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CVS launches HealthHUB as part of health care expansion
By Gwendolyn Wu
Updated 11:30 am CST, Tuesday, January 14, 2020
CVS Health Senior Vice President Jeffrey Schmidt speaks during a ceremony celebrating the expansion of CVS's Minute Clinic concept into even more expanded HealthHub locations in 15 Houston-area store in the Galleria area on Monday, Jan. 13.
CVS Health Senior Vice President Jeffrey Schmidt speaks during a ceremony celebrating the expansion of CVS's Minute Clinic concept into even more expanded HealthHub locations in 15 Houston-area store in the
Photo: Mark Mulligan, Houston Chronicle / Staff Photographer
CVS Health, one of the nation's largest drugstore chains, is transforming its walk-in clinics offering vaccines and quick check-ups into more high-tech HealthHUBs, a part of the company's new focus on outgrowing its retailer roots and becoming a health care provider.
It officially opened the first hub in the Houston area on Monday at 5402 Westheimer Road in the Galleria area. CVS began testing pilot HealthHUBs in the Houston area late last year and plans to open 15 more in the area in the first half of 2020, eventually expanding into 12 states on the East Coast, Midwest and Southwest. As many as 1,500 HealthHUB locations are slated to open nationwide by the end of 2021. CVS has approximately 9,900 stores in the U.S.
At Monday's opening, CVS leaders said they saw the hubs as a way to expand regular and routine medical access, particularly for people with chronic illnesses.
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"It's not a one-stop type of thing," said Roger Francis, a senior vice president at CVS Health. "It's about how do you build a community of care with all the partners that you have and the dependencies to be able to deliver that care.
The CVS HealthHUB stores offer the same products in the aisles, but provide additional preventive screenings, routine care and fitness classes akin to what a patient would find in a community health clinic.
Customers can get care for sleep apnea, do annual diabetic exams and monitor other chronic conditions like high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Its community wellness rooms will offer free meditation and yoga classes.
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In a previous post we looked at the interplay between mind and deep sleep (dreamless sleep) and explored why it is that we seem to have no experience of the state of deep sleep, why it is that we feel that we 'go away' during deep sleep, or that 'nothing happens.' In essence, this is because mind is inactive during deep sleep. It is at rest. And because mind is at rest, it generates no residue of its activity, no memory. When we wake up, when mind becomes active again, mind looks at the period of deep sleep and concludes that nothing happened. It disregards the entire experience.
However, there is another aspect of deep sleep to consider, and that is the aspect of time. Or rather, the non-aspect of time. The fact that time seems not to pass during deep sleep. The fact that the moment we fall asleep seems to be the moment we wake up.
The answer has to do, again, with mind. Mind creates time. The active activity of mind (thought) gives rise to the concept of time. In other words, time is a projection of thought. In more other words, time only exists because thought says it does. It does not really exist. There is no such thing as time.
Most people immediately reject this notion as absurd. Of course time exists, they say. I experience time all the time. I am experiencing time right now, while reading this. Time is passing.
But time is not passing. If it were passing, time would be passing something. Some thing. There is no thing for time to pass. Are you sitting there right now, watching time pass you by?
I can look at a clock, you might say. I can see that time is passing.
Rejecting the concept of no-time is normal and understandable. Mind has created the concept of time, which all of us take for granted. And since most of us associate our identity with our mind — our thought — the knee-jerk reaction against any contrary notion is entirely understandable.
The key to overcoming the normal, knee-jerk reaction lies in our understanding of now.
We must understand that now is not a moment in time. Now is not a bubble moving along a timeline with one end extending left towards 'the past' and one end extending right towards 'the future.' This notion of a timeline is itself a concept which we've taken to be 'real.' It's so deeply rooted in our understanding that we take it for granted. But now is not moving along a timeline. Timelines do not exist and never did. Now is not moving, not passing. Now is ever-present. When you started reading this post, it was now. At this point in the post, it is now. And when you finish the post, it will be now.
There is no point at which now changes from one now to the next. It is always now.
You could argue that change, or evolution, would not be possible without time. But you would be arguing this from the point of view of mind — of thought — which is the thing that creates the concept of time. Of course it won't allow you to reject that concept. At least not at first. You must first give it a different model to sink its teeth into. To think about.
Ask your mind if it was now when you started reading, and if it is now now. If the answer to both is yes, ask if it was now at lunch time yesterday. Ask when the now of lunch time yesterday switched over to the now of now.
Ask to leave this now and go back to yesterday's lunch time. Not to remember yesterday's lunch time, but to actually go there. This might get the mind thinking differently.
If you get your mind thinking differently, you might start understanding time, or the lack thereof, differently.
Now ask your mind to visualize the timeline used for conceptualizing past and future, as well as the little bubble representing now, and to imagine the lines representing past and future dissolving and fading away, leaving only the little bubble representing now.
That's all there is. Really. All other notions of time are a construct of mind. The activity of mind — thought — creates the concept of time.
Thought that creates the concept of time falls into two categories. One category is called memory and is collated as 'the past.' Memory comprises images in the mind. It is thought. Another category is called imagination, and is packaged as 'the future.' Imagination, too, comprises images in the mind. It is thought.
Each of these exist only as projections of mind. As thought. Occuring now.
Returning to the relation of time and deep sleep, and why time seems to jump from the point of falling asleep to the point of waking up, we see that the fact that mind is at rest during deep sleep is connected to the non-experience of time during deep sleep. Because mind is at rest, and time is a construct that arises with mind, during deep sleep, there is no time.
The studies showing that the brain is consolidating memory during sleep fits nicely into this perspective.
Good point. Yes, challenging our understanding in these ways allows for many things to click into place, so to speak. It's kind of remarkable.
I had one of those odd, and seemingly wonderful experiences last night where I imagined/wrote something in my sleep. It's a poem, it's not like ALL THAT, but it has some funny, ironic intersections with some of your phrases and points here. Perhaps…anyhoo, we'll see. Hi Walt!
You should definitely post that sucker. Or at least send it to me. I don't recall ever having any of those middle-of-the-night creative moments that many people have. I do get them sometimes while driving, or mowing the lawn, or something, and usually what happens is I start writing in my head intending to write it for real later, then forget about it or lose the moment. I could use someone to walk with me while I mow the lawn, someone to yell my story to so they can write it down. Thanks for swinging by and watching me go crazy over here. I didn't know my fake ID was going to come with me. I'll have to see about doing something about that.
Yes, indeed. Thank you for reading and commenting, and thanks to people like Eckart Tolle and Rupert Spira for helping the rest of us understand this.


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Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Board of Trustees Names New Executive Director
Hartford, CT – The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Board of Trustees has named Briann G. Greenfield, Ph.D. as the Stowe Center's new Executive Director. Greenfield will begin her new position on June 18, following Katherine D. Kane who will retire May 11.
Greenfield joins the Stowe Center from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities where she has served as Executive Director since 2014. During her tenure she led development and implementation of a transformational strategic plan charting a new programmatic direction, instituted program evaluation, dramatically improved financial stability and operating efficiency, and built strong relationships with government, education and cultural leaders.
Prior to the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, Greenfield was Professor of History and founding director of the Masters in Public History Program at Central Connecticut State University, a position she held for 13 years training emerging museum professionals for 21stcentury practices.
Greenfield has broad nonprofit, academic and social issues experience. Her career has focused around building strong cultural organizations that advance the public good. She holds a Ph.D. in American Civilization and an M.A. in American Civilization/Museum Studies from Brown University and a B.A. in History from University of New Hampshire. She completed a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship at Winterthur Museum and has published both scholarly and popular history works. Greenfield is the recipient of a 2010 Board of Trustees Research Award from Central Connecticut State University.
"Dr. Greenfield's strong experience as a leader, scholar, and teacher is enhanced by proven skills in innovative programming, community relationship building, and strategic planning," said Thomas Farrish, Chair, Stowe Center Board of Trustees. "We look forward to her advancing the Center's mission, as it continues to connect Stowe's life and work to today's world, and inspiring the public to work for positive social change."
"I am excited and delighted to join such a vibrant and innovative organization," said Greenfield. "No other organization of its kind uses history and literature so effectively to illuminate contemporary conditions and strengthen our pluralistic society."
Greenfield was identified through a nationwide search and selected by the Stowe Center's Board of Trustees with a search committee that included trustees, former trustees and community members. The Stowe Center is grateful to the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving for providing an Executive Transition Grant supporting the process.
Both Briann Greenfield and Thomas Farrish are available for interviews.
Katherine Kane has served as Stowe Center Executive Director from 1998-2018. Under her leadership, the Stowe Center transformed from a private foundation to a publicly-oriented museum with a diverse audience, a myriad of programs, and expanded regional and national partnerships. Kane said, "I am just delighted that a leader of Briann's caliber will take the seat at the Stowe Center, and look forward to seeing what comes next for this important organization under her leadership."
A program center and tourist attraction, the Stowe Center attracts people from all 50 states and 20 countries to take inspiration from Harriet Beecher Stowe whose words changed the world with her 1852 anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. In addition to those who visit, the Stowe Center annually engages online with more than 300,000 people from countries around the globe including Pakistan, Argentina, India and the United Kingdom.
The Stowe Center's innovative programs include award winning Salons at Stowe,bringing the public into the parlor for conversations on contemporary issues; the Harriet Beecher Stowe Prize for Writing to Advance Social Justice – with the 2018 Prize being presented September 5 to Matthew Desmond for Evicted;and the Student Stowe Prize. The Stowe House interior preservation — the first major renovation since the National Historic Landmark opened in 1968 –with an inventive new tour experience opened in 2017.

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If you are given a court date, then it is definitely in your best interest to show up for it. You could be facing significant trouble down the road if you fail to appear, whether it is a relatively minor hearing or something as serious as a drug charge. Regardless of how long you wait the matter will have to be handled, and the sooner you take care of a legal problem, the better.
You may have missed your court date because you had an emergency come up, or you did not have transportation. The consequences will be significant unless you take the necessary steps to remedy the situation. This should be resolved immediately if you have not been arrested yet. If you are considered a fugitive while you are caught, then things can get very complicated. You should contact a Marietta criminal defense lawyer such as the attorneys at Webb & D'Orazio immediately for help before you get arrested and miss out on some options. However, if you have already been arrested, we can still put together some defense strategies to improve your outcome.
A bench warrant will be issued if a court date is missed. A bench warrant is exactly what it sounds like: a warrant that is issued from the judge's bench. This warrant is accessible to every police officer in the state and even other states. This means that you could be arrested for a simple traffic stop. You could be held up to three days if you are arrested on a bench warrant -- that's 72 hours in jail if you are given the chance to explain. If you contact an attorney, then you may be able to resolve this problem within a few minutes without going to jail. However, if you wait too long then you could be arrested and held in jail until things are sorted out.
Many people believe that if they wait long enough, their problems will go away. However, a bench warrant will not go away unless you do something about it. If there is an active warrant for your arrest, save yourself stress and time by working with an attorney. This may require that you turn yourself in. However, this will look better to a judge than continuing to hide from the courts and eventually getting arrested.
The criminal defense attorneys at Webb & D' Orazio will help you determine the best way to handle things and examine your options. You cannot hide from a failure to appear warrant forever. Being proactive about the situation is much better than just waiting around until you are arrested.
If you have missed your court date, then we can help you. It does not matter whether you have a legitimate excuse for missing court, or you skipped court on purpose. We will help you so that you can get this problem resolved as quickly as possible.


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Flash Foresight: A book review by Bob Morris
Flash Foresight: How to See the Invisible and Do the Impossible
Daniel Burrus with John David Mann
HarperBusiness (2011)
In this book written with John David Mann, Daniel Burrus discusses a skill that uses "the data of your five senses, as well as that intuitive sixth sense we all have that some call a gut feeling or hunch. But flash foresight goes further, because in using it you synthesize those sensory and intuitive faculties and project them forward through the dimensions of time. A flash foresight is a blinding flash of the future obvious. It is an intuitive grasp of the foreseeable future that, once you see it, it reveals hidden opportunities and allows you to solve your biggest problems – before they happen. Flash foresight will allow anyone to both see and shape his or her future."
How valuable would someone be to an organization if she or he mastered that skill? How valuable would a team be if all of its members had mastered that skill? How to do that? Burrus explains the process in his book.
More specifically, he suggests that there are seven "triggers," any one or several of which can produce a flash foresight:
1. Start with Certainty (i.e. identify and verify hard trends)
2. Anticipate (i.e. determine degree of probability of relevant contingencies)
3. Transform (i.e. leverage technology-driven change)
4. Skip what you think is your biggest problem (in fact, it isn't…and never was)
5. Go opposite (e.g. look where no one else does, see what no one else sees, do what no one else does)
6. Redefine and reinvent (i.e. leverage your unique strengths in new and better ways)
7. Direct your future (or have someone else will do it for you)
Zappos offers an excellent example. Its leaders were certain that online sales would continue to increase and that it was probable that the process of purchasing commodities would be more important to the consumer than the products themselves would be. They concluded that the most efficient operations (e.g. order processing) would be driven by high technology and that returns rather than sizing was its biggest problem. They defied conventional wisdom that that selling shoes online could not be profit. Until Zappos, that was true.
Years ago, Oliver Wendell Holmes said that he "didn't care a fig about simplicity this side of complexity" but that he would "give his life for simplicity on the other side of complexity." Daniel Burrus would make the same claim for serendipity. I think his Flash Foresight may well prove to be the best business book published in 2011. Is it that good? Yes.
Bob Morris is an independent management consultant based in Dallas who specializes in high-impact knowledge management and accelerated executive development. He has also reviewed more than 2,200 business books for Amazon's US, UK, and Canadian websites. Each week, we will add to the Networlding Business Bookshelf abbreviated versions in which he discusses a few of his personal favorites. To contact him directly: interllect@mindspring.com.
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Eco-conscious. Stylish. Functional.ROMBO is a Start-up formed by three guitarenthusiasts, engineers and designers who want to create the proper tools for your hands.
862 backers pledged €17,131 to help bring this project to life.
Guitar picks are the bridge between you and your instrument. Like most of us, you surely spent a lot of time choosing your guitar, your favourite pedals, amps, and even the strings or the jack cable. But, what about your pick? You probably didn't think much about it and you are using the same pick you used early in your career. The sound of an instrument depends highly on the kind of pick you are using.
At ROMBO, we want to rethink this idea and innovate to create a new generation of picks: eco-conscious, functional and stylish.
We want to give you the possibility to spark some creativity testing something new: A family of picks designed for very specific uses that will bring inspiration that might have been missing.
We spent many months researching the relation between geometrical characteristics, material, and sound. With the help of 3D Modeling software and some engineering and simulations, we adapted these essential properties to create the personality of our picks.
The combination of the following structures was the favourite among our testers. The research in the area of surface finish helped us to find the perfect balance between grip, ergonomics and function.
The designs of our picks are unique and beautiful. With the help of some basic design rules, we've adapted the surfaces of our guitar picks to create the best ergonomic experience possible.
There is no engraved logo in the hold area and the structure we chose is made of micro-patterns that fit between your fingerprint grooves, creating an extraordinary and comfortable grip. This creates an excellent balance between ergonomics and grip, which is also improved through the different geometries on the hold area.
So far, we manufactured the mould for Rombo Origami (picture above) and the prototypes for the rest of the guitar picks. With this campaign, we want to be able to manufacture the rest of the picks we present you in the next chapter.
Every pledge gets a DIY guitar pick case made out of Stone-Paper: A very durable and high-quality material that resists everything!
We do not want you to lose your picks! With this goal, we will be able to manufacture a rubber guitar holder. You will get one for free!
An extra pick for everyone! Additional to your reward, we will send you one surprise pick.
Your support is a huge guiding force for us and only with your help will we be able to make our project happen! However, even if you can't fund our project right now, we will be grateful if you'll tell your friends and followers about us.
The colours of the picks could differ from the displayed pictures. We are working hard to reach precise colour tolerances that will allow us a stable colour in the manufacturing.
An unexpected high volume of offers (let's say over 20.000 picks) could affect the delivery time.
The sampling submission process (The process in which we decide, whether the supplier can provide the quality we want or not) can also affect the delivery time. We selected very good injection moulding manufacturers that we already know and don't expect any problems here.
The shipping: the challenge to undertake is to satisfy 100% of our backers. We will follow closely and answer any claims making sure your guitar picks reach your fingers. All the packages will be tracked so you can see where on earth your picks are.
Carlos Díez Maciá is an engineer and designer living and working in Stuttgart who has worked many years as a product developer. Judith Heindorf is a product manager with a technical background and a business degree. Santi Díez Maciá is an engineer with experience in the area of logistics and industrial organization.
For more information about the project and the process go to www.rombopicks.com or follow us on Facebook or Instagram. We explain the manufacturing process, show the original sketches, we post short videos testing the prototypes and some insight pictures of the process.
The colours will be chosen randomly by us.
This pledge includes all stretch goals.
You will choose the colour and model of pick after the campaign ends.
Recycled material out of fibre waste.
You will choose the colours and models of pick after the campaign ends.
The colours will be randomly chosen by us.


Samrat B is that rare breed of producer who will not (perhaps cannot) compromise on his sound for anyone. Over the course of multiple projects collaborations, releases, and live shows, this has resulted in – over the course of over 15 years – some of the most intricate, patient, and banging live production that audiences here have had the benefit of experiencing. It's sadly somewhat rare that he does a live set here in Delhi, closing out this night with unannounced guest collaborators.


An Internal Window Screen, Oxshott, Surrey.
The brief for this window was to provide interest at all times of day, from both sides. The customer's preference was to make the window up in squares like a patchwork. This window provides a screen between the new kitchen extension and the living room. My design incorporates many of my favourite things in glass, a good combination of colours, textures and all set within a patchwork theme.
I chose my palette of steel blues, soft purples and green /turquoise glasses following a visit to my customers house where I had seen a sample board of tiles. Some of the glass I chose has opalescent swirls within it which work fantastically day and night with both transmitted and reflected light. The fused glass hearts were requested by the customer after having seen my other work which includes these. They are leaded so that some face into the living room and some the breakfast room.
To make the grid of lead more interesting I varied the widths from a strong 16mm to a much smaller 6mm.
The window is a great success and gives something new with each time of day.


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Once Upon A Deadpool Review: Deadpool Works OK In PG-13
by Molly Freeman
– on Dec 11, 2018
in Movie Reviews, 2.5 star movies
Once Upon A Deadpool proves the foul-mouthed anti-hero can work in the confines of PG-13, but it only kind of works as a re-cut version of Deadpool 2.
In 2016, 20th Century Fox released Deadpool to massive success, both in terms of critical reception and box office take. Its success helped pave the way for more R-rated superhero movies - Logan in particular - including the film's own sequel, Deadpool 2, which hit theaters earlier this year. However, the sequel to Deadpool wasn't quite as much of a hit as the first film. Reviews were generally less favorable and it didn't earn quite as much at the worldwide box office. Now, Fox and star/producer/writer Ryan Reynolds reteam for Once Upon A Deadpool, a PG-13 re-cut version of the Merc with a Mouth's sequel with some new footage included to make up for all the gutted violence and R-rated humor. Once Upon A Deadpool proves the foul-mouthed anti-hero can work in the confines of PG-13, but it only kind of works as a re-cut version of Deadpool 2.
In Once Upon A Deadpool, the story of Deadpool 2 is reframed using the storytelling structure of Rob Reiner and William Goldman's classic 80s movie, The Princess Bride. Except, since this is Wade Wilson (Reynolds), he's kidnapped adult Fred Savage (playing himself) and duct-taped him to a bed within a set constructed to look like the boy's bedroom from the 80s movie. As a result, Savage is forced back into his childhood role from The Princess Bride, where he played a boy sick in bed who listens to a story read to him by his grandfather. However, while Once Upon A Deadpool takes cues from The Princess Bride, this isn't quite the same situation. After some arguing and plenty of meta joking in Deadpool's typical style that explains the PG-13 nature of the re-cut, Wade begins to read from a storybook that ostensibly contains the plot of Deadpool 2.
The remainder of Once Upon A Deadpool plays out like Deadpool 2, albeit with occasional interjections from Savage and Deadpool, commenting on what's going on in the story or otherwise riffing together. Deadpool is hunting bad guys, but after the death of his girlfriend Vanessa (Morena Baccarin), Wade becomes aimless, especially as his multiple attempts to kill himself are unsuccessful. He joins the X-Men as a trainee to Colossus (Stefan Kapičić), but his life takes on new meaning when he runs across the mutant teenager Russell (Julian Dennison). Wade reluctantly decides to save Russell, both from Cable (Josh Brolin) - who seeks to kill Russell - and from himself. Along the way, Wade learns the meaning of the "F" word: Family.
Like Deadpool 2, Once Upon A Deadpool was directed by David Leitch from a script written by Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick and Reynolds. For the most part, the script in Once Upon A Deadpool works well enough thanks to the storytelling structure they employed. Because he's reading the story out loud to Savage, Deadpool can fill in any blank spots that arise where R-rated content was cut in a way that doesn't feel overly explanatory. It works to keep the plot mostly cohesive, following roughly the same track as Deadpool 2 while keeping it family-friendly. However, where Once Upon A Deadpool gets dicey is in the actual cutting and dubbing. Because Deadpool 2 was written and filmed as an R-rated movie, a PG-13 re-cut was never going to be perfect.
While the Princess Bride-style structure does ensure Once Upon A Deadpool tells a complete story, the evidence of the cutting and editing done to remove R-rated content leaves holes in the pacing and structure of certain key scenes, especially in terms of the action. This is best evidenced in the opening action sequence, which in Deadpool 2 features the titular anti-hero brutally murdering a warehouse full of criminals. In Once Upon A Deadpool, though, the sequence is cut to pieces, with Wade's voiceover as he starts reading to Savage the only thing connecting the disparage shots of PG-13 action. Further, though it's to be expected from an R-rated movie that earned its rating at least in part due to crude humor, the dubbing in Once Upon A Deadpool is so obvious at times, it feels like a high quality basic cable re-cut. Plus, in a world like Deadpool's, where the character rarely shies away from meta humor, the bad dubbing becomes even more conspicuous for Wade's lack of commenting on it.
That said, the content - the scenes in the Princess Bride bedroom, the jokes, the post-credits scenes - are actually incredibly fun and offer more of what arguably works best about Deadpool: his personality and his humor (which are undoubtedly one and the same). The duo of Deadpool and Savage is charming and hilarious, with the movie essentially hinging on their comedic chemistry and it pays off almost too well. While Deadpool 2 is a decent sequel, Once Upon A Deadpool viewers may be left wanting even less of Deadpool 2 in exchange for more riffing and joking from Wade Wilson and Fred Savage. It's a fun duo that works to play up Deadpool's typical kind of humor, and they get in some great PG-13 gags.
Ultimately, Once Upon A Deadpool is a serviceable re-cut of Deadpool 2 that works more as a PG-13 Deadpool experiment than a theatrical event. With the exception of Deadpool superfans (or those moviegoers interested in the distinction between PG-13 and R-rated films), Once Upon A Deadpool isn't necessary viewing this holiday season. While there's new footage to be seen - there's plenty that wasn't in the trailers, though there are also bits from the trailers that weren't included in the final movie - Once Upon A Deadpool is the kind of re-cut that would work better as an alternate cut on a home release of Deadpool 2 than its own standalone theatrical release. (Of course, Once Upon A Deadpool is only in theaters for a short time, with part of its proceeds going to Fudge Cancer, so it's arguable whether this is truly a standalone theatrical release.)
Still, for those worried about what will become of Deadpool and the R-rated franchise led by Reynolds once 20th Century Fox's assets are officially acquired by Disney, Once Upon A Deadpool offers fans hope that a PG-13 Deadpool movie can still be action-filled fun. That said, it's not yet known if a Disney-released Deadpool movie actually would be PG-13. Nevertheless, Once Upon A Deadpool proves the Merc with a Mouth can maintain his personality and most of his sense of humor even without the R rating.
Once Upon A Deadpool is now playing in select U.S. theaters for a limited run. It is 116 minutes long and rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, crude sexual content, language, thematic elements and brief drug material.
Let us know what you thought of the film in the comments section!
2.5 out of 5 (Fairly Good)
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We present an active-set quadratic programming (QP) method based on inertia control. The method is appropriate for problems with many degrees of freedom and problems that are not necessarily convex, making it particularly useful in sequential quadratic programming (SQP) methods that use exact second derivatives. In the convex case, the method is applied to the dual QP, which may be suitable for QPs arising in mixed integer nonlinear programming, where points may be dual feasible but primal infeasible. The inertia-controlling property prevents singularity in the associated linear systems, which allows the straightforward application of modern "off-the-shelf" linear algebra software.


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Culture & Religion — April 20, 2018
New study on women who watched 'The X-Files' backs up 'Scully Effect'
What is the Scully Effect? It's no coincidence that female fans of 'The X-Files' are inspired to choose careers in STEM fields.
Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully on "The X-Files" (Photo: Fox Broadcasting Company)
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Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny never expected "The X-Files" to be a hit when it first aired in 1993. But what was perhaps more surprising to Anderson was the impact her character Dana Scully—a sharp, skeptical medical doctor turned FBI agent—would have on female fans of the show.
It's known as the "Scully Effect," and it describes how many women have cited the character as inspiration for their decision to enter careers in science, medicine, or law enforcement.
"We got a lot of letters all the time, and I was told quite frequently by girls who were going into the medical world or the science world or the FBI world or other worlds that I reigned, that they were pursuing those pursuits because of the character of Scully," Anderson told a crowd at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International. "And I said, 'Yay!'"
Now, a new report brings some data to back up the claim.
The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, a nonprofit research organization and advocacy group, and 21st Century Fox conducted an online survey that asked 2,021 women to rate how the character Dana Scully influenced their career choices and attitudes. The survey respondents were all female, all ages 25 or older (so they would have had a chance to enter the workforce, and have seen the show), and comprised an overrepresentation of women in STEM fields and fans of the show.
The results showed:
About one-third (29%) of respondents were aged 25 to 39, while the remainder (71%) were aged 40 or older.
Roughly half (49%) of the sample studied a STEM field in college, or currently works in STEM.
Two-thirds of respondents (68%) had seen at least one episode of The X-Files, which speaks to the show's wide reach
Nearly two-thirds (63%) of women who are familiar with Dana Scully say she increased their belief in the importance of STEM
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"When you look back at the 1990s, Scully was a woman who had not yet been depicted in TV, and as a result of that influenced generations of women and girls to go into the field to science. We hope that sends a message to storytellers to tell these stories because it does have a really positive impact on our society."
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The General Sir John Monash Scholars podcast featuring Climate Litigator Zoe Bush
M&C Partners | 16 March, 2021
The Scholars podcast is a show featuring scholars from the General Sir John Monash Foundation. Host Justin Kelly interviews the best, brightest, boldest and bravest across all fields of academia, business, science, humanities, and the arts. In this episode, Justin interviews climate litigator and 2019 Zelman Cowen John Monash Scholar, Zoe Bush.
Zoe has a Master of Laws from Columbia University, where she worked for Professors Kimberlé Crenshaw and Susan Sturm, and a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the University of Western Australia (UWA). She is a climate litigator at the Environmental Defenders' Office, lecturer and tutor at UWA Law School, and former Fellow at Law for Black Lives in the US. In 2016, she was Associate to the Hon. Justice Barker at the Federal Court of Australia. Zoe's criminal justice reforms in relation to Indigenous peoples with FASD have been adopted by a Senate Standing Committee, published in peer reviewed journals and presented at international conferences.
In this episode, Zoe chats with Justin about her journey from working in criminal justice to climate litigation, how attitudes to climate change have changed throughout her career, and how boards are now tackling this issue.


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Review article by Eyal Ben-Ari, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Fighting Forces and Soldiers' Experiences in World War II and Korea
Descriptors: Volume 2012, 20th Century, World War II, Korean War Print Version
The Lions of Carentan: Fallschirmjäger Regiment 6, 1943–1945
By Volker Griesser
Philadelphia: Casement, 2011. Trans. Mara Taylor. Pp. 272. ISBN 978–1–61200–006–0.
Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War's Greatest Untold Story—The Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company
By Patrick K. O'Donnell
Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 2010. Pp. xii, 261. ISBN 978–0–306–81801–1.
Last Man Standing: The 1st Marine Regiment on Peleliu, September 15–21, 1944
By Dick Camp
Minneapolis: Zenith Press, 2009. Pp. xi, 308. ISBN 978–0–7603–3493–5.
The conventional wars of the twentieth century continue to grip the imagination. The experience of troops on the ground, in particular infantry soldiers, is central to this fascination. The three books reviewed here represent diverse ways of portraying and explaining the experience of battle. Two of them concern respectively German airborne units and American Marines during World War II; the third is about a US Marine unit during the "forgotten war" in Korea.
Last Man Standing, by historian and Marine Corps veteran Dick Camp, is the most sophisticated of the three books reviewed here. Its subject is the Corps's very bloody Operation Stalemate on Peleliu. The invasion of the island was actually irrelevant to US victory in the Pacific (American forces had virtually eliminated Japanese airpower and the airfield on Peleliu could not service Japanese planes). But the extremely heavy casualty rates on both sides make this one of the iconic battles of US military history. In a critical and fair assessment of the battle, Camp skillfully analyzes the complex geopolitical context, the relevant operational and tactical moves, the status of American firepower, competition between senior commanders, and the experiences of ground troops. His writing features multiple perspectives and the voices of both American and, where possible, Japanese participants, drawing on personal interviews, oral histories, official reports, photographic collections, and a variety of other sources (some hitherto unpublished). Useful maps and diagrams clarify the challenges the Marines faced on Peleliu. As in his other books, Camp uses boxed inserts to accentuate such related material as the grounds for awarding citations, short biographies of officers, and details of local conditions on the island.
Framed by an introduction and a postscript, the volume's eighteen chapters proceed from the broad background of the Pacific campaign to the specific stages of the Peleliu operation and finally to the sad musings of senior Marine officers about the island's insignificance to the greater war effort. The well-written narrative follows the general contours of the battle, but also the movements of discrete units and the actions of individual soldiers and officers. We learn of the careful preparations of the Japanese forces (digging deep into the coral mountains, creating bunkers, and designing killing fields) and the lack of intelligence that led to an underestimation of their strength. The book mostly covers the landing on the beaches and the slow slog of the Marines over the first six days of the battle, until they were replaced by an army regiment.
The strength of the volume is its blend of matter-of-fact accounts, the more emotional reflections of soldiers, and striking passage like the following on the sights and sounds of nighttime combat:
A radio operator made a frenzied call and flares suddenly blossomed over no man's land. All along the line, tense scared men peered into the greenish-tinged landscape. Shadows played on their imaginations—a bush appeared to be a crouching enemy soldier; a boulder took on a human form. Gunfire erupted and explosions quickly followed as the defenders' nerves reached the breaking point. Flashes outlined the front lines as rifle and machine gun fire lashed out into the darkness. Gradually, officers and NCOs restored order. The firing died down and then stopped. (189–90)
Elsewhere, Camp's rehearsal of "dry" facts has a powerful and harrowing effect:
Dead Marines floated lifelessly in the water, the suction of the passing LVT [Landing Vehicle Tracked] drawing them in their wake. There was no stopping to pick them up. Many of the dead drifted out into the sea and were never recovered. They were listed as missing in action. Other remains were not identified and buried as Unknowns. Specifically trained graves-registration teams had to wait until after the fighting moved inland to gather the dead. Theirs was a grisly task—decomposition, ghastly wounds and traumatic amputations complicated the job of identifying remains. As an example, one of Bruce Watkins' men stepped on a bomb. "He completely disappeared, the only trace of him being a long piece of scalp, recognizable by his very black hair." (158)
A particularly effective aspect of Last Man Standing is its judicious analysis of the leadership before and during the Peleliu operation. Not content with the customary romantic depiction of the "legendary" Col. Lewis "Chesty" Puller, Camp carefully explains his failure to recognize that the attrition his units were suffering was sapping their operational effectiveness. He also notes Puller's limited mobility (owing to a troubling wound received at Guadalcanal), his stubborn reliance on full-frontal assaults with their appalling human cost, and his refusal to let another regiment replace his own decimated force. Though Puller was later promoted and cited for his actions (including those in Korea), Camp has in fact painted a more accurate portrait of the man than those found in more laudatory accounts. He also sharply criticizes division commander Gen. William H. Rupertus for refusing to allow an army division to replace his battered marines (battalions had to be cut down to the size of companies), out of some misplaced pride in the Marine Corps. Such criticisms make Camp's book more compelling and convincing than O'Donnell's.
Griesser, O'Donnell, and Camp all state that personal experiences motivated them to write their books. In Greisser's case, it was his time in the post-World War II Bundeswehr and his desire to document the experiences of Wehrmacht paratroopers. His research entailed many interactions with Fallschirmjäger Regiment veterans. O'Donnell met some men of George Company when they came to welcome Marines returning from Iraq. He himself was just returning from a stint as a war correspondent in Iraq.[2] For his part, Camp became interested in the battle of Peleliu when he was aide-de-camp for Maj. Gen. Ray Davis, a Marine battalion commander under Chesty Puller. Personal connection to their subjects helps explain the power of these authors' narratives and their deep respect for the combatants whose stories they tell. The triumphal tone of O'Donnell's book in particular led me, an external observer of US society, to see such works, quite apart from their historical value, as typifying the American commitment to "our boys (and latterly girls) over there" in foreign deployments.
The three books prompt us to contemplate similarities and differences between the fighting forces of various nations, especially in the context of conventional or symmetric warfare. All three attest to close parallels between individual experiences and unit dynamics across militaries on opposing sides. Time and again one is struck by common personal motivations (concern for comrades, simple patriotism, or sheer survival), small group dynamics (the importance of junior and more senior commanders, the emergence of informal leaders in combat situations, and the value of social support), and drills (hand signals and voice commands, training and exercises, and weapons handling).
The resemblance between the US Marines and Wehrmacht soldiers also extended to a readiness to improvise in specific situations, as soldiers or their leaders came up with solutions to tactical problems. Similarities are also evident in the informal life of the barracks, characterized by the boredom endemic to military existence as well as by such practices as scrounging and "swap outs" and inventive forms of stealing for the good of the unit. For example, one leader in George Company encouraged his troops to exchange their weapons for superior rifles belonging to another unit, while Greisser recounts the German paratroopers' "requisitioning" of vehicles in Rome. Further, the dynamic of unit disintegration and rebuilding in and around battles was common on both sides; I refer not to the withdrawal of a unit to re-form and train incoming troops, but to the integration of additional soldiers (often support personnel like clerks or kitchen staff) into the line units, even during firefights. Finally, there were the more mundane commonalities of life in industrial warfare: the sights and smells, the sounds and feel of weapons, the physical and emotional exhaustion, and the unique language of combat forces.
Yet, for all this, the overarching political and cultural situations of the units were not at all alike. Greisser reports this eyewitness account by a soldier describing a comrade's request for leave to get married:
A Feldwebel [senior sergeant] came to us in the business office and filed a request to be married. Before our company chief, Leutenant Emil Preikschat, could grant this, proof of Aryan descent had to be solicited. When the documents were finally present, I called the Feldwebel in and showed him the papers. His grandfather had been identified as a Jew. If this information had landed in the wrong hands, he could have been released from service and sent to a concentration camp. The Feldwebel stood before me, with his Crete cuff title and his chest fully decorated. A real warhorse and an experienced soldier form the front, and cried. I threw the piece of paper in the oven, where it burned right away. I wrote him a replacement certificate: "The original not able to be located, grandfather probably Catholic." Now the Feldwebel could marry and everything was well. (74)
In the American case, O'Donnell stresses the wider ideology of expected acculturation of ethnic groups[3] in his account of Native-American soldiers and of troops from both the north and the south of the United States fighting side by side in George Company
Conspicuous, too, was the underlying racism of many American troops toward Asian foes such as the Japanese, Koreans, and Chinese,[4] who were routinely called "Gooks" or "Geeks." In this regard, the experiences of World War II, Korea, and later Vietnam may best be understood in light of the American experience of conquering their frontiers while defeating alien "others" thanks to a mighty industrial advantage. The markedly different attitudes held toward the German enemy on one hand and Japanese and Koreans on the other should caution us against propounding any all-encompassing, universal model of combat or the behavior of combatants.
To be clear, I do not suggest an equivalence between the ideologies of National Socialist Germany and democratic America. Far from it. Rather, I want to stress that combat units themselves are always anchored in a wider context of cultural and political forces and beliefs. Deeply held assumptions about ourselves and our adversaries dictate how enemy soldiers are "handled"—understood and acted upon—in battle situations.
A fitting end to this review is Greisser's account of a local understanding that testifies to the mutual respect and professionalism of American and German forces fighting in Europe.
The Fallschirmjäger opened fire on three Americans, but realized shortly afterwards that they were dealing with army chaplains, who had slipped into the combat zone unarmed and unnoticed. A Protestant pastor, a Catholic priest and a preacher from the Salvation Army were searching for wounded survivors among the corpses strewn through the river meadow, which was open to constant fire from both sides' heavy machine guns. Disregarding the fact that what was occurring was an act of humanity, American fighter-bombers attacked in a low level flight, covering the field with fire. When the airplanes turned away, some American medics arrived to help the army chaplains and Major von der Heydte (the German unit's commander) ordered that his Fallschirmjäger should help them recover their wounded; he offered the Americans a three-hour ceasefire. In return, the Americans sent over wounded Fallschirmjäger from the 11th company, who had been taken into captivity the day before during the advance of the 358th Infantry Regiment. During the ceasefire both sides recovered their wounded and fallen without danger. (135)
[1] See Clay Blair, The Forgotten War: America in Korea, 1950–1953 (1987; rpt. Annapolis, MD: Naval Inst Pr, 2003).
[2] Which resulted in his book, We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 2006).
[3] See Richard Slotkin, "Unit Pride: Ethnic Platoons and the Myths of American Nationality," American Literary History 13 (2001) 469–98.
[4] See Thomas Schrijvers, The GI War against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific during World War II (NY: NYU Pr, 2002).
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