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Why Tonsillitis Keeps Coming Back

Some kids get tonsillitis, or infected tonsils, again and again. A new study found that strep, a germ that causes tonsillitis, can trick the body’s immune systemThe system that protects your body from microscopic threats.. Because of the trick, the body’s immune cells kill each other, rather than the germ. But this only happens in certain people who are vulnerable.

Your tonsils are the bumps of tissue at the back of your throat. They help prevent infections in the body by trapping germs that come in through your nose and mouth. When tonsils get infected, they can swell and become painful. Children who get tonsillitis over and over may need to have their tonsils removed.

Researchers compared tonsils removed from children who had repeated bouts of tonsillitis with those from children who had them removed for other reasons, such as a sleep disorder.

Kids with repeated tonsillitis had more of certain immune cells (a type of TFH cell). These cells help another immune cell, called B cells, make antibodies to fight the germ. But the kids with repeated tonsillitis had fewer B cells and antibodies that guard against strep.

The team found that strep makes a certain toxin that, in kids with repeated tonsillitis, causes certain TFH cells to destroy B cells instead of helping them. These kids had genetic differences that made them more vulnerable to this effect.

The results suggest there may be a way to make a vaccine that trains the immune system to prevent recurring bouts of tonsillitis, says Dr. Shane Crotty, who led the study at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology.


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Photo Release -- Northrop Grumman Hosts Groundbreaking for New Maritime Trades Academy; Gulf Coast Apprentice School to Expand

PASCAGOULA, Miss., June 8, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) hosted groundbreaking ceremonies for the new Jackson County (Miss.) Maritime Trades Academy here today with state and local officials participating.

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"The shipbuilding academy will help find new workers and upgrade the skills of current workers for our shipbuilders on the Coast and for our energy industry," said Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour. "This and future generations will be able to rely on the shipbuilding academy to help preserve and grow the Coast's shipbuilding base and ensure there is a skilled workforce to fill local jobs."

A $20 million HUD community development block grant was awarded by the state of Mississippi in August 2009 to build the academy. The Jackson County Board of Supervisors and the Jackson County Port Authority both approved and signed a memorandum of agreement for the facility in April.

"This new facility will have the capacity to accommodate 1,000 apprentices," said Mike Petters, corporate vice president and president of Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding. "That's 1,000 opportunities to create a strong and well-trained workforce here in Southern Mississippi.  Clearly this Maritime Trades Academy is an investment -- not only in the ships that protect our way of life and the people who build those ships -- but in the livelihood and the future of the Gulf Coast."

Northrop Grumman will continue to partner with Mississippi Gulf Coast Community college to grow what is already a long-standing apprentice school on the Gulf Coast. This latest investment will enable the program to grow from its current 610 students to accommodate 1,000 apprentices.

"This $20 million facility for which we break ground today will not only enable Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding to train a new generation of shipbuilders to meet the future demand of our Navy and Coast Guard, but it will also be a capstone of educational excellence in Pascagoula," said Robbie Maxwell, mayor, city of Pascagoula. "I want to thank this shipyard, its leadership and the men and women who build freedom here every day. Even though this is a ceremonial groundbreaking, it marks a milestone in a process that began two years ago, when Governor Barbour welcomed this new leadership team to our shipyard with a solemn pledge to do all he can do to make us successful."

The new academy will have classrooms for academic and vocational classes, a trade wing with additional nine classrooms to adjoining labs for various crafts, as well as computer labs and a high-bay multi-purpose room that can be used for crane training, assemblies and other large-gathering events.

"I'd like to congratulate the Northrop Grumman team for the vision they had to be able to relate this project to the governor," said Mike Mangum, President, Jackson County Board of Supervisors. "And I'd like to thank the governor and the Mississippi Development Authority team for realizing what this means to Jackson County and the state of Mississippi in supporting this project."

The Northrop Grumman Apprentice School has provided high quality, comprehensive two to four-year apprentice programs for students interested in shipbuilding careers. Since 1952, the Apprentice School has produced more than 4,000 graduates with over 430 of those graduates currently working at Northrop Grumman in 50 different types of jobs from pipe welders to senior executives. To learn more about the Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding-Gulf Coast apprentice school, visit:

Northrop Grumman Corporation is a leading global security company whose 120,000 employees provide innovative systems, products, and solutions in aerospace, electronics, information systems, shipbuilding and technical services to government and commercial customers worldwide. Please visit for more information.

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Routine skin assessments recommended when proning COVID-19 patients

Clinicians say more support, training and clinical education needed

By Medline Newsroom Staff | March 26, 2021

Nearly 60,000 people die each year from complications associated with pressure injuries¹. As proning, the process of turning patients onto their stomachs for extended periods of time, has become a part of COVID-19 protocols for ventilated patients, experts say it is important to perform routine skin assessments and off-load and pad bony prominence areas.

It’s the latest reminder of an ongoing theme a recent Medline survey revealed among clinicians: the need to promote continuous staff education to support best practices.

Medline in 2019 surveyed nearly a thousand RNs and CNAs at healthcare facilities across the nation as part of Skin Health Solutions discovery assessments. The assessments uncovered five key insights into skin health and pressure injury prevention protocols:

  1. In 2019, the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel (NPIAP) Clinical Practice Guidelines updated their guidance that turning patients every two hours is no longer recommended. However, nearly 92% of respondents reported repositioning patients every two hours.
  2. Only 42.84% report using a moisturizer on patients daily. Dry skin is a significant risk factor for pressure injury.
  3. The most severe pressure injuries occur at the sacrum 44.8% of the time; however, 56.37% of staff report they do not have a protocol for the use of sacral foam dressing as a part of a pressure injury prevention program.
  4. Heel offloading can decrease the length of hospital stays and promote patient ambulation by preventing heel pressure injuries yet only 40% of staff report using heel protector devices for offloading heels.
  5. Nearly 66% of staff would like more training in pressure injury staging but only 36 percent were trained.

“For the past year, we have been conducting best practice sessions with customers about the benefits of proning acute respiratory distress patients, how to protect patients and staff when proning the patient, and addressing common questions about proning,” said Angela Zuick, director of acute care clinical services at Medline. “Most of these conversations reveal that while skin health is always on the radar, competing priorities make it difficult to be number one. Having a renewed focus on it would create an incredible benefit to patients and clinicians.”

Medline offers a SHS Program that provides a complete training system to help empower staff with easy-to-use education and tools. The company performed nearly a hundred assessments in 2020 and will share the findings once the results are compiled.

Discover how Medline makes skin health second nature.

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India's First City-wide Environmental Surveillance Platform for COVID Launched

A Platform launched by Government of Karnataka in partnership with the COVIDActionCollab that tracks COVID through waste-water surveillance, with Bangalore as the first city-wide initiative

May 27, 2021 18:00 IST
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With the number of cases of COVID-19 surging across the county in the second wave of the pandemic, the Government of Karnataka is introducing a city-wide sewage surveillance system in Bangalore that will help officials track the virus at an early stage, even among asymptomatic individuals.

Local staff collecting samples from Sewers around Bengaluru

Assisting this effort is the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Skoll Foundation-supported COVIDactionCollab (CAC), an India-wide collaborative of over 300 organizations and networks working together to provide COVID-19 relief and recovery services to the country’s most vulnerable communities.

Samples collected get tested at Molecular Solutions Care Health LLP, an NABL accredited, ICMR approved COVID-19 RT-PCR laboratory

Over the last year, scientists around the world have discovered that waste-water testing can serve as a cost-effective early warning system, often predicting an increase in COVID-19 before the number of official cases has risen. The Precision Health Platform in Bengaluru, the first of its kind in Asia, will test sewage from both sewered and non-sewered waste-water to identify clusters of new infections. Early identification of clusters can help guide the COVID-19 response and give policymakers the information they need to better allocate limited pandemic resources.

CAC supports the Government of Karnataka by providing training for sanitation workers and lab technicians on collecting and transporting sewage samples to labs for testing; and analysing and safely disposing of them. The Technical Expert group will provide programmatic inputs and insights to policy makers for targeted COVID-19 prevention, care, and management services based on the analysis.

The Government of Karnataka plans to begin testing across 45 wards in Bangalore. Rakesh Singh, Additional Chief Secretary, Urban Development says, “The system will cover over 75% of Bengaluru’s nine million population by generating over 90 data points per week signalling the emerging COVID-19 clusters or signalling a COVID-19 cluster’s exit from an area. We are happy to be the first in India to launch this platform.

Although sewage testing is not a replacement for clinical testing and citizens are advised to continue following safety guidelines, this surveillance system is cost effective tool that can be used not only for COVID-19, but in the future, it can also track other pathogens with pandemic potential and measure antimicrobial resistance in the population.

Dr. Angela Chaudhuri, Health Lead of COVIDActionCollab, says, “While there have been many experiments and studies on finding traces of the COVID-19 virus in sewage, Bangalore will be joining the Netherlands, Finland, and Israel in path-breaking surveillance system like this with experts from all over the world supporting the initiative.

Sangita Patel, Director USAID, India Health Office, said, “Since the beginning of the pandemic, The United States and India have worked closely together to provide life-saving treatments, disseminate public health messages to local communities; strengthen case-finding and surveillance; and support innovative solutions to bolster emergency response and preparedness. USAID is proud to support the COVIDactionCollab and these efforts to identify early clusters of the virus for better pandemic preparedness and management. We hope success in Karnataka will lead to the expansion of similar systems in other locations across India.”

Lucien Chan, Managing Director, the Skoll Foundation, said, “As part of our mission to support different regions through the pandemic, we realized the need for an efficient and cost-effective mechanism for tracking the outbreak in these regions. The Precision Public Health Surveillance approach developed by the COVIDActionCollab will greatly support governments in monitoring the spread of the virus and allow them to take preventive measures rather than reacting after the crisis has occurred. The program holds immense potential, and I look forward to seeing other governments consider this approach in their respective states. “

About The COVIDActionCollab

The collaborative consists of Organizations and Networks working together to support these communities during the period of crisis and enable them to secure their future. The 315 partners strong collaborative has delivered 17 lakh services with 2000 volunteers to date. The Collaborative envisions a world where vulnerable communities are empowered to survive and thrive during a humanitarian crisis. CAC aims to achieve synergy among its partners at multiple levels in order to accelerate impact, in keeping with the needs of these communities.

Catalyst Group, the incubator is facilitating the formation and operation of the collaborative driving its success along with eminent partners such as USAID and the Skoll Foundation.

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Local staff collecting samples from Sewers around Bengaluru
Local staff collecting samples from Sewers around Bengaluru
Samples collected get tested at Molecular Solutions Care Health LLP, an NABL accredited, ICMR approved COVID-19 RT-PCR laboratory
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Urantia Book 71. The life of Jesus of Nazareth, Joshua ben Joseph, Yeshua, Christ Michael, Creator Son, Son of Man, Sovereign God of Nebadon. Jesus and the 12 went to Jerusalem for the feast of Tabernacles and stayed four and a half weeks. Jesus spent October with Abner and his associates. He also boldly preached in the Temple. There were many reasons why Jesus was able publicly to preach in the temple courts throughout the days of the feast, and chief of these was the fear that had come over the officers of the Sanhedrin as a result of the secret division of sentiment in their own ranks. Many members of the Sanhedrin either secretly believed in Jesus or were decidedly averse to arresting him during the feast, when such large numbers of people were in Jerusalem, many of whom either believed in him or were friendly to the spiritual movement he sponsored. The efforts of Abner and his associates throughout Judea had also done much to consolidate sentiment favorable to the kingdom, so much so that the enemies of Jesus dared not be too outspoken in their opposition. But the audacious boldness of Jesus in publicly appearing in Jerusalem overawed his enemies; they were not prepared for such a daring challenge. In fact, they thought Jesus might be protected by a secret understanding with the Romans. Most of Jesus’ followers were greatly astonished when he appeared in the temple and began to preach, and the Jewish authorities were surprised beyond expression when it was reported that he was teaching in the temple. These teachings were really the official or formal announcement of the divinity of Jesus to the Jewish people and the whole world. The multitudes who listened to Jesus’ teachings were divided in their opinions. Some said he was a good man; some a prophet; some that he was truly the Messiah; others said he was a mischievous meddler, that he was leading the people astray with his strange doctrines. Every time Jesus went to Jerusalem, his apostles were filled with terror. They were more afraid as, from day to day, they listened to his increasingly bold pronouncements regarding the nature of his mission on earth.***********************************On the first day he taught in the temple, a listener interrupted Jesus to ask: “Teacher, how is it that you can quote the scriptures and teach the people so fluently when I am told you are untaught in the learning of the rabbis?” Jesus replied: “No man has taught me the truths which I declare to you. And this teaching is not mine but his who sent me. If any person really desires to do my Father’s will, he shall certainly know about my teaching, whether it be God’s or whether I speak for myself. He who speaks for himself seeks his own glory, but when I declare the words of the Father, I thereby seek the glory of the one who sent me. But before you try to enter into the new light, should you not rather follow the light you already have? Moses gave you the law, yet how many of you seek to fulfill its demands? Moses says “You shall not kill,” but in spite of this command, some of you want to kill the Son of Man.” After hearing this, the crowd started arguing among themselves. Some said he was mad; some said he was possessed; some said he was a prophet. After the arguing died down, one turned to Jesus and asked: “Why do the rulers seek to kill you?” And Jesus replied: “The rulers seek to kill me because they resent my teaching about the good news of the kingdom, a gospel that sets people free from the burdensome traditions of a formal religion of ceremonies which these teachers are determined to uphold at any cost. They circumcise in accordance with the law on the Sabbath day, but they would kill me because I once healed a man on the Sabbath and set him free from affliction. They seek to kill me because they know that, if you honestly believe and dare to accept my teaching, their system of traditional religion will be overthrown, forever destroyed. Thus will they be deprived of the authority they love so much. So, judge not according to appearances, but rather judge by the true spirit of these teachings; judge righteously.”************ When the Pharisees heard the people talking this way, they conferred with the rulers and decided that something must be done about this bold teaching in the temple. Accordingly, Eber, an officer of the Sanhedrin, and two assistants were sent to arrest Jesus. When Eber came within talking distance of Jesus, Jesus said such kind words to him that he refused to arrest him and went back to the rulers without Jesus. When the Pharisees and chief priests expressed their anger at this, Eber said: “Even so, my masters, but this man speaks to the multitude words of mercy and hope. He cheers the downhearted, and his words were comforting even to our souls. What can there be wrong in these teachings, even though he may not be the Messiah? And even then does not our law require fairness? Do we condemn a man before we hear him?” The chief of the Sanhedrin was not amused and they broke up in confusion.******************************* The feast of Tabernacles was a favorite feast. Booths of branches were set up. The temple was illuminated by hundreds of candelabras. Seventy bulls were sacrificed during the feast, the symbol of the seventy nations of heathendom. The ceremony of the pouring out of water symbolized the outpouring of the divine spirit. On the last day of the feast almost 450 priests with a corresponding number of Levites officiated. The worshipers would be divided into three group which would approach the temple from three different directions. At the altar wine and water would be poured out and that was the signal for the chanting of Psalms 113 to 118, after which the sacrifices started.

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Is Daniel Day-Lewis The Model for Geoffrey In Slings and Arrows? Phantom at 25. Manilow No Way. Landlord of La Mancha

Daniel Day-Lewis with Judi Dench on stage in Hamlet in 1989. Paul Gross as Geoffrey Tennant in scene from Slings and Arrows.
Daniel Day-Lewis with Judi Dench on stage in Hamlet in 1989. Paul Gross as Geoffrey Tennant in scene from Slings and Arrows.

When Daniel Day-Lewis won the Screen Actors Guild award for his leading role in “Lincoln” – having already won a slew of other awards for it as well as an Oscar nomination — I wondered why he is just a screen actor. Why has he never been on a Broadway stage? Has he ever been on a New York stage at all?
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Natalie Chernicoff (@n2natalie): He hasn’t appeared onstage since an unfortunate real-life “Geoffrey Tennant in Slings & Arrows” incident in London. Collapsed in the middle of a scene. Sobbed uncontrollably and refused to return onstage. Later explained that he’d seen the ghost of his own father in the scene where Hamlet’s father’s ghost appears to Hamlet, who Day-Lewis was playing.

Jonathan Mandell: Was this before or after Slings and Arrows?

Natalie Chernicoff 1989 — Well before. Inspiration for the TV show, perhaps?

Rose Ginsberg @MsEnScene
oh my god Daniel Day Lewis is Geoffrey Tennant??

Elissa Goetschius (@egoetschius)
He hasn’t done theater since. The Gertrude in that production was Judy Dench. (I did a paper on it in college.)
You can read about it in Richard Eyre’s published diary, National Service.

Jonathan Mandell: Why is he more likely to see his father’s ghost on stage than in a movie?

Nella Vera @spinstripes
Because it’s live, there aren’t retakes, you are in the moment, in the darkness, no one yells CUT.

Diep Tran @diepthought Wonder if Kushner can compel him to give it another go

This week in New York theater:

January 21, 2013

Jordan Roth has become principal owner of Jujamcyn Theaters (owner of 5 Broadway houses) , buying out partner Rocco Landesman, recently retired head of the National Endowment for the Arts. AT 37, Roth is the youngest theater owner on Broadway.

 David Hare chose theater over film: “you’re less at the whim of stupid people” though playwriting is “a harrowingly lonely life.”

Has anybody actually ever read the telephone book on stage? There seems to be an audience for it.

Kevin R. Free @kevinrfree

There’s a New York Neofuturists play called “Shot in The Dark” in which Bill Coelius read from the phone book. He only read one name at random, and looked in the audience to see if he/she was present

James Bow @jamesbow

SCTV did a nice sketch based around the idea.

Matt Trueman @matttrueman

Yes. A show at the Edinburgh Fringe a few years back that had guest comedians do just that.

MitchLeighMan of La Mancha composer Mitch Leigh, 84, is now a real estate developer, creating a new community
right next door to Six Flags Great Adventure”  in New Jersey, Jackson Twenty-One, “America’s only arts-sports residential community”

Should he rewrite Man of La Mancha? My take:

I am I, Don Quixote, The landLord of La Mancha, My manager calls and I go,

And the wild winds of Teaneck/ Will carry me onward,

Oh whithersoever they blow

Onto Passaic I go

This is my Quest to ladle on tar

In all my new driveways, for all the new cars

To fight for air rights

Without riders or clause

To be willing to take you to court

Without any real cause

JekyllandHydeJekyll and Hyde, with Constantine Maroulis and Deborah Cox will begin on Broadway April 5th at the Marquis Theater, and open April 18th,  for a 13-week run

ManilowWayBroadway Week, 2-for-1 tix to everything from Annie to Wicked (Only Lion King sold out) tonite through Feb 7

Starting today, until Feb 10th: 20at20 $20 tix to Off-Broadway shows. List of shows

Today they’ve renamed 44th Street and Seventh Avenue Manilow Way, but Barry Manilow cancels his Broadway performance due to bronchitis.

Are there ads for Lucky Guy EVERYWHERE in print and online, or is this just because there are cookies on all my devices (& reading matter)?

ChitaRiverais80Tuck Everlasting, musical based on 1975 kid book, Andrew Keenan-Bolger and Carolee Carmello, aims for Bway after Boston run this summer

She was born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero.

She first appeared on Broadway 60 years ago in Can-Can. She’s in her 16th Bway show now, Drood.Happy 80th Birthday, Chita Rivera.

Which is more shocking,that Chita Rivera is 80 or Rita Moreno is 81? >A century and a half of pure talent, still hoofing it!)

Manilow on Broadway canceled again tonight on doctor’s orders, but the singer promises to perform tomorrow, the opening

Ian McKellen teaming up with Patrick Stewart in Pinter’s No Man’s Land AND Beckett’s Waiting For Godot on Broadway Fall 2013!!

The musical Bare will close at New World Stages on Sun ,Feb 3,after 21 pre & 65 reg performances. A cast album is in the works

Barry Manilow still sick. Tonight, which would have been opening night, has been canceled, along with Friday and Saturday.

TheSteadfast2I’ve reviewed two plays for Backstage in the last few days that share much in common — The Living Theatre’s “Here We Are” a theater piece about anarchists through the ages, and the Slant Theatre Project’s “The Steadfast,” a play about American soldiers through the ages —   except their politics.

Patriotism, Anarchy and Art: Can you enjoy theater you don’t agree with politically?

David Mamet shores up his conservative cred w/a pro-gun essay (which reads EXACTLY like The Anarchist)

We Will Rock You, musical w/ 24 songs from Freddie Mercury’s band Queen, going on US tour & reportedly may stop on Broadway. Fifteen

million have seen it in 17 countries. I saw We Will Rock You in Toronto. It sort of does wtih Queen what Mamma Mia does with ABBA.

The Phantom of the Opera25 years ago today, Phantom of The Opera opened on Broadway.And it’s still there,the longest-running show in Broadway history.

Phantom has given 10,390 + reg. performances. Moose Murders gave just 1, considered the worst show in Broadway theater. BUT….

Just like Carrie last season, Moose Murders is getting an Off-Broadway revival. Jan 29-Feb 10 Connelly Theater (220 E 4th St.)

Theater community ( minus Mamet) supports today’s March on Washington for Gun Control

The Perfect American, Philip Glass’s new opera, depicts Walt Disney as racist, despotic and megalomaniacal

Dan Stevens (@ThatDanStevens) 100th performance of The Heiress this afternoon! [Heiress closes Feb 9th]

ScreenActorsGuildAwards2013Screen Actors Guild Award 2013 winners

Dick Van Dyke got a lifetime achievement award best-known for his TV sitcoms, is a veteran of 4 Bway shows, most notably the original Bye, Bye Birdie.

From Daniel Day-Lewis acceptance speech:

When I was prowling around the idea and wondering whether I could take the risk of doing it, for some reason the guiding principle of the Hippocratic Oath kept nagging at me: First do no harm. And with that modest but important ambition, I set out.

And then it occurred to me that it was an actor that murdered Abraham Lincoln. And therefore somehow it’s only fitting that every now and then an actor tries to bring him back to life again.

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Cyberpunk 2077 Night City Wire: Johnny Silverhand, Music, and Animation Details Revealed

The fifth episode of Night City Wire, the official livestream for Cyberpunk 2077, has revealed new details on Keanu Reeves’ Johnny Silverhand character, as well as provided behind-the-scenes looks at how the game’s 90’s-inspired soundtrack was created, and how the hundreds of characters are animated.

Johnny Silverhand is a key character from the tabletop Cyberpunk game, and CD Projekt Red considers him a “co-protagonist” of the video game. Played by Keanu Reeves, he is both a rockstar and ex-military, has his own specific agenda in the game, and players will find that many quests are to further his ambitions rather than their own.

CDPR considered many approaches for bringing Silverhand to life before it cast Keanu Reeves in the role, including rock band frontmen. Interestingly, it even considered bringing a rock star back from the dead in animated form for the role, although the stream stopped short of revealing exactly who that star was.

Keanu Reeves is not the only famous voice in the game; Cyberpunk 2077’s soundtrack has numerous real bands on it, making up some of its 150 custom tracks. Featured artists include Run The Jewels, Grimes, Nina Kraviz, Gazelle Twin, and Rat Boy. CDPR wanted to bring some 90s influences to the soundtrack since the cyberpunk genre has traditionally been so heavily 80s influenced. You’ll be able to get a taste for the soundtrack by listening to a new six-track EP that has just been released on streaming services.

Talking of music, if you’re a streamer then Cyberpunk 2077 features a mode that disables any copyrighted music tracks so you won’t get DMCA’d. This can be toggled on or off in the menu on all versions, but the console versions can auto-detect when you’re streaming and automatically activate the mode. The copyrighted tracks will be replaced with something suitable for streaming.

This episode of Night City Wire also provided a quick insight into the procedural animation system behind the facial performances. Due to the hundreds of NPCs and the 10 languages Cyberpunk 2077 will be available in, facial animations are handled by a software called JALI rather than facial capture. The results seem rather impressive.

Finally, the standard edition of Cyberpunk 2077 will come with some digital bonuses: an art book, the official score, and a comic. There are also in-game items that can be redeemed by linking your game to your GOG account, including the Wolf School jacket that features the wolf head insignia from The Witcher.

For more, you can read our latest Cyberpunk 2077 preview right now, which provides brand new insights from 16 hours with the game.

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Jon Summersett to Lead Product Development at U.S. Gain

U.S. Gain, a vertically integrated renewable natural gas (RNG) supplier, has welcomed Jon Summersett as its new director of product management.

In this role, Summersett will be tasked with identifying and developing new products and services to widen the company’s alternative fuel portfolio. He will collaborate with strategic industry partners and fleets across market sectors to ensure U.S. Gain’s offering enables success of their sustainability goals.

“I am excited to join U.S. Gain and begin work on the next generation of energy solutions,” says Summersett. “Over the past decade, I’ve had a passion for the technological aspect of the transportation industry, and this role combines my functional interest and background in many unique ways.”

Summersett has a background in product development, category management, sales and strategic marketing from his time with organizations including Kellogg, Pfizer and Emerson Electric Co.

“We’re looking forward to having such a tenured and enthusiastic person like Jon focused on the expansion of new fuels and proprietary tools that provide fleets strong, competitive advantages as they transition away from diesel,” says U.S. Gain’s president, Mike Koel. “As the future of commercial transportation evolves, our vision is to be the very best choice for sustainable energy solutions that reduce emissions for a cleaner world, and we feel that the addition of Jon will be instrumental in helping us to get there.”

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NHL On NBCSN: Red Wings host Sabres, go for third win in a row

NBCSN’s coverage of the 2016-17 NHL season continues on Monday night with the Detroit Red Wings hosting the Buffalo Sabres. Puck drop is at 7:30 pm ET and you can catch all of the action on NBCSN or via our Live Stream.

Entering the night 12 points out of a playoff spot with only 12 games to play, the Red Wings’ run of consecutive playoff appearances looks as if it is going to come to an end this season. But they are still looking to salvage something from the year with a strong finish. The Red Wings enter the night having won back-to-back games.

Henrik Zetterberg has been one of the bright spots in Detroit this season, still going strong even at age 36, with a team-high 59 points in 70 games.

He has been on fire in recent weeks, entering the game with 19 points in his past 15 games. That stretch includes seven multiple point games, including three of his past five and each of the past two.

From the Buffalo side, it’s been another frustrating year for the Sabres as the organization has yet to take a significant step forward in its rebuild. The Sabres are on pace to finish with roughly the same number of points as last season and haven’t been able to find any sort of consistency. They have shown flashes of being a playoff contender, but those almost always get followed by a lengthy stretch of poor play, including their current run that has seem then lose 11 of their past 13 games.

On the bright side for Buffalo, Jack Eichel, the No. 2 pick in 2015, continues to have the look of a franchise player and has been close to a point-per-game player this season when he has been in the lineup. That production, along with his knack for making highlight reel plays, has made him one of the must-see young stars in the NHL. The team itself may not have progressed the way anybody wanted to see them this season, but Eichel continues to give hope that better days might soon be ahead, as long as they can find a way to build around him.


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Best ballpoint pen for someone who loves to push hard? Ask the grumpies

Heavyhands asks:

Do you have a favorite kind of pen?  I am tired of using cheap Bic work pens that get blobs of ink all over my fingers and smudge all over the page.  I have some Pilot G2 when I want to write in colors, but I really like ballpoint pens [ed: the kind with tacky ink] better, except they glop all over my hands!  I read some good reviews about the uni jetstream and bought them, but I’m not liking it so far.  Yesterday I suddenly realized, “why am I using these pens that glop ink everywhere?  I can afford to buy pens,” but I don’t want to keep ordering random pens and not like them.  I can’t afford that!

NY Magazine thinks my crappy work Bic pens are good.  (The Bic roundstic)– how can I ever trust anyone?  They get globs of ink everywhere!  But… I do trust your readers.

Does grumpy nation have any advice for me?  I think I prefer ballpoint to rollerball [ed: this is what I would call flowing ink like the G2 or my favorite Tul] because I push really hard with my pens.  I also am ok with gel pens, but I’ve only used them for fancy things like writing cards.  Since I push hard with the pens, there’s less friction with a ballpoint than with a gel pen or a rollerball pen.  I think I wreck the tips on rollerballs.

I would love to hear people’s pen recommendations?  What’s your favorite pen?

Oh gee, we both have light touches with pens.  #1 prefers rollerballs and definitely has a lot less friction with a rollerball or gel pen than with a ballpoint.  #2 prefers marker tip(!)

I think my favorite was the uni jetstream 101 (the kind you get 12 to a box, not the retractable kind), but that advice is probably not at all helpful to you since we have such different writing styles and you didn’t like the uni jetstream that you got!

This article recommends the uni-ball signo 207 premier gel pen and the Pilot Dr. Grip Ballpoint.

DH loves his space pen, though I cannot imagine spending that much ($22) on something I would invariably lose.  (DH has not lost his, though it has gone through the wash a couple of times, since it is always kept in his pocket.)

Grumpy Nation, can you help Heavyhands out?  What are your favorite pens?  Do you press heavily or lightly?

February snuck up on me: February Challenge, gotta get some stuff out

I am so far behind on everything, Grumpy Nation.

But… for the first time since NOVEMBER, my computer desktop at work is finally fully functional.  Like, I can use dropbox and WinSCP and not get a BSOD 5 minutes after logging in.  So… that’s a miracle.

February is the best month for challenges, even if there’s an extra day this year.

I’m going to combine two previous annual challenges:

1. 2018’s No Devices In The Morning Challenge

2. 2017’s Write Every Morning Challenge

I will be taking one weekend day off for the write in the morning challenge, which is good since I didn’t realize February 1st was February 1st until Saturday afternoon.

Everything I said in that 2017 post is 100% true this February as well, up to and including the 8am office hours one day a week.

Ask the readers: How do I teach my middle-schooler writing?

While we have been impressed with the math and orchestra teaching in public schools where we are, we have been less so with the humanities.  DC1 is not learning how to write.  Zie is not getting many writing assignments, and the one that zie gets are completed in-class with minimal feedback and are mostly creative writing or opinion.  (Add to that the ELA teacher doesn’t exactly show great writing skills in hir own written communications… though I suppose my blog writing doesn’t show the same level of quality as my professional writing so I shouldn’t throw stones.  Still…)

Looking online most of the recommendations seem to be “let them read a lot and write a lot”… well, DC1 already reads a lot.  And, having looked into the “research” that claims that writing cannot be taught, I am less than impressed with the methodology.  I can believe that writing cannot be taught in a single semester, and that grammar instruction without  combined writing instruction doesn’t transfer, but I have a bright 10 year old with a growth mindset for at least another 6 years of instruction, not a fixed-mindset college student for a semester of remediation.   I have to believe that there’s something more systematic that can be done than just having DC1 write about a wedding zie has attended.

I am most interested in teaching DC1 technical writing, especially given that technical writing seems to be completely neglected in hir classes thus far.  As I’m grading my college students’ policy briefs, I find I worry that DC1 doesn’t know how to use topic sentences or craft a paragraph that supports such sentences.  I want hir to learn outlining.  And have the ability to skim an article that has been written with topic sentences and an outline.

I vaguely remember learning in 3rd grade about topic sentences, diagramming sentences in 4th grade, and outlining in 5th grade.  (My juvenilia is actually pretty good… at least compared to the writings of many of my college students…)  A high school history teacher taught the art of transitions (though in college I learned that not all disciplines appreciate them, so I have stopped doing that final step except when writing in more historical sub-fields).  My mom did a lot of teaching me how to fix my grammar, clarity, and so on.  #2 also helped form my writing (her mom is a professional editor).  One of my grad advisors taught me discipline-specific tricks for writing in my main field.

Students at elite private schools get a lot of technical instruction in writing.  The results are impressive.  And I can’t believe it’s just their socioeconomic status or a greater propensity to read that’s the cause of it.  My sister got actual technical writing instruction at the private school she went to for high school and her writing ability and writing enjoyment improved tremendously (despite heavy amounts of constructive feedback).  There are rules that can be taught.

So I’m asking you:  How do I teach writing to my kids?  Is there a curriculum that would be good?  A workbook series or set of prompts that would guide them through the basics of technical writing? A Kumon-style academy that does a particularly good job?  How did you learn how to write?

Please use more topic sentences

In your technical writing.  Please!

What is a topic sentence, you ask?  Since they no longer seem to cover that in third grade…

A topic sentence is the first sentence in a paragraph that provides the main idea of the paragraph.  Essentially it introduces a paragraph and summarizes what the paragraph is going to say.  It isn’t, “Now we turn to Table 2”.   It isn’t, “[Author (DATE)] studies X.”  What does Table 2 say?  Why is it there?  Why are you talking about Author (DATE)?  What is the relationship to your paper?  Convey this information in the first sentence of each paragraph.

The topic sentence should tell you why that paragraph is there.  If you don’t know why that paragraph is there, then maybe it shouldn’t be.

This PSA brought to you by a grumpy rumbler who has had to do waaay too many referee reports recently.

Stocks and bonds, Writing and outreach

I had an idea.  Follow me, here:

For academic careers, writing is like investing in stocks.  Outreach and translational research are like investing in bonds.

Stocks and writing:  Get lots while you’re young.  You need to write prolifically enough to get tenure, and gain the national or international reputation you need for those outside letters.  Spread your name, become known in your field.  Start early.  Because the return is uncertain, put a lot of writing out there in the world (and buy stocks).  Stocks are a good investment when you have a long timeline until retirement; you have time to weather the ups-and-downs of the market and can have a higher tolerance for risk, in exchange for possibly higher returns.

Bonds and outreach/translation:  These are more effective when you’re older.  When you’re more experienced in your field, you have more experience and a reputation that you can leverage for influence.  Research-wise, you’ve got a better idea of what works and what’s worth developing further, as well as potential pitfalls and objections.  You also know people who can help spread your ideas.  You may have more time to devote to making the world a better place.  When you’re closer to retirement, you also want the safety and security of bonds: potentially lower return, but steady.

In financial investing, as in an academic career, you’ll need a balance and variety throughout your life.  You might want to be doing both of these things (and more!) at all times, but in varying ratios.  Diversify and rebalance your portfolio and life.

This idea: off the wall, or right on target?  Tell me, Grumpeteers.

How to write a power-point discussion (economics-specific)

The goal of a good discussion is to explain to the audience where the paper fits into the general social science/policy framework and to help the paper improve for the future.  The goal is not to destroy a paper but to improve it (see exception below).  Discussants are serving science!

  1. Frame question— why is it important?  (You can mention your own work here if applicable.)
  2. Briefly summarize paper.  If the presenter is great, you will be able to skip the summary or only go over what you see as the most important parts.  If the presenter is terrible, your audience will really appreciate figuring out what they just heard, so it’s good to be thorough on your slides if you don’t know a priori how good the presenter will be.  If applicable, here would be a great place to take the author’s work through a “sniff test”– Bridgette Madrian is one of the best discussants I’ve seen, and one of my favorite discussions of hers was where she took a person’s paper (on whether or not we need 70% of our income after retirement) and applied it to her own life with a spreadsheet and came to the conclusion that the paper’s thesis was plausible.  Sometimes discussants will call up experts in the industry to ask their qualitative opinion.  Really great discussants will sometimes replicate or extend with another dataset.  None of these things are necessary, but if they’re easy for you or an RA to do, they can really push you to be memorable (though being invited to discuss more papers is not necessarily something you want to do!).
  3. Constructively point out problems with the paper and suggest solutions (if any).  Don’t be a dick.  Frame these as questions to think about, how big a problem you think they are etc . Don’t use this part as a place to talk about why your work is awesome and theirs sucks.  If you do mention your work in this spot, use it only as a place to commiserate with standard problems and suggest solutions that could work for them.
  4. Extensions for the future, broader impact.  Here’s a place where you can talk up your own work if it is related and can speak to the paper you’re discussing.

How many slides do you want?  Fewer than the number of minutes you have to present.  It is better to go short than to go long.

Special cases:

  1.  The authors haven’t actually done anything yet:  Spent the majority of your time on why this is an interesting question and suggestions for future work.  (Also ok to use a chunk of your time talking about your own related work.)  Use the word “preliminary” a lot.
  2. The authors clearly haven’t addressed causality but causality needs to be addressed (or any other major elephant in the paper issue):  Spent the majority of your time on why this is an interesting question.  Talk about the problems of getting to causality and (if easy for you to do) what other authors have done and (if easy for you to do) the problems with what they’ve done (or if not problematic, then suggest these authors follow).  Gently mention that causality is something that these authors need to think about.  The audience will understand.  Then suggest future work (which will include really nailing down causality).
  3. You don’t get the paper to discuss until the night before at 3am:  Feel free to spend the entire time talking about your own work, or to come up with something off the cuff while they’re giving the presentation (it is AOK to note that you did not get the paper until the night before, but that should be the extent of your dickishness).
  4. The paper is poorly done and the results, if taken at face value, will do real harm to people, particularly those from marginalized groups:  In this case, it is ok to firmly and politely destroy the paper for shoddy craftsmanship.  You can do so in a professional manner in steps 2 and 3. You’re still not being a dick, but you don’t have to frame things as questions to think about but as real methodological problems.   It’s ok to throw around the terms “dangerous” and “needs stronger proof”.  It’s a shame that there are still guys (and the occasional woman) who write papers with sexist/racist agendas who ignore basic science in order to prove that wealthy white men are superior and deserve their privilege, but there are.  They shouldn’t be allowed to do bad science.

Academic readers– is this about right?  What things are the same or different in your discipline?  Any other tips?

How to do a powerpoint presentation (social sciences, economics)

I LOVE me some powerpoints.

Think about what you want your audience to take away.  Use the rule of 3 to emphasize those points (say what you’re going to say, say it, then tell people that you said it).  Depending on how much time you have you won’t be able to get through every point in the paper, so think about what subset you want to present, what slides you want to keep in case of questions but not actually present, and so on.

Use the powerpoint as a guide to remind you what to talk about, so brief bullets/phrases instead of full sentences.  Do not read off the slides.

Some people will only want to read your slides, some people will only want to listen to what you say.  Make sure that people who do one or the other will still get the gist of your presentation.

Make sure your fontsize is big enough that the people in the back can see it if they’re wearing glasses.   My heuristic is to not go below 28 point Calibri if it’s something I want them to read.  (Table notes can go smaller)

Graphs are often more compelling than regression output.  (But keep the regression output as a backup)

Don’t use fancy wipes/fade-outs/etc.  Anything that distracts without a purpose is useless.

Development economists, behavioral economists, psychologists, antrhopologists, etc. use a lot of photos/pictures/drawings and occasionally movies.  Do that if it is common in your field.  If it isn’t, then only sex it up like that if it helps improve understanding.

DO NOT USE PREZI.  Or if you do, use it like you would Powerpoint or Beemer.  You do not want to give members of your audience migraines.

I have often found it helpful to have different versions of the same information in the powerpoint that I can skip over depending on how pressed for time I am.  So I will have a pretty chart, regression output, and summary bullets (or two out of the three) and I will use combinations of one or two of these depending on how much time I have left.  It is also helpful to know which sections can be skipped without losing the main themes of the presentation.

Practice your talk.  Know how the talk is going to differ if questions are allowed vs. no questions being allowed.

It is better to go a little under than a little over.  It is better to skip parts than to talk so quickly nobody can understand you.

Join us next Tuesday for:  How to write a powerpoint discussion(!)

Academic readers– is this about right?  What things are the same or different in your discipline?  Any other tips?

Your Ideal Work Day

A few years ago, get a life phd asked readers to think about what their ideal day would look like.

My ideal work day definitely does NOT include teaching or ANY emails from students.  It does, however, include research and friends.

I was at this conference when I realized I was having my ideal work day.  No students.  No student emails.  I talked to colleagues about research:  theirs, mine.  I got inspired to learn about a new statistical technique.

I saw good friends I hadn’t seen in a long time.  I ate good food.  I had time for a nap in the middle.

I met a new research collaborator and we talked about what research we do and could share.
I could choose what was most interesting to go hear talks about.  Setting my own schedule is awesome.
That is an ideal work day.

I think mine would start off with me checking my email to find a desk accept.  :)  Or an R&R from a top 2 journal.  Follow it up with a request to do something relatively trivial using my expertise for a large sum of money (like reading a proposal or giving a discussion).

These ideal day exercises aren’t so useful to me because my fantasy scenarios mainly depend on things that are outside of my control (last week was not an ideal week– the summer started with two conference rejections and a journal rejection, also our unscoopable paper that coauthor sat on for two years got scooped), and because I’m pretty happy with my life as it is and trying to optimize instead of satisfice just makes me grumpy.  It may not be a perfect life, but spending time and mental energy trying to make it better tends to make it worse and take time and energy away from things that actually help my life improve.  I remember the morning that I first heard about the willpower research on only being able to make a limited number of decisions each day, I was completely useless because I’d second guess making any decision instead of just making it, thus adding to my mental load.

Now, if I were miserable or unhappy, then the amount of time thinking about what makes me happy would be totally worth it.  A little bit of introspection might be able to make big short-term changes.  Fortunately for me, that’s not where I am right now (rejections aside).  We will see what the future brings.

What’s your ideal work day?

Ask the grumpies: First year on the tt

SP asks:

Any advice for my husband, who is starting his first TT job in January? He’s in a science field, if that matters. He’s read this article: How I learned to stop worrying and love the tenure-track faculty life if you have any opinion on it.

One area his struggles is with time management and deadlines. He meets his deadlines, but often will work on new research until he absolutely has to start preparing a paper, then is working until the very last minute. “If you wait until the last minute, it only takes a minute!” He’s done fine in grad school and post-doc, but he is worried that his style won’t translate well to balancing teaching and advising with research.

My first advice is for your husband to ask for advice himself.  :-)  Specifically, he should ask his mentors and senior colleagues (respectfully) for advice when he gets on campus.

He’s right to be worried!  You can do everything last-minute on the TT, but it will destroy your health and your family life, and could be less-than-great for tenure.  One book he could read is On Course: A Week-by-Week Guide to Your First Semester of College Teaching by James Lang.  This would be especially helpful if he hasn’t combined teaching and research before.

#2 points out that the excellent Advice for New Faculty Members by Robert Boice is pretty convincing on the not binging and crashing research or teaching and also has great tips.  She has definitely found that starting early and doing a bit at the time really helps her subconscious to figure out tricky problems for her seemingly in her sleep, resulting in her spending less time on teaching and writing overall with higher quality results than when she last-minutes things.

It’s kind of ok to prep your teaching at the last minute, but there will be less sleep and probably more stress than necessary.  Doing a last-minute class prep is less likely to be successful when you have very little experience doing it and at figuring out how long it takes you, personally, to prep one class period from scratch.  Some of this may be inevitable in the first year, but after that it should be more measured.

#2 liked to spend her Sundays doing lecture prep that first year.  She also did a bunch of up-front prep work before school started getting the bones of the class down.  After each lecture she either changed her notes right then or she left herself post-it notes for what to change or keep– this helped her amazingly the next time she taught the course.

I wonder if his papers have been successful in getting published if he always does them at the last minute?  I would be concerned that they will get rejected rather than R&R because they are likely sloppy and do not show revisions or clear explanations, do not anticipate reviewer objections, etc.  Perhaps setting up a writing accountability program or group would help him be more productive in the long run  (click on our writing tag to see what we think about this).  Meeting deadlines is good, but having enough time to ask for feedback before the deadline may be more successful.

#2 notes that one of Boice’s big things is to “let others do the work for you”– that’s something you can’t do if you leave things to the last minute.  A grant is going to be more successful if someone proofreads it.  Reviewers will like your papers better if they make sense and are error-free.  He can always set himself earlier deadlines that will allow him to put down the completed paper or proposal while someone else looks at it so he can polish it at the last minute.

New research is shiny, I admit, and way more fun than revising the intro to the paper you just wrote about your previous results!  What’s his R&R success rate?  His grant funding rate?  Sometimes last-minute grant-writing will work, but it puts a big strain on the support staff and you might not be able to get it through the relevant campus offices as fast as you think.  At the very least, last-minute grant work will burn goodwill in the sponsored programs office on your campus, and you might need that later.  Again, it totally does happen sometimes, but if EVERY grant is last-second hair-on-fire sign-this-form-today, you may start to encounter resistance.

#2 notes that many faculty put grants off to the last minute.  If you get a reputation for *not* doing that, they will often love you and be more willing to go the extra mile for you.  I speak from experience.

So much to do! A busy summer ahead

OMG, I am so overextended this summer, but if I can pull it off, it will be AWESOME.

What happened, in case you’re wondering, is that I submitted a bunch of short-term grants and got three of them.  On top of that, there’s regular submitted papers coming back from journals and so on.

So I have 4 big projects that need major work for the summer.  Mentally I’m only capable of keeping track of two or three, so this is going to need extra organization.

I have:

1.  The R&R paper that is getting split into 2 papers (a small one for the journal I sent it to, and a regular-sized one for the journal I’m sending the main paper to).

2.  Restricted data project for which only I am allowed to touch the data.  I was supposed to have access to these data last summer but SNAFU FUBAR @##@.  But I have it now, and am going to need to get a no-cost extension to keep it.

3.  Pilot study needs to get done for grant proposal for big grant.  Coauthor moved slowly so we’re behind schedule.   Lab manager graduated.  New lab members.  Do not want to talk about the weeks of administrative SNAFUs.

4.  Stupid NSF thing I got added to for the $.

[update]:  #5.  Mildly crappy paper that I sent into a conference got accepted unexpectedly.  I guess I passed the threshold from being accepted too infrequently to being accepted too frequently, at least in some venues.  No more crappy submissions to this conference in the future!  It’s going to be hard getting an hour and 15 min talk out of the material.

I have a small army of RAs of varying quality to manage, including one guy who just got a low C on the final for his methods class.  Damn it.  He did well on the midterm, but ugh.  Fortunately he won’t be working the entire summer.

So, that’s my story.  I’m doing Dame Eleanor‘s thingy for #1, and I’ve got RAs to keep me going for 3 and 4 and a coauthor whose sabbatical is ending for #2.  Who needs sleep or weekends?


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My lover is French-Canadian. Actually, half French-Canadian. In the late 1800s her mother’s family migrated down from Trois-Rivieres in Quebec to St. Albans, Vermont. From there, they followed the railroad line to a town in western Massachusetts. Growing up, Lori attended Saint-Jean-Baptiste school, where the morning classes were in French, and so was daily mass. French was spoken at home by her mother, her aunts and her uncles. Two of her aunts, like her teachers in Saint-Jean-Baptiste (SJB), were members of the community of Ste. Anne de Beaupre, an order with their motherhouse in Quebec. The clergy followed people as they migrated south to find work
in textile and paper mills.

When I went home with her to “meet the family”, one of the stops was mass at Saint-Jean-Baptiste, the “French” church in town. Lori’s grandmother, an Italian immigrant from a village near Milan, went to the “Italian” church–St. Mary’s. “She would not set foot” in a French church, she told me. There was also an Irish church, a Polish church and a Portuguese church. This was so unlike my own experience growing up. My town had so few Catholics we didn’t have the option of separate parishes based on ethnic origin. There was also the issue of the basketball team: Italians were quick; Germans were tall; and the Irish supplied the grit. We got along.

David Plante, who grew up in Rhode Island, wrote several books rooted in the French-Canadian experience: The Family (1978); The Country (1981) and The Woods (1982) form part of his highly acclaimed Francoeur trilogy. But it is in his novels The Catholic (1986) and American Ghosts-A Memoir (2005) where the strands of family, heritage, faith and sexuality (he is gay) are raveled and unraveled. Because it is so infused with religion, the sex in The Catholic is among the most intense and erotic I have ever read.

I arrived at Saint-Jean-Baptiste expecting something very different, but getting the same sensory experience I grew up with–Catholic churches are an experience of the senses. The place had the old church smell: snuffed candles, the old paper smell of hymnals, the specs of dust caught in the light streaming through the stained glass windows, the creaking kneelers, the worn steps. Worn down and polished by generations of shoe leather. Lori left the place for good when she went off to college. She had no regrets going–she carried with her all the usual Catholic school horror stories–and yet, almost genetically, Sainte-Jean-Baptiste helped to form her determination and faith.

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From Nikola Tesla: “Constant, unremitting, ceaseless and intransigent pain: pain that you wake up to and go to bed with, that walks beside you whatever you are doing and gives you no rest: for some people, this is their daily experience. In a health system that works to solve symptoms and not causes, drugs are given to ameliorate the pain, to mask it and drown it out. However, there are too many times when the pain returns and thus the spiral of addiction: you do something that helps a little but not enough, so you do it again and again, hoping to solve the problem.

“However, masking the problem does nothing to solve the cause. This is as true of emotional pain as physical, of spiritual pain as mental agony, which might manifest itself in OCD, the compulsions to repeat old trauma, extreme and rigid ideologies (where the mind tenses itself so that it can resist against feeling pain) and it is as true of the psychic pains of over-sensitivity, temporal uncertainty (where you keep feeling and raecting to things long past) or a constant state of overwhelm that drives you into hiding.

“Sometimes, your natural desire to understand and solve the inner cause of pain has you looking for psychic or spiritual causes of physical or emotional pain or trying to break up mental patterns and oddly enough this works often enough to be worth pursuing. If certain diseases can be brought upon you through your emotionally or psychically-driven actions, such as weight gain because of trying to heal the hole inside of your soul caused by sexual violation or cirrhosis of the liver caused by drinking the alcohol you believe you need to calm your (unexamined) anxiety, it becomes abundantly clear that a disruption in one whole system (the psyche, the emotions and the like) can cause direct effects in any other system: the physical body, the emotions the mind or anything else. “

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List of injured 49ers grows, Ronald Blair out for season

The 49ers suffered more losses than the one on the scoreboard Monday night. Their list of injured players grew following the knock-down, drag-out fight with the Seahawks at Levi’s Stadium.

Head coach Kyle Shanahan on Tuesday updated reporters on a conference call about the new ailments affecting the 49ers.

Defensive lineman Ronald Blair, who exited the game in the second half following a sack of Russell Wilson, tore his ACL and is out for the season. There’s no official word on a roster move to replace Blair yet. Jeremiah Valoaga is the only defensive end on the practice squad, but San Francisco could look for alternate solutions on the free agent market as well.

Wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders left the game in the second quarter, and was ruled out early in the second half with a rib injury. Shanahan said Sanders is day-to-day with a rib cartilage issue, and his status for Sunday against the Cardinals is up in the air. The 49ers’ passing attack suffered greatly once Sanders exited the game.

Offensive tackle Joe Staley, in his first game since breaking his fibula in Week 2, dislocated his finger and may need surgery that would keep him out a few weeks. His replacement, Justin Skule was inactive Monday night, but could be put back in at left tackle if Staley misses any time.

Defensive tackle DJ Jones also left in the second quarter and was ruled out early in the second half. He’s dealing with a groin injury and is day-to-day according to Shanahan. Jones was having a nice year at defensive tackle, and had a sack Monday night, then injured himself chasing Russell Wilson to the sideline.

NFL Media’s Tom Pelissero reported Tuesday morning that running back Matt Breida could also miss time after re-aggravating an ankle injury Monday night. He left in the second half after rushing 10 times for 18 yards. While Breida battled through an ankle injury last year, the 49ers could take precautions to ensure he’s fully healthy before returning and sit him at least against the Cardinals on Sunday.

Shanahan said George Kittle and Robbie Gould both remain day-to-day. Kittle is working through knee and ankle injuries, while Gould is recovering from a quad strain. Their statuses for Week 11 are both unknown.

San Francisco looked like they’d be getting healthy just in time for the most difficult portion of the schedule, but Monday’s game sent them in the opposite direction.

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Gila National Forest: South Fire – Aldo Leopold Wilderness – July 5, 2019

Incident Start Date: June 29, 2019                    Cause: Lightning

Acres: ~800                                                      Containment: 0%

Vegetation: Ponderosa pine, mixed conifer, heavy dead/down on the ground

Strategy: Monitor via lookouts and aerial reconnaissance

Incident Commander: T. James, ICT3

Summary: The lightning-caused South Fire is approximately 800 acres, burning on National Forest System lands in the Aldo Leopold Wilderness, Gila National Forest. This fire is approximately 30 miles north of Mimbres. Values include various threatened and endangered species, and one private in-holding, and Forest Service infrastructure.

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February 2, 2017

Bill would authorize panel to investigate child abuse deaths

Clyde Mueller/The New Mexican

From right, Senate Majority Whip Michael Padilla, Attorney General Hector Balderas and the Rev. Laura Bobbs held a press conference Thursday February 2, 2017 to discuss Senate Bill 294 which creates the New Mexico Child Abuse Homicide Review Team to investigate the facts and circumstances of child-abuse-related homicides and develop methods of child abuse prevention.

State Sen. Michael Padilla, an Albuquerque Democrat who was raised in foster care and has largely focused his legislative efforts on reforming New Mexico’s child welfare system, has introduced a measure to create a task force on child homicides. The proposal also would give the state attorney general authority to order an independent investigation into a child abuse death.

The team would include medical experts, law enforcement officers, prosecutors, child welfare workers, tribal members and others. It would be tasked with evaluating investigations of a child’s death, as well as examining how agencies and individuals responded to concerns about the child before the slaying. The task force also would make recommendations to the Legislature on needed reforms.

Senate Bill 294 comes as New Mexico experiences a steep rise in child abuse cases. It also comes months after a high-profile case in which 10-year-old Victoria Martens was found slain and mutilated in her Albuquerque home in August in one of the state’s most horrifying cases of fatal child abuse. Her death was “not only one of the worst tragedies in our community, but leads us to more questions than answers,” New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas said during a news conference Thursday on the bill.

“Did the system somehow fail Victoria?” Balderas asked.

Padilla said the bill was a few years in the making. When 9-year-old Omaree Varela was beaten to death by his mother in Albuquerque in 2013, the same year Padilla took office, he said, he began to consider the need for systemwide reviews to determine if some of New Mexico’s most vulnerable young residents were falling through the cracks.

Albuquerque police officers and state child welfare officials faced criticism over Omaree’s death because they had received earlier reports of abuse and had not removed the boy from his home. One police officer was fired for how he had handled an abuse report, and Gov. Susana Martinez ordered several changes to policies on child abuse and neglect investigations.

A couple of years earlier, the death of 3-year-old Leland Valdez of Pojoaque had raised similar concerns. Leland’s father had reported suspicions that the child’s mother and boyfriend were abusing him months before he was rushed to the hospital in 2011 with fatal injuries. Photos of the tiny, injured child lying in a hospital bed while still clinging to life, drew shock and outrage across the state.

A state Children, Youth and Families Department supervisor eventually was fired over accusations that she had mishandled the case.

After Victoria Martens’ death, Padilla publicly called for the creation of a child abuse homicide review team. Victoria, who authorities believe had been raped, strangled and dismembered by her mother’s boyfriend and the man’s cousin while her mother watched, had spoken with state social workers three times in the year before she was killed.

A recent internal report from the Children, Youth and Families Department says nothing in those talks alerted child welfare workers that Victoria may have been subjected to physical or sexual abuse.

Padilla, who has been a critic of the department, said Thursday his bill is not a response to concerns about one agency. Rather, he said, it “looks at all agencies” and “takes the personal and political out of it.”

Children, Youth and Families Secretary Monique Jacobson, who stepped into the position in 2015, said she agrees with the intent of the bill. “When tragedy strikes,” she said, “we do look at how systems can be improved.”

Balderas said the bill would ensure that agencies work together to identify ways to improve the child protection system and that families and communities get “real answers” when a child is killed. Under the bill, much of the team’s work would be kept secret because of confidentiality laws affecting cases involving children.

New Mexico saw 27 child homicides between 2011 and 2013, the most recent statistics available. “Fourteen of these children were killed in that period in the hands of primary caregivers,” Balderas said.

The Rev. Laura Bobbs, Victoria’s godmother, spoke in favor of the measure, saying she believes it will help stop such violence against children. “They have a voice, and that voice is ours — legislators, officers, teachers, social workers … working together as a community to end these tragedies.”

Balderas said his office would work with the Children, Youth and Families Department on the effort and would rely on the department to help fund the initiative.

That’s one problem Jacobson has with the measure. It doesn’t include a funding provision. It comes at a time when the state has been struggling with a funding crisis, and agencies remain strapped. “We don’t have funding for this right now,” Jacobson said.

The bill also calls for the task force to partner with the state’s existing Crime Victims Reparation Commission, a panel that aids victims of violent crime.

Robin Brassie, deputy director of the commission, said the panel has seen a 130 percent increase in applications in the last year for cases involving child abuse. She sees a benefit to the proposed task force.

“It’s like a no-blame way of how to strengthen the system,” she said.

Contact Cynthia Miller at 505-986-3095 or cmiller@sfnewmexican.com.


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Ki Teitze: The Opposite of Love

Every Friday night, my wife and I bless our children. We move around our Shabbat dinner table and place our hands upon their heads and give them the blessings of the ancients. “May God bless you and keep you. May God’s light and grace shine down upon you. May God’s face be lifted upon you and show you the way to peace.” (Numbers 6:23-27) We give them this blessing every Friday night that we are together, no matter what they’ve done, no matter how angry they’ve made us and no matter if their rooms are clean or not. One time, one of my children decided, as children do, to color with markers on the rug, leaving well crafted scribbles of red ink in the carpet, right before Shabbat started. Already frantically cooking and cleaning, I came into the living room to find the mess. It was too late to stop everything and clean up again. Even with my roiling frustration, we came around the dinner table and when time to bless my children, I did, because that is the commitment we made. Every Friday night, no matter what, we will stand over them and draw them close and confer upon them these ancient words. Love is something we don’t just feel, it’s something we do.

If you were to ask me what love is, I would say this is as close as I can come. We don’t love someone because they are perfect or simply wonderful to us. We love them through their messes and brokenness. We love them not because they make our lives better, but because they make life itself better. Behind these words are hopes and fears, gratitude and disappointment. I bless you with protection because I fear for your life. I bless you with grace, for I fear the world is void of it. I bless you with seeking peace, because I know the world is void of it. And if this is love, then what is the opposite of love?

To me the opposite of love is not hatred. The opposite of love is apathy. Hatred is feelings we have toward another person because of something they have said or done. It’s easy to stack up lists of people we hate for all sorts of reasons. Hatred is something that exists inside of us; it’s a reaction to the world that rests in our minds. Many of the people we hate don’t know we hate them, and probably many more don’t even know we exist (for some, that might be why we hate them). If this is the case, then to hate someone so much that you would act on it through violence is to know that they have hopes and dreams and worries and to simply not care. We shut ourselves off to the empathy that connects all of us. When we don’t care about the lives of others, we are apathetic to their souls, turning them from subjects to objects, from “Thous,” as Martin Buber would say, to “Its.”

The opposite of love is not simply to hate others, but to have no feeling at all.

Right now I think the world has forgotten that apathy and cruelty are the opposite of love. Whether it’s online trolling each other, lying in wait for someone we don’t know or don’t like to mess up, or it’s to take those who don’t believe in what we believe and turn them into nameless enemies. Whether we use our advantage and privilege to push others further into the muck, or to cancel out a lifetime of work because of a single gaffe, we forget too easily that all of us were created in the Divine image. We act out of the opposite of love, rather than love itself, far too often because it makes us feel good to cheat, to deride, and to crush. If you’d rather drop the mic on someone than drop a hand to someone, then you are acting out of the opposite of love.

Moses knows this in this week’s Torah portion, Ki Teitzei. The Hebrew word ahav, or love, is used more in the Book of Deuteronomy than in any other book of the Torah, nearly twice as many times as in Genesis and ten times as much as in Exodus and Leviticus. Over and over again Moses tries to teach the nation that love is what motivates God’s actions of redemption, forgiveness, and justice. (Deuteronomy 4:37, 5:10, 7:8, 10:18-19)  Far from being the Unmoved Mover of Aristotle and the Western philosophers, the God of Deuteronomy is moved deeply by our struggles. Far from separating love from the law, as Christianity does, the God of Judaism shows love through the law, because to the Jewish mind, love is expectation. Love is not just a feeling, but a deed.

Moses teaches that we too are expected to return God’s love through our deeds, by raising and teaching children to love, (Deuteronomy 6:5-9) of doing what is right even when we don’t feel like it, (Deuteronomy 21:16) and to loving the stranger, widow and orphan. (Deuteronomy 10:19) Moses does not just tell us how and why love matters so much, but he actually gives us examples of when love matters most, such as the cases of lost property (Deuteronomy 22:1-3), or the fallen donkey that needs your help to stand up. (Deuteronomy 22:4)  Love is all over this book — and what of the opposite of love?

There is one case that is so important in the Torah, that your life depends on you deciding to act out of love or out of the opposite of love. “If, along the road, you chance upon a bird’s nest, in any tree or on the ground, with fledglings or eggs and the mother sitting over the fledglings or on the eggs, do not take the mother together with her young. Let the mother go, and take only the young, in order that you may fare well and have a long life.”(Deuteronomy  22:67

Maimonides teaches in the Guide to the Perplexed, that the reason we shoo the mother bird off from the nest is so that she will not see you taking her chicks. He likens this case to that of other laws where calves and cows are not to be slaughtered in the sight of each other or on the same day. (Leviticus 22:28) From the Rambam, this cluster of laws is all about empathy and the love-bond between parent and child.The cruelty of these actions is not in taking the eggs or eating meat per se (although plenty can argue that those are cruel acts), but in knowing the heart of the mother and the heart of the child and still choosing to take both.

The opposite of acting lovingly in the Torah, is to act with indifference to love.

So strong is the covenant of love in the Bible, that Moses adds the second clause to the commandment, “that you may fare well and have a long life.” There are only two places in the entire Torah where this clause is added to a commandment. The other is found in the Ten Commandments in the Book of Exodus: “Honor your father and mother so that your days may be lengthened.” (Ex. 20:12) To honor one’s parents is to respect the unconditional love they share, the fear in their hearts for our safety and prosperity, and the hopes and dreams they have for us. So important is this covenant of love that our lives utterly depend upon it.

As we move towards the New Year, let us read the Book of Deuteronomy anew and realize that what the world needs more than anything else now is in this book of love. We must act with the highest forms of attention and intention, not push every advantage or kick someone when they are down, or shoot them in the back. As this New Year begins, let us find our way back from apathy and cruelty and build a world of love. That’s what every parent wishes for their child. It’s what I pray for every Friday night as I smell their hair and pull on their ears. It’s what makes these blessings so powerful, because through love we can make life itself better.

Shabbat Shalom and Shanah Tova, may you have a Sweet New Year.

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Sudbury stops Powassan in OT

Release Date: Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014

Sudbury stops Powassan in OT

SUDBURY – A Dylan Callaghan power play goal 23 seconds into overtime was the decider as the Sudbury Nickel Barons edged the Powassan Voodoos 4-3 in a Wednesday evening Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League contest at McClelland Arena.

Sudbury grabbed the lead with the only marker of the opening frame as Matt Neault slammed in his 10th of the campaign at 13:22.

Powassan tied it five and a half minutes into the middle session thanks to Kyle Moore and went in front at 13:07 as Steve Harland picked up his team-leading 22nd of the season via the power play.

Special teams saw the Voodoos go up a pair four minutes later with Bo Peltier supplying his club’s second man advantage marker of the evening.

The Nickel Barons got back in it with tallies 43 seconds apart in the late stages of the frame as affiliate Alex Guido and Ryan Theriault both beat Powassan netminder Matt Young.

After a scoreless third Sudbury won it while up a man early in the extra session as Callaghan redirected the game-winner on a point pass past Young from the top of the crease to give the home side the victory.

Kyle Fransen had a pair of assists for the Nickel Barons including one on the decider.

Jessie Morin made 30 saves to pick-up the win while Young faced 41 shots in helping his team earn a point.