Katherine of Aragon (16 December 1485 - 7 January 1536) was the daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon. Katherine was the wife of Arthur, Prince of Wales and later married his brother, Henry VIII.
It was decided that she would marry Arthur, Prince of Wales. Catherine and Arthur were married on 14 November 1501. They were sent to Ludlow Castle in Shropshire. This was to take control of the Council of Wales. Months later, Catherine and Arthur became ill, possibly from a sickness which was sweeping the area at the time. Prince Arthur died on 2 April 1502, leaving after Catherine a widow at the age of 16.
Henry VIII married Catherine in 1509, shortly after he became king. She was extremely popular with the people of England. In 1513, when Henry VIII invaded France, she ruled as his regent.
Despite Catherine's popularity, she did not produce a surviving son. Her only surviving child was a daughter, Mary I of England. Henry's need for a son caused him to try and divorce his wife.
At first, Henry tried to convince Anne Boleyn to be his mistress in 1527. Anne refused, so Henry decided to marry her. Divorce was not allowed in the Catholic faith. Henry claimed that, as Catherine had been married to his elder brother Arthur, his was an invalid marriage. He quoted a verse in Leviticus which states that "a man may not marry his brother's wife and such a union would be without the blessing of God and fruitless", and used this as his case. It became referred to as the kings "secret matter" and a special court was held with Cardinal Wolsey leading it.
An official from Rome was brought over and a trial was held. The official stated that he could not come to a conclusion and the case would have to be referred to Rome for the Pope to make a decision. The matter dragged on for quite some time, as the Pope would not agree to an annulment.
In 1532, Anne Boleyn became pregnant with the king's child. She was married to Henry on 25 January 1533 so that the baby could be a legitimate heir. Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon was finally annulled in the following May by Archbishop Cranmer, thus ending the first of Henry's 6 marriages. The divorce went against the Roman Catholic belief system, so Henry created his own church, the Church of England. This was the beginnings of protestantism in England, with the King as the head of the church instead of the Pope.
Until the end of Catherine's life, Catherine believed that she was the true wife of Henry VIII. Her servants called her their queen, but Henry called her the "Dowager Princess of Wales".
In 1535, Catherine was transferred to Kimbolton Castle and was not allowed to see her daughter Mary. Henry VIII told her that if they declared Anne their queen, they would be able to see each other. They never did.
Catherine died, most likely of heart cancer, in January of 1536, just five months before the execution of Anne Boleyn.
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The Sokka Detail That Bothers Avatar: The Last Airbender Fans
By Benny Regalbuto/Oct. 31, 2020 9:04 am EST
Avatar: The Last Airbender's secret sauce is its characters. From the tea-loving Iroh (voiced by Mako Iwamatsu and Greg Baldwin) to the indomitable Toph (Michaela Jill Murphy), each character is wonderfully voice acted and carefully crafted. Without them — no matter how intricate the fantastical world of the show is or how beautifully it's animated — everything falls apart.
Take Sokka (Jack DeSena), the lovable goofball who experiences surprisingly mature character development and keeps Team Avatar grounded — both with his sense of humor and lack of bending ability. As if it weren't clear enough already by season 3, the episode "Sokka's Master" reveals just how vital Sokka is to the team. He takes some time off to train in the way of the sword, and the rest of Team Avatar doesn't know what to do: They can't handle the schedule, read maps, or even make good jokes. Sokka matters to them more than they know.
There's one thing about Sokka, however, that doesn't quite add up, and it has to do with one of his most prominent traits: his cynicism. He's the kind of guy who likes to question everything going on around him, sarcastically or otherwise. As pointed out by Redditor awaysaway23, there's one case in which Sokka's questioning ways don't make a whole lot of sense.
Sokka and the swamp
Over the course of his journey with Aang (Zach Tyler Eisen), Sokka is forced to suspend his disbelief many, many times — yet he spends a good portion of season one trying (and failing) to demerit bending as magical nonsense. Between being kidnapped by the mad spirit Hei Bai and taken into the Spirit World, seeing Aang call upon the spirit of Avatar Roku (James Garrett), and witnessing Aang enter the Avatar State and become a gigantic water monster, even Sokka has to admit there's more to the world than meets the eye.
All of the above occurs in season 1, so you wouldn't expect that Sokka would totally drop his cynical attitude by season 2, per se, but he is at least more open to the abnormal. The season 2 episode "The Swamp," where u/awaysaway23's observation comes in, says otherwise.
Team Avatar is caught in a vicious tornado which hurtles them into a great swamp, stranding them and separating them from Appa and Momo (both Dee Bradley Baker). Aang senses a strong spiritual energy in the swamp, and Katara (Mae Whitman) is inclined to believe him. It makes sense: Aang is the Avatar, the bridge between the physical and spirit worlds, so he's in tune with things that others might not be. Katara's also seen him do amazing things and had amazing things happen to her; the same could be said of Sokka.
Sokka, however, decides to completely ignore Aang's intuition. Aang believes the swamp shouldn't be trifled with, even if that means finding ways forward that don't involve slicing through branches and vines. Sokka's response: hack and slash away at anything standing in his way. When night falls and they decide to set up camp, Sokka chops up some wood to make a fire despite Aang's insistence that the swamp wouldn't like that. It isn't until they're separated and Sokka has a vision of Yue (Johanna Braddy) that he stops being so cynical.
Finding a way to reconcile this seeming breach of character development is difficult. Again, Sokka is forever cynical, but by Avatar's end his cynicism is more or less directed away from the supernatural. Traveling with and befriending Aang expands his horizons, helping him grow into the leader he's always wanted to be and broadening his view of the world. "The Swamp" may be a long way off from the completion of Sokka's character arc, but it's also a long way off from the beginning of the story. Fans are right to feel bothered by this out-of-place detail.

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There are heated opinions on whether America should be welcoming Syrian refugees to our shores after the terrorist attacks in Paris and Beirut last week. Yet, much as we might dread the unknown, part of what it means to be an American is that we rise above the fearful rhetoric and xenophobia now taking hold with a vast number of Republican presidential candidates, and in Congress (where 46 Democrats had this fear on display as well). As Hillary Clinton pointed out, a careful vetting process is needed and must take place, but we should open our hearts to Syrian refugees, who are not terrorists and have themselves been victimized.
Conservative pundit S.E. Cupp penned a surprising article making the case for us allowing Syrian refugees to resettle here. She states that there can be no better advertisement for the positives in our culture than to show compassion. This act in itself leaves little room for the seductions of radicalization to take hold. Imagine the alternative. Ms. Cupp states:
"How Syrian refugees got ensnared in the domestic politics of US immigration policy and the international politics of national security is a longer conversation. But as nearly half of US governors vow to keep their borders closed to the victims of a brutal war we've done little to staunch, there's an important case to be made that accepting Syrian refugees isn't just the moral thing to do, but the best way to prevent the future spread of terrorism."
The moral grounds for accepting refugees hinge on two principles: One, American exceptionalism demands that we lead where others have neither the will nor the courage. And two, we are morally obligated to defend Western values of democracy, freedom and equality against Islamist ideologies that would threaten them. ISIS's attacks in Paris were attacks on our values. Closing our borders is surrendering those values to the enemy.
(It's also, it pains me to point out, the height of hypocrisy for Republicans who have rightly called for more military intervention to stomp out ISIS in Syria to simultaneously refuse to take on the consequences of that action, namely the displacement of millions of Syrians.)
But the refugee crisis is also an important opportunity to turn the tide in the war on terror. For one, these are four million people who may get their first taste of what a free, pluralistic society looks like."
Isn't the war against terrorism a war to win hearts and minds, too? And if we give in to fear, don't the terrorists win? What a powerful image to see the people of Paris flooding the streets and cafes after these horrid attacks to say "we are not afraid."
In contrast, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump made the statement that all Muslims should be required to carry I.D. cards. This was horrifying, given that my dad was Jewish and a holocaust survivor. Before his capture later in 1943, he likewise was asked to leave the country where he resided safely.
Other Republican frontrunner Ben Carson's "mad dog" analogy, as reported by MSNBC, likewise caters to fear rather than sense:
"If there's a rabid dog running around in your neighborhood, you're probably not going to assume something good about that dog, and you're probably going to put your children out of the way," he said during remarks in Mobile, Alabama. "[It] doesn't mean that you hate all dogs, by any stretch of the imagination, but you're putting your intellect into motion and you're thinking 'How do I protect my children? At the same time, I love dogs and I'm gonna call the humane society and hopefully they can come take this dog away and create a safe environment once again.'"
Dr. Carson's words do not telegraph a fitness to lead as he is unthinking about the dangerous message he puts forth about those who are "other". Whatever his context, the takeaway will be that "Syrians = mad dogs." How could he be trusted or respected to work with other nations or leaders who wonder, "does he think I'm a mad dog, too?"
This is a moment for us to examine carefully the rhetoric we are being fed and where it will lead.
Do I want careful vetting of any foreign person, regardless of where they are from? Yes. But I also want to live in a country that upholds the ideals we say we stand for.
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The bank was about to force a liquidation, believing that the company was not viable as a going concern and expecting a $2 million recovery. Owner/Management desperately wanted to be retained and brought Equity Partners in to forestall the liquidation.
Equity Partners was retained and simultaneously sought joint venture partners or a sale of the business.
Equity Partners secured an LOI for $4 million and conducted an auction, resulting in a $4.6 million contract and lucrative employment contracts for the debtor and management. Nevertheless, the debtor refused to cooperate with the Buyer, torpedoing the deal. Equity Partners brought another Buyer to the table and the debtor refused to cooperate a second time, causing that Buyer to back out. Refusing to give up, Equity Partners recommended dividing the company into three components, sold two and, at Equity Partners' recommendation, the secured lender collected the accounts receivable. Operations continued uninterrupted and the new company is growing.


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Q: Image Segmentation library in Java I am working on a project which consist of a procedure of "reading diagram by computer"
I will need to do image segmentation in order to identify the shapes and their locations in the image input. My professor said that I can use any public image segmentation library to do it.
Is there any good image segmentation library which can serve this purpose?
thanks a lot

A: In JAVA for example these tools provide many algorithms for image segmentation:
ImageJ
http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/
Fiji
http://fiji.sc/wiki/index.php/Fiji
Rapidminer IMMI
http://www.burgsys.com/image-mining
Marvin Framework
http://marvinproject.sourceforge.net/

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Even being generic, I think it is possible to answer this question in some sense. Since this question is closed, I gonna complement @radim-burget answer for those people that get here looking for a simple example of image segmentation in Java.
Image Segmentation is an image processing task and is handled by most image processing frameworks. In the example below I'm using Marvin Framework.
Algorithm to segment diagram elements:

*

*Load image and binarize

*Apply morphological erosion to remove lines, texts, etc

*Apply floodfill segmentation to get segments

*Draw the segments in the original image.

Input:

After Erosion:

Result:

Source Code:
import static marvin.MarvinPluginCollection.*;

public class SegmentDiagram {

    public SegmentDiagram(){
        MarvinImage originalImage = MarvinImageIO.loadImage("./res/diagram.png");
        MarvinImage image = originalImage.clone();
        MarvinImage binImage = MarvinColorModelConverter.rgbToBinary(image, 250);
        morphologicalErosion(binImage.clone(), binImage, MarvinMath.getTrueMatrix(5, 5));
        image = MarvinColorModelConverter.binaryToRgb(binImage);
        MarvinSegment[] segments = floodfillSegmentation(image);

        for(int i=1; i<segments.length; i++){
            MarvinSegment seg = segments[i];
            originalImage.drawRect(seg.x1, seg.y1, seg.width, seg.height, Color.red);
            originalImage.drawRect(seg.x1+1, seg.y1+1, seg.width, seg.height, Color.red);
        }
        MarvinImageIO.saveImage(originalImage, "./res/diagram_segmented.png");
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new SegmentDiagram();
    }
}

The shape recognition is another topic, already discussed on Stack Overflow:
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Lucretia Jans, or Lucretia van der Mijlen (1602 in Amsterdam – fl. 1641), was a survivor of the events that followed the sinking of the  in 1629.

She was the daughter of merchant Jan (or Hans) Meynertsz and Steffanie Joosten. She was married in 1620 to Boudewijn van der Mijlen (1629), diamond cutter, and in 1630, after her first husband's death, to Sergeant Jacob Cornelisz Cuick.

In October 1628, Jans departed the Netherlands on the Batavia to join her husband in Batavia, capital of the Dutch East India Company. On 4 June 1629, the ship foundered upon the reefs of the Houtman Abrolhos Islands off the western coast of Australia. Francisco Pelsaert, the ship's commander, and its skipper left with a team for Java (Jakarta) to seek help. Meanwhile, Jeronimus Cornelisz, the most senior Dutch East India Company official left behind, started terrorizing the other survivors with the intent of creating a pirate ship. Some were murdered and some of the women were used as sex slaves, with Cornelisz reserving Jans for himself.

When the rescue team arrived from Batavia, Cornelisz was executed at the scene of the crime, and the rest were put on trial in Batavia. During the trial, it was alleged that Jans was guilty of "provocation, encouraging evil acts and murdering the survivors … some of whom lost their lives owing to her backhandedness." Jans was put on trial and denied the charges. The court applied for permission to torture her, but it is unknown whether such permission was granted; she seems to have been acquitted of the charges. She returned to the Netherlands in 1635.

In 1647, the mutiny was described in the publication  ("Unlucky voyage of the ship Batavia"), based on the trial. This led to a law change—that made reference to the case—which limited female passengers on ships, on the grounds that their presence led to disturbances.

The opera Batavia, commissioned by Opera Australia, is based on the historical events surrounding the ship.

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These airlines fly from Bangkok to Seoul, but you'll have at least one layover.
This is the shortest flight time from Bangkok to Seoul.
17 / Oct / 2019 is currently the lowest priced day of the year to fly the Bangkok/Seoul route. There are around 116 flights on any given week from the UK to Seoul and the cheapest month to fly right now is October.
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When you fly 3671 km from Bangkok to Seoul, you can choose from 13 airlines. Flights are most expensive during high season, and you can expect accommodation prices to be higher then too. Last-minute deals do crop up, but it's best to book in advance to avoid disappointment.
If you're fairly flexible about when you want to fly to Seoul, searching by month will show you the cheapest times to go. It's also worth looking out for flights operated by Air China, Cathay Pacific and China Southern Airlines, as they're the most popular airlines for this journey.
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Social dialogue and HR practices in European global companies
This study examines the interaction between social dialogue practices and human resources management (HRM) policies in European multinational companies (MNCs). It looks at the changing role of HRM and its interaction with European Works Councils (EWCs), which can act as a link between different levels of social dialogue. Both HRM functions and social dialogue are under pressure from a variety of trends and dynamics – not least, ongoing technological change.
Small and medium-sized enterprises, Social dialogue, Participation at work, Employee representation, Agreements, Collective bargaining, Labour and social regulation, Industrial relations and social dialogue, Industrial relations
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I foraged the wild garlic in Camel CSA's standard boxes this week from woods near our veg-growing site. This invasive plant makes a delicious, if slightly pungent, pesto. I recommend you serve it warm: stir it through freshly-cooked pasta or mash, swirl it into soups and casseroles or use it as a topping on pizzas*.
Pick the leaves over. Make sure you discard any flowers, coarse stalks, stray pieces of grass, dirty or damaged leaves. Blitz the garlic leaves (plus parsley if used), lemon juice and toasted nuts in a food processor or liquidiser for a minute or two. Then gradually blend in 100ml of the olive oil. Lastly, mix in the grated cheese, salt and pepper.
This will keep up to three weeks in the fridge in a clean sterilised screwtop jar. Press the pesto down firmly to remove any air pockets. Seal the surface with the remaining olive oil to help it keep well.


This is basically a critique of people wandering through life not noticing things.
The narrator's parents are too busy keeping up with current events. This reminds me of a Freakonomics podcast Why Do We Really Follow The News? tl;dl: We follow the news to seem smart. We follow news for entertainment, treating politics like a kind of sport. But does following news really make you smarter, or do you just seem smarter? Are you following the right amount of news, or is your interest in current events perhaps leaving you without time for the small things in your immediate surrounds?
Readers will bring their own meanings to this story. I'm inclined to see stories as metaphors for autism. The boy's massive collection of bottle tops is one clue, as is the fact that he is able to notice things others don't. He's offered a sign and "I can't say I knew what it all meant." There is a popular view of autism as illness, in which an autistic child is expected to learn to fit in with allistics in order to get on in life. Social skills can indeed be learned, but only at the expense of losing that highly individual part of yourself.
More widely, this could be a story about any child with an unusual worldview who, by social conditioning, is gradually forced into adult conformity.
The first person narrator is 'the every child' — at the moment in children's literature the every boy is white, and a boy, not a girl.
Unusually for children's book narrators, this is a knowing adult looking back at an incident from his childhood with somewhat renewed insight. This kind of narrator is more often encountered in adult fiction (about childhood experiences) and is probably the thing that makes this story feel like a crossover book. Like other work from this artist, The Lost Thing is not a children's book, per se. It's more of an art artifact, or a coffee table book.
I say 'somewhat renewed insight' because the narrator admits on the very first page that he has forgotten a lot of stories so he'll just tell this low-key one instead.
Pete is your stoner sage archetype who 'has an opinion on everything'. (He seems a bit stoner because he puts 'man' at the ends of his sentence.) I'm thinking Harris Trinsky from Freaks and Geeks. TV Tropes calls this the Erudite Stoner.
What's Shaun Tan done here? While Pete's advice isn't total nonsense, it feels about as deep as a Facebook meme. Tan is definitely spoofing the archetype: "He paused for dramatic effect".
The parents are a boring middle-aged couple who are depicted staring at the TV. The message here is that when we become absorbed in media we stop noticing things going on around us, even though they're really obvious. And the red thing is, ironically, really obvious. It's huge. It's red. When you (the reader) look at that thing you can't help but wonder what it's for and what it does.
The Cahill Expressway is in Sydney.
I wonder if Smart's painting was even influential for Colin Stimpson (though Stimpson is not Australian) when he wrote and illustrated Jack and The Baked Beanstalk.
The boy as every child means that the weakness/need is cast upon the reader: We are all too busy fitting in to notice little things (and also, probably, very big things!) that are right under our noses. We need to stop and look at world. This is metafictive in a less obvious way; picturebooks require readers to slow down and study the pages in a way no other medium really does. You won't be able to read this picturebook properly unless you linger on the illustrations.
The boy wants to know more about this big red thing, and know that it's happy and safe.
The natural opponent is wider society, disinclined to look after the odd things that don't fit anywhere. This 'society' is personified by the parents, who need the Lost Thing pointed out, and even when it's pointed out, they take no real interest in it.
He brings it home and houses it in the shed, but he's worried his parents are going to find it.
So when he happens upon an advertisement in the back of the newspaper he goes on a mission to find out where this thing fits in.
The battle is the mythic journey that the boy must embark upon after he finds the sign with the squiggly arrow. It's a battle finding out where the Lost Thing fits because he has to work it out himself.
The self-revelation is symbolised with a literal door open, and a big red button. The boy learns that there is a whole other world full of non-conforming things right behind the boring veneer of society.
The unhappy ending is that this boy is an adult now and can hardly remember any of the amazing things he knew of as a child.


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Q: How Can I get ChillBox (a LightBox clone) to work on an offline webapp using cache.manifest? I am building a web app for an iPad (designed so my boss can show information at meetings).
So far I have everything working, except for one thing- I am using an application cache to allow the app to work offline (cache.manifest), and for some reason, when I go offline, I can not get any sort of lightbox type script to work.
When I am connected to the internet everything functions as desired, but as soon as I disconnect the images open on a new page in Safari instead of showing in a lightbox.
Currently I am using ChillBox ( http://www.chillwebdesigns.co.uk/chillbox ), but I have also used SlimBox and it had the same problem. (I tried LightBox 2, but it failed for other reasons.)
I have all the images in my manifest, as well as all the .js files.
The links are all formatted as such:

Anyone have any ideas?

A: Problem appears to be solved. I was loading the chillbox.js inline after the set of links that it applied to. This worked online, but failed offline. Putting the link to the js in the head of the parent file seems to have fixed this for now!


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Heres a quick easy breakfast idea that has gotten a lot of buzz lately and I think it is perfect for caregivers themselves or to make for your loved one. It is, of course, overnight oats!
Being a caregiver takes a lot of ENERGY! If you haven't already, it's a great idea to join the Green Smoothie bandwagon.
Whatever activities you are partaking in with your loved one for the Fourth of July holiday, make it a great lasting memory! And also make this dessert to share!
Who has time to make big fancy meals anymore? Not caregivers! If you are cooking meals for a loved one, follow one rule: Keep it simple!


was a large theropod from the Late Cretaceous. It is famously found in the dinosaur-rich, Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta, Canada. Albertosaurus lived where the Western Interior Seaway had periodically retreated, 76-70 mya. It had the large head and two-fingered claw of other tyrannosauroids. Its teeth have specialized cracks which gave the tooth additional strength while Albertosaurus pulled flesh from its prey.
Albertosaurus is a tyrannosauroid. It is a member of its own genus and is not a member of Tyrannosaurus.
Albertosaurus had more teeth than larger tyrannosaurids.
A. sarcophagus is the type species and derives its genus name from the range it appears to be restricted to. This range is the province of Alberta, Canada.
Albertosaurus was an apex predator, possibly occupying different niches as it matured.
Albertosaurus adults likely weighed 2-3 short tons, which was much less than T. rex.
Fossils from 26 individuals have been discovered in one site, suggesting possible pack behavior.
Albertosaurus lived among diverse populations of dinosaurs and other fauna.
Albertosaurus has made several television appearances including Primeval: New World and a segment on Jurassic Fight Club.
Albertosaurus had a large head and tiny hands with two digits that are popularly recognized on tyrannosauroids. It was bipedal and had a long tail. Smaller and sleeker than T. rex and Tarbosaurus, it was still larger than many theropods. Albertosaurus could grow 33 feet (10 m) long, though 30 feet (9 m) is considered a typical length. It was 11 feet tall at the hip. Estimations place its weight between 2-3 short tons.
had a shorter (flatter) skull and shorter ilia (hip bones) than the tyrannosaurines. Like other theropods, Albertosaurus had long legs and three toes on the ground. The shortest digit, the hallux, was the first digit of four and did not usually contact the earth. The middle toe on the ground was the longest. Albertosaurus is believed to have walked between 8 and 13 mph (14-21 km/hr), with a maximum speed of 30 km/hr. A possible top speed of 40 km/hr has also been suggested. Juveniles would have run faster than adults.
Albertosaurus had a skull which was 3.3 ft (1m) long. Its short neck was S-shaped. Above its eyes, protruded short crests of bone which would have looked like blunt horns. Spaces in the skull called fenestrae provided locales for muscles to attach, made room for sensory organs, and also lightened the head. Albertosaurus had eyes which looked more to the side than Tyrannosaurus, making Albertosaurus less effective at judging distance.
Albertosaurus was a heterodont (different forms of teeth for different functions in the mouth) with 14-16 teeth in the lower jaw, and 17-19 teeth in the upper jaw. Teeth were serrated, shaped like bananas, and differed significantly in thickness as the animal aged. There were four, smaller premaxillary teeth in both sides of the upper jaw. They were D-shaped and packed in closely. The maxillary teeth could resist lateral forces produced by prey and models suggest a bite force of about 3413 N. This compares to computer models of T. rex which estimate the T. rex bite force as 35,000-57,000 N.
Serrations of the teeth are very thin and resemble cracks. The empty, round space of an ampulla is at the base of the crack. The void allows the distribution of force across a greater surface area. This property prevents the crack from getting bigger. Such cracks have been observed in other predators such as Dimetrodon. Rather than slice meat off of prey, tyrannosauroids pulled meat away. The forces involved would compress the teeth toward the front of the mouth. Ampullae would diffuse such forces and would have prevented cracking on the posterior side of teeth which experienced tension from the pulling motion. In 2001, studies conducted by William Adler revealed the significance of the cracks and ampullae. Using drilled plexiglass, he demonstrated the strength advantage of having such spaces.
Bone histology has been used to determine growth rates for Albertosaurus and other tryrannosauroids. Fossils have revealed that a two-year-old Albertosaurus was 7 feet long and weighed about 110 lbs (50 kg). The oldest and largest Albertosaurus found was about 28 years old. As in other tyrannosauroids, the fastest growth rates occurred over a four year period which ended at approximately 16 years of age. Two years into a growth spurt that added 268 lbs (122 kg) per year, juveniles and their adult counterparts would have been the largest predators in their region (based on adult weight of 1.4 short tons). Growth continued at a slower rate throughout the life of Albertosaurus, though sexual maturity is believed to have begun after the four year growth spurt.
There are several reasons proposed for the lack of Albertosaurus juvenile specimens. Most specimens have lived fourteen years before they died. Preservation bias and collection bias are two influential considerations for current theories. Preservation bias is when younger animals have smaller bones which have a tendency to escape preservation. Collection bias is when collectors overlook the smaller bones of a juvenile. Albertosaurus juveniles are larger than many other juvenile animals, which suggest that their rarity has more to do with life history than bias. Hatchlings may have had high rates or mortality. However, juveniles were considerably large after just two years and may have been so effective at survival that very few juvenile individuals died. This would explain the lack of fossils found for that stage.
Periods of rapid growth beginning at age 12, and again at the beginning of sexual maturity (14-16 yrs old) are expressed in the fossil record with a doubling of mortality rates at each of these stages. The higher mortality rates continue throughout adulthood. This pattern of mortality is also observed with large mammals. Some reasons for increased mortality include competition for mates and resources, territorial disputes, and the demands of reproduction. Other tyrannosauroids share a similar mortality pattern in the fossil record. Since most Albertosaurus specimens come from one area, bias must not be ignored.
The age ranges and state of preservation of the specimens in the Dry Island bonebed are factors used to conclude that the animals died together. There are very few remnants of herbivores at the site. Phillip J. Currie asserts that these details are signs of possible pack behavior. Other scientists, including Currie, submit that the animals could also have been together because of rising flood waters or drought. There are several sites where theropods such as Allosaurus have been found with other individuals of their species. These sites have been explored as proof of gregarious behavior. Alternative explanations for the aggregations are also proposed. One explanation is that predators engaged in carcass-mobbing and aggressive behavior that led to death and cannibalism at the sites. The behavior of Komodo dragons has been used as an example.
Albertosaurus may have moved up to 30 km/hr and may have used a 'bite and slice' tactic against large prey. Currie notes that Albertosaurus youth had leg dimensions which facilitated speed. Currie suggests that such speed could have been utilized in pack hunting. The hypothesis is that the swift and youthful pack members drove prey to the larger, slower, yet more powerful adults. Juveniles may have also subsisted on different prey than the adult Albertosaurus, reducing inter-species competition. Such niches may have been available since Albertosaurus, even as a juvenile, was much larger than the other theropods in its community. Theories regarding the partitioning of predator niches and hunting strategies are difficult to prove.
Paleopathology has provided some insight into Albertosaurus life. Trichomonas gallinae is a parasite that effects birds. A similar parasite may have been responsible for the smooth-edged perforations found in the jaws of tyrannosaurids. The infection would have been transmitted by biting, and would have made eating difficult. Tendon avulsions and stress fractures have been observed in other theropods. Especially compared with Allosaurus, Albertosaurus had significantly fewer such stress injuries. The specimens of Dry Island have been relatively free from disease. Some specimens of Albertosaurus have been found with injuries such as broken bones, bites, ossification of tendons, and bone spurs.
Albertosaurus lived 76-70 mya , during the Late Cretaceous. Specimens are most commonly found in the Horseshow Canyon Fm. The younger sediments of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation in Alberta, Canada, are from the Late Cretaceous. They are the early Maastrictian stage and date from 70 to 68 mya. As the Cretaceous came to a close, the Western Interior Seaway was receding. The climate had been cooling and as a consequence, sea levels dropped and exposed land. This process is represented in the Bearpaw Shale which rests below the Horseshow Canyon Fm. The sea levels rose and fell throughout deposition of Horseshoe Canyon sediments. While this formation records marine and coastal habitats, coal seams, lagoons, and swamps, Albertosaurus is found within delta and floodplain deposits. The fossils are preserved in the more recent half of the formation, as the seaway moved toward permanent recession during post-Horseshoe Canyon times. The North Atlantic and South Atlantic opened in the Cretaceous and the continents became recognizable from a modern perspective.
Albertosaurus was an apex predator among the dinosaurs which dominated the Horseshoe Canyon Fm. Hadrosaurs including Edmontosaurus were plentiful in this formation. Numerous ceratopsians, ornithohominids, and several species or carnivorous theropods were also part of the communities. The giant Sauropods of the Jurassic had been disappearing by the Cretaceous and were replaced by smaller herbivores. Ankylosaurians and pachycephalosaurs were present but rare. A small theropod called Albertonykus was found in the Dry Island bonebed among Albertosaurus. The marsupial Didelphodon lived among the fauna, as did the rodent-like multituberculates.
Flowering plants evolved to gain the attention of insects and they proliferated during the Cretaceous. Fish fauna such as sharks, rays, and gars also lived at this time. Plesiosaurs lived in the salt water while turtles and crocodilians could be found in fresh water.
The Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction Event occurred about 65 mya. Dinosaurs and large marine reptiles became extinct at this time. Possible causes of the mass extinction include an asteroid impact which would have created widespread fires and a photosynthetic crisis from debris aerosols and ash. Regional volcanic catastrophes may have also contributed to climate change and extinction.
Albertosaurus belongs to the family Tyrannosauridae. There are two sub-families in the family Tyrannosauridae. These sub-families are Tyrannosaurinae and Albertosaurinae. The Albertosaurinae sub-family currently contains two species Gorgosaurus libratus (Albertosaurus libratus), and Albertosaurus sarcophagus. Albertosaurines had smaller skulls, longer tibia, longer metatarsals, and longer phalanges than members of the Tyrannosaurine sub-family. They also had a more slender build than tyrannosaurines.
The first Albertosaurus was discovered in 1884. The partial skull was retrieved on a geologic survey expedition led by Joseph Burr Tyrell. His colleague, T. Chesmer, discovered parts of a skull and pieces of a skeleton in 1889. These specimens were from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation in Alberta. Cope assigned the type specimens to the preoccupied genus of Laelaps, and still awarded the name Laelaps incrassatus. O.P. Hay used the name Dryptosaurus as the species genus in 1902. By 1904, Lawrence Lamb had described the remains and awarded them the species name of Dryptosaurus incrassatus, following Lamb's example.
In 1905, Osborn renamed the type specimens Albertosaurus sarcophagus. Osborn observed that connections to Dryptosaurus were based on tyrannosauroid teeth which were too generic to confidently associate them with the Tyrell and Chesmer's specimens. Osborn also noted dissimilarities between their Albertosaurus type specimens, and those of Dryptosaurus.
In 2010, Thomas Carr pointed out that the holotype, paratype, and specimens discovered later shared a unique trait. The shared trait was a large opening in the back rim of the palatine bone. This trait separates Albertosaurus as its own genus. Since Tyrell's discovery, more than 30 specimens have been studied. Such abundant material has revealed many details which are impossible to surmise for other groups.
In 1913, the Dinosaur Park Formation yielded a tyrannosauroid that was named Gorgosaurus libratus. It was found in the Alberta sediments by C.H. Sternberg and named by Lawrence Lamb in 1914. Because of the limited skull material available for Albertosaurus, there was little evidence to separate the taxa. In 1970, G. libratus was renamed A. libratus. One reason that the species have been considered separate is because A. libratus lived several millions years earlier and hundreds of kilometers farther south. In 2003, P.J. Currie used details of tyrannosauroid skulls and new information regarding theropods to declare that while Albertosaurus and Gorgosaurus were most closely related to each other, they were different enough to be separate taxa. Currie pointed out that the new albertosaurine discoveries in Alaska and New Mexico may provide new insight. Meanwhile, some scientists refer to Gorgosaurus as an Albertosaurus, and others discuss them as separate genera.
Albertosaurus discoveries were made for over 40 years. Since the 70s, there has been an increase in recovered specimens. Several discoveries of tyrannosauroid specimens have been attributed to members of Gorgosaurus or Albertosaurus genera. Several have been renamed as their similarities to Tyrannosaurus or other genera were revealed, or distinguishing traits have since been considered as juvenile characteristics of previously described species.
The greatest known concentration of Cretaceous theropod bones which has been discovered is along the Red Deer River which flows by Drumheller, Alberta. In 1910, Barnum Brown and his team collected pieces of skeletons from 9 separate individuals of Albertosaurus. Due to limited time, Brown had to leave much of the site unexcavated. In 1997, the Royal Tyrell Museum of Paleontology rediscovered and continued work on the bonebed. By 2005, thirteen more individuals were identified from incomplete skeletons. The specimens include a two-year-old and an aged, 33 foot-long adult. The number of individuals at the site could be as few as 12. If ontogeny was responsible for size differences, there could be as many as 26 individuals at the quarry. The site is now called the Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park.
Insight into the Albertosaurus genus continues. Alectrosaurus olseni is a theropod discovered in Mongolia. Some scientists believe that it is an Asian species of Albertosaurus. The controversial theropod, Nanotyrannus, was formerly known as Albertosaurus lancensis.


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Vlad Dolgopolov, Ph.D.
Section Leader, Economics
Email: vvdolgopolov@wm.edu
Ph.D., Economics, Clark University
MA, Economics, Clark University
MLA, Management, Harvard University
MS, Higher Education Administration, Southern New Hampshire University
BS, Business Economics & Finance and Psychology, University of Indianapolis
Expertise: Economics, statistics, management, nonprofit management, higher education administration and leadership, quantitative analysis and statistics, health care
Vlad Dolgopolov is a section leader for William & Mary's Online MBA program. He also is an associate professor at National Louis University in Chicago. Vlad has taught courses on micro/macroeconomics, statistics, global economics, management, higher education leadership, nonprofits, and quantitative analysis at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels.
In addition to teaching at residential and online programs across the U.S. and in Greece, he has extensive professional experience working in higher education. Most recently, he served as the associate dean of College and Professional Studies at National Louis University. He has held various administration-level positions in the Antonelli College System in Illinois, the Empire Education Corporation in New York and at Clark University in Massachusetts.
Vlad's academic pursuits include completing advanced coursework at New York University and at universities in Greece and Russia. He has contributed to several published books and authored a piece on monetary policy for the Atlantic Economic Journal. He is a member of the American Economic Association and the Council on Law in Higher Education. Vlad is also bilingual in English and Russian and speaks intermediate Greek.


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This study examined the alcohol drinking preferences of young adults in Victoria who consumed alcohol at risky levels, using both quantitative and qualitative techniques, and found that their alcohol product choices were heavily influenced by factors such as cost, alcoholic content, and their intention to become intoxicated.
Previous research has been undertaken into what heavy drinkers usually drink, but little is known about the drink types that heavy drinkers turn to when they are consciously planning on getting drunk. This report addresses two aims. Firstly to examine what young people drink, particularly those who participate in high-risk drinking. And secondly to consider what young people drink when they intend to get drunk, and whether this is different to what high-risk drinkers generally drink across all occasions.
Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used to address these aims. Survey data was used to identify the population level links between drink choices and drinking patterns in Victorian young adults aged 18-24 years. Survey data was taken from 3,528 responses received from 18-24 year olds who completed the 2009 Victorian Youth Alcohol and Drug Survey (VYADS). This is complemented by the insights of qualitative data from 60 interviews conducted in Melbourne during 2012 with young adults of the same age range. These responses are used to illustrate and explain the link between drink choice and both high-risk drinking and intention to get drunk.
The study found that on average each participant selected 3.18 drink types that they "usually" consume. High-risk drinkers, defined as those who consume 11 or more standard drinks on one occasion at least once a month, selected an average of 3.51 drink types, compared to the 2.81 types reported by other drinkers (F(1,3213) = 114.72, p<.001).
The study found that drink choice among young Victorians is gendered. The largest gender divide can be found in two of the more popular drinks: regular strength beer, which was selected by approximately three quarters of males (76%), and bottled wine, which was selected by over half of the female participants (57%). Spirits (67% & 71%) and RTDs (59% & 69%) were selected by more than half of both males and females respectively.
High risk drinkers were more likely than non-high risk drinkers to consume regular strength beer, cask wine, bottled spirits and RTDs regardless of gender. The qualitative interviews revealed that the main reasons for choosing alcoholic drinks were cost, enhancing or reducing intoxication, avoiding feeling sick and to suit the occasion.
When examining young people who consumed alcohol to get drunk, for all drink types there were more males than females consuming that type of alcohol with the intention of getting drunk. In particular, males who drink cask wine stood out, as 37% of them stated that they intend to get drunk often or always. More than a quarter of male home brew (31%), cider (26%), RTDs (26%) and spirits (25%) drinkers also stated this. Females were less likely to state that they intended to get drunk all the time or often when drinking, but more than 20% of those who drank cask wine (24%), home brew (22%), RTDs (20.%) and spirits (20%) did so.
Furthermore, the qualitative interviews revealed that young people who consume alcohol with the intention of getting drunk make their drink choices based on the drinks which offer high alcohol content for a relatively low cost; drinks they enjoy consuming at any time; and spirits to achieve rapid intoxication. Young people explicitly recognise the difference between off- and on-license alcohol prices and consequently choose to drink cheaper alcohol at home before heading out. Research participants also frequently spoke about drinking shots at licensed venues when they wanted to get drunk quickly. Many participants in interviews nominated spirits as the drink they turned to when they wanted to get drunk.
The findings from both the quantitative survey and qualitative interviews conducted in this study reveal that young people aged 18-24 years in Victoria who consume alcohol with the intention of getting drunk are selecting drink types that offer high alcohol content for low cost. Young people also explicitly recognise the difference between off- and on-license alcohol prices. Many are therefore pre-loading before heading out, and drinking shots at licensed venues in order to achieve their desired level of intoxication.
The availability of cheap, high-alcohol content alcoholic beverages is fuelling heavy drinking occasions in young Victorians, who are consciously turning to these drink choices when intending to get drunk. Measures based on reducing the availability of cheap or discounted alcohol, including licensing controls, pricing or taxation could help reduce the high rates of high-risk drinking among Victorian youth.
Current regulations relating to the Responsible Service of Alcohol and discounting in licensed premises also need to be adequately enforced. Enforcement of these measures will reduce the likelihood of young people consuming alcohol to intoxication in licensed premises.


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Western Washington Opens At No. 14 In AVCA Preseason Poll
Western Washington enters the season ranked No. 41 with 471 points.
AVCA Division II Coaches Top-25 Preseason Poll
LEXINGTON, Ky. – A week after being picked to win the GNAC once again, Western Washington leads three conference teams in the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Division II Coaches Top-25 Preseason Poll.
The Vikings open the season ranked 14th, receiving 471 points in the poll. Western Washington is one of just two West Region teams to make the top-25. Cal State San Bernardino, the 2019 national champion, enters the season at No. 3.
Alaska Anchorage and Central Washington are among 36 teams listed as receiving votes. The Seawolves, picked second in the GNAC Coaches Preseason Poll, received 114 points to rank seventh among the team receiving votes. Central Washington, picked third in the conference, received 10 points.
In winning their last conference title in 2019, Western Washington was simply dominant. The Vikings led Division II in blocks per set (2.99), ranked fifth in hitting percentage (.270) and ninth in assists per set (13.15), leading the GNAC in all those categories. They also led the conference in opponent hitting percentage (.132) and kills per set (13.93). Finishing with a 27-3 record, Western Washington advanced to the NCAA West Region semifinals. During the COVID abbreviated 2020-21 season, Western Washington finished with a 9-2 record and led all GNAC programs in kills per set (13.40) and blocks per set (2.65).
Junior Gabby Gunterman and sophomore Calley Heilborn, both GNAC Preseason All-Conference selections, lead the Vikings' offense. Gunterman, who was named a Third Team AVCA All-American in 2019, averaged 2.45 kills and 2.95 digs per set in the spring. Heilborn, the 2019 GNAC Freshman of the Year, led WWU in the spring with 3.53 kills and four digs per set. Sophomore setter Malia Aleaga, also a GNAC Preseason All-Conference pick was a Third Team D2CCA All-American in 2019 and averaged 7.76 assists per set in the spring season.
Alaska Anchorage is the only GNAC squad to beat Western Washington over the last two full seasons. The Seawolves led the conference and finished ninth in Division II with 2.11 aces per set in 2019 and finished second to WWU in the conference rankings in hitting percentage (.233) and blocks (2.56 per set). Playing 15 matches during the spring 2021 season, UAA led all competing GNAC squads with a .238 hitting percentage while averaging 12.89 kills per set while amassing an 11-4 record.
Senior right-side hitter Eve Stephens, the GNAC Preseason Player of the Year, sets the pace for the UAA offense. A Second Team AVCA All-American in 2019, Stephens averaged 4.16 kills and 2.54 digs per set with a .290 hitting percentage last spring. Junior setter Ellen Floyd, a GNAC Preseason All-Conference pick, was a First Team All-West Region selection and Honorable Mention All-American in 2019. She averaged 9.53 assists per set over the spring.
Central Washington has finished no worse than third in each of the last three full seasons. The Wildcats went 23-7 in 2019, finishing with a .191 hitting percentage and ranked third in the GNAC at 12.88 kills per set and finished second with a .159 opponent hitting percentage. Central Washington compiled a 1-6 record in the abbreviated spring 2021 season, averaging 10.29 kills per set.
Sophomore outside hitter Ashley Kaufman, a GNAC Preseason All-Conference selection, steps in as the offensive leader. She opened her CWU career with averages of 2.50 kills and 2.96 digs per set in 2019 with 39 service aces. She did not play last spring. Freshman Kylie Thorne led the team during the spring with 2.47 kills per set while freshman defensive specialist Hannah Stires averaged five digs per set. Sophomore setter Sydney Remsberg averaged 4.22 assists and 2.30 digs per set during the spring.
Other West Region teams list among those receiving votes include Azusa Pacific (93), Hawaii Hilo (60), Cal State LA (41), Chaminade (23) and Biola (6).


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19. Birth of the Perpetual Fundraising Industry
On the first day of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (2010) GoComics published the comic strip Non Sequiter by Wiley Miller. It explains the "Birth of the Perpetual Fundraising Industry." When approached by a dragonslayer, the dragon offers a rational explanation as to why sparing its life would be a win-win proposition. The dragon says:
"Look. You're dead if you lose and out of a job if you win. So what I propose is a win-win that can be summed up in 3 words…Dragon-Slaying Research."
Non sequiter? I think not. The conclusion easily follows from the mountains of evidence that companies within and beyond the cancer industry are profiting from the cause of breast cancer.
As I wrote in Thinking the Unthinkable, "revenues from the medical imaging equipment industry grew from about $3 billion in 1997 to over $9 billion 10 years later, and healthcare analysts predict that the market for medical imaging equipment (not including services) is expected to thrive at a 7.6 percent compound annual growth rate. Sales of oncology drugs grew from under $5 billion in 1998 to over $19 billion by 2008, and analysts predict that oncology drug costs will rise 20 percent each year for the next 5 years. Oncology drugs represent the largest share of the global drug market, and sales are projected to grow at a compounded annual rate of 12 to 15 percent, reaching $75 to $80 billion by 2012."
Outside the cancer industry, companies use the pink ribbon as an integral part of public relations and revenue-production (i.e.,"pinking"). There are many examples, but here are just a few.
Yoplait Yogurt of General Mills is the number 1 yogurt in America, and is as popular as GM's other top brands: Cheerios, Betty Crocker, and Pillsbury. Yoplait accounts for $1.1 billion of GM's $11.2 billion in sales. In 1998, Yoplait teamed up with Susan G. Komen for the Cure to create the "Save Lids to Save Lives" campaign. Every October, the company manufactures yogurt (now without rBGH, thanks to Breast Cancer Action) with pink lids. Consumers send them to a collection center or log in their "redemption codes" through the Yoplait website during a specific time period (through December) and Yoplait will make a donation of 10 cents per lid. There is a guaranteed minimum donation of $500,000 and a cap that of $2 million. In 2008, Yoplait received over 15 million pink lids, hitting what was then a $1.5 million cap: 1.5 million yogurts less the 10-cents-per-lid donation, yields about $5.9 million in yogurt sales. That fiscal year, GM reported a 14% sales jump for its Yoplait division.
In 2006 Ford launched itsWarriors in Pink campaign, and in 2008 the company offered the Ford Mustang with Warriors in Pink package available on the Mustang coupe, convertible, and glass roof coupe. The package includes a pink ribbon and pony fender badge, pink ribbon rocker tape and hood striping, charcoal leather trimmed seats with pink stitching, and charcoal floor mats with pink ribbon and contrast stitching. The limited-edition 2008 Mustang with Warriors in Pink package donated $250 per sale to Susan G. Komen for the Cure, totaling over $500,000. Limited to 2500 units Ford would have to sell 2000 to make the donation. About.com prices the special edition from $28,899 to $34,584 (Package adds $1,795 + Auto Transmission required $1,250). Since Ford's sales were down 32% in 2008, expanding the consumer base with special edition vehicles could help to offset difficult financial times. How much would Ford profit from the first 2000 cars needed to make the donation to Komen? It's hard to tell, but Ford continued the campaign the next year and overall Ford Mustang sales were up 62 percent in December 2009.
American Airlines expanded its partnership with Komen in 2008 when the the airline faced near bankruptcy, with high fuel prices, low consumer demand, debt, and an aging fleet. The airline entered into a Promise Grant with Susan G. Komen for the Cure that would generate $8 million in 8 years, earmarked for the Morgan Welch Inflammatory Breast Cancer Research Program and Clinic. American Airlines will more than cover the $1 million per year allocation with its "Miles for the Cure" program, American Airlines gift cards, proceeds from AA's annual celebrity golf and tennis event, and other promotions. By July of 2010 the company's performance was a "$440 million improvement over the first quarter, and the first operating profit since the third quarter of 2007." Maybe the pink ribbons, pink planes, and publicity about the AA/Komen partnership have something to do with that. If so, the special feature in last October's American Way magazine by Chairman and CEO Gerard Arpey devoted to the AA/Komen partnership, titled "A Promise to Keep," is a worthwhile strategy for the company.
There is a vital need for dragon-slaying research, but eventually we need to slay that dragon. Using the breast cancer brand to create ongoing revenue streams and spectacle while lighting buildings in pink may well be diverting us from that purpose.
For more consciousness raising essays, check out "30 Days of Breast Cancer Awareness."
5 comments to 19. Birth of the Perpetual Fundraising Industry
Ronnie Hughes
Who'd have thought it? Pink is good for business. Over here in England, for some reason, we're not having a very pink October, by previous standards. Maybe the returns dropped off last year.
Only big chain I've noticed, continuing with their tired old 'Tickled Pink' campaign is Asda, these days part of the Walmart empire.
Gayle Sulik
Progress!!!
Sandra Willard
I remember years ago, I think in 2007, I saw an interview with Susan Love where she was taking questions from the audience. One woman asked her why, after all the years of fundraising, they were no closer to finding a cure. And Susan Love said something to the effect of, "Because there's no money in it." I was just immersing myself in the whole breast cancer culture and I was glad I heard this kind of honesty early in the process, because it very much influenced my perspective on the information that I processed.
Someone emailed me asking, "Does this pinking ever end?" My reply. Not Until we Stop Buying it.
In the October issue of "Prevention" magazine, much to my chagrin, there was a pretty pink ad for Save the Ta Tas along with their website. I am disappointed in "Prevention" for running the add and sent an email to them as well as the, cringe, ta tas expressing my thoughts on the matter. Looks as though we have our hands full (no pun intended) with not just pink washing but the continued sexualization of the disease. My question to both "Prevention" and ta tas was. If the cause was testicular cancer would be be "Saving the Nuts"? What an insult, on more than one level, that would be to men! Yet too many women put up with an insulting sexist attitude toward BREAST cancer not ta ta cancer. I can only think it is because they have not been taught to respect themselves.


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Real or imagined slights got Tom Brady to his 8th straight AFC title game
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Tom Brady sounded relaxed Wednesday when discussing how his New England Patriots were the betting underdog (plus-3) in Sunday's AFC championship game in Kansas City.
"It doesn't change much for us, but it just kind of shows you what people think about what our chances are," Brady said. "That's about it. No more added comment to that."
There was no repeat of last Sunday, when he declared to CBS, "I know everyone thinks we suck and, you know, we can't win any games." Here in the focus of midweek preparation, he was more philosophical.
"I don't think about it too much, what people might say or think," Brady said Wednesday.
Tom Brady doesn't sound like he needs a pep talk to get motivated for his eighth straight AFC title game. (Getty Images)
Ah, well, perhaps, but if so, that would run counter to Tom Brady's entire athletic career which has been driven by the motivation gained from listening to and thinking about any and every negative thing ever said or thought about him.
This isn't a unique quality for an elite athlete. Michael Jordan spent his entire career still fuming that one year back in high school he was put on the junior varsity. He even invited the coach who made the decision to his Hall of Fame induction and "thanked" him for driving him to greatness.
This is how it works. The smallest slight is the biggest motivator, which is why it stands to reason that by Sunday, a fired-up Tom Brady will take the field at Arrowhead Stadium trying to channel the emotion that got him there in the first place.
For all the Super Bowl rings (five), millions in the bank (considerable) and fame and fabulous family he has, the 41-year-old, future first-ballot Hall of Famer remains a grinder. America scoffed at his CBS comment – no one believes in the NFL's all-time winningest quarterback and his non-parallel dynasty?
Yet it doesn't matter how widespread the criticism was.
To Brady, he's still the kid who while growing up in San Mateo, California, had to fight his way out of the shadow of his three older sisters, all local playing field legends who'd go on to be Division I college athletes in soccer and softball.
He's still the pudgy high school freshman who was a backup quarterback on a winless team that managed just two touchdowns all season. To improve his agility and quickness, he spent the offseason engaged in a backyard speed exercise called the "five-dot drill," running early in the morning and in the dark of night and in the middle of family cookouts until he willed his way to improvement.
He's still the guy who had just one major school recruiting him (University of California) until he sent a highlight tape to drum up interest.
He's still the young college quarterback who arrived at Michigan as the seventh-string quarterback and barely sniffed the field for three seasons – his first career pass, in mop-up duty, was a pick-six.
He's still the college junior who upon winning the starting job had to share the role for two seasons with a local phenom named Drew Henson, forcing him to prove himself, and his maturity, on a weekly basis despite being the superior player.
He's still the NFL draft prospect who generated little attention even though he had been an excellent college quarterback. The result was falling to 199th overall, behind six other quarterbacks – the Brady Six – a group he has never forgotten and still draws inspiration from.
He's still the quarterback who got the job only because the starter, Drew Bledsoe, was injured, not because his coaches chose him. He then spent much of his career measuring himself against NFL royalty and former No. 1 overall pick Peyton Manning.
In Brady's mind, he has never been the chosen one, no matter the results. Some of it defies history and reality.
For instance, yes, Brady wasn't much of a quarterback when he began playing football. He was, by almost any other measure, an exceptional athlete. The Montreal Expos drafted him as a catcher coming out of high school. Prior to that, he was so adept at golf while in middle school that some still believe had he pursued the sport he could have reached the PGA Tour. And, yeah, he had only one scholarship offer as a high school junior, but it was to a Pac-12 school. And he got to mighty Michigan. And he did get drafted. And …
Look, he never was a nobody.
Yet pretending, or perhaps believing, he was a nobody is what got him to become not just somebody, but to continue the climb long past the accomplishments and age of others. He just doesn't stop. If he hasn't by age 41, he never will.
Across the way Sunday is a player who represents what Brady believes he never was – at least if Brady massages the story a bit. Patrick Mahomes was a starter as a freshman at Texas Tech, turned pro early and had the Chiefs trade three picks, two of them first-rounders, to move up and take him 10th overall.
Mahomes sat for most of his first season, but now is a likely Most Valuable Player, a true sensation who has overwhelmed the NFL. It may seem ludicrous from the outside to think a five-time Super Bowl champion is trying to prove himself against a 23-year-old with one career playoff victory, but that is how Tom Brady thinks.
One more game to show everyone. One more game to convince everyone.
Make him a field-goal underdog and it's even better, no matter what he says.
"I mean, if you're not motivated this week, you've got a major problem," Brady said, dismissing the concept of extra motivation. "This is the week where you shouldn't have to put anything extra in."
He's right about that. He'd come to compete no matter who against or where the game was played or what the oddsmakers and media were saying.
But this is still Tom Brady and a lifetime of actions say more than a news conference full of calm perspective.
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