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Blogging success, content profits, becoming the go-to media expert in your space
Trevor is a veteran PR strategist and advisor specialising in reputation marketing, leadership communications and personal branding; he is a keynote speaker, blogger, social broadcaster, and author of the book 'Content Marketing for PR'
The November slate of Reputation Revolution podcast episodes focused on creating your own content and generating media exposure for your personal brand.
We kicked off the month with an interview with Belinda White, founder of Fierce Girl Finance. Theme for our conversation was focused around building a reputation through blogging and media relations.
Next up, in episode 210, I chatted with Finland's Yann Ilunga about how to package and monetise your podcast, blog or online video show. It was a really expansive chat about taking your content efforts to the next level!
In episode 211, I sat down with Jake Moore, a cyber-security specialist from the UK, to discuss how to build a national media profile as the go-to expert in your space. This was a really enlightening case study: Jake is out there day after day building a reputation with the media as the go-to expert in his field.
And, in the final episode for November, I looked at how owned media can lead to editorial exposure (this featured a chapter from my audiobook, Content Marketing for PR).
Alrighty then, here are the details …
209: Building a reputation through blogging and media relations with Belinda White, Founder of Fierce Girl Finance
Belinda White is the founder of Fierce Girl Finance, a blog-based online platform that helps women take charge of their money.
Belinda describes Fierce Girl Finance as a passion project. She's been at it for five years, and her persistence has paid off as she is now regarded as a genuine expert in the (crowded) area of personal finance education.
Belinda unpacks all this in this chat.
Specifically, she covers a range of topics including:
Building a platform around your passion
Finding your voice through blogging
The importance of having a vision and mission from the outset
Capitalising on media opportunities that come with having an increased profile in the marketplace
Doing your homework before pitching a story idea to journalists
Juggling blogging with a full-time gig
Belinda also discusses how not having a monetisation strategy frees her up to blog on topics she's interested in, versus having to satisfy advertisers and sponsors, as well as pandering to the Google machine!
This freedom, she says, brings her joy and helps sustain her interest in maintaining the Fierce Girl Finance blog.
>>> Check out Fierce Girl Finance here!
210: Content Profits: How to package & monetise your podcast, blog or online video show – with Yann Ilunga
Today's bumper episode unpacks what it takes for thought leaders to generate leads and sales from their owned media channel/s.
In other words, how can they monetise the content they create on their podcast, blog, online video show, or email newsletter.
Taking centre stage is YANN ILUNGA, a lead generation and podcasting consultant, international speaker, and podcaster (with over 400 episodes published).
Yann and I cover a range of topics to do with content marketing, with emphasis on podcasting and online video.
Plus Yann breaks down the system he uses to help his clients engage and convert prospective customers through the use of content.
Other topics covered include:
content repurposing and the importance of formatting for different channels
the rise of the Creator Economy (and what thought leaders can learn from independent content creators)
the different ways to productise your services in order to scale
the danger of tunnel vision when it comes to client acquisition
automation and the 'connective tissue' that is email marketing
how to leverage podcast guest appearances to build your business
If you're building a strong professional brand and reputation and are wanting to take things up a notch and turbo-charge your business through content, then this is the episode for you!
About Yann
Yann lives in Finland and helps consultants and coaches create and leverage systems to generate a consistent stream of organic leads and appointments (without having to spend a single cent in paid ads).
Additionally, he is the founder of Podcast Success Summit – the world's largest virtual summit for podcasters – and host of the "360 Entrepreneur Podcast", a show that features inspiring conversations with top entrepreneurs, marketers and best–selling authors like Pat Flynn, Kim Garst, John Lee Dumas, Jay Baer and Natalie Sisson.
Dubbed "Unicorn-Level Digital Marketer" by Inc. and "Podcasting Advocate" by Forbes, Yann is a polyglot who speaks five languages.
Visit Yann's website (Content Profits page)
211: How to build a national media profile as the go-to expert in your space: Case study with Jake Moore, ESET UK
What does it take to generate 400 items of media exposure in the space of two years?
Well, that's what Jake Moore has been able to do across 2020 and 2021.
And not just any media coverage: we're talking tier 1 editorial exposure.
That is, coverage in the top media outlets such as BBC Radio, ITV News, CNBC, Sky News, Forbes, The Times, The Daily Mail, The Independent, Wired, Forbes and Al Jazeera. And that's just a small portion of what he's been able to achieve!
Jake is a cybersecurity specialist with ESET, a global software company that provides security solutions to businesses and consumers in more than 200 countries and territories.
In the space of a few short years, he's stamped himself as a genuine go-to resource for all things cyber-security in the UK.
While earned media takes in speaking gigs at conferences and guest blogging and people saying nice things about you on social media – the guts of earned media is about getting mentioned in mainstream and trade press, and broadcast media.
This is what's going to boost not only your reach of your personal (and business) brand, but also your credibility and perceived authority in the marketplace (there's a reason why we see so many "As seen in …" media logos featured on the homepages of personal brand websites).
But what's involved in actually doing this? What's required of the expert to make this happen: not once or twice, but over and over again on a consistent basis?
In this episode, Jake walks us through his media journey, covering topics such as:
The role relationships play when dealing with the media (hence, in the PR world this practice is called 'media relations')
The role Twitter plays in real-time connection with journalists
Jake's daily practice of ensuring he's prepared with story angles and ideas
The importance of timeliness in responding to media calls
Outbound pitching of story ideas versus managing inbound media requests
How to prepare for a media interview, including on-air Zoom calls
Balancing personal brand vs employer brand when talking with the media
The role ESET UK's PR agency plays in generating media coverage
Blogging, and the power of creating headlines that hook readers (and the media)
Do you need a personal brand website if you're working for a company?
How YouTube helped prepare Jake for TV interviews with major media outlets
While ESET UK's PR agency plays a crucial role in helping Jake generate exposure in the media, the key message here is preparation: doing what's required to build relationships with journalists, editors and radio/TV producers.
Jake's tips and lessons are relevant, even if you're just starting out on your media relations journey, with no outside help.
If you're interested in extended your reach by leveraging third-party media, you won't want to miss this interview with Jake Moore!
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212: How owned media can lead to editorial exposure (Content Marketing for PR audiobook chapter)
This podcast episode is dedicated to a full chapter of my book – Content Marketing for PR: How to build brand visibility, influence and trust in today's social age.
The chapter in question focuses on how owned media can lead to editorial exposure.
If you're wanting to leverage the media to build your profile and reputation, this episode will be of interest.
Want to get your own FREE audio version of the Content Marketing for PR book?
CLICK THIS LINK to gain immediate access to the full audiobook (all 29 chapters).
Filed Under: Blogging, Content marketing, Earned media, Media relations, Personal branding, Reputation Revolution podcast


Duane "Red" Munsterman, 90, of Cissna Park passed away on Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at Westminster Village in Terre Haute, IN.
Red was born October 26, 1928 in Crescent City, the son of Walter H. and Linda Bruens Munsterman and they both preceded him in death.
He is survived by one son, Chad J. (Becky) Munsterman of Bloomington; one daughter, Cathy (Jerome "Jerry") Bollettieri of New York; one sister, Valletta Maravola of Roanoke, VA; three grandchildren, Brandon Munsterman of Indiana, and Travis Bollettieri and Jared Bollettieri of New York; five great-grandchildren; and four nephews.
Mr. Munsterman was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Cissna Park. He served on the Cissna Park school board as well as the Cissna Park town board. He also served as a volunteer firefighter. Red enjoyed golfing and bowling. He was also a dedicated Chicago Bears fan.
In honor of Red's wishes, there will be no formal services. However, the family welcomes you to join us graveside at Trinity Lutheran Cemetery on Sunday, February 3, 2019 at 1:00 PM CST. Rev. Tim Hahn will officiate.
Arrangements handled by Baier Funeral Home in Watseka.


If you're passionate about making a difference in people's lives, our Child and Youth Services Worker program is for you - and the need for specialists in the field is constantly growing.
The Reeves College Child and Youth Services Worker program will prepare you for entry-level positions in a wide range of settings, including agencies, social services and community service environments.
You'll develop the expertise you need to deal with a variety of issues affecting children and youth, under the supervision of professional counsellors. You'll learn how to nurture young lives and support their well-being in terms of family, legal, education, health and addiction difficulties, and cover the foundations of child development and the impact of adverse childhood experiences on a child's development. Courses include the Fundamentals of Poverty, Fundamentals of Addiction, Burnout and Self Care and Professional Ethics.
Focused on preparing you for the workforce, you'll participate in a practicum placement to give you the valuable hands-on experience you need to launch a career in this rewarding and worthwhile field.
This program is 44 weeks in length.
This course helps the student understand the basic elements of adult interpersonal communication. All professional communication skills (such as counseling skills, interviewing skills, and so on) are supported by a foundation of adult interpersonal communication.
Focusing on the four main areas of communication, verbal, nonverbal, interpersonal, and group, the course gives the student opportunities to intensively practice basic communication skills via role-playing, feedback, and other practical exercises.
Diversity and Social Justice in Helping Relationships presents diversity from a much broader perspective than just race and ethnicity, exploring a broad spectrum of cultural and diversity issues and their impact on the client—counselor relationship. Students will have the opportunity to learn from external speakers with expertise in specific communities, as well as an opportunity to hone their clinical skills via role-playing.
exploration, integrative approach to counseling, the role of technology in ethics, legal issues and ethics for helpers, working with difficult clients, values and diversity in counseling, ethical relationship issues, boundary issues, managing stress, and selfcare.
Fundamentals of Poverty explores the impact poverty has on the individuals who must cope with it, as well as the impact on the community as a whole. Particular emphasis is placed on child poverty in Canada, as well as de-bunking myths and stereotypes about poverty. Two special topics in poverty are also covered: poverty & homelessness and poverty, Aboriginals and the impact of the Legacy. The importance of education and occupation is also covered. As one of their module deliverables, students construct personal resource binders of local agencies and organizations that support people coping with poverty. They will be able to refer to these for future projects and while on practicum.
Fundamentals of Mental Health explores basic questions regarding mental health. It explains the formal diagnostic categories of the DSM-IV-TR, common medications used in pharmaco-therapies for mental health concerns, as well as the impact mental health concerns have on the affected individuals. Particular emphasis is placed on community-based interventions and supports for people living with mental health issues, as well as the importance of the duty to warn. As one of their module deliverables, students construct personal resource binders of local agencies and organizations that support people coping with mental health. They will be able to refer to these resources for future projects and while on practicum.
This course provides students with an introduction to issues frequently encountered when working with families affected by addiction. Drawing on Bowen and Solution-Focussed family therapies, it provides tools that help social service workers understand various family dynamics. Basic strategies for interviewing families are reviewed. The concept of codependency is introduced, both in terms of the family life of clients, and the workers' own risk for developing co-dependent behaviours on the job. A basic introduction to working with diverse family groups is provided.
This course is designed to give the student an introduction to case management, documentation and report writing in the social work field. It covers the effects of deinstitutionalization and the importance of the case manager role. Types of recording in this course include process recording and summary recording, along with intake summaries. The process behind intake interviews, service delivery planning, building case files, and service coordination are also covered. The course also examines ethical and legal issues giving students an idea of the various areas where competence improves with experience. Various roles in case management such as assessment, intake procedures, outreach and resources are also covered.
Helping professionals who work with traumatized or otherwise 'at-risk' individuals are at risk themselves for developing secondary traumatic stress. The very qualities that led workers to the social service employment-- compassion and empathy-- are the ones that make workers particularly vulnerable to this. Murphy's Law and the different types of stress are also brought to the forefront.
Burnout and Self Care briefly reviews the nature and diagnostic criteria of both post-traumatic stress and secondary posttraumatic stress. The primary focus in this module is practical, hands-on strategies that social service workers can use to prevent burnout and increase self-care.
Instruction will be provided by certified trainers in these specialties. Typically, the trainers will be College staff, but external trainers may also be used when that is expedient.
This course introduces the student to the foundations of child development and the impact of adverse childhood experiences on a child's development. The course will explore three main areas essential for support; child development, trauma and itrs effect on children and the impact of loss and grief on children and youth. Students will learn the age versus stage development expectations for children in a physical, intellectual social and emotional level. The course will also explore childhood trauma as a result of intense events that could threaten the safety or security of a child and impair the child's abiltiy to trust and develop meaningful relationships with others, with emphasis on how childhood trauma impacts a child's actions, social interactions, abilty to learn and care for themselves. The course will also explore the relationship between loss and grief and how grief is a response to loss. Students will gain an understanding of how grief is a normal response to loss. The course will provide the student with foundational knowledge on how the caregiver can support children in meeting their development potential in working through issues of trauma, grief and loss in a developmentally appropriate manner.
This course introduces the student to the foundations of advocacy and empowerment for young people. How to lay the groundwork for advocacy is explained, as well as ways to build rapport with youth to facilitate effective advocacy. Different strategies based on education components to empower youth while learning through education and personal choices is covered. Finally, how to advocate for effective standards of professions and healthy meaningful programming is explored.
This course is designed to give the student critical insight in to the social category "youth" and how the boundaries and definitions of "youth" are socially and historically determined, based on the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA), the impact of various social systems (justice systems, social services systems, education systems etc) on youth identity formation is explored, as well as observing the differences in the Young Offenders Act (YOA) and the YCJA. The ways for youth to access social justice in these systems are outlined, as well as examining the growing inequalities around youth.
This course is designed to give students an overview of the youth justice system of Canada as well as insight into the impact contact with justice system has in the lives of young people. Myths/stereotypes versus the realities of youth crime in Canada are presented. Community-based interventions, rehabilitation and restorative justice options for youth are explored.
This course is designed to give students an overview of the impact of culture and subculture on youth. The specifics issues and needs of immigrant and LGBTTIQ youth, Aboriginal youth are explored. The impact of associations, activity, and style subcultures on youth is also investigated.
For this mandatory 100 hour (5 week) field placement, students are expected to act as employees in a workplace related to youth services, gaining the valuable "real world" experience that employers seek. Students are encouraged to find their own field placement site. The business organization providing the placement is not expected to pay for the services provided by the student during the practicum.


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The Blossoming of Perspective: A Study
This project consists of an exhibition of sole-authored design work, The Blossoming of Perspective, London, Domo Baal, 2007, including five new research artefacts, as well as drawings, paintings, collages and models, studying the underlying architecture of Marcel Duchamp's secret pornographic assemblage, 'Given: 1st the waterfall, 2nd the illuminating gas, 1946–66' ('Given'). The exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue of selected drawings, including a sole-authored essay, 'Given: The Corridor, the Tower and the Fall'; and essays by four invited critics from art and architecture: TJ Demos, Jonathan Hill, Lorens Holm and Brigid Mc Leer; see Penelope Haralambidou (ed.), The Blossoming of Perspective: A Study (London: Domo Baal Editions, 2006). Questions/Aims/Objectives The project critiques a mode of architectural drawing still dependent on a Cartesian understanding of space and closely connected with the Renaissance invention of linear perspective and the monocular visual pyramid. Contexts Inspired by Jean-Francois Lyotard's reading of 'Given' as an incarnation, but also inversion, of the rules of linear perspective, this exhibition of drawings studies its spatial arrangement in search of an alternative understanding of visual space. Drawing on Duchamp's term 'blossoming', which is seen as connected with stereoscopy, The Blossoming of Perspective analyses 'Given' as a physically constructed stereo-drawing, attempting to unlock the erotic potential of spatial representation. Methods The exhibited work lies between architectural design, art practice/history and critical theory and uses drawing as a critical method. A new work, a full-scale drawing of Duchamp's 'Given' in steel and waxed thread entitled 'The Act of Looking', merges the boundary between sculpture and drawing, using Duchamp's seminal piece to provide a research tool to inform a wider study of stereoscopy and binocular perception. Dissemination/Esteem Related essays published in Dialogue, n. 106 (2006), pp. 46–47 and Critical Architecture (2007), pp. 225-36. Exhibition previewed in Blueprint and Time Out.
http://www.domobaal.com/exhibitions/39-07-penelope-haralambidou-01.html

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This season will be Simonds' seventh as principal second violin. Simonds, who began studying violin with his grandmother as a boy in Massachusetts, didn't come to Louisville expecting to play contemporary music. Abrams had not yet arrived. Originally, he played for director Jorge Mester, who is a Romantic with a capital R. "When I first got to the orchestra, we would play 19th-century music with a lot of swing — and sometimes it wasn't always the most together," Simonds says. "It was very emotional, very expressive, very energetic — but not the most precise — sacrificing a bit of the clockwork for expression, which is a good thing in my estimation.
A lot of the new music is complicated, including compositions by Abrams himself. Try playing something in 12/7 meter that switches to 5/4 — with 19 flats in the key of Z. With a gong. "Chaos if you're not onboard," Simonds says.
Is the Louisville Orchestra pioneering something? And, if so, could this orchestra spark an era of composition that is more popular with the public?
This originally appeared in the September 2018 issue of Louisville Magazine on page 91. To subscribe to Louisville Magazine, click here. To find us on newsstands, click here.


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Ethnic interests and national ideology during Israel's first decade: Addressing the rational Oriental vote
Avi Bareli
The Ben-Gurion Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism
The article offers an empirical foundation through which the electoral behaviour of the new Oriental immigrants into Israel during the 1950s can be interpreted, based on the assumption that their conduct was, in fact, rational. It focuses on the egalitarian wage policy in the important public sector, which led Ben-Gurion and the leaders of Israel's first ruling party, MAPAI, to a confrontation with the European academically educated middle class, and on the political–electoral strategy of MAPAI vis-à-vis the Oriental immigrants during the 1950s electoral campaigns. The article discusses three assumptions: first, that this wage policy was part of the ruling party's attempt to address the interests of the new Oriental working class; second, that this political strategy was publicly discussed, and it addressed the Oriental immigrants' rational socio-economic calculations for the purpose of securing their political and electoral support; third, that the leaders of nascent Israel and its ruling party presented this policy as a measure towards creating a minimal socio-economic foundation for the process of nation-building during the 1950s.
Published - 4 Mar 2018
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Upcoming DVD Releases
Posted on January 8, 2021 by Danielle Langer
* Stargate: Atlantis – The Complete Series (VEI)
$64.99 SRP Blu-ray
EXTRAS: Over 50 hours of Special Features Including extended episodes, behind-scenes extras and commentaries with the cast and crew!
—–A NEW GATE WILL OPEN. A LOST CITY WILL RISE AGAIN.
Atlantis, built thousands of years ago by the highly evolved ancients, is home base for an elite expedition team from Earth. These courageous military commanders and scientists leap through the city's stargate to explore the wondrous Pegasus Galaxy and battle the treacherous wraith, who seek control of Atlantis – at any cost. New Super Enhanced picture! 5 seasons, 100 episodes starring Joe Flanigan, Torri Higginson, Rachel Luttrell, Rainbow Sun Francks, David Hewlett, Jason Momoa, Paul McGillion, Amanda Tapping, Jewel Staite, Robert Picardo, David Nyki.
* The Good Lord Bird (Showtime/ViacomCBS)
$29.99 SRP DVD MOD
—–Ethan Hawke stars as abolitionist John Brown in this Limited Event Series based on the award-winning novel. The story is told from the point of view of "Onion," a fictional enslaved boy who becomes a member of Brown's motley family of abolitionist soldiers battling slavery in Kansas, and eventually finds himself in the famous 1859 Army depot raid at Harpers Ferry, an inciting incident of the Civil War. It's a humorous and dramatic tale of Antebellum America and the ever-changing roles of race, religion and gender in American society. 2-disc set.
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* The Twilight Zone – Season 2 (ViacomCBS)
$39.98 SRP DVD; $39.99 SRP Blu-ray MOD
EXTRAS: Deleted & Extended Scenes; Gag Reel.
—–Executive Producers Jordan Peele and Simon Kinberg's modern reimagining of the classic TV series continues the legacy of socially conscious storytelling. Featuring enthralling narration from Peele and an all-star cast including Tony Hale, Ethan Embry, Billy Porter, Jurnee Smollett, Joel McHale, Christopher Meloni, Jenna Elfman, Damon Wayans Jr., Topher Grace, and Gretchen Mol, Season Two uses introspection and self-exploration to usher viewers into a dimension filled with endless possibilities. 3-disc set on DVD; 2-disc set on MOD Blu-ray.
* Legacies – The Complete 2nd Season (Warner Archives)
—–Last season, the supernatural students at the Salvatore Boarding School for the Young & Gifted and their beloved headmaster, Dr. Alaric Saltzman, came face-to-face with a stunning assortment of monsters and mythological creatures. A dragon. A gargoyle. The Headless Horseman. Making matters even worse, Malivore, the ancient evil they all serve, was found to have a shocking connection to one of their own: Landon Kirby. But Hope Mikaelson, the only tribrid in existence, sacrificed herself to save the boy and the school she loves. As a result, when Season Two begins, no one remembers Hope…and she must decide whether to return to the school that has become her home and the friends who have become her family, or move on without them and face the Malivore monsters on her own. 3-disc set.
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* Stargate Universe – The Complete Series (VEI)
EXTRAS: OVER 2 HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES PLUS COMMENTARIES ON ALL EPISODES; Extended Version of the Series Premiere Episode Air; Chatting with the Cast Featurettes; Kino Video Diaries; Behind the scenes featurettes including Deconstructing Destiny; Pitches: A Journey of Friendship and Discovery; Behind the Season 2 finale – Gauntlet; And Much More!
—–A band of soldiers, scientists and civilians must fend for themselves when their hidden base comes under attack and they are forced through a Stargate. The survivors emerge aboard an Ancient ship, the Destiny, which is locked on an unknown course and unable to return to Earth. Together, the group must unlock the secrets of the ship's Stargate to survive, but the danger, adventure and hope they find on board will reveal the heroes and villains among them. Robert Carlyle stars!
* East Of Eden (ViacomCBS)
—–John Steinbeck's EAST OF EDEN opens in New England, depicting Adam and Charles Trask, two brothers whose lives are set in opposition to each other by their domineering father, Cyrus. Into the brothers' lives comes Cathy, a beautiful, fascinating woman whose innocent appearance masks her evil nature. A scheming seductress and murderess, she changes the lives of Adam and Charles forever. The story shifts to California, with Adam and Cathy settling in Eden, the lush hills of the Salinas Valley. Cathy embarks on a life of sin that leaves Adam a broken man. This drama of good and evil is played out in the lives of their two children, the innocent Aron and the brooding Cal. This modern version of Cain and Abel examines not only the passions and conflicts between the brothers, but also man's ability to control his own destiny. Timothy Bottoms, Jane Seymour, Bruce Boxleitner, Soon-Tek Oh, Karen Allen, Sam Bottoms, Anne Baxter, Richard Masur, Lloyd Bridges. 3-disc set.
NOTE: this item was previously released into stores on DVD in 2009, but is now being re-released as a manufacture-on-demand (MOD) version of the title
* You – The Complete 2nd Season (Warner Archives)
—–Bookstore clerk Joe (Penn Badgley, Gossip Girl) transplants his tongue-in-cheek attitude regarding modern dating, social media and obsessive love from New York to Los Angeles in Season Two of the surprise hit series. In a new city with a new identity and object of desire the aptly named Love (Victoria Pedretti, The Haunting of Hill House) Joe, now known as Will, attempts to turn over a new leaf in a city that admires the young, the beautiful and the rich. But Will soon discovers that Love's life is even more complicated than his own…and the twists just keep on coming. From executive producers/writers Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble, and based on Caroline Kepnes best-selling novel of the same name, this psychological thriller takes you inside the mind of a brilliant twenty-something with an ominous flair for romance…and murder. 2-disc set.
* Bluey – Season 1: The 1st Half…Magic Xylophone and Many Other Stories (BBC Archives)
—–Bluey follows the adventures of a lovable and inexhaustible six-year-old Blue Heeler puppy who lives with her dad, mum and four-year-old little sister, Bingo. EPISODES: Magic Xylophone, Hospital, Keepy Uppy, Daddy Robot, Shadowlands, The Weekend, BBQ, Fruit Bat, Horsey Ride, Hotel, Bike, Bob Bilby, Spy Game, Takeaway, Butterfiles, Yoga Ball, Calypso, The Doctor, The Claw, Markets, Blue Mountains, The Pool, Shops, Wagon Ride, Taxi, The Beach. Single-disc title.
* Bluey – Season 1: The 2nd Half…Pirates and Many Other Stories (BBC Archives)
—–Bluey follows the adventures of a lovable and inexhaustible six-year-old Blue Heeler puppy who lives with her dad, mum and four-year-old little sister, Bingo. EPISODES: Pirates, Grannies, The Creek, Fairies, Work, Bumpy and the Wise Old Wolfhound, Trampoline, The Dump, Zoo, Backpackers, The Adventure, Copycat, The Sleepover, Early Baby, Mums and Dads, Hide and Seek, Camping, Mount Mumandad, Kids, Chickenrat, Neighbours, Teasing, Asparagus, Shaun, Daddy Putdown, Verandah Santa. Single-disc title.
* Mum – Season 3 (BBC Archives)
—–Our favorite characters return for a bold new adventure set over one single week in the latest season in this critically acclaimed comedy starring Academy Award nominee Leslie Manville. Paulines divorce money has come through and she has hired a country mansion for the week to celebrate Dereks birthday. So Cathy, Michael, Kelly, Jason, Pauline, Derek, Reg and Maureen up sticks and decamp the English countryside. Each episode takes place on a different day of their trip, revealing all the clashes, awkwardness and comedy that results from the family being stuck together in the middle of nowhere. Is this the week for Cathy and Michael to finally get together or will the suspicions of Cathys family halt their progress? Meanwhile, Derek has an important question on his mind, Reg soldiers on despite Maureens deteriorating health, and Jason and Kelly try, really badly, to hide some life-changing news. Single-disc title.
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* Power – The Complete Series (Lionsgate)
$79.98 SRP DVD
NOT AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER UNTIL JANUARY 19TH
—–"Power," the gritty crime epic from executive producer Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson and show creator Courtney Kemp, follows the six-season saga of James "Ghost" St. Patrick, a man with everything money – and power – can buy. But Ghost's enviable life, beautiful wife, and hot New York nightclub are haunted by a dark, deadly secret: the lucrative drug network fueling his wealth. Facing tragedy, betrayal, conflict, and vengeance, Ghost fights for redemption in a journey that will threaten everything precious in his world. Available for the first time in one complete collection, featuring all 6 seasons of the intense and gritty drama. Cast includes Omari Hardwick, Lela Loren, Naturi Naughton, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Joseph Sikora, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Rotimi Akinosho, Alani "La La" Anthony, Monique Gabriela Curnen, Mike Dopud, Michael J. Ferguson, Jerry Ferrara, Evan Handler, Shane Johnson. 19-disc set.
* Blue Mountain State – The Complete Series (Lionsgate)
—–"Blue Mountain State: The Complete Series" includes all three seasons of the rudest, lewdest comedy ever to hit the gridiron! Season One introduces us to the nastiest sacks in college football, including a hard-partying quarterback and a scoreless running back — at least, with the ladies. In Season Two, Denise Richards, Brian Bosworth, and Boomer Esiason help tackle the laughs, while Season Three sees Coach Daniels dealing with a hotshot upstart. At Blue Mountain State, the league's crudest team is always ready to play…sometimes even on the field! Cast: Darin Brooks, Alan Ritchson, Chris Romano, Ed Marinaro, Frankie Shaw, Denise Richards. Available for the first time in the US in one complete collection, featuring all 3 seasons of the beloved sports comedy. 6-disc set.
NOTE: from what we can tell per the studio material provide, the 2016 Kickstart-funded show-concluding film, "Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland," is NOT included as part of this Complete Series set. It apparently only contains the regular weekly episodes from the show's main run on television.
* Tropical Heat (aka Sweating Bullets) – The Complete Series (Mill Creek)
EXTRAS: in addition to all 66 episodes of the sexy, syndicated TV series, also included is the feature film Criss Cross!
—–Even paradise has a dark side. When Nick Slaughter loses his job at the DEA, he takes his keen investigative mind and healthy libido down to the tropical paradise of Key Mariah, Florida, where there's a seemingly endless supply of sunshine, women, and crime. Once there, he meets Sylvie Girard, a local travel agent, who helps Nick run his private detective agency. Together they form a strong friendship and a crack detective team. 12-disc set.
* Wonder Showzen: The Complete Series (ViacomCBS)
EXTRAS: Jam-packed with a variety of special features, including auditions and outtakes, special guest commentaries, featurettes, and more! Includes over 80 minutes of bonus features and Easter eggs.
—–Wonder Showzen: The Complete Series is here in all of its brain melting, puppet loving, borderline inappropriate glory! Pull out the futon and spend the day gorging on all sixteen episodes, and enough outtakes, commentary, and bonus features to satisfy your craving for sweet, delicious knowledge. Relive the glory days of Clarence and the Beat Kids taking to the streets, bringing joy, confusion, and panic to all. Let Wonder Showzen shock and alarm as we ask the important questions: where do babies come from, when the revolution comes where will you hide, and should the letter P get liposuction?
* Castlevania – Season 3 (Warner/Viz Media)
$24.98 SRP DVD; $29.98 SRP Blu-ray
EXTRAS: Production Animatics, Storyboards, Art Gallery, NYCC Panel with Creators and Cast.
—–Castlevania Season 3 contains episodes 1-10 of the anime directed by Ryoichi Uchikoshi and features the voices of Richard Armitage and James Callis. In the aftermath of Dracula's death, Trevor and Sypha are travelling, Alucard remains at the castle in misery, and Isaac is returning to Europe for his revenge. But Carmilla, reunited with her vampire sisters of the Styrian ruling court, sees a way to take advantage of Dracula's demise and build a new future – and she needs imprisoned Hector to achieve it. 2-disc set in either format.
* The Berenstain Bears – The Complete Collection (PBS)
—–It's time for fun-filled adventures with Brother and Sister bear! Watch all episodes of The Berenstain Bears series in one value-packed DVD set! These 80 stories tell tales of getting along with others, caring for friends and family, working hard to succeed in school, and lots more! From participating in a school talent show to flying a big red kite with Papa, children will love watching the many adventures Brother and Sister have in Bear Country each and every day! 5-disc set.
NOTE: this title was previously available in limited distribution, but is now becoming available "wide" at general retail.
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* Supernatural – The Complete Series (Warner)
$329.99 SRP DVD; $359.99 SRP Blu-ray
—–Supernatural stars Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester and Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester, brothers bound by tragedy and their family's eerie history. Together, they criss-cross mysterious back roads in their '67 Chevy Impala in search of their missing father, while hunting down every evil supernatural force they encounter along the way.
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* His Dark Materials – The Complete 2nd Season (HBO/Warner)
EXTRAS: Digital Copy (Blu-ray only)
—–The second season of HIS DARK MATERIALS begins after Lord Asriel has opened a bridge to a new world, and – distraught over the death of her best friend – Lyra follows Asriel into the unknown. In a strange and mysterious abandoned city she meets Will, a boy from our world who is also running from a troubled past. Lyra and Will learn their destinies are tied to reuniting Will with his father, but find their path is constantly thwarted as a war begins to brew around them. Meanwhile, Mrs. Coulter searches for Lyra, determined to bring her home by any means necessary. Season two series regulars include Dafne Keen, Ruth Wilson, Amir Wilson, Ariyon Bakare, Andrew Scott, Will Keen, Ruta Gedmintas and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Joining the cast this season are Terence Stamp, Jade Anouka and Simone Kirby.
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An OC Transpo driver who made headlines across the country when he stood up to an Islamophobic attack on a city bus has died.
Alain Charette died Aug. 14, after a battle with cancer, according to an obituary posted online. He was 61.
In May 2016, a passenger on a No. 118 OC Transpo bus yelled Islamophobic taunts at an Ottawa woman named Hailey DeJong, who was wearing a niqab.


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JACK HARLOW IS COMPLETELY PREPARED TO NAKE A VIDEO FOR LIL NAS X 'INDUSTRY BABY.
by Julisa Patro
Julisa Patro
Tate Modern Invites People To Scratch The Floor For A New Exhibition But Removes Rough Graffiti.
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Lil Nas X triumphantly has all gay-related Connotations with his hip-hop career by introducing "Industry Baby" in the declining hours of Thursday (July 22).
The record serves as a continuation of the failure of "Shoes of Satan" and as the second single released for his forthcoming debut album, Montero. Musically, the energetic number puts the rapper from "Old Town Road" at the center of Auto-Tuned, laden with a maze of rhythm horns (actually released) in Kanye West.
Directed by Christian Breslauer, Industry Baby's official music video is set on Monday (July 19) by the tribunal in which Lil Nas X was convicted – and allegedly convicted – of homosexuality. Set in a maximum-security prison, full-length video live content is nothing short of bright detail. As you can see from the YouTube screenshot, the film challenges the non-existent limits of the sex trade rather than opting to use male strippers exclusively to promote free nudity.
There's also an unpolished prison cell, apart from its glittering Grammy and platinum badges, a nod to the classic Shawshank Redemption, an electric in the electric chair, and more milkshakes for the backyard boys. Jack Harlow – whose character is a balance of heterosexuality throughout the prison madness – took to Twitter as the video dominated social media and conversations on YouTube explaining how proud he was to have "Industrial Babies" engraved on his feed.
Of course, she liked Jack Harlow.
Fans Voted 'Renegade' By Big Red Machine With Taylor Swift As Their New Favorite Music This Week.
"[Lil Nas X] wrote this entire maintenance video, and I'm following him every step of the way," wrote rapper Tyler Herro. "If he asked me to be in that shower scene, I would be in that shower scene. I just let my brain boil. It was an honor to the part with him.
Then he teases his newfound co-worker with a semi-red, black, and white photo from the video. But Trollmaster Tero was about to laugh one last time when he found the most animated tweet, "Jack Harlow is in a gay video," and showed it to his six million followers on Twitter.
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Julisa Patro July 25, 2021


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Aaron Donald on his 2022 return: I thought I wanted to be done, but I got addicted to it
Donald says he's faster than ever
By Kenneth Arthur@KennethArthuRS Apr 10, 2022, 11:01am CDT
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Tom Brady played better in his thirties and forties than ion his twenties. What if we still haven't seen the best of Aaron Donald?
After speculation before the Super Bowl that Donald could retire from the NFL if the Los Angeles Rams ended up winning (Narrator: They did), the future Hall of Fame pass rusher eventually put those thoughts to rest after weeks of uncertainty. Now both Donald and Sean McVay are back in L.A. in an attempt to be the first team to repeat since Brady's 03-04 Patriots, and Donald told the Million Dollaz Worth of Game podcast that he's got three to five more years left in his body.
"Yeah, I'm faster," Donald said. "I was just with my guy Wednesday training and I always ask after I work, 'What do you think?' And he [said] back, 'You've got about three, five more years in you with how you're moving.' So, I feel good, I really do feel good. I feel quick, I feel explosive. I don't feel like I'm slowing down — if anything I feel like I'm getting faster. I feel like I'm in better shape. I keep telling people, I get better with age, man. I don't slow down. I just feel like I'm getting that much stronger. I look better with age and all that."
.@AaronDonald97's footwork is elite @brgridiron
(via @210ths)pic.twitter.com/WYWuHdywmP
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) April 4, 2022
It was only last week that Donald revealed he's only 260 lbs, which begs to ask the question of whether or not he's faster than every draftee entering the NFL this year at his position. Is he faster than the linebackers in the 2022 NFL Draft? Some of the cornerbacks? Maybe a receiver or three?
Donald says that he is "hungry" to win another Super Bowl, probably motivated by the fact that his Hall of Fame teammate Von Miller now has two rings of his own. Could it be Rams vs. the Buffalo Bills in next season's Super Bowl to see if Miller gets three before Donald gets two? Donald made it clear that he was motivated to return because he sees L.A. as having a real chance to repeat and given the mass exodus of talent from the NFC to the AFC over this offseason, it's not hard to see why.
"Why not come back and play? That's all it's about. I experienced this, I thought I wanted to be done, but I got addicted to it."
Most QB hits since 2019…
TJ Watt - 116
Matt Judon - 79
Joey Bosa - 78
Aaron Donald - 77
Shaquil Barrett - 75 pic.twitter.com/TDsiyR2V06
— NFL Stats (@NFL_Stats) April 8, 2022
Donald is entering his age-31 season having made the Pro Bowl in all eight of his campaigns, as well as first team All-Pro in the last seven. He is a three-time Defensive Player of the Year and he played in a career-high 1,041 snaps in 2021.
What do you think Donald has in store for us in 2022?


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Overcoming obstacles: PhD alum Tara Tracy seeks new approaches to treat Alzheimer's disease
By Rachel HendersonJanuary 18, 2023No Comments
"It's just so exciting to me — to keep trying to be at the forefront of what we can do to help people with disease."
Tara Tracy, Neuroscience PhD Program alum (entering class of 2004)
Tara Tracy
Tara Tracy is an assistant professor at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Novato, California, where she investigates the mechanisms underlying memory loss in Alzheimer's disease and other age-related dementias. Specifically, her lab studies synaptic deterioration in these diseases, which she hopes will lead to new ways to preserve or restore memory by repairing affected synapses.
Tracy first became interested in neuroscience as an undergraduate at Wesleyan University. She did her PhD at Berkeley with Lu Chen, who is now at Stanford. In the Chen lab, Tracy studied how synapses develop at the molecular level. She went on to do a postdoctoral fellowship at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease and UCSF, where she studied how toxic tau protein affects synapses in Alzheimer's disease.
In her lab now, Tracy combines her expertise in synapse biology with her knowledge of neurological disease to discover molecular mechanisms that could lead to cognitive decline. She says recent research from her lab suggests that there may be ways to actually repair synapses in Alzheimer's disease. This would be a novel therapeutic approach that could lead to the development of more effective treatments.
In addition to trying to crack the difficult problem of Alzheimer's disease, Tracy is also passionate about helping other women in science overcome obstacles in their careers. She recently founded an initiative at the Buck Institute to support and retain women in science and help them advance into leadership positions.
Read our Q&A with Tracy to learn about her research, training at Berkeley, the advantages of working at an independent research institute, and her thoughts on ways to help women scientists succeed. This interview was conducted on September 21, 2022 and has been edited for length and clarity.
Q: How did you first become interested in neuroscience?
A: I was always drawn to biology in school. But I took my first intro to neurobiology class in college. I remember [in] the first class, the professor, Dr. Allan Berlind, showed a very old video of somebody doing electrophysiological recordings on a grasshopper. There's something about being able to record the action potentials and relate that to how these circuits in the grasshopper function — [it's] fascinating. That really inspired me. Ever since then, I've really been excited about anything neuro related.
Q: What brought you to the Berkeley Neuroscience PhD Program?
A: I applied very broadly for graduate school. I applied to a lot of schools, and I interviewed at a good number of schools. Berkeley stuck out to me because I liked the interdisciplinary nature of the program. I knew I was very focused on cell and molecular neurobiology, but I also wanted to learn more about the other areas of neuroscience which are also, obviously, very important. I wanted to have that basic knowledge in neuroscience — a well-rounded education — so that was very attractive to me about Berkeley.
Q: What was your experience like in the program?
A: I really liked the faculty that I interacted with. They were doing cutting-edge neurobiology that I was always interested in. That's probably what I enjoyed most about the program.
I was in one of the first [graduate student] cohorts, maybe the third or fourth. The students who came before me were very supportive. I remember meeting them in the interviews and really enjoying my time with them and learning a lot from them, even though the program was very small at that point. So I really enjoyed that.
Tracy and her husband Grant Kauwe, who is also a Berkeley Neuroscience PhD alum.
Also, my husband, Grant Kauwe, was in my class. We didn't get married until after we left grad school, but we met in the program. In general, my class was pretty close. We hung out a lot. The students were all very interactive, and it's just such a great scientific environment that fosters that. Grant works in my lab now as a staff scientist, and it has been great to continue collaborating with him after so many years.
Q: What was your thesis research about?
A: I was investigating the molecular mechanisms that occurred during synapse development. In particular, in Lu Chen's lab we were interested in studying the function of glutamatergic synapses, which are the majority of the excitatory synapses in the brain, and important for cognition. So we were interested in looking carefully at how these synapses develop.
What I was interested in was how do AMPA receptors play a role. [AMPA receptors are] a type of glutamate receptor at the synapse. We did kind of a simple experiment where we knocked down the AMPA receptors in developing synapses and characterized what happened to the synapses. What we found is that when we knock down the AMPA receptors at the synapse, it has some effect on the function of the presynaptic terminal, suggesting a retrograde effect.
We did a lot of electrophysiology and imaging for this study, and for me personally, what I gained from it is [understanding] just how many different ways we can assess synapse function. You can do some really nice studies to get at that. So I gained a real appreciation for the complexity of the regulation of synapses from my graduate work.
Q: What did you do after you graduated?
A: After getting so much knowledge and experience studying neurobiology, I decided I wanted to apply that to better understand what's happening in disease. So I did a postdoc at the Gladstone Institutes [which is affiliated with UCSF] with Li Gan, who subsequently moved to Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. With Li, we were studying how tau protein becomes toxic in Alzheimer's disease and how this toxic tau protein affects synapses and synapse biology. I think what worked really well for me is that I took all this basic biology knowledge and applied it to what's happening during progression in disease.
Q: Did you go straight into your current position from that postdoc?
A: Yeah. I was at the Gladstone Institutes for a number of years, and at a certain point I applied for a faculty position. Again, I applied to a number of different places. I interviewed at eight places. I got maybe seven offers, and then I decided to come to the Buck Institute to start my lab here. It worked out really well for me.
In terms of my trajectory, I think I really got my solid foundation at Berkeley in terms of neurobiology. I very much appreciate the knowledge and experience I gained there. But then I learned about disease from Gladstone. So I got kind of the best of both worlds in terms of my training. Now we're using that in my own lab, all of that. I basically have my hand in both worlds now. We're doing some synapse biology in my lab, but most of it is focused on pathogenesis and disease and what's happening to synapses in disease.
Q: That's great that you got so many job offers!
A: I applied to a lot — I think I must have applied to 30 different faculty positions. I tried to pick the ones that I thought I was the most suited for; I didn't just apply to anything. I was also selective geographically to some degree. There are certain places that I knew I wouldn't want to move to. I'm so lucky, I've been in California for 18 years now. I moved here from New York City, where I grew up. I'm very fortunate that I got to stay. Another reason I stayed here is because my brother lives in the area.
Q: What are some other reasons you chose the Buck Institute over a more traditional research university?
A: I did get offers from traditional research universities, which were all great too. I think I would have been fine at a place like that. What drew me to the Buck was [that] they're focused on aging and age-related disease, which is something I'm very interested in. So that was a good fit. I also had collaborators here that we had worked with already, and I looked forward to collaborating with them further.
Also, it's nice that we are an institute that's so focused and everybody has a similar interest, and yet here we are in the Bay Area where we can collaborate with other, big places. I have collaborators still at UCSF that we're working with a lot, and Stanford now as well. It's nice to still be in this area where we can work with the bigger places, especially for us. I don't work with humans in my lab, but in order to do disease research, it's really important that we apply what we're finding in cell cultures and in mice to what's actually happening in humans. In order to do that, we collaborate with people who do research with humans. So that's another great thing about being here, that I can be in this small environment where everybody is interested in the same thing, but then also be able to collaborate with people at the bigger institutes that do human research.
Q: What do you do in your lab?
A: We have a number of projects. I just get so excited about more projects, sometimes I have to slow down a little bit! [laughs] I'll just tell you about one project we're really interested in, for the sake of time.
We've identified a protein (KIBRA) at synapses that's dysregulated in Alzheimer's disease, and we think is important for the plasticity at synapses, which is a mechanism that underlies memory formation. We found that this synaptic protein is downregulated in Alzheimer's disease, and that this is associated with dementia. So, the model is that you have loss of this protein and synaptic plasticity is impaired, and that then could cause cognitive impairments.
What we're working on now is can we repair synapse function, using this protein, to try to bring memory back? The thing in the disease field which is important about this is that most of the research on Alzheimer's disease now, in terms of trying to bring things to the clinic, [has been on] how do we reduce the levels of toxic proteins in the brain like tau and amyloid beta. That's where a lot of the focus has been on — trying to reduce these toxic proteins. Our approach would be a little bit different in that we think that you can repair synapse function, maybe, despite having the toxic tau protein in the brain. So it could repair the system without fixing the problem — that kind of approach. That's one of the projects that we're hopefully going to have a paper on soon.
Q: Do you have any industry collaborations?
A: I'm looking into that now. I think that's very important, because that's how therapeutics come to life. We're definitely looking into that now, actively, but we haven't gotten to the point yet where we have that in full gear.
Q: What motivates you to do this kind of research?
A: I get really excited about new ideas and cutting-edge stuff. That's what I feel like we're doing. It's just so exciting to me — to keep trying to be at the forefront of what we can do to help people with disease. You know, how can we overcome the boundaries that we've had for the last two decades — that there's no treatments for Alzheimer's disease yet, really, that are very good. This is a huge obstacle and I'm motivated by the challenge of it. That's a big driver for me in this field.
Q: For students who are considering their career options, how is working at a nonprofit research institute like the Buck similar to or different from working at a university?
A: As an assistant professor, I do not have responsibilities to teach undergraduates because there are no undergraduates here. I do teach graduate students. We have a graduate program with USC, a Buck-USC PhD program. Just yesterday, I taught a class for that program. But the teaching responsibility is very minimal compared to other places that have undergraduates.
The other difference is that at big universities, at least the ones I interviewed at or was considering, there are a lot of administrative people to report to at different levels. Whereas here the leadership group is smaller. There are fewer people who make all the decisions, and I know them very well, and I get to talk to them. I think if I was at a bigger place, I would see those people less often [laughs] — the people at the top of the university.
Tracy and her lab at the Buck Institute in summer 2022.
My lab right now has more postdocs than grad students. That may change in the future. But we do get a lot of postdocs here at the Buck. This is postdoc appreciation week and we very much appreciate them.
We have the other things that I remember that we had at Berkeley — we have seminar series, we have meetings, we hold conferences here. So we're very much like academic universities. Everything we do on a daily basis, other than teaching, is very similar to university life in terms of how the lab works. My lab is funded through grants, so that's also similar.
Q: Do you have any advice for graduate students?
A: Based on my own experience, I would say follow what you're most excited about, and keep trying. It hasn't always been easy to get where I am. But I kept trying and learning from my mentors. One of the key factors to being able to get where I am was the mentors I had. Learning from them and having their support was incredibly important. And not just my thesis mentor or my postdoc mentor, [although] they were the most important, but other people that I knew and got to know and learn from. Seeking out mentorship from others as well — that was so valuable.
Q: Is there anything else that you want to mention?
A: One thing I really care about now, probably from my own experience, is trying to support women to climb the academic ladder. I didn't know anything about this as a grad student — the kinds of obstacles women face — because it's fairly equal in terms of male versus female entering graduate school. But then when you go up the ladder in your career, there's a drop off [of women]. We call it the leaky pipeline. So then there's less women in the leadership positions.
I set up an initiative here at the Buck to support trainees and try to address the leaky pipeline. I would encourage women Berkeley students to try to seek out mentorship for this, [to] gain leadership skills that are useful in climbing the ladder. Because there are things out there that helped me, at least. As soon as I became aware of [them, it] helped me overcome some of those barriers that women face. I've had several 'aha moments' that I think helped my trajectory in terms of that.
Q: What kinds of things are you doing in your initiative?
A: We're calling it Buck Women in Science, and we started probably six months ago. The first thing that we did was we brought in an outside person to lead a workshop on leadership skills for women. That was just to get the ball rolling. What we realized in that session was that women have all these difficulties and nobody ever talked about it. Or they can find it challenging to navigate to get to the top— there's certain walls for women.
So then we set up peer mentoring group sessions. Once a month, we're having these events where we choose different topics. Most recently, we've been discussing the book Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office. I really enjoyed reading it. It's a little bit controversial, and there are some things in there that may not be useful. But we had some great discussions about these things — how to not be a 'nice girl' because it can sometimes backfire. At least I know I've struggled with some 'nice girl' attributes in trying to get to a leadership position. And then corner office means your top-level dream job, whether it's in academia or not.
We actually had so many things to discuss in the first session that we made a second session to talk about more things. We now have a list of topics that we're going to be talking about at these sessions, including: networking skills for women; managing up; impostor syndrome; how to 'have it all' — managing different aspects of your life; what are women leaders — how do they act, look, and sound? All of these kinds of things.
Then we're going to invite speakers. We got some funds from our CEO to invite speakers for our group — well-respected woman scientists who will visit and give scientific talks, and share some tips with our group on how to climb the professional ladder. My old classmate, [Berkeley Neuroscience PhD alum] Emily Jacobs from UC Santa Barbara, will be visiting us soon to give a seminar for this. I'm really hoping this kind of support group can help people learn skills.
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Lawyers Who Should Be Horse-Whipped
You may think that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, that slippery, perjurious Bushie, is the slimiest lawyer in America. But you are wrong. I'm going to tell you about some lawyers who make W's yes-man, toady and mouthpiece seem as wise and honorable as King Solomon.
Now, before I get in trouble with my brethren at the bar (and I don't mean the Hog's Breath Saloon in Key West), let me proudly proclaim that I am a lawyer. I practiced trial law for 17 years in Miami, always trying my best to adhere to the ethical standards. Admittedly, I had difficulty with the rule that states: "A lawyer should demonstrate respect for the legal system and for those who serve it, including judges, other lawyers, and public officials."
But that aside, I never lied to a judge, a client, or opposing counsel. I came close to punching out one of my own law partners, but that's a different story.
Most lawyers and judges I know are ethical and honest. I'm pretty sure my fellow Florida lawyer and wordsmith Jim Grippando would agree. Jim is a super lawyer with the highest moral standards. And let's not forget the other lawyers-turned-novelists, most of whom had stellar legal careers, and in some cases, still perform pro bono work or teach law, or both. I'm thinking of veterans Scott Turow, Philip Margolin, Lisa Scottoline, Michele Martinez, Linda Fairstein, David Baldacci, Steve Martini, Barbara Parker, Twist Phelan, Lia Matera, Dylan Schaffer, Richard North Patterson, Jeremiah Healy, John Grisham, as well as newcomers John Hart, Kermit Roosevelt, and Jeb Rudenfeld, among many others. (The grandaddy of us all was Erle Stanley Gardner, who represented impoverished dockworkers in the courts of Ventura County while grinding out his Perry Mason tales in the early years).
But when I see the story involving the Kentucky lawyers who stole tens of millions of dollars from their own poor and sick clients, well, I think it's time to junk the Eighth Amendment and bring out the old horse whip.
The New York Times reported over the weekend on the most rotten, corrupt case of ethical misconduct I've ever seen – and folks, I covered the courts as a reporter for The Miami Herald around the time the Magna Carta was signed.
You may remember the diet drug "fen-phen" which not only took off weight but also caused heart damage. Several Kentucky lawyers represented 440 sick, dying, or deceased plaintiffs, including W.L. Carter, pictured in the rocking chair, and recovered a total of $200 million in a settlement from the drug's manufacturer. Not satisfied with receiving 30% of that enormous sum, as their contracts called for, lawyers Shirley A. Cunningham, Jr., Melbourne Mills, Jr. (below) and William J. Gallion apparently took advantage of their unsophisticated clients and tricked them into new, coercive deals. The lawyers latched onto another $35 million plus siphoned $20 million of their clients' money into a questionable "charitable fund" with some of the dough going to the judge who approved their excessive fees. Grand jury indictments are expected shortly.
While prison seems likely, I wonder if the courts have the ability to recover the stolen money, some of which was used to buy expensive race horses. (I am reminded of William Faulkner's line: "Once the horse moved man's physical body and his household goods and his articles of commerce from one place to another. Nowadays all it moves is a part or the whole of his bank account, either through betting on it or trying to keep owning or feeding it.")
It may take more than a process server to get results in this tawdry case. Paperwork and legal niceties can only do so much. So here's my suggestion. Send around a persuasive collector. If you watch "The Sopranos," you know Paulie Walnuts. Have Paulie shake some dollars loose, then let the felonious barristers get their Pillsbury doughboy butts passed around in a maximum security prison. *********************************************************************
FIRST PARAGRAPH QUIZ
Name the book and author. First prize, the next boatload of contraband seized by Special Agent James O. Born.
The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul-erosion produced by high gambling -- a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension -- becomes unbearable and the senses awake and revolt from it.
SEX AND THE WORKING MOM
My daughter Wendy Sachs, author of the acclaimed non-fiction book, "How She Really Does It: Secrets of Success from Stay-at-Work Moms," has written a new article I highly recommend. It's called "Sleep, Sex & Chardonnay," and the gist is that working mothers don't have enough time for any of those items. Check it out at Wendy's blog.
MY FAVORITE QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Okay, it's not from this week. It's from December 1955 in A.J. Liebling's "The University of Eighth Avenue," published in Sports Illustrated.
"I never married," the Professor says. "I always live a la carte."
FANS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS
Writers collect great anecdotes from their book tours. Lee Goldberg seemed to get a whole week's worth of quotes from an appearance at the library in Anaheim last week. Lee's collected the nutty exchanges on his Sunday blog. Here's one:
A man approached me carrying a half-a-dozen of my books. "So you wrote all these books?"
"Did you come up with the plots, too?"
"Yes, I did."
"Wow," he said. "I wonder how many other writers do that."
A FIRST PARAGRAPH THAT HOOKED ME
I missed Tawni O'Dell's "Back Roads" when it was published to slam-bang reviews half a dozen years ago. Jay Paterno, quarterback coach at Penn State and a voracious reader, has been recommending it to me for some time. (Likewise, I have been recommending the Statue of Liberty play to Jay for some time). Anyway, I finally picked up the book and was immediately hooked.
All those times me and Skip tried to kill his little brother Donny, were just for fun. I keep telling the deputies this, and they keep picking up their Styrofoam cups of coffee and walking away only to return a few seconds later and heave their fat butt cheeks onto the metal-topped table in front of me and flash me sad, weary stares that would be almost tender if they weren't filled with so much hatred.
Odell's new book, "Sister Mine," was just published to outstanding reviews.
OBITUARY FROM THE WORLD OF JOURNALISM
A friend of mine died last week in Florida. Roy Terrell, a Marine fighter pilot in World War II and an early managing editor of Sports Illustrated, lost a long battle with cancer at age 83. Here's a juicy line from his S.I. story, "This Is Cricket!" published in 1961:
Mohammed remained at bat for 16 hours and 39 minutes and scored 337 runs. By the time he was retired, the better part of four days had elapsed. So had most of the spectators.
AND IN NEWS FROM THE WAR IN IRAQ
While Jenna Bush has still not enlisted in the Army or traveled to Iraq...
Staff Sergeant Travis Strong has.
Anonymous 3/27/2007 7:50 AM
Quiz guess : Murder in the Millions: Erle Stanley Gardner, Mickey Spillane, Ian Fleming
by J. Kenneth Van Dover
Paul 3/27/2007 9:29 AM
Jon usually nails these.
This time...close, but no (exploding) cigar.
Fleming's Casino Royale ?
Marianne 3/27/2007 9:53 AM
Sounds like 'southern justice' hasn't changed in the last fifty years...
Nope, Alberto 'abu ghareb' Gonzalez is still a slimy, rotten, self-serving individual who deserves to go on bomb-defusing duty in Iraq. Without any personal armor. At least he'd be on the same footing as the troops over there who weren't issued with body armor as part of their kit.
Anyway, as a lawyer, what percentage would you estimate, of the over 300 people on deathrow that Gonzalez told 'W" to rush execute as governor of Texas on his way to the White House, were actually innocent of the crimes they were convicted of? That haunts me somedays...
Dang, the opening quote isn't from Casino Royale is it? Sounds a bit too gritty, to be Fleming, but I thought I'd take a punt. :-)
Boy, Paul, you squashed a lot into your post!
patty smiley 3/27/2007 10:08 AM
I don't know what it is about Lee that attracts these hilarious encounters, but having shared the podium with him at a number of events I can verify that he does. I love to listen to his stories. He's a very funny guy.
Mark Terry 3/27/2007 10:15 AM
I see a headline today that Gonzales "wonders" if it might be better for everyone if he resigned.
Yeah, I wonder, too.
paul 3/27/2007 1:29 PM
Ah, you guys are too quick.
Anonymous and Marianne hit it. Ian Fleming's "Casino Royale."
The very next line would have given it away: "James Bond suddenly knew that he was tired."
Can't we all just get along?
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At a recent workshop I was teaching, I mentioned that I think doing some psychological "shadow" work can propel you along the Andean path toward conscious evolution much faster.
If we are striving as paqos to be the grandest human beings, then we have to address all parts of ourselves, the conscious and unconscious. We both address our "wounds" and empower our Inka Seed by doing energy work, but it seems to go faster when we couple this energy process with psychological or emotional work.
What is the shadow? Broadly speaking, it is that part of you that drives your beingness below the level of your conscious awareness. It is everything within that you will not accept or acknowledge—or that you outright reject—about yourself. But it is also a repository for all of your unexamined and unlived gifts and talents.
Jung identifies many layers of consciousness, one of them being the ego. We are most familiar with the ego—the sense of "I." Jung calls the ego a "field" of consciousness that encompasses all the "personal aspects of consciousness." It is your experienced self, your empirical sense of self. The ego can both express the contents of self or repress them.
The shadow, in one sense, is protective. It saves you from yourself. Your moral and ethical conflicts, your self-condemnations and self-reprisals, your fears and trepidations, and so much more of your "unlovable" self gets banished to your shadow so you don't have to deal with it and can get on negotiating the terrain of your daily life. But even though your shadow is not perceived or experienced directly by your ego, the content of the shadow often finds its way out into the light of day through unexpected behavior and words. Like most of us, you may sometimes be surprised—even shocked—how you act and what you say. What did that come from? you wonder, referring to something embarrassing or hurtful you did or said. It came from your shadow self.
What you won't or can't own within yourself often gets projected out onto others. You may see in others, truly or falsely, what you cannot own within yourself. Any blanket prejudice—against a race, religion, gender, whatever—is usually rooted in your shadow. So are other kinds of behaviors. Can't stand a blowhard who only talks about himself? Maybe you have that same egotistical quality but are too ashamed to own it. Can't seem to ever make an appointment on time? Maybe there is a "self" inside that gets its satisfaction from deliberately keeping people waiting. Have a reckless sense of courage and daring? Maybe that is a shadow compensation (a gift, in one way) from a "self" within who is cowering in fear.
In so many ways, that which you call your "reality" is shaped by the projections of your shadow. You can see, then, how important shadow work is to your endeavor as a paqo. One of your goals as a paqo is to be qaway—to see reality as it really is. If you are not exploring your shadow self, you cannot easily realize that goal.
Your shadow also is a bestower of talents and skills. As Debbie Ford, author of The Dark Side of the Light Chasers, writes, despite the truth that our shadow is the repository of what we deny about ourselves, our shadow holds "the essence of who we are." It holds "our most precious gifts." When we can bring these rejected or denied aspects of ourselves into the light, we can be transformed.
As a paqo, you want to live as a whole human being. To do that you must accumulate personal power, realizing that personal power is about accessing more of the self. It is an inward driven pursuit of cleansing the hucha from your poq'po to be more of who you really are. Additionally, accumulating personal power is about being in more perfect ayni, which is an outward driven pursuit. It is always about relating to "other," whether that other is the cosmos of living energy or a person or group. In this way, doing your shadow work can illuminate a series of core dyads: the inner and the outer, the individual and the collective, the human and the supernatural. These are yanantin energies, the complement of the differences. When you bring harmony to a yanantin relationship, you can better achieve japu, the union of the two into something greater than the sum of the parts. This is the achievement of the fourth level of the paqo path, that of transcending boundaries without erasing them.
This post cannot teach you the various kinds of shadow work, but you can explore those yourself, as there are plenty of accessible books and I am developing a master class that combines shadow work with the Andean path. However, I hope that this post can help you realize the value of undertaking this work as part of your Andean path, for the bottom line is that you have to walk through your own shadowlands to reach the landscapes of light. . .


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ENGLAND VS SCOTLAND
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Grab your ticket and be a part of history as The Brewery Field hosts its first ever international fixture.
The club announced in June 2021 that the home of Spennymoor Town was once again chosen to host a prestigious Schoolboys fixture.
The game takes place on Friday 1st April, with a 7pm kick-off, and will also be broadcast live across BBC iPlayer, the BBC Sport app and Connected Red Button.
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Five European players Premier League teams should keep their eyes on
Categories: Arsenal , Chelsea , Liverpool , Manchester City , Manchester United , Newcastle United , West Ham United
Author: Danni Biggs
The transfer window might be shut until the summer, but teams across Europe will now start sending their scouting teams on missions to make sure they are finding the best available talent around the world.
Every team wants a youngster in which they can develop and potentially sell-on for quadruple the amount they originally purchase them for some years down the line, and they will find those players scattered among Europe.
Here are five players, all 21 and under, who are going to be in hot demand in the next 12 months:
France – Houssem Aouar, Lyon, central midfield
Relatively unknown to most of Europe, Houssem Aouar has been having his breakthrough season at Lyon with some immense performances in both Ligue 1 and the Europa League.
The French youth international is a typical central midfielder that loves to bombard forward. He might only be sleight in stature, but Aouar has incredible intelligence to know when the dribble is on and when he has to pick the pass at the right time.
Aouar, like most young French players, has an incredible elegance in his dribbling that allures defenders into a false sense of security. One minute you see him, the next he is past you. Aouar successfully waltzes past his markers with ease.
The 19 year old made his France U21 debut last November, but with the way his performances are going, it will not be too long until Didier Deschamps calls him up to the senior squad.
Everton will have been in awe of him when Lyon crushed the Toffees home and away, but there will also be other Premier League teams now closely watching his progression at Lyon.
Italy – Lucas Torreira, Sampdoria, defensive midfield
One of the most enjoyable players in Europe this season to watch has been Sampdoria's Lucas Torreira. While he might not possess the dazzling speed of Neymar or Eden Hazard, his technical approach to the game, as well as his intelligence, is something to be admired.
Torreira, 21, has the heart of a lion in his native defensive midfield position, unafraid by any player that comes his way. The former Pescara midfielder might only be five-foot-five, but his presence is well known to those who try to cross him.
The Uruguayan has a similar tenacity to that of Paris Saint-Germain's Marco Verratti - both are not particularly daunting physical players, but they have the aggression to win the ball back and are usually one step ahead of their counterparts.
Torreira has made the joint fourth-most tackles in Serie A this season, averaging 2.8 per-game, and has been a stalwart of Sampdoria's midfield. He is not afraid to get forward, either, but Torreira's strengths are, by far, guarding his defence from penetrative attacks.
Napoli are rumoured to be incredibly keen on bringing him to the San Paolo, but English teams who need a combative midfielder should really be taking an interest in this exceptional talent.
Germany – Leon Bailey, Bayer Leverkusen, left wing
Leon Bailey has been one of Europe's hottest properties this season after finding the net eight times and recording five assists in the Bundesliga.
What has set Bailey aside from his counterparts is his ability to create something from nothing and pure willingness to create moments of pure magic. Bailey has the ninth-most shots on target per 90 minutes in the league, which is quite remarkable given he plays on the wing and is up against centre forwards.
The Jamaican-born superstar has completed, on average, 2.1 dribbles per game, which makes him rank seventh in the Bundesliga. Bailey is showing incredible statistics for a player who is only 20 years old and has only just come onto the scene.
There is no ceiling for Bailey in terms of how far he can go, and it is to no surprise that the likes of Chelsea and Liverpool are closely monitoring his situation at Leverkusen.
Spain – Gonçalo Guedes, Valencia (on-loan from Paris Saint-Germain), left wing
The Paris Saint-Germain loanee has been a surprise at Valencia this season after impressing his critics on a consistent basis. Shipped out to Spain because of Neymar and Kylian Mbappé's arrivals, Guedes has placed his hat into the ring as one of Europe's finest young wingers.
The fully fledged Portuguese international has completed 2.2 dribbles per-90 minutes this season and has been one of Valencia's best players in all competitions.
Guedes' main attribute is his close ball control and composure when being pressurised by onlooking defenders. It is a skill to fend off players with ease when dribbling, but Guedes has mastered it comfortably and looks incredibly elegant when gliding with the ball at the heart of his opponents' defence.
There are big things to come from 21 year old, but it will be no easy task in recruiting him away from Paris Saint-Germain after the season he is having.
Netherlands – David Neres, Ajax, right wing
One of Europe's brightest prospects and the future of Brazilian football has emerged at Ajax this season.
David Neres has consistently performed to an exceptional standard throughout this year's Eredivisie and has contributed to 21 goals (nine goals, 12 assists) in 24 appearances.
The 20 year old has an immense future ahead of him but he is already making significant waves across world football with the performances he is showing.
Neres has completed three dribbles per-game this season, the third highest in the Eredivisie, which is a phenomenal amount given his age and experience prior to this year. The Brazilian U20 star is incredibly quick-footed and has already been compared to Arjen Robben in the sense of cutting inside to strike the ball on his favoured left foot.
If Neres can add the ability to go out-wide from time to time and vary his attacking game, then there is no reason why he cannot take Europe by storm and compete at a very high level in the Champions League.
English clubs have found it difficult to sign players from the Dutch league who excel in the Premier League, but Neres looks certain to take his game anywhere and excel.
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Literature & Fiction | Politics & Social Sciences | Education & Learning
An award-winning writer and broadcaster, Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester, brought up in Prestwich and was educated at Stand Grammar School in Whitefield, and Downing College, Cambridge, where he studied under F. R. Leavis. He lectured for three years at the University of Sydney before returning to teach at Selwyn College, Cambridge. His novels include The Mighty Walzer (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Kalooki Nights (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize) and, most recently, the highly acclaimed The Act of Love. Howard Jacobson lives in London.
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William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice Retold: A Novel
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