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The world's best pinball player is 13 years old…
The world's best pinball player is 13 years old and living in Longmont
Young players are taking over the sport as it flourishes along the Front Range
By John Wenzel | jwenzel@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: April 19, 2017 at 5:20 a.m. | UPDATED: April 19, 2017 at 10:03 a.m.
The rules of the Ice Cream Challenge are simple: Adam Lefkoff challenges his son, Escher, to a goal. If Escher meets it, Adam buys him an ice cream cone.
Over the past couple of weeks, the arrangement has gotten a lot more complicated.
"In the car on the way to the facility he said, 'If you win PAPA (The Professional & Amateur Pinball Association), I will buy you an entire ice cream truck.' That's how realistic it was at that point," Escher said of his father. "Now everyone's wondering when he's going to get me the ice cream truck."
That's because Escher, a home-schooled 13-year-old from Longmont, won the A division of PAPA's world championships in Carnegie, Pa., on April 9, making him the best pinball player in the world.
He has good company in Colorado. With multiple world-ranked players and a thriving, ever-expanding culture that includes the upcoming Lyons Spring Classic (May 26) and Rocky Mountain Pinball Showdown (June 9-11), pinball is a way of life for many along the Front Range.
John Leyba, The Denver Post
Escher Lefkoff, a 13-year-old Longmont shows off his skill on the Attack from Mars pinball machine on April 17, 2017 at his home in Longmont. The 13-year-old is now the new pinball champion of the world, following a stunning upset at the international finals in Pennsylvania.
"I've been going to PAPA for the last 13 years, and I started taking Escher when he was 7," said Adam, 50, a computer programmer for Englewood-based Harris Corporation and a nationally rated player himself. "It's in this 40,000-square-foot, beautifully carpeted, air-conditioned warehouse outside of Pittsburgh with probably 500 pinball games, that's just this palace of awesomeness. It's like nothing anybody can believe."
An international group, mostly from the U.S., Europe, Australia and New Zealand, gathers at PAPA each year to battle it out over three 14-hour days of qualifying rounds on 12 approved pinball machines, followed by a full day of finals. Four divisions and 750 total competitors crowd the complex, with food trucks and tailgaters adding to the festive but intensely focused atmosphere.
The games at PAPA 20, which spectators watched on vertically oriented, high-definition TV screens with play-by-play commentary, ranged from 1970s and '80s electro-mechanical machines Skateball, The Jungle Queen and Fathom to newer titles, such as "The Walking Dead" and Iron Man-themed tables.
"Lots of people are good at one era or another, but it's very difficult to be good at all eras because of the different skill sets and rules," Adam said. "And yet Escher is able to master all of them."
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Escher, who is named after the perspective-bending artist M.C. Escher, has been attending tournaments with his dad for most of his life. He won Junior Division titles at PAPA in 2011 and 2013, holds a world-class ranking with the International Flipper Pinball Association (IFPA) and has competed in Chicago, Banning, Calif., Bellvue, Wash., and elsewhere.
"I participated (in tournaments) when I was Escher's age, so as someone who has literally been in those shoes, the number of events you get to play now compared to 20 years is up like 100 times over," said Josh Sharpe, president of the IFPA, which describes itself as the global governing body for competitive pinball. "I've seen it handled not well, in terms of parents pushing kids to compete, but Adam has found the perfect balance as a father. Pinball is important, but it's obviously not the end-all, be-all of life."
Escher has been raised in the Front Range's tight-knit pinball culture. The 35-table Lyons Classic Pinball, which Adam Lefkoff has described as the best-maintained collection in the country, is about 10 minutes from the family household, just north of Colorado 66. Along with various local leagues — including Adam's own Mile High Pinball League, which is a year younger than Escher — Lyons Classic Pinball encourages a passionate group of collectors and competitors by serving as their de facto clubhouse.
Escher has spent most of his weekends there since the age of 3, watching and playing, soaking up the camaraderie and rivalries.
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Escher Lefkoff plays Skateball at the PAPA 20 World Pinball Championships in Carnegie, Penn., on April 9.
"The monthly tournaments (in Lyons) have allowed Adam and Escher to find their spot in the culture and meet other people who have caught the bug," said Sharpe, 37. "Now those same people are out there running their own events. It's the trunk of the tree."
Sharpe pointed to Donavan Stepp, a world-ranked, Colorado-based player who has helped spread the gospel of pinball along the Front Range. While the internet has unified pinball's hardcore fan base over the last decade, Stepp has preached in person, competing at events like the Rocky Mountain Showdown and highlighting the game's deceptively simple pleasures in media coverage.
And it's not just for guys: On March 16, Thornton resident Helena Walter Higgins swept the newly minted international women's pinball league in Dallas. Pinball fanatic Haley Gabbard, 38, also founded Belles & Chimes Denver, a women's-only pinball league that meets twice each month in Lakewood and Denver.
Between Denver outlets such as the 1Up arcade bar (with locations in LoDo and on East Colfax Avenue) and the 2,900-square-foot Flipside in Loveland — which plans to open this summer with 15 pinball machines and other attractions — the steel-ball-and-flippers game continues to inspire more than just nostalgia.
But on Sunday at the PAPA championship, it was all about the diehards. The excitement crested during a dramatic single-ball tiebreaker as Escher held off pinball veteran and former world champ Bowen Kerins in "a one-on-one duel," Yahoo Sports reported.
Escher scored enough points on the 1980 machine Skateball to defend his lead and earn the world trophy, making him the youngest PAPA champion in history. (In a stinging coincidence, Kerins, 41, had previously been the world's youngest champion.)
Escher Lefkoff, 13, holds the Division-A trophy at the PAPA 20 World Pinball Championships in Carnegie, Penn., on April 9.
"It's the first time I ever qualified at that particular tournament, but I was really calm," said Escher, who played his first game of pinball at age 2. "That's just from experience and how may pinball tournaments I've been to. I didn't feel as much pressure and stress. And I had my noise-canceling headphones on."
Sometimes Escher listens to music while he's playing, including Fall Out Boy, the Offspring, Bastille and Imagine Dragons. This time he needed silence.
"Escher is phenomenal at doing something that's one of the hardest things to do in pinball, which is called schatzing the in-lane," Adam said.
The delicate trick is named for Neil Shatz, a player known in pinball circles for his remarkable ball control. He uses "fine-point flipper control and subtle tilts" to send the ball exactly where he needs it to go, according to a profile in the San Francisco Chronicle.
"Escher does it effortlessly," Adam said. "He was schatzing from left to right on Skateball, and a lot of people were amazed at that because you've got to have balls of steel to do that calmly."
It also helps that Adam maintains a barn on the Lefkoff property — which he shares with his wife Sandra and Escher's 15-year-old sister, Ainsley, as well as two dogs, five sheep, 60 chickens and three turkeys — that's filled with 30 pinball tables, to which the home-schooled Escher has virtually unlimited access.
"The barn is for the pinball machines," Adam said. "The yard is for the animals."
Escher, who turns 14 on May 3, is set to attend Universal High School, a district program for talented and gifted students at Silver Creek High, in the fall. He was admitted after Sharpe, president of the IFPA (of which Adam is a state representative), wrote Escher a letter of recommendation praising his unique skills. Sharpe argued they set Escher apart from his peers in ways they may never appreciate.
"I wouldn't say he was favored going into (PAPA 20), but nobody is surprised when Escher qualifies in adult tournaments now," Adam said. "Some people think it's entirely a game of luck, but it turns out there's a number of different skills that make people successful at it. And doing it in competition can get your heart racing, with people and cameras watching. Escher's been doing it his whole life, so a lot it he takes for granted."
Escher has plenty of peers. Sharpe has seen the average age of players in his IFPA database, which ranks 49,069 people globally, shift younger each year. One of Escher's good friends is another top-ranked player from New Zealand, 15-year-old Danielle Peck, whom he mostly gets to see when her family visits the U.S. to compete in tournaments. And at this year's PAPA 20, the winner of the Division-D title was only 8 years old.
"It felt awesome being there," Escher said of his Division-A win, which included a $7,000 prize and a hefty trophy. "And it felt awesome winning, surrounded by the best players in the world."
Escher Lefkoff, a 13-year-old Longmont with his trophy in from of Attack from Mars pinball machine on April 17, 2017 at his home in Longmont. The 13-year-old is now the new pinball champion of the world, following a stunning upset at the international finals in Pennsylvania.
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I spent last weekend at the Frontiers conference of the Irish branch of the Institute of Physics. This is a conference aimed at establishing links with secondary schools all over the country and bringing physics teachers up to date with the latest developments in physics and physics teaching. I attended Frontiers for the first time at University College Dublin last year and enjoyed it immensely (see September 2008 post). This year it was WIT's turn to host the conference and I think it went very well, thanks to the superb organisational skills of Paul Nugent, David Keenahan, Alison Hackett and Eilish Mc Loughlin of the Institute of Physics and WIT physicist Gabriel Gallagher.
The weekend started with a dinner for the conference speakers and organisers in the Tower Hotel on the Friday night. It's always great to catch up with other physicists in an informal setting and the occasion didn't disappoint. In particular, I was amazed to discover that well-known science communicator and Northern Ireland Space Office director Robert Hill and I share a colourful past: many years ago Robert used to play 1st trumpet with the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland while I scraped away in the 1st violins!
Saturday morning kicked off with a series of three lectures: you can see the conference program here.
First up to the podium was Prof David Hughes, a highly distinguished astronomer and science communicator from the University of Sheffield, with a talk entitled 'Telescopes: their history, development and future'. This was a masterly presentation on the evolution of the telescope over the centuries and its effect on science. The seminar covered the whole gamut – from Galileo's use of a primitive telescope to observe the moons of Jupiter and the phases of Venus, and its impact on the geocentric model of the solar system, to Hubble's use of the 100-inch Hooker telescope on Mt Wilson to establish the existence of distant galaxies and the subsequent discovery of the expanding universe (the first plank of evidence for the Big Bang model). I really liked the way the speaker emphasised the impact of each technological step in the development of the telescope: from refracting lenses to reflecting pyrex mirrors, from simple drawing to photographic images, from cumbersome mechanical mountings to computer-controlled giants, from simple photography to the modern CCD camera. (Interesting stat: for the last four centuries, the physical size of telescopes has doubled every 50 years). This was a masterclass in science communication and the audience was enthralled.
David Hughes with an image of the Hooker telescope in the background
It's astonishing how astronomy still revolutionizes cosmology from time to time: throughout David's talk I kept thinking of the recent measurements of distant supernovae that led to the discovery of a universe expansion that is currently acclerating (see post on dark energy here). Interestingly, David was quite cautious about this result in discussion, pointing out that it depends critically on our understanding of Type 1 supernovae – it's just possible that the effect arises from a lack of understanding of these stars, although there is some coobborating evidence of dark energy from recent measurements of the cosmic microwave background.
In the second talk of the day, Eoin Gill of the WIT science communication group CALMAST gave a talk on 'The life and legacy of Robert Boyle'. It's often forgotten just how important the work of this Irish scientist was, from his theory of 'corpuscules' to his famous work on gases. Eoin gave a great talk on Boyle, giving an overview of his life and times and the impact of his scientific discoveries. As regards the former, many were surprised to hear that the Irish have a mixed view of one their most famous scientists because of his family background. Robert Boyle was able to indulge his passion for science due to vast wealth inherited from his father, the Earl of Boyle: unfortunately the latter was a notorious Englishman who made his fortune by stealing land from the Irish and redistributing it to English nobility!
Robert Boyle (aka Eoin Gill) in action
The high points of the talk were the simple but effective demonstrations. Taking his cue from the famous demonstrations employed by Boyle himself at Royal Society lectures, Eoin showed several neat demonstrations of the vacuum that could be done in the classroom – snuffing out candles in a sealed container attached to a simple pump, the elimination of noise from a bell in the same container, the impossibility of pulling apart spheres separated by a vacuum and many others.
The third talk of the morning was my own presentation on 'Walton, the LHC and the Higgs boson'. This was a 40-min overview of the forthcoming experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and their importance in the study of the elementary particles, along with a few words on the role of the Waterford-born scientist Ernest Walton in the evolution of accelerator physics.
Ronan McNulty of University College Dublin gave an excellent short talk on his group's involvement in the LHCb experiment at last year's conference, so this was an attempt at a more general overview of experimental particle physics. Part one dealt with the how, what and why of the LHC: how particles are created and detected, the relevence of such experiments for particle physics and cosmology and a few specifics on the proton beams and the detectors. (I also tried to emphasise the fact that relativistic effects such as mass-energy equivalence, time dilation and length contraction are routinely measured in particle experiments as I feel this point is often forgotten). The second part consisted of a whirlwind introduction to the Standard Model, from the discovery of quarks to electroweak unification. In the 3rd part, I sketched the role of the Higgs boson in the model and the difficulties of detection. I touched on the possiblity of physics beyond the standard model at the LHC (supersymmetric particles and the implication for grand unified theories) before finishing up with a few words on cosmology – the search for dark matter particles and the study of matter/antimatter decay in the LHCb experiment.
You can find the slides from the talk here and a video will be available on the conference website next week. My only regret is that the conference had been running 15 minutes late all morning so there was no time for questions – the best part of any talk. Also, I never got time to show Kate McAlpine's LHC rap, it would have gone down a bomb!
After lunch, Robert Hill , the director of the Northern Ireland Space Office, gave a workshop on useful astronomy software and website resources for teachers. As the former science communicator for the Armagh Planetarium and founder of the Astrogazers Ireland Schools Network, Robert knows a thing or two about getting young people interested in astronomy and science and this was a highly useful workshop, fnishing with a great 3-D show on the universe. I won't give more details, but examples of the sort of invaluable web resources he gave are
Astronomy Ireland
Armagh Planetarium
The Hubble Site
The Faulkes Telescope Project
Finally, there was a workshop on making videos for educational proposes by Jonathan Sanderson. Jonathan is a highly experienced producer of TV science shows (he has produced series on science for the BBC, ITV and RTE) and he gave us an overview of the SciCast project: this is a nationwide effort in the UK to get students to discover the wonder of science by making short films of simple scientific demonstrations. Jonathan had some great tips on how to get the students to work in teams for the production of such films and then showed us some classic examples from the existing SciCast collection. So far, there are more than three hundred films in the SciCast collection, you can view the collection here!
A masterclass in science film directing
All in all, it was a great conference, with plenty of items of interest for any science educator. There were also plenty of useful freebies such as astronomy posters, polarising sheets, SPIN science magazine, flash memory sticks and a DVD on the universe produced by the ESA. Professional photos of the event and videos of the talks will be available on the conference website in a few days.
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enjoyed this immensely
for ur viewing
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20050317.shtml
thanks for that..u might enjoy below
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A definite great read..Jim Bean
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31-year old Terrell Newman is crushing life like his favorite WWE wrestler Sasha Banks. "I love wrestling," Newman gushes. "I watch it every Monday and Tuesday night. Sasha Banks is a legit boss. One day I want to be general manager of WWE Smackdown."
Newman's enthusiasm for wrestling – and life – are contagious. His mother, Charlotte Dixson, says he's always been like that. "He is a very outgoing person, a social butterfly with a humble spirit, a bubbly personality, with a caring and compassionate heart. He meets no stranger and he loves everyone."
But things weren't always so rosy. Born in Wurzburg, Germany while his parents were serving in the Army, Newman was transported from a U.S. military hospital to a German hospital for "complications" shortly after birth. His mother wasn't allowed to see him for four days.
"As soon as I held him, I just knew he had Down syndrome," Dixson recalls. "I cried, not out of disappointment or shame, but out of guilt and confusion. I recall a voice coming to me and it said, 'Why are you crying? God knew he needed special people to take care of him, so He sent Terrell to you.' It was at that moment I knew everything would be alright."
Because Newman is extremely high-functioning and independent, Dixson struggled to find the appropriate placement for him. Newman was put in special education classes in Indianapolis Public Schools. "It broke my heart when they told me he would never graduate and get a high school diploma. That was devastating to me. These days lots of kids with Down syndrome not only graduate high school, but go to college. Things were different back then."
Newman received a Certificate of Completion from Arlington High School in 2006, but never found meaningful work – until last year. Newman is now an intern at GiGi's Playhouse, volunteering 15 hours or more a week. He's especially fond of the time he spends with the LMNOP class designed for kids ages newborn to 36 months.
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"I was just sad. I guess what the hard part with all of it is, I think of is the people with the jobs. They're not going to do the full-time contracts or anything like that anymore. This is coming in a year when we've still got the pandemic going on," he added. "We've got a lot of people being cut from the WWE side. There's not a ton of full-time jobs out there.
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Bestow, a Dallas, TX-based life insurance company, raised $70m in Series C funding.
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BISMARCK, N.D. – The Dakota Access pipeline and a feeder line leaked more than 100 gallons of oil in North Dakota in separate incidents in March as crews prepared the disputed $3.8 billion pipeline for operation.
Two barrels, or 84 gallons, spilled due to a leaky flange at a pipeline terminal in Watford City on March 3, according to the state's Health Department. A flange is the section connecting two sections of pipeline. Oil flow was immediately cut off and the spill was contained on site. Contaminated snow and soil were removed. No people, wildlife or waterways were affected, according to the department's environmental health database.
The leak was on a line operated by a connecting shipper on the Dakota Access pipeline, said Vicki Granado, spokeswoman for Texas-based Dakota Access developer Energy Transfer Partners.
"They are responsible for the operations, maintenance, etc.," she said.
The online report says an above-ground valve failed due to a manufacturing defect, causing the leak. Upstream and downstream valves were closed to isolate the leak. Later, all other such valves in the Dakota Access system were inspected and found to be OK.
ETP maintains the pipeline is safe, but several tribes in the Dakotas — including the the Cheyenne River, Standing Rock, Yankton and Oglala Sioux —fear environmental harm and are fighting in federal court, hoping to convince a judge to shut down the line.
North Dakota Environmental Health Chief Dave Glatt said the Health Department lists such incidents in its online database, but typically doesn't otherwise notify the public of oil spills smaller than 150 barrels unless the oil contaminates water.
The pipeline leaked 84 gallons of oil in South Dakota on April 4. That spill at a rural pump station also was quickly cleaned up and didn't threaten any waterways. The state's Department of Environment and Natural Resources posted a report in its online database but didn't otherwise notify the public. Its policy is to not issue news releases on spills unless there is a threat to public health or water.
"We have always said it is not a matter of it, but when," tribal attorney Jan Hasselman said after the South Dakota leak. "Pipelines spill and leak. It's just a fact."


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Review | Under the Paris Stairs
French feature film opens on October 14th
The French drama Under the Steps of Paris (Sous Les Étoiles de Paris), from the director and screenwriter Claus Drexel and starring Catherine Fleet (from hits such as "Marguerite", "O Reencontro" and "Quem me, me Segue!"), will be released on October 14th exclusively in Brazilian cinemas. With distribution of A2 Movies, in addition to Catherine Frot, the film brings the beautiful streets of the city of Paris as the background to an emotional story starring the French child actor Mahamadou Yaffa (from the series "Je Te Promets"), in addition to Jean-Henri Compère ("The New Testament"), dominique fleet ("Diabolic Women"), Farida Rahouadj ("For Love or For Money?") and great cast. It is a feature that enchants, but that falls into the cliche of the white hero that could be avoided.
In Under the Paris Stairs we are taken on a tour of the French capital unknown to tourists. It is the Paris of the marginal and excluded who live hidden underground or in makeshift tents on the streets and here, the protagonists live in this underworld. Actress Catherine Frot plays Christine, a lonely beggar, and child actor Mahamadou Yaffa is Suli, the son of a refugee immigrant who was arrested and will be deported to Austria. Here the performances are very well executed and at times they play very deep.
Catherine Frot lives Christine, a lonely beggar and child actor Mahamadou Yaffa is Suli, a small immigrant who loses his mother / Reproduction
Production delivers what it promises. The feeling and message of solidarity that is present at the expense of selfishness is very beautiful, because here and anywhere else in the world, those who do not have enough or almost nothing to survive will not share with others in the same condition. In this case, it is the character Christine who faithfully rejects the presence of the boy who, as in a fairy tale, appears at the door of her hiding place and, unfortunately, she ends up losing her only roof and, like little Suli, starts to wander the Parisian streets . However, realizing that the boy will not be able to survive alone, Christine decides to help him. A maternal instinct (re)surfaces in her and in some flashbacks we see that she is also a mother. Although the film does not delve into what distanced them, the scene of selling the amulet evidences the desire to forget about it.
We can see that the German director Claus Dexel, in his second fictional feature for cinema, was dedicated to delivering competent work and favoring close-ups with a more blurred background, highlighting the protagonists, who are valued in the plot. However, some scenes gain greater prominence due to the boy's emotions looking for his mother, such as the moment when he sees a woman in red that he mistakes for his mother and another scene where three women cross the screen all in black . But the most striking scene is the boy's reunion with his mother and the way Christine contemplates everything behind the glass wall and the absence of sound further accentuates the sensitivity that the moment carries.
Speaking of silence, it's something that is present in the film, because initially, Christine doesn't say much and we deduce that it's because she has isolated herself from the rest of the world and then starts to express herself more when the boy appears. Also, Suli doesn't speak French, so the only word we hear from his mouth is "Mama" and then a "merci". Communication here takes place through looks and gestures and at a specific moment, we realize that Christine is willing, for the first time, to take care of the boy and we see this in the scene where she protects him from the cold.
Although Under the Paris Stairs does not aim to be guided by the cause of immigration, prejudice, etc., the film shows how immigrants suffer prejudice in France. In the opening scenes, a guard mistreats the boy, but in another moment when Suli meets a group of compatriots from Burkina Faso, he feels accepted, welcomed, even though he doesn't know them. And at this point it is interesting to note that he does not denounce the offenses and violence on the part of Parisians, as the direction was precisely to show the refugees inhabiting the city's margins, which in themselves are hard images to behold. However, the fact of putting a white person trying to help a black immigrant boy to find his mother again falls into a cliche that we are commonly used to see as the long Rose and Momo (2020). Even so, it doesn't disappoint, but it could have been more daring.
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Under the Paris Stairs is a film that fulfills its mission and does not disappoint. The title in its original version is more poetic and talks in a poetic way with the sad situation shown in the film. As it is a feature based largely on silence, it is a film that talks to our soul and the final scene is one of the best sequences in the feature. Much worth the entertainment.
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Saturday, November 21st, 2009
Texas State ends football season with 28-20 win over Sam Houston
With 14 seniors playing the final game of the collegiate careers, the Texas State football team ended the 2009 season in record-setting fashion as Bradley George threw for 322 yards and three touchdowns to help Texas State overcome three turnovers and defeat Sam Houston State 28-20 Saturday afternoon at Bobcat Stadium.


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Most successful Daytime Emmy performers 2018
Published by Amy Watson, Nov 14, 2018
The statistic shows the performers with the most Primetime Emmy Awards of all time as of 2018. Top of the list is Ellen DeGeneres, with 29 wins. She has won the award for "Outstanding Talk Show" and "Outstanding Talk Show Host" multiple times for her work on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show".
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Tony Sutton Can Run, But He Can't Hide From Count Them All Properly's Shadow
Posted by Phoenix Woman on July 14, 2012
Sally Jo Sorensen once again shows why she's worth five ordinary journalists and fifty hack stenographers:
As early as December 3, 2010, Bluestem posted about the troubles the Republican Party was having paying counties for recount costs. And while other bloggers pointed the finger at unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer as the cad, Bluestem leaned toward the hijacking of the recount by Sutton and Brodkorb…
As the months wore on, honest Republicans told us to look more at Count Them All Properly, a Republican shell committee set up by Sutton to handle the recount costs. Indeed, by July 2011, we asked Did Emmer finish paying party's bills? MNGOP to pay failed burrito baron $100,000 salary and on January 2, 2012, we noted that Sutton's secretive slush fund, Count Them All Properly, Inc., changes management.
We weren't the only ones watching, and fortunately, Common Cause Minnesota acted on the growing clouds of smoke that might well mean fire:
On January 4, 2012, the Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board received a complaint from Common Cause Minnesota (CCM) signed by Mike Dean, its Executive Director, regarding the Republican Party of Minnesota (RPM). Although not specifically identified as respondents, the complaint also made allegations that, if true, could result in statutory violations by Mr. David Sturrock, RPM treasurer, Count Them All Properly, Inc., a Minnesota corporation (CTAP), Mr. Dan Puhl, incorporator of CTAP, Mr. Tony Sutton, former RPM Chairman, and others.
The findings of the investigation that complaint triggered are online here and the supporting evidence here.
It sure looks like Sutton could face criminal charges if a county attorney ever decided to pursue the matter.
The big question for me here is: Will Sutton's fellow members of the West Metro One Percent, the traditional ruling faction of the Republican Party of Minnesota, start pressuring these people to leave Sutton alone? The West Metro crowd has a lot of incentive to do so. If Sutton even gets the slightest hint that he's about to be left unprotected by the West Metro types that bankrolled his rise to the top of the RPM, I expect that he might do what I suspect his good friend Michael Brodkorb did in regard to another matter — that is, he will make it known to all the right people in the RPM's inner circles, as I expect that he has in the past, that he is quite prepared to let the general public — or a court of law — know where all the RPM's bodies are buried.


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FDA puts America on notice: Stop touting CBD claims
Bruce BarcottJuly 24, 2019
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America's booming CBD market received a cold splash of reality this week when the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a letter to Curaleaf, a major US cannabis and CBD brand, warning that some of its product marketing violates the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
Reaction from vendors and investors was swift and harsh. Within 24 hours the national drug store chain CVS announced it would remove some Curaleaf CBD products from its shelves. Shares of Curaleaf stock fell 8% in a day.
All that happened because of a single warning letter—not a product recall, a tainted batch, or an expose on 60 Minutes. It's worth noting that the FDA did not warn that Curaleaf's products themselves were illegal. Rather, it was the way in which Curaleaf marketed the products.
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The FDA currently has nothing to say about the legality or illegality of cannabidiol (CBD). That may change. The agency has fast-tracked a review of CBD products, held a widely seen public hearing on the substance at the end of May, and many are expecting FDA officials to announce some sort of regulatory action by the end of 2019.
The FDA has made one thing very clear about CBD, however. The agency will not tolerate manufacturers making pharmaceutical-like claims about the product. If you claim your product will heal cancer or alleviate pain, and it is not an FDA-approved drug, the agency will come knocking at your door.
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Make no claims
The Curaleaf file wasn't even a heavy lift for the FDA. According to the warning letter, an agency official simply went to Curaleaf's website and took notes on the phrases posted.
Here are a couple of the phrases that got the company in trouble:
"For chronic pain," on the page for the company's Relieve brand CBD Disposable Vape Pen
"Soothing tincture for chronic pain," on the page for Relieve's CBD Tincture
The FDA also objected to Curaleaf posting basic health claims about CBD on pages unrelated to products: "Some of the most common reasons to use CBD oil include… Chronic pain… Mental conditions like anxiety, depression, and PTSD…"
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While there are studies and anecdotal evidence indicating that CBD may help some patients suffering from those conditions, it's not accurate to claim that CBD can cure or offer "quick relief" from all those maladies with just a dose. That's not to say CBD is ineffective in all cases. It means there's more complexity involved.
Curaleaf isn't trying to peddle snake oil. It looks like the company's marketing and brand design team outkicked their legal coverage while trying to condense complicated information into bite-size phrases that fit in a tweet or on a web page. But at the same time, the FDA hasn't exactly been hiding their prickliness over health claims made for cannabidiol.
CVS ignores DEA, says it's already selling CBD products
Everybody involved with CBD—from cannabis and hemp growers to entrepreneurs, regulators, and patients—is struggling to handle this new product responsibly and legally. Outside of a handful of legal cannabis states (where CBD is strictly regulated and tested), there are almost no rules to go by.
Curaleaf is not the only company making health claims about its products. It's likely the FDA went after the Wakefield, Massachusetts–based company precisely because it's a national brand working with CVS, and the federal agency wanted to make a loud and clear statement to all the other CBD brands out there. A quick scan of the headlines in yesterday's media will confirm: Mission accomplished.
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This is why formal scientific testing is needed, which would likely prove many of the claims being made.
No different than any product that makes medical claims without scientific proof.
If you can't prove it (over and above anecdotal evidence) you can't claim it, whether an herb, a manufactured chemical or water (homeopathic nonsense).
No conspiracy, no scam, …. just a minor layer of protection for the public that buys things.
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Indeed. People like the FDA protecting us against rotten meat or tainted aspirin, but when they turn to Things We Like, suddenly they're villains. Illogical and self-serving, folks.
Bill Lewis
Did I read you correctly, are you saying the FDA is providing a minor layer of protection concerning cannabis? I disagree there so- called protection is better described as water torture…drip…drip..drip. Anything to obfuscate the healing properties of CBD's and THC's.
That minor layer of protection you mention is exactly how they treat big pharma…you know it and I know it, don't you think it's time to grow up and be honest?
Eric D. Ryser
Schedule I is the government touting the claim: "no currently accepted medical use" and "due to high abuse potential not safe to use even under medical supervision." …which everyone knows is a blatantly false claim about cannabis. Even they know it. So, they can either practice what they preach or stfu as far as I'm concerned.
What you need to do is get on the phone and harangue your representative and senators. Schedule I drugs can only be taken off the list by Congressional mandate. The last vote showed a majority of even Democratic reps voted against it. And they won't change their minds if they don't hear from their constituents. So get on the horn, tell your friends to get on the horn, and let the people in Washington know what we want!
Roger Christie
Aloha. "Marihuana" prohibition is – among other things – a Hegelian Dialectic. It's a "low intensity war", a huge, deadly program built on a lie … purposely done to destroy one culture to the advantage of another.
I give thanks to all those who have grown the seeds and passed along their knowledge to us down through the ages. And thanks to all those who speak-up and stand-up for personal freedom, including this website. Mahalo.
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Yeah, you have to be careful what you claim about your product. If they'd said, "some people claim to have found relief using this for pain", that would be alright because it doesn't make a general claim about everybody. It's really tricky, but it's important to be within the law. (Of course, who knows how things will go now that there's an administration dead set on getting rid of legal weed, and packing all the agencies with "experts" who aren't anything like experts.)
This is not nit-picky. These laws are there for a REASON. You have no idea how many awful products made it to the marketplace, ripping people off, making them sick, and even KILLING them, before the government stepped in and started regulating food and drug industries. If the FDA were not there providing us minimal protection, you'd have no way to know if the thing you just bought – no matter how much you like it – contains something that could make you very sick. (Those ingredient and nutrition labels? They're only there because they are REQUIRED BY LAW. Yeah, we didn't have those before the 70's.) Yes, it's inconvenient when it's something you really like, but it's not "big pharma out to get you OMG". It's laws meant to safeguard YOUR LIFE. It just takes a long time to get things to move. Don't blame the FDA – they neither write laws nor have any power to change them. Get on the phone and yell at your senators and representative. THEY are the ones standing in the way of weed being legal. Anything else is just complaining to the wind.
LOL. Wow. You don't know any doctors, do you?
Did you mean, ARTERIOSCLEROSIS? Hardening of the arteries. Are you using "Cats Claw"?


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Headache and adverse pregnancy outcomes: A prospective study
Luca Marozio, Fabio Facchinetti, Gianni Allais, Rossella E. Nappi, Marta Enrietti, Isabella Neri, Elisa Picardo, Chiara Benedetto
Objective: To investigate the association between headache, namely migraine and tension-type headache, and adverse pregnancy outcome. Study design: Prospective cohort study conducted in three tertiary care centres in Italy: 376 pregnant women suffering from headache and 326 non-headache pregnant women as controls were recruited. The diagnosis of headache was made at the beginning of pregnancy, according to the criteria of the International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD-II). Women were followed up until delivery, and gestational age at delivery, mode of delivery, indications for operative delivery or caesarean section, birth weight, and centile of neonatal weight at birth were carefully recorded. Main outcome measures of the study were: preterm delivery, newborns small for gestational age, and foetal losses. Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals were calculated. Results: The incidence of preterm delivery (Adj OR, 95% CI 2.74, 1.27-5.91) was significantly higher in women suffering from headache than in controls. There was no statistically significant difference in small for gestational age newborns between the groups. Fewer women in the headache group had preterm elective caesarean section or induction of labour, than did controls, indicating a higher chance of spontaneous preterm delivery. Multivariate analysis showed that the association between headache, either migraine or tension-type, and adverse perinatal outcomes was statistically significant regardless of pre-eclampsia. Conclusions: Women with headache should be considered at risk for adverse perinatal outcomes and should, therefore, be included in a high-risk pregnancy protocol of care throughout pregnancy.
European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
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Pregnancy Outcome Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
Headache Medicine & Life Sciences 85%
Gestational Age Medicine & Life Sciences 43%
Tension-Type Headache Medicine & Life Sciences 42%
Migraine Disorders Medicine & Life Sciences 33%
Birth Weight Medicine & Life Sciences 31%
Cesarean Section Medicine & Life Sciences 31%
Marozio, L., Facchinetti, F., Allais, G., Nappi, R. E., Enrietti, M., Neri, I., Picardo, E., & Benedetto, C. (2012). Headache and adverse pregnancy outcomes: A prospective study. European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 161(2), 140-143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejogrb.2011.12.030
Headache and adverse pregnancy outcomes : A prospective study. / Marozio, Luca; Facchinetti, Fabio; Allais, Gianni; Nappi, Rossella E.; Enrietti, Marta; Neri, Isabella; Picardo, Elisa; Benedetto, Chiara.
In: European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Vol. 161, No. 2, 04.2012, p. 140-143.
Marozio, L, Facchinetti, F, Allais, G, Nappi, RE, Enrietti, M, Neri, I, Picardo, E & Benedetto, C 2012, 'Headache and adverse pregnancy outcomes: A prospective study', European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, vol. 161, no. 2, pp. 140-143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejogrb.2011.12.030
Marozio L, Facchinetti F, Allais G, Nappi RE, Enrietti M, Neri I et al. Headache and adverse pregnancy outcomes: A prospective study. European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology. 2012 Apr;161(2):140-143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejogrb.2011.12.030
Marozio, Luca ; Facchinetti, Fabio ; Allais, Gianni ; Nappi, Rossella E. ; Enrietti, Marta ; Neri, Isabella ; Picardo, Elisa ; Benedetto, Chiara. / Headache and adverse pregnancy outcomes : A prospective study. In: European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology. 2012 ; Vol. 161, No. 2. pp. 140-143.
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ASPROM
The Association for the Study and Preservation of Roman Mosaics
About ASPROM News & Events Publications Mosaics in Britain Resources Join ASPROM
September 2017: new mosaic at Boxford, Berkshire
The Boxford History Project and the Berkshire Archaeology Research Group, in collaboration with Cotswold Archaeology, have uncovered one of the most spectacular and unusual Roman mosaics ever discovered in Britain. It is decorated with mythological scenes, including Bellerophon killing the Chimaera and Hercules fighting a centaur. It also features cupids, perhaps representing the seasons, and giants (telamones) in the corners holding up the central panel.
Full details on the Cotswold Archaeology website
Boxford Dig Blog
November 2016: Dr David J. Smith
We are sad to report that the founder of ASPROM, Dr David Smith, died on 24 November. He was the first editor of Mosaic, from 1979 to 1984, and was also a founder member of AIEMA. Among his many contributions to Roman archaeology, perhaps the most significant was the identification of different regional groupings ('schools') in Romano-British mosaics.
May 2016: New book on animals in Romano-British mosaics, by Patricia Witts
ASPROM member Pat Witts has published the results of many years of research in A Mosaic Menagerie: Creatures of Land, Sea and Sky in Romano-British Mosaics (BAR British Series B625).
Publication details (pdf, 2 MB)
February 2016: Restoration of mosaics in the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem
It was reported in the press recently that work on the twelfth-century wall mosaics has been completed, revealing their brilliant colours for the first time in decades. A later phase of the restoration project will uncover the mosaic floor of the original fourth-century basilica built by the Emperor Constantine.
Visit the restoration project website
January 2016: News from the International Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics (ICCM)
The ICCM has become a non-profit Foundation based in Italy. It also has a new website: www.iccm-mosaics.org.
Read about the changes here (pdf, 200 K)
February 2015: New book on the Roman mosaics of Switzerland
Sophie Delbarre-Bärtschi's new book, Les mosaïques romaines en Suisse (Antiqua 53, 2014), updates von Gonzenbach's 1961 catalogue of Roman mosaics in Switzerland, and examines their techniques, materials, design, iconography and contexts.
Publication details and order form (pdf, 2.5 MB)
December 2014: New AIEMA President
Professor Anne-Marie Guimier-Sorbets has been elected as the President of AIEMA. Professor Guimier-Sorbets' research encompasses all aspects of Greek and Roman mosaics in the eastern Mediterranean, including important contributions to the study of mosaic iconography, techniques and materials, and the use of computer databases.
October 2014: New grants for museums or sites with mosaics
As well as our grants for individual researchers, ASPROM is now offering grants of up to £500 to support UK museums or sites with the costs of individual or ongoing projects relating to the presentation, conservation or study of ancient mosaics.
Full details and application form
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Saturday 7 December 2019: ASPROM AGM and Symposium
Kings College London, Strand Campus Programme available autumn 2019
Saturday 8–Sunday 9 June 2019: ASPROM Summer Symposium
Fishbourne & Bignor
Book online Programme
Saturday 1 December 2018: ASPROM AGM and 40th Anniversary Symposium
Kings College London, Strand Campus Programme
Monday 15–Friday 19 October 2018: 14th International Congress on Ancient Mosaics
Nicosia, Cyprus Programme
York & Aldborough Programme
Sunday 15–Friday 20 October 2017: Thirteenth Meeting of the International Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics (ICCM)
Barcelona Further information
Friday 6–Saturday 7 October 2017: Colloquium of the North American branch of AIEMA
A colloquium on ancient mosaics, wall painting and stucco: topics covered include iconography, style, new discoveries, exhibitions and conservation. Programme
Saturday 8 July 2017: Portugal–Algeria: Roman Mosaics: Fragments of a Common Past
Condeixa-a-Nova, Conímbriga
A conference run by APECMA, the Portuguese branch of AIEMA. Programme (pdf, 3 MB)
Brading, Isle of Wight Programme
Thursday 24–Friday 25 November 2016: Mosaic: Archaeometry, Technology and Conservation
Ninth workshop in the series, focusing on the role of science and technology in the production and conservation of ancient and modern mosaics. Programme
Saturday 8–Sunday 9 October 2016: BAMM Mosaic Forum 2016
King's College Waterloo Campus, Stamford Street, London
A weekend of lectures, masterclasses and market stalls, organised by the British Association for Modern Mosaic (BAMM). Further details
Friday 1–Sunday 3 July 2016: Conference: East Meets West
Alter do Chão, Portugal
First meeting organised by the International Project RoGeMoPorTur (Geometric Roman Mosaics in Portugal and Turkey), which will examine the reciprocal influence of different cultures on Roman mosaics in Portugal and Turkey. Further information
Cirencester & Chedworth Programme
Wednesday 30 March–Monday 12 September 2016: Exhibition: Roman Mosaics across the Empire
Getty Museum, Malibu
Exhibition of Roman mosaics, mostly from the Getty's collections, ranging from Italy to North Africa, southern Gaul and Syria. Exhibition website
Friday 13 November 2015: Free Study Day: Glories in Gold and Glass
Museum of London, Western Theatre
An introduction to the nineteenth-century mosaic decoration in St Paul's Cathedral. Details & registration
Tuesday 3 November 2015–Sunday 24 April 2016: Exhibition of Roman mosaics from Aix-en-Provence
Musée gallo-romain, Saint-Roman-en-Gal
Exhibition of newly-restored mosaics from Aix, some of which will be exhibited complete for the first time, including two mosaics depicting the boxing match between Dares and Entellus, an episode in Virgil's Aeneid. Exhibition poster
Friday 16 October 2015: Making and Thinking about Making in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Kings College London, Strand Campus
A workshop on craft processes in the ancient world and cultural responses to them, focusing on textiles and mosaics. Further information
Saturday 3 October–Sunday 29 November 2015: The Sorrell Family Exhibition
Chelmsford Museum
An exhibition of drawings and paintings by members of the Sorrell family, including the archaeological illustrator Alan Sorrell, who was well-known for his distinctive reconstructions of Roman sites. Museum website
Monday 14–Friday 18 September 2015: 13th International Congress on Ancient Mosaics
Madrid First circular
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Wednesday 16 September 2015: talk by Stephen Cosh, 50 Years On – The Roman Villa in Sparsholt
Sparsholt Village Hall, 7 pm
A talk marking 50 years since the discovery of the Sparsholt Roman villa and mosaic by a team directed by David Johnston. Poster
(pdf, 400 K)
Saturday 13–Sunday 14 June 2015: ASPROM Summer Symposium
Taunton & Keynsham
Programme & travel information
Tuesday 17 March–Sunday 30 August 2015: Exhibition of Roman mosaics
Exhibition of Roman mosaics from Sérézin-du-Rhône and Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux.
Wednesday 15 April 2015: Study day on the logistics of mosaic construction
Aix-en-Provence Programme
Monday 23–Friday 27 March 2015: Fragments in Context: Interpretation and Re-composition of Greek and Roman Wall Paintings and Mosaics
University of Padua
A course introducing methodologies for studying wall and floor decorations excavated as fragments. Further information
(pdf, 1.2 MB)
Monday 27–Friday 31 October 2014: Twelfth Conference of the International Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics (ICCM): Conservation and Presentation of Mosaics: At What Cost?
Sardinia First circular
Friday 24–Sunday 26 October 2014: British Mosaic Forum 2014
A weekend of lectures, masterclasses, guided visits and exhibitions, organised by the British Association for Modern Mosaic (BAMM). Programme (pdf, 5 MB)
Thursday 16–Saturday 18 October 2014: Colloquium of the North American branch of AIEMA
Getty Villa, Malibu
A colloquium on ancient mosaics, wall painting and stucco, the restoration of works of art, and mosaics of the modern period, with a keynote lecture by Michael Hoff, who has recently discovered important mosaics in Turkey. Abstracts
26–27 July 2014: Exhibition of David Neal's drawings
St Mary's Church, Little Brickhill, MK17 9NA, 2–6 pm
An exhibition of David Neal's drawings of the pavements in Westminster Abbey and a few of his paintings of Roman mosaics. Short talks will take place every 30 minutes. Entrance £4 (in aid of the renovation of the church).
7 June 2014: ASPROM Summer Symposium
Waddesdon Manor Programme
Thursday 5 June–Sunday 2 November 2014: Lod Mosaic on display at Waddesdon Manor
This spectacular Roman mosaic, found at Lod in Israel in 1996, has been touring the US and Europe since 2010. Its only stop in the UK — and the last before it goes on permanent display in Israel — is Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, where it will form the centrepiece of an exhibition, along with objects lent by the British Museum.
Learn more about the Lod Mosaic Exhibition details
Friday 30 May 2014: The Mosaics of Thessaloniki revisited
Courtauld Institute, London
A one-day workshop on the Late Antique and Byzantine mosaics of Thessaloniki. Further information
Saturday 3 August 2013–Sunday 12 January 2014: Newton St Loe Orpheus mosaic on display
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
The fragments of the Orpheus mosaic have been reassembled and will be on display for only the second time in over 150 years. The mosaic was thought to have been destroyed until the fragments were identified in the 1990s by a team of ASPROM members led by Anthony Beeson. The mosaic is being displayed to coincide with Roman Empire: Power and People, a touring exhibition of Roman material from the British Museum.
Leaflet about the Orpheus mosaic (500 K) Further information
Monday 4–Wednesday 6 November 2013: Cultural Heritage Practices: Issues of Archaeological Conservation and Site Preservation
Archaeological Research Unit, University of Cyprus, Nicosia
This workshop will provide basic information about current theories, principles, policies and practices related to the conservation of ancient materials and cultural heritage in the eastern Mediterranean, with some emphasis on sites with mosaics. It is one of a series of courses organised by the New Archaeological Research Network for Integrating Approaches to ancient material studies (NARNIA).
See the full programme of NARNIA events.
Tuesday 9–Thursday 18 July 2013: London Summer School in Classics, including a workshop on making mosaics
University College London Course details
Friday 7–Sunday 9 June 2013: AFEMA Summer Excursion to Provence
Vaison-la-Romaine and Orange
ASPROM members are welcome to join in this weekend organised by the Francophone branch of AIEMA, which includes talks, site visits and socialising.
AFEMA website Programme
Wednesday 5 June 2013: lecture by Yoshiki Hori (Kyushu University), Understanding the Production of Mosaics through the Artisan's Mistakes
Senate House (room G22/26), Malet Street, London, 5 pm
London Programme
May 2013: NARNIA training courses
22–25 May: Interior Decoration in the Eastern Mediterranean during Hellenistic and Roman Times: Mosaics, Paintings, Iconography, Materials, Techniques and Conservation
27–29 May: Information Systems for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (including databases of mosaics)
Université de Paris Ouest, Nanterre
These courses are part of a series organised by the New Archaeological Research Network for Integrating Approaches to ancient material studies (NARNIA).
Saturday 23 March 2013: Production in Pieces: Making Mosaics from Antiquity to the Present
A workshop that will examine the techniques and materials used in mosaics from the Hellenistic period to the present day, and place mosaic production within its social and historical context by assessing our knowledge of craftsmen and customers. Further information
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