We might not pay much attention to our feet, until they start hurting. A little twinge in your sole can be more than enough to make you lose focus on your work and slow down on your performance.
When our feet starts to hurt, it becomes really difficult to think about anything else. Considering, the amount of time that we spend standing on our legs, it becomes especially difficult when our feet start paining.
Wearing shoe insoles can help fix this problem considerably. Now if you are wondering which shoe insoles to try, try Relaxed Feet instead of Euphoric Feet to improve your foot health.
Nonetheless, wearing shoe insoles has multiple benefits. Here we have compiled a list of 5 top reasons why you should try shoe insoles.
The job of our shoes is to protect our feet against any kind of shock or discomfort and when these shoes are accessorized with shoe insoles, the comfort increases manifold and it can protect us further from any leg injury or foot pain. Let us take a look at the reasons for considering shoe inserts.
After a long and tiring day at work, we can't wait to take our shoes off once we get home. The second we reach our home, the first task we do is kick off those shoes and relax our feet. Now, wearing a shoe doesn't have to be this uncomfortable. You can choose to increase the comfort quotient of your shoes by inserting shoe insoles. You can forget about the problem of aching feet once you start using shoe insoles.
Our shoes get worn out through repeated use over time. Research have shown that worn out pair of shoes can result in chronic back pain and wearing the same worn out pair of shoes persistently can lead to increased pain over time.
If you cushion your shoe with insoles, they can support your shoes for a longer span of time.
Walking for long duration of time can cause your feet to swell. As the more you walk, the more shocks your feet receive. Wearing shoe insoles inside your shoe can reduce shocks significantly and reduce swelling to a considerable extent.
Also a poorly arched feet can lead to many problems of the feet including aching and straining of ligaments. If your shoe has an high arch, wear shoe insoles to protect your foot from any kind of ailment.
As we mentioned earlier, when our feet hurt it becomes absolutely difficult to concentrate on the work at hand. Wearing shoe insoles can help you with this problem and help increase your focus and help you maintain attention towards your work.
Research have proved that wearing shoe insoles can improve your body posture significantly. Wearing shoe insoles can help relieve much of the pressure from your lower back and prevent your foot and back from aching. You can also consult with your doctor about the use of shoe insoles for improving posture.
We are dependent on our feet for almost every task we do throughout the day. So it is especially important that we take good care of our feet. Wearing shoe insoles can help us take good care of our feet. Hopefully, this article has provided you with helpful information regarding the use of shoe insoles inside our shoes.


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Number of senior business roles held by women in APAC, PH rises
P&A Grant Thornton News
ON INTERNATIONAL Women's Day, a new report based on Grant Thornton's annual survey of 5,500 businesses in 36 economies reveals that the proportion of senior business roles held by women in APAC has risen from 23% in 2016 to 25% in 2017.
This has been driven by improvement in Emerging APAC – such as the Philippines, India, and Indonesia – which saw the proportion of senior roles held by women rise from 26% in 2016 to 29% in 2017. On the other hand, developed APAC – comprised of Japan and Australia, among others, – remained static at 13%.
In the Philippines, 40% of senior roles are held by women in 2017. This has increased from 39% of last year. Additionally, the survey reports that 21% of businesses have women CEOs while 14% have women COOs.
Meanwhile, other APAC countries have also seen a rise in senior positions held by women. Indonesia has seen an increase from 36% last year to 46% this year. In Singapore, the number has gone up as well from 26% to 30% while mainland China saw a rise from 30% to 31%.
However, there are other countries that have seen either a decline or static in number such as Japan which has remained unchanged at 7% while Malaysia dropped to 24% from last year's 26%. Also, the percentage of businesses with no women in senior management across APAC has also risen, from 31% in 2016 to 35% in 2017.
Marivic Españo, Chairperson & CEO at P&A Grant Thornton, said: "This year businesses across APAC have increased the proportion of senior roles held by women. However, we are still only halfway there, and with the percentage of businesses with no women in senior management also rising it feels as if we're taking one step forward and one step back. This is a real concern for business growth as it suggests we aren't maximising the potential out there."
As the issue of uncertainty dominates the business agenda in 2017, Grant Thornton's report, Women in Business: New perspectives on risk and reward, highlights the importance of gender diversity in senior teams tasked with managing risk.
Globally, Grant Thornton's data shows developing regions continue to lead the change on diversity with developed economies lagging behind. Eastern Europe performs best, with 38% of senior roles held by women in 2017 and just 9% of businesses with no women in senior management. Meanwhile the MINT economies (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey) saw the most improvement, with the proportion of senior roles held by women rising from 24% in 2016 to 28% in 2017 and the percentage of businesses with no women in senior management falling from 36% in 2016 to 27% in 2017.
This is a significant contrast to the major economies of the G7, which have remained constant at 22% of senior roles held by women and 39% of businesses with no women in senior management. Españo commented: "The data for major economies is discouraging. The reasons for this lack of progress are many and varied, and they depend on the culture of individual businesses and the broader culture of the country or region in which they sit.
However, this year we encountered a concerning sense that the issue has plateaued, as companies perhaps assume the diversity challenge has been dealt with. The evidence tells us this is not the case.
"Companies today need to be more productive, more innovative and in many ways more open if they are to grow. Diversity will be key to their success. Those that remain closed are putting themselves at risk of not tapping in to their full potential, and losing access to diversity of thinking."
As published in Mindanao Times, dated 08 March 2017

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FPGA-enabled datacenters have shown great potential for providing performance and energy efficiency improvement. In this paper we aim to answer one key question: how can we efficiently integrate FPGAs into stateof- the-art big-data computing frameworks like Apache Spark? To provide a generalized methodology and insights for efficient integration, we conduct an indepth analysis of challenges at single-thread, single-node multi-thread, and multi-node levels, and propose solutions including batch processing and the FPGA-as-a- Service framework to address them. With a step-by-step case study for the next-generation DNA sequencing application, we demonstrate how a straightforward integration with 1,000x slowdown can be tuned into an efficient integration with 2.6x overall system speedup and 2.4x energy efficiency improvement.


Olivia graduated from Harper Adams University in 2017 having completed a Masters degree in Rural Land Management at the Royal Agricultural University in 2018.
Originally from Yorkshire, Olivia enjoys competing with her horse, as well as working her cocker cross Labrador on the Yorkshire grouse moors.
I joined Fisher German as there is a very well structured graduate programme in place to help me pass the APC exams. The firm also covers a large variety of work across a number of counties.


This package contains set of mocker scripts that mocks each of the lxc commands that LAVA uses. It does not support all commands and options that lxc provides, but just the ones that LAVA uses. Test jobs using LXC can then be replicated in Docker.


We are committed to encouraging our students to be independent learners and musicians, so that they may enjoy their instrument and the arts long past their high school careers. Both the expectations and performance standards we have for our students are very high. Private lessons and community involvement are encouraged. We strongly believe that the more a child practices and performs, the more successful he or she will be in any subject area or extra-curricular activity. We work to develop leadership skills in each child, and student directed help sessions (peer tutoring) are a part of these lessons.
The numbers of commitments that an excellent performing ensemble can have are extensive. The emphasis on attendance in the student grade is due to our belief that we are providing students with experiences and skills to prepare them for life beyond our classroom. Support in attaining this goal is crucial.
Students are graded on performances, tests and quizzes, playing tests every nine weeks, daily attendance and classroom participation. The percentages shift each semester with the number of required performances.
The Greenville High School Instrumental Music Department has an Enrollment this fall of over 200 students. Courses consist of one orchestra class, three concert bands, two jazz bands, and the Yellow Jacket marching band. Students may enroll in more than one course with special permission.
The Junior Varsity Band was created in 1995 and is made up of most ninth grade and some 10-12th grade students. These students participate in all parades and one varsity football game during the fall. The ensemble functions as an independent concert group during the winter and spring. The Yellow Jacket Marching Band is made up of 10-12th grade students and a few freshmen. After the first nine weeks, the marching band divides into the Concert Band and the Symphonic Band. These placements are made by audition, and remain throughout the school year. All students in grades 9-12 may participate in Jazz Lab One or Jazz Lab Two and Pep Band in the fall and winter. Jazz band is available for credit during zero hour.
Mrs. Gould directs the High School Band and Orchestra program. Student teachers direct the Pep Band and Mr. Ayres, Greenville Middle School Band Director, oversees the Jazz Bands.
The String Orchestra consists of string students in grades 9-12. The Symphony Orchestra is created during the second semester when 10-12th grade wind and percussion players are selected to play in the ensemble. Rehearsals for Symphony Orchestra generally happen during channel one time and in the evenings.
Jazz Band is offered as a zero hour course at Greenville High School. Since the class does not meet every day, students receive ½ credit for the class over the course of the year. Students will learn to perform in a wide variety of jazz styles. The focus will be upon swing music of the Big Band era. Students will also experiment with improvisation.
In such a small group setting, regular attendance is essential and will be part of the grading system. The jazz bands are musical ambassadors for our school and regularly perform concerts both at school and in the community. Attendance at each performance is mandatory. Regularly scheduled concerts will include the GHS Holiday Band Concert, the GHS Collage Concerts, MSBOA Jazz Festival, a combined concert with the Flat River Big Band, a performance as a warm up act for a professional Big Band, and the Jazz Day Concert.
The Jazz Bands also perform as a pep band for both boys and girls Basketball games. All other performances are to be announced. Written itineraries and play lists for all concerts will be provided with as much advance notice as possible.


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The two have joined the cast of Martin Campbell's drama.
Lou Taylor Pucci and Ashton Holmes are getting Reckless.
The actors have joined the cast of the ABC drama pilot from executive producer Martin Campbell, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Campbell will direct.
From ABC Studios, Reckless follows staid engineer David Ritter, whose wife, Sarah, goes missing during a military coup in East Myanmar. He casts off his generally careful demeanor and risks everything to get her back, including embezzling money from his powerful father-in-law's company to hire a mercenary.
Pucci, whose credits include the films Beginners and Carriers, will play Ryan Harrison, a twentysomething family screw-up. He once stole $90,000 from his father's manufacturing business and blew it on Internet poker. Although he's a good guy, Ryan is slightly under-motivated.
Holmes, who appeared on Nikita and Revenge, will play Wyatt Bickford, described as confident (bordering on arrogant), charming and entitled. He is an acquaintance of David's from college who doesn't remember him but is willing to meet with him nonetheless. Wyatt's firm represents a private security contractor, though he repeatedly stresses that they are a last-resort option.
They join a cast that includes Ernie Hudson and Eloise Mumford. Chris Black will write and executive produce, along with Campbell and David Rapaport.
Pucci, repped by UTA, next appears in Evil Dead. Holmes is repped by APA and Intellectual Artists Management.


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Music recommendations by color
Guitarati lets listeners find new music arranged by colors. Unfortunately, I'm afraid I left my synesthesia at home.
Matt Rosoff
April 11, 2008 11:07 AM PDT
Synesthesia is a mental phenomenon in which different senses (sight, sound, smell, and so on) become associated in unusual ways. A friend of mine has a form of synesthesia in which numbers have particular colors. I think it came out for the first time when she said my phone number was very blue and black. I asked her what she meant, and she explained how each number has a specific color, although these colors can sometimes change based on a number's proximity to other numbers. She also said that numbers and the fingers of her hands have particular genders. (Oliver Sacks has written extensively about these and other types of synesthesia, most recently in his book on music and the mind, Musicophilia.)
We've all felt blue, but green, pink, and yellow? Screenshot
Perhaps my friend would understand Guitarati, a music recommendation site that launched earlier this week. The front page consists of a collection of colored dots. Click on a dot, and you will see some songs that somebody (editors at the site? the artists?) have decided fit into that particular color scheme. Users can sample the songs and, if they like them, stream them for a penny or download them for a price set by the artist (most songs are $0.99 today). Over time, as users listen to particular songs, they can vote on the color they should be, and the song's color will reflect the average of all votes.
I give Guitarati points for uniqueness, but I'm not sure I get it. OK, perhaps Brian El's song "Aquatica," which appears about halfway down the page for a blue dot, is kind of turquoise, but that seems to be a suggestion from the title rather than the music. Most of the other songs on this page don't seem particularly blue to me...in fact, the top song on the page, "Eddy" by Happy Elf, sounds too aggressive to be blue. Perhaps it's more orange. Then again, maybe I'm a bad test case--Kind of Blue has always sounded grey and black to me. More like a rainy evening, not a clear sunny morning.
Culture Software
Discuss: Music recommendations by color


The Danish Zenvo ST1 has made it to the place number five in this list. The company has built only 15 cars of this sort with an exclusive price of 1.2 million dollars. It is also not available for just any buyer; the customer has to be approved. It has a 7-liters V8 featuring a supercharger and a turbo. It accelerates from zero to 62 mph in 3 seconds.
As speed is important for this car, there has been a lot of work invested in the car shape, which should not only perform, but also make this car an eye-catcher.


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California State Government June 8, 2010 Election
Secretary of State; Green Party Voter Information
This contest will only appear on Green party ballots.
Results as of Jun 29 4:19pm, 100.0% of Precincts Reporting (22894/22894)
Ann Menasche 20,611 votes 100.0%
Party: Green
Occupation: Civil Rights Attorney
Lifelong grass roots activist for social justice
30 years of litigation experience as civil rights attorney
Elected to County Council of San Diego County Green Party
Worked on 2000 and 2004 Ralph Nader Presidential Campaign
For clean, publicly funded elections
For a more representative democracy
Crack down on corporate crime
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Grace Potter raised Charleston's temperature a few degrees
A die-hard fan recounts evening with singer at Charleston Music Hall.
By Renae Brabham
Grace sat on a step outside of the stage door and when Devon came on I saw her little heart face peering out behind the guitar racks to watch him perform. It was awesome.
When I got a message that Grace Potter was coming to Charleston Music Hall back in October I was on a job and fumbled with my phone to hurry up and get good seats. I didn't snag pre-sale tickets but there's really not a bad seat in the house.
Our night began with appetizers and blood orange margaritas at Coast Bar & Grill. We chose the community table which is not my husband's favorite thing to do but he resigned himself and headed for the restroom. By the time he got back we had new friends. The couple in front of us had traveled from Pawleys Island to see the show as well. They have followed Grace around for a decade from her days with the Nocturnals and had even seen her perform on a cruise to Spain. Their phones were full of photos with her and they rubbed it in jokingly that they were VIP tonight — and we were not.
At one point they checked their watches and made preparations to leave. I asked if it was time to go and the guy said, "No, you have a while yet. It's time for us though, we have VIP privileges." My husband and I finished our meal and got a big kick out of finding them standing in a line directly beside us separated only by a concrete divider. It was our turn to rib them for the next ten minutes until staff ushered them in for their meet-and-greet with the singer.
Devon Gilfillian started the show. He projected a soulful, powerful presence and I loved the song "Unchained" from his debut album, "Black Hole Rainbow." I peered down 20 feet and found our new friends. We waved and laughed at each other.
What their privilege package lacked was the behind-the-scenes action from the balcony stage-side advantage. While the lights were low we watched Grace as she sat on a step outside of the stage door. When Devon came on I saw her little heart face peering out behind the guitar racks to watch him perform. It was awesome.
The band members comprising of two guys and two girls came out — this proves I'm a fan and not a music reviewer — but I think she called them "The Daylights." The back light came on with the beam of sunlight, which is her totem for the "Daylight" album and tour. Grace came onstage to a warm Charleston welcome and got right down to business with the title track. "Daylight" is a dark bluesy song at first and then the tempo builds and she headbangs her way in a frenzy to the daylight at the end. It sums up where you feel like she's been for the past few years while on hiatus from performing.
I am telling you she brought down the house. Grace melded old with new and she was surprised to hear the crowd singing her "new shit," as she described it. I normally find that when I get an album, there are three or four songs I like on it. Not this one! I like all them all. I have a least favorite, but I don't have a CD in my collection where I love this many tracks.
Grace HAD to do this album — it's obvious. Artists have to break through pain to heal. When she realized her chains had fallen off about ten minutes into the show, she let loose. I saw Janis Joplin, Stevie Nicks, Joan Jet, Heart and Patsy Cline all rolled up in one in this guitar-shredding, piano-playing, tambourine-dancing ball of energy. I told my husband I experienced two energy-induced hot flashes during her performance.
She's headed to Florida next before making her way back to Atlanta followed by others stops on the tour. Don't miss her if you can help it. I promise you'll be entertained.
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Poolside FM is the distraction we need right now
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This time next week Guilfest will be in full swing once again, and R13 will have writers on site to bring you our usual diverse collection of set reviews.
The 2008 event is headlined by Levellers who are celebrating twenty years as a band, Blondie and the Australian Pink Floyd Show.
As ever the line up features a smattering of nostalgic names, this time in the form of Dodgy, Kula Shaker, The Damned and Freak Power, but there's plenty for the new music seeker to be interested by. Big name headliners include Fightstar, British Seapower and Bowling For Soup, with rising talent like Frank Turner, Ghost of a Thousand, Infadels, The Blackout, Enjoy Destroy and Royworld all appearing.
The line up for the main three stages (Main, Rock Sound Cave and Ents 24) are listed below, with some links to previous R13 coverage of some of those playing.
Elsewhere on the site, the Funky Ends Dance Stage is headlined by Hallucinogen, Krafty Kuts and X-Press 2, Dodgy, the Infidels and Sonic Boom Six are among those playing extra sets in the Unison Zone and comedy attractions include Howard Marks, Mickey Hutton and Robin Ince.
Other acts worth noting include former R13 band of the week Side Car 46 playing the Live Club Stage on Saturday and Laura Colegate, who impresses us every year at Guilfest, back on the Surrey Advertiser Stage, also on Saturday.
Click the links below for previous R13 coverage of some of those playing this year's festival.


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Intimate Yet Foreign: An Interview with Hamlet Scenic and Costume Designer David Israel Reynoso
By Elspeth Sweatman and Simon Hodgson
The Elsinore of A.C.T.'s Hamlet is a world swirling with rumor and falsehood. It's filled with kings and courtiers who say one thing and do another. Scenic and Costume Designer David Israel Reynoso wanted the play's set to reflect this duplicity. His vision incorporates majestic elements—towering walls and ramparts—but hints at the corruption embedded in Shakespeare's text with heavy, abattoir-style sheeting through which we see images we can't quite decipher. Is that Polonius we see hiding? Is it Claudius? "The space has a lot of partitions, nooks and crannies where people can spy on each other," says Reynoso. "This idea that you don't know where you are in relationship to anything and anyone is at the core of this play's world." We sat down with Reynoso to unravel some of the set's secrets.
This production of Hamlet is set in a world that is polluted, but the inhabitants of this world don't seem to know it. What was your inspiration for this?
When Tech Meets Art
By A.C.T. Publications Staff
What does the internet know about you? San Franciscans on Market Street were intrigued today by a new installation in the lobby of The Strand Theater—The Glass Room Experience, a series of interactive displays focusing on web privacy and the personal data held by giant tech companies. The installation was backed by internet nonprofit Mozilla and Tactical Technology Collective, a German nonprofit focused on digital security awareness.
This timely tech event comes as part of The Strand's wider exploration of technology. On Monday, October 2, the theater will join the Goethe-Institut in presenting the Plurality of Privacy Project in Five-Minute Plays (P3M5)—a series of short, newly commissioned works, open to the community, investigating contemporary issues of digital privacy. A.C.T.'s commission, #CAMPTULELAKE by Bay Area playwright Philip Kan Gotanda (After the War, Monstress), juxtaposes the story of a Japanese American girl desperate for privacy amid a 194…
"The Play's the Thing": An Interview with Hamlet Director Carey Perloff
As a Fulbright Fellow at Oxford University, Carey Perloff saw her first performance of Hamlet and was hooked. "The draw was Shakespeare's language," she says. "It was unbelievably seductive." For the next 30 years, she crossed continents to see imaginative new renditions of the classic: Peter Brook's version in Paris starring Adrian Lester, Jonathan Goad at Stratford, Jude Law on Broadway, and Diane Venora at The Public Theater. In her final year as artistic director of A.C.T., Perloff takes on Hamlet for the first time. We sat down to get a glimpse into her process, her passion for Shakespeare, and the story of producing Hamlet at A.C.T.
Why Hamlet now?
As Jan Kott says in Shakespeare: Our Contemporary, Hamlet is a sponge that absorbs all that's happening politically, socially, and spiritually in a culture. I read the play the morning after Trump's election, and I could see the landscape of a prince who goes to bed in an ordered kingdom and wakes up in a world where e…
M.F.A. Actors Go Viral in Clickshare
By Taylor Steinbeck
What Happens Next Will Shock You! 17 Tricks That Will Change Your Life! Clickbait titles such as these have infested the internet landscape. Clickshare, the M.F.A. production running September 28–30 at The Strand, aims to expose the clickable content to which we fall prey everyday. This new comedy, directed by Stephen Brackett, centers on Clickshare, a news media company parodying sites like BuzzFeed and TheHuffington Post. At Clickshare, overworked twentysomethings pump out articles about pregnancy rumors and wardrobe malfunctions. But chaos breaks out when a story on Sun Flu—a rapidly spreading disease—goes literally viral.
In 2016, Macquarie Dictionary named "Fake News" the word of the year, and for good reason. With baseless stories blown up by mainstream media, Americans have grown increasingly wary of journalism. "Clickshare is poking fun at what journalism has become, what stories grab people's attention now," says third-year M.F.A. actor Justin Edward Keim.…
"To Be or Not to Be": The Iconic Speech's Origins, Interpretations, and Impact
The opening line of Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy is theater's most iconic, most referenced quote. What's less known is the famous speech's history, with Hamlet's earliest publications offering varying versions of its language. Also questioned is its meaning—is Hamlet contemplating suicide or is he weighing the consequences of murder? Though definitive answers are unlikely to arise, the questions "To be or not to be" asks have kept audiences, scholars, and actors engaged for centuries.
The first edition, or First Quarto (Q1), of Hamlet was published in 1603. Because the text is much shorter than later editions and its language is less poetic, it is nicknamed the "Bad Quarto" by scholars. "To be or not to be" in Q1 reads as:
To be, or not to be—ay, there's the point. To die, to sleep—is that all? Ay, all. No, to sleep, to dream—ay, merry, there it goes The soliloquy occurs in the play much earlier—in Act Two, just after Polonius arranges for Hamle…
An Advocate for All: Introducing A.C.T.'s New Young Conservatory Director Jill MacLean


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Sleep With Me: A Testimonial
I used to listen to a podcast called Half Hour Intern. In each episode — which usually lasted more than a half hour, despite the show's name — Blake, the host, would interview people about their career paths and how they got started doing what they love. In one interview, Blake talked to Drew Ackerman, the creator of the Sleep With Me podcast. At that point, I had listened to a lot of podcasts, but I'd never heard of a podcast that was specifically designed to help people fall asleep. I was intrigued, so I downloaded an episode of Ackerman's podcast and gave it a listen. What I heard totally defied my expectations. I was expecting a beautifully-produced tapestry of soothing music and calming meditations about reducing anxiety or letting go of the events of the day, maybe with multiple voices, maybe with sound effects, etc. But I discovered instead that the show was nothing more or less than Ackerman rambling for an hour in what seemed a completely unscripted, unfocused, goofy way. He had a scratchy, creaky voice, and there was no music (except the brief intro song). The show was so far from my expectations that I was immediately unimpressed and even a little irritated, so I deleted the episode and put the show out of my mind.
A few years passed, and life got really, really rough in 2018 for my family, as I've mentioned before. I was living in constant anxiety and stress for several months, and for the first time in my life, I was having real trouble sleeping. I decided to go looking for podcasts that might help, and Sleep With Me was mentioned everywhere I looked as being a fantastic sleep podcast. At that point, I only vaguely remembered that I'd checked out the show once before, but I was desperate to try anything, so I subscribed to it. At bedtime that night, I picked a random episode and started listening. And despite my low expectations, my anxiety ebbed away, and I fell asleep within minutes. I think I must've listened with headphones that first night because the next night, I mentioned the show to my wife. She was just about as stressed as I was, so she agreed to give it a try. The next morning, I asked her about it, and she said something like, "It was amazing! I can't believe how fast I fell asleep!"
After that, we started listening every night. And we've been listening every night for over two years now. In fact, we usually listen to multiple episodes each night. If one of us wakes up in the middle of the night, we'll start a new episode and go back to sleep (or try, at least). My daughter listens to the show every night, too! And now we support the show on Patreon in the $20 per month tier. But here's the thing: the show isn't just good at helping us fall asleep. It's so much more special than that. So, I've decided to write this post to try to describe what the show means to me and to our family. If you've never tried it but need help overcoming anxiety or going to sleep, I can't recommend this show highly enough. If you've tried it once before but didn't get much out of it the first time (as was my experience), I'd like to encourage you to try it again. But either way, I just want to tell you how awesome Drew Ackerman is.
In the show, Drew goes by "Scooter," or "Scoots" for short. And the format is roughly the same for each episode: there's an intro that lasts somewhere between 10 and 20 minutes, there's a short transition in which the episode's bedtime story premise is introduced (often by Scooter pretending to be Antonio Banderas — goofy, I know, but just listen and it'll make sense after a while), and then Scooter tells the story. In the intro, Scoots tries to make a metaphor for the podcast and riffs on a few little themes. It's rambling and calming, and the point of that section is to provide a little bit of wind-down time. Scooter mentioned in one episode that he worried that if he jumped straight into a story, then people would feel like, Oh, crap! He's already started telling the story, so I've gotta start falling asleep right now! So, the intro is there to help ease people into bedtime, to help them calm their minds and put away nagging thoughts. And then Scooter tells the bedtime story in a rambling, unfocused way.
I like the intros, and I always listen to them, but I love the bedtime stories. They're quite varied and unique. Scoots wrote a lot of them himself. For example, he has a 12-part series called "Nuns in Space," which features a character called Scooter who pilots a spaceship through a cloud of delusion while dealing with the passengers, which are the nuns from Scooter's childhood. But that's just the first season; the second season, which also has 12 parts, is called "The Stan Chronicles." Stan is a sentient freestyle soda machine AI, and the second season is about Stan's and Scooter's adventures trying to escape the cloud of delusion by improving Stan's artistic sensibilities by working their way through Julia Cameron's book The Artist's Way. There's a different 2-season series called "Big Farm in the Sky P.I.," which is about Simon, a guy who went to "the big farm in the sky," became a private investigator, and started solving cases. Another series with three seasons is called "After the Glass Slipper," and it tells the story of Cinderella and her stepmother Agatha after the events of the traditional fairy tale. (I should also point out that these stories are usually "episodically modular," by which Scoots means that you can listen to them in pretty much any order.)
But those are just the stories that Scoots has written himself (among others that I haven't mentioned)! He also tells stories called "real-time recipes" where he describes his steps as he cooks a meal. Or he watches a show (like Doctor Who, Game of Thrones, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and many others) and comments on it. Or he unboxes a board game. Or he tries to re-tell the plot of a childhood movie without having watched it recently. Or he reads through a Trader Joe's "Fearless Flyer" magazine. And the list goes on. And if those things sound silly or boring...well, that's exactly the point! They're just interesting enough to pull your attention away from negative thoughts that might otherwise pester you, but they're not so interesting that they hook you and keep you awake. And they're funny and light-hearted enough that they might bring a grin to your face, but you won't be laughing out loud.
All the while, he drones on in "creaky-dulcet" tones, avoids topics that might be sensitive for listeners, tells goofy jokes, meanders down pointless tangents, gets lost, circles back, and lets you know in so many words that his goal is really just to sit beside you as a friend in the "deep, dark night" while you fall asleep. If I had been tasked with designing a sleep podcast, I probably would've done what I described at the beginning: I'd have tried to use calming music and meticulously-written monologues delivered by soothing voices. But Scooter knows what I once knew as a child and what I remembered again as a parent: that what really holds many of us back from sleeping is not the lack of a polished bedtime production with music and voice actors and sound effects, but a feeling of loneliness, a wish that a caring, comforting person could sit at our bedside and just be there while we drift off.
Sometimes, Scooter explicitly describes his reasons for making the podcast. He talks about how he had trouble sleeping as a child and how funny radio shows took his mind off things and helped to draw some of the seriousness out of bedtime; and now he wants to do the same thing for other people. Most of the time, though, he doesn't need to state his mission directly for you to feel the care and kindness emanating from every second of the show. You know the warm, fuzzy feeling you get when you watch Fred Rogers or Bob Ross? I get that feeling from listening to Scoots, too. To me, he's in that same small pantheon of Best Human Beings Ever.
And that's the primary reason, I think, why the show has such a massive following. I don't have access to his analytics, but he's mentioned before that the show gets hundreds of thousands of downloads every month (and it might be in the millions now; I don't know); he's got more than 5,000 supporters on Patreon at this moment; and he's been featured in all kinds of news media outlets. And it's all because he's just such a sweet, funny, caring person. He makes a wonderful podcast, of course, but that product is merely a reflection of Drew himself.
Anyway, I could keep on like this for a while, but I'll spare you. I hope I've convinced you to give the show a shot if you haven't tried it yet and need help sleeping or calming down. Sweet dreams!
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FBI Reports: Saddam's Weapons Bluff Aimed At Iran
July 02, 2009 07:55 GMT
Saddam Hussein addresses the court during his trial in Baghdad in November 2006
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Saddam Hussein believed Iran was a significant threat to Iraq and left open the possibility that he had weapons of mass destruction rather than appear vulnerable, according to declassified FBI documents on interrogations of the former Iraqi leader.
"Hussein believed that Iraq could not appear weak to its enemies, especially Iran," FBI special agent George Piro wrote on notes of a conversation with Saddam in June 2004 about weapons of mass destruction.
He believed Iraq was being threatened by others in the region and must appear able to defend itself, the report said.
The FBI reports, released on July 1, said Saddam asserted that he was more concerned about Iran discovering Iraq's weaknesses and vulnerabilities than the repercussions of the United States for blocking the return of UN weapons inspectors who were searching for WMD.
"In his opinion, the UN inspectors would have directly identified to the Iranians where to inflict maximum damage to Iraq," according to the documents obtained and released by the National Security Archive, a nongovernmental research institute.
Saddam began a bloody border war with Iran in 1980 that lasted until 1988, during which Iraq used chemical weapons.
Former U.S. President George W. Bush launched the Iraq war in 2003, citing a threat of weapons of mass destruction from Saddam's government, but no such weapons were ever found.
FBI special agents carried out 20 formal interviews and at least five "casual conversations" with the former Iraqi leade after his capture by U.S. troops in December 2003, according to the documents.
Saddam, identified as "High Value Detainee #1," shared Bush's hostility towards the "fanatic" Iranian mullahs, according to the FBI records of conversations from February through June 2004 between Saddam and Arabic-speaking agents in his detention cell at Baghdad International Airport.
Saddam also denied any connections to Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who he called a "zealot," and cited North Korea as his most likely ally in a crunch, according to the documents.
He also takes personal responsibility for ordering the launching of SCUD missiles against Israeli targets during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, because he blamed Israel and its influence in the United States for "all the problems of the Arabs," the reports said.
During the interviews, Saddam rejects some examples of what he viewed as myths, like his purported use of body doubles. According to the notes, Saddam said he could recall using the telephone only twice since March 1990 and that he communicated primarily through couriers.
Saddam was executed in December 2006 after being convicted of crimes against humanity by an Iraqi court for the killing of 148 Shi'ite men and boys following a 1982 assassination attempt.
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Hussein Regime's 'Public Face' Gets 15-Year Jail Term


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Team building icebreakers are excellent at bringing people out of their comfort zone in fun, motivating ways and give people an excuse to chat and get to know the people they have been teamed up with. A good icebreaker exercise can instantly relax a room and make attendees feel more comfortable both in themselves and approaching unfamiliar people.
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AC Milan Women Open Season With 2-1 Win Over FC Zurich In UEFA Women's Champions League
A big performance from the captain showing how hungry she is even after three seasons.
By Muqaddam Malik Aug 18, 2021, 1:30pm CEST
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AC Milan Women took on FC Zurich in the Round 1 of the qualification to the UEFA Women's Champions League. This was a historic match for the side as the Rossonere participated in the tournament for the first time in their history. Milan secured a 2-1 win and secure their place in the finals of round 1. Maurizio Ganz stuck to many of his reliable players from last season as Fusetti, Bergamaschi, Giacinti, Jane, Agard and Boquete returned. New signings Giuliani, Andersen, Arnadottir, Adami and Thomas made their competitive debuts in the knock out game.
Milan started the game off well and threatened Zurich by dominating possession and breaking through the lines. Boquete hit the crossbar from a free kick in the first half. Just a few minutes later, the captain Giacinti bagged her first goal of the season with a strong finish from inside the box connecting with the square ball from Andersen. Milan struck the post again in the second half as Giacinti's shot skimmed the top of the post after she met a pull back from Arnadottir. The Rossonere then conceded a silly goal in the 68th minute when Agard failed to properly clear the ball teeing up a shot for the opponent to lob over Giuliani. Milan pipped ahead again in the 82 nd minute as Grimshaw made a good impact off the bench playing in Giacinti with a through ball for the captain to slot home and win the game.
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Jennings S, Lumpkin D, Warnock N, Condeso TE, Kelly JP (2021) Great egret (Ardea alba) habitat selection and foraging behavior in a temperate estuary: Comparing natural wetlands to areas with shellfish aquaculture. PLoS ONE 16(12): e0261963. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261963
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Scott Jennings, Katie M. Dugger, Grant Ballard, and David G. Ainley "Effects of Diet and Provisioning Behavior on Chick Growth in Adélie Penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae)," Waterbirds 44(1), 55-67, (23 December 2021). https://doi.org/10.1675/063.044.0105
Jennings, S. 2021. Heron and egret monitoring results at Marin Islands National Wildlife Refuge: 2020 and 2021 nesting season. Report to the San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge. ACR Technical Report 90-3-51 © December 2021. Audubon Canyon Ranch, Cypress Grove Research Center, P. O. Box 808, Marshall, CA 93940
jennings_2021_marinislands_2020_2021.pdf
Lumpkin, D., T. E. Condeso. 2021. 2021 Monitoring results from the DeSilva Island heronry: A report to the DeSilva Island Homeowners' Association. ACR Technical Report 90-3-50 © November 2021. Audubon Canyon Ranch, Cypress Grove Research Center, P. O. Box 808, Marshall, CA, 94940.
lumpkin_condeso_2021_desilvaisland.pdf
Ruthrauff, D. R., C. M. Harwood, T. L. Tibbitts, N. Warnock, R. E. Gill Jr. 2021. Diverse patterns of migratory timing, site use, and site fidelity by Alaska-breeding Whimbrels. Journal of Field Ornithology 92(2):156-172, 2021; doi.org:10.1111/jofo.12365.
Warnock, N., S. Jennings, J. P. Kelly, T. E. Condeso, D. Lumpkin. 2021. Declining wintering shorebird populations at a temperate estuary in California: A 30-year perspective, Condor: Ornithological Applications, 2021.
Shuford, W. D., K. C. Molina, J. P. Kelly, T. E. Condeso, D. S. Cooper, D. Jongsomjit. 2020. Distribution and abundance of Double-crested Cormorants nesting in the interior of Calofornia, 2009-2012*. Western Birds 51:270-292, 2020; doi 10.21199/WB51.4.1
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2.	Barbaree, B. A., M. E. Reiter, C. M. Hickey, K. M. Strum, J. E. Isola, S. Jennings, L. M. Tarjan, C. M. Strong, L. E. Stenzel, and W.D. Shuford. In press. Effects of drought on the abundance and distribution of non-breeding shorebirds in central California, USA. PLOS ONE 15(10): e0240931. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240931
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Shuford, W. D., J. P. Kelly, T. E. Condeso, D. S. Cooper, K. C. Molina, D. Jongsomjit. 2020. Distribution and abundance of colonial herons and egrets in California, 2009 - 2012. Western Birds 51:190 - 220, 2020; doi 10.21199/WB51.3.2.
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Jennings, S. 2020. Heron and egret monitoring results at Marin Islands National Wildlife Refuge: 2019 nesting season. Report to the San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge. ACR Technical Report 90-3-48 © January 2020. Audubon Canyon Ranch, Cypress Grove Research Center, P. O. Box 808, Marshall, CA 93940
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Lumpkin, D., and T. E. Condeso. 2019. 2018 and 2019 Monitoring results from the DeSilva Island Heronry: A report to the DeSilva Island Homeowners' Association. ACR Technical Report 90-3-47 © November 2019. Audubon Canyon Ranch, Cypress Grove Research Center, Marshall, CA 93940.
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Lumpkin, D. C., T. E. Condeso, N. Warnock, and S. Jennings. 2019. Varied Migratory Strategy and Habitat Use by Bay Area Great Egrets. Poster Presentation, State of the Estuary Conference, October 21-22, 2019. Oakland, CA.
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Jansen, C., A. J. Leslie, B. Cristescu, K. J. Teichman and Q. Martins. 2019. Determining the diet of an African mesocarnivore, the caracal: scat or GPS cluster? Wildlife Biology 2019 (1), (29 October 2019) doi.org/10.2981/wlb.0057.
jansen_etal_2019_wildlife_biology.pdf
Hettena, A. 2019. Prey composition and kill rates of mountain lions in California's San Francisco Bay Area. M. S. thesis. Pleasantville, NY: Pace University.
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Dellinger, J. A., Cristescu, B., Ewanyk, J., Gammons, D. J., Garcelon, D., Johnston, P., Matins, Q., Thompson, C., Vickers, T. W., Wilmers, C. C., Wittmer, H. U. Torres, S. G. 2019. Using Mountain Lion Habitat Selection in Management. The Journal of Wildlife Management 1–13. DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.21798
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Rauzon, M.J., Elliott, M.L., Capitolo, P.J., Tarjan, L.M., McChesney, G.J., Kelly, J.P. & Carter, H.R. 2019. Changes in abundance and distribution of nesting Double-crested Cormorants Phalacrocorax auritus in the San Francisco Bay area, 1975-2017. Marine Ornithology 47: 127-138.
Davis, C. L., Rich, L. , Farris, Z. J., Kelly, M. J., Di Bitetti, M. S., Blanco, Y. D., Albanesi, S. , Farhadinia, M. , Gholikhani, N. , Hamel, S. , Harmsen, B. J., Wultsch, C. , Kane, M. D., Martins, Q. , Murphy, A. J., Steenweg, R. , Sunarto, S. , Taktehrani, A. , Thapa, K. , Tucker, J. M., Whittington, J. , Widodo, F. A., Yoccoz, N. G., Miller, D. A. and Davies, J. (2018), Ecological correlates of the spatial co‐occurrence of sympatric mammalian carnivores worldwide. Ecol Lett, 21: 1401-1412. doi:10.1111/ele.13124
Kelly, J. P., S. A. Millus and T. E. Condeso. 2018. Nesting dynamics of four ardeid species at subregional scales: recovery rates after sudden major declines in nest abundance. Waterbirds, 41(3): 223-239. doi.org/10.1675/063.041.0302.
Kelly, J. P., C. A. Rothenbach, and W. W. Weathers. 2018. Echoes of numerical dependence: responses of wintering waterbirds to Pacific herring spawns. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 597:243-257. doi: 10.3354/meps12594
Kelly, J. P., B. Fischer. 2018. Heron and egret monitoring results at Marin Islands National Wildlife Refuge: 2017 nesting season. Report to the San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge. ACR Technical Report 90-3-45 © February 2018. Audubon Canyon Ranch, Cypress Grove Research Center, P. O. Box 808, Marshall, CA 94940
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Kelly, J. P., B. Fischer. 2018. Heron and egret monitoring results at Marin Islands National Wildlife Refuge: 2018 nesting season. Report to the San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge. ACR Technical Report 90-3-46 © June 2018, Audubon Canyon Ranch, Cypress Grove Research Center, P. O. Box 808, Marshall, CA 94940.
Jennings, S. 2017. Bolinas Lagoon heron and egret nesting summary 2017. Results from heronries at Picher Canyon, Kent Island, and the Bolinas mainland. ACR Technical Report 67-1-11 © December 2017. Audubon Canyon Ranch, Cypress Grove Research Center, P. O. Box 808, Marshall, CA 94940.
Jennings_2017 Bolinas Lagoon nesting summary
Kelly, J. P., and T. E. Condeso. 2017. Tidal marsh restoration stimulates the growth of winter shorebird populations in a temperate estuary. Restoration Ecology, 25:640-649. doi:10.1111/rec.12487
Condeso, T. E., and J. P. Kelly. 2017. 2017 Monitoring Results from the DeSilva Island Heronry: A report to the DeSilva Island Home Owners' Association. ACR Tech. Rpt 90-3-42 © November 2017. Audubon Canyon Ranch, Cypress Grove Research Center, P. O. Box 808, Marshall, CA 94940.
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Albert, S., and D. R. Kaschube. 2017. The Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) Program at Audubon Canyon Ranch, Cypress Grove Research Center: 2016 Annual Report. Institute for Bird Populations Report to Audubon Canyon Ranch. 16pp.
Livermore Marsh MAPS Project - 2016 Report. Institute for Bird Populations Report to Audubon Canyon Ranch
Kelly, J. P., and B. Fischer. 2017. Heron and Egret Monitoring Results at Marin Islands National Wildlife Refuge: 2016 Nesting Season. Report to the San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge. ACR Technical Report 90-3-40 © January 2017. Audubon Canyon Ranch, Cypress Grove Research Center, P. O. Box 808, Marshall, CA 94940
Condeso, T. E. 2017. Heron and egret monitoring summary Site 156: Sears Point (Sonoma, CA). ACR Tech. Rpt. 90-3-41. © March, 2017, Audubon Canyon Ranch, Cypress Grove Research Center, P.O. Box 808, Marshall, CA 94940.
Site 156: Sears Point Monitoring Summary 2017
Condeso, T. E., and J. P. Kelly. 2016. 2016 Monitoring Results from the DeSilva Island Heronry: A report to the DeSilva Island Home Owners' Association. ACR Technical Report 90-3-38 © September 2016. Audubon Canyon Ranch, Cypress Grove Research Center, P. O. Box 808, Marshall, CA 94940.


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How the biggest Red Bulls event of the weekend was Kevin Thelwell on MSG
The head of sport spoke about the possibility of extending Caden Clark's time in New York among other topics during the ill-fated Miami broadcast on Saturday night
By Ben Cork@corkinho Jul 20, 2021, 8:25am EDT
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Red Bulls sporting chief Kevin Thelwell during his days with Wolverhampton Wanderers
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When introduced by longtime MSG play-by-play man Steve Cangialosi as an exciting interview to be doing in the void of an actual game, New York Red Bulls sporting chief Kevin Thelwell responded that he was sure "there are much more interesting things to see and do" than hear his comments on the state of the club during Saturday's storm delay. While this response was likely motivated mostly out of a sensible modesty, there likely was an element of blunt truth to Thelwell's framing of whatever he was about to say. In reality, his role isn't really meant for public consumption and the true details of his activity could never be divulged in any depth on television.
In all likelihood, you haven't heard of (or are imminently about to Google) Michael Zorc or Txiki Begiristain or Victor Orta. These are some of the key figures behind some of global football's most important successes of recent times, but generally aren't household names in the media even within the sphere of their clubs. The sporting director position now prevalent in the structure of modern globalized football clubs requires communication skills certainly - though ones more oriented towards the innards of the club and the recruitment scene rather than the public eye.
Though the business has its Barry Frys here and there, the sporting executive role generally requires stealth and the avoidance of public intrigue, and Kevin Thelwell has largely provided that for the New York Red Bulls. The circumstances of his arrival early last year - in which the previous sporting director Denis Hamlett was left in place underneath Thelwell - even gifted him with the non-traditional title of head of sport that provides a thin but significant layer of obscurity to his role. Indeed, in many screeds found online about the team's perceived lack of ambition and success in the transfer market it is still Hamlett who is name-dropped, a dynamic that Thelwell likely laments on a personal level while not minding from a coldly professional view.
After making many press appearances and taking interviews last year as he transitioned the club out of the Chris Armas-Denis Hamlett era, the former Wolverhampton Wanderers executive has largely receded to the shadows since the full installation of charismatic Austrian manager Gerhard Struber ahead of this season. Brief controlled appearances in the content published around the announcement of Caden Clark's pre-transfer to RB Leipzig have been largely the last snippets seen of the former Wolverhampton Wanderers executive since the preseason.
But Thelwell's segment with MSG's Cangialosi and analyst Shep Messing, while clocking in at a lean eight minutes, was a rare window into the team's long-term outlook and approach in a season that had become somewhat shapeless even before the cancellation of Saturday's fixture against Miami.
Caden Clark could stay in New York beyond 2021, Kevin Thelwell revealed in Saturday night's interview.
If there was a bombshell of any kind in Thelwell's statements on Saturday night, it involved the medium-term status of midfielder Caden Clark, who signed a pre-transfer to join sibling club RB Leipzig of the German Bundesliga following the end of the current MLS season. In what was a theme of the interview, Thelwell emphasized that the development and improvement of the players in the club's pipeline is a constant priority and that, while Clark is now officially in Leipzig's long-term plans, there is still the possibility that the best approach for his development involves him staying in New York even beyond the end of 2021.
"It's out in the open and a point to be discussed. We all hope he continues to put in outstanding performances and score and assist and that would make Leipzig interested in putting him in their first team. But I think (the Red Bull football group) are all in understanding that if it's the case that he's not going to break straight into their first team, that he's still going to need first team football."
"Why not have that be here at New York Red Bulls where he's settled and he understands the system? You never know what can happen in football, but it would be remiss of me to not mention that we would be keen for that to happen if that's best for us and the best for Caden."
Whether or not the "us" mentioned by Thelwell referred to New York or the general Red Bull global football structure he was hired into is somewhat in question, as Thelwell's interview was not afraid to emphasize the role he expects to play in making New York a more central part of the company's highly-regarded development pipeline. But Thelwell was also shrewd to temper such statements with a confident assurance that such an approach was not in conflict with goals of winning trophies.
"Obviously the standard of MLS is improving, but leagues like the Premier League and Bundesliga are where young players have the appetite to get to. Our identity is about developing young players and giving them opportunities at a high level, and hopefully go on to a higher level from there. We want our message to be for any young player in New Jersey or New York that if you're good enough you're old enough and you'll get the opportunity here."
"Hopefully we can prove with some of these young players that we can still win things. Because of course it's not only about the pipeline and about developing young players. It's also very much about performance, it's very much about winning MLS Cup or winning another trophy that proves these young players are capable of doing that."
Left largely unremarked upon by Thelwell was the status of the team's transfer activity this summer. With positions such as central defense and holding midfield becoming thin in recent weeks, many expected the meticulous Thelwell (who made a prolific 12 first team additions in his first full offseason last winter) to already have signings arranged when the MLS transfer window opened earlier this month.
Head coach Gerhard Struber's ability to communicate with his team was emphasized by Thelwell.
However, Thelwell deftly deflected a question about the status of the team's defensive corps following the season-ending injury to Aaron Long (who he described as of a caliber that's "difficult to replace") by praising the club's defenders who have stepped in for the meantime. He further emphasized the skill of Gerhard Struber and his staff and the culture they've created over the course of the year in weathering these personnel challenges with the club hanging well in the playoff hunt heading into the season's midpoint.
"We're very pleased with how the coaching staff and medical staff have responded to these challenges and how every player who has been put into the starting eleven has managed to maintain the performances and standards."
"We have a great staff with a great group of players who have a good mindset and want to listen and take on new ideas. Gerhard understands players and has conversations with them on a day-to-day basis. We're lucky to have a coach who focuses on the details but actually translates those details into simple messages for the players."
In a (likely unintentional) premonition of the fate met by Atlanta United manager Gabriel Heinze this week, Thelwell elaborated that some coaches "have difficulty" with this process of communicating their ideas to players and that New York feels fortunate to have Struber's talents in place. With the seams starting to show in some of the more conventionally-run MLS clubs as the season picks up steam, Thelwell, Struber and the Red Bulls appear more committed than ever to their precise philosophy oriented towards young talent and clear tactics.
Surely cramping Thelwell's shy style, Shep Messing stated during the interview that "everything you've said has been happening" since his arrival to New York in early 2020. Thelwell responded by acknowledging that the underwhelming 8th place in the conference table where the Red Bulls currently sits needs to be improved and perhaps some clean sheets would help - but there continues to be reason to trust his sporadically-expressed confidence in the team doing just that.


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We have been watching and evaluating community concerns by playing on Selo before and after the experience bonus in order to gauge pacing. Given we envisioned this as our fastest progression server, we do want to keep the feel of the 50% bonus players have had as part of the Selo experience for the past three weeks. With the 50% bonus, Selo feels in line with how we presented the intent of the server.
As of noon PDT on Friday (today), the 50% bonus is permanent. After the update on the 17th, the server's base rates will be updated in code so that future XP bonus days will affect the new, increased XP rates making them truly ridiculous (by EQ standards!).
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Scottish Hydro Electric, then known as the North of Scotland Hydro Electric Board and now part of SSE, was established by an Act of Parliament in 1943.
It was to be responsible for generating, transmitting, distributing and supplying electricity throughout the north of Scotland, including the Highlands and Islands. This covers about 25% of the total land area of Britain but just 3% of the population. The region contains Britain's highest mountains and largest inland lochs which, combined with high rainfall, make hydro electricity viable.
Hydro electricity is produced using the power of running water to turn the turbines of generating sets in power stations. The technology dates back to the late 19th Century when the first privately owned hydro electric power stations were built to power the aluminium smelting industry and to provide local electricity supplies. But it took the vision of one man, Tom Johnston, the Secretary of State for Scotland in Churchill's wartime coalition government, to bring power from the glens for the benefit of all. At the time, it was estimated that just one farm in six, and one croft in a hundred, had electricity. Today, virtually every home in Scotland has mains electricity.
Today, hydro electricity, together with wind farms and emerging technologies such as wave and tidal power, is helping the country meet its commitment to provide increasing amounts of energy from renewable sources. A major refurbishment programme of Scottish Hydro Electric's hydro stations has ensured these wonderful assets can produce clean electricity for the nation for decades to come.
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Today babies are teaching scientists.
At 12 months, most babies know and understand about 50 words. Scientists are trying to figure out how their brains categorize the information they see and hear.
Now a new study from Northwestern University offers some insight.
Researchers showed babies a category of invented creatures.
All the babies saw six creatures, but the researchers tested different ways of telling the infants what the creature was called.
Results showed labeling a creature only the first two times helped the babies successfully learn about the creatures' category.
Scientists say this study could offer parents insight on how to help their baby categorize and label things.
For instance, you can say "look it's a cat" the first few times the baby sees it.
Another time you can say "look, it's furry" to help baby learn textures.
Another time you can say, "look it's meowing" to help baby learn animal sounds.
In this study, researchers measured whether the babies learned the creatures' category by showing them a new creature to see how long they stared at each.
Previous research has shown babies will stare longer at a new object.
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On behalf of Robert D. DiDio & Associates posted in Drug Charges on Monday, November 17, 2014.
If you live in or around the New York City area, you are well aware that drug crime remains a big problem.
The federal government, as well as state governments, continues to do their part in reducing the rate of drug crimes throughout the country. Even then, they are aware that there is no way of completely eliminating these crimes.
The National Institute of Justice, for example, sponsors research on drugs and alcohol, as it relates to the criminal justice system, as a means of promoting effective law enforcement.
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How do the ideas for introducing tuition fees relate to Finland's membership in NATO?
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Veronika Sušová-Salminen shows the links between neutrality and the Nordic welfare state, which NATO and neoliberal policies now replace.
After years of strange neutrality during and after the end of the Cold War, Finland hurriedly decided to join NATO this year. This was not surprising, given that there was a fairly strong Euro-Atlantic current in Finnish politics, which was given all the aces by Russia's interventionist war in Ukraine, including the support of the public opinion. Joining NATO is mostly considered a security or international policy issue. However, little consideration is given to other contexts.
Recently, in Finland, the possibility that local universities and higher education institutions might be given the opportunity to introduce tuition fees has begun to be pondered. The suggestion has come from the ranks of the finance ministry, which is in the hands of the Centre Party (Keskusta). This is linked to the next step: a proposal for cuts of EUR 9 billion, which are said to be 'necessary' over the next eight years. Introducing tuition fees (not yet across the board) should compensate for the lack of public funding. At the same time, tuition fees are being discussed as a way to improve Finnish higher education, which in the latest OECD ranking fell below its average.
Finnish education as a whole (not just higher education) has been publicly funded and provided without fees.
There are study grants for Finnish citizens, i.e. essentially study benefits, which provide basic economic security for students and enable them (along with part-time jobs etc.) to become independent more quickly and start building a life of their own. One of the important Finnish values has been equality, including equality in access to education. While the newly opened debate has raised these issues, there are also arguments that, in some cases, it would be 'justified' for some students or their employers to pay tuition fees.
The whole debate is now at least "just" beginning to test (and push) the boundaries of the current vision of the role of public education. The debate framework is based on a classic formula: 'necessary' cuts starve public finances, the impact is externalised to taxpayers, and the public service is privatised and commercialised (eventually opened to rent-seeking).
From neutrality to buffer: Finland in the NATO
In June this year, the Finnish political scientist Heikki Patomäki wrote an excellent article for Monde Diplomatique on the circumstances and consequences of Finnish and Swedish membership of NATO. The article is aptly titled "The End of the Nordic Model: Sweden and Finland joining NATO". In the article, Patomäki reveals a context unfamiliar to the ordinary Czech or Central European reader and shows another important dimension of the decision of these two countries to join NATO.
Patomäki connects the Nordic model of the welfare state with the Swedish social democracy, whose political hegemony was consolidated in the 1920s and 1930s. In the case of Finland, he relates it to post-war developments and the politics of Urho Kekkonen.
Patomäki writes about a key speech by Prime Minister Kekkonen in 1952, in which "Kekkonen linked Finnish neutrality and its Nordic identity. While the speech was about military alliances and the possibility of peace – it was a desperate cry for peace – the idea of "an alliance of neutrality" had manifold political consequences in a situation where the social-democratic movement had already achieved hegemonic status, especially in Sweden. In the following decades, Kekkonen's Nordic policy of neutrality, combined with the successful struggles of the labour movement and centre and left parties, enabled Finland to replicate, with some modifications, the Swedish model and build a universalist democratic welfare state. This was also a period of rapid economic growth, technological dynamism, urbanisation, and decreasing inequalities."
According to Patomäki, there were connections between Sweden's active internationalism, hence Finnish neutrality, and the Nordic model. Both were built on shared social values that were then reflected in the foreign policy of these countries.
These arrangements existed within the framework of the Cold War and its rivalry between the two competing systems of capitalism and communism. The collapse of the USSR led to the strengthening of the already existing trend of compromise between social democracy and neoliberalism (but no longer between socialism and capitalism), the so-called Third Way. In this context, the social democratic governments here also resorted to financial liberalisation to impose a new discipline on macroeconomic policy and to financial deregulation, which led to the financial and monetary crisis in the early 1990s (which was reinforced in Finland by the simultaneous collapse of the Soviet market).
The proponents of neoliberalism in Finland typically became critics of the Finlandization policy, which led to a total reinterpretation of this policy and, as we see today, of Finnish neutrality. The main leitmotif has become the desire to put Finland on the 'Western side', i.e. on the winning side of the Cold War.
In both countries, there was (and still is) a redefinition of their identities as European and Western, which then gradually replaced (or still coexists with) the Nordic and neutral one.
In the case of Finland in particular, the historical revisionism of the 1990s gradually led to Finlandization and its policies during the Cold War being contrasted with Europeanness, becoming a "betrayal" of Western Finland – and as such was eventually rejected by many. "Westernization" is linked to the gradual emergence of neoliberalism.
Patomäki goes on to write about not only Finnish but also Nordic developments in the 1990s:
"Across the Norden, economistic discourses about the requirements of "new times" rose, involving neoliberal framing of new social problems and consequent transformations in terms of austerity, tax-reforms favouring the well off, privatisation, outsourcing, and applications of new public management. In the 1990s, the intimate Cold War ties between Sweden and NATO were revealed to the public. By this point, to the extent that Sweden was still leading the Norden in some sense, it was leading it away from the Nordic model…"
Naturally, a similar process then occurred in the other Nordic countries and in Finland.
Finland's (and Sweden's) entry into NATO will thus be most likely accompanied by further neoliberalisation.
So far, it has been slower in the region because neoliberal policies were entering a stable and democratic political system here (unlike in Central and Eastern Europe, where they became part of shock therapy that politically immobilised local societies).
For one thing, joining NATO is essentially a triumph of the local neoliberals over the Nordic model. It is therefore not surprising that the entry into NATO, in addition to the militarization of the budget and society, is and will be accompanied by further attempts to expand the neoliberal modus operandi and dismantle the remnants of the Nordic model. The latter reflected different values and a different vision of the world and of own identity. Thus, like the Central Europeans, Finland is counted among the 'victors' of the Cold War, but the high cost of this belated victory will be felt sooner than hoped, and they will hardly be victorious.
All of us in Central Europe can tell the story…
This article was first published in Czech by Cross-Border Talks' partner, časopis !Argument.
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Fog Over Frisco is a 1934 American Pre-Code drama film directed by William Dieterle. The screenplay by Robert N. Lee and Eugene Solow was based on the short story The Five Fragments by George Dyer.

Plot
Arlene Bradford (Bette Davis) is a spoiled, bored, wealthy socialite who finances her extravagant lifestyle by exploiting her fiancé Spencer Carlton's (Lyle Talbot) access to her stepfather's brokerage firm and using her connection to steal security bonds for crime boss Jake Bello (Irving Pichel).

When Arlene disappears, her step-sister Val (Margaret Lindsay) steps in to discover what happened to her with the help of society reporter Tony Sterling (Donald Woods) and photojournalist Izzy Wright (Hugh Herbert).

Principal cast
Bette Davis as Arlene Bradford
Donald Woods as Tony Sterling
Margaret Lindsay as Val Bradford
Hugh Herbert as Izzy Wright
Lyle Talbot as Spencer Carlton
Irving Pichel as Jake Bello
Alan Hale as Chief C.B. O'Malley
William Demarest as Spike Smith
Arthur Byron as Everett Bradford
George Chandler as Taxi Driver

Background
Bette Davis, anxious to portray the slatternly waitress Mildred in the RKO Radio Pictures production Of Human Bondage, accepted the relatively small role of Arlene in the hope her cooperation would convince Jack L. Warner to lend her to the rival studio for the film. Her ploy worked, and when Warner received word about her dynamic performance in Bondage, he elevated her to top billing in Frisco.

Part of the Warner Brothers release was filmed on location in San Francisco. It was remade as Spy Ship in 1942.

It was released on DVD in July 2010.

Critical reception
In his review in The New York Times, Mordaunt Hall described the film as a "ruddy thriller" and wrote "What [it] lacks in the matter of credibility, it atones for partly by its breathless pace and its abundance of action. As the story of murder and robbery passes on the screen it scarcely gives the spectator time to think who might be the ring-leader of the band of desperadoes."

Time stated "Brisk to the point of confession, Fog Over Frisco is not the best of Director William Dieterle's pictures."

Film historian William K. Everson called it "the fastest film ever made".

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