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Sam Abrams on the Politics of the Professoriate: Half Hour of Heterodoxy #3
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Political scientist Sam Abrams teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. His New York Times piece on the polarization of the New England professoriate garnered national attention. In this episode I talk to him about what inspired his work on the professoriate, and where his current research is taking him.
1:03 What inspired Sam to start researching the professoriate?
3:30 Can you find a centrist or conservative professor in New England?
9:34 Is the think-tank world different and better?
12:05 Grad students considering job opportunities at think tanks vs. universities
13:55 It's a "messy crazy time" in DC, which makes it hard for political research
18:08 Did Norm Ornstein get it right when he traced polarization to Newt Gingrich's tactics as speaker?
22:10 Centrists need to participate at a local level
23:57 Less polarized regions and states, and the universities in those places
27:10 Students are more centrist and more curious than people may assume
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"This research started for two reasons. The first was that when I entered Sarah Lawrence College, I was immediately uncomfortable. I hoped and was excited about joining a community that was deeply engaged in scholarship and took the search for truth very seriously. And by my second day, I realized we were not necessarily looking for truth in the most open-minded sense. People had lenses they brought to the table. This is the faculty, and they expected you to come in with such a lens. I came in without a particularly strong lens. I am an empirical social scientist. I try to operationalize social questions, and answer these questions."
"One of the things that my empirics have shown that while faculty may have taken a hard left, college freshmen haven't. College freshmen are a little left of center, the average American is a little right of center…I would say that many of these students are fairly open minded. Many of them want these ideas. Many of them want to argue with you which is sometimes a lot of work to handle, but also a joy."
You can learn more about Sam Abrams at his faculty page. Sam appeared on an AEI panel on viewpoint diversity earlier this month.
Here are a couple of books mentioned during the interview:
The Gingrich Senator: The Roots of Partisan Warfare in Congress by Sean Theriault
It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the new Politics of Extremism by Thomas E. Mann and Norm Ornstein
And here is Sam's New York Times piece about the New England professoriate.


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Bayern Munich stars Kingsley Coman and Robert Lewandowski have reportedly been involved in a fist fight during the club's training session.
SPORT Bild state that the incident happened today, as both the players came to fist blows during the fight. They had to be separated by their teammates like Niklas Sule, Jerome Boateng and Franck Ribery.
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Edward Cust
Annals of the wars of the eighteenth century: compiled from the most authentic histories of the period, Vol IV, 1783-1795,
Sir Edward Cust, 1862.
pages 314-5
25. MAROON WAR IN JAMAICA To add to the troubles of Great Britain in her colonies at this period, a Maroon rebellion, in which Victor Hugues had probably no part, broke out in the colony of Jamaica. When that colony was conquered from the Spaniards by Oliver Cromwell, the enslaved Africans had retreated to the mountains, insisting that the lands they occupied were their own; they proved a sad thorn in the side of the English from the beginning, and in 1773 [sic] had so increased in numbers that means were taken for their suppression; but these failing, they were left free, with certain privileges, among which was a remarkable stipulation, that they were not to be punished by the judicature of the island, but were to be delivered up to their own people to be tried for any offence or crime. In the month of July, this year, two Maroons detected in a theft, were apprehended, tried by a colonial jury, and sentenced to be flogged; they appealed to the government, but receiving no redress, they sent a written defiance and took up arms. The militia were accordingly called out, but it so happened that at this very juncture the 83rd regiment (almost the only King's troops in the island) had been sent away to St. Domingo. The Governor, Lord Balcarres, with the promptitude and decision of experience, knew that the trade winds must so retard the progress of the transports in which they had sailed, that he might possibly overtake them by sending a fast boat furnished with oars. His Lordship was not mistaken, and it came up with them on the 2nd of August, and diverted their course to Montego Bay, where the soldiers landed on the 4th, under the command of Colonel Fitch; a small detachment of the 62nd regiment had been previously collected, and about 300 mounted dragoons, under Colonels Sandford and Waipole, had been got together in Montego Bay, where Lord Balcarres determined to command the troops in person. The Maroons were staggered at these preparations, and many of the older men surrendered on the 11th to the Governor's mercy; the remainder, however, kept the bush: Colonel Sandford, sent after them with some of the 18th light dragoons, fell into an ambush, and was killed, with several of his officers and men, together with Colonel Guillemon, the Colonel of the militia. One of them, Mr. Barret, was saved by the devotion of his negro follower, who seeing a Maroon taking aim at his master, stepped before him and received the shot, but happily the devoted fellow's wound was not mortal. On the 18th of September, Colonel Fitch was sent against the Maroons with a detachment of the 83rd, but was received by a volley of musketry from the woods, which struck him down to the ground. This unfortunate officer's corpse was found a day or two afterwards with his head separated from his body and entombed in his own bowels! The Colonial Assembly irritated at these misfortunes, resolved to send to Cuba for a hundred of their blood-hounds with some Spanish huntsmen in company to set them on; and Colonel Walpole was now placed in command of the troops. His exertions began soon to be crowned with success before the arrival of the dogs, who nevertheless landed on the 14th of December. The presence of these dreaded animals had a powerful and very salutary effect upon the rebel Maroons, who immediately came to terms, but were so little disposed to fulfil them, that Walpole took the field again, carrying the Spanish dogs in rear of the army The effect was immediate; a supplication for mercy from the Maroons forthwith arrived, and they surrendered on no other condition than a promise of their lives. The Legislature, being at length freed from these terrible enemies, and having them now completely in their power, resolved to ship them off from the island, and they were accordingly sent to Nova Scotia, where steps were taken, at an expense of 25,000l, voted for the purpose, to locate them at Halifax, from whence in 1800 the survivors were removed to Sierra Leone.
the locale of the 2nd Maroon War
NOTE: Sir Edward Cust, 1st Baronet, Knight Commander of Hanover, (17 March 1794 – 14 January 1878) was a British soldier, politician and writer. He was a younger son of the 1st Baron Brownlow and was educated at the Royal Military College. In 1810, he joined the 16th Regiment of Light Dragoons as a cadet and was a captain of the 5th Regiment of Dragoon Guards from 1816 and Major of the 55th Regiment of Foot from 1821.
From 1818, Cust sat in Parliament as MP for Grantham until 1826 and then for Lostwithiel from 1826-32. In 1831, he was awarded the KCH by William IV for his military service, and in 1835 he was appointed as one of the Royal Commissioners for reporting on the plans offered by competitors for rebuilding the Houses of Parliament.
He visited the West Indies in the late 1830s, and in 1839 published Reflection on West Indian affairs, after a recent visit to the colonists, but I have so far been unable to locate a copy.
In 1845, Queen Victoria appointed him Assistant Master of the Ceremonies and was promoted as Master of the Ceremonies in 1847. He wrote several series of popular histories dealing with war and warriors. In 1876, he was made a baronet.


This article appeared in Wildlife Journal in the winter 2000 edition. It received the second place 2001 OWAA Excellence in Craft award in the Conservation/Environment Magazine category.
Every angler and crewman aboard the Wave Runner knew that the fish was huge. As a warning clicker on the massive gold reel began to shriek, a 375-pound giant bluefin tuna stripped off 200-pound-test-line from the reel as if it were dental floss from the reel.
"Fish On!" screamed the captain, yelling to be heard above the ship's droning diesel engines.
Bob Walmsley dove into the fighting chair. By previous agreement, Bob, a 65-year-old law-firm manager from Georgia, would take on the first fish. His brother and fishing partner, Don, would work the chair. Six-foot-seas and the frigid January dawn off the North Carolina Coast offered less than optimal conditions. Nonetheless, the brothers entered the battle with gusto, hoping to capture not just a fish, but a victory for marine science and a bit of their youth as well.
Half a century earlier, Bob and Don had helped their father land a giant bluefin tuna off the coast of New Jersey. At that time, in 1950, it was the largest bluefin tuna ever landed in Jersey waters and the experience had since lured the brothers into a lifetime of big-fish adventures around the world. However, the one fish that had consistently eluded them was the same species that now threatened to rip Bob Walmsley from his deck shoes.
These days, if a person wants to catch a giant bluefin tuna – which can weight 1,500 pounds and swim nearly 40 miles per hour – the best bet is to head, like the Walmsley brothers, to the waters off Morehead City, N.C. During the last five years, offshore anglers and marine biologists alike have been awed by the sheer numbers of giant bluefin spending the winter there, a phenomenon that previously had either gone unnoticed or was nonexistent.


Poets and critics sometimes inhabit the same body. Think Eliot, Pound, Randall Jarrell, Donald Davie, Robert Pinsky, Czesław Miłosz, Zbigniew Herbert or, from these shores, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, Dennis O'Driscoll, David Wheatley, Peter McDonald, Justin Quinn. But poet-critics are an increasingly rare and imperilled breed, and most critical response and reputation-making or -shredding is left to vocational critics, often based in the universities.
In the United States Helen Vendler is a force to be reckoned with. Through her regular appearances in The New York Times Book Review and the New York Review of Books, her editorship of the Harvard Book of Contemporary Poetry (1985) and her many books on the likes of Wallace Stevens, Yeats, Emily Dickinson and Seamus Heaney, she has become, in terms of recognition and influence, the pre-eminent American poetry critic. This is not say that she is universally admired, even – or rather, especially – in the crowded pond of contemporary poetry. But her eminence can hardly be denied and it's partly explained by and coincides with the shrinking prestige of poetry in American culture during her writing career. Attention to the details of lyric poetry, or what Vendler herself calls "aesthetic criticism", is an activity deeply suspect in many universities, wedded as they are to their highly politicised and theoretical discourses. The wider culture too hardly falls over itself to celebrate or evaluate the mysterious arts of the lyric imagination.
"The larger problem for critics, professionally speaking, is that American culture is as yet too young to prize poetry," she writes at the end of her introduction to the present volume. Indeed, not only poetry, she adds, but "any complex form of intellectuality except perhaps science". She takes a sternly high culture stance and lambasts the youth of today for graduating from school "without knowing there ever was an American architect or composer or painter or sculptor or philosopher, and without reading any of the more complex poems by our American authors". This – highly arguable – view of her domestic context might not seem greatly relevant to readers outside the US, but it provides a sense of her own position and priorities, a sense of the critic as arbiter, a mediator of the canon, an explainer of the achievements of accomplishment to the interested, or potentially interested, public.
It's a good description of her own method: enthusiastic, focused on particulars, determined to let the work speak on its own terms.
It is fitting that Stevens should be central to that essay as he is very much the presiding spirit in the book. In one of three essays on his work, Vendler sketches in the so called New Critical or Formalist context that informed her own sensibility: the tradition of Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, IA Richards, William Empsom. "We were said to practice something called 'close reading'", Vendler comments, "a rather absurd term, since what, if anything, would 'far reading' be?" What united those critics was that "their fundamental choice ... was a choice of attention: they chose to give more time to the intrinsic qualities of the work than to its contextual penumbra." Vendler isn't indifferent to the "contextual penumbra": all of these review-essays carefully situate their poets in the wider social and literary frame, as their occasions demanded, but the bulk of the attention is firmly directed to the nuts and bolts, the handling of metaphor, the deployment of line, the close following of impulse and argument.
… Stevens was above all a poet of fertility of verbal invention. His swerves, hypotheses, contradictions, hybridities, cubist multiplicities, accretive elaborations, and symptomatic progressions establish in his poetry a mental landscape anything but bleak, one that matches the distributed richness of the material world with its own unfailing wealth of emotional, intellectual, and linguistic forms.
That description of Stevens might function as a Vendler manifesto for what makes a good poem. There isn't necessarily a Vendler poem, but certain qualities are more likely to be relished than others, and certain poets can be counted on to provide the kind of satisfactions she prizes: Dickinson, Yeats, Stevens, Heaney, James Merrill, Elizabeth Bishop or Jodie Graham, whose work recurs in her criticism in book after book.
Those satisfactions include a sense of dialectic, of the overcoming of obstacles, a developed sense of form – a poetry of mind and body, of apprehending and challenging intelligence, of complex pleasures and high seriousness, a resistance to paraphrase. To be rewarding, a good poem, in Stevens's formulation, "must resist the intelligence almost successfully".
This collection includes reflections on Ashbery, Ginsberg and Langston Hughes, or more recent figures like Mark Ford or Lucy Brock-Broido, but still no one would come here for the latest news on the current directions of contemporary poetry in the English-speaking world. You know, pretty much, what you're getting, and that's no small thing. You get a mind deeply immersed in and deeply engaged with her poets, absolutely attuned to the fine workings of a poem and determined to communicate her findings to the widest possible audience.
Having established a foothold in the academy, two things quickly became clear to her: that she wanted to study and write about poetry and that she wanted to be a critic rather than a scholar. It's an important distinction, seeking above all else to clarify "the imaginative individuality of a poem and to give evidence of its architectural and technical skill".
One of the most interesting essays in this collection is Vendler's piece on Lowell and depression in For the Union Dead (1964), a book written out of "witheredness", as Lowell called it. She reads Lowell's style in the collection, with its odd line-breaks and apparent obstructiveness, as a form of depression: "Lowell's stoppages reflect a mind moving sluggishly to organise its materials, as though it were an effort to find a piece of wit to join subject to object." And tellingly, she isolates "another characteristic of the depressed style: it can imagine no possible future." Life here is all "disjunctive, undependable, and static or unprogressive".
She moves from that collection to Day by Day (1977), taking the short poem "Notice", which "offers Lowell's last word on depression and poetry". The poem dramatises an encounter in an English asylum between the poet as recovering patient and his doctor.
what can I do with then?
What I cannot bear to look at?
Noticing what you can't bear to look is an excellent description of Lowell's grim persistence, as well as of the obdurate, relentless perseverance a life in poetry requires. Part of his uncomfortable gift was his perception, as Vendler puts it, "that something could be done with his stationary, parched and sad moments" and that makes him a powerful and unforgettable "artist of the inner life".
The Dream Songs, flawed as they are, remain infinitely quotable – the witty lament of a singular man with the courage to exhibit himself in shame, indignity, and exuberant speech. Nothing else in Berryman equals them.
To which we might add: nothing much in contemporary poetry equals them either.
The royal roads were cow paths.
lorded it over the hindquarters of cattle.
Tell the truth. Do not be afraid.
It rained when it should have snowed.
and water ran up our sleeves.
to be wet to the skin or longing for snow.
cutting as holly and ice.
If Heaney was the most subtle, apt, and exacting interpreter of events in the North of Ireland, it is not least because he could bring, to the characterising of those turbulent events, a set of powerful traditional resources – classical, Christian, and secular.
I think this overstates the case: it's hard to see Heaney as an "interpreter" of events in Northern Ireland precisely because his natural tendency was to reach for those powerful resources, to dwell in the difficult, troublesome but confirming sentry space, "balanced between destiny and dread".
Other fine essays here include the careful considerations of AR Ammons, (another poet whose reputations dips and rises unpredictably) the "Mozartian" James Merrill, Allen Ginsberg and Charles Wright.
Inevitably, not all the cases she makes for her chosen poets are as convincing as these. John Ashbery features, as he does in her earlier collections.
Ashbury's importance, to my mind, lies in his being the first notable American poet to free himself, stylistically and thematically, from nostalgia for religious, philosophical, and ideological systems.
In a tradition often given, in her own words, to the homiletic, that freedom might well be welcome, but it's hard to escape the feeling that Ashbery has been writing pretty much the same poem with the same interchangeable lines in the same manner for several decades. Jorie Graham, on the other hand, despite the brilliance of her early work, seems almost too willed and philosophically driven, too readily accommodating to the kind of exegesis Vendler excels in. And needless to say there is a vast world of poetry beyond the scope or taste of this assembly of reviews and essays. What it offers, though, is always challenging, and always cogently argued, and you don't have to be swayed by everything in it to relish its intelligent advocacy of the art of poetry and painstaking explorations of the "paths into its inexhaustible precincts".


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Bald eagle spotted near Downtown Portland: Oregon environment roundup
Updated Jan 20, 2015 ; Posted Jan 20, 2015
By Kelly House | The Oregonian/OregonLive
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Mike Vogel snapped this image Sunday of a bald eagle along the Eastbank Esplanade.
(Courtesy of Mike Vogel)
For all of Oregon's abundant wildlife, city-dwellers are still limited to crows, squirrels and the occasional raccoon.
So Portland writer, director and producer Mike Vogel was understandably surprised to stumble across a bald eagle in the middle of the city. Vogel shared an image on Twitter Sunday of the eagle perched atop a tree along the Eastbank Esplanade, just north of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.
An Oregon food equality leader is among ten people under 30 featured in this month's High Country News for their impact on the West. Spencer Masterson, a community resource developer at the Oregon Food Bank, works to bring farmers and consumers (including low-income people) together to raise agricultural awareness. Masterson helped launch the Astoria farmer's market and created community gardens in cottage grove, among other successes.
A team of state agencies charged with applications and permitting for a proposed gold mine in Malheur County will meet Tuesday. Calico Resources, a subsidiary of a Canadian mining company, wants to establish a mine near Vale, where it would use chemicals to extract gold from a butte known as Grassy Mountain. The company says the plan to extract 1,000 tons of ore per day will create 100 jobs. It's not the first time a company has considered mining at Grassy Mountain. A proposal in the 1980s to conduct open-pit mining at the site fell through amid public outcry.
The United States Department of Agriculture has included $9 million for Oregon's sage grouse conservation efforts in a $22 million package of conservation funding for the state. The money comes from a competitive program known as the Regional Conservation Partnership Program, and is matched with $23 million in money from Oregon agencies. The sage grouse money will be used to provide landowners with technical and financial assistance as they enroll in so-called candidate conservation agreements with assurances. The agreements solidify landowners' commitment to protect the grouse. In exchange, landowners who sign agreements are exempt from complying with Endangered Species Act protections if the grouse is listed as endangered.
--Kelly House


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On May 19, 2021, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), chair of the US Senate Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights, held a hearing on hospital consolidation and its impact on hospital prices. Expert testimony indicated that prices have increased. Other members of Congress emphasized the misaligned incentives between private equity's goal of profits and the societal focus on patient care. Against the backdrop of rapid hospital consolidation over the last decade, virtually all studies demonstrate increased prices with no measurable improvement in quality, according to Professor Martin Gaynor. Most hospital markets meet the FTC/DOJ guidelines definition of being highly concentrated and, as a result, are not likely to exhibit competitive levels of prices, quality, or innovation.
Yet, the COVID-19 pandemic is shaping the financial outlooks of large and small hospital systems in a manner that is expected to further fuel this consolidation trend. As reported in May 2020, 20 large hospital systems had received more than $5 billion in federal grants while sitting on more than $100 billion in cash. At the request of Xavier Becerra, the current Secretary of Health and Human Services and California Attorney General at the time, the Petris Center at the University of California, Berkeley conducted a study of provider relief payments to hospitals in California. Findings revealed that, in addition to the vast majority of the funds going to hospital systems with large reserves, the clear exercise of market power by hospitals in raising prices also resulted in higher relief payments. In short, the more consolidated the market, the greater the relief payments received by the hospital (see pg. 13).
Not only did the largest hospitals with the highest reserves receive most of the COVID-19 relief payments, but the pandemic also created financial crises for small providers and placed enormous stress on small and independent medical practices, which is expected to fuel a wave of retirements, sell-offs, and bankruptcies. Between July 2020 and January 2021, there was a 3.1% increase in the rate at which hospitals employ physicians, meaning that hospitals began hoovering up physicians even faster since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether by sale to a large hospital system or closure due to financial distress, it is expected that, going forward, patients and employers will have fewer options for health care outside of large hospital systems.
At that May 19 Senate hearing, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) read from our white paper on private equity, Soaring Private Equity Investment in the Healthcare Sector: Consolidation Accelerated, Competition Undermined, and Patients at Risk, which had been released the previous day. He noted that private equity spending in health care had tripled to $750 million between 2010 and 2020, and expressed great concern over the explosion of private equity investment in health care and its likely impact on consolidation. Furthermore, he pointed out that the structure of the private equity "deal" had shifted the debt of the loans financing the purchases to the acquired health care providers themselves.
"This structure has far-reaching, dramatic, profound consequences for our health care system," he concluded. "Large hospital chains under private equity management have been forced to sell off and close hospitals to meet their debt burden."
Later on in the hearing, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) voiced his own concern about what private equity might mean for health care, making this a bipartisan issue.
"I'm concerned about the possibility that private equity and their intervention here is actually helping drive consolidation in a way that is unhealthy for this industry, and that is particularly harmful for rural communities like many that make up my state," Senator Hawley remarked.
That concern is well-founded. Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, private equity funds are sitting on enormous stores of "dry powder," money they have amassed from investors and are required to spend or return within the next several years. Widespread expectations are that much of that dry powder will be deployed in health care.
As detailed in our report, and as Professor Gaynor noted at the Senate hearing, when private equity operates in industries that are already concentrated and suffering from a lack of competition, it tends to operate as an "anti-maverick." Whereas a maverick company infuses competition in such industries through bold moves designed to shake up the status quo, an anti-maverick is adept at capitalizing on concentration and exploiting the lack of competition to profit at the expense of consumers and patients. Agencies consider "maverick" behavior in merger analysis under the FTC/DOJ guidelines, so why don't they also consider the "anti-maverick" behavior of private equity companies?
Targeted concern and scrutiny from Congress and regulators on this issue is imperative because private equity funds are skilled at evading existing regulations designed to check harmful conduct. The best tool regulators and enforcers have to prevent excessive concentration in markets is the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act. HSR requires companies to report mergers and acquisitions to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Reported mergers and acquisitions cannot be consummated unless and until the FTC or the Antitrust Division at the Department of Justice (DOJ) examines the deal and determines that it will not harm competition. In recent years, the agencies have blocked several hospital acquisitions through the HSR process and have unsuccessfully sought to block others.
As detailed in our recent report, however, private equity funds target deal amounts that fall just below the threshold for HSR reporting and pre-approval. Through a "buy-and-build" approach, private equity funds buy a hospital or hospital chain and then use a series of small acquisitions of competitors and ancillary service providers, each falling below the HSR reporting thresholds, to build the original acquisition target into a powerful market player. As a result, most private equity acquisitions in health care are never reviewed by antitrust regulators and are not assessed by the FTC and DOJ for their impact on competition.
Moreover, these private equity acquisitions are often vertical in nature (a hospital "producer" buying a provider or ancillary services "supplier") or involve cross-market mergers (for example, a hospital in one local market buying another hospital a few towns away). As Professor Leemore Dafny has pointed out, the antitrust agencies historically have not moved to block such deals, despite substantial evidence that suggests both types of transactions can lead to significant increases in prices without commensurate benefits.
This method for building market power has particularly damaging effects in health care because most health care markets are local. Private equity funds can thus acquire considerable market power in local markets without any transactions large enough to trigger HSR reporting or antitrust enforcement.
The local nature of health care markets also means that, when private equity funds gut local hospital systems or health care providers, the patients in the affected region have few good options. The failure of a local hospital or a group of specialists in a region can leave patients without care or force them to travel long distances from where they live and work to get care.
President Biden's recently issued Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy underscores that hospital mergers, particularly in rural areas, can be harmful to patients and urges the FTC and DOJ to review their merger guidelines to guard against such harms. We applaud this initiative and implore the agencies to look not just narrowly at hospital mergers, but more broadly at the multiplicity of deal structures and combinations—including those promoted by private equity–that are fueling high prices and other competition issues in health care.
Private equity–driven hospital and health care provider consolidation not only impacts markets, but also impacts lives. While the immediate crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic is beginning to abate, the threat of pandemic-driven hospital and provider concentration funded by private equity looms. Enforcers and regulators must be on guard and must closely scrutinize these transactions. Immediate action is needed to update guidance and regulations to account for threats to competition and, thus, to patients, from the coming wave of private equity–driven consolidation in health care.
Acknowledgment: We would like to thank Jamie Godwin for his input and Crystal Haryanto for her research and editing. Both are staff at the Petris Center, University of California, Berkeley.
Richard M. Scheffler is a Distinguished Professor of Health Economics and Public Policy at the Graduate School of Public Health and the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Scheffler is the director of The Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare as well as the director of the Global Center for Health Economics and Policy Research. He has been a visiting professor at the London School of Economics, Charles University in Prague, the University of Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, and at Carlos III University of Madrid. He has been a visiting scholar at the World Bank, the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, and the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences and a consultant for the World Bank, the WHO, and the OECD. Dr. Scheffler has been a Fulbright Scholar at Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile in Santiago, Chile, and at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. He also served as the president of the International Health Economists Association 4th Congress in 2004. In 2018, Dr. Scheffler was awarded the Berkeley Citation, among the highest honors the campus bestows on its community, presented on behalf of the Chancellor to individuals whose contributions to UC Berkeley go beyond the call of duty and whose achievements exceed the standards of excellence in their fields. In 2019, Dr. Scheffler was appointed by Governor Gavin Newson to the Healthy California for All Commission, charged with developing a plan to guide California toward a unified health care system.
Laura Alexander is the Vice President of Policy at the American Antitrust Institute (AAI), where she researches, writes, and advocates on antitrust issues. Laura also contributes regularly to AAI's top-ranked antitrust podcast, Ruled by Reason. Prior to joining AAI, Laura spent a decade in private practice, litigating pathbreaking antitrust cases in healthcare and other industries. In addition to her work for AAI, Laura is a Global Research Fellow at the Georgetown University Law Center.


He feeds me beside the waters of rest; He restores my soul.
You anoint my head with oil; Your cup cheers me like the best wine.
A Psalm of David. When he fought in single combat with Goliath.
I tended my father's sheep.
My hands made an instrument of music and my fingers tuned a psaltery.
And who shall give the tidings to the Lord? The Lord Himself; He Himself hears!
and anointed me with the oil of His anointing.
My brothers were handsome and tall, but the Lord did not take pleasure in them.
I went to meet the Philistine, and he cursed me by his idols.
But I drew his own sword and beheaded him and removed reproach from the sons of Israel.
before Him all the days of our life.


Golden Sky will be the newest art installation decorating Giralda Plaza in Coral Gables, with a price tag of approximately $150,000.
After the success of Umbrella Sky, the wildly popular art installation that hung hundreds of colorful umbrellas over Giralda Plaza, in August the city commission requested that staff come up with another idea to ramp up visitation to the area over the holiday season. City staff came back with the newest hanging art concept: Golden Sky.
Golden Sky will consist of gold and silver metallic strips that reflect light as they move when the wind blows. It will be the first installation of Sky in the United States and the city will use the same vendor as for Umbrella Sky, Sextafeira Productions, for the installation.
Golden Sky will be installed for three months, the same time period as Umbrella Sky. The city is currently looking for sponsorship to help cover some of the costs of the project and will also use money from last year's fund balance to help, since parking revenue generated from Umbrella Sky was so significant. The total estimated revenue from Umbrella Sky is around $238,958.
The resolution passed unanimously through the city commission on Tuesday and Golden Sky will probably be installed in November.


Learn what you can do to help protect whales.
What can you do to help the whales?
Plenty. Two of the most important things a kid can do are save water and keep the beaches clean.
Whales don't like dirty water.
Every drop of water that runs down the drain ends up flowing into the sewage system. Sending clean water down the drain just fills up the sewer and lets the dirty water and waste overflow into streams and the ocean.
How can you save water in your house?
Don't keep the water running while you are brushing your teeth.
Help your mom or dad fix the dripping faucet. Did you know that it can waste 20 gallons of water a day?
Help your dad install a water-saving shower head. In addition to the water it saves, it also saves the fuel that would have been used to heat up the extra hot water. And that reduces pollution.
Whales don't like stuff in the ocean.
We throw away a lot of stuff. Too much stuff. It doesn't just go away. Some of it finds its way to the ocean, where it gets in the animals' way and can make them sick or kill them. But there's a lot we can do to help.
How can you help keep the ocean clean, even if you don't live at the beach?
Set up a recycling center in your kitchen (or wherever mom says it's okay). Find out what your town recycles. Keep a record for a month and record how many garbage bags your family fills up each week. Watch the number get smaller as you begin to recycle things you would have thrown away.
Cut open all the holes on plastic six-pack rings before you throw them away. Birds and small water animals can get their heads caught in the rings.
Don't let plastic grocery bags fly away. These bags are so light, they like to sail off to tree tops and float down streams. Take them back to their recycling bin at the grocery store.
Stop throwing away so many batteries. The mercury in old batteries will eventually leak out and poison the water it runs into. What can you do?
Buy rechargeable alkaline batteries. They can be charged 25 times. That means 25 batteries you didn't have to buy and throw away.
See if your state is one of the few that has laws to make batteries safer.


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Report: Baylor lawsuit alleges 52 rapes by football players, says FAU OC contributed to culture
By Bryan FischerJan 27, 2017, 5:36 PM EST
Explosive allegations surfaced on Friday as a result of a new lawsuit filed against Baylor relating to the school's ongoing scandal involving sexual assaults.
According to the Dallas Morning News, a woman alleges she was gang raped by then-Bears football players Tre'Von Armstead and Shamycheal Chatman after a party in April of 2013. The two players were not charged in the incident, but were named as suspects according to police records and at least one of them had previously been accused of rape before but nothing was done.
Perhaps most notable is that the lawsuit also alleges that 31 Baylor football players committed 52 acts of rape over a four year period starting in 2011. Those numbers, in addition to being throughly repulsive, are figures that are well over double the number of incidents and players that have previously been reported in conjunction with the scandal at the school during the tenure of former head coach Art Briles.
According to the lawsuit that the DMN has viewed, former Bears offensive coordinator Kendal Briles is also alleged to have contributed to the "culture of sexual violence" at the school and once told a recruit, "Do you like white women? Because we have a lot of them at Baylor and they love football players."
Briles is now offensive coordinator at Florida Atlantic under Lane Kiffin, who claimed the school did their "due diligence" and vetted the Baylor assistant prior to him being hired.
The disgusting revelations of the lawsuit are, sadly, only the latest in a long line of sexual assaults that have allegedly took place at the school over the past several years.


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Dancing back into limelight
Rock superstar Sir Elton John could attend the world premiere of Billy Elliot, The Musical, in Newcastle next summer.
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The outrageous millionaire has penned the music to the new show, which it is hoped will get a six-week run in the city before transferring to the West End, in London.
Auditions are being held in Newcastle this Saturday to find boys to take on the role which made a film star out of Jamie Bell.
"In an ideal world, we'll see the musical premiere in Newcastle, hopefully at the Theatre Royal and a run for six weeks, with Elton there on the opening night," Billy Elliot writer, Lee Hall, told the Chronicle today.
"Nothing is finalised, but fingers crossed that is what will happen. I started the whole Billy Elliot thing off with a reading at the Live Theatre in Newcastle, so it would be nice to bring it all back to the city.
"We can't possibly say now that it will definitely happen, but six weeks at the Theatre Royal would be fantastic.
"And I can't see Elton missing that. He's become so involved in the musical. He flew in from Nice, where he was staying in the summer, just to see a little reading we did of the musical. He's really excited about it."
Elton first broached the idea of the musical after seeing Billy Elliot when it was premiered at the Cannes Film Festival before its world-wide release in 2000.
"He really loved it and thought it would make a good piece for theatre and I thought he'd be a brilliant person for writing the songs," said Lee, 37. "But it takes a long time to create a musical, but I think we've nailed it now."
Lee, who grew up on Tyneside and this summer married Beeban Kidron, director of the new Bridget Jones movie, soon got used to working with one of the world's biggest music stars.
"They don't come much bigger than Elton," he said. "I was amazed, and it has been incredible. I never thought I'd ever be in the same room as Elton John, never mind writing songs with him. A great experience and also fun. I'm really pleased with what we've come up with.
"He's amazingly fast. I would come up with the lyric, and he'd write the music in half an hour, and then he would record the demo straight away. That's the way it worked. And he has such a sense of theatre.
"It was surreal sometimes, sitting next to Elton, playing the piano together. He's a great bloke. So talented. I think we have 15 songs now."
If all goes according to plan, the musical will open next summer. And Lee is determined to find lads from the North East to play the title role on a rotating basis.
Auditions will be held at Newcastle's Assembly Rooms this Saturday. "It's quite a tall order. We need somebody who can dance. They don't necessarily need to know ballet - we need someone who can move really well.
"They also need to be able to sing and act. It's getting the balance right, finding someone who can do all three.
"I'm sure there are young lads sitting at home on Tyneside with the potential, we've just got to bring it out of them. We found one in Jamie Bell, after all," Lee said.
Lee has a wish list of who he would like to take on other roles in the musical - and most of the names are from the North East.
"They're people I have worked with. There's so much talent here. But it all depends on commitments next year. It's very early days."
Page 2: Hunt for a new Billy
Hunt for a new Billy
The hunt is now on to find the next Billy Elliot.
The film, about a North East lad who battles against prejudice and adversity to follow his dreams of being a dancer, is one of the biggest-grossing British films of the past 10 years.
Open auditions for Billy Elliot The Musical will be held on Saturday at the Assembly Rooms in Fenkle Street, Newcastle, with boys aged between 11 and 14 years being sought.
Registration will be from 8am and if a Geordie lad is picked, he will soon be rubbing shoulders with the likes of Sir Elton John.
At least three performers are needed to share the role of Billy for a run in the West End and producers are also looking for boys aged 11 to 14 to play Michael, Billy's best friend.
For the auditions you need to take comfortable clothes that you can move around in, a recent photograph of yourself, plenty to drink and lots of energy. You should expect to dance then, if lucky, to sing.
Organisers can guarantee to see only the first 350 boys, but more auditions will take place throughout the winter in the North East, with details to be announced at a later date.


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I have read and loved Jen Calonita's Secrets of My Hollywood Life series and so I was super excited to read Belles especially after reading the summary.
Contemporary fiction is not really my thing, I mean I like it enough but give me a historical or a fantasy over contemp. any day. But then I read books like this and The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight and I remember how much I actually like contemporary fiction.
I really enjoyed Belles. It was so much more than I originally expected. I loved seeing the plot unfold from both Izzy and Mira's points of view, it made the story much more 3 dimensional. Though I have to say that I liked the ones from Izzy's POV more, but that may just be because she had more story to tell.
Savannah is terrible. Are you kidding me? When you think of that mean girl in movies or whatever this is the quintessential girl, and unlike how sometimes in those movies/books the girls learns her lesson and becomes nice, this does not happen to Savannah. Which I really appreciated because that doesn't happen to often in real life so it was nice to see that.
I felt like Izzy and Mira were both perfectly written, they were conflicted and thought they were doing the right things when in reality it was the opposite of what needed to be done. I felt like that was pretty true to life, especially Izzy's hesitance for buying new clothes and stuff.
The one thing I didn't like was the fact that the twist didn't surprise me too much, but it was okay because the book was so good besides that. I cannot wait for the next installment!


My broken green vase, recycled in a backyard garden.
We scooped up our Irish oatmeal: cinnamon, pecans, brown sugar, and milk blended with cooked rolled and steel cut oats. If we hadn't run out of dried black currants, my husband would've thrown them in, too. He's perfected what he calls "curing" oatmeal.
Third month into his retirement, our spoons chinked in this profoundly quiet house. The refrigerator and furnace rested as whirlwinds of ice crystals played at the kitchen sliding door. The snow had washed the sky blue as the Virgin's robe.
It seemed the definite set of circumstances to cause the atmospheric phenomenon of a sundog. So I ran to the window and shielded my eyes toward the eastern sky. The morning must've been far spent for the sun's double rainbow.
An ache to hug my daughters' necks—to hear them call "Mom!"—passed through me.
As life goes, our nest grew quieter with each departure of our three girls. I learned the rhythm and voice of our household appliances, the furnace and its boom when it cooled.
"You're lucky this thing didn't burn your house down," the heating and cooling technician said two years ago.
We replaced that fire hazard with a more energy efficient model. Alas, the new furnace lacks personality, but the new hot water system hisses with its sister, the softener. And I won't part with our vintage clothes dryer. Old Faithful complains a few seconds when we start her up, but she keeps on ticking. It's that or the Scrap Metal Recycler.
Then came the moment I wait all winter to witness. Snow signals whirling up from barren treetops—Nature's telegraph. Behold the beauty of the Lord.
I recalled such an exceptional winter morning with my mother. She also loved Irish oatmeal, although she didn't name it so. Her last winter with us, we sipped tea and watched the wind blow powdery flakes up and over the landscape.
Macular degeneration had claimed sight in one eye, and Alzheimer's her sense of smell and taste. We could no longer talk recipes and family stories. In that season of sitting still, we held onto our tea mugs for dear life.
"I'll do my best, Mom." Then I'd tuck her in.
"I'm so thankful for my five babies," she'd say.
My mother passed the following June before my middle daughter was married in July. As then, the Wheel of Life turns within and without us, each season sending up its signal: Sit. Watch. Listen to those you love.
Dear Reader, I'm holding my teacup, reading signals of what is to come. Letting go what I must. Holding close the miraculous moments given me. Sundogs. Snow smoke. The scent of my daughters' skin.
I rest in the promise of eternal life.


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George W. Russell, Jr., is the chair of the Harmony department at Berklee College of Music, where has received the Distinguished Faculty Award (2012), the Berklee Curriculum Award (2010), and the Ted Pease Award for Excellence in Teaching (2009). He previously served as the chairman of the Jazz department at the New England Conservatory of Music's Extension Division. For 26 years, he educated gifted high school musicians during the summer at the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts, where he was the chair of Jazz Studies. George has shared the stage with a number of legendary jazz artists, including George Duke, Bob Moses, Billy Pierce, Stan Strickland, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White, Semenya McCord, and Andy McGhee. He performs regularly with his trio, the George W. Russell, Jr., trio with drummer Sean Skeete and bassist Wesley Wirth. A native of Pittsburgh, PA, George received a bachelor's degree in music education from Duquesne University in 1988, and a master's degree in jazz studies from New England Conservatory of Music in 1990.
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In 2011, before the company even officially existed, Vorsprung founder Steve Mathews had begun work on what went on to become the Tractive Valve Tuning System. Rather than being a single physical part or mechanism, Tractive encompasses the single most comprehensive and consistent method of damper tuning ever seen in the mountain bike world. Working with engineers from one of the world's foremost mathematical computing companies, we have developed a truly one-of-a-kind system. Big claims, we know. What sets Tractive apart?
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Barely There Cream – Is It An Effective Anti Aging Solution?
"The Best Selling Product" is a marketing phrase, a strategy that a lot of skincare products use so that they can attract more people to go for their product. You have probably been burned by products which made use of this in the past (figuratively and, very possibly, literally) and now would rather steer clear from it all.
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GOBLINS: A WEBCOMIC REVIEW
Goblins by Tarol Hunt
Coloring by Danielle Stephens
If one were to visit topwebcomics.com they would find that the number one spot, on the list where users vote for their favorite comics, belongs to a webcomic called Goblins by Tarol Hunt or Thunt as he's sometimes affectionately (I hope…) referred to. I discovered Goblins through another site, the name of which escapes me right now (so it couldn't have been that great) and was immediately in love. Goblins draws from Thunt's (please don't hurt my family to get to me) extensive knowledge and love for Dungeons and Dragons. It begins as a hilarious homage to D&D with a small village of goblins (TWIST!) preparing to be attacked by adventurers. The goblins are named by the village fortune teller based off of either their destiny or a physical trait. We are immediately introduced to such characters as Chief, Fumbles, One-Eye, Big Ears, Complains of Names, and Dies Horribly. These goblins discuss how best to defend from the adventurers, with several hilarious tongue and cheek nods to RPG staples. We meet the adventurers in the form of Forgath the dwarf, Minmax the warrior and the three drow who purposefully over monologue about their tragic, but super cool and important race info. The adventurers make their way to the goblin village, first having to fight some demons brought down by the wrath of Herbert, Forgaths' "God" ( the Dungeon Master). Meanwhile Fumbles has created the ingenious plan of creating fake mustaches, adopting the alias Senor Vorpal Kickass'o and announces himself as a playable character.
In the midst of the battle Minmax and Names face off, but Names has broken the most sacred of goblin rules, he's taken items from the Poorly Locked Chest in the center of the camp and is using them to fight the adventurers. The goblins survive, with heavy loses, but Names has to leave. He convinces Big Ears, Thaco (Complain's father, Chief, and Senor Vorpal Kickass'o to come with him as playable characters to gain a few levels so as to better protect their village. Meanwhile elsewhere we find that Dies Horribly has survived the battle, albeit with one less arm.
From their the story follows these three groups: The Goblins, Forgath and Minmax, and Dies.
The story is engaging and reads at a fast pace. Each character gets fleshed out into it's own well rounded character, which is quite a feat when you have at least seven main characters at any one time. It revels in quick, witty, banter and extremely humorous and in-depth debates on D&D rules and criteria. This doesn't keep it from getting down to brass tacks and becoming incredibly dark and heart wrenching when it needs to. I always say that I don't cry (Not being manly, just don't think it's physically possible for me to) but I always choke up a bit when the Ewok tries to wake it's friend on Endor, and this video I saw on YouTube with the cutest little girl in history. Well Thunt has earned his way onto the list at number three with one of the most loss of innocence moments I've ever seen.
The art isn't spectacular in terms of art, but it fits with the feel of the comic. It gives it a cartoony look that I really dig in context with the subject matter. Recently he's gone through and added some really choice shadows to the newer pages.
If I had to find a negative to the comic it's the slow pace once you get caught up to the most recent pages. I understand that being a one man machine takes time, and I'm totally behind him on this in all aspects, but the goblins were left with one hell of a cliff hanger when I caught up about a year ago. Since then I've been with Dies and Minmax and Forgath respectively. That's a long time to wait, and each page individually isn't necessarily as interesting taken alone. The only way to fix that would be to wait for a month or so and then catch up in a day, which would give you about eight pages to read.
I'd encourage you to soldier along though, as I'm sure the daily traffic is what helps pay some of the bills. I for one have a habit of checking even on the days when it doesn't update. There's even a side comic that's used for fundraising in which a new goblin named Tempts Fate does just that. A dungeon is entered, and depending on how much is donated he deals with a variety of dangers.
Overall Goblins is a MUST read for fans of webcomics, D&D, America, and The Free World. It's funny, heart wrenching, clever, and most importantly well written. Basically if you don't read it then the terrorists win.With updates every Tuesday and Thursday, start the adventure here .
Verdict: 10 out of 5 stars
Michael Knoll is a contributing writer at Champion City Comics. He is the author of RED RACER.


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Phil Kelly Bio, Wiki, Age, Height, Family, Wife, Weather WSYX, Salary, and Net Worth.
Last Updated on June 24, 2022 By Peter Ndirangu
Phil Kelly Biography
1 Phil Kelly Biography
2 10 Quick Facts About Phil Kelly
3 Phil Kelly Age
4 Phil Kelly Height
5 Phil Kelly Education
6 Phil Kelly Family, Parents, and Siblings
7 Phil Kelly Wife
8 Phil Kelly Salary
9 Phil Kelly Net Worth
10 Phil Kelly Measurements and Facts
11 Phil Kelly Weather WSYX/WTTE-TV, Columbus
12 Frequently Asked Questions about Phil Kelly
13 Phil Kelly Contacts
14 Related Biographies
Phil Kelly is an American Emmy award-winning Meteorologist who was born and brought up in Columbus, Ohio. Currently, he works at WSYX/WTTE in Columbus, Ohio as a Weekend Morning Meteorologist, and initially as a Fill-In Meteorologist.
Prior to joining the WSYX weather team, he worked at WSJV-TV in South Bend, Indiana as a Morning Weather Anchor and Co-Host of "Wake-Up". He also worked at WWHO as a Kids Club Host, after which he earned 4 Emmys for his work hosting and producing the show.
10 Quick Facts About Phil Kelly
Name: Phil Kelly
Height: Around 5 feet 8 inches
Occupation: Meteorologist
Salary: $24,292 – $72,507
Net worth: $100 thousand – $1 million dollars
Phil Kelly Age
Kelly's age, date of birth, and birthday are publicly not available. We will update this section once this information is available.
Phil Kelly Height
Phil stands at an average height. He appears to be quite tall in stature of his photos, relative to his surroundings, are anything to go by. However, details regarding his actual height and other body measurements are currently not publicly available. We will update this section when the information is available.
Phil Kelly Education
Kelly attended Noble Academy and later attended Otterbein University from where he graduated from the school. He has made a visit to Harvest Preparatory School in Canal Winchester where he educated the students about the weather. Also, he answered questions about the weather.
Phil Kelly Family, Parents, and Siblings
Phil was born and raised by his parents in Columbus, Ohio. Our efforts to find out more about his family came to no avail as no such information is publicly available. Thus, the identity of his parents is still unclear. It is also not known if he has any siblings. We will update this section once this information is available.
Phil Kelly Wife
Kelly is happily married to his wife and they are blessed with a son. He is very secretive about his personal life, hence information about his wife and son are unavailable including their names. However, this information will be updated as soon as it is available.
Phil Kelly Salary
Phil receives an average annual salary of between $24,292 and $72,507. This translates to an hourly average wage of between $10.15 and $31.32. This is Per our average wage estimates for a journalist in the United States. However, these figures may vary substantially according to the level of seniority of the employee. At the moment, we do not have the exact salary but we will update this section when the information is available.
Phil Kelly Net Worth
Kelly's net worth is estimated to be between $100 thousand and $1 million dollars. This includes his assets, money, and income. His primary source of income is his career as a Meteorologist. Through his various sources of income, he has been able to accumulate a good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.
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Full Names: Phil Kelly
Occupation / Profession: Meteorologist
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Age / How Old?: Not Available
Date of Birth: Not Available
Place of Birth: Columbus, Ohio, United States
Phil Kelly Body Measurements
Height / How Tall?: Average
Weight: Moderate
Phil Kelly Family and Relationship
Wife/Spouse: Name undisclosed
Dating / Girlfriend: Not Applicable
Children: Son (1)
Pil Kelly Net Worth and Salary
Net Worth: $100K- $1 Million
Source of Income: Meteorologist
Phil Kelly Weather WSYX/WTTE-TV, Columbus
His debut job was at WWHO-TV as a host of Kids Club where he also won awards. Later on, he moved to South Bend, Indiana in WSJV-TV. Here, Phil worked as the morning weather anchor and also a co-host of the show 'Wake-Up'. However, after working at WSJV-TV, Phil opened up his business thus he had stepped away from journalism.
Even though Phil is not quick to share details about his business, sources say he is still running the business. Phil was back in the journalism career in 2010 where he worked as a fill-in meteorologist at WSYX/WTTE. Later on, he got a promotion to work as a weekend morning meteorologist, which he does up to now.
Frequently Asked Questions about Phil Kelly
Who is Phil Kelly?
Phil Kelly is an American Emmy award-winning Meteorologist. Currently, he works at WSYX/WTTE in Columbus, Ohio as a Weekend Morning Meteorologist, and initially as a Fill-In Meteorologist. Prior to joining the WSYX weather team, he worked at WSJV-TV as a Morning Weather Anchor and Co-Host of "Wake-Up".
How old is Phil Kelly?
Kelly was born in Columbus, Ohio, USA, he has not shared his date of birth with the public, as it is not documented anywhere as of 2020.
How tall is Phil Kelly?
Phil stands at an average height, he has not shared his height with the public. His height will be listed once we have it from a credible source.
Is Phil Kelly married?
Yes, he is married to his wife and they are blessed with a son. He is very secretive about his personal life, hence information about his wife and son are unavailable including their names. However, this information will be updated as soon as it is available.
How much is Phil Kelly worth?
Kelly's net worth is estimated to be between $100 thousand and $1 million dollars. This includes his assets, money and income. His primary source of income is his career as a Meteorologist.
How much does Phil make?
Phil receives an average annual salary of between $24,292 and $72,507. This translates to an hourly average wage of between $10.15 and $31.32. This is Per our average wage estimates for a journalist in the United States. However, these figures may vary substantially according to the level of seniority of the employee.
Where does Kelly live?
He is a resident of Columbia, Ohio, USA, he shall upload pictures of his house as soon as we have them.
Is Phil dead or alive?
He is alive and in good health. There have been no reports of him being sick or having any health-related issues.
Where is Kelly now?
Phil is still pursuing his career in journalism. He is currently working as a Weekend Morning Meteorologist at WSYX/WTTE-TV since 2010.
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Tawan Bar
Silom Soi 6, Bangkok, Thailand
audience rating: Tawan Bar, 3.4 out of 5 based on 102 ratings click to vote:
Rating: 3.4/5. From 102 votes.
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Popular go-go bar in Bangkok that regularly attracts a full house to its nightly shows (10:30pm and 00:30am).
Tawan specialises in muscular dancers performing shows that leave only little to the imagination. Located on a side street opposite the entrance to Soi Twilight.
weekday: 20:00 - 02:00
weekend: 20:00 - 02:00
venue: Bar | features: bar, music, go-go | customers: gay | attracts: All types
last updated: 05-Oct-2019
"Hardcore show but all the guy on the stage were wearing a mask. I have booked a guy with 2000bath. A good shooter, will go there again for him."
Jojo on 21-Sep-2018 | Reply Problem with this review?
Dishonest!!!!
"They invited me in 5 minutes before closing time sold me a $12 beer and then all the patrons got up and left. I was not interested in paying anyone to give me special attention. They should not be hustling people into the bar and then kicking them out. Never had a worse experience in a bar."
Neal on 25-Aug-2018 | Reply Problem with this review?
Think Happiness, Think Tawan
"I highly recommend it for bodybuilder-type guys and I think some really competes. The show is really hardcore, expect the unexpected."
Gillard on 31-Mar-2018 | Reply Problem with this review?
A chubby bar, not a muscle bar
"I started going to TAWAN 15 years ago, and there were some hot bodybuilders. Now it is tragic. It's great that guys like chubby men, but don't lie by saying it is a muscle bar. "
Chris on 18-Feb-2018 | Reply Problem with this review?
Big Muscle - 2018
"Before the show the guys were on stage for you to select, each wearing their black posers and little number tag. Some big, some even bigger and some just took my breathe away. They knew I liked them and they came over politely and with friendliness shook my hand and left it at that, no big pressure. The show starts with drag and then BANG its muscle. For me it was a totally new experience and one that I am sure not to forget."
David on 09-Feb-2018 | Reply Problem with this review?
Many sexy and gross guys.
"The guys are very sexy. But they were complete pigs when a female patron was in the audience.
I know a lot of gay guys like straight guys but these guys were really just trying to show off for each other.
Recommendation to the owner - talk to your guys and ask them to respect women.
I recommend gay guys go and bring lots of money. It's not a cheap night and they want lots of tips and very expensive drinks. But this is what you pay for.
Being a muscle man is not cheap."
Lo on 28-Oct-2017 | Reply Problem with this review?
2017 Muscle
"The guys were great, Definitely masculine, definitely muscled.
Great atmosphere, enjoyable, friendly atmosphere. Will definitely return."
Matthew on 04-Aug-2017 | Reply Problem with this review?
"You were so right. They are not even off season many didn't even look as if they worked out. Only saw 3 with a reasonable muscular body.
The drinks are now 450 baht. Very sad as this was the high light of Bangkok for me in the past."
Anthony on 06-Feb-2017 | Reply Problem with this review?
"I have been visiniting the Tawan bar for 15 years & this trip I have to say was the worse. The so called muscle men were fat. They used to have some of the most beautiful looking muscle guys but now as one of the workers told me they just can't get many decent guys to perform. With the exception of three of the guys the rest shouldn't be even classed as muscle guys. On this occasion Feb 2017 it was severely disappointing. Let's hope for the sake of the club they find some exciting new talent soon."
"UN BAR EXCELENTE. TODO MUY BIEN MUY CORDIALES."
HARRY on 06-Dec-2016 | Reply Problem with this review?
a terrible place
"To me, it is a bear bar, not a muscle bar! The guys there are terrible!"
Dek on 25-Jul-2016 | Reply Problem with this review?
"Was at Tawan on 25 Sept and was not disappointed. There were over 15 bodybuilder type guys in the bar, many appear on the stage. All had superb physiques. The show made its round around the bar, fishing for tips. Hot!"
Chrys on 30-Sep-2015 | Reply Problem with this review?
"Back in wonderful Bangkok after 20 years and of course had to check out the famous Tawan Bar. And so glad I did. The men on stage were without exception total muscle hunks, and the show was sexy and saucy. The management and floor staff were all friendly and not aggressive about selling extra drinks or collecting tips, and the general atmosphere was of fun and excitement amongst the crowd. And as for taking a man home.....well I wanted them all."
S. on 21-Sep-2015 | Reply Problem with this review?
"After a five-year hiatus, this trip is more like an inspection tour.
In August 1997 I made my first visit to Thailand and to Tawan Bar on Surawong Road. I loved it so much because I feel so attracted to masculine men. I've since been to this wonderful bar about ten times, I estimate, before I revisited it, in May 2015, two weeks ago.
Again In 2010 I went to BKK purely for this bar and the city's great gay night life. Then I stopped travelling there. But this year I decided to check it out again after so much has happened in this country in the past five years—killer floods, violent protests, military coup, and the martial law which was lifted only recently. Is BKK attracting fewer tourists today? How does the current government look at the country's sex industry? Is the city therefore losing its charm as a gay paradise in Asia? I hoped not.
Much remained the same, with some minor changes.
Many musclemen still work in Tawan, some are quite eye-pleasing to me. But the existence of such [Tawans] shows means BKK is as wild as ever. And on weekends Tawan is still fully packed with muscle worshippers. That's great. Every time I go to Tawan, I always can find one or two go-go dancers that can make me knees weak. This time is no exception.
Dreamboy, another go-go bar about a five minute walk from Tawan, is as popular as before. I chose to check it out because I have the impression that it also has muscle guys to offer, although not as many as in Tawan. Well, I still enjoyed the shows but more enjoyable was how the first-time, especially female, visitors reacted to the men on the stage sporting a boner right before their eyes. Oh! There were five Mandarin-speaking pretty young ladies, obviously first-timers, in the front row. They looked stunned and then embarrassed. Some looked mesmerized later whereas one of them looked kind of uncomfortable and perhaps offended (Maybe she faked it). Another appeared quite shocked and excited at the same time. These girls' facial expressions were more entertaining than the shows!
On the other hand, Albury, once a popular massage parlor for gay men, was closed a couple of years ago. That's a pity. This time I went to V Club, another great massage parlor known for its facility and masseurs, and asked how much I should pay if the masseur comes to my hotel. That's a minimum of 3,800 baht— 800 paid to the massage store and a minimum of 3,000 for the masseur. In contrast, I have to pay only 1,700 baht—700 to the store and 1,000 to the masseur — if the service is offered in this massage parlor. What a difference! I decided not to buy any service in the end.
And the next day I paid a visit to a comparatively new gay sauna called Chakran (admission 250 baht) located in the same building that houses V Club. I chose to visit that day because I heard that a musclemen show would be staged then. Chakran is really a well-equipped gay sauna, quite like Babylon. But the musclemen show is totally different from what I expected. Well, I sat on a bench at the pool area and then found two totally naked hunks making love right beside me at about 20:30 — the time the show is supposed to start. Such a scene quickly attracted a crowd of horny men approaching the "show." The two "actors" then walked toward and disappeared into the dark "naked zone" behind the bench. I didn't know what happened next, but I'm sure this is the "show." I did see some muscles, but I was expecting a 30-minute show where at least 10 guys show off their muscles.
Anyway, that the massage parlor and the sauna exist in the same building is so convenient.
What other changes have occurred in BKK over the past five years? A brand-new Le Meridian Hotel was erected on Surawong Road. The BTS network has expanded and the trains seem to be more crowded than ever. It is more often to hear go-go bars make announcements in Mandarin. And you have to pay more than five years ago for admission to them. 350 baht for Tawan and 450 for Dreamboy. I don't understand why Dreamboy charges so much more. Dreamboy's shows are more interesting, but go-go dancers in Tawan have more muscles honed through hours of workout in gyms or in Lumpini Park. If you want to take a guy to your hotel, you have to pay 650 baht to Dreamboy and 500 baht to Tawan, although the minimum tip for the boy himself is invariably 2,000 baht.
I missed one of the men I took to my hotel this time. I started to miss him soon after he left my room that night. He used to be a blue-collared worker and I liked that and that's why I love Maurice by E.M. Forster and Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence. When asked whether he's gay, he said no and he's a MAN. And I found he treated me like a girl and therefore looked quite comfortable and devoted when providing his service. He was one the few go-go guys that had kissed me on the mouth! Yes, I am Lady Chatterley and I don't think I will wait another five years before I come back for my man."
O on 30-May-2015 | Reply Problem with this review?
The show worth to see
"Show erotic. Muscular guys, some cute."
Jm on 13-Feb-2015 | Reply Problem with this review?
Cut the drag
"Been coming to Tawan for many years but every year I have to sit through shows that go on forever. It's a mistake. I am there to choose a muscle guy to take home. I can't take home a show can I? Tawan makes me wait for 30-40 minutes before I can see a number on a guy to select him. Half of that time is with Thai drag. If I am coming to a muscle bar, why would I want to see a man in a frock badly lip sync? Sometimes out of frustration I have got up and left, sick of waiting. At least if you insist on putting a drag queen on stage put a muscle guy beside her so I have something to look at. Know your audience."
A on 09-Jan-2015 | Reply Problem with this review?
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More than half of the Sea of Thieves players were playing using the Xbox Game Pass in the first month
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Microsoft has been loudly and proudly proclaiming the success of Rare's Sea of Thieves. It was quickly announced after launch that Sea of Thieves players had topped 2 million, without Xbox Game Pass.
Microsoft also proudly called Sea of Thieves the "fastest-selling first-party new IP of this generation."
However, not everything has been golden for Sea of Thieves. Mixed reviews, a perceived lack of content and some odd decisions by Rare have made Sea of Thieves future uncertain.
It seems now that much of Sea of Thieves early success is due to the Xbox Game Pass and the seas are starting to look stormy.
Sea of Thieves Players
According to research by videogame market intelligence firm SuperDataResearch, of the 2 million players taking part in Sea of Thieves during the launch month, more than half were doing so as part of the Xbox Game Pass trial.
While this doesn't necessarily mean that the player base has shrunk significantly, it does cast some doubts about the longevity of Sea of Thieves. As a game that lives on dies by the number of people playing. According to SuperDataResearch;
Sea of Thieves has early success but with a caveat. Sea of Thieves had 1.7 million monthly active users on console and 283,000 on PC during its launch month.
However – more than half of these users obtained the game through the limited free trial offered as part of Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass. This leaves some unanswered questions concerning the long-term success of the title.
If the Sea of Thieves player numbers drops significantly, the game could find itself victim of a positive feedback loop resulting in players leaving the game in droves.
There's no denying that Sea of Thieves was a huge success for Microsoft and Rare in terms of launch, it's just the future of the title that remains uncertain. If more than half of the Sea of Thieves players in the first month were Xbox Game Pass trial users, there's a significant possibility that many of them didn't purchase the game after the trial expired if they didn't purchase a subscription.
Sea of Thieves has been an interesting game for Rare and Microsoft and is certainly something to closely watch. As Rare pushes forward with content drops and continues to work with the community it may find a steady player base who remain engaged.
If, however, Sea of Thieves' players aren't engaged, it could go down a similar path as that of Destiny 2. The latter title started out as an enormous success at launch but has steadily declined week on week as Bungie struggles to keep players engaged.
This is a serious risk for Sea of Thieves and it's sure to be one that Rare and Microsoft are keen to avoid.
Sea of Thieves is available for PC and Xbox One.
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