and challenges of meaningful adult development in schools.
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Earlier this month, myself and James went to see Take That play the opening night of their Wonderland tour in Birmingham, and I learnt an important lesson when posting to social media.
It was a a great gig and I took lots of photos for my gallery. Like most people, I used the power of social media to quickly share the joy and the buzz I felt.
I posted the below tweet soon after leaving the venue and didn't think any more of it.
When I checked my website analytics the following day, I was amazed to see a surge in traffic of over 500% during the hour after I'd posted it.
I was even more amazed considering the tweet had no reference or link to my website. Only my Twitter profile has such a link.
On the Sunday (two days after the gig) I uploaded my photos and wrote a quick blog post about it.
… but little came. Why?
It was all down to timing. You see during the gig, no-one was checking social media (other than a few broadcasting on Facebook Live.) Shortly after the gig, everyone would jump to Twitter or Facebook as they were leaving (like I did) to post their own version of what they'd just enjoyed.
It was also the opening night of the tour, so anyone who had tickets for later in the tour would no doubt have been looking for a sneak peek of what they had to come.
When posting to social media, timing is everything. Consider your target audience and when they are most likely to be checking their news feeds.
Post too late, and they won't see it.


Some folks use the term "automatic speech recognition", ASR. I don't like the separation between recognition and understanding, but that's where the technology stands.
The term ASR encourages thinking about spoken language at a technical level in which purely inductive techniques are used to generate text from an audio signal (which is hopefully some recorded speech!).
Most common approaches to ASR these days involve deep learning, such as Baidu's DeepSpeech. If your notion of deep learning means lots of matrix algebra more than necessarily neural networks, then KALDI is also in the running, but it dates to 2011. KALDI is an evolution from the hidden Markov model toolkit, HTK (once owned by Microsoft). Hidden Markov models (HMM) were the basis of most speech recognition systems dating back to the eighties or so, including Sphinx. All of these are open source and freely licensed.
As everyone knows, ASR performance has improved dramatically in the last 10 years. The primary metric for ASR performance is "word error rate" (WER). Most folks think of WER as the percentage of words incorrectly recognized, although it's not that simple. WER can be more than 1 (e.g., if you come up with a sentence given only noise!). Here is a comparison published in 2011.


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Q: snowflake: what does copy grants in this statement do I have a sql statement as below
create or replace view
SOME_DB_NAME.SOME_SCHEMA_NAME.SOME_VIEW_NAME copy grants as select * from
SOME_DB_NAME.SOME_SCHEMA_NAME.SOME_VIEW_NAME;

And currently i done hate the view VIEW_NAME in the schema SOME_SCHEMA_NAME
The above command fails
SQL compilation error: Object 'SOME_DB_NAME.SOME_SCHEMA_NAME.SOME_VIEW_NAME' does not exist or not authorized.

I am not sure what copy grants as select * from SOME_DB_NAME.SOME_SCHEMA_NAME.SOME_VIEW_NAME also
also why its failing 'SOME_DB_NAME.SOME_SCHEMA_NAME.SOME_VIEW_NAME' does not exist because create or replace  is what we are using

A: The error you have received is due to a lack of the required privileges.
However, you could not create it, as the View definition refers to a view being defined.
If you have the required privileges, you will receive an error "View definition refers to view being defined: "

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The Good Wife (Season 2): looks at a housewife-turned-lawyer whose husband is jailed after a sex scandal. The structure of this show is great – each episode is a stand alone court case, however there are always several stories playing out in the background spanning large parts of the series. Instead of focusing just on the court cases (could become boring territory) this does well to juggle courtroom, political, and family storylines. What makes it stand out is that it feels very current – we see politicians/investigators utilising twitter, youtube, foursquare and memes; the cases also mirror characters & events from recent high-profile headlines. Some other plus points are the brilliant writing, great casting, stunningly acted (other than Chris Noth), has too many great characters to mention, is believabile, and with Ridley & Tony Scott watching over the production you can't really ask for more from a TV show. There are a couple of slow episodes, and one ridiculous one (Chavez), but other than those this series is TV Gold, that draws you right in to the stories – you punch the air in pivotal courtroom moments and invest in the central characters. At 23 episodes long this could have dragged, but it's the 7 day wait between them feels like an eternity.
[Would recommend starting at season 1 – which is also great]
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nikki said: June 3, 201119:58
What's wrong with Chris Noth? Or are you such a Will/Alicia shipper, you can't stand the chemistry between Chris and Julianna?
Paragraph Film Reviews said: June 9, 201119:42
For me, you could put Chris Noth in a sealed laboratory with volatile elements, fire, two hot babes & a physicist and he'd struggle to create some chemistry! Trolling aside, I honestly think he's one of the most wooden actors on my TV over the past 10 years; sure, he's got the charm/sex appeal for certain people , but he's made a career out of doing nothing but "stern + occasional smile". He could get away with it in SATC/Law and Order, but with a phenomenal cast like The Good Wife I just think he's out of his depth.
Also, out of an overwhelmingly positive review, I don't understand why everyone on your BB is up in arms about me saying that Noth isn't great! See the positives :)


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Home » Sharper Iron — To the End of the Earth: Persecution and Prison Cannot Stop God's Power and Promise
Sharper Iron — To the End of the Earth: Persecution and Prison Cannot Stop God's Power and Promise
Rev. Timothy Appel
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Rev. Tim Eden, pastor at Bethel Lutheran Church in Bryan, TX, joins host Rev. Timothy Appel to study Acts 12:1-23.
St. Luke turns our attention back to Jerusalem, where Herod Agrippa has discovered that persecuting the Church is politically expedient. He kills James the son of Zebedee and arrests Peter, putting him under heavy guard lest he escape once more. In the face of such hatred and worldly power, the Church prays, knowing that whether Peter lives or dies, he is safe in the Lord. Peter is able to sleep in that peace the night before his execution has been set. Yet the Lord is not ready for Peter to be martyred. God answers the prayers of the Churchby sending His angel to wake Peter and bring him unharmed out of Herod's prison, leading to amazement in the Church there in Jerusalem. The Lord does not allow Herod's wickedness to go without justice. When Herod receives praise that belongs only to God, an angel strikes the king dead and worms eat his body. This serves as a warning to those who oppose the Church and comfort for the saints of God.
"To the End of the Earth" is a mini-series on Sharper Iron that goes through the book of Acts. In his second volume, St. Luke records all the things that Jesus continued to do through the ministry of His Church. By the end of the book, the proclamation of the Lord's Word that began in Jerusalem grows all the way to Rome. By God's grace, even now, that same Word is proclaimed to us.
Sharper Iron, hosted by Rev. Timothy Appel, looks at the text of Holy Scripture both in its broad context and its narrow detail, all for the sake of proclaiming Christ crucified and risen for sinners. Two pastors engage with God's Word to sharpen not only their own faith and knowledge, but the faith and knowledge of all who listen.
Sharper Iron is underwritten by Lutheran Church Extension Fund, where your investments help support the work of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Visit lcef.org.
Acts 12:1-23
James Killed and Peter Imprisoned
12 About that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church. 2 He killed James the brother of John with the sword, 3 and when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. This was during the days of Unleavened Bread. 4 And when he had seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people. 5 So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.
Peter Is Rescued
6 Now when Herod was about to bring him out, on that very night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison. 7 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood next to him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him, saying, "Get up quickly." And the chains fell off his hands. 8 And the angel said to him, "Dress yourself and put on your sandals." And he did so. And he said to him, "Wrap your cloak around you and follow me." 9 And he went out and followed him. He did not know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision. 10 When they had passed the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate leading into the city. It opened for them of its own accord, and they went out and went along one street, and immediately the angel left him. 11 When Peter came to himself, he said, "Now I am sure that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting."
12 When he realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John whose other name was Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying. 13 And when he knocked at the door of the gateway, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer. 14 Recognizing Peter's voice, in her joy she did not open the gate but ran in and reported that Peter was standing at the gate. 15 They said to her, "You are out of your mind." But she kept insisting that it was so, and they kept saying, "It is his angel!" 16 But Peter continued knocking, and when they opened, they saw him and were amazed. 17 But motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he described to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, "Tell these things to James and to the brothers."[a] Then he departed and went to another place.
18 Now when day came, there was no little disturbance among the soldiers over what had become of Peter. 19 And after Herod searched for him and did not find him, he examined the sentries and ordered that they should be put to death. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent time there.
The Death of Herod
20 Now Herod was angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon, and they came to him with one accord, and having persuaded Blastus, the king's chamberlain,[b] they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king's country for food. 21 On an appointed day Herod put on his royal robes, took his seat upon the throne, and delivered an oration to them. 22 And the people were shouting, "The voice of a god, and not of a man!" 23 Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last.
Acts 12:17 Or brothers and sisters
Acts 12:20 That is, trusted personal attendant
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Although a mathematics degree may not be incredibly helpful to (proudly born-and-raised Texan) Rev. Timothy Appel while hosting Sharper Iron, his love of CFW Walther and the season of Easter will come in handy. His Call is shepherding the flock at Grace Lutheran Church in Smithville, Texas, and he's also husband to wife Kristin and dad to their four boys while being the reigning racquetball champion in Smithville. When he's not carrying out pastoral duties, you may find him reading "The Lord of the Rings," snacking on Reese's peanut butter cups, playing dominoes with his boys, or studying up on Texas history (including Sam Houston, of course).
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Even a cursory perusal of the above-linked Quiverfull blogs will leave a woman feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. "Where do you get your energy?" is the obvious and unavoidable question.
An important aspect of energy which I have never seen discussed in Quiverfull circles has to do with how our interaction with other people affects our energy levels. Specifically, the difference between introverts and extraverts is never addressed in relation to large-family dynamics.
While an extravert is energized by frequent social involvement, an introvert gains energy through quiet, private reflection. Being surrounded by people makes extraverts feel happy, enthusiastic, animated, and pumped full of optimism, but constant interaction drains the introvert's energy and leaves them feeling tired, irritable, anxious and angry. It is absolutely essential to an introvert's health and well-being to be able to get alone for significant periods of time in order to restore and recharge their own personal energy.
Well, why aren't they? Who is putting this impossible standard on the introvert moms and dads in the so-called "quiverfull movement?" Who is forcing them to live a certain way? I have friends whom I admire greatly whose children don't have a a bedtime… they all stay up together, enjoying each other, until the little ones drop off to sleep in their own time. I admire it, but I can't do it.
So I don't. We have a strictly enforced and somewhat early bedtime around here and that works great for us.
I've read articles by other moms who encourage mothers to involve their children in everything they do – from washing the dishes to cooking, to cleaning the house… they advocate keeping your children close and doing everything with them. I think it's great advice and could certainly be beneficial to any number of families, but in my own life it only serves to frustrate me and make me irritable.
So I don't. (At least, not all of the time.) I often solicit my husband's help (who is an extrovert) when it comes to cooking or cleaning or project-building or crafting with the kids. I go on "special days" with ONE child at a time, where we spend the day together, doing things they find fun and interesting. I look for ways to manage our home so that I don't always have to oversee everything the kids are doing (more-so the older than the younger children who, in my opinion, still need a lot of direction and guidance) and I try to establish systems and routines that ensure we ALL have a quiet time each day.
If Mom's an introvert, how does she not go crazy from all of the non-stop interaction with her quiver full of children?
The answer? She figures out ways to incorporate "down times" for herself and her family, she comes up with creative solutions to things that stress her out, or she girds up her mature adult loins and deals with it. I don't mean to invalidate what the author of the article had to say – she makes some incredibly valid points regarding the differences between introverts and extroverts and the reality is that their parenting styles, like their personalities, SHOULD look very different. But just like the introverted medical doctor who goes out and saves lives for a living and is necessarily forced into high levels of social interaction, I have a job to do that entails a certain amount of social interaction and emotional stress. The answer isn't necessarily for the doctor to quit his job (or for the parent to stop having children or put her current children in public school), but to figure out ways to deal with the stress of the task at hand.
I would suggest that if someone is feeling overwhelmed because of their "martyr's mentality which rejected and disdained the very concept of 'me time,'" that person should re-evaluate their circumstances and mentality and consider why the opinions and advice of others have such a powerful hold on their emotional well-being and decision making. It's a nasty cycle I've been caught in more often than I care to admit… read an article, get "convicted" and try to adopt a standard that God never placed upon me. It's one of the reasons I wrote the disclaimer here and link to it often when addressing "hot button" issues on my blog. It's one of the reasons I'm often reminding others (and myself) that "we must be careful not to adopt the convictions of others as our own without the prompting of the Holy Spirit." For myself, I choose to reject the concept that as an introvert who can't follow the advice of every "Quiverfull" parent out there, I'm somehow a "bad" mom, and figure out a way to meet my children's needs without sacrificing my own. And if I do have to sacrifice my own needs on occasion? It would be a sad world indeed where no one was willing to sacrifice their own needs for the well-being of someone else.
And the fact remains that although the author probably considers it a "flippant, unprofitable, guilt-inducing, and insincere response," I have been given the Holy Spirit who "helps me in my weakness" (Romans 8:26.) If I'm stressed or overwhelmed or mentally exhausted (which, I admit, I often am) it might say more about my current relationship with God than the current number of children in my home or vegetables in my garden.
By the way, in a misrepresentation of "quiverfull" mentality, the author of this article chose my post on losing weight to link to, in reference to having a large family. I'd just like to state that my pregnancies have NOTHING to do with the fact that I'm overweight – my addiction to food and lack of physical exercise are the root of that problem. Will my body ever look the same as it did 10 years ago? Of course not. But my obesity is NOT a result of multiple pregnancies – it's a result of laziness and an inappropriate relationship with Oreo cookies.
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What the quiverfull movement doesn't have is satisfaction. It casts itself as only looking for "blessing" but in many cases it seems to go far beyond that to reach the collectors' mentality which bespeaks more of greed, grabbing for every child you can, and if you don't do that, you fail spiritually. It's an insidious teaching and my only regret in accepting my atheism is knowing that there will be no ultimate reckoning where those who promoted and gained from this teaching do not face what they have created and see it for what it really is. The quiverful movement claims to welcome every child, but it never allows you to be happy with just what you have already. Satiety and peace are foreign to it.
I won't deny this may be the truth for some people (although I, personally, don't know of anyone like this) but it's certainly not the reality I or any of the people I know operate in!!! I think the members of this site have seen an ugly, legalistic and abusive side of the issue that really DOES exist, but lack the ability or desire to see the loving, joyful side that exists for many others.
This article is very good. As an introverted mother of 3 living in a house roughly the size of a 2-car garage, with no vehicle, I know that I would be in an asylum by now if my husband didn't help with the cleaning and kids. And I think that was in part the reason for the original author picking on Quiverfull families. Too often in those circles it is common for the husband/parents to ignore and invalidate the needs of the other family members, especially if they themselves experience different needs. Of course you will find selfish people anywhere; they just gravitate to religious beliefs that excuse their selfishness.
Great post, Rina! Amen and amen.


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The Witcher Defeats Stranger Things as Most Popular Show on Netflix in Most Countries
By Nobelle Borines
There is little doubt that Stranger Things is one of the most popular original shows on Netflix
There is little doubt that Stranger Things is one of the most popular original shows on Netflix. However, the series is getting some serious competition from a major new contender. It has just been revealed that The Witcher is even more popular than the Duffer Brothers show in certain countries.
A fan recently went out of their way to figure out just how popular The Witcher is in other countries. They then shared the results on Reddit, confirming that the fantasy series was viewed more often in 21 out of 28 countries. In some countries like the UK, Germany, Austria, Poland, Taiwan, and Australia, the Henry Cavill series was the most popular show being streamed on Netflix.
It's an amazing feat considering that The Witcher was only released on December 20. This means that it was able to draw in so many viewers in just the later half of the month before the year ended. However, there are still certain countries where Stranger Things continues to rule.
Interestingly, Stranger Things beat out The Witcher in the US, Canada, Italy, Argentina, and India. Amazingly, the third season of the beloved series continues to be the most popular show in the US.
It's still unclear if The Witcher will eventually beat out Stranger Things in 2020. After all, the series isn't expected to return on Netflix until 2021. Nevertheless, we won't be surprised if the show's popularity continues to grow throughout the first few months of the year.
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Eupedia Forum > Humanities & Anthropology > History & Civilisations > Alcohol Dependency in Europe goes up with increased ANE admixture.
View Full Version : Alcohol Dependency in Europe goes up with increased ANE admixture.
Alcohol (ethanol) is a very potent mind altering substance, and has very addictive properties.
Therefore, the question is, why some populations cope well with alcohol, which is a normal part of their culture, when others have rampant problem with alcoholism and considers alcohol as biggest evil?
I think this extremely various effect of alcohol on populations have roots in history of alcohol invention, long use by some demographics, therefore acquiring genetic predispositions, or lack of them.
"The gift of farmers". Oldest archeological finds point to ancient farming communities as inventors of alcoholic beverages like wine or beer.
Oldest european beer 4,400BC in Spain
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2013/neolithic-death-ritual-includes-earliest-evidence-european-beer
Wine making from 4,500 in Macedonia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wine
Some finds date even further back in Near East and China in farming communities. Also farmers like Aztecs in America invented alcohol.
I'm not aware of any archeological finds of alcoholic drinks among hunter-gatherers. It is also true to modern HG like Prairie Indians or Australian Aborigines. They didn't have history of alcoholic beverages, didn't build immunity against alcohol toxicity, and they are also most affected of all modern populations on Earth having unparalleled problem with alcohol dependency.
Finally I was able to trace and excellent paper regarding alcoholism and other effects of alcohol dependency:
http://amphoraproject.net/w2box/data/AMPHORA%20Reports/CAMH_Alcohol_Report_Europe_2012.pdf
I made a quick map of alcohol dependency in Europe based on tables from this paper (Web Appendix 12: Prevalence of Alcohol Dependence, by Country ). The lightest shade marks the least dependent and goes up by factor of 3% a shade. There is data missing from Yugoslavia, Albania, Ukraine and Belarus but regardless, the trend is already visible. Alcoholism climbs from Southwest to Northeast.
It correlates with cline of ANE admixture. Darker colour denotes more ANE.
I will claim that from all 3 admixtures (EEF, WHG and ANE) ANE people were acquainted with alcohol very late and as last. ANE didn't build immunity yet to the same level as other admixtures, possibly as late comer to Europe.
Interesting how Hungary stands out in both maps.
Further more, if ANE in Europe have nomadic origin from Asian Steppe area, we can argue that most, if not all, nomads on Earth are susceptible to alcoholism too. It might explain prohibition of alcohol in Muslim countries of Middle East. Before Muslim religion expansion all Middle East, having long farming traditions, was accustomed to drinking alcohol. When Nomadic Desert Arabs expended and conquered the area they've became acquainted with alcohol. Not being immune to its toxicity alcohol started making a grave impact on their population. Very concerned Mohamed declared alcoholic beverages sinful and banned the substance. Were the Arab Nomads immune to alcohol, like the rest of Near East population, there wouldn't have been any social concern of ruling elite at that time, therefore no restrictions of its use.
Yes, there's definitely a ANE=drunk trend. And there are historical records indicating that Turkish folk from Central Asia had problems with alcohol before islam resulted in restrictions in its use, which would support your theory about Desert Arabs. But I wonder to what extent alcohol abuse is a genetic thing and to what extent it's a cultural thing (societies that are relatively new to alcohol taking a long time to create civilized drinking customs, maybe).
To go slightly off-topic, it should be interesting if the DNA results are eventually publicized for that Spanish beer find - it says that the remains were in good condition, so perhaps they'll get Y DNA as well as mtDNA. Maybe someone should start a new thread with another poll.
American Indians have to this day big problems with alcohol. 12% of their deaths are alcohol related. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_and_Native_Americans
As you know, there are a lot of cultural factors at work with Native people and destructive behaviours; loss of their culture and languages, abuses that occurred in the residential schools and all that. But I think there must be a genetic factor. Some races seem to react to their difficulty in digesting alcohol by not drinking or not drinking much, but others seem to have an allergy/addiction response that leads to really damaging alcohol abuse. And then there are the folks who are mostly descended from longtime farmers and they seem to handle alcohol better. But it's difficult to be certain we understand which reactions are genetic and which are cultural when it comes to how different groups handle alcohol. I think it's usually a mixture of nature and nurture in most cases.
The alcohol dependence and ANE admix map are actaully surprising and they do seem to make the correlation you suggest.
Research with mice have shown that a mutation in the gene Gabrb1 [ and associated receptors ] affects the preference for, and excessive drinking of, alcohol.
Here is a link for any readers who may not have yet seen it:
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_26-11-2013-15-15-35
If this can be shown to also apply to humans, a study for this mutation in alcoholics with a family history of high alcohol use, from those darker coloured areas, might show some interesting results?
However, there are also environmental reasons that contribute to the development of alcohol addiction, as Aberdeen has rightly mentioned.
The study found that normal mice drink little or no alcohol when offered a free choice between a bottle of water and a bottle of diluted alcohol.
However, mice with a mutation in the gene Gabrb1 overwhelmingly preferred drinking alcohol over water, choosing to consume almost 85 per cent of their daily fluid as drinks containing alcohol.
Wow, I didn't expect this, to find actual "alcoholic" gene, or one gene so strongly responsible. 85% preference of alcohol over water, from almost 0!
I was thinking more along the lines that with long history of alcohol consumption people will develop "anti-alcoholic" mutations. We actually had to reverse this thinking to make mice drink.
Perhaps this gene was in the right mutation for mice (non-alcoholic) to protect them from toxic alcohol consumption when eating rotten/fermented fruit. People don't eat rotten food therefore this protective mutation wasn't needed. It might show more in farmers from south europe. But that's rather too speculative on my part.


Who Is Antonio D'Amico - Did Donatella Versace Hate Antonio D'Amico?
Antonio D'Amico was one of the first people to find Gianni Versace's body after the fashion designer was shot by serial killer Andrew Cunanan in 1997. While D'Amico, now 59, has kept to himself in the years since his then-boyfriend's death, he has since recently spoken about Gianni's legacy and the new season of American Crime Story. Here's what you need to know about D'Amico in the aftermath of The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story on FX.
1) D'Amico and Versace were together 11 years.
They first met at La Scala, an opera house in Milan in 1986, People reported. According to the New York Times, they were together 11 years at the time of Versace's death. During their time together, D'Amico worked alongside Versace, designing for Versace Sport and Istante. D'Amico moved to Miami with Versace in 1992 after the couple were together six years in Milan.
2) D'Amico had a strained relationship with Versace's sister, Donatella.
3) D'Amico was one of the first people to see Gianni Versace after the shooting.
In an interview with Dateline, D'Amico said Versace went out to collect the morning newspaper, something D'Amico would normally join him for. According to The Guardian, D'Amico "was drinking coffee on the veranda close to the mansion's entrance when he heard the shots." D'Amico and one of Versace's butlers ran out to see what happened.
4) Versace willed D'Amico the right to live in any of the Versace residences, but Donatella reportedly voided that.
Before his death, Versace had crafted a will while receiving treatment for a rare form of inner-ear cancer. The Guardian reported that Versace left D'Amico $57,000 a month and the right to live in any of Versace's residences, including the Miami villa. But The Guardian also reported that since the properties were owned by the Versace company, not Gianni, Donatella prohibited D'Amico from moving in, and he only received a portion of the stipend.
Santo Versace, Antonio D'Amico, Naomi Campbell, Maurice Bejart, Bernadette Chirac, and Claude Pompidou at Bejart's ballet tribute to Gianni Versace.
5) D'Amico suffered from depression after Versace's death.
He told The Guardian, "I had never been through a depression and never saw a therapist as I was advised to: why did I need to tell someone else what had happened when I knew I was this way because Gianni's death had torn me in two? I was in a nightmare, I felt nothing and gave no importance to anything...the house, the money...because it felt false to have expectations of life."
6) D'Amico released his own fashion collection in 1999.
He presented his first collection in Milan, and friend Elton John came out to support him, the New York Times reported. D'Amico told reporters he didn't use the money from Versace's will for the line. "I'm using my own money that I saved to start the business," he said. In 2012, he released a denim line called Pump with Italian soccer player Massimo Lotti. He also went back to sportswear, releasing his own line of golfwear in 2017, according to The Guardian.
7) D'Amico has mostly kept to himself over the years.
He revealed to The Guardian that found love again and has been living with his partner in the northern Italian countryside. He also told the newspaper that he still feels close to Versace: "Sincerely, after two decades, I will always be connected to Gianni as a person I loved for more than 15 years," D'Amico said.
8) He spoke out against American Crime Story.
D'Amico also denounced the scene in which he finds Gianni's body. "The picture of Ricky Martin holding the body in his arms is ridiculous. Maybe it's the director's poetic license, but that is not how I reacted," he said. He also revealed that while he did not plan to watch the show, he hoped that Martin would reach out to him to talk about the role. Martin later revealed to Ocean Drive magazine that he did in fact speak with D'Amico.