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var _ = require('lodash');

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Mark Van Proyen on William T. Wiley
by Mark Van Proyen
Who is Not a Slave, 1987, (part a), acrylic, charcola and graphite on canvas, 98 x 197 inches
In 1985, I asked Wally Hedrick about his view of the Northern California Funk movement, particularly the roles that William T. Wiley and Robert Hudson played. "Those guys," he replied, "are about as funky as Albert Einstein!" Sure enough, their work has never had anything to do with the abject body that was the primary preoccupation of many other artists associated with the movement. Nor can we say that the Congolese source of the term (lu-fuki, referring to "body odor caused by hard work") brings us any closer to understanding what they were doing. Wiley's core pursuit has always been highlighting the discrepancies between the experience of reality and the unconsciously internalized maps of it that we take for granted. No doubt, if Wiley were less inclined toward making an elaborate mockery of the pretensions advanced by the Minimalist cult of absolute presence, Jacques Derrida might well have written a maddingly complex essay about the ways Wiley's work embodied his post-structuralist theories about the slippages, ruptures and inversions that often occur between signs and what they portend to signify. But where would be the fun in that?
Who is Not a Slave, 1987, (part b), ink and pencil on paper, 14 x 11 inches
The affirmative answer resides in Monumental, the first posthumous exhibition of Wiley's work since he died on April 21. It exceeds all expectations. It contains 13 paintings, most of which are large, spanning the years 1987 to 2008, plus four small watercolors, but it omits prints and three-dimensional works. In no way is it a complete retrospective like those Wiley had at SFMOMA in 1981 or at the Berkeley Art Museum in 2009, but it will certainly suffice until the next full career survey comes along. One reason is that almost any example of Wiley's work reads like a self-contained retrospective, chock-full of polymorphic modalities that traverse multiple gamuts. In any given painting, we might see a fluctuating emphasis between graphic and schematic organizations of space, resting on a precarious balance struck between imaginary cartography and fanciful description. And if that weren't enough, the very same works also feature a plethora of written notations, many taking the form of puns and phonetic spellings, some more poetic than others, but all playfully reflecting on the quagmire of signification. In other words, looking at one of Wiley's paintings can be likened to climbing a stairmaster designed by M.C. Escher, only with more surprises and hidden delights planted along the convoluted path. The payoff comes in the form of a generous and sweet-spirited reminder that somehow everything will be okay, unlike the fate of the Tower of Babel that some might presume to be the historical archetype that lurks in the deep shadows of Wiley's longstanding projects.
In Monumental, six paintings on canvas measuring more than ten feet wide and six to seven feet tall dominate the gallery. Each is richly saturated in bright, thick acrylic paint applied in a devil-may-care gestural fashion, appearing as a kind of chromatic froth, within which a wide variety of other pictorial and linguistic incidents emerge. For Wiley, working with acrylic had many advantages. It could look like luminescent watercolor when applied on unprimed canvas, while in a more congealed state, it facilitated a frothy impasto. Since acrylic doesn't damage canvas, there is no need to apply primer, and that is what enabled Wiley's notational additions in pastel, charcoal and graphite. Take, for example, Who is Not a Slave (1987), a work that comes off as a swirling cascade of brilliant colors. An adjacent part of this painting takes the form of a greyscale work on paper, leading one to see it as a legend or predella that annotates the larger panel. It might well be, but if so, it is so oblique that it leaves
Leviathan II in the Steppes, 1991, acrylic and graphite on canvas, 74 x 123 inches
one guessing. Leviathan II in the Steppes (1991), a similarly sized work, has an aqua-blue picture space subdivided by a bold crescent — an unmistakable reference to the flags of several Muslim countries, including Iraq, with which the US was at war when Wiley made the painting. It also contains a small vignette of a statue of Lenin being pulled off a pedestal, echoing the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Both paintings hark to a trio of works that Wiley executed in 1961-62 titled Columbus Re-Routed (one of which is in the collection of the Berkeley Art Museum). In these, we see him first breaking away from the influence of his teacher, Frank Lobdell, to create works that bespoke an early interest in psycho-geographic cartography and visual/verbal puns.
Thomas Albright pointed out that Wiley was influenced by an exhibition of Rene Magritte's work at the Berkeley Art Museum in or around 1965, and it is easy to see how that influence has morphed and persisted throughout his career, including those parts presented in Monumental. The objective, however, isn't to keep a scorecard of influences; instead, it's to ascertain how those influences extend and expand through subsequent artistic transformations. On this point, there are many more things that could and should be said; however, stating them here would require a much longer telling than is practical. The
Rehabilitating the Savages, 2006, mixed media on canvas, 128 x 145 inches
critical thing to recognize is that Wiley has always performed what the literary theorist Gregory Ulmer has called Op writing1. He overlays visual and verbal representational regimes to create an array of philosophical moiré effects, which undermine and displace the hidebound presumptions of everyday metaphors. When we see Wiley's work in light of this kind of intellectual intoxication, it points to an artistic mindset much more sophisticated than what we usually glean from most conceptual art. Plus, looking at Wiley's paintings results in a lot more fun, reminding us that we should concede nothing to the idea that having fun means giving in to the enemy, whoever that might be.
William T. Wiley: "Monumental" @ Hosfelt Gallery through October 6, 2021.
Mark Van Proyen's visual work and written commentaries emphasize the tragic consequences of blind faith in economies of narcissistic reward. Since 2003, he has been a corresponding editor for Art in America. His recent publications include: Facing Innocence: The Art of Gottfried Helnwein (2011) and Cirian Logic and the Painting of Preconstruction (2010). To learn more about Mark Van Proyen, read Alex Mak's interview on Broke-Ass Stuart's website.
1. Gregory Ulmer, "Op Writing: Derrida's Solicitation of Theoria," in Mark Krupnick (ed.) Displacement: Derrida and After (Indiana University Press, 1983).
Mary Hull Webster says
Thank you Mark, David, and Todd Hosfelt and team for your research and depth of response to Wiley's life and work. I can easily see him grinning, noting little spots that he wished he'd fixed, but finally saying to you all that it was a great run and he's grateful for the opportunity.For now he's flying around and wondering what's NEXT?
David M. Roth says
Mr. Day's assertion is incorrect. While the di Rosa thing DID open first, it is not an exhibition of Wiley's work; it is a re-creation of the artist's studio, and therefore not comparable to the museum-quality show at Hosfelt.
Jeffrey Day says
Insightful review and great show. But NOT the first since his death. "fort phooey: wiley in the studio" opened in August at the di Rosa.

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"Though perhaps overly mechanical, 'Vengeance Falls' remains compelling and staggeringly textured."
Trivium's 'Vengeance Falls' isn't always hands-down exceptional, but it certainly has its moments. The Floridian quartet's thrashed-up metalcore now stands tighter and more focused on tracks like 'To Believe', meaning their sixth full-length is a step forward. And although the guitars appear more restrained, from cadences to melodies, the influence of producer David Draiman's day job (singer with Disturbed) is constant in Matt Heafy's vocal deliveries. It's distracting, but also means the frontman puts in the most powerful vocal performance of his career, and that's often the difference between solid tracks and surging anthems. Though perhaps overly mechanical, 'Vengeance Falls' remains compelling and staggeringly textured.


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HuffPost Article: Feds Show Up Unprepared For Hearing On Murdered And Missing Native Women
Justice Department and Bureau of Indian Affairs officials couldn't take a position on any of the Senate bills addressing this crisis.
By Jennifer Bendery
WASHINGTON ― The Senate is finally focusing on the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women, and the Trump administration sent over two top officials to weigh in on crucial legislation in a Wednesday hearing ― except neither came prepared to say anything definitive about any of the bills on the agenda.
Tracy Toulou, the director of the Office of Tribal Justice at the Department of Justice, and Charles Addington, the deputy bureau director of the Office of Justice Services at the Bureau of Indian Affairs, were invited four weeks ago to testify in the Indian Affairs Committee hearing. They had one job ― one job! ― to discuss the merits of the five bills on the agenda, all of which relate to violence against Native women or children.
Not only did Toulou and Addington fail to provide written testimony to the committee in time for the hearing ― a violation of committee rules ― but they couldn't say what the administration's position was on any of the bills because there isn't a position.
"These are very complicated bills. There are a lot of moving pieces," Toulou said in his opening remarks. "We're going to work more effectively to get it through our process in the future."
"It did get held up in the [Office of Budget and Management] clearance process," said Addington. "We do apologize and will do a better job of getting it to the committee in a timely manner."
The issue they were invited to discuss couldn't be more pressing. Hundreds of Native American women and girls are disappearing and being murdered. Nobody is really sure what is going on, and that's largely because law enforcement isn't collecting data on it. At least 506 indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been killed in 71 U.S. cities, including more than 330 since 2010, according to a November report by Urban Indian Health Institute. Even that is likely a gross undercount, per the institute, because they based their report on the scraps of information they could find.
Miranda Muehl, of Mustang, Oklahoma, and others from the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma march in June to demand action on missing and murdered indigenous women.
This is all happening as Native women already face appallingly high levels of violence. Eight-four percent of indigenous women experience violence in their lifetime, and in some tribal communities Native women are murdered at 10 times the national average. Murder is the third leading cause of death of Native women ages 10 to 24.
"These statistics are a stain on the nation that purports to be a nation of laws, a nation of justice," Lynn Malerba, chief of the Mohegan Tribe in Connecticut and secretary of the nonprofit United South & Eastern Tribes Protection, told the committee. "As our people are slaughtered and go missing, the United States turns a blind eye…. The loss of our people due to this crisis should inspire deep shame within every branch of government and every American citizen."
That the administration officials showed up unprepared to testify at a Senate hearing of this nature was particularly insulting. Even the Republican chairman, Sen. John Hoeven (N.D.), didn't hide his irritation. He gave them until July 8 to provide the committee with the administration's conclusions on the bills.
"Disappointing," said Hoeven as a Native Alaskan witness sat on the panel with the administration officials. "I'm still prepared to go forward as we have witnesses that have traveled far to be here."
Sen. Tom Udall (N.M.), the ranking Democrat on the committee, expressed his "utter frustration" with both departments. He cited a passage in Toulou's written testimony stating that "department leadership at the highest levels have expressed a renewed commitment to improving public safety" on tribal lands.
"Where is the evidence of that renewed commitment here today? And if the department truly 'stands ready to do its part' ― that's their quote ― on addressing the … crisis, why is it not prepared for this hearing?" asked Udall, referring to Toulou's testimony.
"To be clear, the administration's 'part' is to provide views on this legislation in a timely fashion," he continued. "Both departments have failed in that duty here today. It is only fair to question the sincerity of claims to a 'renewed commitment.'"
The loss of our people due to this crisis should inspire deep shame within every branch of government and every American citizen.Chief Lynn Malerba of the Mohegan Tribe
Bills on the agenda included Savanna's Act, which would boost coordination and data collection among all levels of law enforcement ― tribal, local, state and federal ― for cases involving missing and murdered Native women. It would require federal agencies to get recommendations from tribes for enhancing the safety of Native women, and provide statistics on missing and murdered Native women to Congress every year.
The bill is named for Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind, a 22-year-old Native woman in North Dakota who was eight months pregnant when she went missing in 2017. A neighbor later confessed to killing LaFontaine-Greywind, cutting the baby out of her womb and dumping her body into a river.
Another bill, the Not Invisible Act, would make the federal government step up its role in addressing missing and murdered Native women.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who is sponsoring both of those bills, said focusing on data collection is a necessary starting point for understanding what, exactly, is behind all these cases. She told HuffPost in February that one of the "brutal realities" is that indigenous women command more money from human traffickers.
"Part of our problem is we don't even know what we don't know," Murkowski said at the hearing. "So doing a better job and ascertaining whether it's the data, the collection, these are some of what we're trying to address."
Both bills continue to await definitive feedback from the administration.
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Pielęgnowanie - zespół czynności wchodzących w proces pielęgnowania chorych lub postępowania w zakresie ochrony zdrowia ludności. Specjalną rolą osoby pielęgnującej jest pomagać człowiekowi choremu lub zdrowemu w czynnościach mających na celu zapewnienie pełnego zdrowia lub powrotu do niego.

Czynności obejmują:
 zapewnienie choremu zaspokojenie w miarę możliwości i w granicach zdrowego rozsądku potrzeb bio- psychospołecznych, ze specjalnym podkreśleniem czynności zapewniających choremu wygodę, poczucie bezpieczeństwa, poszanowanie godności osobistej, a w krytycznych przypadkach spokojną śmierć
 czynności pomocnicze, związane z ustaleniem diagnozy przez lekarza
 czynności wynikające z przeprowadzenia ustalonego przez lekarza planu leczenia, w tym zakresie wykonywanie zleconych zabiegów leczniczych
 wykonywanie szczepień ochronnych
 właściwe oddziaływanie na środowisko domowe i zawodowe pacjenta
 propagowanie zasad higieny i prowadzenie oświaty zdrowotnej
 popularyzowanie i wykorzystywanie zdobyczy nauki medycznej
 wyszukiwanie kontaktów, ognisk zakaźnych, prowadzenie akcji uświadamiających
 analizę potrzeb i ustalanie na jej podstawie planu zmierzającego przy aktywnej postawie pacjenta i jego otoczenia do odzyskania lub poprawy stanu zdrowia, umożliwienia powrotu do normalnych warunków życia lub uzyskania rehabilitacji i resocjalizacji w możliwych granicach

Pielęgnowanie to pomaganie człowiekowi, aby mógł żyć lepiej i zachować zdrowie, a w chorobie przyczyniać się do tego żeby proces zdrowienia przebiegał jak najkorzystniej. Pielęgnowanie winno służyć także ludziom umierającym. (Florence Nightingale)

Pielęgnowanie to aktywność, którą ludzie inicjują i realizują osobiście w stosunku do siebie samych, aby otrzymać zdrowie i życie, oraz zapewnić sobie dobre samopoczucie. (Dorothea Orem)

Pielęgnowanie to asystowanie człowiekowi, które zmierzać będzie do osiągnięcia przez niego optimum funkcjonowania w różnych stanach zdrowia. (WHO)

Pielęgnować: poznawać, chronić, wydobywać siły, nieść bezinteresowną pomoc w bezradności i cierpieniu.  (Helena Radlińska)

Zobacz też: pielęgniarz,  Florence Nightingale, model pielęgnowania, teoria pielęgniarstwa

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How does a day spent on a virtually uninhabited (well accept for one hotel) car free island sound?
This cruise is specifically designed to give you the maximum time on Comino, to enable you to make the most of the unforgettable crystal clear waters of the breath taking Blue Lagoon. During summer the sun waits for you. In winter, the small island is an excellent destination for walkers and photographers, providing many walking trails all around. You will not leave disappointed.
On the way to Comino you will pass both sides of Sliema, St.Julians, the Casino, St Andrews, Salina Bay, St. Paul's Bay and the Island where St. Paul himself was shipwrecked in 60 A.D. Sailing past Mellieha Bay and onto the Comino's famous Blue Lagoon.
Once you arrive the rest of the afternoon is spent at your own leisure. There are a few options starting with of course sunbathing or swimming either off or on the boat. You can also go ashore to the small white sandy beach. There is a small kiosk available for refreshments once on shore.
An optional cold lunch including wine is served by the Captain Morgan Stewards. The vessel has a fully stocked bar and toilet facilities – free Wi-Fi is available.


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Aggregation Methods
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Trump currently has two types of aggregation methods:

1. Apply-Row
2. Choose-Column

As the names infer, the apply-row methods have one thing in common,
they build the final data values by looking at each row of the datatable, one at a time.
The choose-column methods, compare the data available in each column, then return an entire series.
Row-apply methods all take a pandas Series, and return a value.  Column-choose methods
all take a pandas Dataframe, and return a series.

Row-apply functions are invoked using the pseudo code below:

.. code-block:: python

	df['final'] = df.apply(row_apply_method, axis=1)

Column-choose functions are invoked using the pseudo code below:

.. code-block:: python

	df['final'] = column_choose_method(df)

Both methods have access to the data in the override, and failsafe, columns so
it's technically possible to create a method which overloads the
behaviour of these columns. It is the responsibility of each method
to implement the override, and failsafe, logic.

Apply-Row Methods
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Each of these methods, can be thought of as a for-loop that looks at each
row of the datatable, then decides on the correct value for the final column,
on a row by row basis.

The datatable, as a Dataframe, gets these methods applied.  The columns
are sorted prior to being passed.  So, the value at index 0, is always
the override datapoint, if it exists, and the value at index -1, is always
the failsafe datapoint, if it exists.  Everything else, that is, the feeds,
are in columns 1 through n, where n is the number of feeds.

.. automethod:: trump.extensions.symbol_aggs.ApplyRow.priority_fill

.. automethod:: trump.extensions.symbol_aggs.ApplyRow.mean_fill

.. automethod:: trump.extensions.symbol_aggs.ApplyRow.median_fill

.. automethod:: trump.extensions.symbol_aggs.ApplyRow.custom

.. note::

	The aggregation methods are organized in the code
	using private mixin classes.  The FeedAggregator object
	handles the implementation of every static method,
	based solely on it's name.  This means that
	any new methods added, must be unique to either mixin.

Choose-Column Methods
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Each of these methods, can be thought of as a for-loop that looks at each
column of the datatable, then chooses the appropriate feed to use, as final.
They all still apply overrides and failsafes on a row-by-row basis.

The datatable, as a Dataframe, is passed to these methods in  a single call.

.. automethod:: trump.extensions.symbol_aggs.ChooseCol.most_populated

.. automethod:: trump.extensions.symbol_aggs.ChooseCol.most_recent

.. automethod:: trump.extensions.symbol_aggs.ChooseCol.custom

.. note::

	See the note in the previous section about custom method
	naming.

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Why have creative departments gone mad for bikes?
COMMENT: The world of marketing has gone cycle crazy
BikeBiz 17th September 2013	Features
Bikes. They're everywhere at the moment. And I'm not just talking about on the roads.
Time was that a brand would be doing things differently and partaking of some 'blue sky thinking' if it featured a bicycle or two in its adverts, whether in a magazine, online or on the telly. Nowadays, you can't move for the bleedin' things cropping up in the middle of Coronation Street, with some fashionable type (or meerkat) wheeling down a trendy high street catching admiring glances from some suitably handsome, well-dressed onlookers.
Even car adverts have got bicycles in them. And since when did a car brand show off how good it was by manufacturing a high-end road bike? I thought cars and bikes were supposed to be warring tribes?
But then it's not just adverts. With sit-up-and-beg bikes fittingly nicely into current vintage and shabby chic trends, those two wheeled buggers are popping up on t-shirts, posters, shop window displays, cupcakes, bunting and pretty much anything else you could think of. Where will it all end?
So, what's all this about? Doesn't everyone hate cyclists on the road? Somehow, somewhere deep down in the psyche of creative folk everywhere bicycles became something positive, where being associated with them was 'a good thing'.
Was it Beijing and British success at the pinnacle of the sport? Even the revelations of Lance have failed to dent that – perhaps the Armstrong scandal has been outweighed by the sheer weight of British sporting success in cycling. Unmistakably, on balance, cycling is still seen as desirable.
Regardless of the specifics of what it was that led to the nation discovering that it was allowed to like bicycles again, there's no denying that either way, brands, fashion houses, car manufacturers, music promoters and pretty much everyone else has jumped on the bicycle bandwagon.
It's been a long road for cycling (metaphor ahoy), no doubt with many more twists and turns in the road ahead. It remains to be seen whether the popularity of two wheels will plummet or whether it will continue to climb.
Obviously I'm hoping for this trend to continue. All this subliminal advertising is going to pay off one day and translate into rocketing cycle sales. In the meantime, I'm off to decorate my house in bicycle bunting.
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Mobile future will force business into the cloud: EMC
Data collected through mobile applications is putting pressure on companies to upgrade their legacy infrastructures to the cloud in order to support and service the information that is coming through.
By Aimee Chanthadavong | May 6, 2014 -- 01:22 GMT (18:22 PDT) | Topic: Cloud
Kicking off EMC World 2014 in Las Vegas, EMC president of products and marketing Jeremy Burton drew on how he used a mobile application to make a car insurance claim almost on-the-spot through his smartphone following a car accident as an example of how far technology has evolved.
Burton indicated applications such as the one he used, which enabled him to capture the accident in detail via a sketch, a voice recording, and providing a written recount, will redefine infrastructures of businesses. He said in order for companies to support the influx of the different kinds of information and the magnitude of them, a business would need to scale up to support it.
"We think these kinds of applications will redefine business in every industry. We think it's going to have a knock on effect on infrastructure inside IT and with storage being a part of that infrastructure that is going to get redefined too," he said, noting it epitomises the "third platform of IT", a term coined by research firm IDC that represents the next evolution of enterprise computing based on mega trends of cloud, mobile, social, and big data.
To date, businesses have focused aggressively on virtualisation and automating private clouds so information can be shared as they adjust to the growing pressures of transforming their infrastructures, according to Burton.
He suggested the next step businesses need to take is to automate the environment into a hybrid cloud model to make things more reliable, agile, efficient, and cost-effective, despite the fact that there's no real "instruction guide" on how they can build one.
As such, EMC has launched a series of software-defined storage technologies , including an Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) Appliance, a scale-out cloud storage infrastructure that delivers the agility and cost benefits of public cloud, while still giving the control and security that on-premise private cloud provides.
The company has suggested that it will lower total cost ownership (TCO) by between 23-28 percent when compared to TCO of public clouds from Amazon and Google.
"The thing we've been really focused on is providing the hybrid cloud solution. For the IT guy who doesn't really know the way forward, they ask can we build the Bible and they can then implement it themselves or we'll also provide expertise to help because some these workloads can go off premise and others can't for regulatory reasons like privacy or security," Burton said.
"The reality is we end up going to a lot of our customers and telling them they need to consider both and a big change I've seen in the last year or two is you can't have a conversation just about private cloud, it's always private cloud and public cloud together."
Burton believes it's the smaller companies that will be first to grasp the concept of how hybrid cloud will benefit their business compared to the larger companies that will take a "long, long time because some data is so sensitive that folks don't want to trust it to anyone else, and also there are going to be certain workloads that don't run with an adequate performance in the public cloud."
"The transition from the mainframe happened over a decade so this move to the third platform of IT is going to take a while because there's so much invested in the existing infrastructure," Burton said.
"Every business knows they have to render their service through mobile devices to reach the consumer as they want that direct relationship, whether it's banking, retail, or telecommunications. So now systems have hundreds and thousands of users and therefore they have to deal with more data. The transition will happen from to 2020."
Burton concluded as businesses redefine their infrastructures and look at ways to free up their existing budget to fund new projects, such as creating new apps, it's also an opportunity for IT to be innovative again.
"In the 90's you arguably had the most innovative spell of IT ever because there was the advent of PC and workgroup servers, and it was very empowering for businesses to build new functionalities," he said.
"The thing is, we created a mess and chaos, so we had consolidated it. After a massive centralisation of IT and it's not looked as an innovator; it's looked as a pain and cost.
"The good news for the IT guys is, if they get their mojo going, they can once again be in a position to transform the business and IT needs to look at that from an apps and infrastructure standpoint because the apps won't work against the existing infrastructure."
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India, Japan to combat sickle cell anaemia
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KYOTO, JAPAN: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed cooperation with Japan to combat sickle cell anaemia that is prevalent in India's tribal regions. The discussion was held between Modi and Shinya Yamanaka, Japan's stem cell pioneer and 2012 Nobel Prize winner, Kyoto University.
"The prime minister expressed concern over the prevalence of sickle cell anaemia, especially among tribal communities across India," a statement by the Indian government said.
Sickling decreases the cells' flexibility and results in a risk of various life threatening complications. It mostly occurs in regions where malaria is rampant. Yamanaka said there were currently no Indian researchers at his institute, the Centre for iPS Cell Research and Application, and 'he would like Indian scientists to conduct research at the institute.'
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In Step with Modern Britain
With all the endless doom and gloom swilling around us, it's easy to forget just how far we've come. It says something incredibly powerful about our society when the three finalists of Strictly Come Dancing – the most popular show on British TV – were a black woman, a deaf actor and a same-sex couple, as voted for by the viewers. As critic Barbara Ellen put it in her Guardian review:
"A ground-breaking Strictly final in step with modern Britain."
"… Strictly, and the BBC, at its best: everyone welcome, and everything all the better for it."
Hot on the heels of Strictly came the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year, also a public vote. It was won by the child of Chinese-Romanian immigrants with a gay diver bringing up the rear in second place.
And then came the out-of-the-blue and very public marriage proposal on the stage of Norwich's splendid Theatre Royal at the end of their Christmas panto production of Dick Whittington. When Joe popped the question, the kids went wild. Just as well Luke said yes!
Watch it on Facebook. Congratulations boys.
By Jack Scottin Arts & Theatre, BBC, Britain, Equalities, LGBT, Marriage, Marriage Equality, Music & Dance, TV & Radio 8 January, 2022 8 January, 2022 184 Words2 Comments
Rain, Rain Go Away…
British weather is famed for being predictably unpredictable – rain one minute, sunshine the next, with the mercury up and down like a fiddler's elbow. The poor Met Office struggles to keep pace with an ever-shifting forecast. It's no wonder the weather is Britain's favourite topic of conversation – that and the footie (but best not go there). But so far this summer the weather has been predictably wet, windy and miserable even here in the driest county in the land (usually). A few warm days and a couple of BBQs in early June does not a summer make.
We may sit around the house in shorts trying to pretend it's summer but who has the heating on in July? We do, that's who. As more benevolent foreign climes are off the agenda this year for obvious reasons, we try to make do with what old Ma Nature chucks at us but please, old girl, stop pissing on our parade.
Every cloud, as they say. The damp and dismal weather has at least provided a bumper crop all around us, particularly now it's become de rigueur to let the grass grow to encourage wildflowers, bees and other pollinating insects. And the ducks quite like it too.
By Jack Scottin Birds, Britain, Bugs, Chedgrave and Loddon, Rain, Village, Weather 17 July, 2021 1 August, 2021 207 Words2 Comments
Top of the Pansy Pops 2020
What a year. Who would have predicted that 2020 would have brought a pandemic to strike us down and trash the global economy? Unsurprisingly, the coronavirus dominated the pansy charts this year. And there was death too but not because of the virus. Professionally, I lost a fellow author in a horrific murder and, personally, I lost my oldest friend to a sudden and totally unexpected cardiac arrest. But then came the COVID-19 survivor close to my heart and a birthday milestone, both of which brought some hope and happiness to a tragic year best left behind.
Despite the hurricane that swirled around us, Liam and I have been incredibly fortunate and life remains calm and peaceful. We know how lucky we are. The pansies remain forever perked.
Ladies and gents, both, neither and all those in between, I give you top of the pansy pops for 2020.
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The most popular image of 2020 was this fuzzy black and white photo of my old primary school in Malaysia during my army brat years. Usually it's something smutty or a hunk in the buff.
Mountbatten Primary School
2020 was a write-off but do I see more hopeful times for the New Year? I think so but then I'm an eternal optimist. Clearly, the vaccine will be centre-stage. With a bit of luck and a fair wind, life should start returning to normal. Wishing us all a safe and sane 2021.
By Jack Scottin Britain, Chedgrave and Loddon, Christmas & New Year, Family & Friends, Food & Drink, Health, Lockdown, London, Property, Springtime Books, Transport 26 December, 2020 6 May, 2021 281 Words3 Comments
The Seven Sisters
Who knows what life will be like once we're released from house arrest? What will the so-called new normal look like? What's certain is we're all Zooming, streaming and buying online like never before. This was already the direction of travel and it just got turbo-charged. How many bricks and mortar businesses will survive is anyone's guess.
And then there are the most ancient of games – cruising, coupling and canoodling – and the arenas where these rituals are played out. From an LGBT perspective, swiping right had already forced many a gay boozer to call time for good. Why bother with the faff and expense of propping up a bar hoping for a chance liaison when you can order in with free delivery? But these places aren't just about a Saturday night takeaway, they also provide a community hub and a safe haven from a sometimes hostile world.
An old friend sent me – via WhatsApp, ironically – these amazing images of some of London's most iconic gay pubs, venues with long and infamous pedigrees. I don't know who took the pictures so they can't be credited but they brought back a flood of memories of my gloriously misspent past.
Ladies and gents and all those in between, I give you the seven sisters. As the old saying goes, use them or lose them.
The Kings Arms: famous for bears, their admirers and Jivin' Julie's sunday night karoake
The Eagle: the youngest of the seven sisters
The Admiral Duncan: made famous by a nail bomb which, in 1999, killed three and maimed many others
Halfway to Heaven: where Liam first caught my roving eye 14 years ago
The Duke of Wellie: always my favourite Soho boozer right next door to my least favourite, Rupert Street
Comptons: Soho's boozy, cruisy bar frequented by likely lads from all over the world
The Royal Vauxhall Tavern cabaret bar and the eldest sister by far. Listed status may not protect it from demolition.
My mother watched drag shows there in the sixties
By Jack Scottin Bars & Restaurants, Britain, Gay Bars, LGBT, Lockdown, London, Music & Dance, Shopping 27 June, 2020 27 June, 2020 333 Words4 Comments
We'll Meet Again
This year, Liam and I jollied in London for our birthdays. A state of the art, hi-tech micro-room in St James' was the perfect base for our foraging. We arrived on Remembrance Sunday and the centre of town was buzzing with blazers, badges and bling under a canopy of Christmas lights. It was fun being tourists with time on our hands to roam and drink it all in, something we rarely did when we were worker bees on the treadmill.
Talking of drinking it all in, no trip to the West End is quite the same without a jar or two in a local hostelry. As seems to be our habit these days, we ended up at Halfway to Heaven, a gay bar just off Trafalgar Square and the splendid den of iniquity where Liam first caught my roving eye 13 years ago. Quite by chance, we arrived just in time to catch their annual Remembrance Day show.
Image courtesy of Boyz Magazine
The pub was rammed with military veterans – men and women, young and old, straight, gay and everything in between, all in their Sunday best – enjoying a convivial mingle with the regulars.
Halfway to Heaven has become something of a safe and welcoming place for ex-military LGBT people. Who knew? But it was a wonder to behold. When we were at the bar ordering drinks, a middle-aged woman was chatting to the manager.
"Thank you for being so nice to my dad and his husband,"
she said, pointing at two old soldiers in the corner.
It made my heart melt.
Next week: more jolly news
By Jack Scottin Armed Forces, Bars & Restaurants, Britain, Food & Drink, Gay Bars, LGBT, London 16 November, 2019 16 November, 2019 266 Words2 Comments


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Time will tell whether new Vatican head is a 'Yes' man
Cardinal Marc Ouellet, previously archbishop of Quebec and primate of Canada, was recently appointed the new head of the Vatican's Congregation for Bishops. On July 30 he became the Vatican official who makes the final recommendation to the pope regarding appointments to or within the Catholic hierarchy.
Ouellet has been described as a close friend of Pope Benedict XVI -- a friendship which at least one Canadian commentator regards as an asset for the job.
According to a recent article in Canada's National Post, Jesuit Fr. Jacques Monet, a church historian based in Toronto, believes that the longstanding relationship between the cardinal and the pope will not compromise Ouellet's independence and influence. Monet says Ouellet will not just be a "yes man."
But that has not been the case with regard to another high-ranking Vatican official, Cardinal William Levada -- the pope's successor as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF). The pope selected him for the post because they had established a close relationship while Levada worked at the CDF several years earlier.
No Vatican observer would claim that Levada is someone of independent influence in the Roman Curia or that he occasionally finds himself saying "no" to the pope.
What sort of perspective will Ouellet bring to the Congregation of Bishops? Will he mark out a new course for episcopal appointments or are we likely to see a continuation of the pattern already laid down by Pope John Paul II and now Benedict XVI?
In my judgment it will be "No" to the second question, and "Yes" to the third.
When commenting on the greatest crisis to confront the Catholic Church since the Reformation of the 16th century, Ouellet seemed to blame the scandal of sexual abuse in the priesthood on the weakening of moral standards in society -- a common explanation given by those who are reluctant to address the internal problems of the church, including obligatory clerical celibacy, the role of women, and the declining quality of pastoral leadership.
Oullet's rightist views manifested themselves most dramatically, however, in his comments on the Second Vatican Council. In his interview with Charles Lewis of the National Post in mid-August, he expressed the belief that many Catholics interpreted the teachings of Vatican II in far too liberal a fashion and in the process disconnected those teachings from the core of Catholic faith.
That liberal misinterpretation of the council, Ouellet said, led to priests abandoning celibacy, a drop in proper religious education, and a general infusion of leftist politics -- all against the true intentions of Vatican II.
"After the council," he pointed out, "the sense of mission was replaced by the idea of dialogue. That we should dialogue with other faiths and not attempt to bring them the Gospels, to convert. Since then, relativism has been developing more broadly."
Ouellet is a long-time editor of and contributor to the theological journal Communio, which was established by conservative theologians to serve as a counter-weight to the interna-tional theological journal Concilium, founded and edited by some of the leading theologians at Vatican II
That list included Karl Rahner, Yves Congar, and even Joseph Ratzinger -- now Pope Benedict XVI -- who contributed an important article on the doctrinal authority of national episcopal conferences for the first issue of the journal.
Ouellet, however, looks upon Hans Urs von Balthasar, not Karl Rahner, as the leading Catholic theologian of the 20th century.
In the area of liturgy he has expressed a devotional preference for eucharistic adoration and a return to the use of Gregorian chant.
Charles Lewis pointed out in his brief profile of Ouellet that the cardinal had been severely criticized by some in Canada for saying that abortion is morally wrong even in the case of rape.
In an attempt to heal the wounds opened by his remarks (but without retracting them), he held a joint press conference with Archbishop Terrence Prendergast of the Ottawa archdiocese calling upon those on both sides of the issue to work together toward reducing the number of abortions.
Ouellet's effort at healing wounds in that case is to be applauded. Whether such a sense of moderation will also extend to his role in the appointment of bishops remains to be seen.
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PHUKET: The move to bestow soldiers with the rank of sub-lieutenant or higher with police powers of arrest and seizure is enough to alarm anyone who knows that having soldiers on the streets is usually not good news.
Having soldiers on streets is not ideal for tourist destinations, but will it be better for Phuket in the long run?
It's no secret that the Royal Thai Police are under immense public pressure, especially following the very suspicious initial lack of action against Janepob Veeraporn for the high-speed car crash in Ayutthaya.
Only due to public pressure over this case has an investigation been launched into why police dragged their heels for so long in the 2012 hit-and-run case involving Vorayuth Yoovidhya, the youngest son of Red Bull executive Chalerm Yoovidhya, that the statute of limitations expired on charging the energy drink empire heir. And that case saw an officer from the police's own ranks killed.
And all this follows the notorious handling of the Koh Tao murder trial.
Graham Catterwell, one the dozens of experts called on for advice for drafting the new Constitution – though with some advice heeded, and other key suggestions ignored – in Phuket last year said he rated the success of each successive "regime change" in Thailand by how effective the police force was after each coup.
If calling the army in to supplement – or monitor – police in carrying out their work is any indication, apparently this current round is not going well.
The rationale for this latest move seems clear that the army is believed likely to be more impartial in executing police action, as military personnel failing to perform their duties can face court martial.
Yet to avoid the same public image the police have suffered, the military will need to keep their own house clean. The current administration, probably through its many highly public experiences over the past two years, seems to be starting to understand that justice not only needs to be be done, but must be seen to be done.
If the army is to avoid the same pitfalls that seem to have snared the police, they will have to tread warily through the minefield of ensuring that no army personnel of any rank is found having any vested interested – financial or otherwise – in any affairs on which the army is supposed to be executing the law.
It's quite pathetic how nothing has happened to Vorayuth Yoovidhya over the past three years. So many charges have been dropped. Most of which were unjustified. l fear for Thailand and it's legal system. I think people need to own up to their actions, if the legal system does not serve the people. An honor system is virtually impossible to implement and maintain.
Ant other suggestions on how to deal with a thoroughly corrupted entity? Can't really just lay off the entire police force-unless you have something to take its place. Maybe that's the plan?
Well said Kurt! If the police did their job, this wouldn't have happened, oh and let's not forget how corrupt they are!
Well, if the royal thai police force prove of lack and very 'slooooow' unexplainable law enforcement, actually just to please very financial powerful influential people, than they loose peoples credit.
Police, Prosecutors than don't have to be surprised if the Army steps in and show a strong arm to tackle police and other officials corruption.


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Flinders University commemorated its 50th Anniversary in 2016. Relive the celebrations.
About History 50th Anniversary
Flinders' first half-century was a natural occasion to celebrate a truly remarkable record of achievement across an impressive range of endeavour. Through the diverse efforts of an eclectic cohort of teachers, researchers and graduates, Flinders has exerted a profound and distinctive influence on society and in its various communities.
The program of events offered numerous opportunities for the extended Flinders family to join together in marking this milestone, as well as allowing us to showcase our strengths and our capabilities. And while there was plenty of pride and perhaps a little nostalgia involved in the gatherings and reunions of 2016, it was also a wonderful time to focus on our exciting aspirations for the future.
Just as our namesake Matthew Flinders famously remarked he was not content to rest unnoticed in the middle order, Flinders as an institution has never been content with the status quo; we have always looked for ways to make the world a better place by making a positive difference. We look forward to your involvement and support as we embark on our next 50 years in pursuit of this ideal.
Join us as we look back on 2016 - the amazing year of our 50th Anniversary.
Get a taste of our 50th anniversary
The following is just a taste of the activities that were offered as part of the University's celebration of fifty years of inspiring achievement.
Creatives exhibition
The University's history of fostering artistic excellence was recognised in the Flinders Fifty Creatives 2016 exhibition.
Plaza and Student Hub
For our 50th, Flinders gave itself a new heart with its redeveloped Plaza and Student Hub.
Jembatan is a Flinders University 50th Anniversary initiative promoting Australian-Indonesian engagement.
Encounter 2016
For Flinders' 50th year, our annual alumni magazine, Encounter, showcased the Flinders of 2016.
July 1 marks the anniversary of Flinders University's Independence Day.
Investigator Transformed
The Investigator Transformed documents our first 50 years of achievement and impact.
Springfest is a free flowering of festivities in the green and sun-filled heart of Flinders' Bedford Park campus. Introduced in 2016 as part of the 50th Anniversary, it is now an annual community event,


As some of you may or may not already know, I got Petite Plastic Surgery in South Korea while on vacation last month! I've always been interested in testing out new beauty treatments, and I believe in being honest about the things that I do, so I decided to document the entire day and share it with you in the video below. I hope that if you're considering receiving Petite Plastic Surgery, too, that you find all of this information helpful!
First things first, Petite Plastic Surgery in South Korea refers to temporary, non-surgical procedures using laser therapy and injectables. Petite Plastic Surgery offers a more natural look with little to no downtime compared to the increasingly popular extreme surgeries that Seoul is famous for. Every treatment that I received was non-invasive and temporary, lasting an estimated 6-ish months each.
Seoul is littered with Plastic Surgery Clinics so I knew that I had a lot of research to do. In the end I decided to visit the Dermatology Clinic at Grand Plastic Surgery in Gangnam because they were one of the top rated and safest clinics in the entire country, and because they frequently worked with foreigners and even offered personal interpreter services to ensure that I could communicate seamlessly with the doctors.
When I booked my appointment I wasn't actually even sure what I wanted done or what they offered, but I was told that the most popular Grand Dermatology Clinic treatments were injection based treatments like PRP (overall rejuvenation), Rejuran Healer (salmon DNA/hydrating purpose), or V-line Dermatoxin (botox on dermis layer for tightening purpose) and laser based would be Doublo (lifting) and Aqua Toning (pigmentation). I was informed that necessary treatment would be prescribed on a case by case basis on my actual skin condition by the in-house Dermatologists.
After voicing my skincare concerns and having the doctors inspect my skin texture and general face shape, they decided that the Doublo, Rejuran Healer, Masseter Botox, and V-Line Dermatoxin treatments would be best suited for me. Watch my video if you'd like to see my entire Petite Plastic Surgery journey! Warning: Graphic Content; needles.
Doublo is a machine used in a non-invasive facial lifting procedure that uses high-intense and direct ultrasonic waves, called Hypeknife, to target SMAS layer (the later placed between the dermis and facial plane) and pull the layer up. This equipment is revolutionary to solve the root cause of aging so that saggy skin and deeper wrinkles can be improved.
REJURAN Healer that regenerates skin cells from deep inside is a 'new-concept healer for your skin' that creates a true skin beauty by delivering polynucleotide to dermis to improve biological condition of damaged skin inside.
What is good about REJURAN Healer?
Increase self-recovering power of skin by improving skin's own regenerating capability.
Complement elasticity fibers-lost by aging process.
Reduces sebum secretion and improves skin texture by recovering balance between oil and moisture of skin.
No adverse reaction with high biocompatible substance.
Stabilizes skin immediately after administration and produces a quick effect from deep inside of skin.
Ideal candidate for REJURAN Healer?
-Aging skin looking for skin rejuvenation and skin tightening.
Grand's dermatoxin is a new Botox treatment different from existing Botox treatment and is also known as Mesobotox or Skinbotox in Korea. It creates multiple treatment spots on skin layers and works on skin layer without numbing muscles. Dermatoxin is expected to improve skin tightening, reduce pores and fine wrinkles..
-Fine wrinkles can be naturally improved with lifting effect which makes the facial shape smaller and slimmer.
-Dermis is stimulated to modify dull skin tone to brighter tone and the size of pores is reduced.
-The treatment area is not limited to certain area so facial lifting effect spreads throughout the face.
Grand's Botox is an injection which is effective in developed masseter caused by the muscles and wrinkles. When Botulinum Toxin is inserted, the muscle in the injected area is locally paralyzed so that the developed muscle prior to treatment gets undeveloped and creates slimming effect. Therefore, it is the most preferred procedure among non-surgical methods.
Only products that are proven for its effect, duration and safety by FDA are used.
If you have any questions about the treatments I received, or if you've received any cool treatments of your own, let me know in the comments section below!
Sorry, Grand is the most sued hospital in Seoul with a few deaths from surgery. Their dermatology department should be safe enough though.
Hi Lauren! Your skin concerns are very similar to mine so this interested me a great deal. I am going to South Korea soon and am wondering what this package costs. Thank you for sharing your journey with Grand Plastic Surgery.
Thank you for sharing this post! I really needed more information about other procedures because I had a Rejuran in Singapore but I think I am ready to try something different.


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New Zealand says close to a travel arrangement with Australia
By Mark Hosenball
FILE PHOTO: Passengers arrive from New Zealand after the Trans-Tasman travel bubble opened overnight, at Sydney Airport
WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand is close to allowing Australians to visit without quarantining on arrival, New Zealand's deputy prime minister said on Thursday, a reciprocal right that would create a long-touted "Trans-tasman travel bubble".
Both countries have been successful in largely containing the spread of the coronavirus domestically.
Australia's border has been mostly open to neighbouring New Zealanders since last October, with a few short suspensions when there were small coronavirus outbreaks in Auckland. But New Zealand has delayed returning the favour amid more frequent bursts of fresh COVID-19 clusters across Australia.
"We were working towards a joint framework, a joint set of protocols, but actually I don't think we're too far off being able to create the New Zealand version to match up with the Australian version," New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson told Radio New Zealand (RNZ).
Robertson said there were still a few issues to be finalised, such as how travellers would be dealt with in the event of new outbreaks.
RNZ reported plans were in place to have the arrangement operational by the end of April.
Pressure has been mounting on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's government to allow Australians entry. Opposition National Party leader Judith Collins warned this week that Ardern could "end up with the death of Queenstown on her".
Queenstown, a popular destination for international tourists, relies heavily on Australian visitors during the ski season from June to October.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said last week a two-way travel arrangement was in New Zealand's hands.
"If the New Zealand government doesn't wish Australians to visit New Zealand and spend money in Queenstown or Wellington or other parts of the country, that's a matter for them," he told reporters.
(Reporting by Praveen Menon in Wellington and Renju Jose in Sydney; editing by Jane Wardell)
FILE PHOTO: New Zealand Finance Minister Robertson speaks about the 'wellbeing' budget in Wellington


It's Monday, start your work week with Ryan, Allen and special guest Anthony discussing the X-Men books released last week. The guys give their overall thoughts on the books and the ResurrXion line. Plus some Fastball Tweets from the #XMENMONDAY thread. Thanks for listening!
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Ryan and Allen discuss the X-Men books released the week of June 21, 2017. The guys give their overall thoughts on the books and ResurrXion line. Plus some Fastball Tweets from the #XMENMONDAY thread. Thanks for listening!


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The phalanx of student managers who toil in support of U-M basketball take their reward in satisfaction when the teams do well.
By Steve Friess
Lucas Vargas on the Crisler Center court. Photo courtesy of Eric Bronson/Michigan Photography
They often show up at the Crisler Center hours before the players and leave long after a practice or game is over. Some of their duties offer a sheen of glamor — traveling to exotic locales, sitting on the sidelines at nationally broadcast games, enjoying an enviable flow of U-M swag and proximity to the biggest men and women on campus. But other duties aren't quite so glamorous — picking up used locker room towels; wiping sweat off the hardwood; running ragged while retrieving rebounds for players, sometimes into the wee small hours.
For the phalanx of student managers who toil — usually for free, some for scholarship money — in support of U-M basketball, most take their reward largely in satisfaction when the teams do well, as both the men's and women's squads have during the 2020-21 season. "To put it simply, being a manager is being a relatively small cog in a big machine that allows coaches to focus solely on coaching and players to play," says Matt Sawyer, '13, who as a senior worked for the men's team when it went to the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament in 2013. "We took a lot of pride in doing the things that no one noticed to support a championship run."
In non-pandemic times, each team typically has about 20 student-managers who spend long hours providing a complex range of support services, from tracking detailed statistics to shooting, editing, and logging film of players during practice and games, from picking up food orders to laundering the team jerseys. Head managers, typically juniors or seniors, travel with the team, often finding themselves using athletic tape to turn the hotel ballroom floors into makeshift basketball courts so the team can walk through plays without needing to visit a gym.
This year, because of COVID-19 restrictions that required frequent testing and tight bubbles, each team has made do with about half the usual crew doing double the work.
Among the 2020-21 basketball student managers are, from left to right, Erin Strauss, Lucas Vargas, and Emily Anderson for the women's team. Photo courtesy of Emily Anderson
"They are probably the most selfless people in our program," women's head coach Kim Barnes Arico says. "They're taking time out of their tough academic schedules — and most of them are exceptional students as well — to do all the hard tasks that nobody wants to do that help the program run as smoothly as it does. Our managers make it a first-class operation. And they do it to be around something bigger than themselves."
Echoing that appreciation is men's head coach Juwan Howard, '97, whose team clinched the Big Ten title on March 4 (see sidebar). Earlier in the season, following the team's win on Jan. 12 against Wisconsin, he gave a shoutout to the managers. "I give all the credit to the … players and staff — and our managers. Everyone is a major contributor to the success that we're having."
Their paths to the posts vary, although many have elements of luck, persistence, and networking. Sawyer, for instance, made contact with U-M player David Merritt, '08, via Facebook before getting to campus, which led to a series of connections that got him an interview and then a position. Current senior Jalen Massey was about to transfer to U-M from Washtenaw Community College when he happened to meet then-head student manager Zach Napont, '19, MA'20, while out on a Friday night in Ann Arbor. He pestered him for a year about how to get the gig on the men's team. Nick Lemmer, '14, who worked with the women's team from 2009 to 2014, had known then-head coach Kevin Borseth for years. Borseth had been a coach at Michigan Technological University and occasionally worked with Lemmer's father, a local high school basketball coach. Emily Anderson, now a women's team head manager, says she reached out to the coaching staff at the onset of her sophomore year to see if she could do anything because she missed the camaraderie of sports she enjoyed as a high school athlete.
"Our managers make it a first-class operation. And they do it to be around something bigger than themselves."
— Kim Barnes Arico, women's head coach
Kim Barnes Arico, women's head coach, pictured with sophomore Michelle Sidor
"All of us are very driven people," says Anderson, a senior pursuing degrees in both biomedical engineering and movement science.
"I've had to learn my balance between not going to practice so I could finish up an assignment or go to office hours. So it's helped me be more productive because I have a little bit less time on my hands."
Several managers say they sacrificed part of their GPA for the real-world experience they got at Crisler. "I spent 40 hours a week on basketball," says Ryan Kapustka, '18, a head manager for the men's team in 2017-18 and current director of basketball operations for Rice University's men's team. "I would spend late nights at the practice facility doing homework after practice. It wasn't too tough to balance, but at the end I was spending a lot of time up there just because I knew that was where my career was heading and that's how I was going to get another job."
Colin Anschuetz, '20, a head manager in the 2018-19 season who is now assistant men's coach at Concordia University in Ann Arbor, agreed. "If you come in, work hard, keep your head down, and do your job, eventually after four years, the guys in the office are really comfortable picking up the phone and reaching out to somebody for you. … Knowing I wanted to go into coaching, that was almost more important to me than some of my classes."
Indeed, several U-M alumni who worked with the teams have gone onto professional coaching or sports management jobs. Anschuetz's older brother, Nolan, '18, is manager of basketball logistics for the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies. Devon Mulry, '15, MM'16, MA'18, a head manager in the 2014-15 season and a graduate assistant with the men's team from 2016 to 2018, is now director of player development for the University of Texas men's squad.
"It's like an internship; they get to be around and in it every single day, and they're exposed to many different pieces," Barnes Arico says. "It's an opportunity for them to learn from the coaches at the highest level, the players at the highest level."
Senior Lucas Vargas, a 2020-21 head manager for the women's team who aspires to be a coach, sings Barnes Arico's praises as a mentor. "She's such a good teacher in how she breaks it down to the minor details. I'm there every day, and that means I get to listen to the points that she's making to the players. You have opportunities to absorb everything that's going on."
Still, much of it is rather mundane work. Lemmer described a typical day: "We have that checklist throughout the practice to be able to prepare for the next thing and moving balls, moving cones, moving jerseys, doing administrative work like printing off plays or sending plays to iPads. The coaches may need something in a hurry — I remember numerous times running around the building to find things. The goal is to make sure the coaches can maximize their court time with the players."
Some student managers quit when they realize the job is time-consuming and sometimes less than captivating. "The better player you were in high school, the more likely you are to go for a couple months as a manager and quit, because you have to completely sacrifice any ego you had about your own athletic ability," says Sawyer, now an academic adviser at the University of Minnesota. He adds the physical elements of the position can be demanding. "When you're rebounding for five straight minutes for Nik Stauskas shooting three pointers, you have to sprint. The expectation is Nik is going to try to break a record every time we do this drill."
Agreed Lemmer: "For the most part, the fans are not going to know that managers even exist other than wondering who are these kids sitting on the bench with clipboards and computers? You don't do it for glory."
Jalen Massey served as a 2020-21 student manager for the men's basketball team. Photo courtesy of Jalen Massey
Given how all-consuming Division I basketball life is, it's unsurprising that many managers become close with the players. Massey struck up a tight relationship with forward Isaiah Livers, for instance, because Livers regularly asked for him to rebound. "We just started hanging out a lot off the court; we talk pretty much every day and hang out every day we can," Massey says. He and Colin Anschuetz both have roomed with point guard Eli Brooks, too. Says Anderson: "I consider the players like friends. We're not the help. They're so nice to us."
The pandemic has made the past season uniquely challenging. The programs each had fewer than 10 student managers because Big Ten protocols required a robust, often daily COVID-19 testing routine. On the road, everyone eats their meals in their hotel rooms to avoid exposure, Vargas says. The twin successes of both squads in 2021, then, has made those difficulties feel more worthwhile, they say.
And everyone's got treasured memories. Sawyer was on the bench in 2013 when Trey Burke hit the 30-foot buzzer-beating tie shot against Kansas that kept the team, bound for the finals, alive: "Being on a plane after punching a ticket to the Final Four, in the moment, it didn't really feel real for someone like me who never felt like I'd be part of something like that. I mean, you see it on television and now you're, you're living it. Wow."
Similarly, Kapustka was on the bench when Jordan Poole's buzzer-beater defeated Houston in the 2018 NCAA Tournament, when the team returned to the finals. "One of the other head managers and I were going to run a couple bags down to the bus about three hours before the game, and the hotel lobby was already packed," Kapustka said. "When we went down, the crowd was going crazy, screaming and telling us how much they loved us. We were just a couple of managers bringing a couple of equipment bags down to the bus."
And Lemmer went snorkeling with the team when they flew to the Virgin Islands for a tournament and traveled across France and Italy with the squad for a series of international exhibition games. Even though he didn't pursue a career in sports — he and his sister founded Iorio's, a gelato shop in Ann Arbor, during college that is now a major supplier to restaurants and grocery stores — Lemmer is grateful for the experience. "I loved being in the gym, man," he says. "I mean, how could you turn down having keys to Crisler and hanging around some world-class athletes all day?"
Steve Friess is a Michigan-based freelance journalist and a 2011-12 Knight-Wallace Fellow at U-M.
Winning Season
As this issue of Michigan Alumnus went to press, the U-M men's and women's basketball teams were on their way to the Big Ten Tournament in Indianapolis.
The No. 2-ranked men's team (19-3, 14-3 Big Ten) also clinched the 2020-21 Big Ten Conference championship with its 69-50 victory over archrival Michigan State on March 4 in Crisler Center. The Big Ten regular season title was agreed to be determined by overall winning percentage as many schedules fluctuated due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The regular season crown is the 15th in U-M history and first since the Wolverines won the 2014 title. The title made the Wolverines the No. 1 seed in the Big Ten Tournament for just the second time in program history.
Juwan Howard, '97, won 38 games during his second season as head coach, a record in program history for a second-year head coach.The 12th-ranked women's team, led by head coach Kim Barnes Arico, earned a No. 4 seed in the Big Ten Tournament with a second-round bye. The Wolverines started the tournament March 11. The trip to Indianapolis capped a thrilling season (14-4, 9-4 Big Ten), with the team winning its first 10 games in a row.
Both the men and women were expected to be among those headed to the NCAA Tournament, with the women playing in San Antonio, Texas, and the men in Indianapolis.
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An inconvenient truth: left-wing activists are mummy's boys
by Cameron Slater on February 9, 2017 at 3:30pm
I must confess that I'm not surprised with the results of this study, that left-wing activists are live at home snivelling little mummy's boys.
92% of left-wing activists live with their parents and one in three is unemployed, study of Berlin protesters finds .
The vast majority of left-wing protesters arrested on suspicion of politically-fuelled offences in Berlin are young men who live with their parents, a new report found.
The figures, which were published in daily newspaper Bild revealed that 873 suspects were investigated by authorities between 2003 and 2013.
Of these 84 per cent were men, and 72 per cent were aged between 18 and 29. ? Read more »
Tagged: Left Wing
The nightmare of being a Christian in the left supported paradise of Palestine
by SB on December 26, 2016 at 1:00pm
The lefties say they are all about women's rights, gay rights and religious freedom but they hate Israel which is the only country in the Middle East that has all three. Palestine, the poster child for every leftist's?cause de jour, on the other hand, is revealed in an interview to be persecuting and?subjugating Christians and stealing their land!
Without question, Samir Qumsieh is one of the most courageous Christian leaders in the Middle East. Qumsieh is one of the few willing to risk his life to speak out against Muslim persecution of Christians in the Palestinian territories and the Middle East, generally.
For the past four decades, Samir Qumsieh…has fought for the rights of the region's miniscule Palestinian Christian minority. He has even dared to speak out against the subjugation of Christians living under the rule of Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The plight of the Christians living under the Palestinian Authority and Hamas is a subject truly taboo. Yet Qumsieh perseveres ? and pays the price. He regularly receives death threats, and he has been the target of a petrol bomb attack. Muslim extremists have also distributed leaflets in the Bethlehem area condemning him for his outspoken views and activities on behalf of persecuted Christians.
Tagged: campaign of intimidation • Christian emmigration • Christian leader • christians • Hamas • ISIS • Left Wing • Leftists • Muslim Mafia • Obama administration • Palestine • Palestinian Christian minority • President Recep Tayyip Erdogan • radical islam • radical Muslim clerics • religious persecution • religious war • sectarian war • Shia • Subjugation • Sunni • Trump
L is for Lego L is for Liberal
by SB on November 14, 2016 at 10:00am
Lego has stopped advertising with the newspaper the Daily Mail because of a campaign demanding that companies ?'Stop Funding Hate'
Hate in their world view is synonymous with any newspaper that has a conservative bias. One of the headlines from the Daily Mail being used to justify the Hate label is this one.
The Daily Mail front page prompted widespread outrage (Daily Mail)
Tagged: advertising • Brexit • conservative • Daily Mail • demonised • Free Speech • Left Wing • Lego • liberals • right wing • Stop Funding Hate campaign
Whaleoil philosophy 101: cultural and moral relativism
by SB on July 9, 2016 at 9:00am
tolerance-comic
Cultural and moral relativism made simple:
All cultural beliefs are equally valid.
No culture is superior to any other culture when comparing systems of morality, law or politics.
Truth itself is relative, depending on the cultural environment.
As long as we don't "hurt" anyone, anything goes.
A rejection of the idea of universal right and wrong.
The idea of "absolute truth" and God is discarded.
Tagged: cultural relativism • Culture • Left Wing • liberal • logic • moral absolutes • moral relativism • Philosophy • tolerance • Western society
Fascism is only a ban away
by Cameron Slater on June 22, 2016 at 4:00pm
Cultural fascists?are all the rage right now, and almost exclusively on the left. They want dissenting voices shut down, from scientists with hurt feelings to activists demanding presenters on television shows be banned because their views are not the same as the cultural fascists.
Once you start banning the views and speech of those you disagree with then you are only a small step away from real fascism.
A petition to be sent to the Government demanding Mike Hosking be removed from television screens has now clocked up more than?14,000 signatories in just over a week.
Started by lawyer?Dan Wayman?the petition asks that Mike Hosking "be removed from public broadcasting at TVNZ".
Wayman, who describes himself as a New Zealand-enrolled barrister-solicitor who divides his time between New Zealand and Shanghai, where he works at the British Consulate, says he started the petition because he "just felt something needed to be done really".
"[Hosking's]?socially irresponsible comments are damaging to the New Zealand public, and especially as the face of the national broadcaster in the 7pm?timeslot, being a family show, I think it's harmful for the next generation to receive those types of sentiments from Mr Hosking."
Wayman?said?comments made by Hosking over the crowdfunding purchase of the?Awaroa beach?and over the New Zealand flag debate as examples of why the?broadcaster?should?be removed from TVNZ.
More recently Hosking was in the news when a formal complaint was laid against him over?comments he made onSeven Sharp about New Plymouth mayor Andrew Judd's proposal of a Maori ward for local government councils.
"I'd never personally attack him obviously, but he's completely out of touch with middle New Zealand," said Hosking at the time.
Wayman said:?"It's the constant lack of empathy and dismissive comments of New Zealanders struggling, even following stories on?Seven Sharp – he?just does not get it, and I think it's harmful."
Tagged: bans • boycotts • Fascism • Left Wing • Mike Hosking
The demise of Europe's left
by Cameron Slater on April 3, 2016 at 5:00pm
The left-wing is in disarray world-wide.
We are witnessing the demise of the once proud Labour party in New Zealand, and world-wide the left-wing seems in disarray. This is particularly obvious in Europe.
The?Economist examines the demise of the left:
Early in this century you could drive from Inverness in Scotland to Vilnius in Lithuania without crossing a country governed by the right; the same would have been true if you had done the trip by ferry through Scandinavia. Social democrats ran the European Commission and vied for primacy in the European Parliament. But recently their share of the vote in domestic (and Europe-wide) elections has?fallen by a third to lows not seen for 70 years (see chart 1). In the five European Union (EU) states that held national elections last year, social democrats lost power in Denmark, fell to their worst-ever results in Finland, Poland and Spain and came to within a hair?s-breadth of such a nadir in Britain.
Elsewhere, it is true, the centre left is in power: as an unloved and ideologically vague junior party of government in Germany and the Netherlands and at the helm of wobbly coalitions in Sweden, Portugal and Austria, all countries where it was once a natural party of government. In France, President Fran?ois Hollande is plumbing new depths of unpopularity and may not make the run-off in next year?s presidential election. Matteo Renzi, Italy?s dynamic prime minister, is in better shape but his party is still losing support (and possibly, in May, Rome?s mayoralty) to the Five Star Movement (M5S), an anti-establishment party founded by a blogger. Former municipal and regional bastions like London and Amsterdam, Catalonia and Scotland have slipped from the traditional centre left?s grasp.
Where are all the votes going? Many have been hoovered up by populists, typically of the anti-market left in southern Europe and the anti-migrant right in the north. But alternative left parties (feminists, pirates and greens, for example), liberals and the centre-right have also benefited. And so has the Stay On The Sofa party.
Tagged: David Cameron • European Union • Left Wing • Politics • Tony Blair • United Kingdom
Why left-wing critics of Islam are ostracised by Labour in Britain
by SB on February 6, 2016 at 10:30am
Robbie Travers. (Photo: ? Robbie Travers) Travers is a left-wing student of law at Edinburgh University. He is the Executive Director at Agora, a non-partisan think tank for young people and he is also involved with the Human Security Centre, a non-profit foreign policy think tank based in London.
I was challenged the other day on the blog, by a commenter who was critical of an?article ?where I criticised the Left for their silence on Islam. I hope this article will contribute to the discussion, as it shows why people like myself have gained that impression of the Left. It turns out that there actually are some on the Left who would combat Islamism but they are prevented from engaging in an honest dialogue because of the following problems within the Labour/Left-wing movement:
Many share the racism of low expectations.
Many feel that the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Many support movements and?ideology without understanding their beliefs or considering the consequences.
Many feel self-loathing and "white guilt".
Many share a determined belief that an Islamist is just like them and isn't actually motivated by the Koran.
The Labour Party has lost its way and no longer represents the needs and views of the working classes it purports to represent.
It seems to me that the left wing here in New Zealand have a lot in common with the left wing in Britain. Perhaps we need a non-partisan think tank here in New Zealand, where conservative activists like myself can work with left-wing activists. Together we could promote a common cause and engage in an honest dialogue about the incompatibility of Islam with the values of our progressive, democratic society.
Tagged: Britain • Clarion Project • democratic society • Islamism • Jeremy Corbyn • Labour party • Left Wing • progressives • Robbie Travers
The new McCarthyism of the left
by Cameron Slater on January 17, 2016 at 11:30am
Senator?Joe McCarthy caused fear and loathing with his commie witch-hunts. It seems a new McCarthyism has manifested itself, this time led by the left-wing.
They seek to?ban and block any person or group who dares to voice their opinions. We saw an example of that yesterday at The Standard where a university academic, who also blogs at The Standard, essentially called for the censorship of the media from ideas that he doesn't agree with.
Footnote (I?m an academic, I love footnotes!) on a suggestion to the media. Almost everything you publish is a piece in isolation. There is a better way.
Take The Herald for example. You publish Marvelly?s piece on poverty today, just a week after (re)publishing Whyte?s excerable nonsense. If you had any kind of overview / foundation of established fact / ongoing context on the topic of poverty you wouldn?t be publishing such wildly inconsistent pieces (the Whyte article would have been rejected as the nonsense that it was).
Take climate change as another example, no responsible media should be publishing denier nonsense these days.
Now you (the responsible media) might say that you?re offering a range of opinions. But when some opinions are clearly and provably nonsense that excuse is just an abdication of responsibility. It?s laziness, clickbait, and harmful.
I guess I?m asking for context and sanity checking in the media. Fact-based narrative instead of isolated and inconsistent snippets. Harder work, but much better for everyone.
If that isn't a call for politically motivated censorship then I don't know what is. He doesn't want debate and opinions, he's already decided and we shouldn't be seeing anything he disagrees with in print anywhere.
This is the new McCarthyism at work. ? Read more »
Tagged: Adam Perkins • Left Wing • McCarthyism • Politics
A reader emails about the bigotry of the left
by Cameron Slater on November 5, 2013 at 9:30am
A reader responds to my post about the bigotry of the left.
Reading the email from a reader you posted reminded me of someone I follow in the states called?Ben Shapiro.
He?released a book this year called "Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences?Americans"?
He did give a really good talk on how to?effectively?defeat anyone of the left in a debate, and I?believe?it should be mandatory watching for any National MP before they go onto?Campbell?live or any?show hosted by a?left-wing muppet.? Read more »
Tagged: Ben Shapiro • bigots • Labour party • Left Wing
Why we need voter reforms
by Cameron Slater on September 3, 2011 at 9:58am
Cactus Kate has said that the referendum is a crock, instead of selecting voting systems we should be looking at voter qualification. Her belief is that Net taxpayers only should vote, anyone who is a Net Tax-taker should be forced to abstain. We need voter reforms not electoral reforms. Here is why.
Why are left-wing activist groups so keen on registering the poor to vote?
Because they know the poor can be counted on to vote themselves more benefits by electing redistributionist politicians. ?Welfare recipients are particularly open to demagoguery and bribery.
Registering them to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals.? It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the country — which is precisely why?Barack Obama zealously supports registering welfare recipients to vote.
This is exactly the same situation here in NZ. With the Unions, Labour and the Greens actively running voter registration and then cajoling them to vote on election day. It is for precisely the above reasoning.
Is it any surprise then that the unions, Labour and the Greens are therefore devoting much of their campaign energy, money and labour to retaining MMP, the very system that enables non-productive segments of the population to vote themselves an income?
Encouraging those who burden society to participate in elections isn't about helping the poor. ?It's about helping the poor to help themselves to others' money. ?It's about raw so-called social justice. ?It's about moving America ever farther away from the small-government ideals of the Founding Fathers.
Same here. We need to seriously be looking at a system that encourages selfish voting behaviour to the detriment of the economy and the nation.
Tagged: Left Wing • MMP • Poor • poverty • Referendum
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Dinner at Lotus House Women's Shelter
Jacob Katel | May 12, 2009 | 8:22am
It's around 6 p.m. on a Friday at Lotus House Women's Shelter in Overtown and the dinner bell is ringing. Soon about 50 women of all ages, and some of their children, will gather for a healthy and nutritious meal prepared at cost by local catering company Hearts of Palm, formerly The Corner Muse.
Lotus House Women's Shelter is a residential facility and resource center. They house women that are homeless due to poverty, domestic abuse, release from incarceration, and untreated medical or mental illness. The shelter provides them with food, housing, education and access to resources and information that help them break the cycle of homelessness.
AP photographer Lynne Sladky told me about Lotus House after a shoot she did over there and it got me to thinking about shelter food, so I emailed Constance Collins Margulies, who runs the place, and asked her if I could come by and document dinnertime.
Lotus House emphasizes healthy choices and the food served is a reflection of that. Lenora says "I like the salads & the lamb, it's like a wrap that they serve, I also like the bean salad, fruit, yogurt, and the cereal. All the dishes are good."
Here are a couple of shots of babies post-meal basking in the garden:
The food is cooked fresh at the North Miami headquarters of Hearts Of Palm Catering and driven down to the shelter daily by Mark Scharnitz. He owns the company along with partner Manuel Iraola. They used to have a cafe called The Corner Muse where Constance Margulies liked to eat, and that's where the connection was made that led to their catering relationship. "I'm not charging for manpower. It's all about food cost. I piggyback orders I'm doing for other clients and just make extra. It's like, I'm doin the work anyway, so why wouldn't I help out. I believe in karma. What goes around comes around, and we're happy to do it" says Mark.
The daily crew consists of Mark, Chef Sarah Ramos, Sara Leal and her daughter Daniela Leal. Daniela is a 16 year old high school graduate getting ready for college. She says, "I think it's amazing and it's for a noble cause. It feels like you're doing something useful that's gonna affect the lives of others in a positive way, so it's a boost to continue." Her mom agrees and says the food is "Especial, muy especial."
Chef Sarah Ramos is a self made woman. She is a Jersey City transplant who says "Wolfgang Puck's sous chef reached out to me and gave me a passion for food, and this passion for food and helping others equals a very happy life. Sincerely." She came to Miami with nothing and worked her way up in the world.
Hearts of Palm Catering is a close knit and dedicated crew of food service professionals that are happy to put in the extra work necessary to feed the women of Lotus House their three square meals a day.


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Social Butterfly PR is proud to present the release of King of Wall Street by Louise Bay
AN AMBITIOUS BOMBSHELL IS ABOUT TO BRING THE KING OF WALL STREET TO HIS KNEES. I keep my two worlds separate. At work, I'm King of Wall Street. The heaviest hitters in Manhattan come to me to make money. They do whatever I say because I'm always right. I'm shrewd. Exacting. Some say ruthless. At home, I'm a single dad trying to keep his fourteen year old daughter a kid for as long as possible. If my daughter does what I say, somewhere there's a snowball surviving in hell. And nothing I say is ever right. When Harper Jayne starts as a junior researcher at my firm, the barriers between my worlds begin to dissolve. She's the most infuriating woman I've ever worked with. I don't like the way she bends over the photocopier—it makes my mouth water. I hate the way she's so eager to do a good job—it makes my dick twitch. And I can't stand the way she wears her hair up exposing her long neck. It makes me want to strip her naked, bend her over my desk and trail my tongue all over her body. If my two worlds are going to collide, Harper Jayne will have to learn that I don't just rule the boardroom. I'm in charge of the bedroom, too.
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This book is sexy and dominating and for me drool worthy. King of Wall Street has by far been my favorite by Louise Bay. King is on the top of the world with a sassy daughter who loves her dad more than anything. For him his daughter is his world and now that she is getting older he can feel the gray hairs more. As he try's to navigate with his daughter full time, his business is thriving to new heights. But his love life has always taken a back seat yes he has had women in his bed, but nothing serious. Until her Haper Jayne will define everything in his life and turn it upside down. For Harper she is strong willed and won't take crap from anyone especially King. However these two have a love like know other. It's a love/hate that neither can deny. But can these two who both want different things come together? And what about King's daughter can she survive her dad?