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Dorothea Lasky

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Since her first book, Awe (2007) Dorothea Lasky has been crafting poems in simple, supple lines that resound with brazen vulnerability. Her second collection, Black Life (2010), examines the failure of language and the poet’s disquieting sense of estrangement from her own body. “It was beautiful,” she writes, “to be a skeleton everyone in my culture loved.” Still, the poems are animated by a spirit of rebellion: “Readers, you read flat words / Inside here are many moments / In which I have screamed in pain / As the flames ate me.”

The corpse-strewn world of Thunderbird (2012) evokes the poet’s anxiety about deadness and decay, but there is also a consoling sense of community with all the living things to which death binds her: “the vermin under the earth / Who are waiting for me to come join them.” Rome, her latest collection, takes us into the body’s interior, reveling in bloody truths with an equal measure of pleasure and discomfort.

I first encountered Lasky at a reading she gave with the poet CAConrad in Brooklyn, at which, after the event, she stacked bottles of nail polish on the table and offered manicures to those attending. More recently, we met for afternoon coffee where she arrived looking radiant, her red lips matching a dark red sweater. In person she is loquacious and quick to laugh.

Alice Whitwham

How does a poem begin for you?

Dorothea Lasky

Usually it’s just one line that I feel I can’t let slip away. I’m a firm believer in a space where you write—Chris Kraus calls it the “bubble space.” If there’s nobody around, and no distractions, the line can turn into a poem. When the line comes, you feel like it’s out of the blue, but there have actually been a lot of internal processes that have produced it. Because you can’t see them, they probably seem more mysterious than they are. In a hundred years we’ll probably figure out all the connections that produce a line of poetry.

One of the things I like most about your poems is their mix of whimsy and seriousness. For example: “Because speaking to the dead is not something you want to do / When you have other things to do in your day.”

I always want to have poems which, by the end, don’t seem inevitable, and which you couldn’t have predicted from line to line. Because that feels like how life is, how speaking is—memory, too. I do believe that no one knows anything, and that mimicking that in poetry is helpful to forging a relationship with the reader.

At what point in the writing does the form of a poem start to reveal itself?

I remember hearing one of my teachers talking about Sylvia Plath’s papers, and how you could see she started to make formal choices more and more quickly over time. I’ve found that, as I’ve been writing more, I also want to harness that—to feel what form the poem is earlier on. And then to be open to changing it, of course.

As I read Rome I began to notice that poems contained references to others in the collection, and even echoed others from earlier collections.

I like to have little ways of rewarding the reader. I like to do that in a book and I try to do that over the course of different books.

Three poems—“Never Did Amount to Anything,” “Poem to Florence,” and “I Feel Pity”—all feature the character of the sister.

The sister character comes up a lot in my poems. And I actually don’t have a sister. That’s what’s funny to me about the way we use the term “confessional.” I like to think of a poet as having a persona that is shape-shifting and changing between poems. It doesn’t have to be the same exact person in every single poem or book. But, in a way, it is this kind of disembodied personality that you get to know more about. The deeper you get into a persona, the more you see the pieces coming together. It’s a kind of confessional mode, but it’s not like writing from biography—it’s a greater biography.

Do you think of your work as confessional?

I feel protective toward the poets who have been called confessional. The word has this kind of negative quality—I’ve never totally understood it. It does seem misogynistic. I remember one time in college some stuffy visiting professor said, “What I hate about Sylvia Plath is her pathos.” I think he was saying that it was her particular kind of pathos that he hated, but to me I heard it as, “I hate pathos,” and it felt really sad—sad because it would close off possibilities for poets who want to enter poems from that angle, even if that’s not where they end up going. Pathos is what excites us about lots of things: reality TV, people’s diaries. It’s a great way to get into any art form.

Tell me about the title “Why Poetry Can Be Hard for Most People.”

People find poetry hard because we’ve told them it’s hard. There are lots of teachers—because they attended schools that did the same thing—who, when they bring a poem to class, say, “This is very difficult. This isn’t going to make sense.” We do it with a lot of arts, just as we stop we stop thinking of new ways of learning past a certain age. But when you’re not happy, you don’t learn as deeply.

I love the lines, “Because poetry reminds you / That there is no dignity / In living.” It echoes the various other ways Rome explores the unpleasant and the abject.

Abject is a really important word.

It’s difficult to define.

It really is. Not having dignity can be good or bad. If you have to accept that you don’t have dignity, it’s humiliating—but it’s also beautiful because you can feel at one with things you didn’t feel at one with before. No matter what you do—you can be rich or whatever—there are always ways life will come back at you and say, “There isn’t really dignity, and we’re just animals.” Once you realize that, a lot opens up.

There’s a lot of blood and vomit in these poems.

They’re always there. It’s only when they come out that you realize these processes have been happening all along. The inside has its own total control of me and governs everything that I think is myself.

Alice Whitwham is an associate agent at the Zoe Pagnamenta Agency and the events coordinator at McNally–Jackson Books, in New York City.

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Billions in fast-tracked income tax cuts, business investment incentives and industrial relations and other regulatory reform will be at the heart of an October budget designed to haul the Australia economy out of its first recession in 29 years.

After the sharpest drop in economic growth since World War II, the government also ratcheted up pressure on the states to help, starting by opening their borders where it was safe to do so.

"This is a devastating day for Australia. It's a heartbreaking blow to Australians around the country," Prime Minister Scott Morrison said.

Federal government stimulus and assistance of $48 billion in the June quarter coupled with strong exports lead by iron ore prevented an even more severe hit than the 10 per cent average economic slump recorded by other nations' economies.

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Australia's economic growth crashed 7 per cent in the June quarter wiping $34 billion off gross domestic product and leaving the economy 6.3 per cent smaller than a year before. The biggest hit came from a 12.1 per cent collapse in household consumption even as government support payments and early access to superannuation actually lifted household income in the quarter.

The sharemarket shrugged off the confirmation of the recession with the S&P/ASX 200 Index rising 1.8 per cent to 6063, while the Australian dollar was steady at US73.57¢.

With household consumption devastated and income support to be tapered off, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg confirmed the government was considering using the October 6 budget to fast track its stage two personal income tax cuts, which are legislated to begin on July 1, 2022, and possibly the stage three cuts, from July 1, 2024.

"The road ahead will be long. The road ahead will be hard. The road ahead will be bumpy," Mr Frydenberg said.

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"We are considering the timing of those tax cuts, and any announcements
would be made in the budget, but it is fair to say these are very substantial reforms,'' he said of the already legislated cuts which are worth a combined $158 billion and culminate in a 30 per cent tax rate for incomes between $45,000 and $200,000.

Labor supports fast tracking the stage two income tax cuts but is wary about stage three which it previously promised to revoke.

It backs a business investment allowance, a policy it took to the last election.

The budget is certain to contain such an allowance to stimulate business investment but Mr Frydenberg also said many of the other measures to stimulate business activity would be regulatory.

These included industrial relations changes and red tape cuts.

"How do we make it easier for businesses to do business?'' he said.

"And that is where, without great cost to the budget, you can unlock
the entrepreneurship and innovation of our businesses, and
that is about cutting red tape.

"That is about the industrial relations flexibility, that is about trying to get better systems in place.

"And, yes, our debt will be higher than ever before because every dollar we spend today is borrowed money."

Mr Frydenberg also revealed that Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Philip Lowe told state treasurers last week to borrow for infrastructure and social housing and to provide relief through land and payroll tax holidays.

Instead of blanket border closures, Mr Morrison again called on the states to adopt a more nuanced colour-coded system he will present to the national cabinet on Friday.

"A dislocated nation... is not success. That is a continued resignation to the virus and Australia will not resign to this virus. Our economy will not resign to this virus."

Industry forecasts released Wednesday night estimate ongoing interstate border closures would cost the tourism sector and the economy as much as $33 billion this financial year.

Mr Frydenberg revealed Treasury was modelling the full cost to the economy of domestic border closures, a figure that will be used to bring more pressure to bear on the states.

Seeking to offer hope, Mr Frydenberg said that while the GDP hit was "extremely sobering and devastating," the downturn was expected to be even deeper when the crisis first struck. Treasury first predicted a 20 per cent decline in GDP for June.

Despite the Victorian outbreak occurring after the June quarter, Treasury still believed GDP would be flat or slightly down in the September quarter.

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Westpac and NAB economists expect the economy will be flat in the September quarter but followed by a strong recovery in the December quarter. Commonwealth Bank economists expect the September quarter GDP to slip again, leading to the longest recession since 1982.

"We expect to see consumption rebound modestly in the September quarter... but it is our assessment that GDP will likely post a small contraction in the September quarter," CBA's Gareth Aird said.

Without government support, Treasury said 700,000 more jobs would have been lost, and the jobless rate – which hit 7.5 per cent in July – would have been 5 percentage points higher.

Shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers called it "the darkest day in the Australian economy for almost a century".

Labor, which had been demanding cuts to the original JobKeeper subsidy because some people were being overpaid, now demands that the new tapered and two-tiered system which starts on September 28, be abandoned.

"The cuts to JobKeeper, the cuts to wages, the cuts to super, and the freeze on the pension will make a bad situation worse, not better,'' he said.

"It makes absolutely no sense when unemployment is rising for government support in the economy to be falling, as it is today under this Morrison government."

Finance Minister Mathias Cormann confirmed the timing of the income tax cuts was being looked at.

"We are looking at how we can further adjust tax policy settings. We do have to assess whether those tax policies can be improved. To the extent that we can do more to facilitate growth we will be considering that,'' he said.

The GDP figures also showed that household savings had jumped from 6 per cent to 19.8 per cent, the highest level since 1974 as Australians saved much of their income boost.

Mr Frydenberg said this was a consequence of restricted lifestyles and once restrictions eased, it was hoped people would draw on these reserves to help stimulate the economy.

The case for an investment allowance was boosted when the Australian Industry Group said the government must also deal with underlying weaknesses in the economy, including falling business investment before the crisis.

“It is also critical that in responding to the crisis that governments also consider the underlying weaknesses in the economy dating from before the COVID-19 crisis," said Innes Willox.

"Incentives to improve business investment will need to be a central part of the fiscal response by the federal government.''

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Nigeria placed fifth at the African Youth Games after beating Host Algeria 3-0 at the Stade Ferhan yesterday. The West African nation who were tipped to go past this stage had to settle for a 5th and 6th classification match.

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South Africa took in Zimbabwe in the first semifinal game. The top scoring team at the tournament proved again why they are the favourites with an opener inside seven minutes through Nkosi Angel. Top scorer Angela Welham added another 60 seconds later to give South Africa a 2-0 win.

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Did Your Product Manager Really Say That?
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Did Your Product Manager Really Say That?

by Brian de Haaff

Everyone I know in technology picks up jargon and funky talk as a way of fitting in or standing out in the office. Sometimes the “MBA speak” is used to obfuscate what is really intended or needed — allowing only those “in the know” to “parse” what the speaker really means.

Unfortunately, product managers seem to be the worst offenders. And partly it is not their fault because they sit at the epicenter of the business and converse with tribes from every direction. But if you know a product manager, it is time to help him stop. “Lean in” and intervene because the phrases can often be “counter-productive” — or worse, a “red herring” that distracts from what really needs to be said and done.

Now, I realize that if we were to “touch foreheads” we would “see eye-to-eye” that many of these phrases replaced other less interesting ways of speaking. And if swapped out their replacements, we might make a similar list in a few years. Imagine if we replaced “low hanging fruit” with “slow moving meat” because our friends in sales (“elephant hunters”) were carnivores. We would all “lose our cookies.”

Regardless, below are my top 35 most overheard phrases that product managers say. I am sure that every product, marketing, and engineering team can add many others to the list.

  1. What’s the ask?

  2. Skate to where the puck will be

  3. A pig and a chicken

  4. Table stakes

  5. Full plate

  6. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature

  7. P1

  8. Best-of-breed

  9. Consensus

  10. Piece of the pie

  11. It’s strategic

  12. Technical debt

  13. ROI

  14. It’s not personal

  15. Next steps

  16. Nice to have

  17. Under resourced

  18. I will talk with the stakeholders

  19. Movember

  20. Touch base

  21. Take this offline

  22. Move the goal posts

  23. Paradigm shift

  24. Bottom this out

  25. It’s on the roadmap

  26. A team

  27. Game-changer

  28. We are in this together

  29. Keep your eye on the ball

  30. Left field

  31. No brainer

  32. It’s in the next release

  33. All hands on deck

  34. Low hanging fruit

  35. Ducks in a row

What would you add to the list?

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The relationship of socio-demographic characteristics and knowledge of breast cancer on stage of behavioral adoption of breast self-examination

Department of Diagnostic Imaging & Radiotherapy, Kulliyyah of Allied Health Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Kuantan Campus, Pahang, Malaysia

Background/aim: In Malaysia, breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. As such, early diagnosis and screening practices are important to increase the survival rate. Breast self-examination (BSE) is one of the main screening methods for breast cancer. Socio-demographic characteristics and knowledge of breast cancer are amongst the crucial roles in determining women’s behavioral adoption in performing BSE. This study aims to assess the relationship of socio-demographic factors and knowledge of breast cancer on the stage of behavioral adoption of BSE among Malaysian women in Kuantan, Pahang. Materials and methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 520 women from three different government health clinics in Kuantan and IIUM Family Health Clinic from February to April 2018. Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire on socio-demographic factors and knowledge of breast cancer and its effect on the behavioral adoption of BSE. Results: Significant difference was found between socio-demographic characteristics and behavioral adoption of BSE. However, only breast screening and the best time for screening were found to be significant with the behavioral adoption of BSE and knowledge of breast cancer. Conclusion: It is found that most women in Kuantan, Pahang perform BSE but were still unaware of the importance of performing BSE for early breast cancer detection. This study was expected to enhance women's awareness of the benefits of performing BSE.
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Keywords breast self-examination; behavioral adoption; breast cancer; socio-demographic; knowledge

Citation: Soo-Foon Moey, Aaina Mardhiah Abdul Mutalib, Norfariha Che Mohamed, Nursyahirah Saidin. The relationship of socio-demographic characteristics and knowledge of breast cancer on stage of behavioral adoption of breast self-examination. AIMS Public Health , 2020, 7(3): 620-633. doi: 10.3934/publichealth.2020049

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There is no need for you to be blasting cold air into a home that is unoccupied, or into a home where everyone is sleeping. A programmable thermostat will allow you to set the temperature for different times of the day to account for these scenarios. Even increasing the temperature by as little as 5-8 degrees can make a considerable difference in energy usage and cost. In addition, your air conditioner won’t need to work as hard.

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Do you have heat-generating appliances near your thermostat? Be aware of items such as lamps or electronics. If these are located near your thermostat, they could be telling it that the air in your home needs to be cooled more. This causes your AC to run longer and work harder than it needs too. You also don’t want your thermostat to be located anywhere in your home that receives direct sunlight, for this same reason.

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Installment Credit vs. Revolving Debt: Which Will You Pay Down First?

A few facets influence your credit rating, including exactly exactly exactly how much financial obligation you have actually. At precisely the same time, the sort of financial obligation you borrowed from additionally issues. Generally speaking, financial obligation is categorized as installment credit or revolving financial obligation.

Focusing on how they vary — and exactly how they affect your credit score — makes it possible to decide which one to tackle first, if financial obligation freedom can be your objective.

Installment credit vs. Revolving financial obligation: What’s the real difference?

Installment credit is financial obligation which you repay on a schedule that is fixed. A set is made by you range degree re payments with time, frequently with interest, before the stability reaches zero. Types of installment credit consist of automobile financing, figuratively speaking or perhaps home loan.

Revolving financial obligation, having said that, is only a little various. With an installment loan, you can’t enhance the stability; you are able to just spend it down. Revolving financial obligation, such as for example credit cards, individual credit line or a property equity type of credit (HELOC), lets you make brand brand new costs against your personal credit line. And, you free up your line of credit as you make payments each month. There’s no end that is specific by which you need to pay the account in complete. Rather, you’re just needed to pay at the least the minimal amount due by the re re re payment deadline every month.

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Installment credit and revolving financial obligation can affect your credit rating in various means. Except for figuratively speaking and private loans, installment credit is usually associated with some type of security, such as for instance a car or a property.

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There’s a reason why revolving debt can more affect your score readily. The different credit scoring models aspect in your credit utilization to find out your score. Your credit utilization ratio merely means the portion of the total credit line you’re making use of at any time.

Utilizing a lot more of your credit that is available can bad for your credit history, while maintaining your revolving debt balances low are useful. For this reason, maxing out a credit that is revolving or credit line might have a lot more of a negative effect than holding a big stability for an installment loan.

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Focusing on how credit that is installment revolving financial obligation vary can really help you choose what type to prioritize settling very very very first. It’s additionally helpful to take into account the monetary implications of choosing one on the other.

Paying off your credit cards or other debt that is revolving might be a good option if you’re centered on raising your credit history. Knocking out your revolving balances could boost your credit utilization and convert to an increased rating. That’s essential in the event that you don’t own a property, but you’d want to at some time. The greater your rating is, the greater your likelihood of being qualified for, and securing a good rate on, a home loan.

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Misconceptions about TBI in Pennsylvania

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Traumatic brain injuries are common among both those who have served in the military and among the civilian population. However, signs and symptoms of TBI may be misunderstood, which could lead to a misdiagnosis. For instance, some believe that a TBI cannot occur unless an individual loses consciousness. While many who suffer a brain injury may do so, it is not necessary for a TBI diagnosis to be made.

It is also a common belief that a lack of external bleeding means that no brain injury has occurred. It is possible for internal bleeding to occur, which could have a lasting impact on an individual. Any individuals who have suffered a blow to the head may have a brain injury, even if they are walking, talking and otherwise acting normally.

The severity of a TBI does not necessarily determine how it will affect an individual. Mild TBIs can cause subtle changes such a fatigue or sleep issues. They can also cause changes in mood, headaches and memory issues. As symptoms may be subtle and vary from one person to another, recovering from a TBI is not a straightforward process. While some may recover within days or weeks, others may need more time and support to get past their symptoms and fully recover from their injury.

Individuals who suffer from a brain injury may not even realize the extent of their injuries right away. However, they may still be entitled to compensation from those who caused the injury. It may also be possible to gain compensation from a medical professional who failed to diagnose the injury. A financial award can make it possible to pay medical bills and other costs related to treatment of a TBI.

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All About Cats welcomes you into our “cats only”, quiet, fully equipped facility where our feline-loving staff have dedicated their careers to caring for your beloved furry family. Feline patients respond to our calm environment where they are always treated with gentle kindness.

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The All About Cats team is committed to providing our clients and patients with top level veterinary care while continuing to do our part to reduce the spread of COVID-19. For this reason, our team has elected to continue our closed door policy after careful thought and consideration.

We made this decision based on several factors, with the health and safety of our clients, patients and team members being of the utmost importance.

We want to ensure that we are protecting those who are immunocompromised or otherwise at risk for contracting COVID-19 while also continuing to provide veterinary care to our patients and clients throughout the pandemic.

Due to the evolving and unpredictable nature of the pandemic, we feel it is best to maintain closed doors until further notice.

Please know that we are here for you and your kitties and our team is doing our absolute best to maintain the top level of care we strive to provide to your beloved fur babies.

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Dear Valued Clients,

Our regular hours have resumed as of July 21, 2020

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Meet Axiom

Founded and brought together by brothers Pete and Phil Templer, guitarist/composer and drummer/percussionist/composer respectively, the goal was to establish a creative and engaging environment to present a dynamic musical experience to audiences of all types.

Pete and Phil both hail from the Midwest where they began their musical journey studying and playing in a variety of venues at early ages. Both enrolled in various musical colleges; Pete studied at Berklee and University of Miami under Jerry Coker. Together and separately they have played many different styles of music and venues throughout the U.S. before relocating on the West Coast, first in the Bay Area and then in the L.A. area.

Axiom has, to date, released two CDs with a third, Starburst, now in release.The first release, Spirit of Light, featured Grammy award nominee, David Benoit, and received National airplay and favorable coverage from the jazz press.

Axiom has appeared at numerous venues, jazz clubs, festivals and concert halls, performing with noted artists including The Rippingtons, Larry Carlton, Lee Ritenour, Kirk Whalum, Tom Scott, Billy Childs, Brian Bromberg, Poncho Sanchez and The Steve Morse Band and many more.

Phil utilizes both DW and Yamaha acoustic drum kits as well as Roland electronic percussion modules in his setup.

Pete: Godin LGXT Guitar: Roland GR33 Guitar Synth, Roland VG88 Modeler, Digitech RP1000 Effects Processor, KORG A3 Effects Processor.

Teachers and/or influences?

Phil: For me Gaeton Caviola, a protégé of Louis Bellson was an early influence and teacher. Other influences (to name a few) would be: Ginger Baker, The Motown Studio drummers, Art Blakey, Buddy Rich, Billy Cobham, Tony Williams, Bill Bruford... I could go on.

Pete: Studied with Pat Metheny at University of Miami Jazz Dept. and Mick Goodrick at Berkley College of Music. Influences: Jeff Beck, John McLaughlin, Wes Montgomery, Pat Metheny, Bill Connors and Larry Carlton.

I knew I wanted to be a musician when...

Phil: It was just something I gravitated to. Just about everyone in our family played music in some fashion. I have always loved music and wanted to be a part of the music making experience.

Pete: Watching my older brother rehearse with his rock band in our basement. He gave me my first guitar and showed me the basics before taking formal lessons

Your sound and approach to music.

Phil: My approach to drumming has been to be more than just a timekeeper for the band. I understand that this, at times, has been in conflict to others' opinions of what a drummer should be, but I wanted to be involved in the compositions and performances in other ways too. Also, I have been experimenting and using electronic percussion for many years and have always tried to have an open mind as to what can be utilized for percussion sounds.

Pete: It's all about melodic composition. The composition dictates my sound be it overdrive guitar, acoustic guitar or inspirational sounds driven by my various electronic devices. My diverse influences are reflected throughout our compositions.

Your teaching approach

Phil: In addition to sticking and drum set fundamentals, I always emphasize listening closely to what the other players are doing and work off of that as well as learning when it is time to lead and when it is time to follow.

Pete: Having taught all ages privately and in music schools my approach depended upon the student's experience, starting with the basics and on up to mastering the fingerboard with the seven finger patterns and their respective modes and how they apply to improvising.

Your dream band

Phil: Hey, the current AXIOM is more that just a dream band; it is a reality band. These guys are absolutely dedicated and extremely talented. What more could we ask for?

Road story: Your best or worst experience

Playing for the Dali Lama in Santa Cruz was a great experience. There were a lot of tough road gigs early on. We always tried to avoid staying at the "Band House"

Favorite venue

The Saban Theater in Beverly Hills is a classic grand old theater with great acoustics. We did shows there with Larry Carlton and Jon Anderson of YES and had a great time on both occasions.

What do you think is the most important thing you are contributing musically?

As a band we are continuing to try and create new compositions that push Progressive and Fusion Jazz/Rock sounds forward rather than just looking backward. I hate genre labels though. I think too much time really is spent on looking back at older compositions rather than looking forward and creating new ones. I think this is true for most genres these days,

Did you know...

Phil: I love to spend time outdoors in the mountains and have done a fairly significant amount of backpacking including the John Muir Trail in the Sierras.

The first jazz album I bought was:

Phil: The first jazz albums I really listened to were Miles Davis' Bitches Brew and Quincy Jones Walking in Space.

Pete: My first important jazz albums at an early age (teens) were Wes Montgomery's Bumpin' and Claus Ogerman's Soul Searchin'.

Music you are listening to now:

Pete: I'm not focusing on any particular artist/album but am trying stay up on current contributions to the contemporary jazz fusion genre as well as revisiting the classics; too numerous to mention.

Phil: Simon Phillips: Protocol 4. I recently watched (and listened) to some old videos of the R&B bands of the '70s (Spinners, Earth Wind and Fire, Temptations etc.) They were great although the shows seem pretty corny, but the songs were really memorable and those harmonies...

Also, Ray Lyon's Beginning to See. I like some of the things Ray Lyon has done. He is a fairly unknown artist but the compositions are really compelling. Chick Webb— I always like to spend some time listening to the guys who started it all

Desert Island picks:

Jean-Luc Ponty: Enigmatic Ocean (Atlantic) McCoy Tyner: Fly with the Wind (Milestone) Tony Williams: Believe It (Columbia) Miles Davis: Kind of Blue (Columbia) Return to Forever: Romantic Warrior (Columbia)

How would you describe the state of jazz today?

Like so many genres, it seems like it is at another crossroads and is trying to figure out how to encourage younger people to listen and to stay relevant, not just in a nostalgic fashion. Jazz can't just rely on the renditions of old jazz standards to accomplish this. These will always have a place, but I have always thought Miles' attitude was the best way forward. Don't look back, always push forward.

What are some of the essential requirements to keep jazz alive and growing?

See above.

What is in the near future?

The Pandemic has presented enormous performance challenges. We, like everyone else, have had many show opportunities canceled with re-bookings tentative at best. We have just released our latest album, Starburst, but also have compositions for a new project. We are also planning for some streaming events.

What is your greatest fear when you perform?

Phil: Well that's pretty simple. Will we get it right? Will the audience be receptive? And hopefully there are no technical problems

What song would you like played at your funeral?

Phil: How about Return to Forever's "No Mystery" or on second thought, maybe Stevie Wonder's "Don't You Worry Bout a Thing."

What is your favorite song to whistle or sing in the shower?

Phil: Lately it's been "The World is a Ghetto. Not exactly sure why but there it is.

By Day:

Phil: I got interested in Programming in the early nineties and Pete and I got involved with a software company pioneer that has provided pretty steady revenue and at the same time enabled us to continue our musical adventures.

If I weren't a jazz musician, I would be a:

If I could have dinner with anyone from history, who would it be and why?

Phil: How about Marco Polo? A truly great adventurer and someone who was interested in other cultures.

Pete: Leonardo Da Vinci: He would have been a fascinating conversationalist on many topics.

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Camille Regisford

Medical Assistant

Graduate - June 2014

Resides in New York

How was your experience at the Allen School of Health Sciences?

Absolutely amazing! I like how they work with you and stick with you to ensure you have the support not to fall behind. It’s great hands on training; my favorite classes were phlebotomy and EKG.

What about any barriers/challenges you faced in your program? How did you overcome them?

The challenges were with my responsibilities at home. My advice to someone in the same situation is that you have to make sure you are situated before taking that step because no matter what is going on at home you made a promise to be here. When you come here you have to understand it is a commitment like a job; if a job schedules you for 8-2 you have to be there at that time.

Why would a program like this be helpful to someone who wants to become a Medical Assistant?

It can show you how to you can be more – not only how to me a Medical Assistant but how to interview, do a resume, and talk to people, not just take vitals. I can have a conversation with people that I would not have been able to before.

What advice would you give new students?

1.       Always Be open-minded. You can run into anything everyday – it’s the medical field.2.       Always be prepared.3.       Don’t take anything personal – let things go.4.       Listen more than you speak. Your instructors are here to guide you.5.       “Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about, be kind always.”

What has been the best part of your education so far?

Coming out with an amazing skill that I can use in life and in the professional field. I know I have become a more well-rounded learner.

Why did you choose the ASHS?

I heard a lot of good things from a friend of mine who was a student here before. I felt that it was a great program because it offered a lot of guidance and structure. I was doing nothing at home. This is something I had to do to prove to everyone that I am doing something positive with my life.

What influenced you to go into a career as a Medical Assistant?

My grandfather was sick in the hospital and was a great influence. I saw a lot of things I didn’t like when he was in the hospital and I wanted to make a difference.

What would you tell others who are considering a career as a MA?

Go for it! This is a great stepping stone into the medical field even if you don’t pursue the clinical part you have the skills to the administrative work too.

Where do you see yourself working after internship?

Hospital – I really want to do phlebotomy or EKG


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Over the undercut? Easy transition tips abound.

Pre-quarantine, some of you might have been sporting the undercut, which was undeniably one of the hottest men’s hairstyles for the past few seasons now. Learning how to grow out your undercut might be more manageable than you think.

We all know that growing hair out has the potential to get painfully awkward, but it can be done! Luckily, this is where you guys have the edge in this department. It won’t take as long for your strands to even out into a brand new look altogether. In the meantime, all it takes are some clever styling hacks and a couple of great, transitional styles to keep you fresh, clean and on point.

1. Master the Man Bun

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Tie your tops up in a man bun while waiting for your sides to grow in. Photo credit: Dvora

If you’re coming straight from a completely white-walled/shaven undercut, then you’ll need a few weeks—around 2 to 3, to be exact—for your sides and back to properly come in. This is prime man bun season, as it’s a tried and tested trend that helps guys look somewhat put together.

You can’t forget your hair care regimen: A strengthening shampoo and conditioner, like Dove Men+Care Thick & Strong 2-in-1 Shampoo + Conditioner, which leaves your hair thick and full-looking. To create this style, simply brush the tops of your hair back to remove any tangles and gather it into a ponytail. Twist it till it resembles a rope, then coil it around itself (or if too short, just pull it through the elastic, making a knot). Put a hair elastic around the base of the coil, tie it around once with a figure-eight loop, and you’re done.

2. Try a High and Tight

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High and tight fades seamlessly blend in all those different lengths. Photo credit: indigitalimages.com

After three weeks, the sides and back of your undercut may have some respectable shadow, which is all you really need for a good high and tight haircut. This look is basically a high fade, which makes it an awesome transitional look.  Play with this length by mussing in a pliable putty or clay product, such as the Bed Head for Men by TIGI Pure Texture Molding Paste, on damp hair.

3. Train Hair Via Blow-Dryer

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Blow-dry the tops and sides of hair in a backward direction to train them to lay flat.

While your style is growing in, there are times when the sides and back of your undercut can stick out. Train your strands to lay flat as they grow by blowdrying in a backward direction from your face. Finish with a non-greasy pomade or gel, such as Bed Head for Men by TIGI Power Play Firm Finish Gel, to keep things looking smooth.

4. Get a Classic Taper

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A neat, classic fade helps you transition into a new style from an undercut.

Once your sides can lay somewhat flat, it’s time to go in and switch out to a classic medium taper. This style maintains that general shape but with around two inches more on the back and sides. It can also be done with scissors instead of clippers. Take note of the crispness of your sideburns and your back, which can make or break the look.

5. Go for a Square Cut

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The square cut is almost even all around. Photo credit: Dvora

The square cut, or gentleman’s clean-cut taper, is like a classic, medium taper but done with scissors. A truly dapper, polished look, unlike the undercut it has almost an equal length of hair on all sides. It flatters most hair types and can easily go from day to night with just a dime-sized swipe of pomade We love the AXE Signature Clean Cut Look: Styling Pomade. This haircut can also be styled via a modern pompadour or a quiff, another two of our favorite guy’s haircuts for the new season.

If you do opt to give yourself a trim, make sure you know your barbershop terms and follow our step-by-step guide to giving yourself a haircut at home. Good luck!

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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki MurakamiKnopf$25.95, 611 pp.Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is an intermittently successful attempt by the author to expand and deepen the coolly absurd terrain he has staked out as his own in such previous novels as Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and A Wild Sheep Chase. Something of a cult figure in this country, the boomer-aged novelist is widely popular with young adults, who respond to his hip disaffection and culturally Westernized heroes as they wander through their shaggy-dog adventures like hapless ghosts. The obvious precedent for these deadpan, comically ominous narratives would seem to be Kafka, though "alienation" is too soft a word to describe Murakami's characters' conditions; in Murakami's world there has been little indication of anything to be alienated from. But in Wind-Up Bird he's upped the ante, both by newly introducing Big Topics -- World War II and the death of love are two monstrous presences threading through the book -- and by forcing his hero to confront what lies beneath his typically feckless facade. If this event-crammed novel could be summed up in a phrase, it would be the story of a man who finally loses his cool.Murakami is a great short-story teller (his collection The Elephant Vanishes is easily his most flawless work) and his novels tend to read like cobbled-together tales. In Wind-Up Bird the "action" proceeds via the telling of several personal histories, meant to be absorbed by the protagonist, one Toru Okada. Okada is a typical Murakami dangling man -- in his early 30s, out of work due more to inertia than to misfortune, with no particular past and little concept of the future.Okada's journey toward becoming something more than a human doorstop begins when, out of the blue, his wife leaves him ("out of the blue" is where pretty much everything in a Murakami novel comes from). In short order, the encounters begin -- he meets the otherworldly sisters Malta and Creta Kano, the latter having the unnerving ability to enter into his dreams; a singularly obnoxious 16-year-old girl named May Kasahara who serves as his burgeoning conscience; a psychic healer named Nutmeg Akasaka and her mute, savant son, Cinnamon; and, most providentially, a decrepit old gentleman named Lieutenant Mamiya who relates some particularly grisly experiences he had in Outer Mongolia during that period in the '30s when Japan was still occupying Manchuria.It's in the telling of the stories of Mamiya and Nutmeg Akasaka that Murakami stretches beyond anything he's attempted before. These passages have a different feel from the rest of the book, which tends to seesaw between the mundane and flat-out fantasy. The author's usual airy nonchalance disappears and is replaced by a steady, pitiless sense of detail, a thickening of reality which enfolds the reader. In Mongolia, while on a pointless patrol, Mamiya is captured by the enemy (a Soviet officer and his Mongolian henchmen), forced to watch as one of his compatriots is skinned alive and then is himself tossed into an empty well in the middle of nowhere and left for dead. Nutmeg's story is more arabesque but equally gruesome, telling of the wanton slaughter of zoo animals in Hsing-ching, Manchuria, by Japanese soldiers about to be overrun by Soviet troops.Okada, for whom life is making less and less sense, is impressed by a particular aspect of Mamiya's story -- that after a couple of days in that abandoned well in Mongolia, he felt his body and then his very being melt into the surrounding darkness after which, during that brief period each day when the sun would shine directly down the shaft, he would experience a feeling of transcendent wholeness so intense that the remainder of his long life has been anticlimactic. There are stretches of Murakami's novel that are very much like sitting at the bottom of a well -- one is totally in the dark and dubious about continuing the endeavor. That Murakami is a gifted storyteller is never in question, but whether he's given much thought to the inner-connectedness of his various stories is doubtful. The author himself has said as much, that he is an intuitive writer who starts with an image and then elaborates in order to see what will happen. And a great deal does happen in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, much more than has been mentioned here. Yet while one can be continually interested in and occasionally dazzled by the unceasing flow of inventiveness, in the end the string of impressive set pieces simply does not cohere. This is the paradox of Murakami: that this major novel can only enhance his reputation as one of the finest short-story writers of our day.Richard C. Walls writes frequently about the arts for the Metro Times. You can e-mail him c/o

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Interviewing Helen Thomas is sort of like preparing dinner for a world-renowned chef. It's just a tad intimidating. It's hard to get around the knowledge that I'm asking questions of someone internationally renowned for, well, asking questions. Good ones. Of powerful people.

Fortunately, she's also at no loss for opinions. Thomas is now a columnist for Hearst Newspapers, after a stunning 57 years working for UPI, 40 of them as the wire service's White House correspondent. She's grilled presidents from Kennedy to Dubya, and has set a host of firsts: the first woman officer of the National Press Club after it agreed to admit women as members; the first woman president of the White House Correspondents Association; the first woman member of the Gridiron Club, and later its first woman president; the first woman reporter, in 1961, to close a presidential news conference.

These days, as the reigning octogenarian queen of the D.C. press corps, she's free to speak her mind -- and her take on White House journalism, and on the administration it now covers, is scathing.

"We've always been manipulated and managed, back to when I began with Kennedy and certainly before, but never to this extent ... The secrecy in this administration has reached the highest levels. That's never been seen before. Everybody has to be on board with this president. Nobody plays devil's advocate ... There is no search for answers in this President."

The result of all that secrecy, says Thomas, isn't just a lack of information for journalists -- it's lack of accountability to the public.

"We are truly, truly being denied the information we should have. 9-11 gave it greater impetus. 9-11 instilled in everyone that we have to be patriotic.

"You get out of that by demanding answers: What is terrorism? What is terror? Why did the President try to kill two investigations of 9-11?... If you can't get to the root of a problem, how can you solve it? There aren't enough guns in the world to kill hatred.

"How can you want to be a war president? No past president, not even Eisenhower, wanted to be known as a war president."

Bush has held fewer news conferences than any other modern-day president, but, Thomas says, even his administration's twice-daily White House press briefings have become politicized.

"He won't call on me, and I'm in the back row now so I'm ignored ... They don't like my questions. That's okay, just so somebody asks them, but they just don't want me to ask questions ... If I was a favored columnist, I'm sure I'd be in the front row again. But I have the prerogative of asking the questions, I do try. "I do think all of us [in the press] have laid down on the job early on [after 9-11]. Some of us are coming out of a coma. But nobody's being challenging enough. We are adversarial, we aren't there to worship at anybody's shrine. We're there for accountability."

Thomas also bemoans the trends in journalism that abet non-accountability: the emphasis on entertainment and noise, the talk shows where hosts and guests dish out opinions without ever giving audiences the unvarnished facts.

"People think talk show [hosts] are journalists, but they're not," Thomas scoffs. "They're getting just plain opinion. I think people are much better served when we get a straight news story, even though I'm a columnist now. My opinion isn't worth anything.

"I wrote for 57 years for UPI. I was never accused of slant. I wrote dull copy."

In many ways, Helen Thomas represents a vanishing breed: from the mythic Murrow era of journalism, when working-class reporters placed their responsibility for getting the full story to the public above all. These days, national TV news anchors perform (and are paid) like rock stars, politicians lie and pander shamelessly to feed the media beast's appetite for sensation -- and Thomas has become a celebrity herself. She's become one, ironically, because she's a visible symbol of what's been lost in celebrity journalism: a desire for the information necessary for citizens to make informed choices in a democracy.

What, after all these years, keeps her going? "Outrage," she promptly ssys. "And interest in the world, and knowing that I'm lucky to be alive.

"Maybe we can leave a legacy of truth." She pauses. "Maybe."

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      Installation & What's in the Box

      Installation Info

      What's in the Box

      • (1) Switch Assembly

      Tech Specs

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        Reviews of OPR Exterior products have an average rating of 4.6 out of 5

          Questions & Answers

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          Will It Fit My Mustang

          • GT - 90, 91, 92, 93
          • LX - 90, 91, 92, 93

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