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Randy Scott: Bringing Metcalfe's Law to Genomic Medicine
Each year, the Personalized Medicine Coalition recognizes an individual whose contributions in science, business, and/or policy have helped advance the frontiers of personalized medicine. This year, the Leadership in Personalized Medicine Award was presented to Randy Scott, Ph.D., during the Harvard Personalized Medicine Conference on November 28, 2012 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Receiving the 2012 Leadership in Personalized Medicine Award from the Personalized Medicine Coalition (PMC), Randy Scott reflected on his success as the founder and former CEO of Genomic Health, but also looked ahead to new opportunities with his latest venture, InVitae Corporation.
Scott received the award this week at the 8th Annual Personalized Medicine Conference at Harvard Medical School. "Randy has transformed our understanding of how medicine can be practiced by creating one of the most successful personalized medicine companies to date," stated Brook Byers, a partner with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and a previous honoree. Past winners of the PMC Award include Janet Woodcock (FDA), Elizabeth Nabel (NIH), Ralph Synderman (Chancellor Emeritus, Duke University), and Leroy Hood (Institute for Systems Biology).
After a successful stint at Incyte, Scott founded Genomic Health in 2000 and led the firm for nine years, overseeing the development of the Oncotype Dx gene expression test for breast cancer. He modestly shared the credit with numerous colleagues. "My contribution was I probably did a good job of hiring a lot of people at Genomic Health who are way smarter than I was," he said, naming in particular co-founder Joffre Baker, CMO Steven Shak, and CEO Kim Popovits.
As a graduate student in the early 1980s, Scott said he had been excited about biotech but worried he was too late. "All the exciting genes had been cloned! TPA, Factor VIII, human growth hormone, insulin," he recalled thinking. Today, Scott said, "we're on the precipice of incredible accelerating change in this field… Everything we've experienced to date pales in comparison to what we're going to experience in the next 5-10 years."
But he also shed some personal insight into the launch of his latest venture, InVitae Corporation. He said he is "unabashedly excited" about the future of personalized medicine. "Personalized medicine is really when disease happens to you—your friends or your family. Suddenly it's no longer just an industry we're working in but something so personal, so intense, and so emotional. We should never forget that."
Scott said reading Intel founder Andy Grove's book Only the Paranoid Survive in the mid-90s, during his tenure at Incyte racing to identify human genes, was highly influential. In the book, Grove discussed the impact of Moore's Law on the revolution in computing; Scott saw parallels with the biotech industry. "The way we were sequencing DNA [at the time] was so embarrassingly simple," he said. Just as computing costs were plummeting, Scott reasoned it was inevitable that sequencing costs would also fall.
Perhaps more importantly was the concept of "the network effect." Just as Metcalfe's Law—the community value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of its users—drove change in the computing world, so too will it drive the future of biotechnology.
"Having a really cheap genome sequenced is really not very useful. We still see articles in The New York Times, ten years after the genome project, [saying] 'so what?' At some level, they're horribly wrong, and at some level, they're horribly right. We've not yet seen the network effect or the full implication of Moore's Law."
Scott said the community is still "1-2 years away from the inflection point" where the cost of sequencing reaches the point that will trigger "massive consumer demand." The value of genome sequencing will be most strongly felt in the network effect. "How we connect that genomic information across millions and millions of individuals… Somebody can be sitting at a computer, link into the network, and find how a mutation and how it correlates with their patient and a patient somewhere else in the world."
Scott said he was also a believer in what he called the "Law of Finite Genomes." The human genome is like a complex finite puzzle with about 150,000 pieces (20,000 genes and 100,000 non-coding RNAs). "All common diseases are really rare diseases," Scott said, with cancer a prime example. "Medicine goes from an infinite game to a finite game," he said. By comparing lots of genomic information, we can begin to rule things out.
Patients, Patients, Patients
Scott was inspired to launch Genomic Health when a close friend was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1999. For the first time, Scott was personally struck by the chasm between science/technology and medicine. "We've got to bridge the gap—bring the science into clinical practice," he said.
The focus at Genomic Health, Scott said, was "patients, patients, patients."
"I'm not sure we had a model other than this maniacal focus on patients that wouldn't be denied," he said. If we could really do the science right, the science would sell." Genomic Health spent an enormous effort on clinical studies.
"Clinical data wins over physicians, and it is physicians that win over the payors," Scott said. "The onus is on us as an industry to build the value proposition [for payors]… so physicians have to adopt those products. If physicians adopt, they will drive payers to cover."
Scott left Genomic Health this year to launch InVitae, spurred by the impact of rare genetic diseases affecting members of his family.
In 2000, Scott's nephew had a daughter with galactosemia. Fortunately, the disorder was diagnosed within 48 hours of birth, and her diet could be changed, otherwise there could have been "a dramatically different outcome." In 2005, an adopted nephew collapsed on a tennis court and died from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Advanced screening could have saved his life, but nobody knew any family history of cardiac disease, he said.
Finally, one of his wife's relatives had a young son who developed serious seizures at age 2 years. The infant is developmentally impaired and severely autistic. Earlier this year, Scott revealed that exome sequencing of the child and his parents revealed a single de novo point mutation as the putative cause of the disorder. This is unlikely to provide any tangible medical benefit, but "it gives a clue into potential causes of these disorders," he said.
Ridiculous Goal
Scott said his goal in launching InVitae was to bring the power of genetics into the real world of clinical practice. "We have a ridiculous goal," he said. "We want to aggregate all of the world's genetic tests into a single assay—for less than the cost of a single assay today!"
In other words, InVitae plans to collapse all Mendelian inherited traits into a single assay that can be performed "reproducibly, at high quality and at reasonable cost for the medical system. So instead of going into these diagnostic odysseys… every parent thinking about conceiving a child can know exactly what their carrier status is and what disease risks lie in their family."
The initial assay will essentially be an elaborate gene panel, but Scott's plan is eventually that this will lead into whole-genome sequencing (WGS). Scott believes that "within 10-20 years, everyone in any developed health care system will be able to be provided with a low-cost [WGS] analysis at birth… We'll be talking about managing your genome over the course of your lifetime."
As for the question of how to deal with the plethora of data, "that's Metcalfe's Law, the network effect," said Scott. "Much of the data won't be of value to the patient or physician ordering the test. But collectively, they will be massively valuable to the research community."
We're big fans of "Free the Data!" said Scott. The universe of clinical genetic data "won't be a database held by one company or one academic institution, but you'll see a massive movement over the course of the next decade to make data broadly available within the research community." This will create a huge disruption in medicine, Scott predicted, a shift from phenotypically driven medicine to more of a genotype foundation as sequencing costs fall and the network builds.
"Everything will drive off the genotype and it will move very fast," he said. "This is a given. To me, this is the investment thesis. This will be the place to be, the chance to help people suffering from rare diseases. At the end of the day, every disease is rare."
InVitae is building a strong management team. The company recently merged with Locus Development, a start-up co-founded by Sean George and Michele Cargill, founding scientists at Navigenics. Steve Lincoln and Jill Hagenkord, both formerly with Complete Genomics, also joined the cause this year, as did Reece Hart, former manager of research computing and informatics at Genentech.
– This article was first published at the Bio·IT World website on November 30, 2012.
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Harvard Personalized Medicine Conference Showcases Progress in the Field
Great themes emerged at the Harvard Personalized Medicine Conference last week. This is the third year that I've attended and there's a palpable sense of progress. Examples abound on how precise molecular profiling tools are now being used in clinical practice and the potential going forward is huge.
But this transformation is causing a number of new considerations to come into focus. Working in industry, we have to think about what do these opportunities mean for business? Where can we best add value; what parts of medicine are currently underserved? How can we bring industrial and operational strengths to the emerging new paradigm? And how is the regulatory environment likely to change…for therapies and for diagnostics?
The opportunities and the challenges are breathtaking. Contributors spoke of the opportunity for sequencing data integration into the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and the subsequent effect on medical decision making. And, the emerging Personalized Medicine paradigm should provide opportunity for the sector to make the case of the value of innovation, both clinical and economic. But what will people make of a new generation of EMRs containing contextual individual information across a continuum of patient care…from predisposition, through screening, diagnosis to therapy selection and monitoring.
The audience-sourced data demonstrated how peoples' acceptance of precision medicine has increased over the years in which the conference has been held. And although oncology still dominates, pharma representatives described case studies in cystic fibrosis and cardiology. Those same pharma contributors acknowledged the absolute necessity for powerful diagnostics to complement the delivery of personalized medicine.
On the first day of the conference, I moderated a session entitled: "Business Models for Genetic Information." Thought leaders from Siemens, PerkinElmer and Oracle described their companies' visions for the molecular and digital age.
We had interesting audience feedback. Over 50% of the respondents felt that DNA sequence will become a routine part of an individual's medical record within the next 10 years. Also interesting was the fact that only about 10% felt that availability of science or technology was the biggest obstacle to the adoption of personalized medicine in the clinic.
We discussed how personalized medicine can become mainstream. This isn't about enabling personalized medicine for the few, but using technology and scale to deliver to the many. Doing this right not only will benefit patients, but input at the conference from regulators, drug manufacturers, and payors, told us there are a lot of parties interested in the success of this new paradigm.
Making sense of all this data is a real challenge – how to format; how to integrate? Some contributors spoke of a data-driven industry transformation as has happened in other industries – financial services, retail, and communications. The result has been efficiency and transparency and the appearance of new interested parties – such as those capable of integrating workflow and data.
The need for workflow integration will continue to be important as well. There are many players out there making individual contributions – from platforms, to molecular markers, to infrastructure, ordering, fulfillment, billing, and reimbursement. But who should take on the task of integration – which is surely needed if the benefits and efficiencies of personalized medicine are to be realized?
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Q: Constraints on storyboard not allowing code to run I am creating a quiz app as a school project, but when I am creating the questions there was a problem that occurred. The quiz itself works, but as soon as I added constraints to the buttons on the storyboard, there some issues which occurred, and I want to know if I can get some help? The code is as follows, and is in the language of swift:

class MathsViewController: UIViewController {

    let questions = ["What is the turning point of the graph, y = x^2 + 8x + 6 ?", "What are the x-intercepts of the graph, y = x^2 + 11x + 18 ?", "What is the triganomic ratio used when relating the opposite and adjacent?", "What would be the final form of the equation, 14/x = sin(20) ?", "Which equation, would have the steepest slope?", "If we added every positive whole number, what would the solution be?", "Which of the following is the fibonacci sequnce?", "What are the first 10 digits of pi?", "What is the probability of getting a 6 in all your rolls, when rolling a dice 3 times?", "If the hypostenuse of a triangle is 26cm, and a side edge is of 10cm long. What is the length of the other side?"]

    let answers = [["(-4, -10)", "(0,0)", "(-6, -1)"], ["x = -2 or x = -9", "x = 18 or x = 11", "x = 9 or x = 2"], ["tan", "cos", "sin"], ["x = 14/sin(20)", "x = 14sin^-1/20", "x = sin^-1(20)"], ["y = 5x+2", "y = 1/3x+4", "y = x+16"], ["-1/12", "infinity", "0"], ["1,1,2,3,5,8,13", "1,2,3,4,5,6,7", "1,1,2,2,4,8,32"], ["3.1415926535", "3.141533536", "3.1415934435"], ["1/216", "1/36", "1/6"], ["24cm", "28cm", "26cm"]]

    //Variables
    var currentQuestion = 0
    var rightAnswerPlacement = 0
    var points = 0;

    //Label
    @IBOutlet weak var Label: UILabel!

    //Button
    @IBAction func action(_ sender: Any)
    {
        if (sender as AnyObject).tag == Int(rightAnswerPlacement)
        {
            print("RIGHT!")
            points += 1
        }
        else
        {
            print("WRONG!!!")
        }

        if (currentQuestion != questions.count)
        {
            newQuestion()
        }
        else
        {
            performSegue(withIdentifier: "showScore", sender: self)
        }
        print(points)
    }

    override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
        newQuestion()
    }

    //Function that displays new question
    func newQuestion()
    {
        Label.text = questions[currentQuestion]

        rightAnswerPlacement = Int(arc4random_uniform(3)+1)

        //Create Button
        var button:UIButton = UIButton()

        var x = 1

        for i in 1...3
        {
            //Create a button
            button = view.viewWithTag(i) as! UIButton

            if (i == Int(rightAnswerPlacement))
            {
                button.setTitle(answers[currentQuestion][0], for: .normal)
            }
            else
            {
                button.setTitle(answers[currentQuestion][x], for: .normal)
                x = 2
            }
        }
        currentQuestion += 1
    }

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        // Do any additional setup after loading the view.
    }

}

Here are some images of the error message:
The code with the error message
Error Message in the debug area
Furthermore, here are some images of my storyboard to help you visualise:
Quiz interface
Final Screen
The final screen is blank with a single label, this is the screen which comes up after the quiz is complete, I need to code it so the score will replace the label.
Any help is appreciated.
Thank you in advance!

A: Your crash occurs because you are trying to index past the length of your questions array, not because of constraint violations.

A: Index out of range means that you have n elements in an array but you tried to reach the n+1 which doesn't exist. So I'm assuming the problem lays in currentQuestion's index.
If you use array you need to keep in mind that indices in array starts from 0 and ends at n-1, so if you have 3 elements in your questions array, you can access them like questions[0], questions[1], questions[2]. But if you try to access questions[3] you will get such type of error.

A: First understand that this is not a constraint error.
This is an exception caused at run time of your app(run time error).
Suppose, you have 10 questions in your "questions" array. You're checking for condition:-
    if (currentQuestion != questions.count)
    {
        newQuestion()
    }
    else
    {
        performSegue(withIdentifier: "showScore", sender: self)
    }

Here the the iteration will be followed for about 0 to 10th position because the array count you're getting will be 11. But in this case you'll be having no element in the 10th position of your "question" array. So, you have to put condition like this
    if (currentQuestion != (questions.count - 1))
    {
        newQuestion()
    }
    else
    {
        performSegue(withIdentifier: "showScore", sender: self)
    }

This will iterate from 0 to 9th position which is your 10th question in the array.
Please understand what @MohyG is trying to explain you & then proceed with this code.

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Уверенность в себе — свойство личности, ядром которого выступает позитивная оценка индивидом собственных навыков и способностей, как достаточных для достижения значимых для него целей и удовлетворения его потребностей. Уверенность в себе как основу адекватного поведения следует отличать от самоуверенности.

Основой для формирования уверенности в себе служит достаточный поведенческий репертуар, позитивный опыт решения социальных задач и успешного достижения собственных целей (удовлетворения потребностей). Для формирования уверенности в себе важен не столько объективный жизненный успех, социальный статус, деньги и т. п., сколько субъективная позитивная оценка результатов собственных действий и оценки, которые следуют со стороны значимых людей. Позитивные оценки наличия, «качества» и эффективности собственных навыков и способностей определяют социальную смелость в постановке новых целей и определении задач, а также инициативу, с которой человек берётся за их выполнение.

Общая уверенность в себе представляет собой позитивную оценку собственных навыков и способностей и очень близка по смыслу концепту общей самоэффективности Альберта Бандуры.

Социальная смелость является противоположностью социальным страхам и выражается в позитивном эмоциональном фоне, сопровождающем любые, в том числе и новые, социальные контакты. Инициатива в контактах заключается в готовности к такого рода контактам.

По мнению Н. И. Козлова уверенность в себе включает три основные составляющие:
 чувство уверенности (ощущение силы, права и правоты),
 уверенное поведение, демонстрирующее силу и характерное для людей с сильной позицией,
 решительность (уверенное принятие и определённость в решениях, решимость).

См. также
 Локус контроля
 Интроверсия — экстраверсия

Примечание

Литература
 Ромек, В. Что такое уверенное или неуверенное поведение? // Социальная психология личности в вопросах и ответах : учебн. пособие для вузов / под ред. В. А. Лабунской. — М. : Гардарики, 1999. — С. 207—226. — ISBN 5-7975-0123-6.
 Франк, Пьер. Как стать уверенным в себе. Всего 6 минут в день. Книга-тренинг. — М.: Издательство «Э», 2018. — 224 с. — ISBN 978-5-699-86079-1.

Черты личности

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Man denies rape after 10 day bender
Published: 10:11 AM July 24, 2007
A GODMANCHESTER man accused of keeping a woman in house for 10 days admitted punching her but denied carry out a series of serious sexually assaults. Paul Hagan-Chambers, 50, also denied detaining the woman at his address in Tudor Road, saying she was reg
A GODMANCHESTER man accused of keeping a woman in house for 10 days admitted punching her but denied carry out a series of serious sexually assaults.
Paul Hagan-Chambers, 50, also denied detaining the woman at his address in Tudor Road, saying she was regularly left alone in the house with the door unlocked.
Earlier, Peterborough Crown Court had heard the woman claimed to have been held against her will at the address and raped during the period of 10 days in March 2006.
She claimed he became violent when she tried to leave the property, and escaped from his house after dialling 999 while Mr Hagan-Chambers was out at the shops buying cigarettes.
On Friday, Mr Hagan-Chambers told the court he had consensual sex twice with the woman, but had never forced himself on her. He denies four charges of rape and one of sexual assault.
Mr Hagan-Chambers said the period had been "a 10-day bender" which saw the pair drinking bottles of wine and staying in the house.
"I don't think we were completely sober for the whole period," he said.
The woman has denied this, insisting she is not a big drinker.
The defendant went on to say that the woman, with whom he had a brief relationship, had asked to stay at his house after being evicted from her accommodation.
Mr Hagan-Chambers admitted punching the woman in the face, saying he had struck out after the woman jabbed at him with a knife during a row.
The woman, who lived in Hartford at the time of the attacks and cannot be named for legal reasons, sustained serious facial bruising in the incident.
Mr Hagan-Chambers told the court that he had offered the woman an ice pack and asked her if she wanted to go to the police or a doctor, but she declined.
He emphatically denied rape, saying that he was extra careful to check he had consent for sex after the woman had made a previous allegation against him.
He also denied hiding the woman's phone or blocking the doorway so she could not leave, saying she had made several phone calls to friends from his landline. He said there was only one occasion when he had locked the woman in the house, and that was at her request.
Mr Hagan-Chambers also claimed that further bruising to the woman's body might have occurred when she fell over a radiator or the coffee table, but he had not seen it.
He also told the court that he had been out of work due to poor health, and had suffered five heart attacks. He denied that he has a history of self-harm, saying confusion had arisen at the police station after his arrest.
The case continues.

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As China's growing economic clout increases its bargaining power in commodities markets, it will see a parallel increase in its influence over global financial markets, particularly those which trade commodities and currencies. Risk management on the Mainland will improve and become more sophisticated as Mainland financial markets grow and interconnect with financial centres abroad. Hong Kong, with its prime location, financial sophistication and openness to business, will only benefit
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30 runs and 16 pitchers: Yankees-Red Sox slugfest was an insane London introduction for MLB
The Yankees had a 17-6 lead at one point, but the Red Sox put a scare into them in a game that finished 17-13
30 runs and 16 pitchers: Yankees-Red Sox slugfest was an insane London introduction for MLB The Yankees had a 17-6 lead at one point, but the Red Sox put a scare into them in a game that finished 17-13 Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2019/06/29/mlb-london-series-yankees-red-sox-put-historic-slugfest/1607840001/
Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY Published 6:06 p.m. ET June 29, 2019 | Updated 6:17 p.m. ET June 29, 2019
Bob Nightengale of USA TODAY and Pete Caldera of NorthJersey.com discuss the historic Yankees-Red Sox series at London Stadium. Pete Caldera, Staff Writer, @pcaldera
LONDON — Major League Baseball, spending the week desperately trying to promote their game in Europe, certainly came up with a doozy of a plan Saturday by turning a traditional baseball game into a zany free-for-all where everything was distorted beyond imagination.
The New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox have been playing against one another since 1903, and never, ever, have they played a game like this.
By the time it ended, the Yankees survived, 17-13, in the second highest-scoring game between the two teams, and nearly the longest game they have ever played, lasting four hours, 42 minutes.
The Red Sox and Yankees showed this continent that openers don't necessarily have to be relievers, letting every British kid dream that he's talented enough to pitch in the big leagues after watching this travesty, and that they, too, can feel commissioner Rob Manfred's pain on the pace of play.
It was Yankee-Red Sox baseball, Coors Field style.
It was a game that opened with the Yankees and Red Sox scoring six runs apiece in the first inning. It was the first time these two teams have ever scored six runs in the first inning against one another, and the first time since June 23, 1989, that two teams scored at least six runs in the first inning.
It was so insane that before the night was over, they combined for four separate six-run innings.
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Red Sox starter Rick Porcello set the stage by lasting a career-worst one-third of an inning. Yankee starter Masahiro Tanaka survived only an out longer. The first inning lasted 58 minutes, with four different pitchers throwing a total of 92 pitches.
There were only three scoreless innings the entire game – including the eighth and ninth.
It was so gruesome for pitchers that the two teams combined to cough up 23 runs and 27 hits after just 4 ½ innings, including seven doubles and four home runs.
It was baseball, London style.
Still, if the crowd was insulted by the atrocious pitching, the juiced baseballs, or the video game offense, they sure didn't show it.
Maybe it was that they have already been Americanized, doing the wave in the fourth inning with the Yankees leading 14-6, singing "YMCA'', "Sweet Caroline'' and even knowing just how to act during "KissCam.''
Brett Gardner, right, celebrates with teammate Gleyber Torres after a home run. (Photo: Tim Ireland, AP)
The stadium was sold out, but of the 59,659 in attendance, including Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan, estimates were that about 40,000 were Americans. They not only didn't pretend to have British accents, they donned every American sporting clothing from Bryce Harper and Alex Bregman jerseys to a Babe Ruth polo, even a Tom Brady jersey.
The fans, whether they paid 35 pounds on StubHub for obstructed seats at the last minute, or 900 pounds for premier seats, appeared to enjoy themselves.
While players were losing balls in the lights, others ran aimlessly in the vast foul-ball territory, as balls were flying out as if they got mixed up with the ones used at Home Run Derby.
The crowd, cheering virtually for just about everything that happened in the game, saw the ball screaming into the night all game long, speeding past infielders, and outfielders trying to catch their breath trying to keep balls from skipping to the fence.
It was one the greatest offensive shows these two teams have ever produced, and maybe it was just what MLB wanted when they decided to make this foray into Europe, keeping these fans entertained from the first hot dog to the last drop of their pints.
"This is inspiring us to take a trip to New York now to watch baseball there,'' said London native Suze Newton, who took in her first baseball game. "We didn't know what to expect. We didn't know if it would be like cricket or not.
"I just wanted to see what the atmosphere would be like, so now that we see it, it might be rather fun to see it in New York.''
The crowd appeared to be almost evenly mixed with Yankee and Red Sox fans, but it was decidedly American, with many fans either Americans living in Europe, or Americans taking their summer vacation.
"My brother-in-law has been bugging me to come here for five years,'' said Carl Shain, 61, a retired military veteran living in Amelia Island, Fla. "He kept saying that England is a wonderful country, you've got to come. Then, in January, he says, the Yankees are coming.
"I told him, 'We'll be there in June, how's that?'
"So, I come with the wife, and we did all of the touring around the city for her. Now, it's my day at the ballpark.''
And for Americans that live in London, well, it sure was a welcome sight, even getting a special treat at the concession stands.
"Oh, my god, I can't believe it, you know how long I've waited for this,'' said Terry Palmgust, munching on a hot dog.
Palmgust, who grew up in Fargo, Minn., and has spent the past 12 years in London as a school teacher, said she hadn't had a hot dog in years. It was worth the wait.
Her husband Patrick Frank plays in competitive softball leagues in London, and says there is a growing appetite for the sport. His team has just two Americans on it, he said, and the best way to wake up in the morning is to open his computer and see the scores of the MLB games he missed.
He wore his Cubs jersey to Saturday's game and plans to be back next year when the Cubs and Cardinals play in London.
"When I see someone wearing a Cubs cap in the Tube [subway],'' he said, "it's like a moment of recognition. You see more Yankee caps than anything, but I think they just wear the cap because it's so popular.''
Yes, just like Heineken vendor Ko Ahman, who was hawking the beer for 6.50 pounds, and called himself a big Yankees' fan.
Well, one little confession.
He couldn't tell you a single player who played on the team, and never heard of Aaron Judge.
"I don't know anything about them, or anyone," he said, "but I am a fan.''
It was the first time most of British fans had ever seen beer vendors. Drinking is prohibited in the stands at most soccer games.
"You have to stop the hooligans, so they can't sell the beer,'' Palmgust said. "But here, it's such a family-feel here. There's nothing to cause trouble. It's very family friendly.''
Really, the only ones who needed to do some heavy drinking this night were the pitchers, with 16 appearing in the game.
The crowd started to get bored midway through the game with the Yankees leading 17-6 in the fifth inning, with some leaving after seeing Freddie Mercury a mascot race over Winston Churchill, Freddie Mercury, Henry VIII and the Loch Ness Monster.
Yet, just when it seemed long over, the Red Sox put up the last six-spot of the night in the seventh inning, and all bets were off until final out.
The sequel will be at 10 a.m. Sunday, and if possible, we could see even more offense considering both teams have fatigued pitching staffs, and position players oozing with confidence as if they're Hank Aaron.
"I didn't see anyone get mad at all that their team was losing, or even who they were rooting for,'' said beer salesman Nish Matanda. "We know Americans like to have their fun over here. And it sure seemed like they were having their fun.
"So it's like this when they play in the United States, no?''
Well, not exactly.
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The Yankees and Red Sox stand for the national anthem during the MLB London Series game at London Stadium. Justin Setterfield, Getty Images
LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 30: Mookie Betts #50 of the Boston Red Sox looks on during the MLB London Series game between Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees at London Stadium on June 30, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Dan Istitene/Getty Images) ORG XMIT: 775309739 ORIG FILE ID: 1159215384 Dan Istitene, Getty Images
New York Yankees fans before a game. Steven Flynn, USA TODAY Sports
Red Sox shortstop Xander Bogaerts runs the bases after hitting a home run. Steven Flynn, USA TODAY Sports
Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge hits a single in during the fourth inning. Steven Flynn, USA TODAY Sports
A Boston Red Sox fan before Sunday's game. Steven Flynn, Steve Flynn-USA TODAY Sports
Yankees center fielder Aaron Hicks singles during the first inning of Sunday's game. Steven Flynn, USA TODAY Sports
Saturday: General view of the field during the seventh inning of the game between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees at London Stadium. Steven Flynn, USA TODAY Sports
Saturday: Red Sox first baseman Michael Chavis (23) ducks under a pitch close to his head during the seventh inning against the New York Yankees at London Stadium. Steven Flynn, USA TODAY Sports
Saturday: Boston Red Sox first baseman Michael Chavis celebrates his three-run home run against the New York Yankees at London Stadium. Steven Flynn, USA TODAY Sports
Saturday: Yankees left fielder Brett Gardner argues with umpire Ed Hickox after striking out. Steven Flynn, USA TODAY Sports
Saturday: Aaron Judge hits a two-run homer in the fourth inning. Steven Flynn, USA TODAY Sports
Saturday: Boston's Brock Holt connects on a single. Steven Flynn, USA TODAY Sports
Saturday: Didi Gregorius celebrates in the dugout after scoring in the first inning. Steven Flynn, USA TODAY Sports
Saturday: Boston's Michael Chavis rounds the bases after hitting a home run in the first inning. Steven Flynn, USA TODAY Sports
Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees players line up as flags are unfurled before Saaturday's game. Tim Ireland, AP
Meghan hugs Red Sox outfielder Mookie Betts. WPA Pool, Getty Images
Harry and Meghan walk off the field after the first pitch at London Stadium. Tim Ireland, AP
Yankees manager Aaron Boone gives a baby gift to Prince Harry and Meghan in the Yankees clubhouse at London Stadium. Peter Nicholls, AFP/Getty Images
Prince Harry and Meghan pose with Red Sox players in the clubhouse at London Stadium. WPA Pool, Getty Images
Fans wait in line outside the stadium before Saturday's game. Steven Flynn, USA TODAY Sports
A view of the roof at London Stadium before Saturday's game. Steven Flynn, USA TODAY Sports
Fans pose outside the stadium before Saturday's game. Steven Flynn, Steve Flynn-USA TODAY Sports
A fan makes a diving catch in the fan zone before Saturday's game. Steven Flynn, USA TODAY Sports
Aaron Judge takes batting practice on Friday. Peter Summers, Getty Images
England soccer player Raheem Sterling poses with baseball fans during the Red Sox batting practice on Friday. Frank Augstein, AP
The Yankees pose for a team picture. Tim Ireland, AP
Fans cheers the Red Sox during batting practice. Tim Ireland, AP
The Red Sox pose for a team picture. Tim Ireland, AP
Members of the Yankees warm up before batting practice on Friday. Frank Augstein, AP
Red Sox outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr. talks after batting practice. Tim Ireland, AP
General view of the London Stadium scoreboard. Peter Summers, Getty Images
Soccer star Raheem Sterling talks with CC Sabathia. Dan Istitene, Getty Images
Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka answers questions from the media. Dan Istitene, Getty Images
Mookie Betts talks with the media during a press conference. Dan Istitene, Getty Images
Red Sox players take part in a team workout. Dan Istitene, Getty Images
A general view of the stadium signage. Dan Istitene, Getty Images
View at the pitch during an unveiling of the London Stadium. Frank Augstein, AP
General view of the pitch at London Stadium. Frank Augstein, AP
Chef Cristobal Vazquez presents the traditional and available food at the stadium. Frank Augstein, AP
The Red Sox clubhouse Frank Augstein, AP
The Yankees clubhouse. Frank Augstein, AP
The batting cage at London Stadium. Frank Augstein, AP
Former Yankees slugger Hideki Matsui signs a ball for a young fan. Frank Augstein, AP
Former Yankees closer Mariano Rivera signs a ball for a young fan. Frank Augstein, AP
Yankee players speak to young fans during a baseball clinic in London. Frank Augstein, AP
Young fans queue as Yankees manager Aaron Boone points during a baseball clinic in London. Frank Augstein, AP
Nick Swisher, right, Alex Rodriguez and Carlos Beltran, left, chat during a baseball clinic in London. Frank Augstein, AP
Former Yankees outfielder Nick Swisher teaches young fans during a baseball clinic in London. Frank Augstein, AP
Former Yankees baseball players, from left wearing white jerseys, are Reggie Jackson, Carlos Beltran, Mariano Rivera, Alex Rodriguez, Andy Pettitte, Hideki Matsui, Nick Swisher and Aaron Boone, along with Yankees principal owner Hal Steinbrenner, right, pose with young players after presenting baseball equipment to the London Mets youth baseball club. Ron Blum, AP
Greg Bird watches a young player during a private baseball clinic in London. Frank Augstein, AP
Former Yankees reliever Mariano Rivera watches players during a private baseball clinic in London Frank Augstein, AP


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Monday, November 18, 2019 by Indian Defence News
New Sri Lanka's President-elect Gotabaya Rajapaksa
Given his polarised mandate, Sri Lanka president-elect may need New Delhi's help in Tamil regions.
For many in South Block, the election in Sri Lanka will bring relations around full circle from five years ago. In October 2014, during Gotabaya Rajapaksa's visit to New Delhi, when he was Defence Secretary to his brother, President Mahinda Rajapaksa, both the Ministry of External Affairs and the National Security Advisor Ajit Doval delivered him a tough message: that the Modi government took a stern view of Sri Lanka allowing Chinese naval warships into Colombo harbour.
The message clearly didn't go down well with Mr. Gotabaya, and a week later, the PLA-Navy's submarine Changzheng-2 and the warship Chang Xing Dao arrived at Colombo on a five-day visit anyway. Sri Lanka insisted it had informed Indian officials about the plan in advance, and that the docking was routine, but the event put the Rajapaksa regime and the Modi government on collision course. Matters came to a head shortly after, when an Indian diplomat based in Colombo was accused of conspiring with the opposition leaders to defeat President Rajapaksa, and subsequently returned to Delhi. In the elections that followed, Mahinda Rajapaksa lost to Maithripala Sirisena, who was warmly welcomed by the Modi government.
A lot has changed between the government and the Rajapaksas since that fraught period five years ago. The Rajapaksas are now back in power, although it is Mr. Gotabaya who is President, not Mr. Mahinda, because of two-term limits on the presidency. For its part, New Delhi has worked on building ties on both sides of the political aisles, and carefully sidestepped situations where it was expected to take sides, including during the short period last year when Mahinda was sworn in as Prime Minister. In September 2018, Mr. Mahinda told The Hindu in an interview during a visit to Delhi that it was "time to move on" from the misunderstandings of the past. Nonetheless, with Mr. Gotabaya now in charge, New Delhi will have several apprehensions.
Past Tensions
While his brother, a life-long politician has been able to make his peace with New Delhi, the question remains about whether Gotabaya, a more stentorian military man, has done the same. Speaking to journalists in 2017, Gothabaya accused the Indian government of having effected "regime change" because it had a "bee in its bonnet" about China. In an interview in 2018, he repeated that charge, and also said that the Indian government had shunned his party, and had refused to engage with the Sri Lankan opposition.
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At a rally last month, Gotabaya said that his government's foreign policy would be "neutral" and stay out of "regional power struggles". However, many worry that a tilt towards China will be inevitable, given the Rajapaksa's past preferences as well as Gotabaya's acrimonious relationship with the United States, which has often raised Gotabaya's role as defence chief during the war against the LTTE in 2009 amidst allegations of human rights violations. Sri Lanka's debt situation will also mean a greater role for China, which is the island's biggest investor and creditor. "Even the Sirisena government was unable to keep Chinese influence at bay, despite some efforts. Under Gotabaya, that influence is expected to be much more evident," says former diplomat in the Indian High Commission in Colombo and now Executive Director of the South Asian Institute of Strategic Affairs (SISA) Prabha Rao.
The most sensitive issue for New Delhi in dealing with Gotabaya will be dealing with the Tamil-speaking areas of Sri Lanka's North and Muslim-dominated East, that Tamil Nadu has the closest links with. Gotabaya, who is unpopular for his role in the war against LTTE in these areas, was defeated in all of the Northern Province's five districts and in three districts in the Eastern Province in Sunday's election. "Given his polarised mandate, Gotabaya should actually want India's friendship in resolving tensions with the North and East region, and India should move in quickly to ensure more development projects in those areas," advised Ms. Rao.
Government officials say that contrary to public perception, however, local diplomats have been meeting with both Mahinda and Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the recent past, and they expect to build on traditional ties between New Delhi and Colombo and bonhomie between Narendra Modi-Gotabaya Rajapaksa. A first step was made with PM Modi's early tweet congratulating President-elect Rajapaksa, and Mr. Rajapaksa's quick reply thanking him, they add.
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Fleet

The fleet of the past
 Giuseppe Rum (2005–2012) hired to Toremar
 Oceania (1998–2004)
 Giglio Espresso II (1988–2000)
 Giglio Espresso (1971–1988)
 Freccia del Giglio (hydrofoil) (1975–1987)
 Gabbiano II
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 Azimut (Fast boat)
 Domizia (Fast boat)
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Porto Santo Stefano↔Isola di Giannutri

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On the night of 13 January 2012 several ships of Maregiglio have occurred among first aid in the evacuation of the Costa Concordia wrecked at Isola del Giglio for the transport of passengers shipwrecked with the mainland.

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Her first novel, Through a Brazen Mirror, was an Ace Fantasy Special. Her second novel, The Porcelain Dove, won the Mythopoeic Award. She entered the world of children's literature with short stories and middle-grade novels Changeling and The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen.The Freedom Maze was honored with both the Norton and the Mythopoeic Awards, and The Evil Wizard Smallbone has appeared on a number of Year's Best lists. She has also written adult Riverside novel The Fall of the Kings in collaboration with Ellen Kushner and participated in the collaborative online serial Whitehall with playwright Liz Duffy Adams. Young Woman in a Garden collects some of the many short stories that have appeared in anthologies and magazines.
Delia has served on the Motherboard of the James Tiptree Jr. Award and is a founding member of the Interstitial Arts Foundation (www.interstitialarts.org). She has served on juries for the Crawford Award for Best First Fantasy Novel, the Tiptree Award, and the World Fantasy Award. In 1989, she was a nominee for the Crawford Award for Best New Writer.
As a freelance editor, Delia has always tried to get more of the kind of fantasy she likes out to readers. She was a contributing editor for Tor Books and has co-edited, with Ellen Kushner and Donald G. Keller, the fantasy anthology The Horns of Elfland, as well as Bordertown punk-elf anthology The Essential Bordertown with Terri Windling, followed by Interficitons: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing with Theodora Goss and Interfictions 2 with Christopher Barzak (SBP, 2009). More recently, she was Exectutive Editor of the arts webzine Interfictions Online. She regularly teaches SF and Fantasy writing at the Odyssey and Clarion fantastic fiction workshops and the Graduate Program in Children's Literature at Hollins University, and has led workshops all over the world.
Delia lives with her wife and fellow author Ellen Kushner in a rambling apartment in New York City with a lot of books and far too many pieces of paper. She is a social rather than a solitary writer and can work anywhere, which is a good thing because she loves to travel, and if she couldn't write on airplanes and in cafès, she'd never get anything done.
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Six reasons to not freak out about the future
The Optimist's Guide to Tomorrow #1
Posted Saturday 28th May 2016 /
Text By Ed Gillespie and Mark Stevenson
We found two experts who, in this three-part series, will break down your deepest, darkest fears.
If, like us, you lose sleep at night worrying about the future, it's worth knowing that some good news lies on the horizon. We found two experts who amid all the doom-and-gloom have found reasons to be optimistic. In this three-part series, they'll break down some of your deepest, darkest fears.
Ed Gillespie and Mark Stevenson are both future 'possiblists', drawn together through their respective work in cultural change, as well as an inspirational and occasionally irascible belief in building a better tomorrow.
In his best-selling book, An Optimist's Tour of the Future, Mark Stevenson goes on a whirlwind journey through the future of technology and meets the futurists, farmers and professional geeks tackling the planet's greatest challenges – from nanotechnology that could spell the end of capitalism, to permaculture systems that suck CO2 out of the sky. Ed Gillespie, meanwhile, is the founder of sustainability agency Futerra and a celebrated 'slow traveller' who criss-crosses the world without getting on a plane, then writes about it.
Together as The Future Men, they've got their sights set firmly forward – and, contrary to popular belief, everything is still to play for on the path to a brighter future.
In this three-part series we set Mark and Ed the challenge of tackling six of our deepest fears and anxieties – about the state of our planet, the plight of mankind and what at times feels like the death of democracy.
1. Will we run out of water?
It's not really about running out of water. We live on a blue planet which has quite a lot of the stuff, although the vast majority of it is rather salty! It's more about where we source it from and how we use it.
Olivier De Schutter, the United Nations' representative on the right to food between 2008-2014, said that family farmers (collectively responsible for fifty-six per cent of global agriculture) could double food production within a decade using low-water, low-fertiliser methods. That's a hell of a statistic, and not one you'll hear the agribusiness lobby quoting often. It's a statistic that could change the world, because it can help save it. We're heading towards 10 billion people by the end of the century and our current system can't hack it. As De Schutter says: "Conventional farming relies on expensive inputs, fuels climate change and is not resilient to climatic shocks. It simply is not the best choice anymore. We won't solve hunger and stop climate change with industrial farming on large plantations. The solution lies in supporting small-scale farmers' knowledge and experimentation, and in raising incomes of smallholders so as to contribute to rural development."
Luckily, water is the ultimate recyclable resource. Fine mesh nets in hot climates can 'harvest' moisture from the air overnight, and personal condensing technologies (like water bottles) fill themselves from ambient water droplets in the atmosphere. Using clean, green renewable energy – which, with the Enernet up and running, we should have an abundance of – we can desalinate sea water. It's a race against time, of course, as we deplete our freshwater at an alarming rate – but it's a race we can win with a little technology and a lot of love for small farmers.
2. Will corporate interests block the rise of renewable energies?
They can try, but they will lose.
The key battleground in every country will be access to energy markets, allowing any generator to buy and sell freely. That battleground has a name: 'the Enernet', essentially a peer-to-peer energy marketplace that already exists in fledgling form in the Netherlands. Called Vandebron, it currently boasts thirty-five small green energy producers selling to 80,000 homes more cheaply than the big utilities. Open Utility is just finishing the first trial of UK Enernet (backed by government grants). The Chinese are investing billions in the idea. US company Geli is building what it calls an 'energy operating system'. It's the next step on a journey that Germany started decades ago, where half of electricity supply companies are owned by local government, communities and small businesses – all of whom are increasingly competing privately owned utilities out of the market, offering cheaper tariffs than the incumbent behemoths.
It's an approach that will become increasingly popular with governments, investors, industry think-tanks and banks. Why? Because cheap energy boosts the economy like nothing else, meaning corporate energy interests in their current form will find themselves flipped – no longer seen as powering growth, but throttling it. Those who don't adapt sharpish will be finished. (Ask yourself why Germany's biggest utility, E.On, is trying to split itself in two and tool up to supply mega-cheap renewables. It gets it.)
What's great about the coming energy market reboot is we don't need to worry about slavishly cutting back fossil fuels, because it creates a system where community green energy can flourish uncontrollably, nudging out its dirtier cousin. (There is a problem with smoothing out the supply that comes with renewables, which generate at the whim of nature, not man. Luckily, battery technologies, on current trends, will solve that problem by 2025.) The end game is that we won't need to use less energy but in fact will have a squanderable abundance of green energy to play with, and that's the foundation of solving a lot of the world's woes.
The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority is claiming their new solar power plant, opening in April 2017 will (at peak times) provide energy at six cents per kilowatt hour, undercutting both coal and gas. It brings an observation by former Saudi Arabian oil minister Sheikh Zaki Yamani into sharp relief: "The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil." In fact, we seem to have already decoupled global emissions and economic growth. Thanks to renewables, world CO2 emission has been flat for the last two years, even as energy consumption has gone up. So the question you need to be asking is what should we do when we have too much energy?
The Future Men are Ed Gillespie, author of Only Planet, and Mark Stevenson, author of An Optimist's Tour of the Future. Along with TV guru Tony Gregory, they are co-founders of Future Team Productions: a creative business dedicated to exciting people about the positive potential of 'What's next?'.
Stay tuned for parts two and three of The Optimist's Guide to Tomorrow.
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For centuries, we as Black women have used our hair not just for simple aesthetics, but as a canvas. Our tresses are arms of creativity and voices for our culture we can use each and every single day.
While the 80's and 90's were definitelyyyyyy heavy creamy crack years, there has been more appreciation for and education on natural hairstyles these days not to mention, more creatives emerging in the space.
One of the most inspiring creatives in natural hair is Susy Oludele or as she goes by on IG, AfricanCreature. Susy's signature, enigmatic styles have graced the tresses of Beyonce (yes, the Lemonade braids), Solange, Justine Skye, and more. Despite the famous clientele, anyone can make an appointment at HairyBySusy.
Susy recently released her first book, Lady, filled with portraits that tell the stories behind her favorite styles. To celebrate the launch of Lady, Susy teamed up with Okay Africa for the Lady Exhibit — an exhibition embracing the strength and beauty of black women and our hair.
To put together the looks in the book, Susy partnered with several creatives who she felt are inspiring Black women within the beauty/lifestyle industries including; Kiitan A., Nneoma, Ronke Raji and Chizi Duru who she also honored during opening night.
Opening night also included a live painting by Ike Slimster, spins from Odalys, dance performances, suya bites and a full-on fashion show with models sporting the latest from Eldior Sodeck. The event kicked off a lady empowerment week with events centered around living your best damn life.
Throughout the week, attendees learned about health and wellness, financial literacy, and even got a hair tutorial from Susy herself. The week capped off with a good ol' paint and sip because drinking with your girls while learning how to a sunset just soothes the soul.
The racial bias in what's considered "professional" at work has been an issue for too got damn long now. Y'all remember a couple years ago when it was discovered a Google search for "unprofessional hairstyles for work," will show numerous photos of Black women sporting naturals like fro's while a search for "professional hairstyles" only showed images of white women?
This is a problem that has suffocated many women of color in the office, making them feel compelled that straight hair is the way to go if they want to be successful.
This association and stigmatization of hairstyles and conduct is just disrespectful to the culture and inspired Susy to create an exhibit to show how multifaceted natural hairstyles are, and how multifaceted we as Black women can be.
Nothing should come between a girl and her swag and you shouldn't have to hold back your creativity to get a bag. Growing up, Susy was teased for rocking braids.
Hairstyles that made her feel good, that reflected her culture and her relationship with her mother was counter-culture to the then-popular straight, permed hairstyles that sometimes were pressured on young girls.
Susy's confidence in her creativity shines through her styles. She truly gets to know everyone who steps into her chair and every hairstyle is a true collaboration.
Susy is notorious for using bright splashes of color in braids and playing with colorways and different braiding patterns to create one-of-a-kind styles.
When speaking at the opening of the Lady Exhibit, Susy stressed the impact creatives have can have on society. There's a power that comes with having a strong influence on others and for Susy, that power should be used to speak up for what's right.
A lot of times traditional Black hairstyles appropriated by white women are considered to be trendy without giving credit to its origins in Black culture, so it's important that we as black women embrace these styles in all aspects of life.
Lady shows various natural hairstyles that are sleek, but daring, hairstyles that push the boundaries of what many consider to be "professional." Braids, twists, locs, styles that play with the complex and simple patterns and show the depths of techniques when it comes to Black hair.
Along with staying true to your creativity, Susy attributes consistency as a strong factor to her success. We all know that being on the come-up as a creative is tough, a lot of times we're balancing multiples jobs, getting no sleep, and not getting paid to do what we love. Being consistent is hard, but it's important to success according to Susy, who's consistency helped her build her empire from being in her apartment to her own storefront.
The Lady Exhibit was a moving event, a room filled with women and men celebrating and embracing so many facets of the special relationship between Black women and our hair.
It was beautiful to see such eccentric expressions of creativity on canvases that aren't always given the platform to do so. Susy Oludele is one hell of an advocate and provider of that platform that is inspiring women on a daily to flaunt their natural self.


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The lens of dance gives you a multifaceted view of the present-day Cuban event. Cuban modern dance, or técnica cubana because it is understood all through Latin the US, is a hugely developed hybrid of ballet, North American smooth dance, Afro-Cuban culture, flamenco and Cuban nightclub cabaret. not like so much dance varieties, técnica used to be created deliberately with executive backing.
From Christopher Columbus to "first anthropologist" Friar Bernardino de Sahagún, 15th- and sixteenth-century explorers, conquistadors, clerics, scientists, and tourists wrote in regards to the "Indian" dances they encountered in the course of the New global. This was once very true of Spanish missionaries who intensively studied and documented local dances in an try to establish and remove the "idolatrous" behaviors of the Aztec, the biggest indigenous empire in Mesoamerica on the time of its eu discovery.
Los angeles danse demeure encore l'une des productions culturelles les plus fortes dans le Pacifique. Loin d'être de simples manifestations folkloriques, les danses océaniennes ont diverses fonctions. Des exemples pris au répertoire kanak pour l. a. Nouvelle-Calédonie, tongien et hawaïen pour l. a. Polynésie, ont été choisis pour illustrer l. a. complexité de ces chorégraphies.
The South China Sea has a wealthy and turbulent heritage. at the present time territorial disputes within the sector - together with China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia - make it in all probability the most harmful issues of clash in Asia and thousands of individuals have crossed its waters looking for more secure seashores.


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Adam Ledford, Matinee
Adam Ledford
September 8 - December 3, 2017
Opening Reception: September 8th, 5 - 9 PM during Art Loop
The exhibition title stems from the 1977 song by the Talking Heads' musician David Byrne, who composed the words, "My building has every convenience... It's gonna make life easy for me... It's gonna be easy to get things done." Inspired, Ledford researched anthropological ceramic traditions used as narratives about culture, individual relationships and activity. His ensembles explore mid-century ideologies of modern conveniences that question women's roles, mass marketing, mass consumption, and the dogmatics of suburbia.
By combining traditional ceramic techniques with the politics of the modern workplace, Ledford underscores the notion that art can be the antidote to social expectations. Ledford's ensembles of familiar domestic spaces, the living room, kitchen, or home media center, offer familiar comfort to the viewer and beg the question "if walls could talk....?"
Ledford received his BFA with honors, Summa Cum Laude, from the Tyler School of Art, and is the Recipient of the prestigious Wingate Fellowship. In addition to the Archie Bray Foundation, Ledford has been an Artist-in-Residence at Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in New Castle, Maine and Guldagergaard International Ceramic Center in Skælskør, Denmark. He has exhibited nationally and internationally including, Denmark, South Korea, Germany, Sweden, Iceland, Italy, and Poland. His work is on display in numerous permanent collections.
Curated by Katy Scarlett
Supported by the Windgate Fellowship Award administered by The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design
E. Avery Draper Gallery


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Burger King launched an April Fool's trailer for a chocolate Whopper featuring a delicious chocolate patty, raspberry syrup as ketchup, white chocolate rings as onions, candied oranges cut into tomatoes and delicious chocolate shavings. The only part of it that looks kind of disgusting is the bun — bread and chocolate? Such a concept is unspeakable!
I mean, Rick and Morty's Schezuan Sauce stunt proved there's nothing really too insane for a fast food company to do. Can we make the chocolate burger a reality so I can eat it once, say, "oh that's gross," and go to sleep? I demand it, people!
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NEW YORK—Madonna says she's happy that Malawi's former vice president is now leading the country.
Joyce Banda became president on April 7 and is the country's first female leader. Former President Bingu wa Mutharika died of a heart attack on April 5.
Madonna adopted two Malawian children and started the charity Raising Malawi in 2006. It assists orphanages and other aid programs in the country.
The singer called Banda "amazing" and said she interviewed the 62-year-old for her 2008 documentary, "I Am Because We Are," about Malawian orphans who lost family members to HIV/AIDS.
"She was really into girls being educated in Africa, which is a good thing," Madonna said in an interview Thursday night. "So I'm glad."
The pop star made the comments at Macy's in New York for the launch of her fragrance, Truth or Dare. She said she's "been trying to develop a fragrance for probably the last 15 years."
"It's never worked out with various companies and different people and trying different fragrances," she said. "They never turned out the way I wanted them to smell."
But Madonna says that was partially due to her expensive taste.
"It's the mass-producing part that always gets tricky because, for some reason, the fragrances that I like tend to be really expensive," the singer said. "One time I created a smell and I was told the amber ... was like a million dollars to ship from India or something."
She said an attempt at making a synthetic version of the fragrance didn't work because it didn't smell as good as she had wanted it to.
But, she says, "Finally, I got a smell I like that I can mass produce. Yay!"
Truth or Dare ranges in price from $39 to $68.
Mesfin Fekadu covers entertainment for The Associated Press. Follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/musicmesfin.


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Julia Morgan was a lifelong trailblazer. She was the first woman admitted to study architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the first licensed to practice architecture in California. Over the first half of the 20th century, she left an indelible mark on the American West. Of her remarkable 700 creations, the most iconic is Hearst Castle. Morgan spent thirty years constructing this opulent estate on the California coast for the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst—forging a lifelong friendship and creative partnership with him.
This compelling biography draws on interviews, letters, and Morgan's diaries, including never-before-seen reflections on faith, art, and her life experiences. Morgan's friendship with Hearst, her passion for California's landscape, her struggles with familial dementia, and her devotion to architecture reveal her to have been a singularly brilliant and determined artist.
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This blog is to highlight the unjust persecution of legitimate non-TV users at the hands of TV Licensing. These people do not require a licence and are entitled to live without the unnecessary stress and inconvenience caused by TV Licensing's correspondence and employees.
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TV Licensing Visiting Officer Strikes Out at Cleveland Householder
A TV Licensing visiting officer struck out at a man outside his home in the sleepy Redcar & Cleveland village of Carlin How..
Details are still a bit patchy on this one, but the video footage speaks for it self. There really is no doubt at all about the TV Licensing man's actions, which we encourage the injured party to report to the police. In our opinion it is a clear cut case of assault.
According to the occupier the visiting officer, who is employed by TV Licensing operations contractor Capita Business Services Ltd, forcefully thrust his hand towards the camera causing it to hit him in the face. This account is corroborated by the video footage. The occupier challenged the visiting officer by saying "You just hit me in the face", to which he replied "I did not hit you in the face. Prove it". As luck would have it, the camera does a pretty good job of documenting the incident.
This incident took place on 8th August 2014.
As the video footage clearly shows the occupier remains civil and polite, up until the point where the TV Licensing man is seen to strike out. We do note that he appears to be of the Freeman on the Land persuasion, but that does not detract from the seriousness of the incident that took place.
It is perfectly legal for anyone to film TV Licensing employees as they operate in a public place and we actively encourage the practice. The TV Licensing Visiting Procedures, a voluminous document that governs the conduct of TV Licensing enquiries, specifically states that visiting officers are not to challenge anyone exercising their legal right to film.
We shall try to add further details to this post as they become known, but please understand that we shall have to be quite circumspect in our commentary on this occasion.
In closing we'll just remind you of a few phrases of TV Licensing self-description from their brand philosophy:
We're polite, respectful and open.
We are not aggressive or threatening.
We take pride in being helpful.
We do not shout.
Seems this particular TV Licensing employee didn't read the memo!
Edit (13/8/14): We now have the identity of the TV Licensing man in question. We won't name him at the moment, but let's just say he's not a stranger.
steven a man said...
i really really really hope the guy that the goon assaulted contacts the police, as the inspector ran from the front of the car to the back to physically assault the guy , its a clear case of at least Assault.
The more of the inspectors that do things like this that end up in court having to answer for there actions the better , and the more that end up in court theres a better chance people will wake up to this bulling and intimidation.
Inbound monitoring.
No doubt their next stop will be to blub to YouTube.
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Visit Length: 24 mins 27 secs
ISP: Capita Business Services
This is utterly shameful. The police need to be involved and Capita need to issue a statement apologising and assuring the public that the thug has been dealt with.
I would like to send this video to the news desks of several newspapers, but I don't know if the victim of the assault would appreciate the publicity.
The relevant people already know Paul, so I wouldn't worry about that.
I think this will end with the goon receiving 'words of advice' from the police. However if he's making a habit of it the outcome might be different.
Obviously the car being filmed was the sore point because the registration number points to a name and address. Wonder if it's worth running the registrations through https://www.vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk/ - unlike MID there don't appear to be any terms and conditions to say you can't. There's an outside chance it might show up vehicles which shouldn't be on the road (eg SORN) or in the Disabled tax class, which should only be being used for the benefit of a disabled person.
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