Throughout March, patient and research advocacy groups are observing Autoimmune Awareness Month. There are an estimated 23.5 million Americans suffering from one of nearly 100 autoimmune diseases. Some autoimmune diseases are rare but more common autoimmune disorders include Type 1 diabetes, Crohn's disease and lupus.
Research!America President and CEO Mary Woolley joins James "J.P." Paluskiewicz, deputy chief of staff to Rep. Michael Burgess, MD (R-TX); Cynthia Rice, vice president for government relations, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation; Israel Robledo, Parkinson's Action Network Texas state director; and Lisa Shulman, MD, professor of neurology, University of Maryland in a panel discussion about the power of research advocacy. The panel, hosted by Parkinson's Action Network and moderated by PAN CEO and Research!America Board member Amy Comstock Rick, JD, discusses how to be an effective advocate and communicate effectively with congressional staff to achieve your advocacy goal.
When asked what makes a good advocate, Woolley advises that we must clearly articulate our case, listen to the decision makers' questions and answer them as best we can. We should be authentic and personal in our communications. Woolley also notes in her comments that many people can be advocates; in fact, public opinion polls show that the public expects patients, researchers and clinicians to all participate alongside Congress in shaping policy.
For advocates who can't make it to Washington, DC, Woolley has practical advice on ways to advocate from home. During the congressional recess, lawmakers and their staff typically schedule meetings in their district offices with constituents and hold town halls. Advocates should try to meet with their representatives when they're home for the recess, tell their personal stories related to research to local media, and submit letters to the editor in hometown papers to spread the message. Support for medical research is one of many advocacy topics discussed on Capitol Hill; hearing the same message from a home district shows our representatives how important the issue is to their constituents. And don't underestimate the impact of a single email or phone call; the volume and passion of the advocacy message for medical research matters.
Woolley also talks about the need to remember the long-term goal and that this is "an iterative process." There will be steps forward as well as apparent failures, but we can learn from everything. And with reduced funding for research under sequestration, it is important that medical research advocates continue to work together to promote research advocacy as a whole — not promote one disease or area of research over another — for the benefit of the entire research community and health of Americans.
Advocates should be aware that there is a Congressional recess this week and next, making this an opportune time to speak with your representatives at home!
Watch the full panel discussion for insight and advice from other panel members.
Nearly 11% of the world's population does not have access to clean drinking water. This represents a tremendous burden on global health, as almost 2 million children die from water-borne illnesses each year. Improvements in sanitation and the availability of clean water are essential to improve health around the world.
America has been a leader in clean water legislation and water-borne disease research. The late Paul G. Rogers, Research!America's former chair, was a key leader in the passage of environmental legislation, including the Safe Drinking Water Act, during his tenure in Congress. Today, American investment in research is providing new therapies and prevention strategies for water-borne illnesses like schistosomiasis and Guinea worm disease, both neglected tropical diseases. Learn more about neglected tropical diseases here.
Did you know that agriculture accounts for roughly 80%of the world's water consumption?
Visit UN Water's World Water Day site or see a list of UNICEF partner organizations to learn more about water, sanitation and hygiene issues around the world.
Scientists at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, a Research!America member, have successfully treated a handful of leukemia patients with cutting-edge immune cell therapy. This therapy, similar to previous trials at the University of Pennsylvania and the National Cancer Institute, modifies the patient's immune cells so that they recognize and kill the cancer cells. This experimental therapy provides a new avenue of treatment for patients who have undergone all of the traditional treatments like chemotherapy without achieving remission of the cancer. Read more about this exciting breakthrough in this New York Times article.
The study's senior author, Michael Sadelain, MD, PhD, expressed his excitement over the results.
This study, like so many other major breakthroughs in medicine, was made possible by funding from NCI. This particular immunotherapy has been in development and testing for more than a decade. Articles describing the foundational research for this month's breakthrough cite financial support from the National Institutes of Health (Brentjens et al, Nature Medicine, March 2003) and the basic scientific principles used to safely modify human immune cells had to be well established before the 2003 experiments could begin. Investments in basic research are necessary to drive medical progress. It is hard to argue with the value of those investments when you read the stories of the patients whose lives were saved by this treatment.
The United Nations Foundation is an unwavering supporter of global health, from prevention of malaria deaths to polio eradication (in partnership with Research!America, the Global Health Council and others the UN Foundation held a briefing about the importance of the polio vaccine in 2011). With support from Johnson & Johnson and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, their latest initiative is the Global Mom Relay, an innovative campaign to raise money and awareness in support of women and children's health around the globe. Until May 8, there will be a daily story about motherhood on the Huffington Post from a variety of global authors. Each time a relay post is shared via Facebook, Twitter or email, Johnson & Johnson (a Research!America member) and the Gates Foundation (a long-time Research!America supporter) will donate $5 to one of four UN Foundation initiatives helping women and children around the globe: Girl Up, the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action and the Shot@Life campaign.
Please visit www.unfoundation.org/globalmomrelay/ to learn more and share today's post!
Research!America and its international partners, Research Australia, Research Canada and Research!Sweden, have signed a letter of agreement, capitalizing on a long-standing partnership among these research advocacy organizations. Over the past decade, Research!America, Research Australia and Research Canada have met informally on several occasions and presented and attended each organization's annual meetings and conferences. Recently, Research!Sweden joined this alliance, bringing its unique programs, approaches and strategies to this international group.
The agreement is intended to foster greater collaboration among the four organizations in an effort to leverage expertise, advancements and approaches in health research advocacy, as well as facilitate the sharing of best practices in biomedical and health research advocacy, governance and operational policies and procedures. The agreement will promote enhanced communications among the four organizations and open the door to explore opportunities to collaborate internationally on health research advocacy ventures. The two-year agreement reflects the efforts of all four organizations to make biomedical and health research higher priorities in their respective countries. You can read the full letter of agreement here on Research!America's website.
You can also visit the websites for these international research advocacy organizations: Research Canada, Research Australia and Research!Sweden.


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In this season of consumption, it's easy to forget what is important in life amongst all the hustle and bustle and negative stories in the news and online. It's so important to remember that peace is always present as is joy, Grace and happiness, but sometimes life makes it harder to hold that positive focus.
So when we saw this beautiful sign in traditional Chinese Mandarinn that said "happiness" so beautifully while we were in China recently, we made sure we got a photo of us with it. When life throws us a curve ball, we have yet another tool to bring us back to our gratitude, Grace and happiness. Reminding us once again that over 22 years ago, DaVinci and I committed to co-creating heaven on earth with God and committing to a soul in our marriage vows that we wanted to raise the best we could and create a happy family.
We just got some sad news from home and we have another deeply loved one who is going through her first Christmas without her beloved husband who died young a few months ago and a sister in a wheel chair now with a mysterious degenerative dis-ease. They say a mother is only as happy as her unhappiest child, but I find when my loved ones are in pain, it is harder for me to keep my happiness.
But I also see that is when we need to keep it the most, when life is the most challenging to us, our loved ones or the world.
I can't change all the bad things, but I can keep my focus on gratitude for all our blessings. As bad as things can be, they could always be worse, so I like to look at the blessings even in the hardships and challenges.
Last year at Christmas I was so sick, ( and had been so sick and in pain for so long) I knew that if I didn't change things around that I would die, so I am so very grateful to my travel health secrets and health tips, TCM, natural supplements, diet etc that have allowed me now to feel healthier than I have in years.
Even though I suffered with lots of severe pain, I can see that also as a blessing in how it strengthened me and all of us and taught us many things through the process that has also allowed me to help others.
I am so grateful to our family and YOU readers who have always supported us. Wishing you many blessings this holiday season and the year ahead.
Here are some happiness quotes to help us all to remember, no matter what, to keep our eyes on the good.
Beautiful post! Wish you and your family all the happiness and health in the world!


As governors continue to plan for their FY2014 budgets, the Medicaid expansion decisions continue to roll in. According to Kaiser Family Foundation's Statehealthfacts.org, 26 governors and the mayor of the District of Columbia have come out in support of Medicaid expansion, 17 governors have voiced their opposition to it, and eight remain undecided or unclear about their stance.
Recently, there have been several governors who have reversed their previous stance opposing Medicaid expansion. New Jersey Governor Christie, Florida Governor Scott, and Ohio Governor Kasich have all decided to support Medicaid expansion in their respective states, noting that the expansion provides them with an opportunity to leverage federal dollars to reduce the number of uninsured residents in their states.
While the governors continue to voice their stance, state legislatures still have to weigh in and could ultimately change the tide of Medicaid expansions in some states. Virginia's legislature has brokered a deal with Governor McDonnell, an opponent of the expansion, leaving the door open if the White House approves its proposed Medicaid reforms. Meanwhile, in states such as Arkansas and Michigan whose governors support the expansion, the fate of whether it will move forward or not depends on the legislatures, who currently oppose pursuing the expansion.


What is the Wellness Community?
In the wellness community residents made a commitment to maintaining an environment free of alcohol and controlled substances. Students living in the wellness neighborhood create a supportive environment committed to cultivating healthy lifestyle habits. This hall also includes campus partners committed to the wellbeing of the residents, including the university counseling services.
Why should I choose to live in this neighborhood?
Living in this residential community means holding yourself accountable for abstaining from illegal drugs and alcohol. Residents who make this commitment must agree to refrain from consuming alcohol and controlled substances and may be removed from this neighborhood should they be found in violation of the commitment.


Sometimes despite our best efforts to stay productive and actually do meaningful work, we cannot seem to prevent ourselves from straying off tangent and being distracted by anything and everything especially on a slow Monday morning.
Sometimes without meaning to we seem to fall into this endless cycle of being super busy and yet at the same time we seem to not get anything done.
It happens to the best of us. First it starts with a break, looking up some video that we've got in our email or talking to a client on the phone, but little did we know we up and forgot that we're actually at work.
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You're set, already working on something when suddenly your colleague needs to run some ideas by you for the big presentation. You put your work on hold and bounce of ideas with your colleague when suddenly the both of you realise that you need a second opinion because you'd want to avoid tunnel vision.
You get another person on board and you slowly move into the nearest meeting room because your discussions are getting a little too animated and loud for the others to concentrate. Ten minutes in and this discussion turns into a meeting with flip charts and an additional two other people. At the end of the meeting you've realized that it has turned into a conference with calls to other people in different branches all with the client on hold at the other line.


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Efficient construction of accurate multiple alignments and large-scale phylogenies
by Wheeler, Travis John, Ph.D., The University of Arizona, 2009, 185; 3369689
A central focus of computational biology is to organize and make use of vast stores of molecular sequence data. Two of the most studied and fundamental problems in the field are sequence alignment and phylogeny inference. The problem of multiple sequence alignment is to take a set of DNA, RNA, or protein sequences and identify related segments of these sequences. Perhaps the most common use of alignments of multiple sequences is as input for methods designed to infer a phylogeny, or tree describing the evolutionary history of the sequences. The two problems are circularly related: standard phylogeny inference methods take a multiple sequence alignment as input, while computation of a rudimentary phylogeny is a step in the standard multiple sequence alignment method.
Efficient computation of high-quality alignments, and of high-quality phylogenies based on those alignments, are both open problems in the field of computational biology. The first part of the dissertation gives details of my efforts to identify a best-of-breed method for each stage of the standard form-and-polish heuristic for aligning multiple sequences; the result of these efforts is a tool, called Opal, that achieves state-of-the-art 84.7% accuracy on the BAliBASE alignment benchmark. The second part of the dissertation describes a new algorithm that dramatically increases the speed and scalability of a common method for phylogeny inference called neighbor-joining; this algorithm is implemented in a new tool, called NINJA, which is more than an order of magnitude faster than a very fast implementation of the canonical algorithm, for example building a tree on 218,000 sequences in under 6 days using a single processor computer.
Advisor: Kececioglu, John D., Sanderson, Michael J.
Commitee: Efrat, Alon, Maddision, David R., Moon, Bongki
School: The University of Arizona
Department: Computer Science
School Location: United States -- Arizona
Subjects: Bioinformatics, Computer science
Keywords: Consistency, Multiple alignments, Neighbor joining, Phylogeny, Sequence alignment, Weighting

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Legislative Update – May 28
Memorial Day marked the unofficial start of summer. While domestic and international tourism to the region remains down, many San Diegans celebrated the warm weather and enjoyed new liberties granted by the County Health Department. While San Diego has developed a good reputation from the State authorities in Sacramento on its handling of the virus, some local businesses have failed to comply with standards set by the County. If you or your business have any questions regarding reopening guidance from the County, please reach out to a member of the policy team or your membership relations manager.
Today the House is scheduled to vote on bipartisan legislation to amend the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The bill, called the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act, would extend the time period, from 8 weeks to 24 weeks, that small businesses have to spend the money before it is converted from a grant to a loan. Additionally, the legislation would allow businesses to spend 40% of the funds on non-payroll costs, rather than the 25% originally permitted.
The City of Tijuana presented an Economic Recovery Plan that includes a three-month, interest-free grace period for businesses to pay their property taxes, renew business licenses and other permits, as well as a rapid business opening system enabling small and medium-sized businesses to open within 3 days. Starting June 1, the plan will follow the Mexican federal government's guidelines to reopen social, economic, and educational activities in stages following a color-coded system that outlines which sectors and activities may resume operations and when.
Otay Mesa Port of Entry Expansion
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced the start of the Otay Mesa Land Port of Entry Expansion Project. The Chamber's advocacy efforts urged funding for these needed improvements to reduce inefficiencies costing both countries over $7.2 billion annually. The $137.2 million modernization and expansion project includes the expansion of northbound commercial truck inspection areas, increasing the pedestrian inspection facility from six to twelve lanes, and the construction of visitor parking and employee parking structures.
Last year, the Otay Mesa Port of Entry processed over $18 billion in exports and $34 billion in imports in fiscal year 2019. The expansion of California's busiest commercial truck border crossing will help facilitate trade and commerce in our region. The Chamber's advocacy efforts urged funding for these needed improvements to reduce inefficiencies in commercial traffic costing both countries a combined $7.2 billion in lost economic output every year.
The project is scheduled to be completed in Spring 2021. Additional information on the Otay Mesa LPOE Expansion Project is available here.
United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement
Starting July 1, 2020, the USMCA Free Trade Agreement goes into effect. If your goods qualify for the USMCA, then they may be exempt from Canadian and Mexican duties. Register now for this two-part webinar series taking place on June 1 and June 3 to learn what changes the USMCA FTA has for your company, how to qualify your goods, and how to properly declare them. For questions or further information, please contact brian.beams@trade.gov.
Earlier this week, the California Department of Public Health announced that counties statewide can reopen places of worship for religious services and retail stores for in-store shopping. Additionally, hair salons and barbershops are allowed to reopen in many counties across the state. New restrictions apply to these industries, including maintaining social distancing when possible. Houses of worship must operate at 25% capacity or a maximum of 100 attendees. Barbershops and salons are permitted to cut and color hair, but shaving, eyebrow waxing, and other facial procedures are not yet permitted. Nail salons remain closed.
The State must pass a balanced budget by June 15. Earlier this week, the Senate Budget Committee released its version of the FY21 budget. The Senate version of the budget includes two major proposals related to economic recovery: a tenant rent forgiveness program and a $25 billion economic recovery fund to be spent over two years. The Senate rejected many of the Governor's proposed cuts to health care and education, including $8.1 billion cuts to K-12, childcare, and community college funding. The Senate's version of the budget assumes that the funds expected from the Federal Government are allocated to the state and creates a trigger to cut certain programs in the case that the funds do not materialize.
After receiving guidance from the State, on Tuesday, the County announced reopening guidance for hair salons and barbershops, one-on-one sport instruction, and places of worship. Prior to reopening, businesses must complete the County's Safe Reopening Plan. The County also updated its Public Health Order, requiring businesses to temperature check and conduct health screenings of employees.
The County and Rady Children's Hospital announced a partnership to provide daily COVID-19 testing for up to 2,000 children and their families throughout the region for the next six months. Additional testing sites in rural areas of the County open next week and appointments can be made by contacting 2-1-1.
The County Board of Supervisors will meet next week on Tuesday, June 2 (agenda here) and Wednesday, June 3 (agenda here). Due to the Governor's Executive Order, in-person attendance is prohibited. Information on how to participate in the teleconference, view online, or submit comments can be found here.
Tomorrow, the City Council is holding a Special Meeting at 10 a.m. to review the draft purchase and sale agreement of the Mission Valley stadium site to SDSU. The hearing agenda can be found here.


I've been doing some housekeeping on this blog in recent days, and in looking through old posts, I came to the realization that I've never really shared our family's food story in any detail here. Those of you who don't know me well might be curious as to how I arrived at baking and cooking without gluten, dairy, and eggs, and what my motivation is to make so many of the foods we eat with my own two hands.
Several years ago I shared our story in a guest post over on Lexie's Kitchen, and I feel the same way about food now as I did then. I hope that by giving this story a home here as well, I might offer some ideas and inspiration to other families who wish to change the way they eat to improve their health.
Six years ago, at thirty-five years old, I had long considered myself a healthy eater. I ate a balanced diet with lots of fresh fruit and veggies, made many meals from scratch, and tried to avoid a lot of the foods that I knew weren't good for me. However, it took an unhappy period of illness for me to notice that there were more processed, unhealthy foods than I realized in my cupboards, fridge, and freezer, and that I still had quite a bit of room for improvement in the way I cooked and ate. This discovery was the beginning of a food journey that has been inspiring and rewarding for our whole family.
In the time just before I made some really significant changes to my diet, I went through several months of feeling very unwell. I was constantly tired, anxious and foggy-headed, had inflammation and pain throughout my body, and my digestive system was stressed. After visiting my family doctor's office many times and trying out different medications to no avail, I finally, out of desperation, decided to see a naturopathic doctor to see if I could find a solution. With her help, I discovered (among other things) that I had several food sensitivities, and I followed her suggestions to remove dairy, gluten and cane sugar from my diet. You can imagine how overwhelming it must have felt to suddenly realize that many of the foods I had always eaten and loved were best avoided if I wanted to feel better.
I would be lying if I said that it was easy to make such a drastic change in my diet. I went through a period of mourning, if you will; I missed my breads and pastas and chocolate and ice cream, and felt very self-conscious when eating at family and friends' homes when they asked me, "So what do you EAT, then?" I admit that I felt quite lost at first and sometimes felt quite sorry for myself.
It's not in my nature to sit around wallowing for long, though, so one day I pulled up my socks and set about meeting my food challenges head on. I started thinking about my situation as an opportunity not just for me, but for my whole family to find a better way to eat, a way that was healthy for all of us and would not make me feel ill. I read and was inspired by Michael Pollan's influential books about food; I sought out blogs written by others with modified diets and learned how to cook and bake delicious foods with wholesome, alternate ingredients. It was suddenly an exciting project, one that is still ongoing as we continue to seek out new food discoveries.
Some of the changes my family has made along the way are ones that would be beneficial for many families, whether food sensitivities are an issue or not. We started our own little garden so we would have easy access to as-fresh-as-they-get vegetables in summer, and the boys and I also make a regular adventure out of visiting our colourful local farmer's market in the warmer months. We found a local organic farmer from whom we could order pasture-raised beef, pork, and chickens to freeze in bulk every fall. I discovered some wonderful health food stores in our area where I could buy the nutritious ingredients I needed to prepare meals and bake homemade snacks, avoiding refined sugar and highly processed flours. (I often make large batches of healthy meals and muffins to keep in the freezer for days when time is short.) My husband Matt and I have truly enjoyed experimenting in the kitchen and on the grill, eliminating popular store-bought seasonings, dressings, or mixes and instead flavouring foods with healthy oils, lemon juice, fragrant herbs and interesting spices. Finally, we started making a habit of packing our own whole food lunches and healthy snacks for school, work, outings, and travel, to avoid both hidden sources of gluten and the temptation to eat junk food that we're better off without.
Going through this process of change with our food in the interest of making me well made things much easier when, a year after my illness, we discovered that my youngest son Will also has food sensitivities (to dairy, gluten, eggs, and peanuts). Will had had skin issues for years, and that winter he experienced too many ear infections to count in a period of a few short months, which were treated with as many rounds of antibiotics. When our family doctor suggested we'd soon be looking at a referral to an ENT specialist and the possibility of tubes in Will's ears if things continued down the same path, I took Will to see our ND, too, and once again began the process of food eliminations, which proved to be very beneficial to him. The dietary changes didn't seem such a monumental task this time; I knew what to feed him because I had been eating many healthy, delicious foods myself that didn't contain any of the things he needed to avoid.
Our whole family has happily grown to love the switch we've made to a very healthy, real food diet, and we've all benefited in various ways. When I eat well, I feel full of energy (necessary for keeping up with my two busy boys!), and free of aches and pains and tummy troubles. Will's ears, nose, and skin are clearer than they'd been in years, and his mood and behaviour are improved when he avoids the foods that cause his body to react. My oldest son, Noah, has learned to make his own wise choices about which foods are best for him to eat as an active competitive swimmer. My husband Matt has been a wonderful partner on this food journey with me, and we're both very enthusiastic to share what we've learned with anyone who asks about what we eat and how we prepare it.
Due to my health circumstances, it was necessary for me to make sudden, drastic changes to my diet, something which I realize may not seem very appealing or manageable to many people. If you're not at the point of a health crisis, but want to make some positive changes in the way you eat, start small. Invest in some good cookbooks that provide nutritious, tasty, and relatively easy recipes and commit to trying one new healthy meal per week. (Two of my favourite family-friendly cookbooks are Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution and The Good Food Book for Families by Brenda Bradshaw and Cheryl Mutch.) Become aware of what is in the foods you eat; give up one food or habit that you know you'd be better off without and replace it with something that's good for you. Your success in these small shifts, and the physical and emotional benefits you'll likely feel as a result, just might encourage you to continue down a path of change that will improve your overall well-being.
I feel very proud of what our family has accomplished by deciding to take our health into our own hands, and by making a shift for the better in our eating habits. It's abundantly clear to me now that the old saying, "You are what you eat" is a valuable truth. Perhaps the most compelling reason for making the switch is evident every time I look at my two healthy, smiling boys' faces. In an age where so many children are being raised on a diet abundant in highly processed convenience foods full of salt, sugar, and chemicals, I am teaching my sons what real food looks and tastes like, and where it comes from. In my mind, that's one of the best gifts I can give them.
Inspiring story and thanks for sharing. My wife and I are considering making some dramatic changes. Not due to getting any illness but due to wanting to avoid any.
Thanks for sharing this really helps motivate me.
Thanks for stopping by, Jon! I am glad that you find our family's story an inspiration in some way. Making significant changes to your diet can be challenging at first, but feeling good is really an excellent motivator for continuing to make healthy food choices. :) I admire the intentions you and your wife have and wish you both all the best!
Thank you for sharing. I am just reading through several posts on your blog. Your son's 10th Birthday party makes it sound doable so everyone enjoys the same meal. My son is two and is gluten, dairy and egg sensitive. Two of the most annoying questions we get are "What can he eat?" and "How do you know?" Sounds like you get the same questions.


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Greipel: My power numbers are the same as five years ago
By Patrick Fletcher
German still hungry for wins as he delays retirement
André Greipel will race for Israel Start-Up Nation through 2022 (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)
When Israel Start-Up Nation announced last month that it had handed André Greipel a two-year contract extension, it was met with some surprise, not least because Greipel himself had earmarked December 31 as the date of his retirement.
However, the German sprinter will now race into his 40s and, speaking to Cyclingnews en route to a training camp in Belgium, seems as motivated as ever.
"First of all, I have to say I don't need anyone to tell me when to stop. People have said I'm stupid to keep going, but after a good start to the season I showed I'm still around and able to sprint," he said.
Indeed, Greipel did not win a race in the early part of the 2020 season, but felt buoyed enough about his two top-five placings at the Tour Down Under to regain his enthusiasm after a dire year at Arkéa-Samsic.
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However, he was halted in his tracks, first by a shoulder fracture and dislocation suffered in a training crash on his return to Europe in February, then by the suspension of the season due to the coronavirus pandemic. It left him with a sense of unfinished business.
"After the crash, and with the coronavirus lockdown, all that was stopped. After two or three weeks, I thought, 'Come on, André, this is your childhood dream,'" he explained.
"It all came back to my mind, and I didn't want to stop like that because of the coronavirus because at that point no one knew if we would race again this year. I wanted to stop with a number on my back."
In Israel Start-Up Nation's announcement of the contract extension, reference was made to Greipel's "experience" and how he was a "great mentor to the younger riders".
However, it doesn't appear that he is moving aside to enjoy a quieter life as a support act in the final chapter of his career. The competitive spirit that has brought him more than 150 victories still burns bright, and he's racing on to add to that tally.
"The numbers on my power meter are the same as five or six years ago. I don't see myself going down," he said. "I still want to win bike races. My characteristic is to be competitive. I still like to suffer in training. Of course, the new sprinting generation is super fast, so everything needs to be at 100 per cent if I want to win races."
Greipel, whose shoulder is now "almost perfect again" after continual rehabilitation, will resume his season at the Tour de l'Ain from August 7-9, followed by the Critérium du Dauphiné the week after.
It's yet to be set in stone, but it's a schedule that seems to lead to the start of the Tour de France in Nice on August 29.
"I hope I can be in the selection for the Tour, so that's why I'm doing the French programme," Greipel said.
"I haven't set myself any specific goals in any particular races. I just want to enjoy the racing," he added.
With Greipel extending his career into 2021, he'll be racing alongside Chris Froome, whose transfer from Team Ineos was announced last week. Greipel, who has been linked with a post-retirement move into a directing role, saw the signing of the four-time Tour de France champion as a statement of intent.
"To be honest, by signing someone like Chris Froome, it shows how ambitious the team is," he said.
"They want to step up further and further, and be competitive at the highest level on every terrain. It's also really positive regarding potential sponsors."
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Patrick Fletcher
Deputy Editor. Patrick is an NCTJ-trained journalist who has seven years' experience covering professional cycling. He has a modern languages degree from Durham University and has been able to put it to some use in what is a multi-lingual sport, with a particular focus on French and Spanish-speaking riders. After joining Cyclingnews as a staff writer on the back of work experience, Patrick became Features Editor in 2018 and oversaw significant growth in the site's long-form and in-depth output. Since 2022 he has been Deputy Editor, taking more responsibility for the site's content as a whole, while still writing and - despite a pandemic-induced hiatus - travelling to races around the world. Away from cycling, Patrick spends most of his time playing or watching other forms of sport - football, tennis, trail running, darts, to name a few, but he draws the line at rugby.


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Thinking Like A Book Designer
Lesson 2 of 15
The History of Book Design
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We're gonna do a quick dive into history, and let it be said as a caveat we could do six hours on history that's not what any any of us signed up for, so this is a bit of a cursory overview, a primer, if you will. We wanted to just sort of take you back to where books began, and where books began, of course, centuries and centuries ago with the Sumerian tablet, and for anyone who's interested in that, there are scholars far greater than Michael and myself who can talk about things like the erasable text, and you know, the Lascaux inscriptions on caves, but the idea that mark making existed before paper was something that could be easily distributed is something that it's worth bearing in mind. Yeah, and, you know, as designers, one of the things we do to the degree that we're actually involved with putting marks on paper, there's a tremendous act of confidence and optimism in that. What you're doing is sort of saying implicitly, these things are important and they're worth sharing an...
d I want other people to see this and I want potentially this thing to outlive me, this is from the 18th century BC or something? Yeah, so a long time ago. So and here we are looking at a picture of it today, it still exists, so whoever put those marks on that stone was thinking that he or she wanted to communicate with other people and we look at it now millennia later and that won't happen to everything you design, everything I design. Particularly if you design it on Snapchat. The design of Snapchat (audience laughing) is designed not to do that. A bit of a concern Yeah but, For future historians that aren't gonna -- but, but, but, yeah, so. But I think you know it is typography, and typography, our friend Ellen Lupton who will speak about it in a moment, once said that, typography is the common currency of graphic design. So it would be remiss of us to not bring this up as a thing we need to look at. It's often said that the first book was the Gutenberg Bible, these are examples of pages from the Gutenberg Bible and from early what they called Incunabula, early examples of printing, these are taken from the Yale, Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale where you can see one, there are several, I think there may be one at the Huntington library here in California. And this is the moment where book design became mechanized. Became mechanized. And you'll see, you'll see, it was no longer done by hand but is done with moveable type, something that now we take for granted, the idea that we don't have to hand-write or draw every character as it comes out, but that role that technology plays in design overall, whether you're a product designer an architect a fashion designer or a graphic designer, is a theme that'll run through everything, And the reason the next slide I put up is of Bibles, is that I think that over time, after the Gutenberg Bible was introduced as the first example of moveable type, Bibles were the go-to vehicle for making books. And this is something, if anyone's interested in design history, and particularly the students watching this, it's important to not disassociate the artifact from the time it was just produced, so the degree to which liturgy and ecclesiastical knowledge and the church as an important social construct in the world existed means that Bibles were vehicles for books that were extremely important. On the left there in the corner is the Washburn Bible by Bradbury Thompson. We'll be speaking about him again in a moment, but -- That was done in the, It was done in the '80s. '60s, '70s, '80s yeah, early '80s, 1980s. It's about this big, but you know, that's a Josef Albers print I'm pretty sure Yeah. I mean so this was somebody Yeah that's Josef Albers. Who was looking to combine there, yeah. the age-old tradition and sort of majesty of biblical language and knowledge with something that actually manifested as a very modern form, so, in a sense it's -- And 100 years ago, that's, it looked like that, it looked more like a circus thing, Right. Because it's all about kind of trying to, what do you need to engage an audience with the text, right? And very centered, and so when we go to something like this, I mean, this is an example of the birth of lithography, which is only interesting in the history of printing because it meant we could actually replicate things more quickly. So graphic design junkies like all of us love these things that are on the right, which are called broadsides, and so anybody who loves typography will just start salivating when you look at these incredible things which were not of course done with any computational support, they were done on a letterpress, finding the type, locking it up. Metal type wood type, ink. Metal type wood type. But, but, this idea that type can be its own form of evocation and illustration is something that we're gonna come back to a lot today. They might not all look like this, but I think it's a great thing again to come back to this idea of design of typography as a common currency of graphic design. So now we're gonna move quickly through the 20th and early 21st century and move on from here but we wanted to just talk about some highlights, so Michael would you like to talk since I can't see We've got the early Modernists from the first part of the last century, Rodchenko and Piet Zwart, they began, again, I think driven partly by the possibilities of lithographic reproduction, realized that you could combine type and images in more provocative, aggressive ways, you could kind of use typography to mirror the way that photographs were working, you could combine shape and letter forms to make pages dynamic, so no longer is it centered and neat and polite, even if it's, has loud wood type, it doesn't have to be locked up anymore, but it's the pages are much more active, much more -- And if, they're saying, Provocative. If it's not already evident to you, I'm sure you've already figured this out, but I just wanna say, like, the scissors was their friend, right. (Michael laughing) these people were actually (laughing) extremely analog but like the minute you get away from your computer, every once in a while, it's not terrible to work this way. Yeah, no, no, there was experimentation, doing things you weren't supposed to do with the machines, using tools that weren't usually used to do this sort of work. We haven't included it in here, but John Heartfield, who was a famous sort of dissident early 20th century German collage artist was very interested in making these subversive political collages about Hitler. And when his collages were first exhibited in Germany, the curator said you must include the newspapers from which you cut the paper, in conjunction with the collages, because the public will not understand where these images came from. Right, which is such a fascinating construct when you think that like, we need, you can contextualize that, I can say they used the scissors and not Adobe Photoshop, but in the old days, it's actually interesting, again, in terms of history to think about how the tools at any given point that were available to us had a deep impact and influence on the things we produced. And then W. A. Dwiggins who is credited by some people for the invention of the term graphic design you know was a, like an early theoretician some of you I know are familiar with design writing, design criticism, he was one of the first people who sort of tried to codify what the principles of page layout and graphic design were, and sort of just goes to show you, even as, you know in Europe people like Piet Swart and Alexander Rodchenko were doing these extremely experimental things, this tradition of classicism still endured, parallel to it, side-by-side. Right so this is the 1920s and '30s and they're kind of goofy, these book covers, right, it's kind of like, I'm just gonna do a little, like, we need type, we need a subhead, we need pictures, we, it's like, so it's very like, (Michael laughing) it never occurred to him then, (audience laughing) and they're wonderful and they're iconic illustrations of the kind of work that happened then, but they're not exactly revolutionary in terms of pushing the boundary in terms of what a book can be, and so what you get to next is people who start to do just that, and this is an interesting thing, we added this slide because there's a wonderful initiative on Kickstarter right now called the Bolted Book by our friends at Designers & Books, I'm just gonna do a quick shout-out to them because they have taken this book which is really like a museum in paper, there are spreads that open up in three ways, there is something that the futurists, who were a very revolutionary, early sort of World War I era Italian group of artists who were interested in what they called parole in liberta, which means words in freedom. So the idea that you would do this, and then you would do this, and then you would do this, and then the entire book is bolted, right, so it becomes this kind of artifact, it becomes this kind of piece of sculpture. And what someone like Depero was doing, was he was saying look, we live, we are modern people, we live in a modern world, we're surrounded with machines, and he was thrilled by that, and so he's like, why are we binding books like they did 100 years ago, 200 years ago, we should do it in a way that modern people would do it -- And this was the machine age. The machine age. The beginning of the machine age and so there it is, the bolt. And they're actually reproducing this so you can actually -- Bolts and all, bolts and all. Bolts and all, exactly. Then we get into this kind of interesting thing, so this is Jan Tschichold and Jan Tschichold is known as the person who really got people to start thinking about what he called asymmetric typography. He's credited with many things, but one of them is being the designer of the first paperbacks, and we're gonna come back to this in a few moments but this idea of the series and how you actually take something that looks like one publisher did the whole thing but in fact you're referencing different authors, so what is same and what is different, how are you balancing what is variable against what is constant? What is the line between what is universal and what is unique? These are all principles you might say have everything to do with design, they're very beautifully illustrated I think in this series and we'll show a few other series later, and then there's this great quote by him because he was apparently something of a, what would you say, Yeah. How can I say this in polite language, Michael? He was a rather superior person about his design. Yeah, yeah, no, he was a real connoisseur, he was rightly respected, but he, he said, you know, "The master is permitted to break the rules, even his own." I can say especially his own. Yeah, but you're not, You're not allowed, none of us are, the master is allowed. but he is. (audience chuckles) So that comes out of that very kind of -- But you are all potential masters. Right, so, break all those rules. Break those rules. But not until after the end of the day. (Michael chuckles) You'll see throughout the day that tension between what are rules and principles, and when you're allowed to break them. Alexei Brodovich, who was a fantastic magazine designer who worked through the middle of the 20th century, designed a number of books that are remarkable because they really, every page is sort of done almost intuitively, they're, and he plays these marvelous games with, you know a model with a very long neck here, juxtaposed with a column of type with one initial cap, he just would do these things, almost kind of creating, these, page after page of like one-off beautiful balanced compositions, I've looked through this book many times trying to figure out what the grid was or how he was actually making it all work together so beautifully and I think the only way he knew how to do it was to do what, this picture you see here on the left, he would lay out the entire book on the floor so he could see the entire sequence at once, he would just walk around, move pages here and there, realize these three spreads work, the fourth didn't. And this is still a method that I would argue It's a fantastic method. Yeah. Any serious book designer I have ever known does this. Yeah. They might it on the floor they may do it on the wall, but you have to print it out, you have to look at the sequence, and then you move things around, it's actually quite enjoyable, maybe not great for the trees, I admit, but I think when you're doing any kind of publication, he understood that the rhythm and the sequence and the hierarchy and the balance and the narrative of these things depended upon looking at them visually in a sequence. And it's so hard to do that when you're on a screen all the time, isn't it? You know it's like, you need to get into it and see that level of detail on every page, but what's so easy to forget when you're in that mode is that this is gonna exist in a sequence, and your reader, may go forward, may go backward, may open in the middle and kind of flip through the pages, may open at the back and work his or her way to the front, right, and a great book that really is kind of well-resolved visually can work in all those different ways, provide the reader multiple points of entry, and someone like Brodovich was the master of that. He made his name as a magazine designer, we're gonna be talking about magazine design as well, a little bit, but I think because of that he knew he had to arrest his readers' attention, like at the, you know he was always like, I've got one chance to do this, no matter where they open it, I want to kind of get them into the story, right? And I think there's something else that I wanna add, which is that he approached the design as theater. So at a time, think about this, it's 1959 this book comes out, he's working in the '60s, late '50s and the '60s and he's looking at a post-war very buttoned down, very corporate almost fascist design world and he says, you know what, maybe pictures and words can actually have a more companionable relationship. Maybe there's a reflection from one side of the spread to the other, maybe I can actually work with that, and I think he was really the pioneer in this. Others will do it and we're gonna show you some who did, but he was we think a really seminal figure in this. And next comes Paul Rand, so some of you may know his name, rather a household name, big logo designer, ABC, CBS, Westinghouse, Colorforms, Goodwill, UPS, none -- IBM. IBM, none of these logos have fundamentally been changed since his inception, he worked alone in a little house in Connecticut, charged exorbitant fees, only worked with the top guy is the most important thing he ever taught me, like, don't deal with the middleman. Go top guy and things get done quicker. But he starts to look, and again, I could do six hours with Paul Rand, but I won't. He starts to look in the '60s and '50s at repositioning formal elements on the page, creating pictures out of shards of geometry, looking at the juxtaposition of a photograph to a letter form to a title. Understanding how color works in concert with the entire composition, and of course at the end of the day, how a book jacket transmits the value, the content, the spirit of what the author intended. So, these are just some examples of his work in the '60s that, and there's many, many more of these, but you can see, so we're going from Brodovich and his kind of serious elegant black and white play of photography to this incredibly magical, mystical, playful world. And it's no mistake, this guy really knew how to design logos, right, because you look at some of these covers, this one by Jean-Paul Sartre is called the Devil and the Good Lord, and that's what it says there, but before you read those words, you see Satan's pitchfork here, you see a halo there, you know it's gonna be about the juxtaposition of good and evil even before you read a word at all. That's the way a logo designer thinks and he's taking those same principles and putting them in the world of book design. And never shied away from using his own handwriting, which, you know, might not always end well for people, but for him (audience laughs) it seemed to actually be a tool that worked very well. And then at the same time, there's always been a strain of eclecticism best exemplified by in the '60s by a firm called Pushkin Studios that was led by Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast, two amazing designers who are with us today. Just as I think Rand used his own handwriting with such confidence, Glaser and Chwast are both amazing illustrators and have always combined typography, illustration, design, and image-making just to tell stories, and in an environment that some of their contemporaries were getting more and more minimalist and rigorous in the Brodovich vein, black and white grids, serious white space, they were exuberant, you know and they were kind of dedicated to, in a way, carrying forward that language that you remember from those Broadsides that Jessica was talking about. You know, kind of really, book covers really saying look at me, look at me. And they also, it bears saying, not all designers start as illustrators, but the ones who do have this additional skill set. Yeah, and I -- And so they were a little bit fluid on the subject of are you illustrating with type, are you illustrating with an image, and how do they work together. I mean, Michael and I were looking at these images and putting this together yesterday and saying they look so redolent of the '60s to us, and that kind of Peter Max, 1960s Magical Mystery Tour Beatles, it was an aesthetic, but they very much made it their own and they were also both editorial people who cared about politics who cared about how the expression of the formal language they developed really benefited people that were just not the author but maybe and so there's posters and all sorts of the things they did but as book designers they were, I think, very agnostic on the subject of whether words or pictures were the way in. And they were dedicated to not being specialists, I think a lot of times, today more than ever, students and young designers and even older designers kind of make a decision, or sometimes their instructors make the decision on their behalf or they're told by grown-ups, you know, if you want to get ahead, decide what you're gonna do and specialize, and become known for doing one thing, and I think, if you're gonna be a designer, that advice is a potential trap. You can make that choice and you'd be successful in making that choice, but you need to be open to the idea of combining things and combining the skills you have and kind of not being afraid of developing skills you're not sure you have, and I think no one, you know, people like Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwats are somewhat unclassifiable, you wouldn't go to them for one certain thing, they could come, they could respond with typography, they could respond with drawings, they could respond with a combination of those two things and they did. I think it's fair to say they probably never sleep. Also this is like the level, (audience laughing) Both very, very busy people. There's the word prolific and then there's the word pushpin prolific, and I just think, I mean, material's amazing, a lot of it's online, you can see it for yourself, and they're both still around and making work, and it's really an inspiration for all of us. And then again, toggle back and forth between designers who I think are expressive in the way they work and the ones that are analytical. So, Muriel Cooper who was a brilliant designer who spent most of her career working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, was a poster designer, a book designer, became an early advocate and theoretician about the relationship of computers and computer-aided design and the way that type and the screen could interact, but when she was designing a book, she was very, very, kind of rigorous and rational in the way she would do it. This is a famous book called Learning From Las Vegas which was a study of the architecture of Las Vegas as an example for contemporary architects who were trying to learn how to get out of the, what was perceived as the sterility of modernism. And so she had tons of pictures, tons of text to work with. And the architects, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown apparently hated this first edition. No they hated the first edition, yeah. It's iconic, because 1972, this was extremely modern and kind of forward-seeing. Yeah so they had many objections to this book that, but one of them was they wanted the book to be as plain and ugly as the front of a Las Vegas casino sort of, and I think Muriel Cooper was just fundamentally kind of unable to do that, you know, she just wanted to do something that was a perfectly worked out well-oiled machine we're gonna talk about grids later, you can sort of see the grid, it's pretty explicit, the grid that she's working with there, right, and the big concession she made to their desire to have something kitschy kind of coming forward that expressed Las Vegas was on the cover, there's a picture of the Las Vegas strip, and it's surrounded by sans serif typography which is printed on a glassine slipcase that goes over it so she's sort of like taking kind of the ugliness of Las Vegas and framing it with the beauty of modern typography and her authors did not appreciate that, every edition that came after this one reverted to something that was very plain. And this thing is now a huge collector's item and was, you know, sort of pre-eminent as a kind of progenitor of the kind of modern things that would happen later, but in its day, 1972 may not seem like it's that long ago, but to do this in the '70s when, you know, the age of pulp fiction and not terribly interesting books I think was really significant. So we can do a quick run through the next couple of decades. Louise Fili who's got a wonderful show up in New York if any of you have the chance to go see it soon, prolific, amazing, historical, sensitive designer. Really brought in the '80s this idea that typography could be this evocative form of illustration, extremely elegant, very well researched, the kinds of things you wanted to put on your coffee table, I know I did when I was a student, just like I would, anything she did, I wanted on my coffee table because they were so inspirational and beautiful and she continues to do work like this. So that I think was a bit of a departure from the kind of studied iconic architectural let's just move a little forward with the grid work that we just showed you from Muriel Cooper, and by the time you get to the '90s and the aughts, you've got Chip Kidd at Knopf who's one of many designers that you'll see some films today from some of his colleagues there, who's really coming back to this idea of book design as theater, of how the book cover can tell almost in prologue form, the beginning, pierce the veil between the viewer and the beginning of a narrative. So, obviously we're going to talk a lot about this today, how books are things we judge by their covers. How much do you give away, how much do you articulate, how much do you mimic what you think the author wanted, what do you do if the book's already been optioned and you're (laughing) dealing with the film company who has their own views of that that the thing can't be red or can't be black. So very playful in terms of illustrative, immersive, dramatic compelling narrative and also another prolific maker, and then. Then there's a whole body of work that actually interrogates what a book is, you know, books like every other kind of design object kind of have conventions that make them understandable to us as books, could have covers, they could have pages, pages are bound together in a specific sequence, but then through history, people keep pushing against those conventions. If it's bound does that mean it has to be glue and string, or could you use bolts? The pages, do they have to each be intact, or can you cut into the pages, so you can reveal the word beyond, can you have them fold out, can you kind of provide, sort of I think as Brodovich was trying two decades earlier provide an experience that was really an active one where you could go forwards and backwards, and I think, you know, the work that, that designers go into when they do something like book design is sort of respecting both the conventions of that tradition but kind of not taking any of them for granted, and being ready to do what's necessary to have the material really come to life. And sometimes it's helpful to do sort of a deep dive into what the barest component parts of the book, the letter forms, the columns, the grids. These are books that are taken from a very interesting design firm in London called Visual Editions, the one on the left is a book by Jonathan Safran Foer and it's my understanding that Safran Foer was involved in this. So thats's kind of interesting, when a writer does not believe that the actual product of his or her efforts is so sacrosanct that it can't be re-envisioned in context, collaboration with a designer, like, could you actually evoke a different story, could you magnify certain aspects of that story, so that I think going forward, I mean, there's book sculptures, there's experimental things students do but the idea that writers would get involved with designers to think about what that book can be as a sort of sculptural provocative form is a very exciting thing that hopefully will continue. Our quote on that page is from a writer, Aldous Huxley, who says, "Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly. "They'll go through anything. "You read, and you're pierced." And I think it's the role of designers to kind of heighten that effect. How do you take those words, read them, kind of come to take them into your own heart and figure out how to make them as powerful as possible on the page.
Print is not dead, and in this class you'll learn about the elements that go into designing a book. Jessica Helfand and Michael Beirut are renowned designers and experts in the field of design, and in this class you have the chance to learn from their years of expertise! If you're interested in designing a book, personally or professionally, this class will teach you what you need to get started, including:
Lesson 1: The History of Book design
Lesson 2: How to work with Grids, Grid Systems, and Text
Lesson 3: Approaches to Art Book Design
Lesson 4: How Book Design Engages and Entertains
Lesson 5: Approaches to Cover Design for Fiction
Lesson 6: What Makes a Successful Book Cover
Lesson 7: How to Approach Cover Design for a Series
Lesson 8: Detailing Book Anatomy Part 1
Lesson 10: Approaches to Fine Tuning Typography
Lesson 11: Methods to Creating your Own Book
Lesson 12: Abbott Miller: Personal Book Project–Case Study
Lesson 13: Michael Bierut: Personal Book Project-Case Study
Lesson 14: Jessica Helfand: Personal Book Project–Case Study
Lesson 15: Best Practices in Book Design
Jessica and Michael also share a series of behind-the-scenes interviews with seasoned designers working at the publishing giant Random House and award-winning design studio Pentagram. This class provides a full- bodied robust understanding of all the things that go into being a book designer, a classic tenet to anyone who makes things in the world.
How to work with Grids, Grid Systems, and Text
Approaches to Art Book Design
How Magazine Design Engages And Entertains
Approaches To Fiction Cover Design
What Makes a Successful Book Cover
How to Approach Cover Design for a Series
Detailing Book Anatomy Part 1
Approaches to Fine Tuning Typography
Abbott Miller: Personal Book Project–Case Study
Michael Bierut: Personal Book Project-Case Study
Jessica Helfand: Personal Book Project–Case Study
Best Practices in Book Design And Final Q & A
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Leonie Holzman
I had an opportunity to be in the live studio audience for Thinking Like a Book Designer. The session was rich with content, taking us through the whole process of what goes into designing a book as well as interviewing top book designers in the field. I also appreciated the lively exchange between the presenters Jessica Heifand and Michael Bierut. As someone who over the years got burned out as a graphic designer, feeling more like a machine than a designer often times, it reminded me of why I was drawn to become a graphic deisgner in the first place.
Sonny Pham
I had an opportunity to attend this amazing workshop by Michael Bierut and Jessica Helfand. I was gained information about the history of book design, the do's and don'ts, and even insight on the industry itself. It was a surreal experience! My favorite part of the lesson has to be when Jessica and Michael interviewed other artists about their books, with an very in depth analysis on their design choices and process. After seeing Michael explain his design process for his book, I bought it after the class was done. Definitely worth the money for the lesson, and will be back for more!
Anna Pankin
Very engaging and informative class! My only 2 recommendations for the creators (if they read the comments) would be to add a pdf file of the presentation available to download (since it has all the references and visual examples) and, as someone below already mentioned, it would have been nice to actually see the magazine and book pages close-up just as they were being discussed in the videos. But overall I loved the course and the lecturers, who are a true inspiration.
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Many cultures have many different names for the art of cut paper: Scherenschnitte (German), Kirie (Japanese), Sanjhi (Indian) and Papel Picado (Mexican) are just a few. In honor of etsy day and my love of silhouettes, I've chosen some papercuttings that range from semi-traditional and folky to super-intricate and modern. All of these amazingly delicate works of art are cut by hand.
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What a beautiful collection! Thanks so much for including my red windmill commission.
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When the weather gets colder, and if you are a bit under the weather, a hearty bowl of minestrone soup would be a good idea for comfort food. I made the soup over the weekend and my family simply loves it. I added some dried tomatoes and spinach pasta. I like my minestrone soup to be colorful. You can add any kind of pasta of your choice. As for the beans, I usually add tin chickpeas. But then again, I don't have any in my pantry, so I substitute it with cannellini beans instead.
In a large saucepan, add the olive oil and cook the chopped onion with sugar. Saute briefly and mix in the garlic.
Add the carrots, celery, herbs and savoy cabbage. Cook for about 5 minutes. Then add the chicken stock. Bring it to a boil and cook for 20 minutes.
Then add the tomatoes, cannellini beans and dried pasta. Cook for another 10 minutes. Season with sea salt and black pepper.
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Screen Plays database
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Availability of an extensive amount of information that was not previously accessible, which should stimulate further research in media and theatre studies as well as providing a resource for public use.
Database/Collection of data
http://bufvc.ac.uk/screenplays/
The Screen Plays database has now been published in collaboration with the British Universities Film and Video Council, and is available on an open access basis. The url is included below. This publication is of the first phase of the database which when complete will include details of all plays originally written for the theatre which have been produced on British television since 1930. These details will include full lists of casts and creatives, synopses, transmission details and bibliographical and archival information.
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Screen Plays: Theatre on British Television


At this point, Google should take over and automatically switch you to Lite mode -- a slimmed down version of Maps that skips on features like 3D imagery and draggable routes in favor of a... Hiding Map Features With Styling You can use map styling to hide features on the map. Select an option in this example to hide or show business points of interest (POIs) and public transit icons on the map.
Update April 23, 2015: On April 15, 2015 Google announced the rollout of a new version of desktop Google Maps. A new Lite Mode has been released. how to create a stand up comedy routine Hiding Map Features With Styling You can use map styling to hide features on the map. Select an option in this example to hide or show business points of interest (POIs) and public transit icons on the map.
Turn Off 3D Mode in Google Maps - how to. Youtube.com As of 8 7 2018 when I return to Google Maps after having turned off the 3D mode it remains off so I don t need to follow these steps each time.
Hiding Map Features With Styling You can use map styling to hide features on the map. Select an option in this example to hide or show business points of interest (POIs) and public transit icons on the map.


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Roomy and bright unit at the popular Portofino complex in Shalimar. New roof, new AC, dishwasher in 2016, newer carpet upstairs. Both master bedroom and guest bedroom have access to the Jack & Jill bathroom. Enjoy coffee on the private balcony off the master that overlooks the pool and quad area. Plenty of storage space, too. With a little TLC this unit would be picture perfect!


Conspec Builders (M) Sdn Bhd was started as a waterproofing contractor in 1983. Concrete Imprint was later added to the business by incorporating Conpave Systems (M) Sdn Bhd. At the same time, Conspec Resources (M) Sdn Bhd was formed to manufacture and supply floor material finishes to these two business.
So we expanded our business from waterproofing, to specialising in Concrete Imprint, and other floor finishes to do different landscape trades. Eventually, we consolidated all trades and focused as a specialist contractor for hard landscapes. Expanding our trades further, we formed partnerships with nursery plant suppliers to take on soft landscaping projects.
To further expand, Urbanis Landscape Design (M) Sdn Bhd was formed in 2007. This landscape architecture consultancy was incorporated to meet the growing design demands of our clients. In 2008, we partnered with Urbanis Co Ltd Thailand, to bring designs of an international flavour to Malaysia.
In 2015, we started working with Greenology Singapore to access distribution rights for their range of vertical greenwall products. Greenology's products bring a distinct advantage in offering clients world-class innovation for high-rise greenery.
Today, Conspec Group provides a one-stop solution for all landscape needs. With the many companies under our name, we can meet customers' requests because we can control the product from beginning (design and raw material stage) until completion. From professional design to technical engineering and horticultural knowledge, we have the ability to fulfil demands of design-and-build projects.
Conspec Group aspires to be the best in our industry. We want to be known for providing quality work – delivered on time. We are excited to have our work recognized through numerous awards. These awards attest to our quality because we believe in going the extra mile, surpassing even higher goals.
Quality and success comes investing in our people; eventually resulting in a win-win for all. It is the people of Conspec that has made the Company successful. Thus, we continually strive to give our people the best, through empowering them with challenges, training and mentoring.
Looking ahead, we will continually improve ourselves with Value Innovation of Blue Ocean Strategy; blazing a trail that never existed before. However, our ultimate goal is always to improve lives and lead people with our hearts. Having a CSR Strategy of giving back, Conspec believes that we need to generously work to improve the lives of those around us.
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Q: Solr performance when indexing multivaluated indexed field I'm using SOLR 7.2, and i' trying to index a 133k document with dataimportHandler.
The problem is that indexation tooks large time (4 hours),  especially after indexing 50k documents.
After a large analysis of this problem, I found out that indexed mutivaluated fields are responsible for this heavy indexation. However, when setting multivaluated fields to indexed="false" indexation is going very fast(couple of minutes).
Is there a way to speed up indexation throw changing configuration or anything else.
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     <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory" />

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Q: How to automatically print PDF files on two printers based on page size? I regularly find myself printing like 10 PDF documents , all 1 page per document with various page sizes. For example 5x A4, 3x A3, 1x A2 and 1x A0.
I want to print all those pages, and not have to manually select the correct printer (normal printer for A4 and A3, plotter for A2 and A0).
Now can I select all PDF files, and hit the print button from the windows explorer, but this does not automatically send the files to the correct printer. It sends all files to the default printer.
Is there any way or tool to automatically select the right printer based on the papersize in the PDF?

A: There is a commercial tool (30-day trial) that is capable of doing this, not only on the size, but it can also check on how much colour to route the print job (or number of pages).
Example video that does print job routing based on number of pages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03RbCbBkAL8&list=PLDF2C2AD95B2B2FC2&index=2
Basically you just create a new Printer profile:
with 2 Printer channels:

*

*Printer Channel 1 for A4 and A3

*Printer Channel 2 for A2 and A0

Configure each Printer Channel so that only selects the pages that are needed, in this case printer channel 1 only needs to select A4 and A3 pages and print these, others should be deselected and ignored:

Do the same for the second printer channel. (if your paper format is not in the list, in the General Configuration --> General settings --> Paper, you can define custom paper formats)
Maybe there are other ways to do it, but that is how I would quickly do it.


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Новая волна американского хеви-метала (, сокращенно NWOAHM или NWoAHM) — направление в метал-музыке, возникшее в Соединённых Штатах в начале-середине 1990-х годов и распространившееся в мире в середине 2000-х. Большинство первых групп появилось в конце 80-х годов, но жанр обрёл популярность только в конце 90-х — начале 2000-х, ввиду чего история направления ведётся с этих годов. Термин NWOAHM является отсылкой к одному из самых значимых явлений в хеви-метале — британской волне 1980-х годов. NWOAHM оценивается критиками как жанр, который вернул метал в мейнстрим.

Хотя этот термин используется в средствах массовой информации все чаще и чаще, его определение ещё не полностью ясно.. Ввиду этого, ведётся много споров о принадлежности различных групп к этому жанру. По словам одного из ведущих метал-журналистов Garry Sharpe-Young, Новая волна Американского хеви-метала это «соединение риффов европейского образца с американским харш вокалом».. NWOAHM соединяет в себе элементы альтернативного метала, грув-метала, металкора, хардкор-панка, прогрессивного метала и мелодичного дэт-метала.

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 Chimaira
 Common Dead
 Damageplan
 Darkest Hour
 Demon Hunter
 DevilDriver
 Disturbed

 Down
 Five Finger Death Punch
 Godsmack
 Hatebreed
 High on Fire
 Killswitch Engage

 Lamb of God
 Life of Agony
 Living Sacrifice
 Machine Head
 Mastodon
 Otep
 Pantera
 Poison the Well

 Prong
 Shadows Fall
 Slipknot
 Superjoint Ritual
 System of a Down
 The Agony Scene
 The Black Dahlia Murder
 The Devil Wears Prada
 The Dillinger Escape Plan
 The Red Chord
 Throwdown
 Trivium
 Unearth
 War of Ages

Примечания

Ссылки
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Хеви-метал
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A little preparation is required when you are going to organize a picnic with children and eat under the sun. In this article, parents will find some tips to make your picnic truly memorable. You will discover how to make the best of the day that matters a lot for the entire family. The secret is to keep the menu simple, but at the same time keep everyone well fed. Make sure you include enough protein that will sustain children while playing. Avoid too much carbs in the form of sweet biscuits or salty snacks. It is much better to include cheese, fish, meat, eggs, and yogurt for a healthy day out on the nature.
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There is no need to create a complicated menu with heat dishes or doing your best to keep some meals very cold. You may take a cool bag with you, but don't depend on it too much. Many people love barbecued food, but it can be too fatty to young children.
It is recommended to cut food into tiny bite — it will be much easier to serve it to children. When you go to the local market, choose small apples, segment oranges, cubed watermelon. Keep fruits in the cool bag.
Before you leave home, you should butter sliced bread. This is the way to avoid butter/spread melting in the packet. You can take some olive oil for dipping chunky bread. Help kids to avoid dribbles on clothing.
If your children love crisps, choose the brands which contain less salt and additives. While shopping, always read the ingredients on packs to avoid high salt. Salty food will generate a thirst. You can make some popcorn at home.
When children run a lot, dehydration comes very fast. It is promoted by too much salt and sugar. Avoid soft drinks. Fresh water is the best.
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Guests staying at the Holiday Inn Express Cheltenham will soon enjoy a new and improved hotel experience, as the RBH venue begins a revamp of its guest bedrooms.
The Cheltenham property - managed by the UK's largest independent hotel management company, RBH - will undergo extensive upgrades in August, bringing it up-to-date with the Holiday Inn Express Next Generation redesign.
With over £125,000 earmarked for the revamp and with 40 guest bedrooms receiving improvements across fixtures, fittings and bedding, Holiday Inn Express Cheltenham will be only the fourth hotel in RBH portfolio to undergo the new Next Generation redesign.
Daniel Sharpe, general manager of Holiday Inn Express Cheltenham, said: "The revamp of our 40 guest rooms will offer today's smart travellers the ultimate stay, providing all of those at-home luxuries they're accustomed to, and surpassing both their leisure and business needs.
"It's an incredibly exciting time for the hotel as the investment and modernisation elevates our venue and its already high standards to the forefront of the hotel industry. We look forward to welcoming future customers to the hotel and we are in no doubt that they will enjoy their experience."
The Holiday Inn Express Next Generation redesign was developed with industry-leading experts to meet the changing needs of today's 'Smart Travellers' and is to be rolled out to a number of properties across Europe.


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El SEA regional también confirmó que el próximo martes se votará la DIA de la planta de US$70 millones que Australis pretende construir en Puerto Natales.
The Magallanes and Chilean Antarctic Region Environmental Evaluation Service (SEA) held their first session of 2019 to review projects under environmental consideration.
Three of the projects considered are related to the salmon farming industry in Magallanes and represent a total investment of more than US$60 million.
Bluriver is investing US$30 million to build a recirculating pisciculture facility and produce 3,600 tonnes/year of post-smolts.
The cultivation center that Cultivos Otway S.A. sent to environmental review in 2017 and was also approved.
Pesquera Álvarez y Álvarez Ltda. will be able to move forward with plant improvements and optimizations in Puerto Natales, a proposal which was rejected two times before.


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package controller

import (
	"os"
	"testing"

	e2eframework "agones.dev/agones/test/e2e/framework"
	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
)

const defaultNs = "default"

var framework *e2eframework.Framework

func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
	logrus.SetFormatter(&logrus.TextFormatter{
		EnvironmentOverrideColors: true,
		FullTimestamp:             true,
		TimestampFormat:           "2006-01-02 15:04:05.000",
	})

	var (
		err      error
		exitCode int
	)

	if err = e2eframework.ParseTestFlags(); err != nil {
		log.WithError(err).Error("failed to parse go test flags")
		os.Exit(1)
	}

	if framework, err = e2eframework.NewFromFlags(); err != nil {
		log.WithError(err).Error("failed to setup framework")
		os.Exit(1)
	}

	// run cleanup before tests, to ensure no resources from previous runs exist.
	err = framework.CleanUp(defaultNs)
	if err != nil {
		log.WithError(err).Error("failed to cleanup resources")
	}

	defer func() {
		err = framework.CleanUp(defaultNs)
		if err != nil {
			log.WithError(err).Error("failed to cleanup resources")
		}
		os.Exit(exitCode)
	}()
	exitCode = m.Run()
}


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