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Primary Investigator: Schildkraut, Joellen
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Project Title: Exploring Factors Related to Racial Disparities in Ovarian Cancer Incidence and Survival: the Ocwaa Consortium
PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT Invasive epithelial ovarian cancer accounts for 5% of malignancies and, while it is the eighth most common cancer in US women, it is the fifth leading cause of cancer deaths. Many of the established and suspected risk factors for ovarian cancer show racial differences in the prevalence and/or timing of exposures. Racial differences in incidence and survival are likely due to a combination of factors, including differences in the prevalence of risk factors, treatment received, prevalence of comorbidities, and socioeconomic characteristics. The newly-formed consortium, Ovarian Cancer in Women of African Ancestry (OCWAA), brings together investigators experienced in studying the epidemiology of ovarian cancer and dedicated to understanding racial differences in risk and outcomes in ovarian cancer. The OCWAA consortium includes an ongoing population-based case-control study in African American (AA) women, three completed population-based case-control studies that include both AA and white cases and controls and two unique cohort studies with large numbers of AA participants. To address racial differences in incidence and survival, we will comprehensively examine reproductive and lifestyle exposures which differ in prevalence and/or timing between AA and white women, access to care, treatment and socioeconomic factors, and determine whether they explain racial disparities. We propose to harmonize risk factor, clinical and outcome data from the participating studies in the OCWAA consortium in order to accomplish the study goals and carry out race- specific analyses of incidence and survival. We will use traditional methods to calculate population attributable risk percent (PAR%) for associated risk factors. We will use a novel and exploratory approach, a Markov state-transition microsimulation model, to estimate the extent to which racial differences in patterns of exposure to known risk factors explain racial differences in ovarian cancer age-specific incidence and use this same method to estimate the extent to which racial differences in patterns of exposure, treatment, and prognostic factors explain racial differences in ovarian cancer survival. The proposed study will be the largest of its kind and the first to be adequately powered to evaluate epidemiologic and clinical factors affecting incidence and survival of ovarian cancer in AA women. The infrastructure generated by this application will enable OCWAA to create a base on which to support future scientific proposals.


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Tampa Homeless Say They're Barred From RNC Convention Site
Tampa Homeless Say They're Barred From Convention Site
Aug 28, 2012, 05:50 PM EDT | Updated Aug 29, 2012
FILE - In this Aug. 27, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leaves Wolfeboro, N.H. For a man basing his presidential hopes on a jobs-and-economy message, Mitt Romney has spent an inordinate amount of time talking about other issues, from abortion to Medicare to weather. Many of those distractions have been beyond his control while others were his own doing. GOP strategists, fearing precious time lost, are now eager to use the convention to regain control of the message -- at least for three days. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
TAMPA, Fla. -- On Sunday, Tiffany Johnson and her boyfriend were trying to sleep in a downtown park when they were rousted by Tampa police. The cops gave them a stern wake-up call: Not only were they barred from the park, but they were not welcome anywhere near the Republican National Convention. In other words, they had to start walking.
"We had to get our stuff, and then we had to go a mile away or whatever from the facility, the area that was having the convention," Johnson, 30, told The Huffington Post in an interview outside Trinity Cafe, a Tampa soup kitchen. "I really didn't approve of it. We didn't have nowhere else to go."
In the Trinity lunch line, homeless residents rattled off a similar set of warnings that have been passed around by word of mouth: You can't wear a backpack. You can't be caught walking around deep within the sprawling security zone. The out-of-town cops brought in for the convention might be OK, but you have to watch out for the Tampa police. The cops are handing out trespassing charges like free water. You can only sleep north of the I-275 overpass. You can't sleep under the overpass.
For his part, Timothy Cory, 52, said police harassment of the homeless is just rumor. "It's more talk than facts," he said, adding that he's had nothing but cordial relations with the police since the convention started.
The Tampa Police Department did not return a request for comment.
Deputy Steve Donaldson, a homeless recovery officer with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Department, said he has heard of no directive to clear the homeless from downtown. "There hasn't been a single order to bum-rush the homeless out of downtown," he insisted. "And there never has been."
But other homeless residents disagreed and said they've experienced or witnessed harassment up close.
"We had problems with the police before all this happened -- but not as bad as it is now. You really ain't got nowhere," explained Mike, 54, who declined to give his last name, speaking at Trinity. "They told us to come from downtown up this way. We come up this way, we still ain't got nowhere to sleep." You just have to keep moving, he said.
Three homeless men who had come to Tampa from Ohio looking for work told HuffPost that they were stalked Tuesday morning by more than 10 cops when they went to a CVS store downtown. They had money, they said. They just wanted to buy a stick of deodorant and a pack of cigarettes. They said the officers followed them from aisle to aisle -- one at each end with a group of cops clustered at the store's entrance. "We're not doing anything wrong," said Matt, 30, who was afraid to give his last name.
"There are certain sections [of Tampa] we can't get into," said Delwin Cole, 57.
The convention has cost the homeless not just regular sleeping spots and peace of mind. In some cases, it has cost them their belongings. The homeless used to squat near Trinity Cafe along the street. The police recently put a stop to it.
Cole said that just prior to the convention, city garbage collectors showed up with a police escort. They moved down the street throwing away any belongings left unattended. In one instance, he said, a woman claimed her possessions but the city workers tossed them anyway. The workers seized a lot of stuff. Cole wasn't the only person who registered this complaint.
Deputy Donaldson said he isn't familiar with the incident, but he noted there is precedent for such police actions. "You are living on someone else's property whether that's public property [or not]," he said. "You can't accumulate belongings on a sidewalk and leave them there. The consequences are unfortunate, but that's the reality."
Cole said police intimidation has had one unintended effect: It hasn't just cleared out people's possessions. It has kept away support services and outreach workers who would normally visit to offer aid.
According to the Homeless Coalition of Hillsborough County, the 2011 census counted 17,755 homeless residents. Although the local government has received millions in public money to host the convention, Cole suggested that none of it has trickled down to the residents who need it most. Tampa, the largest city in the county, had promised to hand out 10-day vouchers to stay at the Good Samaritan Inn, several blocks from Trinity, during the convention, Cole said. But he hasn't seen them.
John Watson, the Good Samaritan Inn's owner, told HuffPost that there were no vouchers. A man and his pregnant girlfriend had shown up recently with a voucher, Watson said. But soon after, county officials called to cancel it. He offered the boyfriend a room anyway. The girlfriend was able to sleep on a couch across the street at a small women's shelter known as the Annex.
Phyllis Brown, 58, the assistant house mother at the Annex, said the woman appeared to be four months pregnant. She stayed just one night.
From what she's observed, Brown said, city officials do not want the homeless anywhere near the Republican convention-goers. "I know they don't want them downtown," she said. "We've seen a lot of people we don't normally see. It's not even wise to go downtown. It's not a good idea. They will flat run you out."
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The model turned actress wore a short sleeve Saint Laurent black and silver star print sequin mini dress Stuart Weitzman heels.
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8 All those who were skilled among the workers made the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue, purple and scarlet yarn, with cherubim woven into them by expert hands. 9 All the curtains were the same size—twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide.[d] 10 They joined five of the curtains together and did the same with the other five. 11 Then they made loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in one set, and the same was done with the end curtain in the other set. 12 They also made fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain of the other set, with the loops opposite each other. 13 Then they made fifty gold clasps and used them to fasten the two sets of curtains together so that the tabernacle was a unit.
20 They made upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle. 21 Each frame was ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide,[g] 22 with two projections set parallel to each other. They made all the frames of the tabernacle in this way. 23 They made twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle 24 and made forty silver bases to go under them—two bases for each frame, one under each projection. 25 For the other side, the north side of the tabernacle, they made twenty frames 26 and forty silver bases—two under each frame. 27 They made six frames for the far end, that is, the west end of the tabernacle, 28 and two frames were made for the corners of the tabernacle at the far end. 29 At these two corners the frames were double from the bottom all the way to the top and fitted into a single ring; both were made alike. 30 So there were eight frames and sixteen silver bases—two under each frame.


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The fundamental dilemma of covering the Orlando shooting
By Chava Gourarie, CJR
Mourners attend a candlelight vigil in front of the Dr. P. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Orlando
In the immediate aftermath of Sunday morning's massacre at Pulse, an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida, newsrooms across the country grappled with familiar questions, beginning with the four W's:
Who was the shooter? Who were the victims?
When did it start? When will it end?
What happened during a three-hour standoff between police and the shooter, between the hours of 2 and 5am?
Where was the son of the woman who cried into the TV cameras, "Nobody can tell me where he is"?
And, then, the unanswerable fifth W: Why?
For many newsrooms, there was a sad familiarity to the reporting, almost routine. The city was different, the names were different, the victim count was staggering, but they'd been through this many times before.
Kim Murphy, assistant managing editor at the Los Angeles Times, was in the newsroom on Sunday morning. "Unfortunately, we have a very experienced team of mass shooting reporters who've been doing this for quite a while," Murphy says. In short order, reporters were dispatched to run the live blog, to scrub social media; someone was assigned to the victims, someone else to the profile of the shooter.
"There are certain lines of reporting you have to put in place right away," says Michael Oreskes, news director at NPR. "Where'd the weapon come from, what did people know about the shooter before the shooting? It has become, sadly, a little bit practiced. " Oreskes is a CJR board member.
BuzzFeed News Editor Lisa Tozzi echoes the sentiment. When there's news of a mass shooting, Tozzi says, "One of the first posts we do is who were the people, who were the victims?"
But as many times as they've covered a shooting, the dilemma of how to cover the shooter remains. While newsrooms will and should cover the details of who the Orlando shooter was and try to make sense of how and why he was capable of slaughter, it is clear that media coverage contributes to the cycle.
"We know that a lot of these shooters want fame, and we know that the media coverage has given them what they want," says Adam Lankford, a criminal justice professor at the University of Alabama and a researcher on mass attackers. "We know there are attackers that studied and copied and sometimes explicitly referenced previous attackers and used them as models." The man who opened fire at the Umpqua Community College in Oregon earlier this year, killing nine, reportedly wrote in an online message before the attack, "Seems like the more people you kill, the more you're in the limelight."
"It's a fundamental dilemma," says Murphy of the LA Times. "Every time, we wrestle with this." On Sunday morning, while preparing for the print paper, she insisted that while they would profile the shooter, it wouldn't be on the front page. But as the news progressed, she changed her mind. "The news value of this guy outweighed any ultimately artificial desire to put him under a rug somewhere," Murphy says. "It's almost a societal necessity to know: Where did we as a culture screw up?"
Oreskes of NPR agrees. "I don't really see how you avoid the name and basic facts about the shooter in this kind of egregious case," he says. "The reality is we have to tell the story. We should just stay in bounds of what we know."
Lankford agrees that the media should cover the details about the shooter, but it needs to be done with care. "What we would want is to strike the right balance, where the media is sharing enough information so people could learn to recognize these people," he says. "Withholding all information would be a disservice to our attempts to prevent another attack."
One way the tragedy in Orlando differs from previous shootings is the lack of clarity surrounding the shooter's motives. As details emerged over the past two days—that he pledged allegiance to ISIS, that he abused his wife—motives only became murkier. For news editors, it was about getting the facts right, rather than coming down on one motive or another.
In the early hours, says Murphy, there was only a sketchy menu of motivations, and the newsroom chose to report them all equally. "Orlando nightclub gunman remembered as abusive, homophobic and racist," the Times headline read, and the article followed with a litany of his hatred. "His ex-wife said he was unstable and beat her. His father said he spoke openly of his disgust for gay people. A co-worker recalled him as a virulent racist." The next paragraph referred to his allegiance to ISIS.
Other media outlets were less equivocal, focusing on certain motives over others and prompting a fragmented conversation about whether the core issue was anti-LGBT sentiment, assault rifle control, radical Islam, or mental illness. In his address to the nation Sunday afternoon, President Barack Obama called the massacre both "an act of terror and an act of hate."
Would be interesting to track which states' media focus on the ISIS angle, which the LGBT, and how they vote in Nov. pic.twitter.com/Ta1lUYgWDo
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"It's possible for more than one thing to be true," says Oreskes. "The first principle is: Don't go beyond what the facts tell you. We actually, even at this point, don't know what his motives were."
Lankford agrees that events of this scope don't need to be limited to a singular term. "I don't see things as he's a terrorist or he's a mass shooter," he says. "Clearly, he identified with terrorists like ISIS, and, clearly, he committed a mass shooting." Lankford, who wrote a book called The Myth of Martyrdom, also said that mass shooters sometimes use martyrdom as a disguise. "They want to die, but they want to be perceived as heroes and warriors who are dying for a cause instead of wanting to escape personal problems."
By Monday, after the first horrific details had emerged and the names of the victims began to circulate, news outlets were more attentive to a big hole in the crime's timeline: the three hours between 2 and 5am Sunday morning. Early reports indicated that a gunman had opened fire inside the Pulse nightclub shortly after 2am. Three hours later, police stormed the club, and at 5:56am they tweeted that the gunman was dead. On Monday, police provided more details about the hostage situation that unfolded during that time, but more questions remain.
Marc Caputo, a Politico reporter who writes the Florida Playbook, published a list of questions that hadn't yet been adequately addressed by the media. "Terrorists pay attention to the news. Madmen pay attention to the news," says Caputo, and that three-hour window in which the gunman held police at bay is worrisome. "I think it's appropriate to ask the questions about whether the protocols and the judgment calls and the procedures were properly made, vetted, and whether they're adequate."
All the news editors CJR spoke with said they had similar questions about the timeline but that it takes time for information to become available.
"I think those questions were being asked by editors and journalists on that first day," says Oreskes. "There is a question as to whether the fact that there were no answers could have been framed more clearly earlier on to say, 'There's a hole in the timeline. We actually have no idea what went on.' "
We can expect that over the next days and weeks these and many other questions regarding the events of Sunday morning, the shooter's motives, and the FBI's previous investigations into the shooter will be addressed.
But ultimately, with as many answers as we report and confirm and document, one unanswerable question will remain: the question of why a man would pick up a gun and shoot 100 people while they danced.
Chava Gourarie is a freelance writer based in New York and a former CJR Delacorte Fellow. Follow her on Twitter at @ChavaRisa


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TOURISTS lucky enough to visit the Manuel Antonio area have no excuse for eliciting "all I got was this T-shirt" laments from loved ones upon their return home. Likewise, residents of the area or those visiting from other parts of the country can shop for gifts and all manner of interesting material to decorate their homes at Manuel Antonio's varied array of souvenir shops.The Showroom (777-2868), on the road between Quepos and Manuel Antonio, sells a variety of unique furniture and decorations, such as beds, tables, curtains, paintings and statues. The store also boasts an assortment of imported pieces from Indonesia, including sofas, lamps and mirrors. Prices range from about $15 for candleholders to $3,500 for statues.Quepos has two L'Aventura Isidro stores: a souvenir shop (777-1019) that sells jewelry, clothes, sandals, bags and ceramic, wood and leather artwork, and also claims to represent some of the most prestigious and well-known artists in Costa Rica, such as painter Cecelia Figueres; and a second store (777-2472) right next to the souvenir shop that focuses more on interior-decor items such as lamps, paintings, mirrors and furniture. Prices in both stores range from $1 for incense to $300 for rings and jewelry boxes made of cocobolo, a prized tropical hardwood.CELEBRATING 25 years in business, La Buena Nota (777-1002), located 600 meters before Manuel Antonio National Park, between Hotel Karahe and Cabinas Piscis, was the first souvenir shop in the Quepos/Manuel Antonio area. It offers a large selection of products, from candy, newspapers, books and beachwear to CDs, instruments and higher-priced ceramic and wood souvenirs and exquisite handmade jewelry. Prices range from as little as $1 for chocolates to $500 for jewelry made in Costa Rica. More than just a gift shop, La Buena Nota also offers a dance and martial arts school behind the shop, boogie-board rentals and a visitor information center.In addition to T-shirts and books, Mot Mot (777-3559) in Quepos, near Hotel Kamuk, offers handcrafted wooden articles, silver jewelry, paintings by Tanya Góngora, unique cedar trunks, assorted carvings, statues made from cocobolo wood and Costa Rican and Cuban cigars, as well as furniture such as rocking chairs and tables. Prices range from $3 for postcards to $800 for cedar wood trunks.MOST of the space in Regálame (777-0777) at Sí Como No Hotel in Manuel Antonio is occupied by Costa Rican artwork, wood art, paintings, ceramics, crystal decorations, high-quality silver and pre- Columbian-inspired jewelry, as well as some paintings and ceramic pieces by French artist Renata Bali. The store also offers the typical souvenir-shop shirts, tank tops and hats. While items such as bookmarks can cost as little as $1, paintings can be as much as $6,000.La Mariposita (777-0355), the souvenir shop at La Mariposa Hotel in Manuel Antonio, is similar to an art gallery, selling handmade wooden and glass crafts, paintings, jewelry and masks, as well as typical souvenir items such as T-shirts and postcards. Everything in the store is priced in dollars, with items ranging from $0.25 for small bottles of shampoo to paintings priced at $950.
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God gained a new angel in heaven on Tuesday, April 9, 2019; and Earth lost one of its best when Cecelia Ann Waits passed away at the age of 87. A graveside service will be held at 1:00 p.m. Friday, April 12, 2019, at Blum Cemetery; 309 Avenue F, Blum, TX 76627, with Rev. James Price officiating. She will lie in state from 9:00 a.m. - 7 p.m. Thursday, April 11, at Marshall and Marshall Funeral Directors in Hillsboro; 2495 Corsicana Hwy., Hillsboro, TX 76645.
Cecelia was born on October 18, 1931, to Harold Taylor and Isabell Bennett Erwin in Pawhuska Oklahoma. She grew up twirling batons, tap dancing and socializing with anyone and everyone that would listen. In her younger years, she divided her time between Blum, TX and Pawhuska, OK; where she grew up working at the local grocery store. Cecelia's favorite story to tell was on hot summer nights, James Erwin would take his family to the Nolan River and they would lie on the cold rocks.
In 1954, she married James Waits who was on leave from the Air Force. They left soon after with a few dollars in their pockets and headed to Nova Scotia, right outside of Maine. Together they raised their three children, Monica Gail Lambert, Daniel Ross Waits, and Karen Elizabeth Thomas. While raising their children, she worked in the school system and later retired to the family farm.
Cecelia had a deep love for her Osage Heritage, her jewelry, Sausage Griddles from McDonald's, and playing 42 with friends. Her outfits and her house were filled with bright colors that reflected her zest for life. Cecelia was one of a kind. Her life was filled with family and friends, and her family and friends were filled with life by knowing her. Cecelia was most often described as strong-willed, a fighter, and an incredible cook and seamstress.
She is survived by her three children, Monica Lambert and husband, Tim, Danny Waits, and Karen Thomas and husband, James; as well as her beloved dog, Millie; six grandchildren, April Sykora, Ashli Gann, Nolan Waits, Cody Thomas, Casey Thomas, and Taylor Thomas; 12 great-grandchildren; and her extended family and many loving friends.
Cecelia was preceded in death by her husband of over 50 years, James Waits; brother, Gene Erwin; parents, Isabell Erwin and Harold Taylor; sister-in-law, Earleen Cudd; as well as her great-grandchildren, Blake and Trevor Sykora.


Current interest rates are computed from bond prices. These current interest rates fluctuate up and down based on several factors such as how investors are feeling, how the central bank (Federal Reserve) has decided to manipulate markets, etc. These dynamic fluctuations mean that current interest rates may or may not reflect reasonable interest rates, given a long-term view.
Since interest rates influence the prices of all other financial assets, it raises the question of: "What should interest rates be?" I think the most thoughtful answer to this question came from a 1993 paper by John Taylor of Stanford. Taylor looked at the interest-rate problem through the lens of Optimal Control Theory. While Optimal Control Theory sounds complex, it is conceptually very simple. As an example, take a self-driving car. If the car drifts too far to the left, it steers right. If the car drifts too far to the right, it steers left. Small, incremental steers to the left or right keep the car between the lines.
Taylor's model applies the same reasoning to the economy. Instead of steering a car with a wheel, the central bank steers the economy with interest rates. If the economy is growing too quickly or if current productivity is unsustainable, then the central bank should raise interest rates to reign things in. On the other hand, if the economy is weak or if productivity is languishing, then the central bank should lower interest rates to stimulate activity. By manipulating interest rates, the central bank can attempt to steer the economy and keep it between the lines.
Subsequent research has built upon Taylor's work. These papers primarily (1) tweak constants so that interest rate adjustments are more or less aggressive and (2) switch which factors are used to steer the economy (e.g. unemployment rate instead of productivity). While these modifications produce slightly different numbers, the results are typically quite similar to Taylor's original model.
The chart above shows one version of a Taylor Rule, computed with Federal Reserve data. The red line is the actual market interest rate, and the blue line is the Taylor Rule target interest rate. From this chart, we can make two interesting observations. First, during the 1970s, the Taylor Rule suggested that rates needed to be higher than they actually were in order to control inflation. However, it was not until the 1980s that the Federal Reserve raised rates enough to finally moderate inflation. Second, from 2000-2008, the Taylor Rule once again suggested that interest rates needed to be higher than they actually were. If the Federal Reserve had raised interest rates, it might have softened or avoided the housing bubble entirely.
The chart above focuses on the last decade, and like the previous chart, it is extremely interesting. Fallout from the Great Recession left the US with weak growth and a very poor employment market. Many Taylor-variant models suggested that the Federal Reserve should impose negative interest rates in order to force the economy forward. Some models suggested negative rates for a year or two, while other models suggested that we should have had negative rates all the way until 2016. While Europe ventured into negative interest rates, the US did not. It is possible that the sluggish economic growth and weak inflation we experienced over the last decade resulted simply from limiting interest rates to zero, rather than letting interest rates go negative as some Taylor models suggested.
Currently, the economy is beginning to heat up, unemployment is extremely low, and inflation is beginning to appear. The various Taylor-like models now say that the economy is either between the lines or possibly is getting overheated. As a result, almost all models prescribe interest rates of 4% or possibly more.
Most people would be stunned to see interest rates quickly rise to 4%. Yet if the Federal Reserve continues to run interest rates significantly below 4%, it may negatively impact the economy. As I said before, future interest rates are the most important variable in investing. Right now, a gap exists between what interest rates should be -- according to Taylor -- and what they are. As mindful investors, we should be aware of the unintended outcomes that may result from this discrepancy.


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Fortnite superstar Kyle "Bugha" Giersdorf re-signed with Sentinels earlier this week.
Bugha tweeted a video of himself singing the contract. Sentinel replied, "Once a Sentinel, always a Sentinel." Fellow Fortnite content creator Soleil "Ewok" Wheeler sent an enthusiastic, "Let's go!"
The two-year contract was a great way for the 18-year-old Fortnite pro to celebrate his birthday. Of course, it was most likely not a big surprise to Bugha, who won $3 million when he came out victorious at the 2019 Fortnite World Cup. This victory saw Bugha labeled one of the top Fortnite players in the world, and his play since has largely justified that title.
"Our World Champion is staying home," Sentinels tweeted in celebration of Bugha's milestone birthday.
Bugha was previously competing for No Clout when he signed with Sentinels in the spring of 2019. He later competed in Epic Games' first major Fortnite esport event, the World Cup. The win had Bugha appearing on late-night talk shows, bringing Fortnite esports into mainstream culture.
Bugha continued to compete in smaller Fortnite tournaments after the life-changing win. This added even more money to his net worth and solidified him as a top-tier Fortnite player in the scene. He started offering branded gaming accessories and providing lessons through a partnership with AdvancedClub.
Earlier this month, Epic Games announced that there would not be any in-person events or tournaments, including the World Cup, in 2021. While this is unfortunate for Bugha and other Fortnite competitors, it probably comes as no surprise. Epic has been slow to support the battle royale's esports scene after investing heavily into it in 2019.
How old is Bugha?
As of December 30th, the young Fortnite pro has turned 18 years old. He was only 16 years old when he won the Fortnite World Cup in 2019.
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After winning the World Cup in 2019, Bugha was crowned the top Fortnite player in the world. Of course, there are other highly skilled Fortnite players that can definitely compete with him. Bugha continues to place in the top 10 in every Fortnite tournament he enters, including a recent first-place finish at the Fortnite Champion Series: Chapter 2 Season 4 Heat 1 – NA-East.
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Modules of constant Jordan type and a conjecture of Rickard
David J Benson
We prove a special case of a conjecture of Rickard on modules of constant Jordan type over an elementary abelian p-group of rank at least 2. Namely, we show that if there are no Jordan blocks of length one, then the total number of Jordan blocks is divisible by p. We combine this with other techniques to rule out a large number of Jordan types.
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Benson, D. J. (2014). Modules of constant Jordan type and a conjecture of Rickard. Journal of Algebra, 398, 343-349. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2012.10.010
Modules of constant Jordan type and a conjecture of Rickard. / Benson, David J.
In: Journal of Algebra, Vol. 398, 15.01.2014, p. 343-349.
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At Dow Jones this quarter, digital accounted for more than 50% of total revenues, and digital only subscribers at the Wall Street Journal grew to 893,000, representing nearly 45% of the base.
We are building a strong digital platform on top of the WSJ print circulation, which today is double the size of its nearest rival. And 51% of the Wall Street Journal digital audience now comes from mobile, up six percentage points from a year ago….
In this quarter, we also relaunched the MarketWatch website and we have seen 20% revenue growth, with quarterly traffic exceeding 20 million unique users and page views of over 150 million, up high teens versus the second quarter.
At Dow Jones, domestic advertising at the Wall Street Journal declined 4% versus the prior-year quarter, a slight improvement from last quarter. Declines in print advertising were again partially offset by continued solid growth in digital, driven by strength in programmatic and custom content. And digital accounted for approximately one third of Dow Jones' ad revenues this quarter.
Wall Street Journal circulation revenues grew 5% this quarter due to higher subscription pricing and higher digital paid subscribers, as print volume remained relatively stable. Digital only paid subscribers were 893,000 for the quarter, a strong double digit gain over the prior year.


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WAKE up, you apartment fanatics!
There's a new Web site where you don't have to buy anything, and its owners pledge not to annoy you with unwanted calls and advertisers' pleas for attention. Its can be reached at www.nyrealty.com.
You can look up a specific co-op or condominium building -- 500 of them, right now -- and find a brief, often witty description of its pros and cons, and even the last sales there.
The Web site is free, but the company, NY Realty.Com, is obviously hoping that cybernauts will also check out the part of the Web site where they can actually sign up to see apartments for sale or rent. Just click on ''Buying,'' go to ''Hot Deals,'' pick an address, then a specific apartment, and scrutinize it. Interested? Make an appointment.
But Daniel A. Levy, the company's president, said that even if customers chose to fill out a form, giving their name and E-mail address, they would be called only to confirm the appointment they had requested.
Unless, he added, they want to sign up for another service: they can automatically receive E-mail when other apartments that match their specifications become available. But again, Mr. Levy assured the faint of heart: no unwanted sales calls.
Besides the top 10 views of Central Park (960 Fifth Avenue at 78th Street and the Beresford, 211 Central Park West at 81st Street, head the list) and the top 10 water-tank enclosures (Trump Parc, 100 Central Park South, and the San Remo, 145 Central Park West at 74th Street, are two of them), Mr. Horsley also selected the top 10 nonrectilinear buildings (including the Corinthian at 645 First Avenue at East 38th Street, a tower he said was ''the closest New York comes to the great Lake Point Tower in Chicago'').
There are more rankings to come: the top 10 buildings for pets. The top 10 entrance marquees. The top 10 rooftop pools. And, lest you worry that they were going to be forgotten, the top 10 gargoyles.


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