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Brendan Rodgers tells Leicester City captain Wes Morgan he still has a 'very important part to play'
Morgan has fallen out of favour in recent weeks
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New Leicester City boss Brendan Rodgers has said captain Wes Morgan still has a big part to play.
Morgan had fallen out of favour in recent weeks under Claude Puel and his contract with City expires at the end of this season.
But with a new manager comes a new ray of hope for every player, and that includes long-serving captain Morgan, who still has a big part to play, especially in the dressing room, according to Rodgers.
"Wes is the club captain. If he doesn't play then of course it'll be someone else," he said.
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"But Wes is a wonderful leader, I had a real long chat with him and he's going to be very, very important for me, even if he's not playing.
"He's at that age, he's 35, where I look to him in training and he's still strong, he's still powerful, he can really be a great leader in the changing room, similar to Scott Brown.
"I always work closely with my captain. It's very important that you're in tune with each other, and then you can work and manage the group."
Rodgers also spoke about how important it is to have experienced players alongside the vast array of youth talent currently in Leicester City's squad.
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And that's where players like Wes Morgan come in particularly handy.
"There's a whole raft of talented young players that we can improve and develop," added the Northern Irishman.
"But what's also important is the experience around that, you have the likes Jonny Evans who is a top-class defender, big experience, Wes Morgan who has been a top leader for the club, and he's still got a very important part to play."
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Who will win tonight's Gonzaga/Pacific college basketball game against the spread?


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William Shatner tries to stop Clearwater man who claims to be his son from changing his last name to Shatner
On Jan. 14, Peter Sloan petitioned the Pinellas County court to have his name legally changed to "Peter Shatner."
Peter Sloan has claimed for decades that William Shatner is his biological dad, but the 87-year-old actor and father of three daughters denies any blood tie.
Still, Sloan is pursuing what he calls his "birth right" — the Shatner name.
On Jan. 14, the longtime Tampa resident now living in Clearwater petitioned the Pinellas County court to have his name legally changed to "Peter Shatner."
One week later, a Miami attorney representing Shatner emailed Sloan a cease-and-desist order, threatening further legal action if he moves forward.
"They are trying to scare me," said Sloan, 62. "It won't work."
Sloan is unsure how Shatner learned of his court attempt to change his name.
"I mentioned it on social media," Sloan said. "Maybe they are watching me."
Shatner and Sloan's mother, the late actress Kathy Burt, worked together in the 1950s on Canadian television. According to Sloan, the two had a one-night stand in early 1956 in Toronto. Sloan was born Dec. 9 of that year, then given up for adoption in New York.
When Sloan and his birth mother reconnected in 1984, she admitted his father could be either Shatner or a second man she only recalls as "Chick," a law student from Montreal.
The affairs, she said, happened as she was mending a broken heart.
She later detailed this in a letter to Sloan that he shared with the Tampa Bay Times. Sloan said his mother privately told him she was more certain the father was Shatner.
In 1984, Hollywood producer E. Arthur Kean, a friend of Sloan's adoptive family, brokered a one-on-one meeting between Sloan and Shatner. Adrea Nairne, Kean's ex-wife, has confirmed that account.
Sloan claims that Shatner then admitted to being his father, but that the man famous for portraying starship Capt. James T. Kirk later said that he would never go public.
Since then, Sloan has repeatedly failed to persuade Shatner to take a DNA test.
And a few years ago, Sloan filed a civil lawsuit contending that Shatner's disavowal has damaged his reputation. That case was dismissed by a court last June.
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Still, Sloan publicly refers to himself as Peter Shatner, owns the web domain petershatner.com and used the name in his self-published memoir The Search. The book details his desire to meet his birth dad.
In Sloan's petition to have his name legally changed to Peter Shatner, he states he is doing so because his biological father is Shatner.
Because that petition was signed under oath, it constitutes perjury, according to the request for a cease-and-desist order by attorney John B. Atkinson. The request notes that Sloan has publicly stated the adoption agency described his biological father as an unnamed "law student."
What's more, the request says, Sloan's defamation lawsuit was dismissed by the U.S. District Court in Tampa on the grounds that "it has never been established" Shatner is the biological father.
"These falsities and failures clearly indicate that the Petition has an ulterior motive or illegal purpose that may invade the property rights of Mr. Shatner and others," Atkinson wrote.
Sloan said he is not seeking money from Shatner and has given up on his dream of having a relationship with the man he says is his biological father.
Rather, he said, the name change is about recognizing his identity.
"I am Peter Shatner," Sloan said. "No one can prove otherwise. If they want to, let's get that DNA test."
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Spike and Buffy - The Story
Buffy Summers had various relationships over the years. Buffy always sought deep, committed relationships rather than casual bonds; unfortunately, she was most often drawn to dangerous or unobtainable men. Can a nice, safe relationship be that intense? In the past, Buffy was romantically linked to sarcastic slacker Oliver Pike , whom she met shortly before discovering her identity as the Slayer. He eventually broke up with Buffy, believing that their relationship put both of them in danger. Throughout her life, Buffy made several attempts at "normal" relationships with high school boys, like Owen Thurman and Scott Hope , with but her status as the Slayer always got in the way. Instead, she found herself drawn to the mysterious Angel, an older man who warned her of impending danger in the early days of their relationship.
Yahoo Answers. When do Buffy and Spike start dating?
Thank You. Report Abuse. Are you sure you want to delete this answer? Yes No. Major spoilers for the rest of the show and Angel Season 5 below: In Season 6 they start having sex but only because Buffy's empty inside and can only feel something by sleeping with Spike, and she's disgusted with herself for it.
She eventually does end things with him, and near the end of the season, Spike's evil side comes out again and he tries and fails to rape her.
Spike is torn, he knows he's still evil, but isn't as evil as he was before he met Buffy. At the end of the season we see him almost die in demons trials so he can be "restored to what he was. He gets his soul. In Season 7 his soul and a few other factors make him insane for a bit, Buffy feels bad fo him. Than as the season goes on she keeps him around as another fighter, but nothing else happens between them.
Near the end of the season after the Scoobies turn against Buffy, Spike is the one who comforts her. After Angel unintentionally revealed he was a vampire, Buffy briefly sought to kill him, but then discovered that he was unique among his kind for possessing a soul.
The unlikely pairing of a vampire and Slayer was often commented on. Angelus tormented Buffy, and although her witch friend Willow Rosenberg was able to restore his soul with magic, Buffy was forced to sacrifice him to stop the world from being drawn into Acathla's dimension. Emotionally destroyed, Buffy left Sunnydale for several months to come to terms with her grief. Shortly after her return, Angel inexplicably reappeared on Earth.
Buffy nursed him back to health and the two had an unstable romance until they were forced to admit the obvious limitations of their relationship. He returned on a number of occasions to help her, and though both eventually tried to move on, they still retained strong love for each other.
Shortly after Riley left, Buffy learned that Spike, a vampire and sometimes-companion, had fallen in love with her. She was disgusted at first, and rejected him completely despite his continued efforts. She grew to trust him when he withstood intense torture at the hands of one of her nemeses in order to protect her younger sister, Dawn Summers. Spike became a loyal member of the Scooby Gang after her sacrifice, and attempted to comfort her following her resurrection.
Buffy, feeling purposeless, then embarked on a destructive sexual relationship with him. Spike, who was desperate to have Buffy even when he knew she was only using him to "feel alive," led her into the darkness because he thought that was what she desired. After a visit from her ex-boyfriend Riley, who had married another woman, Buffy regained much of her self-confidence, and decided to end her relationship with Spike. Although he realized the horror of his actions after Buffy forced him off of her, she still dared him to ask her why she could never love him.
Tortured by his inability to be either a man or a monster, Spike immediately left Sunnydale in order to regain his soul and human conscience. Upon his return, Buffy realized the weight of what he had done for her, and forgave him for what he had done. She welcomed him back into her circle of friends, and defended him to her other companions to show her support and belief in him when he was forced to kill by the First Evil.
Their connected hands burst into flame in one of the shows most iconic romantic images. Before Spike died, Buffy finally told Spike that she loved him. This was the first time she had used the words "I love you" in a romantic sense to anyone since Angel. While Buffy explained to both Angel and Spike on separate occasions that she might have a future with either of them someday, she claimed that she was still growing as a person and needed to figure out who she was before worrying about her love life.
Angel and Spike had been informed that Buffy was dating the Immortal at the time, though in reality, Andrew had lied to them because he had thought it would be funny to play a joke on them, considering their history with the Immortal. Following the destruction of her hometown, Buffy traveled around Europe, where she created her army of newly activated Slayers, the Slayer Organization.
Due to her combat skills, a Slayer named Satsu became her most trusted fighting companion. When Amy Madison cast a True Love spell on Buffy, she was transported to her dreamspacea plane where she was told all of her dreams existed. There, she saw an image of a dream about her past lovers Angel and Spike.
The dream featured both men naked and holding her, wrapped in chains and surrounded by cupids, while Buffy wore a nurse outfit. In order to break the spell she had to be kissed by someone who was in love with her, a task that Satsu completed. Buffy, though, was mostly worried due to her own past relationships, describing that people tended to get hurt.
Once Angel left the series, Spike did really start to dominate as a character. Angel and Buffy would only crossover when it was deemed. "Smashed" is the 9th episode of season 6 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In furious disbelief, Buffy assaults Spike and they battle until Buffy unleashes her desire and kisses him, hurt himself during this episode, while demonstrating how Spike should swing from the chandelier. Willow's dating girls. Angel and Spike had been informed that Buffy was dating the Immortal at the time , .. when Spike told her she should've just been honest with her from the start.
Buffy is commonly identified as heterosexual, due to the majority of her sexual partners and romantic interests being male, as expressed in her fantasy about Spike and Angel surrounded by phallic imagery. He was so inspired by her that he recovered from his state of ensouled depression and moved to Sunnydale to become her ally against evil.
Buffy and Angel met when she was walking in a dark alley. She knocked him to the ground, thinking he was following her. She described him as "dark, gorgeous in an annoying sort of way.
The relationship between Spike and Buffy Summers is oftenly called Spuffy (Sp/ ike and B/uffy) It The two started off as clear enemies, but later had become reluctant allies. How a Major City Would Respond to a Godzilla Attack Fandom. In Season 6 they start having sex but only because Buffy's empty inside and can only feel something by sleeping with Spike, and she's. When the murderous vampire Spike was first introduced in Buffy the Vampire would become her third and final relationship of the series, would be Spike. For Milavec and Kaye, when Buffy desires to date a wholesome .. They have a history that progressed to this point rather than one that starts from it.
When the two kissed for the first time, Buffy was shocked and disgusted to discover that he was, in fact, a vampire. She sought to destroy him despite her intense desire for him, but discovered that he was unique among his kind for possessing a soul. Although they both agreed that a relationship between them could never work, the two of them were unable to stay away from each other, and officially began dating despite their better judgment. Buffy and Angel became increasing intimate and passionate with each.
Angel jumped into a body of water to retrieve Buffy who had been thrown in by a vampire lackey. Sensing their love for each other, the Judge spotted them and Spike attempted to have the Judge kill Buffy by burning out her humanity while Angel watched. The two lovers managed to escape with Buffy weakened after kicking the Judge as his powers could work through contact. Angel admitted that he loved her and cannot pull himself away despite believing he should. As Angelus, he attempted to destroy her life and mental stability, and Buffy struggled to destroy him because physically, he was no different from the man she had fallen in love with.
She was so distraught and heartbroken that she left Sunnydale and her friends for several months, [21] but eventually returned. Though she tried to move on, she continued to have dreams about Angel.
When he unexpectedly returned from the hell dimension, Buffy found and took care of him. They tried to maintain a strictly friendly relationship, but continued to be drawn to each other. Spike, who had recently broken up with Drusillawas able to pick up on this when he visited Sunnydale. He told them that no matter what, they could never be friends, and that they would continue to love each other until it killed them both. Buffy expressed her anger and hurt towards Angel once she arrived, believing him to be tormenting her.
Angel protested and argued that he had never wanted to hurt her, he just wanted to keep her safe. Buffy pointedly reminded him that she not helpless. Buffy declared that they should both stop seeing each other and try to forget what was between them. Her declaration was cut short when a Mohra demon attacked them in the office, barely managing to escape.
Buffy and Angel enter another painful discussion about their relationship, struggling to cope with their hopeless feelings for each other and how being around them only made it worse. They nearly kiss each other only for Buffy to stop it, as it just refreshed more pain by the time they left each other again.
The two then have a discussion over what to do and how to redefine their relationship. Angel remained the logical one and came up with many reasons to not rush into things as it could easily backfire. Buffy was disappointed and hurt by it, but nevertheless agreed. They spend most of the day eating sweets and making love to each other, deeply enjoying the pleasures of being human together.
Buffy would reflect in bed with Angel her happiness, realizing that it was the first time she had ever been able "fall asleep in the arms of a normal boyfriend.
Buffy became defensive and angry, desperately trying to reason to him he was wrong and they could still be happy with each other. However, Angel was firm.
A for only five minutes. Having long-established insecurities over Faith, Buffy was jealous and could not believe he would want to redeem her after everything she had done to both of them. Determined to put her in jail and get revenge, she proceed to furiously lash out at a guilt-stricken Faith. Angel, however, intervened and would not allow her to harm Faith or make her give up hope on herself.
Her jealousy and anger having culminated at that point, Buffy proceeded to punch Angel. Completely on reflex, he had punched her back just as hard, shocking her. Buffy argued fiercely with him, refusing to believe that Faith could be trusted or changed. After she had turned herself in willingly, Buffy told Angel she had been worried over him when she realized Faith was after him, not convincing Angel in the least. Buffy was clearly pained by his harsh tone, seeing it as Angel choosing Faith over her.
Buffy hesitantly left Los Angeles and returned home.
After Angel visited her in her dorm, Buffy was still angry with what he had said to her and quickly expressed it to him. However, complications arose when Riley arrived and insisted he get away from her.
After breaking up yet another fight between Riley and Angel, Buffy allowed Angel to explain himself. When he told her what had happened with Riley and sincerely apologized, Buffy forgave him and was grateful he had come. Buffy confessed to him her feeling of purposelessness and how she doubted her ability to get through it, noting how everyone expected her to be "so strong.
Buffy would impulsively ask if he could stay with her forever, but quickly shook it off and implied her worry of sleeping with him again in her vulnerable state. He apologized for this, but she expressed her immense gratitude for his presence and how it gave her some energy to get through the night. When Buffy made no passionate effort to deny it, Angel immediately displayed jealousy and confusion over her connection with him, persistently probing her of it.
She was greatly irritated of his possessive and childish behavior, increasing more at his dislike of Spike receiving a soul as well. Buffy watched after him somewhat sadly until he was gone. While they continued to be apart, Buffy maintained her feelings for Angel. Angel had been manipulated by both Whistler and a mysterious entity called Twilightwho had convinced Angel that he needed to enforce its plan in order to save the world and ensure that Buffy survive.
Angel, however, could not be killed as a result of the powers granted to him by Twilight. Angel tried desperately to convince her to stay with him in the Twilight paradise, but Buffy refused him, believing that Twilight was only a trap. When Spike reappeared in his ship with a plan to save the world, Angel was visibly jealous, but Buffy told him that jealousy was beneath him, and confessed that she still loved him and wanted to be with him.
Spike, played by James Marsters, is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the . Assuming he was in his early to mid 20s when he was sired, Spike would be in his s during the series. .. song, and Buffy sings "I want the fire back", Buffy and Spike begin a physical relationship, consummated two episodes later.
Buffy managed to convince Angel to undo the damage he had done as Twilight, and reassured him that she was only going to Spike for information and help. She then left with Spike. Later, Angel was possessed by Twilight again, and attempted to kill Spike in rage and fought to protect the Seed of Wonder in the ruins of Sunnydale. Nothing can bring out the ire or praise from a fellow Buffy fan than sharing an opinion on which vampire was best for the slayer. Discussing the merits of Buffy and Angel is minefield for even the most level headed Buffyverse fans.
However, the father of the entire franchise, Joss Whedon has his own very specific opinions. Whedon has gone on record several times explaining that he found Angel incredibly difficult to write. Spike, however, was much easier for Whedon to craft. Whedon felt there was far more between the two character. Though Whedon does admit that Buffy and Angel was his most epic romance. Once Angel left the series, Spike did really start to dominate as a character.
He turned from a recurring side player to series regular. Whether Whedon was right to give Spike so much to do, is a matter of personal taste, but at least Whedon committed. Love or hate them, but Angel and Buffy are constantly at an 11 on a scale of during Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Almost everything is the end of the world, whether in a personal or more literal and global sense. Buffy and Angel have no chill whatsoever.
Buffy, Giles, Spike and Dawn! Vs. Vampires (6x06)
Which is ironic because without warm blood Angel is nothing but chilly. Though the love scenes between Buffy and Angel were intense and steamy at least by late '90s broadcast TV standardsneither actor could take them seriously. Due to the fact that the two were such good friends, the actors were constantly pranking each other when it came time for Buffy and Angel to play tonsil hockey.
Sarah Michelle Gellar explained that she would eat tuna fish and pickles before kissing scenes. The last of which made it into an Angel episode. The whole thing puts all Bangel's angst in another context. Yet his origins were much more ethereal. The idea was even floated that Angel would be an actual Angel. Around the same time that audiences found out about Angel is when the Buffy cast and crew knew what to do about Angel.
An alternate reality where Angel is a literal angel is almost too bizarre to imagine. Sarah Michelle Gellar appeared not once, but twice, during Angel season 1. David Boreanaz returned the favor with two brief Buffy season 4 appearances.
Yet after season 1 of Angel, the crossovers only went one way.
Quick question: What season and ep do Buffy and Spike finally get together?
Angel rarely showed up on Buffyreprising his role for the series finale and one other dramatic moment but Buffy never made her back to Angel. The reason for keeping the two apart was about as boring as it can be imagined-- contract negotiations. For its first five seasons Buffy was on one network, The WB.
In the series finale, Buffy tells spike she loves him. I'm not a fan of Buffy and Spike's non-relationship on season seven, but I do think she loved him. Then they begin their destructive relationship, and she likes being with. It felt to me like a date, even if Buffy didn't realize it was. What do you think? When do you think Buffy started having real feelings for Spike?. Quick question: What season and ep do Buffy and Spike finally get together? with feeling', but their relationship really starts in season 6 episode 8 'smashed'.
When Angel launched as a spin-off during Buffy season 4, it obviously called the same network home. Yet after Buffy season 5, the flagship series moved to new network UPN. Even though Buffy and Angel were still taking place in the same universe, it became a huge headache to negotiate between the rival networks about which actors could appear on what series.
Angel and Buffy would only crossover when it was deemed "necessary. Angel relied on Buffy a little heavily in the early offing. At the end of Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 5, Buffy passes awat. This reunion happens off-camera, on both series.
When do spike and buffy start dating
There were two great loves for Buffy and both were vampires. The debate of who was better for Buffy continues to rage. Even though Buffy inexplicably decided that she was in love with Riley right after they broke up, no one counts Riley as a serious love interest. In the comics, that extended the story of Buffy and Angel outside the TV shows, Buffy has had several serious and meaningful relationships.
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Kickstarting a Cure
Twenty-five million Americans struggle with rare, debilitating diseases. One pioneering doctor is crowdfunding their hope.
Story by Noah Rosenberg · Photo courtesy Tim Barker · 7.18.13
Story by Noah Rosenberg
Photo courtesy Tim Barker
The geneticist called it a one-in-three-billion chance.
Just one. Out of three billion. Take a plane to Asia—absolutely anywhere in Asia—and randomly point to the first person you see. Is it Kim Jong-un, the fade-hairdoed leader of North Korea? Yes? Well, you've just beaten the odds we're talking about here.
But that's all the likelihood it took for Robert Stone—the only never-in-a-million-years, statistical screw-you that Robert's body needed to land him in a wheelchair and cause legions of medical know-it-alls to scratch their heads in wonder for thirteen long and painful years.
The outdoor terrace at the 2012 TED Conference in Long Beach, California, is spilling over with Sauvignon blanc and swagger. The crowd is thick with TED Fellows, the "young world-changers and trailblazers," as the organization calls them, behind geopolitical ventures, like one that creates fuel from Africa's agricultural waste, and highly lucrative ones, like a 3D-printing operation called MakerBot, which fifteen months later would announce a merger worth north of $600 million.
Jimmy Lin appears to float above the crowd, a boyish energy about him, a perpetual smile that just won't go away. And that says a lot, because Lin has seen things. He's studied patients, kids mainly, whose hopeless conditions would make any optimist wince.
Lin, 34, has mid-length black hair that parts just left of center; he wouldn't look out of place in an undergraduate science lab, or waiting in the pizza line at the dining hall. He becomes easily excited and animated, not necessarily qualities one would expect in someone who got his start in cancer research, as the lead computational biologist on a team that pioneered the genetic mapping of the disease in 2006.
"There were many, many inspiring stories of people fighting cancer, for sure," Lin would later say of his time at Johns Hopkins, where he received a dual MD-PhD in 2012. But despite his groundbreaking work, the young researcher had become increasingly haunted by an uncomfortable medical disparity: cancer claims nearly eight million lives a year, and attracts billions in federal research dollars, but multitudes more people—25 million in the U.S. alone, and 300 million globally, by some estimates—suffer from rare diseases or disorders for which there are often no clues, let alone cancer-esque coffers of funding.
The universe of rare diseases is a fascinating and troubling place. It brims with maladies that have names like arthrogryposis, derived from the Greek term for "curving of the joints," and transverse myelitis, which can lead to a sudden loss of spinal cord function. Its patients are comprised almost entirely of children, since, as Lin gravely puts it, most people with such diseases "don't survive to become adults." It's a world in which mothers and fathers blog and pray, long after giving up hope for a diagnosis. You can forget about treatment.
Lin likens these parents to grossly underpaid and disturbingly hands-on Chief Medical Officers. "They're literally on-call 24/7 fighting for their kids' lives," he says. But in an era of medical marvels and untapped scientific talent, Lin saw an opportunity. So in the spring of 2011 he decided to donate his free time to the business of "trying to dissolve rare diseases"—all 7,000 of them.
It's a lonely business, with little in the manner of active research, since only a basketball team's-worth of people on earth might sport the same symptoms. So Lin's volunteer foray from cancer—where his career in academia is still focused—was tantamount to LeBron James's leaving the NBA's twice-reigning Miami Heat to moonlight on the practice squad of a youth team in Burundi: no face-painted fans, no private masseuse, no sports car; just endless work, veiled in obscurity—the windowless-basement type—with rarely a breakthrough in sight.
"If someone else is working on a disease we'll let that person attack it," Lin says. "We literally draw our area where there's no one else."
Jeneva Stone keeps coming back to the video camera analogy. That's the only way she can make sense of what started happening to her baby, Robert, back in 1997, shortly after he was born.
Robert's first birthday, in 1998. (Photo courtesy Jeneva Stone)
"Something would happen," Stone, now 49, recalls, "and it would happen for thirty or sixty seconds, and he would be absolutely fine. And you would think to yourself, 'What did I just see?' Because your brain's not really a video camera, you don't really know how to replay what you saw."
At first, the symptoms were subtle flashes of decreased motor skill, like a spastic smear of food on Robert's cheek just as his spoon hit his mouth. Occasionally, there was nothing to even see—just a thud heard from the other room, an infant suddenly lying on the floor, motionless for a few horrifying seconds, a vacant look on his face, his muscles unnaturally relaxed.
"It was just like he'd been paused on a video, and you hit play, and the video just starts again. And he was fine, and he just started crawling again," Stone says.
The doctors simply chalked it up to colic—a healthy baby boy prone to occasional fits in which he'd grow fussy, start crying and lose his balance.
Stone is a fast talker, but there's a soothing cadence to her voice. She's prone to bursts of laughter, like someone who hasn't been through what she has; like she's merely the matriarch of a typical suburban Maryland family with a devoted husband and two young kids. Maybe she's like this because of the hand she's been dealt, or maybe she's been dealt this hand because of who she is. How else could she cope with the years of tests, the inconclusive results, the accusations that "extreme parental anxiety" had led her to "invent" Robert's symptoms?
At one point, a group of mystified doctors decided that Robert had some sort of genetic disease that would end his life within three years. But Robert kept on living, and by the time the family took him to a neurological specialist at Johns Hopkins, he was experiencing periods of being "locked in" for hours. He had stopped talking and lost most of his motor function. A good day meant that Robert could sit up in bed for a minute or two at a time. The neurologist eventually exhausted all possibilities.
"I don't have anything more to add," he admitted to the family. "You should go see someone else."
There was no one else, no miracle answer—only more doctors, more drugs, more tests.
"My husband and I are both competitive, driven people," Stone says of herself and Robert's father, Roger, who runs his own direct marketing and data company. "We would be consumed with anxiety during tests for these horrible diseases and when they came back negative you'd feel like you won a prize."
Robert Stone's 10th birthday party, in 2007. (Photo courtesy Jeneva Stone)
A writer with a PhD and an MFA, Stone laughs as she recites a line from a blog post she once wrote, a string of words that form the basis of a memoir in progress:
"We are winning! If there are no answers, surely, we must be winning."
Except, there was no prize, no consolation. Every test that came back negative was a relief that Robert didn't have Tay-Sachs or muscular dystrophy, but also a reminder of the family's helplessness.
Robert, now sixteen, has been tube-fed since he was two because he can't swallow food without choking. He's been confined to a wheelchair since the age of four. Through it all, and even when things got really bad, Stone and Roger insisted that Robert was cognizant, that he understood where he was, and who his parents were, and what they were trying to tell him.
"He still seemed like our child," Stone says. "Our kid was in there. The question was, how were we going to get him out?"
Jimmy Lin calls it an "Amazon-slash-Kickstarter for science." The idea is rather simple: a parent or guardian, like Zsuzsanna Darvai, uploads a photo to a dedicated online platform and creates a profile for a very sick child—Darvai's son, Balazs, in her case. She describes his personality and details his mysterious and devastating symptoms, like the Internet-enabled version of a fundraiser printed on the back of a milk carton or taped to the side of a tomato can in a local pizzeria:
"Balazs is a 6 year old, very cute, mischievous little boy. Around the age of 9 months he started to have really bad seizures. His lips turned purple and he was not breathing!…His immune system is compromised, he has low muscle tone, and he is having age-related mental developmental delays…Despite all of his issues he is a smart and happy little boy. All the doctors we have taken him to so far said that his medical condition is a puzzle."
The similarities between old-school fundraising and Lin's two-year-old Rare Genomics Institute (RGI), of which he is founder and president, end there. Parents like Darvai and her husband use the nonprofit RGI's online fundraising platform to raise $7,500—from family, friends, and often strangers—to cover the cost of a medical evaluation, blood test and DNA analysis for each of them and their sick child. (Costs increase to $10,000 in the ideal scenario that a healthy sibling is available to serve as a baseline comparison, or can decrease depending on the equipment used.) Blood is drawn at one of eighteen RGI-affiliated sites across the U.S. or at a facility with which the family has an existing relationship. Over the next few months, a team of analysts at Washington University, where Lin is a research instructor, or a number of other labs across the country, scrutinizes every twist and turn in the family's genetic makeup in hopes of identifying a culprit among the twelve- to fifteen-thousand gene sequences in all human beings—a microscopic abnormality that might announce itself in seizures in a little boy like Balazs, contribute to Robert Stone's frozen-in video effect, or otherwise wreak havoc on the limbs, organs or nervous system as manifested in any of the one hundred patients RGI has worked with so far. Ninety percent of them have been children.
Balazs Darvai (Photo courtesy Zsuzsanna Darvai)
Balazs is now seven years old, but Darvai says he's developmentally closer to two or three. He can count to twenty and he knows the alphabet but it's impossible to engage him in conversation. His seizures are uniquely terrifying, in that he stops breathing when he has them. Balazs has become medication-resistant. He's been subjected to cranial-sacral therapy, hyperbaric chamber therapy, and a medical-encyclopedia's-worth of other therapies that should never be uttered in the context of a seven-year-old kid.
"He's dangerous to himself," Darvai, 44, says, noting that it took little convincing for her to upload Balazs's story to RGI's website in a last-ditch effort to help him. His childhood so far, she laments, "was a nightmare because every minute you never knew when you had to jump. There was always gas in your car because you never knew when you had to run to the emergency room."
The Darvai family lives in Panama City Beach, in northwest Florida. In February, they packed up their car and kids—Balazs has a healthy eight-year-old brother—and traveled to the University of Florida, in Gainesville, to have their blood drawn. Now they must wait—something the family is all too accustomed to—as Washington University's Dr. Todd Druley examines their DNA and attempts to finally form a conclusion.
Druley was a dream recruit for Lin. An assistant professor of pediatrics and genetics, he runs a lab devoted to genomic technology and is a rare breed of medical professional who spans the traditionally disparate arenas of research and patient care. Druley, like Lin and every other researcher on the forty-person RGI team, takes no salary. What little funding they receive comes from small grants and family foundations and is used to supplement patient sequencing and pay for support staff.
Still, Lin contends that despite their rather bootstrapped existence, the technology and equipment that RGI brings to bear on rare genetic diseases is "just as cutting edge as in cancer."
Until recently, genomics, or the study of genes, was seldom utilized in clinical care, largely because of prohibitive costs. But via its unique crowdfunded and crowdsourced operation, RGI ostensibly erases that expense, democratizing the field of highbrow scientific discovery. Of course, $7,500 or even $10,000 is not a massive amount in the medical world, but beyond the initial DNA analysis that RGI offers patients, Lin stresses that the "the main thing" his team provides "is access;" RGI, he says, is able to create research projects "in a small size that would otherwise not exist."
Druley, Lin and their peers see this as a glimpse toward a future that cannot come quickly enough.
The initial medical evaluation, and the following DNA sequencing and analysis by those like Druley, are merely the first steps. Druley says he'll typically identify five to fifteen genes whose unusual changes might potentially be the underlying cause of a patient's adverse symptoms. His findings are then further examined by a team of fifty pro-bono RGI scientists across the globe who aim to develop a diagnosis and secure funding for relevant research on mice and other living organisms.
Jimmy Lin, founder and president of the Rare Genomics Institute. (Photo courtesy Tim Barker)
Lin hopes to eventually integrate a crowd-voting system into RGI's platform, "kind of like Digg," so that medical specialists can "up-vote or down-vote a diagnosis," he says. Such a feature would fundamentally expand the pool of talent from a few dozen volunteer genetic analysts to anyone with a credible point of view. (Lin points to an organization called CrowdMed that offers patients something similar.)
"The biggest thing we talk about with our team is, 'If this was our child who was sick, what extent would we go to to help them?'" Lin says of RGI's efforts. "If this was our kid that was sick, this is exactly what we'd do."
Jeneva Stone was back in New England for her thirtieth high school reunion. She'd just pulled off to the side of the road for ice cream with her daughter, Edith, Robert's sister, when her phone rang.
"I'm sitting there in a car at a Creemee stand in Grand Isle, Vermont," Stone remembers, "and they tell me they've got a finding and they're reasonably sure it's the cause."
Jeneva, Robert, Edith and Roger. (Photo courtesy Jeneva Stone)
By that point, in August 2012, Robert was fifteen years old. The Stone family had been through a decade-and-a-half of hospitalizations. They'd learned to never think more than six months ahead—the future was far too uncertain.
"At some point, you just get tired of being on an emotional roller coaster. And for the first time in my life I was tired," Stone says.
Earlier that year she had agreed to a phone call with a young researcher named Jimmy Lin who thought he might be able to help. Stone heard him out and reluctantly agreed to upload Robert's story to RGI's website. "This will be it," she remembers telling herself. "This will be the last thing I put my family through."
In just eleven days, the Stones raised $7,500 from two hundred people through RGI, including $1,100 from complete strangers, to cover the cost of their blood work and analysis.
And so here sat Stone, months later, her phone pressed tightly to her ear, listening like she'd never listened before, her ice cream melting, her healthy thirteen-year-old daughter by her side; listening to the news that had escaped her and her family since long before "genome-mapping" had entered their lexicon.
For the uninitiated—those who haven't had rare genetic diseases to cope with, or, say, those who slept through middle-school science—a genome is an organism's complete set of DNA, the genetic blueprint for everything it is and does. DNA molecules, of iconic computer screensaver fame, are made of twisting, paired strands called nucleotides—three billion of them. And there was a problem on one of Robert's.
"The geneticist called it a one-in-three-billion chance," Stone says, rattling off a seemingly obscure collection of letters, PRKRA, that represent the defected gene that created a universe of difficulty for the family. Stone learned through RGI's testing that she happens to carry an unexpressed version of the genetic defect. But in a cruel twist of fate, Robert would have been fine had his father's RNA—the sous chef, or personal secretary, to everyone's DNA—not made a transcription error on that very same gene. The result was a mind-numbingly rare disorder called Dystonia 16 that claimed Robert as only the ninth reported case in the world. Talk about Kim Jong-un odds. Of the other eight, one lives in Germany and seven come from the same family in Brazil.
Robert, right, and Edith Stone in 2000. (Photo courtesy Jeneva Stone)
Robert's case is far more severe than the others and there are no proven therapies—only more drugs that may or may not work. Stone, though, says the diagnosis helped to "tweak [Robert's treatment] around the edges" and prove to the local school board that her son had more cognitive functionality than they had previously been willing to admit. "It's a long, slow, detailed and nuanced thing," she says.
For Stone and legions of other parents, like Darvai, hope equals knowledge equals power, which, in the rare-disease business often translates into merely more hope.
"It might be frightening to get an answer," Stone says of genetic testing. "I mean, you get answers you don't want. But I'm happy to have an answer."
Lin, too, knows that RGI offers just another "micro-step" in an agonizing process that might not bear any real improvements by the time Robert or Balazs or other suffering children have left this earth.
"The biggest thing we're developing is hope," he says, which can at times be difficult for an around-the-clock caregiver to accept.
The past few months have been especially challenging for Robert, who battled a series of viral infections last winter and, as a result of his feeding tube, continues to struggle with acid reflux—"our nemesis," as Stone refers to it.
"I go through some periods of intense sadness," she admitted by phone recently, following a prolonged hospital stay for Robert. "But I always return to the feeling that when you look back on all this, there's nothing that I could have changed."
Stone says she could let herself grow depressed over the "bad gene" she handed down to her son. But, ever the pragmatist, she counters, "I could have just as easily given him the good copy."
What about Robert, though? What about the teenage boy whose mother gushes about his bright eyes and "wicked sense of humor?" What about Robert, the "very happy kid," the "very social kid," the kid who will eventually become a man but won't know until he gets there if he'll ever have a shot at feeling normal? What would Robert say about all this?
Robert in Gettysburg, 2009. (Photo courtesy Jeneva Stone)
Stone pauses to ponder an answer, a rare break for a woman who has had none throughout most of her adult life. "You probably can't print this, but he'd probably say, 'Well, this sucks.'" And at that Stone erupts into laughter, because that's how she keeps going, keeps caring, keeps hoping. That's how she keeps living.
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By Steve Lippman | July 11, 2018
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Steve Lippman aka FLIP has directed music short films/videos/documentaries for David Bowie, Laurie Anderson, Dolly Parton, Rosanne Cash, Esperanza Spalding, Jorge Drexler, Joe Henry, Carly Simon, Bette Midler, and more. His work has screened at film festivals worldwide including Cannes, London, Berlin, Tribeca, and Denver. Imagery from his music films has been featured in major concert tours for David Bowie, Rosanne Cash and Dolly Parton. Flip directed Behind the Lid, a feature-length film version of the acclaimed theatrical experience co-created by avant-garde playwright/performer Lee Nagrin and master puppeteer/performer Basil Twist. The film premiered at BAM. He resides in Brooklyn and works globally.
I first met and collaborated with Joe Henry in the autumn of 2003, directing a short experimental film, Tiny Voices, featuring music from his album of the same name and fragments of hard-boiled monologues Joe wrote and spoke. I can admit now that I knew quite little (or maybe just enough) about his work before I travelled from New York to Pasadena, California, to spend the day filming with him in his work studio cottage – a magical place, really – nestled in his backyard. It was not out of laziness or disinterest that I flew semi-blindly; I just wanted surprise. An open field. The spontaneity of imagination in response to whatever I'd encounter.
I have the finished piece to remind me tangibly, but I prefer to survey lingering details and sensations. The sunshine. The sweet smell of blossoms. The wall-size photo image of Richard Pryor that loomed as you entered the cottage, perhaps the only hint of semi-modernity to be found. Time. (We muck with time in the final edit of the film; a trickster's joke.)
Later, there's an outdoor dinner of In-N-Out Burgers at my pleading New Yorker insistence. Joe and his family – his wife Melanie, and children Levon and Lulu – all in attendance. I feel an abundance of generosity and collaboration (the shoot was great) and kindness coming from all directions.
I learn that Levon's favorite movies (then, age 12) are Dr. Strangelove and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. This gave me hope for the future.
I recall all this in contrasting tones of black-and-white Super 8 mm.
In the fall of 2017, I stand talking to Levon about Robert Altman; how he's recently seen McCabe and Mrs. Miller, or was it Thieves Like Us? I ask if he's ever seen Nashville, exclaiming it to be perhaps the greatest American film of the '70s. He answers, "No." My mock indignance gives way to an excitement for him to see it for the first time. Joe and I talk about Bergman and Godard. We're gathered in midtown Manhattan at the Gibson Studios, among the ghosts and bones of its previous tenant, the Hit Factory, to create another short film together. Now, Levon will play alto clarinet – in musical dialogue with his father – as Joe sings from his latest album, Thrum. Watching this unfold, take after take, is unexpectedly moving to me.
In the interim years between these collaborations, Joe has weaved in and out of my life. He became part of the creative team of an ambitious project of mine not yet made, and pointed me toward mutual musical heroes with endorsement and encouragement. We have shared correspondence, if only infrequently, that's been meaningful, inspiring and genuine. The quality counts. We share a deep bond in seeking out artists that have been further down the road than us, and who have much to offer and teach us still. Our tastes don't always converge, but that foundation does.
And though I'm loath to bring social media into the equation, for several years I would read Joe's posts on Facebook as examples of what to aspire to creatively and personally. His gift of communicating educated me, using words with just the right nuance and rhythm, showing me how to have a voice among the clutter. And not be imitative. Even when the subject was dire, I could always find compassion and a solution humming between the lines in his tone and language.
Joe writes far less publicly now. Perhaps the clouds are too dense, and there's too much chaos to sort through to find clarity. I can only speculate and project why. So I mourn the loss of weekly or daily unexpected gifts and lessons – those he didn't know he gave me, until reading this now. But I carry the feeling and examples with me.
So, I've been thinking a lot lately, as fate and circumstance have insisted, about creative process and time and heroes and mentors. Joe is part of it all to me.
It wasn't until I sat down to write this that I realized the joke conceit of Tiny Voices was that all the footage was found in some vault dating back to some unknown time. I deliberately made it incomplete.
And in the mosaic of my memory, I share this detour to long ago: I am probably only five or six years old. My godmother sits with me on the couch, and she puts some classical music on the turntable. I can't recall what piece it was, but remember this vividly; she tells me to close my eyes, and says, "Tell me what you see." I don't remember my answer exactly. Maybe I pictured something like flowers or the sun, but it was the first moment where I conjured visuals to music. It was the first creative impulse I can remember. This was, if not in the official sense, when I became a filmmaker; before I even knew what that meant.
Our new film is Life Saving – the title found, or perhaps conjured, among genuine fragments of the past. The meaning to me has many layers, none of which I'm going to tell you. The use of "found footage" this time around is startlingly real, and certainly no joke. The colors are dented silvers and greys and splashes of darkness.
I have the impulse to say more, but I've learned my lessons well.
I closed my eyes, and this is what I saw.
Now, open.
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There's no better snack than whole foods such as nuts, seeds, and fruit, but a nutritious snack bar can save your life on a crazy busy afternoon. We've all had that day, when lunch is delayed, a phone call ran over or you're stuck in traffic, darn it! You've forgotten to pack a snack and you need to get some calories in quick before you turn into a hungry monster. So you run into the nearest deli and want to grab a healthy snack bar. There are so many bright packages, all professing something – "protein packed," "all natural," "gluten free," "vegan." What the heck do you choose? Which will conquer your hunger for more than 5min and still be healthy for you? The below information will give you tools to use when choosing a bar. Get the hang of using these tools so it becomes easy to make a choice that will keep you healthfully powered and satiated till your next meal.
Overall Ingredients: It should be simple, no more than around 12 ingredients and if you can't pronounce it, or don't know what it is, don't eat it. Watch out for caramel coloring, this is commonly added to "health food" bars. If "natural flavor" appears in the list, there is nothing natural or real about it. Keep it real!
Fiber: Your body doesn't actually digest or absorb fiber. It makes you feel full by slowing down the food traveling through your stomach and intestines. It keeps you satiated! It also helps move the unwanted out of your body, if you know what I mean. Look for bars that contain at least 3grams of fiber.
Protein: It builds your organs, muscles, hair, skin, nails, bones and helps transport electrolytes. It creates the tangible you! Get at least 5 grams. If you're looking for a post-workout protein bar get something with at least 12 grams or more.
Sugar: Most bars are sugar-laden traps that will spike your blood sugar making you feel good for a moment and then crash you out soon after eating. This is especially strenuous on your pancreas and liver. No more than 30% of the total calories should come from sugar. We get a little mathematical here, but once you get the idea you won't need the calculator. Bear with it and take away the generalization. There are 4 calories/gram of sugar, so multiply the grams of sugar x 4, put that number over the total calories then multiply by 100, that's your percentage of calories from sugar. Hang in there! Here's an example: If you have a bar with 200 total calories and 10grams of sugar, 10(4) = 40calories, (40/200)*100=20% of your calories come from sugar. From here you can make generalizations, now you know if your bar has around 200 calories there should be no more than 10grams of sugar, 400 calories should be no more than 20grams of sugar, 100 calories no more than 5 grams of sugar and so on.
Ingredients: If you can't pronounce it don't eat it. NO coloring, keep it real!
Macro Bars – Protein Pleasure. Macro Bars are an excellent product with outstanding ingredients, explore the different options and find what's right for you.
Lara Bar – Uber, Roasted Nut Roll.
Zing Bar – Almond Blueberry.


The e-commerce market in Southeast Asia was worth US$10.9 billion in 2017 and will reach US$88.1 billion by 2025, based on the latest report released by Google and Singapore sovereign fund, Temasek.
Millions of data points were screened daily for the time period of 1st Jan to 30th Jun 2018, also commonly identified as Spring/Summer season for Southeast Asia. Interfaced with Omnilytics data analytics solution, we attribute the measure of bestsellers based on sell-out rate, replenishment rate, discount rate and discount depth on the data collected.
This report analysed data extracted from ten of the largest e-retailers across Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore, namely Zalora, ASOS, H&M, Berrybenka, NEXT, Shein, Forever 21, Topshop, Zara and Fashion Valet, and for key Spring/Summer 2018 categories of Women's Tops, Dresses and Shoes.
The number of SKUs ranged from at least 14,723 SKUs for Fashion Valet to the most at 414,838 SKUs for Zalora.
This season's bestsellers mainly derived from Zalora, ASOS, NEXT and H&M, out of the pool of the top ten largest e-retailers in Southeast Asia, with a combined sell-out rate of 63% on average from the period of 1st Jan to 30th Jun 2018.
Prints – fruit designs were popular, mostly represented in cami tops and dresses, while floral print remained evident.
Smocked tops and maxi dresses – consumers' favourites as these are effortless to style from day to evening, with ruched and button front details.
Sliders and espadrilles – returned to the season this year in a big way, but in a less dramatic interpretation across our Southeast Asia e-retailers, as compared to the glam and embellished versions hyped by the media/influencers.
While the application of seasonal bold colours gained prominence and hype, Black, White and Blue remain a staple favourite, commanding the most width across assortments amongst our ten e-retailers.
The most common discount range identified for the key three categories analysed, namely Women's Tops, Dresses and Shoes, fell in the bracket of 40% – 50%, showing palatable markdown activations, less aggressive than the second half of the year where major discounting would be driven by Black Friday, Cyber Monday or Singles' Day.
Having said that, this Spring/Summer was certainly not short of happenings. In addition to newness launch, a string of key events also took place – special campaigns over Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and International Women's Day, as well as festive promotions over Lunar New Year and EID.
Fast fashion retailers are also known to apply different markdown strategies, across categories. Retailers such as Berrybenka and Forever 21 launched very aggressive markdowns to drive sales with over 60% of SKUs on average 50% off. ASOS also had large numbers of SKUs on discount but at modest 30% – 34% off.
Zalora was championing Tops with the least discounting but more aggressive on Dresses and Shoes. Meanwhile, Fashion Valet had the least number of SKUs on discount, which could signal a successful assortment for the season.
Topshop, Zara, NEXT and ASOS led the Tops category, with replenishment rates 20% higher than average and median prices above the USD 25 mark.
Topshop stood out being one of the top brands that replenished well with low sell-out rate and high median selling price. All the metrics seemed to point out a successful assortment for the season.
FashionValet also performed well, addressing efficiently the dynamic market of Muslimah premium tops.
Berrybenka and Forever 21 fell behind, with the lowest replenishment rate, and low median prices at USD 9 and USD 11 respectively.
No pattern has come to define the Summer of 2018 quite like the fruit prints. Tops in the "happy and fresh" vibes were popular amongst our selected e-retailers, with sell-out rates higher than average. Among all fruits, the pineapple, in particular, was a top favourite : "ASOS Brave Soul Pineapple Shirt" pictured was replenished 22 times in 4 months, in all sizes.
This season, Smocked Tops returned in a big way, after a brief introduction last summer, and are loved by fashionistas all over the globe including Jane Chuck, one of the top social media influencers from Malaysia.
On the retail front, "H&M Smocked Off-The-Shoulder Top" was replenished 16 times since its launch in May. "Zalora Smocked Lace Crop Top" was replenished 8 times in the month of June alone, proving that the style need not be "teenie-weenie" as glorified in the West, to win in Southeast Asia.
Amongst the retailers analysed, Zara's smocked tops were leading, with replenishment rate at 4 percentage points higher than the average of total Tops.
Undeniably, the button-front style was a statement everywhere for the first half of this year. A simple but effective trend, adorning tops, dresses and trousers alike. Oversized and prominent, these buttons were made for bold impact.
ASOS, Zalora and Topshop showcased button front tops as their bestsellers. "ASOS Button Front Sun Top" in White was the crowd's favourite, as it ran out-of-stock and was replenished more than 30 times in just 3 months!
This trend was also versatile as seen across styles, on casual Camis and Cold Shoulders, to smart Boxy Shirts.
On Dresses, it was observed that prices and discounts varied greatly from one retailer to another. Types of material and extent of details applied also impact pricing.
NEXT was the leader in this category, with the median price at above USD 50 and also commanding the highest sell-out and replenishment rates at above 90%.
Topshop and Zara also did well in this category, with healthy levels of sell-out and replenishment, an indication of high efficiency in quick replenishment cycle to avoid missing sales opportunities.
While embroideries are not new, it is definitely here to stay. Analyses demonstrated that embroideries continued well into Spring from last Fall/Holiday, and maintained significant relevance especially in Dresses category approaching the end of Summer 2018.
Famous Russian influencer pictured on the far right, Sonya Esman, flaunted her embroidered dress in the season's key colour "Notice Me Yellow".
Cami style raged the Tops category, and the same winning style was also seen delivered on Dresses this season. The replenishment rate for Cami Dresses was moderately high at above 65% for two-thirds of the retailers analysed.
ASOS saw a rise in sell-out and replenishment rates for dresses in cami strap style. An outstanding winner was "ASOS Tiered Cami Mini Dress", which went out-of-stock at full price three times in 2 months, and was replenished over 10 times.
Floral prints bloomed this Spring/Summer with ditsy, ethereal flowers and tropical accents. Floral dresses represented 17% of Zalora's total dresses assortment which was the highest amongst the selected retailers. The average sell-out rate for the selected retailers reached 65% with most SKUs replenished.
Topshop received positive response to all dresses in floral prints which were replenished numerous times within the timeline. Following closely behind were ASOS, Zalora and NEXT.
While the median price for Shoes is generally higher than most apparel categories, the average sell-out rate for Shoes was 63%, and most of the replenishment rates were above 70% – overall a good performance indicating low resistance to higher prices.
Zara and Fashion Valet found a sweet spot with median prices that respectively enabled them to reach good levels of sell-out rates.
On the contrary, Topshop seemed to perform poorly on Shoes, not enjoying the same successes as its Dresses and Tops categories, with low sell-out rate. This may be due to its high median price at nearing USD 62.
Floral detailing had inspired Shoes this season, as much as it did on Tops and Dresses. The trend was seen translated across various types of shoes, from slip-ons to flats and heels. "Mango Flowered Leather Heels" sold at Zalora was among the bestsellers, that were replenished multiple times since first release.
While appearing intricate, the trend was effortlessly easy to pair with denim for a chic look.
Espadrilles returned to the season this year with more variations and detailing than ever seen before. While in the world of high fashion, these comfy and airy flats came in glam and heavily embellished versions, Southeast Asians preferred it less dramatic with a touch of charm and edginess. Pictured here on the far right, Indonesia's top hijabista influencer, Dian Pelangi, relaxed by the beach in a pair of off-white pointy toed leather espadrilles.
Bestseller, embellished "ASOS Flower Applique Espadrille Sliders" went out of stock at full price 6 times in 2 months with numerous rounds of replenishment. Other bestselling styles are pictured, Zara's metallic trimming and ASOS' denim bow on flatform.
Zara was leading in this category, with near 100% sell-out and replenishment rates and only 4% of SKUs on discount.
While a pair of all-white trainers has been the rage for a few seasons now, it continues to receive strong demand from this part of the globe.
H&M was a winner in white trainers with sell-out rate 5 percentage points higher than average, and backed by replenishment rate of 3 percentage points above average. ASOS followed with Plimsoll Trainers reached a 91.7% replenishment rate, above average.
The white trainers were often paired with dresses or skirts to complete a glam chic look.
Feminine, happy, fuss free – were the vibes of mass fashion e-retailers analysed for this Spring/Summer 2018 in Southeast Asia. It was a culmination of the return of past micro trends such as fruit prints, smocked and button front detailing, with the extension of trends from previous season as seen with embroideries, floral prints and white trainers.
Given new twists, the ten e-retailers analysed have successfully translated these trends into market relevant offering – fruit prints on tees, different floral interpretations across categories, feminine smocks with longer sleeves, light cami tops and dresses, and easy-going espadrilles. These styles typically sold out at full price and were replenished more times than average during the timeline studied.
Having said that, some micro trends have stayed for almost, if not more than, 2 seasons now. Examples of these are floral embroideries, smocked tops and white trainers. Will these trends fade after a gradual decline in the upcoming Fall/Holiday season, or will demand sustain in Southeast Asia given its all-year round tropical weather?
It is crucial for retailers and Southeast Asian brands to keep an eye on trends movement, supported by real time data to monitor impact of sales against the constantly evolving trends. Factual market data will empower commercial decisions and trade activations to be executed in a confident and effective manner.


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DASH stats 2: the difference between Experienced and New tracks
By iain in blog 2014/07/04 1 Comment
After looking at whether there was a cultural gap, I next consider the difference between New and Experienced tracks. Here, I'm only going to look at those puzzles where there was a difference in content.
"First sale", "Advertising", "Viral marketing", and (after compensating for the London difference), "Buyout" will be control puzzles. On these four identical puzzles, Experienced were significantly better players. The gap is least if New scores are increased by 4 or 5 points per puzzle.
Again, I think that a Student t-test is an appropriate method, comparing New to Experienced. My chosen data sets are the raw scores for teams completing each individual puzzle. Teams dropping out part-way through the day will contribute data for puzzles they solved.
"Collecting Ingredients II" involved solving cryptic clues. These cryptics were different between the tracks – New had a word in a sentence; Experienced had a partial anagram. Experienced needed to fully resolve the sudoku, New only needed the middle three letters, but I think that's a marginal difference. The evidence suggests that Experienced teams performed worse than New, and the discrepancy goes away by allowing 2 points to Experienced. Given the advantage of Experienced teams on identical puzzles, we might add 6 to Experienced scores.
In "End of the First Day", Experienced had a longer route to the answer, more letters to decrypt from ternary, and weren't given the partial hint that there was decryption (but didn't need to solve that partial hint). Many sides who got this puzzle got it very quickly (though I've discarded a team credited with the answer in 40 seconds), and it appears New sides were behind by 1 point. However, we might expect New to be further behind on equal puzzles, so add another 3 points to Experienced scores.
For "Practicing the Sales Pitch", New had a much clearer hint that semaphore was involved, *and* a time limit more generous by 10 minutes. Experienced were clearly behind, by about 8 points. For our notional parity, try adding 12 to Experienced scores.
In "Mass Production", there was a small difference – New were explicitly told there's a word chain. Don't think that'll have altered the scores, and this proves to be the case – Experienced were up by 3 points. I can't reject the hypothesis that there was no additional advantage to either track, so no change.
Finally, for "Memoirs", New were told that these were rebuses, and given one of the least obvious initial answers, but penalised with a 10 minute shorter time limit. Experienced appears to have benefitted by about 9 points, so we might deduct 4 from their score.
Solely to compensate for differences in the puzzles, I suggest that New teams might deduct 17 points from their score and compare with Experienced sides. That would put the top New team, Colleen Werthmann, in a tie for 31st place; six New teams crack the overall top 100.
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Nam Myoho Renge Kyo ~ Chant For Happiness: Changing Karma Right Now with TODAY'S Daimoku!
Changing Karma Right Now with TODAY'S Daimoku!
Wow I have had a lot of challenges lately!
I must be changing karma BIG TIME because I'm not giving up, no matter what!
This month marks five years from the time my sweet son Ben first showed signs of the mental illness that would later cause him to take his life at 22 on July 2nd, 2015.
So I'm putting my life to the test. I'm chanting for 50k youth to assemble in America on September 23rd, and I've attached my own goals to this noble goal. I'm already progressing on those goals. More to follow. What can you do to challenge yourself and refresh your practice, while chanting for the youth of the planet? No one can deny we need the youth to become aware of their own incredible potential more than ever!
But I have a question. Do you sometimes chant with all the best intentions while thinking "I don't know why I'm doing this...it's just one more time to chant but I don't feel it, and really, I'm feeling kind of hopeless?"
And the first thing I'll say is "Congratulations for keeping your promise to yourself and showing up to chant. THAT in itself will change your life."
NOW! With THIS Daimoku I am changing my karma.
Now this very Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is THE Nam-myoho-renge-kyo that is changing_____________________________on the inside of my life.
Is the one that does it!
As the wise Kate Randolph would say "Go Deeper in your prayer" and I've chanted to know what she means by that. Just this week I've had so many challenges I didn't know where to begin my prayer. So I focused on unfolding the beautiful lotus petals inside my own life...accessing my beautiful Buddha Nature...believing in my Buddha nature...and knowing that, NO MATTER WHAT, my prayer is working!
Whatever you're facing...whatever your karma. Please keep going and don't give up!
Here's to YOU and your happiness and success!


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Discovery Chief Executive Officer David Zaslav collected a $42.2 million pay package in 2017, up 13% from a year ago, according to documents filed today with SEC.
Zaslav earned a base salary of $3 million, stock awards valued at nearly $15 million and $15.6 million worth of options. He collected a bonus of more than $8 million and other compensation — such as his personal use of the corporate jet — valued at $505,000.
That's well shy of the $156 million pay package from 2014 that made him one the highest-paid CEOs among American corporations.
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L. P. Perera received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Systems & Controls from the Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA, in 1999 and 2001, and the Ph.D. degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, in 2012, respectively. He has won Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology in 2008 and 2012. Currently, he is a Research Scientist at the Norwegian Marine Technology Research Institute (MARINTEK), Trondheim, Norway and his research interests include Maritime and Offshore Systems, Instrumentation, Intelligent Guidance & Control, Condition Monitoring and Condition based Maintenance, Energy Efficiency, Safety, Risk and Reliability.
He works with the sub project 1 – Fuels : Alternative fuels and technologies to meet IMO Tier III, focus on HFO, MGO and LNG. Various data sets that are collected by vessels with respect to their fuel consumption will be evaluated under this project. That consists of developing data analytics to capture ship performance under full economic conditions, where technical and environmental due diligence of the alternative fuels and abatements technologies will also be investigated.


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