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Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene now and implement the Transgender military ban
Even though four federal courts have blocked it
WASHINGTON, DC (November 23, 2018) - The Trump administration filed petitions for cert before judgment today in three cases challenging Trump's transgender military ban: Doe v. Trump, Stockman v. Trump, and Karnoski v. Trump. The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), who represent plaintiffs in both Doe and Stockman and were the first to challenge the ban, characterized the filing as an unusual attempt by the administration to bypass the standard appeals process.
There are four lawsuits in total challenging the transgender military ban, and all four federal courts to hear these cases have issued preliminary injunctions halting the ban from moving forward while the case is being heard in court. In issuing the preliminary injunctions, the courts each determined that the plaintiffs challenging the ban - who include current service members, ROTC and military academy students, and enlistees - would ultimately prevail. If the Supreme Court were to grant the administration's request, it would consider this term whether to lift the injunction while the cases proceed in the lower courts. Excluding transgender people who meet military standards undermines readiness and would dramatically upend the lives and families of thousands of trans service members and enlistees, and disrupt the military as a whole.
'There is no urgency here and no reason for the court to weigh in at this juncture,' said Jennifer Levi, GLAD Transgender Rights Project Director. 'The injunctions preserve the status quo of the open-service policy that was thoroughly vetted by the military itself and has been in place now for more than two years. This is simply one more attempt by a reckless Trump administration to push through a discriminatory policy. The policy flies in the face of military research and dozens of top military experts.'
'The great majority of people in this country recognize that transgender people who can meet the same standards as others should have an equal opportunity to serve,' said Shannon Minter, NCLR Legal Director. Allowing President Trump's ban to be implemented would upend thousands of lives and weaken our armed forces.'
'As Americans come together and give thanks for the sacrifices made by our brave service members and their families, the Trump-Pence administration is focused on undermining our military by tripling down on this discriminatory ban,' said Rick Zbur, executive director of Equality California which brought the Stockman case on behalf its members. 'There are thousands of transgender service members bravely serving the nation with distinction. The administration ought to be thanking them for their service - not trying to score political points by purging them from our military.'
Oral argument in Doe v. Trump is currently scheduled to be held on December 10 in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.
For more information, go to NCLR and GLAD's website outlining the history and status of the Trump-Pence transgender military ban: https://notransmilitaryban.org/.
o	June 30, 2016: The United States Department of Defense (DOD) adopted a policy permitting transgender people to serve in the military based on a nearly two-year DOD review [that determined] that there was no valid reason to exclude qualified personnel from military service simply because they are transgender.
o	July 26, 2017: President Trump tweeted that 'the United States Government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military.'
o	August 9, 2017: NCLR and GLAD filed Doe v. Trump, the first lawsuit filed to stop the ban, challenging its constitutionality and requesting that the court issue a nationwide preliminary injunction to stop it from taking effect while the case is being heard in court.
o	August 25, 2017: President Trump issued a memorandum ordering Secretary of Defense James Mattis to submit 'a plan for implementing' the ban by February 21, 2018. Secretary Mattis delivered this (the 'Mattis Plan' and panel report) to President Trump on February 22, 2018.
o	October 30, 2017: The United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that Doe v. Trump plaintiffs had established a likelihood of success on their claim that President Trump's ban violates equal protection, that the plaintiffs would be irreparably harmed without a preliminary injunction to stop the ban, and that the public interest and balance of hardships weighed in favor of granting injunctive relief and temporarily halting the ban while the case is heard by the court.
o	March 23, 2018: President Trump accepts the 'Mattis Plan' and issues a memorandum in which he 'revoked' his August 25 memorandum.
o	April 20, 2018: Defendants file a motion to dissolve the October 30 nationwide preliminary injunction enjoining the transgender military ban issued by the US District Court for the District of Columbia; a motion to dismiss the plaintiffs' Second Amended Complaint; and a Motion for Summary Judgment.
o	May 11, 2018: Plaintiffs file their cross-motion for summary judgment, as well as motions in opposition to the defendant's motions to dissolve the injunction and dismiss the plaintiffs' complaint.
o	August 6, 2018: Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly denies the defendants' Motion to Dismiss and Motion to Dissolve the Preliminary Injunction.
o	August 27, 2018: Defendants filed a notice of appeal to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals of Judge Kollar-Kotelly's denial of their motion to dissolve the preliminary injunction preventing enforcement of the transgender military ban.
o	September 21, 2018: The defendants-appellants filed their opening brief in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.
o	October 22, 2018: Plaintiffs-appellees filed their opposition to the defendants' appeal, asking the DC Circuit Court of Appeals to leave in place the preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the transgender military ban.
o	October 29, 2018: A wide array of former military leaders, veterans' and civil rights organizations, women's groups, military scholars and historians, and states went on record opposing President Trump's ongoing efforts to exclude transgender people from military service, in thirteen friend-of-the-court briefs filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
NCLR and GLAD have been at the center of the legal fight challenging the Trump-Pence transgender military ban since filing Doe v. Trump, the first of four cases filed against the ban, on August 9, 2017.
Through strategic litigation, public policy advocacy, and education, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders works in New England and nationally to create a just society free of discrimination based on gender identity and expression, HIV status, and sexual orientation. www.GLAD.org
The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) was the first national LGBTQ legal organization founded by women and brings a fierce, long-standing commitment to racial and economic justice and our community's most vulnerable. Since 1977, we have been at the forefront of advancing the civil and human rights of LGBTQ people and their families through impact litigation, public policy, and public education.
Decades ago, the NCLR launched the first LGBTQ Immigration Project, the Transgender Rights Project, the Youth Project, and the Elder Law Project, and began working to end conversion therapy through what is now our Born Perfect campaign. www.nclrights.org
Equality California is the nation's largest statewide LGBTQ civil rights organization. It brings the voices of LGBTQ people and allies to institutions of power in California and across the United States, striving to create a world that is healthy, just, and fully equal for all LGBTQ people. It advances civil rights and social justice by inspiring, advocating, and mobilizing through an inclusive movement that works tirelessly on behalf of those it serves. www.EQCA.org
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Models 101: Four Top Male Models to Watch
Last Updated on January 31, 2019 by Carrie - Boston College
In past Models 101 posts, the focus has been on female models. And for good reason – female models make up a greater percentage of the modeling industry and have always received more attention, and more money, than their male counterparts.
However, even if the boys aren't raking in as much money, that doesn't mean that they're not catching our eyes. Here, we'll get to know a few of the top and most stare-worthy guys in the modeling game.
1. Sean O'Pry
Photo Credits (Starting from the far left, moving clockwise) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Sean O'Pry is a self-made man, who truly brought himself to where he is today. After posting some amateur modeling shots of himself on his Myspace page, he garnered the attention of some serious movers and shakers in the modeling world, including Nole Marin, former judge of America's Next Top Model.
Almost immediately after being signed, in 2007, he opened the Yves Saint Laurent show, which immediately rocketed him to modeling fame. Since then, he's appeared in Details and V Man numerous times, and nabbed some major campaigns, including Calvin Klein and Bottega Veneta.
In 2009, Forbes magazine ranked Sean the number one top male model in the world. Currently, he's ranked second behind Baptiste Giabicioni, but that hasn't stopped this southern guy from grabbing increasingly more editorials and advertisements as time goes on. It isn't hard to understand Sean's appeal, but his structured jaw and beckoning blue eyes definitely play a part in it.
2. Nate Gill
Photo Credits (Starting from top left, moving clockwise) 1, 2, 3, 4
A California boy who started modeling for Abercrombie and Fitch in his teens, Nate Gill popped onto the high-fashion radar after being cast in a shoot starring Beyonce for V. After that, he walked some highly influential shows like Calvin Klein and Givenchy in 2009.
Additionally, Nate has some impressive credentials when it comes to ad campaigns: He has appeared as the face of brands such as Tommy Hilfiger and DKNY. An unbeatable body and an innocent look peppered with a hint of mischievousness puts Nate at the top of my list of male models.
3. Noah Mills
Noah Mills has had one of the most consistent careers of any current male model. Working steadily since 2003, one of Noah's most frequent clients has been Dolce and Gabbana, whom he memorably modeled for in a 2005 campaign that caused quite a stir when Noah's jeans were pulled much, much lower than many deemed acceptable. He was also featured in the memorable D&G perfume campaign of 2009 alongside Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell and Eva Herzigova, as well a series of Michael Kors ads with Carmen Kass.
If his still doesn't ring a bell, though, perhaps you'll recognize Noah from his role in the second Sex and the City movie as the suave Nicky. In a world where male models are often androgynous, pre-pubescent teens, Noah stands out as a man. His look is mature, rugged, and completely blush-inducing.
4. Adam Senn
Photo Credits (Starting from top left, moving clockwise) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Often seen alongside Noah Mills, Adam Senn has also posed in his fair share of Dolce and Gabbana ads. Almost all of them have been controversial, followed by debates surrounding what's appropriate in ads, what underlying message the brand is sending out (often specifically about male dominance) and much more.
In fact, controversy has been a component of Adam's career since its start – after all, it was Adam who appeared in the infamous Gucci ad of 2005 shot by Mario Testino. However, his knack for attracting controversy isn't the only notable characteristic about Adam, as emphasized by the millions of viewers who were left drooling over Adam and his pouty lips after his first appearance on The Hills in 2008.
What do you think of these top model picks? Have any other male models been catching your eye lately? What makes specific male models so appealing and successful? Let us know your thoughts with a comment!
Tags : Models, Models 101
Originally published on April 2, 2011
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Celine says
love the blog! little note…you were talking about adam senn 's infamous gucci add, i m pretty sure its not 2005 but spring 2003. anyway its always a treat to read your blogg. xo
mars says
ohh i love danny schwarz and jon kortajarena as well!
Oh hellooooooo.
I'll take Sean, please.
Milana says
Andrej Pejic is THE male model to watch! So gorgeous that it hurts! Noah Mills was huge some time back, but who could get tired of him? I remember I came across Adam Senn a few years ago and fell in love but forgot about him and now years later he's becoming very well known! He's gorgeous!
hellothere21 says
I agree with sean o'pry, but what about simon nessman or francisco lachowski?
Maddie says
I'd marry them all.
Thanks for the eye candy College Fashion =D

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SportsBaseball team ranked No. 12 in national standings
The Trinity baseball team had a busy spring break, playing seven games over the seven-day break. The Tigers played three games against Schreiner University, one game against Our Lady of the Lake University and finished with a three-game series against Centenary College. The first weekend of spring break sent the team to Kerrville, Texas for the three-game set against Schreiner University. The team won the first two games on Saturday 4-1 and 5-3. Junior Colin...
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The Trinity baseball team had a busy spring break, playing seven games over the seven-day break.
The Tigers played three games against Schreiner University, one game against Our Lady of the Lake University and finished with a three-game series against Centenary College.
The first weekend of spring break sent the team to Kerrville, Texas for the three-game set against Schreiner University.
The team won the first two games on Saturday 4-1 and 5-3. Junior Colin Serkowski lead the Tigers in the first game, going 3-4 with two RBIs and a run scored.
"While we have been winning games, we have not been playing at our max potential. We have room to improve on all facets of our game," Serkowski said. "One of the main things we have been struggling with is hitting with runners in scoring position. We've been leaving too many runners on base."
Trent Rape pitched a complete game in the first win on Saturday, allowing just three hits. The second game had Schreiner take an early yield before Trinity tied the game 2-2 in the top of the fourth. Trinity took the lead in the eighth inning and went on to win.
The series concluded on Sunday with four Trinity pitchers, Ryan Gray, Chris Tate, Troy Nelson and Taylor Hoesen, combining for a no-hitter. The team won the game 10-2; Pepe Santos supplied all the runs the team would need with a three-run home run in the third inning.
Tuesday's game was a different story with the team losing the game to Our Lady of the Lake 7-4. The loss snapped an eight-game winning streak and was Trinity's first home loss of the season.
Junior Teddy Turner took the loss for the Tigers, going three innings and giving up one earned run. The Tigers were sloppy defensively, committing four errors in the game.
"I think the pitching staff is doing well. We always have to work to get better or maintain the level success we have had. There are always improvements to be made, but as a whole we are doing well," Turner said.
Trinity wrapped up the week with a three-game set against Centenary College at home. Zach Speer threw eight innings, allowing two runs and eight hits, while striking out six batters. The offense supplied more than enough support for Speer, putting up 10 runs in the game.
Senior Beau Attyah bashed a solo home run in the seventh inning, and Jeremy Wolf was on base all afternoon, going two for two with three walks. Trinity played the final two games on Saturday, splitting the double header with Centenary. The Tigers won the first game, before falling in the weekend finale.
Centenary took an early lead before Trinity put up five runs in the fifth inning. Mike Walker recorded the win in the first game. Pitching coach Dave Smith is confident about the pitching staff moving forward.
"The staff has a chance to be very special""potentially the best staff we've ever had. But too many guys are inconsistent mentally for us to reach the level of dominance that I think we all expect we can reach," Smith said. "Time still remains to turn that around, so I'm hoping three or four more guys can pitch up to their potential going forward."
The game two loss was given to Nick Griffith who came on as relief in the seventh inning and allowed two runs on two hits.
The offense recorded nine hits, but couldn't muster enough runs to come back.
The Tigers overall record now stands at 14-4. The team travels to Texas Lutheran University in Seguin, Texas for a weekend series.
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Home Wire News Africa News THE PASSING AWAY OF H.E ALHAJI SIR D. K JAWARA
THE PASSING AWAY OF H.E ALHAJI SIR D. K JAWARA
Let me begin by extending profound condolences to the entire bereaved family on my own behalf and on behalf of the entire membership of the P.P.P following the passing away of Alhaji Sir D.K Jawara, former President of the republic of The Gambia and founding father of our country's independence.
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It will also be recalled that on the occasion of the country's accession to international sovereignty, he coined the national philosophy of TESITO or self-reliance. He understood that nation-building is an uphill task and in order to achieve meaningful and sustainable development we must first and foremost count on ourselves.
Sir Dawda has served his country well. He has also contributed a lot to our sub- regional and regional organization as well as all international organizations to which The Gambia belonged. His skills as a peacemaker were recognized all over the world.
May his soul rest in perfect peace
Mohamadou Musa Njie (Papa)
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From the perspective of daily use, forms are the most important objects you'll build in your Microsoft Office Access 2007 application because they're what users see and work with every time they run the application. This chapter shows you how to design and build forms in an Office Access 2007 desktop application. You'll learn how to work with a Form window in Design view to build a basic form based on a single table, and you'll learn how to use the Form Wizard to simplify the form-creation process. The last section of this chapter, "Simplifying Data Input with a Form," shows you how to use some of the special form controls to simplify data entry on your forms.
The examples in this chapter are based on the forms, tables, and data in ContactsDataCopy.accdb on the companion CD included with this book. The results you see from the samples in this chapter might not exactly match what you see in this book if you have changed the sample data in the file. Also, all the screen images in this chapter were taken on a Microsoft Windows Vista system with the display theme set to Blue, and Use Windows-Themed Controls On Forms has been turned on in the sample databases. Your results might look different if you are using a different operating system or a different theme. We'll discuss the Use Windows-Themed Controls On Forms option later in this chapter.
Access was not designed to be a full object-oriented programming environment, yet it has many characteristics found in object-oriented application development systems. Before you dive into building forms, it's useful to examine how Access implements objects and actions, particularly if you come from the world of procedural application development.
In classic procedural application development, the data you need for the application is distinct from the programs you write to work with the data and from the results produced by your programs. Each program works with the data independently and generally has little structural connection with other programs in the system. For example, an order entry program accepts input from a clerk and then writes the order to data files. Later, a billing program processes the orders and prints invoices. Another characteristic of procedural systems is that events must occur in a specific order and cannot be executed out of sequence. A procedural system has difficulty looking up supplier or price information while in the middle of processing an order.
In an object-oriented system, however, an object is defined as a subject that has properties, and you can invoke certain actions, or methods, to be performed on that subject. Objects can contain other objects. When an object incorporates another object, it inherits the attributes and properties of the other object and expands on the object's definition. In Access, queries define actions on tables, and the queries then become new logical tables known as recordsets. That is, a query doesn't actually contain any data, but you can work with the data fetched by the query as though it were a table. You can base a query on another query with the same effect. Queries inherit the integrity and formatting rules defined for the tables. Forms further define actions on tables or queries, and the fields you include in forms initially inherit the underlying properties, such as formatting and validation rules, of the fields in the source tables or queries. You can define different formatting or more restrictive rules, but you cannot override the rules defined for the tables.
Within an Access database, you can interrelate application objects and data. For example, you can set startup properties that prepare your application to run. As part of the application startup, you will usually open a switchboard form. The switchboard form might act on some of the data in the database, or it might offer controls that open other forms, print reports, or close the application.
Figure 11–1 shows the conceptual architecture of an Access form. In addition to operating on tables or queries in a database, forms can contain other forms, called subforms. These subforms can, in turn, define actions on other tables, queries, or forms. Events that occur in forms and subforms (such as changing the value of a field or moving to a new record) can trigger macro actions or Microsoft Visual Basic procedures. As you'll learn when you read about advanced form design, macro actions and Visual Basic procedures can be triggered in many ways. The most obvious way to trigger an action is by clicking a command button on a form. But you can also define macros or Visual Basic procedures that execute when an event occurs, such as clicking in a field, changing the data in a field, pressing a key, adding or deleting a row, or simply moving to a new row in the underlying table or query.
Figure 11–1: An Access form can contain other objects, including other forms, and you can set some of its properties to define procedures that respond to events.
In Chapter 20, "Automating Your Application with Visual Basic," you'll learn how several of the more complex forms in the Conrad Systems Contacts and Housing Reservations sample databases are automated with Visual Basic. Figure 11–2 shows a few of the automated processes for the frmContacts form in the Conrad Systems Contacts database. For example, printing the contact currently displayed in the form is triggered by using a command button.
Figure 11–2: Some of the automated processes for the frmContacts form include opening a dialog box to choose a contacts report and automatically filling in the city and state when you enter a postal code.
In addition to automating print options, code behind the frmContacts form automatically fills in the city and state when you enter a postal code and provides a graphical way to choose a date if you click the button next to a date. On the Events tab, when you enter a sale of a product to the contact, code automatically generates a product record.
Object-oriented systems are not restricted to a specific sequence of events. So a user entering a contact event in Access 2007 can open up a new form object in the Navigation Pane and start a search in a companies or products form window without having to first finalize or cancel work already in progress in frmContacts.


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Oct 20, 2021 - 08:29 pm By Staff Reporter
Orlando Pirates co-coach Fadlu Davids admitted it was disappointing his side did not convert the chances they had in the first half after the 0-0 draw with Maritzburg United.
Pirates created their best opportunities in the opening stanza with Tshegofatso Mabasa, Thabang Monare and Terrence Dzvukamanja all squandering chances.
The Sea Robbers were unable to break down Maritzburg even when they were down to ten men for the last half an hour and Davids paid credit to the Team of Choice's defensive structure. But he also wanted his side to show more creativity and ingenuity.
"Quite disappointing in the first half not to take advantage of the opportunities we created," Davids told SuperSport TV.
"Of course, on the other hand you have to give credit to the opponent for their defensive display.
"Yes, they never had a shot on target or disturbed our goalkeeper, but then it falls on us to be able to unlock the defensive line. Of course with them playing four centre-backs, they changed to the second half with five at the back you need to be creative and unlock the defensive block you are presented with.
"We tried to go through the centre, not possible. We tried to go with extreme width. Not really possible. And very unfortunate not to get the goal to unlock the game."
The Bucs mentor also refused to blame the result on a host of players missing out or fatigue from their CAF Confederations Cup commitments at the weekend.
"We don't really want to complain about our players that are not available," said Davids. "We want to put the trust in the players that are available. Of course the line-ups are changing because of CAF last week. Players not registered, joining us too late. And now yes you make a lot of changes. It's about juggling the squad. Not crying about players not here and really putting trust in the players to produce results."
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This new drying plant will underpin Lakeland Dairies' current and future export-led growth as a major provider of ingredients to the global food manufacturing sector.
Lakeland Dairies operates across 15 counties on a cross-border basis. It processes milk into a wide range of value-added dairy food service products and food ingredients. The co-operative has a portfolio of 240 different dairy products, which it exports to 80 countries worldwide.
The latest investment means that more than 1bn litres of milk will now be processed at the site annually. This will produce more than 160,000 tonnes of milk powder and 50,000 tonnes of butter every year.
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The Unsettling Visions Of Thomas Disch
"Fantasy is not avoidable. The very act of writing fiction is a sin, a lie. One of Disch's most haunting stories, 'Getting Into Death,' is about a writer (one who uses two pseudonyms, at least one of which Disch used himself) who orchestrates her death by fabricating warmth and sentiment toward everyone she has ever known, creating a surfeit of charmingly mawkish moments. Disch does not approve, but he knows a little piece of this lie must be present in any sort of human autonomy. Only fantasy pushes back against fantasy."
At The Millions, I'm overcome with joy to discover a long, engaging, and superb profile of the writer Thomas M. Disch!
Although I'm fairly new to Disch, his exquisitely bleak episodic novel 334, which concerns the goings-on in a New York City housing project in the early twenties of the 21st century, is one of the most beautiful and unsettling pieces of dystopian fiction I've ever read.
What makes it unsettling is that the grim future it envisions — where dead bodies are sold to necrophiliacs, where intelligence tests determine if you can procreate and where "real food" is kept in museums — maintains all the de rigueur trappings of our own contemporary city-scapes colored by income inequality, over-crowding, pollution and nonchalant brutality. The "science-fiction" aspect, then, entails imagining just how far such conditions will go in displacing human hope and perseverance with a toxic and deleterious complacence.
Disch, as The Millions acknowledges, was not much of an optimist.
What makes 334 beautiful is the raw poetry of his sentences, words that almost feel sharpened on the dirty edges of tenements. Beauty also resides, paradoxically enough in the wrenching despair that compels many of the characters towards annihilation and shattered dreams.
I think the power of language, especially in the hands of speculative writers like Disch, McCarthy, Delany and Le Guin, is how it can sound inexpressible depths of darkness and decay. We read these dispatches with a blend of disquiet, distance and concern and I think we are better for them having been written. We have the power to imagine anything we want. Our strength resides in how we assess what is imagined. This, I think is one of the major themes of 334.
A few of the stories in 334 are fairly obtuse and worthy of several re-readings, like the one about the woman who can project herself back time to a Roman-era alter-ego as a way of working through her current state of psychological distress. Disch has ways with subtlety that are quite thrilling but can also leave you occasionally scratching your head.
Anyway, prodded by the excellent Millions article, I'm excited to explore more of Disch's works and so should you.
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(hennemusic) The Who frontman Roger Daltrey revealed the origins of his legendary microphone swinging technique during an April 26 appearance on NBC-TV's The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon and video of the appearance has been shared online.
"I did it out of pure boredom, actually," explained Daltrey. "I was on a stage with two maniacs and a very straight bass player and I just got bored. I thought, 'I've got this thing in my hand and I'm fed up with holding it up there [next to my face] so what do I do with it?' So I kind of threw it and I held onto the cord and of course it came back. I thought, 'Well that's kind of interesting. Let's see what more I can do.'
"I went on to be pretty good with that thing. I could take a cigarette out of someone's mouth from about 20 yards, which is quite good, you know. I was really quite a good shot with that thing but I can't see now of course...I throw it out and now I just pray that it comes down somewhere [near me]."
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Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, I celebrated with my husband… by running out by the sea!
To celebrate my milestone fortieth birthday, my mom watched my children for three full nights so that Alec and I could get away from it all. We did exactly that and ran on the beach at Cambria, CA near Big Sur.
And, in another fabulous birthday miracle, this is the last time, you will see me wearing my husband's men's running vest. I got a new ladies' running vest from my very thoughtful in-laws.
I'm sure the vest will outlive all of us. Now, I can give it back to my husband. I think I started borrowing it about eight years ago when I was pregnant.


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John Phelan, Dublin Business Innovation Centre; Ballyfermot College graduate Rachael Wilson; Chris Dicker, Jam Media; and Maureen Conway, principal, Ballyfermot College
Dublin digital media players devise plan to reduce skills gap in animation and gaming
Heavyweights from the digital media industry in Dublin have joined forces with Ballyfermot College, whose graduates include a number of Oscar winners, to 'Bridge' the skills gap in the animation and games industries with a new training programme.
Ballyfermot College has joined forces with the Guinness Enterprise Centre and the Dublin Business Innovation Centre and various digital media heavyweights, including Havok, Riot Games and Brown Bag Films, to devise a programme called Bridge to nurture talent for current and future industry needs.
The programme will cover the areas of animation, games and related areas, like visual effects (VFX).
The programme was initiated in June 2013 in response to a skills shortage in the animation and games industries, with 44pc of companies in these and related sectors citing recruitment and staffing as their main business concern.
Demand for talent is now outweighing the supply, with many companies having to hire animators outside of Ireland to support their work.
This has come to the fore recently as Ireland's Minister for Jobs, Innovation and Enterprise Richard Bruton has increased by 700 the employment permits for skilled overseas employees to off-set the shortage in Ireland. If projected growth is realised, more talent needs to enter the industry in Ireland.
"For our graduates, a real-world experience in a live setting with real clients working in partnership with world-class creative companies leads to better experiences and more realistic understanding of the demands of the commercial world," explained Maureen Conway, principal, Ballyfermot College.
The graduates started the six-month programme in June 2013 in the Guinness Enterprise Centre. Among a community of more than 300 entrepreneurs, they have been working on live professional projects, including short films, adverts, TV pilots, trailers for pitches and video games. They receive expert knowledge from industry leaders and focused mentoring from Dublin BIC.
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The graduates have been working on four projects. The first was to create conceptual artwork for a JAM Media production called Ivor's Island, including developing characters and sets, with a view to creating a two-minute trailer.
The second project involves developing a demo game and compelling content to showcase Havok's new Anarchy Platform, on mobile and tablet platforms. All the projects will have input from senior creative and commercial directors from each of the partner studios. Projects from Riot Games and Brown Bag Films are kicking off this month.
The programme is expected to produce industry-experienced graduates who can join existing companies or develop new start-up companies.
David O'Meara, former CEO, Havok, and board member of Dublin BIC said: "There is clearly a disconnect between the needs of the commercial world and the experiences of the graduates. The aim of the Bridge is to create a professional environment where animation and games graduates can demonstrate the skills they have and develop their ability to meet deadlines and work under time pressure in a real-world setting."
Ireland has received global recognition for its animation industry, which continues to grow and create new jobs. In recent years, Irish companies have produced animation across numerous mediums, such as film, television, web and video games, for companies like RTÉ, BBC, Disney, Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon. It's now a multimillion-euro industry, with hundreds of people employed in the sector and it is still growing.
The gaming industry in Ireland is also experiencing significant growth, in scale and reputation. Employment in the Irish-based video-games industry increased 91pc since 2009 to a current estimated total of 3,344 workers and has generated revenues of €2bn since 2001.
Havok and Jam Media were former incubation companies with Dublin BIC and were located at the Guinness Enterprise Centre during their early development. Brown Bag Films and the senior team at Riot Games have also received supports from Dublin BIC.
Other partners in the Bridge include Enterprise Ireland, The Irish Film Board, and Screen Training Ireland.
Related: Guinness Enterprise Centre, filmmaking, media, Havok, Riot Games, Brown Bag Films
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March 25, 2016 by Chris Sheridan
Steve Kerr says the Golden State Warriors are "all in" on trying to break the Chicago Bulls' record for most wins in a season — 72. Kudos to Kerr for being honest – and for trying to make history for a second time. Don't forget, Kerr was a player on the 1995-96 Bulls team that went 72-10. Most coaches would say "it doesn't matter" – and they'd be lying through their teeth. But Kerr is a straight shooter (pun intended), and
March 23, 2016 by Shlomo Sprung
Discussing the state of the modern NBA big man in a USA Today story on Monday night, Houston Rockets center Dwight Howard said, "It's really like we're dinosaurs, and they're trying to extinct us." Like any creature, company or concept claiming to face extinction, big men around the league should follow the wise words of Charles Darwin: adapt or die. And adapting is exactly what Charlotte center Al Jefferson did, which is one of the many reasons why the Hornets are the Eastern Conference's hottest
LeBron James supposedly unfollowed the Cavs on his Twitter and Instagram accounts. And this is major news. You know, in this business all journalists are supposed to be neutral. Sportswriters go to practices, attend games, speak to the players in locker rooms and tell stories based upon that special access. Once everyone has fulfilled their obligations, the players and the media get to go about their normal lives until reconvening again the next day … then the next … and the
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March 21, 2016 by Chris Bernucca
Last season, the Atlanta Hawks were one of the NBA's best regular-season stories, winning 60 games. This season, they needed almost 60 games to remember what winning is. After their best season since moving to Atlanta nearly 50 years ago, the Hawks have spent most of this season spurting and sputtering. They got off to a 7-1 start, which many took as a good sign considering they were a measly 7-6 out of the gate last season. There was a six-game
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SAN ANTONIO — The challenge posed by a team that is 56 games better than .500 and chasing history is profound. An opposing coach must have a masterful game plan, cleverly and skillfully juggle his personnel and perhaps come up with a surprise or two. You wouldn't think that could be accomplished by sitting a man who is arguably the best power forward in NBA history, but that's exactly what Spurs coach Gregg Popovich did Saturday night. Tim Duncan played only eight
The NBA regular season ends in less than four weeks, and a lion's share of the national articles until then will be about playoff teams, playoff contenders, awards and the pursuit of history. For the fans of teams with no hope of a postseason berth, this article is for you. The first annual All-Loser Teams feature three starting fives from franchises that will certainly be drafting in the lottery this year. It excludes teams such as Chicago, Washington, Detroit, Houston and
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The Spurs have carved out a unique reputation for themselves. Because of their history the last two decades, we have come to expect greatness from them — and then when they produce it, we're somewhat surprised. While comparing and contrasting some of the Spurs' statistics, I stumbled on one that should qualify as amazing: When using 36-minute projections, Tim Duncan is the 12th leading scorer on the team. Yes, that is correct. Eleven Spurs have averaged more points per 36 minutes than Duncan,
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Robby Krieger Explores Jazz for His Upcoming Solo Project, But With 'a Little Zappa, a Little Doors'
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7/14/2020 by Jon Wiederhorn
One of Neil Young's best-known lyrics — "It's better to burn out than to fade away" — can be applied to numerous casualties of '60s rock n' roll. Yet despite the turmoil he has experienced over his career, Doors guitarist Robby Krieger has neither burned out nor faded away.
Krieger wrote some of The Doors' best songs, including "Light My Fire," "Love Me Two Times," "Touch Me" and "Love Her Madly." And for the past 10 years, he has written jazz, blues and rock music from his home studio; guested on other people's albums; formed the charity Art for a Cause to sell prints of his colorful paintings; and performed both Doors tunes and his solo material on tour.
Now, a decade since his last album, Singularity, the 74-year-old guitar hero is excited to release his seventh solo effort, The Ritual Begins at Sundown (The Players Club, Aug. 14). Its original April release date was pushed back due to the coronavirus pandemic.
"We're using one of my paintings for the cover art, and when my manager looked at the painting, he came up with the name for the album right away," reveals Krieger. "There's a lot of similarities for me between music and painting when it comes to being creative. But there's one big difference: Music is an immediate thing where you play what's in your head in real time, whereas with painting you can take all the time you want."
Like the Grammy Award-nominated Singularity, The Ritual Begins at Sundown is instrumental and was produced by ex-Frank Zappa bassist Arthur Barrow, who has produced all but one of Krieger's solo albums. However, while the former project was rooted in ethereal blues-rock, the latter is more energized by the multitextured experimental jazz and progressive excursions of artists like Zappa.
"If you had to categorize it, I guess it's a jazz album," says Krieger. "The progressions are jazz, but there's a little Zappa in there and a little Doors. Hopefully, it's not just a straight jazz album. I think it's more unique than that."
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One reason it's so redolent of Zappa is Barrow recruited numerous Zappa alumni for the album, such as trombonist Jock Ellis, trumpeter Sal Marquez, keyboardist Tommy Mars and drummer Chad Wackerman. Other established jazzmen, including flutist AeB Byrne, saxophonists Vince Denim and Chuck Manning, and drummer Joel Taylor fleshed out the lineup.
Since almost all of the songs were collaborative efforts and the musicians had specific windows of availability, it took five years to finish the album. In addition to fairly conventional jazz numbers like "What Was That?" and "Bianca's Dream," The Ritual Begins at Sundown features jittery Zappa-inspired pieces with abrupt rhythm shifts and unconventional tempo changes. Krieger also covered "Chunga's Revenge," the title track from Zappa's 1970 solo album.
"That was one that Zappa would play a lot when Arthur was in his band [from 1979 to 1984]," says Krieger. "Arthur used to help Frank sing it. When I was playing with these guys on the record, which was years ago, we used to do it and Arthur would sing it."
Krieger first bumped into Zappa and his band The Mothers of Invention in the '60s. At the time, he thought their music was "kind of corny." But he liked the musicians in the group, and The Doors and The Mothers played numerous gigs together. (Zappa even offered to produce The Doors' 1967 self-titled debut, but the band wound up hiring Paul Rothchild, known for his work with Love and Tim Buckley.)
Many years later, Krieger met Barrow through Zappa keyboardist Don Preston, who played on Krieger's second solo album, Versions, in 1982. "I've been doing stuff with Arthur on and off for 20 years now," says Krieger. "Musically, we get along good together. He loves The Doors. He always wants to write stuff that's like The Doors, but I don't. So we let a little Doors creep in once in a while."
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While The Ritual Begins at Sundown is a jazz album, "Yes, the River Knows" and "Slide Home" are slow, atmospheric tracks fueled by Krieger's slide guitar, and "The Drift" and "Dr. Noir" feature elements of funk, with the latter heavily influenced by '40s crime soundtracks. Originally, Krieger wanted to add vocals to "The Drift," but it turned into an instrumental "because no one in the group is any good at singing," he says.
A second version of the song featuring vocals by Macy Gray appeared in the Prince documentary Mr. Nelson: On the North Side. Krieger tracked the song with Gray at his studio, Horse Latitudes (named after a Doors song). "I wrote some lyrics about Prince, and she loved it," he says. "I never met Prince, but he grew up in this thing called The Way, which was a boys' club where all these cool musicians and young kids learned about music. When Prince passed away, The Way went by the wayside because they no longer had his support."
Krieger understands how things can fall by the wayside. There have been numerous times during his career when he has felt low and gone for a month without picking up his guitar. For the past five years, however, hardly a day has passed when he hasn't been rehearsing, writing, recording or playing. "I always want to keep improving as a guitar player, and the only way to do that is to play [different styles]," says Krieger. "I feel like a lot of guys do the same thing over and over. If I were to do that, it would be really boring."
To remain inspired, he works with musicians he believes are more talented than he is. "I especially enjoy picking up stuff from how they play and applying it to my own music," he says. "For me, that's one of the best ways to learn."
Krieger's desire to keep evolving as a guitarist more than 55 years after he first picked up the instrument is exemplified by the artistry and enthusiasm he generates in The Ritual Begins at Sundown. That same wish to progress explains his embarrassment at being called a guitar hero.
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"It's amazing how many guitar players come up to me and say, 'Hey, if it wasn't for you, I never would have started playing guitar,' " he says. "I think it's really because when I started in The Doors I had only been playing electric guitar for a year or so. I wasn't good enough to copy anybody, so I had to make up my own stuff and it was pretty simple to play. I think that's why people tend to learn my stuff when they start playing."
Krieger credits his then-lack of experience for his psychedelic, freewheeling guitar style in The Doors; being in an improvisational band triggered him to be creative. "There was only one guitar and no bass player, so it made me play a certain way to fill those gaps in the music," he says.
While jazz fans and Krieger followers will be excited about The Ritual Begins at Sundown, Doors devotees should be equally enthused that this year marks the 50th anniversary of the band's comeback album Morrison Hotel. The record was released Feb. 9, 1970, about seven months after the ambitious but commercially disappointing The Soft Parade. Unlike much of the band's simpler, more melodic work, the multifaceted, jazz-inflected tracks on that record were weighed down by horns, strings and spoken-word.
"The album just took forever to make and was more work than fun," admits Krieger. "We were obsessing over every little thing, and we were taking five hours just to come up with a snare drum sound. And maybe by using the orchestra, people thought we were trying to copy The Beatles or something."
Determined not to repeat the arduous nine-month-long studio experience of The Soft Parade, The Doors set out to create a bluesier, more spontaneous album that was more about riding out a groove than tapping into a cerebral songwriting style. The resulting Morrison Hotel, which took less than three months to record, yielded the classic-rock staples "Roadhouse Blues" and "Peace Frog."
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"We were just ready to have some fun, and I think that shows on the album," says Krieger. "The sessions were very laid-back and loose. We had guys come in like John Sebastian on harp and Lonnie Mack playing bass, and we all had a good time."
Morrison Hotel also paved the way for The Doors' most successful album, 1971's L.A. Woman, which featured the title track, "Love Her Madly" and "Riders on the Storm." "L.A. Woman was the first time we produced ourselves," says Krieger. "Paul Rothchild had done all our previous albums, but we had learned how to record and we knew what we wanted. Paul was off doing Janis Joplin, so it was kind of cool. We brought equipment in and did it at our own rehearsal place, and that was extremely fun. We worked on our own schedule and made our own hours. That was probably the most laid-back recording we ever did."
Tragically, it was the last album The Doors would record with vocalist Jim Morrison. L.A. Woman arrived on April 19, 1971, and soon after, Morrison flew to Paris. He died in his apartment bathtub on July 3, 1971, at the age of 27.
"It was so sad," recalls Krieger. "If that hadn't happened, I think we could have gone on to make even better records in the vein of L.A. Woman. But we had a wild ride. I don't regret any of it. And now I'm having fun working with Arthur Barrow and making new music. I've got no complaints."
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Patients with mild (Type 2) diabetes (defined as having a fasting plasma glucose of 7.0mmol/L to 7.8mmol/L) usually respond to a treatment regimen of diet, exercise and weight reduction. Some do require additional anti-diabetic treatment.
A pharmaceutical firm has developed a new protein derived drug, which stimulates a rapid release of insulin (of short duration) from pancreatic cells. In animal studies this drug, N17, appears to be safe, and it is now proposed to test its efficacy and tolerability in a Diabetes Type II population.
The drug will be supplied by the firm to the hospital pharmacy. Tablets will be three strengths: 25mg, 50mg and 100mg. A placebo which looks the same will also be supplied. Patients who attend Dr A in the Diabetes Clinic will, if they wish, participate in the trial and be randomised to one of four groups: group one will receive the 25mg strength, group two the 50mg strength, group three the 100mg strength and group four the placebo. The pharmacy will code the drug and document the patients in each group. Neither the patients nor the doctor will know to which group each patient has been assigned.
The patient will be asked to maintain any prior program of diet and exercise, and body weight and fasting plasma glucose will be measured and documented at various times in the 24 weeks of the trial. During this time the patient will take one of the assigned tablets 30 minutes before each meal.
The Research Plan toxicology data, Patient Information Sheet and Consent Form have been submitted to the Hospital Ethics Committees of several Australian hospitals, with the overall intention of enrolling 1000 patients in the trial.
Is the trial being conducted in order to gain new knowledge or only to establish grounds for the registration and marketing of N17, the new drug?
Will Dr A's patients feel coerced to agree to involvement because of their previous relationship with him as their doctor?
Is the researcher's use of contacts a breach of their privacy or confidentiality? Can a professional doctor also be a researcher with the same people who are his patients?
What information will be provided to inform their consent?
What are the risks of any harm of the new drug and how will these be disclosed and explained to participants?
How will the risks to participants be monitored?
Will participants have to stop taking their current medication?
Will participants know about being randomised to one of four groups and how will this be explained to them?
What will happen if people receive only the placebo and their health suffers?
Will participants have a right to receive the new drug after the trial if it proves to be better than current treatment?
How will the research contribute to improvement of the treatment of diabetes?
In clinical trials, as opposed to interview based research such as in Case Study One, issues of risks to participants tend to be dominant. This expresses one of the central commitments of research ethics: to protect the welfare of participants who, are, after all, volunteering themselves. However, issues of the consent process and of the benefit of the research remain important.
You are encouraged to write down your answers to this question in the box below but you don't have to. This is not a test but rather an opportunity to see whether the issues that you identify are the same, in substance, as those that are listed in the answer to the question on the next page.
Many of the matters listed as answers to question A involve relationships between the researcher and research participants or potential participants in which the interests and welfare of participants is at risk unless care is taken. Ethics generally is about the way people live and thus the way that they relate to others and the effects that those relationships can have on others. The key relationship in research ethics is that between the researchers and the participants and it nearly always involves ethical considerations because it is nearly always unequal, that is, researchers usually have relatively more influence or status than participants who are thus often at risk of feeling persuaded to make decisions, such as agreeing to participate, as a result of that influence. Hence, research ethics is attentive the impact of that relationship.
The 12th issue listed above is a matter of ethics because the involvement of other human beings in research as participants needs to be justified as worth while. If research is poorly designed so that it cannot generate results that have meaning or validity, the involvement of those participants is wasteful and disrespectful of their humanity. Although there is a close relationship between this issue and issues of science or research design, the distinction between ethics and science needs to be maintained.